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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
C of C Hears Brewster Talk On Synthetics
Dr. R. Q. Brewster, chairman of the chemistry department, discussed industrial possibilities of eastern Kansas to members of the Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon meeting yesterday afternoon in the Eldridge hotel.
Meal remaining after processing of soy beans can be made into plastics; petroleum can be converted into rubber; and salt may be processed to produce chlorine, caustic soda, and hydrogen. Brewster said.
He said that none of the four or five synthetics now being made is as good as natural rubber, but each substitute has at least one quality better than the same quality in the natural product.
Brewster stated that grain sorghums, soy beans, salt, petroleum, coal, and natural gas can be converted into materials suitable for manufacture of many products now difficult to obtain.
Demonstrating one of his points, he made a tough, spongy rubber ball from acetic acid and a small amount of synthetic liquid latex.
According to Dr. Brewster, petroleum refining has always been faulty because of too great emphasis on producing gasoline.
The Chamber of Commerce industrial committee is working for procurement of a defense plant on the Eudora-DeSoto site, a location discussed last summer.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1942
Dean Moreau Will Speak To K.C. Bar Association
Dean F. J. Moreau of the School of Law will speak tonight before the Kansas City Bar Association at the University Club in Kansas City, Mo. His subject will be "The Facilities Made Available to Debaters by the Chandler act."
Jones and Engle Win First Place In Bridge Finals
Bill Jones and Clarence Engle won first place in the final rounds of the annual University bridge tournament played last night in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building.
Second place honors went to Bob Wellington and Jack Burns. Third place was won by Conrad Voelker and Paul Diegel.
Eight teams participated in the final round. Scores of the third round were combined with the scores of the second round for the final totals.
Samoa, probably the most important in the chain because of the naval station at Tutuila, was attacked last week end. A small Japanese ship lobbed 14 light-caliibered shells into the naval station area but caused little damage.
Japanese light naval units have carried out four hit-and-run raids on the most important of these islands—Samoa, Palmyra and Johnston. But for some unknown reason the Japanese have not attempted any full-dress attacks.
Pacific Lands Withstand Jap Fire
Washington, -(UP)- America's second line of islands in the Pacific -tiny stepping stones on air routes from Hawaii to New Zealand and Australia-still flew the American flag today after six weeks of war.
Previously, Johnston was twice attacked. An unknown number of enemy craft figured in the first raid on Dec. 16.
The second attack was carried out on Dec. 24 by a submarine which fired a few shells and then
ducked. On the same day, Palmyra suffered its first and only attack to date, also from a submarine. In none of these actions was there any material damage or casualties.
All of these islands, aside from their value as connecting links on the air routes from the U. S. to Australia and New Zealand and as air patrol stations, may prove of great value when offensive operations eventually are undertaken against Japan.
Both Johnston and Palmyra were commissioned as naval air stations less than five months before the outbreak of war in the Pacific. From these stations, patrol planes are capable of covering a large area of the southern sea approaches to the U. S. west coast.
Johnston commissioned on Aug. 14, 1941, is 717 miles southwest of Honolulu. On Jan. 2, new construction there approximated $5,687,000. A sizeable amount for so small an area. The island is only about one half mile long.
Other islands linked in the outer defenses of the South Pacific area include Canton—1850 miles south of Hawaii on the route to Fiji and New Zealand—and Enderbury. No attacks have been reported there.
Palmyra, commissioned on Aug. 15, 1941, is 960 miles southwest of Honolulu. A presidential order on Feb. 14, 1941, established Palmyra as a naval defense area.
J. Allen Reece, dean of the School of Pharmacy, will go to Kansas City tomorrow to attend the Mid-Western conference of the State Pharmaceutical association.
Reece to Pharmacy Conference
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It's Our Affair, Say Betty, Charlie
Kansas City, Mo.—(UP)—So Charley and Betty married anyway, selective service or no selective service.
The young couple, Betty Shelton and Charles D. Heydon, had been engaged, but they had been poised on the brink of matrimony for some time, considering the pros and cons of marriage in the face of the selective service act.
Charley and Betty finally recognized themselves in the newspaper stories. Away went their doubts and today there are on a brief honey-moon.
Interested neighbors sympathized with the youngsters and one wrote a letter to the Kansas City Star, outlining the case with fictitious names. Immediately a lively discussion was built up among newspaper readers—advice, warnings, and just plain good-humored criticism.
Charley reports for a physical examination for the selective service act tomorrow.
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