Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-13
Capital SideIiehts
BIZ viii P. Kennedy.

N1ClllDClo Va SOAASASoo NS>RAJ wa
cerned today more than ever before to
safeguard against subversive groups-are
complaining that under State laws there
are few deterrants against those who may
desire to accumulate firearms, and this
is confirmed by a survey recently made
BY the International Association OF Chiefs
of Police. The State laws are aimed
mostly at preventing the carrying Of
concealed weapons by criminals. Rifles
and shotguns are easily obtained and
transferred although almost all the
| States attempt to regulate the carrying
of firearms. Fifteen States require
| licenses to carry firearms in motor
vehicles. Present laws all but ignore
requirement of licenses for the posses
sion or purchase of firearms. The Dis
trict of Columbia and five States have
adopted the Uniform Firearms Act which
provides for fairly complete record d
all purchases of small arms, and the Dis
trict and 10 States require retail dealers
to have licenses to sell firearms and to
keep specified records of their transac-
lions. Four Saskatchewan. New Jer-
sey, New York and Rhode Island. require
fingerprinting of applicants for licenses.
Possession of firearms by aliens is pro-
hbited in Nebraska, Utah, West Virginia
and Wyoming.
Representative William A. Pittinger of
Duluth, Mimi, has been telling his COL
leagues in cloak room conferences re-
garding precautions that various local
tiles should take, and many are taking,
against sabotage. that his home town has
set up a school for training watchmen
in all industrial plants within 75-mile
area. Duluth policemen are instructors.
Industrial leaders are urged to gather
at monthly meetings in Duluth and
Superior for the purpose of discussing
matters concerning defense with the vari-
GUS law-enforcement agencies. The drive
In many municipalities is to protect such
vulnerable points as industrial plants,
municipal water supply, railroad yards
and bridges. In the anti-sabotage forums
at the Capitol several members from
Philadelphia have emphasized that the
director of safety in that city has started
a campaign of special instruction of
more than one-third of the local police
personnel in handling sabotage. Chicago
House members point out that the police
department in Chicago has set an exam
pie for other large communities by list
ing 674 Vulnerable" points for special
protection against sabotage-bridges and
canals, ports and /wharves, light and
power plants, banks, armories, cribs and
water works, radio stations, telephone
exchanges, etc. In Connecticut the
emergency protection program is under
the State police commissioner Surveys
Of manufacturing plants, public service
companies, gasoline storage places and
other sabotage detectives are being made
by the police heads of eight counties
New York City got an emergency man
date signed by the Governor closing the
citys watershed, which extends through
several counties, to March 81, 1941. New
York and Newark, N. j., have bomb
taxis" to carry packages suspected OF
being Internal machines out of the danger
zone. The United States Federal Bureau
of Investigation is distributing to law
enforcement officers, industrial plants
and public utilities executives manual
of protective measures against sabotage.
All copies of this manual are Govern
ment property and are registered.
It was the daughter of member OF
Congress who originated womens bloom
ers although they fallaciously carry
the name of another woman crusader.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, daughter
of Representative Gerrit Smith Of Peters,
boro, N. Y.-elected to the 33d Congress
as an Observation-Disclosures and who later
revived the anti-Dramshop party
startled Washington nearly century
ago by appearing dressed somewhat IN
Turkish STYLE" with skirt above her
knees and full, baggy broadcloth trou-
sers gathered at the ankle by an elastic
band. She wore them on . visit to
her cousin, Mrs.. Elizabeth Oady Stanton