New Devices for Locating Planes Across The Atlantic Warfront
Washington reports the United States leads in aircraft detection gear and plans to aid Britain by contributing volunteers to its radiolocator program. U S devices detect hostile aircraft beyond 100 miles, with 15 minutes warning, and are in large scale production for fixed and mobile stations. Congress earmarked 6.93 million for coast to coast detectors and five mobile signal corps units, with detectors costing 54 700 dollars each. The first mobile station is already in operation in anti aircraft war games near New York.
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Washington
United States
Britain
George W. Strong
Army
Congress
War Department
Defense
Navy
England
George C. Pirie
Atlantic
Gulf and Pacific
Hawaii
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Canal Zone
New York
Originator of British radio locator system named
The article credits Cyril F. Elwell, a former Stanford engineer, as the originator of Britain's radio locator system used to warn of approaching Nazi air raids. It notes the system blends radio and other devices, with 237 foot towers along the English coast and a curtain of waves that planes pass through before crossing the Channel.
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Palo Alto
Calif
CRA
Britain
Cyril F. Elwell
Stanford University
English
English Channel
radar tracing planes through energy curtains in England
The text explains how radio energy reflects from passing aircraft to detectors at towers. Delicate instruments capture any reflected wave, revealing a plane’s presence as it passes through a curtain. Elwell traveled to England in 1936 and 1937 related to construction work.
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Elwell
England
Church program ends vacation Bible school at Trinity Lutheran
A Friday morning program at Trinity Lutheran church closes a three week Vacation Bible School. Memory work, hand-work displays, and songs will be shown with Mrs. Jude Anderson guiding. Evening picnic at Clinton park for congregation and families follows with provisions for transport and ice cream.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Jude Anderson
Naomi Light
Faye Brown
Eloise Glass
Phyllis Riggs
Shirley Nan Hargiss
Ruth Mae Davis
Mildred Hack
Lorraine Fields
Elaine Sehon
Donna Sue Landrith
Irene Sandelius
Rosemary Auchard
Louise Sandefur
Mary Evelyn King
Bernice Trumbull
Dorothy Jean Henderson
William Kollender
Obed E. Thompson
Bertha Cooper
John Urich
Selma Beil
Carol Foster
Clinton Park
A. G. Sabol
Pleasant Valley Social Roundup Ties Town Visitors
Local families and visitors across Pleasant Valley share weekend gatherings. O P Brown Holcom and Terry from Kansas City call on A E Holcom. John Jennings visits kin at Camp Robinson. travels span Lawrence Walnut Grove Edgerton and Raleigh North Carolina connections as friends celebrate Father’s Day and pea harvest nears end with barley work underway.
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O. P. Brown
Arthur
Holcom and
Terry
Kansas City
A. E. Holcom
John Jennings
Camp
Roger City
Mich
W. W. Garratt
Shirley
Leon Andrew and Sons
Will Calder
Edgerton
Ward Landis
Vernon Anderson
Beechcraft Airplane Factory
Wichita
Harry Broers
Earl Trowbridge and Sons
Charles Jennings
Kanwaka
Russel Henderson
Martha Jane
Lawrence
H. J. Peterson
Bill Hegeman
Gilly
Crissie Richardson
Sadie Mayswinkle
Virgil Landis
Armond
Edgar Landis and Sons
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Brazil
Philip Williams
Rio de Janeiro
Elevers and Towers
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Great Lakes Pipe Line Company
Louis Conn
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Great Bend
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Ponca City
Okla
McKesson
Eastman Kodak Film
Robbin Chigger Remedy
Ankin Drug CO
Pleasant Valley
Kansas
Eva Hyre
Raleigh, C
Minnie Rockland
Laurence
Robert Gentry
J. W. Alexander
Jack
C. E. Francis
Baldwin
Vernon Garratt
J. R. Garratt
Logan-Moore Lumber Co
Firestone
Fritz CO
MONEL
Kansas Public Service
Jayhawk
Vermont
Shaw
Shaw’s
J. W. Shaw
Ith & Vt
J. W. Shaw Lumber Co
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