Short Wave Tests Made in Radio Supposedly-Worthless E t h e r Band Below loO Meters May Prove Useful. Hartford, Conn.. April 28.—Will there be a scramble of all radio In terests to "get in" on the onge sup posedly worthless ether band below 150 meters wave length? The onward march of radio trans mission has undergone so many changes within a period of mere months that even the most expert hos ilate to express an opinion for fear of being called upon to retract. This lias been true of most all predictions about the value of short waves. In recent werfks there has been a great deal of comment on the possi bility of long distance communication below .150 meters and it is only natur al that the amateur should again dem onstrate that lie is tlie pioneer when it conies in this partlcuiai phase of radii) development. During the. recent re are that the farmer has developed a hankering for long distance transmission. Formerly a spark transmitter of the usual type was Impractical un less a .commercial electrical supply was at hand. The advent of the un damped wave set, using improved vacuum tubes to produce the high frequency energy necessary. ha* placed the farmer on a basis with the city dweller. One station near Tarldo. which is operated by R. O. Wolf, a member of the American Radio Relay league, uses one amplifier tube and a home made spark coil in the now famous "spark coil C. W." circuit. His sig nals are heard regularly in Kansas City and Omaha in daylight. Another farmer, near Warrenburg. ' has succeeded In qovering TOO air miles between that place and El Paso, Tex . using a spark coil and the 32 volt battery of his farm lighting plant to supply the energy for the coll. He operates his set on a schedule with other stations in Sedalia and Kansas City. This would indicate tbit even with the older type of transmitter, one no longer need think of the farm as no place for a sending set." Omaha Distributing Point for Radio Supply Firms Due to her central location. Omaha has become a great distributing point for the manufacturer who wants to reach and cover this territory with his product. One of the concerns which located here flvd years ago and which has helped to make Omaha the "gateway for th? east and west.’* Is the Me Oraw company, located at 120S-10-12 Harney street. They also have houses in Sioux City. Ia.. and St. Eouis. Mo. They are distributors for the follow ing lines: Westinghniin* Electrical It Mfg. Co., Simplex Wire & Cable com pany. Hurley Machine company. West inghouse I-rfunp company. Harvey Hubbeli company, incorporated , Pass K Seymore and the Radio Corporation of America. They will show a number of their dectrica! household appliances and a •omplete line of tlielr radio sets and ■quipment at the Better Homes show t the Auditorium April 29 to May 5. Amateurs Break Records Hartford. Conn.. April 28.—Radio amateuis of North America during March handled the greatest anjount of traffic In any single month on rec ord, a total of 160,000 messages. It was announced today by F. II. Schnell, traffic manager of the Amer ican Radio Relay league. This is a gain of 38,508 messages over the pie tedlng month. New Sales Manager for Power Compan I - II . . ■ I lii-niH'tli liiiewry. i J. K. Davidson, general manager of the Nebraska Power company, an ! nounced Inst night that Kenneth Hoewey, assistant sales manager of the company, will succeed Walter S rtyrne, sales inajnager, who leaves on May 1. Mr. Byrne retigned to become as sistant treasurer of the Thomas Kil patrick company. Mr. lioewey attended the University of Vermont. He joined the Nebraska Power company in 1!H7. coming from the Milwaukee Kleetric Railway and 1-ight company. He has had l*i years’ experience in the electrical industry. While with the U.eneral Kleetric company he worked under the per i sonal direction of William Stanley, in ventor of the transformer. Barrel of Letters Reply to Brandeis Radio Program More than a barrel of letters was received by .1. L. Brandeis ^Sons fol lowing the broadcasting of music by . the Arnold Johnson #orches!ra from radio station WOAW on April ?0 The letters are from |>ersons who "lis tpned in” on the concert, which was played ih the Brandeis restaurant and ! carried by special wire to the broad casting station. The letters came from points as far distant as St. Paul. Minn.; New Mcx ico. New Jersey. Ontario, Can.; San Uatchewan. (’an., and Colotado. Included in the reports are letters from Reynold Benson of Randall. Wis ; Wallace Craighead. Haliburton. Ont.; J. R. Tapster, North Bend, Neb,: li. K. Harrison. St. Paul, Minn.; Pal mer Gibson, Farmington. N. M ; Uen rv Goodrich. Newark, N. J . Alvin FJokdahl. Craig. Neb.; Charles W. Sims, Wichita. Kan ; Kllwyn Patrick, Storm Lake, lo ; Mr and Mrs. Isaacs, Stoughton. Sask.; Hiram Montgomery, Skidmore. Mo.: Paul Anderson. Flor ence, Neb : Lee Shaffer. Klk City, Kan.; A. K. Crowther. Regina, Sask.; F. R. Graham, Hamilton, Ont.;; U. A. Simmons. Araphoe, Col., and K. IJ. Finkle, Bellevue. Ont. Spaniards Used Mahogany from Karliest Days in U. S. From the dny of the earliest settle ments in America the Spaniards used mahogany. They utilised it for build ing ships as early as 1521 and until 1540, when the first allusion to thftt kind of wood ft made by Cortex in connection with further voyages of discovery after the conquest of Mex ico. Gh>bf Change* Light. When h different lighting uchcm# i* dfMired by the ho*t*M«i for her party. it is not necessary for her to change the expensive shades of her floor and other lamps. A new' colored glass cover is purchasable at horn* furnish ings stores and is obtainable in any hue nr tint preferred. It covers the bulb or bulbs of the lamp. Buzzards Haiti Windmill. I.a Conner. Wash.—A pnlr of tur key buzzards each day alight on the counterweight of th« windmill on tha F. 1{. Stark rahoh near here, Th« birds remain an hour or ao. then dis appear toward the hill* Stark »ay* ho I* not superstitions Ten years ago this section was visited in spring by a flood which left dretth and destruc tlon in Its wake. ADVMlTlBKMR.NT. FRECKLE-FACE Hun and Wind Bring Out I gly Spots. Ilow to Keiunve Ksally. Here* a chance, Miss Freckle-face, lo try a remedy for freckles with the guarantee of a reliable concern that It will not cost sou a penny unless It removes (he freckles: while If It does 'give you a dear complexion the ex pense I* trifling. Simply get an ounce of Othlne— double strength—from any druggist and a few applications should show - you how easy |t i* to rid yourself of the homely freckles and get a benuti t ful complexion. 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