Show RAYS I I I I Governments Maintain Maint Maintain Main Main- t tam tain ai n Close Watch arc f LONDON Oct 24 United Press Stuck away in amateur laboratories laboratories laboratories labora labora- tories here and throughout Europe enthusiasts are busy tr trying ing to perfect perfect perfect per per- a a. death ray that will actually actually actually actu actu- ally kill One such ray Invented here some time back killed a dog Another Another Another An An- other killed a cow Both manifestations manifestations however failed tailed to bring wealth and fame to the respective inventors because It was proved that the animals died from other causes than the ray In case of ot the dog the Inventor prepared his death ra ray which involved involved In Involved in- in a considerable amount of power He arranged the source ofha or of ha ray near the focus of a huge concave ren reflecting mirror At t a distance of twenty f feet et the dog was herd held in chains n so that the ene energy g VL VI 1110 o ray my was wua vu vuon on hips him After about an hour the hour the dog was dead dead baked baked to death in the terrific terrific ter ter- glow of the he searchlight The cow investigators ascertained later was killed dead enough but not from the mysterious death fay ay fay I The Inventor r had rIgged rigged up se secret secret secret se- se cret electric wires and electrocuted the creature by merely pressing a hidden button Both these episodes go hand In hand with the famous case of a continental inventor who claimed to have discovered a ray to be used for blowing up a a. battleship A claim of this nature could not be completely ignored by the BritIsh British Brit Brit- British ish admiralty to whom the suggestion suggestion suggestion tion wa was wag made mad The inventor was offered a test and the admiralty provided a ship to be destroyed T The e offered test apparently proved too sev severe re for it was never carried out and the inventor quietly disappeared disappeared disappeared dis dis- appeared from this count country He next tried tried- to give some form of ot demonstration abroad The ad admiral admiral admiral ad- ad miral In charge harge of the tests there imposed similar severe conditions with promise of great reward If successful successful successful suc suc- but penalties if ful Again the inventor disappeared Most recently the character of the supposed death ra rays s 's has changed The most frequent suggestion put forward is to stop the engines of airplanes and thus put the airplane of out action The principal method is to stop the magneto from functioning In I Is s some me meVa sway Avay Va energy is to be directed to the airplane In the form of electromagnetic elec elee- I elec-I tro-magnetic tro waves If sufficient energy is directed and if it is in the correct form it is quite conceivable conceIvable conceivable able that a magneto can be stopped On the first rumor that another death Ray has been discovered all Europe is roused to excitement Th There re have been so many ma marvels els of ot science In the last thirty years that the public mind is really ready to believe that science can achieve practically practicably anything but there is no scientist of any distinction who will be stirred by In the rumor of ot ota a adeath adeath death ra ray consisting of radiations of any form the experts sa say I |