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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 30, 1940,

New Synthetic Fuel Formula Perfected

By J. Robert Shubert

United Press Staff Correspondent

PITTSBURGH Dec. 28 (UP)-In a dimly-lighted laboratory of Carnegie Institute, a chemist is developing synthetic power to turn the wheels of industry when na- ture's coal and oil resources have been exhausted.

The chemist, Dr Ernst Berl, fled from Germany in 1932. He began his studies of the formation of coal and oil deposits 13 years ago.

the amount

Has Costs Charted .....

Dr Berl now claims to have hydrogenisation. The final product solved the process by which can be changed from coal to all by nature produced and stored varying

of limestone used. away fuel reserves. In his laboratory, he is prepared to The cost of producing gasoline change handkerchief into from common carbohydrates, accord- high-grade coal, molasses into ing to De Bert, would be four times anti-knock gasoline. ]

the cost of distilling It from natural Through the processes he has de-oit at the present time. Further Im- veloped, Dr. Beri Bald, the way isduce the ratio in about three to one, provement of the process will re- open to manufacture fuel from com- he said.

mon carbohydrates, such as cellulose Production of gasoline by the new and sugars of corn, sen weed, algae, method, however, would be cheaper molosser and cotton. Ho bellaves some day man can cease to draw than by the hydrogenisation of coal. dwindling, oli supplies and is being done in Germany at the turn to the former's products for present time, and costs approximate- lubrication and power.

upon

Present Reserves.

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Ty the

same as distillation from oll- bearing shale. The abundance of carbohydrates avaliable for conver- While present coal resources may alon into oll by lie new method, last 3,000 years, Dr Beri, sald, this however, gives it an advantage over nation's supply of "easy to rct" ollfexisting methods, he said,

may be exhausted in 50 years,

do

"Our children will have to something with this problem," he said, "Let's be extremely careful of our resources; let's be liberal, with our form products."

As long as oil is available at $1

a barrel, he admitted, "no synthetic

process can compete with nature."

Sing Tao Win Decisively

(Continued from Page 6.)

But in countries without natural for buck. There was more than a vil, he predicted, his process may be semblance of understanding amongst used in "the not so distant future," them, but they found in Sing Too's and In other countries when reserven defence their masters of the occasion. fail.

Chin Chi-fun made a very good lender.

Re-Plotted Processes

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Dr Berl's researches started inf

It was not long after the kick of Germany when lie abandoned the that the superiority of Sing Too's accepted theory

that

natural coal play was. In evidence, for after Lee and all were derivative of lignin, Kwok-kee saved from Lal Shui- or lignite, and set out to re-plot the wing, and with play transferred to processes of nature.

midfield, a barrage of shots Was

kept His research, he said, showed coal up, and pressure was only relieved and all were derivatives of cellulose, by Fung King-cheung shooting over. rather than lignin and that the Play was chiefly centred in Kwong formation of asphalt was an inter-Wah's half, and from a through pass mediate step in the process, rather by Ip Pak-wah. Lai Shui-wing went than a product of all,

through on his own to score with a With this mystery solved, Dr Berl rising shot. Thereafter there was began to reproduce the process in only one team in the picture, and his test tuber. The result was syn- from one of their occasional raids, thetic coal and oil, which, Dr Berl Chin Chi-fun had bad luck to sec stated, have the same properties his first time shot striking the up- the natural materials,

right with Cheong Wing-choy beaten. "Nature hod, let us say, 400.000,- At the other end, Lal missed an open 000 years to produce these ma- goal. terials," the scientist, now a natur-

nw

Towards the end of the Arst half,

alised citizen, nid. With higher Tang Kwong-sum increased the lend temperatures and higher pressure, following upon a close passing inove- we can produce · them in animent between himself, Fung King- cheung and Lal Shui-wing which

hour,"

City"

His method, he added, is "very culminated in his cutting in to score. Carbohydrates, such as produced

In vegetation, are combined with limestone, or dolomite, and, heated) under pressure until converted into

from close in.

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a dark, thr-like substance, which Drstless, as Sing Tao dominated the After the lemon, play became Berl has named "proto-product."whole of Under further internal combustion, Wah's passes were invariably inter

the exchanges. Kwong the substance is converted into as-cepted in midfield, and with phalt,

-The-asphalt,-in-turn;-iz-converted

Taa'a intermediate-trio-ke into coal and off by "cracking", or choy had very little to do, although

wary eye on them, Cheong he was tested on several by Cheuk Shek-kam, Chin Chi-fun and Lau Fook-chuen from well out side the area.

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BERKELEY, Cal., Nov. 8 (UP).—A new field of therapy for heretofore baffling discases is being developed at the University of California through thereapeutic pos sibilities of the 200-ton atom-smashing cyclotron of Dr Ernest O. Lawrence.

has just been made public. Two lines of therapy which the cyclotron has created are:

A report on various lines of research, some of which have been in progress for four years,

Radiation by neutrons which the cyclotron creates into dis- cured tisaúds inltead of the present use of X-rays and radiunt,"

Injection into the system of chemicals and other substances

that have been made radioactive by the cyclotron and which per

mit their being traced throughout their course in the body, their final point of absorption and the checking of effects they pro- duce.

Medical Corps Lead Military Billiards League

Following are the results of matches in the Garrison Billiards League played from December 10 to December 20

Royal Scots beat Ordnance Corps__T+f}}, Royal Scots beat Royal Army Pay Corpa Ordnance Corps lost to Royal Scots 0-7.

LEAGUE TABLE TO DATE

It was only a matter of goals, and In addition, the cyclotron has | treatment of goltre and for check- from an Incessant attack. Fung permitted the discovery of an metabolism that is governed King-cheung scored after a close heretofore unknown element, largely by presence of iodine secre- after by Lal Shul-wing's header which is now designated as Eletion in the thyroid gland. from a pass by' Yeung Shunt-ylck.ment No. 86 and which has By making the iodine radio-active Sing Tao were decidedly in the already shown marked thera- with the cyclotron process, the ascendancy in this period, and

course of the fodine through the only the stout clearances and first peutic possibilities.

body can be checked, is final rest-.A.M.C.

Royal Scots time tackling saved Kwong Wab

All experiments to date have been ing place established, and also the SC. conducted on animals to begin with, degree and fength of Its absorptio, E*....... from a heavier defeat. SING TAO: Cheong Wing-choy: und only on human beings after into the system. Hou Yung-sang, Lee Tin-sang: Tsui their effects and harmlessness have

been fully established.

Ah-fal, Soong Ling-sing, Luk Tal- hang: Tang Kwong-aum, Fung King- cheung Lai Shut-wing, Ip Pak-wah, Yeung Shui-yiek.

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The

It has been established that New 6th AA Regt HA Element 85 Is stored in thyroid R.A.O.C...... Great Success

gland and acts very much like iodine. It 11. Regt R.A. The report shows that greatest It is believed it will react in the club Tournament, Servies Carpa de- In the second round of the Soldiers' success with the new therapy as human system, in much the same rented the Volunteers by 1,173 points KWONG WALL: Lee Kwok-kee; been in the treatment of cancer and way as fodine, Leung Pak-wał, Chung Fal-lum; tumours. Cheung Shul-fat, Chung

Neutron radiation has been used on K-Inh Yeung Chi-chicung: Cheuk Shek 75 patients with cancers that have kam, Tin Yung-fat, Chin Chi-fun, resisted other forms of treatment. A new field of therapy for promot- Lau Fook-churen, Wong King-cheung. Ench patient receives treatment ing teeth and bone structure has directly from the cyclotron for 10 been opened up by the discovery that minutes three times a week over injection into the system of radio- four to six weeks,

active strontium makes radioactivity THE Kowloon Inter-School Smalt Patients are then kept under ob of bones 100 times greater than that Boys Miniatura check made on the of the tissues. Strontium, it was concluded, has servation and results obtained. It has been esta found, reacts similarly to calcium, National English blished that the new radation acts which is the chief building material Yon College similarly to that of the X-ray with for bones and teeth, Experiments trophies of the League will be present

ed by Mr D. P. Lai at the McPherson the neutrons penetrating deeper have been conducted only on uni- Playground, Homuntin, at 3.30 p.m. to- than the X-rays..

mula.

dallowing are the Anal standings in The cyclotron, hus also thrown the League: Further Experiments new light on the manner in which National English College 9 The success has encouraged the rats and other animals may continue Wah Yar College **** 2 Advisory Council of the National to live for un indefinite period of Man Song College ... D Concer Institute to support financi- time, after their adrenal glands have Ming San School ally the continuation of the experi-been removed, by feeding them with Tak Ming Middle School B Nom Mo Middle School P an optimal amount of salt.

Mun Far Middia Sction! 5 "The next gresiest success of the That fact is news because cyclotron therapy has been in the by the cyclotron has established the The Print Senior

Use of radio-activated salt made Kowloon English School D rumour-mongers have sent him treatment

Canton University) to jail for ten years, deported juice cocktails in which the "kick"anner in which the salt corrects Wals Nam Middle School 9.

and, mokes normal the rate of ex-| him and even had him shot. consists of radioactive phosphorous cretion of sodium and potassium in

The story going round, a palpably which the cyclotron creates,

animals which is changed when the fabsurd one, in at Charlie has been Leukemia is a blood disease, that adrenals are removed.

tapping out Morse messages to the heretofore has been regarded as in- enemy on his plano during broad-demonstrated that the new treatment

curable. The experiments

Spy Rumours

hing retarded the disease and gives These findings, the report states; HMS. TAMAN beat Royal In- have been helpful in treatment of gineers by 24 runs in a cricket match Of the 10 persons treated during Addison's disease, which is enused at King's Park yesterday. Feature the past two years, Ave have died. by derangement of the endocrine of the match was an excellent Innlurs Three of these were moribund at the glands.

Kunz, Pianist

CHARLIE

KUNZ. famous dance-tune planist, is still at liberty.

costa.

Spy rumours about Charlie started in London, and circulated to many parts of the country.

No one knows who started 'them, The planist whasaway from Lon- don on a long tour when they be gall

"These rumours are silly, but none the less embarrassing," said Kung to In reporter,

Charlie, now playing in Liverpool, fann American who has lived, and worked in Britain for 20 years.

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of 63 for Honeywell which enabled

new therapy, university Tamar to declare al 146 for 8 wicketk

The remaining 11 continue to res- authorities state, is expected to

Middie batsmen of the Sappers

pond favourably and scientists noted sume more important proportions contributed steadily, but fell 24 ruis that, their lives have been saved for with completion on the Berkeley short of their opponents' total. the time being. It remains to be campus of a new $1,500,000 cyclotron established, that the treatment will that will be 20 times larger then the eventually become a

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