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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1932.

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connected up that you can get from any one to any other by passing | only along wires and never through components, you can join them in any order.

If the layout of the design has been properly done the result will be good wiring, however you do it, subject to the exercise of just a little discretion on your part.

That would have sounded like high treason a few years ago, but times change.

Empire Broadcasts.

AN ASSASSINATION

MYSTERY by

MUMMY

EVIDENCE.

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Did Abraham Lincoln's Murderer Escape?

Stories which have been long John Wilkes Booth." current among many sections in Booth's murderous act aroused Britain that John Wilkes Booth, the nation to feverish excitement the actor, who shot President and 'indignation. The woman in

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How fashions do change in the which also gives direct leads, by radio world! Only a little while all means use it. It is sure to be ago every technical writer was urg-just as good in the vast majority ing the constructor to take all of circuits. possible pains to make a perfect .Follow The Layout. copy of the wiring of the original You can quite anfely take it for I am obliged to Mr. S. H. Deeks, Abraham Lincoln, escaped and whose boarding house the plot design from witch he was working, granted that any normal set can of the F.M.S. Rubber Co., Kajang, that an innocent man was exe was said to have been hatched to take no lliberties anywhere, and be wired up in all sorts of different for being allowed to print the fol- cuted in his stead, may be prov. was hanged, and the actor's 80 ON.

ways, and work properly every lawing letter from the British ed true by science, says the family suffered the deepest And now what do you see? time.

Broadcasting Corporation on the Chicago correspondent of the humiliation. Nothing less than an article de What it means is that if you lay subject of the new Empire Station. Morning Post, NE

Invective was heaped upon liberately inciting you to take your parts out, carefully in the "We have to acknowledge with liberties, and telling you how to do positions shown

Seven physicians here have Maryland doctor who set the on the wiring sincere thanks your report on the announced that they are vir- fugitive's fractured leg. Shoes from $6.00. Black or Brown it without risk of regrettable con-diagram there is no need to worry transmissions of our experimental tually convinced that a battered Even the name of Edwin Boots from $8.00. sequences!

about the exact method of wiring short-wave station. G.5SW, and mummy, for 28 years a freak in Booth, beloved Shakespearean Children's Boots or

That is just what I am about to up the various points. So long as have noted your remarks with a sideshow, is the body of the actor and brilliant brother of Shoes from $2.00.

do, and I will tell you why: it the right ones are joined and you

interest

real assassin...!

the assassin, was for many seems that all the terrifying warn-use your common sense to avoid "In reply to your enquiry con- A series of X-ray examinations months under a cloud, although inga which have been hurled at the any needless long or wandering cerning the forthcoming short of one of the mummy's legs prove when he appeared on the New Wave Empire Service, it has now that it was broken at exactly the York stage in "Hamlet" a year Soldering Not Necessary. been decided to proceed with the same place as was Booth's when later the audience showed by un- Do you realise that a further eraction of an Empire transmitting the murderer leaped from the stinted applause its conviction consequence of this feature of de- Station which will consist of two railing outside Lincoln's box in that "the glory of one brother signs is that they can be wired up transmitters working on different Ford's Theatre in Washington, would never be imperiled by the without any soldering? If it is wavelengths, both normally radiat- on the night of April 14, 1866, Infamy of another an It is only natural that such an merely a matter of seeing that the ing the same programme, although after having fired a shot into the Lord Charnwood's View. impression should have got about, right points get connected together on occasions" they will radiate President's brain.

Lord Charnwood, who is the and I have seen unmistakable signe you can obviously run all your different programmes.

On that tragic occasion, the author of a work entitled “Abra- that it is quite widespread. It is wires between terminals on the "The experiments which have actor gained the stage in spite hat Lincoln," said to a Morning no uncommon thing to come across various parte themselves,

and been carried out from the tem- of the leg fracture, ran into the Post representative, when shown

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Is a general impression. abroad

that a wireless receiver is really a very tricky thing to make.

Really Easy.

time.

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a constructor who has built one avoid all "T" joints in the wiring. Porary short wave transmitter, wings, escaped through a near this statement: "The only thing: set, got satisfactory' results, and Suppose you have three points, G.SW, have shown that the British door to where his horse was I can point out is that nobody then been afraid to make a later A, B, and C, which are to be wired Empire cannot be served all the waiting, and galloped away. was executed, strictly speaking. and better one for fear he might together. If you can solder it may year round and at all times of the

Innumerable stories and le. A man, supposed to be John' THE LIANG YOU CO. not be as successful the second look neatest to join B to C and day by using one wavelength. For gends since have declared that Wilkes Booth, was shot down solder the end of a lead from A to example, a wave which is suitable he made good his escape and when trying to escape arrest în All the fuss about "copying the a point midway along the B-C for communication between, say, roamed the country a free man company with a man who sur. run of the wires" has made him wire. If you don't want to solder, England and Australia at one for 37 years.

rendered and was afterwards think that a set will only work pro- you can just as well connect A season of the year, or between The historical version hitherto hanged as one of the conspira- perly if the connecting wires be- straight to B or C, whichever in certain hours of the day, is un-held to be correct, says that be tors. tween the various components are the nearest. If the set has been suitable at others. ⠀⠀ arranged in one particular way. properly designed there will be no Quite · reasonably, he concludes difference in efficiency. that he may not be lucky enough;

Not High Treason.

TYPEWRITER DEALERS

from the photos, and then there a wiring diagram which are may be trouble, or so he thinks,

Number Of Wavelengths.

was cornered in a barn 12 days "Such, at last, is the story. later, wounded, and later execut- given by John G. Nicolay, Li- ed. "It is probable, therefore, that

Following his execution, coln's biographer and secretary, the Empire transmitting Station saya history, the body was buried who was in Washington at the If you find a series of points in will radiate on а

secretly in Baltimore under cover time. number of of darkness. so different waves, and will change its

"I do not know what possibility Wave in accordance with the time The mummy had been re- identity of the man who was ***Alleged Confession, there was of mistake as to the of year and the particular portion garded as that of John St. Helen, shot, and, of course, a much fall of the Empire to which a pro- who committed suicide a Oklaer account of the evidence on gramme is being transmitted.

homa in 1902, The experience which has been

which it is now denied that he The theory that Booth escaped was Booth would be necessary be Critical Designs Barred. filament of a valve is not broken it gained by various authorities in after the wrong man had paid fore I could say anything fur If it were true it would mean must necessarily be capable of the use of short waves for trans- the penalty for his deed is sup- ther about it. There is not, I be that all est designs were mighty giving satisfactory results, for this mission over great distances will, ported by the alleged confession lieve, the smallest doubt that bad ones. The designer who turn will not be the case If the valve of course, be used in deciding on of St. Helen, who is said to have John Wilkes Booth was the as- ed out sets which were sa critical has lost emission.

the actual wave-length time zones murmured before he died, "I am tual assassin.”" for the Empire transmitting

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It may have been true to some is to put "plenty on the plate" of "It is impracticable at present to extent of the earlier receivers with the power valve. the more primitive system of H.F.

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Do not attempt to use an H.T. times of the year for the transmig- Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong other way of saying that they were supply unit unless this has been sion of programmes to various for February, 1982, (Standard time really not good seta, or not so good properly constructed on "safety parts of the Empire, but a short of the 120th Meridian, East of as modern ones, at any rate.

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Suppose that there is a risk of harmful interaction somewhere in

a modern design, what do we do dry battery should always be less be used. about it? Do we laboriously seek than the safe discharge rate which out the only run for the wires it is intended to supply.

which will prevent it, and then try

to frighten the constructor into copying it closely?

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When a battery has been in use some time, its internal resistance

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ALTERING THE AERIA

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COMPLAINTS

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The Truth. The real fact of the matter is The effective height of an aerial that in a modern design you have is not its height from the earth but quite a lot of latitude" in wiring, its height from the nearest large and there is no cause for alarm at earthed object, so trees, Iron roofs, all. Of course, it is a good Idea to etc. underneath it reduce the effec copy the original wiring, becausative height considerably. it was done by a skilled worker,

that had been on range all the Sum- When unable to capture a horse mer a farmer applied at Boy Scout district headquarters, Ottawa, for a 21 Scout roping arpert

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