Show n GET GAS DOPE FROM OCEAN OGEAN B By NEA S NEW YORK April 1 Bro S-Bro- 18 Bro Bromine mine an Ingredient used In q II a dope Jor tor motor molar fuel Is going to tobe tobe tobe be pumped up out of the sea lIell For this purpose the steamship Ethyl has been ben equipped a as Il a com com- complete complete chemical plant and will roam the Ibe een seas for the fluid Refitted Refilled as s a factory for recovering recovering ering bromine from seawater the Ethyl formerly the Lake ot of the United State Slates shIpping board will 1 clear dear from front Wilmington DeL DI on what Is 19 probably the strangest voyage ever undertaken She will call at no port and roam roam- roaming roam ing the ocean will extract her cargo from Its 1111 it waters EXTRACT RARE n GAS Chemical experts who are mem mem- m members members JD- JD bers of the American Chemical so- so society so society c- c del estimate that 1700 gallons of seawater contain ono one pound of oC bromine Hence It Is the Ethyl's mission million to remove this seven one one- one nc- nc thousandths of o one per cent of bro bro- bromine bromine bro bromine mine In the tho seawater with which It Is Ie planned to refill the world worlds world's bromine storehouses emptied by bythe bythe bythe the rapid development of ethyl gasoline In automobile operation In an official announcement of the voyage A M Maxwell vice president of the Ethyl Gasoline corporation owner owners of the vessel say an entirely new process of bromIne extraction would be em- em employed employed em employed This Thle process 1 Is to yield pounds pound of bromine a month To produce this this this-quan quan- quan quantity quantity the tho Ethyl will draw oat gal gallons lons eal-lons lons JOllS of seawater a 8 minute GET IT 11 IN IS SPRINGS The success of this venture venturo may give Ive an entirely new aspect to the tha manufacture of bromine whIch h heretofore has hall been laboriously re- re from mineral springs spring and from the potash deposits of Ocr Ger Germany man many says say's Maxwell ell Success furthermore ma maCan may Can quippIng equipping a fleet of bromine ship ships for the recovery from rom the seas of ot other valuable to en- en enrich enrich rich en-rich rich mankind |