The New York herald., 1922-09-23
Deadliest Devices Known
to Clashes Above Earth
Are Ready for Action.
FLARES TO LIGHT SCENE
Artillery Has Busy Inning at
Mineola While Planes
!. Direct Fire.

An aerial night attack upon Mitchell
Field, l.. T.. with all the spectacular
features Of such an assault that can
be simulated safely. is TO be the cui-
minating phase to-day of the mimic
warfare being staged jointly by the
Air Service, the Engineers and the
Field and Coast Defense Artillery, for
the education of the boys of the Off
GERS Reserve Corps. y
The raiding hostile aircraft are to
be simulated by Capt. Ira Baker and
Iieuts. Newton Longfellow and Francis
B. Valentine, each plotting a D-H
bomber. Provided they succeed in at
tanning their detectives above the fly
ing field, they will clinch their aerial
victory by dropping live" bombs.
Every resource of anti-aircraft war
fare Will be concentrated to repel the
enemy" advance. From Mitchell Field
and from the parapets of Fort Totten
searchlights of combined brilliancy
of approxima six billion candle
power will illuminate the night sky
their piercing shafts OF light. Sound
detectors will be in use to betray to
the defenders the angle from which
the assailing air scouts are approaching
Guns to Be i'm Action.
The moment one of the enemy planes
is spotted the long barrels OF the 3-inch
rapid fire anti-aircraft guns VIII be
trained upon it and spectators will be-
Lrll Col, tNAfta NJ
in the air which Londoners and Paris
!ans witnessed during the world war.
Should the enemy planes penetrate
the protecting barrage, they Will swoop
Upon Mitchell Field, dropping parachute
flares, each of ~ candle power and each
remaining alight for II minutes. Even
though Mitchell Field-the enemy objec-
tive-were blanketed in Stygian dark
ess. these flares would illuminate the
terrain so brightly that every hangar
every structure and every vulnerable
spot will stand revealed to the hombing
attack from above.
Amid all this pyrotechnic pandemon-
ium the protecting air forces will go
alrft into action against the invading
bombers, Major Junius w. Jones lead
ing TO the battle the aerial cavalry OF
the patriots who seek to keep Long
Islands home fires burning. Ii is on
the program that at ] asst one OF the
enemy ships is to be shot down. The
simulated crippling of one of the hostile
bombers will afford an opportunity to
display the effectiveness OF the newly
designed seat pack parachute BY
means of this device an army observer
from one Of the hostile craft. which
supposedly Is plunging earthward In
flames, will so over the side and make
a safe descent from his doomed plane,
dropping through the electric radiance
of the searchlights and the parachute
flares.
Unless somebody misses his cue, to-
night promises to paint hectic spec
tacle above and upon the plains OF
Hempstead. Officers in command of the
maneuvers are preparing 10 acconmo-
date rush of spectators from the city
by train and automobile. 1t is "a free
show" and promises to be brilliant
and noisy one.
The military program yesterday was
largely a repetition of the working out
of the problems that engrossed the par
ticipants on the opening day. Camou'
flaged "seventy-fives" of b. Battery
sixth Field Artillery. banged away al
massed enemy artillery, maintaining ar
incessant din throughout most OF the
afternoon, while friendly scout planes
far overhead directed their fire and rec.
tilted IL. using Major Jones's system oi
signalling by the dipping or diving oi
his celebrated ''shimmying' airplane
Lieut. Abbey. impersonating hostile
scout. scared and plunged above the
friendly guns of the Sixth Artillery, but
at a respectful altitude.
Many Rcservlsts Arrive.
The reserve officers OF the air serv-
ice were coming in yesterday In moro
gratifying numbers to share in the
rnaneuvers and to profit by their les
sons. one of the earliest arrivals was
Charles Carroll OF Carrollton. Md. who
was i'm the air service overseas. lie
and his wife are guests of Capt. Harry
Coleman. At the Hotel Martinique are
uuartered nearly forty reservists. half
OF whom won their commissions on
Fbbetts Field. Ark. during the war.
and have organized a permanent assc-
citation which will hold an annual re-.
union. They are to have a dinner to-
night
some Of the Ebbetts Reserve Corps
Alumni who were at Mitchell Field yes
terday were Lieuts. Bullock of New
Haven, Conn. l.. NJ. Gray. Genesee,
II. u: Ragnar Hanson, New York city.
wumot G. Jones. Hazelton. Pa: Charles
~. Sargent. Beaver Pa: Richard n.
Clark. Boston; Anton X. Weiskittel.
Baltimore: G. NJ. Simpson, Montreal
Joseph Ramsbury. Newark. Adam
Truello, Columbus Barracks. Ohio:
Arthur butcher. Buffalo; Ralph o. Col
Iins, Gloversville. n. Y; II. n. johnson,
Chicago; III Il. Bruen, Philadelphia
Richard Hobart. Montclsir, y. j.: Har-
old Conrad. Philadelphia; Walter II
Green. Hastings on Hudson; Franklin
c. Ellis. Brooklyn: Russell St John.
Montreal: O. NJ. Mather, Hartford
Conn. and Il. II. Hall. Springfield,
Mas