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down to one-tenth. I'm a flying man and everywhere I go these days is
practically by plane so I visualize what the thing might mean."
A typical breezy talker, Mr. Hammell replied to some questions.
"How about armed guards"
"Sure we have a flock of armed guards. They are carrying guns ready
to pop at anybody."
"Is the inventor worried"
"He is nervous and very apprehensive. However, if there was danger
before it has now passed. Anything broken or stolen can be replaced without
harm to the invention."
"Who owns the thing"
"All I have is an option for control and full and absolute power to handle
it anyway I see fit. Mr. Pogue will receive his interest, as will Mr.
Holmes."
ARMED GUARDS, A HOUND AND AN INVENTOR GET ON
JACK HAMMELL'S NERVES
"It's Got Me Nuts," Says He, Telling
of Pogue Gadget
Toronto, Jan. 28—Inventors are "funny people"—and that goes for C. N.
Pogue, of Winnipeg, young mechanical wizard who turned out a gas-saving
carburetor. Pogue may be a nice boy, but his invention, armed guards
and wolf-hound proved too much as a steady diet for Jack Hammell, millionaire
mining magnate.
Hammell, backer of the carburetor, told about his reaction to inventors and
inventions in an address here Wednesday to the Kiwanis club. The wealthy
mine-owner spoke the day after Professor Alcutt of the Univer-sity of
Toronto, had termed "impossible" the claims made for the Pogue invention.
"My engineers like it," said Hammell, "but I don't know. It's got me
nuts. Did you ever have anything to do with an inventor They're funny
people. He (Pogue) put this big device on cars for us and we got up to 215
miles a gallon out of them. But it's still got to be proved to me—and then
it has to have a little sex appeal put into it for commercial production.
"After our engineers tested it I said, T still think it's screwy.' Pogue told
me he was going to try to get 450 miles a gallon out of a carburetor and I
said 'No you don't—two hundred is as high as I can stand.'"
"There's no reason for the oil companies to worry or for you to sell
your oil stocks—it'll be the greatest thing for oil companies that's ever
happened, if it works out.
"You could put Amelia Earhart into an aeroplane and let her fly it from
Frisco to Berlin and back without refueling—that's what it'd do."