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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but
our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic
spellings, such as harhor, plow, and altho.)
1 2 13
11
13
5
b
7
8 19 10
17
20
24 25
16
27 28
29
31
34
39. 40
45
47
HORIZONTAL
1-A trick
B-To freeze
7-To pander
11-To heap up
-12-A city of Italy 18-Insect agg 14-Conclusion '16-A popular favoring
plant 17-A rest in the Gulf
of Mexico
18-To profer
.19-Bustic
20-Gumbo 22-A number 23-Objective case of
they
24-Mother 26-Short for Lulus 27-Understands 31-A light boat
32-To thrust one's
nose into things
34-A British seaport in
Arabla
36-To crown
HORIZONTAL (Cont)] VERTICAL (Cont)
10-To bury 18-A dead language a-Evil destiny
14-A water Wizard 15-Latr 21-Ancient Egyptian
Bun-god |28-A_large oceante
fish
|42-To incline - |43-At a distance
43-To come into oparz
tion 46-81lly
(47-A promontory or
capo 48-A tavern 49-One who dyes
VERTICAL
1-Bitter enmity 2-Eskimo woman's
bout
·S-A woodland daity 4-A istter of the al
phabet
6-A league 7-8lient
B-A captain sent to
death by David
(Bibla)
28-To mimla
28-The (French-pl.) 27-A mean fellow 28-Burdensome
29-The way into a
room
30-A#
An old French coln 31-A city in New
Jertoy
33-The
act
of be- seeching earnestly 35-A domestic animal |96-A chicken' disenta
40-Single
|41-Title of a married
woman (abbr.)" 43-Conjunction
9-A province of N. W. 44-One (Boot.)
37-Posecuelve pronoun) • Indla
:
The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-musrosa i irons along with a news cross-word puzzle.)
WIRELESS WONDERS
Disease Diagnosed 8,000 Miles Away
Wireless photography and wire- leas telephony were recently en- ployed in a remarkable consulta tion between doctors in Berlin and Buenos Aires."
Di. Pavia, an Agentinian, who is at present In Berlin, had a photo graph of a patient's eye wirelessed: to Professor Castex, of Buenos Aires, a specialist He telephoned an account of the symptoms, and the photograph, was vreceived ver
essor, Castex disgnosed"
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
SAMP CYRE BRASE ALEE SOON LATEN CONTIN ATION NO SEITKE CANT HUB
1R THEN TODS HE FOEL FOP INS PINS SCLOCT ND WILD HEAL OR DOCILE DEAR_ROO
RAGE REGG WORK HENT BA OCT FANE
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RADIO TOPICS
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programME will be
metres:-
RADIO AND OPERA RADIO PHOTOGRAPH
Special Features in New Design
With the coming season of grand opera broadcasts, patrons- who en- joy their operatic music by the fire- place in the study are demanding that radios furnish clear, life-like
5-7 p.m.-Programme of Colum-that the best radios for receiving bia Records supplied by Courtesy music from the opera stage have special features included for this purpose.
SECURES ARREST
FUGITIVE BANK DEFRAUDER FROM AMERICA
CAUGHT BY SCOTLAND YARD
A radio photograph flashed across
working with
broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong reproduction of all the nates of the Atlantic Ocean enabled Scotland Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on 358 from all over the country Indicate private operatives, to identify and
Raisa's rawerful soprano. Reports Yard detectives,
arrest C. P. S. Westergaard, form- er head of the foreign exchange department of the Chatham Phoenix National Bank and Trust Company, McMurdo Silver is one of the far- at Harwich. Westergaard had been seeing manufacturers who has de-a fugitive from justice since he left signed a receiving set with this New York last October after having particular group of liatenors in obtained $60,000 from the Chase mind, anxious to keep these National Bank, it is alleged, by the superior programmes from sound- une of forged transfer orders. ing like "canned-music.”
of Messrs. Anderson. "Norwegian Dance No. 1, in D Minor"
(Allegro mascnto), "Norwegian Dance No. 2, in A Minor"
(Allegretto tranquillo),
George Schneovolgt & The London Symphony Orch, "Evening Voicas (Twilight Fancies)". (a) "Cradle Song" (William Archer &
Frederick Delius);, (b) The Nightingale" (W. Grist &
Frederick Dellus),
Dora Labbette, Soprano with Sir Thomas Beecham at the Plane. "Sarabande" (Sulzer, Op. 8), "Ave Verum" (Mozart," arr. W. H. Squire).
Cello Solo by W. H. Squire "Bitter Sweet'll see You Again”
(Noel Caward), "Bitter Sweet-Kiss Mo" (Noel Coward),
Layton and Johnstone, American Duettists, With Plano, "Waldteufel Memories-Fantasia"
(arr. Herman Finck),
Orchestra.
Herman Finck and His
"A Tale of Other Times-
Monologue" "Otherwise She's Mother's Kind of
Girl"
..Norman Long. "In a Chinese Temple Garden", "In a Persian Market",
Organ Solo by Quentin M. Maclean at the Shepherds Bush Pavilion.
"Kawaihau," Waltz
(Hawaiian Air), "Honolulu," March
(Hawaiian Air),
Hawalian Silver String Quartet. "That's your Baby" (Comedienns), "Big City Blues" (Comedienne),
"La Campanella"
(Liszt, arr. Buseni), "Prelude in D Flat"-Raindrops
(Chopin),
Annette Handhaw.
Mr. H. A. Crowe, head of the The overtone switch was included criminal division of the William J. on the Silver Radio to give life- Burns International Detective like reception of audio tones up to Agency, said that, so far as he 4,000 and 5,000 cycles during these knew, there had been no previous wintry evenings when colorature use of the radio photograpic aer- high C's and tenor flights into the vice between New York and Britain upper scale are on the air. The for criminal identification. "We high position of the switch best learned that Westergaard, shortly demonstrates its advantages on before he left New York, had ob- cold clear nights when static is tained a passport from the Nor- minimized. And these are the weglan Legation in Washington, opera nights.
under the name of Christian Pedor- son," Mr. Crowe said.
"The pass- port was made out for use in any country, for the next two Eventually, we traced Westergaard years.
to the Mount Royal Hotel in Canada. I He purchase 350,000 worth of Canadian Covernment bonds In Montreal, and for Liverpool on the Dutchess of Richmond."
To reproduce the full power of low notes, without any "drummy" tone, Mr. Silver devised a matched impedance, electro-dynamic speaker for his receiver. And not forget ting that opera broadcasts must often travel hundreds of miles on the ether waves, he has provided for sensitivity sufficient to bring in a station a thousand miles away with adequate volume, by the nae of screen grid amplification.
During the ocean voyage the fugitivo made the acquaintance of a young British woman and her mother. The Burns men learned that he often visited them at their hotel in London. Lator they traced him to Harwich.
Transoceanic radio reception in volving new distances up to 9,500 miles is doubling its interest for owners and technical experts with the advent of sets which bring in "Then my men were up against foreign broadcasts with something it," anld Crowe. "They were cer- more than a faint murmur accom- tain they had the right man, but panied by static squeaks. Mc- they had no way of proving it to Murdo Silver, president of Silver- Scotland Yard. Since Westergaard Marahall, Inc... whose eight-tube had no criminal record-in-New York, "Pianoforte Selo by Ignaz screen grid receiver has boosted en- we could not send them fingerprints; thusiasm over distance reception, is but we suddenly hit on the idea of the daily recipient of letters de- sending his photograph across to acribing the distance performances London by the Radio Corporation of of his receivera. One New Jersey America service." owner of a Silver made set report- Piccadilly Theatre Orchestra.ed the clear reception of a station in Sydney, Australia, nearly 10,000 miles away, and-ingluded a-verifica- been correct in his logging. tion from the station that he had
At the Racos”,
Friedman.
Descriptive Sketch by Clapham & Dwyer. "Blue Eyea-Back to the Heather", "Blue Eyes-Woman-Pak”,
"The Chorister's Dream" (Ward), "The Londonderry Air"
(Traditional, arr. Sear),
J. H. Squire Celeste Octot. "Prelude in A Flat Major" (Chopin), (a) "Etude in C Minor"
(Chopin-op. 25, No. 12), (b) "Waltz In A Flat Major
(Brahms),
Pianoforte Solos by
Grainger.
"Radetzky March”. "Feuergest"....Johann Strauss and Symphony Orchestra. 1 Kiss Your Hand, Madame"
(Erwin), "Serenade Berceuse"
(Luciann),
Organ Solo by Quentin
M. Maclean.
The fugitive's likeness was flashed across the sea and, armed with this, the Burns men went to Scotland Yard and proved that they had the right man.
BEAM WIRELESS
Value in Recent Emergency
Two Japanese stations, 5,300 miles away, were tuned in by a Silver Radio on the Pacific coast, by Kenneth Ormiston, well known Percy technical radio expert, during the recent static-Infested months, Mr. Ormiston reported that the trans Pacific reception was clear, and featured unusual volume when the tinuance Bill was being considered When the expiring Laws Con- overtone switch was in use.
in Committee in the House of Com- Buenos Aires, Argentina, and mons, it was pointed out that when Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, are among the recent earthquake In the the other foreign stations to come Atlantic caused a breakage in the in over Silver Radios, according to cables, if there had been no beam; letters from distance reception wireless service, the whole system fans. Contents of many of the let-of communication between Britain ters revealed that the listeners are and America, Australla and New interested In foreign broadcasts as Zealand would have been hopeless- much on account of recent stepaly congested for many weeks., toward Internationalism by govern- ments, as from concern with suc- cessful home radio, experiments.
THE RADIOSTAT
Eliminating Radio "Interference”
"L'arlesienne Suite-Minuet",
"L'arlesienne Suite-Intermezzo",
J. H. Squire Chamber Orchestra. 7-9.p.m.-Recorded Music and Experimental Relay Transmission.
9 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 10.30.pm/Close Down.
IS AERIAL RIGHT?
This Week's. Wireless Hint
Mr. H. B. Lees-Smith (Postmaster General), replying to Mr. A. M. Samuel (Conservative), said that the contracts finally transferring the cable companies and the beam services to the Imperial Com munications Company were signed the day before the Baldwin Govern- ment left office, leaving the present Government no power to prevent a Rigorous tests of Dr. Robinson's complete transfer. The Rugby invention for the elimination of in- wireless station was progressing terference in the ether the and the department proposed short- Radiostat described in the States-ly to introduce another long wave In many cases results can be man,
more than haar out the and another short wave transmitter, greatly improved by a little atten original claims made on behalf of thus giving five channels of com tion to the aerial. A low aerial this discovery. Competent au- munication.
Should you live within a mile or two of a broadcasting station almost any kind of aerial will do: but as the distance increases the aerial becomes more and more im- portant.
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usually means rather poor signal |thorities who have had practical strength, and there may, be con proof of its potentialitles are un alderable dimculty in receiving animous in. declaring that the in- distant stations at all.
vention of superlative Im- Why Children's Colds Speaking generally, the minimum portance to the future of wireless, height should be as near 30ft, as
Are Dangerous Though the Invention is complete: possible. If yours is lower than as it stands, it will be some little this, see whether you cannot time before it can come into general manage to raise it a little.ne Dae.
Examine Your Insulators. :-
Colds are dangerous because they often lay the seeds of con- sumption and other forms of lung trouble.
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