WIRELESS BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19803, 31 May 1926, Page 7

WIRELESS BROADCASTING

WORLD NEWS ITEMS. (Pea United Press Associati"'WELLINGTON,, May 29. The following news items, broadcasted from the New York Times building by the Australian Press Association were picked up by Mr Shrimpton, jun.; Washington, May 28.—The Crovyi Prince and the Princess of Sweden have arrived, and after being taken to the Swedish Legation unde- military escort later called upon President Coolidge at White House. General Andrews, chief of the Prohibition unit, appeared before the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee and urged that hereafter a heavier penalty be inflicted for violation of Prohibition laws. Dr J. Frank Torris. vvl. is attending the session of the Northern Baptist Church Convention, has pre dieted that steps will be taken within the year for an amicable split in the church, by which its property would be divided between the Modernists and the Fundamentalists, and that the same thing will happen in other churches. New York, May 28- —A gang of 18 swindlers, financed by a well-known New York busine*) man, has reaped a harvest of 5,000,000 dollars from victims through out the United States through the establishment of a fake bank and deposit company. One man has been arrested, and it is alleged that a well-known society woman is implicated. Charles Hoff, a noted Norwegian pole vaulter, has been barred from further amateur competitions in America because of his exorbitantly expensive accounts and other irregular! ties. Sofia, May 28.—More fighting between the Greeks and the Bulgarians resulted in two deaths. A message to the Postmaster-General (Melbourne) states that the low-wave amateur radio station 2UO has been consistently in touch with Australian radio amateurs every night since the transmitter was put on the air on May 20. The results achieved have been above anything hoped for. NEW YORK TIMES’S TESTS. REPORTS OF SUCCESS. NEW YORK, May 29. (Received May 30, at 11.15 p.m.) In regard to its wireless broadcasting experiments the New York Times reports «s follows : Success in recieving to-day’s broadcastin.- was reported to us from Melbourne, Wellington, and besides the Kaimiloa. Z2XA (Wellington) informed us through SAAB that they had been copying our press despatches solidly and handing them to the New Zealand Press Association. ZIAO (Auckland) also reported having received our despatches. A3EF (Melbourne) received to-day’s message at approximately 6.40 in the evening (Australian time). A3EF further repotted they had several messages for us, but it was then broad daylight here and SAAB through whom we would have received them, faded out. We will probably get these messages to-morrow. —A. and N.Z. Cable..