Evening star., 1934-09-16
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.


not respond, one Is in Alaska and the
others in Hawaii, so, it is pointed out,
Il is entirely possible that these sta
tions may have their replies in transit.
So great was the response that the
commission felt constrained to call a
halt on submission of the advertising
announcements until further notice.
It will take weeks for its personnel to
check and recheck these, and it has
decided that it will await full analysis
of the first lot of missives from the
stations before calling for another.
The networks and transcription (re-
corded program) companies, however,
have not been called of, and must sub
init their commercial program credits
weekly.
First indications are that the COM
mission will not have to cite any large
number Of radio program sponsors for
false, fraudulent or misleading adver-
tising. OF the 117,357 advertising
programs examined in q preliminary
way, 97,356 have been filed without
action as free from violation Of the
law prohibiting false and misleading
advertising in interstate commerce.
The remaining 1891 already exam
ined are being rechecked, but 1t is
probable, according to the commission,
that only small percentage will be
found that transgress the law.
$50 general has been the compliance
and so gratifying the cooperation
which the radio broadcasting industry
has given the commission in its effort
to free radio advertising of false or
misleading matter and place 1t on an
even footing with printed advertising
in newspapers and periodicals" said
the commission, that the commission
anticipates it will be necessary to issue
very few complaints against either ad-
vertisers or broadcasting stations"
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TWO more Portias have been ap-
l. pointed to the legal staff of the
Federal Communications Commits
sion, making three. woman lawyers on
the roster of this newest of the
New Deals regulatory agencies. They
were among the nine appointed to the
commissions subordinate legal posts
pending its appointments Of the three
$500 assistants to Chief Counsel Paul
d. p. Spearman. The commission
has also filled the three $500 posts of
division directors.
Each Of the three woman attorneys
on the r. c. G. staff won their places
largely by reason Of scholastic attain
ment and experience. Miss Fanny
Neyman Of Butte, Mont, holdover
from the old Radio Commissions legal
staff and an authority on the legal
phases Of broadcasting, was promoted
to a higher grade. The two newcomers
are Miss Annie Perry Neal of Louis
Smith Of Oklahoma City.
Miss Neyman was formerly law
clerk to the late Senator Walsh of
Montana, and Is an honor graduate of
the University Of Montana and George
Washington University. Miss Neal
was graduated from Wake Forest Col
lege Law School in North Carolina in
1882 as the only student Of that inSti-
tuition who ever secured her degree
with summa cum laude rating; she
has lately been practicing law in
Louisburg, N. c., and was formerly a
reporter for Josephus Daniels news
paper, the Raleigh News and OBJ
server.
Miss Smith, 1929 honor graduate
of Okmulgee' College Law School, was
appointed at the instance of Commits
sioner Paul A. Walker, chairman of
the telephone division of the F. c. c.,
for whom she served as law clerk
while he was chairman of the Okla
homa Corporation Commission.
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function largely as secretaries of the
several divisions into which the r.
C. c. has divided itself, were political
appointees. Heading the broadcast
division will be John Killeen, former
publisher of the Weekly Democrat, a
political newspaper in the Bronx that
served as James Farley'S mouthpiece
In the preconvention Roosevelt cam
paign. Mr.. Killeen had previously
been mentioned frequently for one of
the commissionerships. He was for
merly in the New York Legislature and
until 1922 was employed by General
Electric.
A. ]. Patterson of Alabama, former
president Of the Alabama Public Serv-
ice Commission, and lately investigator
for Senator Blacks committee inquir-
ing into air and ocean mail contracts,
was named director of the telephone
division. Robert T. BARLEY, secretary
to w. M. w. Splawn, member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission who
helped frame the communications act,
was named director of the telegraph
division. Mr.. Patterson was indorSed
by Senator Black. Mr.. BARLEY is a
nephew of Representative Sam Ray
burn Of Texas, chairman of the House
Interstate Commerce Committee and
eoauthor Of the communications law.
The other subordinate legal staff
appointees announced by the COM
mission are: Col. Davis G. Arnold,
who comes from the Veterans Ad-
ministration, where he was assistant
solicitor; A. v. Dalrymple Of Texas,
former Federal prohibition chief, who
later became a special investigator for
the Department Of Justice inquiring
into outlaw radio stations in Texas
and Oklahoma; Albert E. Stephan of
Washington, former examiner Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
special assistant to the Senate COM
mittee drawing up the communica-
tions act; Melvin H. Dahlberg, for
mer New York attorney and one-time
assistant city tax commissioner; John
p. Bramhall, former Washington at
torney, who spent ave years in Europe
prosecuting American war claims for
the Attorney General; Marshall s.
Orr, former San Francisco attorney
who has been with the Interstate
Commerce Commission the last three
years, and F. U. Fletcher, a 1884
graduate Of Duke University.
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FACING another of the anti-com-
mercial radio battles that have
dogged it for decade, the broad
casting industry gets together In an.
nual convention in Cincinnati this
week to devise means of warding OF
what IL fears may result In lover.