Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-13 | Page 12 | Denaturant for Alcohol Sought

DENATURANT FORI FOR ALCOHOL SOUGHT Want Chemical With Ba Bad Taste That Drinkers Wont Won't Kill I WASHINGTON l Aug B 13 By 12 IS ByThe The Associated Press Indus Press Indus Industrial trial alcohol must be bo ma moO maA safe sare for tor prohibition and government chemists were yero seeking today for foran foran toran I an effective denaturing process that would bo ho stronger than gaso- gaso gasoline gasoline line gaso-line I line Just what this new element would be has not been determined but it must smell badly give tho sho alcohol an nn odoriferous and un- un unpleasant un unpleasant pleasant taste and still bo bl harm less for treasury officials ad- ad admitted ad that gasoline Baseline and other In- In Ingredients Ingredients In Ingredients mixed with Industrial alcohol with the th Idea ot or makIng It unfit for beverage use had not nOL deterred wily bootleggers from diverting quantities of or the alco alco- alco alcohol hol hot from legitimate and law abid ing path paths to illegitimate and lIJe- lIJe illegal cal gal channels In searching for a new formula the tho chemists have been directed by treasury officials to find one which would not prove deadly but woul would 1 rather cause illness Pres Pres- Pres Present Present ent wood denaturants wood l alcohol gasolIne kerosene and the the officials asserted are used In such small quantities that they should not poison polson a n drinker even If H they have not been eliminated entirely The problem of finding a new and more effective formula Is one or of the man many connected with en- en enforcement enforcement en enforcement that tl faced Assistant Secretary Andrews chief of o the prohibition forces force on his return hero ere today from his trip to Lon Lon- London Lon Lon- London London don and Paris