Show FOG CUTTING PLANES BRING J. J RAIN AND DISPEL SMOKE SO r I II I Ir r I I- I yc a s 's Arrow indicates sand box and rel release ase under pilots pilot's seat II By MATS MATSON TSO ON 4 S AEA EA Service Writer r. BO BOSTON T N Aug 9 An An airplane rf cuts over over the skyline and Into a a. a bank of ot fog tog and and as the plane flies the fog tog disappears S As the be fog disappears there Is rain Iraln i I Electrified sand land ejected from un under un- un der the cockpit of ot the plane Is the tho magic worker that changes the tho weather In an instant un I This is not a a. fair fairy story It Is the story of a a. twentieth a-twentieth tw h century Inv in invention invention In- In v that will be bo used to aid our world fliers ride through the fog b banks of Nova Scotia and New Eng En- En g flu S SIt It promises to Eliminate danger of ot fog to ships at sea lea and in harbor Provide clear air all lanes in fn foggy weather for mall airplanes Yield rain to o drought stricken areas whenever there are clouds Inthe Inthe in inthe the sky sly I In wartime to disclose enemy fleets hiding under banks of ot fog or screens screens of or smoke Its Already possibilities the s invention h has s proved In Its most recen recent experiment conducted secretly the sand ejectIng ejecting eject eject- ing airplane cut a a. giant sky window In fn a bank of ot fog and It did It as quickly as as It could fly over its course Although the invention Is i one that is being guarded by the war de department de- de something of or its miracle working Can be told without ds d's closing Hs Its secret As explained by Dr I I. I F. F War War- ren who has conducted the ments at Harvard and at Aberdeen field Maryland fogs togs cloud clouds and It is believed smoke are naturally charged with either positive or neg- neg electricity S To dissipate the vapor apor negative electricity m c is ord discharged Into the h positive fog or cloud and v vice Over versa Thus to fog becomes rain and falls to earth This neutralization process is said to be scientific law and contains con con- con I no particular mystery However How How- i ever the problem of or how effect could be accomplished was one that stumped the experimenters Then the combination of or a an art airplane airplane air air- plane and electrified sand was hit uP upon n and tried out A De Do light bomber plane capable of ot flyIng flying fly fly- ing five eighty-five niles miles an hour was equipped with sand tanks and de vices to discharge e the sand at will The sand when ejected automa 1 dally cally charged negatively or positively as ais tt passes through the brass brasa funnels fUl The charging device Is secret of the Invention A charger ger de designed designed designed de- de signed by Dr Warren worked successfully suc sue on the last experiment and It Is believed will be developed to such a degree that the rainmaking possibilities of the invention are not at nh nil The question of ot determining whether the vapor Is positive or negative answers itself If t the e negative sand falls fails to dispel the fog then It is negative fog and must be neutralized with positive electricity elec elec- The plane pilot merely pulls a second lever ev r and the error I is corrected It Lt is predicted that a squadron of five Jive or six planes discharging two tons of ot sand could clear up all of Ne New York bay In as short a time as it would take them to fly fy over It ft And farmers who have watched water-laden water clouds drift dritt by them during times of drought would need but to dispatch their sand plane to precipItate a generous drenching over their crops No more would the postoffice be beheld beheld beheld held up by bt fog for tor their mail mall planes need not ibe be lost in the fog And enemy fleets resting comfortably comfortably com corn under fog or smokescreens screens would suddenly find themselves open targets to attacking planes Too such cities as London and San Fr Francisco might be turn their foggy seasons Into Indian summers such summers such are the promised wonders rs of ee electrified sand |