Glacier County chief., 1940-02-23
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

BY LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features--wNU Service.)
NEW YORK.-It is pleasant, in
: deed, to get something on Ho-
ratio Alger. Here's a boy who won
his way to eminence by watching
Aiser's Theory though he
OF Clock Watcher was SO years
Gets a Setback OLD ana had
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 worlds
first radio broadcasting system"
The master clock which licked
on his higher destiny hung in
the plant Of the Westinghouse
company in Pittsburgh. Il was
highly reputable old clock, but
Mr.. Conrad didn't altogether
trust it. He and another en-
ployee made q bet as to which
had the more accurate watch,
through a 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
q 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 a primitive direction
finding device, he located them
as apparently springing from a
Stag heap about block away.
He didn't find the source there,
but he did find it a 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 SIS
watch against its $40 rival, but he
forgot all about mere time signals.
He and Coleman teamed their re-
searches and began filtering ghostly
monograph 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
botary, 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 Gerh'ng R.fa ael
After Players for Leonidas Tru-
Caribbean Team j Jill b boss Of
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 infield.
The little, brown, diligent q
head-man of Sant0 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 "a, 900 acres Of land
and says provision will be
made for 100, 900 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 farm boy who learned
fighting and ball-playing with the
marines, during an eight-yeai pc
riod, ending in 1924 with the end Of
occupation. He's fast shortstop.
In the Dominican army he romped
up through grades from private to
general.
n 1850. he tipped over old
President velasques and took
Tie country. In the framework
ef . democracy, he made him.
seh ~ per cent dictator ana
his enemies admit that b, has
made . t3dy lltfle natiea eut q
3.ngle. He Dut ~ sSpssitisa
b 5an.