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Show ::SWS MANY DEALERS IGNORE i LAW REGULATING EXPLOSIVES : n C. Dunbar, State Supervisor, Declares Vigor-;; Vigor-;; ous Action Planned by Government Here-after Here-after Against Violators. W' 1111.10 Hit' I'tute,! Stales is at war it is unlawful to mnnu-l'rarturo, mnnu-l'rarturo, store, use or possess powder, . explosives, 1 1 :i s U 11 Ji , ,uies or ineroilieuts thereof in sueli '' ' ma 11 nor or extent as to be detrimental ! 10 the public safety. With certain exceptions, determined ,y consress, that, in substance, is tlie Jaw controlli'iR the manufacture, lian-' lian-' jlni.r or use of any kind of explosive ; material i" t,lis country. The penalty for any violation is a fine of ""t ,0 exceed nOOO, or by iin-'. iin-'. prisonment for not mo.e than one year, or both such fine ami imprisonment. ' This law. enacted for the sole purpose pur-pose of safeguarding -t 1 1 - I'nited States ' and properly within its borders against . acts of vandals or enemy aliens, pro- viilcs, however, that any person whom authorities deem qualified shall bo , exempted from punishment so long as ie shall be properly registered as a h" manufacturer, handler, retailer or pur-, pur-, chaser and as such be regularly licensed. Licenses .will not be issued to any i-itizen of a country now' designated as an enemy of the United States, or with which tlie United States is now at war. J Citizens of the United States are el i -"ihle to registration and license, pro-; pro-; vided good character is vouched for. In isolated instances citizens of nations known to be friendly to the United States,-such- as Kngland, France, Italy, i-. Spain.-.etc. -if otherwise qualified, are eligible to receive licenses. Provisions of Law. . The law. ,as enacted last November, ,: ..'cads: Any person desiring to manufacture, manu-facture, sell, export explosives or -.ingredients in his possession, shall-malic shall-malic application for a license, which application shall state, under until, the name of the applicant; l lie place of birth, whether na-tivo na-tivo born or naturalized citizen of the United States of America; if a naturalized citizen the date and place of naturalization; business in which engaged; the amount and kind of explosives or ingredients which during the past six months have been purchased, disposed of, or used by him; the amount and kind of explosives or ingredients ' now on hand; whether sales, if any, have been made to jobbers, wholesalers, whole-salers, retailers, or consumers; the kind of license to be issued, and the kind and amount of explosives or ingredients to be authorized by the license, and such further in-"nnatiou in-"nnatiou as the director of the bureau of mines may, bv rule from time to time require. ' ' Applications for vendor's, purchaser's, pur-chaser's, or foreman's licenses. siail be made to such officers of the state, territory, or dependency 1 having jurisdiction in the distrh'-t within which the explosives or ingredients in-gredients are to lie sold or used and having the power to administer adminis-ter oaths, as may be designated he the director of the bureau of mines, who shall issue- the same in the name of such director. Such officers of-ficers shall be entitled -to receive from the applicant a. fee of 2." cents for each license issued. Every applicant for a license must appear in person before the licensor. In the case of firms, associations, as-sociations, societies ami corporations corpora-tions desiring a license for purchasing pur-chasing or vending explosives, or in the, case of educational institutions institu-tions applying for the analyst's, investigator's, or educator's license, li-cense, the application mav be presented pre-sented by ami the license issued to the properly qualified representative representa-tive of such firm, association, society, so-ciety, corporation, or institution, and the license shall be made out. in the name of the firm, association, associa-tion, society, corporation, or institution; insti-tution; but a foreman's license shall be issued upon presentation of the application of the foreman in person and shall be issued to the foreman in person, as foreman of the. designated individual, firm, association, as-sociation, society, or- corporation. . A corporation official applying for the license for. a corporation or a foreman applying for ' a foreman's fore-man's license should present proper credentials to show his official capacity. ca-pacity. The word "foreman" as used in the regulations designates the person actually issuing explosives explo-sives from the explosives magazine and any other person who may be designated by his company to see that -explosives are taken by a workman only to points necessary to the carrying on of bis duties, and that unused explosives are returned re-turned to a safe place, whether or not this man is known at the mine, plant, or work, or curried on the payrolls under the title of "fore- man. ' ' Many Dealers Derelict. Commenting upon the applieatiou "of the law, and the response made bv handlers in Utah to the order that licenses li-censes be obtained, D. C. Dunbar, state supervisor of explosives, under the federal fed-eral bureau of. mines, says many business busi-ness men and others subject to the corrective operation of the law have failed to comply with the license terms and still continue to manufacture, retail, re-tail, use or purchase banned materials. "I applied at a prominent Salt Lake drug store during the present week for a quantity of material used as a basis for the manufacture or a particularly par-ticularly high explosive," Mr. Dunbar explains. ''The druggist in charge provided the ingredients without asking a solitary question. I asked if he had been regularly licensed to retail the ingredient and he admitted without a blush be had not, and even admitted he did not think it necessary."- Tlie inspector suggests that so loug as reliable businessmen violate the law as flagrantly as in this case, no reason exists why an enemy alien of the United States, or all of them not now interned, for that matter, cannot go from one drug store to another pur- chasing a necessary ingredient for the making of high explosives here and there, until a sufficient amount has been obtained to destroy some of the most important institutions in Salt Lake and throughout the state. "While I have found a majority of persons regularly engaged in handling explosives more than willing to conform con-form to the orders of the federal government, gov-ernment, I have also found many others oth-ers who have proved unwilling to comply com-ply with the law," Air. Dunbar says. Continuing, the Utah official, while admitting a desire to be lenient in all eases, explains that ample notice has been given since the explosives law became be-came effective and that hereafter vigorous vig-orous action will be taken against violators. vio-lators. Materials Under Ban. Licensors have have been regularly appointed in all the important towns and communities of the state, and these have been provided with permits. Materials banned are as foljows: Explosives Ammonium nitrate, blasting blast-ing tiowder, blastiug caps, detonating caps, percussion caps, chlorate powders, detonating fuse, dynamites, electric blasting machines, electric blasting caps, fireworks, flashlight, powders, fulminates, fuse of all varieties, gun-cottoh, gun-cottoh, gunpowder and gunpowder mixture mix-ture (except small arms or shotgun cartridges), nitro cellulose exceeding 10.18 per cent nitrogen, nitro glucose, nitro glycerine (except in official United States pharmacopoeia solution, or in form of pills, or granules containing contain-ing not more than 1.5U of a grain each) nitro glycol, nitro mannite, nitro starch, nitro sugar, ammonium picrato, picrates, picric acid, smokeless powder, (except small arms or shotgun . cartridges), cart-ridges), squibs, trinitrotoluol, trinitro-cresol, trinitro-cresol, trinitrouaphthaline, tetranit.ro-analine, tetranit.ro-analine, tetranitroniethylanaline. In the foregoing small arms are de- J fined as firearms, which may be discharged dis-charged from the hand or shoulder. Ingredients coming under the law are: Bichromates Ammonium, potassium, sodium. Chlorates Barium, potassium, sodium, so-dium, strontium. Chromates Ammonium, chrome yellow, yel-low, barium, lead, calcium, potassium, chrome green, sodium. Nitrates Ammonium, magnesium, barium, nickel, copper,, potassium, ferric, fer-ric, silver, lead, strontium. Nitric, acid Aqua fortis. .fuming, mixed acids and nitric acids of all strengths. Perchlorates Perchloric acid potassium. potas-sium. Perborates Magnesium, sodium, zinc. Permanganates Calcium, potassium, sodium. Peroxides Barium, calcium, magnesium, mag-nesium, oxen (cubes or cartridges), sodium, so-dium, zinc, strontium. All of the foregoing may be used by workmen when issued by a regularly licensed foreman in charge of operations, opera-tions, and may be handled where very small quantities are involved. By small quantities of ingredients is meant quantities of less than one ounce. Committee Will Aid. The bureau of mines, acting by authority au-thority of Llie department, ot" tlie interior," in-terior," lias selected a conimiltee of I'taims to act as an advisory board in administering adminis-tering tlie law designed to resuiaie tlie manufacture, sale and use of explosives and ingredients (if extilosivos in I'lah. To educate tlie nuidic concerning tbe law as it applies to bundling and ail safe methods meth-ods of trans'jnriin;;- MT1d usini; explosives is to be one of tbe principal cares of this hoard. Tbe committee will also lie re-nuii'ed re-nuii'ed to formulate laws to provide protection pro-tection against Die theft of explosive materials, ma-terials, or ilturedients rejoiced in the manufacture of tiie.e, and to inausurate and keep in force a eampai-'n of vigorous i prosecution in case of violation of the :;ivvs or recuiation.s. At a preliminary meeiin las', week the board was reuu'arly organized. A meet-ius meet-ius Ls to be held in the immediate future at whi' ii outlines of plans for aetion will . he submitted for discussion and possible I action. i The committee cpnsits of the follow-I follow-I ins: i . l'. lumbar. 1 nited Slates jn.spec'.iir I of explosives for I'lah, chairman : Kred . c. Richmond, state council of defense, vice ehairit.an; T,. K. Abbotl. national safely council: G--ore V. I.owry, board of fire underwriters; Charles I,, ir'nii'li. casualty insurance; ,T. I'uriey White, chief of ice Salt Lake police depart mcnt : John T. I'aiue 111. diie.-tor of extension ser-vc-e: I'harics - .7e:m:ns, pnrch.''s:;r-T ae"' ef ihe rta'.i f-e-per campany; Frank ,1. M-aianpi-y. manager of the Hercaa-s Powder comrany. |
