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Show Tuesday, October 12, 1948 AsaiaasBasro Weekly Gets DEPARTMENT A Big Scoop Western Allies Place Derlin Issue Before (Ml. as Negotiations Fail; Two Unions Barred From Will Stratovision Arrive? They're Working on It Nov A-Pla- NORTON, nts Netcs Analyst and Commentator. FURY: "Is television here to stay?" broadAM in crack the favorite been has (regular That Peace Threat There was no war In sight, yet the casting) circles for some time. Now its been displaced by another: t situation was starkly danEast-Wes- Will itratovlsion arrive?" If it doesnt, ay the enthusiastic stratospheric promoters, millions of people in rural areas will be unable to receive television programs for years, if ever. What is it? The stratovision system simply puts the antennae and television transmitter in an airplane flying in lazy circles above the earth, they and the explain, shortwave sent out from this airborne antennae blankets the earths surface like a great inverted ice cream cone and covers an area approximately 500 miles across. Since television waves travel in a straight line and not in high, leaping loops like longwave radio, their range is limited, just as human sight is limited. You can't see nearly as far on a level city street as you can from the top of a mountain. That parallel isnt an exact one, but it's a good rough comparison. So television waves have to travel on a special cable underneath the cable), or else ground leap from one high tower to another (microwave relay). And the farthest they can travel Is some 35 to 50 miles. But stratovision waves come from a transmitter as high as the plane carrying the transmitter can fly, 30,000 feet, well say. What about storms? Well the Stratospherites say they miss most of them at that height, and anyhow, they can use more than one equipped plane, so they can shift the point of transmission of a program from one to the ether and thus dodge the storm. They insist that they have already demonstrated that this ts possible, that they can deliver. I haven't seen any of the recent tests so I dont know. Naturally the oldtlmers (although the oldest timers ip tplevMop are still pretty new) are skeptical. After a test held recently In Zanesville, Ohio, for the benefit of newspaper and radio folk, many were still skeptical. It was admitted that conditions on the test day were not ideal by any means and it was claimed that there was interference from other stations which would be eliminated. Variety magazine's correspondent, a keen observer of radio, said: Demonstration proved that the higher the alUtude, the clearer and more extensive the pick-up- . For all practical purposes, though, the specific, physical certainty of the unor the derground microwave relay would seem to have the networking edge for the tune being. (Be not the first by whom the new la tried. . . .") The backers of the new system, Westinghouse Radio Stations, Incorporated, think differently. Their (co-axl- -- thru-the-ai- r, This Is the experimental stratovision station a modified flying at an altitude of 25,000 feet. 9, request for was turned commercial license down by the FCC last month but they expect requirements to be altered. Glenn Martin, whose aircraft company thought enough of the idea to work out the developments of tho aviation end said: a transmitter Flying one of the greatest single advances In the history of television. I talked with one of the very earnest young men who are attempting to convert the skeptics He seemed to have no doubts that the method equalled any other. In fact he thought that competitors would fight it because it was so the Is good. The whole thing is a young mans Idea. He is C. E. (Chili) Nobles, radar expert whose work in that field was a valuable wartime contribution. He is a Texan (hence the nickname, I suppose) and the story is that the idea first struck him when he was flying a plane high above his home. As he ran over the various flg ures which were In the back of his mind, the number of miles his home was from the nearest big city, the altitude and the various other cal culations formulae, logarithms and assorted humorous material which an electronic engineer toys with instead of reciting limericks to himself to pass away the time, he suddenly thought. If I only had a television transmitter with me, and my folks had a set, and if 1 had some other planes for relays, they could get the same television programs New York does. long hours of intense radar had so crowded my mind with details of its operation that I looked for radar possibilities in everything I saw, the young stratovision creator said Radio already had afterward. I suppose work on military proven its adaptability and value for airplane communications and in navigational aids, including blind flying Turning these facts over mentally, I concluded that Westing-hous- e already had at hand basic information which engineering seemed to justify the ambitious plan." He sold the idea to Westinghouse and Glenn Martin and they went ahead and backed his extensive, not gerous. It was dangerous for the United States, Great Britain, France and Russia and for the United Nations which now had to thrust its hands into the tangled skein of diplomatic threads and try to straighten out the snarls PRACTICALLY no optimism ex- isted among U N delegations m Paris. There was no reason for any The United States, Britain and France had broken oil negotiations with Russia over blockaded Berlin and referred the issue to the U N. security council as a threat to peace No hint of appeasement appeared in the western nations attitude. They said they would reserve to themselves the full right to take whatever measures were necessary to maintain their position in Berlin while refeiring the case to the U. N. BRITISH FOREIGN Secretary Ernest Bevin told the U. N general assembly that Russia would be to blame if a black fury, the incalculable disaster of atomic war, strikes the world. Immediate cause of this inflamed condition in Europe was the blatant bad faith exercised by the Soviets during the 58 day series of talks in Moscow between the three western ambassadors and Stalin and Molotov ternational developments. Thats why the Russians are trying to shoot the works now. It Is why they saw fit to make the virtually impossible demand for control of all traffic land, air and water between Berlin and western Germany as one of the conditions for which has lifting the blockade throttled the German capital since June WHAT IS IT the Russians want so badly that they are willing to risk an atomic war to get? Briefly, they want to get the U. S. out of Europe, and that means nothing else but that they want to control Europe themselves. The Kremlin, some time ago. rejected a proposal that Russia and the western allies stabilize their military and political positions roughly along the lines that existed immediately after the war ACCORDING TO the Russian plan for domination of Europe, that arrangement would be no good because the Soviets fear the West would gam and they would lose too much. With American help, western Europe could consolidate and strengthen its position and possibly prosper to the extent that Russias situation in the East would be endangered Moreover, the Soviet satellites. Influenced by a free and thriving West, would be difficult to control IN THE RUSSIAN mind it follows, then, that America must be driven out, the European recovery program destroyed and the whole of Europe reduced to such a state of disorder and poverty that it would be unable to resist Russian demands After the three ambassadors, Smith of the U. S , Roberts of England and Chataigneau of France, had left the Soviet capital the western allies made public a 24,000-wor- d ANYTHING NEW' white paper charging the Rusa on secret sians with .welching agreement by Stalin to lift the Berlin blockade. WHEN THE western nations disHOTTEST of the QUESTION covered the disillusioning fact that month in a while for Washington Russia was literally trying to pull a was not Who will win the elecfast one in order to gain control of tion It was not "Will we get into Berlin, further direct negotiation war iswas patently useless. Thus, the It was a question of who ordered sue was turned over to the security 98 gleaming, new 1948 model recounciL frigerators, Installed in the offices Not that anyone'hoped the security of every one of the United States council would be able to take any senators eflective action. The Russian veto Government workers were busily probably would nullify any efforts it, engaged ip clamping the, refrigerators to the office floors (at an estimight make. mated cost of well above $10,000) MOTIVES: before anybody thought to ask who had this conceived ingenious Russian scheme Washington believes the crisis THE PROJECT called for movcentering in Berlin will continue at ing refrigerators into the offices of feyer pitch at least until next spring senators who never before had had provided it does not explode into them and putting new ones into total war before then. those senatorial sanctums that alIt Is a bad outlook, of course, ready were equipped with old ones But for from the U S. viewpoint. It was a clear case of higher the Russians the coming six months standards of living for solons loom as a golden opportunity to exSenate appropriations committee pand their power in Europe and staff members denied they had apthroughout the world. proved any appropriation for senaTHEY WILL be able to do this, torial refrigerators, said furthermore that there was no record of they believe, because American ef forts and sentiment will be divided any such appropriation. RANKING NEXT to the riddle of and weakened by the election camwho put the refrigerators there was paign. Official Soviet attitude is that the question of why a senator should need a refrigerator in the first American leaders will be so immersed in domestic affairs that they place. Somebody said maybe they were will be able to give only a fraction Intended to replace the pigeonhole as convenient spots to keep legislation proposed by the President on Cooler Crisis C. E. Nobles, originator of the , siralovision airborne television system, is shown at the twin video monitoring boards In the experimental stratovision plane. to say expensive, experimentation. I caught some of the enthusiasm which I know Chili must radiate from the young man who sat across the table from me explaining the drawings. Think of what stratovision would of your column, he said. We only asked for a license Jor one station but with more we could link up the Pacific and Atlantic coasts so that we could pick up Hollywood and New York studios ) ll dont know why he left out with only eight planes flying 400 miles apart. By adding six planes to the system to cover the Northwest and Southeast we could serve 78 per cent of the popula- mean to the readers Chi-cago- tion!" And once we got the rural televisors looking, 1 thought, what a lot of new material would be put Into the telecasts to say nothing of the gTeatly broadened market for television sets and advertising which would be creftcd. The first stratovision experiments established the surprising fact that there were lots of television sets in areas which could not possibly be careached ordinarily (by ble or microwave). At the first call for response to the test programs many letters came from such areas. Probably amateurs Who had built their own sets, and perhaps erected their own anten nae on some high elevation. It would seem that the country is willing to try the Nobles experiment if it gets the chance. The Russians, after claiming that not Marconi but a Russian invented wireless telegraphy, now are say ing that the electric bulb, tho Rash, light, the transformer and electric welding all started in Russia Nexi thing you know they'll claim an In ventlon of the one thing which could make Ananias turn in his grave. To get the most fun and enjoy-rrenfrom bicycling, it is well tc know a few simple things aboul buying one, says the bicycle in formation bureau. One thing it might be well to know is whethei you have enough money to pay foi it. t The biggest microscope can't set the cold germ but you can hear t couple of thousand coming in sneeze The garden-typapartment is thi latest thing in tenant convenience, says the Urban Land Institute About the only thing I was ever abli to plant in an apartment was ar electric light bulb but any Wash in g ton can raise quiti a herd of buffalo moths. e l - - stt S V ' 1 ;; , fJv 4. v, v, No one has yet counted up all the Tokyo Roses, but It seems like theres one behind every bush. Latest of these 1 California-born Mrs. Iva Togury DAquI-no- , whom the U. S. government charges with being one of Japans most ardent wartime radio propagandists. She was brought here to stand trial for treason. WHIZ: Rocket Plane wasnt the sort of subject that Stuart Symington cared to be very specific about, but the air secretary did hint in an Air Force association speech that the U S l rocket powered research plane might have blasted through the air at a speed of from 860 to 1,000 miles an inur. MADE this starSYMINGTON in an off hand tling achievemanner Enumerating ments by the air force during the past year, he made mention of "an airplane flying hundreds of miles faster than the speed of sound, which is 760 miles per hour at sea level. AS ORIGINALLY designed, the X-- l was supposed to reach a speed of 1,107 miles an hour at 40,000 feet altitude and 1,700 miles an It X-- hour at 80,000 feet AS FAR AS Is known, only two X-- I type planes now are in operation by the government one by the air force and the other by the national advisory committee for aeronautics. Five other X-- l models are on order, and a new and drastically difis awaiting ferent design, the X-trial flight. BIG LIFT: To Berlin Despite the smug Russian belief that Berlin could not be supplied from the air, the American air lift to the blockaded German capital has been spectacularly successful. DURING THE first 90 days of the Awermn, great aerial porta-ga-. transport planes flew more than 200.000 tons of food, fuel and medicine into Berlin since the Soviets e clamped on their blockade in mid-Jun- force headquarters at Wiesbaden said its planes had flown more than 15 million miles, through good weather and bad, along the narrow air corridors from the western zone of Germany to keep the heart of Berlin's isolated western sector beating IN THE FIRST 90 days 28 848 flights were made, with the air cargo including 125,608 tons of coal, Air tons of food and 7,748 tons of other necessary items. A typical period in the air lift has about 400 flights carrying more than 3,000 tons of supplies into the besieged city. 68,142 EXPORTS: Up or Down? Predictions by the department of agriculture that U. S grain exports ice. during the current crop year may 'WPUUAi'H top last years record by nearly NO ATOMS: four million tons was expected to give rise to a cabinet tifT over how Two Unions much grain should be shipped overMortally afraid of skulduggery at seas. the atomic crossroads, the governThere are two schools of thought. ment has acted to bar unions whose Charles F Brannon, secretary of officers refuse to take the agriculture, favors increasing exoath from its atom bomb ports to prevent possible surpluses plants in the U S that might lead to an SPECIFICALLY, the atomic en- expensive price support program. ergy commission issued an order OF Commerce SECRETARY telling two CIO unions to keep out Charles W Sawyer, on the other of atomic installations the CIO insists that shipments United Electric Workers and the hand, be cut to a grain In orshould minimum I CIO United Public Workers der to keep food prices down m this i The action came ex the heels of country He argues, also, that Eucongressional charges that a net- rope would be better off to use its work of Soviet spv rings tried dur- dollars for industrial machinery These are the three wevlern ing the war to dig up atomic se- rather than food. ambassadors to Russia who encret, for Moscow According to the agriculture degaged In six weeks of rigorous Also, the atomic energy commis partment, the worlds big exporting hut unavailing diplomatic fencston said, other unions from now on countries probably will have about ing with Soviet Foreign Minister 10 per cent more gram to spare this will be recognized officially as qualV. M. Molotov on the subject of ified to work in atom plants only if ypar than m 1947 48 when exports Germany and the Bertin blockthey can qualifv for certification by topped 34 6 million tons ade. They were able to accomTHE DEPARTMENT added that the national labor relations board plish nothing and finally left MosSaid David E Lilienthal, chair- the U S "is again jkely to procow to report to the heads of their man of the commission, all atomic vide nearly half of the total world respective governments. Left to energy facilities must be operated trade right are: Yves Chataigneau, "in a manner best calculated to asLast year the United States exFrance; Walter Bedell Smith, C. sure that those who participate in ported slightly more than 15 million S.. and F'rank Roberts, Great the program are loyal to the United tons nearly 44 per cent of all the Britain. States grain exported. ACTUALLY. UNION activity in Bill Collector PEARY: all atomic plants, with the exception of the one at Oak Ridge, has Note Russia, the only nation that has been curtailed sharply since the Left a A States expedition to the United tiot Closed its lend lease account atomic bomb project was launched Arctic last summer found documents with the LT S , has been asked to Nevertheless, a number of unions pay up pronto. have tried to keep active in the left there in 1905 by Rear Adm. The state department, In a new hope that the curbs on union organiRobert E Peary, discoverer of the note, called upon the Soviets to rezational work would be eased m the North Pole, a recent state departsume negotiations for settling its future ment announcement has disclosed A congressional long overdue lend lease account of committee had The brief report contained no ex11 billion dollars heard testimony from a self de- planatory details It said: "As Is News of the action was kept se- scribed former Communist that the usual on northern expeditions, cret for two weeks for fear of up- United Electrical Workers was the Peary's notes found In the calm setting the delicate Berlin largest Communist dominated or- were replaced by appropriate ganization in the United States." Futility Unlimited :Lj A weekly VA n ) utile lol'ta B'etonebly priced. C. F. Own k.i, linftUUa 1 ariOc IUIUij, Vancouver. u.c news- paper scored a resounding beat on one of the biggest news stones of the year in Virginia. It printed an account of a $45,000 bank robbery, the chase and arrest of the bandits within two hours after it happened. The subscribers of the Norton Coalfield Progress, a modest but growing "country weekly," were leading about the bans robbery before many of the large newspapers and radio stations m the area knew it had happened. It wasn't one of those stones that happens right in front of the newspaper, either. The bank was robbed in Pound, Va , 20 miles to the north over rugged mountain roads It was shortly after noon in Norton on the day that the Coalfield Progress was to go to press. The paper had been made up with accounts' of meetings and society items laboriously gathered from the clubs and churches and PTA through the week "General Flunky. Carroll Tate, a lanky, dark haired young man who calls himstlf "general flunky for the paper and who is its reporter and business manager, was relaxing m the office A pressman, jut returning from lunch, walked in and remarked casually Wed better throw out the front page Then he added, still casually "the bank's been robbed at Pound Tate jumped to life He telephoned Pound and confirmed what the pressman had heard a state trooper remark to passersby on the corner Tate drove the 20 miles to Pound in a hurry over the winding roaJs He interviewed Ed Barr, the bank cashier, who Rad been ordered into a vault by two armed men who nog lected to close the vault door tightly enough to make it click Escapes From Vault. Barr said he got out of the vault and shouted an alarm He fired a pistol at one of the bandits and wounded him on the bank steps The two leaped into a car driven by another man and drove off As Tate finished talking to Barr, state troopers brought in the three men for Barr to identify. The money was recovered Tate sped back to Norton, wrote his story and soon the presses of the weekly rolled with a red hot story and a banner line on the front page. , N':.BA? ,Vn newspapermen .will, call it luck, but it was the biggest thrill of my life getting that story," says Tate, who will become owner of the Coalfield Progress in a few months Gov William Tuck of Virginia has dedicated a new plant of the Coalfield Progress. Mother Dies of Complications Childbirth From Unattended STURGEON BAY, WIS -- Funeral services were held for Mrs Mvrle Schmidt, 37 - year - old divorcee whose infant son was found buried in the yard of her home at Forest ville, Wis Mrs. Schmidt died at a hosp.tal of complications following the unattended birth of the boy Her 19 son and year-ol- d daughter told police they buried the baby at the insistence of their mother The child was dead at the time, they said. District Attorney G Edward Minor and Coroner Calmer Nelson planned to order an inquest into the death of the child. Mrs Schmidt died without making a statement about the child. Mixed Burglar Alarm Signals to Robbery Police Bring; CINCINNATI Four policemen went to Antonio Dipillas grocery in answer to a robbery alarm. But there was no robbery The grocer just got his signals mixed RANCHES FARMS Writ for FRnB IN on fna Mttle merit pportunU'ea CANADIAN FORMATION -- WASHINGTON. 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