Evening star., 1932-12-04
THIRD CRUSADER
IS TAKEN OFF AIR
ShuIer Joins BrinkIey and
Baker in Silence as Court
Denies His Appeal.

The third of the coterie of radio
crusaders, whose broadcaSting stations
were ordered silenced by the Federal
Radio Commission and who then not
| only appealed to the courts for REIN
| statement. but sought election TO polit-
| ical Offices, has lost his court as well as
his political fight.
Though he raised the issue Of free
dom of speech by radio, Rev. Robert
P. Shuler, pastor of Trinity Methodist
Church South and owner of KGEF
Los Angeles, this week lost his appeal
to the Court of Appeals of the District
| Of Columbia from the commissions de-
| cision last year that silenced his sta
ton. He and his station thus go the
way OF DR.. John r. Brinkley and Nor
man T.. Baker, whose stations were
similarly silenced by the commission
mot In Public Interest"
Completely sustaining the commission,
the court held 1t was right in dropping
KGEF from the radio rolls because
"the evidence abundantly sustains the
conclusion of the commission that the
continuance Of the broadcasting pro-
grams of the appellant is not in the
public interest" Shuler was charged
with using his radio station to villify
and abuse public officials and institu-
tions and private citizens and attempt
ing TO "incite religious prejudice"
Unless he carries the case to the
United States Supreme Court ON the
| freedom Of speech issue, as his coun-
sci, Louis @. Caldwell, has indicated
| he probably will. and secures a re-
| versal Shuler's station must remain of
o9r tlty faa q
| cision very clearly calls him to task for
his broadcast utterances on cases pend
| ing trial in Los Angeles, which twice
caused his conviction for contempt of
| court, and generally deprecates his
| charges of improper conduct and i'm
| moral acts against judges and citizens.
| The courts opinion also decries his
sighting references 10 Jews and Ro-
man Catholics.
Frequency Right Denied.
That Shuler has no property right in
the wave length he used also Is affirmed
by the court, which held he was not
deprived of any property right in view
| Of the merely "permissive" right given
him by the Government to use radio
channel
Shuler in the November elections ran
| as an Independent prohibition candi-
date for the United States Senate, but
was defeated by William G. McAdoo.
DR.. John r. Brinkley, the Kansas
edico-broadcaster, whose station IL
cense also was revoked by the Radio
| Commission last year on the grounds
that his medical broadcasts were inim-
ical to the public health, was a candi-
date for Governor of Kansas last
month, but also was defeated The
same court also upheld the commits
sion in ordering Brinkley's station off
the air, whereupon Brinkley built the
high-powered XER in Mexico.
The third OF the deposed broadcast
ers who ran for office after the COM
mission had alenced his station, also
because OF medical broadcasts, was
| Norman T. Baker, owner Of KTNT,
Muscatine, Iowa He was unsuccessful
in seeking the governorship of Iowa.
His station was silenced because he was
charged with using it as a personal
mouthpiece to attack individuals. espe-
cially the medical profession, and be-
cause Of its cancer cure advertising.