(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
Seven hundred and thirty-eight Jews (650 Moslems and 600 Christians have been registered up to the present by the Electoral Sub-committees in Jerusalem for the forthcoming municipal elections.
Representative Dickstein, Democrat, New York, charged in Washington yesterday that Radio Station WHAP, New York, is permitting the broadcasting of improper statements regarding immigrants, Catholics, Jews and Negroes.
Mr. Dickstein, who has introduced a bill to amend the new Radio act to prevent broadcasting of defamatory statements pertaining to race, religion and politics, said:
“The use of these slurs through the ## is becoming so great that you cannot have peace in a country which guarantees freedom of speech, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Franklin Ford, studio director of WHAP, said when interviewed that no slurs on race or religion had been broadcast from his station. Arguments had been made against breaking down the immigration laws by Hugh White Adams, he said, and added that that probably was what Representative Dickstein had reference to.
“Nothing has been broadcast from this station against Jews as Jews,” said Mr. Ford. “We have broadcast protests against indecent plays as fostered by Jews, but that doesn’t indict all Jews.”
Franklin Ford’s name was ordered stricken from the jury list by Judge Otto Rosalsky in December, 1926, because of his talks against Jews and Catholics from his radio station. The station is sponsored by Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson.
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