Show SMOKE SCREEN IS PERFECTED Airplane Shrouds Pas Pas- Passenger Passenger Liner in Gay White Veil NEW YORK Aug 17 By By The As As- Associated Associated Press As As the new French liner He lIe De Dc France was approaching New York bay Tuesday hundreds of passengers on the deck saw an on air air- airplane airplane airplane plane come roaring up to within shouting distance then to their as astonishment as- as astonishment astonishment cut a horseshoe about their vessel leaving it arrayed in the flowing white veil vell of a 0 June bride An Associated Press reporter view- view viewIng viewing viewing Ing the spectacle from a Paramount News plane saw the huge black liner completely enshrouded as an army bombing plane seemed to twist a huge rod from which fell a gleaming white curtain curt ln gracefully billowing In the wind After several minutes the great dark hull of the liner pierced the curtain like the slash of or a giant knife Captain Charles W W. Walton of Ga Ga- Galena Galena Galena lena Ill III attached to the chemical warfare v division and observer on the bomber said the passengers on the thelie thelIe lie He Da Dc D France had been treated to the beautiful spectacle Incidental to an army experiment to show the feasibility ity of blinding ships from attacking airplanes with smoke screens which would completely baffle b rne the vessels vessel's anti-aircraft anti gunners The experiment he pronounced a thorough success The bomber bearing Cap Cap- Captain tain to tam In Walton and piloted by Sergeant Samuel J J. J Davis came from the army proving ground at Aberdeen Md to- to today today day dav especially for the experiment The screen chemically described as of titanium tetrachloride smelled faintly of chlorine Captain Walton said It was the first time a smoke screen had ever er been I laid down about a passenger ship In addition to hiding Hacking planes from a ships ship's s 's gunners he said such a screen would be valuable to the at attacking at- at attacking t- t tacking planes as a target and that thata a ship could be shrouded for a sub sub- substantial substantial substantial length of time by continuously continuously dropping heavier curtains |