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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-10-25, Page 3Zeppelin fuel ;a 'amiar Gas in ,its Purer Form It lalaS High CompressiUaility And a LQW SpeciAc Czravit That Make.lt a Convenient ent Loan to Carry !Reports ee the transatlantic troy= 1,800 13ritislt Thermal butte Piet' cubic age of the new airship Graff foot: e pelink with Ctale. eitenor at; 3'fydroaarbaa4 lei the technical name tiro, helm, !lave stated that the fuel for the by-products at petroleum suc11 aB kerosene and gasoline: After' the Ole Serried. on the trip to •Frew York petroleum is cut for` the fourth time, X'e, a mysterious `blue" as. Experts a gasoil is obtained: This BlaU used bay that the gas is nettlee mysterious as a base; He used retorts similar hoe blue; This same gas id a form la most respects to those employed in the ordinary plant which converts less pure has been used to light rail; coat into gas; except: that they con: Vote' tars in alibi and other` tLotintriee tattled iron pipes called Vaporizers to for at least a decade, and when used keep the oil from coming into contact for that purpose has always been zee terred to es Pintsch gas, It has else heart used by farmers in Europe and America as a fuel for cooking and lighting, Herman Mate - of Augsburg, Ger; many, considered one of the most con petent gas engineers of the day, was associated with Julius Pintsch for some time, Pintsch succeeded Manufacturing a Hydrocarbon gas which was so compressible that Bev onteen valttmes of it trould be squeesed into one, Pintsch, proud of his achievement, though not as am bilious as Blau, named it for himself, Railroads immediately saw the value of the gas as a fuel for lighting coach interiors, since it could be carried in a relatively small container and • was as good, if not better, for lighting pur- poses urposes than any gas discovered up to that time. Manufacturers .of harbor buoys also were quick to seize upon the .possibilities and the gas was used extensively in lighting them. Search for Fuel Gas Blau tried in vain to persuade his friend Pintsch to piirsue his research, but Pintsch either thought he had .:reached ultimate success with hydro- carbon. gas or was totally indifferent. Blau then made a hydrocarbon gas that, .under about 1,800 pounds pres- sure, with a temperature of minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, would liquify, and Vie gave the product his name. He thought That a much greater quantity could be squeezed into a container than had been possible with the pro- cess used by Pintsch. He therefore with the clay retort during the "crack- lug" process, inch less heat is used under the retorts when hydrocarbons aro the base than when coal la, Blau used less In his .p.rooesa than Pintsch did hi hiss --employing oil as a base—he- cause Blau wanted to make a gas that could be liquified under pressure in a proper temperature. He passed the gas from the retorts through suitable tar extractors, scrubbers,coolers and -purifier boxes, and after these pro- cesses had a fine quality of oil gas which -he passed through a cQmpres- sor and a cooling device, where it was reduced to a liquid state and put into heavy steel cylinders, Blau Gas • Blau gas contains a good many hydrocarbons unsaturated; and be- cause of this fact is a superior fuel for internal•" combustion engines. It has a specific gravity of 1.04 to, 1.08 that is one of the main reasons why it appeared to the German Zeppelin Corporation. One of the main diffi- culties in carrying liquid fuel in a dirigible is that ,as the tanks are emptied one after the other during the voyage weight must constantly be shifted. Blau has recently made claims that he has got his product down to the specific gravity of 1. The first plant for the manufacture of Blau gas was erected in 1908 in. Blau's native city of Augsburg, and others were later built in various European cities. Rights to oper-ate under Blau's patents were • obtained Canada Still J3reeda. Woe Winners ATEA CANADIAN HORSE WON IN STRONG COMPETITION Sir Clifford Slfton's "The Wizard" making the hurdles to win first prize in the class for hunters' jumpers at the Brockton, Mass., horse show: Lord Birkenhead Resigns From British Cabinet Secretary for India to Enter Finance Field to Recoup Fortunes, London Believes London.—The immediate resigna- tion of Lord Birkenhead, Secre- tary of State for India, was an- nounced in "The London Times." Reports of his withdrawal from pub- lic life have been long current, but it • set out to make some of the lighter by a group of men is this country. had been generally understood that hydrocarbons absorb some of the Recently a factory has been set up in he would wait uluti the next general heavier hydrocarbons. He succeeded Friedrichshafen, where the Graff Zep- election to avoid embarrassing the and produced a gas containing about peliu was tested. Conservative party. After several conferences with Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, in London, it was agreed, : according to "The Times," that the resignation be accepted at once. The plans of Lord Birkenhead are not known. One per- sistent report indicates that he is going to accept a lucrative position with a big financial firm in "the city," Rhodes Scholars Are Affected by Oxford Decision Age Limit Is Fixed for Those Taking Part in Athletic Contests London.—The decision by Oxford University not to allow students over 23 to represent the university in jnteruniversity, athletic contests has ,raised an international question af- fecting some 200 Rhodes scholars,. students from. the States and the, British overseas dominions. The rea- son for this is because these students plc genera y as a . I College, Oxford where he was a roceed to Oxford after tak- aging understanding of the problems classical scholars and president of the Oxford Union. After entering upon the practice of law and lecturing on legal subjects, he was made a privy councillor in 1911, was knighted in 1915 and became a baronet in 1918. to do, he continued. He was created a baron in 1919, a "Every country must solve its prob- viscount in 1921 and first Earl of leets in its own way. No doubt it is 1 Birkenhead in 1922. He served as true that what one country achieves ! lord chancellor from 1919 to 1922, and is a stimulus to other nations. The has been secretary of state for India • yid to Allenby Sees Growing Trust 41 Among Nations Beginning Also to Learn from Each Other, He Says at Pilgrims' Dinner New York; Continued friendship between people of the United States that he was one of its most formid- able Great Britain was urged by Field able oontraversi�alists. NTarsiral Viscount Allenby at a dinner! RISE WAS RAPID AND STEADY. given in his honor by the Pilgrims of I Frederick Edwin Smith's rise to the United States here. fame was both rapid and steaTy. He made a plea for a more extended study of contemporary history by peo- Born .kenJuly 12, 1872, he was educated it " means of encour- at Birkenhead School and Wadham Canadian Labor Ruling Opposed by Department Immigration Officers Think Law is Jeopardized by Decision of Court Washington—Immigration officials Radio Operator Wins Honor for Valor at Sea J. E. Croney Presented With Medal and $100 for Sav- ing Crew of Indiana' Harbor of the Department of Labor feel that Honors have been paid Joseph E. the issue between the United States Croney for heroic service as radio and Canada over the admission of operaor aboard the ill-fated steamer Indiana Harbor, which was wrecked commuting Canadian workers is not off the Humbolt coast 185 miles north settled by the decision just made by' of San Francisco, on May 18, 1927. the Supreme Court. In recognition of his loyalty and It can be said on the' highest au-. valor, Croney was presented with a i medal together with a cheque for $100 thorny that the chiefs of the immi• and a copy of resolutions passed by gration service feel that the court's the board of directors of the Radio ruling was on a technical point and Corporation `of America. that the efficacy of the immigration' Croney, who is thirty-three years Lord Melchett Traces. ��.ritis Trade Policies Defends titisiness Mergers as Effective Adjuncts to Economical System Great Britain 10 following the eaa ample of American. irtdt,stry an arnaL' ganration of companies in the lama. general line in order to'curb unregieo fated produotiou .and uneconomic man, agement, Lord Melohett (Sir . Alfred Mond), one of the outstanding iigurea In the )3ritish industrial world, told members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce in an address. Britain is not'out for eoonomlo war, be said, in referring to the chem- ical combine 'of four great companies known as the British Imperial Oltenia cal Industries, Ltd., of which he is chairman, and which, he said, cause world-wide comment at the time. He pointed out that the United Sta�-ei Steel Company produces more steel than the total production of England, France, Germany and Belgium com- bined, Mass production is an American 'ln• vention,:he said, possible in the United States because of the magnitude of its population, great consuming cee pacity and prosperity. "Your prosper. sty is largely due to free trade, but you Americans don't know it,' he said,! pointing to unity of the states trout coast to coast, with no tariff barriers, one language and one currency, Trend Toward Diversity "English production is necessarily on a smaller scale, and the aim is for quality rather than quantity," he said. The United States makes goods for millions, he stated. Lord Melchett said that the trend to -day is toward new and diversted industries. He pointed to the New England textile depression as a parallel of what is going on in England. The capacity of the mills is too great; unemployment is considerable and profits are too lean. This is lead- ing toward a • rationalization of in- dustry so that there bay be a proper regulation of output to closer meet demand." Unregulated competition, he went on, leads to ruinous price cutting then production is at the ex- pense of plant; capital fails to come forth to remedy the situation and in- dustries n dustries go down, Industry is migrating, following natural sources, he continued, and in law would be jeopardized if the issue i old and was a wireless operator in the I Great Britain, the great industrial were to be held in abeyance. A new , merchant marine during the World north of England is working to the test of the law is expected shortly in War, was the hero of the wreck of the! south, which once was not industrial, a case that will clear up the matter' Indiana Harbor. The ship was in such! but is now becoming highly indua- or else congressional action that will a position that it was impossible for a trialized. The coal industry is going accomplish the same purpose. i relief boat to reach it, and rescue was through a transformation, with east while another says that he has a The Supreme Court refused to re- a matter of waiting until the storm coast of England fields producing coal contract with one of the large Lon- view decisions of a lower court in- volving u subsided sufficiently to make it pos- $1 per ton less than the older mines don newspapers. ( volving the passage 01 Canadian citi- sible and safe to get a breeches buoy on the west coast. Amalgamation and His resignation is considered a zens for business purposes over the abroad. He remained at his wireless combination in the coal fields to regu- blow to the Conservative party in ing u' i of other nations and increasing inter- national university degrees in their own homeland and zre consequently on an national friendship." average three or four years older English-speaking people should learn than the British youths who ordinar- from each other and trust each other, ily go direct from secondary schools, he said. "That is the important thing. The decision, it is alleged,�discrimi- and that, I believe, the nations are be - nates against the oversease ask cont- ginningt d pared with the students from the British Isles. Harlan D. Logan, chairman of 25 newly arrived Ameri can Rhodes scholars, complains in an nations are beginning to study each since November,^ 1924. He is s t interview iii the Daily Telegraph that have referred to the Baldwin Cabinet with the growing tendency to choose other and to understand each other,' in which he served as "this cabinet of older men for these scholarships it is and I believe that this understanding;' will deepen with the years." I second-class brains." going to make it almost impossible I Lord Birkenhead saw active service for a Rhodes scholar to represent his Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler; press -1 during. the war, and was honored as university and thus wia th coveted dent of the Pilgrims of the United "blue," the colored coat and cap awarded for athletic prowess'. "We are faced," Mr. Logan said, "by the further disappointment of seeing our contemporaries from Ain- erican colleges come across as inde pendents to Cambridge University and have a ^full chance, whatever their age may be." Francis J. Wylie, secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Fund at Oxford, said that the decision was in no way directed against overseas. -students, ----- though it affects them. Its object • was • to prevent immature 18 to 20- Nairobi Pleased year-old youths, who form the bulk of With Royal Visit the university students here, froth having ;to compete with trained ath- letes severalyears their senior. It ap- • London.—Great appreciation of the plies indifferently to the British as visit of the Prince of Wales to native well as to the overseas students, chiefs at their camp at Nairobi, where Cambridge was consulted when the he presented photogrophs of himself new rule was under consideration, to the leading Africans, is expressed but Wis not yet known what, if any, in a letter to the Nairobi press signed abutter action is contemplated in that by fire paramount chiefs. sister institution. The statutory age They saythat, above all, they were of Rhodes scholars when appointed is greatly surprised by the factthat the 19 to 25 and. the majority has hither-) Prince addressed` them in Kiswahili, to been., between 21 And 22, which is theirnative tongue, which he studied` well below the age bar for ,"blues" while ori' his voyage to Africa. The The, question has been. considered Prince visited the site of the Duke of. of lowering the .25 -year . maximum Gloucester's first camp, which is situ- but this was negatived because, al- ated 15 miles from. Nairobi, though the British universities/ are primarily intended for the. training TIMI.! ni' youths, nevertheless they also de -.A .case came beore the police court circ to ws1eo ne a limited number of involving the ownership of an eight- e7crrption;tll}- brilliant men for post clay clock. After listening to both gradutlte ecwires,sides, the magistrate turned to the plaintiff. Ile: "11 I had known how sarcastic "You get the clock," he said grave - you wore, .1 would never have married ly. yon." She! "You had an opportunity "And what do I get?" asked the of. nniiein ' it, Didn't I say 'This is so accused, � trodden" when you proposed to Me af- "You get the eight days," replied ter a three years' courtship?" the niai istrate, States, paid a warns tribute to Lord Allenby in a speech of welcome. "The Holy Land was. rescued by you from ford University in the same year. Be - disorder, from rapine,,hfrom war's de- sides works on the law, he has pub - sound and in teir mince came fished books on travel; essays, criti- the .building of roads and railways, and. just civil administration, cism and army memoirs. Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1922, and as honorary Doctor of Civil Law and High Steward of Ox - the develapment of agriculture, the provisieu of water supply 'and the institution of the attributes of a mod- ern and orderly civilized state," he said. international boundary. The lower, court held that the Canadians con -I cerued, who were employed in the United States, and crossed the bor- der daily, were "nonimmigrants" un-' der Section 3 of the Immigration Act; of 1924, and that under the Jay; Treaty of 1794 they were privileged to cross and recross the border for the purpose of business and coin-: merce. The contention of tae Department' of Labor is that Europeans who have I come to Canada and taken out na- turalization papers are not "Cana -1 diens," in the inte:•pretation of the, United Staes immigration law, but, conte under the quota provisions of their country of origin. The department makes no denial of the right of nativeborn Canadians to unrestricted passage back and forth across the border. At the back of their strong -opposition to the present; ambiguous condition, is the apprehen-: sion that increasing numbers of Euro-; peens will settle along the borddr' and work in 'the United States, under their asserted Canadian status. "Bridegrooms are usually shy," says a woman M.P.—They realize they've said too much. key for seventy-two hours. During the greater part of the time heavy seas were hacking at the vessel and here was danger of its going to pieces at any moment. The ship's late production to consumption was recommended by Lord Melchett. More modern ideas in business or- ganization and( industry was advo- cated by the speaker. In England power was dead and he had to depend more trust is being reposed in young OA storage batteries. Instead of tax- men than ever before. Three factors ing these by sending useless signals in modern industry, he said, are work - during the daytime, he used the wig- men, capitalists, and management. wag system to communicate with the All are interdependent upon the other vessels standing -by. During the night and Lord Melchett visualized a trinity he sent only vital messages, and even of the three "that must be recog- these, instead of wasttug his power nized,"—not antagonism but a co. on long distance, he sent to near -by ships and asked them to relay. Australian Labor Difficultied partnership. Explains "Episode of 1776" Greeted at the luncheon by Gov, Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts and Frank S. Deland, Boston corporation Lloyd's List (London) : The post- counsel, Lord Melchett was reminded tion has become serious not only for by Governor Fuller of the amity of shipowners but for Australian export ers tooe for in the present competi- tive state of the world's Markets it is essential that costs should be down' to the minimum. If Australia is to become a factor in international trade and maintain the position_ she has al- ready established these facts will have to be faced and faced at once. many years' standing between Eng- land and the United States, and the "ties that bind," which "make the world safer for democracy," than the attention once paid to colonial his- torical events. Lord Melchett responded with an interpretation of the "disastrous epi- sode of 1776," He described the Revo- lutionary War as one resulting from "It was Adam who put 'mar' into "Englishmen in America, failing to marriage,"says a woman writer. But agree with a German king in Eng - who was responsible for the rage. land, and continued that there was no doubt that if there had beet a Fighting the Dope Carriers in the U. S. 444ro,r, rot MAKING SEIZURE OF $1,500,000 WOR'i`11 of oP'11111ii Custo.n's officers at Jersey City searching "'four 'Chinese menibere of the crew of the steamship Pressdetlt 1i risou, The largest seizure of Izalco cs on lecor was made. ar� British sovereign in power to hear the complaints of his countrymen in Am- erica, merica, the conflict would never have taken. place. The years have healed the breach between the nations, he said, and now the feeling in England is one of apology and regret when notice is taken of this country's con- tribution on the fields of France in the World War. Empire Flying Boat Uses Seaplane Dock London. -•--•A test was made . at, Southampton by the Imperial Airways' of the value for- commercial purposes of the Royal Air Force seaplane dock.' An empire flying boat was docked aucl certain routine work of overhaul- ing was carried out. The seaplane clock lent for the purpose is normally, with the fleet at Portland. The speed with which aircraft catU, be clocked and the time revived for normal maintenance operations, as compared with that needed in it ;sttore base, were considered. Further tests' will be made to determine whether there would be any financial advan- tage in. using a floating dock on the England, India, and Australia route, which will be operated by flying boats, No farm raliel like burning the olds mortgage. --•Boston UetraIL. PRIV