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Show LEHI FRESS PRESS. LEIU, UTAH ld Aluminum, Once Royalty's Tableware, Completes 50 Years of Practicability j kPgQI SEW Golden Jubilee Recalls Early Struggle Of "two-by-fou- tn S I: I than mates. products, Indirectly, it provides jobs the industry Ml fort 150,000 more, claims. u-- a, j I i I t I I f odd I vhen lain I I'TAH i to spftt f r.f i j fore Capt. A. E. Hunt, George S. Clapp and a few other Pittsburgh men decided to take a gamble and invest $20,000 in an experimental, or "pilot," plant. Hall's process had so many "bugs" that for the first year or two the little plant was hardly more than an experimental laboratory itself. Arthur V. Davis, another young college boy who had been hired as night superintendent, now recalls the early days with a twinkle in his eye. "Hall and I roomed at the same house, and each of us worked a heci ay,,..-ii- .tJliMWlj'-gi-B-aa-illl- - 5 Id X V) 'tl.Jj- - m v Vi ' s outstanding figure in the aluminum industry, reminisces. "Something was always going wrong with the plant. The machinery would break down, the current would fail. "It's rather an amusing thing that for a while during the first year the only time we were able to produce any aluminum was when the plant broke down and the bath would harden, or 'freeze.' In hammering this black, dirty mess out of the pots, we'd usually come across a few pellets of comparatively pure aluminum. For the first year we kept the metal in the office safe, because it was worth $5 a pound at that time, although today the price is listed at 20 cents." But after they had produced their lightweight metal, Hall and Davis slowly awakened to the surprising revelation that hardly anybody wanted it. True, there was some little sale for mustache combs, ladies' fans, cigar cases and a few similar novelties popular in the nineties. But to make their orphan industry successful, these pioneers knew they must get it into fields of TRUSSES 'A Little Bird Told Me This mild expression, "a little bird told me,' for "I won't betray my informer," is not a literal quotation, but is undoubtedly borrowed 10:29: "Curse from Ecclesiastes not the king, no, not in thy thought: and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter." common use. Like cooking utensils, for instance. Aluminum is light, conducts heat evenly and does not contaminate food. Today nearly 400,000,000 aluminum cooking utensils have been made. But in the early days it was impossible to get a utensil manufacturer to give the metal a try. "As a matter of fact, I made the first aluminum cooking utensil myself," says Davis, and he still has the original article a teapot on display in his office to prove it. "We had to build our own sheet mil and eventually a cooking utensil plant to get them on the market at all. Then many of the stores refused to stock them, because they were already making a profit on more familiar goods made of other materials. So we peddled our wares house to house. That was where the 'working - my - way - through college' sales approach was born. One of our collegiate salesman, incidentally, was Huey Long." The same story was true of electrical conductor wire, which now conof the nation's alusumes minum. Davis, after long travail, succeeded in persuading a customer to try aluminum cable and then found there wasn't a solitary mill capable of producing it. He had the double trouble of keeping the customer happy while building a cable plant in a whale of a hurry at the same time. To make aluminum generally available, the founders of the industry themselves had to find new uses for the metal and often turn out the architecture and construction; aluminum foil to wrap foods and insulate buildings; aluminum paint, and countless alloys which make the metal adaptable to almost any purpose. The American aluminum industry produced 292,000.000 pounds of virgin ingot last year. Yet it is within the memory of persons now living that a Km- certain young man in Pittsburgh ir ' once brought from London a pair of lOO. Georre H Fnrl nf Sen Ellison D (Cotton Ed) opera glasses with frames of aluknows fnntylvania was winning the Smith of South Carolina minum os a precious present for his "nocratic senatorial nomi- - he'll win, but isn't very happy bride; he could have had platinum, hen this picture was about it. 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Component letters in the ana gram were taken from the name of Mexico's favorite of all hero, Hidalgo. the greatest Perhaps The delta of the Nile is 200 miles in the world of politics, Prior to its rechristening-- the town was Julius Caesar; and perhaps the waa known as the Presidio of La wide at the Mediterranean and 100 miles long. Bahia del Espiritu Santo. purest was Abraham Lincoln. s, But Hall's experiments had been made in the laboratory. There was no assurance they would work on an industrial scale. He couldn't find a backer, and it was two years be- pic-far- APARTMENT HOTEL acre-in-'h- Headaches, Heartaches favorite American political game is having your e taken while voting. Here's preview of three politicians as they will appear November 8. Abooe; Sen Millard E. Tydings FARMS AND ACREAGE Hitlow. a BELVEDERE 1 Apple Tree Heavy Drinker According to an authority, an average apple tree will absorb from 15 to 20 tons of watei a year. 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Htah (5 Fot Offire Place cast touring body of the now extinct Franklin automobile or one of the famed 'White Steamers,' " Castleman says. "Sold as scrap from an automobile boneyard, it Metallic Reincarnation might have been restored to usefulYet it is probably impossible ness as a cooking utento make an accurate estimate, says sil, ansuccessively automobile piston, a washing G. sec-JJ Capt. Kenneth Castleman, machine or vacuum cleaner part, a retary of the association, for by far bit of a permanent wave machine, the major tonnage of virgin alumi-jj- l a hair curler, a toy kite, a souveHum produced becomes a perma- - nir calendar-bacor even a set of nent part of the American scene, false teeth. When you throw the since the "scrap" is highly recov- - cigar wrapper away, more than erable by remelting and returns oft- - likely someone will rescue it from en a dozen times to make competi- - the city dump and it will return tionior the new metal produced, again to service, possibly as a confoil aluminum which denser in your television radio set." wrapped your morning cigar may In the short space of 50 years (aluminum, commercially, is 10 years younger than electric light) it has assumed fourth place in volDay-Pictur- e ume among metals, although it has had to battle for its position with other materials commonly employed for thousands of years. The first twinkling dawn of a r""" Wqiuuujajijaaaaajajpaaaaa bright future probably appeared on a February morning in 1836, when Charles Martin Hall, then a youth just out of Oberlin college, rushed from his crude, woodshed laboraI tory to the home of his former $ ?V A, 4 chemistry professor, crying, "I've succeeded, at last I've succeeded!" a s 4 J;rv. I In his hands were some pellets of the first aluminum to be made by the electrolytic process which still produces all the nation"s aluminum. When in Salt Lake City Stay in an Apartment Hotel. ENJOY SODA in a SALT LAKE CITY UTAH brine fall iafaraaatism. A card arill ATHLETIC GOODS - ... Specialized business training will increase your chances! Register Any Monday at the L D. S. BUSINESS COLLEGE DRUGS ICE CREAM FREEZERS Day rail sail SKWEK PICK El OWER I.l. and Htl'lNG ALL CLAY I'rtOlH CTS EIRE CLAY CO. Salt Lake I'OIS-WA- Ilia. LOOKING FOR WORK? aia. lake. T SCHRAMM-JOHNSO- PRODUCTS FACE KHIl'K Election II ... - CLAY Aluminum is used in countless forms sheet, tubing, forg-tngextruded shapes, impact extrusions, foil and wire, to name payroll of $03,000,000, the Aluminum a few. This workman is pouring small sand castings. association, a trade group of some of the 200 manufacturers of more have gotten its original start in life tic shift," Davis, today the esti2,000 aluminum s 81. aVnka and chairs. aarfa'a. aalea. bk 8 Ki.if Kalt it up ST. ( EOKOE HOTEL. Salt Lak. 40 Katt 3rd Kuuth Si reel With Bath H 21 to $1 75 Cirivr nirnt t'lfan Krpotable kok. Tpday, as it prepares to celebrate its golden anniversary, the aluminum industry furnishes jobs directI ly for 51,200 workers with an annual 1 !nj S 75e 75c : i E r" born which was destined to anect virtually all of the nation's population. Their discovery: Aluminum. For more than half a century scientists of the world had sought to produce it cheaply enough to remove it from the category of an emperor's tableware to a practical metal. Napoleon III had sunk a fortune trying to produce it for lightweight trappings that would give his cavalry an edge on its foes. In 1855, the king of Siam had selected a bar of aluminum as the most uni usual object at the world's fair in I i Paris, had a watch fob made from 'a it, and bore it proudly back to Banga THE WILSON HOTEL hear? if v Rates city the . PHOTO-KRAF- in 'tKMI NtVAOA top al Ik HOTEL GOLDtN-rirn- oa lateral and most popular holrl JOSEPH W. LaBINE Fifty years ago this November, in a little building in Pittsburgh, Charles Martin Hall and Arthur Vining Davis tinkered with a dyspeptic electric generator, a few carbon electrodes and a carbon-lined "pot" for an "electrolytic bath." 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