Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1938 — Page 9
‘Second Section
Second Section
. STATE COURT WEIGHS PLEA ON RECOUNTS
aol P. Defends Proposed . Second Tally in Seven Counties. The Indiana Supreine Court today had under advisement the petition of all successful Democratic State
ticket candidates for a writ to prevent opposing Republican candi-
dates from securing a vote recount 3
in seven counties. Alleging error and fraud, the Republicans are seeking recounts through the Circuit Courts of Marion, Lake, Vanderburgh, Vigo, Verpe; ‘Clark and Franklin Coun-
‘During oral arguments concluded before the Supreme Court yesterday,
Edward H. Knight, counsel for the|.
Democratic candidates, said the ‘Democrats objected to the procedure of attempting to secure recounts in scattered counties, and declared the petition for a writ would not have been filed if the recount had been ;sought in all 92 counties.
Cites Discrepancies
He also cited discrepancies between the Indiana statutes of 1881 and 1921, and raised the question as ! to whether these dcts apply to State - ticket candidates. : Robert D. Armstrong, counsel for ‘respondents, who challenged Mr. ' Knight's contentions, said: “There is no common sense in asking for the recount in counties where a candidate cannot honestly “make out an affidavit claiming that a mistake or fraud has affected the . results.” iad The office of Secretary of State .-is the only one on the State ticket ‘ not involved In the present litigation. James M. Tucker, Paoli, a Reion, was certified on the basis of official returns as winner in that
race over Edward D. Koenemann,|
Evansville. Mr. Koenemann did not join the other ‘State ticket candidates in asking the writ of prohibition. At the conclusion of yesterday’s arguments, the attorneys said they would file memorandums listing citations used.
U.S. JUDGE FREES JEW FAGING EXILE
Tolerance Given Precedence Over Immigration Laws.
CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (U. P).—Human tolerance superseded the immigration laws today when Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan refused to deport Solomon Weinberg, 32, to Czechoslovakia, and discharged him
from custody. Mr. Weinberg, a Jew, was arrested by the Department of Immigration for allegedly obtaining a false passport. “I do not believe the immigration laws contemplate any such strict compliance,” Judge Sullivan said, “as would oblige the court to return at this time a Jew to a country ~=vhere his property would be confiscated and his life jeopardized and from which he would be forced to flee immediately.” Mr. Weinberg, a produce handler ‘jn the wholesale market, was stranded in this country in 1927 when he missed a German boat on which he was employed. He obtained a false passport in 1931 to visit his mother in Czechoslovakia, it was charged.
PROCTER & GAMBLE BUYS PLANT SITE
CINCINNATI, Nov. 24 (U. P)— Acquisition of property for a new $1,000,000 factory near Boston was announced today by officials of the Procter & Gamble Co. here. Work on the new plant will be begun immediately, it was explained, and will require about a year to complete. The site covering 10 acres is at Quincy, Mass., on Massachusetts Bay. It was explained that the output of the new factory would relieve the factory at. New York which at present has difficulty supplying the entire New England area.
ORGANIZE PAY LAW PROSECUTION UNIT
~ . WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (U.P.).— The Justice Department today had
organized a new unit to conduct civil and criminal prosecutions under the wages and hours law. To be known as the Wages and Hours Unit in the Antitrust Division, it will be headed by Joseph E. Brill, former assistant to District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Mr. Brill served as assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York under two former United States at- = torneys.
THREE CLEARED IN ~ MARITAL ‘MIXUP’
NORWICH, N. Y., Nov. 24 (U. P.). —Burton Livermore, 26; Marguerite Verreau, 18, and Eleanor Kenyon, 19, were cleared today of marital “mixup” charges. .
A Chenango County jury of 10 men and two women deliberated 5% ‘hours before returning a verdict ‘late yesterday acquitting the defendants of the charges that Livermore married Miss Verreau on a license issued to Miss Kenyon and Gerald George Demond, 22-year-old Greenville, N. C., Teachers College that Miss Kenyon
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1038
Television Still Just a Vision
Technical Difficulties and High Costs Keep It Beyond Reach of Most
By LEONARD H. ENGEL
Se Service Writer
THE good book which sets the rules for news® papers and newspaper writers says that ‘negative stories—about things that aren’t being done—aren’t good newspaper stories. ‘But here's one that you'd better read in case you were thinking of that television set you, Mr. and Mrs. ‘America, are going to) be ‘able to buy next year. With the exception of a very few of the largest cities in the United States, television hasn’t turned the corner yet and will not for. some years to come. And the leading television companies are the first to admit it. Next year they will make only a start. At least a dozen major factors, which have served to delay radio’s magic carpet since the first enthusiastic announcement came out 10 long years ago, still are operating and will make honest-to-good--ness sight-and-sound radio broad= casting on a large scale a matter not of next year or even the next, but of five and 10 years from now. This is the consensus of opinion of leading television engineers who still see hurdles that have not yet been overcome and cannot be overcome between now and the time early next year when the largest radio manufacturers will place home equipment on sale. If you live in New York City or in another city which has a television transmitter that actually is broadcasting entertainment features and not just graphs and charts for test engineers, and if you can spare from $150 up, go ahead and buy, is their advice. But if you are one of the more than -100 million persons who do not live within 25 miles of a transmitter, television still is
something you’ll have to read about in the papers.
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EASON why television hasn’t turned the corner to a mass industry and won't for some little time yet is to be found partly in the fact that images have to be sent on the ultra-short waves. The ultra-short waves, until a .few years ago an almost totally unknown region of the radio spectrum, don’t travel reliably beyond the earth’s horizon. This will mean, in general, 25 miles from the broadcasting station. The exact distance will depend on how high the tallest local building is or how high the station operators are willing to build their antenna towers. Since 25 miles is the limit, an enormous network of stations, each costing thousands of dollars to build, will be required to blanket the United States. And, in fact, if some way is not found of using other wavelengths or making the ultra-short waves behave like the long waves, which bounce back from an ionized layer of atmosphere high above earth, and thus follow the curvature of the globe, some sparsely settled sections never will be able to use television sets. Booster stations, to relay programs every 25 miles in much the same way as a couple of regular short-wave stations hundreds of miles apart are used to relay voice and sound radio messages, have been suggested. But there you run into another trouble with the ultra-short waves.
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O SEND out the images, made up of millions of dots repeated as many times each second as different images are desired, an enormous slice of the ultra-short wave band is required. Even though the clear image will go only 25 miles in general, the transmitted wave will interfere
Though its promise for the future is great, the immense majority
of Americans will be out of reach
out of their reach for years to come.
of television and television will be -
Scenes such as the one above,
where Betty Godwin, first television announcer for the National Broadcasting Co., is under the lights and faving the television camera, will
not become commonplace for some
time yet.
“Canned television,” televised motion pictures, doubtless will provide a large part of the sight-and-sound radio entertainment of the future. Yet such machines as this, a motion picture projector which projects ‘the movie into a television camera, are not yet widely used.
Demonstration receiver, whose “works” are cased in glass so that
all may see. Take a look at the
complicated setup. Then one can
realize that the day of cheap television sets is still a little while off. Engineers have plenty of thinking and experimenting to do before they can bring costs of such equipment down to every-day levels.
with any broadcast on the same length another 75 miles away. So if booster stations every 25 miles were used, it would require several different wavebands. Right there you plump into the crux of the matter—there aren’t enough different wavebands. Only
G. O. P. House Members To Caucus Here Tuesday
The 51 newly-elected Republican members of the Indiana House .of Representatives will caucus Tuesday at the Columbia Club to organize and elect officers for the legislative session which begins in January.
Unless contested elections upset their majority, the Republicans will name the Speaker, caucus chairman, floor leader, principal clerk, assistant clerk and chief doorkeeper. Several candidates already are seeking these offices.
In issuing the call for the meeting yesterday, Arch N. Bobbitt, G. O. P. State chairman, said:
“In the past it has been more or less the custom to delay holding the organization caucus until the night before the session. This practice delayed the selection of committees and employees of the House.” Election returns gave the Republicans a 51-49 majority in the House membership. In the event an unsuccessful Democratic nominee, by contesting the returns, should win a seat, both parties would have equal strength, and the House could not be organized, it was said, without a compromise between the two parties.
U.S. MEN AWARDED MEDALS BY GREECE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (U P.)— A Coast, Guard commander and a Navy officer have been awarded gold medals by the Government of Greece in recognition of their work in rescuing the crew of the sunken Greek steamship Tzenny Chandris in November, 1937. Comm. Henry Coyle was in charge of the cutter Mendota which picked up 14 members of the Chandris’ crew. Lieut. Clarence A. Keller was
posed as
Miss Verreau in eesti
in command of naval patrol planes from the Norfolk base which
LOCAL WOMAN T0 BE GUIDANGE SPEAKER
Officials Attend Annual Pur- ¢ due Meet.
Miss Aletha Pettijohn of the Indiana State Employment Service will speak at the opening session of
the annual Guidance Conference at Purdue University Friday. Miss Pettijohn will discuss the relationship between the Employment Service and occupational education in the schools and universities. Ray Means, head of the junior division of the Indianapolis Employment Service, and George J. Smith, manager, also will attend. Among the feature speakers at the two-day conference will be Harry Jager, chief of the Division of Occupational Information and Guidance, U. S. Bureau of Education, and Kenneth Holland, Director of the CCC Study, American Youth Commission. -
EAGLES RAID TURKEYS PAYSON, Ariz, Nov. 24 (U. P). —To some the American eagle is a noble bird, but to Mrs. Will Cohea it is no better than a vulture. Eagles intrude upon Mrs. Cohea’s large turkey ' flock . even more than ‘do coyotes, swooping down sway to seize turkeys before there is time
aided to stop them with either
. seven different wavebands are allocated as yet to television by the Federal Communications Commission. That is not enough. But before more can be given to television, the legitimate claims of other services, including the Army, the
FIREMAN SHOOTS RABBIT, GETS TWO
HUNTINGTON, Nov. 24 (U. P.). —Two rabbits with one shot—that is the boast of Vernon Davis a city fireman here. He told friends that while he was hunting with Norbert Ehinger, he raised his gun to shoot a rabbit. Another jumped into the line of fire and was killed also.
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Navy and the aviation industry, to a portion of the ultra-short waves (which are desirable for other services because they are free of static) will have to be settled. Even that wouldn't represent such a fine solution. Television images on the 7-by-10-inch screen that is the one most widely used in America are made up of 441 lines of varying brightness and darkness. On such a screen, the eye blends them into a continuous image.
But such a small screen is not
big enough for more than one or two persons to view comfortably at one time. In addition to that, large scenes, with plenty of detail, just can’t he transmitted. Maybe the detail is there, but you can’t see it anyhow. It’s like trying to
make out details in the battle
scenes on some American commemorative postage stamps, 8 8 8 boost the image up to a * larger size and retain the same clarity, more lines are need-
ed—for example, the 811 lines the |
British are trying, or even more. But such a more detailed image
will require a still larger chunk .
of the ether for broadcasting.
There go your hopes of relaying |
chain programs from one station to another via the radio waves. Another method has been tried and is under study—the coaxial cable, a wire within a pipe, which can carry television images without distortion. (An ordinary ca-
‘ble cannot.)
A coaxial cable, which also can
- accommodate some 240 telephone “messages simultaneously, already
has been built by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. between New York and Philadelphia. But that one cost $6000 a mile. Even though it was an experimental cable and costs were higher than they would be normally, the price probably will not be reduced much below half that figure. And, pray tell, who will pay for the thousands of miles of such cable that would be’ needed to blanket America’s homes with television images? No one yet has the answer. Other methods have been suggested, but none of them has yet emerged from the, laboratory, which' means simply that even if they do work they can’t be ready in time to make ga television boom in 1939 or 1940.
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NE might always have programs originate independent-
"ly in each station. But Old Man
Dollar steps in again—a show with “live talent” staged up to the standards the motion pictures have taught Americans to demand would cost $60,000 an hour to present. Sports events would cost less; so would motion pic-
‘ture presentations.
But the public would get sick of nothing but the former (in the opinion of television students) and not enough of the latter are produced to provide a sufficient amount of entertainment. Telecasts of local events can provide only a part of the bill. No doubt, this problem, too, will be solved. It may be solved ‘by television programs being sent out only a few hours a day. A combination of programs will be. used. But these programs will not be created overnight for an audience of millions of Americans. There are still many other difficulties in the way. Trahsmitter and receiver must be rigidly in step or the image will be blurred This means that
a stranglehold on all future improvements. If, after a year or two of operation, 441-line telecasting were dropped in favor of 8ll-line images, owners of 441-line sets might be stuck. This is a matter to be considered, though one noted scientist has devised a method whereby the control is entirely in the transmitter and the set can pick up any station (if the stations are using different standards but send out the entire control signal).
#8 =» NOTHER difficulty is that of
cost of the receivers—they cost far more than the earliest
radio sets. They are far more com-
plicated and it will be much longer before costs are reduced to everyday levels, Midget television sets ccmparable with $10 radios are re-
garded as a development the in.
dustry would like but doesn’t expect for a long time. Television sets will cost less than autos—they already do. But even the. most zealous and loyal television enthusiast has to admit that the auto is a much more
. people are likely to part far more
at Postoffice, “Indianapolis Ind. Entered as Second-Class Matter
Voters’ Law Faults Minor, League Says
Criticisms of Act Based on Administration Rather Than Provisions, Report States.
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useful object, with the result that
easily with the money required to purchase one than they are to part with the money a television receiver’ costs. te ; So, add up. the Plctite- Ameri can engineers have done themselves proud and have created something . whieh is -remarkable, But it is a latter-day scientific wonder that will not be within the practical grasp of most of us for several years. Certainly John Doe in -Bingville,- U, S. A,, won't have his set in 1939.
Criticisms directed at the Voters Registration Law are the result of today by an Indiana League of Women Voters investigating committee.
that will be required to correct the faults in the law which have been disclosed in this investigation.”
Mrs. Lester Smith, chairman of
lover the state. : Other members of the committee
last .spring, declared that the group [Mrs.. Frank Worthington, Logans=
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