Moe Asch still independent as:

“RECORDINGS
TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES

Asch Recording Studios
117 West 46th Street
New York”
[Billboard Music Yearbook, 1943, p.120]


And getting Bob Theil's Signature label tangled up with Stinson Trading Company and the Petrillo Ban:

“Signature-Asch-BMI Tie On
NEW YORK, July 1.–Asch Records, specialists in American folk music, will not participate in the BMI plan for exploitation of original compositions of hot jazz thru radio station disk jockeys. On the other hand, as pressers and distributors of Signature Records, the Asch firm will handle at least two of the proposed hot numbers but under the Signature label.”
[Billboard, 8 July 1944, p.16]