Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-04 | Page 9 | A Discovery of the War

A DISCOVERY OFM WAR Glycerine Made by U. S. Chemist by Fermentation of Sugar. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 Out of tho war's. necessities has boon dovoloped a "liew synthetic process of making glycerine gly-cerine by fermentation of sugar in quantity, at low cost, which government govern-ment officials say will revolutionize production. This secret, carefully guarded while the war lasted, was disclosed dis-closed today in a treasury report. John R. Ocff is the chemist who directed di-rected the experiments. The process was tried out on a large scale in a chemical plant at Aurora, 111., and found to be commercially profitable. pro-fitable. Then tho secret was conveyed convey-ed to Allied governments and to manufacturing man-ufacturing chemists who proposed to undertako commercial exploitation of the process,