Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1943 — Page 7

THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1048

1 FIND CHEAP WAY 1 "10 MAKE ALCOHOL

Process Uses Wheat and Revolutionizes Production in Addition to Yielding Almost Pure Protein; Wide Industrial Use Is Predicted.

By DAVID DIETZ Times Special Writer

CLEVELAND, July 29.—A new process that is expected || to save the United States government $50,000,000 a year in| 5 producing the alcohol needed for war purposes has been dis-|{} covered by two scientists of the U. S. department of agri-| cilture, It has been devéloped on a full-size commercial scale in| the laboratories of the Park] : & Tilford distill ery in Browns- | Product in a Halse of I ville, Pa., and Frank G. Han-| TE I ey

\process will have effects on other

dren, president of the COM= |; dustries as well as the production |

Pani says that it will Fevoltiogiee of alcohol. The sodium sulphite not e production of alcohol after the only extracts the diastase from the

war ; : 4 t the protein as well Discovered by Dr. A. K. Balls and Witeah bit WE p

Dr. Irwin W. Tucker of the bureau| Formerly, in the production of of agricultural and industrial chem- alcohol, the protein content of the istry, the new process eliminates the| wheat was simply lost in the resiise of malt in the production of | dues left after fermentation. With} alcohol from wheat. {the Balls-Tucker process, not only Herctofore, the production of al-|is the production of alcohol speeded cohol has always had to go in two but this protein is recovered in a steps. First, the starch in the grain concentrated and practically pure was converted to sugar by the use|form. of malt. Then the sugar was con-{ Mr. Handren points out the folverted to alcohol by fermentation lowing possibilities of the new procwith yeast. ess: The new process, which apparent- 1. Complete elimination of exly works only with wheat, makes it| pensive barley malt in alcohol propossible to activate the enzyme in!duction, resulting in a saving of 10 wheat known as diastase so that cents in the production of each galthe wheat converts its own starches! lon of alcohol, or $50,000,000 on the to sugars without the addition of present 500,000,000 - gallon - a - year malt. program. aT, This is done with the aid of| 2. Protein enrichment of white! ; sodium sulphite, an inexpensive bread and cereals at the source of | 3 chemical that is obtained as a by-| flour processing in the same way A that these products are now en-|'

fu BR 3 riched with vitamins. This would] \W M i N be made possible with the concen-| {& O trated protein already mentioned. | N

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of live stock. It is estimated that the| new process will result in the re-/ {w= & |covery of one billion pounds of con-! yam. icentrated protein a year. AEN | 4 Future conditions may make . § L8aiQ |the production of alcohol a by-|. “S| RaW |product of the manufacture of con-| + 8 jcentrated protein rather than a! principal industry, as at present.

Shift from Corn

| It is particularly interesting to! inote that the new process applies| “=~ to wheat. With war demands for| {alcohol there has been a gradual] {shift from corn to wheat as the | chief source of alcohol. ha | Developments in the manufacture] * lof alcohol are bound to have im<|.. portant repercussions on the past-|:"%. ' | war situation. Thanks to the magic! lof present-day synthetic chemistry, |

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war IT to the necessity of supple-| . menting American oil production by" the oil of Venezuela or the Near|: East, we may see an increasing demand for alcohol. I If to this demand, there can vel. added new techniques for meeting it % easily, the place of alcohol in our _ “ue » industrial economy may be greatly? GREY-DYED CARACUL PAW 119 GENUINE RUSSIAN PONY . 199 NATURAL RED FOX GOATS . 169 a forces, will be held at 2:30 p. m. 1 &8 n Norman lsaacs Sunday at the northeast corner of { : etal Chief Editorial Writer, E. 21st st. and Emerson ave. S$ ete $ | Roy Ping, 2105 N. Emerson ave, a x ° veteran of the Spanish-American H ! ® war, who has two nephews in the : $ RICH NATURAL AMERICAN MINK . $389

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deine, for synthetic rubber from | petroleum or alcchol. It is possible, | moreover, to make alcohol from pe-|* troleum. On the other hand, alco-|

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Doors Open at 6:30 Closed at 7:15 P. M. Chemistry, in many ways today, is a struggle between the fossil supADMISSION— plies, the coal and petroleum that represent the life of long ago, the |. lair and water that have always been BUY WAR BONDS (here, and the supplies of the mo- : ment, the wheat and corn and cot$25.00 UP (each seat) to be put up on his property. All the men, except Mr. Ping’s two nephews, reside or used to live and in the Emerson Garden addition. A Radio Station WISH | large number are graduates of Warren Central high school. FARM RENTAL INCREASES

ton and timber that grows from day Guest Speakers— The estimated rental value of

to day. Dr. Emil Lengyel farm homes increased from $706,-

Author, Educator-Historian EMERSON 10 HONOR ka a Prince Hubertus Friedrich IT'S MEN IN ARMS zu Lowenstein Visiting Professor, A flag raising and placque donation ceremony honoring 24 Emerson 000,000 in 1941, to $760,000,000 in 1942, the rise in rental value resulting largely from the increase in the current value of farm dweliings.

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