SKY GAZING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 466, 22 September 1928, Page 25

SKY GAZING

Pictures Projected On Artificial Cloud NEW YORK ASTOUNDED While thousands stood still with eyes strained skyward, a square in New York was the scene of a celestial drama of unusual proportions, as H. Grindell-Mathews, inventor of the "death ray,” gave the first demonstration of a device which projects coloured moving pictures into the heavens.” “Pictures of gigantic size and in brilliant colours, of the American flag, appeared with startling distinctness,” says an American correspondent. “They were outlined on an artificial cloud manufactured by the Chemical Warfare Department of the United States Army.” The sky projector device, placed on the roof of a 24-storey building next attempted to flash the picture on a piece of jagged cloud. But the cloud was too far away, and the picture, though it had behind it the strength of 500,000,000 candle-power, appeared greatly distorted and was barely visible. The experiment with artificial clouds ended abruptly when someone, seeing the smoke, turned in a fire alarm.

Del Rio’s fur coats to a furrier for repairs. FUR TO BE USED The maid was then to return for the coat. The gang next planned to kidnap her, temporarily, to cover up suspicion of an “inside job.” Carillo was delegated to engineer the remainder of the plot. “I was to take the coat,” he said, “and return it to the Del Rio home as an excuse for getting past the front door. I had been thoroughly in structed who would meet me at the door, and I knew the conduct of all the servants. I was to be well armed in case I should be blocked. “My instructions were to use any means necessary to get to Miss Del Rio’s private rooms—a gun, or even drugs, to stupify her. My confederates were to have the house surrounded.” From the Del Rio home the famous motion picture star was to be taken, bound and gagged, to a house in the Mexican section of Los Angeles, according to Carillo. RANSOM PLEA TOLD “If things got too hot for us there," said Carillo, “we were going to take her below the border and hold her for 100,000 dollars’ ransom.” The ransom demands were to be made upon Miss Del Rio’s father, J. L. Asunsulo, wealthy Mexico City banker, and upon the motion picture interests to whom she' is bound by contract. The kidnapping plot, according to Carillo, was broken up by the arrest of Rosa Ayala and his own arrest. The plot was considered so serious that Miss Del Rio was protected by an armed guard on her trip to Nogales, when she filed her divorce complaint against her husband, Jaime Del Rio.