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FINALLY DISCOVER PERPE3KJAL MOTION I Electrical Experts Puzzled But Inclined to Believe Trickery . Somewheire^Not Im possible Seattle Pxjst^Intelfcgeneer. Has Alfred Hubbard, 19 year old Seattie bpy> tapped the inexhaustible reservoirs of natures energy' and har nessed to the use of man the illimit-j able power that permeates the uni-! verse? j HubTSard"has announced the perfec-j tion of ada_ih^enthBi; he terms an "at- j mospheric power. . .generator," and] made claims that caused Seattle's, leading electrical engineers to doubt i the evidences of their-senses and toj pause before they condemned as fol ly the assertions - of the youth. "With the apparatus, in appearnce a smili cofl5": of wire about six inches in diameter,* surrounding a perma nently . magnetic core, eight inches i long, the entire ? contrivance easily carried on a man's. hand, Hubbard gave a demonstration several miles from his .laboratory that, regardless of the principles involved, several Seat tle engineers declared without paral lel in electrical history^.. An ordinary incandescent electric light connected with the ? two termi nals of; the 'atmospheric power gene rator* gjowed to a cherry red for nearly * air hour, and Hubbard volun teered :to; permit the lamp to burn for as.many ;h?urs. as was necessary to satisfy the most skeptical. The young.inventor says there are, no moving parts connected with his generator., that there are no hidden j batteries,; storage . or primary, and those who witnessed the demonstra tion made- sure that there was no out side connection with any source of power. . : ? Eubbsix&s explanation of the phe ? nomer.on is that he has succeeded in transforming -the earth lines of mag netic force into electrical, energy avail ale for^ttse* . While- electrical engineers were highly skeptical and held to the pos sibility off fraud, still as George Quinan, superintendent of the electri cal ?iterations of the Pudget Sound Traction; Light and Power company, * said, "whatever the lad has done it is a marvelous demonstration " All _:the^ experts agreed that, if as Hubbard ^declares, there^are no mov ing parts and no concealed battery, the tavention is revolutionary. They had no explanation to offer for its op eration. J. D.J Rossy superintendent of the municipal lighting department and an authority on experimental electricity, declared it possile that Hubbard had sfnmbleid.- on^the answer to the ques tion 'Of <the ages?can the power of the atmosphere, be utilized. Carl Edward Magnusson, acting __d?&n. of vfihe University of Washington college ;Of ' Engineering, declined even to hazard a guess as to the principle involved in the device. "It sounds like trickery to me and I can hardly believe that the experi ment-as described to me actually took placeY" be> said. "I will not venture an opinion until I have seen it-" C. F. Uh den,, special engineer of the city in charge of the Skagit river power, deov^oprnent, declared himself intensely- interested in the invention and af*er canvassing the possibilities of chicanery admitted that he would not dare form an opinion until he had seen the apparatus in operation. "It's- always possible," he said 'though there - have been many to make the claim and no one to sub stantiate it in the past." But Hubbard, because his device has not .been patented, owing to compli cations arising with his financial back ers, it is said, has refused to allow technical men more than a glimpse at the apparatus. All that could be learned from him regarding--the construction of the in strument follows; The machine, he said, is composed of several . layers; of wire about a steel core, which is magnetized after the construction is complete. Once mag netized, the core needs no further at tention, he said, and the entire device Will deliver - energy unremittingly for ? an indefinite length of time. "I place a maximum of 50 years on the life of the generator," said Hub bard, "simply because one must fix some maximum. I know no reason why it should not last until time rots the Insulation away from the wires." Hubbard denies that his device is a * Buy By Mail and Save Money g ^ ? Write For Oar Catedogat No. C27 It. shows raCt-y attractive. latest ! styles of j?h(K^ that cannot be beftght in sinall U>vn stores. It will save you money and show our system of giving aa absolute fit and satisfaction. Ouafity, Style and Price tho Best Guaranteed to Wear, Fit and Satisfy W. F-Livingston & SJonr. 'yV* ni* *0?rit\ Or br-;,nch %tor r % perpetual motion machine. He main tains that it taps the vast storehouses of cosmic energy and. that, the appara tus is founded upon sound scientific principles. "I have hitched my wires to the tail of the universe, you might say," he said. Hubhard has a high school educa tion. Bis father is an electrical engi neer, he said, and "the family formerly lived in Spokane. It was while he was in charge of an air compressor at the Hercules mine near Coeur d'Alene.: Idaho, that he first became interested in the problem. "1 watched a great belt flit by me day after day," he related, "and I noted, as thousands before me had, that I could draw an electric spark from the belt! with my finger; I had always been interested " in electricity and had studied ? great deal from \ books since I was a small boy. One night I. conceived the idea that devel-. oped later into the generator. I will not say that it. utilizes in any way the current derived by friction as from the belt That is not accurate. I am not prepared to divulge the nature of the actual translation of energy." Hubhard says he can obtain four kilowatts, equivalent to hiOre than five horse power, from a contrivance weighing less than 12 pounds, and that he can build a generator less than IS feet in length tq develop 18,000 horse power, or saifficient elctrical energy to drive the new battleship New Mexico. Hubbard offers to build for $50 a generator . large enough to drive a motor car, but much smaller than the present engines. The Hubbard gener ator, according to its inventor, would give the airplane unlimited fiying range; The young man says he worked 18 hours a day. for two years before he came to Seattle, and during, the year since perfecting the apparatus. His first model was built a year and a half ago, he said. "... Hubbard asserts that his four kilo watt machine, has continuously ex cited the equivalent of 120 ordinary 25 watt house lamps to full brilliancy for three months. The device during this time, he says he is ready to take oath, did not receive4 outward stimulus and at the time "the test was complet ed the lights were burning at the same bri]nancy. The apparatus, should it prove to have the merit its inventor asserts for it, engineers, said, will revolutionize the world <g power and motion. All steam and gaV engines will be junked, experts say. The most ponderous and complicated electrical generating de vices, steam and. water turbine gen erators, and all the mechanism of transmission wires and transformers will be obsolete. Electrical transporta tion can enter ? new era. Air trans portation will be advanced hundreds of years. Submarine practice will be changed, and most important of all cheap, almost inexpensive power, plac ed at the disposal of every man and woman. The announcement of Hubbard re called to the minds, of many the fu rore created in July, 191$, by the re quest of Gar?bed Ghiragossian to con gress for a special patent protecting his rights as the inventor of a "free energy machine. The" patent was granted after nu merous members of congress had seen the machine in operation and testi fied to its apparent powers. For some reason, not fully explained,, the engine, failed to render the service its in ventor asserted for it, and nothing has been heard of the device since. GERMANY READY TO SURRENDER Imperial Government Lost Hope Before Revolution Basle, Jan. 20.?The German cabi net had decided before the revolu tionary overturn in November 1918 that it would make an offer of sur render to the entente according to Otto Landsberg, the majority Social ist leader, as quoted hi a Cologne dis patch. Landsberg said he had been unable to disclose this before peace was definitely decided. He declared that on November 5th, 1918, four days before the revolution, the cabi net had proposed to offer to the en tente the complete capitulation of Germany. REDS RECEIVED IN RUSSIA Berkman and Goldman On Con genial Soil Terijoki. Finland. Monday, Jan. 19. ?The Russians deported from the United States were given what might be termed an official reception just outside of this village today. In the crowd that greeted Alexander Berk man, Emma Goldman and their "com rades" was M. Zorin, member of the all Soviets executive committee, who, aft^r a brief conference with Berk man, agreed to permit the whole party to enter Bolshevik Russia. SAFE INJEOLLAND Germans Confident Dutch Will Never Surrender Wilhelm Paris. Jan. 20.?Boiief that the ef forts of the allies to get William Hoh enzollern out of Holland would prove unsuccessful was expressed today by Baron von Larsner He said he was absolutely sure the Dutch govern ment never would surrender the former emperor. AMERICAN NEWS PAPERS SEIZED j Authorities in Ireland Exercise! Censorship Dublin, Jan. 20.?American news-j papers arriving here during the last' few days were seiased by the postal J authorities, supposed on account of articles referring to Irish affairs. Christiania, Jan. 20.?Thirty-sew - fishermen were drowned in a gale which struck the fishing fleet near Tren&hjta jrefttraa/? NAVY YARD IS IN DANGER Republican Congressmen De termined to Prevent South ern Development Washington, Jan. 19.?A Republi can congress appears to. desire the quick death of the Charleston navyj yard, the subcommittee "from the naval affairs cornmitte which went to that city a few days ago to make an investigation as to the feas ibility of spending more money on a dry dock having reported today against such a proposition and in fa vor of the immediate adoption of res olutions heretofore offered by Senators Kenyon of Lowa and Calder of New York that no more funds be placed on the dock and that the dredging of a 40 foot channel to the entrance of the dock be -abandoned. This effort to dismantle the Char leston, navy -y-afd began just before Christmas by-the introduction of res olutions by the New Tork and Iowa senators. These resolutions were tem porarily sidetracked . but came to light on January 5 when the naval af-? fairs committee decided to send a sub committee to Charleston to investigate before further work should be done in the meantime holding up contem plated activity by the navy depart ment. This subcommittee reported today in favor of the adoption of former resolutions, which would Curtail work at Charleston and an attempt was made by Senator King of Utah to get action today. This was fought off by Senator* Dial of South Carolina, who asked that no action be taken until tomorrow. This was agreed to and tomorrow, from present plans, there will be a fight on the floor to get ac tion, stopping work and to prevent it. Senator Dial said he wanted noth ing done until Senator Smith, who is at his home in South Carolina on im portant business, ' could return tb> Washington. He is expected back im mediately. FLU RAGING IN CHICAGO Two Thousand New Cases and Fifty Deaths Reported Chicago, Jan. 19.?Chicago's health department was swamped with ap peals for nurses today to combat the spread of influenza and pneumonia, of which more than 2,000 case have been reported in the last 48 hours with &0 deaths: Ifealth department officials declared the city needed at least 10, 000 nurses to' handle the situation properly. Six hundred nurses, operat ing from eight dispensaries today be gan a survey of the city to aid in re lief measures, and plans were made to augment this force tomorrow. Since 9 o'clock this, morning, 500 new cases of influenza were reported to tha board of health, with ten deaths and new pneumonia cases numbering 100 and 16 deaths. Health department officials pointed] out that the death rate has been ex-1 tremely small- as Com pared with last I year's epidemic and with the number j of cases reported. Health conimissipner John Dill Robertson today started a campaign against "cold flat" owners, when 105 complaints were received. An Inquiry will be made into each complaint and where1 sickness is found, action to bring about a proper heat supply will be taken, Mr. Robertson said: The health commissioner of Evans ton reported that influenza cases to day increased 30 per cent, and that 300 persons were ill there. Other neigh boring towns reported slight increases, j Camp Crarit, Rockford, 111., and at j the Great Lakes naval training sta- f tion, 96 new cases were reported to day as compared with a previous daily average o^ 150. Dmkins Mil! Items. Rembert, Jan. 19.?Everybody around seems to be building. Robt. E. Atkinson is running a saw mill and the lumber, about as fast as it comes from the mill, is borne away by wag ons. Lumber is being hauled to Rembert for the building of the Methodist par sonage. The barbecue and hot supper at Dinkins Mill, extensively advertised, notwithstanding the bad weather, was a tolerable success. S. W. Allen, sick with mumps, is, able to be out again. His wife, in-j valided by rheumatism, has suffered greatly of late. Our good friend Francis Marion Allen, who has been quite sick, is im proving we hope. Lee Young, colored, down with flu. is recuperating. Bill Levan, for years fcexton of Rafting Creek Baptist church, colored, has been quite low with pneumonia. Our genial friend and fellow cit-1 izen. prostrated by his old trouble, was able to be at the barbecue and hot supper. "Who ever heard of a barbecue hot supper," says one. "Shet" up or I will fill you so full of regrets for being absent that you will not get over it soon. Of course "Col" Loval Jack son was there. You know he never misses a good thing if he can help it. Yes, he was there on both feet. By the way, Mrs. Jackson was call ed to Heath Springs very suddenly to the bedside of a sick aunt. Miss Liz zie Gilbert. Notwithstanding the splendid weither we have had very little farm work has been done. All small grain we have seen is very ordinary. Hagood. Paris, Jan. 20.?Bolshevik troops; now occupy all the territory in Si? j beria west of Krasnoyardk. from which they have driven Admiral Kol chak's forces, according to the latest riispatches received here. The Kol chak units are reported to he re treating eastward. When we say ready?Watch! You'll buy at the Schwartz White Sale. KILLED BY SOLDIER Business College Superintend ent Meets Death on Highway Columbia, . Jan. 20.?William S. Chaplin, superintendent of Draughon's Business college in Columbia, was shot and killed almost instantly last night by a soldier at Camp Jackson, as Mr. Chaplin and three tri*, ds were return ing from Lykesland where they at tended a. dinner party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Lykes. \ir. Chaplin was in the automobile when the fatal shot was fired. He was rushed to the Columbia hospital, but expired before the two mile journey had been covered. The shooting occurred about 11 o'clock at Heathwood. near the conn try home of M. C. Heath. This place is on the Garners' Ferry road be tween Columbia and the cantonment, and an order to halt was giv^n by one of several soldiers in the road. The ear was driven by Charles W. Rice and the passengers besides him and Mr. Chaplin were Waller Bailey and Mrs. R. C. Aughtry. ' The machine was brought to a stop. Then Mr. Rice says .someone ordered to move on. He started the car off on .low gear and as the machine started to move on a shot was fired point blank through the rear of the car. The bullet struck Mr. Chaplin in the small of the back, beneath the left shoulder. Mrs. Aughtry was also on the rear seat of the car. Mr. Chaplin was about 3f> years old and came to Columbia six years ago from Rock Hill, where his relatives reside. Some of these came to Colum bia early this morning. The body was laier removed to McCormicks' under | taking establishment, where a post I mortem examination was made. Coro ner Scott visited , the undertaking I establishment and will hold an in j quest this afternoon at McCormick's rat 6.30 o'clock. Two of the soldiers in the road, ac companied the party with the wound ed man to the hospital. As soon as the hospital was reached, these with Mr. Rice went back to the camp. Private Sanders of Company C, Forty-eighth infantry, was arrested by military authorities early this morning charged with the raruder. He is now in custody at company headquarters. County authorities will request the custody of the soldier through the commanding general. Military police stated this morning that a non-com missioned officer and several privates were stationed on the road on the lookout for a prisoner escaped from Company C guardhouse. Richland county authorities went to work on the case immediately. and were investigating within 30 minutes after it occurred. T. A. Heise, depu ty sheriff, representing Sheriff McCain, went to camp and worked with the military authorities on the case. This is the third death within five days in which soldiers at the camp have figured. Fred R. Wells, private from Camp Jackson, was shot and killed at Ward, Saluda county, last Thursday night. The following morn ing Frank C. Yonce, private, also at the camp, was shot and killed at the Seaboard. station in Columbia by H. N. Boykin of the Columbia police force. NEW MAGAZINE FOR COLLEGE Alumni of University to Edit the Publication Columbia, Jan. 20.?Prominent alumn: of the L'niversity of South Carolina in several different parts of the State are on the editorial staff of the new magazine to be published by the alumni of the University. Other alumni in various parts of the State are yet to be elected. Prof. Frank W. Bradley, of the University faculty, is editor in chief of the publication. Other members of the editorial staff already selected are Prof. A. G. Carson. Prof. Henry C. Davis, and Prof. Yates Snowden, all of the faculty: George Coffin Taylor and W. W. Ball, of Columbia; J. Har vey Witherspoon. of Gaffney; J. F. J. Caldwell, of Xewborry; J. Rion Me Kissick, of Greenville; Eugene Blake, of Greenwood; Miss Jessie Fraser. of Columbia; R. C. Thompson, of the University student body, and Miss Roberta Camack, of the co-ed de partment of the student body. A bus iness staff for the magazine is to be elected soon. R. W. Wade, secretary of the alumni association, is to be bus iness manager. The name of the publication is to be selected within the next few weeks. The magazine will issue monthly and the first number will come from the press early in the spring. Resume Business Relations. Coblenz, Dec. 31.?Business rela tions to a limited extent have been re opened between American and Ger man banks despite the non-ratification of the peace treaty by the United States. It was announced recently that every bank in Coblenz, excepting the Reichsbank, would accept any kind of American ehecks. postal mon ey orders, personal checks on Ameri can banks, the German banks cashing them without charge. Books for Belgians. Manchester, Eng., Jan. 1.--Twenty-j one thousand books have already been j collected here under the plan inaug urated in 1914 to help the University of Lo?vain, Belgium, replace its mag- j nificent library which was destroyed at the outset of the war. Promises of! help have been received from many j parts of the world. The old Louvain library contained about 2.r>o.000 vol- j um es. I Large Award for Submarine Crew. London, Jan. 1.?The crew of the famous British submarine E-14 which | in the war penetrated the Dardanelles! and sunk a Turkish transport ear-' rying G.000 troops has received an; award of 31.000 pounds for that ex-J ploit. The Big Event cometh. Wait! The Schwartz White Sale. i [charleston will help herself ?_ Movement Started For Con struction of Municipal Docks i ???? Charleston. Jan. 19.?At a meeting at the city hall tonight attended by aj large number of representative busi-' ness' men, wholesalers, shippers, .bankers and retailers, the occasion be ing a public hearing called by the dock commission for the purpose of discussing the waterfront problems and its solution. The Charleston Ter minal company franchise expires in May and is not to be renewed, accord j ing to the announced policy of the city (administration. A resolution was unanimously ?passer' that a bill be introduced in the legislature asking for authority, through constitutional amendment, for the people of this city to vote up on a bond issue to raise funds to in vest in building or acquiring munici pal docks. A discussion of two hours preceded the passage of the resolu tion, which also provided for a com Jmittee to secure immediate relief for i local shippers: in the way of more berths for ships and for the ap pointing of a committee after favor able legislation was enacted to go into details as to cost, extent, revenue bearing sources and character of the proposed municipal docks. I The meeting was devoid of political I flavor and proved to bring out the j united expression of substantial bus iness men for adequate, municipally owned dock facilities. H. F. Barkerding, chairman of the city dock commission, presided. At the opening of the meeting the fact jwas made clear thai proper municipal docks were a federal requirement this ! city was obliged to meet. gunter will go to furman Rural School Expert Heads Ed ucational Department Greenville, Jan. 19.?Prof. Lueeo Gunter, supervisor of rural schools for South Carolina, has accepted the newly established chair of education at Furman university, according to an announcement made tcday by the president, Dr. W. J. McGlothlin. He will assume his duties at Furman at the beginning of the ne::t session in j September. millerand as sumes duties Paris, Jan. 20.?Alexandre Miller and, the new premier, attended the supreme council meeting this morning but took no part in the proceedings. Premier Clemenceau presided at the morning session and will preside again this afternoon. Talk about WHITE SALES? One is surely coming. That's Schwartz's. MORE PAY FOR STATE OFFICIALS Senator Christiansen Introduces Bill Increasing Salaries Columbia, Jan. 20.?A bill to in crease the salary of the governor, of the attorney general and of other Stale officers has been prepared-and will be introduced in th*? senate by Senator Christensen, of Beaufort, probably Tuesday night. The bill also doubles the pay of legislators. The. new bill would fix the salary of the governor at $$,000. The at torney generals' salary would be fixed at $5.0<!0. The State treasurer, the comptroller general, the secretary, of 5 State, the superintendent of educaf tion. the insurance commissioner, and the commissioner of agriculture would, under the new bill, receive each a salary of $4,000. The adjutant gen eral would receive ?3,500 and the j members of the railroad commission, j under the bill, would get each $3, ;500. The salary of the assr~*ant at torney general would be $. 0, and the pay of legislators woulu be ten dollars a day, the number of days of each legislative session for which the members would be paid not to exceed forty. Last year several attempts ? were j made to have the pay of legislators j increased, and if appears that the idea ' I will shape itself into law this time. ! There have been several expressions j on the part 'of legislators in favor of (the plan, for members state that the I money they receive does not now pay their expenses while in Columbia. The pay to members of the. general as sembly for their work as' legislators is five dollars a day, for a term of forty days, the money amounting to $200 for the term. If Senator Christen sen's bill goes through their pay will be $400 for the session. The new bill proposes a twenty per cent increase in the salary of the governor. He now gets $5,000. The secretary of State now receives $2, 500, as do the comptroller general, the insurance commissioner, the State treasurer, the superintendent of edu cation, the adjutant general, the at torney general, members of the rail road commission and other State of ficers. The legislators return to Colum bia Tuesday for the first session of the week, which is Tuesday night. Cultivate Loyalty to V. S. and At tachment to Franco. 1 New York, Jan. 20.?American vol unteers who served in the" ambulance corps, the Foreign Legion or the La fayette Escadrille are to be accepted as associate members In the Federa-: ' tion of French Veterans of the Great War, it was announced here today at the New York headquarters by Chas. Bournez, the general secretary. The organization, formed to "culti vate a spirit of loyalty to the United States and attachment to France" will extend its activity, it is said, to Canada and Mexico. Eliot Norton of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance and R. 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