The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.-Lester P. Barlow,
- temperamental inventor OF
bombs and other war weapons, re-
Gently said he wasn't going to con-
gresS with his
Inventor Gets bad news about
German Bomb the devastating
Story Recorded new new herman haaa, aie
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 c.
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
killed every human being within
the range of quarter of a mile"
The u. S. A. was supposed to
have used about $500, 10000
worth of Barlow bombs and
weapons in the World war.
Several weeks ago, the senate
voted him S592,719 in royalties
for the wartime use of his pat
ents. He is a prolific inventor,
now consulting engineer for the
Glenn L. Martin Co., of Balti-
more, builders of bombing
planes. He describes the new
German bomb as truly hOrren-
d0us, basically a 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 hun
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 powder-puff.
PIG, Bucko Giuseppe Creatore,
- putting smoke from a 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 Moses faction. T h e
Bronx recently
celebrated its Booth birthday with a
big splash of Accent grand opera,
with Signor Creatore finding in
"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 a series of
symphonic concerts.
AS band conductor, Signor
Creatore used to earn as much
as $4,000 a 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 tuneful
and triumphant national tours.
He arrived in this country from
Italy in 1902, with lush black mus
tache and 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.
nv HEN Britain and the United
w States begin to exchange cook