Show WHO'S NEWS THIS f r WEEK By LEMUEL F F. F PARTON N NEW EW YORK Radio automobiles automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles airplanes moving pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures and virtually all the other technical ten strikes of the modern I world came in Dives in Cellar between t the h e Brings Up Our first and second Television Set Chicago worlds world's fairs About all that Is brand new at the New York Worlds World's fair is television which took its bow with a telecast at the Inaugural inaugural inaugural ural ceremonies Unlike Britain's garret Inventor inventor tor for John Logic Logie Baird aird Allen B. B Du Mont 1 putting his line by-line on the new television set came along through the channels in which promising young technicians technicians technicians arc are grooved these days Out of Rensselaer Polytechnic institute in 1923 he was employed employed em- em as a tube engineer with the Westinghouse company in Bloomfield N. N J. J until 1937 when he became chief engineer of the DC De Forest Radio compa compa- ny But when he lie caught the television germ he did just what Baird did the only difference beIng being belag be be- ing lag that he holed up In a n cellar instead of an attic It was in 1931 that he quit a good Job to play a hunch The hunch was that the cathode ray was the Joker in the flickering television deck So he dived into his bis basement basement base base- ment built his laboratory and stayed underground until he was ready to come up with a ray cathode tube which is pretty nearly the works in television In 1937 Mr 1 Du Mont rounded up some capital and built a asiz- asiz siz able abie two story laboratory at Montclair N. N J. J employing 42 men By 1938 Paramount pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures had declared itself in Ina in ina ina a big way and at last accounts Mr 1 Du 10 1 Monts Mont's ts t's enterprise was virtually a subsidiary of this cor cor- cor- cor That Is interesting in view of the fact that In England England England Eng Eng- land they already are televising events for the moving picture screen It is indicated that the Du Mont 1 rig may be subject to the same development pOL COL OL EDWARD STARLING who confers with Albert Canning chief constable of Scotland Yard about guarding the British king and andl Like Chameleon e l eo queen on their visit here is an Sleuth to Guard American o f British Royalty the Deadwood Dick tradition which the British like to think is typical of this country country-a a long lean reserved tight lipped Kentuckian with a sombrero the guardian of five Presidents eyed camera and a crack pistol shot He will be there when their majesties go to the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House but he will not be conspicuous ous He merges with the scenery scenery like a chameleon He Dc saved Clemenceau's life during the Paris peace confer confer- enee ence Guarding Woodrow Wilson Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son he ho rode in an automobile Immediately behind the Tigers Tigers Tigers Ti gers car lie He saw an assassin level a gun CUD Shooting from the hip In a lightning draw he cracked the killers killer's wrist He is the one man the President has to obey an advance man mm who interviews police maitres transportation officials and chefs even editing menus and on occasion occasion occa occa- sion slon speeches if they indicate too much of a tax on the Presidents President's receptive energies At 17 he was a deputy sheriff of Hopkinsville Ky As a special special special cial agent for the railroads he touched off oft his first national headlines by trapping the California Call Cali fornia lornia Kid a desperate marauder marauder ma ma- who had Ion long eluded capture capture capture cap cap- ture President Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- Roosevelt velt gave him special assignments assignments assignments assign assign- ments which routed him Into the White House secret service detail detail detail de de- de- de tail in 1913 In 1935 he became became became be be- came head of the detail which congress had authorized after assassination of ot President Mc Mc- Kinley He is six feet teet tall gaunt and serious serious se see se- se rious graying n now nosy l the better to fade into the crowd O JOHN R R. R STEELMAN the govern govern- J meats ments special mediator in hi the Appalachian soft sort coal dispute was was once a blanket stiff riding the ther rods with th the Ex-Blanket Ex r f L Stiff r cx hoboes to get Boils Down Our OUT from tram Arkansas Labor Disputes to the th western wheat fields There In the war post boom days das he earned 9 a day and invested his savings in a Henderson college A. A B. B a Vanderbilt M. M A A. A and a University of North Carolina Ph D D. D H Heading ading the government conciliation service he smoothed out labor disputes disputes dis involving workers in the 1938 fiscal year He ws W S an Arkansas farm arm boy working the southern logging camps He is talland talland tall talland and dark and friendly and ind easy going in in manner Released by Consolidated News Features Service |