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The Seaforth News, 1927-11-10, Page 3a Canadian Interference Squad Adds Much to Listeners' Joy Fleet of 11 Cars Runs Down and Eliminates Man -Made Static—histening Tax Pays Uplceep, Eleven automobiles patrolling Can- of the trees a faint sizzling was hoard ada from 'Vancouver to Halifax bear "'in the earphones. Without the aid on their doors this legend—Interfer- of radio this was also to be hoard, al- •ence Oar, Radio Branch, Department though very faintly, On investigating of Marine and lr'ishertes. „ Each car it was discovered that in a number is specially built and furnished with of -places throughout the town high the most sensitive radio receivers and voltage lines carrying 2200 volts for two radio ,electricians. , These men the electrical consumption of 011Ilia with their ears constitute the ever- were touching the trees in various watchful Radio' Interference Section places. As soon as the wires were of the Radio Branch, Department of separated from these branches the; Marine and Fisheries—the only or- trouble ceased. As a result, wherever ganization of its kind in the world. this condition was found branches Two years ago, after a number of were eawn off. To -day Millie is still preliminary tests had proven success- a town of trees, but radio reception ful, .a staff of one engineer and three is excellent, electricians _ wais, appointed to deal With radio interference from power Each automobile is -equipped with a superheterodyne receiver with di- -lines and cleotrlcal apparatus• An rection finding loop and volume con automobile wasequipped with special Itree . Six and seven tube superhetero- instruments and sent on tour in '0n -I dynes are used, mounted in a special .tario' and Quebec. In three months portable cabinet, which is .connected by moans of a_multiwire cable plug to' a second cabinet containing batteries and accessories. This receiver is suf- ficiently sensitive- to record a noise due to a fault on a distrileuti'ng sys- tem many miles away. In fact it was was used recently to locate faults on power lines situated in one case 15 miles away and in the other four miles distant. The notable feature in these re- ceivers lies in the fact that they may be used while the automobile is tra- veling at a moderate rate of speed. The interference from the ignition system of the car produces -usually " the two radio electricians with this • car carried out investigations' of in- terference in 1,00 towus and villages, Two hundred and three cases of-in- tereference were handled, of which 124 were immediately eliminated and the majority of the others ceased to annoy.radiocast listeners as a result of follow up correspondence between the listeners, theownersof the elec- trical apparatus causing the interfer- once and the radio branch. Such has been the meccas of this section of the radio branch from the very first that the following, year live cars were in continuous service England's Guest Winning Poem on L ndberg's ,Flight Cchoalgirl Gets $500 Prize for "Wiri,s of Lead" in Ken - r erly , Cant est • 4000 MSS. SUBMITTED Methalre ('rano ih 1 nnr-old I tool:lye erhoel r 1 1111.).,k) poem, '"Phe janitor's r, aroused a can-' tiovorr:y' .4 - . ur announced rens tip; is the ,Yong of the $500 prize offered by II( nut Kennerly for the h' •>t poem on Lindbergh's flight to Paris. Ie, tiialia s sixty Iines of swinging' tets'e,- entitled "Wings of Lead," was adjudged the best from among 4,000 manuscripts submitted by 2,000 contestants from every State n�n���rrs'st Naval the Union, from Canaria, England, Ancient enmity and mutual suspicion wilt be buried when Amanullah Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, will be the guest of King George for three days throughout eastern Canada. With i 1 the receiver which is char. g e e bo . Afghanistan a sound in- during early D c m r is now a friendly buflerstette between headquarters at Halifax, Montreal, aeteeisticly different from that pro- the Indian empire and Soviet Russia. Ottawa and Toronto, these cars coy !diked by the power line, so that this cov- ered their districts thoroughly. Three (type of interference if not too great more 'cars have been added this year, oneforVancouver, another for Win- nipeg and a third for London, On- tario. Typical of the cases submitted to this interference squad is that of the little town of Orillia, at the head of Lake Simcoe, in Ontario. A. 00m - plaint was recently sent in to the 'Toronto radio inspector that terrific radio interference was malting radio reception almost impossible. Tho radio interference car was quickly prepared and Inspector S. J. Ellis with his assistant left for Oriilia, about 80 miles north of Toronto. On coming within view of the town, Mr. Ellis was greatly impressed with the vast number of trees in and about the community. In fact be 'fervently believes that there isn't another town wlth such a distinguished entry. 'Phe trees proved to be more than that. Usually inspection for this sort of interference is done on foot; where de,a long road has to be investigated the el car is used. A receiver, loop aerial and phones are carried by the hunt is not objectionable. In addition a portable superhetero- dyne receiver is carried and used in special tests where the two receivers are required, A portable three -tube regenerative receiver, complete with batteries and especially designed to be carried by one man, is also part of the 'equipment of the car. The Last named set is used with a loop or vari- ous types of exploring coils for spe- cial investigations in power houses and places inaccessible to a cat'. The tubes used in all these sets are the tiny "peanut" tubes manufactured only in Canada. They stand but two inches high and notwithstanding that are most excellent tubon. That this service is provided in the Dominion may seem strange but the listener in Canada is due some help In his reception ot radiocast music, when interference would otherwise spoil it tor him. An annual license is required by every owner of a radio receiver, the charge being $1. With. theso dollars amounting to over $125,- ,er, the receiver being slung over tine 000 during the fiscal year from April shoulder by means of a strap and the 1, 1925, to March 31, 1928, the radio loop carried in tlto hand. Then as a 'interference cars with their trained noise is heard on the Phones it Is staffs of two radio electricians are tuned in and hunted till it is loudest. paid, and a number of other means of This vicinity is then thoroughly searched and the source of trouble ,quickly found in this maker. Wires Touched Trees, Following this system, Mr. Ellis be- gan hunting for inductive interfer- encs on reaching Orillia. He did not havetogo far. Coming under some improving radio reception for the lis- teners are made possible. Tho work of the interference sec- tion is considered to have'.amply jus - titled both its establishment and its continuance. on a more extensive scale in the future. — Christian Science Monitor. Pai..pieve Forbids Saint -Cyr Hazing Serious Accident at French Military School Ends 1 Picturesque Tradition Ii Minister f Saint•CYr,—Patti Painleve, of War, will not tolerate hazing ev0n In the mild form in which it is prac- ticed at French military schools. A serious accident to a pupil at Saint- Cyr, which is France's Royal Military College, has brought down the Minis- I terial thunder and ended forever a I picturesque tradition, It has been the custom as long as anybody can remember ',for the sent- - ors to invade the dormitory ot the newest arrivals itt the dead of night and make them rise and pass in.mocic review. One of Chs new men in get- ting out of bed failed to see a trap door which had been lett open so that the seniors could make a hasty get- away in case au officer appeared. The victim fell through the open door and fractured his skull. His condition is it serious. M. Painleve has circularized all the r, schools forbidding, under the penalty of dismissal, the continuance at such practices, In addition General Collin, Commandant of Saint -Cyr, sent seven- teen students involved in the hazing 8.0eik serve as common privates in vari- VOI regiments. Walking Gane "Where ie my cane? Wherever i stand it, when I look for it, it's gone." "Well, it's e, walking cane, isn't it?" LOUD -SPEAKER BAN The .Town Clerk of West Ham, England, has announced a by-law passed by the West Ham Council and directed against raucous loud- speakers placed alosig the streets. Tho by-law reads: "No person shall in any street or public place or in any shop, business premises or place which adjoins any street or public place and to which the public are admitted, operate or cause or suffer to be operated any wireless loud -speakers or gramo- phone in such manner as t0 cease annoyance to or disturbance of oc- cupants or inmates of such pre- mises> or passersby. ti Sea Raider Turns Pacifist Skipper of "Seeadler" is in States to Lecture on Peace Count Felix Von Luckner, better known as the "Sea Devil," who be- came a modern buccaneer as a Lieu- tenant Commander in the German Navy during the war and with his disguised windjammer ravaged allied shipping, has turned peace crusader. Ile has come to the United States to lecture, partibularly at schools and colleges, until December. Peace is his theme, though he rams it home with burly gestures and exclamations delivered with all the force of his huge physique. King George Shoots Venison for Feast Windsor, England—King George himself shot the royal bunk which was. seeved title year at the annual. Venison banquet tendered by the Windsor City:Corporation,, The eastern of the King provid- ing th•o deer for the feast le of ancient origin, but it Is rare that the l King personally lbws done' the kilitug. The Prince of Walee, high.�s•tew- ard of tire royal Borough of Wind- sor, accepted, the Mayor's invita- tion to the dinner, which was held October 27,( Franco, Germany, Italy and even Polio' Defined Monaco j` a To Solve -Mystery The Fugitive Aurora Borealis Faces An International Quiz A campaign onore than ever reso- lute is .now under way to rob the aurora borealis of Its secrets, For Icenturies this strange phenomenon. i has fired the imagination of sclentiats end of late years tnuoh valuable data have been organized. But a great deal romaips to be learned. The ef- fort has now been made international I in scope. At a recent meeting of the International Geodetic and Geoguta phio Union, held in Prague, Czeohos- iovaicia, it was decided that the co- operation of all nations should be solicited in the quest of running these beautiful, mysterious and, in certain respects, these mischievous Northern Lights to their lair. Mischievous, yet. The present of - Nathalie, now M her second year at r,Pensive waged by specialists of many the .Brooklyn Heights Seminary, had 1�*y W. Steed lands is not altogether' a matter of no thought of winning a prize when she started flight last May on the day that he landed in Paris, and it was not until her composition was well along to- ward completion, she said, that she learned of the competition, Iscientific' curiosity, for in this age of her poem on -Lindbergh's "We Shall Not Enter Into electrical .expansion the Northern Competition With You, Editor Tells America New York.—The growing need for international friendship and under Lights represent frequently an inimi- cal force of greater or less potency— principally lese•, of course, though they can, on occasion, play very queer and sometimes rather disconcerting Says Flier Sawa Vision. standing and the declaration than pranks. Only theotherday it was On the night that Lindbergh was Great Britain would not tolerate a' reported that the aurora borealis had flying through he darkness some- policy of naval rivalry with the been caught upsetting telegraph where east of NeNwfoundland, as the United States, was stressed by H. { operations—Charging the wires with girl lay awake thinking of the _flier Wickham Steed, publisher of the Re -I excess electricity and making it Im- and his audacity, she called out to her view of Reviews of London and form- I possible_ for a time, over a certain mother: "He saw a vision. He accepted a challenge from the gods." Mrs. Crane did not know what the child was talking about, and Nathalie, a bit surprised, told her, The next morning she told her parents that she thought she would write a poem about ells Early Adventures. the flight, and set about developing The man who conceived and car' an outline. On June 12 Mr. Kennerly cied out this bold marauding had been announced the competition and Ma Farrar suggested to Nathalie. that she Prepared by his earlier experience. enter it. "The Wings of Lead" was As a .youngster of 18, he relates, he then nearing completion, and ala, was backward In school and had run thelia, who had been busy on her sec off to sea.. School had been to him and novel, set to work and finished it. little better than a prison, because he She explained what she meant by was not interested in his studios, and 'Wings of Load.' Butch preferred to read the tales of "Why, `wings of load` signify the America's Wild West, particularly the impossile," site said. "You see, exploits of Buffalo Bill. Lindbergh just came in unknown and Getting a start even as cabin boy said he would do it, and everyone was not easy. The lefts prohibited 'ridiculous, impossible: Then he a ship's captain from signing on did It; he did the impossible." i Ki lin 's Style. eats' permission. Assuming the name "Phylax Luedecke," he finally per- suaded the master of a Russian sail- ing craft to take him on as cabin boy —being warned in advance that there would be no Day, and that, as the ra- tions were supplied for only the re- gular crew of twenty-four, he would have to eat the scraps left by the sailors. Be agreed to those condi- tions ondi tions and sailed with the Russian to Australia. Tho- transformation from buccaneer to advocate of international accord might have seemed unexplainable but tor his unusual career. On the face of it, his war record appears almost bloodthirsty. With a small crew and a mere three -masted windjammer, the Seeadler, in. a day of fast, power - driven ocean greyhounds, he sailed through the British ships blockading Germany, undergoing careful inspec- tion, and roved the sea at will, cap- turing ship atter ship of the allied merchant marine and sending 08,000 tons of it to the bottom. He traveled 04,000 miles, though ships of the al- lied navies were searching ;tor hint everywhere, and he sank 08,000 tons et precious saltpetre the Allies want- ed for ammunition. Never Killed a Man. Yet this strange buccaneer makes the proud boast that he never killed a man.. He took every member of every crew he captured, he says, and held all captives as guests aboard his ship. Aa many as live crews were on board at one time. "Tho Steeadler, in fact," Bald Count von Luckner, telling his story, "was not armed. She was a bluff.. She hall wicked -looking holes under her rails, threatening her enemies with deadly broadside. The only cannon she had aboard was an antique muz- zle -loader made in 1817, which was made to look extra dangerous by be- ing covered with a painted barrel. youngster without proof of his par- erly editor of The Times of Loudon, at a dinner given in his honor in New York. A tenet of international friendship which, comparable to the Monroe Doctrine, would establish the United eating experiments in photograPbing States as determined to be a "peace the aurora against stats. Plans were loving" nation, was urged upon this I worked out' or more effective use of 'country by Mr. Steed. He declared 1 magnetic methods in studying under that the collapse of the Geneva arms � ground formations " limitation conference In no way re- Sir Frederic Stupart of Canada was, fleeted the real British attitude to- elected a member for.North America ward America. to servo on a newly formed interna - The British Cabinet failed to con- tional committee whose work it will Sider the broader questions involved9 be in conduct special studies of the in the Geneva conference, Mr. SteedI aurora borealis. So the campaign is said. He placed the blame for the; well under way and results may re - failure at the door fo the British i ward this new effort. It is net Ministry, which permitted its defib-ijj thought likely, however, that even orations to be conducted by au ad-, with international mass ormatlou and. miralty rather than a diplomatic, the aid of all the resources of modern group.. science ibis ancient wild' spirit of the 11 to bay without Peace. girth can be brought 7 sac b Promotion of World P „The DossibilitY of armed couflict1 a prolonged struggle. with the United States lies entirely' area, to send any messages. According to N. H. Heck, who was an American delegate to the meeting in Prague. "Dr. Carl : Staermer, famous scientist of Norway, reported inter Poem n p g 0— Methalia's poem is in the Kipling outside of the outlook of the British How About Head manner, a narrative o ti f the flight a people on the naval question, Mr. Poet Laurette is 83 Dr. Bridges Observes Anniver- sary Quietly at His Ox- ford Home London—Dr. Robert Bridges, for the last fourteen years Poet Laureate of England, who is older than any of his predecessors, save Colley Libber and Tennyson, celebrated hiss eighty- third birthday on October 24th at his home at Boar's Hill, Oxford. He spent the day quietly, receiving many calte•s and opening scores of con- gratulatory telegrams, and letters, When he was 80 Dr. Bridges visit- ed America, having previously de- clined an offer of the Chair of Poetry at Michigan University. The poet 1s noted few his disregard of public re- cognition. Be would never write poetry "to order," It 1s reported that when, after the war, his atten- tion ttention was called to ale fact that the House of Commons a had discussed the e ode, non -production ofp o , he re- plied that he didn't "give a damn,'' In Australia he wont to work in the kitchen of a hotel. His immediate ambition, he says, was to get to America, since it was the land of self- made men. Also he wanted to see his hero, Buffalo Bill. After wander- ing through Australia, from place to place, he arrived at Brisbane, where the master of the Golden Shore, an American four -master, signed him on for a trip to San Francisco. That was a long step toward Buf- falo Bill's home, in Denver. From San Francisco he walked and begged rides in engine cabs, .determined to reach Denver. When on arrival there he found, to his groat chagrin, that his idol was with a circus touring his own Germany, he wandered on to New York to do the next best thing —become a self-made man. We attacked only merchant ships. We sailed under a Norwegian flag, and, posing as a lumber strip, we weld run up close to the prey, bearing signals telling the other Captain that we had a message to deliver. When our quarry came to a stop, the Seead- ler would draw up alongside and launch a small boatt. "The small boat would have only five men in her, but they wore husky. One had been a successful German prizefighter, another an accomplished wrestler, and the other. three were worthy companions. • As they arrived on deck, supposedly to deliver their message, the whole five would sud- denly throw off their coats, showing themselves stripped to the waists, ready for rough action. "Two watchers on the Seeadler were aloft, meanwhile, waiting to.add the sinal touch. As the boarding Party threw off their coats, these two lookouts would suddenly boom out through megaphones, as 10 giving or- ders to our crew: 'Clear for tor- pedoesi' • "The effect would be instantaneous. 11 - The mon of the merchant crews, would be literate fqr the mostpart vet d roceetlin . ' a the WW1 b sut•Dirs by p When ti; a lad Cry b iilo,"they won cl rail waving their hands n First Convict "Why are you Lere4 rush to the Second Convict: "Beeatrse I lost in a I surrender. Then we would take them race." First Convict: "Nonsense; !aboard tho Seeadler, commandeer any nobody comes to prison because of I supplies we needed, and send an- i the pre - 1 p „ few thousand n •r Second Convict: "Bute the Otho that. e d winner was a policeman."—Meggen- clous merchant marine of the Allies dealer Biaetter, Munich. I to the. bottom." . - o^� picture first of the gods leaking down Steed said,. Tax? ,�� on a dull world and deciding to stimu "As far as we are concerned the 1 late it to extraordinary achievement. seas are free y • To their challenge Lindbergh made if you vvlsh, xh bi eat nary the Maine Is Threatened by Bears answer: world has ever f forem to put on them e biggest seen. The only glees- From Canada, Trapper tion for us Is that of determining the, minimum requirements of the safety Says of our trade routes --which wo never Dever-b'axeroft, Maine. - Maine is far threatened by an invasion of maraud - expect You to threaten—and bow that minimum can still furthar be re-, ere from the Gaspe Peninsula in Que- duced by a bound and constructive i bee, if the observations of a veteran policy of world peace. trapper of this region are correct. "You may take it that, however you Boars whlch he has examined this solve your own naval question, what -1 Fall he says strongly resemble a ever the number and tonnage of the I variety peculiar to the Gaspe Penin - cruisers and eventually of., the battle- hula, where ho has had many years' experience in trapping. Their heads, ships you may decide to build, how - he explains, are of a different shape from those of bears comriionly found in Maine. Ile figures that the Gaspe bears are •9 migrating to this State, possibly on account of extensive railroad building And then one night there landed an a Mineola swale A plane that looked like pewter, with a carrier of mail Its wings were tinged like tea -box slcins, each truss of shadow - gray, Its cabin but an alcove slung beneath a metal ray. . The Spirit of St Louie was inscribed upon the lee: It came from out a province that had never seen the sea. 'rite pilot entered for the course, the quarter quadrant glide— To fly the full Atlantic and the tag ends of the tide. . To fulfill that ambition, .he decided to become a Lieutenant in the Ger- many navy, and arrive at the goal through his own efforts. In 1900, he says, he went back to Germany and enlisted as a sailor, resuming his own name. At length, in 1905, he re- ceive his commission to a Lieuten- ancy. Not until then did he return to his home; he -walked into his old home in full uniform. Count Luckner entered the World War full of enthusiasm, intent on do- ing his duty; but the many contacts he had with peen of other countries on his voyages, he says, made him averse to killiug them. "I used to think how' each side was praying to God for help in fighting the others," he said, "and how 1t -was -al- ways the same God they were praying to, As soon as the war was over, I made up my mind that I would go out by myself, without consideration of policy or diplomacy (things 1 never learned anything about in my sailing days) and to try to make people real- ize the common humanity of all. "These old' ideas of fighting and in- ternational rivalries are all wrong. I can't write or make fine speeches, but I can tell my story and talk straight to the heart. BY talking especially to young people, I think I can make some headway in develop- ing international friendships." He listed in as "Lindbergh" just one pace behind the ranks; He had a moon -stained paddle and some star gas in his tanks. A chemist from Olympus with a ladle nicked the rays; He said the ore was purer than it was in Caesar's days. Invisible, he Passed the word, the barograph was sealed— A plane with leaden wings went down the Mineola Reid. It rose and full and rose again and then attained to breath— The raiment ot the bubble when the bubble goes to death. And somewhere near to noontime as the fishers turned to scan, They saw a pearl-gray monoplane slide east of Grand Manan. A single -motored miracle, a lead mine on each flank; Below a shadow swept and awed the hundred -fathom bank. Upon a billow rocked and cheered a lanterned spindle buoy,. The off -shore bells were chanting for the Spirit of St. Louie; For o'er the darkened deep there flew a carrier of mail, His engine drunk with star gas and berserk in the flail. He made the course the gods ha4 set, the quarter quadrant add, Be flew the dull Atlantic and the tag ends of the tide• .. stations that got away."—Building,, "Last night I landed Marclrid," said the angler who had bought a wireless set, c'tint you should have heard the appropriate of the purpose, we shalt not enter Into competition with you." His Majesty's Plum Pudding aperatious dristrict where they have previously inthe thived. We wonder 10 Washington will institute the re - Ingredients Come From The cent quota ruling against these Boys. --(E0.1 Will. Have the Last Word They say it is wool base or freeze for the women this winter, but bless 'em, we'll bet the girls show their in- dependence by refusing both.--Atchl- son Globe. and Loan Tbriftor. ° Fo4 Iish. s ba a Castle. O theory is that dollar in a saving un took asa souvenir au Am r c q. e moo Wax $ effuse the authorities refused to soil $2500 000, But by that 1 • him the building. --London I3nmorist. "Cricket is a dry game," says an American visitor. Be evidently- thasn't A door -knocker �s missing from k1 Dutchman. 'vloo las depeei d•• , ult sato tit Windsor as o. ne aero ittv nlr be- end of 500 years it will amq{t1kt to too old to get any fun out of 1t. Red tape should never be, put nn - Empire. Combined Sym- bolizes Colonies and Do- minions Goodwill London—Bing George will take Christmas dinner with his whole Em- pire this year. His plum padding is 1 to be made entirely of ingredients produced in the Empire and is to be of heroic size and flavor. It will± contain the following: Five pounds each of Australianl currants and raisins, 5 pounds of stoned South African relates, 1.1,5 pounds of minced Canadian apples, 5 pounds of English bread crumbs, 5 pounds of. New Zealand beef suet, 2 pounds of South African. cut candied peel, 24 pounds of English Sour, tris pounds of West Indian sugar, 20 Irish Free State eggs, 2 ounces• of ground Ceylon elnnamon, 11,5 ounces of Zan- zibar ground cloves, 14 ounces of Straits Settlements ground nutmegs, one teaspoon of pudding spina from India, 1 gill of Cyprus brandy, 2 gills ot Jamaica rum and 2 quarts of old English beer. seen ad - seen it played in England this sum- fortunately sometimes to, of e mer. Louaon Opinion, liesive variety. • Magnanimous Henry Ford hasn't built any cars for quite a spell. Evidently he is waiting for bis rivals to catch up far enough to make it a sporting race. One Advantage Presidential eandldales in Mexico can't be bothered much by life insur- auce solicitors. NEW RADIO BEACON The first Canadian radio beacon on the Great Lakes has boon established at the Seeetheast Shoal, Lake Ontario, by the Canadian Government. It transmits on a. wave length of 1,000 meters daring thick or foggy weather every 150 e acyls groups of 1 dot and 8 1 dashes A • 80 seconds and silent ii, 90 ,at$004i r 0. nett dio beacon is soon to be easlablishe at 1 a . oft .1ff,Ia1: Zta- tipfi $ 'elft sets Pt teaks I{; u rf - bty the IJ, . evfirniueuc j ��l , x k e e' S nen. i to ,mit v ry wta s. a;rd einds groups of 4 asbiea for 80 ¢econd0, silent 5125 ekd00ball 1 E ven Y c oud as a ei1Par linlvg, and even Sit o gait of o3thesltas its shin side - Hot Weather Hunch "That fella thinks nothing of flirt. -. ing with death." Why, what dogs .he do?" "Well, everybody lee meets he asks±. "Is it hot oneugh for you?" Elinor Glyn, another of "Throe I Weeks," says' that sorters are 0onaiiea " robablg if they re p andelt wouisi ba alright, iP r Mussolini has bo rs ed celsbos' kto7, exlainixig �A� 'y aistrac�4, Ahs 8tenUgitthp autlto}itiea, waii tpie 44. _ A0 4tie pultl o, 'It is to ' a hoxsed .,„,at to 'orontltu0ta0tii , .0119wor o ac, 'will start a mova9 j baht fox' an aminal celebrakion of this great step.,._, l .