Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1924, Page 21

SUNDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1924 oe a ees. Takes X-Word Puzzle With Him to Jail Hunt for Five Lais Noun Puts Nathan On Way to Cell. NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Certain things in life are inevitable. Birth, marriage, divorce, death, taxicabs and the arrest of somebody over a cress-word puzzle—these things, sooner or later, are decreed by the fates to take place in due course. Patrolman Harry. Wallack, com- uning within himself upon the lily state of the atmosphere at a litt’e before 2 o'clock yesterday morn- ing was summoned by Bolling F. Denham, proprietor of a resturant at 111th street and Brcadway, “Come at once!’ said Mr. Den- ham. “I have nuts in my restaur- sut.”” Why not?” asked the patrolman, reasonably enough. ‘Are they wal- nuts, or hickory nuts or pecan nuts, mixed nuts or wha ‘These are not nuts tliat Restaurateur Denham “These gre nuts that eit around all night arguing about something and I want them arrested, On four ham and egg sandwiches they cannot sit restaurant !! night, can We'll see,” agreed Rist in Eleven Letters. In tho restnurant of which Den-j ham is manager Wallach found Welz Nathar, who lives, when home at 535 West 110th street, and threo others. Pandemonium reigned as hus been written before. “Boye, bo: sald Patrolman Wal jach or words to that effect, “How com Officer,” said Nathan, eagerly. “Tell me at once. Do you know a word which means ‘microscopic hairs’ and has in it five letter: “See!” said Denham; “just what I told you. Nuts. And they've been here since before 11 o'clock, and here it is nearly 2, Arguing about microscopic hairs! Nuts! On four ham-and egg sandwiches they cannot do this in my restaurant, Mr. Denham does not do cross- word puzzles. . “Wait,” said Patrolman Wallach. “Everything must be legal and proper.’ Patrolman Wallach . does word puszies. “Microscopic hairs,” said Nathan “In five letters. ©: is a ‘u’ or I think it I ask you? Manager Denham beat upon his forehead with his clenched fists. “More nuts!" he wailed: “I go for help and all I get is another nut. ‘The whos world is, crazy, All except me.” a ‘Wait,” sald Patrolman Wallach “This must be done In legal order. Bverything must be proper. Will you boys go home now, quietly; Tomor- row you ¢an look up this» micro- scopic hairs in the encyclopedia or the dictionary or something. But now you ought to go home, quiet.” “Never,” Says Welz Nathan. ‘Never, said Welz Nathan, “Never, until I find w! ig micro- scopic hairs in five letter’s.” "Then I'll have to pinch you," said Patrolman Wallach. “I will have to pinch you for disorderly conduct.” * “Fine,” said Bolling F. Denham, That's it, Disorderly conduct.” “Pinch me!” sald Welz Nathan. “If I cannot find out what is micro- scopic hairs in five letters what do I cat He was pinched. The other three went home to look up the word which meant microscopic hairs in five letters. Bolling F. Denham breathed a sigh of relief and Jpokeed up, after issuing strict Instructions tor the future that all cross-word puzzies were to be checked at the door with coats and hats. The case came before Magistrate Thomas F. McAndrews in the West Side court yesterday morning. The ‘Five dollars or one Patrolman Watlach cross- in jail.” barton 2 to jail,” said Nathan. “It will be quiet there. That restaurant was nolsy anyway. In jail I will have time to think up what is this five-letter word which means micro- scopic hal: Get Acquainted With WOR Of Fame in Newark By WILLIAM J. FAGAN, (United Press Radio Editor) WOR, Newark, operated by L. Bamberger & Co., is “very easy to listen to.” It is one of the pioneer Droadeasting stations in the East and ity programs haye always been of exceptionally high quality. Its proximity to New York makes it one of the stations local to the me- tropolis and {t compares very fa- vorably with some of the top-notch: era to be found there. WOR is the afternoon radio ren: @ezvous of New York artists and ac tors. It can be said with entire truth that more noted actors and actresses have made thelr first radio appeat fAnee at WOR than through any other medium. WOR features its matinee programs with the stars of dramn, musical comedy and the acreon and there is scarcely a week that passes that some distinguished ropreeentative of those fields of en+ deavor does not journey over to Newark for a radio engagement. Most of them are artists to whom the publicity which accrues from radio performances means but little The musical part of the matinee program usually of standard algo. storles, sport reviews and «music occupy the on-the-alr lod between 6:15 and 7:30 nightly. These features are well taken care of. The only critieism Is that WOR's inner music is 1 alty always of the jaziwtype. don't ni high sr is very wi st or not. tion, the dinner hour 1s all that may be expected. day, nings, programs are of an unusually high occupy that portion of the program know before 19 o’cloci’, when the popular sr Sa Long Antenna | Helps Receiver Picks Up Pacific Coast Stations When Aerial of Usual Type Fails in Competition By i Fa The controversy that arises whenever one mentions “long aerials among radio men seems not to have lost force or supporters, for tho pro and con are still maintaining their respective positions. The qu tion aroge the other day and nearly upset the decorum of the office at least where this writer is concerned, it was to an actual and so, to settle the gerd suggested to submit bot! of about six hundred feet at She ing, and sat w obtained with of the test, On focal stations the recelved energy Wes so great that consider abi interference was observed, de spite the fact that’ we were using a filter tuner. It was necessary to decrease the coupling between the primary anc ‘he first filter coil, acd a point was ceached where the vity was equal to that of the closer coupling with the smi aerial. No decrease of signal strength was observed because of the looser coupling. The signal from the large aerial was many times stronger, so mu more powerful that it was quite difficult to determine. The loud- epeaker, one of the extra-heavy duty type, was unable to carry the tremendous fluctuations of current and choked badly, using two tages aimpl ica: of transformer coupl: jon, On the distant stations the dif- ference was quite as marked as on the locals. For example, WGN, Chi- cago, came in on the lond-speaker “Murder” Screams Common Now 4 woman's scream, a cry of mur der or an urgent appeal for help pshead until the small hours to check it o standard aerial of ninety feet. and here are the all |O@ the large aerial, ch | West and South ca: add police coming trom other- wise peaceful domestic circle, does not mean, any more, thet murder fs afoot. Before you rush madly to the rescue of distressed woman- hood, calmly ring the doorbell, and, still calmly, ask if the WGY Players are’on the air. The scream mey have originated in the broadcasting studio at Schenectady, the words ment of the radio audience. This cautious approach to the apparent scene of action may saye both y fee be man-of-the-house acute em- ement- A Danville, Biase, reveet re- eently wrote WGY + during 5 pen by the waY he was getting on a loud speaker his neighbors ran to his door seeking the cause of a woman's screams of murder. As he opened the door to the insistent calls of his excited neighbors, the act was concluded and the orchestra started to play. 1, where MAHER, test. We erected-a long span Bay, where we do some*test against the alte with great volume at six-forty o'clock in the evening. The signal from this station was so loud that it was quite difficult to believe that it came from such distance, and 50 soon racer Rey, : far West, in Texas and on the Pacific Coast, came in genuine loud-speaker volume with three: tubes, while on the smal! one they were heard only by listening close to the horn. Small powered stations in the in with re- markable clarity, stations that had er been heard before on the small aerial. We heard more of these little stations than we knew existed, and the long aerial brought them in, notwithstanding the fact that they were operating on waves below hundred meters. It was necessary to oo smaller primary coil, one having r turns, and a variable con- denser in series with the aerial to decrease the period of the primary, cireuit to the resonant point. The results were so remarkable that we must say they syrpassed anything we have experienced with any set, regardless of the number of tubes, No marked increase of static was observed, nor was there interfer- ence from spark transmitters on ships or shore stations to a de- gree greater than that received on the smaller aerial. For the long span we recommend stranded wire made . of silicon bronze, or hard drawn copper. For t test we used seven strand silicon bronze of number twenty- two gage wire, supported about twenty-five feet from the ground, pet running between « pole and a ticable for the fan living-in the city, although there are pla it can be erected without much trouble! But for the fellow living near a clear space it is a vag opportunity to do-some great istance work, and he should erect this kind of an aeria! by all means. Polished Panel Is Good A high polished panel is much more efficient than a grained one, as moisture is apt to get into the crevices of the grain and cause minute losses not to be found on a smooth finished panel. fhe Casper Sunday Cribune NEEDS GOOD > WINDINGS Inductances are effictent accord- ing to their design. Many factors en- fer into the matter of designing an inductance to give the maximum efficiency in a particular circuit. In general the size of the induct- ance—if it is a solenoid or tube wound type—for the Filter Tuner should be three inches in diameter, While a larger tube may be used no advantage will be gained, and it will be more cumbersome. The solenoid type of coil gives good results in this circult. This coll is the same form of winding used in the original One Knob and factory. have been mad in the way of volum and sensitivity to and ar tion on this account. impulses, they have been described at length in a previous article. Fans pur- they have been made according to these specifications, SCHOOLS TO USE RADIO TO HELP TEACHERS Twenty Thousand Cal ifgrnia school teachers scattered over the valleys and mountains of the Btate are now aided by radio broadcast: ing. Theirs is the Job every morn- ing of getting over $00,000 children to be punctual in attendance at school. A series of weekly pe grammes furnished by the State Board of Education and broadcast by KGO is expected to be so in- teresting that children will want to be at in time to hear them. ‘Wil.C. Wood, State Super ent of Public Tnstenction, eo first speaker before microphone and series. Professor J. Bolten, a tory department , University of California, His also ubject will be “Th of tre Pecttie”” “He will relate ratte of the old pirates who pu California bays and inlets their treasure and ships. Pupils in the O: Ilc Schools will furnish the music, under the direction of Glen Woods,+ for the initial broadcast. Schools throughout the State teresting stories will be told about the geographical and _ historical features of the state, aimed to en- are reporting great enthusiasm for the new venture, according to| Grace C. Stanley, Commissioner of Elementary Schools, State Depart-| ment of Education, who will hav charge of the work, It is not known | at the present time how many pupils will actually listen in on the first rogramme, but schools in isolated istricts, who will be so greatly benefited, are expected to be in the lead of those turned in on the broadcasts. It is planned to feature Califor nia history and geography tn the lessons by radio. Professors of the various universities and colleges cf the state and other eminent edu- cators and story tellers will con- tribute. No lesson will be more than twenty minutes long, and will tertain pupil LUsteners as well aa educate them. Fresh personalities will be thus brought constantly into the minds | of the thousands of school children, each with a fascinating story about some river, mountain or character of California history. Thi blem of the country school t er will in this manner not only ba éssened, but teachets are enthu- siastically reporting their bellet that they themselves Ful Reoelee benefit and instruction speak. ers over the air. in public schools has ever been at- tempted. The idea is said to have originated in a conference this sum- mer on rural education held in San Francisco, when requests from dele- begin with music and end with music. The story telling method of teaching will be used. That is, in DIO ROBERT | et GBT THIS AERIAL UP wh. BE The BesT us hether jazz is good for digestion However, with that excep- WOR broadcasts eventng pro ams beginning at § p.m. on Mon- Wodnesday and Saturday eve sharing this portion of time 1th WJY, New York. The concert the classios andard. Invariably, entertainers are turned loose. Some very fine soloists have graced WOR's evening concert choral prominent place from time to time and WOR's attempt at extensive re mote control band's summer vei able and versatile, two of them in particular Programs, Local organizations have had a the New: ason, was work concert. Be reditable indeed WOR'S announcing staff is cap. being singers Of WOR's microphone. lectures over WOR are among the best broadcast in the east and one of the most popular lecture courses mr Muste,"* w with WOR. tory and a large number of enthasi mbility | natt whoehave given. recituls Chrough|the proper range of entertainment | day's Classisied Seption. gates that some attempt to reach the schools in the rural sections of the state by radio was made. The talks and ver offered over the radio, Dr. Sigs und Spaeth's “Common Sense of was a. feature of WOR every sk for a long period, There is little farilt It serves o tobe found large terri Nesteners. Its programs p FILTER TUNER) | it has proven to be highly satis- Improvements on this coil however, in the form of windings calculated to de- sjcrease the losses due to internal capacity and dielectric effects, The new. coils show a-greater efficiency arp tuning better for distance recep- The conditions necessary in the Filter Tuner to obtain the startling results have been worked out afte: many months of investigation, and chasing coils should determine !f Coperight, 1924, Premier Syndicate. NUMBERS 6 AND PACIFIC COAST By PAUL Sixes and sevens are the mos a six or a seven in front of its call | -| tinuous 7 WILL IDENTIFY. BROADCASTERS | M'GINNIS, it attractive numberc in the super- power tests which are now being made, for if you hear a station with letters you will know that you have pioked up a wave from out near the Pacific Coast. Special super-power stations are now privileged to experiment with about a hundred times as much power as that used by the largest local stations in New York. stations far out in the West will by and they may come in late at night All broadcasting stations have’ experimental licenses which are preceded , by figures to indicate the district in which they operate. Listeners have frequently heard 2XB, which has been used to test new equipment for station WEAF in, New York. The figure 2 indl- cates that the station is in the sec- ond district, which includes part of New York State, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The letter X is used to designate an experimental sta- tion. Station KFI of Los Angeles, Galif., is considering the installa- tion of equipment which will send its programmes .to small sets throughout the entire country. The station will use the testing call of 6XY. Other stations in Californ' Nevada, Utah and Arizona will also use the figure 6 and the letter X in combination with other letters to identify their testing programmes. Good programmes are often usea in testing, and it is common to hear orchestras and experienced singers, as the larger stations test for perfect transmission before they place their new equipment in use, Preliminary tests are often’ made | by pronouncing the vowels and/ saying,’ “one, two, three, four,’ This is common practice among amateurs, many of whom have e! equipment and have e the right to use high power the letter X along with the figure indicating their district. ‘Testing stations are not always careful to announce their location, and they often leave the fan to guess whether or not he heard a programme from far away. For ig reason a map showing the districts may be handy in locating strangers in the air. The law re-| quires them to anncunce their call} frequently, and so the sixes and sevens can be marked down as real distant stations. Next will come the fives and nines. The others are already within the range of good receivers. It is expected that with this amount of power, e heard plainly on small sets here, almost any time now. New WLW Will Be Sharp and Loud Radio engineers and surveyors selected Harrison, Ohto, as the ideal place for the new powerful radio broadcasting station of WLW. Locating the powerful new five- kilowatt WLW broadcasting sta- tion. twenty-five uniles from. the new studios in Cincinnati a away from thickly populated dis- tricts will not interfere with the majority of radio fans. Population distributjion maps were prepared before the final selection was made for the station. Radfo fans will find tuning to the new powerful equipment at Harrison extremely sharp as the result of using the very latest apparatus developed for radio broadcasting. | Get a Good Resistance Most of the troubles which read- ers write about in their letters to the radio editor of The Journal have to do with the resistance unit used in the Filter Tuner. There has been such a ready vale for such re- sistance that in many cases they jhave been carelessly and improper ly made.- The solution of this prob lem is to deal with a store which exchanges defective material. A poor resistance produces a con queal in the filter tuner. j|A good one can be turned down to a point where reproduction is un- usually clear and loud. Try Changing Tubes When using three or more tubes, in order to attain the good results, it is best to try changing the tubes from one socket to another. Among three tubes the fan will find that one tube works better in one socket than in another. The amplification factor of a given type of tube is generally sald to be the same for all tubes of this type, but actually the amplification factor, like other individual char-| acteristics of a tube, varies slightly) for each tube. Map of the nine radio districts of the United States. Each experimental station has a-figure before its call letters which correspond to the number of the district in which it is located. How to Locate Test Stations ARMY ADOPTS NEW CODE MACHINE A mechanical device ts to take the place of human instructors in Morse and Continental code at the Army Signal Corps School at Camp Alfred Vail, N. J., following the successful experiments with the new adaptation of phonographic or dictaphone instruction. ‘These machines such as are used in many busin offices to-day, will be employed this year for re- cording and transmitting code prac- tice in btoh the Morse and radio departments and will actually re- place the operator-intsructors, ac- cording to Captain John P, Ferriter, of the Signal Corps. Briefly, the system requires a Signal Corps phonograph, a shav- ing machine, 19 hard recetving records, and 12 wax records. The records for receiving practice are made of a hard material which makes them practically indestruc- tible. By means of a special re producer the signats on the record are caused to le Si arelay. The local contacts of this relay may be caused to interrupt a tone passin, through the telephone head of the students in the radio ol " or it may operate sounders in the Morse classes. For sending prac- tice, blank wax records are pro- yided. The student records his sending on @ wax cylinder. This record fs ghen rerun and he is required to copy it. | Several changes in the comme: }oclal machine were necessary to adapt it to this use, the principal ones being a special reproducer “and recorder, developed at the Signal School. The mechanical method has many advantages over the manual method of teaching, since it is po: sible to standardize instruction, By jusing the records according to di: lrections and giving daily tests, the tudent 18 2 ed of exactly the same instruction as.is given in the signal school. This obviously is an xtremely desirable feature as it permits of the establishment of standardized code schools through- the army, without any particular need for a skilled inatructor. The course should appeal particularly to the infantry, cavalry and artil- llery, as it is a complete solution of their problem of developing ra- dio operators in their own orgabiza- tions. . Special code practice equipment for radio classes has been designed in the signal school, whieh makes the installation of the necessary apparatus very simple. This con. sists of a modified monocord switchboard with a _ buzzerphone howler and a four-volt Battery to supply the tone. DEAR e's CMOWING NOW DD ITM ne! naroee ee UST BE 507-7. DELP ALRED}DOY to make them enjoyed classes. There js just enc lar music and just énough classic and semi-classic to the even balance sought (ir cases unsuccessfully) by ma casters who might well take tening course at WOR > -- by all » popu f the Ho | THERE'S REAL Christ ng ser iting ‘Christmas Gift Suggest ne !! PW | PAGE FIVE INTERFERENCE CASE GOES . TO COURT Amateurs Fight Plan to Erect Power Line Near Their Radio Receivers The question of whethgr the ereor tion of a power line sbould be per- mitted if it causes interference with broadcast reception was raised re- cently when farmers south ot Mil- waukee, Wis., objected to @ peti- tion of the local electric light com- | pany for permission to rum a high tension wire through thelr property. The farmers opposed the grant om the ground that the line would con- stitute a source of interference te the operation of thelr receiving sets, Two radio amateurs were called upon to give expert testl mmaward T. Howell, president of the Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Olub, Inc., and G sa iy Metcalf, club technical committee chairman, testified at the hearing before Juage Waller Schinz. Attorneys on pats sides examined them on technica! points affecting power line interfer ence with radio reception. Howell, who is an engineer by proreay and an amateur by avocation, ited cases where interference had = eurred in Hartford, Conn., an Augusta, Ga., and told of tnvestigw tions made by the American Radio Relay League. Metcalf told how such interference could be mitt gated. a to be the first This is believed \” of the kma! mee that a poin bas been raised in court. It is re garded as poseible that the case may eventually be carried to 4 higher court for decision before work on the power line can be started. It was pointed out thet with the advent of radio, good radio receiving conditions have become an asset to property. In selecting radio amateurs as expert witnes: tribute was pald to the ability of the amateurs. In localities where power lines have been a source of interference to radio reception, it has been found that the trouble generally has been due to faulty installation rather than the existence of the Ifne itself. In almost all such cases the interference has been eliminated by the making of necessary repairs, By-pass Condensers Must Match Trans- formers ‘The by-pass condensers perm{t the passage of the high or radio frequency current around audio frequency transformers These condensers afford a path’ way of low resistance for the radio frequency current instead of impoe ing a high resistance through the audio transformers. On account of these by-pass con densers which are as a rule across the audio transformer windings, care must be exercised in choosing transformer has high distributed the audio transformers. Loud Speaker Needs a Ninety-Volt Batte Many good sets fail to d ir suffloient volume on the: loud speaker because they are not sup plied with the power necessary to fo so. Forty-five volts on the plates of the amplifiers will not deliver enough current to the magnets of the loudspeaker produce loud signals. Ninety volts will. give much better results, and is certainly worth the additional cost. An extra gtid bias is necessary with the higher plate voltage, and thin is supplied with a four and one-halt volt “C” *battery, which {is con+ nected between the post of the transformer marked "“F” and the filament. The negative term{nal of the battery connects to “I” and the positive ierminal to the fila- ment. 3,000,000 Sets in Use A group of bankers has computed that there are at least 38,000,000 homes where receiving sets are in operation in this country. Lesa than one-third are large seta. With improved apparatus now available, it is belleved that there will be 10,000,000 homes in this country vith good radio sets within the next few years. It Snows Too Fast for Him | Some Hints to Keep In Mind When Car| Is Given New Paint W the parts of a car are paint is inevitable but that some ! settle on the surface before has wet. With the under | down each paint after * coat will remove such dust, but when a noticeable amount of dust seties on the finishing coat, the sult ts ph far from anit Or th which " portant aurface—ts held as possible in # vertical position Instance, fenders and hoods should be stood While head tamps shot th In thi would othe faces upward dust which bn them is avold and the fir 1