Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31
RADIO TELEPHONES
WILL GIRDLE GLOBE
Overland Wires and Oversee
Radio Soon to Connect
Orient and U. S.
BY MARTIN CoDEL.

In addition to offering a radio tele-
phone service to BuenoS Aires and
other points in South America, begin
ming some time in April, the American
Telephone g. Telegraph Co. proposes
soon to institute telephone service via
combination of overland wires and
overseas radio to Hawaii, Japan and
Australia.
Within the next few years 1t win be
as easy to place telephone call for
Honolulu, Toxic or Melbourne from any
home or desk phone in the United
States as 1t now is to call telephone
subscribers IN nearly all the cities of
Europe
TeStifying yesterday before the Sem
ate committee considering the Couzens
communications bill, Walter S. Clifford,
president of the A. T. & T., revealed
that engineers of his company are now
investigating proposed sites on the Pa
ciflc Coast for the super-power radio
station over which the radio portion of
the transpacific telephone service will
be relayed.
This station will probably be similar
to the one which now furnishes the
transatlantic service and to the other
which will be opened next Spring for
the South American service. The eff
cheney of the transatlantic radio tele-
phone was graphically demonstrated to
American radio listeners last week,
when it carried King Georges voice
from the London naval parley across
the sea for rebroadcasting on the ma
tional networks.
Transatlantic Cable Near.
Clifford also said that plans are going
forward for the transatlantic telephone
cable, which he expects to see In opera
ton by 1882. Constructed Of q newly
discovered alloy, making submarine
wire conversations possible for the first
time, the cable will also be capable Of
handling q substantial amount of ordi-
nary telegraph traff1c as WELL according
to Clifford. The cable must be con-
structed abroad. and will cost about
$12, 100000
1t is even possible, he said, that this
one cable will have a capacity for null
tiplex telegraphy circuits equal to that
of all the present cables across the
Atlantic combined. However, this re-
mains to be determined under actual
operating conditions. If the cable is
not taxed by demands for telephone
service, its circuits will doubtless be
leased for telegraphy, said Clifford.
The statement by the youthful head
Of the largest public utility company in
the world was heard simultaneously
with the receipt of reports from Aus
tralia that radio telephony between
Sydney and London may become opera
tive in about two months.
In addition reports are current that
London will establish q circuit with
Cairo. Egypt. Canada's telephones, like
those of the United States, are already
connected with Europe by radio, and
South America is now linked to Europe
via large radio station at BuenoS
Aires.
All of these developments augur the
day when any person can speak from
any ordinary telephone to another per-
son In any other city in the world.
Add to this the extension Of ship radio
telephone services, already connecting
the steamship Lseviathan while at sea
with American telephones, and the tele-
phonic girdle Of the globe will be COM
plete.
Polish Capital Soon Connected.
A current statement by the A. T. &
T. reports that the transatlantic tele-
phone service will be extended Saturday
to Warsaw. placing the Polish capital
within vocal reach of telephone sub
ScriberS throughout the United States
and Cuba and the principal cities Of
Canada and Mexico.
In 1929 extensions Of the overseas
service interconnected something like
10000, 900 telephones in Europe and
America, or IS per cent of the worlds
telephones. At present SO per cent of