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Show NEW BOMB DEVICE TO BE TRIED OUT San Francisco, Jan. 13. Sergeant Riley E. Scott recently of the United States Army is in San Francisco awaiting the arrival from France of a device of his Invention which he will use next month in hurling 100 pounds of nitro-gelatine from an army aeroplane a mile high over North Island at San Diego. Thi6 performance will constitute the climax of a series of tests to be conducted con-ducted by the War Department with the Scott device. These will be begun with a series of light bombs, and con tlnued with nltro-gelatine ranging In weight from five pounds to the final package of 100 pounds Lieutenant Scott's Invention was refused re-fused by the United States three years ago. Ho resigned from the army and took his device to France where ho won all the prizes amounting to $15.-000 $15.-000 offered for a successful device of Its description. He was decorated by the French government. Russia, England Eng-land and Italy also bought the rights to his Invention. nr |