Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1927 — Page 13

SEPT. 7, 1927

DRIVERS URGED TO END MENACE i OF HEADLIGHT Widespread Caution on Part of Owners Declared Only Cure. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Motorists must pay the same attention to the condition of their car’s headlights that is given to the gasoline and oil, if the glaring headlight evil is not to add to the list of highway casualties during the night-driving season now at its zenith, This is the warning issued today by the American Automobile Association, which points out that the full co-operation of every motor car owner is needed imperatively to abate this serious evil. Agencies of all kinds, particularly motor clubs, are giving their utmost attention to the solution of the headlight problem, says the statement but, in Anal analysis, the issue is up to' the 22,000,000 car owners. “Headlight equipment can be improved, motor clubs may provide free headlight clinics and develop standards, cities and townc may provide official stations where headlights can be adjusted without cost ]

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When an automobile is considered safe for royalty, it isn’t so much against the pitfalls of the highways, as against the terror of anti-monarchists. That’s why this cabriolet for Queen 'Marie of Rumania has a body of bullet proof armour. Even the glass is bullet-proof. It’s an American car with sleeve-valve motor, and is being prepared for shipment to the famous queen. The royal insignia, shown at the right, is an important part of the “equipment.”

to the car owner, laws may be adopted requiring headlights to meet certain non-glare specifications, police departments may wage intensive campaigns against careless motorists, but all of these steps will fall short of the desired end unless the individual is made -conscious of his treme dous responsibility,” says Thoi _,s P. Henry, president. , An English scientist has built a rocket which he declares will propell itself the distance from New York to London.

STREETS TO 1 BE FIXED Under suspension of rules city council Monday night appropriated $36,000 of gasoline tax funds to City Engineer Paul Brown for street repairing. Brown said the money would enable him to put streets in good condition by Christmas. He said some thirty streets are scheduled for work. At least part of the money will be spent through the city’s asphalt plant.

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‘CANNON BALL’ MAKINGRECORD Hitting High Speed on His His Transcontinent Run. , Cannon Ball Baker, world’s champion record breaker, is on his eightieth transcontinental run, driving from New York to San Francisco. On this trip Baker is driving a General Mptors truck, being his first attempt to cross the continent in record-breaking time with this mode of transportation. It is the first time in the history of the automotive industry that a speed record has been attempted with a truck loaded to capacity. The truck is one of the new twoton six-cylinder fast duty General Motors truck equipped with the latest type triple-sealed Buick. engine. It is stock model in every respect, according to Baker. It carries a Columbia tank body. Before leaving New York a representative committee of automotive officials and newspaper representatives witnessed the loading of Atlantic Ocean water into the tank. This ocean water will be drained into the Pacific Ocean at Golden Gate. A liquid load is being carried, for, according to Baker, it is hardest load a truck has to handle. Baker says that will the advent of fast duty trucks the old tourist-travel-impeding tlow-moving trucks are coming off the highway. According to Baker the truck handles in traffic with the efficiency of a passenger car.

More Busses Motor bus statistics just compiled by the American Automobile Association contain the following outstanding facto for 1926: Total number of motor busses in use, about 80,000. 32.425 busses were used in common carrier service. 32,800 busses were used in carrying school children back and forth from home to school. Total pt-ssengers carried by busses we e 2,395,000,00. Os the passengers, 2,100,000,000 were transported by common carriers. Investment in rolling stock, terminals, garages, etc., were approximately $455,000,000. Gross revenue of common carrier bus lines was nearly $300,000,000. Ttxes paid by motor vehicle operators arc estimated at 712,000,000.

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Tail Light

By Swede Swanson Long have we dwelt on States’ rights, as a prerogative of our constitutional government, but only now do we approach a more colorful stage of our national and State life—that of State personality. Yes, each State has a singlar and attractive perSbndity, just as it has a product that is peculiarly its own. To prove this, Idaho points the .way. This State has decided to display its personality on its auto license plates, not so much in color as in form. Hereafter Idaho license plates take the shape of a wellformed potato, the pride and profit of* the State. So might all other States advertise their product and personalities —lowa with an ear of corn, Georgia with a peach, Oklahoma with an oil well, Texas wfth a bale of cotton, or Michigan with an automobile. The products may not merely arise from farming or manufacture. Florida, for intance, might choose a bathing beauty (recumbent) to pose for its license plates, California might pick out each year's most popular movie actress and New York might take the head of A1 Smith as its model. Whatever each State chooses, however, there’s surety of easy recognition throughout the Union. Not only that, but the States would be wqH remembered and their most famous products highly advertised. Let’s have some good suggestions for a license plate for Indiana. Send your suggestions to the Tail Light with the reason for your suggestion. Five per cent of the automobile accidents of the country are caused by persons who walk into the sides of moving machines. Like automobiles running into the sides of trains. The chivalry of the South has turned to the West, and in a more modern setting. Denver has a city courtesy traffic code, in which women drivers have the right of way. It has been announced that Walter G. Olin, president, and Robert D. Johnson, vice president and general manager, have acquired the holdings of John W. Burke, former secretary and treasurer of the Marion Chevrolet Company, who retires from the company to give his attention to other business interests. These three men took over Marion Chevrolet Company during August of last year and the business has grown under their progressive management te large proportions. Mr. Olin and Mr. Johnson will continue ■ the same policies that have won for

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this company the praise of Chevrolet patrons. Mr. Olin started in the automobile business fifteen years ago as superintendent of the Indianapolis branch of the Ford Motor Company. Later he became president of the Olin Sales Company, which was later known as the Olin-Wil-

FUU- FACTORY SQUIPMENT--4-DOOR SEDAN (NOT A COACH) /tUmgmf ' - (■ - I 26,000 new Dodge Fours sold m leas thanaovaa \ ■ /SSwf ‘• '•: / weeks! -' J Thousands of orders stall unfitted!! ■■ •• And with good reason! y-/ if At a time when speed is a paramount coocXtict* f \ 'fi&w '■./ performer—the fastest Four in America! I / j At a time when curbs and streets are packed and r ‘ /mm / jammed with vehicles, here’s a big, roomy car SO j;, / Wf . f ' EXPERTLY DESIGNED that it will fit into j {J feet of curb space and turn ’round in a 38-foot streetl j ? K-' ' / And when were snappy pick-up and get-away more f/ ?£ .. j universally required and desired? This brilliant ; ,Jnew Four steps from zero to 25 miles an hoar— W/ 'ijf thru gears—in less than 7 second*l * V / Longv t sprmgbase under a thousand dollars, too l l ip ifr * —its comfort already lauded by hundreds of coast* f *,/ to-'joast tourists! fi / *The lowest priced Sedan ever sold by Dodge - j; i 0W Brothers. Ask about our special time-payment arrangement ’ —exceptionally generous. T. A. BELL COMPANY 11TH AND MERIDIAN STREETS i (FORMERLY—STEINHART BUILDING) 1 I MAin 4366-67-68 ‘ ] Dodge Brothers,lnc.

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When Quids, improves upon Buick —the standard for the year is set Buick for 1928 introduces a higher standard of beauty and luxury than the world has ever known. Buick interiors are as modish as exquisite drawing* rooms—as harmoniously colored—and as comfortable. Buick’s new Fisher bodies are low-swung without any loss of head-room or road-clearance. And so, down to the smallest detail of construction, wherever refinements could be made, Buick made 1 them. Again Buick has improved upon Buick. Again the standard for the year is set. - * BUICK. MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT* MICHIGAN* Division jf General Motors Corporatism ' i * f / v.'Jjßj Sedans *1195 to *1995 / Coupes *1195 to *IBSC Sport Models *1195 to *1525 All prices f. e. b. Flin t, Mich., government tax to be added. The G. M. A. C. financing plan, the most desirable, is available. The model illustrated above is the Five-Passenger Sedan, Series 120, $149 5, Buick Motor Company 1 Division of General Motors Corporation—lndianapolis Branch Meridian at Thirteenth Street Central Buiek Cos. Jno. A. Boyd Motor Co* _ 2917-2919 Central Avenue 833-837 N. Meridian Street M Thornbugg-LewisJMotor

meth Company. Mr. Olin servered his connections with this company: two years ago to go to Florida and become president of the Marion Chevrolet Company. Mr. Johnson joined him, with the retiring of Mr. Burke. Mr. Johnson becomes secretary and treasurer of the company.

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