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RADIO NOTES AND NE WS

The Time Barrier.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

BEAM WIRELESS.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

FINGER PRINTS ACROSS SEA.Į

Prisoners Identified by Code, Use of Short Waves."

For the first time in the history In the recent short-wave of Bootland Yard a prisoner has Washington: In all the meat stations work, people along the

will stick to oxportments in England it boen identified by cabled discrip ings at the Third National Radio Pacific coast

noticed that at night tions of his finger-prints. Conforanco hare, where national. their local broadcasters. Accord-was

tho → signals werd Formerly identification would simultaneous and super-powering to ono San Francisco broad-timo broadcasting wero discussed, ono caster, even if the cost of con- received continuously with great have involved the mailing of Insurmountablo obstacle obtruded neoting lite station to an eastern strength at a distance of some copies of the finger-prints of a slation ware cheap enough, ha 2,500 miles, and weaker signals suspoot. There would have been Itsait.

would not give up, hie "Children's arrived oven in the daytime, when a delay varying from sight days That was, Timo. Timo is the drawback to some Hour," ut 5.30 coast time, for the range of wireless is normally to several weeks, involving re- of the fondest dreams and hopes anything sont out from the oust much less-than when the sun is poated adjournments if the mattor below the horizon. So strong had come bofore a magistrate, in the minds of radio broad at 8:30 onstera time.

Until radio mon find a way to were the night signals received and, in any case, the detention High power, long dis

prolonged period of a castors. tanon, relaying of programmmos, overcome this obstacle of time,noar, thin Capo Vordo Islands for inforconnection of stations all there nood bo no fear of monopo-that Benator Marconi estimated prisoner who may, after all bo

Д power of only one found innocent. these, and other more or lossly of the air by high power that

In the prosent instance tho elimination of tenth of a kilowatt would bava: Important matters must be con- stations, or of

Yard's sidorod only in so far as Timo local stations by any system of boon suflofont. On the Cedric code worked out by Superintend

was ont Collins, Scotland national or international broad- telephonic communication will permit.

ostablished with the chairman joxport, was in the possession of casting.

of Amalgamated Wireloss of police authorities in all parts of Australia at Sydney, Now South the Empire, as well as in South Wales, a distance of over 12,000 America and the United States.. milos.

Recently a suspqot was arrested

The difference in time botwoon New York and San Francisco cannot bo obliterated as sasily as thoir intervoning distance has

TOMATO-1'OTATO PLANT. boon. Even when super-power-

An interesting experiment

Senator Marconi is now stations, with the most afficiant

out at Dollar Park methods of transmission, can carried hurl their programmes across Falkirk, with the object of Bocur-satisfied that wireless by the deserts and over mountains with ing more strongly-constituted beam system and smalt energy oasa, Time will remain the draw tomato, has resulted in the grow-radiating short waves is now ing of a plant which has been commercially possible at any -back to their practicability.

number of beam For when Now York is ready found to bear fruit both above distance on the earth, and he is to broadonat, San Francisco is and under the ground. Early in projecting a atill at work. And when San the year a tomato shoot was stations for this purpogo, the Francisco is ready to listen in, grafted on to a potato plant, and operation of which will bo so New York-or the oast at least when lifted a fow weoke ago, the economical compared with exist plant was found to have honoathing systems as very greatly to -is going to bed.

No botter oxample of this dis- the surface, two growths of roduce the cost of long distance parity in time, and its disparag-potatous, the first being of avor-transmission. ing effect upon supor-power and age size; while, above ground, a Himultaneous broadcasting, can crop of tomatoes had already bo glvon than the spooch Beoretary of Commerce Hoover at the opening of the radio con- ference, when it was broadcast through 17 different stations. He bogan talking of about 8.15 eastern time, in the assembly room of the Interior Department building at Washington.

of boon taken.

The oast and middło west, and porhaps oven the mountain region oast of the Rookies, could have listened in. for the time of the soorutary's broadcast speech in oach of these divisions was 8.15 7.15 and 6.15 respectively.

But the Pacific coast was just It was returning from work.

only 5.15 then, and only the wildest of radio fans might have been listening to this talk.

HOPES MAINTAINED Yot there is talk of "Der Tag" when San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sonttle will listen in concerts broadcast from London 1

on

This is perfectly possible, even to-day, and it will be more easily accomplished a little later. But Fuch broadcasting will be in- offectual against the six-hour lime between difference in London and the Pacific coast. The entire territory that oauld be covered by such broad- cating could not listen in at the same time.

London then would be reaching out to Burmah on the one hand, and San Diego on the other. That would mean almost a day's d foronco in time botwden one listener and the other. Not to -mention the difference in tantos cstoms and habits that must also be considered!

the pre- 1ime, therofore, is videntiel aloment that will save the local broadcaster from anni- brand- Super-power bilation. Casting may spread. Programmer of national interest may continue to be transmitted through inter- connecting stations the country:

ovor.

But so long as 8 o'clock, eastern standard time, usually is the basis on which those infor communicating, or super-power

USE

MORE STEEL.

Amidst all the stool of Now York, another pair of tool towers is rising in construc- tion of broadcasting station WGBS. The size of each tower is well illustrated by comparison with the men on the top. This is the second Class B station owned by Gimbel Brothers of Now York and Philadelphia, Thoir station in Philadelphia is WIP.

THE DEMOCRACY OF MODERN GOLF.

SUS

..ITT.

PHYSICIAN BARRED.

Wrote Article to Attract Attention

inan

in London in company with wbom Scotland Yard

thousands of miles away." Tho know to bave boon convicted Finger Print Department soarch- ponding with those of the second ed their records for prints corros-

Buperintendent Collins's code man, but without success. was tried, and by its aid a full description of the printe takon the first man's conviction had were cabled to the country whore taken place, and the polles there wore askod to investigate.

In a few minutes after the receipt of the codod description a Boarch revealed that the suspect was the wanted man, and upon that identification he tradited.

WAS Ox

With Superintendent Colline's The General Medical Council yesterday found that Dr. Haugn code tho methods of identification as simple, and almost as Brown, of Cavendish Square, W., aro had been guilty of unprofessional spoedy as in an ordinary essO. conduct, and the registrar was directed to orase his name from the medical rogister, says London messago" of. Novembor 28th..

He was summoned to appear] buforo the council on the charge that he sought to obtain patients or to promote bis own profession- al advantago by means of a signed | article containing his portrait published in a wookly magazine. The article was entitled Child- birth: Amazing Now Discovery."

Dr. Hadyn Brown said his arti. cle was intended to draw attention to the defects in medical society organization, which had failed and sill failed to recognize im-

discoveries! portant scientific sooner than it did.

Ho claimed that articles in medical journals had resulted in nothing advantageous to the pro- fession, or to the public. Ho de- liberately chose to write in this particular magazine bocaust it reached a large number of people, and he believed that the solion might lead to recognition of his own treatment for child-birth.

"How did you think recogai. tion of your scientific discovOTION would be achieved in this way?" asked the president.

"I considered," Dr. Brown ró- plied, "there was a great like-

hood that it would lead to an inquiry on the part of the Gener al Modical Council, I desired an opportunity of calling attention to what I consider a flagrant and unfortunate want in the modical profession."

ly

The president: You deliberate- this that anticipated article would bring you within

of the scope

notico and the council?-I did, sir.

Dr. Hadyn Crown holds the do- Broes of LR,C. P,LR.CS., Edin- burgh and L.R.F.P.S., Glasgow. According to a medical directory ho is a Follow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the Peychical Research Society. Dr. Brown was awarded a medal and four clasps for service in the South African war.

Ile has written a number of booke, including "The Socrot of Good Health and Long Life," The Secret of Human Power," and Now Hra Psychology."

ROCK FROM THE SKY.

M. Camille Flammarion, the famous astronomer, Informed a Paris correspondent of the Daily Express that two months ago a heavy motoorite fell near tho Portuguese, frontier, boring al deep hole in the earth. This mass of Inter-planetary reek burned like lava when found. The motoorite, which wolghed about two hundredweighte, was cal culated to bave hit the earth at a pace of nearly thirty-six miles a second. It must, said the vetoran astronomer, be the remnant of sa inter-planetary disturbance that probably occurred two million years ago. During this time the meteorite has boon rushing through space,

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