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Yuletide Radio
:et Book Ends
Unusual
Christmas and tbs wonderful
programs It w ill bring to the
millions of radio tans throughout
the country!
“(The last two months have boon
a period of excellent entertain
ment for ra4fe listeners— a u d th e
holiday season should bring a
continuation of these good pro
grams.
TU dio fans have been fortunate
in getting excellent reports on th e
various footbdU games over the
Pacific coast network. The mu
sical programs have been > excel
lent. The Armistice Day pro
grams brought back fond mem
ories to both Veterans of the late
war and those who had to remain
at home In the form of stirring
w ar songs and dramas in connec
tion w ith the signing of the ar-
WOULD CLEAR
THE “ETHER
wow ‘.corneé tila holiday season
whew radio entertainment is edr-
taln to be waiting fo r the radio
listener.
The home without a radio is
missing these treaty over the air.
However, the . percentage of
homes without radios is getting
smaller each day, ideal dealers
report.
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gallons. I sold twp gallons and
gave oae gallon away. I t doesn’t
seam to be polsonoda.”
)'
The diary, faded w ith age and
exposure was found on a table
near a 'c ru d e ly constructed still
of wash-boilers. The house was
vacant except for an interior
room fitted up as the distillery.
The operator of the still was net
found.
s InvisiMfe
Give New
W A 8H IN G T O N — Radio ben-
eons are becoming the invisible
lighthouses of the seven seas, and
the latest report of the United
States Lighthouse Service show»
45 American stations Jin opera
tion and a d o u n more under
Goastructioli.
- fte
J p >e signals are no longer
used anly in times of tog as they
x-jf»you are' losing sleep nights were when first established in
tfytng to “think up" tbs daintiest America In 1931, but are found
and loveliest of Christmas gifts' Valuable In clear weather per
f t r some winsome debutante or
fie, here It la—flower-basket book m itting bearings to be taken fa r
Is. They are all that esthetic beyond the range of any signal
femininity might wish for. Conjured depending upon vision. -
o f gold lace; stretched over poloe-
Prom the historic old light
fnl satin-covered basket forms,
they are as substantial anl prac houses and lightships that m ark
tical as i f of heavy bronse. Those the reefs and promontories of
pretty posies which spill over the
top are handmade of gay silk and the Atlantic and Pacific coast,
like those off Nantucket, Mass.,
satin and tinsel—very “Frenchy” !
Cape Henry, Vn., Dry Tortugas.
F la .; Point Arguello, C alif., and
a
ety to Navigation
the Columbia River, Oregon, the
Invisible flashes of dots and
dashes era sent out or are being
prepared for this latest electric
service.”*
The signal characteristic of
each location la a code* of dots
and dashes.
There are three
radio \signals ready or under
construction - of
Alaska,
and
one a t Makapuu Point, H aw aii,
hut one of the greatest areas of
usefulness Js ou the Great Lakes.
•While radio beacons have been
placed at strategic positions on
the'ocean coasts .that - would af
ford the best leading* marks,
guiding ^vessels to harbor en
trances or outlying capes, those
on the Great Lakes, first estab
lished only two years ago, guide
International commerce between
Canada and the United States on
Lakes'Superior, Michigan, Huron
and Erie.
'
Several hundred ships, a large
proportion of the important vea-
sels on the lakes, are equipped
for taking bearing and are ac
tually utilising this method of
navigation.
■ •
An extraordinary fact in the
installation of this Important aid
to safety la navigation Is that
thus fa r the setting up and op
eration of the American system
has required the addition to the
personnel of the lighthouse ser
vice of only two radio engineers.
Fog Is the greatest menace to
the safety of navigation at sea,
and the most urgent neec^-of the
navigator has' long been some
reliable means tor locating and
guiding his vessel In fog. The
Besides the channels cleared
by the summary removal o f 35
stations, 10 additional channels
w ill be cleared by co-operation
among radlocaaters or upon the
basis of public hearings. So far
as 'possible the commission urges
the companies tp set independa
entljv to clear the channels, but
in cases where this has not beeg
accomplished by the date set?
hearings w ill be called in this
city. The final “clean-up* in the
group w ill be finished by Jan.
15.
Under the program 26 wave
lengths w ill be carried. Most of
the changes. It Is reported, have
been made upon the basis of
numerous and persistent reports
of interference from listeners.
“ In order to Improve radio re
ception throughout the United
States, particularly for the very
large audience of rural “and re-'
mot« listeners who are situated
fa r ontside of the local service
ran g e' of any radiocasting sta
tion as well as to reduce gen
erally interference from hether-
dyning between stations” the
commission Is taking the present
step, It announces.
.
• II^DIANAlPOLIS— (LP)— “L ife ’s
a fnnny thing," reads one entry
of a bootlegger’s diary, discover
ed -by police here when they
raided a , liquor establishment.
"N ell Is Sick tonight. Hera I am.
making wklakey t o ' keep her
alive, and that same whiskey
may k ill soma one alas.”
The firs t entry reads; "W all,
I ’ve started a t . last. , The first
night I sold four gallons.” The
next night ha wrote: "The sec
ond night I made twon and a half
radio beacon, in conjunction with
the radiocompass or direction
finder on shipboard, for the first
tlnye in navigation, effectively
provides -such a means and en
ables tho navigator to take ac
curate bearings regardless of
weather
conditions,
add
this
method Is available at distances
up to several hundred miles, far
beyond the usefulness of any
other aids to navigation.
proper
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'
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I n th a t shining circle o f great
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Y o u need but to hear Zenith to
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B eautiful tonal reproduction, faithful to
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DIARY
rules of
Lowry believes, basing his con
clusion on the « a n y student
cases ha 'treats dally at Ohio
Wesleyan.
Superstitions concerning health
are held by some college stu
dents, despite the general so
phistication of the undergrad
uate, Dr. Lowry baa found.
" I have been surprised to dis
cover evidence of superstition
among a few students,” be said.
“One girl expressed a faith in
the protective powers Of red
flannel that recalls to me a sim
ilar superstition of China.” Dr.
Lowry for 30 years was head of
the Methodist hospital at Pek
ing, China.
R adio E ngineers
M O B ILE, Ala.— (IPV—Where la
the schoener Clara M. L ittle
field?
/
.
Like a phantom ship the sturdy
little craft owned b y a e Pensa
cola firm has disappeared in the
Gulf'■of Mexico after leaving for
the fishing grounds off the Cam
peche Banks.
Coast Guard boats have failed
to find a trace of the schooner.
Radio has failed to connect with
the craft.
On Sept. t4 the Clara M.?
Littlefield left her home port. >X
month later th e re t came word
from the-schooner, Indirect. The
Olenpool, a steamship reported
sighting the vessel 80 miles south
of South Pass. Fuel had bean
exhausted for the jnotor and
food supply was dim inished/'
BOOTLEGGER’S
la the college student’s worst
vise so far ae hls health Is con
cerned, says D r. George D.
Lowry, university physician at
Ohio Wesleyan university here.
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and
Ignorance
th e
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■ Ashland, Oregon
SHIP’S DISAPPEARANCE
PUZZLES SEAFARERS
UFE
concerning
VICE o r . COLLEGIANS diet are the greatest cause for
DELAWARE, O._(U>)_Eating the ills o f college students, Dr.
Jordan Electric Co
Radio Oonfinisstan Prepares
to Use Broom on
Air Path
W A S H IN G TO N — The Feder
al Radio Commission took a new
broom and prepared for a clean
sweep of the ether along a defin
ite path of between <00 .and 1090
kilocycles. W ith in this band, ac
cording to Information conveyed
In general order No. 1, jnst Is
sued every kind of “ whistling”
oi* other heterodyning paused
by the Interference of one radio
casting station with another w ill
be stopped.
The new order Is considered
one of the most Important In the
commission’s history. I t affects
about 35 stations which have, ac
cording to cause "log jams,” In
the ether, in the present restrict
ed channels causing most of Jhe
hetrodyning Interference.
The
transfer of such sfations t& new
waves is called for, effective Dec.
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