NEW TRANSATANTIC PHONE
CABLE PUT INTO OPERATION
NEW YORK, UB—The new 42
million-dollar transatlantic tele
phone cable was officially opened
Tuesday, the first direct voice
link between the old world and
link between the Old World and
Promptly at 11 a.m. (EDT), Cleo
F. Craig, board chairman of the
American Telephone and Tele
graph Co., said, “The big moment
is at hand. First, we’ll talk to Lon
don, then Ottawa. In conclusion,
we’ll officially open service be
tween the United States, Britain
and Canada.”
He lifted the phone. “This is
Cleo Craig in New York calling
Dr. Charles Hill in London.”
Then, almost prosaically, he
exchariged greetings with the
postmaster general of the British
post office and then with George
Carlyle Marler, Canadian Minis
ter of transport in Ottawa.
Their conversations were clear
and natural, as tho it were a
neighborhood call.
People have been talking by
phone to Europe since 1927, but
their voices have been carried by
radiotelephone. These circuits are
subject to atmospheric interfer
ence and possible jamming by
alien sources in time of emer
gency.
The new cable system, which
took more than two years to build,
does away with the possibility of
these disturbances and thus has
national security aspects. It is the
joint project of the American Tel
eephone & Telegraph Co., the
British Post Office, and the Cana
dian Overseas Telecommunication
Corp.
The new cable can carry 36
voice messages at one time, about
three times the traffic that radio
telephone circuits can transmit
between this country and abroad.
It is the first undersea phone link
to span any ocean.
Secretary Wilson
Recovering From
Prostate Operation
WASHINGTON, ur*—The De
fense Department said yesterday
Secretary Charles E. Wilson, who
was operated on at Walter Heed
Hospital Monday, “had a comfort
able night and ordered a big
breakfast.”
Unless there are complications,
the department said, the 66-year
old defense chief should be able
to speak on Oct. 10 at the Penn
sylvania Chamber of Commerce
luncheon at Philadelphia and ap
pear on a TV program (Meet the
Press, NBC-TV) on Oct. 14.
Wilson was operated on for a
“benign prostatic condition,” that
was discovered during a routine
physical examination last week.
RUN OF BAD LUCK
PLAGUES FISHERMAN
DALLAS, Texas, MB—Vernon
Staley of Seminole, Okla., headed
for Lake Texoma for a fishing
trip last weekend. He punched a
hole in his gasoline tank while
making a minor repair. ¥hen his
oil line became clogged and he
had two flat tires before reaching
his camp.
Things brightened as he caught
some black bass.
But then the chain of his
stringer broke and the catch was
lost.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
This man can give you
dependable
delivery of
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A Long Record of
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The Adviser to
U.S. Delegation,
7th Pan-American
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Director of Territories,
Washington, D.C.,
1934 - 1939
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1939 - 1953
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“The State of Alaska”
1954
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