Evening star., 1927-10-02
MUNITIONS MAKERS
TO MEET IN PARLEY
Army to Feature Event With
Display of Death-DeaIing
War implements.

OF national emergency, as we'll as
representatives of corporations who
would be depended upon to provide
the special means of automotive
transport, will mobilize at the Army
| proving ground at Aberdeen, Md,
next Thursday, for the annual meet
ing of the Army Ordnance Association.
At that time the Army authorities
will stage one of the biggest displays
in its history of death-dealing engines
| Of war, from the smallest rifle fire
| to the biggest of the big guns, incud-
ing in the days activities smoke
screens, gas discharges, anti-aircraft
offense and defense, both night and
| day.
Special trains from all parts of the
| East will converge at the town of
Aberdeen that day, bringing the ex-
| perts who will participate in the de-
| liberations of the association as well
as witness the Army's latest muni
| tions developments In actual use.
| From Aberdeen the participants will
| be taken aboard two special proving
| ground planes to be taken to the
| proving grounds and around it's 35, 900
acres. where the various ordnance ma
| terial and firing will take place. The
| scenes of the various activities are so
F., widely distributed over the large area
| that it is necessary to employ trains
within the reservation In order to get
| the people to them.
Special Trains Provided.
Two special trains will leave the
Union Station here at 1880 O'Clock
Thursday morning bearing members
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! f1cials and civilians who have been
| invited to be present and witness the
| demonstrations.
The activities at the proving ground
will begin at 10 O'Clock, with re-
sounding crash, when a 16.inch sea
coast gun will hurl it's 2,200-pound
projectile across the $4,000 acres Of
land and speed 1t on for 80 miles
down Chesa peake Bay. which will be
cleared of shipping for this period
After the party Is allowed to see the
method of maneuvering this engine of
war, it will be taken to the section
devoted to railway artillery, when a
12-inch gun, mounted on a railway
carriage will be run up to it's firing
point, gigantic jacks placed to steady
the car and then fired. to be followed
by firing of one Of the S-inch railway
mounts.
Shifts to Aviation Field.
The activities then will be shifted
to the aviation field, when the Sixty.
first Anti-aircraft Coast Artillery unit
will place and FIRE the very latest
developed anti-aircraft guns at gigan-
tic targets, to be towed by aeroplanes.
In addition to the gun firing, the wit
nesses will see the methods of con.
trolling the fire at aircraft. In addi-
ton to the 3.inch anti-aircraft gun,
there also will be fired the 105-mm.
gun and the .5O.calibre machine gun.
On the other side of the contest,
planes win drop 600 and 800 pound
demolition bombs on land and water,
using instantaneous fuses, which will
set off the projectile as soon as it
touches the surface of land or water,
as well as demonstrating the delayed
fuses, when the projectile will go off
only after the projectile pierced the
land or water.
This will complete the morning dis
play, and the $500 guests and mem
bers of the association will be served
a real Army meal to be prepared by
members of the Army School for
Cooks and Bakers, who have been or
dered from Camp Meade, Nd, where
tney are stationed.
Ordnance Equipment Display.
After the food is served the party
will be taken to the main front Of the
proving ground, where ordnance au-
tomobile equipment will be on display,
and. incidentally, the Society of Auto.
motive Engineers has been invited to
be present. Tanks, tractors, automo-
bile gun mounts and cross-country
cars will be on display. Then the
Field Artillery will bring on it's latest.
including French and American 75s,
155-mm. and 240-mm. howitzers, all of
which will be operated and fired This
will be followed by the discharge of
smoke bombs and the laying of smoke
curtains, all Of this part of the demon
stration being staged by the Field Ar
tillery unit from Fort Hoyle, Md.
Upon completion of this the Chemi,
cal Welfare troops from Edgewood
Arsenal will discharge the various
war gases, and then the meeting of
tho association will be held in the
Administration Building. 1t will be
presided over by Benedict Crowell, its
president.
Visitors to View War Relics.
After the meeting the museum will
be. opened and there the guests and
! members will be able to see modern
and obsolete artillery, including cap
| tured German material. as we'll as
many freak engines Of war, which
have been tried and cast aside.
| Supper. Army style, will be served
| by which time darkness will have
swept over the ground. when there
will be searchlight display, picking
| airplanes high up in the air, and night
firing at and from airplanes. The
demonstration will end about 7:30
o'clock.
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