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NANCY

OH,

PEE WEE DO YOU WANT TO HELP

ME 7.

SURE--

IT'S FUN!

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 5, 1941. By Ernie Bushmiller

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 bili 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 new powers needed to prevent price increases due to commission transac- tions between registered firms and other traders. Activities of intormedlarics will be curbed and a check 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 introduced shortly,

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Conditions, he Bald, had changed nince the passing of the Price of Goods Act. The Act had worked satisfactorily up to the present in keeping prices generally at reason- able level in relation to costs,

New Measure Needed "But," he added, "I am satisfied that a further measure of price re-

ulation is needed."

Coloured Clogs Are Latest

Kypr 1948 by Vallas Poulser Findlalt, Sai

Clogs without claiter-new slogan of Britain's clogmakers -plus wartime needs and lea- ther supply difficultles are bring. ing a boom in the demand for rubber-soled models.

But what a contrast to those The new bill will fix maximum in which Lancashire and York wholesale and retail prices

for a shire mill-girls used to clatter wide range of goods in common use, over the cobbles to work! and also for such services as Now with uppers made of bright storage of furniture. It will not red, green and blue leather and the apply to food, which is dealt with wooden soles covered with rubber, separately,

dainty clogs are being produced to of Traite will lay down maximum clothes.

Besides fixing prices the Board be worn with the smartest outdoor wholesale and retail percentage

Already they are being worn by margins. It will also have power Yorkshire

girls. Soon, judging by with manufacturers' prices the number of orders pouring into deat

the Bradford Brm which has created Penalties for profitering will be the new style, they will be seen in

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the

and margins.

severe, including imprisonment up to two years and fines up to £500.

Minister With A Barrow

many other parts of the country.

A contract for thousands of pairs of clogs for A.TS. girls and Waufs to wear on camp duty has recently been placed.

Chance Find

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RECORDING THE NEWS: HOW THE BBC WORKS

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B.B.C. WAIVE WEDDING BAR

THE BBC marriage "bar" to women members of their staff has been walved for the duration.

Before the war, anembers of the stat wishing to marry had to obtain permisaton. Cases were considered by.a board and it. applicants had. key positions, and it was considered their domestic life would not interfera with their jobs, permission WON granted.

Now that the "bar" ins 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 Intier case, the recording engineer will hear the announcer ARY: We are now taking you over to..... to hear our observer, whose Commentary

has been recorded

earlier to-day-or the commentator may speak 1. directly at the microphone, starting on a signal from the engineer, to link together the various 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 demanda close co-opera- tion and complete understanding be- tween the recording engineer and the programine staff both at the outside broadcast point and in the studlo

centre.

car

Use them have

on

rood condition for cutting next One of the money

many programmes re- corded by this unit took place in

Uso by chance. "Previously we had spiral track' in the varnish on the Operated from a twelve-volt acc amplifier, the controls necessary the Maginot Line. where the ap

door wear.

Borrowing a caster's barrow, the minister, alded only by his care- taker, Mr Geddes, has salvaged and ous demand from

in the church hall, free of Clogs are also popular among air- stored

war workers. charge, the goods of 30 families; Ro- rald shelterers, who man Catholics. Jews, Church of nothing-to-beat them for keeping say there is England and Baptista.

"About ten families have given me

the feet warm and dry.

"Clogs are cheap,

retali at about "I give

| 128, a pair, and the cost of re-clog vel to needy families or ging them is small compared with sell it to well-to-do ones. With the that of boot and shoe repalts, while money I help out poor people who we reckon the uppers will last twice have to go to the country,

as long as an ordinary shoe."

the furniture to use as I wish," he style will proba too. Our new

which were

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GETS 22 NAZIS. Pilot Officer Eric Lock of British. Alr Fores, who is credited with downing 22 German planos. He is the youngest in Air Force only, 21. Ho has boon given Distine guished Flying Cross, with bar and Distinguished Service Order of Britain.

NORWAY

SHIPS ESCAPE.

The Nazi rulers of Norway,

Death will be the penalty for anyone disobeying this order.

Norway's fishing fleet bas been put under military control.

dash. for: it,”*

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"Dash To It" Overhead warplanes soar, ready to swoop on any ship that "innkes a An Exchange message from Swe- den,

this; reporting

quoted Gothenburg newspaper is saying: "Recently several Norwegian vessels have crossed to English ports with fugitives on board."

Other Feats Some daring escapes have been made from Norway: Scolland-200 miles in a 20ft mo- Last summer. two, men crossed to tor-boat..

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Baby Was Entombed Three Days

Listeners 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 also for direct outside broadcasting from becoming tohgled round the 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 clump nonnelly operated from the Although the equipment events. The most direct way of do- live broadenst ing this is by means of sound plc-

which holds down the centre of the while stationary, recordings have WAR also tures which combine

necessary to disc, through a email rubber-lyred been made while on the sounds of events with the voices of recording and connecting the output one end of the brush holder. The in the air, in express trains, at sea worried because ships are said

actual

provide facilities for reproducing s

move wheel which is fixed

eccentrically on following processions, In aeroplanes the men and women taking part in to a studio centre. The equipment brush them. Sometimes this can be done had also to fit into the car without electrical pick-up plugged into the

can bo removed and

and even in a submarine diving. by roving microphones, connected by any modification of the standard same socket for playing back the re

On Active Service to he escaping to Britain, have telephone line to a studio centre, but bodywork and without fitting any corded disc. When the pick-up is some of the mobile recording units to stay in harbour.

Since the beginning of the war, ordered every Norwegian vessel the

most

interesting topleal material special mountings in the car. plugged in, the necessary electrical and the men who is sometimes to be found at places The present design of the light connections to the amplißer are made seen dangerous and exacting service. riniote times unsuitable for broadcasting of the problem by BBC

ote from telephone lines or at recording unit is the result of a study automatically.

engineers. It must then be collected by means of is not possible for such a compact

Accuracy Of Sound

On the declaration of war one of the saloon cars - wis londed a mobile recording unit.

unit to provide

Ide all the advantages of

Reproduction

to A Cross-Channel steamer. at the mobile units in wartime, let us continuous recording lasting longer rotation of the turn-table must

Before describing the activities of the heavier-one-It cannot make a the original sounds the speed of French customs without delay, and

To obtain faithful reproduction of Dover, I

passed through the

or two kinds a heavy type mounted (about four minutes), and it lacks of seventy-eight revolutions look at the equipment itself. It is than the duration of a

was driven to Paris, where I was single disc main constant at the standard rate left for a time in a deen garage in a large van and a light portable many of the facilities and refinements minute. The opted constantly correspondents were allowed to ac- ready for action. When BBC war Each of these has its special uses; But where speed is essential it has a which consists of a number of holes 1030, the BBC unit. apparatus carried in a

a saloon cor.

which are provided by the heavy van. checked by means of a stroboscope',

one company the B.E.F. early in October both make records in the form dises which are somewhat similar in car is not subject to the statutory table and of a moon lamp which

of r

great advantage, because the salen drilled in the outer rim

consisting of appearance to ordinary twelve-inch speed limit of twenty miles an hour, shines through

of the turn-

a commentator, a programme official, gramophone records, but consist of a which is imposed on the large van:

and an engineer took possession of these holes from the car. Accommodation was pro- attic was coating of special cellulose varnish moreover, it can be manoeuvred more beneath. This lamp is supplied with vided at G.H.Q., and an on a base of aluminium.

easily in narrow streets and parked specially designed oscillator mounted

alternating current from

made into a small studio. small They are ready for playing as soon in more restricted spaces.

During the winter, the extreme as the record has been cut, without

In the case of the recording machine. gorde, partly because frost patterns The Recording Apparatus

cold made it difficult to cut good processes involved in malcing ordin

of the elaborate intermediate any

The apparatus consists of three of the turn-table is related to the rate affected the surface, and partly be The spacing of the holes in the-rim ory records, and each dise can be the parts the recording mache of flashing of the lamp in such a way

formed on played twenty or thirty Umes before une amplifier, and the power-supply that the light appears to remain

the blank discs and use the liquid in the batteries was trawler reached

A few weeks carlier, an 18-tor in the disc-recording rooms at BBC sists essentially of a heavy turn-table, move round the turn-table in it becomes noticeable to those used unit.

a port in Canada THIC

stationary when

the turn-iable affected, Temperatures as low as with her fuel tanks almost empty. studios.

con- rotating at the correct speed, but to freezing were encountered, and the

forty

degrees Fahrenheit below Electric currents, corresponding to the cutter-head, and the tracking direction or the other when the speed "ngineer even had to take the discs the sound waves picked un by the gear which gives the correct, spiral is too fast or too slow.

to bed in order that they might be microphone, cause vibrations of a re-form to the groove. The turn-table Coloured leather uppers came into cording stylus which

driven by

The power-supply unit contains a cuts 11 wavy

an electric motor motor-generator and smoothing cir- concentrated on plain stout clogs surface of the

tuits for the high-tension supply to spiral lator battery. The shaft of this disc. The with uppers of black or tan leather motion is obtained by causing the r which is in contact with the rim of varia Impressed by the appeals of for wear

motor.co

small rubber wheel for the low-tension circuits, and o .carries his bombed-out parishioners to children,"

by factory workers and cording bead which carries the stylus the turn-table, so that the latter is speed of the turn-table. This unit ture the head of

resistance O variable a. Bradford to

to move slowly across the surface of

raratus was taken out of the car regulating the save their furniture lying under firm said.

driven smoothly and evenly at a con- is elastically mounted to reduce v-u

truck on the minia- debris the Rev. E.

The disc while the latter is rotating crably lower speed than that four hundred volts; it is driven bynast of the band of the Chasseurs | of a house demolished in a recent "The war brought supply dif

rallway. system which Ralph,

on the turn-table. When the disc in fleuffles. Finding there were big played, Baptist minister, of Catford

of bration and

and supplies direct current through the undergrount! forts. An- of coloured leather availa.... Finetts

currents similar to those the motor. The same motor also

150 ot Hill Church, became a salvage]

other was the recording of a march Somewhere in the wreckage ble, we decided to experiment, and

ere applied, to the recording drives the tracking mechanism; this the accumulator battery. There are t officer and furniture remover in

we think the clog which has re-

cutter are produced by the vibrations includes a leadscrew which is sup- two small circuit breakers, of the needle in

Alpins, which framophone ported behind the turn-table and control the motor-generator and the o'clock in the morning in a blinding month-old baby girl.

taken WAS

at six- Merseyside raid lay a four- his spare time.

sulted is as smart as produced by shoemakers for unt pick-up: atter amplification these extends across the width of it. As it other to control the filament supply snow

yet anything

snow-storm in the Jura currents can be made to reproduce rotates,

Moun of the

Rescue broadcasts the original sound through a loud- urm slow lead-screw carries a rigid to the ampliftor; these switch off the taina. Many

across the turn-table from

aquads tunnelled. "We are experiencing an enorm- | speaker, either directly or through the outer edge of the disc towards the current If an nccidental short circuit frem France were relayed through through the debris. They know

the medium of wireless transmission: centre; to the end of

'Lille

station of the French their task must be hopeless, but this ar is at-

In order that the equipment can engineers did magnificent work in

Boet Office Mobile Unit

tached the cutter-head, which locks

French by assembled and put into operation engineers

nch they were determined not to A-mobile-unit of the heavier type very much like an ordinary gramo with the least possible delay, the Axing up lines at very short notice give up until they were certain. consists of a motor van, weighing phone pick-up except that instead of connections between the

The mobile unit, was also zent, from various

Twenty-four hours passed, and about six tons when laden, the body the edge of which is accurately shap- connecting cables fitted with plugs commentator there. The same equip They struggled on

a steal needle there is a steel cutter, uni

time to units are made by means of inter-ters for the use of a second BBC days and still they had not found to time to the RAF headquar- there was no sign of life. Two of which is divided into two comed to carefully calculated angles, and sockets, the cables being care- partments, One compartment ja acoustically treated so as to form a The hellon of the currents which are fully screened, where The other contains two sets of fe- vibrate the cutter from side to side wiele of the equipment small studio suitable

for

the French war correspondents at- cording cau

equipment (so that continu and so produce a wavinesa in the from two batteries,

tached to the BEF F and also for ous recording can be made by passing spiral groove- corresponding to the of five nickel-iron accumulator cells

live broadcasts of the concert parties from one turn-table to the other as sounds which are being recorded. One of the batteries has

arranged by EN.S.A. each disc is finished) together with

Amplifier

a hundred and twenty

capacity

During May the unit accompanied the associated amplifiers, the con- The weak currents produced by the hours and the other

ampere the ar of

army to Brussels and eighty trolling and switching equipment, microphone are applied to the input ampere-hours, the supply for the Amiens. By this time, it had two had spent three days struggling to

beyond, Then back to Little, and the

Arres, and wooden. battery-charging plant. of an amplifier which gives an output Blaments

bring taken from Recordings can be made either of sufficient to operate the

battery, recording larger speech from the microphone in the cutter. This amplifier has

turn-tablets of equipment at its disposal. reach. Her parents had been killed,. three motor and the

Then came the

but she appeared unharmed. studio compartment, or of speech or clages of amplification and uses the their supply from the two batteries lume, during which some of the motor-generator: taka en cam rapid move to Bou-

Triumphantly they carried her to other

sounds pleted up by other principle of negative feed-back to The Cquipment is normally cor mier ones outside the van and neutralize any distortion which my ried in a fourteen-horse-power saloon

equipment had to be abandoned at

aivaiting ambulance. Now sho, 19, Amiens. The cabies between Bou-In Hospital recovering. concte to it by cables,

arise

within itself or in the recording

lovne and London were stil intuet. base, if necessary, for several weeks

Thu van can work away from its head.

cof. The

The suply unit stands on the and several

veral despatches BAC

by were alven at a time and, since the equipment

The first section of the ampli-floor behind the driver's seat. Tho

observers from Boulogne. 19 fer is the same as that used for amplifier rests on be charged from the engine of the may be employed for this purpose by bulteries are carried

stands on was frequent bombing, the caulp- Fifty new ships with a tolal ton-lhe most part coastwise craft cr

tho rear seat of the yan, it is self-contained and

ment was brought back to England. car. The nage of 235,000 were launched at trans-Baltic carriers

dent of electric supply mains. The switch the telephone line to the

off the output stage and host and their connecting cables run unit was with

in the Juggage Meanwhile, n second recording Swedish yards in 1940, and 45 ships

the 63 Ships Idle

size of the ven makes it possi

Advanced Air totalling 100,000 tons already have

terminals provided. In this condition through the back of the rear seat. Striking Force near Rheims: It wa On Jan. 1 this year the number of been delivered. At the beginning of idle Swedish ships of over 300 tons pro

accommodate the most complete tech- the amplification is sensibly the same The luggage boot also contains cable through this unit that many listeners nical equipment Checking the ac-feight thousanies from fifly to drums holding up to four hundred home, first heard the sound

for, controlling the for all this year nnuther 60 vessels, aggre-Was 03, making a Jotal tonnage, of

programme and gating about 550,000 tons, were 287,000. This includes the Grips

curacy

failing bombs. The of

raemy hud elther under construction or con-hohn and the Drattingholm of the

the recording, and also to for all the note cycles per second, Leyards of screened microphone

notes on a piano from the telephone sets Employ the most

particularly active in this area. for tracted for.

Swedish American Line, while the

robust and con- lowest, G to more than an octave venient form of recording apparatus, above the highest note.

the recor channel

and rome time, and during one of the Kungsholm still is in the cruise ter- by hydraulically

The

enjineer iurn-tables can be made level

the car, despatches At present Sweden has 050,000

from the R.A.F. a salvo On the top of the amplifier tons of shipping or 40 per cent. of

ments so that operated adjust-are two Input, sockets-one for con- stand, and a kit of tools. There are out of New York.

loud of hombs dropped close to the open mixer, Through Ave

peakers, a telescople microphone window of Swedish ships

studio. of the existing tonnage outside the blog- allowed by the British to

em be made necting a moving-cell microphone,

Since their return these recording The spec when the van is standing on a slope. tie other for counceling sither the also head-phones for checking the walla love sull been engaged in re- akde the Skagerrak barrier. Most of will be no increase in the tonnage eick-ups and a loudspeaker are pro- microphone mixing unit; the latter is

speed of the turn-tables can be those ships outside the bleckade are cutside the barriers.

recorded dilses or a three-channel venient to use a loudspeaker.

the most outstanding of these record- employed in carrier service including that enters must either come out u

Every ship vided for reproducing sound from the

'We Are Now Taking

Ings was made on the cliffs of Dover. convey service to Great Britain. be repinced with another of the

You, Over To....

The unit had just taken up records when necessary, he used for selecting or combining the Vonnale late the inabarin nea

its stand various outputs when more

one than Getting The News

When the records have been made, sten

there when a convoy was scon microphone is used.On the front of they are either taken to one of the Just as the convoy was passing the

steaming Although these heavy recording the amplifier there are mounted a BBC studio centres or played back point where the recording car

slowly up the

the Channel. vans are well suited to many kinds peak programme meter and a con-in the car itself, the output being of recording work experience has trolling potentiometer or volume connected by a telephone line to statened, German dive-bombers at-

roved that a lighter form of Guipment la also necessary, nobílé contralto ensure that the correct the studio centre. Lines

tacked Anti-aircraft guns went In 1938 the BBC News Department head throughout, the recording are specially tested by the lines with the running commentary which novolume is applied to the recording the transmission of in prografome into netton, followed by equadronk of 'elt the need

fighters. The recording of this action, n mobile unit whic

Recorder

engineers of the BBC and equalized necompanied it gave a realistic country,

im- oblain a

news story. atomical and bring the records back the same to entage the tracking mechanism to sary for the faithful transmission taken to London and broadcast in the night (to London or any other BBC start the travorso of the cutter across of music. studio. centre) to be included in the news bulletins. The apparatus had to cutter-head on to the blank disc at this way,

the

disc and the other to lower the

the. For reproducing recordings in evening.

news bulletin that same be aumlelently compact to at into on the moment when the recording it to a telephone exchange where con- Hell-fire Corner, the recording unit

the car is talen ordinary saloon car, light enough to start. Provision is also made for nections can be made directly to tie was machlue-quined by a Messerech

During another broadens from carried into

1 building or sot 'up

varying the depth of the cut the telephone lines. In order that the 'n an neroplane, and robust to withston

enough travelling

| angla over bad speed with which the recording headly t conds

down right moment to At to the German machine was brought Although it

moves towards the centre of the disc. bromideast programme of which it is the sholl-fire from the long-range

by anti-aircraft fire,- Ft, algo ised in the car, the apparatus had to pitch of the spiral track, 1.0. the recording engineer in the car to Channel const when

normally be This last adjustment determines the to part, it is necessary for the nainstalled by the Germans on the he readily movable

so that it could number of grooves par inch which hour the cue which is the signal for Dover, for the first timers ho carried by land to places to which anuear on the din brush noves pront and fate up the output recording unit continues-bringing to

sholla

fell in he car could not be taken. It had During recording,

him-to, lower the pick-up on the 1:30 to be independent of external scroll the face of the disc and aweek This euo inby, alther be taken on al-listeners at home and oversees the Meanwhile the work of the mobile. ower supplies and to be suitable for up the thread of swart which out other telephone line from the studio sound and series of Great Britain at use not only as a recording unit, but from it, and walch, te thus prevented contes, or it may be heard on Gwangway BareLENGGE

sold.

Sweden Now Replacing Her Shipping Losses

Sweden's merchant shipping loss-95 ships totalling 342,545 tons since the war began is being replaced rapidly

ment was used by one of the

speech. Passed through the cutter-head is to prevent electrical interference to man broadcasting companies and by

The

consisti

the

They struggled on for the third day. And in a full they heard. from somewhere near, the falut cry of a baby coming through that mass of brick and rubble,

they

Frantically, yet gently

the remaining

.in

tore

an old-fashioned

And there, the baby they

by new construction, according to recent Swedish information, operated from batteries which can ordinary outside broadcasts, and it the recording me top of it and After a few days, during which there AN EASY WAY

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kade. Another 1,000,000 tons in In-monthly through the blockades, there accurately adjusted, and gramophon/electrical pick-up for reproducing | Progranímine when it le not con- Dartinit incidenta in the war. Ong of |

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