The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17

Tor. They have the right of way
and half " en- come creeping along
without any lights. Wore headed
straight toward her. Scc?'
Moffctt saw.
How far out is our bcnt2" he dc
mandcd.
NEARLY three miles I'll send her
" the right a little. There she goes,
See her masts turn. Now she's run
ming straight ont in the open sca--
two miles beyond the hrcakwatcr.
She passed the slilboat 200 yards to
the left.
Behr nlaneuvered the boat while
longer, then asked Moffctt IL he
would like to try IT,
would G?' hrcathcd the writer,
and try it he did. lie sailed ths
Radio, for this vas the name of
young Hammond's test yacht all
over Gloucester harbor, then took q
midnight train to Ncw York
What Moffctt Told Ills Editor.
Has the boy got anything out
/ therc?" the editor who sent him TO
/ Gloucester asked.
Has he?" echoed Moffctt. "Ie
has enough to rcyoiutiunizc the
worlds warfare If he develops It,"
That Is what John Hays Ham
mond. jr, has done, developed the
wireless control of ships idea that
was demonstrated before Cleveland
/ Muffotts eyes that night early n
/ 1914.
Tho hattleship Iowa Fighting
Bob" Evans old flagship, was
riggcd up with the receiving ap-
paratus of Hammond's invention
and the sending apparatus was
placed on board the battleship Ohio,
ana Commander Hooper, a navy Of
ficer, was taught how to use it.
The Iowa's crew was stripped to
skeleton size and the invention was
tried. 1t worked Then came the
taken off the Iowd and the inven-
tion be tried again. once again it
worked.
Lets see what shell do in tho
navy's air bombing tests" the critics
said. "If she can dodge the air
bombs with any degree of success,
Hammond has an epoch making in
vcntion, indeed"
The air tests were held recently
OFF Hampton Roads. Va, and the
whole country watched for their re-
suits with brcathlcss interest. In
the first place they were to settle
once and for all the ,old question OF
the air-plane navy supremacy, they
were to decide whether an air fleet
could destroy "A water fleet or vice
versa. In the second place they
were going to show whether the
wireless controlled Iowa could dodge
air bombs with the same ability as
her crew manned sisters.
1t had cost 100000 to fix up the
IOWA and the Ohio for the test. al
though most of the money was spent
in putting the Iowa, called through
out the navy a 'junkpile," In sailing
condition. Hammond learned tha
his apparatus had been installed
property on the Iowa, that Com
mander Hooper was on the Ohi'
and knew how to hold up his enc
of the game, and the young inventor
was satisfied. He had no fears fo'
the success OF the Iowa's actions un.
der the coming test-he was 50 in
, different to the proceedings in gen
cral that he did not attend them.
While Other Nations Looked On.
The representatives of other ma
itons did, however. They had heart
of the strange invention Of the youna
Mr.. Hammond and they were or
board the observation ship Hendcr
son to watch with all eyes
The Iowa and the Ohio were sta
toned more than 100 miles off tn,
Atlantic coast. between Cape Hat
tcras and Delaware cape when th'
/ big day came. At dawn Captain
Chadwick broke the seal of the en-
velope containing secret Instructions
from the navy department and no
long afterwards the zero hour ar
rived and he pressed the wireless
hutton that opened the big fight
Five miles away the Iowa respond
ed instantly to the wireless wave
generated by Mr.. Hammond's in
| vcntion, started full-stcam for shore
The bi gday was on.
The moment the Iowa headed 70
the coast squadron OF fast sea
planes, manned by army and nav
: men, took off from the waters q
Hampton Roads and formed Ions
T scouting lines parallel to the coast
, sweeping for miles out to sea.
, Find the enemy fleet" was thei
I instruction. "Find the Iowa"
Back to Hampton Roads wer'
I more planes, light and heavy ones
I including several huge marine corp
t Martin bombcrs.
We're tuned up, ready to COM
. out the moment we receive contact
= from you" they said. THAT vii
r mean that you have sighted tn
o enemy, You find hcr-well de
: stroy her"
I There was only one restriction ol
q Commander Hooper in his handling
Q of the Iowa-he had to keep he
l within 100 miles Of shore, betwool
CaDc Hatterng and Cape HenlOpCn