Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-15 | Page 5 | Nazis Prepare Economic Arms

NAZIS PREPARE PREP ARE ECONOMIC ARMS ARMSt t I BERLIN Oct 15 UP UP-Ger- many lacking colonies and adequate foreign exchange for imports has j undertaken n a vast program of ot economic economic eco armament to provide substItutes substitutes substitutes f for r commodities it cannot buy abroad Already according to experts Germany is better prepared economically economically eco eco- for war than was the empire empire em em- pire piro of ot Kaiser Wilhelm II Chemists Chemists Chemists Chem Chem- and other research scientists are making everything front from gS gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- Oline O- O line to bottle bottIe stoppers synthetically Holding that Germany would no not have lost the World war if it It had been b better prepared economically scientists scientIsts' are working on the productIon production pro pro- from substitute materials of three main groups of commodities f fuel fuel oil oU textiles and rubber Synthesis Advance In lit each of these fields It dt was as learned the development of ot syn- syn synthetic has gone beyond the experimental stage tage At present three huge plants planta are making waking gasoline synthetically The present yea years year's s production production- was tons or about seventh one-seventh of Germanys Germany's requirement How However ver under Adolf Adolt Hitler's s year four plan t the e number of ot plants plant is 1 to tob tobe tobe be b increased vastly and some experts experts experts ex ex- estimate that by the end nd of ot this year Germany will have bavo a productIon production production pro pro- of ot tons Annually The greatest disadvantage in the synthetic manufacture of ot gasoline is Its extremely high price Plants making it are subsidized by the government Natural and synthetic gasoline ells sells for 13 cents cent a quart Rubber Perfected Production of ot BY synthetic rubber has been perfected Using coal and lime German chemists have been able to make a product whose resistance to heat and oil all is superior to that of ot natural rubber but it costs live flue times as much The- The army's army motorized units use the synthetic rubber almost exclusively and regardless of ot Its its' high price Germany will not be without a supply in time of ot war In the field of ot textiles German chemists have produced a staple fiber similar to that manufactured manu manu- in other countries but accordIng according ac ac- cording to the Germans of ot superior quality cannot be used alone as aa it shrinks from moisture but c can be mixed with either cotton or wool To supply the country adequately authorities estimate that tons tOM of must be manufactured manu manu- factored annually They regard this production ro as aa entirely feasible