Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-22

ratio Alger. Here's boy who won
his way to eminence by watching
~. clock, al
anger s heory though he
OF Clock Watcher was SO years
Cote j., Setback old and had
been just a
clock-puncher instead of a watcher
before this hair-pin turn in his ca
reer routed him to fame. We cite
DR.. Frank Conrad, the "father OF
radio broadcasting," recently
awarded the gold medal of the
American institute for his "guiding
genius in developing the world
first radio broadcasting system"
The master clock which licked
off his higher destiny hung in
the plant of the Westinghouse
company in Pittsburgh. 1t was
a highly reputable old clock, but
Mr.. Conrad didn't altogether
trust it. He and another en-
plOyee made a bet as to which
had the more accurate watch,
through week of time-keeping.
Mr.. Conrad refused to accept
the decision of the Office clock.
In an unused garage near his
home at Williamsburg, he rugged
crude receiving apparatus to
catch time signals from the ma
val station at Arlington, Va. He
caught them, but he also caught
some added starters which he
could not at first explain. EN-
plOying primitive direction
finding device, he located them
as apparently springing from
Stag heap about block away.
He didn't find the source there,
but he did find it few steps
farther on with one John Cole
man, among the lonely impresa-
rios of the first feeble birth cries
of radio.
That was in 1912. Mr.. Conrad in
cidentally won the bet on his S.
watch against it's $40 rival, but he
forgot all about mere time signals.
He and Coleman teamed their re-
searches and began filtering ghostly
photograph recordings through the
intervening Stag heap. The rest is
an old story-the historic KDKA
Harding broadcast, DR.. Coleman's
200 radio patents, his honorary doc.
torate from the University of Pitts
burgh and his award of the Lieb.
man, Edison, John Scott, and
Lamme medals.
He is still curious and will take a
sharp look at anything interesting
or important, which alertness has
led him into diligent research in
botany, biology and astronomy. He
has lined, leathery face, steel
gray hair and, naturally, ever.
watchful eyes.
IF THERE are any good ball play.
ers among the European refu-
gees, they can get good jobs and
nice pay in the Caribbean league,
General Trujillo G GerAA'E Rafael aol
After Players for Leonidas Tru.
Caribbean Team jillo, boss OF
the Domini.
can republic. He has been angrily
accused of raiding the American
National Negro league, and the
Pittsburgh Crawfords have been
mourning that no dark-skinned
shortstop is safe when the general
starts building up his infeld.
The little, brown, diligent
head-man of Santo Domingo is
unpredictable. Since he took.
power 10 years ago, the junta of
exiles here has been stacking
him up as another Hitler. But
just now, he signs a contract
admitting 500 families of exiles
from Germany and Poland, do
mates them $4,000 acres of land
and says provision will be
made for 100000 additional set
tiers in the future. The con-
tract grants citizenship to the
newcomers and pledges their
freedom from "mOlestation, dis
elimination or persecution"
He was a farm boy who learned
fighting and ball-playing with the
marines, during an eight-year pc.
Rod, ending in 1924 with the end oil
occupation. He's a fast shortstop
In the Dominican army he romped
up through grades from private tc
general.
In 1880, he tipped over old
President Velasquez and took
the country. In the framework
of democracy, he made him
self a 100 per cent dictator and
his. enemies admit that he has
made tidy little nation out of
Jungle. He put the opposition
in jail.
He has the cleanest of the Latin.
American countries and boasts that
there. is neither crime nor unem.
ployment in Santo Domingo. He
decreed that all automobiles should
have lettered on their license plates
'Viva -Trujillo!" He also had con
gress officially proclaim him, "ben
efactor of the fatherland."
He has a beautiful residential es
tate, patrolled night and day by
the army, and three country estates
where meals are served on SEIZED
ule,> as he has implanted the tradi
ton, that he is apt to appear any
where, any time-and he really is