Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-11-29 | Page 7 | Has Substitute for Gasoline

HASSMME MINEOLA, N. Y., Nov. 29. An order restraining Louis Enricht, a German Ger-man inventor of a so-called substitute for gasoline, from disposing of his product and from giving out information informa-tion regarding It, was signed here today to-day by Supremo Court Justice Manning. Man-ning. The substitute Is declared to bo of value In the operation of submarines, subma-rines, according to a bill of particulars filed with the complaint In which tho restraining order was asked. Enricht, who Is 70 years old and who was bora in Germany, Is alleged pgnaegai 1 n 11 waoBWiiri i i jinw, to have negotiated with "spies and representatives of the German government govern-ment now in this country for the sale of his formula to Germany." The bill of particulars declares that prior to America entering the war, Earicht proposed pro-posed to sell his secret to Germany for ?1,500,000; and that on November 12 he agreed to let it be sold to the United States government for $500,000 cash and $500,000 a year for fifteen years on condition that none of America's Amer-ica's allies in tho war should share the secret.