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Show Power, from Continent Suggested as Solution for British Electricity Lech ,ir t ft ft f I I 1 t i i By DAN L. TIIRAPP " - " United Press Staff Correspondent . LONDON (UJ9 A new system for : long-range ; power transmission transmis-sion which would pump electrical life into Britain's overworked lines is being given consideration here, " . ' The power would come from great -generators In the Geiman Ruhr and in Scandinavia- The idea was worked out during the war by German engineers who devised a new system of indue-tion. indue-tion. according to reports from Berlin. Had Hitler conquered Britain, he planned to flood the country with; cheap electricity from remote re-mote sources on the continent. He hoped, by using the new transmission system, to supply electricity for the furthermost corners of Europe from the locales lo-cales where it could be most cheaply produced. - For 20 years scientists had sought, a method by which "surplus" "sur-plus" power in some parts' of the continent could be used elsewhere. else-where. Siemens, a leading German Ger-man electrical and industrial concern, invented a system by which high voltages could be carried car-ried for indefinite distances, with a minimum loss of power, and at , low cost. . Heretofore, electricity was transmitted in the form of alternating alter-nating current'. Under the new system, details of which have not yet been released, power could be conveyed as direct current cur-rent for 2,000 miles with a relay re-lay station or without transformers. trans-formers. Cables Would Be Used By it, England could import 3,000,000 kilowatts the year Around by using a trans-channel submarine cable. By using another an-other cable from Norway, she could use the enormous hycroe-electric hycroe-electric potential output. Hitler had planned to hook up Portugal, Spain, France, Germany. Ger-many. Switzerland. Austria, Italy, Czechoslovakia. Norway. Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Romania. Bulgaria Bul-garia and Greece, it was reported. The Soviets were considering consider-ing borrowing the plan for electrification elec-trification of the Balkans and eastern Europe, ft was said The British, who were cool to the project pro-ject at first, became interested as soon as the Russians manifested mani-fested interest. Dr. Ernest Huse-mann, Huse-mann, a Siemens engineer, was "Ye ported in London discussing the scheme, which is based on the fact that some areas in western west-ern Europe can produce more electricity than they can consume. con-sume. It was reported that the new system would not take longer than five years to complete, if the plans are approved. British official sources, al- i I t though expressing interest 1a the scheme, were reserved. Problems to Overcome "The principal trouble "ha al ways been loss of power1 in transmission.' trans-mission.' a spokesman for ,. the Ministry of Supply said.' "If : the Germans discovered a method of circumnavigating that- trouble, as reported,, it might make ' the scheme practical." The Central Electricity Board said the proposal to "pipe" elec tricity to England from Norway was not new. but "the proposed method of transmission is." They said no concrete plans ., bad yet come to their attention. - t "It may be theoretically' possible," possi-ble," a spokesman said. "The cheap transmission of power has long been an objective of ours. Most of the cost of electricity is wrapped up in transmission costs. Not only are transmission assemblies as-semblies costly, but the lot in power is considerable. "A cheap method of transmit ting electricity for long distances would be a considerable boon to mankind. It might, for instance, open up many semi-industrial ized areas of the world by turn ishing any region with plentiful. cheap power." 'But he said the project was not yet proven practical. Until it was no plans for putting it into effect were envisaged. Struggle V I " it " I - .- 0 a (NEA Tmlepkto) Workmen struggle to free Harold Betterly icenter, eyes open), whose lower body still is pinned down by rocks and dirt of a Hazleion, Pa, excavation cavein. Students Gag at School '".Pi .Smothered by his own gag. Professor George Lewis (center) has just showed his students how to plant a joke. They're violating school code by laughing too hard at somebody else's joke. By BERT BRANDT NEA Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 28 (NEA) In the library on the second floor of the public school in mid-town Manhattan, "Prof." George Lewis called his class to order. A hundred or more young men in sports coats and slacks lounged comfortably, legs across desk- arms of their chairs. Note pads on knees, they poised pencils to take down the solemn words of their short, well-fed mentor. "Professor" Lewis plumped down a brick-red flower pot on the rostrum. In one hand he held a folded piece of paper. With Stubby fingers he jabbed the paper into he , ot. "And that, dear students, he declared, "is the easiest way to plant a gag." When the laughs died down. Lewis launched into his two-hour class in gag writing. Lewis is head of The Gag Writers' Institute, Insti-tute, the only school in the world devoted to molding joke-geniuses put of assorted clerks, salesmen and office workers who, not with- out ambition, aspire to the $3000 pulled down weekly by top gag writers for network radio shows. "In the past gag-writers came from vaudeville and show bus!-! ness," Lewis explains. "But now the" well drying up. We've got to train our own gag writers or they'll go and become extinct." j Anyone that's Interested can sign up for the 22-week course. And for free. "Dean" of the In stitute Is -moon-mouthed come dian. Milton Berle. Graduates receive re-ceive diplomas certifying them as "Bachelors of Gagology." But Lewis hastens to add that that doesn't mean they are really hot stuff gagmen. Studying gag writing is no monkey business. Students must dream up weekly scripts, assigned by Lewis to be modeled after shows of such comedians as Henry Morgan, Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Fred Allen. Then, at the weekly class sessions, the students read their scripts refore the class The Institute has an unwritten code "Don't 1- igh too hard at anybody else's gags." And 'that guarantees a dead-pan audience. Lewis rips into . each script, smothering cliches, injecting "punchy" lines and explaining how to anticipate audience re action. "Guest lecturers ' such as Berle and Goodman Ace give the class an intimate behind-the-mike view 'of the comedian and his problems. "If only Benny were doing this with his timing - nd his pacing! exclaimed a desperate scholar af ter his best gags shriveled up and died before a straight-lipped audience. He's got something there. Gag writers aren't actors. But if their stuff clicks despite bad timing and super-critical audiences, well, maybe the $3000 in crisp green bills every week isn't just a vision after all. Somethim: About & & & to Get Excited dFS Mil ?w In selling only Ice Cream for many years we have tried to make the best lee Cream possible. Through your patronage we have now a new processing plant and are now introducing the best Ice Cream we have ever made. Step up and try this new product. In a variety of flavors that can't be beat. Try These Specials- Four Days June 27-28-29-30 Friday Through Monday Counter Packed Brick . 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