| Show RADIO FIRST TO TELL OF SANTA SETA BARBARA QUAKE Two Amateurs Link Up City With Outside Out Out- f side aIde World After Temblor Laid Place In Ruins V 1 Santa Barbara Cal To Cal To Brandon Brando a Wentworth Jr an and d Graham George of ot this city the former an official rela relay i operator of or th the American Radio Relay Belay l league ngue fell the dut duty of first linking ur up Santa Barbara Barbera with the outside world after the disastrous earthquake that shook the entire city The rhe first news telling the outside t world of ot the city's plight the first firs reassuring messages to friends on they the y outside the first call for naval aid 1 In n l c guarding against vandals were th the work of ot Wentworth and find George When the temblor hit the city ru rut raz ing buildings disrupting the tho power 8 system putting the water works out 0 of commission and cutting ot off Santa Barbara from the rest of or the world two thO youthful radio enthusiasts r r. r t like all others lost their home stations In the general collapse of or higher structures structures tures Undeterred b. b by the loss of ot their o own equipment the two young men made post haste to the radio store of ot Bolton Junes Jones where materials were available available avail ull ahl able for the use of ot those who knew how Wentworth and aud George knew how Within an hour of the fir first l sho shock they had assembled a three Inch spark sparl roll oil a rotary gap gnp volt twelve battry y and nd a key for tor transmission of or oran an SOS S. S An undamaged receiver re tI celver from the store stock took care of tin the reception and the busy pair of or radio men ner immediately started sending out their heir SOS The tanker H. H M. M Stor Story station elation und and the tug Peacock station I were the first two to u pick u up the calls culls The tug acted us as relay st station Hon In the call for naval aid uld and In pending ending out the news 11 i of ot the disaster The emergency station station station sta sta- tion continued Its work until other communication was restored |
