Show cons TIRES TIKES KANSAS SEEN IF PRICES los angeles Ang clea cal ur dr james jame F norris president of the american chemical society in session here sees tit in the cornfields corn nelda of kansas a bille solution of the disturbing situation recently created by skyrocket ing rubber prices it if continued high prices force tire manufacturers manufacture TS to appeal to the chemist doctor norris said it la Is entirely possible that a method of az T turing synthetic rubber from corn car and wheat derivatives may bo be develop od ed and the rubber plantation sup plant cid tn in some measure at least by tho lie middle western american farm 1 it la Is among tho the possibilities that ol oil research mon men will develop n valuable commercial rubber front from af acetone from which thu the Gerni germans alis made rubber during tho the war ho he said acetone Ace tono Is a by produce of butyl alcohol and butyl alcohol Is produced front from grain brain in other words our automobile tires tines M may ay iy yet bo be made from kansas corn doctor norris pointed out that the crude petroleum may bo be used as tile the baoe baio of synthetic rubber tit in which case tile corn and wheat growers ot of tile the middle west will havo have to compete with tho the oil companies |