The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-19
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BY LEMUEL r. PARTON

NEW YORK. - Radio, automo-
l y biles, airplanes, moving pic
lures and virtually alls the other
technical ten-strikes of the modern
Di5es in Cellar, between aN h e
Brings Up Our first and second
Tele,;.;or Sef Chicago world s
81 fairs. About all
that is brand new at the New York
Worlds fair is teleyision, which took
its bow with telecast at the inaug-
ural ceremonies. SIS .aga4 M
Unlike Britain's garnet inven-
tor, John Logic Baird, Allen B.
Dua Mont, putting his by-line ON
the new television set, came
along through the "channels' in
which promising young techni-
clans are grooved these days.
Out of Rensselaer, Polytechnic
institute in 1928, he was EN-
ployed as a tube engineer with
the Westinghouse company in
Bloomfield, N. j., until 1887,
when he became chief engineer
of the De Forest Radio c0mpa-
ny. But, when he caught the
television germ, he did just what
Baird did, the only difference be-
ing that he holed up in cellar
instead Of an attic.
1t was in 1881 that he quit good
job to play a bunch. The bunch
was that the cathode ray was the
joker in the Pickering television
deck. So he dived into his base
ment, built his laboratory and stayed
underground until he was ready to
come up with a cathode-ray tube
which is pretty nearly the works in
television.
In 1887, MIR. Du Mont rounded
up some capital and built a siz-
able two-story laboratory at
Montclair, N. j., employing AZ
men. By 1888, Paramount pic
lures had declared itself in in
q big way, and, at last accounts,
Mr.. Du M0nt's enterprise was
virtually a subsidiary of this cor
poration. That is interesting in
view of the fact that, in Eng
land, they already are televising
events for the moving picture
screen. 1t is indicated that the
Du Mont rig may be subject to
the same development.
COL. EDWARD STARTLING, who
~ confers with Albert Canning,
chief constable of Scotland Yard,
about guarding the British king and
Chaneleon-Like visit here re- is san an
Sleuth to Guard American Of
British Royalty the the, "DeadWood
which the British like to think is
typical of this country-a long, lean,
reserved, tight-lipped Kentuckian,
with a sombrero, the guardian Of
five Presidents, camera-eyed and a
crack pistol shot. He will be there
when their najesties go to the White
House, but he will not be conspicu-
Gus He merges with the scenery
like a chameleon.
Il He saved Clemenceau's life
during the Paris peace confer
) ence.e Guarding Woodrow Will
son. he, rode in an automobile
Immediately behind the "Ti-
gers car. He saw an assassin
level a gum. Shooting from the
hip in q Lightning draw, he
e cracked the killers wrist.
He is the one man the President
has to obey, an advance man who
interviews police, maitres d'hotel,
transportation officials and chefs,
even editing menus, and, on occa-
sion, speeches, if they indicate too
much of a tax on the Presidents
receptive energies.
AT IL, he was deputy sheriff
of Hopxinsville, Ky. AS a spe-
cial agent for the railroads, he
touched off his first national
headlines by trapping the s'Cali-
fOrnia Kid" desperate ma
rauder who had long eluded cap
ture. President Theodore Roose-
welt gave him special assign
ments which routed him into the
White House secret service de-
tail lin II913. In 1885, he be-
came head of the detail, which
congress had authorized after
assassination Of President Me-
Kinley.
He is six feet tail. gaunt and Sc