Show URGES URGES' CONGRESS TO Tn CHECK RADIUM ADlUM MONOPOLY W WASHINGTON Jan 26 Secretary Secretary Lane told the house mines committee toda today that congress should look up the question Monopoly that keeps radium at a a. fabulously high price and enact legislation to put the curative mineral on the market cheaply for large numbers of ot sufferers Lane Lano declared it was the governments government's dut duty to get gotali c all the radium it could He arguments against the thc withdrawal withdrawal with with- of ot the lands saying there was as asno no Intention of ot setting aside a vast area nor to lock up the mineral ore lands in indefinitely In In- definitely but simply to get radium out for tor public use where here it would not be Inthe in tho the hands of ot a monopoly Secretary Lanes Lane's proposal d was to di divide divide dl- dl vide vido a certain area into tracts of ot acres s allow exclusive licenses to prospectors pros pros- and I if f a prospector found ra radium rahum ra- ra hum to allow him all alt the usual rights and the government go to take 25 per PCT cent of ot the radium obtained |