WAR VETERAN WILLING TO SUBMIT HIS 'LIVE BODY' FOR EXPERIMENT WITH DEATH STROKE MACHINE
Portland, Oregon (JFK+50) On September 15, 1925, United Press reports that Joseph B. Bourg of Long View, Washington has informed the Portland News "he would gladly submit his live body for experiment with the 'death stroke' machine*."
Having faced "several engines of death" during the world war, Bourg says he was prompted to make this offer "strictly in the interest of furthering science beneficial to dear, old USA."
*Death Stroke Machine (aka 'canned lightning') was invented by Dr. Edwin R. Scott of San Francisco. In tests, the machine burned holes in 2 inches of steel from a distance of 1 mile. It also fired dead trees from the same distance. Dr. Scott said 'there is no ray or beam' involved.
SOURCES
"Offers Life To Death Ray," The Seattle Star, September 15, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
"Science: Death Stroke," Time Magazine, August 10, 1925, www.time.com/
