Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1928, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €., THURSDAY, NAVY'S PROGRESS 1N RADIO IS GITED Capt. Hooper’s Report Tells of Heavy Volume of Traf- fic Handled Daily. ‘The Navy sizzles with radio activity. There is not a moment of the day or | might when some Navy radio transmit- | ter somewhere is not sputtering forth dots and dashes, sent on their wireless course by expert, operators and launched by the finest equipment. ‘These “gobs” handle gobs of traffic | that seems to grow every day. To the lay public the Naval Communications Service has come to mean a regular business organization. Its war activi- ties are forgotten. There is peace- time work aplenty to be handled, but 4t is just exercise for this highly trained and “well equipped <—raaization. Its real purpose lies in a possible emer- gency, where naval radio serves as the connecting link between the great fleets, perhaps on opposite sides of the world, and between the fleets and the com- n‘:andxng admirals on shore. | Communication Is Improved. Capt. S. C. Hooper, chief of Naval Lommunications, points out in his an- hwal report, available today, that new equipment has improved fleet communi- cation. This is a continuous process. Whenever something is invented or dis- covered that will increase the operating efficiency and maneuverability of naval radio it is promptly adopted. But Hooper does not discuss war act of naval radio. That is secret. His re- rts read like a year's review of a big jusiness concern and it shows progress. But it shows to the naval officer that he is backed by as efficient a radio prganization as there is in the world. ‘There are some 300 naval craft of kIl kinds in commission. Every one is & radio station. The radio traffic and intelligence shore system of the Navy includes 118 operating stations, for duties of every character. There are primary stations for long distance, transoceanic, point-to-point and fleet dntercept work; fleet stations for direct communication to the fleet; coastal sta- tions for direct marine traffic; aircraft stations for two-way communication With aircraft harbor stations for short- Qiistance work and radio compess sta- tions that give bearings to commercial s well as naval craft. In traffic work, Capt. Hooper states that the continued increase in the use of high-frequency or short-wave com- munication is reflected by a marked de- crease in the time required to deliver long-distance traffic. The facilities of the service are made available to other Government departments and to newsoapers. In the former service the Federal Government has saved ap- proximately $1,030,000 during the fiscal year ended June 30 through use of naval communications. The Navy, under the radio act of 1927, Capt. Hooper explains, was authorized to handle press traffic for any newspaper published in. the United States or pub- lished abroad, if owned by a United States citizen. As a result, some press copy is handled intermittently on all circuits, while the transpacific traffic has an almost cohstant volume. Service Is Expanded. Naval communications activities grew along other lines during the year. The naval observatory commenced sending out time signals twice a day via naval communications on high as well as low frequencies, making accurate time avail- able over a much larger area than here- tofore. Special weather broadcasts, in- tended primarily for aviation, now are hiiipfihflm 606 - 614 Special One-Day Pre-Holiday Sale of Two-Tone Feather Trimmed Brocaded BEAUTY! sent out on high frequency via naval radio—a new service. Twice dally they are made available to European meteorological services be- cause the high frequencies carry the signals that far. ‘The 53 shore radio- compass establishments furnished 97,730 ships with their bearings, of which only some 11,000 were naval vessels. Radio research work for the Navy is carried on largely at the naval research laboratory in Washington. During the past year it developed frequency equip- ment for naval use, attacked problems of high-frequency wave propagation, and worked in co-operation with radio ing toward the betterment of naval radio material. Copyright, 1028, by the Consolidated Press. Insurance Funds Nationalized. MADRID, December 13 (#)—The ministry of labor yesterday published a decree nationalizing the reserves of in- surance companies. It was believed this move would strengthen the finan- tion of Spain. ELEVENTH ST. Boudoirs Just 600 pairs of these luxuriously comfortable boudoirs are available, so hurry. They have elk padded soles and heels. 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