Show 1 r- r DOCTOR SUES FOR jl I ny By y NORRIS NORIUS QUINN CLEVELAND March 28 23 Did Dr Samuel McLean aged c physician invent the Lewis machine 6 gun Instrument instrument ment of ot wholesale destruction that that made allied victory in the World war var possible l' l POj Judge i John W W. Peck reck must decide that question in federal court here And on his decision hangs OO coo McLean icLean has brought suit for that I am Which represents represent royaltIes revalues from tram Lewis machine guns sold during the war to the United States and allied pO powers If tel the the e suit goes goes against McLean hell he'll have to spend his declining years rs e ersIn In the very modest circumstances that marked his earlier life when he worked I day and night to his machine gun sun ir U 1111 GJ GETS TS IT IT- IT But if he gets the Mrs tIrs McLean is going to have the things she should have had earlier In life lite McLean promises denied dented hf herself much to help me work out my invention I even ven had to o sell my home homo when I was struggling alone o I But she was wasa as ga a bravo brave woman and core re with meNow meNow me e Now she likes to read the papers I and pick out th the home snell have if It I we win winAnd I And that's not all alt My daughter Is a portrait artist She wants to complete her art training in Europe Ill send her there If It I 1 pet get et the Judgment And maybe Mrs McLean and I will go along EAGER EAGEn TO REPAY SON SOX And m my son son son-he he quit high school and went to work worIc to help us along while white I was toiling tolling over my blue prints Ill I'll recompense him for tor that For Tor my part Ill I'll have leisure for hunting and collecting rifles and tinkering tinkering tin tin- kering with them That's how I came cameto came cameto to invent the machine gun you vou know know- ny my rifle Jammed when I was hunting and I 1 invented an device that's the basis of ot the machine gun All AU these thoughts ran through McI McLeans McLean's Mc Mc- I- I Leans Lean's ans mind as he sits in court his wife at his side earnestly listening to the reading of or dry reports and the testimony testimony tes tes- of ordnance experts McLean worked fifteen years to produce pro pro- duce the McLe machine gun gup lie He or organized organized or- or the McLean Arms and Ordnance Ordnance Ord Ord- nance c company here in 1903 to t tand and manu manufacture it The company ran out of ot capital Then McLean an charges the patents patent were turned over to the Automatic Arms company organized b by men had been interested ted In McLeans McLean's cozy COIT- pany IAN JUI AX OUT McLean was left out in tho I The Automatic Arms company company company com com- pany started making the Lewis gun and did worth of ot business during of rl this was the war profit McLean he declares says Half I The Automatic Arms company and Its directors deny McLeans McLean's charges They say sav the Invention of ot the Lewis I gun was Independent of ot any Invention of t McLeans McLean's Ic McLean ean who's 65 is graY hairs 1 powerful powerful of frame and full of ot fight tight My grandfather whom I 1 must re resemble resemble re- re lived to be 96 he says smiling So So I figure I can keep this court fight tight up thirty-one thirty years more if tC necessary |