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Show -- ir 1 :.-- 44. 0 i. " PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION. UTAH Some Results of the Tornado in Arkansas ADVANCE TOWARD SHENCHOW ADDING TO DIFFICULTIES OF PEKING FORCES Alarmed at the Threat From the West, Ankuochun War Lords are Mobilizing at Least 50,000 Manchurians Peking The Kuomlnchun (people's ecparty) which has been partially in lipsed since the loss of Nankow pass August, has taged a comeback and Is focusing interest in Chinas nationwide civil war in Honan, hitherto a secondary theatre of action, thus to the difficulties of the Ankuo-chu(Peking forces). It is definitely established that the Kuominchin branch, having fought drivthrough the province of Shensi, , i add-din- The Broadcasting Studios. OOOCXXXOOOOOOOCXXXXDOOOOOCO SIMPLICITY OF RADIO etc., arrangements are often made to "pick up" the performance dihail or auditorium where rectly in it takes place. Then it is sent over telephone lines to tlie radio station, as before. Telephone companies In the large cities maintain special squads of men assigned to remote control broadcasting work. It Is their duty to arrange for transmitting the programs over tlie telephone .wires and to operate the necessary equipment. The regular telephone lines are used, but special amplifiers must be provided at one or more points to Insure proper reproduction of tlie sound at tbe broadcasting station. Iff designing the broadcasting studios it is vitally important to secure tbe proper acoustic, or sounding, qualities. One who lias listened to- a concert in an almost empty auditorium, and who has heard oilier performances in the same auditorium when It was crowded, will appreciate tlie influence that reverberation, or echo effects, have on the quality of music. In an empty auditorium a speakers voice The sounds run tosounds hollow. gether, giving a sort of mushy effect that makes it hard to understand ids words. Just so, unless broadcasting studios are very carefully designed, the sound of performers will he disTo preserve the torted unpleasantly. natural tone and quality of tlie voice and Instruments, heavy drapings are used, ami a thick, soft carpet is provided underfoot. It Is necessary to prevent outside sounds from entering the studios. This can he done by using douhfe windows and I hick walls with air spaces in them. All extraneous sounds, such as those caused by passing trolley cars, automobiles, etc., must lie excluded. Lining tlie wails with felt or cork helps to keep out these noises. certs, tj-.- By POWEL CROSLEY, JR. DOCXDOCOOGOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOO In the early days of broadcasting the artists were required to perform in rooms which were a maze of coils, wires and electrical devices. There was no thought of providing special rooms, removed from the radio equipment, for tlie artists' use. .Today, however, every effort is made to give performers a suitable environment: "Studios are provided fitted with the most elaborate hangings and furniture. Many of them could tie aptly described as paiatial. .Another big otparture of modern broadcasting is In locating the studio where it will he most convenient of acceso to tin ariists and visitors. A few years ago ii was necessary to go to the radio siaiion in order to broadcast. Often slaloms were in to get to. places, Now the studios are often located in a downtown hotel, or at some oilier central point, while the .station may he twenty-livmiles or more frjun the and station arc concity. nected by telephone wires, and the program is sent over these wires from tlie studio to the station. This is vvimt is known as "remote control" broadThe object of locating the casting. radio station so far from town is so that it will not interfere with local listeners who wish to receive programs from far distant stations. For snecial occasions, such as Important lectures, church services, con e Tile-studio- s . eii ing back General Liu Chen-lluatered Horan at Tunkwan and are advancing toward Chenchow, the terminus of the Lunghai railway. Leaving his remaining forces at Chenchow, General Liu visited In turnChengchow and Taiyuanfu. appealand General ing to Marshal Pel-FYenhsishan for aid. Thus far Ills appeals have been fruitless and General Lui Is now appealing to Marshal is helpWu Pel-FChang Tso-Lin- . less owing to insubrodination among his ranks and Yenhsishan is appar ently unwilling to do more than defend his own province of Shansi against in the rocen i eiruado that swept over .several southern slates, tlie towe of llelicr Springs, mar Little ltock, Ark., vas among the heaviest sufferers. Tills picture shows the wreckage of some of the 150 homes that were destroyed ; litre. u Grand Champion Barrow Hog GREEK PRELATE HERE the invaders. Forty Believed Lost in Wreck Shanghai Fears that were felt here for the safety of forty of 150 Chinese passengers aboard the steamer Lien Shing, which sank after striking the nples out of Amherst rocks, sixty-fouhere early Sunday. All foreign officers and passengers were saved, but forty The of the Chinese were missing. Lien Shing sunk within an hour after striking tlie rocks. Women and children were taken off by the liner Colorado, which was the first ship to arrive on the scene. Many of the passengers were thrown into the water. Most of the foreign passengers were supplied with clothing aboard the Colorado and they were then brought Shanghai aboard the pilot boat. r - V 1 J idftwi'Svx Peace Again Wins Conciliation Geneva. Switzerland again has triumphed at Geneva in the peaceful shaping of relations. After days of doubt, almost despair, M. Hriund and Gustav Streseraaiin, as well as Sir Austen Chamberlain, M. Vandenvelde, Signor Seialoia and Viscunt Ishii, readied an accord whereby Interallied control of German armaments will cease January 31, 1927, and will be merged into a system of league of nations investigaSpirit of Franco-Germa- iff: . n , Archbishop Iolycarpis mot nioliii:ii of Nautili, Greece, most distinguished prelate of the Greek church, who Is in America to study educational systems to apply at the relief stations In Asia i f ''. - - fVl imm, C : i ' j. T -- 46, S'lfW lie honor mid title grand i liuiii ioii liui iow hog at tin- Lin-- a. Live Stock show in Chicago was given to tin- - i.'id pounder brought to tlie siu.w by Deun C. F. Curtis of tlie lowu State college, Ames, Iowa. 1 Minor. tions by commissions to examine German armaments when protests are made that the reich is not fulfilling the conditions of the Versailles treaty. Germany regarded military control as vexatious and offensive to her national ('rations emanating from a thousand Rule That VV ould Aid prestige, and Dr. Stresemann uow reor more miles away. turns to Berlin with something definite in Radio Broadcasting The magic carpet, flying horse nnd to present to his people. Factors contributing to successful space annihilating devices of tlie genii radio broadcasting are outlined in a of tlie Arabian Nights have Lassen Peak Shows Volcanic Activity list of studio rules which are printed actualities through radio. At any hour in Radio Broadcast Magazine. These of tlie day or night it is possible for Redding, Cal. lessen peak showed have us to turn to the magazine, tlie magic dials and listen signs of volcanic activity again Monrules, now been put in force at stution KOA, in' to voices from afar. day when steam and smoko clouds stations other several" are No longer does the Vermont farmer drifted southward from the crater, and there ' a spectacle pronounced where they might quite well he apthink of Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati making clear skies. This was tlie the or New Orleans as so .many dots on against plied te advantage: minute. tiie map. He lias some knowledge of third time this week the mountain has Programs start tlie these cities. He lias heard them and been reported in action. There was a Coughing, sneezing, clearing blow-ou- t Saturday morn ing and liiroat, scraping the feet, and other knows tlie kind of entertainment the light of last week. Hazy another Tuesday in are Foe annoystudios, disturbances citizens of these places prefer. So, these ing to listener?. Tlie microphone is so too, tlie western rancher takes nightly weather, however, in prevented Rolla Redding. sensitive that ihe slightest commotion visits to the metropolises of tlife na- from being seen was working at Lake may lie transmitted to the unseen tion, sitting with closed eyes, an In- Arbuckle, who when the ane. visible but aural part of an audience Reflection, near the peak. Therefore, nouncer calls, quiet everybody ! kindto some distant point. Counterfeit Bills Are in Circulation And the enjoyment of this latesi ly comply. Io not begin singing or playing un-li- l scientific achievement does not necesWashington The United States setlie announcer gives the signal. sitate a knowledge of' unknown pow- cret service Monday warned Christ Fnless you have memorized your ers. Another romance of today me- mas shoppers to beware of a serlef music, he prepared with an extra chanical methods litis cf counterfeit $10, $20 apd $50 bills production copy, as yon do not stand pear the brought tlie radio wonder to every which have made their appearance in various cities. Tbe bogus $10 bill is home. (llano when singing. If the anDo not be iierturbed said to be extremely deceptive, exof an inch nouncer motions for you to move nearcept that it is er tlie microphone, or withdraw, Guglielmo Marconi Tells smaller than the government bill. The bills is a FederaCReserve bunk of while singing- About Beam Transmission $20 Cleveland, Ohio, isslxe. The uote is Very loud singing or playing is obThe happy results obtained' over said to be crudely made and should jectionable as it detracts from sucnoteworthy distances by means of detected. The. $50 certicessful broadcasting, often producing electric waves liave.been, in my opin- ficate is an especially good imitation a shattered effect. The best choral efion, due in great part to tlie discovery ar.d the treasury department ad'tses fects are obtained when each person made by me, in 1095, of tlie effect of greatest caution ia. handling currency sings In a subdued manner. antennas' or raised of this denonmination.' To pianists: Too much loud pedal tlie says Guglielmo Marconi in spoils tlie rendition. The top of the aerials, an article published in Radio Broad- Sixty-SeveLost as Transport Sinks piano should beteft. down as the cast Magazine. Tlie article tells, in is accomplished men of the best broadcasting Sixty-seveAires Buenos Marconis own words, of his expertwhen the instilment is- closed. of the Shuean transport Aiauco crew menta since lie left his native Bologna: were drowned Sunday when the veshow tlie tendency for longer and long sel sank at lota, Chile, during a vioSacrifice We Sleep Why er waves grew ; of the pessiiuistk lent says a dispatch from Santo Reach the Outside views expressed by sages who pre- tiago storm, to La Nation. There were ninety-dicted that wireless telegraphy never six men aboard the ship when It Why do ve intelligent mortals would he in a satisfactory enougli posome far into were saved. to tune of whom twenty-nin- e rifice our sleep sank, distant station during the mystic hours sition to compete with other forms ot Eight bodies have been recovered. of his after midnight? The motivating force longdistance communication; in signaling first undm btedly is the same that holds us ultimate triumphs Figures Show Increase of Diseases enthralled when reading a fantastic across the Atlantic and then to Aus Washington Uncle Sams big fammystery story which we know is bat traiia. Marconi ily Is suffering more from catching1 Of beam transmission, tlie dream wraiths of sonfe authors ; Tlie British gov diseases this winter than- last, the Imagination in other words our love write-- as follows: distant the un- eminent has officially decided to use United Sthtes public health service for the mysterious,-ththis lieiitn; system on the greatest ycale made known. Total cases of diptheria. known. for direct communication between tbe measles, scarlet fever, smallpox and voices In obtaining This delight from the ether from (far away points most important - dominions and the typhoid' fever reported for the week And yet I was re- ended November 20 exceed those for Is a manifestation of the romance of mother country.sponsible for having enused the ex the same period in 1925. Deaths from Like the ancient alchemists radio. whe worked over their retorts seeking pernfiture of hundreds of millions on pneumonia and influenza, however, are e stations. A certain courage lower, theie being reported for the te wrest secrets from nature, we long-wavwas therefore necessary to esy Let ut week from ninety cities, compared and that, this dials way manipulate with 865 last year. turn hack trrinar to culture tlnv electrical k x i NOW IN SOCIETY Healthiest Farm Boy and Girls i j on-tli- j au-die- kivA'i if s t v - . v. If i i ;V. i net Rusliii-nthirteen, of Drew, Miss, (right), Alberta Hoppe, sixteen, of Linn county, lowu (left), and Warren Griffen, fifteen, of Oscar, '(y., who were adjudged tlie most perfect physktti specimens among the 000,000 hers of the Boys and Girls dub congress, held at Chicago in connection with the International Live Stock siiow. . ? SSf-r- i cne-quart- , . . Hubby Helps When She Combs Her Hair ' n - Miss Rebekah Lipscomb of New York city and Washington, a grandniece of James G. Blaine, who has Just made her debut in Washington. i . Enjoyment in Labor The Joy that comes to us in th knowledge that we can labor, that w cun fill a niche in this busy world, enougli to1 compensate us ior the effor On our ability to labor depend our er istence, contentment and happiness. Grit. i v j j A Business Builder It says here in tlie paper Hint Dm-toWhatV Brown Is a pathologist. that mean, pa? A pathologist, my hoy, is a doctor wim invents diseases for other doctors to cure, r : Fhu mlon. 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