Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-15

1t seems that electrically operat-
ed torpedoes loaded with whisky
are being sent daily across the De-
troit river from the Canadian side
to the American shore a mysterious
informant told Federal officers re-
Gently. Without divulging his iden-
ity, he told the result of his private
Investigations.
His statement was as follows:
There are three torpedoes in use
now, of 10, Is and rs gallons capac-
ity, they are Of copper construction,
with a propeller at the nose actuated
by. electric storage batteries. They
submerge 100 feet, and require about
point he designated only as least of
Woodward avenue" A red flag on
one side of the river and white
one on the other comprise targets at
t Thsa he he saa a ass b theF
caught and emptied on the American
side the torpedoes are balasted with
water and sent back. A huge tor
pedo of so gallons capacity Is being
constructed, he told the federal Off
GERS.
BODY Jones, Of Atlanta, the phe-
nomenal golfing youngster, will COM
pete this year in the national open
Championship for the first time in
his short but sensational this rs career
from S. P. Jermain, of Toledo, in
charge of the arrangements for the
event at the Inverness club.
The inevitable question now arises,
Francis ouimet's in 1918? There is
an interesting parallel. Seven years
ago Harry Warden and Ted Ray
came over from England and tied
for the title, and lost the play-off
to Ouimet, then slim twenty-yearee
III Ia YO1a a iYp
British professionals will make.
return trip this summer and play
at Toledo. Although Ouimet un-
questionably will play and without
detracting in any, way. from his
Of every hundred agree that sooner
or later Bobby Jones is to become
the amateur champion of the Unit
ed States.
Ramifications of the Walter An
drew Watson case in California, in
volving the alleged murder of five
women he says he married, extended
to Cleveland, involving a charge by
Mrs. Nellie Alderman, living here,
that Watson is the real murderer of
Shelbourne Falls, Mass, in 1898, for
which her brother, Jack O'Neil, was
convicted and hanged.
Mrs. Alderman was resident OF
Shelbourne Falls until few years
ago She charges that Watson lived
there at the time of the murder of
Mrs. McCloud and that he was then
known as Newton Harvey.
She is planning to get in touch
with Prosecutor Thomas Woolwine,
toned in connection with the death
of Mrs. McCloud in an effort to clear
her dead brothers name.
Clarence Coombs, plotting an Oren-
CO plane with three passengers, rose
worlds record, over Mitchell Field,
Mineola, N. Y. The record Is vouch-
ed for by officials of the American
The previous record. made will with
Gals Of the flying club, was approx
mateIy 12,400 feet. While the ex-
act time was not taken, unofficial
estimates placed it at one hour and
ten minutes. The plane has 15O-
Coombs formerly was a sergeant
in the American army. air service.
His passengers included a repre-
sentative of the company manufac
turing the plane and two newspaper
men. With the exception of .proyid-
the passengers made no special
provisions for ascending to a high
altitude.
A ten-mile southwest wind was
blowing across the field when the
flight began and increased velocity
was noted in the higher attitudes,
The temperature at the peak Of the
climb was very cold, but no III eff
fects were suffered by any of the
passengers.
Theodore n. Vail, chairman of the
board of directors of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company,
died at Johns Hopkins hospital April.
16, of a complication Of cardiac and
kidney troubles.
Mr.. Vail was taken there fire.,
Jekyl Island, Georgia. in his pri-
vate car. At the hospital it was
stated that he was IN a serious con-
dition when he reached there and
his death was not unexpected to the
Mr.. Vail retired as president of
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph company last June and became
chairman.
News coming to us from Panama
tells us that General Pershing, after
al all-day hunt in which two alli-
gators were lassoed and captured
alive, boarded the transport North
ern Pacific and sailed for New York |
by way Of Porto Rico few days
ago. -...... ..... 49, .-.-.- --.---. !