Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-14 | Page 2 | New Alcohol in Substitute for Gasoline

NEW ALCOHOL ' ! IS SUBSTITUTE FOR GASOLINE ST. LOUIS, April 13. Discovery Discov-ery of a new alcohol made from wood and usable as grain alcohol and in a mixture for a gasoline substitute, was described today at the convention of he American Medical society in session here. Prof. R. H. McKee, of Columbia university, explained the new liquid liq-uid and expressed the belief it would reduce the cost of operating automobiles. The alcohol, he explained, ex-plained, is obtained from the sugar su-gar in waste from the manufacture of pulp and mixed with kerosene and benzol forms a substitute for gasoline. This mixture, he amplified- does not form carbon in the cylinders, and affords more mileage to a gallon gal-lon than gasoline. Professor McKee Mc-Kee said it had been used successfully success-fully in Norway and Sweden and that he believed it could be manufactured manu-factured in this country cheaper than gasoline, oo