Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-03-08 | Page 1 | Two-Way Talk Had by Phone Across Ocean. Reporters Exchange News between New York and London

WAY VO TALK HAD HADDY BY PHONE W WA A N SS OCEAN Reporters Exchange K News Between N New cw York and and London NEW EW YORK YORK March thy 8 8 EyThe The Associated Pre Press New Press a New York arid and London have bavo had a telephone convel conversatIon allon across tho the sea as clear as ns an ordinary the cross the cross to ton tonn n talk Newspaper men gathered In the tha American Telephone Telegraph office In New Now York talked almos four hours esterday by wIreless telephone nith th a group at the yen gen general eral postoffice in lit London And ex- ex experIments ex experiments carried carrl on Cor or weeks past wre crowned with success on the fiftieth anniversary of o the birth birth- birthday birthday day ot or the Alexander Graham Grham lieU Bell telephone Over miles of land and sea sen seaby seaby by wire and radio there was con con- con con verba lion about current news and the weather and jokes about pro pro- prohibition pro prohibition and short skirts A rt reporter porter for tor Reuters fleuter the Brit British I ish news agency gave a reporter I for the thc Associated Press Pre an Inter inter- interview Interview view with Ambassador ton l who had just sailed from South SOUth- SOUthampton Southampton Southampton ampton t Il It was the first trans Jut trans At ne dispatch transmuted transmitted that Ia way vai In the tho Interview Am- Am Ambassador Ambassador Am Am- Ambassador denied rumors that he lie was IlS returning to take See Sec Sec Secretary place In the de- de department department de department of ot state tate Every ery member er of ot each group heard eard each ea h conversation Each Ech re- re re- re re porter had ear car phones a turn In the speakers speaker's booth The most pronounced achieve achieve- achievement achievement achievement ment was the way two-way conversation conducted yesterday One way trans Atlantic conversations con were held AS as far lor back as 1915