The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 19, 1922, Image 8
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
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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.
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, 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. The crash in the authorities
structure came, when Raymond
Schneider, Hayes' accused, repudiated
his entire story of the crime.
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