The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-05-02

towns, would have been bombed from stations be-
hind the allied front in France
For instance Gabrielle d'Annunzio, the italian
poet and aviator. succeeded in reaching Vienna
with Caproni and in demonstrating to the Wen
nese that Italy had plane capable of dropping
bombs them. DAnnunzio did not drop bombs
on his famous raid he scattered thousands of
pamphlets informing the people of Vienna that
they were supporting the wrong government in the
great war. 1t was object lesson whose effect
was great in breaking Austrian morale.
Vienna was not quite far from the allied lines
as Berlin The flight DAnnunzio made some
thing less than one thousand miles. But he went
heavily loaded and returned successfully.
capron Pledges His Future
prom says "but our task as aircraft makers is by
no means finished. We must not stop perfect
system of arplanes will be a wonderful safeguard
to any nation protection against out
bursts, on the part of irresponsible powers,
against civilization and humanity.
PERSONALLY l going to contribute all my
strength to development of the winged giant
which proved the most powerful and telling wea-
pom of our just and sacred war,
Our plant Will be maintained at full strength
We Will keep the thousands of workmen who were
busy here under full war strain when the arms
tice ended hostllties. We will not 90 back under
any circumstances to that pre-war status, when
the workmen in our plant numbered dozens rather
than thousands
Caproni came into the air game as an engineer
ing student in that period when the Langley ma
chine launched under unfavorabIe circum-
stances and when the Wrights were making their
wonderful flights with the first real airplane. The
idea of flying fired Capronis Imagination
II will never forget he said the other day
the profound impression created in me on read
ing newspaper accounts of the first Wright
flights From that time until today | have dedi-
Gated myself TO the new science of flying
Caproni Will call his new plane the White
Eagle The name is linked to a strange prophecy
published in Rome, Italy, in 1916 which is at
century The prophecy asserted that in the TWEEN
tieth century there would be great world war
started by the dabolical cleverness of an emperor
of the country of Martin Luther in alliance with
another emperor both bearing on their military
uniforms and their national escutcheons two
black eagles 1t added that civilization would de-
feat and throw out the barbarans whose empires
would be divided into % states.
IT Is inferred that the White Eagle is intended
to typify the American bird.
The poet w. Lewis has made the event the subj
iect of n poem which has been set to music The
whole was presented with beautiful allegorical
design to President Wilson when he was in Milan
1t was n result of his admiration of the poem and
the design so artstically suggestive that Cannon,
decided on the name of White Eagle for his new
and gigantic plane
the trip intend to follow the route of Columbps
across the sea They will fly from Italy TO Codz
thence to the Azores and from the Azores 70 tho
American coast alighting in the neghborbood OF
Washington.
Hundreds of men have lost their lives In the
dangerous business of trying out planes and
attempting To make new records The list is long