Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1927, Page 4

4™ BOERSIG IS TAKEN T0 RICHMOND CELL Convicted Murderer of Girl Transferred From In- secure Jail. By a Staft Ofrrespondent of The Star. FAIRFAX COUNTY COURT HOUSE, April 8.—Louis F. Bos convicted here late Wednesday first-degree murder for killing old Loretta Ridgeway near Alex- andria March 4, has been transferred | to Richmond, the State capital, where | he will be electrocuted on June 7 THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. FRIDAY. APRIL 8 1927. awkward process at first. Photo- graphs were recognizable, but blurred and not very satisfactory for repro- duction. Result of Patient Work. Bat the transmission of photographs | by telephone wire contained the basic idea out of which has come television. The instantaneous flashing of the fea- tures of a person at the other end of the wire has been the result of patient, | intense experimentation in the labora- | tories of the Bell Co. with all the re- | cources of the great corporation be- | hind the scientific workers. : | The plcture now is transm tted in- stantaneously, about 15 times a & ond, so that the lLmage appears con- tinuous. The principle figure in the ll?\elo[!» | ment of television is Dr. Herbert 1. Ives, who has been in charge of the development work in the Bell labora- rles. Dr. Ives has long been a spe- list in the physics of light and lor. He was an inventor of note be- fore he started on the .problem of television—the inventor of an artificial eye for use in photometry, of a meth- on of sight, for the first time in the world’s history. “Human genius has now destroyed the impediment of distancesin a new respect, and in a manner hitherto un- known.” What its uses may finally be, no one can’ tell, any more than man could foresee in past vears the mod ern development of the telegraph or the telephone. All we can say today 1= that there has been created a m: velous agency for whatever use the future may find, with the full realiza- tion that every great and fundamental discovery. of the past. has been fol- lowed by use far beyond the vision of its creator. Every school child is aware of the dramatic beginnings of the telegraph, the telephone and the radio, and this evolution in electrical communications has perhaps an .im- | portance as vital as any of them. “This invention again emphasizes a new era in approach to important scientific discovery, of which we have already within the last two months seen another great exhibit—the transatlantic telephone. It is the re- sult of organized, planned and defi- nitely created scientific research, mag- | nificently co-ordinated in a cumula- tive group of highly skilled scientis SCANTILY-CLAD WOMEN BARRED FROM NIGHT CLUBS IN NEW YORK theater owners are the best kind of By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April & — Women on he Broadway stage and in night clubs must put on clothes. This decree was issued by District Attorney Banton after the signing by Gov. Smith of the Wales padlock bill, which enables places of entertainment judged to have violated the licensing | regulations to be closed for a year. The law not alone applies to nudity, but also to any “obscene, indecent, im- moral or impure drama, play, exhibi- tion or entertainment,” and makes theater owners and individual perform- ers responsible for the character of entertaipment. Scenes Must Be Cut. “Those in charge of some of the | plays now before the public had better go through them and cut out their | filthy lines and scenes,” warned the “That, after Adoption of the new law, the most drastic in the history way stage, follows months of agita- tion for & clean-up of the stage First efforts were the formation of an unofficial “play jury” of the Broad- this plan failed the district attorney substituted po- lice raids, which recently resulted in court convictions and jall sentences found guilty of producing immoral plays. Teeth Put In Law. The present law, most of which was written by the district attorney, w described by him as one with ‘“teeth in it.” Theatrical producers and managers | with one exception, expressed disap stage | pointment at the signing of the bili The exception was A. L. Erlanger, who declared: “I have never known Gov. Smith o be wrong and I have known him for 30 vears.” California Asks Cruisers. Secretary Wilbur was asked yester day by House members from Cali fornia, headed by Representative ng, to have two of the six proposed scout crulsers bullt at the Mare Island Navy Yard. .The terms of Morris Plan \ | district attorney. “And women in night clubs,” he added, “had better put on clothes, too.” | The district attorney expressed the belief that it would be found that el i s A S g Under normal circumstances Boer clie mumesical terma, e 0 oF sig would have been detained in the | Ly d‘?::??,‘;..""'l)‘l’.‘rin:Z'i’..ii““il? he g Koy atter s the development of airplane photogra- pe II.“ 8!’ an ¢ lons o S0 secure condition ¢ e e Book on that subject is |lated individual effort. : opportunities for effort and service, Nis gousral supervision of | . CeREEIGIes Toliphoss Oo. we will have preserved a vital and e o experiments, Dr. Ives| “The world is under obligation to|moving community. | was especially responsible for the op- the American Telephone and Tele- | “I am glad to welcome television | e cets of the problem and for | graph Company for its vision in the |as the latest product of scientific dis- | the photo-electric cell. He has receiv- | establishment and support of these It promises that where the e D medals for his work in vari- | laboratories, and does tribute to all has led the way over the tele- ous optical fields from the Franklin | those who have played their part in|phone wires, the eye will ultimately “nd has been awarded nu-|this development Follow. Wallimgton, snd’ New ol | “These laboratories have produced |are today not only within earshot of Loans are simple and practical W and fair—it is not necessary to have had an account at this Bank to borrow. loyally supported by a great corpora tion devoted to the advancement of the art. The Intricate processes of this the jail it was deemed wi to trans- | fer him at once. He was taken by ®utomobile in charge of Sheriff Cross. Before being taken to Richmond, | Boersig, who had exhibited an iron | SECRETARY HERBERT HOOVER, nerve throughout the trial and after | speaking into the “television” of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. standing beside the “bedside jury” to | to a New York audience, which not only heard his voice but received a clear hear them sentence him to death, | reproduction of his likeness. Those wat the experi re, from left | broke down and wept bitterly. If | ta right: Brig. Gen. John J. Carty, vice of t an’ Telephone | the death sentence is carried out he (& Telegraph Co.; A. E. Berry, president of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- | IS0 (Ute B0 will leave a widow, who still main- [ phone Co., and Stephen Davis, solicitor of {he Department of Commerce. merous . e e s 1 ek Other, But Within sight 5a well e At M ohadme | Sl ST z Another to whom belongs much ofy ¢ion o other arts, butiuo one of them | many countries. have struggled to ‘t‘he ""';) b f"" , Who de-l e dramatic or more impressive | solve the problems of television. We ue. S ©of the defense case. vouth in his o ; : the credit is Dr. Frank Gray, W R it and g tean MIRACLE OI< SEEING BY PHONE oo the method of scanning by | (han thi may all take pride in the fact that " light the object to| "uy glways find in these occasions |its actual accomplishment is brought a weekly, semi- though they may practicing less than ar, while a beam of intense § be given for any Lindsey Carne, the assistant defense 7 ot [ 3 {ted, the development of |y groat giimulation to confidence in |about by American genius and its monthly or 81, EM N TRA E IN TE T HER Do il forms of the neon lamp and iy Frieure It we can be assured a|first demonstration is staged in our thly basis as || $5,000 $100.00 Jod of from 3 D special for 2 e monthly A pert " $10,000 $200.00(| 20 12 months. For each $50 orl Loans are pass- fractionborrowed ed within a daoy you agree to de- Ve ortwo -[ur/lllnt posit $1 per week 50 :,ffl“c.t on— in an Account, th few excep- the proceeds of $ tions. which may be MORRIS PLAN notes are usually may be made on made for 1 year, counsel, was admitted to the bar in o application to television of the flow of new and revolutionary inven- | own country. I congratulate you, Mr. you prefer. principles of amplifier design. tions to maintain thought, stimulate | Gifford, and through you all of your Decemhfr; TARIFFfiREWS‘lON SOUGHT.| (continued trom First Page speaking 10 a Washington newspaper | _ HiiEd ‘{“'"‘“‘;‘f‘g‘f‘fl"‘;,‘f"f\#: the |l spirit, and_provide a : nd new | staff who have contributed to it | man . 3 g 0] syn- " T | ™ Nou he said, “like one of | cONLF - seed conttel | e R R E X EXEXEXRRXEXEX LRI 2K M _— - = — "M der Supervision U.S. T'ew“'y 1408 H Street N. W. ““Character and Earning Power Are the Basis of Credit” | g called for their Washington repre- look : e fhvoiving Machado Reported to Plan Move | (0 "iiceq and in each case the men | those old-fashioned, tinted daguerreo- | Chronizing ‘f\‘J,‘|:‘,“l'i(;,|'",‘,,’l ety vat] on Visit to Capital. [on the New York end sald that they | typ 1 as we used to see in family | Peniows BEERIC o cies. He was as- saw clearly the faces of the men on |album [dow ane A s work by B. R. Morton. HAVANA, April 8 (P).—Presidefit | this end. Then various New York| The features, however, are much | sisted in this SEUE ¥, o g on cquip- Machado, it was reported in govern- {newspapers asked their local corre- |more perfectly represented than was| In the operation & (ot %y yroup !neli!a(a!l (lrcfles loduy.| \’wu initiate ne- | spondents to come on the wire and |the case with tl }":F"l‘h“fj' :l‘fl,l_h" eyes, large photo- gotiations for a revision of existing |held short comversations with them. 3 ¢ p oL PO Which scan the tariff laws between the United Stat ‘The receiving appatatus was set up| Hxperimentation Is Planned. el ey o asuall and cuba on his forthcoming visit 10 | only in New Lork. The Washington | | Dot b R ihe sweeps of a marrow ‘Washington. | group could not see the New York | been in charge of the Washington ar-| TUNateq ¥ Ll “light. The cells re- In a petition to the president the |speakers, but they could see almost eients thin, xplAlnsd: to the cor-| rord to Hght My initiating elestrie Cuban Chamber of Commerce claimed | exactly what was seen in New York | o5 bkt o A pond. to IERE - e currents, highiy that not only the sugar producers brt | because the visual im e-principle.of television. | currents, and, tWol Lo ditioned, other commercial _industries were | caught off the wire on.a spec ent, Gen. Carty sald. its com. | amplified_and property, EoTUS D suffering from -the Fordney tariff. . It | vision mirror set up in the room s s are unknown. A )are then eent, NS 0 o ves, to the e that diploaatio oo be teken ] eat deal of experimentation has been | or in the form of radio waves. 1o the o obtatn reviston of the reciprocity | Device Completely Developed. mapped out (o perfect the system still | distant receiving station, There tho treaty negotiated in 1903 in order that | Next to the accomplishment of | ful g 8 ; |]5'|W"Iv- e :es‘i;: B xfgms. i Cuba. might recover advantages lost | television itself, the most surprising |, The honor of being the first operator | HERt, ¥ 0 & 20y Phetore the eyes of in commercial interchange with the N | ¢o tak s over the television appa- | the light to flas LT O s tee. | feature of the event was the perfec- |ratus fell to Miss Edna Horner, toll| the observer, Of sach FCul ¢ 0 tion to which-it has been developed tor in the exc ene the light and shadow is repro- peake & Potomac Telephone Co., and | duced for the observer by a synchro PLRY PRODUCER: LOSES. |Thers s nothing:crude or amatgar- | ;¢ Ures caught off the | nized flash of light. These flashes * |ish about the performance. The |y S ey Which | form a picture, taking the same rela- e AR American Telephone and Telegraph | ga shington correspondents their | tive positions as the details of the NEW YORK, April 8§ (®).—Horace | Co. has wnm’.»m the. public ulnrll».,n‘.»,. m of w HIA complish- | scene which the photo-electric eyes aB' ;‘:"e:ight. P:]blillher‘;nddl}lu' Pro. | nouncement of this astounding sclen- | ment of television actually was observed. ucer, who came to the defense of|tific development until there was no Unlike the telephone and the te ver Predi ig Future. “The Captlve” when the play was|likelihood of blurred or imperfect | graph. television is not an inventi Hoover Predicts Big b s raided, today lost his appeal to the|images, | dropping from a clear on an as Secretary Hoover’s talk, whic ‘. Bupreme Court for reversal of a lower | The figure of the speaker at the | tonisnaq world. It has been rather |opened the demonstration, was as fol- court order refusing to restrain the |other end of the wire appears about |an evolution—a development step by | lows: " police from interfering with his con- | two inches square, the features dis- | step from a crude beginning several| “It is a matter of just pride to templated production of the play. The | tinct, and almost in natural colors. | years ago, when the American Tele- | have a part in this historic occasion. appellate division of the Supreme|A realistic descriptior 2 phone & Telegraph Co. first demon-| We have long been familiar with the Court unanimously affirmed the ac-|received was given by n - | ability to transmit pictures | electrical transmission of sound. To- tion of the lower court correspondent at the New : This was a slow, rather | day we have in a sense the transmis- Gen. 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