Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1927, Page 26

RADIO INAGCURATE INTIME SIGNALS Some of It Not Good Even for Commercial Purposes, Capt. Pollock Says. \ great demand | country, but that Aumerous broad- not accurate for and some, of It 1s ‘commercial pur- Accurate time is by the people of the sent out by radio by casting stations is scientific purpose not even accu fo a r- | poses, according _to Capt. Edwin ‘T Poll U N., superintendent of the United States Naval Qbesrvafory here, in his annual repert, made pu lie today. However, he says thal nb Rebecca in stgrace Agam as She Flees \ White House Kenncls to Spend nght Out> IN 1926 PLACED AT 98 House raccoony has disgraced herself’ again, in addi: tion to causing no end of worry.on the part of President C(oolidge and the White House guard force. Heeding once more the call of the wild, Rebecca bratenly slipped away from her associates in the White | House kennels and took a night out— and eame slinking in again yesterday ‘morning. st of it is that nobody knows ow she spent her leave Dbeen so carefully trained in_White House etiquette, too. At tadhes Who had befriended her hate to think abdut it and are extremely re. luctant to discuss the distressing epi- | sode. It is known, howe was not in her accustomed pl vellle was sounded yesterd g at the White House kennels. um | bed ‘had-not even been.slept in. Presidént Coolidge ordered an inf: er, that Rebecca ‘e when | pne should be without the “correct time.” as the noon and 10 p.m. east standard time signals are broadcast | from Arlington on 24.9, 37.4, 37650 and 9,810 meters, and from napolis on 17,145 meters. The time signals were used hy th world longitude determinatior all over the world, by Canadiz ernment parties. by the United i Hydrographic Office.and United States | Coast and Geodetic Survey parties on Jongitude determinations, and in grav jty determinations by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, by scientists and by prospectors for deposits. 2,000 “Time" Calls Daily This increased use of the signals entails greatly increased work in the “time room” at the which is short-handed adds that the lic and the desire for time” was indicated in November 1926, when, due to the Western Union | Telegraph Co. having discontinued | giving time by telephone in this city it resulted in calls being made on the Naval Ohservatory, increasing the re- quests from 600 to 2000 a day. To allow any business to be transacted over the phone, it was necessary on November 20 to discontinue the “tele- phone time service” altogether. plac- ing Washington on the same footing as other cities In February An oil of this vear, he savs, a plate giving the latitude, longitude and height above sea level of the “Zero Mark.” which is the reference point of all surveys in the United States, was installed in the clock- house at the observatory, on the “meridian of Washington.” Observation of eclipses has been abandoned by the institution for sev- eral years, he says, and appropriations have not been asked for two reasons first, because the time of totality the eclipse of June 29 jast was very short, and, secondly, small staff of the o the large amount of work on hand However, he says that Naval Observa tory apparatus has been loaned a | representative of .the Smithsonian In- stitution for observing many eclipses. New Sextant Devised. The late Lieut. Comdr. Noel Davis U: S. Naval Reserve in co-operation with M. L. Radford of the bureau of ordnance, submitted the design for 2 new bubble sextant, which, he says, gives promise of being the best solu- | tion yet offered for the use of a bubble for the artificial' horizon. Ten of the instruments are being manufactured, and it is expected that they will mark a great advance in this type of instru- ment. General repairs and upkeep of the buildings, grounds and reads, together with routine cleaning and overhauling neeessary for the care. preservation and orderly appearance of a public reservation, he says, has taxed the ca- pacity of the small force availahle for the purpose to the v with Sale or Rent Electric Hammers For Driiling Brick. Stone und Concrete J. B. KIRKS 410 Bond Blde. Main 3934 Py | were s “correct [N | | state how mediate . search when he learned of | Rebecca’s steange absence. The White | House grounds were secuied and it is | that a number of college boys | suspicious-locking fur coats | heduled for qyestioning —when | that Rebecea had been said with came DOTY STARTING TOU.S. TODAY FROM CHERBOURG New Outfit of Civilian Clothing Worn by Ex-Deserter From French Foreign Legion. Br the Associated Press. December Wearing a | clothing with | military lian the of the French medal in his_buttonhole. Bennett Doty of Biloxi, Miss., this morning | arded the boat train for Cherbour; ‘ The former member of the Krench port on the Majestic for New York. | Doty was in. the best of spirits m\d‘ chatted freely wi a ances. The Ame . victed of desertion from the Foreign Legion and served part of 4 | prison_sentence, seemed reluctant th | he felt at finally leaving | French soil. He remarked brie “It will be good to be home again.’ — oo | terized as on appropri- es since results that can be char: only fair. 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Rutz, stationed at the Increnr of 10 Over 1925, But| State, War and Navy Building, spied | the wayward 'coon in the act of hid ing in a corner of the fong flight of stone steps on the West Executive avenue side of the State, War and Navy Building. Rebecca, apparently weary and con- | Botimasok’ Dhrkrhmant. toaky trite, made no effort to escape when | placed the total of deaths in the DI Watchman Butz approached her. ButZ | tyict of Columbia from automobile a lled to her In soft, coaxing tones | cidents at 98°for the year 1 and Stag: | increase of 10 over the total the gered into his outstretchcd arms. | year 1925, but a decrease of 10 under This having been Rebecca’s second | the figure for 1924. Twenty-two of affront to the dignity of the White the deaths occu! & in Washington House, she shamefacedly shunned her [ g, K canine colleagues at the kennels for | gide the city. a while. 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