The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-24
INVENTOR HAS NEW WAR MACHINE
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aerial torpedoes at the rate of one every 30 seconds.
 Capacity for storage and ample surfaces for efficient maneuvering of major groups of attack and de- fense and large bombing aircraft.
 Adequate intermediary and lgiht attack and defense equipments.
 The gross tonnage of the ship, he said, would be approximately 85,- 900 tons. It's beam would be 325 feet, over all length 1900 feet and ts speed 15 knots an hour. Propul- sion would be by Diesel electric engines.
 Navy Dept. Has It
 He said he had written to Presi- dent Roosevelt, who turned the in- formation over to the navy depart ment and Capt. s. c. Hooper, tech- nical assistant to chief of naval operations. The inventor said he had asked the president to deal directly in staying the plans before the Lon- don naval conference as a means of curbing "a worldwide armament supremacy race"
 Replying to an acknowledgment by Capt. Hooper, Barlow wrote If the near future reveals that an in- ternational armament race must run It's course, will aid where I can in making the United States entry as hellish and terrifying as possible"
 He proposed to Capt. Hoofer that a commission be created by congress to examine the proposal in secret and said he would personally ask James J. McSwain, chairman of the house military affaits committee, and Sen. Lynn J. Frazier, to serve on the commission.
 No Praying Pacifist
 Barlow, explaining that his en- deavors were in the interest of main- taining world peace, explaining in his letter to Capt. Hooper, that T am no praying paciflst."
 This writer" his letter read, be lieves that with but few exceptions the whole people of this nation would rise in solid support of any vigorous and righteous plea which the president would make to the governments and peoples of the world for general reduction of arma- ments or complete general disarma- ment.
 Should our president attempt to convince the peoples of the nations or the futility of hoping for protec- tion by increasing armaments, be- lieve I could put in his hands mili- tary information which would make his stand impervious to arguments to the contrary. Then, I contend, the threat of Japan's big navy would vanish"
 Barlow proposed that, in event of failure of disarmament pleas, then let us arm the United States with every effective, modern and hellish engine of war which mans ingenu- ity may conceive and create"
 Won One Fight
 Early this month Barlow won a fight against the government for a consideration of claims for six bomb patents, used in the World war. He estimated damages between $2,000,- 900 and $5,000000 and the court of claims referred the petition to a commissioner for settlement.
 His latest invention, he said, pro- vided main offensive armament equipment of eight 21 inch gurfs equal in sange to the present coast guard defense guns. The hull of the ship would be of type able to sus- tain all gus firing simultaneously.
 He declined details of the plans, other than the barest outlines ex- plained in his letter to Capt. Hooper.
 Called Fantastic
 Washington, Feb. 24-CUP)-Nav- al officers today described as fan tastlc" plans outlined by Lester P. Barlow for a 85,000-ton super dreadnaught.
 Whatever its advantages of de- fense might be, officers explained, operation under present conditions would be impossible. Such a vessel could not transit the Panama Canal, 1t could not be repaired in an naval drydock, and 1t could not enter the principal harbors of the world, most of which are only 35 or 40 feet deep, experts said.
 Naval attaches pointed out that the United States since 1921 has ad- vocated at international naval con- ferences 35,000 ton limit for bat tleships. In view of this insistance, they said, it would be embarrassing and inconsistent now to propose q figure more than double.
 Navy department officials said the plans had been received and were being given "the usual considera- tion."