Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1937 — Page 2

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MARCONI, RADIO | INVENTOR, DEAD IN ROME AT 63

Shy Scientist Who Voice Span World, Until Death.

Made Busy

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tions were brought within seconds of one another and man's voice now circles the earth with the speed of light. Though a man of science and of peace, he wrought greater changes in the lives of more millions of men Mussolini, and other utionists of his genera-

than

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Signor Marcont

who had been honored by all nations but was so shy that he was but a name to all except a few intimates, died of a heart attack at 3:45 a. m. (8:45 p. m. Monday, Indianapolis time). He was 63 vears old Five hours after his death Premier Mussolini arrived alone at Marconi Palace, signed the visitors book. and went to the simple death chamber on the second floor where he praved for 15 minutes 1 transmitted the news | mathematics and science, He was to Pope Pius at his summer palace | educated in Florence, Bologna, at Castel Gandolfo. His Holiness | Leghorn and in Great Britain. was at mass and he immediately| At the University of Bologna he dedicated. the services to the repose | had learned of strange things of Marconi's soul | called “Hertzian waves.” Edison

Fear My End Is Near | could not understand what they

Sion Mar | were. Hertz, a German physicist, Signor Marconi had been suffer- | jater declared they were electrical ing heart attacks in increasing fre- |

; | waves. Marconi learned at Bolegquency sity Te | 1 cy and intensity since April. He these strange

beca esterday | na how to produce Yeti ely RY A al] waves—but what they were good for he rang for his valet. | he did not know. os Sth very sorry,” he said calmly. | Sent Signals a Mile “bu am going to put vou and mv : friends to ore trouble. I | He got the idea of using these fear mv end is near. Will Hertzian waves for communication please inform my wife?” {while sarving in the Italian army Mrs. Marconi was at Viareggio | signal corps. His job was to maaipvacationing. Notified by telephone. | she started at once for Rome by | automobile, arriving at 7 a. m. The | mile or so away. servant also summoned Marconi’s | friends, scientific collaborators, and a doctor. He died soon after the phvsician arrived. But before he warned his valet, | Marconi dictated a personal message to the only child of his second marriage, T-yvear-old Elettra., who was with her mother, and whose | sent greater distances—perhaps to birthday is today. He had two | the ends of the earth. daughters and a son by his first | marriage, the eldest of whom, | Giulio, is in New York. | 120 miles was practical. | his invention to the Italian Government. The Government was not interested. Marconi turned then to England. He sent a message across the Eng- | lish Channel to convince the English. They had their postoffice department co-operate with him.

Built $250,000 Equipment

Marconi then decided to send a message across the Atlantic. Other scientists said | that the curvature of the earth was Religious ceremonies will be held | 3 par to wireless transmission for in Rome at 6 p. m. tomorrow and | such a long distance. a national funeral at Bologna later. | The body will lie in state at Galatea Hall of the Italian Academy until tomorrow’s ceremonies. The public was permitted to file past the body beginning at 3 p. m. | today, The sculptor Attilio Selva, a member of the academy, made a death mask It was understood that his body | sages. would be dressed in the uniform he | They took with them balloons and used as president of Academy, and taken to the academy | the air a thin copper wire, to serve to lie in state until the funeral, | as an aerial. Marconi considered Signor Marconi orecd perhaps beyond the measure of | towers to support one. any of the other great men of his | § ; generation. His own country had | Success-—After 5 Days elevated him to the nobility —he was | For six davs prior to Dec. 12, 1001, the Marchese Guglielmo Marconi— | Marconi had tried to flv the kites he had heen a recipient of the No- | but failed b=cause of high winds. bel prize in physics, he had been | On the fourth day a kite was flown decorated by a score of nations, his '600 feet into the air but ne signals name had been taken into many | were heard. On the fifth day a ballanguages as a noun synonym of |locn was blown away. On the sixth radio, and scores of universities nad dav-—Dec. 12—aother kite was flown, given him honorary doctorates. It, too, was blown away. Marconi Medal From Titanic Survivors I a He sent up anBut most symbolic of all his hon-| At 12:30 p. m. Marconi heard ors, was a gold medal presented by | three faint clicks in the telephone the survivors of the Titanic, all of | receiver, standing out clearly from

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dots and dashes to other soldiers a

the heliograph could not function.

receive them. He sent the signal a | mile. Having demonstrated that | signals could be sent for short distances, he decided they could be

Pope Orders Condolences

The Pope ordered his secretaries to telegraph condolences to the fam- | ilv, the Ttalian Government, and the | Ttalian Academy. His condolences were of the thousands which began pouring in from all parts of the world soon after Marconi's death | was announced. The family decided to have the | body taken this afternoon to the Italian Academy. There the public | had opportunity to pay its respects to the inventor

| $250,000 | sending station was set up at Poldu, | England, and another on the bleak shores of Newfoundland. It was agreed to send a series of 20 S's—three dots each in the Morse code—at a certain hour each day. Marconi and his assistants went to

ulate a mirror, flashing Morse code |

| He constructed a device to produce | | electrical discharges and another to |

are shown on this graph which was day the sky was cloudy and | : Ope Ba | prepared by the Indiana State Em- |

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Earnings Increase as Hours Decline

St., told police the holdup occurred | at Montana St. and Roosevelt Ave. Mrs. Helen Rinehart, of 28 E. 16th St., Apt. 203, reported to police that jewelery valued at $475 was taken from her apartment vesterday. She said the apartment was entered through the service | door. ’ A 12-year-old youth was sent to the Detention Home yesterday after | police arrested him and found all | but $5 of $200 reported stolen yes | terday morning from Ray Dudds, | manager of a grocery at 5050 E. |

Michigan St. A bandit who held up a trackless | wt sh eon tnd stat; ¥ trolley operator last night, taking | MORGAN SAILS FOR ENGLAND

$23 in cash and car tokens valued | BY ny CORE July 20.—J. P. Morat $5, was hunted by police today. | gan sailed for England today

Howard Holden, 443 Christian | aboard his yacht Corsair,

TROLLEY DRIVER HOLDUP VICTIM

Gives Up $23 to Bandit; $475 Jewelry Theft Reported.

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TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1987

U. S. JOB SERVICE'S

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By United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.-Secree tary of Labor Frances Perkins had announced today that the number of persons registering for jobs with the U. S. Employment Service was smallest in the agency's history dure ing June. On June 30, the number actively registered was 5,016,014, 5.5 per cent fewer than at the end of May and 228 per cent fewer than in June, 1936. Jobs were found for 374,027 workers, of which 224,692 were in ine dustry-—-the second largest number recorded for the service for one

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BUREAU CITES

Weekly Wage Average Soars From $20 to $28.90 In 10-Month Period.

ployment Service, There has been an increase of al-

most $9 per capita in the weekly | members voted in favor of repeal.

learnings of Indana factory workers | They were Edward Kealing, William

He kept increasing the distance. | and the power, until transmission of | He offered |

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| the sale of perishables on Sunday |

The hourly rate beginning ajso was tabled after grocers argued |

pay

with a 59 cent average in October,

| hours worked a week has dropped

1936, rose to 71 cents in May of this | for and against it. |

year. The study showed

After suspending rules, an ordi- |

the average | nance authorizing purchase of 80, | 000 gallons of asphalt by the City |

from a high of 43 hours in March Engineer was passed. |

of this year to a little less than 41!

‘hours a week in May. | Also passed were ordinances pro- |

it was impossible— | ‘of 2400 firms in manufacturing and Worth of canned goods and ( nonmanufacturing fields, it

Marconi and his assistants built | worth of equipment. A

Newfoundland to receive the mes- |

; A | factory workers the Royal | kites which were to carry high into |

| weekly.

had been hon- | this more practical than building | ‘weekly pay envelope then was due, | almost entirely,

whoin were alive because of him. |the disturbances caused by atmos- |

Before Marconi, the

survivors of | pheric electricity. He heard the sig- |

ship disasters floated on wreckage nals several times. Then he turned |

until they were picked up, alive or dead, perhaps after weeks, by a ship |G. H. Kemp, who also heard them. passing by chance. The Titanic was | The Atlantic had been spannad by the first great chip to flash an SOS |a 20-kilowatt spark set. on Marconi's wireless, and since it| Marconi listened again the next

the instrument over to his assistant, |

he saved the lives of thousands of | day. The signals were received again |

shipwrecked persons. Since 1935 the scientist had been world. experimenting with micro-waves— | From then on development of tiny radio impulses so small that radio was rapid. Other sicentists, from peak to peak they had to be | eonvinced communication without measured in centimeters. By "harnessing the penetrative | field. force of these rays, he had hoped to eliminate many physical maladjustments of which surgery now is Ne only remedy, and to reduce the | LOS ANGELES, July mortality of surgery. In warfare, | W. Hunt. the white convert to he had hoped to use them to halt | Father Divine’s religious cult, was airplane and automobile motors, | er route today to the McNeil Island and to direct wireless beam mess- | Federal Prison to serve three years ages which could be picked up only | for a Mann act violation. Hunt bv the intended receiver and not by [hopes to spread Father Divine's an enemy | teachings in the prison. Other men before him had been | convinced that communication | witout wires was possible. Mar- | coni changed their theories to practicalities. At the age of 27, he transmitted the first wireless message across the Atlantic. Later he helped | develope the vacuum tube which made possible the wireless trans- | mission of the human voice He developed short wave transmission for | great distances. Prized Edison's Words

Signor Marconi always regarded | more highly than any of these | honors, the praise of the late Thomas Edison after he announced | that he had spanned the Atlantic by wireless. Many scientists | doubted, but Edison said: «If Marconi says it is true, it is | true.” He was born in Bologna, April 25, 1874, the son of an Italian banker, Giuseppe Marconi, and an Anglo- | Irish mother, Anna Jameson. He early showed a fondness for |

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and he announced the fact to the | wires was practical, moved into the

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gy Perio. % ; th t and one-half hour parking was cre- | br1l, LIS Vear, was Th: Oul~ .ted on certain streets.

standing month reported for wage = yniersections where no left turns increases with 121 firms granting will be permitted at any time are: |

v hikes to 92,700 employees. | 3 : Phe study shows or at first the | Pennsylvania and Washington fluctuations in weekly earnings of | StS. Meridian and Washington Sts, closely paralleled | J 0 00, Oe: Pennsyivania | : a el y I ts. svivan each change Mm hows worked; and Market Sts, Illinois and Market | Sts, 16th and Delaware Sts, and | 22d and Delaware Sts.

Rush Hour Restrictions

“In other words,” the statisticians said, “any increase in the size of the

to an increase in hours worked each week.” | Rise of the hourly earnings curve in the accompanying chart was ¢ p.m. at: first noted in November, 1036, and Meridian and 22d Sts. continued through June of this year, > 5 ) and 25th Sts, Meridian and 30th | At the same time,” the bureau _ iad said, “that hourly earnings began to Sts. and Meridian St. and Fall climb, the upward trend in hours Creek Blvd., North Drive. worked a week in factories halted.’| A temporary loan of $650,000 was

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EING a Camel smoker for over four years, Lenore is well qualified to say: “It's grand the way Camels help me enjoy eating, even when I've been feeling tense.” Yes, good digestion is aided by smoking Camels. Camels help speed up the flow of digestive fluids—increase alkalinity.

Bike Levy Law Repealer { UPWARD TREND Is Defeated by Council; § + ¥ ) Antirabies Bill Is Tabled | |

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