1941-06-05 — Page 23

Thursday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NANCY

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

OH,

PEE WEE-- DO

YOU WANT

SURE--

TO HELP

ME?

IT'S FUN!

SCHEME TO STOP PROFITEERING

The British Government intends to put a stop to profileer. ing. A new bill now in preparation will alm particularly at the activities of unnecessary middlemen and speculators.

Experience of the working of the Limitation of Supplies Orders has shown the Board of Trade that new.powers are needed to prevent price increases due to commission transac- tions between registered firms and other traders. Activities of intermediaries 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 be introduced shortly.

Coloured Clogs Are Latest

Cope, 1941 by Called Produre Syndirsin, Le

** Reg. 1. 1. Pak, URMAÐ EIN TWOITNE

Conditions, he sald, had changed since the passing of the Price of Goods Act. The Act had worked

Clogs without clatter-new satisfactorily up to the present ini keeping prices generally at reason-slogan of Britain's clogmakers able level in relation to costs.

-plus wartime needs and lea- ther supply diMculties are bring- ing a boom in the demand for rubber-soled models.

June 5, 1941 By Ernie Bushmiller

RECORDING THE NEWS:

HOW THE BBC WORKS

WAR

also

end

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the

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per

B.B.C. WAIVE

WEDDING BAR

THE B.B.C. marriage "bar" to women members of their staff has been waived for the duration.

Before the war, members of the staff wishing to marry had to obtain permission. Cases were considered by

a board and if applicants had key positions, and it was considered their domestic life would not interfere will their jobs, permission granted.

Now that the "bar" has been lifted, a large number of B.B.C. girls have married, and zone already-married are being talten on.

to

WOS

portable receiver tuned to the pro- gramme in which the recording is. to be inserted,

In the latter case, the recording engineer will hear the announcer Pay: "We are now taking you over to hear our observer, whose commentary has been

recorded earlier to-day or the commentator the speak directly miny microphone, starting on a signal from the engineer, to link together the varlous recorded Items Into a con- nected story.

Each section of the recording is then played over at the appropriate points in the observer's tolk.

Smooth presentatio, of this type of programame demands close co-opera tion and complete understanding be- tween the recording engineer and the programme staff both at the outside brondcast point and in the sludio

centre.

car

British Homes Repaired

Army Engaged

LONDON, June 4 (British Wire- les)Interesting Dgures relating to comb damage to house property were given by the Minister of Health to- day when he disclosed that as many ns 80,000 men have been mobilized the country in. repair squads. by the local authorities throughout

London, said Mir Ernest Brown, has suffered twice no much damage to private houses as the rest of the country put together, but in most London districts the damaged houses have received first-ald repairs.

London Boroughs Giving a typical example of the damage done to the more vulnerable Bald London borough, Mr Brown that of 40,000 houses comprising such nborough, 3,423 had been destroyed or damaged beyond repain, and of 19.240 damaged but repairable, about 6,000 could not be made at by "first- uld" repaire

Taking the country as a whole, more than 80 per cent. of the repair- able houses had been made wind and watertight and work on this was being speeded up

Last week, over 30,000 housca were so treated in London alane.

Classification

Of Ponies

The following addlilons and alter- allons have been made to the Hong- kang Jockey Clab Classification Hists of March 23:

Although the equipment normally operated from the whilic stationary, recordings have been made while on the move in the air, in express trains, at sea fllowing processions, in acroplanes end even in a submarine diving.

On Active Service Since the beginning of the war, some of the mobile recording units and the men who use them have seen dangerous and exacting service.

AUSTRALIANS On the declaration of war one of

loaded

To "A" Class-Lancashire Chips, the saloon

steamer

at Mainsail and National. Courage. to a Cross-Channel

To "B" Class-Cheerful Star, Gay Dover. It

through the passed French customs without delay, and Fox and Lucky Lady. was driven to Paris, where it was To "C" Class-Crack Shot, Devoni-

c

Star,

Triumpliant Day left for a time in a deep garage an, Leading

When BBC war and Tropical Love. ready for action.

Τα "D" Class-Bruno, Casino, company the B.E.F. early in October Daylight, Gold Rod, Cornpipe, Look consisting of Sec, Maple Star, Miss Chalfont, à commentator, a programmio official.

was CRTN

on

But what a contrast to those of two kinds-a heavy type mounted) (about fourties and refinements minute: The anced is constantly correspondents were allowed to ac-i for ashire mill-girls used to clatter apparatus carried in a saloon car.whitch are provided by the heavy van.] checked by means of a 'stroboscope". | 1930, the BBC unit,

A

To

Listeners to BBC news bulletins often hear the announcer say something like this: 'Our Observer, Robin Dulf, 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 tusk of broadcasting is to also for direct outside broadcasting from becoming tangled round 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 avaliable to carry the brush is derived from the clamp which holds down the centre of the events. The most direct way of do-a live broadcast.

It

Necessary to disc, through a small rubber-tyred ing this in by means of sound pic- tures which combine the

The actual provide facilities for reproducing a wheel which is fixed eccentrically on

of the brush holder. one of recording and connecting the output

rentoved and Rounds of events with the voices the men and women taking part in to a studio centre. The equipment brush can be then. Sometimes this can be done had also to fit into the car without electrical pick-up plugged into the by roving microphones, connected by any modification of the standard! same socket for playing back the re- plugged in, the necessary electrical telephone line to a studio centre, but bodywork and without fitting any corded disc. When the pick-up the post interesting toplon material special mountings in the car,

The present design of the light connections to the amplifier are made is sometlines to be found at places

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

engineers. Accuracy Of Sound

Reproduction compact times unsuitable for broadcasting of the problem by BBC Il must then be collected by means of It is not possible for such a

To obtain faithful reproduction of unit to provide all the advantages of Before describing the activities of the heavier ono-it cannot make the original sounds the speed of a moblie recording unit. New Measure Needed

the mobile units in wartime, let us continuous recording lasting longer! rotation of the turn-table must re- look at the equipment itself. It is than the duration of a single dise main constant at the standard rate

and minutes),

it lacks

revolutions "But," he added, "I am satisfied

of seventy-eight that a further measure of price re-

and a light portable many of the a large van gulation is needed.

bill will ax maximum in which Lancashire and York-in a The new

which consists of a n' number of holes wholesale and retail prices

Each of these hau its special uses; But where speed is essential it has a

Class-Buckfastleigh, both make records in the form of great advantage, because the saloon drilled in the outer rim of the turn-

the car. Accommodation was pro- wide range of goods in common use, over the cobbles to work! And also for such services as the

Now with uppers made of bright dises which are somewhat similar in car is not subject to the statutory table end of a noen lamp which and an engineer tools possession of W Seventy Six, Streamlet and National Endurance, Red Rabbit, storage

is supplied with of furniture. It will not red, green and blue leather and the

lamp apply to food, which is dealt with wooden soles covered with rubber, appearance to ordinary twelve-inch speed limit of twenty miles an hour, ahibes through these holes 19 vlded at G.H.Q., and on attic was Double Dulch, National Blessings,

gramophone records, but consist of a which is imposed on the large van

beneath. This

During the winter, The extreme Rising Star, Rocky Beach, Saratoga, Senorita, Swallow Tho Hawk, separately.

dainty clogs are being produced to

coating of special cellulose varnish moreover, it can be manoeuvred more alternating current from small made into a small studio.

mounted easily in narrow streets and parked specially designed oscillator Besides fixing prices the Board be worn with the smartest outdoor on a base of aluminium,

in the case of the recording machine. cold made it dimeult to cut good of Trade will lay down maximum clothes.

They are ready for playing as soon in more restricted spaces.

The spacing of the holes in the rim records, partly because frost patterns Willow, Zadderday."

formed on the blank dises and

To "B" Class-Expansion Time, Already they are being worn by wholesale and retail percentage

as the record has been cut, without The Recording Apparatus margins. It will also have power Yorkshire girls. Soon, judging by

The apparatus consists of three of the turn-table is related to the

in the use the quafd

batteries was

To "C" Class-lumdrum Eve, to remala

low as to deal with manufacturers' prices the number of orders pouring into any of the elaborate intermediate

affected. Temperatures as the Bradford fan which has created processes involved in making ordin-main parts: the recording machine, of flashing of the lamp in such a way affected the surface, and partly be- tepeful Star and King Konk. stationary when the turn-table is forty degrees Fahrenheit below Oscar Zylch and Red Feather, Penalties for profiteering will be the new style, they will be seen inary records, and each disc can

played twenty or thirty times before e amplifier, and the power-supply that the light appears

The recording machine, con-rotating at the correct speed, but to freezing were encountered, and the severe, including imprisonment up to many other parts of the country.

engineer even had to take the discs two years and fines up to £500.

A contract for thousands of pairs it becomes noticeable to those used t of clogs for Arr.S. girls and Wants in the disc-recording rooms at BBC sisis essentially of a heavy turn-table, move round the turn-table in one

studios.

Electric currents, corresponding to the cutter-head, and the tracking direction or the other when the speed to bed in order that they might ba

too fast or too slow. to wear on camp duty has recently

The power-supply unit contains been placed.

the sound waves picked up by the gear which gives the correct Chance Find

an electric motor motor-generator and smoothing cir is driven by microphone, cause vibration of a reform to the groove. The turn-loble Coloured leather uppers came into cording stylus which cuts a wavy operated from a twelve-volt necumu-cuits for the high-tension supply to use by clinice. "Previously we had spiral track in the varnish on the Intor battery. The shaft of this the amplifier, the controls necessary

spiral concentrated оп plain stout clogs surface of the disc. The

and set up on a truck on the minia- with

uppers of black or tan leather motion is obtained by causing the re-motor carries a small rubber wheel for the low-tension circuits, and a

by factory

so that the latter is speed of the turn-table. This unit ture. railway system which workers und fording

LONDON, June 4 (Reuter)-Two The turnthly and

the underground forts. An- through the Impressed by the appeals of for when the head of a Bradford cording head which carries the style which is in contact with the rim of variable resistance for remulating the paratus was taken out of the car

evenly at a con- elastically mounted to reduce vi- driven his bombed-out parishioners to children,

the disc while the latter is rotating siderably lower speed than that of bration and suppiles dir

of the band of the, Chasseurs fighters, -MF-109F, were shot down save their furniture lying under firm said.

"The war brought supply dif- thurn-table. When the disc lay the motor. The same motor also at four hundred velis; it is driven by hier was the recording of a march of Germany's latest Messerschmitt was taken at six- Into the English Channel this evening. debris the Rev. E. Ralph,

played, currents similar to those drives the tracking mechanism; this the accumulator battery. There Alpins, which

They were among a number which blinding tivo small circuit breakers, one o'clock in the morning in

const which were Baptist minister, of Catford

Jura Moun attempted to cross the Kent the vibrations ported behind the turn-table and control the motor-generator and the snow-storm Hill Church, became a salvage)

Many

broadcasts above the clouds but were tackled by officer and furniture remover in'

of the needle in the gramophone extends across the width of it. As it other to contral the filament supply ow

a rigid amplification these rotates, this lead screw carries a pick-up: after am his spare time.-

of the French fighter is missing. -currents--can-be-mada_to_reproduce | ***lowly across the turn-table from/to the amplifier: these switch off the fem Barrowing a coster's barrow; the

the original sound through a loud- aided only by his care- minister,

We are experiencing an enormi-speaker, either directly or through) MC outer edge of the disc towards thCurrent If an accidental short circuit from France were relayed through cannon-firing Spitfires, One British taker, Mr Geddes, has salvaged and ous

and margins.

Minister With

A Barrow

ficulties. Finding there were ble

tocks of coloured leather evalla- ble, we decided to experiment, and we think the clog which has re-

out

door

wear.

bo

to move slowly across the surface of

On

cutter are proved to the recording includes a lendscrew which 13

s

the occurs.

rate

.direct current

in good condition for cutting next day.

One of the many programmics re- corded by this unit took place in the Maginot Line, where the ap-

the Lille the end of this arm is at- In order that the equipment can centre; to

in

of the

station of the

ran

CHINA PONIES

To "E" Class.King's Worthy,

Latest Nazi Fighters Shot Down

stored in the church hall, free of Clogs are also popular among air the medium of wireless transmission. tuched the cutter-head, which looks! bonssembled and put into operation where the French last year's ME-109, the chief---new-

ruited is as smart as anything yet produced-by-shoemakers for outs

demand from War workers. charge, the goods of 30 families; Ro- rald shelterers, who

say there is of nothing to beat them for keeping man Catholics, Jews, Church England and Baptists.

the feet warm and dry..

"Clogs are cheap, too. Our new "About ten families have given me the furniture to use as I wish," he style will probably retail at about pair, and the cost of re-clog- give it to needy families or ging them is small compared with noney I help out poor people who we reckon the uppers will Jast twize have la go to the country.

as long as an ordinary shoe."

sold.

123,

sma.

very

scil it to well-to-do ones. With the that of boot and shoe repairs, where other contains two sets of vibrate the culter from side to alde) whole of the

Sweden Now Replacing Her Shipping Losses

Sweden's merchant shipping loss-95 ships totalling 342,545 tons since the war bogan-is being replaced rapidly by new tonstruction, according to recent Swedish information. Fifty now ships with a total ton-the most part coastwise gift cr nage of 235,000 were launched at, trans-Baltic carriers

63 Ships Idle Swedish yards in 1940, and 45 ships

On Jan. 1 this year the number of totalling 190,000 tons already have

the

interference,

BBC

men

The ME-100F is a development of dld magnificent work

ork in up lines at very short notice. feature being bigger engine power.

from sent Mobile Unit

various time to time to the R.A.F. headquar-Looking After R.A.F. A moblie unit of the heavler type much like an ordinary gramo- with the least possible delay, the the mobile unit was also

phone pick-up except that instead of connections between

ter, units are made by means of inter-ters for the use of n Recoati steel cutter,

Personnel After War. consists of a motor van, weighing a steel needle there is about six tons when lader, the body the edge of which is accurately shap connecting cables fitted with plugs commentator there. The same equip

LONDON, June 4 (British Wire- of which is divided into two com-ed to carefully calculated angles, and sockets, the cables being carament was used by one of the Amer-

One: compartment is The Retion of the currents which are fully screened, where necessary to

Tho ican broadcasting companies anil by

the French war correspondents at leas)Since the inauguration of the partments.

Empire Air Scheme, 180,435 equipment operates tached to the B.E.F., and also for have appiled to enlist in the Royal acoustically treated so as to form a passed through the cutter-head is to prevent electrical inter small studio suitable for speech.

waviness in the from two batteries, each consisting

Federal Cabinet arranged by E.N.S.A.

nounced that the cording equipment (so that a continand so produce a

spiral groove corresponding to the of five nickel-iron accumulator cells, live broadcasts of the concert purtles Australian Air Force and it is an-

One of the batteries has a capacity

During May the unit accompanied has approved a spare time training can be made by passing sounds which are being recorded. .ous recording

of a hundred and twenty ampere the army to Brussels and beyond, plan to put members of the RAAF. from one turn-table to the other as

Amplifier

and the other of eighty then back to Lille, Arras, and in skilled operations after the war. cach

In finished) together with

The weak currents produced by the hours

for the Amiens. By this time, it had

The scheme, costing £50,000 per the associated ampillers, thier wint

taken Alaments being oment, microphone are applied to the input ampere-hours, the supply

sets of equipment at its disposal.

dal year, will assist skilled men to re- of former trolling and switching equipment of an amplifter which gives an output

battery.

The turn-table Then came the rapid move to Bou- fresh their knowledge and the battery-charging plant.

recording larger

three motor and the motor-generator take logne, during which some of the occupations and help others to secure Recordings can be made either of sufficient to operate the speech from the microphone in the cutter. This amplifier has

of speech or stages of amplification and uses the their supply from the two batteries equipment had to be abandoned at suitable work,

connected in studio

compartment; other sounds picked up by other principle of negative feed-back to and neutralize any distortion which may microphones outside the van

arise within itself or in the recording connected to it by cables,

head. The van can work away from its base, if necessary, for several weeka

от

can-

at a time and, since the equipment is fler is the same as that used for all operated from batteries which can ordinary outside broadcasts, and

Turbey of

Swedish Amertottingholm of the employ the 'most robust and con-lowest G to more than

note.

from the

is normally car-

"This co out → se-power anloon | Ri

the

the car,

the recording, and also to for all

octave gating about 650,000 tons, ware 207,000. This includes the Grips

holm and the either under construction or ccn-

Line, while the venient form of recording apparatus, above the highest The turn-tables can be made level

of the amplifier there tracted for.

on the out suckets-one for con- Kungsholm at is in the cruise ser-

by hydraulically operated adjust are two input At present. Sweden has 800,000 vice out of New York. tons of shipping or 40 per cent. of Though five Swedish ships are ments so that recordings can be made necune a moving-coll microphone, existing tonnage outside the bloc-allowed by the British to pass when the van is standing on a slope, the other for connecting ellier the

The speed of the turn-tables can be electrical pick-up for kade. Another 1,000,000 tons in In-monthly through the blockades, there akle the Skagerrak barrler. Most of will be no increase in the tonnage rccurately adjusted, and gramophone recorried dises or a threenient to use a loudspeaker.

Every ship those ships outside the blockade are cutside the barriers. employed in carrier service including that entors must either come out convoy service to Great Britain. be replaced with another of the Vessels inside the blockade are for same size.

two

Boulogne.

to

wes

support the

the

WAS

BOMBER FUND

is to instruct your Bankers to pay a

monthly sum to

Antiens. The cables between Bou- logne and London were still intuct. ried

Tea The

In n car.

unit stands on the and several despatches were given by

observers DAC

from The first section of the ampli-floor behind the driver's seat. The After a few days, during which there AN EASY WAY

amplifier rests on the top of it and was frequent bombing. the caulp- the recording machine stonds on

Thenent was brought back to England. rear seat of the the

The

Meanwhile, a second recording batteries

Air are carried in the Juggage unit was

with the Advanced be charged from the engine of the may be employed for this purpose by batte

It is self-contained and indepen- switching off the output stage the boot and their connecting cables run

Striking Force near, Rheims: through this unit that many listeners dent of electric supply mains. The connecting the telephone line to the through the back of the rear seat size of the van. makes if possible to terminals provided. In this condition The luggage boot also contains cable

Ire at home first. heard the sound of screened microphone cable; ccommodate the most complete tech- the amplification is sensibly the same

thousand cycles per second,

i.c.telephone sets

for communication particularly active in this area for Fome time, and during one of the been delivered. At the beginning of idle Swedish ships of over 300 tong nical equipment for controlling the for all frequencies from Afty to folding up to four hundred falling bombs. The enemy had been! this year another 50 vessels, aggre- was 63, making a total tennage of] Programme and checking the e-cight notes on a plano from the etween the microphone points and despatches from the R.A.F. a solvo

the recording engineer in the

Ent of

bombs dropped close to the open three-channel

loud- mixer,

window of the studio- speakers, a

a telescople microphone

Since their return these recording stand, and a kit of tools. There are

the most outstanding of these record- also hend-phones for checking the units have still been engaged in re- programme when it is not on porting incidents in the war. One of Inca was made on the cliffs of Dover. "We Are Now Taking

Its stand just taken up The unit had You Over To...

Convoy was Been there, when a lck-ups and a loudspeaker are pro- microphone mixing unit; the latter is

up the Channel, vided for reproducing sound from the used for selecting or combining the

When the records have been made, steaming slowly various outputs when more than one

is used. On the front of they are either taken to one of the Just as the convoy was posing microphone records when necessary.

Getting The News

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

con-in the car itself, the output being stationed, German dive-bombers at-

to vans are well suited to many kinds peak programme meter and

tacked it. Anti-aircraft guns went a telephone line

of

SOUTH CHINA of recording work, experience has trailing potentiometer or volume- connected by

correct the studio centro. Lines used for into action, followed by squadrons. control-to ensure that the roved that a lighter form of mobile blumo-is-applied to the recording, the transon of a programme) Achters, The recording of this action

necessary quipment is also

tested by the lines with the running commentary which In 1938 the BBC News Department head throughout the recording.

Recorder

engineers of the BBC and 'equalized accompanied it gave a rentistle Im- MORNING POST, LTD. "elt the need for a mobile unit which

The recording machine is provided so that they respond equally to all pression of the successful battle 4 could travel rapidly to any part of the

ountry, obtain a tonical news story, with two main operating levert one frequencies within the range neces- which ensued. The records were the faithful transmission taken to London and broadcast in the bulletin that same nino o'clock

news and bring the records back the same to engage the tracking mechanism

For reproducing recordings in evening. "ight (to London or any other BBC start the traverse of the cutter across of music.

car is taken to tudio centro) to be included in the the disc and the other to lower the

During another, “broadcast from *cwa

bulletins. The apparatus hind to culter-head on to the blank dise at this way, the ho miflciently compact to fit into on the moment when the recording is to telephone exchange where con- Hell-fire Corner, the recording unit ordinary salom car, light enough to start. Provision is also made for nections can be made directly to the was machine-gunned by a Messersch he carried into a building or set up varying the depth of the cut, the telephone Unes. In order that the mitt: it suffered no damage and the nan neroplane, and robust enough ungle of Ure cutting stylus, and the recording may be started at precise- terman ninchine was brought down shell-Are from tho long-range withstand travelling over bad speed with which the recording headily the right moment to it into the y anti-alraft fice. It also recorded roads at high speeds.

moves towards the centre of the disc. broadcast programme of which it is the shot

fell Although it would normally be Tils last adjustment determines the to form part, it is necessary for theins installed by the Germans en the el in the car. the apparatus had to pitch of the spiral track, 16. the recording engineer in the car to Channel const when shella

mobile Se ventily movible so that it could number of grooves per inch which hear the cuo which is the signal for Dover for the first time.

carried by hand to places to which anbear on the disc. Pekan sätt him to lower the pick-up on the Meanwhile, the work of the

During recording, Pihrush moves record and fade up the output. recording unit continues-bringing to the car could not be taken, It had Jo to be independent of external deross the face of the dc and sweeps This ette may either be taken on an listeners at home and overseas the sower supplies and to be suitable for up the thread of "wart which is cut other telephone line from the studio round and scones of Great Britain.at.

For may be heard on a war. use hot only as a recording unit, but from it," and which is thus prevented centre, or

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