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WEDNESDAY, · DECEMBER 30, 1936,
MARCONI'S
AMAZING NEW
DISCOVERY
Throws His Voice Seven Times Round the Earth in One Second
Coroul the fomed Rumanian bandit, who has several crimes to answer for, is seen above being led, with his accomplices to the court at Bacau. For the sake of security they
linked
and feet.
are
at hands
Five Black Legion Men Shot Negro War Veteran
Detroit, Dec. 21.
FIVE members of the terrorist "Black Legion" have been
convicted at Detroit of the murder of Silas Coleman, a negro war veteran.
The verdict carries with it a sen-1 tortured and murdered because they of imprisonment for life. were considered to be Immoral or Formal senterice will be pronounced un-American.
tenco
by the judge later.
Coleman was lured to a lonely
spot by members of the leglon. Five Burglar Caught By
men-opened fire on him, but he was -only wounded, and bolted.
They chased him, and when his body was found it had · 18 bullet wounds.
The "Black Legion" is a powerful .secret organisation which professes to protect Protestant citizens.
It is alleged that people have been
His. Teeth Marks
New York, Dec. 21. Frank Rivers, aged twenty-three, of West Warwick, Rhode Island, was arrested for burglary as a result of his teeth marks being found on a cheese in the larder of the house into which he broke.-Reuter,
MICRO-WAVES SECRET
WORLD RADIO TELEPHONE
IN REACH OF ALL
By A Special Correspondent.
on board the yacht Elettra
Santa Margherita, Dec. 21.
To-day on board the yacht Elettra, lying in the blue waters of the Mediterranean, I witnessed what may be the most remarkable experiment Marconi has yet made.
- The famous discoverer of wireless sent his voice seven times round the earth in one second.
"I shall use the shortest word in order to clarify the demonstration," Marconi said to me. A simple little |word like “No,”" for example.
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ary in Rumania, who was lying M. Titulescit, former Foreign Secre- seriously ill at St. Moritz, photo- graphed. for the first time after his recovery. He is seen leaving his hotel for the Riviera, where he hopes
Marconi stepped towards an ordinary-looking transmitting microphone and spoke. Almost before the "No" was out of his mouth a loud speaker in the laboratory flashed back:
“NO ....... NO ....... NO .......
NO." NO... NO... NO I looked at Marconi in perplexity, My eyebrows asked my to be able to completely recover his unspoken question. He smiled at my amazement. Easier Link With Nations
"You want to know why the loud speaker says 'No' Beven times. The sound I made travelled almost as quickly as light and went seven times round the world in one second.
Of course, this phenomenal speed has its drawbacks. It interferes with world communication so far, but when we can climinate the "echo," communication between continents will be very casy with cheaper, better and simpler wireless,
"Micro-waves mean the discovery of a trap-door through the eiher, a belt of comparative allence, outside the range of the long and short waves. Because of this the micro-waves achieve clear reception.
"I want to bring the whole world together. I want people
to communicate all over the world."
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ESCAPED FROM WAR
PRISON CAMPS
By A Special Correspondent
London, Dec. 18. I realised then the importance that it will be possible for a man The Dinner: Officer Prisoners of War
Dining Club. of what Marconi had demon-sitting in his office in London to The Banqueting Hall: Park Lane
Hotel, strated. Soon Marconi will be get Tokyo, San Francisco, Bris- able to eliminate the "echo,"bane, California, Berlin, Moscow Eighteen years on which is the only obstacle in the in a matter of seconds, and each side. It is the year speak to them as easily and 1918 to which the roots of path of his discovery.
almost as cheaply as he can to his suburban home.
Unused Ether Route
As soon as the power of his discovery can be harnessed com- munication from the ends of the mirth will be so quick and sure
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Marconi has accomplished' this miracle by ulilising the inlero-wave. Sound is trans- mitted on a wave length of ong .metre-s route through the ether at present completely un. used.
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this dinner club go down.
In the German prison camp at Holzminden at that time were a number of Englishmen who determined to escape..
Bway WAS
For 10 months they tunnelled 50 yards under the walls, using a trowel, endis six long years of tire-a chisel, and their bare hands, 20 of leas research. Night after night, them escaped. First when his family has relired to rest, Lieutenant W. E. Butler; 13th away Marconi has remained awake in his was Air Commodore C. E. H. Rath- Jaboratory working on his experi-bome.
menis,
Two years ago he told the world
that
he was on the brink of a new discovery of supreme importance. A year later he said he was nearer his the goal. To-day he is. a man on brink of success......
Wife's Vigilance.
His beautiful wife, the Marchesa,
has watched his tireless efforts.
Rathborne, fluent German talker, calmly walked to the railway slation, took a ticket to the Dutch border, 150 miles away. In 12 hours he was in Holland, where he sent a postcard to the German at Holzminden,
commandant "Thanks for the holiday. See you after the war,"
“Only 10 of the 20-got-right away.
Butler was among the 10 who were recaptured.
She has guarded him and his together when work during the greater period of
Anyway, the Holzmindeners dined the war was over, and It was from that first reunion the expertnient. No one has been that this club of officer prisoners of allowed to come on the yacht and war, those who escaped and those interfere during his hard work. who didn't was formed, and from "It has been a a trying period," she
10 me with
a charming smile. which the big horseshoe table last
night had its inspiration. "For weeks I have never been out
vaid
to
a dinner party.
"Our social life has
Rathborne was in the chair. Butler,
necessarily short, slim, alert, was on my right.
make the Dutch frontier.
been restricted. My husband sleeps He told me how it was he failed to on board in his laboratory white 1 atay will our little girl. Elettra, in an hotel on shore.
"Sull, it has all been worth while."
Susan Calls Out The Brigade
New York, Dec. 21.
SUSAN
USAN BRONSTEIN is four, and 3 New Yorker.
New Yorkers, as all the world knows, are nothing if not enterprising.
Susan's great passion in life fe fire engines.
He tramped part of the 150 miles, cycted the rest on machine he stole. His food was green apples from trees Hoing the roads.
An innocent-looking brook was his downfall when he was within a few miles of safety. Thirsty,, he drank from it. It was rank. Soon he wobbled and fell. A lille later two electric light beams were nashed
in his face by a German
policeman'
So back to Holzminden, where hey fined him 400 francs for stealing the bicycle.
Surprise of the evening was the appearance of Major H. W. Bochm- Tettelbach, German army (retired), who was found staying in the hotel. He was a prisoner of war-at Dan- ington Park, Derbyshire. The Eng lish ex-prisoners of war brought him down "for a glass of port," and were upstanding as he joined them.
GIVE 'EM PARSON'S IDEA FOR A CHURCH REVIVAL
Sydney, Dec. 21. Religion to-day Is wishy-washy, sloppy and insipid, said Rev. N.. Kivell, of the City Temple of Christ, Sydney, at a rally of ministers held here.
Now York's fire engines are particularly thrilling. They are "If we could put hell into somo large, and swift and they bully ministers," he added, “religion would church members, and into Bome their way through the streets get somewhere"
with a shrieking of syrens which
is music to the cars-at four. /
When Susan has a wish Susan translates it into action. Sho wished to see the fire engines.
So solemnly, cho left her home
with n wooden box fucked under her urin. She stopped at a fire alarm, raised, the, wooden box, struck and saw the glass shatter on the sidewalk.
Her wish was fulfiled. – Tho dro- engines camèlement
So did a
policeman, who collected the entranced Susan, stil standing by the shattered alarm, fave -hör-a-severe-lecture-and
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