Two Tuber Selectivity Improves Radio Receiver Performance
AP reports a two tube system can achieve sharp selectivity with six tuned circuits. The method applies to screen grid tubes and pentodes, though pentodes perform better. Six coils and condensers precede the detector, enabling strong separation of stations with a single control. Springfield brief notes Bud Taylor stops Kaiser. Oklahoma City item lists Jack Dillon KOing Red Fitzsimmons and Dunn defeating Brown.
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Associated Press
New York
Springfield
Ill
Bud Taylor
Terre Haute
Ind
Johnny
Pee Wee) Kaiser
St. Louis
Kaiser
Oklahoma City
Jack Dillon
Louisville
Red Fitzsimmons
Wichita
Wilson Dunn
Tulsa
Norman Brown
Chicago
Jawbreaking Word Starts Pat Flanagan Radio Career
Chicago June 13 Pat Flanagan of the WBBM staff earns a radio announcer role from a jawbreaking term leucocytosis. He first encountered the word four years ago while researching pronunciations. A year and a half later he began announcing after an opportunity at WOC Davenport, noting the term means white blood cell clusters with vari shaped life spots filtrating from blood.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Pat Flanagan
WBBM
Flanagen
WOC
Davenport
Butter Soft Metals Studied for Commercial Use
Washington June 18. The bureau of mines studies extremely soft alkali metals that decompose water at room temperature to explore wider uses. Caesium and rubidium must be kept in vacuum to avoid spontaneous ignition in dry oxygen. Cesium and rubidium appear in photo cells and radio tubes. lithium is used in medicine and fireworks signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Mine
Hoover to broadcast King Mountain address if he attends
President Hoover agreed to have his Kings Mountain celebration speech broadcast if he can attend the October event. He has accepted the invitation to be chief speaker and sees no reason he cannot attend, barring any unexpected developments.
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Charlotte
N. C
Hoover
Kings Mountain Battle Ground
Chicago Newspapers Declare War on Gangland
Seven Chicago newspapers unite to combat gang violence after the daylight murder of Tribune reporter Alfred J. Lingle. Ministers join the push as publishers vow to remove gang influence and restore civic decency, while police efforts remain discreet amid a city shaken by more than 100 gangland murders in the past year.
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Chicago
New Heights
Alfred J. Lingle
The
Tribune
Evening American
Daily News
Evening Post
Illustrated Times
Herald and Examiner
Journal of Commerce
Lingle
Greenland Focus Of Weather Study Expands To Ice Cap Depot
Ten tons of scientific gear heads to a permanent ice cap depot atop Greenland's 10,000 foot summit as Wegener and 20 scientists begin a glaciological expedition. The team will set up a winter station to study how the vast ice sheet drives northern hemisphere storms.
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Associated Press
Unmak
Greenland
Alfred Lothar Wegener
Iceland
Kamarujuk Glacier
Nine Contractors Bid on Dubach School Building
Nine contractors have obtained plans to bid on the new brick school and auditorium at Dubach to replace the fire destroyed structure. An El Dorado architectural firm designed the plans. Bids are due June 23 at 10 30 a m in the Lincoln Parish School Board offices in Ruston. Two Monroe builders, W C Salley and W H Blaine, have submitted bids so far.
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Dubach
el Dorado
Lincoln Parish
Ruston
Monroe
W. C. Salley
W. H. Blaine
Plan research on new member mosquito tribe
Albany Ga June 13 Plans for extensive research and experiments on a newly found fourth anopholes mosquito in the south were announced by Dr Thomas H D Griffitts of the U S Public Health Service. The atropos breeds in salt water along the Gulf coast and may carry malaria. It is found along the Atlantic coast but mainly in Alabama and Mississippi and has clear wings unlike the other three in the Georgia malaria belt. It bites by day and challenges the belief that mosquitoes die off in severe winters.
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Associated Press
Albany, Ga
South
Thomas H. D. Griffitts
United States Public Health Service
Griffitts
Gulf Coast
Atlantic
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Malaria Belt
Griffiths
PEG-LEG SKIPPER Lizzie Meadows Britain's youngest woman captain
Lizzie Meadows, 19, born on a barge on the Grand Junction Canal, inherits her barge Skipper role after her parents died when she was 16. She moves about the deck with one wooden leg, becoming a notable young maritime figure in Britain.
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London
Britain
Lizzie Meadows
Grand Junction Canal
Blue Star Ointment for Skin Irritations and Itching
The ad promotes Blue Star Ointment for skin irritations itching eczema tetter ringworm itching toes poison oak and as an antiseptic dressing for old sores. Ask your druggist for BLUE STAR OINTMENT.
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Pat SoLitvAna
Hee - Haw
Bureau
King Mountain
United Press
Wegener
Uggis
Emerson Electric
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Henley
Frost King Freezers
DeSiard
Monroe, la
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Lai
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