Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1928, Page 42

42 AERIAL WIRE FATAL 70 MAN AND WIFE Couple Are Killed by. 4,000 Volts From Power Line. By the Associated Press. SUDBURY, Ontario, October 5.—An attempt to remove a discarded \‘aflh‘.bi acrial wire from a power line carrying | 4,000 volts caused the death of a man| and wife while neighbors looked help-; lessly on. Frank Gervaerts was returning from swork when he saw his wife attempting to remove the sputtering wire with a mop handle, He ran from his car, scized the stick and just as his te | warned him that the wire was alive it} dangled off the mop handle and twisted around his wrist. He fell to the ground | with the wire still around him, while Tis wife threw her arms about him and Teceived the full force of the electric charge. | The wire had been tossed aside by |struggle down the ages for light and | carpenters who had bzen shingling the | yoof. One end of it had caught on the | power line, but its precarious posi- tion was not noticed until evening when the street lights were.switched on. After almost five minutes the wire was removed from the prostrate couple bv Herbert Murray, a neighbor, with the aid of a woolen sweater. Physicians worked in vain for two hours over the couple. An 8-months-old baby survives. WAHABI ATTACK FEARED. Failure of Negotiations With Ibn Saud May Bring Hedjaz Fight. JERUSALEM, October 5 (#).—Ad- wices received here today indicated ihat a new attack by the dusky Wahabis | ruled by Ibn Saud, king of the Hedjaz, | on the Near Eastern Territories under British mandate might be developing. " ‘With the failure of negotiations be- | tween Ibn Saud and the British such | an attack has been expected with the | coming of tHe cooler season. | | Hecht Co. 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More than one label in the museum warned purchasers that, owing to the poisonous fumes, no one with weak lungs should strike the matches! ‘The harmless red phosphorous of mod- ern “strike anywhere” matches arrived in 198, though the noxious yellow phos- phorous, with its peril to worker and consumer, was not legally banned until later. OKAY RADIO CO. 1625 H St. N.W. Transportation Bldg. . All Models in Stock Delivered Free Hooked to Your Aerial Free and See New P ° M ‘NZE would be pleased to demonstrate any time frequency—and soon was in communi- | cation with Amateur Station 9SO of the School of Engineering at Milwaukee. Two-way communication between | Washington and EI Caney was estab- lished the following morning. | Navy radio men connect the antenna wires to the towers by “safety links,” | made strong enough to resist a heavy | gale, but designed to give way before | the force is sufficient to pull down the | towers with the wires. Capt. 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