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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-06
FRISCO GUNS SET
NEW SERVICE MARK
For First Time in History the Coast
Guns Are Directed Solely
From Air.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. Big gun
coast defenses OF San Francisco re-
Gently took world leadership when,
official service reports said, for the
first time in history, twelve-inch rifles
were fired entirely by directions from
the air. Experiments have been con-
Quoted since last April on co-opera-
ton between the army air service bal
looms and the various coast artillery
and heavy artillery posts along the
Pacific coast.
Tho 18th and cath balloon companies
sent here from Fort Omaha. Nebraska,
conducted these experiments. So far
as known, according 10 official reports.
the only previous experiments OF this
kind, undertaken in 1919 at Sandy
Hook. resulted in failure. Special in
struments were devised in the Pacific
coast experiments, which finally re-
suited In success.
Battery Mendell, one of San Fran
cisco's big coast defenAe disappearing
batteries, claims the honor of the first
battery functtoning accurately from
aerial control. Twenty-Five shots at
a pyramidical target, moving at a
range OF $4,000 yards, included five
direct ship" hits.
This demonstrated that fog or haze
making low visibility hereafter will
not cripple San Francisco's coast de-
lenses Balloons at an altitude of 49,
600 to 10000 feet get over the fog, To-
cate the enemy object at sea. and di-
rect the fog-hidden battery's deadly
work against the attacker.
Following the big rifle experiments,
the balloon companies worked out
mortar firing problems from the air,
as well as nightfiring by flares, and
tests of new instruments. The ball
loon companies will be permanently
stationed at Roos field. Arcadia, Cali
fornia. as a part of the Pacific coast
defense.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-06
DODSON STOPS
sale OF CALOMEL
"Dodsons Liver Tone is Taking Place of Dangerous,
Sickenng Chemical, Say Druggists

Every druggist in town has noticed
great falling off in the sale of call
omel. They all give the same reason.
Dodson's Liver Tone is taking its
place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know It," DodsorSs Liver Tone is per-
sonally guaranteed by every druggist
who sells II. A large bottle doesn't
cost very much bun If it fails to give
easy relief In every case of liver slug
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-06

gishness and constipation, just ask
for your money back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant
tasting, purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults.
Take a spoonful at night and wake
up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick
headache, acid stomach or consti-
pated bowels 1t doesn't grippe or cause
inconvenience all next day like violent
calomel. Take dose of calomel to-
day and tomorrow you will feel weak,
sick and nauseated. Don't lose a day.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-06

Himalayas in northern India, Glenn
enceau said:
These tigers did not put up much
of a fight. l shall refrain from kill
ing any more lest 1 run 'afoul of the
Society of Prevention of Cruelty to
tame animals"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-06
LYNCHING CASE
GOES TO JURY
Continues from Page one.)

the jury only one of the three auto
mobiles used by the company was in
commission the night of Jan. 1913,
when the lynching occurred, and that
the captains car was the only one
which could have been used, that he
saw it at eight o'clock in the morning
and it had not been used at all during
the night.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-06

The high school basket tossers rep
resenting the Maroon and White de-
| feated Milton on their home court yes
terday in a fast game. The midgets,
| led by Captain Stanley Wolf, sent
them back with a IA to 10 defeat
marked UP against them.
The local boys looked like midgets
alongside the heavier and much larg-
er Milton team but the little fellows
opened up with their swift passing
and attack and soon had Milton going
so that at the end Of the first half they
had them IA to 8. Milton came back
in the second half and scored seven
points to the locals none, but the ex-
cellent work of Coach Moore's five in
the first half enabled them to get the
Milton boys scalp.
Lots of credit must be given these
boys for the way they played those
big fellows. The boys and girls were
treated royalty by the Milton princi-
, pal and his associates. The teams
before the left for home
To pick a star would be hard as
every man on the team played excel
lent ball, but the work of Stanley Wolf
who was all over the court and into
every play deserves mentioning.
p. H. S. 14) MILTON (1O)
Marsh CD. ....F.... CD F1emming
Hudson CO. ....F......... Butler
Frater (2},.......C.. ~ (C) Straughn
Wolf Co (4.....G........ "a Moore
Levy. ............G ....... Lynn
Officials-Rerefee, Olsen; timekeep-
er, Wolf; scorer, Johnson. Time of
halves-20 and Is minutes.
The girls completely outplayed Mil
ton and defeated them to the tune of
10 to s. Hard practice by the girls
the past week put them in excellent
condition and they easily outclassed
the Milton cagesters in shooting goals.
passing and teamwork.
The game was played on an out
door court which was hard on the
players who have been used to the
Armory. The game was fast and we'll
played by both sides but the superior
teamwork of Coach Waites' team soon
showed that the game would end with
the Maroon and White in the lead.
The excellent playing of Mae White
and Mary Wentworth at forward was
too much for the Milton guards and
they divided the goals equally between
them. Clifford Clark, at running CEN
ter, was at her best and was always
there to get the ball when Mae Cole
man tapped it to her. Capt. Eliza
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-06
CLEMENCEAU KILLS
TIGERS IN INDIA
(RY Assoeiated Pressl

PARIS, Feb. 5.-Former Premier
Clemenceau, the tiger of France,
fond the tigers of India easy game.
Writing 10 a friend about the two
which he bagged at the foot of the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-06

Brookline, Mass, is the largest town
in the world administered under the
town meeting system
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-06
Pensacola High School Takes
Both Ends of o. Double Header

beth Ray and Halle Lee Cooper held
the Milton forwards to points.
p. III. s. d9) MILTON (S)
Evening star., 1921-06-05
THE ELMFORD. CRIME

hurry" Therefore he ran down the
steps. and. his eyes still blinded by
the glare. stepped into q large run
about and settled himself by the
driver.
They swung away at . breakneck
speed which before long swept RAN
dalrs cap from his head and forced
him to cling with both hands to the
side of the car.
MANI" he shouted "This is dan.
gerous. There's no point in such
~
THE car swerved. It's speed was all
at once reduced. With q diseon-
certing jerk 1t came to a standstill.
AS Randall. trying to recover his bal
ance. started to speak angriiy. SOME
thing soft and binding struck his
face and. enveloped his head His
hands, raised purposelessly, were
caught and pinioned. The cloth sud.
denly became moist and a familiar
odor arose. The other laughed as he
fastened a cord about the arms and
body. Randall gasped. His bound
limbs relaxed. :.
( The driver turned the car. and.
with one arm around the senseless
doctor. drove in leisurely fashion back
towards Elmford
Hidden among the undergrowth at
some distance from the house stood
small. partly ruined stone building.
Evening star., 1921-06-05
One of the Gray MASK Stories BY Wadsworth Camp

far from the threshold. The damp
floor farther in was disturbed only
by. long, irregular depression, mod
eled, he knew. by a body. lying prone.
over the lines of footprints which
converged at the door. One set strag-
gled uneyenly up the stream. With
an exclamation, he followed it along
the bank until it swung close to the
water. He stopped. His lamp moved
searchingly about the bottom of the
shallow creek. Nora bent over his
shoulder.
There. Hold your light steady. It's
been moved. Look at the dark stain
on this side"
Garth reached over, rolling the
stone away. He drew from the water
cloth. AS he raised the cloth a tiny
bottle fell from its folds and splin-
tered on the rock
He sprang upright.
Come along. We've got to turn
up something in the house that will
They climbed the hill. The unlight-
ed house. like thing dead itself and
surrendered to decay, arose before
them forbiddingly.
Garth crossed the veranda on tip
mo lights he breathed.
Nora shivered.
He led her across the hall. up the
staircase, and down the corridor to
the dressing room.
But why not lights. Jim?"
tits logic to wait awhile" he said.
''The letters. you know"
"Bnt who"
''Sh-h"
did you hear anything" she asked.
mo. II Randall never wore a
rose-
~Jim! I've never-felt such darkness. -
"I must think" he said.
at frightens me here" Nora breathed.
1--WE the Queerest desire to-to scream" "
Her laugh was scarcely audible.
Her words had set Garth's memory
to work. He knew again what he
missed in this silent house-the amor
phous screams of woman in an agony
powerless to express itself. How she
must have wanted to speak.
A movement, scarcely audible, reached
him from the next room.
Nora's hand touched his arm. He
was aware of the trembling of her fin-
gers He leaned forward. listening. He
scarcely caught Nora's voice.
you heard-that?"
The movement was repeated-some-
body-something stirred in the dark
room where the woman had died
stay here quietly" he whispered.
His movements as he crossed the floor
persisted in the bedroom. He paused
in the doorway. He drew out his re-
volver and his flashlight. He pressed
the button. The glare splintered the
blackness and centered on the figure
of a man who bent over the open
drawer of a desk.
Throw your hands up" Garth said.
Evening star., 1921-06-05

vase Of roses q larker stain spread.
She stumbled to her knees by the
dead man., Her desolate cries fed
ceaselessly through the open window.
Garth the next day read the brief
and scarcely illuminating account Of
the Elmford murder In the morning
papers. Irritation at his own assign
ment-an unimportant case uptown
let II slip through his mind without
accusing any exceptional interest.
When he returned, to the central
once. In the afternoon the doorman
beckoned to him.
"Inspectofs been asking after you" !"
Garth went to his room and paused,
III at cate. just within the doorway.
The huge man lo1led' In his chair.
His quiet eyes fixed Garth gentall1
For once he failed to fidget with his
desk paraphernaliA- His rumbling
voice was abnormally mild.
Boys tell me you're a little sore
on the Jobs you've had since you
smashed Slim and George and their
favorites."a g.
Garth grew red
Were you thinking Of paying
rve got; to disappoint you; I can't
see anything particularly dangerous
about this Job, but I'd like you to
look it over, this afternoon It's the
Elmford murder. Suppose you've
read about it.
There doesn't seem much to clear
up except Pr. Randalrs whereabouts.
The men I sent out this morning
Evening star., 1921-06-05

ed upon . silvery thread apparently
in the carpet. In his haste to reach
this thread Garth stumbled noisily
against a chair, and, as II in response.
while he detached the thread from
the carpet, = gentle knocking reached
him from the bedroom door.
.t A little ashamed of his racket, he
thrust the thread In his pocket, arose
and opened the door. A tall man with
iron-gray hair entered, closing the
door gently behind him. His tone was
repressed. but Garth did not miss It's
annoyance.
do you want to kill that woman?"
II. see. The chair" Garth said.
when do you think we'll be able to
question herr"
God knows! If this keeps up. She's
in a bad way. Do you suppose id
waste my time here otherwise? tell
you quiet Is essential"
by the way, doctor. since you're
Mrs. Randalps cousin. you must nave
known the doctor pretty we'll"
is Yes. yes. very we'll"
Did you ever notice-was he IN tne
habit OF wearing flower In his but
tonhole?'
The other glanced at him suspi-
II never saw him with one. He was
q very masculine type-no anecta-
tons. 80
, Garth flushed. -
"And Mr.. Treving?" he asked. Did
what? Wear flower! I'm sure I
Evening star., 1921-06-05

The man at the desk swung around.
lifting his hands and exposing the
white and contorted face of the but
ler Thompson.
Garth stepped forward aggressively.
His conscience troubled him not at
all.
II want you for the murder of Fred
erick Treving-there in the next
room."
"No-no. ! had nothing to do with
it. swear"
."I thought so,- he said. mo ques-
rose I found where Treving's body
lay. Got it at the wedding, didn't
you?"
What are you talking about? had
nothing to do with it,"
Tell that to the judge who'll send
you to the chair" he said.
mo. no. tell you had nothing to
do with it. 1t was Mrs. Randall. He
attacked her. and she shot him."
you heard that, Nora?"
Nora came to the door.
Yes"
through with the case"
But you're not cleaT YET. How did
you happen to be here? 1 know you
went to the Wedding with tfre rest
eyes. but Mrs. Randall got me on the
telephone-said the doctor had been
called back to town and she was nerv--
GUS and I'd have to come home. AS
let myself in the back way heard her
scream. 1 ran up and through this
room. 1 got to the door just in time
to see her shoot him. But when
rushed in and tried to lift her up she
with her. And got frightened:
When l heard the motor cycle and
guessed IL was a policeman who had
heard her screaming. I ran out the
servants entrance and went back to
the wedding and came home with the
rest"
And. knowing the truth, you'd
have let DR.. Randall go on trial"
II worked for her. sir. had been
with her family ever since she was
born. Besides. il he didn't want to
give her away. what business was il
of mine He sent for me today, and
when I told him l had seen her shoot
him. he made me promise to keep my
mouth shut"
II know he sent for you" Garth
,, said. That's why 1 hoped to find
you here tonight"
II told the doctor Of efw letters and
trinkets. He said I must get them
as soon as the detectives had left and
the house was clear. But 1 can say.
sir. there was never anything really
out of the way. She was quite hap
lpy with the doctor. 1t would be a
kindness to the dead"
Garth smiled. turning to Nora.
You wouldn't give me away. would
you? Alright, Thompson. Do what
you came to do"
Thompson shot him grateful
glance and returned to his obliterat-
ing task at the desk. Garth snap
J ped on the light.
But. JIM" Nora asked. how did
you know that man had been a wit
ness? Was it a guess?"
Simple enough" he said.
X 4
LIE took a short. slender. sf1ver5
- thread from his pocket. With a
Evening star., 1921-06-05

propellers are. Thus he can, certainly
in theory. control his forward, upward
and downward flight. He can also con-
troll the direction in which the series
Of propellers rotate, working one
against the other. so as to act as a
brake in descending. BY so doing and
sloping the wings forward. Pescara
claims that he can land at as low a
speed as foot and a half second.
Such landing would reduce the
number of flying accidents by 80 per
cent.
Meanwhile another helicopter is re-
ported from Austria by Harry Har-
per. technical secretary Of the British
civil aerial transport committee. 1t
seems that there Is no doubt of its
success. Its official trials have been
vouched for by Americans as well as
ministry is equally in receipt of cor
roborative news. The inventor is
Lieut.. Stefan Won .Petroczy. and it is
claimed to be the first helicopter in
the world which. after going verti-
cally up, has remained for any time
described as aerial elevators" or
lifts" This one movers at the tenth
floor" with the weight of four men
In 1t. TO be exact. at 160 feet altitude.
It would have risen higher had it not
been held by a restraining cable" to
mental stage, from wandering out of
control. When they wanted to bring
ii down. they did not risk throttlinR
its engines to allow it to sink of its
own weight. but. keeping the hori-
zontal propellors "screwing them
pulled the apparatus down by its
cable on a power-driven winch. The
three motors are said to be French.
They are LIE Rhones Of 120-horsepow-
er each.
A third working helicopter is
French. This is the already famous
Oehmichen-Peugeot machine, which
has made seventy-six ascents at VAL
entigny. 1t Is allowed to screw 1T
self straight up." say. five yards, and
at this height it makes its lateral
trip. say. sixty yards. and then 1t de-
scends straight down to earth. All
this is. likewise. experiment. to gain
equilibrium" balloon of the Oehmi-
chen-Peugeot telicopter is only tenn
prorary. There is no suspicion that
it lifts the apparatus; because the as
censional force of the balloon is only
seventy-one kilos (weight Of an aver
age man). while the helicopter itself,
without pilot, weighs nearly half a
It is a helicopter moment. To be
exact. the helicopter is today just
where the airplane was in 190S-190S,
when the Farmans and others in
France were hopping" over the
ground in horiztntal leaps of sixty
feet or less. The Wright brothers had
not yet given their astonishing exhi-
bftions Of real flight, but it was
known that they had flown. Exactly
in the same way it is known that,
during the war, several Of the best
high speed airplanes of the allies had
been able to remain in the air in a
vertical position, tail down. support
ed only by the up-puH of their air
screws, q performance, commonly
known as Hanging on the prop" It
is true that they were oply able to
hang thus for minute or,so. because
Evening star., 1921-06-05

He called at the inspectors nat after
otnner; The inspector was still at the
once, but Nora commented on his rest
iessness Immediately.
What are you working on, Jim? OF
ford case"
I've arranged for a number Of sub
poenas 70 be served in the morning." he
saio. The servants have left the
mouse. Your father has arranged to
can ms men In. In an hour or so the
long this evening"
Jim! What's on your mind? It's a
clear case"
Yes" he answered. That's why
Jones and the other fiat foot your father
sent out yesterday didn't search the
neighborhood far enough to find the
stone building where Randall hid. It's
It over either: The arrest at the time
seemed enough. But he didn't act like
father says he's clever. Maybe he is,
but l wonder II he Is to that extent.
It's been the trouble all along. It's too
this afternoon. He's refused to put in
any defense
:. Isn't Isl that proof. jun. that he knows
1T might mean." he answered. that
he was protecting somebody else. and
that makes one wonder II there mfghtn't t
be something in the house-letters. per-
haps. In that bedroom I've never had a
chance to exploreLsomething he would
like to have destroyed"
Then. you're going out there to-
Yes How would you like a taxi ride
to Elmfordr'
- =. X, **
co they drove to the lonely patch
- Of woods near the Elmford gate
where Garth instructed the driver to
wait for them. He led Nora. warning
her not to speak. through the obscur-
ity to the entrance. There he paused.
and. after moment. whistled on a
low, prolonged note.
Almost Immediately the sound of
voices came to them and the scrap
ing Of feet in the gravel. Two black
er patches scarcely outlined them
selves against the black shrubbery.
Zones" Garth called softly.
The men approached.
'All right" Garth said. GO along
home. When did they take Mrs. Ran
dali away?"
"Over an hour ago. Thought you
were never coming. spooky hole!"
well. goodnight. There's no secret
about your leaving. but don't mention
at the station that I'm here"
Garth took Nora's arm. and, circling
the house at a distance. reached the
stone building by the stream. He en-
tered. sniming suspiciously. =
Don't move around, Nora"
Quickly ne examined the confusion
of footprints. 1t impressed him at
once as significant that none strayed
Evening star., 1921-06-05

their petrol feeds were not arranged
to keep the engine going in this posi-
tion. but with a suitable arrangement
Of the engine such a position could
be maintained for a long period.
This. of course. is ~hovering."
With the advent of new types of
wings, such as the Handley-Page
Slot wing. an airplane will be able
to get off the ground at a very low
speed and with a run of only a few
yards. and an ordinary small airplane
will be able to alight on a lawn ten
mis- court. little further improve
ment in screws and motors will make
it possible for airplanes to ascend
or descend 80 nearly vertically" that
lit will not be worth while" (says
flying ppinion) to introduce "the COM
plications of the helicopter system
no more than it would be worth while
to mt steamships with side screws to
push them against or away from a
dock"
PUT. pardon. no. says Lieut.. Won
Petroczy of the Austrian army
balloon corps. The helicopter is a
wonderful machine for observation
work in connection with artillery fire.
|, It will pop up vertically, swiftly.
straight up. and hover on the spot,
then drop like a stone. on the same
spot, and land as gently as a feather.
Another thing is winged ships
twice as fast as a Zeppelin. The
Fairey Company. builders for the
British air ministry of the great I'll
tanic flying boats. have plans on hand
for four giant transatlantic flying
Ships, driven by 4,000-horsepower
plants. which will have luxurious ac-
ccmmcdations for 100 passengers
zach. in addition to fuel crew and
stores.
!. They will be air liners with great
hulls which, seen without their wings.
might be mistaken for water craft.
Starting from the lower reaches of
the Thames. they will make a non
stop flight to New York in forty
hours, and calculations show that the
fare by flying ship can be as low,
almost. as by ocean steamship on the
surface.
With the Fairey flying boat, Great
Britain. as a fact. has the largest fly
Ing machine in the world. but the new
constructions will be larger.
We do not now assume that there
is any limit to the size of the flying
boat which can be built" said an en-
gineer at the Hayes factory. Four
giants will be flying in early June.
With a wing span of 140 feet and a
cruising speed of ITO miles per hour,
they will be twice as speedy as a
Zeppelin. climb more than twice as
fast, will dwarf the Zeppelin by their
size and cruise 1,500 miles without
taking on new petrol. The hull is
almost circular. There are~no bulk
heads. There is ample accommodation
for sleeping. cooking and living for
seven men: This type will fly in early
June.
Then will begin the construction of
the, transatlantic Titans carrying one
hundred passengers. Conditions will
approximate almost exactly those of
first-class steamship travel. Guided on
their course by directional wireless, in
formed in advance of weather changes,