DESCRIBES NEW
MACHINE GUN
Inventor Uses Centrifugal Foroe
Instead of Explosive.
SAY WEAPON JS NOISELESS
In Teat Machine Gun Hurls Balls at
Rate of 2,000 a Minute With Ter
rifle Velocity—Will Kill a Man at a
Distance of a Mile and a Half—
Submitted to the War Department
Just Before Armistice Was Signed.
Ever since the publication of a brief
dispatch from Washington a few days
ago to the effect that the war depart
ment was experimenting with a new
type of noiseless machine gnn that
substituted centrifugal force for pow
der as a propelling power Edward
Thomas Moore, an attorney of New
York, has been receiving letters from
friends asking him If the gun which la
being experimented with now Isn't the
same one that he Invented and sub
mitted to the war department a few
weeks before the armistice was signed.
To a World reporter Mr. Moore not
only admitted that the gun was hla In
vention. but offered to explain Its prin
ciple. For several years prior to tha
war Mr. Moore, who lives In Passaic,
N. J„ was a major and Judge advocate
In the New Jersey National Guard by
appointment of Woodrow Wilson as
governor of New Jersey. When the
United States entered the war Major
Moore was pressed Into service by the
war department and assigned to New
Jersey as Inspector of the draft In
that state. Ills Invention of the
“Moore centrifugal gun,” for which
he and Saul Singer of Cedarsburg, L.
L, obtained patents, was offered to the
war department shortly before the
signing of the armistice. The cessa
tion of hostilities delayed experiments
with the gun, but Mnjor Moor# left the
Invention with the bureau of stand
ards for further tests.
“David Up to Date.”
Mr. Moore says that the Biblical
story of David slaying Goliath with a
stone which he whirled around his
head In a sling gave him the Idea of
applying centrifugal force to the op
eration of a machine gun. "Bringing
David up to date” Is the way he de
scribed It
There have been other attempts to
Invent a centrifugal gun. Mr. Moore
does net claim to have originated the
Idea. He says the French, the Rus
sians and the Japanese have experi
mented with centrifugal guns from
time to time, bnt were never success
ful because of their failure to control
the dispersion of the bullets. From
the tests which Mr. Moore conducted
for the war department and those now
being conducted, It would seem that
Mr. Moore’s claim to fame lies In hav
ing Invented the first practical centrif
ugal gun.
Control of the Bullets.
In the gun which Mr. Moore has In
vented complete control Is obtained
over the dispersion of the bullets by a
special patented timing device which
feeds the balls Into the gun barrel at
a regular rate and ejects them at reg
nlar Intervals and from the same
opening. According to Mr. Moore, the
tests have shown that his gun Is capa
ble of firing a hall a mile and a half
and killing a man at that distance;
also that a ball fired from the muzzle
of the gun a short distance away has
penetrated seven thicknesses of heavy
planking, which he says Is one thick
ness more than a bullet from any
army .45 Colt will penetrate.
Centrifugal force Is nothing more
than the tendency which objects have
to fly off In a straight line when rap
idly revolved about a fixed center. The
most common utilization of centrifu
gal force Is In the modern cream
sepa rator.
Several Problems.
In seeking to apply centrifugal force
to a machine gun, however, Mr. Moore
was confronted with several prob
lems. In the first place, In order to
get sufficient force to propel a hall
850 feet a second, which Is the speed
of a lytllet from a Colt automatic, sev
eral thousand revolutions of the gun
barrel a second had to be obtained.
This necessitated the construction of
a special type of electric motor to pro
vide the requisite revolutions. Then
the tensile strength of the metals en
tering Into the composition of the gun,
and particularly of the barrel, had to
be considered. Mr. Moore's knowledge
of electric motors, tensile strength of
metals nnd of ballistics being limited,
he consulted experts In those various
lines, and assembled the Information
collected from these various sources
before starting to construct the cen
trifugal gun.
The main parts of the gun as de
signed by Mr. Moore consist of an up
right shaft attached to u powerful
electric motor capable of giving It a
rotation of 10,000 revolutions a min
ute. Attached to the shaft, and at
right angles to It, Is a hollow steel arm
eight Inches long which serves as the
gun barrel. Balls Instead of bullets
are used, and are half an Inch In di
ameter or .50 caliber.
The Timing Device.
In Mr. Moore's opinion the most es
sential part of the gun Is the timing
device, which lets the halls Into the
barrel at Just the proper time and liv
terval to Insure their emerging from
the end of the barrel the Instant It
reaches the opening In the stationary
gun covering or cosing which incloses
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SECRET SERVICE
JORS IN DEMAND
More Than 2,000 Applications
for Every Vacancy.
WORK APPEALS TO AMATEURS
"Correspondence School” Sleuth*
Eager to Show Their Skill—Service
le Recruited From City Detective
Forces and None Is Accepted Until
He Ha* by Years of Work Proved
Hi* Ability as Crime Investigator.
A place on the United States secret
service force Is the most sought for po
sition In the United States. More
than 2,000 applications are received
for every vacancy and every mall
brings new requests. Most of these
are from “sleuths” who have complet
ed the course of some mall order de
tective school. No sooner does the
average "graduate” get Ids diploma
and slar than he sits down and writes
to Washington that he Is “qualified to
do all kinds of detective work” and
asks for a government position.
In all such cases the applicant Is out
a 2-eent stamp, for the detectives In
the government services are recruited
from the city detective forces and
none Is accepted until he has proved
by years of work Ids ability as a crime
Investigator.
The secret service was created In
18(54 to truce and arrest counterfeiters
of United States currency, principally
the old “greenbacks.” and detection of
makers and circulators of spurious
money has always been Its chief func
tion. Consequently It has attained a
high degree of efficiency In that line,
and It has become axiomatic ‘.hat “no
counterfeiter can get away with It.”
Cleverness Against Cleverness.
But high wages for skilled and un
skilled labor do not seem to have ap
pealed to a number of clever men who
during the last few months have at
tempted to heat the high cost of living
by making their own money. In con
sequence the secret service has been
unusually active, and five gangs of
I counterfeiters operating In widely dif
ferent parts of the country have been
rounded up uud (heir plants confiscat
ed the government agents.
The war laid an extra heavy burden
on this branch of the government’s ma
chinery, and hardly had the amount of
work begun to lessen, when counter
feit bills began to appenr in unusual
quantities, and the work of the crimi
nals made their detection difficult.
In one Instance a group of three
men, who had made some very fine
plates, were caught before they hud
put a single piece of fnulty paper Into
circulation, their apprehension being
the result of a lucky accident and some
clever detective work.
As has been related already In the
dully press, a bather In I-uke Michigan
at Chicago u few weeks ago struck his
foot against something sharp, and on
Investigating found It was a copper
plate engraving of a $10 federal re
serve note. He turned It over to the
federal authorities, who saw that It
was an Imperfect plate, hut In the
light of long experience they guessed
that where that plate came from there
were others In process of manufacture.
With no other clew to work on, they
begnn an Investigation and soon ar
rested three men, who admitted that
they had been experimenting with
counterfeit# plates for several months.
Twelve such plates were found In
their possession, some of them so well
made that hills printed from them
would have been very hard of detec
tion.
Forge Pay Check*.
More than 100 convictions huve re
sulted from the work of the secret ser
vice agents In running down persons
who obtained fraudulent possession
of government pay checks during the
war and cashed them after forging an
Indorsement. Hundreds of checks also
were passed In cases where the blank
forms were stolen from the offices of
disbursing officers and filled out false
ly. Mauy of these checks were stolen
from mall boxes, where they had been
left by the postmen for disabled sol
diers or dependents of soldiers, but
this form of thievery has all but
ceased.
Because of the billions of dollars
disbursed from Washington nnd of the
Inexperience of many disbursing offi
cers who did not safeguard their rec
ords properly, the national capital be
came a rich field for crooks and the
secret service found plenty to do right
at Its doorstep. The latest piece of
criminality to engage the attention of
the bureau there has developed In the
bureau of wnr risk Insurance, where
a number of disabled soldiers were In
duced lo part with a part of their
money due from the government on
the ground that by such a method they
could get more than the government
would otherwise pay them.
Investigation has shown that the sol
diers were the only loaers, os the em
ployees of the bureau have no power
to Increase the amount the disabled
men are paid. Only minor employees
of the bureau have been Involved.
The large Issues of Liberty bonds
have given the secret service added
duties In tracing stolen registered
bonds. Theft of coupon bonds does
not directly concern the bureau any
more than the theft of currency, but
as registered bonds cannot be trans
ferred or the Interest collected with
out ihe signing of the rightful owner's
name, Uiey come iu a different class,
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PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT
OF MUCH WATER POWBt
Forest Service Receives Applica
tions for More Than Half
Million Horsepower.
Already applications for more than
one-half million horsepower have been
filed with the forest service of the
United States department of agricul
ture In connection with the water
power bill signed by the president on
June 11.
The Increasing costs of fuel and the
difficulties of Its transportation have
put a premium on water power, say
forest service experts. It Is expected
that the legislation will mark the be
ginning of a new era In power develop
ment In the United States. Big devel
opments are to be undertaken In the
near future In the East, South and
West.
The act applies to all power sites on
public lands and reservations and on
the navigable waters of the United
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Looking Qian Falla, Plagah National
Forest.
States, Including International boun
dary waters. Its administration la
charged to a commission comprising
the secretaries of war, Interior and ag
riculture. Full details of the act, such
as license, rates and service, may be
had upon application to any of the de
partments named.
MAKES “SWISS” CHEESE
Finds a Way to Fill United States
Product Full of Holes.
“Swiss" cheese—the kind full of
holes—long a luxury on American ta
bles, Is soon to become a commonplace
commodity. The holes, the distinguish
ing mark of real “Swiss” cheese, can
now be made by a new culture dis
covered by W. U. Weimar, a cheese
specialist of Sugar Creek, O.
Since the manufacture of "Swiss”
cheese began In this country no dairy
man or farmer has been able to pro
duce the holes In quantity and size dis
played by the Imported from the conti
nent. Long have scientists cudgeled
*%*lr brains In an efTort to discover
the secret
Weimar, who makes no pretensions
to scientific achievement, has agreed
to demonstrate to cheese makers, farm
ers, and dairymen of Tuscarawas
county how to produce the long sought
“holes" by means of a new culture.
Through Weimar's process American
made “Swiss" cheese can be made to
bo closely resemble the Imported ar
ticle that the ordinary person cannot
distinguish the difference. The new
culture, Weimar says, can be used suc
cessfully by any dairyman or cheese
maker.
DEER KILLS SNAKE
Tramples Life From Big Reptile fn
Little Time.
A combat between a buck deer and
a five-foot black snake was witnessed
In a field about a mile and a half west
of Youngsdale, Pa., by Emmanuel Ar
nold, who had been fishing In McEl
hattan run for trout and was walk
ing to Lock Haven via Castanca.
The fight was of short duration, for
the deer trampled the life out of the
big snake In a few seconds.
Arnold saw the buck and a doe In
a field near a woods, and the next in
stant the buck leaped In the air four
times In succession and came down
with his feet close together. As be
started toward the field to make an
Investigation the deer ran Into the
woods and disappeared. On reach
ing the spot where the animal had
been standing Arnold was surprised
to see a large blacksnake crushed and
mangled by the sharp-pointed hoofs
of the deer, which were bunched to
gether each time the deer landed on
the reptile.
Canada Second in Motor Industry.
Canada Is now the second nation in
the world In the manufacture and the
per capita ownership of automobiles.
The Dnlted States outranks her, where
statistics show one person out of lfi
owns a car, while In Canada there Is
one car for every 2.'i persons.
More 8oldier Dead Returned to U. 8.
The bodies of 8117 American dead,
consigned direct to the homes of their
parents reached New York city from
Antwerp, Belgium, aboard the trans
port Mercury. The bodies were re-,
celved with military honor by regular
yiriny men.
(£). 1920, Wealern Newspaper Union >
“Once get out In the Venturis dis
trict, Dale, and you’ll never go any
where else. Once a man gets the cabin
fever among those royal old hills, be |
is enchanted for life.”
“Why do you call it ‘cabin fever,'
Merton?” Inquired Alvin Dale.
“Because It applies specifically. I
There is everything in the section ex
cept oil. Once there was a rush on
prospects In thut line, but It turned
out that every strike was a shallow
surface well. Inside of a year there
wasn't a driller or a derrick left In
the district. They did leave cabins, |
however. Here and there along a trail
for a hundred miles In the center of j
the grandest hunting and fishing dis
trict In the world, every few miles
you'll find a fair to Indifferent cabin,
but offering a shelter far superior to
a flimsy tent."
“Abandoned, I suppose.”
“Permanently, and you take your
pick and house yourself and no ques
tions asked.”
Lisle Merton was, like Dale, a young
man of fortune r.nd leisure and an
authority on places and travel. Dale
started the next day on his thousand
mile trip. A settlement named Eden
Point was his rail connection. Then
twenty miles by wagon and as much
more by canoe, and he found himself ;
late one afternoon In front of a plain
board structure with three rooms.
“It’s about the choice of the houses,"
advised his guide, “right on the stream
and that’s a big advantage, for nearly
every day some kind of craft passes
up or down stream and they will do
any errands you may have at the set- j
tlement.”
“That will be Just the thing,” com
mented Dale.
“Another thing,” continued the
guide, “back a bit from the river
there are several families living, so
you won’t be lonesome.”
Dale had bought a folding cot, an
old stove, some camp stools and a
fair array of pots, pans and crockery.
It was a pleasing novelty and some
thing of a delight to make amateur
housekeeping arrangements. Bedroom,
dining room and kitchen swept and
furnished, he lit a lamp and sat down
to write some letters, feeling quite
at home and comfortable.
“Saw your light, and wondered who
my next neighbor could be,” spoke a
hearty voice, pud at the threshold
stood a bronzed, bearded man, the
typical frontiersman In dress and
speech. "You look as If your needs
are all nicely provided for,” added
the visitor ns he glanced about him.
“We have butter and eggs and always
a friendly helping hand when you
happen to need It. Pm Aaron Burt;
lived here for ten year.”
“With your family?” said Daly, sim
ply to keep up the conversation.
“Only a niece, Ada Revere. She
has been here a month and going to
stay two more. I hope we get better
acquainted.”
“It will not be my fault, If we don’t,”
said Dale. He was pleased at the
thought of neighbors, more so espe
cially as the niece might be a young
lady. lie found her so, and beautiful,
intelligent, refined. It was the next
day thut he came upon her In the
woods with her uncle. An Introduc
tion followed and after that almost
every other day Dale spent an hour
or two at the Burt cabin. He learned
that Mr. Burt owned considerable land
In the district and was experimenting
along the line of promoting a plan
to get the oil from shale. His niece
was unpretentious. friendly and
charming.
It wns natural and Inevitable that
these two young souls should discover
a mutual attraction. Then there tran
spired a series of Incidents that
brought about a definite climax. Mr.
Burt came over to Dale’s cabin one
morning riding one horse and leading
another.
“I need your help, Dale," he spoke
quite excitedly. “Some one broke In
to the house while we were passing
the night with a neighbor. We sus
pect two fellows we noticed hanging
around yesterday. They are on foot.
They have taken about all Ada pos
sessed and we must get after them.”
They came upon the thieves ten
miles away. The latter had seen them
coming and hnd scurried for a belt
of dense timber, leaving a suitcase
they had been rifling behind them.
Burt tossed over Its contents.
•“They haven’t taken anything but
a trinket or two," he reported. “We
won’t risk a fight following them fur
ther,” and Dale, staring hnrd at an
array of clothing fit for a princess,
began to realize that Miss Ada Reeves
must belong to a family of some con
sequence.
Ada was delighted to recover her
property and Dale’s co-operation In
securing It drew them still closer to
gether. One day Burt met Dale, quite
serious looking.
“Young man,” he spoke, “I’ve got
eyes to notice that yon and Ada are
beaded for a deep dive Into love. I
don’t know how that will suit her
folks. They’re proud and rich and
pretty high up. I should have told
you that before.”
“It was not necessary,” replied Dale
with a cheery laugh. “I won’t boast
because I own two hanks nnd come
from one of the oldest families In I
my native city. I think I can qualify .
up to the standard of Ada’s family, i
It Is too late to discuss that, how- '
ever, for I Just kissed your ehnrmlng j
niece and placed an engagement ring
upon her finger.”
A Perfect Woman.
The measurements and description
of the perfect woman, as approved by
a New York sculptor, follow: Height,
B feet 7 Inches; weight. 147 pounds;
wrist, 0V4 Inches; bust 36 Inches;
waist 24^4 Inches; hips, 42 Inches;
thigh. 22 Inches; knee, 17 Inches; calf,
15 Inches; ankle, 8 Inches; size ot
glove, 6^4 ; size of shoe, 3%; color of
hair, chestnut brown; color of eyes,
hazel.
Sell Historic Banner In London.
At a sale of antiques recently In
London, colors carried at the battle of
Culloden In 1746 were sold to a Glas
gow purchaser for £7150 ($3,750). The
colors were borne by Sir James Kin
loch’s battalion—the Second—of Lord
Ogllvy’s regiment, and Is believed to
be the only banner carried off by the
young pretender’s defeated army. All
the colors taken In the battle were
burned at Edinburgh.—London Times.
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