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Show To Test Machine Guns. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. Today Secretary Baker announced that a board soon woiild be appointed to study types i of machine guns best suited for United States army use. The board will have authority to conduct experiments and tests and to make recommendations to the war department. Tho board will investigate the merits of the Lewis gun. invented by Colonel Isaac Lewis, t,. S. A., retired, once offered to the war de- partment, but rejected, and then accepted ac-cepted by Great Britain, which is using it in the present war. |