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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER Charcoal Gas Is Fair Gasoline Substitute, Tests Show; Could Be Used on Farms They Tried 800-Mil- and Failed (By John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice.) Nazis In America have been tak- ing a drubbing like the Nazis facing the Yanks in Normandy, the British at Caen, and the Russians In theCr victorious sweep through Poland. d methodical The planning and scheming of the Nazis have contributed to their own downfall. They tried, but failed, to swing their Fifth Column into action in America. It suffered setbacks before Pearl Harbor, but its back was broken once we were freed of peacetime restraints. much-vaunte- Harbor, ove 15,750 suspected Fifth Columnists have been arrested. The more dangerous were interned, others paroled, and others released when it was certain they would do no harm. Pearl Since The German High Command admitted the ineffectiveness of their Fifth Column when they dispatched the eight saboteurs to America by submarine two years ago. We have learned that other saboteurs were trained to take their places. But so far they have not put in their ap- pearance. The Nazi rats must not be underestimated. Try cornering a rat and see how he bares his teeth and strikes back. We can expect the same from the Germans until the last vestige of Naziism is crushed by our Armed Forces. America has a perfect score In combatting the experts in doom and destruction. No act of enemy-directe- d sabotage has yet occurred in the United states. sorry to say that even Americans have tried; I am happy to say that they, too, have failed. One worker in an aircraft plant cut 21 wires in two bombers just to see how the FBI handled a sabotage investigation. He found out. I am native-bor- Advantages, Defects e Revealed by Trial Journey in Car n The Blunder Bund, which once scoffed at American faith in human nature, was set back when its chief espionage ring was penetrated by the FBI. We built a radio station with their funds, gave them misleading information, sold them fictitious plans, and at the conclusion of the case turned over a profit of $17,000 to the U. S. Treasury to buy bullets to shoot back at the super i Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, convicted leader of the German-America- n He was Bund, fled to Mexico. tripped up when the alert Mexican military authorities became suspifishcious after he stacked a ing boat with 200 pounds of food, 450 liters of drinking water, and 50 packages of cigarettes. Washington, D. C. ADMIRAL KING SLAPS Insiders now admit that friction between Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Ernie King is just as bad as it was between King and the late Frank Knox or worse. Knox and Admiral King rubbed oach other raw. King used to go over the head of the secretary of the navy, even overruled him regarding the navys new gray summer uniform, which Knox and most navy men opposed. When Forrestal became secretary of the navy, it was hoped that relations would be harmonious. Last week, however, Admiral King publicly gave his chief an adroit For-rest- The present scarcity of gasoline has turned attention to possible substitutes. One of the most practical is the gas generated from charcoal or wood by a high temperature burner. These devices, which are common in Europe, are rare in the United States, and if the wartime stringency in motor fuel had not developed, they would probably have remained curiosities. If gasoline becomes expensive and scarce in the postwar years, however, the gas generators will probably come into use, at least for some purposes, such as stationary engines and farm machinery. The charcoal burned in the generator can be made from any kind of wood or dried plant fiber, such as pressed out sugar qane. Here is possible future market for farm products that are now wastes. All this, however, depends on the adequacy of our petroleum reserves. If gasoline is once again plentiful and cheap, there is little likelihood that the gas generator will be widely employed, for at its present stage, it does not give as satisfactory service as gasoline does. To investigate the possibilities of using gas generators on their delivery cars, as well as to obtain material for an informative article, Newsweek magazine had one of its small station wagons fitted with a generator, and driven on an 800 mile test trip. The journey began in Kalamazoo, Mich., where the charcoal burning known commercially as the Gasogene was attached at the manufacturers plant, and ended in New York city. The route traversed the Allegheny mountains, where steep grades forced the car to give its best possible performance. Milton Van Slyck, associate editor, supervised the experiment. On the June morning when the trip was to start, Mr. Van Slyck poured 170 pounds of charcoal into the hopper of the gasogene. He then started the motor of the car with gasoline. Next he stepped around to the rear, opened the small fire door, and lit the burner with a twist of paper. The suction of the motor drew the flame right in and in a few seconds the fire was nearly white hot In one minute fifteen seconds after he poured the charcoal they rolled out of the shop down the highway. Within a couple of minutes they turned off the gasoline completely. In about eight minutes, all told, the gasogene was delivering its full power, which is about 65 per cent of that obtained from gasoline. This did not mean that the station wagon could go only 65 per cent of The gasogene generates gas (principally carbon monoxide) by burning charcoal at high temperatures. The hopper holds 170 pounds. It is best to refuel it every 50 to 75 miles. miles). Curiosity appeal was high. Motorists seeing the device as they approached from the rear would pull up and sometimes tail them for miles. In towns small crowds gathered to look and ask questions. Though the fuel hopper holds 170 pounds, it was found best to refuel every 50 to 75 miles. Fresh fuel is put in through the hatch on top of the generator, a dusty, dirty, two-t- o e job. Usually at the same time, Mr. Van Slyck took a couple more minutes out to look at the security filter, a small screen which is the last cleaning stage. Twenty Cents for 15 Miles. They averaged close to 30 miles an hour for the 800 miles and burned 600 pounds of charcoal. Put into its gasoline equivalent (15 miles to the gallon) this stacked up to about 11 pounds which, at the rate of $35 a ton for charcoal, meant nearly 20 cents for 15 miles, or within a penny or two of gasoline cost. The whole system is entirely rational; there is nothing mysterious about it. The regular carburetor is used when the motor operates on feeds gas gasoline. A carbo-charginto the cylinders in the gasogene operation. The main difference is that the gasogene gas (principally carbon monoxide) must be manufactured in the generator before it can be burned: gasoline in the tank is ready for use. With a gasogene ll is necessary t. keep die engine turning over a little faster than usual in order to manufacture gas. If the engine is run too slowly on a hill, where power is needed, the fire may die down, reducing speed. The fire requires relighting only after long intervals of parking. After only two or three hours of disuse the motor will start on gasogene direct. After three or four hours it is necessary to use a little reached its Nazi brazenness height when Baron von Spiegel, the German Consul in New Orleans, boasted that the United States would be repaid when the Reich completed its conquest in Europe. A Midwest consular attache was greatly embarrassed when he was caught mak' ing pictures in a factory area. , The Nazi spy, Heinz August arrested and executed in Cuba, kept canaries in his room to conceal the noise of his short wave radio O.K. Now, with shipping lanes opened, the army is not so interested. But it did find that the gasogene gas was a satisfactory substitute for gasoline under certain conditions, although it gave less power and the mechanism was harder to maintain. The possibility of using the gasogene when the Burma road is reopened is not yet definitely ruled out. Army and other experiments, plus some Canadian research, produced reports of varying degrees of approval and disapproval Some held the horsepower loss was too great, gasogenes were too dirty, and so on. Numerous In Sweden. Under the wartime gas shortage there are several thousand gasogenes now operating on wood, especially in countries such as Sweden Unwhere lumber is plentiful doubtedly most will go back to gasoline after the war. Wood does not give as good a performance as charcoal; it is dirtier in its gas content and therefore more apt to foul an engine. Since coke or hard coal operate satisfactorily, in hard-cog regions where fuel is cheap, gasogene trucks might be feasible. A group of farmers, too, might band together to make charcoal for use on their machinery and trucks. All in all, any widespread postwar use in the United States is unlikely and what there is probably will be local and mainly in agriculture, industry, and business not private driving. Gasogene s proponents point out that the history of the use of substitutes is replete with stories of and lower costs, such as in synthetic nitrates, rubber and fibers. For this reason they anticipate further improvements. But because of the gasogenes limitations, the oil companies, though highly interested in watching experiments, do not expect any serious competition. The results thus far in these tests confirm that the gasogene is a satisfactory substitute for gasoline where the standard fuel is unavailable or where transportation or other factors make its price prohibitive. The relationship between the cost of gasoline and the cost of the substitute fuel is the main factor which will control the gasogenes future. For instance, gasoline at 25 to 50 cents a gallon in remote sections of South America could make it feasible to use charcoal which is plentiful and cheap, as it is a home product sold everywhere for cooking. In the United States gasogenes may be used in the lumber industry. With plenty of waste lumber especially in the far north where transportation makes gasoline costs high, it might be feasible to turn waste into charcoal (a simple process requiring two or three days) or even burn the wood as it is. coal-burnin- incite domestic strife. anti-Semiti- c. This is the small station wagon equipped with a made the 800 mile experimental run from Kalamazoo, York city. The trip was a rigorous test for the efficiency the route led over the steep grades of the Allegheny the speed it would be capable of with gasoline. In speed tests, given time to work up momentum (about three times that ordinarily needed for gasoline), it reached 70 miles an hour for a brief run. There was no zip in pickup. On the hills the lack of horsepower showed up more, al- though they encountered none that could not be made in low. A; a rule of thumb a hill on which a gasoline engine would balk a little in high required second speed with the gasogene; one that made a gasoline car use second, required low. Shaking Down the Ashes. y run was made The without mishap. One night a truck his big van to a driver stop and tore over with a fire extinguisher when they paused at the roadside to shake down the ashes (this was done twice in the 800 cross-countr- gasogene that Mich., to New of gas fuel, for mountains. gasoline in the motor to get the draft going through the firebox and build up a good fire. The gasogene used less than 2 quarts of gasoline for 800 miles, better than 1,600 miles to the gallon. What It Cosla. . The cost of the gasogene varies: For this experimental unit was, about $700; on trucks with a simpler installation job the cost would be perhaps $100 lower. In South America they are somewhat less. Mass production naturally would bring economies. At present gasogenes are not made in this country for unrestricted civilian use, though no priorities for the purchaser would be required if a manufacturer were able to get clearance on materials from the War Production board and on manpower from the War Manpower commission. Heavily populated prisoner of war camps in the United States hold thousands of frustrated Germans. Occasionally, some try to get away. Sometimes they succeed for a time. But no prisoner has yet been able to get back to Germany, and their periods of freedom generally ,are limited to a few hours. n. Forrestal, Admiral King and fighting Admiral Halsey were holding a Joint press conference. The secretary of the navy was asked if he had any comment on the fall of the Tojo cabinet. He replied that navy personnel including himself, were not supposed to comment on politics. Whereupon Admiral King interrupted and, almost as if the secretary of the navy were a little boy, corrected him. I will comment on that, he announced, despite Forrestals statement that political matters were not for commeht by navy personnel Obviously, the cabinet would not have fallen unless there was dissatisfaction on the part of military leaders with the conduct of the war. The Japanese can be expected to continue to wage war with all the powers they possess. Secretary Forrestal took the admirals remarks interpreted by those present as an indirect slap-iowwithout saying a word. n VETERAN STRUGGLE One of the most important struggles for postwar power is now being waged between the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Actually, the Veterans of Foreign Wars are in a better position than the Legion to get a head start on recruiting veterans of World War (I. The VFW charter from congress permits recruiting men before they are discharged, while the Legion must wait until a man leaves the jervice before recruiting him. Fact is the VFW has picked up more than 400,000 new members since Pearl Harbor, while the Legions gains have been relatively paltry. At the start of the war, the Legion had more than one million members, the VFW only a quarter million. But today the VFW magazine has the largest overseas circulation of any publication, is now read by 300,000 men monthly. As a result, VFW is picking up members at the rate of 5,000 a week, while Legion officials fret, plan their own recruiting drive behind-the-scen- , later. One reason for VFW success has been a policy of tacitly bucking the American Legion on key policy matters. VFW helped paint the Lethen turned gion as around and attempted to arrange a deal whereby all CIO and AFL members in the service would join the VFW instead of the Legion wheD they left the service. More than two miUiop union men are in the service However, labor has not fallen for the bait. Instead, trade-unio- n chapters of the American Legion are being rapidly built up to help combat any feelings of returning servicemen. The Veterans of Foreign Wars also made hay with a speech delivered by national Legion CommanderWar-re- n Atherton in the South Pacific area recently. Atherton debunked the idea that men in the front lines fighting the Japs want furloughs home. The VFW immediately took advantage of this statement, set up a terrific howl for overseas furloughs, soon found membership applications pouring in. anti-labo- r, anti-unio- n SITUATION IN GERMANY Uncensored military and political dispatches reaching the diplomatic corps reveal that the German army is defeated and that fat Hermann Goering, father of the Luftwaffe, may soon rise as the German man on horseback to try to make peace with the Allies. This dramatic turn of events catches Franklin Roosevelt plotting Pacific strategy while the biggest break of the war is coming 5,000 miles away in Europe. Whether Roosevelt does anything more alout it or not, however, you can write it down that Hitler and company are through. Its just a question of how much Germany can salvage before the last shot is fired. MERRY-GO-ROUN- Lun-ing- transmitter. 1,000,000 al Embassy in Washington had detailed plans to foment strikes and Nazi official in this country was discarded by his fiancee when she learned of his scheming against the United States. Another Nazi official offered to pay $500 for documentary proof of the canard and lie that Benjamin Franklin was The Germans built up a dollar balance of over $21,000,000 by selling Rueckwan-dere- r marks in this country prior to the war to be redeemed in Germany. Practically all the German consulates in the United States were active in promoting the German-America- n Bund. than passenger cars and trucks throughout the world use various forms of gas generators. Recently reports have come that the Nazis are operating war machines, including training tanks on gasogenes. In this country the army and other government branches (Bureau of standards, Forest service of the department of agriculture, Tennessee Valley authority) have made or still are conducting exhaustive tests. When the German submarine campaign threatened to cut the sea lanes to our fronts the army stepped up the gasogene experiments it had started three years ao. Seeking a satisfactory gasoline substitute, nearly every conceivable fuel was subjected to tests, even dried camel dung, which worked er Nazi An important More three-minut- ments. He wrote that his dog was sick, he was busy with a victory garden and as an air raid warden. These jig-sabits of information were pieced together and after some additional hard work he and his associate, Erwin Harry De Spretter, were arrested. Pearl Harbor, the al slap-dow- Emset Fritz Lehmitz was caught as the result of some of his newsy letters designed to conceal reports in secret writing on convoy move- Before Practical Slip Cover Ideas for Your Use The gasogene outfit requires some attention that machines operating on gasoline do not, since the gasogene burns charcoal or other solid fuel. It is necessary to shake out the ashes perhaps once a week. Then there are two filters that must be taken out and cleaned periodically. One is the radical-finne- d filter, (right). This was serviced once on the trip. The other Is the security filter, (left). It was thought best to look at this every time they filled the charcoal hopper. .gw. w c r 1 w A vt S' 0 . 5 is. M D The Berlin radio beamed to America tried a new propaganda trick the other night. An announcer introducing a newscaster, said, The views of this commentator do not necessarily reflect the views of this station. air corps officials say that . 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