The Monroe journal., 1922-11-10
ONE MAN HAS OFFERED TO
:, GUARANTEE THEM $4,000
Oscar Robinson and Bruce Thompson
Claim to Have Eliminated Static
With Their Radio Outfit
SELLING FOR $50. NEW YORK
CAN BE HEARD OVER THEM

Is Salu 10 nave iotu ihS"
ill Two Weeks Ago Neither Had
Ever Seen Standard Radio Out
ft-They Had Job Inducing Mr..
Moyle to Test Their Outfit.
Two country boys, Oscar Robin
son and Bruce Thompson of Indian
Trail, claim to have invented cheap
radio outfit that has eliminated stat
ic. something the scientific world has
been seeking ever since the radio
craze started. The outfit, which has
neither bulb nor battery, can be sold
for $40, the boys claim.
There are thousands of dollars, per-
haps millions, in the invention if the
bows can substantiate their claim,
Messrs. F. G. Henderson and Bruce
Adams, two of the local radio ex-
perts, admit. The boys have already
been guaranteed $4,000 and 10 per
cent all above that amount the IN
vention will bring, young Thompson
informs The Journal.
The most surprising thing about
the invention, if the young men have
really eliminated static, is that until
two weeks ago they had never seen
a standard radio outfit. Yet they
claim to have cheap machine over
which one can hear thousand miles
without static interference, the bane
of all radio fans.
Shortly after the radio craze struck
Indian Trail, about six weeks ago,
they began erecting an outfit from
directions contained in radio maga-
zine. 1t was of the crystal type.
When it was completed, they were
disappointed to find that they could
hear no further than Charlotte, and
that static from that short distance
made it impossible for them to hear
distinctly. SO they set about improv-
ing their machine. Now they say they
can pick up messages distinctly from
East Pittsburg, Detroit, Washington,
st. Louis, Madison, Wisconsin, Sche-
nectedy, N. Y, Erie, Pa, CINCINNATI,
Ohio, Pine Bluff, Ark, and Atlanta,
Georgia.
Stumbled Upon 1t Accidentally
1--WE stumbled upon our invention
accidentally, you might say" Thomp-
son, who is a son of Mr.. J. +. Thomp-
son, told The Journal. "We couldn't
pick up messages over our first outht,
so we began tinkering until we erect
ed a machine that could take waves
from a distance of thousand miles"
Their invention is carefully guarded.
No one with knowledge of radio is
permitted to look inside the small,
square box that holds their in
strument.
Believing they had an invention
that the whole world was looking
for, the Indian Trail boys attempted
to induce Mr.. W. o. Moyle, radio
expert of Charlotte, who is connected
with one of the large electrical COM
panies, to inspect their outfit. He
scotfed at the idea of going to Indian
Trail to hear an instrument that
could do what radio experts have
deemed the impossible. There is moth
ing to it." he almost laughed in the
face of the boys.
Moyle Hard to Convince
BY this time both Thompson and
Robinson were seething hot at their
invention being doubted. They de-
cided to take the outfit to Charlotte,
RIG up an aerial on the spot and con-
vince MIR. Moyle that they had really
stumbled upon a wonderful inven-
ton, they say. The next evening,
after dark, Mr. Moyle was confronted
at his residence in Charlotte by two
eager-faced young men with box
under his arm. "You wouldn't come
to Indian Trail to hear our outfit,
Thompson told him, 80 we have
brought it here for you to test"
Moyle laughed. "You boys" he is
quoted as saying, "are crazy. You
haven't eliminated static, nor have
you invented a $50 outfit that will
take waves sent from distance of
a thousand miles" The boys per-
sisted, getting madder every minute.
"Oh, yes, we have" they retorted.
Still doubling, Moyle offered to bet
them fifty dollars to five that they
didn't. II wont take that bet" one
of the boys tod him, "but III bet
yor fifty to five that we have and
prove It to you on the spot."i
MT. M0yle Wpdkentu' ne tolu 'he
boys to rig up their aerial. This was
done quickly, and in few minutes
Mr.. Moyle, so Thompson says, was
astonished to hear clearly and dis
tinctly music and speeches sent out
from Pittsburg and other points.
There is nothing like it on the
Market" Mr.. Moyle is alleged to have
said, thoroughly convinced that they
had stumbled upon great invention.
Then it was that he offered the boys
for their invention a guarantee OF
$4,000 and ten per cent all above
that amount he was able to sell it for.
While most local people who are
nj all familiar with radio question
the ability of the boys outfit to
eliminate static, or for such cheap
machine to take messages from
distance over fifty or hundred miles,
thew freely admit that if it is true
voung Robinson and Thompson have
\ gold mine. There is no way of
estimating the possibilities of the
machine. "Why," one of them said,