The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-17
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WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
!. WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON


By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.-Lester P. Barlow,
! tenperamental inventor OF
bombs and other war weapons, re-
Gently said he wasn't going to con-
- y gress with his
InDentor Gets bad news about
German Bomb the devastating
0'O'y ~ bomb, because
they .'put. him in the dog-house"
when he tried to tell the house naval
affairs committee something last
year. But his story gets into the
Record, via Senator Bennett G..
Clark, who relays to Maj. Gen. H.
H. Arnold the news of the bomb, as
he had it from Mr.. Barlow, and
asks the general what about it. The
general tells of army reports that
the German bombs in Barcelona
skilled every human being within
the range of a quarter of mile"
The q. S. A. was supposed to
have used about $500, 1000, 900
worth of Barlow bombs and
weapons in the World war.
Several weeks ago, the senate
voted him $592,719 in royalties
for the wartime use of his. pat
ents. He is prolific inventor,
now consulting engineer for the
Glenn T.. Martin Co., of Balti-
more, builders of bombing
planes. He describes the new
German bomb as truly horren-
dOus, basicaily combination Of
liquid oxygen and carbon, but
with other ingredients, such as
magnesium and aluminium. He
thinks he can just about match
it with his L. O. x. bomb.
In 1882, he offered to President
Hoover simple button-pushing rig
which would wipe out a city hum
dreds of miles away. Even with
the backing of Senator Frazier of
North Dakota, he failed to get the
government interested and was said
to have offered his device to Russia
and Germany. Later, he had other
disappointing encounters in con-
gress, offering, among other things,
a shock-proof battleship, on whose
ribs the heaviest projectile would
be just the. pat, of a powder-puff.
$3.50 1919 4ss
DIG, Bucko Giuseppe Creatore,
- putting smoke from cigar as
unfailing as Vesuvius, makes a
grand comeback, as he nears 70, to
his own and ev-
Credtore Comes erybody else's
Back in Opera complete salts
For the Masses faction. 7 h e
celebrated its Booth birthday with a
big splash Of Accent grand opera,
with Signor Creatore finding in
s'Aida" something in the range Of
his titanic energies. The opera
company will be permanent, finan-
cial wind and weather permitting,
to be supplemented by series of
symphonic concerts.
AS a band conductor, Signor
Creat0re used to earn as much
as $1,000 night. He slipped
out of sight, and then, in June,
1885, was conducting one of the
park bands of the New York
Emergency Relief bureau. His
cigar and his baton were still
bold and unwavering and he
told the reporters he was pacing
the country back to- better
times. He had with him about
half Of the players in his old
band of the days Of their tunefuI
and triumphant national tours.
He arrived in this country from
Italy in 1902, with a lush black mus
tache and a heavy name, but little
else worth mentioning. Two days
later, he was playing on Hammer
stems roof. A contemporary Of
Sousa, he became one Of the coun-
try's most famous bandmasters,
only temporarily clipped = or
eclipsed-by the depression, it is to
be hoped.
WHEN Britain and the United
w States begin to exchange cook
ing recipes, they are really getting
neighborly. Carlota, the British
q poetess, who ar
keclpe SsOdp 10 rived here re-
Better British Gently, not
ing friendly re-
lations, prefaced her. trip with a
radio appeal for American recipes.
She got more than 1000. When we
get to telling each other about our
operations, the entente win be COM
plete.
CarlOta is the wife Of Louis
Oppenheimer, managing direc-
tor of the South African iia-
mond syndicate. She has pub