Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 145, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1928 — Page 11

NOV. 7, 1928

FOREIGN AUTO FIRMS ENTER N. I EMITS Grand Centra! Car Show to Be International in Aspect. An impressive display of foreignmade cars will be one pf the new features of the Twenty-Ninth National Automobile Show, to be held in Grand Central Palace, New York city, Jan. 5 to 12, under the auspices of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Thus far, British, French and German cars have been assigned spaces for the New York display, and these, together with 200 or more models of American cars will make an international exhibit of unusual interest. The foreign cars will be grouped on the third floor of the Palace, where a number of American cars will be shown also. Assignment of car spaces to American manufacturers was made several weeks ago and yesterday show headquarters released the names of foreign firms. These are: Vauvhall Motor, Ltd., Luton Beds, England, Vauxhall; The Daimler Cos., Ltd., Sandy Lane, Coventry, England, Daimler; Austin Motor Cos., Ltd., Longbridge, England, Austin; Renault Selling Branch, Inc., 719-sth avenue, New York, Renault; Mercedes-Benz Cos., Inc., 247 Park avenue, New York, Mer-cedes-Benz. Each year the display of automotive service equipment at the shows grows in importance and size. Next winter’s shows will see the most representatiave exhibit of automotive service equipment ever assembled. Forty-five manufacturers of shop equipment, ranging from the smallest hand tools to giant hoists, have been assigned space in the two shows by the Motor and Accessory Manufacturers association, which originated the shop equipment sections three years ago, and which cooperates with the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce in the conduct of the exhibitions. F. K. ESPENHEIM NEW FISK TIRE CO, OFFICIAL Former Goodrich Executive Takes Up Vice-President Duty. l\!i Times Special CHICOPEE FALLS, Mass., Nov. 7.—Frank K. Espenhain has taken lip his new duties here as executive vice-president of the Fisk Tire Company. He was formerly first vice-president of the Goodyear Tire

and Rubber Company with headquarters at Akron, Ohio. Prior to entering the rubber field, the new Fisk officer had devoted himself to retail merchandising. It was in 1921 that he left retail work in Milwaukee, Wis., to join the Goodyear Company as export manager, where he obtained an international

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view of the industry. Ae reorganization brought his promotion as assistant to the president and later he was further advanced to first vice-president. Espenhain brings to the Fisk organization a wide personal knowledge of tire conditions throughout the world, and an extensive personal acquaintance with men in all branches of the tire industry. GRAHAM-PAIGE HITS NEW PRODUCTION HIGH Gains 274 Per Cent In 1928 Over 1927. ' New production and shipping records for October were set by Gra-ham-Paige Motors Corporation last month, raisin gthe total output for ten months of 1928 to 70,406 cars, as compared with 18,800 for the same period of 1927, or a gain of 274 per cent. Production last month was 52 per cent more than the best previous record for October, established in 1926, and was 3.0 times the total for October of last year. For ten months of 1928, under the Graham management, the factory has averaged 7,040 cars monthly production, higher by 1,200 cars than the total for the best single month of its predecessor. OAKLAND SIX POPULAR New Line of All-Americans Is Winning Favor. PONTIAC, Mich., Nov. 7.—Motoring America greeted with extraordinary enthusiasm the latest line of Oakland All-American Sixes, now on display at dealer showrooms throughout the country, according to reports received at the factory here. From indications of the reception accorded the car, W. R. Tracy, vicepresident in charge of sales of the Oakland Motor Car company, stated thau beyond question the latest AllAmerican would sweep to sales record higher than ever before at tained by any Oakland model put out m the 22 years the company has been manufacturing automorniles. TEACHERS ARE GUESTS Visit Various Agencies of Community Fund. Teachers of School 41, 3002 Rader street, were guests this aftrenoon of the Community -Fund on a trip to various agencies sharing in the common fund. Agencies visited included the Florence Crittenton Home, the Day Nursery, Orphans Heme and Flanner House. Twenty-eight teachers made the trip.

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Facing trial for bribery in connection with the prosecution of the defunct Julian Petroleum Corporation cases, Asa Keyes, noted district attorney of Los Angeles, is shown here, right, as he was arrested by Captain Clem Peoples. Keyes has been an officeholder for twenty-five years, and has handled some of the biggest criminal cases at Los Angeles.

TIP ON BRAKE TESTINOGIVEN Dealer Suggests Way to Check in Drag. A simple test by which any motorist readily can ascertain whether his brakes are dragging, a condition that seriously affects car performance and operating economy, is passed on to the motoring public by W. E. Stalnaker, vice-president, Graham-Paige of Indiana. To test for dragging brakes, attain a speed of thirty miles an hour on a smooth and level road, then shift to neutral and let the car coast, says Stalnaksr. When the speedometer shows twenty-five miles an hour, begin timing the deceleration. If your car is not rolling five miles an hour or faster at the end of sixty seconds, have the brakes inspected. To offset the effect of the wind, the driver should make the test in both directions over the same level stretch, and note the average time taken to decelerate from twenty-five miles per hour to five miles per hour. The average should be sixty seconds or more. “The beauty of this test,” says Stalnaker, “is that it can be performed at any time you are out in your car.” WILLYS FINDS FOREIGN, U. S. STYLES CONVERGE John N. Willys, president of the Willys-Overland Company and chairman foreign trade committee of National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, has returned from Europe. “Style trends at the Paris and London motor car shows this fall scored a high point in the industry’s history,” said Willys. “Designers of European and American cars approached each other clasely in lines, colors and fittings. This in ternationalism trend is something new, and indicates that designers of both continents have advanced steadily.

Auto Accessories and Radio STOCK REDUCING SALE Prices Slashed on Eveiy Item in Store

RADIO Cunningham Via Radio Tubes Cunningham Via CX3CIA ...... 98<i 59C CX2>9 $1.69 CXI 12 $2.10 $1.39 CX3OOA $2.95 $1.39 CX37IA $2.95 $1.39 CX326 $1.79 $1.29 C 327 $2.95 $1.98 CX3BO $3.29 $2.19 All Other Types at Same Low Trices. RADIO SPEAKERS $9.00 Blue and Gold Cone Speaker $3.65 $ll.OO Tower I irate Ship Speaker, Sale Price $5.95 $15.00 Tower Adventurer Speaker $8.95 $19.50 Utah, Walnut Finish $13.95 RADIO BATTERIES Eveready Bay-O-Vac and Monarch 45-volt “B” Butterle*. $2.75 No. 772 Eveready Regular. Sale price $2.19 $4.00 Heavy Duty Kay-O-Vae. Sale price $2.89 $2.75 Ray-O-Vae Regular. Sale Price $1.89 $3.50 Monarch. Heavy Duty. Sale price $2.39 $2.50 Monarch. Regular. Sale price $1.49 MOTOR OIL Mobiloil and Veedol, five-gallon sealed cans. Mobiloil E, Arctic and A $4.19 B and B B $4.79 Veedol, light and medium $4.19 Heavy and extra heavy..s4.79

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BY SWEDE SWANSON AGAIN, with the coming of fall, the tragedy of the closed garage will be re-enacted in many a city. It isunfort unate that this should recur, year in and year out. despite the education and repeated warnings broadact to motorists. But somehow we grow lax during a pleasant summer and we forget. But let us not forget this time. Let us remember that the fume-; that escape from the exhaust of our motorc are deadly, so much so that only one part of in 10,000 of pure air is said to be a hazard to life. As the weather gets colder it i.becoming more difficult to start our cars. We start the motor within the warm, closed garage—and forget the danger that besets us. Carbon monoxide gas is a treacherous poison. It strikes us without, warning. We are used to the car’s exhaust fumes, so we think noth ing of smelling them. But in this exhaust lies our danger, unless we are alert to it. Better back the car out of the garage, if you must fuss over it. Or at least open the doors wide and see that they stay open. How to tell for certain whether the battery is a possible cause of the trouble when the starter will not work helps a lot in the process of eliminating possibilities. The first thing to do is to switch on the lights and then note whether they dim when the starter button is pressed. Just trying the lights or the horn, without also trying the starter, is of little consequence since the starter uses many times the amount of current consumed by the lights. To make this test effective in the daytime vary the plan so that the starter is tried while the horn is blowing. It is difficult to judge the effect of the starter on the lighting when the sun is in competition, but the horn test solves this. According to B. A. Stovall, supervisor of weights and measures in Texas, the gasoline merchant is the new short weight artist. His. survey

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MARMON DEVICE CUTS VIBRATION New Series 68 Carries Modulator. What is regarded as one of the foremost contributions to automotive development this year is announced by G. M. Williams, president of the Marmon Motor Car Company, with the perfection of the new Marmon high frequency oscillating modulator, designed completely to eliminate torsional vibration from automobile engines. The aew device now is being incorporated on the New Series Marmon 68, one of the company’s two lines of straight-eight cars. The modulator, despite its technical length of name and the important function which it performs, is remarkable for its simplicity of construction and ingenuity of design. It is the development of Thomas J. Little Jr., chief engineer of Marmon, and marks his 225th invention in the automotive field and in the field of gaseous cambustion devices. Consisting of a relatively light metal disc, accurately balanced and mounted on scientifically prepared rubber discs, all of which rotate at high speed, the modulator is mounted on the front end of th§ crankshaft. At the first indication of vibration in the crankshaft, it automatically begins an oscillating movement which counteracts crankshaft vibration at a nearly stage or before it has reached an annoying degree. ENGINEERS TO MEET The noted English scientists and metallurgist Oliver Smalley, who recently has been made general manager of the Meehanite Metals Corporation, will discuss the revolution science has brought about in the cast iron industry at the Indiana section, Society of Automotive Engineers meeting Nov. 8, at the Severin. A graduate of Sheffield and London universities, Smalley long was known as a metallurgical authority in Great Britain. For many years he was chief metallurgist and technical advisor of Armstrong Whitworth & Cos., Ltd., one of the world’s leading makers of machinery of all sorts from motor cars to battleships.

of 374 gasoline pumps in the state lead him to estimate that motorists had been "gypped” out of 18,530,000 gallons of gasoline in a year. Sale of American designed automobiles outside of this country during the last year equaled the sale made in twenty states within the country’s borders, according to the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Collision with moving trains by joy riding motorists at railroad crossings caused the death of 238 persons last year, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California. There’s very little danger of being run down by a truck in Great Britain, even though the country has increased the truck speed limit. The former furious pace of twelve miles an hour has been increased to twenty. George Bernard Shaw knows his English. The only way to pronounce the word "automobile” correctly is to call it a motor car, he says.

ACCESSORIES A-C Spark Plugs for all cars 59c For Fords 41<i Champion Blue Box, for all cars 6 1C Champion X. for Fords....4B<^ Tow Ropes 49<* $6.00 Climax Water Pump. Fits nil model T Fords. Sale price $1.95 Delta Timer and Roller. Fits all Model T. Fords. Complete 39 ti $9.50 Taylor Loud Speaker for all small cars ....... ..$5.95 $12.00 Loud Speaker for all large cars $7.95 $3.00 I eep Peep H0rn5..51.49 $19.50 Sparton Chimes Horn $13.95 $35.00 Sparton Bugle Horn $25.95 50c Seal Fast Patching Outfit ~.35<* 50c Goodyear Patching Outfit 19<i Auto Robes, $1.95 t0..56.00 50c Smith Dust C10th5.....39^ Ford Outside Oil Liues 49<* SI.OO Afco Radiator Cleaner. SI.OO Pint 999 Top Dressing.6s<i 45c Eveready Dry Ce115.,..35c 45c Hiway Dry Ce115.....,28C $2.50 Columbia Hot Shots $1.85 $2.50 Hiway Hot 5h0t5..51.65 $9.50 Do Ray Oval Shaped Ditch Lights $5.95 $1.75 Eveready Focusing Flashlight. Complete with batteries $1.29 Seat Slipovers. Covers complete seats and cushions. Coupes $2.45 Sedans and Coaches.s3.9s $12.00 Bosch Electric Windshield Wiper, Double Blade Type $4.95

INVITE CRITICISM AND PRAISE FOR PRODUCT f -- Ask for Boosts or Knocks on Silver Flash Gas. ' A novel questionnaire is being sent out to thousands of Indianapolis motorists who are using the jaew product of the Western Oil Refining Company, the Silver Flash Anti-Knock gasoline for high compression motors. This gasoline has been on the market a little better than two months and anew record in sales has been reported by J. H. Trimble, president of the concern. The purpose of the questionnaire is to get first-hand information from the consumer what they think of the new product and how it works in different makes of machines. Both favorable and un-

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mm m ISifif Iprade i WILLYS'KNIGHT GOES ON? POVIU f | * aab October 100% ahead $ ?s!s 5 C ®* CH of last October iZZSttZSZS: 3SK2&E - , "“ 7 . ~~i year —October, with sales of Whippet dramatic advance is condmiva \ and Willys-Knight motor cars show- proof of the sound quality and full V“* ing a gain of 100% over sales for Ta lueof the Whippet Four, the Whippet \ October, 1927. Sj x a nd the Willys-Knight Si*—for tU*' \ The chain LT still unbroken-each quality and value are the rock-bottom \ month of 1928 has set a higher sales essentials for such sweeping nationf)/bN \ figure than its corresponding month wide success. ■ W WILLYS-OVERLAND, INC.. TOLEDO, OMO Distributor CAPITOL MOTORS COMPANY Capitol Avenue and Michigan (Gibson Building) PHILLIPS AUTO SALES WOOD AUTO COMPANY / C. K. MARTIN LIBERTY AUTO SALES 2606 West Michigan Street 3921 East Tenth Street 4451 West Washington Street Raymond and Shelby Streets i ~ SEE YOUR NEAREST WHIPPET AND WILLYS-KNIGHT DEALER J

favorable criticism is asked and suggestions and comments are courted. “Our sales have climbed and climbed and are now much greater than we had anticipated,” said Trimble. “We are quite proud ol our new gasoline and anxious to get the opinions of our customers.’

The New Series 68 . . . the greatest automobile a mmi ?N"ui*i at this price pSm |ljj iT” THIS automobile ten years ago would ||i have cost $2500. Five years ago at least jpa jx?*f | S2OOO. Even a year ago—slßoo .. . Today it’s l||j JiJ| p|B Jgjjll only sl46s—the greatest automobile ever ||| BJ| tfipOjS built to date for this money. We Invite you to try the “68” and see for yourself the jor New 68 Sedan. Also. New 78, $1965. Prices truth of this seemingly bold statement. /. o. b. factory. De luxe equipment extra. INDIANAPOLIS SALES BRANCH MARMON MOTOR CAR COMPANY MERIDIAN AT 11TH INDIANAPOLIS

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DIES ON STUMP TRIP End Comes to Thomas P. Reilly, Campaigner for Al, in Cleveland. Bp United Press CLEVELAND,- Nov. 7.—Judge Thomas P. Riley, Malden, Mass., former attorney general of Massachusetts and here stumping for

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former Governor Alfred E. Smith, died of pneumonia here Tuesday night. Judge Riley was sent here from? the Boston Smith headquarters ami had completed his campaign of speeches here when taken ill at a hotel two days ago. The body is to be returned to Malden today.