Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1930, Page 21

CHIGARD POCE SILVESH URDERS Commissioner Alcock Resents Criticism Made by Can- date for Mayor. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 29.— Ninety- four murders have been solved by the Chicago police department in the last five months —a record which Acting Police Commissioner John H. Alcock was unmatched in world Alcock issued a resume of “new po- lice eficiency” since he has been pilot to counteract claims of some factions and politicians who recently adversely criticized Alcock and his police force. “T resent the statement made by Charles V. Barrett (the first Republi- cas % announce his candidacy for mayor) that the police department is | seething with inefficiency and disloy- | alty,” he said. “That remark is not only a personal insult but an insult to the men of my command. “I'll make a full report later, but right now I wan't to say that we have kept crime at a minimum in the face of the greatest unemployment crisis that I have ever seen in Chicago.” ‘The records showed that in 1929 there were 142 gambling and racketeer ralds, with 1,000 arrests. In the last five months there have been 226 raids and 1,206 arrests. None of Chicago's 28 “public ene- mies” was corralled until the Alcocl There have been 250 men with guns eaptured between September 17 and November 22. An average of 78 per cent (police claim high) has been maintained in homicides by solving 94 out of 139 murders and manslaughters. —_— 68,669,928 MILES FLOWN IN 6 MONTHS Planes of U. 8. Consume 12,887, 532 Gallons of Gasoline and 537,212 Gallons of Oil. A.l:hnu in the United States con- sum¢ 12,887,532 gallons of gasoline and 537,212 gallens of oll in rolling up @ grand total of 68,669,928 miles of fly- ing in the six months from January to June, according to an estimate made last night by the Aeronautics h of the Department of Com- Scheduled air transport planes flew 16,902,728 miles during th: six months, ar exblbition. Tndustial ing experimental, n, rial, student instruction and pleasure flying accounted for 51,767,200 miles. ‘Though they flew so much less actual 3 transport planes burned 6,218,271 of gasoline, as against 6,669,261 gallons for the miscellaneous operations, due to the general use of larger with more than one en- gine each and with increassd horse- wer. p°Xn the whole of 1920 a total of 135,- 141,409 miles were flown by all types of Rl.;nu and 20,520,617 galions of gaso- e and 1,026,030 gallons of oil were eonsumed. * g R U Oy Barge Reported Aground. ‘WINDSOR, Ontario, November 29 —" Lake Prugality, owned The barge e n:y [ Motor_Co. and —too Many THE SUNDAY STAR, WAShasuiux, D. C, I.. RELATES PROGRESS Left to right: Representative Garner of Texas, House minority leader; Speaker Longworth and Representative Bachrach of New Jersey, members of the House Office Building Commission, , inspecting a model of the new House Office Building. Work has just been started on the $22,000,000 building. —Harris-Ewing Photo. TELEVISION SIGNALS PLAY GAME WITH NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS problem 0{ Tra < Engineers Must Find Solution to Hard nsmission Where Such Obstacles Abound. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 29.—Before New York City, broadcasting metropolis of the United States, can attain equal eminence as a television center she may have to do something about her sky- scrapers. The city’s towers of steel are causing engineers a lot of worry. They do things to television signals. And since the city is unlikely to give up any iron ribs for the cause of tele- v&!on 1t is up to the engineers to find their own solution. The problem is only one more on the long list of puzzlers confronting experimenters in radio sight. Signals Bounce Around. Engineers of the National Broadcast- ing Co. are conducting television ex- periments in company’s Times Square studio. Short waves are the medium of transmission, and C. W. Horn, general engineer, disclosed today that signals bounce around the steel buildings so many times that many coples of the same picture often are picked up, giving a shadowlike effect. “The massive steel structures of New York present an unusual problem in transmission,” he said, “particularly over short-wave channels such as are util- ized in television experiments. “The shorter the wave length the more the waves take on the properties of light waves, in, that they are easily absorbed, reflected and refracted. Con- sequently they literally bounce around among the steel bulldings. Costly Apparatus Used. “The experiments have shown the re- ception of three, four and more distinct ignals coming into receivers from dif- ferent directions. “The actions of these waves, bouncing to and fro, sometimes create definite shadows behind buildings in which little or no energy can be detected. This ef- PEERLESS FU Suites! fect is not very noticeable, if at all, in the broadcast band, however.” | The television experiments have in- | volved much work, costly apparatus and | painstaking methods. The transmission tests are being car- | ried on in conjunction with other tele- vision development work in the RCA- Victor Laboratories at Camden, N. J. - FIRE HERO LOSES LIFE Rescuer of Hundreds Dies Fighting Apartment Blaze. NEW YORK, November 29 (#).— Bernard F. Carlock, 48, a deputy fire chief, hero of the rescue of hundreds of New Yorkers, lost his life today Carlock was taken unconscious from one of the bulldings, in which police last two weeks. He died Avenue Hospital, across the street, while patients in that institution, %\i\leud by nurses, were watching the aze. BULL FIGHT CANEELED NEWARK, N. J.,November 29 (#).— Newark’s bull fight was definitely can- celed today after its promoters failed to secure a writ of mandamus com- pelling Public Safety Director Egan to issue a permit for it. Chieff Justice Gummere said the court would not direct the officer to issue a permit in violation of his own judgment. Dave Mackay, promoter, said he would negotiate with other New JI:M cities for permission to stage the show. The exhibition was to have starred Sidney Franklin, Brooklyn toreador. in Pifth in fighting a fire that destroyed two | vacant Fifth avenue apartment houses. | stated a score of fires had been started, | presumably by children at play, in the | OF PORTO RIGANS Gov. Roosevelt Says Educa- tion, Agriculture and Health Improved. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 29.—The people of Porto Rico are facing their problems gallantly ‘and their intelli- gence and industry will enable them in the future to care for themselves like their fellow citizens to the North, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, governor of the island, said in a radio address tonight. ‘What. they need at this time is aid le them to get on their feet, he said, and after that they will carry their burdens. Educational System Built. “We have organized and are devel- oping our educational system to provide practical education for the boys and girls-so that on leaving school they may have a capital that will produce,” he related. ! “We have yoked agriculture, health and education in a team, which is cap- talned by education. ““We are developing social service. “We are working to bring new indus- tries to the island. “We are extending a health unit sys- tem over the island. Corporations Are Deplored. “We are turning our efforts toward building up the small farmer. “We are developing & homestead commission to put the small man back on the soil ag: with a holding of his own. One of our curses in the island is that far too much of our land is in the hands of large corporations, indi- viduals and far too many of our people are landless and homeless.” CHICAGO MAYOR BREAKS WITH ILLINOIS GOVERNOR Waterway Policy Denounced by Thompson, Who Demands Pay From U. 8. for Lake Canal. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 29.—Mayor Willlam Hale Thompson of Chicago announced today he had severed po- litical relations with Gov. Louis L. Em- erson. ‘The mayor resigned from the Govern- or's Great Lakes-to-the-Gulf Waterway Commission and called upon down- State Republican leaders to help him formulate a State ticket for 1931. The Governor declared himself “sur- prised to see it stated that Mayor Thompson had broken with me. It is the first intimation I have had that Mayor Thompson ever was with me.” The mayor denounced Gov. Emer- son's waterway policy, asserting that if Tlinois turned the Illinois waterway over to the Federal authorities the peo- ple of the State should be reimbursed for the millions they spent on_the link between Utica and Lockport, IIL i SR Thomas Ardinger Dead. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., November 29 (Special). —Thomas Ardinger, 54, a | - well known business man here, died at a local hospital after an extended ill- ness which forced him to retire from active business some .years ago. He was a son of the late Joseph V. and Emma Ardinger. e R . S Because he had not spoken. to his wife or children for two years, a London woman bad her husband arrested for cruelty. TURE _sToRES [ This explains the drastic reductions we have made in this Sale of Suites! Every Suite in the House R-E-D-U-C-E-D! 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