New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 15, 1923, Page 12

D LIGHT BY ~ RADID REPORTED inmntor Announces ~ Another Great Scientilic Discovery i ke PR Ak New York, Aug. 15—Prof. Guido ‘Blenio, chemist, physicist and” inven- tor, who for many years has devoted most of his attention to the develop- ment of fire retarding paint and other fireproofing processes, announced yes- terday that he has invented a radio active vghl in liquid form which can be poured into a bulb that may be used for many years. He described his invention as “a most remarkable and revolutionary discovery, which, T believe, will eventually make coal and fuel ‘oils or any other power a thing of the past.” This new light, which is cold, can be produced in different colors, placed in small glass tubes and the tops her- metically sealed and used in what- ever circumstances light is needed. It can be darkened only by a metallic cover over the lamp, The light, ac- cording to Prof. Blenio, “is far su- perior and more effective than elec- tric light and will last from ten to 15 years without any attendance.” In an affidavit which he submitted yesterday Prof. Blenio said that after years of costly experiments he found that radio active elements in proper combination will form what he de- scribes as “a never before known power.” He said that in 1909 he pro- duced a similar liquod light which gave a bright light for more than seven years, when the container cidentally was broken, . Would Produce Power “Years after,” he said, “I came to the conclusion that a much better commercial light could be .accom- plished with the same radio active elements in a dry battery form. The same combination of elements will produce power, though at the present time it is impossible to calculate the @actual results. So far results indicate that such a combination of clements increases the light and efficiency, in- cluding also the lasting power, from 5,000 to 20,000 times over the present systems of lighting. “I also believe I am able to pro- duce with proper ecquipment and facilities, an enormously useful com- mercial power which will make elec- tric power, coal and fuel oils absolute- ly. useless, and for many other pur- poses atmospheric electricity may be used in connection. with radio active elements for any distance.” For example, Prof Blanio said that &.dry battery of the type used in automobiles, which weighs about 50 ‘pounds, will be made obsolete by the Tadio active battery, which will weigh ‘about one pound. He said he be- lieved he can perfect such a battery within the next six months. Prof, Blenio contends that he is the first ‘man to discover the use of radio ac- ‘tive elements to produce light and power. ac- Predicts Vast Change ' “My claims perhaps sound a trifle startling,” said Prof. Blenio, ince they invelve the ultimate abolition of all the present forms of lighting and power, but the time is coming when radio active elements and not coal, electricity and fuel oil will supply the power that drives the world's indus- tries, ‘The United States government bu- reau of mines at Washington is as- sisting my invention in every direc- tion.” ' REWARD COMMISSIONER High Commissioner of Mesopotamia to Receive $25,000. London, Aug. 17.—Great Britain re- wards with a liberal hand her public servants who have served the em- pire well. . 8ir Percy Cox, who has relinquished his post of high commissioner for Mesopotamia, is to receive ,000 as a gratuity from the government recognition of distinguish rvices" as an administrator in raq, which Britain has now turned over to the pative Arabs. STEAL $25.000 IN GOOD Pawtucket, R. 1., Aug. | Pour men early today held up the watch- man at the plant of Lang & Hoffman Inc., silk manufacturers, and after gagging him backed him into a cor- fier and stole silk goods to the value of $25,000. Pop, similar to that of this country, and with flavors mostly from here, is tuking the place of the intoxicating mescal, or tequila, in Central Mexico. EMPTY TIN CANS AID | IN GETTING COPPER Carloads of Scrap Iron Sent to Arizona and Put to Good Use Phoenix, Ariz, Aug. 15.—The busi- ness of “turning tin cans into cop- per,” as the process is popularly de- scribed, is reaching large proportiona in Arizona, The process, which actually consists in recovering copper from water through the use of scrap iron, which displaces the copper in solution, by no means new, but has been extend- ed and improved in recent years so that sevral hundred carloads of tin cans, as well as large quantities of gcrap iron, are now shipped to Ari- zona mining centers each year. At most of the mining centers in the state the process is subordinate to main mining operations, being used merely to extract the copper from water seepage pumped from the mines. This water contains a_small quantity of copper, less than two- tenths of one per cent, in solution. The water is run through sluices where scrap iron has been placed. Part of the iron goes into solution and the copper is deposited in the bottom of the sluices and is collected at intervals. This process is valuable principally on account of the low ex- pense involved. At Ajo, a mining camp southwestern part of the state, the principle has ben extended and the scrap iron method is used as one step in the electrolytic process of extract- ing copper from ore. The process, according to mining men, is not con- fined to Arizona mines but is also used in Montana and Utah. Since the object is to get scrap iron with as much surface as possible in proportion to its weight, tin cans, which are actually made of iron and not tin, answer the purpose admir- ably. Most of the tin cans are shipped fn from Arizona and- Southern Cali- fornia cities, although some ship- ments are also made from eastern states, COPPER WIRE PLANT BUILT NEAR CHICAGO Huge Mill Expected to Have Capacity of 70,000.000 Pounds a Year, in the Chicago, Aug. 15.—One of the larg- est copper wire mills in the world, with an ultimate capacity of 70,000, 000 pounds of copper wire a year, is expected to be complete late this year when a group of buildings now under constructjon at the Western Electric company's plant at Haw- thorne is finished. The buildings and machinery will cost $2,500,000 and will have a floor area of 96,000 square feet. The out- put of copper wire will he devoted exclusively to telephone apparatus. The rod mill plant will consist of tifrec mills, one for roughing the cop- per billets into bars, an intermediate mill for “breaking down"” the bars, and a finishing mill for rolling them into one-quarter inch toppet rods. The rods will be carried by mono- rail to the pickling tanks and then to the wire drawing plant. The wire drawing machines will start with a combined capacity in excess of 41,- 000,000 pounds of wire a year, cnough to encircle the earth approxi- mately 310 times. STOLEN GAR HITS GREENBERGS AUTO (Continued From First Page) of the crash and asked to make an investigation. They reported to Mr, Le that the car which bore the marker numbers 42,994 was registered in the name of Thomas J. Norton of | Hartford at the motor vehicle depart- ment. t Captain Nichols of the state police notified Mr. Lewis this morning that Mr. Norton ¢ his garage without his An investigation is being conducted by the state police and. every effort is|t being made to apprehend the men|( who were in the car. the American spect Turkish support . of the Turkish government means we future, we have no reason to expect any from today.” Dr. Peet said “The National sent the new spirit of Turkey, a spirit which tends toward way of looking at things. beneficent results peopte. Turkish methods to western will not be instantancous. to work out the great changes. the process is going on, and 1 foresee the heneficent changes it will bring about in the ‘internal Turkey. that is being carried on by tionalist movement, 4future by the past, the western world White Square Stome as & jumping [ games, ms he was not in the| car and that it had been taken from | teven, Co Just The aimples{ way to end a corn is Blue-jay. Stops the painin- stantly. Then the corn loosens and comes out. Made in clear liquid and in thin plasters. The action is the same. At your druggist U. 3. CHARITIES ARE SECURE IN TURKEY Interests in Turkey Are Not Men- aced. by Recent Developments Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 15.—Ameri- can interests in Turkey are not men- aced by recent developments in that country, in the opinion of Dr. W. W. Peet, who has lived in Constantinople for 42 years, and who today is the business representative'of a group of American philanthropic institutions extending from Constantinople to Aleppo. Dr. Peet, who passed re cently through Sofia, expressed him- self thus to the representative of The Associated Press, Continuing he said: “Dr. James L. Barton, secretary of the American Board of Commission- ers for Foreign Missions, and I went to Lausanne at the beginning of the original conference. We asked Ismet Pasha, the chief delegate from An- gora, as to-the treatment our Ameri- can interests in Turkey might expect from the Nationalist government, “Ismet Pasha told us that the Na- tionalist government would welcome the American institutions, incudling colleges and schools, hospitals and orphanages in widely scattered parts of Turkey. He informed us that if institution would re- laws, the complete would be extended to them. “To insure that compliance with Turkish laws, it was necessary to ef- fect only slight modifications in operation of our institutions. making these modifications. to this time every promise made by Ismet Pasha has been fully carried out. crphanages—directly affecting about 50,000 Turkish and are operating without the slight- est hindrance for the benefit of Chris- tians and Mohammedans the We are And up American schools, hospitals and subjects—have been alike, “As our past experience is the only have of judging of the different treatment tomorrow that which is being accorded us [ Referring to the political situation ts repre- the Iuropean It promises for the Turkish Of course, the turnover from It will take time But can life of “Tt is the modernization of Turkey the Na- To judge of the has no evil results to expect from this Nationalist movement in Turkey.” ROMAN ALTAR FOUND Identified Years OLIY As Relic London, 2,000 Aug. 17.—Used for years block in children's large white square stone hree feet high, near Kingston road, s been identified as a Roman altar, 00 years old. The antiquarian, Doctor W. who made the discove permission. | it is like all early Roman altars, and the depression on top shows where he offerings for the gods were placed. Jarved figures, supposed to represent priests, can still be seen on one side. How Memorial Is Being Carved on a Mountain This world championship tourney didn’t attract as much world wide attention as did the Shel- by affair. Nevertheless, Robert Hossfield, past 50, a Butte miner, T T mucking. He's shown shoveling half a ton of copper ore into an or Qld Roh oncht to be a deman with a snow shovel., \ won the world title for ore e car in less than two minutes. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HEKALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGU S115) 1924 erience behind m‘ o .DUNLOP TIRES that’s what sold us” .TE DIDN'T get a Dunlop Tire- Merchant- _ Franchise over night. Dunlop doesn’t .de things that way. Dunlop looked us up. We also looked up Dunlop.’ We found out the kind of rubber Dunlop uses, and we found out a lot of othér ‘things that are right about Dunlop—things which make us recommend Dunlop Tires and Tubes to you, as strongly as we know how. Above all, we found. that Dunlop, has been making tires for 35 years—and that Dunlop :Tires have won and held the respect of motorists in nearly every country in the world. ‘ We recommend Dunldps to you, bccause they are “Experienced Products of Experienced Hands". They cost you no more than other reputable tires. From the time the rubber trees are tapped in the East Indies—and- the long staple cotton picked in E_gi:pt-— Dunlop Inspection selects with the care of long experience, JUDD & DUNLOP 15 FRANKLIN SQUARE “There’s a whole lot more to driving besides simply shifling gears and steer- ing. The biggest part of the job is to keep your head no matter what looms up in front of you. Poor brakes cause a good many accidents— and so do poor nerves.” (The Veteran Motorist.) Says the Veteran Motorist: WISH I could pai;':t some big signs along every | motor highway and byway. They would all be alike —just five words. But I'm convinced that those five words would save many a mishap and many a doctor’s bill. Here they are: LOOK WELL TO YOUR BRAKES, “The least every motorist can do, for his own protection and the safety of others, is to be absolutely sure that the brakes are 100% O. K. Many a chap has started out for a spin and come back via the tow-line, sadder and wiser, because his brakes ‘didn’t work.’ : “He thought they were good enough. But when a real test came on a steep hill, with a blind cross-road at the bottom, they didn’t measure up. And it happens every day —to somebody... Look well to your brakes!”’ SOCONY STAN DARD 26 Broadway Uniform Quality Best Results OIL CO. OF NEW YORK