Show RAmo MEASURE STRIKES SNAG Conferees Refuse to Accept Amendments WASHINGTON March 25 The The quietude quietude quietude qui qui- etude which has attended legislation to extend government radio facilities for the handling of ot press and com commercial commer commer- merI mer- mer I cial messages since en enactment several weeks ago by the senate of the house naval radio bill in n n amended form was broken today c 6 Chairman Greene of the house COmmerce commerce commerce com COm- merce committee and of ot the house conferees conferees con con- announced that the conferees would not accept the measure as amended by the tho senate to extend use of the facilities for five years Dr Walter Valter Williams pr president and J. J W. W Brown secretary of ot the press pres congress of ot the world called at the White House and discussed the matter of use of radio facilities for press purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses with President Harding They The said they found the president very sympathetic toward such use I Press dispatches from Alaska Hawaii Ha Ha- wall wail the Philippines and other transPacific transPacific trans trans- Pacific points are now sent by naval radio and Mr Williams who Just re returned ro- ro turned from a month four-month trip in the orient said that discontinuance of ot this privilege would mean that the English English En En- glish gush and American papers antI ana other publications In the Far East would re receive receive re- re their news dispatches entirely through British channels Dr WIllama Williams Wil Wil- liams llama said it was essential in the American interest to have use of the naval radio for the trans-Pacific trans press dispatches |