The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-24
IMPORTANT NEWS
|SFLASHED OVER
H|GH-SPEED WIRE
New Double Track System
Links Ends of World
Together.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, June 30.-The first
unit of the United Press transcon-
tinentaL double track leased wire
system which opened this week,
brings newspaper offices throughout
the country closer together by many
seconds of precious time in the de-
livery of important news.
The first part Of this new high
speed wire system operates as far
westward as Kansas City. On July
the second unit, operating from
Kansas City westward to San Fran
cisco. and north and south along the
Pacific Coast, will be inaugurated.
The new United Press trunk wires
bring instantly together for. i'm
portant news delivery such large
news centers as New York, Balti-
more, Washington, Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, Columbus, indianapolis,
Chicago, ST. Louis and Kansas City.
One side of the double track leased
wires will operate with high speed
printer-telegraph machines, the lat
est development of fast news de-
livery. The other side will be oper-
ated by skilled telegraph operators,
who will flash between their sta
lions the important sectional news,
while the printer-telegraph machines
are rapping out the news of nation
wide interest.
News Is ReIayed
Radiating from the news centers
connected by the new double lea sed
wire system Of the United Press,
other fast wires pick up the news
and flash it to the newspapers with
lin their territory. At the same time
United Press bureaus located in these
news centers are enabled to give the
news of their own cities and states
in greater detail over the radiating
wires.
All newspapers in the United
States now receiving United Press
service will thus benefit by the es-
Establishment of the new high speed
circuits, which at normal speed can
transmit $500 words an hour.
With the development of United
Press modern high speed news trans
mission by automatic telegraph,
cable and wireless, Sthe office of The
Times is only few minutes removed
from London, Paris. Berlin, Buenos
Aires, Toxic and other big foreign
capitals; and a few seconds will suf-
flee to flash an important >piece of
news from any part of the United
States. -
United Press Grows
The double tracking and speeding
up of it's transcontinental leased wire
system is in direct line with the gen.
eral development of the United
Press, which,. during the past dec
ade, has become Americas leading
news agency for afternoon newspa
pers, and also the leading American
exporter of world, news. American
newspapers receiving United Press
thus have available to them the
work Of thousands Of correspondents
located at strategic points in their
own States and throughout the
world; hundreds of skilled reporters |
and writer's; and also are linked up
with more than 1000 newspapers To-
Gated In the United States in thirty |
seven foreign countries.
Automatic Printer
The automatic printer-telegraph
has received its greatest develop |
ment for news delivery through it's
use by the United Press in many |
parts of the country. Within the |
past five years, the development has
been rapid, and today United Press
printer telegraph circuits are in oper-
alton in nearly every part of the |
United States. The increased use of
the automatics has not, however,
displaced the telegraph operator to |
any appreciate extent. Although |
several hundred newspapers now re-
ceive most of their news by printer
telegraph the United Press today |
employs more telegraph operators
than ever before in it's history.