Evening star. [volume], September 20, 1939, Page A-6, Image 6

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A. P. Wirephoto Serves 100
Papers on 12,000-Mile Network
Revolutionary System Adopted in
1935 by Far-Famed News Service
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Storm
center of controversy and debate at
the time of Its inauguration less
than five years ago, the world's only
news picture transmission network
observed a notable milestone today
by addition of the 100th newspaper
to its list of subscribers.
The international system is known
familiarly to editors and readers
alike as Associated Press Wirephoto.
Requiring only eight minutes for
each picture, it simultaneously de
livers approximately 50 news photos
every day to participating news
papers from Canada to Florida and
from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
making it possible to publish the
pictorial history of almost any event
within a matter of minutes after it
occurs.
The 100th Associated Press mem
ber to subscribe was the Los Angeles
Examiner, the third Hearst paper
in as many weeks.
The addition brought to 31 the
number of papers added to the list
in the last three months.
Smaller Cities Also Served.
Although the original subscribers
were exclusively metropolitan news
papers, many of the recent additions
have been papers publishing in cities
of 20,000 to 65,000 population.
One of the objections to the revo
lutionary service, put forward by op
ponents at the time the Associated
Press inaugurated the service in
i 1935, was that it would prove to be
a "luxury" which only the very
largest newspapers ever could afford
as a service to their readers. Others
hailed it as “the most progressive
1 step in journalism since the intro
duction of the Morse telegraph in
! 1846,” and Kent Cooper, general
! manager of the non-profit, co
operative news gathering association,
at the time promised that develop
ments in the system he proposed to
pioneer eventually would bring the
service within the reach of virtually
every member newspaper, large and
small alike.
World Distribution Record.
Still the only photo network In
I existence, wirephoto has grown un
| til now it serves more newspapers by
wire than all of the other picture
gathering organizations in the world
combined.
In addition to serving the main
network points, the system also
makes it possible for the Associated
Press news photo service to mat pic
tures speedily at strategic points
over the country, thereby providing
a fast news mat budget for upward
of 600 other members whose needs
are less extensive. This service is
called telemats.
Development of wirephoto was the
outcome of many years of scientific
research for a method of transmit
ting pictures by wire, just as news is
sent, in order to keep pace with the
journalistic technique of printing
the news and pictures of any event
in companion columns. Prior to
wirephoto. the fastest method ol
transmitting pictures had been by
train, plane or bus. and as a con
sequence it frequently was days or
weeks after a story appeared in
print before the illustrating picture
found its way to the public eye.
Perfected in 1934.
The principle of wirephoto was
developed on a practical basis by
Bell Laboratories in 1934. and the
Associated Press, under the leader
ship of General Manager Cooper,
arranged to take over the mechan
ism for its exclusive use in deliver
ing pictures to Its Nation-wide list
of member newspapers. Opponents
of such a plan, both within and
without the membership, raised ob
jections. which were discussed fully
Woman Is Badly Hurt
In Traffic Accident
Rebecca Claybourne. 37, colored
of 1141 Tenth street N.W,, was in
Freedmen's Hospital today with
brain concussion and a possible frac
tured skull, received last night in a
traffic accident. She was struck by
a car at Sixteenth and Fuller streets
N.W.
Dolores Barnes, 8, colored, 34
Pierce street N.W., was in Children's
Hospital with body injuries. She
was knocked down by a bicycle yes
terday near her home.
Alice Williams, 41, colored, of 212
Parker street N.W.. was treated at
Freedmen's Hospital for a fractured
leg after being struck by an auto
mobile in the 1000 block of New
Jersey avenue N.W. last night.
Eleven-year-old Billy Williams of
1732 Church street N.W. was struck
by a car in the 1700 block of P
street N.W. this morning as he
crossed the street on his way to
Immaculate Conception School,
where he is a student in the fifth
grade. He was admitted to Emer
gency Hospital for treatment of a
lacerated leg and injury to the left
ear and minor bruises.
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Security Payments
Drop During July
By the Associated Press.
Public assistance payments and
wages paid under the Federal works
programs totaled $286,056,000 for
July, a drop of 6 per cent from the
total of $304,265,000 for June, the So
cial Security Board reported yester
day.
The largest item was the earnings
of W. P. A. employes—$119,533,000
! General public relief payments
amounted to $36,157,000.
Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson
To Be Buried in Easton
Mrs. Elizabeth Loman Johnson
62, 640 K street N.W., who died
yesterday while shopping in a store
at Seventh and F streets N.W. after
being stricken suddenly, will be
buried in Easton. Pa., her birthplace
She was the wife of Isaac Johnson,
j a member of the White House police
! force. The couple had no children
I Mrs. Johnson is also survived by
i two sisters and two brothers, ol
| Easton.
J
Paris Told to Learn
That there is room among Paris
designers for a more thorough un
derstanding of the requirements ol
' j American women was declared by
I ; Marjorie Dunton, a dress designer
on her return to Paris after visiting
\ the United States. During her visil
. she noted opinions expressed re
I garding Paris froeks and ensembles
which she exhibited, and she will
try the plan in other countries.
in two annual meetings, but the
Board of Directors authorized in
auguration of the service and the
membership voted its approval.
To the layman, the operation of
the system appears simplicity itself.
An ordinary print is wrapped around
a cylinder on a sending machine and
the cylinder then is started revolv
ing. Receiving machines in cities
along the 12,000-mile network are
connected by wire to the sending ap
paratus and eight minutes after the
cylinder begins to revolve the send
ing is complete. The picture is re
ceived simultaneously at all the sta
tions over the country on a negative
paper inclosed in a cylinder which is
synchronized with the revolution of
the sending cylinder.
Electric “Eye” Does Trick.
The secret of the revolutionary
apparatus is a highly sensitive
photoelectric cell or "eye'’ which
scans the photographs with a beam
of light, converting the details oi
the picture into electrical impulses
of varying intensity. These travel
over the wire network with the
speed of light and at the receiving
end are transformed back into light
rays, which reproduce the picture on
the photo negative.
Still less than five years old. wire
photo's progress has been due to
scientific refinements evolved by
A. P. technicians in the news asso
ciation's research laboratories at the
Associated Press Building in New,
York. First they developed a port
able sending set which made it pos
sible for photographers to send pic
tures onto the network direct frorr
the scene of any news event. Nexl
they perfected a smaller and more
improved receiving machine whicl
was simpler to operate and less ex
pensive to build. More recently
they developed a technical picture
scanning apparatus which will im
prove even more the quality of news
paper photographs. Details of tha
discovery are to be announced soon
F.C.C. Orders Hearing
Wednesday in WMCA
Broadcast Inquiry
Body Reports Station's
Reply to Charges
Appears Incomplete
The rederal Communications Com
mission today ordered a public hear
ing for next Wednesday In connec
tion with the alleged Interception
and broadcasting of military secrets
of Oermany and Great Britain by
Radio Station WMCA In New York
City.
The Knickerbocker Broadcasting
Co. Inc., license of WMCA, through
William Weisman, its vice president,
last week filed a general dental.
The commission reported today
that the reply appeared to be in
! complete and was not a forthright
compliance with original order for
disclosure of all the facts. The
commission also disclosed that it
had made its own investigation of
the alleged Incident.
The commission has the power to
revoke the license of the station.
It was learned at the P. C. C. of
fices today that messages to the
British and German fleets were ad
dressed as a broadcast to all vessels
and were not specifically directed to
particular ships According to the
record, the messages were picked up
by a radio receiver in a newspaper
office in New York and sent out over
its regular news service, in the course
of which WMCA picked it up. and
broadcast it.
The Communications Act makes it
a criminal offense for any one to
disclose the contents of an addressed
message.
It was explained- by commission
experts that it has no jurisdiction
over owners of radio receiving sets
and that any disclosure of addressed
messages which would be considered
a violation of the act would have to
, be referred to the Department of
. Justice for action in the courts.
Plan to Sell South's
Tobacco Approved
Br the Associated Press.
Representatives of major Amer
ican tobacco buying companies gave
wholehearted approval yesterday to
a proposal to co-operate with grow
ers and the Agriculture Depart
ment in bolstering the South's de
moralized flue-cured tobacco mar
ket.
With the markets closed due to
withdrawal of British buyers be
cause of the European war, they
met with J. B. Hutson, assistant A.
A. A. administrator, to study the
situation, described in a statement
by Secretary Wallace as the "most
serious crisis” ever experienced by
growers in marketing their leaf.
The buyers approved continuance
of the market shut-down until a
farmer election could be held on
drastic control measures for 194C
marketing. The referendum is ex
pected to be held between Septem
ber 30 and October 7.
They also expressed hope some
arrangement could be made to dis
pose of 1939 tobacco, either through
Commodity Credit Corp. loans or
purchases for storing, which the
British would have bought had
they remained in the market.
Mr. Hutson said the A. A. A. and
the credit corporation were working
on plans to handle this year's sur
plus in the event marketing quotas
were voted for the 1940 crop.
Ex-Gob's Fists Say Navy
Hasn't Adequate Funds
A fight over whether the United
States Navy is prepared to protect
the country brought an ex-sailor
and his foe Into Police Court yes
terday.
The two, Prank J. Ross, 45. and
Thomas C. Lane, 27, both of the
1700 block of O street N.W., were
arrested on Pennsylvania avenue
N.W. last night by Sergt. B. P. Mc
Allister, who saw them engaged in
combat.
Ross, the ex-gob, told Judge
Walter J. Casey that he contended
Congress had not appropriated
enough money for the Navy. Lane,
declaring that he had no strong
feeling on the subject at all, said
he thought the discussion, in which
another was engaged, was only a
j friendly talk.
Judge Casey advised Ross to give
his opinion to the coming special
session of Congress and took the
personal bonds of both.
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