Beaver County News | 1925-08-14 | Page 1 | A Wind Machine Man Blows Up

A Wind Machine Man Blows Up! H. Alfred Hood, promotor of a scheme to utilize wind power in the generation of electricity, was lodg:d in the county jail late tonight on a charge of swindling a number of well-to-do women out of more than 2n nnn Investigators said that Hood tolu the women who placed the'ir mone with him, that the wind power generator gen-erator he had invented was such a revolutionary improvement in the field of power productron that he and his backers were already arranging to take over the southern California Edison company; anc o-tner concerns rendered obsolete! by the success of his wind machine. Hood is alleged to have introduced himself to investors! as President of the United States Ilydro-Tuvblnu company, which he was quoted a saying had under construction a great wind power plant at Delta, Utah. Ut-ah. '