The Daily Alaska Empire

AP
FEATURE SERVICE
NEW YORK—Raymond Loewy,
industrial designer who became
prominent through styling stream-
lined trains and ultra-modern
ocean liners, is busy these days
thinking up new and formidable
instruments of warfare.
Illustrated are two of them, and
here are some others:
"Blood bombs,"
which
would
contain a sticky vermilion liquid,
highly odorous and almost impos-
sible to remove. Designed for
aerial release, they might drive
city dwellers into panic.
A camouflaged tank trap, par-
ticularly effective in a warm
climate, would be made of soft
tar, camouflaged to appear as nat-
ural terrain. Treads of an enemy
tank, once in the tar, would be
knotted in a gooey mess, rendered
useless.
Loewy also envisions a troop
train that could be converted
into a motor truck with a flip of
the wrist. It would travel on rails
or highway with equal ease.
Loewy has suggested also "noise"
bombs, strange packages of thun-
der grinding out in indescribable
cacophony sounds calculated to
make hearers lose their minds.
And soldiers, in his scheme of
attack, might well be painted to
appear as monsters—much as the
fluorescent, green-hued parachut-
ists whom Germany sent against
Crete.
All of these things, and more,
have moved across the drafting
board of this engineer-designer
whose services and advice are being
used by the Army ordnance de-
partment and other government
agencies.