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Show .192, Television , Sciences Youngster , Starts Wearing Long Trousers Home Heating By joha Barclay In MltaUinlnS Even Temperature Upon u Rooms Depend proper Use of Dampers rrHE health and comfort of your 1 family during cold weather upon whether your delivers a depend- - :r.A, SdtKT ct .! your luru.c.Urt-u- d, use of dampers. proper upon the damp--nevThe turn (or smoke pipe) should be used for the control of heat. This j. should always be kept ns damper without closed as poasib the free burning of the ADVENTURER- S- CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI retarding V United States and Great Britain Battle Transmission Obstacles, Pave Way for Successful Staging of Radio Shows See-and-IIe- While Eight Men DieT By FLOYD GIBBONS HeadUao Hunter Fameoa er -b- y-day - LI ELLO, EVERYBODY: J 1 Heres a in red-h- ot from the sixth floor of a burning building Joe Miller of New York City is the lad who sends it in, and Joe is also the hero of one of the most thrilling rescues Ive ever heard of. It hapone-r- ight mid-Manhatt- pened this way: In March, 1923, Joe and hi brother were living together in a room n the rear end of a fumithed apartment, on the aixth floor of a building it Eighth avenue and n street. New York. If youre a in that neighborhood, maybe you remember what happened there n the night of . March 26. But this yarn is tnort concerned about Fifth-aeven- th fire-na- what happened to the people In the building. r : HI yoc lol It dire, es; u of tl equire end U (eoiai Circlt, V. 14li fuel, or into the A causing any gas to escape basement. If you have n thermostat on y conyour furnace, the every-datrol of heat should be left to the check and ashpit (flap or slide) To get more heat dampers. up-itai- rs, close the check and open the ashpit dampers they should operate together when one is closed, the other is open. If the house is warm enough, close the ashpit and open the check damper. si e, " VwwW And here ia the atory: J Cut Off From Stairs by Flames. It .was a bitter cold night. Jee slept a few hears when be aweke suddenly. He seemed te bear faint shouts ef: Fire! Fire! coming from somewhere everbead, and saw his brother leave the room, enly te come back a moment later, grab a blanket sad yen te Jee te da the same. Joe was only half awake. Before he could get out of the room, hi Brother wax back, shouting that the stairs were sflre that they were cut off and with that, he ran to the window and disappeared over the sill. Joe went to the window and looked out. Six stories below lay his brother, groaning and shouting to Joe not to try to follow. Joe turned away then went out into the hall trying to find the door of the rear apartment, where the fire escapes were. " The smoke was so thick in the hall that he had to crawl along the Boor. He found the other apartment, but the door was locked. Gasping for breath, he struggled back to his own room and once more found himself looking out of bis open window. As he stared eut ef that window he noticed, for the first time, a brick smoke stack running tip the side ef the bailding and held te the wall by steel brackets. Those brackets were so placed that one was about two feet below each window sill en every floor. It Was a four-foJump te the nearest bracket, but Joe had te take chances. He climbed te his window sill, leaped and made It. Its very important to bear in where these dampers are located. The check damper should be between the chimney and the turn damper, the latter being betTwo Women Burning at a Window. ween the check damper and the as Joe stood hesitating on that first bracket, he saw a terrible Then, furnace. If, therefore, they are in a window next to bis. Two screaming women were caught In that properly placed and opened and sight ilainlj. mind ot h f as outlined, you should at no time have any trouble in maintaining an e en temperature in all parts of your home. Closed jlasse shin inejjf chill At Radio City televised broadcasts are guided through the control room (right), out over the mammoth antenna far above streets, and inta receivers such as that at the left, where the Image is reproduced en a I by screen. Manhattan's burnd! ely n ant Pdi v. thirst; rs. IS Ids Oi GET RID OF BIG UGLY PORES tulsioe. ne ini chains it thsi ghtb ldsnt tflamri loose jhlegn ' ' ft US? 0F WES NOW.. .DENTON'S JCIAl MAGNESIA MADE HER 1W; FRESH, YOUNG, SSTV ckne Sh ter BEAUTIFUL wko bio ugly yoomplarion. uSghUT,tMngli(l do? miracU M bto""" k-a- '"'wttkDwUow'ar.Ad OwwTIuL, ""askable hepfi ddmw WOk ublil' 10-in- window with the flames so close to them that fire and she was forced to take it off. Joe did some quick thinking and some even quicker acting. He pushed back one woman who was getting ready to jump, and climbed back into his room again. There, he took the sheets from his bed, tied them together and tossed one end to the girls. Then, leaping back to the bracket again, he tied the other end of the sheets. The knotted sheets made a rope that was only about eight or ten feet long. It would do to get from one bracket to the next one below it, though, and thats just what Joe used it for. Carrying one girl in his arms, he slid down to the bracket at the fifth floor. He shouted to the other girl to follow, but she was so unnerved that she could do nothing but stand television receiving screens has in the window and scream. So Joe went back up that rope of sheets, ly eliminated and changed to been climbing hand over hand, to carry the second girl down as he had the black and white. first Today RCA is experimenting with It was a teagh job, sliding down that rope with a woman la transmitters which "shoot portable his arms. Te make matters worse, the knot that held the sheets street scenes, flash them by ultra one moment breathless Jee to For tbonght slip. together began short wave to the main transmitter ft was going te let go and hurl them both te the court live and a half in Radio City and thence by stories below. Bnt the knot finally tightened and held, and Joe to the receiving sets. Ulwindow Boor silL fifth on woman the deposited the second timately, portable transmitters will (Tarried Them Down a Rope of Sheets. be the heart of successful television, The fire on the fifth floor was as bad as it had been on the sixth. Joe bringing all sorts of public events broke in a fifth floor window, grabbed two more sheets from a bed, and to the waiting world. now show an RCA receivers went back to repeat his performance on the floor above. He carried the two women down to the bracket at the fourth floor level and image clear as that of the average 441 theq. it was the same thing all over again. Two sheets from a fourth floor home movie projector, carrying 343. g struggle of carrying the women lines compared with last year's bedroom, and the long, Characters move without Jerky modown another flight. The him. the after firemen Joe met up third tions, more smoothly in fact than coming At the floor, fire there was under control the stairway clear to the street- The girl motion picturea, for the scene is teleJoe held in his .arms bad fainted on the last lap down the Improvised vised 30 times a second compared rope, and there was a struggle before the firemen could get her through with 24 on the movie screen. RCAs chief obstacle is distance. the third floor window. The other girl followed the first and at last window the made and television carries from 25 to clambered Radio with through exhaustion, Joe, reeling 35 miles, depending on the transhis way. staggering, to the street mitters height No commercial By this time, the whole apper part ef the building was in his but In ef search rear the brother, around went te Joe sponsor will use television when it lames. covers such a small audience, but be was gene. Firemen had picked him np and sent him te a . both broken with him is confident it engineers will RCA round Joe legs and there later, hospital, Internal from injuries. eventually conquer distance. . An and suffering Eight people were burned to death in that fire plenty more were equally likely development is that injured. But the casualty list would have been just three names longer television will eventually be piped over the country just as today's if Joe hadnt been able to use his hands and feet and his head. chain radio broadcasts and carried Copyright WNTJ Service. to key points by wire. Recks the Oldest af 8eme All af Telephene and Television. Woodpeckers Largest A large part of geologic history Largest and handsomest of all Working on that assumption Bell which is revealed more clearly in the walls Telephone company engineers are woodpeckers is the Ivory-bil- l is as large as a crow 21 inches of the Grand canyon than in any experimenting with the coaxial tong. It is named for its Ivory white other place in the world. Forming cable, already laid between New dagger-tik- e bill, with which it can the waHs of a narrow Inner gorge York and Philadelphia at a cost of are dig through a tree. A famed nat- in the lower part of the canyon $5,000 a mile. The resultant transuralist once took a wounded ivory-bil- l some of the oldest rocks (Archean) mission is even clearer than that to his hotel room, left it there known to geologists. These were of radio television, iaccording to Bell engineers aionelessthah anhour. When he once largely sediments (limestones, For and static" have returned, the bird had hacked down shales and sandstones), but heat marks characterizing radio pictures the great are missing in the coaxial version, a, mass of plaster from one wall, been so alteredof bymountain-making e e hole through the and pressure and a image is being perpecked e chare reRCAs exceed to laths and was working on the movements that their original fected No1 traces of weather boards - Bluish black of acter Is lost entirely.' production. has a flaming life have survived the metamor The possibilities of television via body, the ivory-bifirst era red crest and a white stripe along phism of the rocks of this telephone are tremendous. It may the neck. telephone develop into a two-wa- y Formations la Sbeaandoab Valley conversation in which the speakers natu the of all famous most The Kavea Leeks Like Crew actually look at each other. The in the Shenandoah two-wastunt was tried successAmerican ravens are over two ral formations and the caverns radio television in Lonwith feet long, have a , wing spread of valley are the fully the Natural two men seven miles about three feet, and look like a great stone arch, when don. bridge. In this Lind of eaverns saw and heard each other. apart large crow. Headed for extinction,in forces in pre of nature, at work they are ordinarily found only posAnother telephone-televisio- n Dako- historic times, made a vast under South r and Montana serva in lies Oregon, sibility .beau architectural ta. Once they were common ell ground world of and best known l ice by wire, paid for Just as we pay over the United States. Ravens nest ty. The largest wonderlands are our monthly telephone bill today. in desolate regions, as far as pos- these underground The coaxial cables feasibility (s Endless eav sible from men. But, after being the CavernsShenandoah caverns a exceeded only by its expense. Unand ems captured, Vthey can be tamed der radio television's present disNew Market. tance handicap, U would require heart-breakin- - 480-lin- 441-lin- ilENTONS filial Magnesia SEUCT ll y PRODUCTS. Inn. , UaeMaCH.B.V. 1 home-theate- paoUl imrodaetoc eombtawlto. ;5dddrM. ' ; Cit, .. ran : .i i n, ev trade your farm or ranch apartment In Salt Lake, Wrlta or wire Bert C. Palmer l Wart ta la. Salt taka Cttf "Always as Bepresentad" Jlsk Me Another O A General Qulx laaaaaaM What is the Maelstrom, and where is it? 2. Why does a star precede the number on some United States currency? 3. Are the Niagara falls moving steadily upstream? 4. What is the average thickness of hippopotamus hide? 8. Has any woman received the Nobel prize more than once? 6. What besides chameleons change their color? 7. What is a scaramouche? 8. What statesman referred to a political opponent as a sophisticated rhetorician. Inebriated with the exhuberance of his own verbosity? 9. How does the capacity of the lake above Boulder dam compare with that of Gatun lake in Panama? 10. How much does it cost to open the gates of the Goodyear-Zeppeli- n airship dock at Akron? . Answers 1. A celebrated whirlpool or violent current In the Arctic ocean near the western coast of Norway. 2. It Indicates that that is a substitute bill, issued to replace one that was defective. 3. The brink of Niagara falls is receding or moving back at the average of 214 feet a year. 4. Two inches. 8. In 1903 Mme. Curie received the Nobel award in physics jointly with her husband. In 1911 she was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry. 6. Certain frogs and fishes. 1. neer-do-wel- l. Gladstone in those words. 9. Lake Mead will store 30,500,-00- 0 acre feet of water, while Gatun lake at normal level stores 4,204,000 acre feet of water. 10. The cost of opening the doors of either end is approximately $1 ; are already said to be Investigating that is, the cost of electricity used' the possibilities. Government con- in swinging the doors is about that stum- amount. The doors of the Akron trol in England has placed bling block in the psth of such de- hangar weigh about 600 tons for velopments. BBC has s monopoly each leaf or 1,200 tons for each on television broadcasts and public end of the building. ones negligee had caught fist-siz- Encfoaod Bad tor I 10-In- Two Screaming Women Were ia the Window. raulatd didos l, cbol rouai YOU Vi . I. Disraeli, in a speech in London on July 27, 1878, referred te with humanity. r.Sir smooti REAL ESTATE 7. A Delay is cowardice and doubt despair. If hurhead. Thc generous heart should acorn pleasure which giet others pain. Thompson. Either will find a way, or I will make on 1hilip Sidney. d cab it craps as, Besides RCA and Bell Telephone, other American experimenters with wise ul is connertrd 0". C. SimJM. I enav' $500,-000.00- 0. man ices as much as he not as much as he ran. Slontuigne. Love is hut another name 'sr that inscrutable presence by which the A le tek it sa i transmitters to cover the United States, necessitating 90.000 miles of coaxial cable at $3,000 a mile. Total cost would be almost 1000 ought, ilece- .- o! mi: - System, and in Germany by the state. Each has accomplished something; massed together these accomplishments are tremendous. In the Western hemisphere greatest television experiments have been made by the Radio Corporation of America and its subsidiary, the National Broadcasting company. Each day in Radio City experimental programs are televised to whoever might be watching within the 25 to 35 mile radius that present day television covers. The Bugs Are Gone. Actually, RCAs engineers have already ironed out most of the "bugs in transmission and developed several great improvements in reception. A studio technique has been devised for handling the IconoA scope, or televising camera. larger cathode ray tube has been perfected to show a 7 by image. Another tube projects it to screen. The sickly a 3 by green color that characterized ear-- Swift. uid yrd .Such is the magic of television, a powerful new communication medium whose possibilities are being explored in America by broadcasting and telephone interests, in England by the British Broadcasting ll it some ronum-milliothat w bive aoii!itl lo characterize any perton millmul long experience. ill pr Izedk ire d bDf 10-in- ch screen. A first; illy, s By JOSEPH W. LaBINE In Manhattans Radio City a few weeks ago fashion mannequins paraded before a strange new camera. In a neighboring building a distinguished audience saw these young women on a miniature motion picture screen, meanwhile hearing their gowns described by a commentator. In London a movie audience witnessed a program be ing enacted at Alexandria palace, 30 miles away. In Philadelphia each day regular motion picture news reels are fed to a mysterious new cable. In New York, 90 miles distant, the news reels are viewed on a 7 by "Quotations" .rodua i t ar French lightweight transmitter to bo mounted in an airplane for spotting artillery fire. Another British accomplishment is the televising of color. Early in December John C Baird, one of England'! pioneers in the field, announced he bad transmitted a colored imago of the Junion Jack. Bairds television system Is one of two now In use across the sear having been started In 1926. BBC began its transmissions in 1932 and three years later the government provided for a research commission to pave the way for general broadcasts. Meviea gee Possibilities. The projecUon of televised entertainment to a movie theater screen is one of BBCa greatest accomplishments to date. A British motion picture concern is already seeking permission to televise variety programs exclusively to a group of theaters. Television may eventually fall directly into the moUon picture industrys lap, simply because no other entertainment field has perfected a studio technique comparable to that required for successful staging of shows. Several Bollywood studios 03PQISM03tfl television include the Columbia Broadcasting system with a $2,500.-00- 0 experimentation program under Gilbert Seldes, former newspaper netman, and the Don work on the Pacific coast A prominent radio concern plans a transmitting station in Chicago. Great Britain at Work. Although Germany claims a radio television record of 300 miles, Great Britain readily admita she leads the world in experimentation with this amazing new child of science. For more than a year the British Broadcasting company has been televising daily programs to an audience of some 8,000 receivers in the London area. Headquarters are at Alexandria palace and although television covradius from that ers but a Lee-Mutu- al exhibition of television programs is barred. Americas most popular television When do we question today is: get It? Scientists claim the United States leads Great Britain in this development, but that does not make commercial television practical. Though e RCA has adopted a image. Bell Telephone will soon offer 480 lines. Receivers capable of handling one of thess images cannot accommodate the other. In other words, definite transmission standards must be established by all participants before television will become practical. Sending and receiving equipment must dovetail in every When Socrates was asked, Which of mortal men was to b accounted nearest to the gods in That happiness? he answered: man who is in want of fewest things. Johnson. 441-lin- respect America Proceeds Cautiously. Though Americans may envy the British their commercial television, the wise scientists guiding American experiments have saved us millions of dollars. Admitting the emi bryonic status of their plaything, tt I these men have refused to sponsor receiving( sets that would become obsolete almost immediately. Not a single receiver available 18 months ago could be used todayl America's second most popular television question is: How will it affect the newspapers, magazines, I motion pictures and other media? Since television requires eye attention as well as ear attention, it cannot hope generally speaking to win nation-wid- e audiences except in the evening recreation hours. When people watch jand listen to news events their reactions will be much the same as under the present form of radio1 news coverage. Television will give only the highlights, as much as the ordinary person if Ji would see today when watching a big fire. And, as in the case of the fire, the average person will eagerly await his newspaper for complete details. Magazine, motion pictures and ' legitimate stage performances will continue in popularity because Here the Inside ef an NBC tele- Americans are natural gadabouts, vision earners showing (center) the unwilling to devote all their recreaIconoscope or, eye" of television. tion time to one given entertainThe cameras work is to transform ment. Television's biggest audience s pattern of lights and shadows to will come from our present radio ' corresponding electrical Impulses. listeners. All we need, then, is greater center, officials say the area is bedistance, cheaper ing increased steadily. They have transmission already adopted coaxial cable in 'piping facilities and standardized Great Britain; BBGs programs are transmission and receiving equipment Whether these developments npw "piped j from London to Birmingham and the cable is being ex- are just around the corner or a few tended to Manchester, Leeds and miles ahead, we cant say for certain. But this much is true no one Newcastle. 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