Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH (4)
June 5, 1941, By Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY
OH, PEE WEE DO YOU WANT TO HELP
ME?
SURE**
IT'S FUN!
WE'LL HAVE LUNCH, NANCY --- THEN- PLANT THOSE - BULBS WE HAVE
IN THE CELLAR "
I'LL DO IT WHILE THEY'RE
EATING ---
SEEMS KINDA SILLY THOUGH
SCHEME TO STOP PROFITEERING
The British Government intends to put a stop to profiteer. ing. A new bill now in preparation will aim particularly at the activities of unnecessary middlemen and speculators.
are
Experience of the working of the Limitation of Supplies Orders has shown the Board of Trade that now powers needed to prevent price Increases due to commission transac tions between registered firms and other traders, Activities of intermediaries will be curbed and a cheek put on speculative dealing in goods.
Capt. Oliver Lyttelton, Pre- sident of the Board of Trade, announced in the House of Commons recently that legisla- tion on the subject would be introduced shortly.
New Measure Needed
Coloured Clogs Are Latest
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RECORDING THE NEWS:
HOW THE BBC WORKS
the
Listenera to BBC news bulletins often hear the announcer say something like this: 'Our Observer, Robin Duff, visited Dover this afternoon. Here are his impressions record- ed on the spot. How the Observer's impressions are recorded and later broadcast to the world is described in this article, written by a senior member of the BBC's Engineering Staff.
A vital task of broadcasting is to julso for direct outside broadcasting | from becoming tangled round give an accurate and vivid impression work where suitable Post Office tele- cutter. The sweeping movement of of contemporary life and current phone lines were available to carry the brush is derived from the clamp events. The most direct way of don 'live' broadcast..
which holds down the centre of the ing this is by means of sound plat provide facilities for reproducing a wheel which la fixed eccentrically on to disc,-through a small rubber-tyred turcs which combine the actual sounds of events with the volces of recording and connecting the output one end of the brush holder. The the men and women taking part in to studio centre. The equipment brush can be removed and an them. Sometimes Unis enn be done had also to fit into the car without electrical pick-up plugged into the
Before
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It was also necessary
unit.
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B.B.C. WAIVE WEDDING BAR
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THE B.B.C. marrluga "bar" to women members of their staff has brel waived for the duration,
by o
Before the war, members of the staff wishing to marry had to obtain permission. Cases were considered a board and if applicants had key positions, and it was considered their domestic life would not interfere with their jobs, permalesion
WOR granted.
Now that the "bar" has been lifted, a large number of B.B.C. girls have married, and some already-married are being taken on.
portable receiver tuned to the pro- gramme in which the recording is to be inserted.
In the latter case, the recording engineer will hear the announcer Ray: "We are now taking you' over to... to hear our observer, whose commentary haa been recorded cariler to-day or the commentator tuny
speak directly nt the inlerophone, starting on a signal from the engineer, to Hik together the vurious recorded items into a con- nected story.
Each section of the recording is then played over at the appropriate points in the observer's talk.
Smooth presentation of this type of programme demands close co-opera- tion and complete understanding be- tween the recording englicer and the programme staff boil at the outside broadest point and in the aludio cefitre.
car
move-
GETS 22 NAZIS--Pilot Office!! Eric Lack of British Air Force, who is credited with downing 22 German planiss. He is tho youngest in Air Force-only, 21. He has been given Distin- guished Flying Cross, with bar, and Distinguished Service Order of Britain.
NORWAY SHIPS ESCAPE
Although the equipment is normally operated from the while stationary, recordings have been made while on the fellowing processions, in aeroplanes The Nazi rulers of Norway, in the air, in express trains, at sea worried because ships are said and even in a submarine diving.
On Active Service to be escaping to Britain, have Since the beginning of the war, ordered every Norwegian vessel
strobos e
from
forty
use them have
Was
loaded
?
'Death will be the penalty for anyone disobeying this order.
Norway's fishing flect has been put under military control.
"Dash To lea Overhead warplanes soar, ready to swoop on any ship that "makes a dash for it'
3.
An Exchange mestage, from Swe- den, reporting this, quoted Gothenburg newspaper as anying:
by roving microphones, conneeted by any modification of the standard same socket for playing back the same of the mobile recording units to stay in harbour. telephone line to a studio centre, but bodywork and without fitting any cussed in the necessary electrical and the men who
corded disc.
isc. When the Conditions, he said, had changed
the most since the passing of the Price of
Interesting topicul inaterial special mountings in the car. Goods Act. The Act had worke
la sometimes to be found at places
of the light connections to the amplifier are made seen dangerous and exacting service. present design Clogs without clatter-new remote from telephone lines or at recording wilt is the result of study automatically. satisfactorily up to the present in
On the declaration of war one of Accuracy Of Sound
the saloon cars keeplat prices generally at reason-slogan of Britain's clogmakers times unsuitable for broadcasting. of the problem by BBC engineers. compact
to a able level in relation to costs.
Reproduction -plus wartime needs and lea. It must then be collected by means of It is not possible for such ..
unit.
at Cross-Channel steanr #moblie
unit to provide all the advantages of To obtain faithful reproduction of Dover. It passed ther supply difficulties are bring-
through the the activities of the heavier one-it cannot make the original sounds the speed of French customs without delay and Ing a boom in the demand for units in wartime.. let us continuous recording. Jasting longer rotation of the turn-table must re-
was driven to Paris, where it was "But," he added, "I am satisfied rubber-soled models.
look at the equipment itself. It is than the duration of a single dise main constant at the standard rate
left for a thine in a desy garage that a further measure of price re- But what a contrast to those of two kinds a heavy type mounted (about four minutes), and it lacks of
seventy-eight revolutions
ready for action. When BBC war galation is needed."
The speed
is constantly correspondents were allowed to no The new bill will fix maximum in which bancashire and York-in a large van and a light portable many of the facilities and refinements
company
the B.E.F, early in October Fosshire mill-girls used to clatter apparatus carried in a saloon cor. which are provided by the heavy van. checked by means of a wholesale and retail prices
Each of
of these has its special uses; But where speed is essential it has a which consists of a number of
1939, the BBC unit, consisting of wide range of goods in common use, over the cobbles to work!
both make records
cords in the form of
great advantage,
because
the saloon drilled in the outer rim of the turn- a commentator, a programme official. "Recently several Norwegian and also for such services as the Now with uppers made of bright discs which are somewhat similar in car is not subject to the statutory fable and of noon
vessels have crossed to English lamp which and an engineer took possession of storage of furniture. It will not red, green and blue leather and the
appearance to
to ordinary twelve-inch speed limit of twenty miles an hour, shines
holes
Accommodation was pro- from the ear. shines through these
ports with fugitives on board." apply to food, which is dealt with wooden soles covered with rubber, gramophone records, but consist of a which is imposed on the large van; beneath. This lamp is supplied with vided at G.HQ., nid an attic was
Other Feats dainty clogs are being produced to suparately.
coating of special cellulose varnish moreover, can be manoeuvred more alternating current
***** made inta small small
studio.
Some, daring escapes have been Besides fixing prices the Board be worn wilk the smartest outdoor on a base of aluminium.
easily in narrow streets and parked special
specially designed oscillator mounted During the winter, the extreme made from Norway, of Trade will lay down maximum clothes.
They are ready for playing as soon in more restricted spaces.
it difficult to cut good the c
cuse of the recording machine, cold made
Last summer two men crossed lu' wholesale and retail percentage Already they are being worn by as the record has been cut, without The Recording Apparatus The spacing of the holes in the rim formed
records, partly because frost patterna Scotland-200 miles-In a 2011 ma- margins. It will also have power Yorkshire girls. Scan, judging by any of the elaborate Intermediate
on the blank discs and tor-boat. to deal with manufacturers' prices the number of orders pouring into processes involved in making ordin-main parts: the recording machine, of flashing of the lamp in such a way
The apparatus consists of three of the turn-table is related to the rate reeted the
surface, and partly be A few weeks carller, an 18-ion and margins.
the Bradford fun which has created ary records, and each disc Can be
cause the the empllier, and the power-supply that the light appears to remain
in the batteries was trawler reached a port in Canada Penalties for profteering 'will be.
affected, Temperatures as stationary when the turn-table is severe, including imprisonment up to the new style, they will be seen in played twenty or thirty times before
low as with her fuel tanks almost empty. many other parts of the country. It becomes noticeable to those used
The recording machine. con rotating at the correct speed, but to
degrees Fahrenheit below two years and finds up to £500. A contract for thousands of pales in the disc-recording rooms at BBC sists essentially of a heavy turn-table, move round the turn-table in
freezing were encountered, and the of clogs for A.T.S, girls und Waals studios.
the cutter-head, and the tracking
or the other when the direction or
engineer even had to take the discs to wear on camp duty has recently Electric currents, corresponding to
espeed to bed in order that they might be been placed.
the sound waves picked up by the fear which gives the correct spiral is too fast or too
slow. turn-table Chance Find
the groove. The
In good condition for cutting next microphone, cause vibrations of a re-
The power-supply unit contains electric
day. motor
molar-generator and Coloured leather uppers came into cording stylus which cuts a wavy driven by an
sinoothing cir-
One of the many programmes re use by chance. "Previously we had spiral track in the varnish on the operated from a twelve-volt accumu¡ cults for the high-tension supply to corded by this unit took place in of this the amplifier, the controls necessary the Maginot Line, where the ap irat Intor battery. The shaft concentrated on plain stout clogs surface of the disc. The spiral motor carries a small rubber wheel for the low-tension circuits, and with uppers of black or tan leather motion is obtained by causing the row which is in contact with the rim of variable resistance for regulating the paratus was taken out of the ear Impressed by the appeals of for wear by factory workers and cording head which carries the stylus the turn-table, so that the latter is speed of the turi-table, This unit and set up on a truck on the minia- his bombed-out parishioners to children," the head of a Bradford to move slowly across the
e surface
dricen smoothly and evenly at. the disc while the latter is rotating siderably
****ture rallway system which ran elastically mounted to reduce vl−} ****, con- "The war brought supply dit-on the turn-table. When the disc is lower speed than that of bration and supplies direct current er was the recording of a march save their furniture lying under firm said.
A through the underground forts.. An- dobris the Rev. E. Ralph,
the motor. The same motor also four hundred volts; it is driven fculties. Finding there were big played, currents similar to those drives the tracking mechanism;, this the accumulator battery. There are past of the band of the Chasseurs of a house demolished in a recent
Aven by th Baptist minister. of Catford
which were e applied to the recording includes a leadscrew which is sup- two small circuit breakers, one.to Alpins, which was taken nt Hill Church, became a salvage
six- Merseyside rald lay a four- cutter are produced by the vibrations inc
Vibrationsported behind the turn-table and control the motor-generator and the o'clock in the morning in
blinding month-old baby girl. officer and furniture remover in
of the needle in the gramoptione extends across the width of it. As
snow-storm In the Jura Moun-
of the sulted is as amari as anything yet❘ pick-up; after amplification these rotates, this lead-acrew carries a rigid the amplifer; these switch off the from: France were relayed nch their task must be hopeless, but
broadcasts Rescue his spare time.
squads tunnelled produced by shoemakers for aut-
through through the debris. They knew currents can-bo- made to reproduce Borrowing a coster's barrow, the
door wear.
the original sound through a loud arm slowly across the turn-table from current if an arcidental short circuit the Lille station of the minister, aided only by his care-
are experiencing an enorm- speaker, either directly or through the outer edge of the dise towards the occurs. „taker, Mr.Geddes, hus salvaged and).ous.
French demand
In order that the equipment can Past Office, where the from war workers. the medium of wireless transmissian-tached the cutter-head, which looks be assembled and put into operation cancers did...magalaceat Work give up until they were certain stored In the church hall, free of Clogs are 'niso popular among air-
Mobile Unit charge, the goods of 30 familles; Ro- raid shelterers, who say there is
A mobile unit of the heavler tynat very much like an ordinary grame-with the least possible delay, the The mobile unit was also sent England and Baptists.
Catholics, Jews, Church of nothing to beat them for keeping consists of a motor van, weighing Phone pick-up except that instead units are mode by means of Inter-tera for the use of a second BBC doya and, still they had not found
the feet warm and dry, "About ten families have given me "Clogs are cheap, too. Our new the furniture to use as 1 wish," he style will probably retail at about 129, a pair, and the cost of re-clog-
Minister With A Barrow
sold.
stucks of coloured leather availa-
ble, we decided to experiment, and thlak the clog which has re-
we
sell it to well-to-do ones. With the that of boot and shoe repairs, while money I help out poor people who we reckon the uppers will lost twice have to go to the country.
as long as an ordinary shoe."
Sweden Now Replacing Her Shipping Losses
Fifty new ships with a total ion-the most part cestwise craft cr nage of 235,000 were launched at trans-Baltic carriera.
63 Ships Idle Swedish yarda in 1840, and 45 ships
base.
is
centre; to the end of this arm is at-
by
ven,
one
to control the filament supply tains. Many
rear seat of the
on
run
up
lines of very short notice.
from
"by
Baby Was Entombed Three Days
Somewhere in the wreckage
"They struggled on for the third full they, heard, day.
And in A from somewhere near, the faint cry
·
of a baby coming through that mass of brick and rubble.
to
support the
ΟΙ
.it was
they were determined not to
Twenty-four hours passed, and of connections between the various
sign of life. Two a sleel need there is
to time to time to the R.A.F. headquar- there was no steel cutter, uni about six tens when laden, the body the edge of which is accurately shap- connecting cables fitted will plug commentator there. The same equip- of which is divided into two comed to carefully
the..chuld. partments.
calculated anglès, and sockets, the cables One
being care compartment
to ment was used by one of the Amer- "I give. 1 to needy families ori ging them is small compared with sensically treated so as to form a The action of the currents whleli are fully screened, where necessity, lean broadcasting companies and by
The other contains two sets of re- and so produce a
Btudio suitable for speech passed through the cutter-head is to prevent electrical interference, ".The the French war. correspondents nt
from side to side whale of the equipment operates tached to the BFF and also for of real vibrate the cutter
waviners in the from two batteries, each consisting 'live' broadcasts of the concert partica cording equipment (so that a centu
the of five nickel-iron accumulator cells. ous recording can be made by passing sounds which are being recorded.
spiral groove corresponding to
Frantically, yet gently, they tore from one turn-table to the other as
One of the batteries has a capacity ranged by ENS.Accompanied away the remaining barriers.. of a hundred
During Amplifier
May and twenty ampere-
And there, in an old-fashioned ench disc is finished) together with
the the other of
to Brussels and beyond. wooden cradle, loy the baby they army eighty then the associated amplifiers, the
The weak currents produced by the hours and CCH-
back to Lille, Arras, supply for the
and had spent three days struggling to trolling and switching equipment, microphone are applied to the input ampere-hours, the
being taken from the Amieris. By this time, it had two
two reach. Her parents had been killed, and the battery-charging. plant of an amplißer which gives an output laments
battery. The turn-table Hols of equipment at its disposal. but she appeared unharmed. Recordings can be made either of sufficient to operate the recording larger
cutter. Tils amplifier has three motor and the motor-generator take Then came the rapid move to Bou- speech from the microphone in thei
Triumphantly they carried her to studio compartment, or of speech or stages of amplification and uses the their supply from the two batteries tune, during which some of the waiting ambulance. Now she is
equipment had to be abandoned at in hospital recovering. cther sounds picked up by other principle of negative feed-back to connected in series.
The equipment is normally car- Amiens. The cables between Bou- microphones outside connected to it by enbica,
and neutralize any distortion which may the van
arise within itself or in the recording red in a fourteen-horse-power saloon 10ne and London were still intact. head.
supply unit stands on the and several despatches were car. The The van can work away from its
BRC observera from Sweden's merchant shipping loss-95 ships totalling at a time and, since the equipment is fler is the same
necessary, for several weeks The Arst section of the ampli-floor behind the driver's seat. The
as that used for amplifier rests on the top of it und After a few days, during which there AN EASY WAY 342,645 tons since the war began-is being replaced rapidly all operated from batteries which cans ordinary outside broadcasts, and the
machine stands was frequent bombing, the equip the recording by now construction, according to recent Swedish information. be charged from the engine of the may be employed but put stage and batteries are carried in the luggage unit was with the Advanced Air to England. The ment was brought car. The
back Meanwhile, second recording is is self-contained and indepen-switching off the output the to the boot and their connecting cables zu Striking Force near Rheims; dent of electric supply mains. The connecting the telephone line the through the back of the rear seat. size of the van makes it possible to terminals provided. In this
condition
The accommodate the most complete tech- the amplification. sensibly the same! Thuggage boot also contains cable through this unit that many listeners totalling 100,000 tons already have On Jan. 1 this year the number of nical equipment for controlling the for all
microphone cuble,
ble, falling bombs. The enemy had been cycies per second, in yards of screened
for communication
ation particularly active in this area for this year another 50 vessels, aggre-vis 83, making a total tannago afcuracy of the recording, and also to for all the notes on a plano from the phone thei
some time, and during one of the inetudes the Grips-
and some rinting about 550,000 tons, were 287,000. This
points
salvo either under construction or con-holm and the Drollingholm of the employ the most robust and can lowest G to more than an octave between the microphone poin
venient form of recording apparatus, above the highest note...
the recording engineer in the car, despatches from the R.A.F. a
of Swedish American Line, while the
mixer, turn-tables can be made level The
to the open bomba dropped close loud- Kungsholm still is in the cruise ser- by hydraulically operated adjust are two input sockets one for con- stand, and a kit of tools. There are
On the top of the amplißer there
telescopic microphone
window of the studio. speakers, a
their return these recording Since At present Sweden has 850,000 viec of New
out
menta New York.
to that recordings can be made necting a moving-coll microphone, tons of shipping or 40 per cent. of Though five Swedish ships
Aro when the van is standing on a slope, the other for connecting either the also hend-phones for checking the units have still been engaged in re existing tonnage outside the bloc allowed by the British to
pass The speed of the
turn-tables can be electrical piele-up for reproducing programinnie when it is not con- porting incidents in the war. One of the most outstanding of these record- kade. Another 1,000,000 tons is in-monthly through the blockades, there accurately adjusted, and gramophone recorded discs or a three-channel venient to use a loudspeaker.
'We Are Now Taking side the Skagerrak barrier. Most of will be no increase in the tonnage pick-ups and a loudspeaker are pro- microphone mixing unit; the latter is
Inza was mode on the cliffs of Dover. those chips outside the blockade ara outside the barriers.
Every
ship vided for reproducing round from the used for selecting or combining the
You Over To....P
The unit had just taken up its stand employed in carrier service including that enters must either come out or records when necessary.
convoy was there, when a various outputs when mere. one When the records have been made, convoy service to Oreat Britain. be replaced with another of the
Channel. Getting. The News
stenming slowly up microphone is used. On the front of they are either taken to one of the
up the Just In the Vessels Inside the Blockade are for namin size..
convoy passing the Although these heavy recording the amplifier there are mounted a BBC studio centres or played beck point where the recording car tyas vans are well suited to many kinds peak programme meter and a con in the car itself, the output being stationed, German dive bombers-at- of recording work, experience hos trolling potentiometer-or. volume connected by a telephone
line to tacked proved that a lighter form of mobile (control-to ensure that the correct the studio centre. Lines. used for into action, followed by squadrons of Anti-aircraft guns went equipment is also necessary.
applied to the recording, the Transmission of a programme fighters,
this recording of action In 1938 the BBC News Department head throughout the recording. are specially tested by the lines with felt the need for
the running mobile unit which
Recorder
engineers of
Cellatic im- MORNING POST, LTD, the BBC and 'equalized'
Rave could travel rapidly to bny part of the
machine 12
12 provided no that they respond equally to all
of the successful tattle country, obtain a topical news story, with two main operating levers--one frequencies within the range neces-which ensued. The records were and bring
ring the records back the same to engage the tracking mechanism to sary for the faithful transmission taken to London and broadcast in the
music. night (to London or any other BBC start the traverse of the cutter across of m
nine o'clock nows bulletin that some studio centre) to be included in the the disc and the other to lower the
For reproducing recordings In evening. news bulletins. The apparatus had to cutter-head on to the blank disc of this way. the car is taken to During another broadcast from
mielenty
Uclenty compact to fit into an
an the mo
recording moment when the
is to telephone exchange whore con- Hell-fire Comer, the recording unit light enough to start. Provision is also made for nections can be made directly to the was maching-tunned by a Messersch
been delivered. At the beginning of klle Swedish ships of over 300 tons programme and checking the ac-eight thousaneles' from fifty to 'druma holding up to four hundred at home first heard the sound
tracted for.
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fet Into a be carried In an aeroplane, and robust enough angle of the cutting stylus, and the recording may be stored it precise German machine was brought, down to withstand
traveling over bad speed with which the recording headly the right moment to fit into the try fire. It recorded roads at high
moves towards the centre) of the
the disc, broadcast:
of which it s programme
VIDIA® insinited by the Germans on the used in the car, the apparatus had to pitch of the spiral trasle, 1.6. Uié
the recordings er in the car to Channel.const whom bielle, fell inte
engineer be readily movibla so that it could number of grooves per inch which heat, tho, que- which is thin for be carried by hand to places to which appear on the disc.
AVA 10min lawer, ils pick-up on the, car could not be taken. Sit had During Secording. brush maydi ricord, and
Lade also to be Independent of external across the face of the clae who sweeps thin, que muy either be taken on an listeners at hom ved dveres? Ore. Dower supplies and to be suitable for up the thread of swart which is cut other telephone line from the studia sound and scenes of Great Britain at use not only as a recording unit, but from 16 and which le”
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