Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1941 — Page 41

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FCC OPPOSES | WIRE TAPPING

Legalizing It Would Harm, Not Help Defense, Fly Tells Congress. By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 28.—Wire tapping again has become a lively topic here because of attempts to legalize the practice for Government use on national grounds.

The argument, revolving diciary tee, took a new turn when James L. Fly, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and chairman of the Defense Communications Board, warned the committee that wire A tapping instead of RB promoting defense would endanger it, He urged that Congress strengthen rather than weaken the statutes) against wire tapping. The FCC chairman's detailed discussion of the dangers inherent in wire tapping may cause the committee to proceed cautiously, He said that any wire tapping would imperil defense communications and practically eliminate use of telephones for official business.

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Equipment Sold Openly

During the World War period, he pointed out, Congress had specifically prohibited wire tapping in order to protect the defense program. The present law against wire tapping should be strictly enforced, he said. He suggested that the committee might want to consider forbidding the manufacture and sale of wiretapping equipment. Such equipment, he said, is advertised openly in the New York telephone directory, Mr, Fly testified at a secret session of the committee. A subcommittee earlier was conducting open hearings on the pending bills, during which business, church groups and organized labor expressed opposition to wire tapping, but Chairman Sumners (D. Tex.) took the matter out of the subcommittee’s hands and ordered secret hearings by the full! committee.

F. D. R. Modifies Stand

Chief of the bills before the committee is one sponsored by Rep. Hobbs (D. Ala.), a broad measure permitting wire tapping for detection of all felonies. Mr. Hobbs said the bill had been drafted and approved by the Justice Department and by J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Bureau of Investigation. The Administration, however, has since taken a much modified stand on the legislation, following the cue of President Roosevelt, who in a letter to Rep. Tom Eliot (D., Mass.), member of the judiciary committee, condemned wire tapping in general, pointed out how it could be used as an instrument of tyranny and oppression, and favored only strictly limited wire tapping in crimes of the gravest nature, including defense crimes. Mr. Hoover did not appear hefore the committee, but sent a letter indorsing only a limited type of wire tapping. Attorney General Jackson, who appeared before a secret session of the committee, subsequently wrote to the committee recommending limited wire tapping.

Disliked by Businessmen

Mr. Fly took issue with the Attorney General's contention that wire tapping is not now illegal, explaining that it is forbidden by the 1934 communications act with penalties up to two years’ imprisonment and $10,000 fine. The dangers of wire tapping as a tool in political controversies were admitted by the FP. C. C. Chairman, who also said that businessmen would dislike it because they fear the Government might use it in looking into tax returns, labor relations, Sherman Act violations and the like. As for national defense, he thought defense secrets were too important for them to be intrusted to even the highest caliber of detectives who might be engaged in wire tapping, and cited examples of Government agents who had in the, past either been inaiscreet or who| had themselves later been convicted ! of crimes.

HEALTH CONFERENCE T0 OPEN TOMORROW

Claude Parker, Worthington schools superintendent. will be the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Indiana Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation tomorrow at the Indiana University Medical Center. He will speak on “The Place of Physical Education in Education for the National Defense.” Program speakers are Dr. John W. Ferree, State Health Board director, and Dr. Thurman B. Rice, of the Board's bureau of health and physical education, George Farkas, Howe High School | teacher, will preside at the meeting. | Paul B. Williams, athletic director at Ball State Teachers College, is association president.

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