Show ANOTHER achievement prom from the Hearld Tribune of new york city we learn that dr thomas J headlee a professor ot of at rutgers university in new jersey has been experimenting with a device with which he has sent out rays or waves which have killed millions of insects of all sorts he says with a bigger machine he is quite sure he could kill of men although he is not interested in that angle think however of what this would mean and probably will mean as others of similar ability to benvent such death dealing devices send forth the results of their efforts if the pending war becomes reality let us read further from the he article concerning the aforementioned in venton and see what happens to the mosquitoes japanese beetles moths in otlis rickets crickets cockroaches and other new jersey pests I 1 dr headlee says 1 I am able to knock off insects in thirty seconds arid and have done it often ire he uses an apparatus very much like a minature mina turc broadcasting station which throws out heat rays or energy in the form of heat ile he says that the insects are found to be hot when dead although the glass containers containers arid and plates were cool the limiting limi factor in the present device beng that the insects must be within eighteen inches from the machine he further says As yet it is not practicable to take the apparatus into a cornfield or a cotton patch as it if Is not strong enough to shoot the rays all over the field and if it if were it might get out of control and be as troublesome ps the bugs |