Show GROUND UND GUNS GUN AGAINST rr AIR I Matched latched in Test s for War Efficiency I FORTRESS ROE MONROE va tia- March Starch 6 Postwar G.-Postwar Postwar and antiaircraft guns were matched today in a test lest w th aircraft to demonstrate before before bere be fore fore re doubtful legislators and other 1 jV ashington Washington officials their worth I against enemy air bombers Thet The Thet t t was arranged by Secretary Secretary I 1 Weeks ecks and was designed to help in int inI I t c determination of ot the question alue value o of land guns and anda a craft as defensive weapons against air invasion in wartime only one side of ot the question o mer was to bo be emphasized at at was what progress had been made since 1918 in developing gun- gun hire fre re efficiency against raiding air air- aft aCt ft In the test today the guns Auns ere supplied with shrapnel while the airplanes were the task of ot target towing and d not permitting permUting to bomb or re- re urn the fire Ire of the gunners ho he program for the official isi isis rs s also included a trip to LangI Lang- Lang uj I field to inspect various types of ot ota ofa a aircraft and witness exhibitions of ot r formation mation flying gliding gIlding target demonstrations smoke screen lay lay- b ing hg g. g parachute flare stunts with b bombing and gunnery exhibitions f A battery of ot four three-inch three runs from fortress Monroe 1 was sent Sent nt to Grand View for the antiaircraft antiaircraft antiaircraft craft fire tire tests Although the guns Core E STere re eloped developed after aner the war they did fd not represent the latest type type type- with an average rate of ot Seventy w went enty shots a minute a vertical range range ange angeot of ot 25 feet a horizontal l I f yards ards and equipped with khe most modern modem sighting and tire fire c devices de I Tonight a test of ot the effective effective- Bess ess of ot ground guns against night nigh nemy air attacks was to I feature the he program |