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Show Inventor of 'Death Ray Refuses to Reveal Secret It is possible that "death rays" may some day be used as an awful weapon of war, but Dr. Antonio Lon-goria, Lon-goria, wealthy Cleveland, Ohio, scientist sci-entist and inventor, who in 1923 perfected a "death ray" apparatus, will have nothing to do with recreating recreat-ing sveh a machine. This Dr. Longoria made plain in a recent interview. He recounted that his apparatus had killed pigeons on the wing at four miles, and that he then destroyed the machine because of its danger. "It's quite possible that someone may stumble across the particular electric wave I used," Dr. Longoria said. "I found it accidentally myself, my-self, and I certainly am not proud of the discovery. The machine killed small animals, and it could kill human beings just as easily. "The ray lies in one of the unexplored unex-plored frequency bands in the vicinity vicin-ity of the X-ray. It kills painlessly, without burning, by changing the blood to a useless substance as light changes silver salts in photography. photog-raphy. But I don't like to talk about it, because it could wreck civilization. civiliza-tion. I'LJ have nothing to do with it. My hands will be clean." Dr. Longoria said he first demonstrated demon-strated his ray while working in California on a colored motion picture pic-ture process, showing a group of scientists that the ray could kill rabbits rab-bits even when the animals were encased in a thick-walled aluminum case. Later, in Cleveland, he demonstrated demon-strated that the ray would kill pigeons, he added. "I could assemble such a machine again," Dr. Longoria said, "but I never shall. I have no drawings The plans are in my head alone. My inventions have brought me wealth. I am interested now only in doing something to help civilization, civiliza-tion, which seems to be going back ward instead of ahead." |