Smyrna times., 1935-08-29
FEAR CURSE IN
MAN MADE GOLD
French See Civilizations Fate
At Inventors Plan to
Make Gold
DEATH RAY DISCOVER \

the invention of a powerful death
ray?
How will men greet an invention
which will permit anyone to pro-
duce gold at home cheaply?
Will not these discoveries mean
the end of our civilization?
These are questions that French.
men in all walks of life are asking
themselves these days as the result
of the announcement of Jan Duni-
kowsky, Polish engineer and mod
ern alchemist," that he has achieved
the two discoveries. He has al
ready proved to one expert his abil-
ity to make gold cheaply, and he
has demonstrated to journalists the
effectiveness of his death ray, on a
reduced scale.
Everything in France ends in
laughter, but the French amusement
at Dunikowsky's original expert
ments is beginning to be turned
into feeling of annoyance.
During those two years that
Dunikowsky spent in a Paris prison
for having falsely claimed that he
could produce gold, the public
laughed good naturedly at him and
looked upon him as just an eccen-
trio. During those two years Duni-
kowsky was allowed to leave his
cell and visit a city laboratory,
where he worked to prove that he
was not a swindler.
Takes Refuge In Italy.
After serving his time, Dunikow-
sky took refuge with his family in
villa at Saint Reno. Italy. where
he continued his experiments. He
wanted eventually to prove that he
was not a fake and then have his
conviction in the French courts re-
verSed
Recently Maitre Legrand, his at
torney. announced that Dunikowsky
had achieved his goal. Monsieur
Bonn. a chemist attached as expert
to the French law courts. went
down to St Reno. He spent six
hours In Dunkowsky's villa apply
ing the Poles method to auriferous
earth. At the end of the expert
ment Bonn issued a statement de-
claring that in his opinion the
technique devised by Dunikowsky
did in fact extract a larger guam
tity of gold from the earth than
would be possible by methods now in
use.
Bonn said no fraud was possible.
He made a careful examination Of
the apparatus beforehand. The
earth brought by Bonn was divided
into three lots. Dunikowsky's
"Zeta" rays and then complicated
chemical processes were used on
the first lot of earth, as the result
of which two small globules of gold
emerged.
The second lot produced no gold
because II WAS not submitted to the
Zeta rays even though it underwent
the same complicated chemical proc
esses as the first lot The third lot
was submitted to the rays but to no
further treatment. This lot Is be-
ing sent to Paris for examination.
Tells How Rays Work.
Dunikowsky explained the action
of the Zeta rays as follows:
'The bombardment of the gold by
the rays causes 1t to mature from
Its embryo form In a quarter of
al hour instead Of the great num-
ber of centuries required for this
Transformation hitherto"
Bonn says the Dunikowskys have
been living by their gold produc-
tion for the last two years.
Not content with his gold max
ing, Dunikowsky suddenly offered |
to France the invention of the death
-ay In exchange for his rehabilita-
lion In a rehearing of the trial
which condemned him for fraud in !
connection with his invention for |
gold from auriferous
earth.
The same newspaper men who
lad been crowding into the villa to
make gold now crowded back In
igain to see another demonstration.
Dunikowsasy explained that air.
,lanes could be brought down with
lis death ray by using two streams
Il rays and crossing them on the OBJ
ect aimed at, thus producing a
hort circuit. He tried the trick on
/ toy airplane and 1t burst into