Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1929, Page 4

NEW ALLOY CARVES | TEELLIKE CHEES Krupp Composition for Tool Edges Cuts Metals at High Speeds. @vecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 7.—Tests at Bridgeport, Conn., of & new metal pro- duced by Krupps indicated yesterday that a revolution in manufacturing processes is at hand which will make 1t possible to speed up greatly the ma- chine used in making hundreds of dif- ferent automoblle parts and in prac- tically all processes involving the cut- ting, grinding or drilling of metals in quantity production In trials at the Bullard Machine Tool Co. plant the Krupp metal, used in a high-speed machine, cut through steel at the rate of 230 feet a second, or nearly twice the speed which the finest cutting steels now in use achieve. At high speeds the Krupp tool broke, but it was apparently not the fault of the metal, but due to the melting of the brass which held the cutting edge in place. The new metal cut through cast iron at 600 feet a second, or more than four times the speed which could be achieved with the finest high-speeda steels, Next to Diamond in Hardness. ‘The metal is the hardest thing known mext to diamond. Krupp has chistened it widia, a contraction of “wie diamant,” or “like dlamond.” It cuts glass or porcelain as a steel knife whittles wood. It takes a keener edge than any steel and halds it longer. ‘The great drawback of widia is the price. Krupp is selling it at $500 a pound, or more than double the value of gold, although the materials of which widia is composed are comparatively cheap. It is an alloy of tungsten, car- bon and cobalt. The process of manu- facture is expensive, but the chief rea- son for the staggering price is the fact that the Krupp Steel Works now holds a monopoly on its production and is what the traffic will bear. Krupp has licensed the General Elec- tric Co., the Ludlum Steel Co. and the Firth Sterling Steel Co. to manufacture the tungsten-earbon-cobalt metal for heavy royalties. The General Electric Co. has begun to place its product on the market under the name of carboloy, but the other companies have not yet achieved a commercial output of the product. Experiments Started 30 Years Ago. Beginning nearly 30 years ago, the introduction of Taylor-White steel, a steel mixed with tungsten, which could be used in manufacturing processes at vastly higher speeds than ordinary steels, caused nearly every machine shop in the country to adopt new machinery capable of taking advantage of the higher According to E. P. Bullard of the Bullard Co., the introduction of the . Widia metal is the most important de- velopment since Taylor-White steel. “Y remember the Paris Exposition in 1900, where the Taylor-White steel was introduced,” sald Mr. Bulliard. “I tried to get a sample, and others tried, but it was guarded with the greatest care. Finally it came on the market and it made a revolution, not all at once, but from year to year, in every machine shop in the country. “We are making these tests now to see whether we will have to remodel some of our high. machinery. Be- cause better and better steels have been coming out, we have been building ma- chines which are capable of & much higher speed than our present steels will stand. This gives us a margin, so that we can take advantage of improve- ments in the cutting metals, Whether ve enough margin to enable us this new Krupp metal to the capacity we don’t know yet. so far our machines have achieve speeds which would ls equipped with the Widia apparently the melting of under the high temperatures the cause of the breakdown any failure in the Widia metal. We have not yet found out how uch the metal itself will stand.” Americans Chagrined. -| insulators could be machined on a 30 years. Since that time most of the ‘metallurgical laboratories have been ex- | i, with tungsten carbide, try- | = ting ing it out with various alioys. ‘The xrupfi: works is now turning out approximately one ton, or $1,000,000 worth a month, and is rapidly increas- in7 its capacity. A single ton goes a long way, because a 1 piece weigh- ing an ounce or so is sufficient for the cutltln‘ edge of the average cutting tool. Roger D. Prosser of Thomas Prosser & Son, 15 Gold street, the American representative of Krupp, said yesterday that one of the big accessory makers at Detroit had reported that, with the use of Widia cutting edges, the com- pany was able to make in 20 seconds a HOMES!! Hundreds of them will be sold for TAXES Do not lose your life Jong sav- ings by permitting your home to be sold for the want of a few hundreds of dollars with which to pay your taxes. Under our Easy-Payment Plan, we may be able to help you in this or some other equally worthy object. THE Easy to Pay Monthly Depositc For 12 Months $10.00 $15.00 $20.00 $25.00 $360 $30.00 $540 $45.00 $1,200 $100.060 $6,000 $500.00 Loan $120 $180 $240 $300 It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow. THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 'tified in iooking for a catastrophe, But transmission drum which required 78 seconds with high-speed tools. “In certain other processes,” Mr. Prosser said, “they have been able to| increase the capacity of their shop byi 400 per cent with their exlstl.ni ma- | chines and without any increase in the number of men. In cutting aluminum alloy pistons the speed was increased by 500 per cent. Treatment Found Costly. “The high price of the metal is partly due to the costly process of manufac- ture, “Tungsten, carbon and cobalt are cheap enough in themselves, but they have to be refined to an extreme degree for use in this steel and divided very finely. The fact the Krupp plant is only producing a ton a month today is an indication of the difficulty of manufacture. While it is capable of speeding up all metal cutting processes, the Widla its greatest advantage in working cast iron, which it cuts sev- eral times as fast as other metal will do. A special silicon carbide grind- ing wheel is necessary to sharpen it, and the wheel itself is ground away ra- pidly in the process. “For rock-drilling purposes the Krupp plant is producing a special quality of Widla as a substitute for dlamonds on the brace-and-bit drills used in sinking oil wells and other drills. The ordinary ‘Widia stands 9.8 on the scale of hard- ness, being topped only by diamonds, which have a hardness of 10. Whether this special Widia for rock drilling is as hard as diamonds I do not know. “It un.l,v to be melted and welded on to the drills.” Machine tool manufacturers, it was learned, are rather stunned at the price of $500 a ton which is now being quoted. The general belief is that, in spite of the costly process of making the metal, it could be sold at a profit for one-tenth of the present figure. Value Held Drawback. Many machine tool makers belleve that the success of the German product will inspire other laboratories to achieve equal results without infringing the German patents, so that the price may be drastically cut in a few years. The present value of the material is a seri- ous drawback in another way, it was pointed out by an experlenced manu- facturer yesterday. This is its liability to theft. The guarding of a product worth twice its weight in gold in shops employing thousands of workmen is no small problem in itself. Ernest F. Du Bral, general manager of the National Machine Tool Builders’ Assoclation, in a bulletin on the subject to members of the association, said: “Broadly speaking, these alloys make every respectable machine shop that has any money available a potential market for a complete new equipment within 10 years. When high-speed steel gave it a similar market 27 years ago the total number of machine tools in use at that time was far less than it is to- day, with all the new industries which have been established since 1900. Is it too far-fotched to think of selling 500, 000 new machines in 10 years?” Revolution “Good or IIL” In another bulletin the same assocla- tion said: . “The machine tool revolution now impending is sure to affect for good or ill the future of every concern now in the association. The revolution will be either disastrous or profitable in any given case largely as executive vision comprehends the possibilities and ne- cessities that the revolution is thrust- ing on the industry.” ‘The interest of manufacturers is re- flected in the American Machinist of January 3, 1929, which says: “If some of the more conservative machinery building industries were suddenly faced with the introduction of a factor as unsettling as the mew tungsten carbide and other cutting al- loys promise to be, one would be jus- the machine tool builders have been earning their livelihood for so long by bringing out new designs and sell- ing them to customers whose equip- ment was still far from worn out that the existing situation can be faced with considerable equanimity. There can be little question that the new alloys are going to have a profound effect once we can get them in sufficient quanti- ties to conduct experiments to see what they really will do.” Praises Value of Carboloy. Describing laboratory work on_the tungsten-carbon-cobalt metal, which the General Electric Co. is making un- der the name of carboloy, Dr. Samuel L. Hoyt said: “That such _ strength, - hardness, toughness and chemical stabillty, plus the ability to take and keep a cutting edge, must characterize a material of most - extraordinary possibilities, as compared with our present tool mate- rials, is self-evident to all who are conversant with this field. But we have found that the performance of carboloy on the lathe and in the shop.| does actuslly exceed the predictions which one might make from a knowl- edge of these properties. “Glass proved to be quite easy to machine or to cut with screw threads, and we soon found that hard porcelain shaper. “Mycalex is an insulating material of such excellent properties that there considerable demand for it in the Take Fluin for INFLUENZA A new and Excellent Treatment, Developed in Europe during 1920 influ- enza epidemic. Successfully used by thousands. First introduc- tion in United States. Pre- vents Pneumonia. You ean get Fluin at all Peoples Drug Stores THE EVENING D.C. LOSES APPEAL INLAMONT §T. TILT Robb Declares Municipality Should Repay Owner’s Assessment. The plea of the statute of limitations, interposed by the District of Columbia to defeat the repayment of $14,201.26 to property owners in the vicinity of Nineteenth and Lamont streets, which had been paid in 1913 as a special assessment for extension of Lamont street west from Nineteenth street, proved unavailing today when the Dis- trict Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Justice Charles H. Robb, affirmed the action of the Municipal Court in granting a judgment against the mu- nicipality. While the case at bar was for only $200, which had been assessed against the property of Georgiana Thompson, the decision is expected to benefit all other owners affected, Who shall bring suit before January 28. The court, in its opinion, found that it was not until January 29, 1926, that the District made its first definite state- ment of its purpose not to open the street, although it had collected the assessments in 1913. This statement was.contained in a letter from the Dis- trict auditor to the plaintiff, who has asked for a refund. The three-year term of the statute does not expire until January 28, 1929. ‘The responsibility of the District is not different from that of a private citizen, and if it has collected money for opening the street, the court points out, and has not opened the street within a reasonable time, it is under a legal obligation to make restitution. The court cites with approval a de- cision against the city of St. Paul fol- lowing the abandonment of a street tthere, were the court said:.“The city stands in the position of holding in its treasury money collected which it has no right in equity, good conscience and common honesty to retain, because the purpose for which it was collected has been abandoned. In such circum- stances no statute is required to impose upon the city a legal obligation to make restitution. An action lies as at com- mon law for money had and received.” —_— electrical industry, in spite of the ex- treme difficulty with which it can be shaped or machined. It is composed of fine mica particles and lead borate, the latter acting as a bond for the mica. Ordinary tool materials are worn away at once on mycalex, so quickly that it would be difficult to give quantitative data on their performance. The effect and noise produced bring to one’s mind a picture of an attempt to machine a grinding wheel. Carboloy tools, on the other hand, are capable of maechining mycalex commercially, and we have observed tools cutting over 1,000 feet linearly before losing their edge. Rubber Dulls Steel Edge. “Materials like bakelite and hard rubber are very abrasive when ma- chined at high speeds. One of our operators showed me that, even though he had made his steel tool as hard as ‘fire and water could make it,” the cut- ting edge was rounded off very soon on hard rubber. - Carboloy tools keep their edge very well on hard rubber. “Bakelite offers somewhat similar problems and, on account of the neces- sity of machining bakelite at high speed, diamonds have been commonly used. This was the only tocl material which had been found to stand up at the speeds used, but the diamonds pos- sessed one disadvantage, which was overcome by substituting carboloy. If the part machined contained a metal insert, a sfleulnl operation was required to recess this part below the cut of the diamond, for if the diamond hits the metal at top speed it breaks off at once. Here the carboloy tool necessitates no such special operation, for it cuts both bakelite and the metal insert. “The ingredients of carboloy and the process of making it are expensive, so that we may safely say that carboloy will cost more than high-speed steel; but we have found by an extended study of many flelds that the improved performance of carboloy tools more é‘e‘?t:l gnaeta the great cost of the ma- An increase up to 800 per cent in the speed of working brass is claimed for the new alloy. SAVINGS EARNAf least WEHAVE [FINANCED- ACilyof HOMES dollar. Open daily 9th & F Sts. SOL HERZOG F Street at Qtk STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, JANUARY - 7, 1929. BRIDE WILL CONFER. Will Talk to Zihlman on Condem- nation Procedure in D. C. Corporation Counsel Willlam W. Bride will confer with Representative Zihl- man, chairman of the House District committee, tomorrow to discuss a pend- ing bill to change the procedure for the condemnation of land. The bill pro- poses to do away with the commission form of condemnation, and is in con- formity with the measure recently en- acted creating a new judgeship in the District Supreme Court to give that body more time to deal with condemna- tion cases. Both Senator Capper, chairman of the Senate District committee, and Mr. Zihlman are said to be confident the measure will pass at the present session. SCHOOL OFFICIALS HEARD ON BUDGET Appear Before Subcommittee on D. C. Appropriations of House. Headed by Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board of Education, and Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend- ent, District school officlals went to the Capitol this morning to appear in the hearings on the 1930 school budget before the subcommittee on District appropriations of the House. The school officials will seek the appropriation of $11,593,580, which the Bureau of the Budget allowed to be sent on to Congress out of the school board's original estimates of $13,972,049. Though the hearings are held in executive session to discuss the 1930 budget, the members of Congress may question the school officials on their proposed second five-year school building program, in which they are seeking authorization for appropriations totaling $5,750,000 over the next five years for bulldings and grounds. With the un- finished portion of the first flve-year progrant, the proposed bill will constitute virtually a second building program of $10,750,000. Beside Dr. Carusi and Dr. Ballou, the school officlals who are atiending the hearings today are: Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent in charge of high schools of divisions 1-9; Robert L. Haycock, assistant superintendent in charge of elementary schools; G. C. ‘Wilkinson, first assistant superintendent in charge of divisions 10-13, and Maj. R. O. Wilmarth, assistant superintend- ent in charge of business affairs. The hearings probably will continue for three days. FAMILY FOUND DEAD. Parents, Two Children and One Other Believed Gas Victims. FRESNO, Calif, January 7 (#).-— Mr. and Mrs. William Brooks, their two small children and Marvin Westover, a brother of Mrs. Brooks, were found dead in the Brooks' home here late yesterday, where they died some time Sntur;ily night, evidently victims of escaping gas from a heating stove. CLAFLIN Opticians—Optometrists 922 14th St. Vision Not Visionary “To End Skin Torture Use Invisible Zemo Surprising and gratifying, is the way soothing, cooling Zemo, the remark- able antiseptic liquid, relieves itching rash, blemishes and other skin affec- tions. It clears the skin. Generally, it removes every trace of Eczema. And because it is such an effective anti- septic it prevents dandruff. Keep in- visible, odorless Zemo always on hand. Get a bottle. All druggists, 35¢, 60c, S1. Ten or Twenty Years from Today— what will be your financial condition? This is a question that no one can answer —but every one should start NOW to pre- pare for the future. The surest method is by SYSTEMATIC SAVING—a certain amount deposited each payday in a savings account. Every dollar you save earns at least 5% here, and you can open an accbunt with one 9 to 5—Saturdays Until Noon National Permanent “Building Ass Under Supervision of the U. S. Treasury ' 949 Ninth Street N.W. Just below New York Avenue ociation Just because there are so many of our customers who might forget . . . we're giving warning that the starts tomorrow . ..and thatif you miss out onit...you’ll have to wait six long months for another one SHIRT ONLY “DRY" HEADS FORD. C. ARE URGED Law Here Also Asked at Mass Meeting. Advocating stringent enforcement of the prohibition law, friends of the eighteenth amendment held & mass meeting yesterday afternoon in the auditorium of the First Congregational Church, under auspices of the National United Committee for Law Enforce- ment, and urged President-elect Her- bert Hoover “to appoint only known dry men as District Commissioners, who will direct the police administration of the Capital City.” In resolutions adopted by the meet- ing, which was attended by about 500 persons, Congress was asked for “a more stringent enforcement law for the District of Columbia, and its strict en- focement, that Washington, under Fed- eral authority, may become a beacon light to the Nation.” A prohibition campaign here until the inauguration IMarcn 4 was promised. Dry Celebration Planned. An invitation was issued to Washing- ton to unite next Sunday with the dry forces in celebration of the ninth anni- versary of the eighteenth amendment. ‘This mass meting, to be held at the Masonic Temple Auditorium, will be ad- dressed by Gifford Pinchot, former Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, who will discuss the Mills prize enforcement plan. Clinton N. Howard of Rochester, N. Y., chairman of the National United Committee for Law Enforcement, in announcing that yesterday’s meeting inaugurates the Washington campaign for law enforcement that will continue until the inauguration, told the assem- bly: “We are not asking for a transfer of the Prohibition Bureau from one de- partment to another; we are not dic- tating or advising appointments to Fed- eral departments; we seek no favors, we have no candidates, we want no emolu- ments of office, we make no claims to which the Constitution does not entitle us, but, fondly do we hope and fervent- 1y do we pray that this scourge of liquor lawlessness shall pass away in the early months of the incoming administration, | beginning at Washington as Jesus told His_disciples to begin at Jerusalem. More Stringent Enforcement| “Looking back over the eight years|o'clock. of nullification and maladministration of the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution, any one familiar with tiie ethics of administrative government knows that a purpose to enforce the law is more essential than a plan. Theodore Roosevelt, who enf the Sunday law in New York, could take the law as it is and dry up the country in 30 days. We need a prize-winning President more than a prize-winning lan. E “If Congress will create & new cabinet portfolio to be known as the department of public welfare, with a capable head responsible only to the President, and co-ordinate the actlvities of the Bureau of Prohibition, the Bureau of Customs and the Coast Guard under one head, and the incoming President will put the same energy behind enforcement that he put behind food conservation and flood relief, we will have prohibition in fact in the early months of the next administration, and thus carry out the overwhelming mandate of ‘the American people in the last election,” Mr. Howard asserted. Would Start With Capital Rev. Dr. W. S. Abernethy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, wrote in a let- ter that was made public at the con-; ference: “Here in the Nation’s Capital it is of the utmost importance that it be demonstrated whether or not the law of the land relating to liquor can be enforced. If it cannot be enforced here, we might as well resign ourselves to the belief that it cannot be enforced anywhere, Taking as her topic “What the Demo- cratic Drys Expect of Mr. Hoover,” Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, president and chairman of the speakers’ burcau of the National Woman’'s Democraulc Law Enforcement League and editor of the ‘Woman Voter, told the gathering, in discussing the recent presidential cam- paign: “It was a dry victory. The peo- ple, regardless of party, spoke in thun- der tones. They have given to Herbert Hoover a command as well as a com- mission. No leader can do his or her best when their followers doubt their sincerity in the performance of their duties.” In the resolution adopted, the mass mecting called upon all citizens “to adopt as thelr standard of patriotism ! for the year 1929 ‘Observance of law and allegiance to the Constitution.’” ‘The Howard University Glee Club gave a concert of negro spirituals. Sir Esme Howard Honor Guest. 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On View Up to Hour of Sale Each Day By order of a large New York importer who is Each Day large stock immediately. "C. G. SLOAN & CO., Inc., Aucts. RS, .5, CORDON CALLED BY DEATH Wifg of Gen. Gordon, Retired, Was Relative of Presi- dent Lincoln. Mrs. Bell Vedder Gordon, wife of Brig. Gen David 8. Gordon, retired, and mother of Robert V. Fleming, president of Riggs National Bank, dled at her home, 1408 Massachusetts avenue, last night after an illness of several months. She had resided at the Massachusetts avenue address for the past 28 years. Mrs. Gordon, who would have been 79 years old January 17, was for many years prominent in social circles in the District, and had long been active in philanthropic and church work. She came to this city when a young child with her father, Col Nicholas Vedder, paym: ster of the Federal Army, under Gen. Sherman on the march through Georgia. She was first married to the late Col. Robert I. Fleming, for many years a prominent real estate operator here. Col. Fleming served in the Confederate Army under Gens. Longstreet and Pickett, rising from the grade of private to brevet major and serving in 35 major engagements, including the Battle of Gettysburg. Mrs. Gordon was married to Gen. Gordon in January, 1912, following the death of her first husband. She was born on Hanks Farm, near Springfield, Il. Her mother was Mrs. Indlana Hanks Ved- der, a cousin of Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln. She also was a cousin of Elihu Vedder, world-famous ertist., Besides her husband, Gen. 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