Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1935, Page 4

A. P. WIREPHOTO SERVIGE LAUNCHED Pictures Are Carried Over 10,000 Miles of Lines to Many Cities. (Continued From First Page.) journalism since the first news dis- patch was sent over a telegraph wire in 1846.” He pointed out that photographs of New York's greeting to the new year in Times Square were delivered in California before the mew year had reached the Golden Gate. “Ninety thousand people will shortly © be assembled in Pasadena’s famous Rose Bowl to see a foot ball game between Leland Stanford Univer- sity and the University of Alabama,” Mr. Noyes said in his speech. *“When whistles blow and these great teams start their classic struggle, ac- tlon photographs will be received in cities 3,000 miles away within a few moments. Tonight and tomorrow morning in wirephoto newspapers all over the land pictures of the battle of the roses will appear beside the stories of the game—a feat almost great enough to stagger the imagina- tion. “Tomorrow's news may be in New York or Minnesota or Flor- ida. It does not matter. Wirephoto is there, to disseminate the pic- tures to newspapers with the story, instead of hours or days behind it—| pictures so perfect that wirephotos re- | ceived on the other side of the con- | tinent may not be distinguished from | the original photograph made at| the scene. “A dream cherished by newspapers | for many years is realized. Story and | picture travel side by side oyer the[ wires and into the pages of the daily newspaper. Wirephotos join the printed word to tell the news more rapidly, more graphically, more com- pletely, and with the honesty and fairness of the camera. Describes Mechanics. “Thirty-eight great daily newspapers of the United States, in conjunction with the Associated Press, sponsor | this wirephoto service. Let me take | you back to California to show you how they wiil receive later today at| telegraph spead pictures of the Rose Bowl foot ball game. “In each of the 25 cities linked in the wirephoto retwcrk is a machine ceiving pictures. Bowl is clamped around a cylinder | on the seading machine in Los An- geles—a cylinder 11 inches in circum- ference and !'7 inches long. It is an| ordinary positive print—just such a print as you car ge: from the de- v-loved film of your own camera. ‘The wirephoto attendant in Los Angeles presses » button on the send- | ing machine. It sets the cylinder into | motion at a hundred revolutions a minute. Lengthwise across the cylin- der, at the ra‘e of an inch a minute, moves what is called the scanning equipment. “A light beam, thrown onto the pic- | ture as it revolves, is reflected through @ tiny aperture a hundredth of an| inch square. Two duralumin ribbons, | only six one-thousandths of an inch wide, vibrate across this aperture. They close or open in proportion to the amount of light reflected from the picture. The light which passes be- tween the ribbons through the aper- ture is converted by a photo-electric cell into electric impulses. { “The scanning equipment thus | picks up the picture in fine lines a hundredth of an inch wide, at speed of & hundred lines a minute. It moves an inch s minute across the cylinder transmitting each minute in the form of electric impulses & strip of photograph 1 inch wide and 11 inches long. “These electric impulses pass over the wires from Los Angeles to re- ceiving machines in all the other cities in the network. When the wire- photo attendant in Los Angeles pressed the button which set into motion the cylinder of his rending machine, with the picture mounted on it, he auto- matically set into motion at the same instant all the receiving machines. “Each receiving machine has a light- proof cylinder around which s clamped an unexposed negative. ‘When the eleciric impulses from the sending machine in Los Angeles reach the receiving machines. they are re- converted, again by a photo-electric cell, into ligat beams. In each ma- chine these ligh. beams strike the negative, as it revolves on the cylin- der in perfsct synchrony with the picture at the other end of the wire, and expose it in exact proportion to the amount of light reflected from the picture on the distant-sending cylinder. Exact Reproduction. “The result is the recording of the picture on the negative in the receiV- ing machine. This negative is taken into » dark room, it is developed, and the print made from it is a finished picture exactly like the one Los An- geles sent. “If the original picture was 17 by 11 inches—that is, the size of half a newspaper page—it has taken just 17 minutes to send it from Los Angeles to all the other cities on the wire- photo network. The picture received is exactly the same size as the picture that was sent. “Plctures have been sent by wire before today. Ten years ago it became possible to transmit pictures by wire between eight cities in the United ®'ates. Most of you have seen exam- ples of this telepholography. Pictures are transmitted by wire between a number of European cities, and it is possible to send pictures by cable across the Atlantic, or by radio be- : THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO Baruch, announcer, and G. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 1—The vis- | ual picture of what this story depicts | is already in the office of 38 Associated Press newspapers of cities spread o\'er{ the Nation. ‘The picture shows a radio broad- | cast of an interview inaugurating the | Press Wirephoto in New York at 10:30 am. today. ice, explained the workings of the new marvel to radio listeners. His inter- viewer was Andre Baruch of the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System. He described the mechanism as the picture was being transmitted. The picture was still in transmission when Byron Price, chief of the Washington tween & number of cities of the world,knew Associated Press wirephoto serv- | bureau of the Associated Press, took including New York, London, San Francisco, Buenos Aires and Mel- bourne. “The inauguration of wirephotos on | this first day of a new year marks an epoch not only because wirephotos represent so remarkable an advance toward perfection of transmission; not only because of the increased speed at which pictures can be sent over the netwark which was opened today: not only because the wirephoto circuit reached into 25 cities; but mast of all because wirephoto has been created {and is maintained by and for news- | papers as their own servant; because it is theirs 24 hours a day and seven | for sending and stil' another for re-|days a week; because for the first time | The photograph | paralleled networks of leased wires | made on the sidelines in the Rose carry side by side the story and the | picture into newspaper offices. Other Uses Possible. “Nor is wirephoto limited to trans- mission of pictures by wire. It can tell the news more clearly and more completely; maps and graphs and weather charts and exhibits presented hearings; the diacram of the play fingerprints. “I want to name the newspapers which have joined, through the Asco- ciated Press, to create and use the wirephoto service. They are the Bal- timore Sunpapers, morning and eve- ning; . The Washington Star, the Washington Post, the Buffalo Courier- Express, the Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, the Cleveland Plain Deal- er, the Cleveland News, the Buffalo News, the Philadeiphia Bulletin, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the New York Daily News, the Los Angeles Times, the fce. It was taken at the begmnlng" of the broadcast and transmitted | from coast to coast over 10,000 miles | of leased telephone wires before the | broadcast ended at 11 am. today. This story was written immediately | afterward and transmitted over leased | telegraph wires. | | The two—story and picture—arrived | almost simultaneously, ready to be printed. side by side, in any of the | 24’ cities equipped to handle the! plctures. Norris A. Huse, executive editor of ‘he Associated Press News Photo Serv- Oklahoma City Oklahoman, the Okla- homa City Times, the Oakland Trib- une, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Kansas City Star, the Kansas City Times, the Mi neapolis Tribune, morning and eve- ning; the Denver Post, the Dallas | News, the Dallas Daily Times-Herald, | and will bring to newspapers all man- ; the Milwaukee Journal, the Omaha | ner of graphic material which will World-Herald, morning and evening: the Chicago Daily Illustrated Times, the Dayton Daily News, the Miami Daily News, the Atlanta Journal, the |in court trials and at congressional | Syracuse Herald. the Des Moines Reg- ister and Tribune and the Chicago | that wins the big foot ball game; even | Dai'v News. “These are the pioneers of wirephoto, whicn outsirips other messengers in | conveying the news in pictures just as, a century ago, the telegraph came to ! outstrip the, carrier pigeon and the | pony express, and, a little more than | a generation ago, the typewriter rele- gated the stylus to oblivion. Wire- Pphotas proudly take their place beside the telegraph, the linotype and the high-speed press in the service of *he | modern newsparer, enabling it in turn | to fulfill more efficiently than ever its | function of informing, swiftly and | fully and fairly, the reading public.” | over the radio microphone in the Capital to tell of its receipt. Both Huse and Price spoke from the wirephoto control rooms in their respective cities, Speediest Method. Huse said the new wirephoto sys- tem was three times as fast in trans- mission as any previous method for telephoning picture: “Pictures are ne' he said. “The picture is as important as the story. Sometimes pictures tell stories bet- ter than words, especially when they show a scene—for example, the sink- { ing of a ship, or the knock-out punch in a prize fight, or the touchdown play.” Explaining the transmission, said to his radio interviewer: “See this spool with a hood over it? It looks like a very large spool for thread lying on its side. Real that's all it is. The operator is ta ing the print of a picture, the same as in any album, and is pressing it around the spool or cylinder. That is a small picture comparatively. He he nary newspaper page. * * ® Spin in Harmony. “Watch now! See, the spool is re- volving. Its speed is 100 revolutions & minute. Synchronized to one-mil- lonth of a second, spools in the other bureaus are gpinning at the same speed. Now, in complete darkness under this hood, there is a tiny photo- electric beam. It is scanning the photograph, registering each variation of shade from pure white to darkes" black. “On the spools in other offices there is a ‘negative’ spinning in per- fect harmony and another photo- electric eye which is seeing the 'ight impuses registered by the eye in New THE RIGGS NATIONAL BANK of Washington, D. C. CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION DECEMBER 31, 1934 EIGHT CONVENIENT LOCATIONS Main Office: 1503 Pa. Ave. N.W. 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Surplus vi.veiiiiniviennnatt. 2,000,000.00 Undivided profits, and reserve for contingencies ................. 1,368,521. 37,500. 136,720.19 6,896.00 .. $75,737,578.13 00 00 00 16 00 __7.905.021.18 $83,643,599.29 [=————— D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1935. NEW YORK—The Columbia Broadcasting System's broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Associated Left to right: Dean Carl Ackerman, Columbia University; A. L. Murphy, A. P. Photos; N. A. Huse, editor of A. P. Photo Service; H. M. Blele, automatic supervisor; Andre Seymour, A. P. Photos. —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto. York Actually, what is happening is that the ‘eye’ in New York is akiug the picture of the original photograph and delivering it to a camera thou- sands of miles away. That's all.” Huse pointed out that the wire- | photo service, operating 24 hours a | day, could supply material for a full- sized 25-page newspaper every day, | tures. ~ Captions for the pictures are pasted to the prints and transmitted in the same manner. He said the new “revolutionize new service would Snow Will Be Stored. To prevent shortage of water similar to that during the damaging drought of last Summer, Russia plans to store | Winter snow and release the melted | product through irrigation ditches in the Spring. | can send one as large as half an ordi- | e o o o This Short=Time Sale! HOSE SALE! Hundreds of pai even if it published nothing but pic- | 2 Picture and Story Are Speeded Side by Side By Associated Press to Newspapers in 24 Cities SEPARME INGUME TAX AGAIN RAPPED Treadway Proposes to €nd Method of Husband-and- Wife Returns. By the Associated Press. The old congressional dispute over the righis of husbands and wives in eight States to file separate income tax returns was heralded yesterday with a Republican’s proposal of s bill to do away with that “discrimina- tion in favor of the more well-to-do.” Representative Treadway of Massa- chusetts, ranking Republican of the ‘Ways and Means Committee, initiated the move. He said it was designed to “remove the unfair income-tax ad- vantage which taxpayers in the eight so-called community property States have over taxpayers in the other 40 States.” In Arizona, California, Idaho, Louls- iana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Washington, he said, a man with a $10,000 income may assign half of that to his wife. Each then may file separate returns on $5,000 income. Since the rates increase with the amount of income, the total taxes paid by the two In a community prop- erty State are lower, Treadway as- serted. Furthermore, he argued, the change | in the law would provide $20,000,000 to $40,000,000 annually in new and need- | ed revenue, | Representative Samuel Hill (Demo- | crat) of Washington immediately de- fended the system. In non-commun- ity property States, he asserted, a hus- band may deed as much as $5,000 ‘worth of property to his wife each year | without paying gift taxes. Then the | wife, he continued, can make a sep- | | arate return that actually is in her name, . Judge “Doubles in Brass.” CHICAGO, January 1 (#).—In the jargon of the circus, Superior Judge | Joseph B. David “doubled in brass” | yesterday. Judge David married Miss | Ellen Carlson and Walter Haider in his chambers, then hauled out his | violin and played accompaniment to an impromptu quartet. His fiddle has | been the judge’s hobby for 50 years. | V A FEW, Celebrate COUPLE OBSERVE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY. FIVE OLD MEN DIE IN COUNTY HOME FIRE | Fifteen Injured in Night Blaze MR. AND MRS. THOMAS O'ERIEN, Who celebrated their gold wed- ding anniversary Sunday at their home, 5403 Ninth street. Mr. O'Brien is well known as an engineer in the United States and for his participation in the build- ing of the Panama Canal, having gone there to work in 1905. He retired from Government service in 1929. PRIEST GETS 20 YEARS IN SLAYING OF OBREGON Padre Jimenez Found Guilty as Coauthor of Assassination of Leader. By the Associated Press, MEXICO, D. F., January 1.—Found guilty as “co-author” of the assassi- nation of President-elect Alvaro Obre- gon in 1928, Father Jose Agustin Jimenez Palacio has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by the Coyoacan District’ Court. Padre Jimenez, as he was popularly known, was accused of having colicited Jose Leon Toral to kill the president- elect. —Harris-Ewing Photo. | Manuel Trejo Morales was senf tenced to 14 years for having supplied Toral with the pistol for the crime. Both men denied their guilt during trials that lasted several years. Bridegroom Interprets Vows. SEATTLE (#)—Chan Kam, 47, merchant, was an interpreter as well as the bridegroom when he was mar- ried to Miss Ho Hem Sim, 37, by Rev H. L. Wilhelm. He repeated the vows to her, and then gave her answers to the minister. She had just arrived from China. > | STYLES at Carolina Public In- stitution. By the Assoclated Press. GAFFNEY, 8. C., January 1.—Five aged men were burned to death and 15 were injured early today when fire destroyed the main building of the Cherokee County Home as the ther- mometer stood at freezing. Convicts from a prison camp a few hundred yards from the scene rescued the screaming inmates, wrapped them in blanksts from the camp and aidj in rushing them to hospitals. Afi proximately 50 persons were housed in the building. Damage to the brick structure, the dormitory of the county home, was not estimated pending a further check. Authorities began an immediate in- vestigation of the flames which were believed to have started in the roof. No fire-fighting apparatus was available to fight the raging flames, which melted ice from trees of shrub- bery affer the mercury had fallen to freezing early in the night, There was no water, said L. F. 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