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Show f WILSON'S LOAN MESSAGE. WASHINGTON April 21. -f From an airplane flying 2.600 4 feet overhead, an army officer to- 4 day read President Wilson's Vic- lory Liberty Ioan message to a throng of 16,000 persons, assem- bled at the south steps of tlt 4- treasury, by the use of thp wire- less telephone and a newly in- vented sound amplifier. A few minutes Inter Admirnl Sims from the platform cae the same ad- - dress through the amplifier. ? 4- Billie Burke, the actress, sold bonds to the audience after the address of Admiral Sims, who bought the flrsl bond and also spoke at other meetings today The throng of government m- ployes dismissed for the capital'- opening demonstration for th - loan, cheered the president's mt'S- 4 sage us spoken through the all 4 and enunciated distinctly to them 4 4 by Lieutenant H. B. Meicalf. a radio officer in the airplane. Th 4 craned their necks to SOS the - the plane soaring far above and 4 to see the officer whose words came to them SO distinctly. 4 "Hello, heiio treasury' cried ihe aviator I am now 2,600 fppt over you in plane 38070 from 4 Boiling field." He then read the message and concluded by bid- 4 fling good-bye t.o the crowd good naturedly. 4 444 -.4444-- |