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Show CHEMIST MAKES GIFTIO U, S. Free Use of Process to Increase In-crease Country's Output of Gasolene Twelve-fold Is Offered. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 29. The United States government. It was announced an-nounced today, has been offered and has accepted the free use of a process, discovered by Frederick A. Kcrmann, San Francisco chemist, which, Kor-mann Kor-mann said, would increase thrf output of the country's gasoline by twelvefold twelve-fold and thus avert a national shortage short-age which government officials havo declared is threatened. The offer to tho government was made through Gavin McNab, San Francisco Fran-cisco attornoy, recently appointed federal fed-eral conclllattor In the strike here of 30,000 iron workers. Kermann announced an-nounced that Secretary of the Interior Lano had authorized tho construction of a government plant at which tho j process will be utilized. |