Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1919 — BAKER DISCLOSES NEW WAR HORROR. [ARTICLE]

BAKER DISCLOSES NEW WAR HORROR.

Fort Worth, Texas, March 24. Under automatic control, an airplane capable of carrying a heavy load and operated without human guide has made a trip of 100 miles and landed close to the point set out to reach, Newton D. Baker, secretary of war, disclosed in an address here today. Secretary Baker, with Gen. March, chief of staff, came here to inspect Camp Bowie. *. The device which made such a flight possible and which has been kept secret, Mr. Baker said, is an automatic guide for airplanes and was invented in America. It is designed as an instrument of war and the secretary referred to it in desribing to his audience the possible horrors of future wars if there is to be no league of nations. Secretary Baker did not explain the exact nature of the invention, but he made it clear that the war department considers it one of the most wonderful pieces of mechanism for war’s destructive purposes. . Daniel Morrisey, the real l gentlemen at the Monon station, went to Chicago this morning. He . was companied by Mrs. Morrisey. T