Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-06
BALLOON WILL
WORK IN UNION
WITH WIRELESS
WILL ASSIST IN LOCATING
MYSTERIOUS MESSAGES
LOCAL AERoNAUT WILL STRIVE
TO SOLVE PROBLEM
Occult Student opines That PuzzIlne
Communications Are from other
Spheres, but Experts Say
Japan
HRANK LERoYxEz, the Los An

NRANK LEROYXEZ, the Los An
geles aeronaut. is preparing to
a build a balloon which will be
christened by wireless telegraphy. He
will donate the use of it to r. d. Bleak
eny, manager of the United wireless
company, to aid in locating the mys-
terious messages which have been CUT
ting in on the wireless stations Of
Southern California.
The messages, which have been COM
ing in so strong that the Los Angeles
Office has been unable to tune 1t out,
while the strong government station
at Point Iona reported that it was
put out of business" by them recent
ly, come in an untranslatable code
which seems to be second cousin to
the Continental. General Manager
Galbraith of the United Wireless, who
is here from New York says it is prob
ably from Japan.
An occult student living in Los An
geles, has written to Manager Bleakeny
intimating that the messages are from
another sphere and telling him that
serious investigation on this line will
reveal some startling truths. The time
is ripe, this writer thinks, for COM
munication from other planets to the
earth, in attaining which wireless
telegraphy has been a necessary step.
The letter. which is signed only by
initials, suggests that Mr.. Bleakeny
make solitary experiments and that he
will be rewarded by a knowledge of the
purport of the communications.
Mr.. Bleakeny believes that by equip
ping the Leroyxez balloon with wire
less facilities and sending 1t up to
height of 1900 feet, he will have a long
distance arrangement which win per-
NIT him to locate the distance and
direction Travelled by the messages.
They do not come in any intelligible
code or alphabet, although they are
distinct and clear, and 1t is evident
that they come from a long distance.
Messages have been pick up from
Japan by the San Francisco station"
said Mr.. Bleakeny "but they had ia
cilities for understanding them there,
and we have not. Some time, maybe,
we will extend wireless to other planets
there is no limit to the possibilities
of wireless 1t is advancing SO fast
that two years hence the instruments
we are using here, which are considered
the best there are, will be thrown out
as crude.
1.-THE farthest off the earth that it
has gone so far has been when bal
looms were used. Experiments in this
line have been conducted successfully,
especially by United States army off,
GERS. AS there is some danger of igni-
ton connected with Jne way IN WnCn
we propose to use it here, we will send
the Leroyxez balloon up as a captive.
It will be an interesting experiment
and will show the value of combining
balloons and wireless in time of war"
Leroyxez is planning to build the ball
loon at once. He will keep it in Los
Angeles for occasional short flights with
one or two passengers, and may use it
as a captive balloon to take up persons
desiring to get an upper air view of
the city.
On flights as far as Pomona or Riv-
ersde Leroyxez will cooperate with
the government weather bureau in
using the aeronautic blanks prepared
by the bureau this year, thereby max
ing records of considerable scientific
value.