Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1927 — Page 6

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RADIO HEARINGS ON COMPETITION TO LAST A YEAR Federal Body To Collect Data On Charges Against R. C. A. And Others By Mauritz A. Hallgren (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) Washington- Almost four thousand pages of testimony have been gathered hy the Feedral Trade Commission in its hearings on the charges that the Radio Corporation of America and its affiliated companies are engaged in unfair competition, and the end is still a year or so away. The public airing of the radio trust charges began in October. 1925, the commission having taken until June of this year to present its case. Later this summer the respondent companies will present their side and expect to consume at least eight months in the task. After two years of investigation the Federal Trade Commission, on January 26, 1924. issued a complaint alleging that the Radio Corporation of America. General Electric Company. American Telephone ami Telegraph Company, Western Electric Company, Inc., Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. International Radio Telegraph Company, United Fruit Company and Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company had engaged in certain acts and practices which "are all to the prejudice of the public" and “constitute unfair methods of competition in commerce." Hearings Are Held ’ Hearings began 20 months later, being in Washington, New York, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, New Orleans and elsewhere before Examiner W. H. Reeves, counsel for the Commission have sought to prove that the acused radio companies have'acquired all but a few of the wireless patents issued in this country and have acquired rights in all British patents as well as in patents of many other foreign countries; that the respondents have prevented outsiders from penetrating this combination by a cross-licensing of patents among themselves, and that the companies have virtually cornered all the available radio engineering talent in the United States. While the radio firms have not yet had a chance to reply through the testimony of their own witnesses, they have, through formal answers to the original complaint and through cross-examination of the Commission's witnesses, set forth that the Radio Corporation, nucleus of the alleged combination, was created as a patriotic venture. Sponsored By Gvernment ■ AV,.-'■■■•• Tt— General Electric, testified that “it was practically the order of the navy department" that corporation be formed. Davis further declared that Owen D. Young, a high official of General Electric, at that time kept in close touch with Washington and President Wilson "to prevent us from doing anything which would be adverse to the interests of the government.” The assertion that the government sponsored or acted as god father for this super-organization is given additional color by the testimony of other witnesses, who related the manner in which rear Admiral W. H. G. Bullard, then chief of naval communication, was loaned to the corporation and for some time attended meetings as a member of its board of directors. o— — Bobbed Hair To Stay Coiffure Artists Say Chicago, June 29—t United Press)— Long hair for the women is but a fad —just as bobbed hair once was—and will soon go out, is the of one of Chicago’s most noted coiffure artists. She is Mme Louise, proprietor of u beauty salon. In a recent exhibition of porper coiffures she pointed out that bobbed styles were the only ones now accepted. "The prevailing mode is a clinging swirl curled in a finger wave, or a permanent wave resembling a carcel,” she said. “Bobbed hair has come to stay. Women know that short hair, cut to fit the individual style much smarter than Ing hair. A few debutantes go in for long tresses, but soon tire of them.” - —o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pay* Bunions V ll Quick relief from pain. ■F. . > I Prevent ahoe pressure. WIBT ■ At oil drug and that motm Mil _ J DI Scholl's ***■■ ontoir _, h , poiai.seM

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Segrave, With World Speed Record, Retires From Automobile Racing! By Charles A. Smith International News Service Etaff Correspondent London. June 29 —(INS) —Major H. • O. D. Segrave, holder of the world's, speed record of 207 miles an hour, has I definitely decided to rest on his lau-| rels and retire from automobile racing. To this end he has tendered his resignation to the Sunbeam Automobile Company, the makers of the car, which he made new records at Daytona Beach. Florida, and intends to go in | for a business as widely disassociated, from motoring as the poles. “I have won every big race in; • I Europe; I have fulfilled my ambition I to lie the first man to travel more than!

200 miles an hour —what more can I' do in speed motoring?" said Segrave| in announcing his final decision. Un-| der the terms of his contract with his new employers, Segrave will have two months a year free to devote in his new hobby of motor boat racing, in which he has great ambitions. "Even for stout old prima donas, who. after all are not built for speed, there comes the right time to make their bow and retire." added Segrave. “It is the same in my case. I have never driven better than I am driving today, but the next step is 250 miles an hour, and I should say that is a long way off. I am just as likely to kill myself doing something unimportant. I have had a great deal of luck. "1 feel 1 have done all I can experimenting at high speeds. Some trifling mistake might get me killed, so I have decided to go into business. Most of the big racing drivers that I used to look up to when I started have been killed.” Nobody is better pleased at his decision to retire than his wife. o Seeing Man Improperly Hanged Causes Youth To Become A Hangman , 111. Jllll'- (1 The wftßessfng ie ■ ■ improperly hanged left such a lasting impression on Phil Hanna, that he became a professional hangman in order to eliminate unnecessary suffering. The suffering of the man improperly hanged was so intense and lasted such a length of time that the disguest at such procedure left the most lasting impression of his life, Hanna said, following the hanging of Joe Chesnas, in which he assisted here last week. Hanna, who probably has assisted in more hangings than any other man living, declared that his days as a hangman were about over, and that he would like to see someone else take his place. He will not accept fees for his part in executions and even pays his own expenses. ■ — 1 1 O'" — Rabbits Invade North Carolina Like Epidemic Raleigh, N, C. June 29—(INS)—The boll weevil is not the only pest that the North Carolina farmer has to deal with. Now it's the rabbit —the ordinary, cotton-tailed rabbit that infests the Piedmont section of North Carolina. An “epidemic” of rabbits has broken out in certain sections of the Pied-

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mont, it seems, and as a result ot this certain crops, especially the soybean crop, are seriously menaced. Complaints reaching the State De-, partment of Agriculture here describ-1 ed conditions in certain sections of the State. Under the State law, the! rabbits may be killed only between November and March 1. “The rabbit hunter has gone to I work," this was the explanation on > Randolph county farmer gave as the reason for the "epidemic. o “—— Bovs’ .Joke Is Cause Os Death; May Bring Imprisonment For Life Fortress Medlin. Poland, June 29 (INS) —Boys’ practical jokes which end in death of the victim have taken such proportions jn sections cf Poland

i OUVII - I that State police are demanding mer- , | ciless punishment of the culprits, I A test case will probably be made 1 of a ghastly prank in the village ofII Galuszyn near the famous fortress of II Modlin. Two peasant youths Robert I Bist. 17. and Stephan Kusek. 20. spott-ll ed the 70-year-old farmer, Mordkall Czerniszew, standing at the brink of 11 his newly constructed cistern. They I pushed him in and ran away laughing I at the idea of the old man trying to I climb cut of the 18-foot hole which was I not yet filled with water. I Two hours later Czerniszew wKs I found dead by his son-in-law. The boys I were at rested and confessed. They 11 said they wanted to scare “the old I •gent." The village prosecutor announ-ll ced he would demand life imprison-11 ment for the jokers to teach other I j oungsters a lessom I

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Biggest Auto Racing Bowl In South May Be Reopened In October Charlotte, N, C. June 29 —(INS)Whether or nbt the Charlotte Speedway. until a few months ago the South's biggest automobile racing bow! will be reopened was still a matter of speculation today. The new owners of the giant eval that bid in the property recently announced that they will make known their decision within the next tow weeks. Should they decide to reopen tne speedway it is not likely that an A. A. A nice will be held here before October. it was stated. Essence of Life Cheerfulness is to life what perfume is to tlie [lower.—Forbes Magazine.

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Traveling Man Forgetsi Jewelry V alued At $4,000; Finder Gives It Io Police New York, June 29 - (INS)— Fol got-, fulness, some philosophers hold, is a. virtue under certain conditions, and although he is a jewelty salesman and not a philosopher, Max Wolf will testify today that it sometimes bring! Its own toward—in Ills ease, it ptoved that honesty still prevails. Wolf started out on his sales rounds carrying a sample case containing 192 gold wrist watches. 149 gold rings and 24 monogram button insets lor the rings, worth altogether about $4,000, Wliile getting his car out of a wedge along tl*e cut b, he placed the case on the sidewalk and then drove off with out it. For five hours the $4,000 sample case remained on the sidewalk while thousands of persons passed by, some occatonally thi owing a "you-can't-kid-me" ' glance. George Pcvens, however, gave curiosity the play and investigated. StartId. lie picked up the case and dashed

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