Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1929 — Page 7

DEC. 25, 1920_

'’POLISH CHEMIST ' HOARDS KEY TO ARTIFICIAL FUEL Afraid to Patent Process; Order Prevents His Leaving U. S. /! •/ f.'nitrf) f’rrtnt NEW YORK, Dec. 25 Heinrich Weber leaned over an uncertain fire in the back room of a Coney Island tenement Tuesday, hoarded his pen- . nies, and cursed the fate that dangled millions of dollars just out of his reach. In the mind of this Polish chemist, who speaks no English, there is locked a secret that experts say will assure the world a supply of coal and wood long after the final forest Is thinned and the last anthracite vein runs into rock. The secret is locked there because Weber, apprehensive qf a people whose language he does not speak, refuses to go through rudimentary legal actioas to guard his process from patent violators; in addition, h s colleagues in the great work have Obtained a court order forbidding him to reveal his formula to any . ore, or to return to Poland, where , /he could dispose of the invention at his own terms. Sawdust Into Planks One day while v orking in his lab- <>, atoi y in Lemberg. Poland. Weber v tched a brown fluid trickle into a test tube. Success had come to him after years of labor, for he had iearned how to make cheap briquettes out of coal dust and how to change sawdust into planks. America, his friends told him, was the place to exploit the invention. So Weber, accompanied by Isidore Thornschein, sailed for New York. They v/ere to meet Moses Rosenthal here, a man who had been in America long enough to know how to market an invention. The Prospect Coal Company, the I high Valley Navigation and Coal C >mpany and other concerns became interested in Weber’s process. He retired to a private laboratory, p ured his brown fluid over coal dust and came out with a perfect briquette that burned a fine, white a i h. Feared Theft Then patents were mentioned by Rosenthal and by the coal concern officials. Weber refused; he feared someone would steal his invention, once he had explained to the United’States patent office just how it worked. Rosenthal pleaded with Weber; threatened to cut off financial support, and finally did quit remitting money in the hope of convincing him that legal action had to be taken. Weber retired to his Coney Island room and prepared to sail for home. However, Rosenthal obtained L a supreme court decision forbidding f Weber from discussing the invention with any one or from leaving the United States.

U. S. TO COVER ALL COSTS OF PILGRIMAGE 5,323 Mothers and Widows Are Ex- j pected to Go to France. Bn United Brens WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—The un- j paralleled pilgrimage of war mothers and widows to the graves of their dead abroad will begin next year with the United States government paying all expenses down to and including tips. Investigation by the war department shows 11,440 women entitled to the journey at government expense. Os these 6.730 have signified their desire to visit the husband or son’s grave. It is estimated that 5 323 will be taken aboard in 1930. From the moment they step aboard a train for New York, the expenses of the mothers and widows are to be paid by the government. Trans-Atlantic travel will be in cabin class vessels. Praying Girl Robbed Bn United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 25.—A new claimant to the title of "meanest man in tire world” lives in Evansville. While Miss Catherine Zoll, 19, knelt in prayer in the Church of the Assumption a thief stole her pocketbook containing sl3 which she had saved to buy her mother a Christmas present.

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