NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1937)

No. 1864. The Harker Pottery Company, Chester, W. Va., stipulates that it will stop employing the words “china” and “chinaware” to describe articles which are not non-porous, vitreous or translucent. The stipulation sets out that to well-informed members of the trade and purchasing public, the word “china” or “chinaware” means an earthen vessel which is non-porous, vitreous and translucent, but that the respondent’s products, as represented, does not possess these properties. No. 1868. R. S. Bacon Veneer Co., 4702 Augusta Blvd., Chicago, agrees not to use in its printed matter the term “African Walnut” to describe its products, implying that they are made of wood derived from trees of the walnut or “Juglandaceae” family. The respondent company also agrees not to use the word “walnut,” either alone or in connection with the word “African” or “Tigerwood,” or in any other way which may have the effect of causing buyers to believe that the articles so described are made of wood derived from trees of the walnut family, when such is not a fact. No. 1869. Union Pharmacal Co., Inc., 67 Irving Place, New York City, selling so-called “Economy First-Aid Kits,” will discontinue printing on the cartons in which the kits are packed certain exaggerated or misleading assertions concerning the value of the kits or the price at which they are sold, or are intended to be sold, in the usual course of trade. The stipulation points out that these kits were marked for sale at a certain price, when in fact this was much in excess of the price at which they were actually sold, or intended to be sold. No. 2565. The National Electrical Manufacturers Asso¬ ciation, of New York City, and sixteen member manufacturers of power cable and wire, have been served with an order to cease and desist from certain unfair trade practices held to have been per¬ formed under an illegal agreement, combination or conspiracy. The practices prohibited included, principally, the maintenance of uniform selling prices. All material facts alleged in the amended complaint were ad¬ mitted by the respondents to be true and the findings in the case are a paraphrase of the admitted allegations. Member companies named as respondents are American Elec¬ trical Works, Philadelphia, now known as Kennecott Wire and Cable Company; American Steel and Wire Company, Worcester, Mass.; Anaconda Wire and Cable Co., New York; Bishop Wire and Cable Corporation, New York; Boston Insulated Wire and Cable Co., Boston; Crescent Insulated Wire and Cable Co., Tren¬ ton, N. J.; General Cable Corporation, New York; General Elec¬ tric Co., Schenectady, N. Y.; Habirshaw Cable and Wire Cor¬ poration, New York; National Electrical Products Corporation, Pittsburgh; The Okonite Co., Passaic, N. J.; Phelps-Dodge Copper Products Corporation, New York; John A. Roebling’s Sons Co., Trenton, N. J.; Simplex Wire and Cable Co., Boston; Triangle Conduit and Cable Co., Brooklyn; and United States Rubber Products, Inc., New York. Nos. 2939 and 2515. Cease and desist’ orders have been issued against two New York cosmetics and toilet goods companies, requiring them to cease and desist from unfair competition in violation of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. The respondent companies are Helena Rubinstein, Inc., 8 E. FiftySeventh St., and B. H. Krueger, Inc., 151 W. Nineteenth St. The order against Helena Rubinstein, Inc., directs that it cease advertising that its cosmetics, facial creams and toilet prepara¬ tions will serve as a food for, or nourish, the skin, muscles, or tissues; will prevent crow’s feet and wrinkles, strengthen eye nerves, rebuild worn-out cells and dissolve fatty tissues or act as effective weight reducers. B. H. Krueger, Inc., is ordered to stop representing that its cosmetics and toilet preparations, including perfumes, soaps, toilet water and similar articles, are of English manufacture or origin, or imported from England. The respondent company is also ordered to cease asserting that its articles are made for, or dis¬ tributed by, an English company or a company with offices in England or Canada, when such is not a fact. No. 2964. Pratt Food Co., 126 Walnut St., Philadelphia, has been ordered to discontinue certain unfair trade representa¬ tions in the sale of poultry medicine. In selling “Pratt’s ‘Split-Action’ N-K Capsules” or any product of substantially the same composition and effect, the respondent company is directed to cease and desist representing that its prep¬ aration will destroy all worms and all parts of worms, including tapeworm heads, with which poultry may be infested. FTC CLOSES CASES No. 2379. The Federal Trade Commission has entered an order closing its case against Samson Paper Products Corpora¬ tion, 118 Greene St., New York City, and Louis, Harry and Moe Hyman, who had been charged with use of unfair methods of competition in connection with the sale of roll paper, in viola¬ tion of Section S of the Federal Trade Commission Act. The Commission reserved the right to reopen the case should the facts so warrant. No. 2906. The Commission has also issued an order closing its case against R. H. Macy & Co., New York City, following that company’s signing of a stipulation to discontinue certain unfair trade practices in the sale of razor blades as alleged in a complaint directed against it by the Commission in August, 1936. In its stipulation, the respondent company agrees not to resume the use of representations contained in an advertisement, or similar representations implying that razor blades sold by it have been made under its own supervision, when such is not a fact. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ACTION HEARING CALENDAR The following broadcast hearings are scheduled for hearing at the Commission for the week beginning Monday, January 11. Monday, January 11 HEARING BEFORE AN EXAMINER (Broadcast) NEW — Peninsula Newspapers, Inc., Palo Alto, Calif. — C. P., 1160 kc., 250 watts, daytime. NEW — W. H. Marolf, Escanaba, Mich. — C. P., 1500 kc., 100 watts, unlimited time. NEW — Escanaba Daily Press Co., Escanaba, Mich. — C. P., 1500 kc., 100 watts, daytime. Tuesday, January 12 HEARING BEFORE AN EXAMINER (Broadcast) NEW — H. W. Wilson & Ben Farmer, Wilson, N. C. — C. P., 1310 kc., 100 watts, daytime. NEW — Vincennes Newspapers, Inc., Vincennes, Ind. — C. P., 1200 kc., 100 watts, 250 watts LS, unlimited time. KWBG — The Nation’s Center Broadcasting Co. Inc., Hutchinson, Kans. — C. P., 550 kc., 250 watts, unlimited time. Present assignment: 1420 kc., 100 watts, unlimited time. Wednesday, January 13 HEARING BEFORE AN EXAMINER (Broadcast) WILM— Delaware Broadcasting Co., Wilmington, Del. — C. P., 1420 kc., 100 watts, share WAZL. WMBD — Peoria Broadcasting Co., Peoria, Ill. — C. P., 1440 kc., 1 KW, 5 KW LS, unlimited time. Present assignment: 1440 kc., 500 watts, 1 KW LS, unlimited time. WHOM — New Jersey Broadcasting Corp., Jersey City, N. J. — C. P., 1450 kc., 250 watts, 1 KW LS, unlimited time. Pres¬ ent assignment: 1450 kc., 250 watts, unlimited time. Thursday, January 14 HEARING BEFORE THE COMMISSION EN BANC WBBC — Brooklyn Broadcasting Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y. — Modifi¬ cation of license, 1400 kc., 500 watts, unlimited time. (Re¬ quests facilities of WARD, WVFW & WLTH.) Present assignment: 1400 kc., 500 watts, share WLTH, WARD & WVFW. WBBC — Brooklyn Broadcasting Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y. — Renewal of license, 1400 kc., 500 watts, share WLTH, WARD & WVFW. WBBC — Brooklyn Broadcasting Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y. — Re¬ newal of license, 1400 kc., 500 watts (auxiliarv transmitter), share WARD, WLTH & WVFW. WVFW — Paramount Broadcasting Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y.— Modi¬ fication of license, 1400 kc., 500 watts, unlimited time (Request facilities of WARD, WLTH & WBBC). Present assignment: 1400 kc., 500 watts, share WARD, WLTH & WBBC. 1851