Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1922 — Page 3

Columbus, O.- An oriental who swung' by his gueque under the big top" wore a bUr tonic tnl on bin back, v, Chicago—An electric rabbit went it, on strike at the opening day of a dog race meet here. Moat of the crowd -s of 2,000 joined in the riot resulting when they did not get their money back. tsjft

report of condition of the FIRST NATIONAL BANK AT DECATUR. IN THE STATE OF INDIANA, AT THEKLOSE OF ITS BUSINESS ON JUNE 30, 1922 RESOURCES loans and discounts, including rediscounts, acceptances of other banks, and foreign bills of exchange aold with indorsement of this bunk (except those frown in b and c)5662,623.60 T.S LX - Overdrafts unsecured r Q Rnuds dentosited to secure circulation (par value) $ 42,500.00 Ail other United States Government securities 42,000.00 Other binds' ato. ks, securities, etc 4,100.00 Furniture and Fixtures •••••••■••• ; Lawful Reserve with Federal Bank 33.047.00 Cash in vault anil amount due from national banks 46,854.74 Checks on otheF banks in the same city or town as reporting bank (other thin Item 12) 1,417.32 Total of It»» 9, 10. H, 12 and 13548,272.06 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer .JOther assets, iflany Total I $840,917.22 LIABILITIES Capital stock lid in • Surplus fund 20,000.00 Undivided Profit •$1,025.3Less current ejpenses, interest, and taxes paid 1,025.32 Circulating note- outstanding 42,500.00 Amount due to state banks, bankers, and trust companies in the Unit®States and foreign countries (other than included in Items Jl or 22) 45,427.76 Total of Itftßs 21. 22, 23, 24 and 25545,427.26 Individual dSKits subject to check 283.404.40 Dividends Unpaid 4,000.00 Total of deftfrd deposits (other th in bank deposits) subject: to RflßerveJEms 26, 27, 28. 29, 30 and 31 $287,404.40 Time Deposiwiubject to reserve (payable after 30 days, or subject to 30 da* or more notice, and postal savings): Certificates of leposit (other than for money borrowed) 300,397.11 Other time 44,073.81 Postal savin® deposits 88.82 Total of tit® deposits subject to reserve, Items 32, 33, 34 a|d 35 $344,559.74 Total IB $840,917.22 State of Indiana. County of Adams, ss: I, T. F. (Bilker, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the abovs'Statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. > T. F. GRALIKER, Cashier. Subscribefiand sworn to before me, this sth day of July, 1922. ■ ft URCILE AMSPAUGH, Notary Public. My comß®Bion expires April 30, 1925. THEO. HOBROCK. C. A. DUGAN, J. W. VIZARD, i Directors.

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"It Looked Like a Battlefield In Europe," Said Mr. C. Dunater. "Was staying at a hotel in a small Pennsylvania town. Early one morning I went to the stable to hire a rig and was shown a pile of dead ruts killed with RAT-SNAP the night before. Looked like a battlefield in Europe.” Three sixes: 25c, 50, SI.OO. Sold and guaranteed' by Holthouse Drug Co., Lee Hardware Co.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1922

CHANGE POTENTIAL TO OBtAIN SIGNALS ■ Way in Which This May Be Done With Three-Electrode Vacuum Tube. For every filament current there in a definite plate potential that will give the’strongest signals. When using fairly hard tubes —high vacuumbringing out taps from the individual cells of the plate of "B” battery will give variations that are fine enough. For very soft, gaseous tubes, low

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vacuum, a finer regulation of “B” battery potential is required and is moat easily obtained by means of an "A" battery potentiometer. Fig. 14 show’s how an "A” battery potentiometer is connected in the circuit of a threeelectrode vacuum tube to give fine variations in the plate circuit potential The resistance of an "A” battery i>o tentiometer should be between 200 and 500 ohms. By moving the slider on the "A” battery potentiometer a variation of plate voltage equal to the “A” battery, or about six volts, can be secured. If the tube contains gas, too high a plate voltage will cause the tube to “buck-over" —that is, the gas is ionized and becomes a conductor, al-

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‘lowing an excessive current to flow to the plate circuit which will destroy the elements. In using a vacuum tube circuit for the first time, always check the circuit to see that “A" and “B” batteries are connected to-their respective terminals on the socket. The markings on the socket are plain and cannot be mistaken. Interchanging the plate filSUN DUST IS A “RADIO NET” London Professor Evolves Novel Theory of the Atmospheric Envelope. Electrified dust thrown off by the sun forms an atmospheric envelope about the earth about 100 miles which prevents wireless waves from escaping into Infinite space, according to Prof. J. A. Fleming, University college, London, whose work In wireless Is known all over the world. The screen made by the dust, he says, acts as a sort of wireless speaking tube and enables waves used for long-distance work —whit h are about ten miles in length—to travel 6,000 and 12,000 miles. If it were not for that screen, according to the professor’s theory, the wireless energy throwp out by the big sending towers would not clintf to the earth, but would pass away and be lost. How Big Is an Electron? One very noteworthy experiment in measuring an electron was performed by an American, Professor Millikan of Chicago. He Introduced a minute drop Os oil of about l-10,000th Inch in diameter in a chamber between two plates whose electrical charge was subject to control. The drop of oil was strongly illuminated and was viewed with a telescope. By controlling the potentials of the platps the oil drop could be made to fall or rise at will. Thp drop continually picked up and lost, electrons. As it picked up an electron it would move toward the positive plate. By carefully observing the action of the drop of oil, Millikan was able to determine very accurately the charge added to It by its picking up one electron.

ament leads In connecting a socket will be disastrous to the life of the filament. Note that the filament rheostat Is set to place the maximum amount of resistance in series with the filament. After inserting the tube see that it Is properly seated and that the four prongs protruding from the tube base make good contact with tbelr respective contacts in the tube socket. If, after listening in with a vacuum tube used as a detector with a rated filament current and plate potential, no signals are heard, go over the circuit carefully and inspect all connections, contacts, polarity of both the "A” and "B” butteries, and take a look at the grid condenser and leak. A three-electrode vacuum tube can be substituted for the crystal as a detector In the simple radio receiving set described in this column a short time ago. Using a vacuum tube In place of a crystal detector will give a much louder signal, and a detector that when once adjusted will stay nd-

justed. The material which will be required to do this Is as follows: One standard vacuum socket. One 6-10-ohm filament fheostat. One grid condenser and leak combined. Three binding posts. A source of filament current and a source of plate potential. Schematically the set Is connected up as shown in Fig. 15 when used with a three-electrode tube as a detector. This set, too, can be very conveniently mounted on an 8 by 10-inch base, mounting the tube socket with the filament rheostat beside it. In a great many of the usual receiving circuits used the so-called de-

tector tube functions not only as a detector, but as an amplifier and as an oscillator, as will be explained later. There will also be printed a table of symbols used in drawing diagrams and thus the different parts and materials used In these diagrams will be readily understood by those who are unfamiliar with these terras.

TIPS FOR FANS A meeting of representatives : of stations within 360 meters of ‘ New York and New Jersey was called to prevent radio ‘‘jam” in the air. Some of the sweet tilings that come through must have gummed up the ether. For use across the secondary of a tuner, such as the honeycomb colls, use a condenser of twenty-three plates or less. The less capacity used in the secondary circuit, the better will the set work. If, after wiring up a set, you hear nothing but a steady hum in the receivers, you may be very that there is an open circuit somewhere. Truce out the wiring carefully and some little fault will present itself. The so-called “spaghetti” tubing, if placed over bare wire used In wiring a set, will Improve the appearance 100 per cent and reduce the danger of short circuits. More and more are the radio fans-turning to radio-frequency amplification Instead of audiofrequency. The chief reason for this lies in the fact that in radio-frequency amplification the incoming signals are amplified ■before they reach the detector, where they are rectified, while In audio-frequency they are amplified after reaching the detector. In the first method signals that are very weak are brought in, whereas in the latter method they would probably not be heard.

FOUR YOUNG PEOPLE FIGURED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT SUNDAY NIGHT Four young people had a remark | able escape in an automobile accident | which occured Sunday evening at a; point one-halt mile south of the town of Uniondale, in which a Ford tour I ing car turned turtle. The occupants of the machine were Elta Holler and Walter IxiFavor, two Geneva young men, Miss Dorothy Odier, a daughter of William (Idler The two girls live in the vicinity oi l Uniondale. Miss Odier received a wrenched back and an injury to one thumb, and! it was feared at first she was dangerously hurt, as she was pinned under the steering wheel, and was held I firmly until the machine was lifted. She was able to be up and around to I day, and it was thought the injury to I the back would not develop into any j thing serious. The other three also were caught under the machine, but escaped with I slight scratches and bruises. Other I motorists were quickly on the scene and gave assistance to the party in ; the wreck. The automobile was badly wrecked i and had to be towed to a garage for repairs, and Heller telephoned to a I brother at Geneva to come after him and his companion in another car. The machine was reported travel ing at a pretty good speed when it was deflected by dropping over the edge of a culvert, ran along in tin side ditch for some distance and then flipped over. a SCHOOL MARMS WANT TO “ROBERT” THEIR LOCKS AT COLUMBUS Columbus, July 5, —Half a dozen young and pretty school inarms here I want to bob their hair. They’re going to petition Donald DuShane, superintendent of schools, for permission to do so. The teachers won’t ask it in just : that way. They will call it "Robert' instead of “Bob”. They’re highly proper. ‘One might as well be dead as be out of style,” one of them said: New’ York —Police woke a negro spiritualist from his dreams when he told them to search tires of an auto mobile for money stolen from a bank.

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