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...four or five varieties of service, including amateurs. The 80 signing nations have entire freedom to make rules within their own countries. They must not interfere with neighbors. Distress communications have priority over every other kind. For wireless telegraphy (dot-&-dash) the universal distress signal continues to be SOS. For radio telephony (voice) the distress signal becomes the French M'aider, pronounced as the English...
...gone out to sea, Tully and Medcalf climbed into the Sir John Carling, a Stinson Detroiter, similar to the ship in which Edward F. Schlee and William S. Brock started around the world. In their map case was a short note. It told of the Old Glory's SOS. The message had come just before Tully and Medcalf left; friends feared to shake their nerves on the take-off by telling them. Somewhere out at sea they must open the map case, and learn how somewhere into the tossing water beneath them another ship had tumbled from the air. Whether...
...hours after this take-off the Old Glory radio functioned perfectly, saying for the first 500 miles "all well." Then an electric whisper went up the spine of the listening world. SOS. Silence. Five minutes later another SOS. WRHP*?Five Hours out from Newfoundland, east. Silence...
Senor Yturralde is a native of Navarre, Spain, and a graduate of Sos in Aragon, He has travelled extensively through South America, where he visited the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Brazil. He came to the United States about a year and a half ago to learn English, and is now professor of Spanish in the Boston Academy of Languages, and secretary of El Club Espanol in Boston...
...beaten by Princeton; who said this spring that we had no chance for the Mott Haven cup; that the freshman nine was doomed; that Columbia would leave us by many lengths, etc., etc. Naturally men of this stamp sometimes prophesy correctly, and then the chorus of "I told you sos" with which they greet us is nauseating to the last degree. When they make a mistake, instead of preserving a discreet silence, they croak about the next event in which the college is interested...