Radio Digest (Oct 1923-July 1924)

March 29, 192k RADIO DIGEST — Illustrated ETHER MEDIUM FOR SENDING THOUGHTS WJAZ HAS TRYOUT PROVING TELEPATHY Three Famous Psychologists Give Invisible Audience Twelve Tests — Letters Hold Much Promise CHICAGO. — To prove the existence of thought transmission, or mental telepathy as it is commonly known. Station WJAZ, the Zenith-Edgewater Beach Hotel here, recently had three eminent psychologists for the first time in the history of Radio give a series of tests of international scope, heard as they were over half the world. At the time of writing, over 6,000 letters from listeners taking the test, have been received and are being tabulated. A test summation, meanwhile, of the earlier letters indicates that the test mental messages in a large number of cases were received correctly or near correctly, thus proving the existence of mental transmission and reception, however undeveloped the sense may be. Prof. Robert H. Gault of Northwestern university, Prof. Gardner Murphy of Columbia university and Prof. H. B. English of Antioch college conducted the tests. Twelve Test Questions Asked Professor Gault, after an introduction by Gene McDonald, owner of Station WJAZ, announced as the first test that he was thinking of a number between one and 1,000. (It was 664.) Letters showed 994 and 499 predominating, while a few got the number correct. 2. The professor thought of script letter over a wild animal (a letter "S" over a walrus). Few received the walrus impression but had the script letter wrong. Zebras led, followed by elephants as the second most popular impression. Practically the whole zoo was represented in the 150 test letters. "L" and "K" were the more frequently reported letters. 3. A horizontal line, crossed by a diagonal one of a certain color (yellow). The order of colors reported was red first, orange second and yellow third. 4. The professor was eating some food (a beet). A few beets, accompanied by numerous other edibles were reported Ice cream and cake even, were listed. 5. The professor was subjected to pain on one of his arms or hands (pinching himself immediately below the fourth finger on his left hand). Many listeners "observed" this sensation correctly. Pin pricks instead of pinches were often reported. Pictures Show Fear of Fire The sixth and seventh were pictures of a drowning man and a fireman, respectively. Writers often described the feeling of fear and fire. The eighth test provided that listeners were to concentrate on a word, and the three psychologists would attempt to receive it correctly. "Radio" was the word received by the professors, and number of letters showed that this word had been "sent" by numerous listeners in. Results for the rest of the tests have not yet been tabulated at this time. The ninth test was a drawing. In the tenth listeners were asked to think of a unique experience and the professors would attempt to receive it. The eleventh and twelfth tests were attempts to have half the audience communicate thought to the other half, dividing the audience alphabetically by their names. Technical Experts Talk to Milwaukee Experts MILWAUKEE.— E. T. Flewelling, inventor of the "Flivver Super;" the Mystery Man, inventor of the Miloplex circuits; David Grimes, inventor of the inverse reflex, and Harry J. Marx, technical editor of Radio Digest, were guests and speakers at the last monthly meeting of the Milwaukee Radio Amateurs' Club, Inc. Broadcast listeners as well as "key pounders" found the talks well worth hearing. FAKE TEETH BREAK SO HE "WIRES UP" KANSAS CITY.— Radio was recently put to a unique use here by J. C. Rittenhouse. A WDAF program caused him to neglect keeping an engagement with the dentist to have a set of false teeth repaired. In the morning they dropped apart. Undaunted, Rittenhouse sought the trusty Radio set. Tearing a wire from a coil he proceeded to "wire up" the teeth. Radio held till the dentist could be seen. FINDS HIS GOLDEN RAINBOW BY RADIO INDEPENDENCE, KAS.— Radio may prove the means of Charles Faye, of this city, securing a foi cently local Radlophane heard a b cast from Station KDKX saylinBeaumont, Tex., wished to locate Charles Faye, who had l < a considerable sum of n d who had been missing several pearls. Faye Qformed. he at one time lived in the Texas city and would communicate immediately. HERE'S FIRST TRUE RADIO FAN HUERTA USES AIR FOR HIS WARFARE TALKS TO HIS GALVESTON AGENTS BY RADIO Rebel Leader Spoils Obregon's Story of Oil Men's Aid to Revolt The first true Radio fan, literally speaking, is the one pictured above in the hands of Miss Mildred Nelson of Philadelphia, whose father has been nursing his hobby along by making some very odd types of receivers. The crystal detector and phone binding posts are on the right, and aerial and ground connections on the left. The inductance is tuned by opening or closing the fan. Mildred's dad also built her a book set, which was shown in the Digest recently. P. & A. Photo Telegraph Applause Halts "Moonlight" Show at WHN NEW YORK. — Radiophans by the thousand who tuned in on Station WHN after all the others had signed off at 11:30 one evening last week, received an exceptional treat, for the entire cast of "Moonlight" went over to "The Voice of the Great White Way" after the regular performance at the Longacre Theater. The show went on and on for two hours, being delayed every few minutes by the necessity for encores in response to the hundreds of telegrams which poured in. HOUSTON, TEX.— A half-doz in the past two months Mexico ' patches have carried announcements the revolt Jed by A •Jul and "only gut: fare coi twice daily Radiograms bring fi across the border in Spanish tale of the dynamiting trains or the capturing of to ening less than a month De la Huerta himself talked to a gi of 25 of his agents at Galveston. was heard clearly from the broadcasting station at Frontera. Kadio May Help Bebels Win "If the rebels win it will be because of Radio," Jose Rementeria, Huertista agent in Houston, said. "Every day I either talk or send messages by Radio to my chief. He tells me the situation in his own words. Interests favorable to us thus are in constant touch with the situation." On the same day that rebels reported 60,000 volunteers coming to their side, Obregon sources carried a statement to the effect that the revolution was over, train and steamship service reinstated and Huertistas scattered in small bands into the mountains. Conflicting reports, however, filter across the border daily. The Obregon foi when first informed of the seriate Invi Ration of oil grants in Mexico, insti?: a report that De la Huerta had obtained money from oil men and was using th: finance the revolt. Huertistas Spoil Obregon Story That afternoon, speaking by Radio, De la Huerta told his agent in Houston that in a few hours Washington would know the truth. Late editions of the same papers which had carried the story of Huertistas and oil men's money, Washington dispatches quoted Edward L. Doheny as saying he gave Obregon ¥5,000,000 to fight the revolt. WEAY, the Iris theater broadcastingstation, has an auxiliary 50-watt set. which has been converted into a CW Radiotelegraph transmitter for use in daytime work with Frontera, Vera Cruz and sometimes Tampico and Mexico City. Rebroadcast Program from Super-Heterodyne WJAX IS Picked Up and Re-sent by WHK CLEVELAND. — An experiment fraught with interesting possibilities was made here recently when part of a progran ing broadcast from WJAX on a wave length of 390 meters was received on a super-heterodyne receiver at WHK and rebroadcast from the latter station on a vlength of 283 meters with entire absence of distortion or interference. The output circuit of the super-heterodyne was connected directly to the speech input equipment at WHK and announcements and program numbers were thus broadcast from both stations as if from the same microphone. A great number of broadcast listeners were puzzled at their tion of the same program1 on such widely separated wave lengths and both stations were flooded with telephone < asking an explanation. The clarity of reception on both wave lengths was such that the listeners could not tell which tion was which: Denver Prepares for Show DENVER. — This city is making i orate arrangements for its first R Show, scheduled for the week of April 9. THE ANTENNA BROTHERS Spir L. and Lew P. Add — One Cell ; HELLO1. SP\R\ 5 ;\Eft 1 GOT H»VU*XN A ) ? YOU ON MV SHLODYNE LftST tOtGHT VEft I'LL BET^ YOU DID J