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THE SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C„ FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938
NEW YORK. — Widespread
use of acids to boost production
from oil wells has brought in
its wake a major trouble for
the petroleum industry in the
form of thousands of miles of
ruined pipelines and hundreds
of ruined refinery units, petro
leum engineers report here.
Salts, 50,000,000 pounds of them,
produced largely as by-products of
the acid “dosing” of wells, are eat
ing the walls of expensive pressure
piping and plugging refinery tubes,
exacting a stupendous economic
toll, they reveal.
They are in addition lowering the
value of residual oils and tars, eat
ing up in waste a considerable por
tion of the increased income earned
by the use of*the acid process which
increases the wells’ yield.
Greater even than the cost of re
placement parts and labor is the
loss caused by equipment being out
of service while repairs are made.
Petroleum engineers are turning
increasing attention today, however,
to this problem and report a num
ber of desalting methods.
Methods of Removing Salts.
Heat, pressure and the addition
of fresh water remove some of the
salt from commercial crude oil, in
creasing the life of piping and re
finery equipment greatly at a low
cost. A Michigan installation, de
scribed in Petroleum Technology by
Dr. Gustav Egloff and a group of
petroleum engineers of the Univer
sal Oil Products company, reduced
the salts in the incoming crudes
from 220 to 5 pounds per thousand
barrels.
Incoming oil was mixed with
about 10 per cent of water, then
heated to 250 degrees under a pres
sure of 60 pounds. The salt re
moval, 212 pounds for each 1,000
( barrels of oil handled, reduced cor-
'rosion from a continual cause of
breakdowns to a very minor main
tenance factor.
Chgpucals to break up the shell
Of—emulsion which protects brine
globules from the surrounding oil
have been used with some success.
Once this protective coating is de
stroyed, water particles settle out
of the mixture very rapidly, carry
ing the salt with them. Different
chemicals are needed in each oil-
producing area, and the search for
a general desalting chemical agent,
suited to all types and mixtures of
oil coming to a refinery, is still go
ing on.
Electrical desalting, in one plant,
decreased the salt content of the
crude oil from 200 to 8 pounds per
1,000 barrels. This particularly cor
rosive crude oil, from an Arkansas
field, was mixed with water, then
subjected to an alternating poten
tial of 16,000 to 32,000 volts.
Supersonic Waves Break
Solids by Vibrations
PORT HURON, MICH.—Superson
ic waves—sounds too shrill in pitch
to be heard by the human ear—
will soon be used to break up solid
particles into new degrees of fine
ness.
Sound’s new use has been devel
oped from research of Dr. Karl
Soellner of the department of agron
omy at Cornell university. He found
that high-frequency sound waves
not only make sediments, gels and
precipitates disperse—as previously
had been known—but also that cer
tain solids having a laminated
structure could be broken into fine
bits by the intense vibrations cre
ated.
Materials on which the supersonic
waves work well include graphite,
mica and steatite. As soon as pro
duction changes are completed, col
loidal graphite will be made of
much finer particle size and longer
suspension than has heretofore
been available to industry.
Ears Reveal Paternity,
Says a German Scientist
FRANKFURT-on-the-MAIN, GER
MANY.—Possibility of determining
a child’s paternity from the shape
of his ears appears in a report from
Dr. Thordar Quelprud of University
Institute for Heredity and Race Hy
giene. The shape of the human ear,
Dr. Quelprud says, has a number of
personal peculiarities which appear
well-developed in the infant. Left
and right ears of the same person
are often markedly different, so Dr.
Quelprud examined both ears in his
study of 5,000 persons. Twin and
family studies, Including studies of
fraternal and identical twins, were
made to determine hereditary char
acteristics. Shane, length and
breadth of ear, height of concha,
length and form of ear-lobe, helix
and tragus, length-breadth-index of
the ear, scapha and other charac
teristics were invsstigated.
Severe Tests Give Top
Rating to New Type
Of Concrete Block
CHICAGO —A new type con
crete masonry block has re
ceived a “top” rating after se
vere fire, water and pressure
tests in the Underwriters* lab
oratories here. The eight-inch
thick wall was given a Zyi-
hour fire classification—a rat
ing of half an hour longer than
any previous eight-inch wall of
concrete masonry units has
been able to secure.
A laboratory inferno was the test
ing ground for the new hollow build
ing block. A specially designed
furnace was built which burned
10,000 cubic feet of gas an hour—as
much as a small city.
For four hours the 11 by 10 foot
experimental wall of blocks was
subjected to fire. In the first five
minutes the wall reached a tem
perature of 1,000 degrees Fahren
heit. At the end of one hour the
exposed face was up to 1,700 de
grees; at two hours, 1,850 degrees;
and at the completion of the test a
temperature of 2,000 degrees Fah
renheit was recorded.
Wall Remained Intact.
All this while great hydraulic
jacks were pushing down on the
wall with a pressure averaging 175
pounds to the square inch.
At the end of the four-hour ordeal,
the wall was removed from the fire
blast and its incandescent face was
washed with a stream of cold water,
from a fire hose, under a water
pressure of 45 pounds to the square
inch.
Great clouds of steam obscured
the wall. Snapping and crackling
noises were heard as the wall un
derwent its rapid cooling and con
traction.
The wall remained intact after
this whole series of destructive ac
tions. Architects and engineers
examining it later expressed
amazement at the slight effects of
the severe treatment.
Temperatures recorded on the un
exposed surface of the wall during
the tests resulted in the prized ZVi-
hour classification. This rating can
be increased to a four-hour classi
fication when such walls are sur
faced with three-quarters of an inch
of gypsum plaster.
Greater fire protection at a lower
cost is the objective of the research
which developed the building
blocks.
Head-Hunter Doctors
Are Good Bone Setter?
WASHINGTON.—Doctors of the
Jivaro head-hunting tribe on ihe
Amazon are good bone setters, and
use casts of chicle—basis of chew
ing gum—to hold broken bones in
place.
What a family doctor’s life is like
in this tribe, famed mainly for its
head hunting, is reported by Mat
thew W. Stirling, chief of the bureau
of American ethnology, who ven
tured successfully into their sup
posedly dangerous communities.
A Jivaro doctor, called a wishinu,
has to study one month before he
is considered ready to practice,
but there are only six kinds of dis
ease spirits supposed to cause most
human troubles. He also has to
learn to treat cold, fever and dysen
tery with specific herbs. His rigid
code of medical ethics requires him
to answer a sick call at any hour
of day or night through trackless
jungle. If he fails to cure he may
be “sued” for malpractice, which
in Jivaro legal machinery means
he may lose his head or be required
to pay the value of the lost pa
tient’s life.
Making Forests Too Tidy
Is Bad for the Soil
GENEVA.—Don’t tidy up forests
too much, by removing fallen tim
ber and otherwise clearing the
ground, is the advice of a leading
Swiss ecologist, Dr. Arnold Pictet.
If you clear away all such accumu
lations of “rubbish” you deprive the
forest of much of its biological work
ing capital.
Trees are a soil-exhausting crop,
Dr. Pictet points out. They with
draw a large proportion of the soil’s
original store of nutrient substances
and lock it up in their stems. When
they fall, the swarming destructive
life of the forest floor—insects,
worms, fungi, bacteria—unlock
these hoards and return the accu
mulated capital to the soil as hu
mus.
Lumbering operations inevitably
carry off a good deal of this capital
to market. Fire destroys it, not to
be replaced for centuries. Fallen
trunks, and forest litter generally,
can re-invest a part of it in the
•soil, if only they are permitted to
return, as dust to dust.
War on Caterpillars
SYRACUSE, N. Y. — Organisms
that cause a deadly disease to tent
caterpillars are being cultured at
the New York State College of For
estry here, to be released in an ef
fort to control the forest tent cater
pillar, which has developed into a
major pest. The disease has been
known for a long time, but this is
the first attempt that has been made
to propagate it artificially and us*
it as a means «f forest defense.
Flies
Atlantic in Second-Hand ‘Crate’
Douglas P. Corrigan, young American aviator who flew the Atlantic ocean in a second-hand, nine-year-old
single-motor monoplane which he bought for $900. Previously making a non-stop transcontinental flight from
California to New York, Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett field and landed at Baldonnel, Ireland. 28 hours
and 13 minutes later. Refused government permis sion for the flight, he left the field saying Los Angelee
was his destination. On landing he said he had made a mistake in his direction.
President Roosevelt makes a brief inspection of Mare Island Navy
Yard, near Vallejo, Calif., before he proceeds over the Golden Gate
bridge to San Francisco and thence to the Treasure island site of the 1939
Golden Gate International exposition. Here the Chief Executive is snapped
as he greeted Commandant David Worth Barley.
HELPS HIS PUTTS
There is nothing orthodox about
Leo Diegel’s style of golf play as
witness his "standing-sitting” putt
ing style, demonstrated at the re
cent Professional Golf association’s
meet at Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa.
Diegel says his stance is the "most
accurate method in the world. It
Isn’t pretty to look at, I’D admit,
but it’s sound.”
INSULL PASSES
Astor Kin Sells Golf Balls
Memories of the titianic days when
he was the utility king of America
were recalled in the recent death of
Samuel Insull in Paris. The famous
Chicagoan passed away at the age
of seventy-eight. The utility com
pany empire he erected in his hey
day crashed after the 1929 stock
market panic, causing the loss of
billions to investors. Insull, who
came to America as a poor young
man, rose rapidly to success. He
was secretary to Thomas A. Edison
for a number of years before he
entered business in Chicago.
Francis Ormond French, impecunious father-in-law of John Jacob
Astor, IQ, who was refused unemployment relief and a WPA job re
cently, is shown selling a customer a pail of golf balls for a quarter at
a golf driving practice range at Brighton, Mass., where he secured a
job. French is paid $5 a day and 59 per cent commission on all golf
balls he actually sells.
Cruiser Is President’s Vacation Home
The cruiser U. S. S. Houston, which President Roosevelt has used for his South American vacation. The
President reviewed the navy’s massed .fleet in San Francisco harbor before;starting.
Star Dust
★ Children of Stars
★ A Break for Nancy
★ Goodman's Cornetist
By Virginia Vale
S OME day when you young
sters are grown up, and see
by the papers that Ellen Powell
is going places with this or that
young man, you’ll know how
the old-timers feel when they
read that Sue Vidor has been
going about with Buddy Arm
strong.
You’ll probably say, "Why I re
member when that girl was born—
way back in 1938! Her mother was
a well-known movie star, Jean Blon-
dell, and her father was a movie
star, too—Dick Powell, and a mas
ter of ceremonies on the radio, too.
But, of course, you don’t see them in
pictures now.”
And it seems like yesterday that
Sue Vidor was playing that tiny
little piano, and her handsome
young parents were standing there,
smiling at her. Her mother was a
famed movie actress — Florence
Vidor, who retired to marry Jascha
Heifetz, the violinist. Sue’s father is
King Vidor, the director.
—*—
And, speaking of the passing of
time, when she started work recent
ly on “Three Loves _
Has Nancy,” Janet f
Gaynor also started gyjjijl,'
out on her twelfth
year of m a k i n g » ^
movies. Few others
have stayed at the »^
top for so long. S'
Which reminds me
that in “Tropic Hoi- |St k
iday,” the new Mar- #
tha Raye-Bob Burns
comedy, one of S&alWWUsU
Bob’s scenes is a Janet Gaynor
burlesque of the one
in “A Star Is Bom” in which
Fredric March swam out to sea
to his death. People who liked the
Gaynor-March hit picture won’t
care for that.
—*—
Having fought with Columbia and
had her contract bought off, Grace
Moore departed for Paris, where
she will start right in making pic
tures again. She’ll do both a French
and an English version of "Louise.”
And, as French pictures are rarely
up to the United States standard,
she probably won’t like the result.
—*—
Nancy Kelly, aged seventeen, has
been booked to play the heroine in
“Splinter Fleet,” and a lot of people
in Hollywood are- asking who she is
and where she comes from and why
she should be given so important a
NANCY KELLY
role in such an expensive picture.
But at seventeen Nancy is a veteran
who rates important assignments.
She acted in the movies made in the
East as a child, but gave it up 10
years ago because she had reached
the awkward age, and devoted her-
self to radio. She was going strong
a year ago when she got the role
of Gertrude Lawrence’s daughter in
“Susan and God,” a successful play
that was one of the .New York thea
ters’ big hits this year. Nancy was
a hit, too, Darryl Zanuck saw her
performance and bought her run-of-
the-play contract, so now she’s back
in the movies again, without mak
ing any effort to be. “Them as
has, gits.”
—*—
You can’t tell, these days, where
a swing musician will bob up. When
Benny Goodman and his band were
playing an engagement in Texas
last year everybody for miles
around who liked swing music
came to dance. During the inter
mission a young man with a cornet
in his hand came to Goodman and
asked to play for him. Goodman
took him into an adjoining room,
Jess Stacey sat down at the piano,
and the young man began to toot.
“Buddy,” said Goodman when
he had finished. “Whatever your
name is, you can join my band. By
the way, where did you learn to
put a horn through its paces?”
“I’m a member of the Salvation
Army band,” replied Henry James,
who’s been a member of Goodman’s
gang ever since.
—*—
ODDS AND ENDS—Jack Oak it is tak
ing bows on having lost a lot of weight,
and George Raft is trying to reduce . . .
The Chinese government has offered Ann
Sheridan’s husband, Edward Norris, a lot
of money to fly for them . . . Fred Allen
rushed off to Maine when his year's
broadcasting was finished; he’s eighteen
miles from Portland (Maine, not HoffaJ
and swears that this year the radio fans
won’t find him . . . They did, last sum
mer, three weeks after his vacation
started . . . Remember “Three Smart
Girls,’’ the Deanna Durbin picture?
There’ll be a sequel, “Three Smart Girls
Grow Vp,“ with the same cast.
• WeaWrn Newspaper Unton.
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Oriental Citizens
The naturalization of Chinese
and other Orientals is not permit
ted in the United States, but those
born in this country are citizens
on the same terms as any other
natives of the United States.
The Fourteenth Amendment to
the Constitution provides that "all
persons born or naturalized in the
United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens at
the United States and of the state
wherein they reside.”
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