Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1940 — Page 8

Tnvents Electric Guns With Super Distance and Power

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (U. P.).— Plans were afoot today for private manufacture of electrically powered machine and anti-aircraft guns for which their promoters claim superrange and super-striking power. The guns “fire” projectiles by means of successively energized electro-magnets placed along the barrel without the use of explosives, according to data made public here.

Range of the new weapons, the promoters say, would be limited only by the electric power employed and they would be able to fire as high as modern airplanes can fly. They would be noiseless, eliminating the demoralization sometimes caused by anti-aircraft batteries; would produce no tell-tale smoke or flashes and thus serve to confuse the enemy; would be nonheating and would not jam, and would be able to fire away, at men or planes, practically continuously. Promoters of the gun, which has been called to the attention of the War Department, are Virgil Rigse by, the 38-year-old inventor; Richard Mardus, New York publicity man; John C. Harington, an editor, and Willis J. Conant, Manhattan real estate man who has been financing the inventor. According to Mr. Mardus, Mr. Rigsby, a mechanic, has been working with the gun for 12 years. He obtained a patent, No. 1,959,737, on May 22, 1934, and since then has made five different models. He also obtained patents in eight foreign countries.

In tests made at Houston and

aircraft gun fired long steel-jacket-ed bullet-like projectiles of .50 caliber at the rate of about 600 a minute for a distance of about a mile. He said the muzzle velocity in the tests he witnessed was about 2000

feet a second but that it could be stepped yp greatly by an increase of electrical power. In these tests, Mr. Mardus said, the projectiles penetrated one inch into steel at a distance of 450 yards. Mr. Conant said he hoped to per-

strations of the gun at Ft. Hancock after Mr. Rigsby arrives with|s it. He said he might show the gun to the British purchasing commission here, Mr. Mardus, 36-year-old native of New York, said the gun’s range could be stepped up at least to 100 miles and that, perfected, it would “make the United States impregnable.” The anti-aircraft model weighs only 450 pounds and would cost less than $500 to produce in quantity, Mr. Mardus said. He said a mobile Diesel engine generator could supply enough current for a half-dozen guns, either as field weapons or anti-aircraft batteries, The electric gun would use much lighter barrels than standard machine or anti-aircraft weapons and’ could operate longer without loss of efficiency, Mr. Mardus said. Mr. Mardus said the gun would be able to fire as rapidly as any load-(y; ing device could supply bullets and with as great velocity as desired. Thus far the weapon, Mr. Mardus said, has been tested with 110-volt current, such as used in homes,

Dallas, Mr. Mardus said, the anti-

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Captain Then Shouts: ‘Give My. Respects to All’; 152 Land Safely. A WEST COAST PORT, England,

Dec. 18 (U. P.) Fifty-three passengers and 99 crew members, sur-

suade the Army to witness demon-jvivors of the torpedoed liner West-

Prince, arrived today with the ry .of her master, Reed, who blew three whistle blasts to departing lifeboats before going down with his.ship, and a heroic

man.” Among the survivors were C. D.

tions and Supply; W. C. Woodward

staff; E. P. Taylor of Toronto, Director of Canadian’ Munitions Production; James Bone, editor of the Manchester. Guardian, and Col. A. E. McCrae, member of the British Purchasing Commission in the United States.

Among the six passengers and nine crew members believed missing was Gordon' Scott, Montreal financier, who was lost gvhen a lifeboat overturned. The Western Prince was torpedoed last week-end off the northern tip of Ireland. All passengers took to lifeboats. The survivors said ‘the torpedo did little noticeable damage when it hit, but that soon the ship slowly settled forward. As the lifeboats were being launched into the high seas, one of them was tossed against the side of the ship, crushing passengers and crew members who were attempting to climb a rope ladder. Another lifeboat capsized, and some of its occupants vere drowned.

Steward Stands By

Captain Reed stood on deck and shouted to the circling lifeboats: “Goodby . . . Give my. respects to all at home.” Then he blew three blasts of the ship’s whistle. The sound was like the ship’s requiem to those in the tossing lifeboats. A moment later she sank. : Standing ‘by the master’s side when the ship went down was a cockey steward named Franks. Survivors said he had helped fill the lifeboats; then stayed aboard. Fellow crew members shouted to him: “Come on Franks.” “I'm staying behind to do some looting,” he replied. “I'm staying along with the old man.”

2 Honeymooners Lost

Among the missing was a honeymooning couple named Allan, The bride was believed to be a nurse from Cincinnati, her husband an Englishman. - The night before the disaster the passengers held a birthday party for Mrs. Allan singing “Happy Birthday to You” and “Here Comes the Bride.” The Allans were about to board a lifeboat, the survivors said, when they decided to return to their cabin for more belongings. The lifeboat waited 15 minutes and then left, believing they. had taken another boat. 3

C10 GHARGES BIAS T0 COWDRILL OF NLRB

C. I. O, councils: here today charged discrimination against C. I. O. unions in favor of A. F. of L. affiliates and demanded the resignation of Robert H. Cowdrill, 11th District director of NLRB. Discrimination’ on defense conistruction jobs at ‘Ft. Harrison, Charlestown and Union City was charged by the Indiana Industrial Union Council and Labor's NonPartisan League of Indiana. “That evens the score,” Mr, Cowdrill declared when informed of the complaints. “The A. F. of L. has continually complained that this office was pro-C. I. O. I only hope the C. I. O. charges are specific so that they can be fully and completely answered. There is no truth in the charge.” Copies of the charges were sent to President Roosevelt and Govern-

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School News— ia Tech Draftsman

Paul Huston busy with pencil and T-square.

PUPILS TO BUILD A ‘REAL’ HOUSE

Project Will Provide Work For Girls as Well As Boys.

By EARL HOFF

Tech High School drafting pupils are busy with pencils and T-squares, scheming to turn a school building into a house so that it can become a school building. Does that make sense? It does to the Tech pupils. The school has been'given permission to dismantle a portable structure on the 17-acre campus and with the material construct a livable practice house for the Home Economics Department. It’s a project that the Home Economics ‘Department has been dreaming about. And it's also a project that shop pupils are Nehing to get underway.

Drafting Classes First

the construction work. "The architectural drafting classes of Earl E. Ensinger won the honor of getting in the first lick on the project. They are sketching plans for the story and a half building. Next month the best sketches will be chosen and the winning draftsman will draw the final plans. The actual construction work is expected to be underway by spring. Horace Boggy, vice principal said. Mr. Boggy; Mrs. Garaldine Moor-

head, and V. C. Dougherty, Drafting Department head, first visited the Ball State Teachers College campus at Muncie to inspect the practice houses there.

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Then the teachers’ committee drew up specifications for the Tech practice building, which will be the

High School now hes one. The frame structure is to be of Colonial style. The first floor will contain a kitchen, living room, dining room, study, bedroom and bath. The second floor will have a bath and nursery. In the basement will be laundry, recreation and locker rooms. The project is one that will em-

girls in classwork that has the kick of reality. The new buildidng will occupy the site of the ,present Northeast Portable, which is to-be dismantled. }

DE VALERA IN NURSING HOME DUBLIN, Dec. 18 (U. P.) —Eamon De Valera, Prime Minister of Eire, has entered a nursing home for medical observation. He was ex-

pected to leave within a few days.

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CHARGES BALL - VOIDS TAXES

|Senate Committee Claims

Foundation Created to Escape Payment. (Continued from Page One) had already raised his book profit

: lon his investment in Midamerics |common ‘stock to more than 0,7

000 per cent. “These profifs, if taken by Mr. Ball, would have, in considerable part, gone to the Government for income tax. And what remained would subsequently have been subject to inheritance tax at high rates since Mr. Ball's wealth is large. “For the solution of these tax problems, another holding company was formed by Mr. Ball and named the George and Frances|e

Ball’ Foundation. Its purposes were

stated to be ‘religious, educational and charitable.’

Incorporated by Five

“The Foundation was established by five incorporators—Mr. Ball

husband of his niece, and a friend. All five were made directors for life. The . Board itself was made seltperpetuating. “In addition to establishing the

Board of Directors, Mr, Ball created an Executive Committee to control

He fixed the membership of -the Executive Committee at three, and named himself, his wife, and Mr. Bernard as the Committee. He appointed himself President, his wife Vice President and Mr. Bernard Secretary-Treasurer, “Just as Mr. Ball was in fact the

George and Frances Ball Foundation.

3-ALARM FIRE IN LOUISVILLE

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 18 (U., P.). —A three-alarm fire in the main

$80,000 damage to the Coleman Building today and completely burned out a drugstore in the building. Origin of the blaze was undetermined.

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stock to the Ball Foundation he was disposing of all his profits in the affair, and unless the Government raised some question he was relieving himself and his family of any problem about income or inheritance taxes on the millions of dollars involved in those profits.”

This method of “tax avoidance” is congemned by the Senators in closing their report and they raise. the question: “Is it desirable to grant exemption in such cases?” Adding: “A legislative problem is raised by the indefiniteness of the activities whereby personal or family corporations may secure tax exemptions.”

(og 'SDAY, DEC. 18, 1940 MADONNA AND CHILD”

IS STOLEN IN TEXAS

EL PASO, Tex., Dec. (U. P.).—The famous painting “Madonna and Child,” painted in the 15th century by Raffaelino del Garbo, has been stolen from the Texas "College of Mines museum.

The painting, one of five in the S. H. Kress collection on special show= ing at the museum, was removed in its glass frame by a thief who evaded two armed guards. It was be-_

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