Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1919 — WILL WAGE CAMPAIGN AGAINST FIRE MENACE. [ARTICLE]

WILL WAGE CAMPAIGN AGAINST FIRE MENACE.

Asserting that “grain dust” and flour, when mixed with certtaiin proportions of air and exposed to a spark will explode like gasoline, the United States Grain corporation yesterday appropriated $50,000 to wage a ‘campaign during the coming year against this fire menace ever present fin storehouses and elevators throughout the country. % Julius Bannes, wheat director, suggested the appropriation, strengthening his argument by showing that for nearly two years the food administration had escaped all fire loss, a condition which (he attributed to the bureau of chemistry and its determination to prevent disastrous fires in granaries by eliminating the causes.