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midable defenses. It look

' -... midable defenses. It looks
 down upon the cnemy's re- sonnoltering, it sees endorsements of the enemy on the way, it stops dis tant long-ranged guns (such as the mysterious Big Bertha that lombard ed Paris from far dstances), it be- holds the massinG of enemy troops and the qualification of enemy fortifica tions preparatory to heavy offensive.
 The aerial eye. having seen all this, transmits it's findings instantaneously The scenes, converted into radio waves, are carried hundreds of miles. The giant aerial towers near head quarters, far behind the lines, pick up the waves, transmit them to the re- ceiving set in the headquarters office and the scenes are instantaneously flashed upon a specially contrived mirror screen. The general, looking at the mirror. spots the artillery bat tery, the Notifications and the move ments of the enemy. Signal corps men already are substantiating these pie lures with quick radio flashes of To- cations, etc. The general gives hurried orders. Now he is prepared to determ- inc his counter
 movements, h
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But there is also pleasant picture to consider in connection with MT. Jenkins'S new invention. The day is coming, he says, when airplanes, equipped with aerial eyes, may fly over distant jungles, or deserts, over the yer remotest parts of civilization, and broadcast to people in their homes the strange sights the aviators see.
 Were Commander Byrd's airplane equipped with such an eye. and tele- vision had advanced to the point reached in the broadcasting of sound, we might now te able to see the won ders of the ice cap and tke strange phenomena of nature in the Antarctic, even as his plane scars bravely over icy waters.
 We might have followed Lindbergh in his lonely, daring flight from New York to Paris-sat with him, in sense, as he swept over the broad waters of the Atlantic, over towns in Ireland and England and, at last, triumphantly over the field at Le Bourget.
 Such events, say science, will be pictured before us in the future. Sit ting in our homes we may ourselves
 look down upon the
 strange sights tn a
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roars of the assembled crowds distinct ly heard.
 "Needless to say, televsion is as yet a mere infant in swaddling clothes. It is unquestonably destined to have d wonderful development. Radio broadcasting cameras will be carried by planes and balloons, and stay-at- homes in their easy chairs by the fire side will watch. as if from an airship floating far aloft, mountains and plains, cities and farms, lakes and for ests. Folks all over the country will have movie shows in their homes. They will be able to do their travelling in foreign lands without taking step out of doors"
 Already many successful experi- ments have been made in television, in which sound and sight have been sym chronized. In number of laboratories of leading electrical and radio com panies science is working quietly and efficiently to provide the world, with in comparatively few years. with the great wonder of an age of wonders.
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est of military and naval authorities, for it is expected to revolutionize the whole system of war communications, affording vastly improved method of observing enemy troop concentrations and supply transport, Qualifications and enemy movements, so that general, far behind the lines, may see in visual form all that is happening miles away. At the same time the device is ex- pected to provide new peace-time pos abilities for radio entertainment.
 The originator of the "eye" is c. Francis Jenkins, of Washington, D. C., famous pioneer in the field of televi sion, himself veteran airplane pilot and well known in aviation circles as an expenmenter on new plane devices. His laboratory plane, with it's "eye," has been completed and experiments will begin as soon as a new ground radio station, in process of construc- tion five miles north of Washington, is finished This is 5,000-watt "televi- sion station," built by the inventor. It has two 12S-foot towers.
 In making the experiments, MT. Jenkins himself will fly the plane about two thousand feet over the city of Washington and vicinity. If sciences expectations are fulfilled his "aerial eye" will achieve the astounding feat of transmitting to the television station instantaneous impressions of the ter rain, the streets, with their moving traffic, the parks with their trees sway ing in the wind, public buildings, the lordly Potomac, Arlington Cemetery and the Lincoln and Washington monu- ments.
 Sitting in the television station be- fore a special receiving apparatus one will be able to see the very sights that Mir. Jenkins looks down upon as he scars over the capital of the United States
 In his new invention Mr. Jenkins has combined his studies of the possi- bilities of television and the airplane. The televison sending apparatus, which picks up and transmits the scenes te- fore it, is placed in the fuselage of the airplane. An opening cut through the floor serves as scanning aperture" for the eye of the machine. The face of this television camera is directed downward through the hole.
 But there is no dry-plate or film to take the pictures. Instead, the lens throws images of the objects it sees upon the rim of metal disk, in which are forty-eight small openings. The disk, rapidly rotating, enables the light rays that carry the picture to be let through the openings and shut off in such a way as to admit rapid suc- cession of glimpses. The rays that get though the disk energize an electric C ", thereby producing an intermittent current which passes through an am- plifier.
 In other words, pictures, like sound, ar transformed into waves of current which travel on until they reach the receiving station. There they are changed back into pictures. The send ing machine transmits the radio waves controlling the flickering of a tiny electric lamp, energized by radio, at the receiving station. This lamp throws upon a mirror a dot of light, which, zigzagging back and forth, makes on the mirror a complete picture in less than one-sixteenth of a second.
 The radio-controlled lamp is inside a box on top of which is mounted the mirror. set at an angle of forty-five
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aerial adventurers see as they soar ever dangerous mountains and threat ening volcanoes.
 MT. Jenkins is enthusiastic about the possibilities this invention has in store for humanity in times of peace as well as in times of war.
 Think what it will mean," he says, when it becomes practicable to throw pictures in large scale on full-sized silver sheets by radio! Motion picture houses will no longer be obliged to rent films for their shows. From single broadcasting station the picture will be furnished simultaneously to thousands of theatres situated in diff ferent parts of the continent.
 When to audible radio is added visible radio, people in Maine, in Florida and in California will be able to watch the inauguration of a Presi- dent at Washington. Baseball and foot ball games will be broadcast all over the country as motion pictures while they are actually in progress, with the yells of the cheer leaders and the
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the lamp Is thrown
 upward (through the
 opening in the top of box) upon the mirror to make the picture. Its flicker ing, or variations in brightness, makes the light and shade of the picture.
 If the receiving machine were to be run slowly, the dot of light would he seen to zigzag back and forth across the surface of the mirror. But when operated at full and proper speed, the dot is not seen at all. Instead, the whole picture appears to the eye as one flash. With a series of such pie lures presented successively, the mak- ing of each one occupying less than one-slXteenth of second, the effect is that of a movie" The same is true Of an ordinary motion picture. A movie on the silver screen shows no sign of interruption, yet, while you look, it is being taken from the pro- ]ectlon machine, so to speak, and placed again on the screen, forty-eight separate "glimpses" in every second.
 The motion picture from the tele- vision receiving set, by the means re- ceived from the airplane broadcasting set, is indeed small. But to make it bigger a large magnifying lens is mounted on the box in front of the mirror and through it the observer watches the picture.
 Military and naval men in Washing ton are awaiting with more than casual interest the outcome of MT. Jenkins's experiments with the aerial eye. In demonstra- tion of its success they see tre-
 mendous possibilities. <
 Let it be assumed there is E war. An American general sits t6 in headquarters far to the rear . of the fighting line. Near head . quarters has been erected giant television receiving stations, towers similar to those MT . Jenkins is erecting near Wash # ington. They are so equipped .t that they may receive visual
 broadcasts from distance of .3N 500 or more miles. E,.,
 The general waits for news of @ the enemy's activities. He wants 1S( Y information about enemy terri k tory, Qualifications and supply &N depots, trench defenses, artillery H nests and troop movements. He no longer relies entirely upon x old-fashioned scouts. Too many of them, as in the World War s48 are captured or shot.
 Far away, over the field of battle, the latest marvel of scien. tific warfare, the aerial eye, is acting as his scout. Above the W# W crash and roar of battle, the charging and counter-charging of front line troops, the believing M guns in hidden Notifications, the planes, equipped with the aerial eye, are darting and sweeping ) over enemy country. If it be XII night. specially devised giant searchlights sweep down upon sss the devastated area.
 One American plane sweeps MRs high over light artillery battery. XII XII The enemy, feeling sure of its Ss safety, unaware that the plane ss far above it has teltale eye, SS''sS shoots out death and destruction.
 FarIabove the enemy territory, guarded by swiftly moving de- A fense planes, the aerial eye scars Is over the intricate and secret patchwork of the enemy's for
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q e ar headquarters pick up the picture, V h c h is t h e Il flashed on a mirror screen before which
 its the general.
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inc Artillery Battery Picked Up by Two Giant Aerial lowers Near Headquarters and Flashed Upon Specially Devised Mirror
 Front of the General The General Sees the Layout and Activities of the Battery and Thus Is Able Plan Countermove
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degrees. The ray from the lamp is thrown
 InMard Ithrourh tho
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THE airplane, hitherto blind bird
 guided by the hand of man, is to
 be equipped with an eye-an eve that not only will see, but will broadcast for hundreds of miles all that it sees, whether it be over re- mote jungle in times of peace or over enemy terrain in the field of war.
 This modern flying Cyclops will not have it's eye in the middle of its fore head or near the "nose" but will look through the bottom of the alrplane's fuselage and, surveying whatever is to be seen on the ground, transmit it by radio pictures to distant, places. These pictures, whether they be sent few hundred yards or several hundred miles, will be reproduced by receiving apparatus of special pattern at ground stations.
 The new "aerial eye," as it is called, ;s the latest device conceived by science in connection with & television experl- lS 2ss:: ments. It has as: aroused the inter- ~ 1ssI
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Superintendent Ellingwood testi-
 fled that he was looking for Mayor 1 Paonessa to sign the park depart ment payroll on election day and
 met him in front of the polling place.
 After the mayor had signed the pay roll he and the superintendent dis cussed the planting of shrubbery about the World war memorial on
 Walnut Hill park. Officer Mount
 came along and ordered them to move and Ellingwood at first thought
 he was joking, but he went and did not know what became of the mayor. He was quite certain the mayor said something to Officer Mount before leaving but he could not recall what it was.
 Questioned by Chairman Bannan. Officer Mount said he could not re- call having told Lieutenant Rival he l did not care to do street duty. It was necessary for the chairman to insist on direct answers to his questions
 and Attorney Appell advised the of i ficer to say he did not remember if
 he could not be positive in his re- plies.
 Attorney Appell questioned Chief Hart, who recalled that he sent Of ficer Mount home after the tilt with the mayor. In July the chief receiv- ed information that son of Officer Mount told someone in a factory that his father was putting some
 thing over' by working at the Shut tie Meadow club. so the chief sent Officer Doty to Officer Mounts home
 to warn him not to do police work. Attorney Appel asked the board 10 disregard anything Officer Mounts sons might have said. "They are of age and if they don't know any bet ter than to say those things, do not hold it against him." he asked, and Commissioner Tomikowski reminded him that the board was guided by the charter requirements as 10 the hearing and nothing would be con- sidered except what was included in the charges against the officer.
 Mounts Earnings
 In reply, to Chairman Bannan, Nllltl 11dlt Sdll IL Was ilIt Stiltl tll understanding about police head quarters that Officer Mount pre- ferrtd not to work all night on street duty. so he was given hall work and
 other private work. so-called.> For about 15 years, the chief said. Offi- cer Mount has not done all-night pa trol work because it would interfere with his day work in the factory.
 Prior to 1922, Officer Mount was a theater officer but in August of that year change was made whereby regular patrolmen were assigned to
 the theaters. the chief said. The de-
 partment records showed that in 1923, Officer Mount earned s32S.95 on private work; S424.9o in 1924: s423.4o in 1925; s354.O7 in 1926;
 s553.5S in 1927; s596.30 in 1928;
 S17.50 in 1929. and for street and polling place duty he earned s24,56 in 1920; sS.9S in 1921; s16.27 in 1922: s5 in 1923; s25.45 in 1924; s7S,SS in 1925; s47.5O in 1926;
 s51.15 in 1927; s16.65 in 1928.
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July and notified him not to work at the club any more on orders from Chief Hart. Later he met the chief on Main street and the latter told him he would be brought before the board of police commissioners unless he apologized to the mayor He told the chief he had nothing to apo!o- gize for.
 On August 12, he Was brought be- fore the four commissioners, the chief anG the clerk in the chief : office. They put so much onto me, the four of them, l did not know what was saying, to tell the truth, fficer Mount asserted. When he made the assertion at that meeting that he had been given hardly any city work since 1922 he meant that he had seldom been called on 10 do street duty for which he would be paid by the city.
 Asked to Explain Trap"
 Asked by Attorney Appell to vX- plain what he meant when he de- clared at that meeting that there was a "frama-up". Commissioner Tomi- iloWski objected, saying the officer had declared a trap had been set for him. Attorney Appell assured the commissioners he wanted everything brought out end he had no objection to using the word trap"
 T was all riled up and did not know what I was saving" the off cer said. q meant it looked like a trap because I was being chased around like a spiders web" In reply to Attorney Appell. he said he believed the commissioners were look ing for g, way to get him off the po- ice force.
 Since November did you tell any one you rut something over on the board?" the attorney asked him. and the officer replied that he had kept my mouth shut" Asked whether or not he had put anything into the newspapers about te case, he replied negativelr. Asked if he had any il. feeling towards the mayor, any con- missioner or any member of the DO. ice force, Officer Mount replied that he had none.
 "Why. didn't you apologize?" the attorney asked hm.
 Because I was sent there to do my duty and I dd my duty as I was ordered to-" the officer answered. Did Not Care for Night Street Duty
 Lieutenant Matthias Rival was summoned from desk duty and ask ed by Chairman Bannan if Officer Mount had ever asked not 10 be given street duty and the lieutenant replied that he recalled that the of ficer had told him within the last two years that he did not care for all night work because of his position in the factory. In reply to Chairman Rannan. the lieutenant said nobody had ever instructed him not to give Officer Mount street work nor had anyone ever ordered him to discrim- mate against the officer or any other officer. To Attorney Appell, the lieu tenant said he had never had any occasion to find fault with Officer Mounts work.
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Mount Dropped From Police Force For Unbecoming Conduct, Echo of
 Attitude Toward Mayor at Polls
Supernumerary For 29 Years Refused to Apologize For Ordering Paonessa Away From Voting Place,
 and Declaring He Had Been Trapped.

election day last November he was assigned to the sixth ward polling place at the Elihu Burritt school on North, Clark and Lee streets with orders from Chief Hart to allow anyone to loiter within 75 feet of the school.
 He estimated that he had been on duty election days for 15 years or more and had never allowed anyone to loiter. On the day in question he had occasion to request Thomas Me Grath, former supernumerary po- liceman, and two companions, to move and they obeyed He remind ed McGrath that he should know better than to loiter inside the 75 foot district because of his former connection with the police depart ment, and MCGrath agreed with him.
 Shortly before noon Mayor Pa onessa and Park Superintendent Clyde EllingWood were inside the re- stricted area. Officer Mount did not know them but when he ordered them to move one of them turned
  He started to bulldoze me and he swore at me-" the officer declared. Ask by Attorney Appell if he could recall the language the mayor used, Officer Mount said he demanded to know "Who the hell are you? I'm the mayor" and he also threatened 10 have the officer removed from the assignment. Finally the moderator took the mayor by the arm and stopped further talk.
 Mayor Up In the Air
 A short time after this incident. Officer Mount was ordered to re- rort at police headquarters where h met Chiet Hart. who told him to go home and take 1t easy" as the mayor W2s up in the air" about the matter. Officer Mount said he con- tinued to work at St. Jeans hall on Church street Saturday nights throughout the winter stopping at the beginning of the Lenten season. He was brought before the commit tee on rules and discipline in the ,neantimc and little later Captain kelly told him he could not have any more police work until he apolo- gized to Mayor Paonessa. The shuttle Meadow club sent for him and he worked there week ends as q watchmau without police badge ol uniform from June 8 to July 22.
 Motorcycle Officer David Doty called at his home on a Saturday in
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Found guilty of the charge of con- duct unbecoming an officer, Super numerary Officer Harry Mount. 67, of 63 Hart street was dismissed from the police department by unanimous vote of the board of police commits sioncrs after a hearing lasting more than two hours last night. The board held the hearing in public in the po- lice court room and retired to the judges chamber for brief execu- tive session. Male members of Of- fcer Mounts family were among the spectators, of whom there were seV- eral.
 The charge resulted from state ments made by Officer Mount at meeting of the committee on rules and discipline August F when he was given a hearing relative to his refusal to make his r2ace" with l-c..-cr A. M. Paonessa, he and the mayor having had a verbal tilt on election day in November, 1928. while the officer was on duty at the sixth ward polling place at Elihu Burritt scchool.
 That he had been discriminated against since 1922 in the matter of police assignments and that detailing him to the sixth ward polling place was trap deliberately set to catch" him were the statements on which the charge was based. Last night, Officer Mount sought 10 eX- plain 10 the board that the intent of his statements was different from that which the commissioners placed on them. He was represented by Attorney Leonard S. Appell.
 Policeman For 29 Years
 At the opening of the hearing Chairman Bannan had Clerk Me Grail read the charge and asked Of- ticer Mount if he was ready to sub stantiate his statements.
 The officer replied affirmatively and Attorney Appell sad he was de- sirous of bringing out all the facts in the case.
 In reply to his attorney, Officer Mount said he was a member of the supornumerary force 29 years and tor six years prior to his appoint ment he was fire policeman under an arrangement which was done away with years ago. He had never broken any rules of the department. 10 his knowledge, and had never been before the discipline committee prior 10 the present difficulty. On
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Val Flood, professional at the Shuttle Meadow club, testified that a member of committee asked him to use his influence to have Officer Mount straighten out his difficulty with the mayor as his services as watchman would be negligible un- less he had police authority, but the officer would not apologize on the ground that he had done nothing for which he should do so.
 Attorney Appell suggested that Officer Mounts sons be heard as the report had gained credence that one of them had boasted that his father was putting something over" by
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Questioned by Attorney Appell. the chief said he had no complaint about Officer Mount as policeman and had he known the officer wanted to work on beats all night he would have been glad to assign him because there have been numerous occasions when the night force was under manned.
 Asked by Attorney Appell if he knew the reason Officer Mount lost the watchman's job at the club, the chief replied that he knew only from hearsay. We don't want any hear say. We've had enough already" Chairman Bannan interjected.
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working at the club. Commissioner Parker, objected, however, on the ground that the only matter the board was concerned with was the proving or disproving of the charges
 "Most Convenient Memory"
 Chairman Bannan, summing up the evidence, said that had Officer Mount placed Mayor Paonessa under arrest for refusing to move, "our work would be simple" He then proceeded 10 pick the officers case to pieces, declaring that he felt obliged to tell the officer at the hearing before the discipline com mottec that he had the most con-
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venient memory I had ever known" Anything the officer did not want to tell, he conveniently forgot, the chairman asserted. When members of the Shuttle Meadow club commit tee called on him relative to the case, the chairman said he told them all that was necessary was to have the officer make his peace" with the mayor and the matter would be settled.
 If there was a trap as Officer Mount claims. who sprung it?" the chairman asked. Did the mayor
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RESERVOIRS Waiting to be Tapped

The capacity of New Britain's water system is 1,604,467, 7,719 gallons, from which hepublic consumed 2,123,281,- 203 gallons in 1928.
 x < * You turn the faucet and the waters there. You open an account here, maintain a good balance, build up your credit, and financial reservoir is yours to drawon for all your sound, legitimate banking needs. Like the city's water system, "The Anvil Bank" plays big part daily in New Britain life with its vital supplies of money and credit.
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