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Evening star., 1922-05-11
GALENA IS BEST
RAD|ODETECTOR
SuIphide of Lead Ore Tenn
permentaI, However,
Won't Always Work.

The simplest forms of receiving
apparatus for wireless telephony. such
as portable outfits. are equipped with
be between two dissimilar metals or
between metal and some natural or
artificial substance. Metallic silicon
and steel make good detector: also
carborundum and a metal. Certain
minerals--pyrite. Zincite, galena and
others-make good d6tectors in con-
tact with metal. These are usually
known as "crystaI detectors." and the
one most commonly used is galena,
the sulphide OF lead.
Most Common Lead Ore.
Galena is the most common ore of
lead and is widely distributed. The
prominent lead regions in the United
States are the Wisconsin district.
southeastern Missouri district. Joplin
district. Leadville. Aspen and other
districts in Colorado; Bingham, Tintic.
Park City and other districts in Utah
Occur d'Alene district of Idaho. Butte
district of Montana, Phoebe district
of Nevada, and others.
But to be available commercially
for wireless work galena must occur
in large chunks or masses that can be
broken in small particles and that
mately mixed with other sulphide
minerals, so that neither is available
in quantity for use in wireless work
The galena of eastern Tennessee. of
the Kentucky-Illinois district. Wis
consin district and the Joplin dis
trict occurs more often in masses
that may be culled from the mine
run of ore to form source of galena
sufficient for wireless uses.
Vary in Sensitiveness.
But different specimens of galena
vary widely in sensitiveness. and a
single specimen may vary in sensi-
tiveness in different areas of its sur
face. OF the hundreds of small frag-
ments into which a chunk of galena
may be broken relatively few may be
sensitive. In mine only the Salena
in a small area may be sensitive. The
most careful examination by the
scientists of the United States bureau
of standards has not revealed the rea-
son for this difference. which makes
it necessary to test each fragment of
galena to determine its availability
for wireless use.
Good galena detectors may be low
cred in efficiency or ruined by expos
ure to the atmosphere or heat or
an unusually strong signal. They are
generally mounted in Woods metal.
an easily fusible alloy melting at
about $50 degrees Fahrenheit. 1t
would usually destroy the usefulness
of galena crystals to mount them in
common solder. Even handling with
the fingers may damage them. They
should be handled with forceps or
a cloth and be kept in closed box
when not in use.
Evening star., 1922-05-11
BY RADIO TO-DAY
.A-Naynl Radio Station. Radio. Vn.

NaA-Naynl Radio Station. Radio, Vn.
1920 a.m-Meteorogical report on
$3.50 meters of arc transmitter.
- noon and 10 p.m.-Time signal.
followed by weather report and ship
orders.
1890 p.m-Naval press news. Wave
length, 1850 meters.
NOF-NayaI Air Station, Anacostia,
ID. C. (41O Meters).
$50 to s:45 p.m-Wednesdays and
Fridays-music.
wWX-Post ONCE Department u,1OO
+ Meters).
10 a.m-Weather report.
1890 acknowledgement by radio
phone.
1870 pm. 2:15 pm. $3.50 pm.
p.m.-Telegram marketgram on 1850
meters.
wMU-Doubleday-H Electric Com
pany $3.50 Meters).
4:30 and $50 p.m.-Base ball scores
and the following program:
"Miserere" CVerdD; Moon Moth"
(Kissner), piano; "All That 1 Need
Is You" (SantlyBaer). fox trot;
Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight" (klick-
MANN; "Nocturne" (Chopin). piano;
"Zaza" (Leoncavallo). tenor: Chimes
of St. Cecilia" (Worthington), piano;
"Why Don't You Smile" (Schwartz),
fox trot; Lucia" (DonizettD, soprano;
symphonic Dance" (ScottGrainger),
de Rose); fox trot; Naughty Waltz"
(Sol Levy: Magic Fire Scene"
(Wagner-Brassin), piano; "Smilin'
(Coburn-Rose Wolohan-Krausgri1
fox trot; woodland Chimes" (Smith),
piano.
s to p.m.-special musical program
by the following local artists:
"One Fine Day" (PuccinD. ''The
Wind Is in the South Today" (scotD,
IL Love Song" CFiegieD. Parted"
(TostD. Mrs. Peter Becker. jr.
slave Song DeI Riego}. Thy
"an open Secret" Cwoodman),
Somewhere" (FetD, Miss Nellie Pier
pont.
(Curran. Miss Helen Barbee
"Mammy's Song" (Wave). "Just
Wearying for You" Bond), Robert
Accompanist. Mary DAILY.
WJZ-Newark, n. J. 1890 Meters)
Eastern Daylight-Saving Time
Deduct One Hour.
Every hour, IL am. to 6 p.m.-Mu-
sical program.
IL am. ~ noon. 3 pm. and 1901
o pm-Weather forecast.
2:O5 p.m.-Shipping news.
7 p.m-"Jack Rabbit Stories,'' by
David Corey.
1880 pm.-"Fairy Health" will sing
and talk to children. courtesy Of the
Child Health Organization of Amer
lea.
s p.m.-Concert by Union League
club of Brooklyn. under the direction
of Prof Louis Mollenhauer, director
of the Louis Mollenhauer Conserva-
tory of Music. Programs include Sc
lections> by Louis Mollenhauer, Harry
Mollenhauer, Louis Mollenhauer,> jr.,
and Crosby Mollenhauer. violinists,
accompanied by Mrs. Louis Mollen-
hauer. Solos by Nine. Edith Baxter
Harper, soprano, and Minnabel Hunt.
pianist.
p.m.-Literary evening conducted
by the Outlook, Scientific American
and Harper G. Brothers.
KYW-Westinghous Chicago (380
Mcters-Central Daylight Saving
} xEsz.
Evening star., 1922-05-11
RY WAYNE sHAFFER.

For the best operation of storage
batteries in radio service care
should be taken to avoid allowing
batteries to stand in discharged
condition. a regular system OF
charging should be used. Do not
wait until the batteries are run
down, but have. them charged about
every two weeks. This will keep
.hem fully charged and maintain
Specifically constant voltage on the
tubes. If small battery charger is
at the operators disposal a few
hours charging every few days Will
keen the batteries in excellent condf-
ton. The water should be kept
about one-quarter of an inch above
the tops of the plates Use only DIS
titled water for this purpose. TheSe
are the two principal operations IN
caring for batteries-charge regular
ly and keep the water level above the
ions of the plates. The above pre-
cautions will insure long life and
constant operation of the batteries.
In choosing a. radio storage pat
terry. several things should be Kept
in mind. So swift has been the ad-
vent of various styles of radio ap,
naratus and so sudden the demand
thar until recently there have been
no batteries on the market Whlch
completely meet the requirements.
Evening star., 1922-05-11
How to Build a Radio Set
No. TO- The Storage Battery.

We find fine radio receiving set
drawing power from an old box of
junk made over for radio purposes"
and sold for low price. The max
ing over" generally consists of
changing the terminals of rejected
batteries which have been designed
for starting purposes. The price Is
low and the size impressive and the
prospective buyer falls" for it.
The battery should consist of a
battery which is easily portable
thirty-five to forty-five pounds-and
should have a suitable handle for
carrying. The discharge rate should
be uniform, which means the best of
materials and workmanship. The
plates should be of type adapted
for this service-preferably a heavy
plate and a small number of plates
seven or nine in each cell. The in
dividual cell4 should be separately
Sealed and placed without compound
in the box. This makes the parts ac-
cessible and the user independent of
the service station to large de-
gree. The charging rate should be
low enough to enable a home charg-
er to be used for recharging.
To sum the matter up, it would
seem that getting the most for the
money in batteries means purchasing
the portable siX-volt, seven-plate
special radio battery. A battery OF
this type will give dependable serv-
ice for a. number of years if given the
ordinary attention outlined above.
(Tomorrow-Radio Troubes)
Evening star., 1922-05-11
TWAIN AND-STEVENSON,
SCOTT, MALLORY, HELD
"TOP" AUTHORS BY BOYS

CHICAGO. May 10.--Henty, Oliver
Optic and J. Fenimore Cooper,
favorite boys authors of an older
generation. are known to young
America no more. but Mallory.
Mark Twain. Robert Stevenson
and Sir Walter Scott are as pom
ular as ever, according to Carl
Rodon, public librarian, who has
just published selected list of
boys books. $4,000 copies of which
will be distributed here during
Boys week" May 1926.
An analysis of the list shows
that fiction does not predominant.
The biographies of Lincoln, Roose-
welt and Edison. the Boys Book
of Mounted Police" the Book of
Sports" compiled by Christy Ma
thewson and others; the Boys
Book of Home Science and Con-
struction," and books on camping
and woodcraft are in great de-
mand.
Among the perennials are TON
Sawyer" "A Connecticut Yankee at
King Arthur's Court" ''The Three
Musketeers." Twenty Thousand.
Leagues Under the Sea- and The
Jungle Book"
The most up-to- o-date adventure
book Is one on air fighting in
France.
Evening star., 1922-05-11
DENIES CROAT REPORT.
Serb Minister Says No Independent
Republic Formed.

Declaring a report that the Croats
had proclaimed an independent re-
public was false. S. Y. Grouitch. min
lister from the kingdom of the Serbs.
Croats and Slovenes. today issued the
following statement:
"A dispatch to the Associated Press
dated from Rome stated yesterday
that the Croats had proclaimed an
Independent republic and that a min
istry had been appointed. The only
authority quoted was telegram from
Bari, small Italian seaport, ad-
dressed to Rome newspaper
Il beg to give this report a most
categorical denial and can only char
acterize it as malicious invention"
Evening star., 1922-05-11

companist; Earle NJ. Nessler, BARI
tone, with Daphne Edwards, pianist.
and Jennie NJ Durkee, ukulele and
guitar.
KDKA - Westinghouse. Pittsburgh
(3GO Meters-Eastern Standard Time).
10 to 1920 pm.-Music.
1890 to 1 p.m.-Music.
2 to 2:30 p.m.-Music.
to 4:20 p.m.-Music.
wwJ-betroit News t3aO Meters
Central Standard Time).
$50 p.m.-Joel King Underwood.
tenor.
The Lullaby Lady.
The Town Crier.
Warren H. McAIpin, baritone.
Louise NJ. Reinhard, mezzo-soprano.
Evening star., 1922-05-11
as Eastern Standard

Time-Same as Eastern Standard
Tfme).
9:35 a.m.-Opening market quota
tions. Chicago Board of Trade, every
half hour until l pm.
1920 p.m.-Closing market quota
tions
2:15 p.m.-News and market reports.
4:15 p.m.-News, market and stock
reports.
$50 pm.--News, final market and
stock reports.
8 to 9 p.m.-Musical program by the
American Lady Quartet, under the
direction of John Loring Cook. The
members of the quartet are: +. Maize
De La Barre. first soprano; Emma
Secord. second soprano; Loie NJ. Bill
inFs, first alto; Mary Peterson. sec
ond alto. and Fierlyn Clough. ac-
Evening star., 1922-05-11
COPPER VITAL IN RADIO.

Copper serves vital purpose in the
radiophone. Because of it's high
electrical conductivity, resistance to
corrosion. strength and the ease with
which it is handled, copper 1s in
dispensable in The construction of
this delicate apparatus, where the
keenest conductivity is required to
receive and translate back into sound
the electric pressure transmitted
through the ether waves.
Evening star., 1922-05-11
MILLION RADIO PHONES.
Big Increase Since 1921, When
There Were Only 100000.

Radio telephony even a few months
ago was in its infancy. Almost over
night il has taken on an advanced
youth.
In September. 1921, there were ap-
proximately 100000 radio receiving sets
in use in this country.
The Department of Commerce estf-
mates the present number as 500. 600.
but other well informed sources place
the number at as much as 1000, 900.
For the reason that perhaps two-
thirds Of the purchasers of radio re-
Evening star., 1922-05-11
RADIO FUTURE BRIGHT.
Six Million Receiving Sets May Be
in Existence In Five Years.

Pure conjecture alone is possible as
to the future development Of the
radio. 1t is not impossible. however.
that with government interest and
impetus behind radio development a
potential market of approximately
six million receiving sets will be ap-
preached within five years
The estimated average cost Ola set
is placed at $50, and on the basis of
receiving sets alone this means ap-
proXimately S50.000.000 will be spent
annually during the next five years
for new installations.
Evening star., 1922-05-11
COMPARISON WITH RADIO.

For purposes of comparison. there
is an interesting parallel between
automobiles. Photographs and radio.
There are. for instance. 10,000,00O au-
tomobiles in use in this country today.
In 1914. a typical phonograph year. the
output of machines was $4,000. hav-
ing value of S15291.Q 900. and 81,
22I 900 records, with a value of SILL
1Il,O00
1t is not impossible that the vol
Evening star., 1922-05-11

ume OF radio business Will. instead
of stopping at the present d!stribU-
tion of the phonograph. pass onward
and match the present distribute
of the 100000 automobiles.
Evening star., 1922-05-11
VAST USE OF COPPER.

Tt is estimated that 100000 pounds
of copper is utilized for every mill
lion Instruments. On the basis of a
potential market of 100000 radio
users In five years this means a new
and growing outlet for copper.
Evening star., 1922-05-11

ceiving sets buy separate parts and
construct their own sets, the diff
Guilty of obtaining exact statistics is
obvious.
Evening star., 1922-05-11

Three men can stand on each leaf
of the Victoria Regia lily, the great
flower three yards in diameter, to be
.seen In Kew gardens.
Evening star., 1922-05-11
New Apparatus and Devices
~By Ralph Brown, Radio Engine

over a slotted stud is very tight and
of low resistance.
Feet are provided at the base OF
the inductance unit for fastening ii
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-31
COMEDY PIANIST CONvULsEs
 AUDIENCE AT THE LYRIC

The bill at the Lyric> this first half is rather unusual in having three comedy and music couples and all three going over with marked suc- cess. The headline act of Ned Nor worth. piano comedian, and his part ner. Evelyn Wells, is one of the most riotously comical acts of this season.
 When Ned Norworth first came out before his audience Monday and started off the fun by going into mysteries himself, everyone knew that the time for fun and lots of 1t had come.
 A breezy summertime act of comedy chatter and music is "On the Lawn in which q couple who are oddly pleasing. shower the audience with bright sayings and sing snappily to the banjo. This sketch is done be- door cottages, and the whole idea runs along this attractive arrange ment.
 A youthful and freshly sweet young thing is Marion Weeks, who. with her parentr. Henri Barron, Is the added attraction this half. These two are singers of high rating. she being prima donna and he formerly of grand opera. Their act is operatic and classical and beautiful. The man in the act Trying tc Amuse is certainly a coming head liner. He combines ability with per sonality and puts over witty sayings with sense of comic values while he balances on a cycle half as hign as the ceiling. They liked him and showed 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-31
MAE MURRAY AT STRAND
 IN "PEACOCK ALLEY,

In her glltteringly brilliant cos- tunes Mae Murray is a dazzling fig ure as the gay dancer of Peacock Alley at the Strand all this week. Miss Murray has done one of her best pieces of impulsive characterization In this role which presents the DOW erful love that the dancer holds for man who Is her opposite in every particular but who is caught by her winsome and childish gayety.
 Monte Blue is ideal as the small town American man who goes to Paris and marries this little dancer risking the scandalizing of his peo- pie at home. He plays a strong part and true blue part, and suits to per- lection. Monte Blue is always, even in the midst of the most glaring sur roundings, unspoiled, sincere and simple, the kind of man the spectator can imagine being bewitehed by the gay little dancer.
 The story has almost been told in forerunning lines Briefly 1t Is of a typical American who marries a Pa rlslan dancer who loves him in- tensely, but who does not understand him nearly so well. Their expe- rtenees at hi shome and later when they move to New York, where she Is again in her gay element, make thrilling and interesting action.
 Aside from the brilliant oostuming Of Miss Murray, the picture Is gor- geously and elaborately produced. Many of the scenes showing the dancer are done in color and are re- markable in elaborateness, as is the entire production
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-31
ALABAMA CITIES
 WIN RATE VICTORY.
Birmingham, Mobile, Selma and Montgomery Are Bene- fitted by Meridian Rate
 Case Decision
By FRED H. GoRMLEY laontgomery Bureau The Age Herald. 221-2 First National Bank Building

Montgomery, January So.-(Special) Material qualifications in the sched- uies of rates proposed by the South srn. Alabama Great Southern. Mobile and Ohio and Alabama, Tennessee and Northern railroads Tn compliance with the order of the interstate com merce commission in the Meridian rate case have been made by the i'm terstate commerce commission, &C., cording to information received by the public service commission today. The order for tho notifications. which are of great benefit to Mobile, Birmingham. Selma, Montgomery and other cities in competition with Me- rtdian business, was received by the commission Monday. although 1t was entered in Washington by the inter state commerce commission last Wednesday.
 In decision last year the inter agtate commerce commission held that Yates from Meridian to points within . radius of 200 miles in Alabama, when compared with the Alabama in- trAstate rates from points in compe- tltion with Meridian. were prejudicial to Meridian. The railroads were in- structed to modify the rates In such a way as to remove this prejudice.
 Great Victory
 IL would take the analytical mind of freight rate expert to determine just how great a victory has been won by the representatives of Ala bama interests. One thing is certain, tho rates which the railroads pro posed to establish on fertilizer, horses, mules, cattle, lumber and .'brick between Meridian and points In Alabama on the lines of the railroads were suspended for all time. This is also true of the rates on cement from Spocari to Meridian and on Lumber in carload lots between Meridian and points on the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern railroad and on all commod- ities between Meridian and points on the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern railroad which are involved in the tariffs already under suspension as result of the rehearing.
 Substitute schedules proposed by ths railroads were adopted in the place of those which are suspended by the interstate commerce commits sion. With the exception of those rates which are involved in the new order of suspension the tariffs which were proposed by the railroads in compliance with the order of the in- terstate commerce commission were made effective from February 27.
 The commission issued another or der excluding rates on coal and coke from the schedules. The proposed rates on coal and coke, which were of particular importance to Birming- nam, were suspended several months ago pending an investigation and the order which was issued with the gen. eral order last week discontinued the proposed rates on coal and coke for all time Citizens of Alabama will be unable to know what effect the Schanges in the schedules will have until freight rate experts of the vari- ouS commercial organizations can make a thorough investigation. A layman Is unable to determine what changes have been made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-31
ALL-GIRL SHOW AND
 ROEELES AT LOEW,S

Capacity audiences were in attend ance yesterday at the "All-GirP' show which is the attraction for the first half of the week at Loew's Bi- jou. Rallies" the special added at traction, helped materially to swell the crowds.
 At the two night performances standing room only was in evidence. and hundreds saw the mysterious Rallies perform mystifying and mar vicious feats of wonder.
 Locked in large, all-steel mauso- leum furnished by the Birmingham Casket company. Rallies emerged safely at the rear of the house in about three minutes while the crowds marveled. His lady assistant, blind folded and with her back turned. opened a cabinet safe " the sense of touch
 Babe La Tour, all by herself, cap tured the audience from the star. with her original comedienne act. The Five Musical Peaches. in a me- lange of song and music, earned sev- eral deserved encores, playing the saxopnone, piano, trombone, cornet and bass horn.
 "Mary's Day Out" by Lynn Sher- lock and Georgia Burdell, was some thing different in the way of com edy sketch and held the audience's s attention throughout.
 Davis and Bradner, two musical comedy prima donnas. rendered songs and music just as the audience liked 1t, and their act went over big. Ella La Vail gave the audience some big thrills with her wonderful trapeze stunt, and "The Aerial Venus" dis played skill and cleverness far above the average.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-31
DEAR ME, HERE SOON
 AT THE JEFFERSON THEATRE

As the coming of a new John Golden play is always an event of more than usual theatrical interest, playgoers are awaiting Dear Me. with Grace Le Rue and Hale Ham ilton in the star roles It will be the offering at the Jefferson theatre for three nights beginning next Monday night with matinee on Wednesday.
 It comes here with the original cast, just as presented at the Re- public theatre in New York for six months last season and in Chicago for 20 weeks.
 As in the case of 'Iightnin," Three Wise Fools." Turn to the Right" "The First Year" "Thank-U" and other Golden hits, Dear Me" Is built solely for entertainment. 1t contains all the Golden secrets for success-a clean bright story, art fully unfolded- excellently acted and staged by winchell Smith with his usual. careful regard for details.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-31
ADJUSTMENTS By EsTELLE BETHEA HALE
NEIL O'BRIEN,S SUPER
 MINSTREL COMING THURSDAY

Those who seek to have gloom dispelled and care banished for at least two and half hours or more will be provided with ample oppor- tunity at the Jefferson theatre for three nights beginning this Thurs day night with matinee Saturday. when the justly celebrated Nell O'Brien Super Mlnstrels will be pre- scented.
 Of Nell O'Brien. that master-hand of artistic comedy. leavened and moulded to suit the negro character that Mir. O'Brien knows so we'll how to create, little need be said. He stands in a class by himself today as the only living creator and pro- ducer of minstrelsy; modernized as much as minstrelsy dare be modern ized, as in that form of entertain ment traditions and customs may not be lightly regarded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-31
JACKIE COOGAN IS FINE IN "MY BOYv AT TRIANON

Little Jackie Coogan is a wonder as he makes his audiences laugh and cry by turns in his picture, My Boy" at the Trianon. This brilliant boy actor is more than 8 delight to kiddies of his own age, he is worth being taken seriously by anyone as one of the most finished artists on the screen. The scenes In this appealing play of pathos and humor where the boy Is called on for acting and strong show of feeling are put over splen- didly, so well that it Is difficult to be- lieve that Coogan is not living 1t aft CT all instead of merely portraying.
 My Boy is a heart-touching story of a little immigrant boy. who is lost immediately on arriving in America and picked up by rough old sea cap tain. The fact that the boy has a rich grandmother looking for him and that the captain soon learns to love makes much of the heart interest. The many antics and chases that the boy has with various people makes the fun. and few actors can lead a chase like young Coogan.
 The climax where the boy is found is especially fine and the acting of the young star Is a wonder in feel ing. Others in the cast do good work. particularly the old captain and the rich grandmother. The story happens in the tenement district of the citv of New York.