The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13
RADIO CONTROL IS STRONGLY URGEDbY ! SECRETARY DANIELS
Expenditure of S5,OOO,OOO Will Be Necessary to Buy All Stations Not Owned
 by Government

Washington, December l2. Secretary Daniels appeared be- fore the House merchant ma rine committee today in behalf of the administration bill for permanent government control of all radio communication through acquisition by the navy department of all shore wireless stations.
 ..I hope the bill will not be confounded with proposition for general govern ment ownership of the public utilities, he told the committee. Radio communi- cation stands apart because they cannot be controlled and the safe thing is that only one concern should control and own It."
 Opposition to the measure was voiced by Representatives Green of Massachu- setts and Edmonds of Pennsylvania, re- publicans, on the ground that it was part of government ownership policy
 Expenditure of s5,ooo,0oo will be neces- sary, MT. Daniels said, to buy all stations and equipment in the United States or lUSuidT pcSSCSSiOiaSt Aoe " ''-'e>. " government.
 GOOD BUSINESS POLICY
 Tt was good business policy for either war or peace" declared Secretary Dan iels. referring to the purchases already
 made.
 1 Commander Hooper of the radio division l of the navy, explained that the Marconl property was bought at the request ol ! the shipping board which was payine l a large rental for use of its sets lie
 said the Marconi company would oppose the bill because of it's desire to retain | it's high power stations.
 l Sec,.etary Daniels told of some of the benefits of radio control in the war
 He said that the alien property custo- dian. through one intercepted message | obtained the information that led to the i seizure of Sl0,000,000 worth of German | owned ships and that another message proved the enemy ownership of the Say vile station. Germany, he said, ais' I prepared to cut the cables between Eu
 rome and America and arrangement were made for radio taking over all th' twork of the cables.
 I An arrangement whereby all sendin, keys for the high-power stations at An
 apolis. Sayville, Tuckerton and Bruns
 wick Ga are operated from one room in the navy department perfected dur | ino the war and guarded hefetofOre q | a military secret, was explained by Lieut. IF q Cooper of the radio division. Re ceving stations at Belmar, N. J.' an
 Bar Harbor, Maine, are so equippeu, Il also disclosed, that several messages ma he received simultaneously. .srhe two receiving stations are 5 confirmed" said Lieutenant cooper, to receive simultaneously from Ensiahe | Germany. two French stations and froI Rome They can also receive rom !" or three other points at the same tune SHORE STATIONS INCREASED - Secretary Daniels also told tn committee that the recent purcnase alr shore radio stations of the Feders i, Telegraph company and the Marcoi ,Wireless Telegraph company or Americ' except the four high-power stations . the latter. had increased the number !. naval shore stations from 5S to III, TT , navy department, he said. now owns a : tof the radio stations in the United state ! and it's possessions formerly used re : commercial radio traffic with the excei 7 ton of 16 privately owned stations Thousands of dollars have been Ns . into the treasury already. the seer Y said, as receipts from commerciai f fic. T finder government control, he said, f5 s nercial rates would be reduced 'i navy would not attempt to condue :. service for profit, but for the pu s2 q If keeping the operators continual
 trainng