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Show V Philadelphia section of the American Amer-ican Institute of Electrical Engineers. Engi-neers. "I am not hinting at some fantastic fantas-tic 'super-weapon' that will annihilate an-nihilate armies and the population of cities," he said, "but I am speaking of new and improved devices that will protect us from raiding bombers, bomb-ers, that will place additional safeguards safe-guards about our shipping and that will add to our power of offensive warfare. "You can depend upon it that American science and ingenuity have, some surprises to spring upon surprises," Dr. Gates said. He said that, because of the secret nature of the new weapons, he was unable to give any details. Hints of Weapons That Will 'Surprise' Hitler PHILADELPHIA. American scientists sci-entists have developed new "unpleasant "un-pleasant surprises" for Hitler, if this country should become involved in war with the Axis, Dr. Thomas S. Gates, president of the University Univer-sity of Pennsylvania and district coordinator co-ordinator of the United States division divi-sion of contract distribution, said. New measures of protecting our cities from bombing and for safeguarding safe-guarding shipping were promised by Dr. Gates in an address before the |