Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features Servi service ceJ indeed NEW EW YORK it Is ii pleasant indeed to get something on horatio alger heres a boy who won his way to eminence by watching a hing a clock al algera theory though he of clock watcher was 38 years old and an d had hac gets a setback b been een just a clock puncher instead of a watcher before this hairpin hair pin turn in his career routed him to tame fame we cite dr frank conrad the father of radio broadcasting recently awarded the gold medal of the american Institute tor for his guiding genius in developing the worlds first radio broadcasting system the master clock which ticked off his higher destiny hung bung in fin the plant of the westinghouse hous company in pittsburgh it wa was a highly reputable old clock but mr con conrad iad altogether trust it lie ile and another employee made a bet as to which had the more accurate watch through a week of time keeping mr air conrad refused to accept the decision of the office clock in an unused garage near his home at Wil kinsburg he rigged a crude crud e receiving apparatus to catch time signals from the naval station at arlington va he caught them but he be also caught s some ome added starters which he be ca could uld n not at at first explain tm pm cloying a primitive direction finding device he located them as apparently springing from a slag heap about a block away lie ile find the source there but he did find it a few steps farther on an with one john coleman among g the lonely impresa rios has of the first feeble birth cries 0 of I 1 radio that was in 1912 mr conrad incidentally ci won the bet on his 5 watch against its 40 rival but he forgot all about mere time signals he and coleman teamed their researches and began filtering ghostly phonograph recordings through th the intervening slag heap the rest is an old story the historic harding broadcast dr Co lemans radio patents his honorary doctorate from the university of pittsburgh and his award of the debman edison john scott and lamme medals he Is still curious and will take a sharp look at anything interesting or important which alertness has led him into diligent research in botany biology and astronomy lie he has a lined leathery face steel gray hair and naturally ever watchful eyes IF THERE are any good ball players among the european refugees they can get good jobs and nice pay in the caribbean league working for r i T ii general G trujillo gen ratael rafael after Pl placers aVers for leonidas tru aillo boss of caribbean team the demint dominican an republic he has been angrily accused of raiding the american national negro league and the pittsburgh crawfords Craw fords have been mourning that no dark skinned shortstop is sate safe when the general tarts starts building up his infield the little brown diligent headman head man of santo domingo is unpredictable predictable since he took power un ower 10 years agop ago the junta ot at exiles here has been stacking lim up as another If hitler itier but just now he signs a con contract trac admitting boo families of exiles from germany and poland donates them acres of land and says provision will be made for additional settlers in t the I 1 1 e future the contract gra grants n ts citizenship to the newcomers and pledges their freedom from molestation discrimination or persecution he was a farm arm boy who learned fighting and ball playing with the marines during an eight year period ending in 1924 with the end of hes a lost fast shortstop dominican army admy he romped Lii ough grades from private to leral era in 1930 he tipped over old president velasquez and took the country in the framework of a democracy he made himself a per cent dictator and his enemies admit that he be lias has made a tidy little nation out of a jungle lie hc put the opposition in jail ile he has the cleanest of the latin american countries and boasts that there is neither crime nor unemployment in santo domingo he decreed that all automobiles should have lettered on their license plates viva trujillo lol he also had con ress boffl officially ci ally proclaim im him ben factor of the fatherland he has a beautiful es ite patrolled night and day b he army and three country estates mere meals are served on le ie as he has gimplin implanted ted the aradi nn n that he Is apt to appear an here A any v time and he really Is 4 |