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Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02

EASTMAN KODAKS AND PHO- TOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES. Schaller CTS Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02
ST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
 SERVICES SUNDAY

Sunday school at II a. m. Even ing prayer and sermon by w. R. Macpherson at 7:30 P. m. Subject: The Good Shephard". an exposi- tion of the 23rd Psalm.
 A cordial invitation is extended 70 all to attend this service. The building will be warm and is now we'll lighted. Since just recently he building has been rewired and itted with attractive fixtures.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02

Miss Josephine Boyer, member of the headquarters staff of the Alaska Railroad, is among those arriving today from Seattle on the liner Northwestern.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02

Francis Leslie, star center of the Seward high school basketball team and who has been out of the game for weeks past owing to an injured ankle, plans going to Fair banks with the team as yell leader a job he is well qualified for.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02
UP TO THE CITIZENS

The w. E. Foshay Corporation, Eastern power concern, have ask CT the Petersburg city council if the town would consider the sale of it's properties. The council ,iD- formed the representative this was a matter for the citizens to vote on.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02

CARL HESS BINOCULARS AND FIELD GLASSES. SchalIerer's A. aska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02

:, Al meat ana not1In: eise In the
 Frye -6ruhn Meat M,.rkec
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02

Hospitalization of deseased h. dians in Central Alaska must have additional space this year, reports Dr. E. w. White, in the News Miner.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02

Mrs. J. P. Payne, mother of Mrs. L. H. Kubley and Miss Mary Payne, both of Ketchikan, passed away, recently at the home of her son, Capt. Howard Payne, in Seat tie.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02

Appointment of O. M. Carter of Seattle as manager of the Ketchi- kan power plant is announced.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02

A cabin occupied by Eli Walker at the mouth of Little creek, in the Takotna district, burned to the ground recently. The loss was about $500.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-02-02

erye-b'u'n eap, oee1 IS unes ceIieo.
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LEDGERS. JOURNALS, INDEX I'D FILES ETC. Schallercr's Alas Sa Shop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
DEVELOPS new WAY
|OF COMMUNICATION
Simultaneous Transmission
of Hundreds Of Messages
Possible, Designer Says.

BOSTON CR.-Developmen of q
new communication system, designed
to make possible the transmission of
hundreds Of different messages stimuli
taneously on one radio waveband, Is
announced by Albert 3. Clark. Boston.
Applications for patent rights on
this device and for a patent on q syn
chroniZing device employed, which also
Is applicable to television, have been
made by Mr.. Clark
Best Principles Used.
"The best principles in radio prac-
tice are made use of and the invention
may be used with notifications in con-
nection with existing radio apparatus
arranged for code, radiophone or broad
cast transmission, Mr.. Clark says.
THE results are made possible by the
employment OF timed or synchronous
apparatus capable of acting at great
speed. This arrangement Is made to
serve the double purpose of consecutive
vidual signals into components, and of
properly segregating these eomponents;
whence they are built up by special
electrical persistence devices into strong
signals of the original. characters, and
then employed to actuate any desired
instruments such as typewriters, print
ers, ETC."
Similar Systems Developed.
Two similar systems, based upon one
basic principle have been developed,
Mr.. Clark sets forth. One of these
makes use of the tremendous cleo
trical speed of photo-electric cells and
the neon lamp. such as is used in tele-
vision. The other employs mechanical
means for the chopping up and reas-
sembling of the signals.
He says this principle also is appli-
cable to wire transmission. Either in
radio or over wires, the messages may
be relayed by means Of any present
transmitting apparatus
Possibilities Are Unlimited.
In discussing the possible uses of his
communications system, Mr.. Clark
says:
There are unlimited possibilities for
the invention such rs for press serv-
ices in which radio now plays q large
part.
Mr.. Clark, who asserts that he had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
WEATHER CHARTS
GUIDE RECEPTION
Meteorological Expert Finds
J Elements Play Part When
q S&3
Seeking Distance.
By M. L. DoBLER.

Is That there are certain well defined
rules in relation to various types of
weather which are conducive to excel
lent results for the distance hunting
fan, seems now to be a foregone con-
clusion. The writer has for past six
years made an exhaustive study of this
relationship in hope that the distance
listener may, glance at the, current
weather map and decide accurately
just what the particular night may
offer. .f
Weather elements that play largely
into such q night may comprise, OF at
nospheric pressure, whether high or
low, and their location In United States
and Canada. temperature to a certain
extent, rainfall, fog, snow, wind to a
relative degree only and cloudiness also
has a certain part to play. Now. as TO
season of year. Fall and Spring are
ideal, Winter is good, but Summer is
naturally enough poor for the long
distance coast-to-coast hunter, due to
presence of intense heat and many scat
tered local heat congeStions and line
squat types Of storms.
As to barometric pressure, 1t may be
stated that California has been heard
on sets In the East with greater fidelity
Wnen we were III EcIlVcE VI q AdSA1c1 az
tive low barometer area moving East
to sea and followed in the West or in
lower Lake region by high barometer
area from the Canadian Northwest
provinces or the Hudson Bay region.
So If you expect TO hear KOA, Dem
yer, or XII, Los Angeles, some night
any season except Midsummer, watch
the weather map or the weather sum-
mary in your local paper for that day
and see If barometer Is quite low in
East and high in Ohio Valley or Great
Lakes. That night is ideal for distance.
II we should be near a low pressure
area or rather close to center Of one.
preferably the low barometer center
should be to the south of the observer
rather than to the north. as southern
low areas are rarely accompanied by
thunder squalls and severe static, while
Lake region lows during Spring and
Summer generally are marring almost
completely any vestige Of long distance
hopes.
Dense foggy nights. the writer has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07

~ URING the last year or two I
have broadcast great many
college athletic events and have
IL come to know many under
graduates, some of them quite
intimately, In this manner ] became
interested in the tendency on the part
of the public to idolize college athletes.
Radio. naturally, has its part in work.
ing up national enthusiasts over per-
sons or events, and / became profess
sionally interested In the problem of
dramatizing a great athletic contest
and yet stopping somewhere short of
the distortion which comes from too
much unrestrained hullaballoo.
The fact Is that two great college
athletes, one of them picked for the all
American team have suggested that !
write something about a sensible public
attitude toward college athletes. hesi-
tated to do so, as / am q radio an
nouncer and not sport critic or q
cheer leader, but, as 1t is newspapers
and radio together which ran up this
hero worship, suppose may legiti-
mately pipe up for moment as one
small, and occasionally still, voice in
the radio corner.
Riegels Gave New Slant.
I began to get q new slant on all
this after Riegels, the California cen
ter, ran the wrong way In the Pasa-
dena game last Fall. Newspapers ali
over the country began to moan about
this boy having ruined himself. One
would have thought he was plastered
with some terrible disgrace. The boy,
himself, took 1t rather sensibly and
seemed to understand that it was a
foot ball game and not major en-
gagement in a world war which he
had lost
The pow-wow which the papers
made over this incident lit up the gen.
orally warped public feeling about col
lege athletics. Personally, I will go all
the way with anybody who wants to get
excited over a foot ball game, but in
talking to great many college boys
and watching the show for few years
l am convinced that the picture is get
ting somewhat out of focus.
Most of the Lads Sensible.
Here and there I know an athlete
who was pegged in high school by some
college foot ball scout and who is NOV
ing on up through college and into a
bond Office. with cold eye on the main
chance and who wants all the notoriety
and advertising he can get out of his
foot ball career. This boy, however. Is
the exception, and the general run Of
college athletes-and have checked
pretty closely on thiS-are sensible lads,
who are doing the best they can for
their college and who are actually en-
barrassed by the extremes Of foolish
adulation to which they are subjected.
When one of the boys to whom I have
referred asked me to write about this
I suggested that he write me. stating
his own views. He is q modest chap.
wishing to remain anonymous, but I
have his permission to reproduce his
letter, in part, as follows:
Il played foot ball In high school, but
I was not secuted by any college, and
went to college to get an education. My
parents are not rich and are making
sacrifices to send me to school. I am
taking my electives in engineering work
and am going to be an engineer. For
this reason. I don't care much about all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
CHAIN BROADCASTS
PROFITABLE|N 1928
Made 10 Pay for First Time
in Last Few
Years.
BY C. e. BUTTERFIELD,
Associated Press Radio Editor,

Chain broadcasting is a paying prop
osition.
At least 1t was last season, for the first
time in the few years, hectic and other
wise, that have developed two major
chains, competitors even in their sleep
The younger Of these groups is but two
years old, while the other goes back not
so much further in time.
Financial accountingS at the earlier
year ems always have been accompa-
MED with statements that it cost more
to broadcast by network than the cash.
Ter took in.
This year the cashier" is bearing a
smile productive of better business. Be-
sides, the forecast for the months ahead
is bright"
Differ on Reasons.
The why" behind the squirt across
the red mark in the ledger seems to be
accountable to several things Officials
OF neither chain agree entirely over the
reasons.
Said spokesman for the N. B. c.:
we attribute the breakfasts during last
years political campaign as being partly
responsible for a favorable financial
statement this year for the first time
since our organization. In addition
there has been an increase in the num-
Der OF our sponsored programs, which
has been due to certain extent to the
opening of transcontinental wires which
carry programs to Pacific Coast sta
lions. Prospects for the season ahead
including the low point of the year
Summer-are very bright"
Over at c. B. S. the story was told In
these words:
Politics did little, If anything, toward
making our second year show balance
While our income from that source was
important, broadcasts of the national
conventions, acceptance speeches and
the inauguration, presented without in
come, counterbalanced anything received
from the campaign talks,
Our success has been due to an in
crease in our sponsored accounts, OF
which there are approximately 80 ma
tlonal and local. Any surplus in our
treasury is being turned back into the
chain in the expansion campaign begun
with the purchase of WABC."
Patent litigation, the mountain cast
Zip in the prograss of radio, apparently
is to be blasted away without the boom
Of an explosion.
Two Important Factors
Two important factors in the removal
First, RCA announced that il had is
sued its first license for the manufac-
ture of tubes under its patents and proc
eSses. Quickly there followed a state
ment from the Radio Manufacturers
| Association that it had offered its men,
bership a licensing plan of radio
patents.
The RCA policy of granting licenses
for the making of tubes is somewhat OF
a change. Heretofore it had licensed
80 set manufacturers to incorporate its
patented circuits in their receivers. II
had not deemed it advisable to Offer
tube licenses, but apparently felt that a
change would bring further Sterilization
/ to the industry. This first tube licensee
Is Raytheon.
Its plan of licensing. r. M. A.
pointed out. would follow somewhat that
OF the automobile and aircraft industries
and was proposed Ito minimize patent
litigation" Patents would be exchanged
and made available equally to all manu-
facturerS adhering to the plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
Chicago Police Try
Broadcasting to
Pick Up Criminals

CHICAGO UP).-"We now will
hear the studio orchestra in-No
just a minute-Squad car No.
SO! The Cozy Theater in West
Madison was held up by two men
who escaped west In green tour
ing car. bearing an Indiana If
cense number-Now the orches-
ira"
And that's what occurs daily
during WGN programs. WON
sends it's warning to all the city's
AZ squad cars. Receiving sets in
the cars pick up the police news.
John Siege. deputy commissioner
Of police, said several footpads
and robbers have been arrested
because of the quick pursuit made
possible by the radio warning.
WGN is bearing the expense Of
the test.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
George Washington Students Organize
Amateur Radio Station With Call W3ACY

George washington University stu
dents have organized radio club and
installed transmitting equipment. oper-
alton of the club radio station will begin
immediately after the Easter recess,
and communication with Byrd in the
Antarctic is expected during the Sum-
mer months, when South Pole radio
conditions will be at their best.
In cooperation with the Signal
Corps, the United States Army and the
Navy, It is hoped the station, licensed
by the Government as amateur radio
station W3ACY, will be prepared to
handle emergency messages should mu-
nicipai or national disaster threaten,
Besides such activities, the club expects
student free radiografn service to reach
thousand messages q month total,
and for this purpose Is arranging scheu.
ules with other college stations.
The station viii be In operation daily
during the noon hour on DEFINITE trafiit
schedules. There are four Government
licensed radio operators enlisted from
student ranks to take over the respon-
sibilities of operation. Besides emeT-
gency and tratac work, the club intends
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to instruct new members in the interna-
tionAl radio code, the essentials of ra
Cio and to aid in trouble shooting. 7
Not the least of its many actions viii
be the relaying of intercollegiate con-
tests, for which purpose 1t intends to-
link the various buildings and the gym.
nasium by land wires and by portable
transmitting equipment. Chief com.
munications will be on 20 meters, code,
but phone work Just below the broad
cast band will be carried on expert
mentally, offering opportunity for
broadcast listeners to tune-in on the
station. Arrangements have been made
with Central and Mckinley high
school stations for such experiments.
The club intends to cooperate with
the physics department in its work on
high frequency measurements. The
faculty advisor, Hiram Colver Mcneil, d
honorary president Other officers are
Samuel Hall, chairman; Henry Brad.
ford, secretary; Howard Cole, treasurer,
and Albert Small, chief operator. Each
OF the student officers Is an experienced
radiotriciarl. The antenna is swung be-
tween the library and Corcoran. Hall,
directly above The campus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
FRIENDSHIP CLUB
HAS 5000 MEMBERS
Dues to KNOX Consist of One
Letter Each
Month.

ST. LOUIS CP).-Thousands of boys
and girls, and grown folks in many in
stances. look forward to the greeting
that comes from KNOX each Friday
evening at $50 o'clock.
It Is: Hello, youngstersi This is
Jack. Margie and Uncle Emmett of the
Friendship Club" They stay on the
air for 80 minutes, with songs and
stories.
In three months the club, with the
slogan, BE a friend to some one every
day" has grown to more than 5000
active members, who must write one
letter month. The letters are dues. >
There is no age limit. and boys and
girls writing in for membership receive
a card and the bylaws. After two az
ditional letters they get a gold, and b.Le
enamel pin. Each pin bears the
numeral 49," the meaning Of which is
disclosed only to active members.
After April % Uncle Emmett and his
co-workers will move their program to
Saturday evenings.
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found. are singularly free Of all static,
and the best California reception has
always been on . night with dense fog.
Fog and low pressure usually prevail at
the same time. Snowfall, once 1t
started and became heavy, seemingly
has same effect on reception conditions
as dense fog. and the radio listeners
must bear In mind that noises Of
grinding static" presaging the COM
ing Of heavy snow. generally q north
easter, are not continuous by any
means; These "grindings OF static
generally cease as the snowfall In
creases.
AS to temperature, it is hard 10 de-
termine. The writer well remembers
night last Spring, when the average
of o'clock temperature on wild night,
with mostly cloudy and rainy weather
across the entire continent, was around
55 to so degrees, stations in all direc-
tons and from the Coast registered
with strong signal strength. OF course.
this line passed through widespread
precipitation belt, always conducive to
good reception.
So we are down TO wind element, not
so important, except that we in New
York. Baltimore and the East gener-
ally can vouch on moisture producing
winds veering from northeast. east to
southeast. as being the quietest, so far
as freedom Of static is concerned, and
usually the steadiest, strongest signals
from any direction are noticed.
The northwest wind. especially il
cloudy to clearing conditions are pre-
vailing Immediately behind q heavy
rain or snowfall. when moisture con-
-ent Of the air is high. may augur well
or night of excellent distance.
1t is well to know which type of
~eather Is paramount for the fan
Tho prldes himself In bringing in the
Far West or Southwest By grasping it
literally out Of the air. Indeed, the
thrill Of radio In its real sense is long
distance hunting.
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RADIO TO AlRPLANES
DECLARED SUCCESS
Voice Contact With Flyers Over
Long Distances Is
Developed.

OAKLAND, Calf, April 6 0P).-
Successful elimination of months OF
testing of radiotelephony and the in
tention of the Boeing companies to
equip 1000 miles of airways between
the Golden Gate and Lake Michigan
were announced today by w. E. Boeing,
chairman Of the companies.
Unal recently various obstacles, now
declared solved with the aid of the
Bel Telephone laboratories and the
r. c. A., have baffled attempts to main
tain voice contact with airplanes more
than a few miles. Through the de-
velopment of short wave telephony and
recent advances made in shielding
practices, pilots will be able to hear
ground operators at an altitude of
$4,000 feet plainly and planes at great
distance talk 10 each other through
apparatus which is nearly automatic In
operation.
Eleven ground radio stations in seven
States on the tranScontinental air
mail, express and passenger route win
be placed in service within a few
months. The radiophones will be sup
plemented by directive radio beacon
signals, maintained by the Department
Of Commerce. Extension Of the system
would make it possible for travellers to
talk to city numbers by calling q ter
minal station. This will not be done
Immediately, however. for the permit
granted the companies stipulstes that
only messages dealing with operation
of planes and protection of life and
equipment shall be sent.
The ii ground stations completed,
or either building or authorized, are
at Oakland, Reno and EIko, New; Salt
Lake City, Rock Springs and Cheyenne,
Wyo; North Platte and Omaha,
Nebr; Des Moines and Iowa City,
Iowa, and Chicago. Later stations
win be installed at Lincoln, Nebr
and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The total weight Of the radiophone
equipment is 100 pounds, placed in
the ships tail or center. An 8-foot
dural antenna mounted vertically on
the top wing and streamlined to re-
duce its resistance to wind is used
Power is to be taken from the double
voltage generator on the engine.
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NEW YORK. April dN.-Tele-
vision in 1929 may or may net make
another bid for the popularity that IT
strived to gain last season. Yet
glance into the laboratories seems to
indicate that the stress should be on
the may rather than the may not"
Every place where investigations are
being made into the possibilities Of
improving the present systems OF light
transmission by radio scientists is hard
at work endeavoring to overcome the
obstacles to satisfactory television
They admit that their problems are
many, but are enthusiastic over their
accomplishments to date.
Most of the televiSion activity on
the air has settled into the short wave
bands not far below the broadcast
channels. In the vicinity of $50 meters,
% transmitters have been given as
signments which they intend to use for
light impulses. In the broadcast band
an occasional station has obtained per-
mission for television between the hours
of and 6 am, the only time light can
be sent in the 200 to $50 channels.
Betterment OF System.
A big share of the recent efforts has
been bent toward lettering the system
Wy AAASNAAA3 Ak0AA -
csn be sent. This method is more
reliable and not quite SO complicated
as reproducing by radio movies" Of
person sitting before television
camera. Better results have been OBJ
tanned from films. and pictures have
been sharper than by the direct
method.
There is no question that television
continues in the experimental stage,
but its possibilities are so great that
the incentive to push the experiments
toward success has not waned. ..s9
One of the biggest drawbacks is the
fact that wide band of frequencies,
something on the order of 100 kilo-
cycles, is required to get sufficient pic
ture detail, compared with only 10 for
sound hroadcasts. While 1t Is possible
to transmit on a narrower channel
more and more detail is lost as the
width of the band used is decreased.
Tests on Short Waves.
Largely because of this fact most of
the experimentation is being confined
to the short waves, where greater space
is available per wave length. In addi-
ton the radio commission has decided
that the entertainment hours In the
broadcast channels can better be uti-
lized for music and other things aural
until television is better able to see for
itself.
Reception Of light signals, either
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international License for. Amateurs
To Be Considered at Prague Radio Farley


/. PRAGUE Op,.--A question to be con-
sidered at the European broadcastang
conference here in which the United
States is particularly interested, Is the
proposed adoption of uniform inter
national license for amateur radio
operators.
The proposals are to be- submitted to
the conference by the Netherlands gov
eminent. Under these amateur sta
tons would be authorized to operate
exclusively within the limits Of these
bands: 20.8 to ola meters, Al to 42.8
meters and rs to IS meters.
Amateur transmitting sets would be
limited in maximum power to so watts,
calculated according to the porduct of
the current Of the anode and the
anodic tension of the emitting tube or
tubes which transmit the energy to the
antenna without the insertion OF other
tubes" An increase in the transmit
ting power could take place only upon