Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1924, Page 12

5 ? ; fj t 1 ] 1 r ‘ PAGE TWELVE aS + be Casper Daily Cribune it See eae VO DANGER TO FINANCES IN GOLO MAKING: Method Too Expensive To Upset Monetary Standards. W YORK, Dec. 10.—There is nancial dynamite in the pos- transmutation of gold from quicksilver, even if present experi- ments prove {t commercially feasi- Interesting but not impor- the experiments vf Prof. Adolph Miethe of Berlin, who produced gold by the action of violet electric rays, passing through a quartz lamp, on mercury vapor. Prof. H. H. Sheldon of New York university and associates are now endeavoring to determine if this process can be made commercially possible. As performed by Prof. Miethe, it would cost about $133,000 to produce one ounce of gold worth $20.67. Alarmists have declared that if it were possible to produce gold from quicksilver cheaper. than it now can be mined, smelted and re- fined, financial chaos might result, necessitating revision of the world's monetary standards and promoting an era of speculation which would disrupt all business and produce pa proposition is not as dan- as it sounds,” Robert J. Grant, director of the mint, sald to- day. “Should the Sheldon expert- ments prove commercially practica- ble, I do not belleve it would be necessary to change the monetary standard. The production of quick- silver of mercury in the World is far below the production of gold, since there {s less demand for quicksilver. Even if this demand’ should in- crease, I am inclined to believe it would not be possible to produce quicksilver to the extent gold is now produced.” NEW SYSTEM IN U3, EMPLOVES' PAY Io NEEDED WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—A new system of payment of government employes may become necessary, Comptroller General McCarl declar- ed in his annual report to congress today if the courts rule in favor of a group of naval officers who are seeking to prevent deductions from their pay checks for amounts alleged to be due the government. He attributed much of the diffi. culty of his office to “unbusiness- lke methods” in various executive agencies of the government, which he said involved “such lack of per- sonal responsibility as “not to in- sure observance of the law with re- spect to the uses of public funds He also criticized the advancing of pub- He funds to approximately three thousand inadequately bonded dis- bursing officers for payment of ob- lgations administratively incurred.” The report was addressed to the president pro tempore of the senate, s the office occupies a position jependence under=the state au- ation. showed settlement in 2,000 claims involy- 107,000. More than 9,773 © pending at the date of xerous NEW YORK ears one Leo Dietrichslein, of the best ican players, an- urement because of PEKING, China.—Diplomatic rep- ives in China of the United $ and oth western nations the Peking provincial govern- formal assurange of support, led tre conventions are ful- Se REE A Girls Driven Into Cold By Fire at School BRIDGEWATER Mass., Oct. 10. —Two hundred and fifty girls were lriven | fro ries into the ald, scantil when fire de- stroyed th igs at the state normal sct The loss was estimated Farm Bureau Elects Today CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—O, E. Brad- fute, of Xenia, Ohio, today was re- elec it of the American Fr Federation for a third ter od Geor Washit were d by the board of 49 mem bers. 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