Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1936 — Page 15

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New Marine Navigation Aid Enters Service

After Test.

pure 898 hy Bclence Fervice) WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 —Up and nn the Atlantle coast, from

Fowey Rocks light near the tip of a to West Quoddy Head light ye northernmost part of the yact, oceanside inhabitants heard the mournful wail of ; day and night, in i ir weather and foggy, for about

e layman the foghorn's roar ve seemed like a usele

0 ste of energy and a considerable ® yyance, but from the experi 4 the United States Lighthouse a ce here will soon be able to % t the per formance of its new i test equipment. Ocean ling ‘ can 1. with this new dual 3 A radio equipment i

ed a

4 1 direction from a given ightship even in peasoup ike fog

For Ts Foiled

Idea behind this new aid to manavigation is the fact that Nep ha found a way 10 ¢Cirent the often freak apparent ons of sound sighals in fogs. ye old davs a foghorn blast appear to come from straight ad when, in reality, the sound

ww starboard With the new equipment a ship's t nerely has to time the ar-

of the foghorn's roar in his house and he can quickly work iis distance from it to within

th of his vessel nized with the emission

4 3 e sound sighal is a character % radio signal from the light3 e ol ohtship. The latter arb t practically mstantaneously Ww ¢ the sound signal takes 5.3

to travel a nautical mile bv radio thus knows Ww 1 the sound starts, and with ! stopwatch can time its arrival : has an accuracy of 10 at the worst, which sounds

a lot but is really only a tenth ¢, or 528 feet. Most of the ers on the ocean and cighters exceed 600 feet in

wer with his radio loop he navigator ean tell has from the radio beacon vnchronized sound source

Lighthouse Revolution

Radio, In fact. has produced a lighthouse keening

from the dave when it was rightly ‘ world’s loneliest occupa \ More and more radio telephone communication is bringing shthouses that dot the na tio coast line into quick ana close \ 1 with the happenings in mon

‘ walks of life The com 1 orvices of the Coast Guard and Navy are links in this cha in

One thinks of radio as a new industry and the men in it as young But the coming of radio has not at- ) A ANY great extent, the perof the keepers of the nation's ouse Veteran Isaac C. Meek - headkeeper of the Cape Henry light at the entrance of Chesapeake Av. is typical of the older men who

t fully have made the transi tion to modern times Cape Henry light has a special place In the sound-radio distance t King equipment, because it was here, In 1929, that the pioneer ex periments were undertaken

direction of I. 1 Gill MIneer in charge, the radio Mm service has been worked out ith ingenuity that at once brings safety to shipping and al romatic equipment which yesible for nontechnically personnel to maintain the

ne way the radio direcY equipment aboard ships been so desighed that it rated by officers on the b Re without the services of a ' 0 operator

Atlantic Radio Reacons

Me network of lighthouse radio COD which uide fog<bound pping off the Atlantic Coast, is Wen down Into many units of

three stations each, all operating n oe ne radio frequency in a

nge slightly above the ordinary A band. Many units have power station with a range 200 miles, an intermedi

ve power transmitter with a range 100 miles and a third station vith a range of only 10 miles. These 1 tations in the specific unit ite their radio transmission and \ on the air” for a minute each Mus the - Ss. Queen Mary ipeeding off the New England coast, Mn tune in on 4 kiloeveies beacon

i and get first the Nantucket fehtshin, then the Pollock Rip ightship and finally the Block sland Light all in sequence. The

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three points in direction allow the ship's master to fix his position by triangulation A few hours later the signals from Fire Island Lighthship, Ambrose Lightship and the Barnegat Lightship are obtained on a radio frequency of 288 kiloeycles and a similar position “fix” is securea virtually at the mouth of New York Harbor International Agreement he radio frequencies used by the

Lighthouse Service have been as- |

sighed by international agreement

and must be compressed within a | frequency band only 30 Kilocyeles |

wide. For people who are not radio engineers this might better be sain to be about the band width separat-

ing three commercial broadeast |

stations

| The ingenuity of the Lighthouss |

Service radio engineers can be appreciated by the knowledge that 123 radio stations are packed into this

switchover from one station to another at the end of the one-minute transmission intervals allotted Yo them Robot Lightship It is radio also which has made possible the strange robot lightship stationed in Dake St. Clair between Lakes Erie and Huron that

operates entirely without a crew. | All signals—and there are four | kinds of them-—are either automatic | or can be controlled from a land |

station eight miles away. The St. Clair Lightship is a 160ton vessel, 84 feet long, that formers ha Qa crew Now all equipment is installed in duplicate with automatic switchover facilities in case of failure. rhe fog bell is operated—a stroke every 20 seconds—by compressed carbon dioxide from a set of tanks which provide power for many weeks, The masthead light comes on automatically each evening at sundown and is controlled by an astronomeial clock. The foghorn operates by radio control when

needed and the radio beacon then |

RAIL WORKERS PLAN 30-HOUR-WEEK BILL

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W ASHINGTON, Dec 18.-—-The |

Railway Labor Executives Associa tion met today to plan legislation providing a 30-hour week in the rafiroad industry George M. Harrison, Indianapolis, chairman of the association and

president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, said he expected to |

launch an immediate drive for pass. age of the proposed law, UTE nent ig still bad in the transports fon industry,” he said, and this would alleviate it.” The association announced a determination to help force ratification of the ehild labor amendment to the Constitution by 12 more states Action already has been taken by 24,

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Top Iatt—-Clase dome of Cape Henry lighthouse, showing the 1000-watt electric lamps and ribbed construction, which ere« ates a lens effect on the beam.

Above-—Radio beacon antenna of Cape Cod light station, whose radio sighals are heard 3350 miles at sea.

At Teft—Isaae I. Meekins, veteran keeper of the Cape Henry light, inspects the double set of clocks on the panel of beacon timing equipment and synchronous foghorn signals.

minute. Then a push of button on |

phones aboard the robot lightship the shore control station brings the |

“listen in” for the control man. If the foghorn is operating the ation.

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auxiliary foghorn signal into oper- |

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SLUM PROJECT

| Benefits Determined

| ation the benefits derived.

| with approval of the municipal |

secretary, $48.24 Per Capita Cost

{out that the per capita cost of govthe foghorn fails the radio sighals| epnment in Indianapolis in 1033 to continuous operation. While ype are interrupted for five seconds each | was $48.24 and estimates that this foghorn signals ¢an not usually be heard at the control station, miero- |

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show. At the pet up capita cost | proof apartments must be consid od $4824 this would indicate that | ered in determining the cost of payit cost 848805 to service these indi- | ments, it was declaged. | vidal, Dr. Pearson pointed out. “On the other hand.” his report | Government paid back taxes | continued, “the assessed valuation amounting to $836561 and current | [for these 10 blocks was $274.200, | taxes of $6277.88. A $5000 payment |

FEE IN LIEU OF

He then goes on to point out that | of the new development must also! | these figures do not tell all the pe considered, Dr. Pearson asserted.

: story. These incivde playgrounds and! Formula Being De Devised Mere | Housing Shortage Cited cauipment provided by the Federal | government.

La Guardia and PWA Agree

that there is now a potential short | New York Housing Authority a age of 26.214 family units. Mayor La Guardia have agreed t Of the 1020 population of the 10- | pWA housing projects ould BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY block area, 755 were Negroes and freed even from city service charges Times Stal Writer 265 whites and the point is made | as the municipal contribution, since | WASHINGTON. Dee. 18.--locke- | that this low or lack of income | only Federal funds were used to | field Garden apartments, indian. | EFOUD required most of the city’s | purchase sites and build. apolis’ low-rent housing and sium Welfare services from the fact that | PWA officials also point out that clearance project, is expected to | their environment was slumlike. |if service charges are too high it vide a formula for solving the hie: of Federal payments he | 8 a dwelling unit per month. |the purpose of building for low incity services in lieu of local tax | In addition to requiring poor re« | come groups will be lost, | payments, PWA officials said today. | et, hospitalization, extra police | If this is done, these apartments | Built by the Public Works Admin: | work and the like, the area, filled | will be in direct competition with istration. the DIOBerty remalhs in | with dilapidated wooden structures, real estate for persons in the mid- | the Lands of Ly Pred | constituted a distinct fire hazard, dle income brackets, they point out. of the eral gOVern- | i was pointed out. | Thus, they assert, there should be | {ment and therefore is not taxable | Wiping out of the area of slums | no pressure from real estate men

[under a ruling made by former | ang ite trans form . force such high charges Controller General John MeCarl. . . avian Ike fire [to : ap Ci a

| However, feeling that some pay-!

| ment should be made for city services, the last Congress passed the | ) c= NN SO George-Healey Act authorizing the nN APB = NN Sa

| Administrator of Public Works to | | make such payments upon request | of any political subdivision.

| Th a f housing in IndianMay Serve as Guide in |, ie not or ht ps contended | The Nation.

The pavments are ta be based | | upon the cost of the municipal | services, but taking into consider

What these benefits are has been | worked out by Dr. Paul N. Pear- Come | son of PWA, Federal contact man | with the Indianapolis citizens ad- | 4 | visory committee. 0 This committee is expected to work with the Federal officials and find a formula which will meet |

government. William H. Trimble is committee chairman and Joe Rand Beckett,

In Dr. Pearson’s survey he points |

will serve for a 1936 figure. When the area now occupied by the apartments was procured for | demolition there were 1020 persons | living there, Housing Division ree-

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A Spanish Christmas party is to be held by the Intercollegiate Coss mopolitan Club at 3 p. m Sunday in the home of Francis Funke, 118 N. Kealing-av, Members are to practice carols from foreign lands which will be sung Christmas eve before homes of persons interested in international friendship

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Average rental in the area was will be reflected in the rent and) yeu, 1g be presented this afternoon

{ by pupils of School 32, 2100 N. Illi« | nols=st. Included in the cast were 31 children of foreign-born parents, | Who were to enact customs which | originated in countries of their ane

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