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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1926.

B.B.C. AND 5.0.S.

CASES OF URGENT

MESSAGES.

The safe recovery of the pilla which a Birmingham choralet made

The loss of

yet come of the calls broadcast overy expense, and then telephon at the request of Scotland Yard. ed, "Don't make the cat announces These calls have been mostly for mont; cat returned:" witnesses of aceldonta and for canaries and of parrots has been traces of persons suffering from broached to the B.B.C. authorities loss of memory..

in the same way; and a lady who missed her train from Manchester! to Blackpool wished the fact an nounced in order that her friends might not wait tea..

***What is "Urgency.”# The BBC have two general up with quarter of a grain of rules governing this section of strychnine In another triumph for their workWith the exception ·General Strike Appeals. broadcasting. The mistake was of such an urgent and unusual brondcast as soon as it was dis-case as that of the polson pills,

The General Strike produced covered, and the pilla were traced 8.0.5. calls are only broadcast: many curious appeals. There was and placed in charge of the police before the woman to whom they were posted received them,

"PLANE" SPEAKING.

ADVERTISERS' SLOGANS, THAT NONE CAN ESCAPE.

A gigantic, booming voice, com ing from behind a bank of clouds, amazed those who, the other day, were atanding on the flying ground

Philadelphia, USA,

A moment or so later, moving a mile above the ground, appeared a twinmotored biplane.

In cases of serious illness, that of the Indy who had to get up

From it, though it was so high, and then only when the address curly to walk to business, and nak of the person required is unknowned the B.B.C. to broadcast mes came the sound, not only of talk- Three hundred S.CS, calls have and the application is recompani sage to her neighbours to stop Ing, but of singing and music, been broadcast this your, and more ed by a medical certificate, or playing the pinne after midnight: which reached the ears of those, than two hundred have been sue the Company are in possession of and there was the bookmaker who over a wide area below.

had had an unlucky day at the Developed after years of roseach, cessful. Last year numbered 242 the means of obtaining medical races and telephoned from an ob the apparatus producing this onor and 166 were successful. No, callarication of the mcaange.

so sensational ap that concerning having

seure hotel in Chester that ho fear-mous voice from the sky weighs

Magnified Tones.`·

the poison pills has been recorded Urgent $.0.S. calls of this kind ed his clients had discovered his half a ton, fills the cabin. of the before, but many interesting mes are sometimes broadcast when the whereabouts, and asked the B.B.C. big aeroplane, and is operated by anges (writes a representative of address of the person required is to let him know in their next tran- two men. the Observer) were recalled yester-known, but owing to the closing sport bulletin "the next train leay- day at Savoy Hill Amotorist for breakdown of telegraphic facili- ing Chester, the destination being travelling in the South of France tles, it is impossible to reach the Immaterial,” was asked in one of the calls to addressee through the ordinary return home on account of the channels." serious illness of a relative, the

2. In case of a missing person, index number of his car being given in the announcement. We but only when written instructions heard a few days later," it was have been obtained from Scotland stated, "that the motorist had been Yard. stopped and given the megauge by S.O.S. calls are never broadcast. an A.A. scout, who was a wireless

1. Unless it is a matter of life. enthusiast and recognised the

and death, number of his car. On another' occasion a message was picked up in the Sahara."

2. Unless all other means. communication have failed...

A word spoken in an ordinary Then. there was the case of the tone into a special microphone la man embarking at Southampton so magnified and radiated down- for Australia, whose friends want-ward that it can be made audible ed a message broadcast telling him without distortion to vast con- of people in cities or "not to worry, as they had fount courses the tickets, he had left behind in public assemblies over which the Glasgow."

aeroplane may be flying.

The most extraordinary appeal

An equipment or installation in

of all came from a man who telea multi-motored plane is to be sent.. phoned to say he wanted a mes, to Europe by the organisation con- of sage broadcast for silver paper, trolling the invention the Plane-

"What do you want silver papur Speaker Corporation.

The invention is to be developed 3. In cases where death has al-for?" he was asked. I make it A hospital once asked for a call.

into balle and give them away. In connection with adverising an- for ass's milk for a child lying ready occurred. '

he replied, and then added. "Do nouncements. A new terror" of Boriously ill. Within twenty All sorts of people, of course, you know what I like best in your ultramodern life may be a stentor. minutes several persons rang, of have asked for messages to be programmes. Ike your after dan voice, from aloft, making itself. foring both asses and goats.

broadcast which are entirely be noon concerts. I put on the head heard even above the traffic roar Nothing go thrilling as the cup-yond the scope of the services. phones, take a glass of beer, and of a great city, "booming the merits of some proprietary goods, ture of Crippen by wireless has One the other day wanted to pay go to sleep"

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