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Show pn WHO'S NEWS v'i THIS tin week By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. Lester P. Barlow, temperamental inventor of bombs and other war weapons, recently re-cently said he wasn't going to congress con-gress with his Inventor Gets bad news about German Bomb the devastating c . ry j j new German air Story Recorded bomht because they "put him in the dog-house" when he tried to tell the house naval affairs commitise something last year. But his story gets Into the Record, via Senator Bennett C. Clark, who relays to Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold the news of the bomb, as he had it from Mr. Barlow, and asks the general what about it. The general tells of army reports that the German bombs in Barcelona "killed every human being within the range of a quarter of a mile." The V. S. A. was supposed to have used about $300,000,000 worth of Barlow bombs and weapons in the World war. Several weeks ago, the senate voted him $592,719 in royalties for the wartime use j! his patents. pat-ents. He is a prolific inventor, now consulting engineer for the Glenn L. Martin Co., of Baltimore, Balti-more, builders of bombing planes. He describes the new German bomb as truly horrendous, horren-dous, basically a combination of liquid oxygen and carbon, but with other ingredients, such as magnesium and aluminum. lie thinks he can just about match it with his L. O. X. bomb. In 1932, he offered to President Hoover a simple button-pushing rig which would wipe out a city hundreds hun-dreds of miles away. Even with the backing of Senator Frazier of North Dakota, lie failed to get the government interested and was said to have offered his device to Russia and Germany. Later, he had other disappointing encounters in congress, con-gress, offering, among other things, a shock-proof battleship, on whose ribs the heaviest projectile would be just the pat of a powder-puff. OIG, Bucko Giuseppe Creatore, puffing smoke from a cigar as unfailing as Vesuvius, makes a grand comeback, as he nears 70, to his own and ev-Creatore ev-Creatore Comes erybody else's Back in Opera complete satis, faction. The For the Masses BrQnx recently celebrated its 300th birthday with a big splash of 40-cent grand opera, with Signor Creatore finding in "Aida" something in the range of his titanic energies. The opera company will be permanent, financial finan-cial wind and weather permitting, to be supplemented by a series of symphbnic concerts. As a- band conductor, Signor Creatore used to earn as much as $5,000 a night. He slipped out of sight, and then, in June, 1935, was conducting one of the park bands of the New York Emergency Relief bureau. His cigar and his baton were still bold and unwavering and he told the reporters he was pacing the country back to better times. He had with him about half of the players in his old band of the days of their tuneful and triumphant national tours. He arrived in this country from Italy in 1902, with a lush black mustache mus-tache and a heavy mane, but little else worth mentioning. Two days later, he was playing on Hammer-stein's Hammer-stein's roof. A contemporary of Sousa, he became one of the country's coun-try's most famous bandmasters, only temporarily clipped or eclipsed by the depression, it is to be hoped. WHEN Britain and the United States begin to exchange cooking cook-ing recipes, they are really getting neighborly. Carlota, the British poetess, who ar-Recipe ar-Recipe Swap to rived here resetter re-setter British- c e n 1 1 y , not ,, - r i . averse to favor-U. favor-U. S. Relations . . . ,, w U. lng frlencly re lations, prefaced her trip with a radio appeal for American recipes. She got more than 2,000. When we get to telling each other about our operations, the entente will be complete. com-plete. Carlota is the wife of Louis Oppenhcimer, managing director direc-tor of the South African diamond dia-mond syndicate. She has published pub-lished many books of poetry in many countries, speaks seven languages fluently, and finds time to convert old houses into charming dwellings or "mews," for working people. Her London home is one of the great social and political salons of England. She knows the proverbial way to Ihe now somewhat intransigent intransi-gent American heart. Her visit marks a pleasant departure from the customary exchange of recipes fur cooking TXT and the like, (k) Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. |