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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. -SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1924.

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Eleven of 15 persons on board a bus operating betweon Newport Nows and Hampton, Va., were killed when the machine was rammed by a fast train on a grado crossing between the two cities. Tho other four woro seriously in- jured. A state law compols all drivers of motor vehicles to stop on approaching a crossing not guarded by a watch-

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"LOONEY GAS."

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Newark decided to submit on ordinance to the City Commission stopping its sale thore.

Month Onicor Craver one of the confercas, assorted that aftor gasoline containing the new load New York, Oct. 30.

was used in atoniobiles in the Salo of gasoline containing

now Hudson River vehicular tetra-ethyl lead, the so-called tunnel, the long tube would bo-

looney gas," balioved to have como a veritable death trap. killed five labourers and rendered Mr. David announced he had insane twenty-eight othora in the written to the prosecuting oflicer Bay-way plant of the Standardin Dayton, O. where the now Oil Company of New Jersey, fluid is being sont, was prohibited here today by a perfecting process, asking that the Board of Health.

samples be obtained. He said The Board acted to prohibit the new tetra-ethyl gasoline is use in automobile fuel of lead described in a long articlo in the compounds or other dolsterious October number of the Lamp,

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substances, aftor a new treatment official organ of the Standard IF NOT A THORNÝCROFT-BUY AN ENTIRELY BRITISH LORRY ovolved by Reconstruction Of Company.

Hopital doctors, as an antidote The article says Standard Oil' for the strange gassings, had had arranged to get its lead from failed to save the life of Herbert the E. L. da Pont de Nemours Fuson, last of the first five men Company, Wilmington. Mr. to be brought to New York.

David received an offor from Liko the other four workmen a Du Pout chemist to reveal who had died, Fuson struggled all the ingredients of the new his last in D strait-jacket, load, and an investigator was violently insane.

sont to Wilmington.

The surviving twenty-eight were reported to have responded EXPERIMENTAL PLANT CLOSED. to the new treatment, physicians: assorting

of them war mentally deranged, though all

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Mr. David ordered the experi- mental plant at Bayway closed, while Government experts in the Bureau of Mines at Washington were making every effort to find! antidote for the strange poison. The Health Board's ronolution Sovoral experte have been sent from: Washington to study the read:

substanco.

were extremely norvous.

BARS GASOLINE CONTAINING LEAD.

"Be it resolved, That the Board of Health doos hereby proof three days of experiment by The new treatment is the rosult hibit and forbid the use of gano- line to which either compounds Dr. Maximin Touart, who is in charge of the gas victims in containingleadorothor deleterious.

Reconstruction Hospital. Phy- substances have been added and

that scians at first bolieved, also does hereby prohibit and Fuson, who lived in Elizabeth, forbid the addition of such subs- N. Ja WOB rosponding to

Lances to gasoline."

the treatment, but his re- Salo of gasoline containing the lead subetance also was prohibit-lapse rovoaled symptoms which made it doubtful whether bo could ed in Union County, N. J by have been saved aftor so long a Prosecutor A. J. David, and al

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Dr. Touart insisted tho dis- covery was a "troatmont" and: not a cure," but he believed thero would be no further deaths! from the poison.

Pending final roports from Now! Jersey scientists, Prosoca or David Is collecting evidence for tho Grand Jury on the theory the mysterious. fumes are tetra-ethyl | lead gas. · It is said the gas was usol in experiments seeking to perfect a substance to put in gasoline and roliovo or eliminato carbon deposits in automobilos.

DU POINT'S DIFFICULTY, Wilmington, October 30.-In- quirion to-day at the du Point Company offices concerning its experiences in manufacturing totra-uthyl-lead showed accidents |and fatalities had occurred in the oarlior work, about after tho ox- Iperimental stages the accidents

censed.

Irenes du Point, prosidont of] the company, to-day said:

"Tetra-ethyl-lead, which reported as the cause of the recent unfortunato accident at the Bay.

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Company, should not be confused with ethyl gas, an improved

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one-tenth part of 1 per cent, of totra-othyt lead,

Tatra-ethyl-lead is poisonous and ita manufactuto involves Įrisks, but no moro so than many chemicals manufac ured and used in onormously greater amounts,

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Very little has been divulged say with any degree of certainly poisoning, induced by inhalation would be possible to get into the regarding the nature of the gas what has taken place.

Instead of contact or absorpilon system through the lungs. The which caused the trouble," ha "However, from the publishúil "If, as I suspnot, the experiwhale master is one which must said, “and until definite word is

accounts, I should not be surmenta in question involved the be investigated from a physiologi received from the Standard Oll prised to learn that this strange use of tetraethyl lead, which isng cal, as well as a chemical, point laboratorion It is impossible. to

illnes" in a new form of load | organic, compound of lead, it|of vl6