“DEATH RAY”

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 265, 29 November 1939, Page 4

“DEATH RAY”

INVENTOR FEARS EFFECTS FLYING PIGEONS KILLED CLEVELAND, Oct. 20. “Death rays” may strike down millions of human beings if the European war continues, Dr. Antonio Longoria, a wealthy Cleveland scientist and inventor, told> the United Press last night. Dr. Longoria said lie perfected a death-ray apparatus in 1933 and killed pigeons on the wing at four miles. Later he destroyed the machine because of its inherent danger. ✓

“It is quite possible that someone may stumble across the particular electric wave .1 used,” said Dr. Longoria, who in 1036 sold a welding process described, as “impossible” by others for a reputed .£1,200,000. “I found it accidentally myself, and I certainly am not proud of that discovery. “The machine killed small animals and it could kill human, beings just as easily. The ‘ray’ lies in one of the unexplored frequency hands in the vicinity of the X-ray. It kills painlessly, without burning, by changing the blood to a useless substance—-as light changes silver salts in photo-

graphy. “But I don’t like to talk-about it, because it could wreck civilisation. I’ll have nothing to do with it. My hands will, hoi clean.”