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CURRENT RADIO TOPICS.
NOTES AND NEWS LOCAL AND. OTHERWISE.
HURRICANE RADIO.
AMATEURS GREAT HELP TO FLORIDA.
"RADIO'S POPULARITY.
FIGURES SHOW BIG INCREASES.
Hartford. Maintaining a con Figures again are brought out tinous watch from the first day of to prove what an error Thomas the Florida hurricane, W. P. Edison made when he said radio Moore, operating the radio amateur was losing in the rage, towari po- station 412, handled thousands of pularity against the phonograph words of press messages, relief and other musical productions. quests and personal messages into. These are offcial figures, just is- and out of the stricket area.
sued by the Department of Com- On the night following the hur-moree, reviewing information com- ricane, when no response of any piled in the biennial census kind could be secured from Miami manufactures for 1925. and the vicinity, Moore sent out repeated messages stating where supplies of batteries and matorial could be obtained from warehouses in Miami for the purpose of erect ing a portable station.
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of
According to these figures, radio shows quite a healthy growth.
In two years, from 1929 to 1925, the census shows the value of radio apparatus manufactured in U.S.A. jumped 215.5 per cent. It was $54,000,470 in 1923. It Was $170,390,572 last year.
CRICKET.
EXCITING GAME BETWEEN SCHOOL BOYS.
A very exciting game was playédi between the Diocesan Boys' School and the Central British School át. King's Park on Wednesday after- noon, the match ending in a win for the former by the narrow margin of six runs,
Staros:
Contral British School, D. J. Vicktors, Anderson,
Mackay
D. Kelly, b A. Len
G. Maclay, run out, or compare
e and b,Mackay 5. MeNidor, & Clarke, b Minekny W. Skelton, Binckay M. Black, b E. Lo w. Hirst, e F. R. Zimmun, b E. G. Carr, b E. Lee
Lec
E. Einyac, hot out
q
L. Easterbrook, e sul E. Les
Extrak
A. Led Mackay
E. Lad
Total
Bowling Analysis.
0. M. R
7
2
W.
21 30
Diocesan Boys' School.
F. Lee; bi Kolly D. Anderson, b Hirst A. Lee, Hirst
bw Carr
R. Gerrard, .b Hirst... Early on the morning of the sec-
F. J. Zimmern, e, Easterbrook,
b ond day, Moore got in communi-
Skelton, E Kelly cation with J. V. Heisch; operating station 4K at Miami, and immedi-
1,000 % INCREASE.
པོ་ birat atély messages of all kinds were The number of tube type receiv-r. R. Zimmern, b Hirst transmitted in both directions. ers increased more than a thousand A. Clarke, b Hirst Station 4 gave out bülletins of per cent. in these two years, al J. Fox, not out
Extras the extent of the damage, sent re- though their value went up half as quests for supplies and first aid fast. Against these, crystal sei materials, and personal messages manufacture decreased nearly 50 of assurance of safety to relatives per cent. and with them went a in the rest of the country. All of decrease in the number of head- these were received by "41Z at sets for their use. Tampa and rushed by amateur stations and regular wire lincs to northern points.
AMATEURS HELP.
other
During the first day and night, the Tampa amateur bore the brunt of all the Florida traffic but by the second day many other Florida amateurs were standing watch and handling relief traffic.
At St. Augustine, station' 4PI worked steadily for two nights, and late in the night of the second day, 4QY, operated by W. F. Gro- gan, came on the air at Fort Myers, with reports from that city.
That, as well as the increase in tube sets, shows a great increase in the number of loud speakere, which the census bureau reports as 318.3 per cent.
That this interest isn't waning is attested by several of the larger radio manufacturers. One firm after another reports it is several thousand sets behind in their orders."
RADIO JOTTINGS.
Outside of Florida hundreds of
A radio broadcasting station is amateurs held themselves in read- being built at Angora, Turkey. ness day and night to help Flori-is said that five more stations are da amateurs. Chief among these was station 1PM, oporated by J. G. Cobble, at Atlanta, Georgia, who
maintained regular schedules with 41Z at Tampa, and furnished the chief northern outlet for all mes sages from the Tampa station.
HELPING THE FARMER,
BROADCASTING MARKET
PRICES.'
planned for that country:
Police departments in many French cities are being equipped with instruments which send and receive pictures of fingerprints either by radio or wire. This in- strument is expected to decrease Haw evasions.
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.
Canada was America's loading market for radio apparatus during 1926. Asin ranked second, Europe third and Latin-America fourth, ac- cording to satistics of the electri- Radio is the farmer's Godsend, cal division of the Department of for it is destined to reorganise Commerce. farm marketing processes and make the farmer' a better business man.
*
Exactly 482 sheets of manuscript paper were used by Robert Iurd in Contact with farmers and study writing the orchestration for a of their problems for many years radio version of the opera "Faust," lead Samuel R. Guard of Chicago according to a report from Los to this conclusion.. He's director Angeles.
of the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural| Foundation.
*
A permanent hook-up has been "Current prices on grain and arranged between the Gimbel Bro- live-stock. broadcast to the farm thers stations WGBS, New York, Station world at the moment they are be- and WIP, Philadephia. ing made in the city markets has WPG, Atlantic City, may enter the brought an entirely new element hookup soon. into farm marketing." says Guard.
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TENNIS.
INTERESTING, MATCH AT
KENNEDY ROAD.,
PERILOUS TRIP.
HUNTING FOR A BRONTOSAURUS:
A Tonnis Match played at Kon- When Liqut-Colonel H. F. Fenn,. nedy Road on Wednesday, between 0.8.0. loaves England in Novem St. Peter's Church Young Men's her he will set out on an expedi- Club and the larried Quartors
Tennis Club ended in a win of three tion reminiscent of Conan Doyle's games for the latter. The result. adventurous story. "The Lost was uncertain until the last two World! games were played,
But Colonel Fonn's "world" will For the Young Men's Club, Git-be in the Bolglan Congo, where he ting and Zimmern beat Waterson hopes to be introduced to a real and Newbury 7-2, beat Licence and live brontosaurus, a reptile which Parsons 8-1, beat Higgs, and Bowers flourished in the early ages.
5-4.
At least, he will try to get to the Kaluzhny and A. N. Other lost bottom of certain curious stories, to Waterson and Newbury 3-6, lost which are. toid by the pigmy na- to Licence and Parsons 4-5, lost tives of Central Africa.
to Higgs and Bowers 1-8.
Samy and Locke beat Waterson
"I first got the iden that there
and Newbury 6-4, lost, to Licence might be brontosaurt in Central and Parsons 2-7, lost to Higgs and Afrien," said Col. Fenn yesterday, Bowers 4-5.
"while was acting as a special constable in Hyde Park.during the general strike...
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ATTACK ON WOMEN UNDERGRADS.
OXFORD CHIEF WANTS NUMBERS LIMITED.
I there-met-Mr. Maxwell, an ex- perienced hunter of big game in |Africa, who told me he had seen in Lake Edward, in the Belgian Congo, a huge water animal, which progressed with a snake-ilke up- and-down motion through the water. He shot at it, but it dis-, appeared.
A. Lion-Leopard."
Dr. Wells, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, startled the University re- contly by two statements made in:)
"The pigmies who live in the his valedictory speech at Convoturi Forest also mentioned a cation. They were
strange animal, which they des That the number of women un-cribed as a lion-lcöpard," because dergraduates should be limited by it was spotted like a leopard,
"They called it,Trizimn; and That the recent election for the when the natives have a name for Hebdomadal Council demonstrat- anything there is generally some
statute.
12
Bowling Analysis.
J. Hirst Kelly Carr
40, M R 10,5 3 36 33 22. 25
1·
W.
7
2
Kowloon C.C. v. K.O.S.B The K.O.S.B. were visitors to Kowloon yesterday afternoon and won an interesting game.
Kowloon batted first and in an hour and three quarters compiled a total of 155 before declaring with five wickets down. Capt. Morris, was in good form with the bat, his
3 not out including a six and nine" fours. Lya! also batted well, making 42 before being caught.
The visitors lost four wickets cheaply, but then Capt. Dobbie and Everest came together and put an entirely diferent complexion on the same. Dobbie hit out merrily and had secored 90 before putting down his own wicket in playing back to Morris.. strokes were a six, a five and His principal
htirteen fours. Scores;
Kowloon C. C.
42
J. C. Lyal, e and b Thorp E. G. Renton, st. Brown, b Hankey 4 Capt. E. W. Morris, not out F. Edwards, Dobbin Capt. R. A. Warters, e Stock, b
Hankey
A. R. F. Raven, b Harkey Cup. F. G. Bovis, nút out
Extras
Total (for 5 wits, dec.) 155
Atkins and E. J. Gill did not bar. N. H. Ross, E. B. Morton, C.-H.
Bowling Analysis.
Captain Dabbie
Lt. Hankey
Capt. Perfect
Ple, Stock
|
Capt. Thorp
P. Everest.
0. 31. R. W 11 4 26 1
[ 13 +2 13 3
2 G
4 1
K. O. S. B.
Lt. Hankey, e Gill, b Bevis Capt. Thorp, b Lyal...
Lt. J. D. Welch, c Raven, b Bevis 10 Col. Cowya, e Edwards, b Kyal.. Capt. Dobbie, h.w. b Morris ... Ple. Everest, e Edwards, b Morris 18 Sergt. Potts, not out ... Capt. Perfect, not out
Extras
Total (for 8 wkts.) 184
Pte. Brown, Pte. Stock and L/Cpl. Crowley did not but.
Bowling Analysis.
M. R. W. 13:9 43 6 .1 22 10 cm x 65 20
"Heretofore the farmer had to Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Condon of get his information on prices of Bartholomew Grove, Mass. named farm products at least a day, and their daughter Winifred Norma Al-J. C. Lyal frequently two or three days late. then Condon, so her, initials will be Capt. Bevia
Capt. Morris With his radio tuned in on a sta- the same as the call letters of radio L. II. Ross
H. K. C. C. 2nd v. Naval Team. tion broadcasting quotations from station WNAC, Boston. the important market he knows the
The following will play, in a The success of the first course in twelve a side match on the Hong- current prices at the moment he is making his deal with the stock or Bible study from KFUO, St. Louis, kong Cricket Club, ground on Satur has encouraged station officials to day, at 2.14 p.m.-P. Jacks (Capt.), J. C. Dunbar, K. K. Hepburn, R. W. Lec, H. J. V. R. Stevenson, M. M. Watson, J. D. Crawford, C. Gaha- gan, F. II. Jones, S. J. Stanesby, D. A. Rushton, J. R. Way.
grain buyer.
"If he ships direct, he knows the conduct a second similar course actual price on the market the day which will meet every Friday even- his stock is loaded into the car; ing during October and November. he knows what the estimated re- ceipts for the following day will be, and he can time his shipments
Their estimate of the savings
to put his produce on the market varied from around $80 on a single when the prices are at their peak." deal, to $2,900 saved on the sea- More than 100 stations aro co- son's wheat crop. One farmer operating with the government in estimated the value of his radio broadenstig farm prices and receiving set at $800 a year. The lectures all over the country. average estimated saving was
The Chicago grain quotations $267.56 per year.
MACHINE MADE WIRE-CUT the Board of Trade. Live stock farmors now own and use radios,
are broadcast every half hour from Only a small percentage of the
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The following will represent the University 1st XI against the HK.C.C.. 1st XI in a League match. at Pokfulum, on Saturday, at 2 p.m. sharp: A. A. Rumjaha (Capt.), C. W. Lam, H. N. Balhef thet, B. P. Ng. Dr. D. K. Samy, D. Laing, S. Hachiuma, W. Hong Sling, E. Zimmern, S. V. Gitting, B. N. Sudan.
The 2nd XI game with H.K.0.C. has been postponed.
quotations come direct from the according to Guard. But this is Union Stock Yards, while prices of only a partial indication of the fruit and vegetables, butter, egge number who are avalling them- and poultry are relayed from the solves of the radio market news. Paris-A Romo message states commission markets to the studio. Farmers' co-operative associations that the Pope has authorised Car
̧MÁNY · REPORT, SAVINGS. · keep tuned in on morning markets | dinals, Archbishops, Bishops, In a survey of 500 farmora it and post them publicly.
Canons and Prelates to wonz, artl- was learned 405 stated they de- A farmers' phone line in Illinois felal silk stockings, instead of pended upon the radio information is booked up to the radio recelyor; natural silk, as A measure of inehipping their goods to market, and at 11 each morning the ex- economy. Also imitation fur trim- and 120 could give speciile in- change tunes in and broadcasts mings may be worn instead of the stances where it had saved them the radio market quotations to all ] real article, which has become too
ita-patrons at once.
Costly.
'money,
"What will you do it you meet.
ed the instability of democracy bything in it." rejecting old members and choos-! ing young ones.
a brontosaurus?" Colonel Fean
"I am afraid I shall shoot it?!
He strongly urged that the num-was asked. ber of women should not be in creased.
he replied. "There will be no
The great increase in the num-chance of bringing it home alive." Among the six members of the bers of both sexes at the Univer sity had caused anxiety, and he expedition will be one lady. Miss asked whether it would not be K. Sharp, who is interested in necessary to found new colleges birds and butterflies, to meet the greater numbers.
One of the main objects of the "In my opinion women students expedition is to obtain a large ought to be limited by statute. No male gorilla for the Nature Hie- one could have foreseen the great tory Museum
increase in the number of women
No cinema films of the gorilla
students, and I do not considerat home have yet been taken, so the expedition will take with it. that voluntary limitation by wo- men's societics is suficient."
a cinenia camera-and enough pro- visions to last six months. Thoy
He regretted that prominent and will be away about nine months elderly members of the Hebdomad-in alt. al Council had been displaced by: younger members.
I have found in England a keen "I think the result has been desire on the part of the poople lamentable, and it shows that to take Empire goods, but the big democracy in the University is traders are heedless of patriotic "always unstable."
Influences, admitting that they Doctor Pember, Warden of All follow. the lowest prices.-Captain Souls, was elected Vice-Chancel-Dun (New South Wales Minister
of Agriculture)
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