Merger urged for Western Union and Postal Telegraph
The FCC urged consolidation of Western Union Telegraph Company and Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation as an apparent remedy for industry ills. It cited competition benefits and industry rehabilitation if allowed, noting a prior prohibition could be moved by Congress and reported to Senate committees.
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Federal Communications Commission
Western Union Telegraph Company
Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation
Senate
FCC
Congress
Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Philadelphia man jailed after ripping phone receivers
Joseph Aydell, 50, was jailed after police charged him with ripping receivers from free public telephones when he dialed the wrong number. He said he felt frustrated and disgruntled. The incident touched on concerns that communication needs for national defense would be better provided by unification.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Aydell
Aydell
Finns, Russians, and ice war on Gulf of Finland
The report describes Finnish forces trapping Soviet troops on the coast with machine gun nests as Russian reinforcements were admitted through a trap. Night land attacks and daytime air drops blasted holes in ice as Soviet troops fled, many captured. Meanwhile German and British accounts clashed over Helgoland Bight air losses, and Prague reports reveal arrests of about 1,000 former Czechoslovak officers and others tied to intelligence.
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Roosevelt
London
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Hungary
Count Istvan Csaky
San Remo
Italy
Balkan
Russia
Romania
Bessarabia
Dempsey Opposes Reciprocal Trade Deals
Dempsey criticizes the tariff concession as a mistake that lowers U.S. production and harms agriculture. He contrasts his stance with Senator Hatch and argues final treaty approval should stay with the U.S. Senate. He warns against cheap competition erasing gains in farming and industry.
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Dempsey
Carl Hatch
Dn.m
U. S. Senate
New Mexico
New Mexico Economy Linked to National Trade Health
The state economy sits in step with national trade by the federal program, says the Department report citing Mica molybdenum copper zinc wool hides cotton manganese mohair and petroleum among key exports. The report notes foreign trade as vital to prosperity and the state’s well being. In Roswell Daily Record, a separate brief notes Sheriff Murray says money worries drove Fay Robinson 45 to fatally shoot himself New Year’s Day. his widow and three children survive.
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New Mexico
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Daily Record
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