The Washington herald., 1919-04-19
PLANS SPEECH
FROM AIRPLANE
IN LOAN DRIVE
Aviator Will Address Crowd
From Height of 1000
Feet.
TRIES NEW INVENTION
Huge l2-Inch Guns Also
Feature Of City's VIC
tory Demonstrations.

A speech from an sirplane aooo feet
over the Treasury will be the fea-
ture OF the biggest war loan demon-
stration ever conducted here. when
the Victory Liberty Loan drive opens
from the south steps Of the Treas
ury Monday noon
The address from the air win be
an attempt to make a scientific ex-
pertinent never heretofore successful
ly performed. A delicate instrunent
OF recent invention known as IN,
magnavox will attempt to catch q
Victory Loan speech by radiophone,
delivered in an airplane 1000 feet
over the Treasury. and this speech
will be transmitted to the great crowd
through an amplifier which Is now
being installed at the south step.
of the Treasury.
Heretofore the human voice has
been successfully conveyed from air
planes by radiophone TO a receiver
held 10 the ear but the voice trans
mitted by radiOphone has never be-
fore been ampiified so that a large
audience could hear IL Scientists who
have been working on this experi-
ment believe that it will be success-
fully done for the first time Monday
noon.
Billie Burke 20 HeIp-
The principal speaker on thi. oc-
casion will be Admiral W. S. Sims
Billie Burke, the stage celebrity.
will participate in the ceremonie.
and sell bonds. A male chorus Of
400 voices, made up from the en-
ployes OF the various government
departments. will sing PATRIOTS
songs. The Marine Band will take
part.
The entire Treasury Department
viii be dismissed for more than ar
hour TO participate and IL is expect-
ed that the demonstration will be
witnessed by 25.eo0 people. Mors
fhan zoe wounded soldiers from
wsltel Reed Hospital. all wearing
honor medals. will be on hand, and
big navy dirigible will be present
TO add to the interest and excite
ment.
IT is probable that Miss Burka. in
addition TO selling bonds. will take
a ride over the city in the navy
dirigible. She will arrive SUNDAY
afternoon. accompanied BY her hus-
band, F. Ziegfeld. jr., and will re-
, turn to New York Monday night
Big Guns Here.
A special train carrying two huSe
Finch guns and a crew OF sixty-seyen
Officers and men. will arrive here this
morning TO be used in connection with
the campaign
The train. which includes six cars.
will be put on a siding east OF the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
where the equipment cars will be un-
packed and the guns will be made
ready for action" Every detail OF
, the way these giant pieces of ordnance
are handled under actual war condi-
TONS viii be shown in a series OF
special drills TO begin tomorrow morn
: ing
separate car is used TO mount
each of the great guns and tbe
heavy, complicated machinery which
operates them. Ono of the guns is a
twelve-inch piece. on a sliding rail-
way mount. Is fifty feet long and
weighs 275 tons. This gun fires a 200
pound projectile a distance OF twen-
iy-f1ve miles. 1t was this particuIa r
type OF gun which did such effective
work during the closing DAYS of the
war. blowing up German aumuni-
tion dumps. destroying railway sta
tions and other buildings miles be-
, hind the enemy lines.
The other heavy gun is also OF a
twelve-inch caliber.
In addition to the cars on which tn.
guns are mounted there is an ammu-
milton car. a fire control car. a hank
4 feature of the exhibit will n.
/ searchlight drills. which will he hsId
tomorrow night and probably Mon
day.
, The train is commanded bv Mat
Benjamin n. Booth. Of the Coast Ar
( tillery. The enlisted personnel Is from
] Battery =, Of the Forty-second Ar
I tillery. c. A. C.. which battery re-
! cctred the CrolN de Gucrre from Tn.
4 French government
{ Parade Of BcIEIan..
Preliminary TO general mass met
ing Of the several thousand Victory
/ Loan workers at Kcith's Theatcr AT n
( O'Clock this morning. there will he a
parade along Pennsylvania avenue hy
I los heroes Of the Belgian army, who
s arrived in Washington yesterday to
help raise the Districts quota to the
new loan. An interesting feature OF
the parade will be q number of ma
chine guns drawn by ST. Bernard dogs.
! These animals, as well as all Of the
men in the organization, are veterans
Of the war and have been in the thick
OF the fighting during the past four
! years.
The Belgisns will leave Liberty
1 Hut where they are qusrtered, at
| 10 o'clock this morning and will
Pass along Pennsylvania avenue.
i arriving at Keith's at IL o'clock. in
time to participate in the demon
! stration there.
The meeting will be addressed by
Assistant Secretary OF the Treas
ury Leffingwell, and L B. Franklin,
| director OF the war loan organiza-
tion of the Treasury.
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