Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1930 — Page 12

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POISON FEARED IN 'ANTI-FREEZE' USE BYAUTOIST Government Attempts to Put Safeguards Around - Wood Alcohol. Bv Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. Will people get chronic or acute poisoning If wood alcohol Is used generally as an natl-freeze mixture for automobile radiators? This is one of the questions which government scientists are trying to solve as a result of the proposal to introduce synthetic methanol as an antifreeze next winter. Methanol, as wood alcohol Is called by chemists, used to be made by distillation of wood. This made its cost high. By the new method it is made by combining deadly carbonide with hydrogen, the raw materials being coal and water. This makes synthetic methanol much cheaper than the product obtained by distillation. Whether it can be used safely in automobile radiators is yfet to be determined. When swallowed, wood alcohol is a poison whidi may cause blindness and death. Careless bootleggers have mistaken wool alcohol for the less deadly ethyl alcohol, with disastrous results to their clients. This use of the new anti-freeze is to be guarded against by giving it a distinctive color.

Effect Is Feared However, the question remains whether the fumes could not get into the body either by absorption through the skin or by inhalation through nose and mouth, and thus cause disease and possible death. How much of the substance can get into the body in these ways, and how much will cause poisoning, either chronic or acute, must be determined. It may be that the new antifreeze can be used safely if certain regulations are followed and certain precautions taken, as in the case of anti-knock gasoline. These contain a small amount of tetra-ethyl lead. When they are introduced there was question as to whether people generally would be in danger of lead poisoning from the exhaust, and whether men selling it and working in garages where it was sold were risking their health. Cases of lead poisoning in the plants wher\ the anti-knock mixture was made heightened the public anxiety. But scientists found that the only real danger was in the manufacturing plants and that even there, as in other lead industries. certain health precautions would safeguard the workers. ; Ethyl Mainly Used

Ethyl alcohol, closely related to methanol, which Is methyl alcohol, is used at present largely as an anti-freeze in automobile radiators. Its chief disadvantage is that it evaporates quickly and must be replaced constantly. It is not poisonous like methanol, because man can develop a tolerance to it. Another popular anti-freeze is ethylene glycol, made synthetically from petroleum, and with the advantages of both ethyl alcohol and of glycerin, also widely used as an anti-freeze. Ethylene glycol and glycerin are more expensive than ethyl alcohol, which in turn costs more than synthetic methanol. The latter is being made by three large companies, which produce more than six millions gallons a year. VETERAN ASKS DIVORCE Coiambus Man Charges Desertion and Seeks Two Children. F v Vnited Press DANVILLE, Ind., Sept. 12.—Willard Palmer, World war veteran, asserting a belief that his wife has deserted him and is hiding their two children, has filed suit for divorce in Hendricks circuit court here. He asks custody of the children. It is alleged by Palmer that he has not seen or heard from his wife and children since several months ago, when he was arranging to move his family from Plainfield to Columbus.

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dent and manager of the paper, announced today. An editorial in the first issue says the paper will be strictly nonpartisan while supporting candidates pledged to the league’s principles—a national referendum on prohibition and repeal, in the 1931 Indiana legislature, of the Wright bone dry law. National circulation will be sought for the paper. Garrison said. His offices are at 218 American Central Life building. Incorporated as a non-profit organization, the Non-Partisan Refer-

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endum League, in articles filed with the secretary of state, listed as incorporators: Garrison, residing at 2938 North New Jersey street; Walter J. Brown, 203 K. of P. building; Joseph P. O’Mahoney, 4053 Buckle street, editor of the Indiana Catholic; Charles G. Prothero, 2157 West One hundred first street, Cleveland; Wallace E. Addison, 1202 South Meridian street, Apt. 7. The money in circulation in the United States now is about $39.60 per capita.

INCREASEJN PUPILS Grade School Attendance Reveals 1,539 Gain. Increase of 1,539 in attendance at Indianapolis grade schools was announced today by Superintendent Paul C. Stetson. Enrollment in the various grade buildings, taken Wednesday, to-

taled 41,664, as compared with enrollment of 40,125 on the same day last year, Stetson said. Figures on enrollment of all high schools except Tech, which was to be completed late today, showed a total increase of 156 In five high schools. Figures by schools were: Manual, decrease of 148; Broad Ripple, 352, decrease of 21; Washington, 1,240, increase of 107; Crispus Attacks, 1.321, decrease of 64; Shortridge, 2,891, increase of 282. Total high school enrollment for

the same date last year, including all six schools, was 12,153. CHEVALIER CARRIES SHRAPNEL IN LUNG Ac lor Bears Grim Souvenir of War; Doctors Fear Operation. Bu Vnitrii Prce* HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Sept. 13. A “Souvenir of Death” received during the latter part of August. 1914.

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still is being carried by Maurice Chevalier, motion picture comedian. The "souvenir” is a piece of shrapnel imbedded in his left lung. Recently It began to bother him and he determined to have it removed. Doctors, however, have advised against it as such an operation might prove fatal, while to leave the piece of steel where It is will cause him only occasional discomfort. The Hessian fly causes more than $100,000,000 in losses to grain In the United States every year.