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ATTACK FROM AIR FOR GERMAN CITY ARMISTICE HALTED PLANS TO BOMB BERLIN?STORY OF INVENTORS. Cleveland, Oct. 15.?The story of how the signing of the armistice saved Berlin from an aerial attack was related heie today, with the permission of the government, for the first I ootov H Rnrlnw and Olenn UII1C UJ Iuvowvi ?.* ? L. Martin, inventors of a device for a long ;ange attack. Only a few persons are said to have known the secret, so closely was it guarded. The basis of the idea was the combining of the flying torpedo built principally along the lines of the dual motored bombing plane, with a small plane of the scout type but carrying a large fuel tank, Mr. Barlow said. In flying to the objective, the two , planes were to have been a single unit, the smaller plane's engine drawing its fuel from the torpedo plane's tank, leaving its own fuel supply intact for the return flight. "If the war had continued Cleveland would have contributed two inventions which would have ended it speedily," declared Benedict Crowell. former assistant secretary of war. u-Aiilil Kovo Koon t.Viis flvini? , torpedo and the other the deadly gas which was developed in the 'mousetrap.' "Our scheme to blow to atoms the German capital, 700 miles from the battle lines, was so simple that Gen. G. O. Squier, American ranking general of the air forces, was skeptical." Mr. Barlow said. "When he was convinced of its practicability his great fear was that the Germans might hit upon the same idea and put it into effect before we could get the necessary equipment across the Atlantic. "Under the plan adopted, a fleet of flying torpedoes, each of 800 horse power,' would be piloted under cover of darkness from the American lines to within a few miles of Berlin. The 1 ? > ?i ?i *i it.. pilots- \vouia return wnne me uymg i torpedoes continued under mechanical | control to the center of the city. There the wings automatically would be blown from the torpedoes, causing the whole mass to fall. On striking the torpedoes, each of which would contain a ton and a half of TNT or * the equivalent of poisonous gases, would explode. "In order to assure a thoroughly < M VI >1: si: X ! i ji; ;!: CALLS TOUR ATI !' I NEEDS. ; i; We have oni I for less?because we gain, Sell a Bargain/' gains awaiting you 1 MEN', Men's and Youm 2 black Serge Suits, re i\ ues, now on sale at ;' | ONE-HA ?' i I MEN'S W( Made of good quality : JJ; cial at || MEN'S DI ;1 \ One lot of Men's Dre ; [! $5.00 values, to g j!| LADIES'BED] ! [; A big assortment of ;, special at i! t BIG VALUI i . t (\ One lot of Outings, 2C 4 \ yard I "THE UNDE IfWWVoAow^^ successful attack, our hope was to launch a fleet of at least 50 of these dual units against Berlin. Their flight was to be so arranged that they could approach the city from all directions simultaneously." Two months before the armistice was signed, the inventors say the government ordered them to proceed immediately with the production of a flying torpedo fleet. A thousand airplane torpedoes, Mr. Martin estimated, could be constructed and used for the cost of one modern battleship. He estimated the cost of one such torpedo at $50,000. The idea came to the inventors in October, 1915, when Mr. Barlow was pmnlnvpH in the Martin aimlane fac tory in Los Angeles, Cal., shortly after his return from Mexico, where, as a major on the staff of Francisco Villa, he conducted, what he believes, was the first airplane bombing squadron in the world. Reports of the British air service that it had released from its large scouting planes over the North sea small passenger planes that returned to the base suggested the solution of their problem, Martin and Barlow said. "There is little new to the invention," Mr. Barlow explained. "Rather it is a fusing together of what was then known," he continued. Mr. Barlow has obtained a score or more of patents on high explosive devices, most of which, he said, were used by the allied governments. o It is always a poor policy to let cotton become low grade after it opens, but this year it will be more costly than usual. The careful farmer can add $5 to $10 per bale to his cotton by careful handling all the way between picKing ana seinng ms crop. There is too much low-grade cotton on the market already. The sooner cotton is picked after it opens, the higher the price it will bring. Then it should be housed the day it is picked. If it should become wet, spread and dry before housing.?The Progressive Farmer. o The case against Clifford Hayes, 19, held four days as the slayer of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, blew up with a bang at New Brunswick last week, and authorities returned to the original leads, which they followed before Hayes' arrest. 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