The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
WIZARD WILL
RUN TROLLEY
CAR BY RADIO
Tram to Be Moved Through
Business Area Without
MotOrman.
OTHER FEATS PROMISED
Noted Engineer to Show
Many Wonders OF Ether
Science. !!
OTHER FEATS PROMISED

Science.
The first street car ever operated
by radio control In this city, or Sec
ton, will be directed by wireless
waves, without motorman, con-
ductor, or touch of human hands.
through the heart of the business
district next Tuesday at 1915 p. m.
The street car will weigh more than
$4,000 pounds. The radio control
apparatus will weigh exactly three
and one-half pounds.
The feat will be performed by
Maurice j. Francill, world-renowned
electrical engineer and inventor, un-
der auspices of The Indianapolis
Times. 1t will be made possible
through cooperation of officials Of
the Indianapolis Street Railway
Company, in their desire to lend
every helpful assistance to the adj
vancement of science.
Francill will be in Indianapolis
all next week. He will present a
series of wireless wonders, which.
many times, have been called the
riddles of radio and which scientists
have described as among the Won
ders of the modern world.
Among other things, he will be
the supreme attraction at the Lyric
theater, appearing on the stage Of
that playhouse at every perfo1.
nance for seven days, starting Sum
day matinee.
Autos Controlled by Radio
On the Lyric stage, at every app
pearance, Francill will operate one,
or more, standard, stock model
Hudson-Essex automobiles entirely
by radio control and without driv-
ers, or touch of human hand upon
the cars.
Through the sole medium of his
radio, or electromagnetic impulses,
he will perform with the autos
virtually every operation that
chauffeurs behind the wheels could
accomplish. He will start and stop
the motors, sound and silence horns,
regulate electrical windshield WHIP
erS, flash the various lights, etc.
Francill selected Hudson Essex
cars for his Indianapolis engage
ment because of ease and f1exibility
of engine movement and other
mechanical reflnementS. What he
accomplishes with the cars he uses
he can duplicate with any other
machines of that make, because, hH
says, all such cars are uniform of
performance.
The autos he uses will be supplied
through courtesy of the r. v. Law
Motor Sales Company, 1919 N. Me-
ridisn street, and associate dealers
of that concern. The cars will be
no different from any other ma
chimes of that make and will not
be altered, or prepared, mechani-
cally, in any way.
Operates Battleships
Also, on the stage of the Lyric
at each performance next week,
Francill will operate a wireless-con-
trolled miniature battleship four
teen feet long. The battleShip will
fire cannon singly, or IN volley, will
flash searchlights, raise flags and
remnants, release toy balloons and
do virtually everything a real man
of-war can do. This little ship has
been proclaimed a marvel of radio
control perfection.
Under auspices of The Times,
Francill will give several other pub
lie exhibitions of his wireless wiz
ardry, in addition to operation of
the radio-controlled street car.
1t is planned for him to appear
before faculties and student bodies
Of city high schools and of Butler
university and there to give demon
strations of fakery and deception
practiced by fraudulent spiritualistio
mediums and clairvoyants.
To the school faculties and stu
dents, the wizard will EXPOSE
methods pursued by the takers and
then will show how science not only
can reproduce every feat of the So
called supernatural they display,
but can go them even many times
better by presenting wonders they
cannot duplicate.
Plans Open Air Exhibition
Also, it is planned for the wizard
to give among his public exhibitions
at least one open-air demonstra-
ton of his radio controlled auto
mobiles.
On this occasion, he probably will :
control at least two automobiles at
the same time by his wireless waves
and also will steer a third car in any
direction he desires, or that specta-
tors may request.
In controlling two or more cars
at one time, Francill will use only
one broadcast station, or trans
mitter, one wave length and one
electromagnetic impulse at
time.
This is feat that no other man
has been able to accomplish. With
single wave, he will produce either
the identical, or different, opera
tons of the cars, singly. in unison,
or in any combination of numbers
he desires.
1t also is intended that the wizard
shall operate one or more indus
trial plants by radio control. De-
tails of his remarkable experiments
will be published daily, exclusively