New Britain herald., 1929-07-12
PLAY AT WARFARE,
 HIDE FROM PLANE

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 (Continued From First Page) at telephone signal from compa nies further down the line, the men had their panels under cover when the plane arrived.
 The guardsmen were forced to hide behind stone walls and clumps of brush and some of the men had to lie fiat on the ground until the plane had disappeared.
 Hoax Fails to Work
 Lieutenant Johnson dropped d message to his own company to lay out their panels and to telephone this message to the other com panies. This was done for hoax but it fail ed to work. AS the plane swept over the field not d single panel or a man could be seen.
 When the message came to the New Britain organization, Lieutenant McCormlck refused 10 obey 1t and ordered Corporal Wells, telephone operator, to inquire as to it's source When he discovered that It had come from Lieutenant Johnson, he made his decision final.
 The men received real thrill as they became a part Of the war at mosphere. They felt in the same po- sition as an army which is lying un- der cover while an enemy plane is trying to sight them. Everything was camouflaged except a pup tent where the blinker was located. It was covered with bushes and tree limbs and the radio and telephone switch boards were also kept under cover.
 Is New Britain Men
 There were 1 } New Britain men working on the experiment. as fol- lows: Lieutenant Mccormick, Ser geant Rudolph Kobf, Corporals Cor nelius Wells, John Silva, Merton Lyons and Joseph Sura; First Class Private John Cooke and Privates Frank Dickcnson, Patsy Lacaprucia, John Todlasek, Ned Okenquist, Jo- seph Manz, Robert H. Haines, Doug las Sheldon and Earl Williams.
 They left camp with all the ncccs- sary equipment and remained at the field on the Stone ranch until II o'clock this morning. It was only d short time before the entire wiring equipment and panel arrangement were set up and communication be- tween all the headquarters com panics was opened. Among the other companies was the Bristol unit un- der the direction of Joseph Nemers.
 Panel signalling is accomplished by laying out cloths in code letters The aviator gives his answer by dropping a cloth bag the size of an ordinary money bag containing a stone to carry the message to the interested parties.
 Company l. Wins
 Company l. Of Bristol won hard fought baseball game from Con- pany M of Hartford last evening. The lineup of the Bristol team Was James NJ. Stock, pitch; Girard Ra- jotte, catch; Ralph Lerue, 1b: Vim cent Radashiewicz, 2b; Anthony Carpenter, SIS; Red" Dunbar. 3b, Johnson, left field; Levitt Duncan, cf, and Arthur D. Banatoski, If.
 Company H Initiation
 Company H conferred the frs degree under the direction of Ser geants Al Snyder. Helge Berg. Sal "atore Before and Joseph Rodjia. The recruits were given the com- pany oath and instructions and then had to take the company cake, bar of washing soap. which they were forced to chew. When the rockies appeared uneasy, they were given some 'frosting," shaving cream.
 Swimming Meet
 Headquarters Company is the only New Britain unit that will have representa- tives in the swim ming meet this afternoon Boxing bouts will be held tonight, Patsy Borselle and Sam Cassile are repre- senting Company II in the 145 pound class. Sergeant Radcliffe of Headquarters Co. will be in the