The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21

ferrying home to her the OVERLOOKING
wealth of the new world.
Last winter, very secretly, the metal
ophone was taken from Vancouver to
this lost treasure house of the seas and
was there put through it's PAGES for six
weeks. Results were naturally not an
nounced, but when the would-be secret
expedition touched in at Panama on its
way back to the Pacific coast OF the
United States almost the first person to
greet the eXperimenterS was the Costa
Rican consul to Panama, who intima-
ted with courteous firmness that, in the
future, his government would like to
be kept informed of operations on Cocos
island.
Whatever happened or did not hap
pen, on Cocos last spring, it is known
that among Mr. Clayton's associates
are included several men with power
full financial political and social con-
nections abroad, particularly in Eng
land A further significant circum-
stance is sensed in the rumOr that an
other member of the secretive group.
Captain C. o. Polkiphorne, master of
the Gunner, which was a mystery
ship during the war, is making pre-
liminary arrangements for fleet of ar
mored cars which could only be wanted
presumably, to receive a treasure cargo
at some point in the United States
or Canada.
Three Years Work
The invention, which cost Mr.. Clay
ton three years of concentrated work.
| it is said, is composed of the central
box and several large wires, or small
electric cables, which radiate from it.
The entire instrument, camouflaged to
resembled a portable radio set. weighs
about 50 pounds, but can also be made
in smaller size, which would easily
fit into an ordinary suitcase. The RAJ
dating cables terminate in coils which
are of differing dimensions and con
struction for various kinds of work
such as detecting metal under water,
or under the soil and at different ranges
from the body of the instrument.
In field operation, it is understood
the cables are anywhere from 250 TO
500 feet long, and the operators carry
them out radially in all directions from
the box. Whenever the terminal coil
of one of them passes above any kind
of metal bell rings in the control box,
besides which is stationed an operator
wearing a regulation telephone head
piece. Mr.. Clayton says the principle
involved in the operation is that the
electrical wave passing through the ter
minal coil is ''deflected" by the hidden
metal and makes the bell ring. Fur
Their than this, he is so reticent that
he will not even apply for patent.
$9O,OOO,O 900 Hidden
Upon Cocos, as has been deduced
from records preserved in the British
museum, is buried loot to the value OF
of 800, 100000 or more. hidden securely
there by Morgan, Hawkins, Willnet,
Baurnane and other Brethren of the
Sea- These adventures impartially
ravaged all the Spanish coastal posses
sions on the Pacific, the Atlantic and
the Caribbean, as we'll as Mexico, thus
supplementing the spoils of their as
founding and terrible exploits on the sea.
Upon Cocos they buried the bulk of
the proceeds-gold and silver from Peru
Panama an Mexico, pearls from Mar
garita, precious gems and golden sa
cred vessels from all the churches of
New Spain and coined metal by boat
loads.