Show j ess' ess nn I Firing 50 Shots Shoes a Second Invented By International News Service I BOSTON March 7 A A powder- powder 1 less machine gun that will fire I from ten to fifty bullets a second I is the Invention of Levi W. W Lombard Lombard Lombard Lom Lom- bard of oC Mattapan and Earle Earls Ovington of Newton The latter r will be remembered as one of Boston's Boston's Boston's Bos Bos- tons ton's first aviators The C con cnn n Is Js In ln effect nothing more than an enlarged slingshot A company has been incorporated for to manufacture them The guns gun's action is simple It is a ai i revolving evolving disc which emits bullets after they have traveled on its surface The machine fires round bullets Those used in the tests had steel bearings The shot is fed into a hopper at the side of the gun and andas andas as the disc revolves it throws the bullets at a terrific force The test was made at the Wakefield Wakefield Wake Wake- field rifle rUle range and the gun proved its effectiveness by pIercIng piercing piercing pierc pIerc- ing three inch boiler plate at yards and cutting through a two-Inch two door from the same dis dis- dis ls- ls tance The first gun was operated by by electricity Its Inventors knowing that only a limited power Power- can be obtained from this course will wUl operate it by steam at Its next trial |