Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-06-13
BROWNING GUN FOR
AIRCRAFT IS 0. K,
hArE OF FIRE sYNcHRoNIzED
WITH REVOLUTIONS OF THE
TRACTOR PROPELLER.
BASEBALL CAPTURES LONDON
American Army and Navy Teams
s Draw Big crowds-British Officers
In Y. 8. Give Instruction in Gas
. Defsnse.

cessfplly undergone test to, deter.
mine its value for use with aircraft.
THIS 10 one Of three types of machine
guns with which the rate Of fire can
y % synchronized with the revolu-
ions Of the propeller Of tractor air.
plane that the gun can be fred by the
pilot OF combat plane through the
revolving blades.
Airplane propellers revolve at from
go to 1900 revolutions per minute.
The machine gun is connected with
the airplane engine by mechanical
OK hydraulic device, and impulses from
the crank shaft are transmitted to the
machine gun. The rate Of fire of the
machine gun is-constant and it's fire is
synchrOnized with the revolving pro-
peller blades by wasting" certain
percentage Of the impulses it receives
from the airplane engine and by hav-
Ing the remaining impulses trip or pull
the trigger so that the gun fires just
at the fraction Of the second when
the propeller blades are clear Of the
line Of fire.
The pilot operates the gun by means
Of lever which controls the circuit
and allows the impulses to trip the
trigger.
Il "As the latest wonder of the world
London has taken to baseball" says
committee on public information
representative In London. 'The Eng
lish never before had much use for
our great game. They called it an eS-
Nggerated form Of FOUNDERS and Won
dered what the noise was all about,
but the American and Canadian SOL
diers In England have been educating
them.
"A regular league. of eight teams has
started summer schedule, and the
English public is learning what it has
missed Big crowds witness the game
/ which y played every Saturday, and
the sport bids fair to become widely
popular. Here is the way Thomas
Burke. the short-story writer, reports
game In the London Star of May
q.
Last week discovered baseball.
The match between the Army and
Navy teams was my first glimpse of a
pastime that has captivated a conti-
nent, and can well understand its ap-
peal to modern temperament. Be
lieve me. it's good goods. And the
!, crowd had heard and read much Of
baseball fans and their method of root
ing, but my conceptions were nothing
near the real thing. The grandstands,
crowded with army and navy fans,
bristling with megaphones and tossing
hats and demoniac faces, would have
made superb subject for lithograph
BY Sir Frank Bragwyn.
The game got hold of me before
the flrst pitched ball. The players in
their hybrid costumes and huge gloves,
the catcher in his gas mask, and the
movements of the teams as they prac-
uced runs shook me with excitement.
Then the game began and the roofing
began. In past years have attended
various football matches in mining dis
tricts where the players came in for a
certain amount of raging, but they
were church services compared with
the furious abuse and hazing handed
to any unfortunate who failed to play
ball.
There was. for example, an explo-
sive, reverberating "A-h-h-h-h-h'' which
have been practicing in my back yard
ever since, but without once catching;
its true quality. You should have,
heard Admiral Sims, as college yell
leader, when the Navy made home.
run hit, with his "Atta boy; oh, alta
way to play ball." and when they got
an error he sure handed the Navy
theirs.
eyes; I've got 1t. From now on I'M
q fan. I'm going to see every baseball
I match played anywhere near London.
shall never be able to watch with ex.
cttement cricket or football match
after this; it'd be like a tortoise race.
Come along with me to the next match
and Join me in roofing and in killing
the umpire"
In March and April the secretary OF
agriculture, on recommendation of the
once Of public roads and rural engi-
nesring, approved 212 state road-build-
ing projects involving more than 2,5OC
miles Of highways under the federal
\ aid road act. The estimated cost OF
these improvements to the states is
abeut SIS, 100000. The federal aid al
lowed u more than $5,O0O.OO0.
BOttlers Of soft drinks in the. United
States may save approximately 10000
z toss Of sugar annually by using other
swestening materials, according to in.
ysstigations BY specialists of the bu'
ireau Of chemistry, United States de-
ipartment OF agriculture. The bureau
;;of chemistry 10 preparing to furnish
bottiers with sweetening formulas that
Twin allow the actual sugar content in
Dokt drinks to be cut to SO per cent OF
iilese and at the same time will preserve
vthe customary taste Of the beverages
y. starch sugar. starch slrup, maltose sir.
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