Radio Phone Links Airplane and Sea 700 Miles Apart
In a Bell Telephone Laboratories demo, two reporters and five technicians spoke from a Ford tri motor 3000 feet up, connecting with the steamer Leviathan 700 miles at sea bound for New York. Weather dominated the chat as Commodore Cunningham and others aboard the Leviathan greeted travellers in the flying telephone booth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ay United
New York
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Leviathan
Pasengers
Commodore Cunningham
J. L. R. van Meter
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Roy W. Howard
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
A. Roy Brooks
Hop Wireless Bids $50,000 After Circuit Ends Near Plane
A bid of fifty thousand dollars is offered again for Hop Wireless following the completion of a circuit related to the plane. The action indicates renewed interest and a potential transfer of ownership or contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wireless
Pacific Ocean
William EB. Easterwood
Texas
Mrs. Easterwood
Honolulu
James Dole
Easterwood
Rome
Dallas
Historic transatlantic test links via radio and land lines
The pilot and commander aboard the liner along with Commodore Counningham used two radio channels and a land wire to relay voices from the Leviathan to Whippany Bell laboratories then to New York City. From Deal to Leviathan the chain continued by land lines and wireless relays to Forked River and back through New Jersey to Whippany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commodore Counningham
Whippany
N. J
Bell Laboratories
New York City
Deal
Forked River
New York
Eleven Firemen Jump From Roof After Theater Boiler Blast
Eleven firemen were forced to leap from the sagging Garden theater roof after a boiler explosion caused over 100000 dollars in damage. Fireman James Reed lay in a hospital with a fractured leg an arm and five ribs, while the others escaped safely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press Harvey, II
Garden Theater
James Reed
Local Printer C Frederick Betz Dies at 37
Last rites for World War II veteran C Frederick Betz, 37, will be held at his home at 1204 West Twenty-ninth Street at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Burial follows in Crown Hill cemetery. Betz, born in Indianapolis, led Betz Printing Company for fifteen years and served eight months in the Navy on convoy ships. He was a Mason and a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors include his widow Mary E Betz and his father C Frank Betz of Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Frederick Betz
West Twenty-ninth Street
Crown Hill Cemetery
Indianapolis
Betz
Navy
Betz Printing Company
South
Illinois Street
Mason Lodge
First Baptist Church
Mary E. Betz
C. Frank Betz
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