Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-18 | Page 4 | Attention Directed to Wireless Station

Mil DIRECTED TOWIRELESSSTATIQN British Embassy Makes Complaint to State Department. WAPITIXOTON', Nov. 17. The British embassy today directed attention of the state department to a private wireless station at DrerlnK. Me,, near Portland, which is said to have been communicat- ; inp with vessels at sea. Whether trans-citlanlic trans-citlanlic corimiunlfittioM has be.ui attempted at-tempted is not known. The Tuckorton wli'clrss station, under supervision of ! t'ederal r-rnHorship, has plrkt'd up mos-MaKf mos-MaKf a wlii'-li excited Home attention, al-liioush al-liioush their uriifin has not been traced. : Soiurj time- ;i. u'lien the station at Peoi- 1 i t ik was buildinK. oi'luials ol the navy de-Ijjiitniciit de-Ijjiitniciit ;inii ihu department uf com-iiieire com-iiieire wadded its progress elosely. 1 Navy radio inspectors will investigate ' the L leering plant further. Tlietr in-tiuiries in-tiuiries o far have developed that tlio ' Ijeering plant Is intended to act aa a re-eeiving re-eeiving stat ion for the Tuckerton plant, ! which is devoted entirely to eendlnj?. and ) that it whm proposed to connect the two plants with a land wire. It is not necessary neces-sary to license a receiving station. PORTLAND, Me., Nov. 17. The wire-less wire-less station In this city, to which the attention at-tention of the state department a Wash- ington today was called by the Biitlnh ; embassy, was built enrly this month. The i plant, it was nid, was constructed for ; a man who gave his name as Emil 10. I" -Meyer of Tmkerton, N. J. The regular! operator is said to be O. F. Hesla, de- i scribed as a radio operator in the United ' States navy and until a month ago on ! the battleship Carolina. i