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From Washington, U.S. Censor Byron Price and his assistant for radio, stocky J. Harold Ryan of Toledo, sent out radio's first wartime "Code of Practices." Because a few powerful domestic stations (such as Salt Lake City's 50-kw. KSL) have been heard across the Pacific, they told radiomen to be careful even in the use of already censored press news. They warned against references to the weather during sports broadcasts. They also detailed the topics upon which only official information can be given...
Most absolute veto handed out was on musical-request programs. No telephoned or telegraphed requests are to be accepted. Requests received by mail are to be held "for an unspecified length of time." The censor remembered, perhaps, that during Prohibition bootleggers were supposed to have sent messages to Rum Row by getting "platter turners" on all-night stations to play their prearranged tunes...
...official rules of what-you-can't-print were laid down last week by Censor Byron Price...
...Censor Price's ground rules were all labeled "requests." The rules are to apply to news, photographs, maps, letters to the editor, interviews with soldiers or sailors on leave, even advertising. They set up a list of 105 subjects concerning which editors are asked to print nothing except "when authorized by appropriate authority." The range of subjects includes the weather, damage to military objects, movements of the President of the U.S. and allied military or diplomatic missions; the progress of war production; location of minefields, of archives and art treasures. Sample paragraph...
...short, the publication of virtually any news about the U.S. war effort is now forbidden unless specifically sanctioned by the Government. Since all information is of value to the enemy in one degree or another, Censor Price's code could be literally stretched to a ridiculous extent. That it might be so stretched, few editors feared. The majority trusted Censor Price, an A.P. veteran, to give them the best breaks he knew...