Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — Page 3

HUNS HELD THIS CHURCH FOUR YEARS

interior of a small church in Bertramaix which was used by the German's to billet troops, now restored to allies, showing' strawiFstrewn pews which were occupied by the Germans for four years.

PLAN TO MAKE OIL FROM SHALE

Great Industry May Be Born as Result of Experiments Being Made. DEPOSITS IN THREE STATES Decrease of Supply of Petroleum and Products and Ever Increasing Necessary for Years. Salt Lake City, Utah.—Oil shale must be looked to, probably for years to come, to-supply increasing demands so» and lessened supply of petroleum and Its products. Salt Lake City seems to be the natural center for experimentation and exploitation of an Industry which Is not yet born in this •country, although manufacture of oil from shale has been conducted on a commercial basis in Scotland for 60 years.”? In Colorado, Utah and Nevada, east, west and south of Salt Lake Qty, are shale deposits of unknown magnitude, and of richness surpassing that of shales known elsewhere. Oil shale Is a common and general term for several different geological formations — different in appearance and in gum content. Without attempting any elaborate description, it will be sufficient to say that the Colorado deposit Is found .in dense masses of black rock, often with a considerable fossil content. Some, southern Utah shale appears in broad strata two or three Inches thick, light gray in color, and may be extracted and handled like great planks, while the Nevada deposit (pronounced richest of all) appears In sheets rarely more than half an Inch thick, of. fine, even texture resembling an oil stone -end-dark brown in color. It Is broken, even with the fingers. Different Productive Methods. Chemists, say different methods of reduction will be necessary in the utilization of these various forms of gum-containing rock. A greater part of all experimentation by competent ’ persons In the United States has occurred In the chemical laboratory of the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City. Here Dr. W. D. Bonner, consulting chemist to the bureau of mines, department of the Interior, in charge of laboratory investigation, Is the authority. Dr. Quinn Is his assistant. A fact which has been widely herald- - ed, but which Is pronounced of no importance by the chemists, is that a small shale reduction plant was built at the university about a year ago. It Is not used now, nor did its use ever have any special significance. To be even more plain, the fact of this small retort having been built at the university was seized upon by some promoters of “shale oil” companies and considerable advertising matter has been circulated regarding an “industry” wMeh does not exist. The proper method of reduction (destructive distillation is the chemical term) of oil shales of the United States has not been determined. Refining of the resultant crudes has not been satisfactorily accomplished. Chemists anticipate no difficulty in perfecting these processes—but it has not yet been dorie. The product of oil shale after “destructive distillation" arid retorting is

Enemy Keeps Skeleton of Its Standing Army

Coblenz. —Information reaching the Americans Is to the effect that every Infantry, artillery and cavalry regiment which was part of the German standing army In Joly. 1914, continues in existence except some Al-sace-Lorraine regiments, which were dissolved. These regiments, the reports agree, are now mere skeleton organizations, probably only a few numbering tnore than a thousand men each.

a heavy, thick, dark oil, resembling in many ways the petroleum known as fuel oil; and it may be used as such. These crude oils vary, as may be supposed, according to the shales from which they are produced. They smell more like asphalt than petroleum. An immense amount of gas is liberated by' the distillation. Some enthusiasts believe this gas will be a sufficient fuel supply for the retort furnaces, but In this the chemists do not agree. The Idea savors too much of perpetual mo-tiem-ImpurtauL by-products are paraffln and ammonium sulphate. It is also considered probable some form of commercial fertilizer will be obtained. • Several bona fide experimental shale reduction plants are now being -constructed in the tnree states mentioned. Chemists of the bureau of mines | are agreed that the greatest hindrance that could occur to the legitimate development of a shale oil industry in the United States would be any extensive “wildcatting”; that Is, selling of stock In imaginative shale oil plants, or even in plants to be erected by uninformed persons and which may be held out to be practical commercial ventures. A shale oil plant is an experiment In this country at the present time, nothing more. In order to encourage legitimate and practical experimentation, an effort will be made to induce congress to make an appropriation to assist responsible companies. Let the fact be clearly stated that manufacture of oil from shale must be, so far as is now known, one of the greatest industries in years to come. Plants which are understood to be experimental are perfectly legitimate now. They are good businesses. But evidences of wildcatting are abundant, and they will tend to discredit the entire business and cause it to be looked upon for a long time, perhaps, as a gamble, just as wildcat mines and oil wells - have caused many people with money to' invest to view ail such propositions with suspicion.

Kills Big Bald Eagle.

Independence, Mo.—A bald eagle, three feet £rom the beak to the tip of his tall, was killed near here.

HEDJAZ WANTS A GREATER ARABIA

The claims of the king' of Hedjaz. for the recognition of a greater Arabia presents another batch of conflicting interests for the consideration of the peace congress. included in this proposed new state is practically all, of the peninsula of Arabia. Linguistic: and racial lines form the basis for the Hedjaz claims, and to Emir Faysal, who was in Paris, representing his father, the king of Hedjaz, all \who speak Arabic are Arabs and should/comd under one government. At present the Hedjaz kingdom comprises that portion of the eastern Red

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PARROT TALKED TOO MUCH

California Hunters Use Their Shotguns on Bird That Spoke German. .. ?X . OnWanrtr&tf: —Pluto, a much traveled parrot belonging to Mrs. J. H. Rathbone, Tunnel road, has changed his luiulwl two~meir~trr: jail and lost his tail feathers, all because he insisted on speaking German. Dominlco Garerane, Italian, and Mathew Grasseponie, French, were hunting near the Rathbone residence. Suddenly they heard a stream of disloyal German, such as “Hoch!” “Raus!" and “Gott mit.uns!” issuing from a buSh. Garerane and Grasseponie looked tit each other. Then by a common impulse they clutched their shotguns and advanced on Pluto. There a roar of artiUery. Pluto and his tail feathers parted company. A game -warden, J. L. Bundock, who was in the vicinity, rushed to the spot. He found two indignant hunters, a denuded parrot babbling German and some tame pheasants. The hunters said they were after Pluto, but the "warden ldbked_askance at l jthe pheas: ants and brought the men to the city. The parrot, according to Mrs. Rathbone, was the gift of a German sea captain and learned the language while on a sailing Jttssel.

N’YAWK WOULD BE STYLE HUB

Waist Makers Plan to Have Gotham Supersede Paris as Fashion Center. New York. —Plans for making 4 New York and not Paris the style center of The world for~wbmen’s clothing were outlined here at the annual meeting of the United Waist League of America, attended by delegates from all parts of the country. Samuel A. Lerner, president of the organization, predicted that the movement would have the support, not only of the waist manufacturers, but of the dress manufacturers, milliners and other producers of woman’s wear. President Lerner announced that the Pennsylvania Railroad company had offered a site for a $6,000,000 building which It Is proposed to build in this city to house all the waist manufacturing plants in New York.

HUNS POLISH YANKS’ SHOES

Yankee Signal Corps Officer Saya Americans Are Curiosity to Germans. Philadelphia. The Germans are now polishing the shoes of the Americans,who formerly did that themselves, says a letter from Lieut. Frank H. Blythe to his father. Describing the march Into Germany, he said: “We are sort of a curiosity to the .inhabitants, and they have much fear that we will leave them to the mercy of the French and English.” The lieutenant has been overseas for i a year with the Four Hundred and I Fifth telegraph battalion and was slightly gassed once. ?■• —•—

PLANNING FOR WAR HISTORY

American Officers Sent to Italy to Study Regions in Which Battles Were Fought. Paris, France—To Insure the writing of an accurate history of the war a score of officers under orders to return to detaiped and-sent to Italy to make a study of regions over which the Italian and Austrian campaigns were fought. A large number of officers are now engaged In studying the devastated regions of France and Belgium for the same purpose. t

sea littoral from the Sinai peninsula to south of Mecca. The king and emir claim that parts or all of Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Arabia should become united into one great Arab speaking nation under the leadership of Hedjaz. The interior of the Arabian peninsula Is for the most parts barren- desert, but here and there there are Intermittent streams of sufficient volume to sustain the population. Since the collapse of Turkey, England has taken possession of the most important parts of what is geographically Arabia.

BILLIARD CHAMPION WILL DEFEND TITLE

Melbourne Inman, English Cutfst, rivUMJ 1 I IvluVullf In Handicap Tournament Title Holder Concedes Handicaps Ranging From 1,000 to 2,500 Points in 18,000-Point —• 7 One of the important events in the restoration of sports In England to a pre-war basis will be a billiard championship tournament, In which Melbourne Inman, title holder, will be called on to defend his laurels. Latest dispatches from London state the tournament will be conducted either in March or April. - It will be a handicap competition, with Inman playing from scratch for 18,000 points, and conceding handicaps ranging probably from I,(MX) to 2,500 points. Und«r this arrangement it is felt that the champion will encounter serious opposition. The nature of*the handicap allowances jjas not yet been definitely decided, although the committee in charge has practically agreed on this style tournament for the purpose of .equalizing the play, and giving aspiring billiardists a chance against the -champion. Inman submitted, as his own Idea of what would make a good handicap, the scale of from 1,000 to 2,500 points to his riyals, Jn addition, Inman expressed a willingness to oppose any or all of four leading rivals on the terms of this handicap basis for £2OO a side. Claude Falklner, who is advancing rapidly to the front In English bll-

Melbourne Inman.

Hard circles, is among Inman’s foremost rivals. G. A. Heginbotham of Ashton-under-Lynne, Lancashire,' has stepped forward with a. challenge to support Falklner for any sum up to £SOO a side in a match on the scale proposed by the champion, Inman to play-18,000 against Falkiner’s 15,500. Heginbotham is a prominent amateur cueist, and an ardent advocate of the billiard sport. In his younger days at Oxford he won the ’Varsity cue. More recently he has attracted favorable attention as a runner-up in the amateur championships. He has a break of 174 balls, which stood as a record for an amateur for a considerable time. Thomas Newman of North London is another player eager to oppose Inman. Newman has been tentatively allotted a handicap of 1,500 points on the champion, and it Is generally felt that, under this arrangement, Newman is being accorded generous treatment. Thomas Reece has already accepted Inman’s offer to concede him, with Stevenson, a handicap of 1,000 points. Stevenson, however, has not definitely decided.

ELIS WANT TAD JONES

An effprt is being made by Yale’s football leaders to bring Tad Jones back as coach of the 1919 varsity squad.

Wants Stadium Memorials.

’ FrCd Rublen, secretary treasurer of the Amateur Athletic union,’ would have athletic stadiums built tn all the big cities as memorials to the athletes who lost their lives In tju? war.

BOSTON, WASHINGTON AND DETROIT MAKE THREE-CORNERED DEAL INVOLVING SIX MEN

The biggest deal of the baseball conference was put through recently when the Washington, Boston and Detroit clubs made a three-cornered trade which sends Shortstop Hal JanvrA of the Red Sox to Washington, George Dumont, the Washington pitcher, and Oscar Vitt, the Detroit third baseman, to the Red- Sox, and Chick Shorten, the outfielder, Slim Love, the Red Sox pitcher, and Eddie Ainsmith, ihe Washington backstop, to Detroit. This Is the most important trade

KIVIAT BACK FROM SERVICE

One of New York’s Best Athletes Returns From France—He Holds Many Records. Abel Kiviat, one of New York’s best track athletes, is home after serving in France with the Fifty-ninth coast artillery, the old Thirteenth of Brooklyn. He saw active fighting on the Verdun front and in the Argonne. Kiviat holds the 1,500-meter Olympic

Abel Kiviat.

record of record for the same distance and in the same time. Be finished second to Arnold Jackson, the Englishman, In the 1,500-meter run at the Olympic games in Stockholm in 1912. The former Irish-American A_ C. star won the national mile championship in 1911, 1912 and 1914. e .

Tilden Is Out of Service.

William T. Tilden, the young Philadelphia tennis star, who has been serving in a unit of -the medical corps at Fort Myer, Virginia, has received his discharge. He expects to compete in the more important tournaments in the East next summer.

Yost Opposes Change.

Fielding H. Yost, Michigan’s famous football mentor, is strongly opposed to the proposed change in tbe a rules which would eliminate the, kickoff atthe start of the, second half.

that lias been made in some time ahdr was arranged so as to benefit all clubs concerned. Washington needed a shortstop to take the place of DoC Lavan, who is through with the game. The Red Sox were badly in need of a third baseman, and in Vitt they landed one of the best fielders and batsmen in the business. Detroit got # promising outfielder in Shorten, and the Tiger catching staff is strengthened by the addition of Alnsmith, who for many years has been the catcher for Walter Johnson.

BASEBALL IN LONDON

was a good deal of baseball played In London hist summer, and the doughboys often took English girls to see the games,” said Earl Dunmore at a Washington reception. “I heard of a doughboy who said to a girl as they entered the ball grounds together: “‘lf there is anything you want explained, tell me. I guess a lot of things seem meaningless to you.’ “ ‘Everything seems meaningless,’ said the girl, ‘and' some things seem idiotic.* ‘What seems idiotic?’ asked the doughboy. “‘Well,’ said the girl, ‘why do you call the seats the stands?’”

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

The Great Lakes Athletic association bowling alleys, just opened, cost SB,OOO. ♦• * • Joie Ray of the Illinois A. C. will compete in Indoor track meets winter. •• * " Heinie Groh of the Reds was the leading run scorer of the National league last year. The American Automobile association, the national organization of motorists, Is composed of 200,000 members. • • • Maj. Branch Rickey of the Cardinals didn’t have his return home heralded With trumpets. No one knew* he was back from France until he reached St. Louis. * * « Great to-do has been made over Joe Leonard of Great Lakes, but the little fellow wasn’t even a regular with the Washington club when he joined the navy, and now there’s no place open for him. J?-■; ' ’ - ♦ ♦ * Walton Cruise will have his bludgeon working for thei St. Louis Cards this season, which means that Messrs. Rousch and Wheat will have to bestir themselves If they want to lead the Heydler swatting circled ♦ * ♦ John Titzell *2O, pitcher oh the -University of Pennsylvania nine a,nd halfback bn the eleven, haS returned to college from the United States service. He is ranked as one of the best 1 college pitchers in the East. > Walter Pipp, former Catholic university fence buster, who has out plenty of long ones as a Yankee/ will be back on his old post iat first base when the next campaign He recently was mustered out of the 9 naval aviation service.