MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1927, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

EFFECT OF RADIO ON I’i.AXT GROWTH HARTFORD (Conn.), June 22. Radio will have a far more important use in the future than the dissemination of entertainment, declared Admiril Bullard, chairman of the U.S. Federal Radio Commission, in an address at Trinity College. T'“> Admiral foretold the cultivation • q on : .ms crops by high-frequency v no- proieeted from powerful

!!■ ponged ..tit. it:. ? ■■ '-••■II experi* null!' -bowed that, plant bit sqbiee.teu !o elect vie wave- develops rapidly . It iuel been proved it* i*:cn> ; om;io ees that tlowvrs and >i • loob ripen quickly and grow o> unusual -ikc. ‘‘Some yonrs ago saiii A*in-him i > > ll lard, Awhile 1 was in charge oi the Navy's high-powered station at Arlington, it been me desirable to beautify the ground space under the lofty aerial towers, and it was decided, as a preliminary step, to plant a crop of hurley, so that it could he ploughed under to help fertilise the clayey soil. -To everybody's amazement, the bar ley grew to an immense size, a fullgrown man being lost to view v. hen standing in it

ASCOT AIR STUNT. LONDON. June 24. As owner of Ascot., the King lias banned a repetition of (', B. Cochran's aeroplane stunt, alien a machine with a banner streamer advertising his revile “One Dam Thing After Another." and carrying as a passenger t'lie star of the show Edythe Baker, flew over the course.

The King informed Colonel Gordon, clerk of the course, that he objected to the wording of this vulgar advertising, and also that there was '■

chance of it frightening the horses. WRECKAGE RETORTED. MONTREAL, Juno 22. Hopes that Xungesser and C’■»1 i arcalive in the northern wastes of Quebec have evaporated, failing the slightest confirmation of earlier reports. However, the latest rumor that the Frenchmen had been discovered by the backwoods lumberjack crew of the steamer Swift water, the first ship to navigate the Straits of Belle Isle this season, brought a sensational story. The crew declare that the Sv. iftwater was driven off her course off Newfoundland, and that she entered a field of icebergs. Distinct signs of wreckage were seen on one of the largest bergs, and aKo footsteps in the snow on the berg. Hie theory is advanced {Tint the airmen hit tne iceberg, wrecked their machine, and subsequently drowned in the icy waters.