The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1930, Page 3

X THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 29, 1930. Television by Electricity Called Practical 10,000 Elements 90,000 Elements 40,000 Elements W 27 Philo T. Farnsworth (lower left), San Francisco engincer, believes he has real television. Using h\'o‘ special tubes, the transmitier or “disector” (lower right), and the receiver or “oscilight” (upper right) he transmits pictures without mechanism. The halftones above show how the picture improves when the number of clements or dots of light is increased. SAN FRANGCISCO, Dec. 20—In| The “oscilight” is a pear-shaps the belief of Philo T. Farnsworth, practical television has arrived. This 24-year-old en; has spent eight year: development wor! eer, 1 intensive , bases his state- who | ment on results of his experiments with apparatus which without mechanical aid. function He has done electrically what others have done with motors and | scanning di. He employes special tubes. To harness the almost infinite flying dot of television he uses a “disector” and an “oscilight.” . vacuum These are the vacuum tubes that | discard scanning disks and motor required in other ems. The “disector” is the transmit- ting photo-electric cell which con- tains components for scanning an image electrically. The tube looks like a fruit jar. All-Alaska News FACTS RELATED ABOUTPERSONS AND INGIBENTS“ e ndnd B %fihs Ta—ke_ Wée frvomiliigAln() Graduations Gathered from Every Part of Northland \ Early in the new year, the new' 50-foot forest ranger boat, under construction at Ketchikan, will e/ placed in commission. The new craft, diesel powered, is a sister ship of the Ranger IX, built last year. Ernest Biue.was elected Presi- dent of the Hyder Public Library Association. The circulation of, books is 900 annually. ‘! Enlargement of Peterburg's water system dam assures the town of, four months’ supply of water with- | out rain, or approximately 13,000,- 000 gallons. John Hanseth, contractor, has building of a school gymnasium at ! Petersburg. Ketchikan claims that in propor- | | | tion to population she has more;Fosmr' { electric ranges in use than any city | % 3 1 in the United States. She Yinkd Mrs. Pearl Myers Anderson, nurse, 013, of the Copper River and North-| k { western Rallroad, were recently| Miss Theresa Tromp, $chooliyopeq gt Cordova, where both ! teacher at Petersburg last year, now on tour abroad, was sentenced to jail for 15 days at Bulawayo, South Africa, on refusal to pay a| fine of $25 imposed for hindering | immigration officers in the per-| formance of their duty. She de- clined to fill in a declaration blank | o) "eo " he body of Aviator E.| J. saying “immigration laws are all a lot of stuff and nonsense.” Dis irritated her. Maybe her age. cmblematic of the Yuletide season, | the Petersburg Press issued al Christmas number this month. The issue was a credit not only to A.| O. Alstad, the editor, but also to] business intersts which gave liberal support in the form of advertising.! Establishment of a crab cannery at Cordova to be financed by resi- dents of the town is under con- sideration. T | endorsement of the Cordova Cham- ber of Commerce. Six cruising power yachts will be | operated for pleasure seekers and ( big game hunters in Alaska waters | next summer by Campbell Church, Jof these will have | Ketchikan : {from a traveling pulley in lhc, Brief Items of Interest|Trve-Bruhn market at Seward hit This is due, Farnsworth expls ed, to the fact that his picture contains 300 lines compared with receiving tube, containing a picture screen four inches square in the flat end. the “disector” and makes the image | ners are used. visible at the recéiver. The Farnsworth reproducer may Farnsworth also has developed a{be designed for attaching to method whereby he can send tele- | receiver. It requires a tuning sy vision on a wave band only five|tem and an amplifier. kilocycles wide, half the width re-| The designer explained it could quired for sound. | be built either into a receiver for In effect, this is done by altering | television alone, or combined with the wave form as it leaves the|a set that would pick up synchrou- transmitter. It is changed back to|ized sound and vision. its original form in the receiver. | Instead of the pink tinge of the Farnsworth said the method | picture reproduced by the neon could be adapted for wire line dis- | lamp, the Farnsworth tube makes tribution of programs, si black and white with that used for sound :llowish shading. Like other systems, the Farns nsworth is a graduate of Utah worth method requires radio trans- | University, doing his early exper mitters and receivers which func- | mentation work at the Crocker Re tion the same as they do with|search Laboratory, financed by R microphones and loudspeakers. | N. Bishop and W. W. Crock f The picture reproduced scems to|San Francisco. Television Labora- be considerably sharper than that | tories later was incorporated to of other systems. | take ower the work. ar m‘ its copy in lonly a s F 'BARNEY ANDERSON: CALL FOR 2 LETTERS For Barney Anderson, there are at the Juneau post- were sent from K offi chikan to €. T. Gardner of this t city with a request that he deliver them, the sender thinking he was the employer of Ander: Gardner has no record or personal recollection of Mr. Anderson and, after fruitless inquiry, put the let-| alt into the postoffice. The other '.hx'L‘('; - Jr., of Seattle, he chikan Chronicle recently. Three their base in direction of told the Ket- under resident manager. When a meat hook suspended W. A. Sinnett, the manager, in| the back of the head, he dropped to the floor senseless. He regained consciousness shortly, and suffered no other injury than a severe; sealp wound. | i Two hundred dollars in currency and a gold watch were lost in a fire that burned It reverses the process of |48 to 60 where mechanical scan- on. Mr. | a Ithe blowing down of the chimney. | | to be considerably enlarged by ad-| | ditional donations. donatid §800 6 tha Sand for the | L POUIMEEE in Oogovs, thereiny | nance, according to public notice | given by City Attorney Frank H. :|havé resided several years. They | | will make their home there. " Everett L. Wasson, the blond| | pilot, and Joseph Walsh, wiry lit- | tle sourdough prospector and guide.‘ . e " 1ing companions in the Liard dis- patches ‘fail to state whal QUETY yric of British- Columbia will be | Dominion of Canada governments With a four-page colored COVEr,| i grant g cash honorarium to the cabin of| | Nefl Noonan, trapper, 25 miles from | { Cordova. He was absent at the| time of the blaze, which followed Subscriptions totaling $350 have: already been made at Valdez to-| ward purses for a dog derby be-| tween Valdez and Copper Center | next April. The sum is expected | Persons operating defective elec- teferring with radio reception,i will be prosecuted under an ordi- and William L. Burgan, cmplo_vccf SANTA CLAUS - TOBE ATELKS’ HALL TONIGHT § All Little Boys and Girls Are Urged to Come for Presents Juneau’s last Christmas tree par- ty this season will be held in the auditorium of the Elks’ Building this evening. Every branch will be loaded with presents, and every lit- e boy and girl on Gastineau nnel is urged to be present. tivities will start at 8 o’clock. The event is an annual affair with the Elks. It has always been a fylng success, but this year it ses to be big nd bet- ter than ever before. For tonight the tree e larger, the light re numer abundant A Claus will resent He will be if the place is not little childr and the gifts mor distribute the disappointed crowded with oo WMERRYMAKERS LEASE A5, HALL Harry Krane Wil Give First Dance in New Loca- tion Thursday Hereafter the Merrymakers will hold their dances on the third floor of A. B. Hall. Thei dance in th new home w held Thursday, New Year's evenin Harry K of the Merrymak- ers, has leased the large danc floor of A. B. Hall. The floor i being sanded and polished, and t! hall thoroughly renovated and re- decorated. rs have been hold- in Moose Hall, . Krane i$ confident he will er able to please in the new e e FORMER JUNEAUITES LOCATED, BELLINGHAM Mr. and Mrs. Ben A. Leonard former Juneau residents, located in Bellingham, W t ccording to Christm: received by many of their in Juneau. The cards extend nd inc a snapshot iple and one of The picture is one corner of their new s {:in the Puget Sound Pc Light building, the new Bu minal Station at 1329 Sta In a letter, Mr. and M cay they have a wonderful 1 hing- taken RENTNER INORTHWESTBRN &R - WISCONSIN are now | their as- | turn north friendships than p. WOLVES ARE WIPED OUT IN WRANGELL AREA, SAYS GUBSER ions car- gell district wolves i, erm; t 1 insy on of the a Mr. Gubser returned here last w for the holidays. No fresh sign: were found anywhere in the region. | Some 30 wolves were taken in the campaign. H Two runways, over which the wolves r h the islands from the mainland ve been definitely lo- cated, Mr. Gubser said. One, ¢ these, across Deer Island, Etolir and Zarembo islands, leads to th west coast of Pri Wales. T e g was not known to prior to this yea other crossing, @ | to Kupreanof Island and the Rocky Pass district, was discovered about two years ago by other predat animal hunters wh ndings we | checked and confirmed by Mr. Gub- | S eee POWDER AND COAL BROUGHT BY TANANA Loaded with explosives s rier Tanana, of » Steamship Company, C and coal the n, bound t ard, arrived in yester- forenoon. £ d pow- at Dupont and then shifted to I'the local fuel. She cellaneous The v morning fo waterfront to put off some also brougk mis- ports to the We COLISEU “Glorifying the American Gir beth Evans Hughes, in marriage to William Thomas Gossett ot New York. They are shown leaving the Hughes home in Washington after the ceremony. PHONES 83 OR 85 THE SANITARY GROCERY L T L O L U R L TR LT T (bt ARTISTIC PICTURE FRAMING Ordway’s Photo Shop | 1 | Chlef Justice Charles E. Hughes gave his youngest daughter, Eliza- | | { | TIMES TONIGHT —7:30 and 9:30 Shows— I” The Lavish Girl and Music Show GIRAF NECKS PROBLEM FOR FRENCH RAILROADS PARIS, Dec. 29.—Officials of the Paris Zoo are puzzling over how to transport seven giraffes, part of & | largz shipment of African animals, from Marseilles to the capital. They have plenty of time fto | figure it out because the beasts | must be kept in quarantine four | months at Marseilles. | The puzze comes from the fact [ that the tunnels on the rallroads | from the southern coast are too | low for the lork necks of the gi- raffes and transpertation by motor truck may make the animals sick. | It is recalled that in 1850 a giraffe | was brought from Marseilles to the | local zoo “on the hoof.”” —= | Besides the long necks, the zoo's | expedition to Africa shipped ten | elephants, eleven buffaloes, seven | antelopes, a lion, a rhinoceros, & panther, a gorilla, an ostrich and a lot of monkeys. : ' REDUCED " PRICES . 9= 07 ¢ Off Regular Prices on Everything in Our Windows i 5] Assoctatea Press Phuto “T'he Store That Pleases” T T -at THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF PLAIN AND FANCY PICTURE FRAMES IN ALASKA and smiling 24-year-old airplane By PAUL MICKELSON (Associated Press Sports Writer) CHICAGO, Dec. 29. — Gradua- | tions, usually stunning blows to| good football teams, won't spread s0 much woe in Western Confer- P ¢ | ence ranks in 1931. Wasson and a special donation to The greatest crop of first-year Walsh, dccording to advices from| ' = 3 Victoria, B. C. | stars ever to move up ls ready for “Lhe Big Ten firing. v | Every team in the conference ATTENTION, NARPNS | uncovered sophomore aces this year. | There will be a Called Com-| Most of them made the cheer lead- | munication of Mt. Juneau Lodge|ers forget about the senior regu- No. 147 at the Masonic Temple | lars, playing their last season. | Monday evening, December 29, 1930.| Northwestern, shareholder of the | Work in the M. M. Degree. All‘ conference championship ‘with| . A. Burke and rescued his starv- rewarded. British Columbia and of the W. M. winning grind by two sophomores J. W. LEIVERS, | of great promise—“Pug” Remner,i —adv. Secretary. | all-conference fullback, and Dick s | Pencl, a lineman who made the Play 1naoor Golf av The Alas‘;‘nj Wildcat forward wall one of the% L3 Harry Newman, Michigan quarterback; Gregory Kabat, Wisconsin guard, and “Pig” Rentner, North- western fullback, are three of the sophomores who blocmed this year on Big Ten gridirons to offset amply the loss of senior stars who have played their last games. best in football. Up at Michigan, Harry Newman almost made the Wolverine fans forget the great Benny Friedman. Fast, smart and blessed with a great throwing arm, Newman was the main cog in the Michigan machine. Four promising sophs, veterans of power at the end of the Buck- eye campaign, turned up at Ohio State, where Wesley Fesler will be sed next season. They were Lewis quarterback; Martin V Hinchman, arner, half- The project has the|Brethren urged to attend. By order | Michigan was held up in its long, | back; Charles Wingert, guard and Carl Ehrensberger, a fast, fighting and alert center. Jack Manders, a fullback of the Bronko Nagurski type and Ken MacDougal, a shifty half with great his college career at Purdue. Wi consin had Gregory Kabat, all-con- ference guard ai:: Charles Golden- one of the really grcas ends, began . a quarterback of speed and] | i IIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIHIIIIIHIIlllll}l”lllIIIllllllIIHIlIIlIlIllH“"lllllllll!llll""llllllllllllllllll|||ll"lllllll||||I|||IIIIIIIIII|IIII et e ) TONIGHT ALASKA SCENIC VIEWS TONIGHT Play Your First Game of | before. Get this pleasure habit! JUNEAU MIDGET GOLF COURSE speed, were the sophomore contri- | ] butions at Minnesota. No need to urge those who've played ‘ Paul Moss, destined to become \,‘g deception : <0 ) 3 i ki ‘Gill” Berry was the ace of an- GOLDSTEIN BUILDING 2 other fine sophomore crop at Illi- nois. Resembling Michigan's New- " man, he saved the Illini for a whol- ly disastrous season by his passing - % - S i 1o s A R T LS - and open field ranning, J T T T T T T T A T T T T 5 Towa's sophomore stars were = i s S B o e e 2 CALIFORNIA GROCERY braska, and Godfrey Slovik, a run- = < s ning mate of promise. = ! > e e o ol PHONE 478 I'he Home of Better Groceries SRaL1 asd: Qkgy all - backs. T R T T O T RO TTT T g