Evening star., 1934-04-15
BY REX COLLIER.

strictive legislation on gun
Y sales. has started the manu-
~ facture of its own machine
guns, Department of Justice
investigators have learned.
More ominous still is the admis-
sion Of gun experts that the home
made variety of rapid-fire weapons
appears to be a graver menace to So
cie!y and law enforcement than the
conventional Tommy" submachine
guns generally used by the under
world
Two baby" machine guns, impro-
vised by gang gunsmiths from
ordinary Colt automatics and found
in the st. Paul apartment hideout of
John Dillinger, latest Public Enemy
No. l." arrived here yesterday for ex-
animation by officials of the depart
ment's Division of Investigation.
They will be added to the growing
collection of trophies of the Federal
Governments intensified warfare on
kidnapers, murderers and other out
laws-soon to be exhibited in a per-
manent "crime museum" in the new
Department of Justice Building on
Pennsylvania avenue.
Urschel Chains Displayed.
Recent additions to the grim COL
lection include also such kidnapers'
equipment as DISCUSSES. chains which
bound Charles F. Urschel and a bat
tered vacuum jug, in which was
cached part of the 100000 paid for
the Oklahomans release last year.
The whole collection is evidence of
the success with which special agents
of the Division of Investigation are
waging their Nationwide roundup
of what Attorney General Cummings
has termed predatory criminals"
The ingenuity of design and ex-
pertness of workmanship evidenced in
the Dillinger guns amazed Govern
ment authorities who studied the
weapons. The guns apparently are
nearly as effective as the larger
Thompson submachine guns and the
even more cumbersome Browning
types, and have the great advantage
of easy concealment beneath a coat
or in small package.
The miniature machine guns differ,
in that one is equipped with a double
grip and a special compensation for
steadying the aim. Both guns were
manufactured from regulation auto
mates by drilling out the metal grips
and inserting special machine-gun
cartridge magazines of clip design.
Shoots 20 Bullets a Minute.
The double-grip gun is a 3s-caliber
''superautomatic" capable of shooting
20 bullets at one pull Of the trigger.
The other gun is of As caliber and,
due to the special clip arrangement,
can shoot about Is bullets at one
loading
The compensation, a recent develop
ment to correct the tendency of ma
chine guns to tilt upward when being
fired, consists of short extension
welded to the barrel and slotted half
way through across the top. SO that
gases expelled from the gun are
pushed up through the slotted open
ings. The squirting of these gases
through the slots tends to counteract
the upward movement Of the gun.
St1iC1 ACSCifOo AlSA :
by j. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Investigation Division, include two
Thompson submachine guns. two .351
Winchester automatic rifles, .35-
caliber Remington automatic rifle and
a Harrington & Richardson 16-gauge
shotgun. All were found in the apart
ment from which Dillinger, Eugene
Greene and two women shot their
way to freedom several weeks ago in
st. Paul. Greene later was killed by
Federal agents and both women have
been captured.
The Dillinger arsenal" will be
placed on temporary exhibition, along
with an array of other gangster para
phernalia, in Director HooverS outer
Office in the present headquarters OF
the Justice Department, at Vermont
avenue and K street, for inspection
by law enforcement officers and other
interested officials.
Rusty Butcher Knife Added.
Collateral exhibits include a num-
ber of reminders of the Urschel kid
naping case, ranging from machine
guns dIlQ odWCO-Oll oAlOV6u1Ao w
George machine Gum Kelly's money
belt. Katherine Kellys red wig, the
gallon jug in which S72,950 of the
Urschel ransom money was buried
on a Texas cotton farm and the
chains which held Urschel prisoner
on the Shannon farm near Paradise,
Tex.
A rusty butcher knife and revolver
also have been added to the collection
as evidence that Uncle Sans detec-
tives patrol the high seas as well as
the highways and byways ashore.
The weapons were used by mutineers
who attempted to seize the schooner
Chiquimula on the Atlantic in 1880.
The embryo crime museum con-
Stitutes an "object lesson" for those
who seek to defy the law. and final
gruesome touch to the lesson is the
rope moose with which the law ended
the murderous career of Carl PAM
ram, former District Jail inmate, who
Dragged of Staying % persons before
his murder of q guard at Leavenworth
Penitentiary several years ago.