TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1929.
ReaHackle
PROPRIETORS,
Leftrens
10 10 HE TO
WHISKY
GLASGOW, NO
AWARDED
FIRST PRIZE
MEDAL and. DIPLOMA
at the BREWERS' EXHIBITION
in LONDON in NOVEMBER 1928
in the Competition open to all Brands of Scotch Whisky
The Whisky for testing was purchased by the Exhibition Authorities from Retail Stores in the ordinary course of busi- noss. It was then submitted to the seven leading experts in the Trade in plain bottles distinguished only by a number. The test is conducted on the fairest possible lines and their decision in favour of "Red Hackle" was unanimous. Agents:-W. R. LOXLEY & CO., LTD.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an experi but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho....)
6
8
19 10
20
24
25
28
29
12 13 14 5
112
14
15
16
18
19
22
23
20
27
30
32
33
134
135
36
37
38
39
140
42
43
24
4.
147
48
151
52
154
©THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE
HORIZONTAL
1-Pointed weapon 6-Healthier
11- Deals
13-Inform
14-Atmosphera 15-Article of furniture 17-A seed-vessel 18-Dental
19-Part of the foot 20-Father 21-Evaporate 23-A cavalry sword 25-5mall enclosure 24-Motorcar
28-A massed
30-Goal
21-Ramble 33-Negotiate
34-Goods marked and
cast adrift
28-Lalr
37-Craded
39-The (Spanish) a-Besides
42-Large snake
43-Right (abbr.)
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | 44-A fruit enclosed in
shell
46-A village in
E. Holland 48-Love (Latin) 19-An eloquent public
speaker 181-Pertaining to
Normandy
163-Tǝ abata
353-Furbearing animat
VERTICAL
1-Tolerate
I 2-Monastic officer
(p}\ 9-Organ of head 4-In the year of our
Lord (Latin-abbr.) 5-Soak, as flax 6-Observe
7-Article
8-Pinch
D-Abeconded
10-Two parapets
meeting at a
sallent angle
VERTICAL (Cont.) 12-The dovil 13-Period of stumbar 16-To but short 22-To desire something
anxiously 23-Island Philippine
group
24-Stift
25-Pertaining to a foot 27-Expire
29-Lolier 32-Oocupation 193-A small drum
4-Acquire
3E-Regular 36-alver
38-in excessive degree 40-Gem
45-Child's hat 46-Spook 47~Numbers (abbr) 48-Ambassador (abbr.) 60-Musical note 52-Sun god
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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
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RADIO
FROM HUIZEN
GRAMO-RADIO DEVELOPMENT IN EQUATORIAL REGIONS
TOPICS
much attention our way as it is telephony with several points in possible to get. "Even the crumbs | Africa. The transmissions from 2NM are always interesting, and etc."
Malayans should watch for news of them.
Morse Stations
There
There is plenty of evidence that the phonograph and wireless indus- Three transmissions by the Lea- tries are becoming so closely linked
I really think it is time that the gue of Nations station were re- that each is now almost, dependent
Government authorities ceived fairly well during the week, on the other. In this week's mail Straits being relayed out by N. V. Philips from Home I noticed in practically made an effort to see that some of Radio station PCL at Kootwyk, every advertisement for wireless the Morse stations operating round Holland. The best reception was sets that provision is made for this part of the world on short- on Saturday night from 9.15 p.m.gramophone pick-up terminals, and wave ware regulated so that they
In caused less interference. to 10 pm, when the speeches, in- the fact is strongly featured.
to be a "don't care" cluding a lively one by Sir James America, the gramo-radio business seems
on Electrical attitude
the part of Allen, one of the Australian dele- has gone even further. gates, came in at speaker strength pickups are being made part of some operators of these stations
they without bad fading. Mr. B. J. R. the standard equipment of radio whether
spread thero- Barton, of Sungei Plentong Estate, sota, while almost all the manu-selves over a channel two metres Johore, writes in to say be received facturers are featuring radio wide or not, and some of the more this speech on loud-speaker on the phonograph combinations in which powerful transmitters are very bad usual PCL wave of 18.4 metres. He a moving-coil speaker is made to also confirms reception of PCI, the act bath for record-reproduction and radio reception. A few years ago the pessimists said that radio was going to kill the gramophone industry, instead of which both are now forging ahead by leaps and bounda Now that records are made electrically, the recording being done by means of the prin- eiples of radio amplification, there has been such a vast improvement in the quality of records generally A correspondent writes complain- that the public has conceived a new ing that he sent abroad for a wire- idea of the gramophone. No better less set which has now come to evidence of the two industries being hand, but finds it absolutely un- hand in hand in scientific progress workable. The advertisement from can be had than the great financial which he gained sufficient enthus- merger just accomplished by theiasm to send away several hundred Victor Talking Machine Company, of United States, with the largest existing radio concern in the world -the Radio Corporation of America. The pooling of their in- terests meant a merging of capital totalling 250,000,000.
offenders. the international regu- lations which govern the wave- lengths of these stations are very clear and demand that the fre- quency assigned shall be adhered: to exactly by crystal control or some other modern means and that, key-clicks and side-band noises shall be eliminated. These offenders on the already crowded short-waves should be pulled up with a jerk.
"Unworkable"
dollars read, inter alia, "No bat- teries; works directly from light socket". After reading a descrip tion of his set and subsequent troubles, I find that he received an instrument operated with A. C.
J. C. Stobart, M. A
filament valves, and that the input The Home mail brought news voltage should be 110 A.G. In the Education Director of the British that the famous English amateur, first place, he received a long-wave Broadcasting Corporation who was Gerald Marceuse, whose efforts in set, which is useless in Malaya, and Invited to take part in the fourth radio-telephony from 2NM pioneer- secondly, he failed to realise that triennial cerference of the nationaled broadcasting on the short-wave Singapore light current is supplied Council of Education held at as far as Great Britain was con- (except in the downtown district Victoria and Vancouver on April cerned, is to carry out a new series where it is D.C.) at 230 volts A.C. 5-13. Mr. Stobart is the man re- of experiments with a 25-kilowatt with a period of 50 cycles! sponsible for the broadcasts to transmitter. with which the con- should have been specified in his schools in Great Britain every day cera supporting him will try duplex ¦ order. of the week to which 70,000 child- ren listen. In the evenings the broadcasts are sent out in talks and lectures to adults. Mr. Stob- art had a contribution of the utmost value to make before the conference on "Education and Leisure" which was the principal topic at the Pacific Coast.
new Philips station at Huizen, of which I have written further in these notes, writes the Wireless correspondent of the "Singapore Free Press.".
Atmospheries
I suppose all fans have noticed the decider increase in atmos- pherics now that local weather is hotter and the season again chang- ing. The volume of "static," as our American friends name it, is particularly bad from 45 to 60 metres, even when a screened-grid high-frequency stage is used before the detector. Also there is that {curious dampening effect-a direct atmospheric condition, which seems to smother reception so that both music and voice are distorted. It is considerably more pleasurable to listen down below the 20-metre mark, especially as there is more and more good material on the air down lower.
Which brings me to the rather remarkable reception of Huizen on 16.88 metres. PHI was apparent- ly testing with South America, as Spanish music and speech was kept going for more than an hour. I heard one of the Philips announcers inform an inquirer in United States that PHI would continue its tests for several hours daily during March, including a regular three- hour transmission on Mondays,
RADIO MAY AID MAN
This
IN STUDY OF WILD LIFE Do animals wave lengths" outside the rangu
converse of mankind
"It is a common occurrence in Harry Allen the woods to see a cow moose leave famous New box calf, or a deer her fawn," says Brunswick guide Mr. Allen by way of example. "I says they do, and have seen it hundreds of times. be speaks from Every time the mother animal has the experience of instructed her young, in a lan- a lifetime spent guage inaudible to human ears, not in the woods to stray. That language was quite which flank his intelligible to the young, but al seventy eight though I have sometimes been mile lease of the within touching distance, I have Gains River. never heard the faintest sound, be Within certain youd at most, the blowing out of narrow limits, be air from the nostrils which had no insists, the fan apparent significance. The young guage of the wild can be counter of the moons or deer will remain feited by man with such skill that exactly as its mother left it, even it deceives the animals themselves. though she be gone for half an Thus, the call of the cow mosse in hour at a stretch.
Harry Alles
More than that
the mating season is more often in case of extreme need it will than not a successful lure in bring "radio" its mother without ap- ing the ball to the hunter. The parent sound.
cry of the hunting wolf and the
"I have experimented on the prob honk of the migrating goose are tem many times. In each case it easily imitated by the initiate and has been the same. I have waited pure easy of interpretation. There until the mother has gone some is, however, nothing particularly distance; then have approached new in this. What is new, is Mr. and stroked the young animal. Be Allon's claim that animals com- yand a slight twitching of the municate with one another by skin, it has not moved, but it must sounds inaudible to the human cat have sent out a call, for almost That they do converse and com- immediately I would hear the mumicate one with the other 起 de- crashing retro of the mother monstrated in a thousand ways through the undergrowth. At such each day. What our well-known moments I would not pursue my guide suggests is that radia will investigations further." eventually solve the question and
Mr. Allan has cited many other
be the means of interpretation of "demonstrations" to members of the animal communication.
the Tourist Department of the That the human ear is sen- Canadian Pacific Railway who are sitive to but a very narrow and encouraging him to develop his limited range of vibrations is in fact theory still further as he engages certain. What Mr. Allen hopes to in the role of guide, philosopher prove shortly is that al animals and friend to the fisherman and are sensitive to, and make use of,ị thê hunter.
Thursdays and Fridays from 1 pm. Have Saved Many Little
Holland
Hime,
which
to 4 p.m. means reception here from 8 pm. to 11 p.m. I have never heard a station on such a low wave-length
Lives
as PHI with so little fading. Koot- Delay is dangerous where chil- dren's ailments gre concerned. wyk (PCL) has a regular fad-
ing period on 18.4 metres which I When a child shows the first have repeatedly noticed is every aymptoms of sickncas, feverish- seven seconds, but PHI is not suf-ness, colie, vomiting, digestive or fering from any noticeable periodi- Intestinal trouble, prompt. mea- cal fading. I would appreciate re- aures for relier such as are afford- ports on Huizen from listeners, be-ed by Baby's Own Tablets may cause this is going to be a very im- avert serious results. portant station to us in Malaya "My little baby was very sick when the relay system by the through not being able to digest. Philips Company is in full swing, the artificial food which I was and we should learn as much about forced to give her on account of it as possible.
Despite my own poor health. many remedies prescribed she
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