The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 5, 1939, Page 2

e Undle S Goes in for Chemurgy and Day 0f Skim Milk Suits May Come But They Like ancient alchemists—but in, ultra-modern laboratories and with infinitely greate: chinces of success—government jentists are going fo hunt new ways to turn things like corn and cotton and potatoes into things like steering wheels and aifplancs and cigarette cases. “Chemurgy” has been coined to describe such work, but Uncle Sam’s scientists prefer to call it * “chemistry’s hunt for new fastory markets for the farm.” Whatever its name, it is twenti- ¢t century magic. This is the last of three articles telling how Urfrle Sam's dabbling in it. ¥ i By JACK THOMPSON AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, May 5 Come {he Phemical revolution, men will wear suits produced from milk and ee through made from corn plas - fly airplanes t-hulls, write lett on cotton paper, run automobiles on cheap corn aleoho} instead of gaseline - and the factories will swamp the farm with ordefs for raw inaterials. the pattern of the future ki chemurgists it, and they're willing to bet their last test tube it comes true. The, skeptics are inclined to scoff But to chemurgy's evangelist, Wil- liam J. Hale, the future is assured for a science that has already given the world rayon, cellophane, soy- bean paint and plastics, and a long list of factory products made from farm $crops. Hal research big chemical company, furthfr. Since the early been spreading the doctrine at #The chemical revolution is here.} He predicts the time is near when¢ alcohol made from farm prod can be mixed half and half with swater and still out-perform gasolthe as a motor fuel. He gsays a half billion dollar eyeglass lenses tics cast from is the see consultant for a goes even 1930's he in- . HENRY G. KNIGHT *‘can expect signal results” 182.5C0UTS AND FATHERS ATTEND ANNUAL DINNER Commissioner - Scout {alendar Issued ¥ J. A.8Paradis was appointed Dis- trict Bfy Scout Commissioner, suc- ceedings Dave Wood, J. W. Leivers was chbsen Secretary and Harold E. Smi Committee at a meeting of the Dis- trict Committee in the Iris Room of the Baranof Hotel last night fol- lowing 'he annual Boy Scout father and sof-dinner. A Scéut calendar for the rest of the yes# was announced, At the dinner, held in the Gold Room df the Hotél, 182 Scouts and fathers sheard brief addresses by R. E. Robertson and George Galvin, Field Executive ‘from Seattle, and saw some 75 awards made at a Court of Honor. Jim Glasse beeame a Star Scout, the highest award at the Court. Mr. Robertson also was Chairman of the Court of Honor. Douglas Gets Trophy Charles G. Burdick, Chairman of the District Committee, who was toastmaster, presented a Paradis cup to the Douglas Troop for meri- torious ‘advancement made up to the time of the 1938 rally. Bob Dupree, Scoutmaster, accepted the trophy. Highlighted by the annual camp, which begins May .31, the Scout calendar. for the Juneau area lists two more Courts of Honor, six Boards of Review, two more District Meetings, two parades, a rally and camp-o-rall in which Scouts and Scouters will participate between now and Christmas. District Meetings are scheduled dor September 8 and November 17; | - l PLAYERS 10 b aradis Appointed D"""'; ROMP TOMORROW; | | PRE-SEASON GAME Are Too Expensive Just al Present Time This dental tube, in which light flows even around curves, is made of a plastic derived from corn. dustry that would employ 3,000, 000 men directly and indirectly, could be set up now to ferment farm products for industrial use. Uncle Sam’s more conservative scientists agree that alcohol pro- duced from corn, wheat, potatoes or any of a half dozen other crops can be blended with gasoline to perform efficiently in modern gaso- line engines. They plan to study further possibilities in the Govern- ment laboratories being established to ferret out new markets for farm products, Germany, France and Italy use various forms of synthetic motor fuel either as a part of their na- tional defense measures or to stimu- late agricultural production Milk-made wool has progressed to the patent stage. Two Depart- ment of Agriculture scientists have developed a process for making synthetic wool from the curd of chemically soured skim milk. It looks much like natural wool, will take all kinds of dyes, and can be cut to convenient lengths for the loom and mixed with real wool But no one in the U. S. is making money on corn-alcohol for auto fuel or milk-wool for clothing. Four Major Drawbacks To the skeptics that illustrates the first of four major drawbacks they think will delay the age of ’clmmurgyA Those obstacles are: high. | Although Uncle Sam’s patents on milk-made wool are open to private promoters no one is putting out the product commercially. alcohol is also too high- | priced, say Department of Agri- culture scientists, to compete with straight gasoline, 2—Farm market prices fluctuate too much from year to year. For example, a profitable factory 119, November 16 and December 21; Scoutmasters’ Roundtable, Septem- ber 7; rally, May 16; camp-o-rall, sometime in August® parades, Mem- orial Day and July 4; finance drive, beginning May 15, and the annual camp, beginning May 31. LL PLAYERS T0 1—The cost of production is too | e | making soybean products folded up | during a single season of high farm prices. A new synthetic fiber to com- pete with silk hosiery could be made from castor beans but prob- ably will be made from coal tar instead because that material has a more stable price. ks 3.—1It takes too long for & disoov- ery to be perfected and made avail- able. | “It may take five to twenty years to put a test-tube discovery on the market,” says Dr. Henry ‘G. Kright, in charge of the Government's new laboratory program. To help industry bridge this gap, | Uncle Sam’s program will include test production in large -enough quantities to learn about manufac- turing costs and problems. | 4—New inventions disclocate es- tablished markets. Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace warned the Farm Chemurgic Council that “by the very nature of his work, farm markets. . . . “A million acres are now used to grow soybeans for industrial uses including automobile manufac- ture. But first technological pro- gress—in the form of the automo- bile—threw out of use 35 million acres once needed to feed horses and | mules.” But Dr. Knight, head of Uncle | Sam’s new laboratories, says he has no fear of the long-run effects of chemistry’s hunt for new farm markets. | The stage coach held on for years after the railroad was invented, he points out. When the automobile |came along it did not replace the | railroad. The invention of radio | brought a tube that has actually | helped improve long-distance tele- | phone conversation. SCHOOL BUDGET " BEFORE JUNEAU COUNCIL TONIGHT Dump Truck Bids Are fo Be | Opened-Action Taken on Sanitation Orrin Addleman will have to be | backstop for a benchful of pitchers tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock when the Cardinals meet the Haida |nine in a pre-season practice game Chairman of the Camping | that will show the colors of a good | | deal of new baseball talent. New chuckers Russel, Hautala, and B. Lawson, will -take the mound to pitch a few innings apiece. Wood will cover first sack, Hager- up, second, Foster, third, and Peter- son at short. In the outfield will be H. Russell, Koshak and Havlic, one of the most promising prospects 80 far—a boy with a good stick and an easy arm. B Mary Stewart Will Heads Girls' Club| Mary Stewart became President of the Girls’ Club at a meeting of the high school group during the week. Marian Dobson was elected as Vice- President and Ruth Allen, Secre- | tary-Treasurer. | Girls chosen to represent their !c]ass are Cecilia Thibodeau, Senior representative; Doris McEachran, | Junior representative; Tina Lepe- tich, Sophomore representative. The Freshman representative will be chosen next year when their class enters high school. | —— WHITTIER RETURNS M. S. Whittier, Assistant Collector of Customs, returned on the North- Courts of Honor, July 7 and No- land last night from Sitka, where vember R; Boards of Review, May he spent 10 days on official busi-| The school budget for 1939-40 will be under consideration at tonight's meeting of the Juneau Oity -Council, | starting at the City Hall at 8 o'clock. Other items of business tonight | will be opening of bids on a new dump truck and action on .a report of Kaarlo Nasi, Territorial Sanitary Engineer, on properties in need of a cleanup from a health standpoint. OVERBY GOWG 10 KETCHIKAN FOR REVENUE BUREAU Deputy Collector Wesley C. Overhy. of the Bureau of Internal Revenue is going to Ketchikanon the Alashka Sunday on official business. As De- puty Collector O. S. Sullivan.is now in the Interior, the office here will be closed until Overby's return Tuesday. TWO HOMES SOLD IN WAYNOR TRACT Sale of two houses in the Waynor, | Addition was announced ‘today hy | the Federal | tion, which financed construction of | the dwellings. Housing Administra- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Willlams | bought one of the houses and ‘Mr. and Mrs. Edward Nielson another. - .——— Poultrymen say dark egg yolks may be produeed by turning hens on 11, June 15, September 21, OctoMrAxles, an alfalfa range. the chemist cannot| help destroying as well as creating| EXPORTS SHOW BIG DROP FROM s Last Month’s Tofal is Only $755,361-Gold, Can-' ned Salmon Down Showing small decreases inalmost every item and a big drop from $153850 to rothing in' canned salmon and from $650,790 to $510,- 464 in gold, Alaska exports for last month were far below those of April 1938. The total value of shipments from Alagka to the United States for April 1939, as announced in the monthly report of Collector of Cus- toms James J. Counors, was $755,- 361. The April 1938 figure was $1,- 254,818. Cured salmon shipments were down from $1444 to a mere $44, ‘while an item of $158,708 for clams in April, 1938, was missing entirely from last month's repert. Crab ex- ports declined from $9,432 to $452 and shrimp from $3,660 to $975. Fur Exports Slump ‘Though $6,208 werth of beaver skins were exported last month, as/ against $205 in April 1938, this gain | was more -than .offset by a drop from $8,750 to $680 in marten and 43,626 to $1,830 in mink. No wood or copper was exported last month, whereas there were items of $9,784 and $3,782, respec- tively, in the April 1838 report. Sil- | ver was down from $5891 to $4,- 142, :Scattered gains were made in ex- | \ports of fresh and frozen salmon, up from #22818 to $50,460; cured ‘codfish, up from $2,812 to $10,100; live animals, up from $256 to $1,050. ‘Complete List The detailed wveport 'on Jlast month's exports is ‘as follows: Tish: m and frozen (except $ 43,547 [ 50,460 | 1,507 Curéd or preserve (except v L > g 'SPRING CONCERT IS TONIGHT Tonight at 8 o'clock, in the High School Gymnasium, the amnual Spring Concert will be given by the vocal music department of the Juneau Public Schools. The concert is under the direction of Miss Alice Palmer, who in past years has given most meritorious musicals and tonight's affair is believed to be one of her best arrangements. The public is invited and there is no charge. The complete program follows: Let Their Celestial Concerts Unite—from ‘“‘Samson’’ George Frederic Handel F Grief to Glory— (Verse 11I—Spring Returns) § F. Melius Christiansen HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR Pearl G. Curran Bird Singi -.....Haydn Wood g:::;:‘ Sc::!g o i Alexander McFadyen i he Lambs—Soprano Solo—Marian Dobson . Listen to the Lambs prano Sol . N HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB Dawn Friendship Haesche Song at Twilight % X 2, _J. L. Malloy JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ GLEE CLUB Give Ear Unto Me Marcello (]686-173?) De Gospel Train Arranged by Burleigh GRADE SCHOOL GLEE CLUB _._Bohemian Folk Song Finnish Folk Song 2 . Edward Elgar Samuel Woodworth _Henri Ghys Eiapopeia . Crowning the Snow Maiden Spring Night—‘Salut d’Amour”’ The Old Oaken Bucket Amaryllis JUNIOR HIGH GIRLS’ A CAPPELLA CHOIR Pale in the Amber West PR bl Pnflu" When Song Ts Sweet Gertrude Sous-Souci Keep in the Middle of the Road Arranged by Marshall Bartholomew HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ GLEE CLUB - Edward German Bassett-Bryceson Treharne Rudolf Friml - Bryceson Treharne Teresa Del Riego Love the Pedlar The Icicle Giannia Mia— (From ‘“The Firefly”’) - March of the Tin Soldiers s Homing HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB Cornfield Melodies Old King Cole . _B. Cecil Gates _Robert W. Gibb HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' GLEE CLUB Chillun’ Come on Home Rain and the River . Czecho-Slovakian Dance Song HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR __Noble Cain | Danzig. 76,853 | (2), Poland will not let herself be | barred from the Baltic. (3), Poland will not permit her sovereignty to be restricted in the Value of United States pro- ducts returned Value of foreign merchan- dise 2,671 shellfish) : Salmen .. Shelifish: | Otabs . 452 Shrimp 75 | Other fish products Furs and fur-skins: Beaver .. Fox: Black and silver Blue . Red White ¢ Hair-seal skins Mazxten . Mink Muskrat . All other Pur manufactures Live animals ... |Ore, matte and regulus Stene, including marble . i Trophies, specimens, curios, Spruce oars Antimony ore 10,100 1,620 | 6,208 | 16,077 | {Total value of products of | Alaska ... i $160,625 Men of | vera Pen with [ Total value of shipments of | Polish Corridor, which area Beck insisted on calling, the “Province of‘ Pomorze,” although Poland has no desire to obstruct Germany's com- | $240,155 | 510,464 | 4,742 | merchandise Gold Silver TOTAL I ———— | munications with East Prussia. i $755.361 | (4), Although the population of = okt e R | Danzig is predominantly German, |its 1livelinood and prosperity de- i pends on Poland. At no time did Foreign Minister | Beck seem overly perturbed by the iworld—shnklng import of his speech, but spoke calmly and unhurriedly, f seldom raising his voice. T SRS EY 1 SONS OF NORWAY Regular business meeting, Saturday, | May 6, at 8 p.m. AR OLIVE WESTBY, Secretary. ———————— Beck Calls Nazi Demands One-sided-Offers fo Negotiate adv. | | Try an Empire ad. .SWEDISH MEAT BALLS SATURDAY AT THE BARANOF (Continued | from Page One) | | (1), Poland stands firmly by her | rights and interests in overseas trade and the maritime polity of Parker Vacumatic Travels with Agmlishmeut This ‘Great Pen Can Be Relied Upon For Consistently Fine * Performance...Never Runs Dry at Critical Moments an Air of Distinction Business -ex¢cutives, writers, ex- pilorers, students . . . thousands of people everywhere depend uponthe superlative writing efficiency of ‘Parkér Vacumatic. 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Humidity Wind Velocity 29.98 41 80 E 12 29.78 40 84 E 10 2973 41 62 sw 4 RADIO REFORTS TODAY Lowest 4am. 4a.m. Precip. temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. 84 . 34 0 3¢ 03 0 Time 3:30 pm. yest'y 3730 a.m. today Noon today Weather Lt. Rain Lt. Rain Lt. Rain | Max. tempt. | last 24 hours 4am. Weather Pt. Cldy Clear Cloudy Snow Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Rain Station Atka Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson .. St. Paul . Dutch Harbor . Cordova, .. Juneau Sitka Ketchikan . Prince Rupert 34 20 26 24 34 32 28 32 36 36 Rain Rain Rain Cloudy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Cloudy Clear aBEcal Bronwncansnna 56 52 WEATHNER SYNOPSIS 222358228888 ES 29ZBR/REBE8E ‘Washington Moderate barometric depressions were centered this morning at latitude north fifty degrees and longitude west one sixty-two de- grees, Barrow, Alaska, the western part of Yukon Territory and the Canadian prairie provinces. The pressure was high over the western Aleutian Islands and Pacific Ocean off the coast of Washington and Oregon. Precipitation was reported from the Norton Sound area, and Dutch Harbor and from Anchorage southward along the coast .to Ketchikan during the past 24 hours. There was but little change in temperature over the Territory of Alaska during the past 24 hours. Juneau, May 6. — Sunrise, 3:55 am.; sunset, 7:59 pm. MEETS MONDAY 7:30 P. M. L. A.MACHINISTS LOCAL 514 .. ODD FELLOWS HALL: Hollywood Sights And Sounds ————————— i Bobbia Cooes ‘HOLLYWOOD, Cal.,. May 5—To Violinist Jascha Heifetz, somewhere on’ tour, word can be sent that it is safe for him to re- turn home to Goldwyn. The picture he starred in, without a story, now has a story. Not only that, it has had two new titles. When Heifetz, without a story, collected on his contract by fiddling for the cameras, the Heifetz picture was “The Restless Age.” Then it became “Angels Making Music"—but that was after they found the story. The title came not so much from the current popularity of “angels” and “heaven” in movie titles as from the story, which brings us to Peter Meremblum and his junior symphony orchestra. The picture is now called “Music School,” which detours us to Mrs. Rose Roy and her fellow clubwomen who cleaned up an abandoned residence on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles and started something: the neighborhood music schooel, which is reproduced in the current film story. At this school, now boasting 22 first-rate teachers and 210 pupils who pay anything they can (usually very little), children who ordinarily wouldn't meet music are trained as musicians. Mrs. Roy and her fellows, like all philanthropic clubwomen, have be- come experts in raising funds to suppert the project. They also are adept at retrieving abandoned instruments, staging shows, and putting the bee on potential contributors. Peter Meremblum, a teacher of violin (now at the University which he built into the California Junior Symphony association, 3 things are necessary for full dining enjoyment: Good food, atten- tive, courteous service and pleasant surroundings-you'll find all 3 in.greatest measure at— ‘ PERCY’S which he built into the; California’ Junior Symphony associaton, enlisted Mrs. Roy as executive secretary of his organization. And to them, hearing of the orchestra’s conquests in the con- cert field, came the story-hunters of Goldwynland—Robert Riskin and Irmgard Von Cube. And so . . . You wen't believe it when you see the picture, but the musicians you'll see on the screen actually made the music you'll be hearing from them. I wouldn’t have believed it, either, if I hadn’t seen and heard them doing it. There are 45 of them, from nine to 14 years old. They play, under Alfred Newman's conducting, like the accomplished musicians they are. This is no feeble, uncertain, squeaky and childish inter- pretation of the masters such as the usual children’s orchestra inflicts. It is the real thing—music that happens to be made by children. You'll notice, surely, the little girl 'cellist with a big grin and little pigtails. Mary Louise Zeyen is mine, and one of the nine children of a postman’s family. The youngters in the group come from all walks of life, and only two had musical parents. They play ‘because they like it. And you won't miss nine-year-old Jacgueline Nash, who sings. Jacqueline wasn’t in the Merembium group. She was down here with her mother from Toronto, Canada, and they were living in an auto camp, pretty much up against it, when the movies found them. Jacqueline, trained by her mother since infancy, has a Galli Curci-like voice. . . . There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising