 On December 13, 1932, a 25-year-old department store clerk Marlin Kemmerer from Allentown, Pennsylvania, pulled a gun in the House visitors' gallery and demanded to be allowed to address the House in the matter of nation's economic depression.As members fled the chamber, Maas stood his ground and shouted to the man that no one was allowed to speak in the House while carrying a weapon and demanded that he throw it down.The man did so, was promptly arrested, and escorted from the House Chamber by police.