Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1926 — Page 18

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KFNF ORIGINATES HOLIDAY Pli SUNDAY, JULY 4 Little, Low-yVave Station Proves Popular With Many Fans. SHENANDOAH, lowa, June 30. It was the little, long-wave, countryside station, KFNF, that started radio fans tuning in years ago on old fiddlers and square dance contests. It was KFNF, a little more than a year ago, that formed a Golden Rule circle grown t oa membership of more than 12,000 fans. Now it’s KFNF again, grown up, Introducing an idea that has promise of being adopted officially throughout the country. The new idea Is the keeping of “Independence Sunday,” a day for religious celebration of our independence to be held on the Sunday preceding July 4, or on that day if it comes on Sunday, Officially Recognized Already, Independence Sunday Is an established holiday in at least three States. The Governors of Arkansas, lowa and Mississippi have already issued proclamations setting forth Sunday, July 4, not only as Independence Day, but as Independence Sunday, in recognition of the hew movement. James Pearson, KFNF’S grownup “newsboy,” who reviews each day's news with spicy humor, is the originator of Independence Sunday. Heaps of letters from fans have encouraged him in this enterprise and the official recognition of the Sunday- by three Governors has led him to- believe that ultimately this will be a "national observance. For Other Folks KFNF is the farmers' broadcasting station. Not only that, but it’s the station for older folks. From here have been broadcast the tunes of yesterday; here old fiddlers have resumed playing to square dances wh’le Henry Field himself, owner of KFNF, “prompts,” and here also the older generation finds its radio entertainment. Despite its low wavelength' “down where the squeals begin,” KFNF has been one of the country’s most popular stations—just because of its unique old-time programs. _ There are homey talks, too, farm and garden lectures and similar educational stunts. KFNF’S birthday program last February brought in more than 225,QOO telegrams, in addition to thousands of letters and telephone calls. It was the greatest recognition any station had ever received.

STEP FORWARD IN DENVERLIGHIG Focus 34 Projectors on Colorado Capitol. Floodlighting in Denver took an Important step forward when the combined beams of thirty-four General Electric projectors were focused on the ir>o:Joot dome of the Colorado capitol for the first time two weeks ago. The floodlighting units include thirty projectors, each using 500watt “Mazda” lamps, and four 1,000watt incandescent searchlights. Os the thirty projectors, sixteen are type, throwing a wideangle beam, and the remainder are the L-9 type, throwing a narrow beam. Additional projectors may be set in place as State funds become available for the purpose as a means of increasing the foot-candle intensity. - From the roof line to a height of 100 feet the dome structure is built of stone and iron and is surfaced with granite-colored paint, thus assuring a good reflecting efficiency at night. The upper cupola, which extends for another fifty feet, was sur- ' faced with goldleaf more than twenty-five years ago at a cost of 16 ,000. Under a flood of light at night the entire dome will be visible for many miles In all directions. According to present plans, the floodlighting equipment will bo operated regularly every night throughout the tourist season. BOMB-THROWER SUICIDE BELGRADE.—Serge Militch, who attempted to throw a bomb at a government official, committed . cnlfitdft in his cell. _ _

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Olof Ohlson By NEA Service WALTHAM, Maas., June 30.—The watch of the future will be radiocontrolled. And the excuse of the future will be —radio. Thus will latecomers tell their bosses, "I tuned in on the wrong wave length to set my watch this morning and must’ve got Greenwich time.” That’s the prediction of Olof Ohlson, chief engineer of a large watch company here. He sees the day ahead when there will be no use for mainsprings and other contrivances to keep watches going, when broadcasting stations will flash signals on special wave lengths so that watches synchronized to these will be kept accurate. “The impulses for motivating these watches of the future may very likely takelhe form of electric magnetice waves sent out from telechron companies,’’ says Ohlson. The future watch repairer may be a wireless engineer, he adds. That this sort of timekeeping is probable, Ohlson sees from actual development along similar lines. Time signals and. even energy in small quantities are already being flashed by radio. Clocks now are being kept on time by means of electric connections. Timepieces will be more accurate, Ohlson insists, but static and wrong wave lengths will be the alibis of the tardy.

PREDICTS CHANGEIN RADIO FUTURE Writer Visualizes Scientific Advancement. By A IF.A Service NEW YORK. June 30.—Hugo Gernsback, writer and popular prophet of scientific advancement, -visualizes these radio conditions of 1936: A change in broadcasting with stations operating below 50 meters, possibly below 10 meters, allowing 4,000 stations to be on the air without interference. Television extending our sight 10,000 or 12,000 miles by radio. Tubes operating directly from the 110-vtolt house-lighting circuit and known as “cold” tubes, needing no heating of filaments. Simple control of the radio receiver, eliminating the many knobs and dials now in use. Gernsback says the loud speaker of 1936 will have no dlaphram. It may be a gaseous, talking lamp. Regarding the popularity of radio, Gernsback believes that 25 to 85 million receivers will be-in operation by 1936, . SHORTAGE IS RELIEVED During May the government plant at Muscle Shoals delivered 56,288,100 kw.-hr. to the Alabama Power Company, This made it possible to spare 20,000 kw. for the use of the (Southern Power Company, thereby relieving the power shortage in the Carolinas caused by the dry weather. The fact that power from Muscle Shoals was available during the winter made it possible also for the Georgia Railway and Power Company to conserve its storage, Rainfall In the Southeast thus ter f this year has been 20 per cent below porihiU.

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ELECTRIC HEN IS MOTHER TO OVER 3WDDCHIGKS Automatic Incubator Raises Strong and Healthy Fowls. By Times Special BERKELEY, Cal., June 30. Electric energy Is hatching chicks at the rate of 3,000,000 a year in an electrically operated Incubator at Petaluma, Cal. Electricity maintains the heat at 103 degrees, turns the eggs six times every twenty-four hours, shows a signal if anything goes wrong in any one of the compartments, starts illumination of the entire plant promptly at 6 p. m., cutting It off the following morning; drops the dor to each compartment at the end of the twenty-first day so that the hatched chicks may have light and air; and then turns on the heat in the huge brooders, to which a force of men transfer the 560,000 chicks of each setting. Automatic Switchboard Power is supplied through the customer’s own substation. Distribution to the incubators is made through an automatic switchboard, fflfflfflffldfi et et ta tao ao aoiiniitn the maximum demand being 620 kq. Upon reaching the incubator, the eggs are passed, one at a time, before an electric testing lamp. Unfertile eggs are eliminated by this “egg X-ray,” and are sold to bakers or other large consumers. Then the fertile eggs are placed on trays on a long table passing down the center of the double row of Incubating compartments. Here the eggs are aghin inspected by another group of testers, equipped with specially designed electric lights, and the trays finally pass Into the compartments. Heat Regulated In these compartments the correct amount of oxygen, the exact quantity of moisture and the proper degree of heat for best results in Incubation are maintained by thermostats. . The one setting of eggs weighs thirty" tons, and each egg Is turned automatically six times every twen-ty-four hours. In • the incubator these eggs are so turned at the rate of 100,000 every ten minutes, and the total turn of one setting requires about one hour. When the birds come from the

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It's the Straight Nine, Now! Bit Ni:A Service NEW YORK, June 30.—This fall -adio fans will be Introduced to the Straight-Nine in receivers! The same set was the Straight-Eight last year. The additional tube, says its manufacturer, will provide greater sensitivity and selectivity, on a loop. Don’t expect to see the end there, either. Three to five tubes more may make the future set Independent of batteries and attachable to the house lighting current.

incubator compartments they are passed immediately to large brooder rooms, prewarmed automatically by electricity and where the heat la held uniform by thermostats. State poultry authorities and poultry raisers’ associations have found as the result of their experience that the electrically operated Incubators produce more uniform Incubation and better and stronger chicks than with other kinds of heat. TO PROBE LIQUOR COST Independent Committee to Make Survey for Great Britain. By United Prt* LONDON. June 30.—T0 find out. without religious or prohibition bias, just what the drink traffic costs the inhabitants of the British Isles an independent Inquiry has been set on foot by a distinguished and independent committee. The committee, which is headed by Lord Buckmaster, includes Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Lord Methuen, the Honorable Mrs. Alfred Lyttleton. Philip Snowden M. P. (a strong teetotaller and prohibitionist), and W. I. Hughes. Under the auspices of this committee a research will be carried on with the professional co-operation of such experts In social, medical, statistical research as Sir Charles Harris, Sir William Beveridge, head of the London School of rx:onomlcs, Professor A. L. Bowley, the statistician, Professor A. M. Carr Saunlers, Mr. William Graham, M. P.. formerly under Secretary cr? the Treasury; Mr. B. Seebohm Ro -vntree, and others. NEW CATHOLIC COLLEGE EDMONTON, Alberta.—Construction of the new Roman Catholic College In Edmonton, to be known as St. Joseph’s College, Is to be started Immediately.

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KEEPING CLEAN HOME NO LONGER DIFFICULT TASK Vacuum Sweeper Replaces Old Method of Sweeping With Broom. Keeping the home clean Is not the difficult thing it used to be. There Is a vast difference between kicking up dust with a broom and sucking it up noiselessly with a vacuum cleaner. Broom sweeping merely misplaced surface dirt, but an electric vacuum cleaner took it up—even the imbedded dirt, in rugs and carpets. - I'repress Shown Perhaps no electric cleaner on the market has shown greater progress than the Royal which has swirled its way into public favor. The- new Super Royal is held to be the last word in air cleaning for the home. The machine Is not only _ graceful in line and type but it Is light in weight without any sacrifice of mechanical strength. To move it across a carpet requires an average effort of only one and one-half pounds. This Is due partly to the light weight of the machine and partly to the three easy-running wheels upon which the cleaner moves over the floor. Enameled Handle The wheels are of rubberold and the handle enameled wood. With this exception the machine Is almost entirely of metal. Motor and fan housings and the nozzle are cast aluminum. The handle is of nickle steel and some of the minor parts are stamped sheet metal. The Royal when put through the test, delivers in every particular. The P. A. Oeler Company, which manufactures the Royal, belongs to the Rice Leaders of the World Association, a group of manufacturers who make superior products. Only one maker of each type of product can belong to this association and a membership Is equivalent to an indorsement that the member makes the best product In his respective line. The Pettis Dry Goods Company demonstrates the RoyaL PUNISH PEDESTRIANS LONDON. —The chief constable of Carmarthenshire has requested permission to arrest careless pedestrians in order to reduce traffic accidents. - .