Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1936, Page 6

URGED BY NOORE Tells Virginia Society to Work for Scenic High- way on Potomac. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Acting Secretary of State R. Walton Moore, as newly-elected president of the Virginia Society of the District of Oolumbia at its meeting in the Wil- lard Hotel last night urged the mem- bers to work for the building of a scenic highway on the Virginia side of the Potomac River from the Capital to Great Falls, comparable with the Mount Vernon Boulevard. “This is one of the major projects in Capital development, on which the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission is working with possibly a bridge spanning the Great Falls,” he said. Mr. Moore emphasized that if the beauty of the Potomac Valley and its palisades are to be saved and a project carried out that will directly affect only a very small part of Vir- ginia, but be of lasting advantage to the National Capital and the entire country, action should be taken with- out delay. He explained the recrea- tional features and the accommoda- tion this scenic highway would offer to tourists from all parts of the country. . Perhaps no other man who has served in Congress has been more active and successful than Mr. Moore in putting through legislation for the development and beautification of the Capital City on a monumental boule- vard. His legislative experience, he said, has made him thoroughly ap- preciate the work that must be done, in which such societies as the Vir- ginia State Society, the largest of all the state societies in the District, can be helpful. He pointed out that it is a singular fact that the fate of the Memorial Bridge hung by a legislative thread as the sixty-eighth Congress was near- ing its close. The expiration date was March 4, 1925, and the House did not pass the bill until February 18. The Mount Vernon Boulevard bill was in the same doubtful situation. The first session of the seventieth ess ad- Journed on May 29, 1928, and the boulevard bill did not reach a vote 1n. the House until May 21. Mr. Moore led the fight on the House floor for the passage of these two bills. The members of the Virginia So- elety pledged themselves to do all in their power to get difficulties smoothed away so that the new high- way to Great Falls may soon be constructed. AIDES BEING RETAINED BY NEW MARINE HEAD Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb Keeps Capt. Clyde H. Hartsel and Capt. John C. Muncie. Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, new eommandant of the Marine Corps, has issued orders, officials declared today, continuing the aides who served the former commandant, Maj. Gen. John H. Russell, who retired on Tuesday. The aides are Capt. Clyde H. Hart- sel, who is the senior aide; Capt. John D. Muncie, who is slated to go short- 1y to the Ecole de Guerre—the French war college in Paris—and First Lieut. Paul Drake. No official announcement has yet been made by Gen. Holcomb as to any change in the post of assistant com- mandant. Maj. Gen. Louis McC. Lit- tle, who served as assistant com- mandant under Gen. Russell, is ill at present. Veterans to Hold Dance. ‘The District chapter of the Rainbow Division Veterans will hold its annual dance tonight at 10 o'clock in the Broadmoor. Bentley Mulford is chair- man of the dance committee. The g:noe is for the benefit of the chapter nd. Births Reported. Thomas and Beatrice Moneymaker, boy. ‘endell and Louise Lee. boy. illiam and Olga Burch, girl. Joseph and Gayle Boyts, girl. Joseph and Eisie Rosenthal. girl. 'wis and Agnes Lamp, boy. John and Carmel Virnstein, boy. Cairl and Madeline Bullam. boy. William and Jane Terry. boy. Karl and Verna Offenbacher. boy. ederick and Katherine Higgs. boy. eil and Anna Kelly. boy. Clyde and Pauline Cgoper. boy. Jilton and Dorothy Iph and nces Armstrons, sirl. s Tavlor. girl. e Dickerson, boy. John and Myrtle Heavener, boy. ohn and India Cudd. boy. d Marian Hightower, boy. « Iph and Katherine Thompson, boy. Everett and Mae Kirkpatrick, boy. gng\ and Irene Lewis, boy. bert and Catherine Aiford, boy. ‘harles and Prances Beckner, boy. d Maud Shepherd, girl. Mildred Rhea. girl. yman and Fannie London. girl, \ncis ang a Baker, girl. ilton and Mary Boone. gifl. enry and Dolores Ki Ttle Ve thy Denn! an ieve Yeatman, sirl. saac and Mildred Ellison, girl. ory and Martha Hall 'boy. Christian and Martha Whittingham, boy. 11y and Aretha Williams, boy. esiey and Lucille Thomas, boy. Irving snd Esther Pickering. Otis and Annle Bailey. sirl. n ai Geneva Fletcher, girl. g‘*m’: EIREE T sy . boY. and Zols Coates. L " rt and Minnie Preston. sirl Marriage Licenses. | iz g Ty, g, e ey Frg ey L. Linder. 26. 2 L st.. and Lucile B. .'Lm.w 31611 D &b se.s "Rev. 4412 Greenwich 350 4310 %‘rfll. . 3. ht. ora A GFILL 37, New Sjlontal Hotel. 2nd Betty J. Vrabel. 23. Chicago; Rev. J. atihew W. Rinfrette 30. East Dougias; » Ruth W. Cs) 33, 1948 1% iscloteo. 56 Balstone 4 unflm Fla. and Ruth 27. 8t. Paul. Va.i' Rev. A. P. 44, New York Gti and er. 36, Irvington, N. Y.; bk e Ny 8 AL Had®Y 03 Rt b ST R The world’s largest sodium lightin, G_STAR, WASHINGTON, D, C, RUBBER PROBLEM INWORLD ARMING [Reich and Russia Relying | on Substitutes for “Must” Material. The nations race to rearm on the industrial front, as Germany and Italy, among the “have-not” pow- ers, push their self-sufficiency” pro- grams, spurred on by the Fascist- Communist cleavage over the civil war in Spain. What the nations are doing to develop synthetic raw materials needed in war is dis- cussed here in the seventh of a series of articles by a well-known writer who was formerly a civilian chemist in the United States Army Chemical Warfare Service and who had access to confidential docu- ments in his research. BY WILLIAM GILMAN. Russian and German war machines |would show the world a spectacle of | two nations that had prepared for just such an emergency by freeing them- selves from dependence upon the | world-wide rubber monopoly—Russia by finding a new use for potatoes; Germany by similar enterprise with ordinary lime. Neither nation has rubber planta- tions. Both have plentiful supplies of potatoes and lime. In these two countries, synthetic rubber has gone far beyond the experi- mental stage. Russian chemists are making thousands of tons of rubber from potato-made alcohol. In the Reich scientists have reached the same | goal by using lime-made acetylene. In either case a bit of chemical leg- erdemain called “polymerization”— making big molecules out of small ones —produces caoutchouc of the same chemical composition as that found swimming in the sap of the rubber tree. On Materials “Must” List. Military observers, without excep- tion, place this gummy substance, which becomes “vulcanized” when heated with sulphur, on the “must” list of modern warfare materials. Even if rubber could be dispensed with in electric insulation, machine beltings, footwear, raincoats, balloons —it would still be necessary as petro- leum’s comrade-in-arms in running modern war machinery. Motorized armies mean rubber tires. And rubber tires devour half of the rubber pro- duced these days. Its importance is stressed by -the enthusiasm with which Russia and | Germany have gone ahead to free themselves of a Dutch-English mo- nopoly that controls more than 95 per cent of the rubber produced, both as to price and quantity. The United States, incidentally, is the biggest cus- tomer—and victim. It uses half of the million tons of crude rubber pro- duced annually. Russia’s program is particularly significant. Director.O Osipov-Schmidt of the Russian rubber industry says consumption next year will be second only to that of the United States. And it will all be homemade, says Schmidt. 3,000 Tons Made in 1933, According to Schmidt, 3,000 tons of the synthetic product, “sopvrene,” were produced in 1933, but this year A head-on collision between the { flows principally to six big manufac- | monopoly took hold in 1934, had gone no novelty to Germany. In 1905, a German chemist discovered rubber’s chemical formula, and four years later another came along with s synthetic rubber made from methyl alcohol. During the World War, Germany— whose consumption had been 200,000 tons a year—found herself cut off from plantation rubber and had to depend upon synthesis. But the product was poor. Years of research have gone by. A few months ago, Adolf Hitler | opened the Berlin Auto Show with the boast that in “buna” is the Reich’s key to self-sufficiency, asserting the synthetic product is from 10 to 30 per cent more durable than its natural competitor. Other big powers, meanwhile, find themselves far back on the road to self-sufficiency. Synthesis is being tried in Italy and Japan, but is still | very much in the testing stage. i France Depends on Deals. Like the United States, France de- | pends on the deals her big rubber | companies have struck with the mo- nopoly. If war comes, most of the powers would depend on the British fleet to escoru their rubber out of the | Indian Ocean—and those countries at | odds with John Bull would have to | fight for rubber cargoes or do without. At present, the world’s raw rubber | | turers: England’s Dunlap, France’s Michelin and America’s Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and United States Rubber. Despite attempts at rebellion in the past, the Americans go along with the rubber “N. R. A.” curtail production and now pay 17 cents a pound for rubber which, before the down to three cents. America’s strongest weapon has been in her resorting—when things became onerous—to reclaimed rub- ber. This is a tribute to American scientific ingenuity. It was an Amer- ican, Charles Goodrich, who invented vulcanization in 1844. Reclamation involves a process that is the reverse of vulcanization, devul- canization and the removal of cot- ton fibers from old tires. Last year, 112,000 tons were obtained in this way. As yet, synthetic rubber is not com- peting with the crude variety in this country, although there would be no hardship in finding sufficient lime, al- cohol, turpentine or other necessary raw materials. About 500 tons will be put out this year for special pur- poses. Chief of American synthetic rubber is “duprene,” a du Pont prod- uct. Meanwhile, American attempts to produce natural rubber outside the field of the monopoly have met with no startling success. Plantations in Brazil, for instance, have never pro- duced more than 50,000 tons of crude rubber a year—in contrast with the capacity of the East Indies and, to a lesser extent, Africa, to produce nearly 2,000,000 tons annually. Then, too, the incentive to rebel is somewhat stultified by the effective- ness of a monopoly which gives its producing members & return of at least 10 per cent on their capital. Still, a measure of rebellion—or commercial patriotism—does exist. Henry Ford has been trying his hand at rubber growing in Brazl. Good- year is playing with the plantation idea in the Philippines. Experiments With Bush. Another method which may provide a degree of emancipation is being given a chance in California’s Salinas American rubber needs And a war involving regarding synthetic rubber. Schmidt asserts that “sovprene” lengthens the life of a tire. Rubber mem in other countries say it is almost worthless. The truth may be in between. A few years ago the detractors were scornful when America fought that the butadiene transformed caoutchouc nmtunn.ueohd, (Copyright. 1936, by the Nerth Ameriesn Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Deaths Reported. John.J. Burns, 81, 4 . B 77,582 D st ne. T Dreyer, 'lilfiu I.Qf. %fiw% [ m.‘u Pl g Ty - 200 3gse 3itn at. Leneta Linton R. W system has been installed on the first completed sec- tion of the bridge to Oakland. Nine hundred and twenty-four sodium lights, the equivalent of 35 full moons, make the highway so bright that motorists crossing the bridge are asked to turn off or dim the headlights of their cars. DR. FAUNTLEROY FUNERAL TODAY Native of Virginia Had Been With U. S. Health Service 28 Years. Funeral services for Dr. Charles day at Charleston, 8. C, were held today at Gawler’s Chapel, 1756 Penn- sylvania avenue. Dr. Fauntleroy, a native of Staunton, Va., had been stationed at the Govern= ment Quarantine Station at Charles- ton for the past seven years, going T —Wide World Photo. BANDTS GE TVITIN TED (P Four Armed Robbers Enter House by Ruse, Bind and Gag Occupants. Four bandits armed with pistols and a sawed-off shotgun bound and gagged | seven colored occupants of a resi- dence at 2023 Flagler place last night and escaped with $864 in cash. ‘The bandits, who operated like pro- fessionals, obtained admission to the| house through a ruse. One of them rang the bell dressed as a messenger, and when the door was opened the other three leaped from the shadows with drawn guns. The gunmen took $130 in bills, a; $5 gold piece and a thousand pennies | from Mae Henry, robbed Willis J.| Pleasure of $16, and obtained $3 from Nathaniel and Mildred Myers, 1200 block of Girard street. | Small sums were taken from three | other occupants of the place. The bandits appeared shortly before 10 o'clock. They tied up their victims, taped their mouths and settled them- selves to wait for Barrirgton G. Henry, who lives at the Flagler place address. When Henry came home two hours later the bandits bound and gagged him also and took $200 in silver, about $500 in bills and $50 in checks from his pockets. The seven victims were able to free themselves immediately after the bandits escaped. Police said Henry is the proprietor of a filling station. They said he made no explanation of how he happened to have so much money on him last night. Police of No. 2 precinct broadcast descriptions of the white bandits. Mrs. John Coefield Injured. Mrs. John Coefield, 4701 Connecti- cut avenue, was injured slightly at Raeford, N. C., yesterday, when an automobile in which she and her hus- band were riding crashed into the Tear of a wagon, according to the As- | sociated Press. ! ways been an im EVENING STAR. This ate size accounts. 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