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Show DANIELS URGES R10JMR0L Secretary Fears Private Monopoly Mo-nopoly and Dangers of Spy Messages WASHINGTON, Feb 15 Tn a plea for federal control of all wireless stations. sta-tions. Secretary Daniels in a letter to Chnlrnian Pnge. f the senate mlll-tarty mlll-tarty committee, today declared that there la one thing In which there should he a monopoly it Is monopoly of the air, and this monopoly should not be given over to private Interests." Inter-ests." Mr Daniels' letter was In reply to a request from Senator Page for an opinion on the resolution Introduced hv Senator Polndexter, Republican. Washington, to regulate the operation opera-tion of. and foster the development of radio communication. Asserting that he was fully aware of tho oppo.xltlon that existed to government gov-ernment ownership of public utilities. Mr Daniels declared experiences be-?-.. ;lnl during the war demonstrated radio itatlona within the United States were being used for the transmission trans-mission of "unneutral" messages. "One grave dancer that confronts us." tho bttep said, "is the posal-blllty, posal-blllty, I might oven say the probability proba-bility of a combination through Interlocking Inter-locking directorates, of the private cable ca-ble Interests with the private radio Interests, In-terests, for it la not inconceivable thai the Interests that own anl control con-trol the cables might also be lnter-asted lnter-asted in a radio corporation whose special interests might be served bv the provisions 'of the pending Mil. Amateur stations should be under government control," Mr. Daniels declared. |