REVOLVER SHOWN IN CONGRESS.
A REPRESENTATIVE'S COURAGE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—B¥ ELECTBIC TELEOKAPH—COPYRIGHT.) WASHINGTON, December 13. * A man giving the name of Martin Kemerer, from Allentown, Pennsylvania, stood up in the gallery of the House of Representatives to-day, and, covering the tioor with a revolver, and putting one foot over the rail, he waved a gun toward members. Representatives looked up, startled, and some headed for the cloakrooms. "I want the floor for a few minutes," the man shouted. He stood for a feiv moments waving the gun, then Mr Melvin J. Maas (Republican, Minnesota) walked across the chamber directly below him, "and said, "Throw down that gun." He pitched the gun to Mr Maas, who eaught it. The police rushed into the gallery, seizing the man, and the House resumed proceedings.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20730, 15 December 1932, Page 9
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