The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04

At last, one more of the crooks of
the harding administration has actual
gone to prison. COL Thomas w.
Miller, former congressman from Del
aware, and later alien property GUS
todian, who was tried with former
Attorney General Daugherty in the
American Metals fraud case, has de-
parted for Atlanta to serve at least a
part of his sentence of Is months.
Miller, genial errand boy of the du-
Font interests, was secretary of the
republican national congressional cam
paign committee. When Harding
made him cutodian of seized alien
property, Miller and Harry Daugher-
ty became thick as the proverbial
thieves. With Daugherty he was f.
nally indicted in New York on charges
that the government had been de-
trauded of their faithful services. The
district attorney showed that SAL, 900
had been paid by a German citizen,
Mertens, for the return of $6,453, 979
In assets of the American Metals Co.
to its owners, who had organized a
SWISS company to get it back. This
bride of SAL 900 was divided between
Miller, the late John T. King, repub-
llcan national committeeman from
Connecticut and the late Jess Smith
confidential man for Daugherty. King
and Smith committed suicide.
Canny Andy Mellon has decided to
keep Hopeful Herby Hoover on the
anxious seat. Andy issued last-min
ute instructions in PENNSYLVANIA that
no avowed Hoover men should be
named as district delegates to the Re
publican convention. All nominees of
the regular organization must be men
who can be held to a pledge of obedi.
fence to Melons decision as to which
candidate they shall finally support.
This does not mean that Mellon will
not support Hoover at the finish. It
means merely that Mellon, and not
Hoover, will hold the whip hand at
the convention. Hoover must PUBLICLY
and graciously let it be known that
Mellon is the Mark Hanna of this
campaign, and that Hoover proposes
to satisfy Mellon as to his anti-union
policy on coal, electricity, traction,
and so on. Hoover has the backing
OF most of the public utility compa7
mes and most Of the coal operators.
but ne knows that none of them will
raise a finger against the will of the
man who is big figure in their own
industries on the one hand and is die
tator OF their taxes on the other.
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Oswald F. Schuette, executive secre-
taTy of the Radio Protective Associa-
alton has demanded of the Federal
Radio Commission that thew enforce
against the radio trust the anti mon
opoly clause of the RADIO act. Schu-
cite is fighting the American Radio
corporation and its parents-the Cen
eral electric, Westinghouse and Rel
Telephone interests, because the cor
pofatlon has a virtual MONOPOLY ON
paste patents, secured in violation of
law and demands heavy tribute from
all independent manufacturers of ra.
dio goods. Q
he showed the commission that Sec
II OF the new law forbids ownershir
OF an interest in the physical PROPERTY
or oCher assets of telephone or tele-
graph company, by a radio companv
and ne demanded of the connoission
that it do its duty and revoke licenses
already granted, and cease to grant
new licenses, where this is violated
he traced the INTERROGATION of the
General Electric, the Radio Corpora
lion OF America, the Westinghouse
Electrlc q Mfg. Co., the American
telephone q Telegraph Co. and the
National Broadcasting Co., which con
sroi oroadcasting as we'll as the manu-
facture of equipment.
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On the eve of his departure for In