The British Broadcasting' Corporation has concluded preliminary technical experiments. in the wire-lasa transmission of still pictures, and arrangements have been madi for a short picture transmission daily from Daventry (SXX) outside regular programme hours, starting in October. "If, and when, it is dlscovered that there is a' sufficient public demand for still pictures radiated in this way, transmissions will be included in' regular programme hours. The transmission ibe by the Fultograph system. Suitable receiving apparatus will cost less than £20.
jin Otto Fulton, the inventer of the system, claims that still" pieteres may be picked up on an ordinary. two-valve broadcast iver with a Fultograph apparatus connected in place of the loud speaker. The apparatus consists of a box with a clockwork motor, slowly revolving a cylinder, which is covered with a suitable type of absorbent. paper. Ax the cylinder evolves so the picture, which measures 33 inches by 4 inches, is traced out by a platinum needle in about four minutes. This is quite 1 different system from "ti Already the Vienna Broadcasting station send out each day Fal= to graph pictures of news, sporty and fashion, with great success, America, too, a rent deal of use thas been made of broadcast plew tures, =A new rote, possessing a new perfume which chemists would give 42 fortune to reproduce, was shown for the first time in London. this. week. The rose is a bronze colour; and isnot a beautiful. bloom int comparison with other roses, but it was the cer fire of attraction at the autumn show of the National Rose Society at the Royal Horticultural Hall, "Portadown Fragrance" is the name given it, and it won the Clay Challenge Vase, valued at 100 guineas, for the "best new scented seedling rose of the year." It is no freak but a genuine production, according to its growers, Messrs. Samuel MeGreedy & Sons. "It has taken me 11 years to produce this mystery rose," Mr. MeGreody said. "It may not' be much to look at, but it ins a most wonderful por-fume. What is the fragrance? That is the mystery. Most of the expert rose-growers describe the perfume as_a mixture of tea rose and verbena, Others say it has a sharp tang of the lemon. T cannot enlighten them. So far chemical experts both int London and Paris have been baffled. 'The perfume cannot be reproduced. 'The experts realize the rose's wonderful possibilities, for its perfume: is 80 penetrable and lasting but that is as far as they can get at. present. Women are' charmed with the perfume An Unknown Millionair Millionaires-—owifig, of course, the fact that they millionaires: are usually well-known, and.advertised, whenever. opportunity pre> vent itself, and itis unique' hear of a millionaire, such as' thy retired Leeds banker who has just died at the age of 94, whose name does not appear in any work of reference, and of whose activities, business or, social, no trace can be found on careful search of newspaper file.
He is. Mr. James Walker Oxley, whose estate has been provisionally: sworn at £2,768,868, with a /net personality of £3,168,181. - Though the was known to be a rich man his. vast fortune hag come as.a great. surprise to local people.": He lived in a very quiet way at Weetwood, is, and was practically unknown. to the present generation of Leed's business men, It is understood that: Mr. Oxley~had a. holding in War Loan of something over half a million; the death duties © will amount, "in 41,100,000.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.