The Nome nugget., 1942-02-06
Ether Time Riddle Answered


Axis Radios Run By Allies Time; Copy Techniques
 What time is it? That's the question that bothers many radio diaer cutting in on short wave bands on the slzzlng news that tells the story of World War II IL easy as pie to hgure 1t out without a pencil: Time on the short waves is announced on Greenwich meridian That goes around the world
 Japan may have gone off the pound sterling and the dollar, but she still adheres to British time The NazS and FaScstS may have leVeed their guns on Old England but they run their barrages of propag- anda England's clock in fact allied time still rules the world
 Cut of Ten Hours
 For dlalerS in the Anchorage Fairbanks time zone then, here is the formula: Radio time on all your short wave beasts runs 24-hour clock beginning at midnight at Greenwich meridian. There are 36O degrees in the earths circumference There are 24 hours in day Divide 360 by "A and you get fifteen the number of degrees per hour. Divide 15 into 15O Anchorages approximate west longitude, and you get ten So we're just ten hours removed from Green Wch time
 But which way? Let's sec Old Sol rises in the east Or the earth turns from west to east And the sun rises first then, in England, rising here Qatitude for lat tude) just ten hours later So when it's midnight here 1t will be 10 am. in London
 See How Simple
 So II kGEl says Gas it will every day) that the pro- gram United America Fights may be heard at 15OO G. M T. that that it will be heard here at 15 clock minus ten hours, at o'clock in the morn ing. Obviously the count won't go past 2345 o'clock which is 1:45 pm in London That would be 1345 o'clock here, or 1:45 And the familiar broad east in English that comes from KGEI at o'clock pm. Anchorage time, 15,330 megacycles is at exactly zero o'clock London time it's midnight.
 In the Nome time there's, hours difference from San Francisco time, and Il hours from London In the Stka there's only one hour difference from San Francisco and on nine hours from London But the computations the same. And you can figure the time anywhere in the world if you'll just look at the map, divide the longitude by and add, subtract the resulting number of hours to or from London time according to whether you're east west of London, respectively.
 Who's Japan's Sousa?
 Who is the march king of Japan? Who is the Nip pOnese imitation of John Philip Sousa?
 That question interested music fans today, as Jap- anese radio continued to grind out it's phonograph cords o NppOnese marches at the begnninbe and end of scores of programs daily many kilocycle band. Copying both Instrumentation and music writing, the versatile matorS of Nippon paid high tribute to Sou saS successful marches by their parallel writing
 Most popular of all the marches apparently, is the Eagles, the Japanese air corps march
 Like Italy and Russia Japan frequently uses fem mine neWScaSer initiating this technique. Like Ger manys Lord HaW-Haw, its masculine commentators seek to break into ronc criticism of the United States while the propagandists show that Radio Tokyo has faithfully copied every device of Nazi radiomen in their effort to the interest of neutrals and to split apart the allies and to spread unfounded fears abroad
 To psychologists, perhaps the most amusing propag anda device used by the Japanese is that reveals sensitive point in the national character That point is their hatred of being called mitators and adapters and their disgust of being regarded people of low creative ability So their paid Whpper-uppers who seek via radio to Japans own people and the rest of the world charged this That the United States has copied one of Britains battle techniques in the Philippine fghting-klaska Service Record. +Lo