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Show OPPOSE 1111 ' RADIO CUNTROL Federal Ownership Menace to Country, Marconi Officials Say. W A MM IN' i'VdS, 1 V. O, f-cula Of the .Ur.joui Win-less Te;-;v.ph company of America appar! i,cV.r-- l he house rnr:i' h int rnarhir cominii if-.: today to op-uopn op-uopn the- admlnintration bill providing for purchase and control hy fhe n-tvy dpart-i.iont dpart-i.iont of all radio suni;: in thin conn-tr. conn-tr. John V. Crisiss. nnidf.-nt of the ompfciiy; Edward Nail v. vie president, uici D San.oi'f, rommfreinl agent, gave --asou.s why Uwy believed the stations Mould be left in privalc hands . Mi Nallv told the ffumiu that t.wenty-ffve wireless Canons in Mexico I irul been under i;orin;m control during! rhp war. Am investigation of tlic wirtlrss -vstfin In tint country recently completed bv ;m ;?rit of the Marconi rorrn.ir.'.'. he" u filed, .showed that although th-- M'-xi'-'an ;'oT!ini.:-i)t claims titl to all wirv-lc-s. ta I iori, Ionian apparatus i s iw.-d .vi":' i i Or man operators 'apt.; found in hU Ol llit-m. IU: said thf investigation also disclosed dis-closed that the whole system w.ih dUper-vls'.-d by 'Icritian radio experts. Mr. N'ally te-ummeiukd to the committee commit-tee thai trie government be allowed to control coastal stalions, which receive and transmit rneH.siiKif.-3 btweer ships and tht; land, but urged that the ownership of stations sta-tions s-tiding tin nsoc -anie or overland message should be allowed to remain ir. private han.:?:.- advut.-H.ted a roniinuu- tion of government control of radio ata-tions. ata-tions. kvcrrimcr;t ownr rship of the si. a Lions was ch arad prized by Mr. Griggs ;is unjust, un-just, confiscatory, r.nd a "mena.:e to the country," as it would mean, he said, that not a "single private, business or press me.'-safct: could be sent wit nout i i s passing pass-ing through government hand?;, thereby i'.'tirs np nn arbitrary censorship. ! The cornmiltee was anked to revise tee ' hill so if passed It would provide for an i arbitration board to decide upon the j amount to Vie paid the Marconi company. ' As no a- framed, he said, the bill takes no I consideration of the money spent during the past twenty years by the company to make wireless communication practicable, nor of the profits the company might make in the future. |