Evening star., 1940-05-26
Live Goats Remain Alive
After Barlow Bomb Exp|odes
1000 Pounds Of TINT. Set OFF
Later With the Same Result


colonel announced. The sand
wiches were dime.
At 1l:10 tension mounted again
and cotton was resulted into ears.
Mr.. Barlow announced he had be-
gun to install the detonators. A few
timid souls took cover behind a
concrete building. At 11:43 the
canvas bag containing the Ghnite
was slowly hoisted to the top of a
30-foot gibbet. A cloud of steam
arose from the liquid oxygen. Ten
sion became almost unbearable. Even
the nonchalant and explosive
toughened ordance officers stuffed
cotton in their ears. One civilian
ran panic-striken to group of off,
GERS begging for cotton.
Somebody swiped mine," he
shouted.
He received new supply.
More Announcements.
There were more announcements
by an Army officer that "this So
called bomb, which is not real
bomb but 1,000-pound bag of
Glmite," was about to go of. Mr..
Barlow arrived with his sea-going
rain hat at jaunty angle and his
green slcker trailing in the mud.
"Well, I'm ready" he declared
dramatically. There was a great
scurrying for protective positions.
The white-clad Army hospital or
derlies quit their horseplay near
the ambulance and became busy at
something.
An officer began counting of the
seconds backward from 80. Mr..
Barlow closed a switch Faces
were strained and bodies tensed.
A streak of yellow-blue flame swept
the horizon. A wind slightly buffet
ed the spectators. Every one looked
disappointed. There was a dash to
the group Of goats behind cars
carrying Army surgeons, technicians
and the Congress members to the
field Of carnage. But there was no
gore.
A few goats had been knocked of
their feet by the conclusion which
Mr.. Barlow had claimed would du-
plicate the reported feat Of German
airmen in killing every one within
a quarter mile at Barcelona with
a similar type of bomb. Stetho-
scopes were hastily applied for lung
hemorrhages in the goats. There
was none. One billy goat, 200 feet
from the bomb had faced the wrong
way and his tail was slightly burned.
Physicians passed it over as in
consequential.
Hopes to Go On.
''I still think I have a great ex-
plosive," announced Mr.. Barlow.
This has proved only that it didn' t
knock down goats. This isn't settled
yet. I still have a powerful ex-
plosive which Is safe to handle,
cheap and can be produced in
abundance for 4 cents a pound.
hope the committee will let me go
on with this"
Later he added: I'm disappoint-
ed. I'm surprised"
Army and Navy men, each with
separate types of blast meters-gen-
orally paper pasted over holes in
wood planks- carefully collected
their information and said nothing.
"It's exactly what you would ex-
pect from an explosive of this char
acter," said COL G. NJ. Barnes, an
ordnance expert.
There is nothing whatsoever to
evidence any advantage or any
thing new in Mr.. Barlows explo-
sive,' said Comdr. G. C. Hoover, a
naval munitions expert.
Senator Sheppard called a COM
mittee meeting in his automobile
and it was decided to go ahead with
the explosion of the INT. Mr.. Bar
low had claimed his explosive would
kill or injure all animals within 500
feet of the Glmite bomb but that
INT would not harm them. It
didn't, although the conclusion
seemed created to the new veterans
in the grandstand.
Test With Steel Bar.
Ofncers collecting information
from the blast meters announced
that at first glance INT appeared
to have 10 per cent higher con-
cussion than Mr.. Barlow's inven-
ton.
AS an anticlirnax, and after many
spectators had left, Mr.. Barlow ex-
ploded q six-ounce charge of Glmite
under a 60-pound steel bar. It
stayed in the air for IL seconds.
TINT hurtled a similar bar into the
air for IT seconds. An Army Of
ncer didn't seem to know what that
proved. 4
Another onlcer estimated that, not
counting the time Of the Senator'S,
Representatives, the general and
Others, the experiment had taken
5000 from the Army experimental
funds. To the herd Of 254 goats
purchased for the experiment for
$3.50 to g apiece, were added three
kids. Eighteen died Of pneumonia.