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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1932. -

TADIO

RADIO CORPORA RADIO FROM SPACE TION OF AMERICA

INVOLVED IN BIGGEST

TRUST SUIT

Wilmington, Del., Nov. 13- Action in one of the greatest legal

DR. BARNES AWAITS STAR For

MESSAGE

An amazing hint of a radio inės- sage from intelligent planet dwell or in some far-off star ayat was

"scientist ** Bishop of Birming ham.

FEATURES

Chance of Horrors. The bishop saw a chance of hor-

"Civilisation may easily decay. We shall have a sort of recovery following each grave crisis. But on each occasion recovery will be on a lower level...

"At successive stages medicine

RADIO SKYSCRAPER which is expected to serve as a foil

for the panels.

MURALS

TO MARK AGE OF THINKERS

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now

NEW ERA IN WIRELESS

SENATOR MARCONÍ'S LATEST INVENTION

FEWER LISTENERS IN GERMANY

battles in the history of American Kiven recently by Dr. Barnes, the will be a little less rational; reli- frontiers to the inward, upward from olil problems, economic, politions are foreshadowed by the re-ed to the world economic crisis, and

jurisprudence was ordered postpon- od until Monday when attorney for the Federal Government and the Radio Corporation of American op peared before the United States District Court to-day.

Continuance of the suit with thei

"We may find elsewhere in the universe teachers willing to give us their knowledge. I am certain that there are many stars, to which life- bearing planets are attached," he

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gion little more barbarised; amusements more vulgar and inane; the intellectually weaker strains in the

community somewhat more numerous. So the decline to the Dark Agen will take place."

But the bishop. believed firmly

sequent postponement of hear. said, in a Birmingham Institute in man's destiny.

ings until Monday was moved by the Government. Belief now pre vails that the case will never go te trial since the continuance gives the Radio Corporation of America opportunity to arrange A settle.

nimit, out of court.

If the case docs go to trial a gigantic radio trust, said by the Government to control 80 per cent, of the country's radio industry in

addition to restraining domestic and foreign commerce and com- munications, will be forced to de- fend its corporated existence.

speech,

“It is not merely possible but probable that in the course of time roan will, by means of some variant of wireless, get into com munication with intelligent beings on far-distant planets.

Epoch of Marvels. What a marvellous epoch will❘ then begin! If even the accumulat ed human knowledge of the next ten thousand years were to burst suddenly upon us we should be dazed, exhilarated, enthralled,

to

Dr Barnes suggested that man might almost live for ever.

But if beings of an animal The case, involving the Radio!. type, possibly quite different from Corporation of America and its anything we can imagine, should allied companies with assets of convey

us knowledge won by 6. 818,000,000,000 and controlling minds immeasurably transcending more than 4,000 patents in radio, our own in power, we should be will be the greatest anti-trust suit transformed.” ever undertaken by the Federal Government. The defendants in the suit, the Government charges, have monopolistic contracts with number of foreign governments which in reality serve to restrain' trade and communications within and outside the United States. The Government contends the trust noti prove the quality of any selected only, monopolizes the radio receiv-population. ing apparatys fiold but extends also

into the manufacturing of talking!

"He might even, by conquering the minute organiems which carry disease, prolong almost indefinite- ly his time upon.cart.," he said.

Know Your Ratio Set,

Everyone who owns a wireless set should have a certain amount of technical knowledge. Even with so robust a piece of mechanism as a Tear, few motorists would feel sa- tisfied to drive without at least a working knowledge of the mechaj niam.

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To assist. listomers in tracing and remedying the little faults which occasionally occur in the best radio receivers, "The Wireless World arges that every set should be ne- companied by is detailed a des eription of the receiver as possible, with hints which will help towards curing minor radio ailments,

The nine murals are to emphasize spiritual qualities in the "Naw

The sad news of a drop in the Frontiers theme, which is to be

broadcast licence figures comes from Gerronny. The present quarterly carried out in the whole decoration

total is 4,077,347, which a 4,184 of the centre. The plan is to show

less than on July 1. This (says that so long as there wers

"The Wireless Work") is the first New York, Oct. 11.-The swing of geographical frontiers people al

Revolutionary developments in time in German radio history that civilization

the October Agures have showg, a from goographica! ways could find a transient escape wireless and telegraph communica decrease against the figures "for"

Imidsummer. The drop is attribut frontiers in the thinking of each tical and even spiritual by "mov mults of Senator Marconi's series not to the reorganisation of Ger human being is to be the theme of ing on.", To-day mankind has to of experiments in the use of ultra man broadcasting. the ning great panels which will solve his problems. constitute the sole artistic embel-moving on." The development of able reflectors.

Thore is no short waves cambitied with port- fishment of the new 70-story RCA civilization has ceased to be lateral building.

and become inward and upward. Three internationally known art! It is the cultivation of mankind's ists are to be the painters, Frank mental and spiritual qualities, the Brangwyn of England; Diego Ri- | broadening and deepening of his vern of Mexico and Jose Maria relations with his fellow men and the coming to a fuller comprehen- Sert of Spain, the first foreignerasion of living. to win awards from the Rockefeller |

Centre development,

The results of these experiments are most important, because they prove that it is powible by the use of ultra short-waves to send scanges over a greater distance than was theoretically believed pos- sible.

The new discovery has also con

E BROADCASTING TO THE

EMPIRE

Dr. Montague J. Rendall, one of the governors of the B.B.C., in opening the third annual Scottish Radio Exhibition in Edinburgh, said that on Christmas Day next the first regular broadcasting pro- gramme would be sent forth to the ends of the Empire. The station was now in being and the machin- friends across the waters, would ery was practically perfect. Our acon hear English-speaking voices. People had been clamouring for an Empire service. The B.B.C. had done their duty. An appeal had The compact nature of the ap- been issued and they had shoulder-

In the great hall the frontiers to The first be depicted aro "man's new relation sketches are to be ready on Dec. 1 to matter, the possibilities arising siderable commercial advantages, and the finished murals are to be from his new understanding of notably non-interference and econo- spiritual things and man's new rmy, since the power used is less delivered early `in ̈ April, Mr.lation to men, his more complete Brangwyn will work at his studio in understanding of the real meaning than that needed for the headlights

of a motor car.. Ditchling, Sussex, Eng. Senor Sert of the Serien on the Mount," will produce his four panej sat his studio in Paris, and Senor Rivera is to execute his commission in De troit, where he is at present en- gaged by the Museum of Art.

Architects

Sert's four canvases are to doal

universe, power, will, imagination,

paratus may have a far-reaching ed the responsibility. effect on the future of wireless com- munications.

From his yacht Electra, in which j

with the mastery of the material and genius. Brangwyn is to show the new relationship to society in four canvases dealing with "family relationships, relationships as he carried out the majority of his! and builders have)

and ethical or religious relation worker, as part of government ships, the fourth to be regarded as the dominating and controlling fac tor without which the first three power can only tail."

planned an unusual layout for the great corridor, 100 feet long, 100 feet wide and 25 feet high, which offers the largest single expanse in Most manufacturers give some Rockefeller Centre for the interpre sort of guarantee with their recci tation of its ornamentative theme. vers, but it is unreasonable for the The floor will be laid in black ter purchaser to expect service, free of razzo. The outer walls will be con- charge, for the period of the guastructed of Champlain black maible rantee, and most manufacturers from the by to a height of 76 have themselves given up the at feet, the remainder of the walls and tempts to give it."

ceiling to be in a deep ivory tone.

It is a very difficult matter to say just where a manufacturer's re- In the near future it should be sponsibility should stop, and to de- possible, by preventing the reprocide, too, when the expectations of duction of the less satisfactory hu- the purchaser in regard to service mau stocks, considerably to im exceed the bounds of reason. It is most desirable, that both parties should study to be fair.

picture equipment, X-rays, redio HAVE YOU HEARD THESE?

communications and numerous

household devices.

Fourteen companies compose the group of defendants, which are said to be allied through stock ownership and binding agreements which, the Government alleges, provide for a general pooling of radio patenta to such an extent that a monopoly has been created,

BRITISH R'WAY EXTENDS USE OF RADIO ON: TRAINS

Here are Hats of long-wAVO and short-wave stations which should be picked up by anyone in Hong Kong who has a mode. rately good sat austable for r8-' ceiving such signals. Success in picking up there stations also' dopends very largely upon fav- ourable atmospheric conditions. Readers are invited to add to this list should they succeed in picking up any station not in. ́cluded in either of these lists.

The London and North Eastern Railway's London-Leeds Express, the first British radio-equipped train, installed in 1930, has proven so successful that the railway is How equipping two of its Scittish expresses with improved apparatus. Sockets to which headphones, with volume control attachments, may be connected aro installed above each passenger's seat in the dining cars and coaches, passengers being supplied with headphones at n charge of 1 shilling per passenger. The central receiver is installed in 07.05 the buggage coach, with power sup- 10.12 plied from the, train lighting cir euit. To pormit freedom in tuning - 80," in new stations as the train pro- 43. greasen, two receivers are installed 413 дя nit with a special switch. 88.9 The sets themselves are designed, to 17. correct dificulties arising from the 85.3 screening effect or buildings and 81.55 trees, as are aerials along the car 81.48 roofs to avoid interference from 21.28 telegraph lines parallel to the right st. of way.

ANOTHER GIANT ---

··BROADCASTER

66.7

42.5

81,20

LONG-WAVE STATIONS

Call Kilo-

Sign cycle

Wave length

(Metres) Station

200 Manila

K.Z.I.B. 1,153 277 Shanghai K.S.M.S. 1,093 345 Tokyo J.0.A.K. 670 353 Hiroshima J.O.F.K. 350 305. Hong Kong Z.B.W. 816 357.1 Homboy..- Y.U.B. 840 361 Sappor 366 Keijo : 370 Nagoya

* 370.4 Calcutta

380 Kumamoto 390 Sendai 395 Dairen 400 Oks 410 Canton 480 Manila

SHORT-WAVE STATIONS.

STATION

CALL BION

Kito

J.0.1.K. 630 J.O.D.K. 820 J.O.C.K. 810 V.U.C 800.0 J.0.0.K. 790 J.O.H.K, 770 J.Q.A.K. 760 J.Ó.B.R. 750 C.M.B. 73% 'K.Z.R.M: 425

Tim (Hono Kono)

OF WORKING

4,434 Mon., Wed.& Fri,, 0 p.m. & 2 a.m 4,090 6-10pm,

Doblatz (Germany) | A.F.K" Khabarovsk (Russia) | B.A.97. Nauonw

A.G.J.

5,291 Not regular

ILF.N.

6,000 Tue, Thurs, Bat, & p...

6,800 Sunday midnight

1.H.A. 3.A.G..

V.8.1.A.B.

Mosco Rome Parth Singapore Kootwijk (Holland) P.C.L Bangkok (Siam}

¡IS&P.J. Sydney

2.3.L..

W.Z.X.A.F.

Melbourne Bohaneatady

Eindhoven (Holland)

Sydney Nairobi (Kenya)

PCJ 2.F.0.

29.

Sydney

27.8 25.68

Handneng

2.BLE, PLE

Chelmsford (England) 6.8.W.

24.0 28.86

Manila Schenectady

K.1.X.R

16.88

Bandoeng Kootwijk (Holland).P.CL

Bandoeng Bangkok

W.4.X.O. PLO

P.L.F. FI.8.1.P.J. P.C.K.

194 $17.4 Bamberg is this latest name to 10.8 conjure-with-in-European-radio 16.74

10.8 circles. Bamberg, says The Wire- 15.0 less World," is the village near 10.03 Vienna, which is to become famous on account of the 130 kilowatt broadcasting station ROW being erected at that spot. It is stated that tests may be started before the end of the year.

Kootwijk (Holland) Bandseng Nancy (França)

Pittsburg

7,149 Dally 6.80 p.m. & 11 pm.

7,310 Not regular

7,730 Daily 11 p.m

8,108 Tues. & Fil, 0 p.m.-1 n.223.

· 9,230 | Not regular Not regular

0,603

9,530 Dally 7 a.m.

9,620 Fri, 8 a.m. Sat, 3 am, & 10 6.0.

8.600 Not regular

9,677 Midnight daily

10,526 Not regular

Saturday and Bunday

| 11,920 Midnight--3 am, daily

11,761 7.30 p.m. & 3 mm, daily, except

18,840

Nightly

13,850 4 am, Wed., Fri., Sat.

10,102 Daily 0.80p.m. to midnight.

16,804 Dally. 7.p.m.

17,280 Daily 8 pm to midnight 17,761 Sundays 7 pm & midnight 18,404 Each afternoon.

PLE19,220 † Dally 5.30===TP:m/

19,861 Daily.8 m. WaXK.21,550 Not regular ***

[Allowance must be made for "summer-time?! in most Euro

pean ocuntries, which is one hour ahead of true time.]

A RADIO RHYME

wireless experiments, Senator Mar- coni was able by the use of low selected from the entries in a m This modern nursery rhyme is

petition recently conducted by an பர் ultra short 57-centi-English newspaper:- metre waves to talk by wireless

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