Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-03-17
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-
Inventor Cets bad news about
German Bomb the devastating
Story Recorded new e'erm hSaa, an
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 mile"
The U. s. A. was supposed to
have used about $500, 900 ,00o
WOAAn Va DAEAOW UOhUS 8AAo
weapons In the World war.
Several weeks ago, the senate
voted him $592, 719 In royalties
Tor the wartime use Of his pat
ents. He Is . prolific inventor,
now consulting engineer for the
Glenn L. Martin Co., Of Balti-
more, builders Of bombing
planes. He describes the new
German bomb rs truly horren.
dous, basically = combination Of
liquid oxygen and carbon, but
with other ingredients, such As
magnesium and aluminium. He
thinks he can just about match
u with his L. o. K. bomb. .=..
In 1892, 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 powder-puff.
PIG, Buckle Giuseppe Creatore,
- putting smoke from a cigar as
unfailing as Vesuvius, makes a
grand comeback, as he nears 20, to
his own and ev-
Creatore Comes erybody else's
Back in Opera complete salts
Eor IL. Mo..e. faction. The
TUT Tue " ~ Bronx recently
celebrated its 300th 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 series of
symphonic concerts.
As a band conductor, Signor
Creatore used to earn as much
as $1,000 q 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.
He arrived in this country from
Italy in 1902. with a 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.
w HEN Britain and the United
w States begin to exchange cook.
ing recipes, they are really getting
neighborly. Carlota. the British
Recipe s,Dap to rived rEHssi he Meo s re-.
Better British Gently. not
U. S. Relations averse to favor
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 will be COM
olete.
Carlota is the wife Of Louis
Oppenheimer, managing direc.
tor Of the South African dia.
mond syndicate. She has pub
lished many books Of poetry in
many countries, speaks seven
languages 6uently, and finds
time to convert old houses into
charming dwellings or ''mews,"
for working people.
Her London home is one of the
great social and political salons of
England. She knows the proyerbial