Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW EW YORK VORM radio automobiles airplanes moving I 1 PIC tures and virtually all th the e other technical ten strikes of the modern world come cama in owes dives in cellar between t it e brings up our first and second television set Chicago worlds fairs about all that Is brand new at the new york worlds fair Is television which took its bow with a telecast teleca t at tho the inaugural ceremonies unlike britaina Brit BrI ains lains garret inventor john jelin logic baird allen alien B iu du mont putting his byline by line on the new television act camo came along through the 11 channels in which promising young technicians are grooved these days out of rensselaer polytechnic institute in 1923 ito ho was employed as a tubo tube engineer with tho the westinghouse company in bloomfield Bloom neld N J until 1937 when lie he became chief engineer of the do forest radio company cut but when ho he caught the he television germ he did just what baird did the only difference being that he holed up in a cellar in stead 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 base ment built his laboratory and stayed underground until he was ready to come up with a cathode ray tube which Is pretty nearly the works la im television in 1937 mr du mont rounded up some capital and built a sizable two story laboratory at montclair N J employing 42 men by 1938 paramount pictures had declared itself in in a big way and at last accounts mr du monts enterprise was virtually a subsidiary of this corporation po ration that Is interesting la in view of the fact that in england they already are televising events for the moving picture screen it Is indicated that the du mont rig may be subject to the samo same development fiol f COL IOL EDWARD STARLING who confers with albert canning chief con constable of scotland yard about guarding the british king and chameleon like queen vs on their in visit here hee is an sleuth to guard american 01 0 i british royalty the deadwood dick tradition which the british like to think Is typical of this country a long lean reserved tight lipped kentuckian Kentuck lan with a sombrero the guardian of live five presidents camera eyed and a crack pistol shot ile he will be there when their majesties majest les go to the white house but he will not be conspicuous he merges with the scenery like a chameleon lie ile saved clemenceau s life during the paris peace confer ence guarding woodrow wil son eon he bo rodo rode in an automobile immediately behind the 4 tl ti gers car ile he saw an assassin level a run pun shooting from the hip in a lightning draw he be cracked the kil killers lerPs wrist he Is the one man the president has to obey an advance man who interviews police maitres dh otel transportation officials and chefs even editing menus and on occasion sion speeches if they indicate too much ol of a tax on the presidents receptive energies at 17 he was a deputy sheriff of ky As a special agent for the railroads railroad rAll road s he touched off his first national headlines by trapping th the call fornia kid a desperate marauder who had long eluded cap ture president theodore reese noose velt gave gave him special assignments which routed his him into uio tile white house secret service detail in 1913 IQ in 1935 lie he became head of the detail which congress had authorized after assassination of president me hinley kanley he Is six feet tall gaunt and sellous graying now tho the better to aadu into the crowd 0 i JOHN OHN R STEELMAN the governments special mediator in the appalachian soft coal dispute was once a blanket stiffly stiff riding the f ni i tt rods with 0 the O ex blanket stiff hoboes hobles to get boils bils down our from arkansas labor disputes to the western wheat fields there in the postwar post war boom days he earned 9 a day and invested his savings in a henderson college AB A B a vanderbilt M A and a university siti of north carolina ph D heading the government conciliation concil lati on service he smoothed out labor disputes involving workers in the 1038 fiscal year he ws an arkansas farm boy wo working the southern logging camps he is tall and dark and friendly and easygoing in manner released by consolidated news hew Fes features tures service |