Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1929, Page 5

GOLD IN GASOLINE, CHEMISTS ARE TOLD Auto Held Responsible for Many New Products Made From Waste Gases. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, September 11— American automobiles were held respon- sible for a host of new products, from lipsticks to grain alcohol, in report to the American Chemical Society today. ‘The motor car’s role is not as a cre- ator of demand, but as mother to a vast quantity of useful chemicals that have come into existance recently from new processes of making gasoline. In the formerly waste gases from gasoline cracking, said Gustav Egloff of the Universal Oil Products Co. of Chi- chago, chemists have found a potential gold mine of articles that bear little re- semblance to gas or gasoline. Vast Alcohol Resource. ‘There are cosmetics and pharma- ceuticals, lamp black and hydrogen, some of them already on the market. There is enough leftover material to ‘make, he said, 300,000,000 gallons yearly of grain alcohol thre times the amount consumed commercially in the United States. Ethylene, just one of the left- over gasoline products, already is made into anesthetics, used to ripen fruit | and vegetables and to prepare war gasses. Chemists are beginning to get little “butadiene,” which resembles rul ber and can be manufactured into rub- ber-like substances. Many fuel gas users are getting a bet. ter grade, made so by mixing with some Bf the former waste from cracked gaso- ne. The idea of attempting to convert | flames directly into electricity was pro- posed by Dr. F. B. Jones of the Equi- table Gas Co. of Pittsburgh. He said little is known of the action of atomic forces in burning gas and that study of this action offers “immeénse possi- bilities.” Use For Stale Bread. Predicitions that stale bread will some day come back to the house in a chang- ed guise was made by C. G. Harrel of the Commander Larabee Corporation of | Minneapolis. “Yearly,” he said, “Hundreds of | thousands of tons of dry or stale bread are burned in furnaces or bound to city dumps. This bread can be transformed into alcohol, pastes, etc. It is to be distinctly understood that this is not being done. The bakers have been in fear of public opinion. Economic neces- | sity will no doubt open this field to the | chemist and the bakery will then keep | pace with many other industries.” | A step toward easier control of flavor | and baking quality of bread was report- ed by M. J. Blish and R. M. Sandstedt | of the Agricultural Experiment Station, | University of Nebraska. The substance | with which they expect to accomplish this is a protein of wheat, glutenin, which they have isolated in a more pure form than heretofore obtainable. _The splitting of a supposediy indi- visible element, hydrogen gas, in two substances was also demonstrated to the society. It was called the “greatest scientific discovery of 1929” by Dr. Hugh S. Tay- lor of Princeton University, chairman of the session. Discovered by a German. Dr. K. F. Bohnhoeffer, a shy, blonde, young German, who was a 17-year-old infantryman in front-line trenches at the close of the World War, is the dis- coverer. Dramatically he set his proof before | the eyes of the chemists in a spot of light upon the wall of a University of Minnesota lecture room. Like a mo ing finger it wrote the forecast of a revolution in physical chemistry. This revolution was described enthusiasti- cally by Dr. Taylor, an older man. “It is the first tangible proof of ex- fstence in supposedly indivisible mole- | mercial use, cules of what we may call a different Col. Theodore Roosevelt, newly app: arrived in the Capital yesterday and called on President Hoover. who has just returned from an extensive ointed governor general of Porto Rico, ‘ol. Roosevelt, e hunting trip in the wilds of Asia, is busy af the present time mastering the Spanish language In.order that he may speak to the Porto Ricans in their own t ongue. —P. & A. Photo. PRISONER LAUDED FOR HUMANE ACT Judge Siddons, However, Sen- | tences Manson to 3 Years in Forgery. Philip R. Manson, 31 years old, one of two prisoners at the District Jail | who last month submitted to blood | transfusions to save the life of a 26- year-old mother of six children at Gal- linger Hospital, was sent to the pen tentiary for three years today by Jus tice Frederick L. Siddons in Criminal | Division 1. Manson had pleaded guilty to forging the name of the man, at whose home he resided, to a check for $200 when the man was absent from the city. Justice Siddons commended the hu- mane act of the prisoner and referred to the service of Manson's father as | assistant cashier of the United States | Treasury for many years. The record | of the prisoner prevented the court | from extending probation. Manson had | | been held for bigamy in 1920 and sen- tenced to three in the peniten | some parahydroren back into ordinary hydrogen, and when it passed over the | wire, the ‘spot of light changed its posi- tion. This demonstrated, he said, that the ‘two hydrogen gases are_different physically, one making the heat flow faster than the other. | The two aiso have different_boiling | and different freezing points. But Dr. | | Bohnhoeffer said he has not found any | difference in their chemical effects. | The “iscovery has no present com- but the new world in | chemistry which it seems to open is | tiary, and in 1927 had been sentenced to one year for forgery. The prisoner told the court he had been married three times and promised to make good the check if given an- other chance. According to the report of Probation Officer Amos A. Steele, & check for $200 was forged by Manson and passed on a store where his wife owed a bill for $50, which was deducted and the balance given in cash to Manson. When the check was presented at the bank it Justice Siddons also sent Alfred Douglas, colored, to the pentitentiary for two years for embezziement. He was working s a porter in a barber | was turned down. shop and_appropriated to his own use | $64 which he had collected at other shops in_the chain owned by his em- ployer. Douglas is said to have become drunk on part of the money and prob- ably had his pocket picked of the re- mainder. Two violators of the Jones-Stalker law were before the court on charges | of transporting. Walter Harris, colored, who had been released from Atlanta Penitentiary last December, was given | a term of two years, and his companion, | Prank Green, colored, who claimed it | to be his first offense, was sent to the | penitentiary for one year and one day. Terms of 18 months’ imprisonment each_in the penitentiary were imposed on George W. Reed, colored, for joy- riding, and Horace Ardrews, colored, for larceny after trust. BUCKET SHOI; OPERATORS FLEE CHICAGO OFFICES Assistant State’s Attorney Declares Drive Now Underway Is Cleaning Up City. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 11.—Bucket shop operators are fleeing Chicago as the result of an intensive clean up that brought grand jury action against 20 suspected operators, it was declared yesterday by Assistant State's Attorney Jews and Arabs Ask Guards to Enable Merchants to Reopen Shops. By the Associated Press. JERUSALEM, September 11.—Jewish boycotting of Arab merchandise through- out Palestine has increased in bitter- | mess. Merchants of both races have asked the government to post guards in commercial centers to enable the mer- chants to reopen their shops. At Heifa a Jewish youth poured gaso- line on grapes that had been brought into the Jewish suburb of Haddar Ha’ Carmel. Jews of that city decided not to buy any local fish nor to employ porters who were alleged have partici- pated in the recent riots. Meeting at Safed. British and French mandatory au- thorities met at Safed. It was given as their opinion afterward that danger of a Bedouin invasion of Palestine prac- tically had passed. Christians at Haifa issued a proclamation denying rumor: of dissension between them and Mos- lems, and saying that both were re- solved to work together. ‘The Zionist executive estimated Jew- ish losses in the recent riots at 126 killed or dead from wounds and 217 seriously wounded. An official bulletin issued this morn- ing on the Arab-Jewish situation in Palestine declared that “apart from minor incidents the situation generally {has considerably improved during the past week. “Threatened incursions of nomads have not materialized. Attacks on Jew- ish suburbs and Jewish colonies have ceased, and press reports that disturb- ances recently occurred at Gaza and Beersheba involving action by troops are wholly without foundation. “It has been found impossible to re- duce considerably the number of air- craft operating in Palestine. H. M. S. airchaft cagrier Courageous has with- drawn its dircraft from Gaza and is leaving shortly. Airplanes of H. M. S. Courageous are being replaced by air- craft from Egypt. BATTLESHIP TO LEAVE. VALETTA, Malta, September 11 (). —Improvement in the Arab-Jewish sit- uation in Palestine was reflected today C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 192). Four Aerial Beats Are Proposed for Police in New York By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 11.— Four aerial beats will soon part of New York’s police routine, Commissioner Whalen said four amphibian planes would be pur- chased and patrols established at Coney Island, the Rockaways, Jamaica Blg and on Long Island Sound. action followed several recent airplane crashes in the city in which several persons were killed. An appropriation of $100,000 is to be asked. FIRST AIR POLICEMAN ON JOB IN CHICAGO Maj. Ralph Royce Is Named to Stop “Wildcat” Flying in Cook County. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Septmeber 11.—Maj. Ralph Royce, war-time fiyer and flight commander of the 1st Army Pursuit Squadron at Selfridge Field, Mich., as- [sumed his duties Monday as Cook | County’s first air policeman. But for the moment the first “air cop” of the metropolitan district will be a landlubber. Brought here at the instigation of the legitimate airport and air transport operators to end the perils of “wildcat” flying over Chicago and its suburbs, M: Royce was di- rected first to inspect the credentials | of all pilots, their equipment and the | airports and operating companles and schools in Cook County. Doeg Talks to Himself. FOREST HILLS, N. Y., September 11 (®).—Johnny Doeg is a talking tennis player. He talks especially to himself, such ‘as “Ouch, rotten!” or “Oh, murder!” when he makes a bad shot. Sometimes he tells himself after sundry outbursts: “Shut up, Doeg. in the order given to the British battle- ship Royal Sovereign to leave this after- noon to participate in the regular cruise | of the Mediterranean fleet. { The Royal Sovereign was the last | case of necessity. The rest of the fleet left some time ago on the cruise. Cer- tain regiments in Malta were also or- | dered to stand by for Palestine emer- | gency, but the order now has been can- | celed. | 66 ship standing by to sail for Palestine in | | SITEIS SELECTED FORBAPTIST HOME Two Stone and Stucco Build- ings to Be Erected in Montgomery County. ‘Two modern stone and stucco build- ings will be erected in the near future for the Baptist Home for Children on a rolling country-side tract of land of 120 acres, fronting on Cedar lane, west of Alta Vista, Montgomery County, Md. known as the Morrison Farm, it was an- nounced today. ‘Working drawings for the new home for the institution now are being drawn by Appleton P, Clark, jr, Washington architect, and bids for the construc- tion of the buildings will be announced in the next several weeks. ‘There will be dormitory bullding for girls and another, of almost dug cate plans, for boys. Each building has an estimated construction cost of $65,000. 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