Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — PORTLAND MAN INVENTS MARVELOUS TORPEDO [ARTICLE]

PORTLAND MAN INVENTS MARVELOUS TORPEDO

'Portland. Ore.—Frank E. Kenney. of this city has invented a new type of torpedo, designed to travel in the air or through the water. He is declared to have received an offer for the device from the Knglish government, but refused it to give it to the United States government. Tests of the torpedo have been made at Pacific coast naval stations. It is declared that when tested, the torpedo, after traveling more than five miles through the air, dropped into the water, righted Itself, pluhgect through steel nets and struck a target at which ft had been aimed.