Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 151, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1931 — Page 11

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Best dog in the Intermountain Club kennel show at Salt Lake City was the verdict of judges when they looked at La Collins Brownie (above). The Scottish terrier blue-blood is owned by Ben R- Meyer of Beverly Hills, Cal.

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No poison meat for Sally, is the motto of little Miss Lucilie Clark of Los Angeles, shown above with her canine companion, after police had begun a search for persons responsible for the placing of poison meat in their neighborhood. Lucille was saved from possible death when her mother snatched a piece of meat fro mher hands. The child had found the meat in her front yard. It contained strychnine.

CHURCH ADDS TO JUDD FUND Money Given Parents of Alleged Murderer. By Times Special CLAY CITY, Ind., Nov. 3.—An offering was taken at the Free Methodist church for the Rev. and Mrs. H. J. McKinnell, Darlington, whose daughter, Mrs. Ruth Judd is held in Phoenix, Ariz., charged with the murder of two women. The Rev. Mr. McKinnell was pastor of the local church thirty years ago. His first wife is buried here. Commenting on the offering, the present pastor, the Rev. C. E. Roller, expressed doubt that the Darlington minister will accept money which is being raised in some towns with shows and basket ball games. By United Tress PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 3. Arraignment of Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, the first step in a series of legal moves by which Arizona hopes to send her to the gallows on charges of murdering Agnes Anne Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson, two former friends, was scheduled for today. Some time before 5 p. m., Mrs. Judd will be moved from her quarters in the juvenile ward of the county jail to appear before Clarence E. Ice, justice of the peace. The date of the preliminary hearing will be set and Lloyd J. Andrews, county attorney, will begin preparations for the woman’s trial. TAX CHECKS JAM MAILS Six Sacks of Belated Payments Reach County Treasurer. With all doors closed, clerks in the office of the county treasurer today were opening six sacks of mail containing last installments of the 1931 tax levy. More than ten days will be required to compute the payments and then it will take almost a tnonth to balance the books, C. O. Harris, deputy treasurer declarerd. Cash totaling SBO,OOO was paid in by the last minute crowd Monday. The amount in checks has not been estimated although it is expected to three times this figure. HALT CONTEMPT CASE Temporary Writ Restrains Judge Cameron From Acting. '’it of prohibition has been ist by the supreme court restraining xige Clifton R. Cameron from presuming in the indirect contempt case of Ed Thomas, Negro bondsman. The judge must appear before the court Friday at 2 p. rn. and show cause why the temporary writ should not be made permanent. Under a 1931 statute, lobbied through the legislature by Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity, a judge making the citation can not preside in cases Os indirect contempt. / ♦ - - \ J

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HOOVER PICKS PROBE GROUP IN NAVY ROW Committee to Delve Only Into Facts, Not Opinions, President Says. FIVE NAMED ON BOARD ! Inquiry Is Narrowed as Storm Apparently Dies Down. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—A quiet and wholly factual investigation of the Navy League’s “abysmal ignorance” charges against President Hoover appeared to be in prospect today. Mr. Hoover narrowed the field of inquiry to such matters “as may be determined readily from departmental records,” in announcing the personnel of his committee Monday night. From authoritative sources came word that the President does not expect the committee to hold hearings or summon witnesses. Questions of the 1932 naval budget and Mr. Hoover’s economy measures within the department were especially tabooed by the President’s announcement. Personnel of the committee is such as to assure the restrictions desired by the President. Two government officials, a former admiral and two former government officials were named on the board of inquiry. Rodman, Hammond Named The committee includes: Huge Rodman, retired admiral, Spanish war veteran, holder of many decorations, former commander of the Pacific fleet (1919). John Hays Hammond, Chairman of the coal investigating committee under the Harding administration and president of the National League of Republican Clubs, originally a mining engineer. Eliot Wadsworth, an overseer of Harvard university, former assistant secretary of treasury, and the only member of the commission whose heme (Boston) is outside of Washington. Earnest Lee Jahncke, assistant secretary of navy and close friend and admirer of Mr. Hoover. William R. Castle Jr., assistant secretary of state, also a confidant of the president. Chosen by Navy League Hammond, Wadsworth and Jahncke were named as representatives of the Navy League, according to Theodore Joslin, presidential publicity t secretary. Their duty will be to ascertain from the records the truth concerning the assertions of William Howard Gardiner, president of the Navy League. Gardiner issued a pamphlet statement last Wednesday, in which he charged that the President’s old proposal to immunize food supplies in times of war showed “abysmal ignorance.” “Acceptance of his suggestion would have worked not only diametrically cour +o r to the interests and weight of the United States in world affairs,” said Gardiner, “but, in effect would have made for bigger and bloodier wars.” CALLS LOVE OF PEACE GREATEST PATRIOTISM Hatred of Other Nations No Proof, Stump Tells Women. “•Possibility of international peace should stir our hearts with a greater patriotism than possibility of warfare,” Albert Stump, attorney, said at the Council of Women luncheon in the Memorial Presbyterian church today. Warning that those who parade the sentiment of patriotism should be scrutinized carefully, the speaker declared patriotism, “which means the love of one’s country,” should be rescued from the ill repute threatening it because of things done in its name. “There is no proof of the love of one’s country in the display of how much one hates another country, any more than parents can show the love of their children by their hatred of their neighbor’s children,” he said.

WORLD WAR HISTORY IN A NUTSHELL HOW much do you know about the World war? Do you know that interesting highlights and dates of this greatest of all conflicts appear each day in The Times in the feature, “Today Is the World War Anniversary of ”? For teachers and students of World war his- ‘ tory this feature makes a most valuable reference. CLIP IT—SAVE IT Clipped and pasted in a scrapbook, the daily record of "Today Is the World War Anniversary of ” composes a handy history of the World war that could be gained in no other way except by painstaking research. Turn to it today on the Editorial Page.

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Firemens Lives Again Periled by False Alarms

POTENTIAL murderers, whose perverted instincts lead them to turn in false alarms, still are active, despite pleas and threats of city officials who seek to halt the practice. Less thah forty-eight hours after the death of Lieutenant Lewis L. Stanley of Engine House 16, in an accident when a fire

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C. A. Klunk (above) is defendant in the $50,000 libel suit being prosecuted at Toledo by Nan Britton.

JUDGE RESENTS LIBEL STORIES Reporters at Nan Britton Trial Rebuked. By United Press TOLEDO, Nov. 3.—Federal Judge John M. Killits halted trial of the $50,000 libel action of Nan Britton here today, had reporters summoned, and when they appeared, he prepared to issue a statement dealing with some publications on the trial. He had before him marked extracts of news reports of Monday’s proceedings in which it was said that while the judge had rendered no verdict, he had said one statement in the book, “The Answer to tlie ‘President’s Daughter,’ ” was libelous. Miss Britton is suing a hotel keeper for alleged libel for circulation of the “answer.” Killits denied in his statement that he had stated anything which could be inferred to show a preference for Miss Britton in her suit against C. A. Klunk, owner of the Marion hotel, Marion, 0., whom she charges sold copies of “The Answer to the ‘President’s Daughter,’ ” a book which she said contained statements damaging to her reputation. OFFERS THIEF REWARD Photographer Will Waive Prosecution if Goods Are Returned. Roland Reed, 412 East Fall Creek boulevard, professional photographer, today offered a reward for the return of more than $2,000 worth of photogaphic supplies stolen from his automobile Sunday night. Asserting he has been deprived of his job because of the loss, he announced publicly to the thief he will waive prosecution if the supplies, including several portrait cameras, plates and equipment are returned. Reed declared the equipment had practically no intrinsic value to the thief. TOSSED INTO HIS YARD That's the Way Negro Explains Liquor; Judgment Withheld. “Here, officer, some white folks just threw this in a can back there.” That was the statement George Brazelton, Negro, 25, of 533 West Vermont street, made to patrolman Albert Breaum in the alley in the rear of 400 North West street, late Monday, when he turned a bottle of liquor over to the officer. And Brazelton repeated it to James E. McDonald, special judge in municipal court three today. McDonald withheld judgment on a blind tiger charge. OPERATES ON OUT PAL Doctor Strives to Save Banker, His Boyhood Chum. By United Press SEDALIA, Mo., Nov. 3.—Two boyhood pals, separated years ago by varying careers, met again when Dr. Walter E. Dandy, Baltimore specialist, performed an operation on William H. Powell, Sedalia banker, who had fifed a bullet through his brain. Today Powell was given a slim chance for recovery, and he owes it to Dr. Dandy. Surgeons here had held no hope for saving Powell’s life. A coincidence placed Dr. Dandy on a train en route from St. Louis, Okla., while Powell lay dying fifty miles from Sedalia. A message asked Dr. Dandy’s aid. He left the train, performed the operation immediately, then left for Oklahoma City to keep an appointment. PLEDGE POOR AiD FUNDS 5 Per Cent of Receipts From Schulte Store to Go to Sullivan. Five per cent of receipts of the A. Schulte Cigar Store. 2 East Washington street, Thursday, will be turned over to Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan for poor relief, it was announced today. David A. Shulte, head of the store, personally will donate a similar amount to augment the poor relief fund, it was announced. Sullivan will have"tharge of disposal of .the gift.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1931

truck crashed while answering a false alarm Sunday, three fake fire calls were sent to headquarters. While downtown streets were crowded shortly after 5 Monday evening with thousands of workers en route to their homes, a fire alarm maniac informed quarters there was a fire on the tenth floor of the Big Four Rail-

BAR REMOVED TO GAS PLANT RULE BY CITY Judge Weir Denies Plea in Receivership Against Company. Removal of the final legal obstacle to the city’s acquisition and operation of the Citizens Gas Company was accomplished today, it was believed, when Superior Judge Clarence Weir ruled in favor of the | municipality in the Allen G. Wil- ! liams receivership case against the utility. Attorneys for the city said the only 'step remaining before acquisition under the 1905 franchise will be to obtain funds to redeem outstanding gas company securities. The court’s ruling upheld the city’s demurrer against the case, in which it also was sought to have the lease of the Citizens company and the old Indianapolis Gas Company declared invalid. Charged Chicanery William V. Rooker, attorney for Williams, a taxpayer, had contended that the lease between the Indianapolis and Citizens companies and creation of the public service commission in 1913, were brought about by “scheming and chicanery on the part of capitalists.” Asserting that if the lease was invalid, Rooker claimed the Indianapolis company must repay $lO,000,000 in rentals to the Citizens firm. The Indianapolis company, it w r as alleged, was insolvent and claimed if the Citizens company lease was invalid, the present company was inslovent. Utility Public Trust Weir, in his ruling, set out that since the utility was a public trust the suit should have been filed either by the attorney-general or the county prosecutor. In concluding his opinion, Weir upheld the public service commission, and said: “The public service commission is a constitutional body exercising lawful powers delegated by the legislature. “The alleged conspiracy set forth in the complaint between the owners of the Indianapolis Gas Company and others, having for its purpose the enactment of the public utility law, does not impeach or affect the validity of that law or the acts of the commission in pursuance of it.” No Funds Diversion Weir declared there was no diversion of trust funds, as charged in the complaint, because the Citizens company, acting on the public service commission’s approval, performed the terms of the lease. He said the surrender of the Citizens company’s franchise in 1921 and its acceptance of an intermediate permit under the utility act, was not under inquiry in the case before him. Recently United States courts upheld the city’s rights to acquire and operate the utility. WOMAN LEGGER TO JAIL i Efforts to Keep Faith in Drinking “Public” Prove Futile. Efforts of Mrs. Edith Allen, 38, of 514 North Alabama street, not to disappoint “her public,” today resulted in her sentence of thirty days in jail and a fine of SIOO and costs for operating a blind tiger. Police said Mrs. Allen operated the booze joint while her husband is serving a sixty-day sentence on a similar conviction. Police said they found four quarts of liquor in her house Oct. 27. Rail Hearing to Be Nov. 12 Hearing on a petition for abandonment of the Indianapolis Southeastern traction lines running to Greensburg and to Shelbyville will ‘be held Nov. 12 at the Rushville | courthouse, Frank Singleton, member of the public service commisi sion, said today.

A Nation Remade! And Where Would You Fit? THERE is no bigger story in the world today than what is going on in Soviet Russia. Out of the revolution that swept away the power of the czars and produced a workers’ gov-

eminent has come the greatest economic and social experiment in modem history. A nation is being remade. What of its people? What are they like? How do they live? How are they bringing up their children? Never was their story more timely as they work towards the completion of their FiveYear Plan, while the rest of the world wallows in depression. Julia Blanchard, writing for NEA Service and The Times, has returned from Russia with a series of twelve articles on “If You Lived in Russia.”

It is NOT just another story on Russia. It is the story of a people, not of a cause. Julia Blanchard's story will stir you as nothing else about Russia has stirred you. Starting Thursday in The Times—the story of a people. NOT of a cause. 4

road building, Meridian at Maryland streets. Through the crowded streets every available downtown company rushed to answer the call. Lives of hundreds, including the firemen, were endangered. When firemen arrived they learned the building is only a nine-story structure.

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Ronald Colman (below), screen star, is in France where he is reported to be planning to file suit for divorce from Thelma Ray (above), British actress. They have been separated since 1926. Miss Ray, shown at the top, is not expected to contest the action.

VIOLATION LAID TO TOW-IN CAR Police Auto Double-Parked Illegally, Many Say. Driver of one of the city’s tow-in trucks stands accused today of violating the law he is commissioned to enforce. Office workers reported to The Times today that a tow-in truck, its driver missing, was doubleparked more than fifteen minutes in the 200 block on East Ohio street Monday afternoon. The truck, which, according to witnesses, bore identification as a tow-in truck, was left standing in the double-parked position while two occupants, one a driver and the other a policeman, entered a bank nearby. Witnesses said several people gathered at the scene, while workers in various offices nearby crowded to windows to view the paradox. Later, witnesses said, the policeman and the driver emerged from the bank, entered the illegally parked truck and drove away. • OFFER PASS SYSTEM AS FARE SCHEDULE Public Service Commission Given Insull Lines Proposal. Inauguration of a weekly pass, which could be used at will after paying for a round trip at 2 cents a mile, was among the new fare schedules which have been proposed to the public service commission by the Indiana Railroad lines, Insull interurbans. The lines include all interurban roads coming into Indianapolis, except the Indianapolis & Southeastern. J. H. Gregg, independent bus operator, appeared and asked time to study the new schedules with the view of objecting to them.

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A T 8, Monday night, the potential killers turned in a false alarm at Van Buren and Draper streets. The offenders are believed the same who have been operating for weeks on the south and east sides of the city. A false alarm was sounded at Tenth and Locke streets at 11 Monday morning.

NINE BRANDED BOOZE ‘LORDS’ IN U. S.COURT Federal Jury Hears Charges Joe Modafarri Led Giant Rum Mob. TWO CONFESS GUILT Possibility Is Seen of Trial Continuing Over to Wednesday. Evidence purporting to show the operation of a huge liquor distilling ring in the city was being presented today to a federal court jury as nine members of the alleged Modafarri distillery mob went to trial for violation of the prohibition law. At the head of the gang was Giovanni (Joe) Modafarri, whom the government charges with being the leader in the alleged conspiracy. With impanelling of the jury, Charles and Antonio Fosso, alleged members of the gang, withdrew former pleas and entered pleas of guilty to two counts in an indictment charging them with operating a still. Witnesses Are Called Other defendants on trial are Paul Modafarri, brother of the alleged mob chieftain: Roscoe Pengallo, Patsi Rosi, Charles and Antonio Fosso, Thelma Santucci, Cyril Leathers, Mary Skaggs and John Werz. First witness called by the government in an effort to show Modafarri financed operations of stills in more than a dozen homes was Arthur Cravens, a bank employe, who testified to the sale of a house to John and Mary Da Lisandri with money alleged to have been provided by Modafarri. Donald Stenger, manager of the Citizens Gas Company contract department, testified to finding false connection behind the gas meters in houses at 3129 Moore avenue, 2442 State street and 1136 East St. Clair street, where stills were by federal agents. Sensation Is Created Mrs. Bertha Anderson, 628 Daly street, said by federal agents to be an ex-sweetheart of Modafarri, was the third witness called. She testified threats to intimidate her had been made by Modafarri, whom, she testified, she aided in delivering liquor. A sensation was created during the morning recess when the Anderson woman was spirited from the corridors of the Federal building by an unknown woman. She failed to return when court reconvened, and Judge Robert C. Baltzell issued a bench warrant. Mrs. Anderson was found in the corridor and took the stand. At the same session of court several defendants changed their pleas to guilty and were seatenced, the majority to short terms on liquor violations, Betty McClain, 320 East Vermont street, was convicted of selling liquor and sentenced to thirty days in jail. Previously Julia Brooks, same address, changed her not guilty plea on the same charge, and Judge Robert C. Baltzell sentenced her her to sixty days in jail. The Modafarri trial was expected to last all day, with a possibility it might continue Wednesday. FORESEES MOVES TO RELEASE KIRBY DAVIS Possible Action Is Predicted by Osborne, State Department Head. Rumblings of efforts to obtain the release of Kirby Davis, Muncie gangster and former pal of Gerald Chapman, were heard today by the state bureau of criminal identification, according to E. L. Osborne, department chief. Davis is serving a five-year sentence in Leavenworth federal penitentiary on an auto theft conviction. It was reported here today the state had nolled indictments against Davis charging his compliciting in the Angola (Ind.) bank robbery several years ago. Osborne explained that Davis’ sentence, started in 1929, might be cut short by a parole if the indictments have been thrown out of court. As long as they were pending the state held a detainer which blocked freedom moves. WAGE SCALE UPHELD Mine-Pay Set by Contract Favored by 2,000 Workers. By United Press CLINTON, Ind., Nov. 3.—A resolution in support of the present contract between miners and operators, which will be effective until April 1, 1932, was adopted at a mass meeting of approximately 2,000 miners here. The meeting, not a scheduled union assembly, was called in an effort to relieve destitute conditions among workers in the Clinton coal fields. Abe Vales, president of District 11, United Mine Workers of America, explained that it would be useless for miners to agree to work for wages below the union scale. There is no marked for the quantity of l coal that would be mined on that basis, Vales said, hence the result.

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This location, near the city hospital, calls for runs by every piece of fire apparatus within miles of the institution. The Times has pledged its cooperation in aiding in rounding up these potential killers. Police and fire officials will welcome any information leading to the arrest and conviction of these potential killers.

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Russell R. McWilliams, (above) 17-year-old Rockford, 111., orphan, has been sentenced to the electric chair for the killing of William S. Sayles, 64, a street car conductor, in a holdup. The boy pleaded guilty.

ACTION DELAYEO IN BRIBE CASE Evidence Against Cop Is Pondered by Board. Safety board today took under advisement until Wednesday the case of Alva Beryl Thompson, 30, motorcycle policeman, charged with accepting SSO for agreeing to fix a liquor law violator’s case in court. Charges were preferred by Claude Caylor, 1804 Ashland avenue, who alleged Thompson defrauded him of the money “under particularly iniquitous circumstances.” The complaint hinges around an alleged promise by Thompson to “square” Caylor’s case, involving a suspended sentence for conviction of operating an automobile while drunk. Walter Harris, employer of Caylor testified at the hearing he had discharged Caylor previous to the alleged deal because of “Unseemly conduct.” SHAMED; SEEKS END Humiliated by Arrest, City Man Swallows Poison. “This is the first time I ever was in a jam like this. I hope they put me away for a long time," Richard Gardner, 30, of 1131 Broadway, told William Trent, motorcycle officer, who arrested him Monday on a charge of drunken driving. Gardner was released on bond after being slated for his part in an accident in which his automobile collided with another at New Jersey and St. Clair streets. Today when Gardner’s case was called in Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer’s court the defendant was absent, because Monday night he swallowed poison. Gardner told patrolmen Arthur Lowe and Harry Canterbury his pending appearance in court had caused him to attempt suicide. His mother, Mrs. Anna Polen, said he told her, “I’m leaving you,” and swallowed the poison. Gardner was treated at the city hospital. His recovery is expected. CITY CLERK ASSESSED $3 IN JOW-IN CASE Henry Goett Says He Intends to Have Receipt Framed. Henry O. Goett, city clerk, has paid the price of parking his automobile in Pearl street, adjoining police headquarters. Monday afternoon, Goett discovered his car missing and was preparing to report it stolen, when he was informed the police tow-in truck had taken it. “Here’s one receipt I’ll have fram^fi,” Goett said. “It signifies that Goett has paid $3 to the traffic department and garage to regain possession of his auto. Pascal Pyle, clerk in municipal court four, also was a victim of the* impounding car Monday and was forced" to surrender $3. ASK POWER RATES CUT 81 Marion Citizens File Petitions With Utility Board. Seeking reductions in the Marion •Ind.) utility rates, eighty-one patrons of the companies today filed three petitions before the public service commission, charging assessments are excessive and unreasonable. The petitions are directed at the Central Indiana Gas Company, the Indiana General Service Company supplying light and power, and the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Julius Stawlings, president of the City Taxpayers' Association, heads the group of protestants.

PRIEST FINDS CHEMICALS TO MAKERUBBER Notre Dame Man Accredited With Discovery of Long Sought Formula. DU PONT TAKES IT OVER Successful Synthesis Fruit of 25 Years Spent in Research Work. By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 3. Perfection of synthetic rubber, to be marketed at a fraction over the actual current market quotation, has been announced by a quiet Notre Dame priest, the Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, 53, who for a quarter of a century, has worked on the revolutionary discovery in his campus laboratory. Father Nieuwland for years has been an outstanding student of acetylene reactions. In 1906 he came upon the component parts of synthetic rubber by passing atylene into a solution of copper and ammonium chlorides. The chemical reaction that took place produced gas. In 1920, after working diligently on the discovery for fourteen years, Father Nieuwland was able to alter the composition to form an oil in addition to the gas. A year later, that oil was determined to be divinyl acetylene, the material from which rubber is synthetized. Used Vulcanizing Agent Father Nieuwland’s ultimate goal still was far away, however, but in 1923 Dr. R. R. Vogt, an assistant to the priest-chemist, working as a research engineer in the Notre Dame chemistry department, treated divinyl acetylene with a vulcanizing agent and produced a highly elastic material. Hidden in the qualities of these acetylene developments was the formula for rubber. The E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Cos. of Delaware, keeping in close touch with Father Nieuwland’s developments, determined that divinyl acetylene contained the possibilities for revolutionizing the rubber industry, and all industries that depended on rubber either as a raw material or the finished product. Arrangements were made for the Dupont company to take over the development of Father Neiuwland’s compound. In their subsequent experiments, they succeeded in producing rubber from divinyl acetylene, but found that it did not retain elasticity long enough to make a successful commercial product. Went Back to Gas After that discovery, science again went back to the gas which Father Nieuwland first discovered, in 1906 during his first experiments and produced a compotent called Cuprene. When this was treated with suitable reagents it polymerized to form synthetic rubber. The Cuprene compound, for trade purposes, will be known as Duprene. This is the synthetic rubber. It has the elasticity, the feel and the appearances of real rubber and it is said the resemblance is so close that the synthetic rubber can not be distinguished from the natural by a casual observer. The new synthetic rubber product, It is claimed, may be vulcanized to any degree of hardness and may be fabricated into any desired shape. Producers declare that it actually is superior to the natural prodhet, since it can stand heat much better and show a greater resistance to the deteriorating action of oils and greases. Price Much Lower Taken from a commercial point of view, the synthetic rubber will it is expected, be slightly more expensive to produce than natural rubber, although far less expensive than the “golden rod rubber” produced by the later Thomas Alva Edison. Announcements from the Edison laboratories indicated that the “golden rod rubber” would retail at $1 a pound. Duprene, on the other hand, will sell at a cost slightly above the current market price of 5 cents a pound. Father Nieuwland almost is as renowned a botanist as he is a chemist. In early days at Notre Dame he taught botany classes and for several years was dean of science. He resigned his botany professorship to devote all his attention to chemistry. He founded and still is editor of the Midland Naturalist, journal devoted to natural history. Among his more important contributions to chemistry is the discovery of the formula for the deadly Lewisite gas he made while working on his thesis for a doctorate of philosophy at Catholic university, Washington, D, C. The formula was developed during the World war as a combatant agent. Order to Benefit Father Nieuwland’s discovery of synthetic rubber, which would mean a fortune to another man, will not enrich the priest a penny. Asa priest in the Roman Catholic congregation of the Holy Cross, whatever accrues from his discovery will go to the order because of his ordination vow of poverty. Start New Factory By United Press AKRON, 0., Nov. 3.—Establishment of a plant for commercial productions of anew synthetic rubber which contains some qualities not present in natural rubber, has been announced by the E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Company. Construction of the plant has started at Deepwater Point, N. J. The new product officials of the company told the American Chemical Society's rubber division Monday night, is much more resistant to corrosive effects of gasoline, kerosene, oxygen and many other chemical products than is natural rubber.