Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1929 — Page 12

MR TO LINER. MILES AT SEA, FROM AIRPLANE Reporters, Beil Technicians Conduct Test Through Relay System. sty United Pres* NEW YORK. Dec. 22.—Radiophone has made it possible for persons in an airplane in flight to communicate with a ship, hundreds of miles at sea. Two reporters and five technicians of the Bell Telephone laboratories Sunday successfully carried on a conversation from a Ford tri-motor, 3,000 feet above New York, with passengers aboard the steamer Leviathan, 700 miles at sea and bound for New York. Admittedly because of stage fright, most of the conversations centered around the weather, which every one agreed was fine. Those aboard the Leviathan to speak with the pasengers in the “flying telephone booth” were Commodore Cunningham, J. L. R. Van Meter, General traffic manager of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Roy W. Howard, chairman of the board of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. A unique feature of the demonstration was the exchange of greetlngs between Captain A. Roy Brooks

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A purse of $50,000 for the first aviator to fly across the Pacific ocean has been offered by Colonel William E. Easterwood, famous Texas millionaire, shown here with Mrs. Easterwood as he sailed for Honolulu to confer with James Dole, rich pineapple king, whom he hopes to Interest in the venture. Colonel Easterwood also is offering $25,000 for a Rome to Dallas flight.

pilot and commander of the plane and Commodore Counningham, skip, per of the liner. Communication was made possible through the use of two radio channels and one land wire channel. From the plan the voices were carried by wireless to the Whippany (N. J.) experimental station of the Bell laboratories, thence to New York City by land wire, where they were relayed by land line to Deal, N. J. Here radio transmitters relayed It to the Leviathan. Conversation from the Leviathan was relayed by wireless to Forked River, N. J., thence by land line through New York to Whippany, where

wireless once again completed the circuit to the plane. ELEVEN FIREMEN JUMP One Is Injured in Leap From Roof; Boiler Explosion Wrecks Theater. By United l’rcs* HARVEY, 111., Dec. 23.—Eleven firemen were forced to jump from the sagging roof of the Garden theater after a boiler explosion had caused more than SIOO,OOO damage James Reed was in a hospital today suffering from a fractured leg. arm and five ribs. The others made the leap in safety.

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LOCAL PRINTER DIES C. Frederich Betz Rites to Be Held at Home. Last rites for C. Frederick Betz, 37, World war veteran, who died Sunday after an illness of six months, will be held at the home, 1204 West Twenty-ninth street, at 2 p. m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Born, in Indianapolis, Betz was educated in city schools, and after graduating from a local printing school served in the navy for eighteen months during the World war. He was stationed on convoy ships. He had been owner and manager of the Betz Printing Company, 522 South Illinois street, for fifteen years. He was a member of Mason lodge, No. 935, and the First Baptist church. Survivors are the widow. Mrs. Mary E. Betz, and the father, C. Frank Bet 2r of Indianapolis.

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GUILD VISITS CHILDREN Thousands Are Given Candy, Gifts by St. Margaret’s Group. St. Margaret’s Guild left the city hospital on its twenty-second annual out-patient Christmas party, Sunday morning with gifts for one thousand poor children. Each child received nuts, candies, oranges and a gift. Fifty cars were in the caravan. Consul to Uruguay Dies MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 23.—Clarence Carrigan, United

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States consul-general in charge of the legation here, died during the night after several weeks of illness.

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