1925-09-18 — Page 3

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1925.

HOTEL RAID.

RUNNING FIGHT IN MOTOR-CARS,

TWO ROBBIALS KILLED,

DREAM MOTOR.

NEW FUEL TO MAKE IT COME TRUE.

POWER AT ALL SPEEDS.

Chicago was the seene of â robbery Remarkable qualities are claim- ander arms in one of its most ex-ed for the new synthetic motive pensive hotels.

fuel, synthol, which a powerful American combination is to ex- ploit.

There men were killed and 22,000

was stolen.

OIL FROM COAL.

GRANDIOSE SCHEMES IN THE RUHR.

SUSPICION OF BLUFF.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Though the Berlin correspon dent of the London "Daily News" mentions the possibility of a "big bluff." German experts confident High compression and ly assert that their efforts to absence of explosive force in extract oil from coal have been expansion will, it said, place successful. Large schemes are the aynthol and the new motor designed for its use, far ahead of any automobile not known. The action of the fuel closely ap- proaches that of steam, and prac-1

el.minates the necessity

At the busiest hour of the after noon, when a hundred of Chicago's tending men and women were sip ping to in the famous avenue of palms in the Drako Hotel, disy were alarmed by a rapid exchange of shots

the Mezzanine Primerad, immediately above them.tically

A few moments later the fashion able gathering was plunged into a state of wild turmoil and panic as thre, members of a gang of robbers firing as they went, fed through the song of ten-drinkers carrying with them a small bag containing £9,000 taken from the cashier's desic

Clovely paraued by several police men, they rushed through the swing doors into Falte Shore-drive. One of them, bleeding profusely from a fallet wound, clambered into a motor-car which had been parked

in front of the hotel.

Two policemen attacked him. He fired entically, then fell tally wounded, dying an hour later in hospital. Mouwhile two of his confedentes had reached their own car, a light green machine.

STOPPED BY COLLISION.

A fantastic piece of melodrama ensed. Through a maze of trafic the bandits drove at breakneck speed into Michigan Avenue, while

A

dozen" policemen, in as many motor-cnrs, took up the pursuit.

Shots resounded through the streets as the running battle pro- ceeded. Te a centre street the green car collided with a passing motor-car. The two bandits and the chauffeur sprang cant. One of

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for changing gears.

The new motor fuel, to be marketed under the name of synthol, may be manufactured from petroleum, coal, or lignito. Its base, according to analysts who have tested the product, is benzol, while several varieties of alcohol and a mysterious metallic catalyst, not unlike tetrathyl lead, make up the mixture.

Its action in the new motor which has been designed for its use is said to be more nearly like that of steam power than any internal combustion engine yet devised. The gas in the cylinders

afoot to convert the vast coal resources of the Ruhr and Silesia into oil.

KILLERS AT LARGE.

ESCAPED MURDERERS, TURN BANDITS.

SENSATIONÁL KIDNAPPING,

The entire State of Oregon is being terrorised by the wild shoot- ings and kidnappings of a trio of desperadoes, Tom Murray, Elle worth Kelly, and James Hillos.

Convicted as murderers and high- vaymen, they broke loose from Salem Penitentiary a fortnight ngo, killing two of the guards as they forced their way out. Bince then hundreds of sheriffs and their de puties have been hunting them all over the State, but the bandits have eluded the officers, dodging here and there, stealing money, ammuni- tion, and food.

The discovery. if substantiated, will give Germany a tremendous advantage in the struggle for the world's markets.

Public opinion is intrigued by

Their latest oxploit was very grandiose schemes, projected partly governmental, partly pri-spectacular. Four friends were vate, for converting the Ruhr playing cards in a poolroom in the and Lower Silesia coalfields inte village of Monitor at 2 o'clock one vast oil-producing basins, anys Monday morning, when the bandits the Berlin correspondent of the kidnapped the entire "Daily News," who fears that and their two motor cars, and forced the captives to drive towards Part there is a "big bluff going on."

land. Research experts, he explains, claim that by successful experi- ments they have proved that they can produce oil from coal without using the wasteful process of gasification. This would make Germany an exporter, instead of

is at a higher compression than an importer. of oil, and would used in an ordinary engine, ex-revolutionise industry, giving pands without explosive force, Germany a great start in the and hisses from the exhaust struggle for the world's market. valves like escaping steam. These advantages alone would place the new motor and its fuel far ahead of any automobile now on the market.

In addition, it is taimed that the new motor is never troubled by carbon deposits, no poisonous fumes are generated, and because of the extreme smoothness of the power impulses the engine has a flexibility undreamed of by those the men

was caplared after acquainted with internal com- despand fight. Another, with the bustion motors. black bag, escaped, while the third! Rapest is a yellow taxicab in which a young woman, Misa Masic Larsen, was passenger,

Gear shifting is practically un- necessary, because, like a steam motor is almost as engine. the efficient at low speeds as when running in normal or at high speed.

Plinging Miss Tarsen to the floor of the cab the robber ruthlessly! trumpled on her as he pressed the The new automobiles will run, muzzle of his revolver against the approximately, 40 miles to the back of the cab-driver and ordered gallon, although the exact figures him to "Drive Bke hell." The on

the efficiency tests of the cahman obeyed the bandit, who remotor and the fuel are said to be loaded his wax and fired rapidly guarded with the greatest secrecy. as the chung continued into Irving Park-boulevard. By this time scores of private ears were racing in pursuit. In Winona Avenue the cabman deliberately drove the cab into a tramway-car.

The bandit plunged down a Bight

The application of the motor and its fuel to aeroplane con- struction will, it is claimed, re- volutionise aerial transportation.

A cable from Los Angeles, pub of steps Jending to Foster Avenue.lished in the "Sun," stated: There the police surrounded him and . "A gigantic merger of United States automobile makers pro- poses to produce a new type of automobile,

shot him dead.

COWBOY'S TAUNTR.

Essen and Silesian coal mag- nates have spent thousands of pounds in experiments conducted by Professor Bergius, a promin- ent Mannheim chemist, whose secret process, It is claimed, can produce oll of six times the value of the original coal.

BRITISHERS BUSY.

Experts, particularly in Bri- tain, have long been directing attention to the fact that the greater part of present-day coal consumption is wasteful in the Burned as raw coal, extreme.

in ordinary furnaces, the largest proportion of its fuel value simply goes up in smoke. The serious straits to which the coal industry in Britain has recently been re- duced have caused the problem of how to get the utmost value and energy out of coal to be re- examined, with renewed interest. and earnestness, and at least one expert has declared that more than one method of treatment promises to be successful.

When the former general secretary of the Miners' Federa- tion, Mr. Frank Hodges, became member of the MacDonald Labour Government,

as First Lord of the Admiralty, last year, he gave much prominence to the problem, but at that time failed to prove that it was commercially which will use solvable. synthetic petrol. The announce ment was made at the convention of the American Chemical So- ciety: General Motors will make the engine, the Dupont Co. the new fuel, and Standard Oil will buy the material and distribute

Mr. Hodge stated publicly that, of the 260,000,000 tons of coal raised in Britain annually, 155.000.000 tons were burnt simply as coul, whereas, if properly treated, this lattor. amount would yield 435,000,000 gallons of motor spirit, 62,000,000 barrels of crude oil, 1,900,000 tons of sulphate of ammonia, and

In all five hundils invaded the hotel offices. Two kept watch in the corridor: two covered Curl Anderson, the cashier, with res volvers; and the fifth, Texas Ted Court, cowboy, swaggered among the clerks and typists brandishing a revolver and wearing volably. Three men had two women clerks the new petrol." obeyed his "Hands up" order ad

catalyst is A substance Court found immense 'amusement in which, unaffected itself by the 101,500,000 tons of smokeless making them march and counter-chemical charge going on about fuel. These results, if attained, march. He finally ordered them it, is yet necessary to allow that would mean untold advantages to into their own office. One of the change to take place. The inver-industrial Britain. girls slammed the door in his face.sion of cane sugar with an acid Ile fird two shots into one. panel; catalyst is a familiar example. burst open the door, and charged The acid is not used up nor alter-

into a corridor, bucking one of the ed, yet the sugar is decomposed. girls downstairs.

He then fired at Frank Radkey.

a clerk, killing him. Next he rapped on the door of the chiel hotel detective, shouting, "Come out. MeMurdy." The detective cautiously opened the door and fired at the "Bandit hitting him in the Aboulder.

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· STRUNGLE IN KITCHEN.

Three of the robbers, including

Texas Court, fed through an aventa

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Daylight found all seven close to the suburbs of this city. They sp proached a farm-house, of which the bandite took possession. They forced the Newman family and the ard-players to remain in the bouse all day.

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