Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 82, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1934 — Page 4

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HIGHLIGHTS OF AUTOMOTIVE WORLD FOR THE WEEK

AUTO RACES TO START TONIGHT AT FT. WAYNE Fast Program Carded for After-Dark Debut in Middle West. The first night automible racing in the middle western states championship circuit gets under way at Ft. Wayne speedway tonight with sanction of the control board of the American Automobile Association, national governing bodv of the sport. The after-dusk premier was scheduled for mid-July but because of the extreme dry weather in that territory, Frank Funk, operator of the speedway, announced that it would be necessary to postpone the event. Contest board officials look to introduction of night racing in the middle west with interest. For several years this thrilling form of the speedway sport has been presented successfully in various sections of the United States, but never before in the mid-western territory. It was at the famous Ascot speedway in Los Angeles. Cal.—before night baseball was known—that the racing kings roared under the huee electric lights of the California track. So successful was the idea that the plan was under consideration for some time at eastern tracks, and two years ago. Ralph A. Hankmson. one of the east's outstanding operators, presented night racing for the first time to fans at the Reading 'Pa ) fairground. His several lighted events were successful. * At Ft. Wayne, the finest lineup of nationally knoum speedway stars available will take part in tonight's events. A thrilling program has been arranged. AUTO TAXES HIGHER. AAA INQUIRY SHOWS Average Motorist Paid in 1933 for All Purposes. WASHINGTON. D. C.. Aug. 15 For the benefit of those who do not keep a car budget, the American Automobile Association today advised that, the average motor vehicle owner paid $5129 in special federal and state motor taxes in 1933, or $7.05 more than in 1932. At the same time the AAA pointed out that the total motor tax bill last year soared to the new all-time record sum of $1,221,861,583, while there was a decline of 312.63 in the number of registered motor vehicles. “This tremendous tax bill, on the basis of a valuation for all motor vehicle property of $3,834,268,035.'’ said Thomas P. Henry of Detroit, president of the national motoring body, "means that car owners paid 31.9 per cent of the value of their property in taxes, a tax rate that is becoming prohibitive and threatens to strangle the orderly growth of motor transportation.” JUDGING PROCEEDS IN MODEL COACH CONTEST Winners in Fisher Competition to Share $51,000 Scholarships. By I’nitrd Pr> *a CHICAGO. Aug. 15.—Judging of the miniature Napoleonic coaches submitted in the 1934 Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild competition, in which $51,000 in university scholarships are offered as wards, now is being conducted. The models are judged from the standpoint of paintcraft. tnmeraft, woodcraft and metalcraft. as well as fidelity to scale. The builders of the sixteen adjudged the best of those received from boys in the United States and the eight finest submitted by Canadian youths will receive university scholarships valued at from SSOO to $5,000. Announcement of the winners will be made at a banquet to be held at the Stevens hotel here Aug. 22. CODE CHIEF IS NAMED M. S. Mc-Nay Is Appointed Retail Auto Commissioner. Appointment of M. S. McNay as state commissioner for the automobile retail code, is announced here by W. J. Robinson, state director for the National Automobile Dealers' Association, who previously had charge of the code organization and enforcement work since its beginning a year ago. At the same time it was made known that T. E. Byrne, a veteran dealer, had been appointed assistant state code commissioner.

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John Graham AppointmentTl John Graham to an executive position at Duesenberg Incorporated, was an-, nounced today by H. T. Ames, president. Mr. Graham formerly was president of the Holbrook company, custom body builders of Hudson. N. Y.. and more recently president of the Weymann American Body Company of Indianapolis Mr. Graham is well-known "in the custom body business, in which he has been engaged for the last twenty-five years. He will be in charge of all body activities at the Duesenberg plant here. GOODRICH EMPLOYES IN SALES CONTEST Prizes Will Be Awarded Representatives in National Campaign. Every employe in the Indianapolis Goodrich Silvertown stores unit, located at 550 North Delaware street, is encaged, during the month of August, in the nation-wide .sales contest with employes in other Goodrich Silvertown stores, according to E. B. Oscars, manager, who states: "Thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise prizes will be given to employes in Goodrich Silvertown stores which attain or exceed their sales quota throughout the country. Awards will be based on the number of points scored by each in sale of tires. "Value of the merchandise to be presented ranees from $1.50 SIOO. and includes thousands of items, including wearing apparel, jewelry, home furnishings, sports goods, luggage. bicycles and toys and a wide variety of other utilitarian articles.” DuPont is Named NEW YORK. Aug. 15—Lamont Du Pont, president of E I. Du Pont De Nemours & Cos., Wilmington, Del., with eight other industrial leaders of the country, has been named to membership on the advisory committee of the American Standards Association, it was announced today.

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Chrysler Offers Entirely New World’s Fair Show

Exhibit Covers Seven Acres and Is Embellished by Shrubbery. By Time* Special CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—Resplendent in new colors and set off by acres of shrubbery, lawn and reflecting pools, the new and striking Chrysler Motors exhibit at a Century of Progress exposition is in readiness today to recapture its 1933 distinction of "the show place of the World's Fair.” Again the largest private unit ex-

WILEY POST STILL IN RACE LINEUP, HE MAKES IT CLEAR

By United Pres* AKRON, 0., Aug. 15. When speed planes draw up to the starting line in the 12,000-mile Lon-don-Melbourne air race on Oct. 20, Wiley Post, famed round-the-world flier, probably will be the only United States aviator in the lineup, it appeared today. Most of the original eighteen American entrants have withdrawn from the $135,000 race but Post still plans to compete. His famous plane, the Winnie Mae, has been turned up to highest speed for one of the purses, he said. The plane has undergone six months of intensive reconditioning for the Australian flight and for his attempt at the airplane altitude record to be made from Chicago next month. “I'll tell you anything you want to know' about the plane °xcept her speed,” he said. “That is a secret.” U. S. HELPS OBTAIN JOBS FOR 1,305,873 Industry, Business Aid Drive on Unemployment, Report Shows. By Ur, itcii Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—The United States Employment Service presented evidence today of cooperation by many industrial and business agencies in the drive against unemployment. The employment service advised Labor Secretary Frances Perkins that it was instrumental in obtaining jobs for 1.305.873 persons in private industry, almost as many as were employed through this division on public works and public roads. 4 PINCHED BY POLICE Suspects In Robbery of Grocery Store Are Held. Three Negroes and a white man alleged to have attempted to sell articles stolen from a grocery at 977 Hosbrook street Monday night are held today on vagrancy charges for questioning. They are Walter Beilis, 41. of 975 Hosbrook street; Harry Duvall. 16. Negro. 909 Hpsbrook street; Oscar Martin, 40. Negro, 909 Hosbrook street, and Sammie Pruitt, 38. Negro. Police charge that they found a quantity of stolen groceries in a shed at 909 Hosbrook street. SHAM BATTLE ON CARD Indiana-Kentucky Troops Ready for Mimic Warfare. By United Press FT. KNOX, Ky., Aug. 15.—With the annual summer encampment of the Indiana-Kentucky national guards drawing to a close, troops today prepared for an all-day mimic warfare which will be staged tomorrow. The entire thirty-eighth division will take part in the demonstration which will be devoted chiefly to defensive tactics. HOME LOOTED OF SSOO Burglar Ransacks House During Ab- . sence of Owner. Police today are seeking a burglar who entered the home of Mrs Florence Behr, 4417 Central avenue. and stole articles valued at SSOO while Mrs. Behr was out of the city yesterday. Speaker Rainey Recovering By United Press ST. LOUIS. Aug. 15—Speaker Henry’ T. Rainey, in De Paul hospital here recovering from pneumonia. is "getting along nicely,” i hospital attendants reported today.

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hibit at the fair, the Chrysler Motors display this year is entirely new —not a single item that was a part of last year’s presentation will be repeated. More than a quarter million dollars has been spent in the last few months to decorate and equip the exhibit for the 1934 exposition. For months, famed engineering stylists, nationally known landscape artists and experts in a wide range of pursuits have been working with Chrysler officials to design and produce the show which millions will see this summer. The entire Chrysler Motors exhibit covers seven acres of ground. It is located at the intersection of Thirty-first street and Lief Ericson drive, just inside the Thirty-first street entrance and is easily accessible from the three main arteries of the fair.

PLANES JOIN SEARCH FOR MISSING SCOUT Young Camper May Be Injured In Isolated Spot, Is Belief. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15.—Spurred on by the thought Vincent Slocomb, 14-year-old Boy Scout, might be lying injured in some isolated region of the Sierra Madre mountains, rescue workers prepared to resume search for the youth today with the aid of a blimp and three airplanes. Vincent, missing for more than forty-eight hours, was feared to ■have met the same fate that befell tw’o other scouts of a group encamped in Big Tujunga canyon. Edward Ketten, 14, and Fred Lippert Jr., 14, w'ere in hospitals recovering from serious injuries received from tumbles dowrn steep mountain cliffs. $1,500,000 PAINTING BOUGHT BY MELLON Former Treasury Chief Buys Costly Art From Russia. By United Press PARIS, Aug. 15.—Former Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon has bought Raphael’s great painting, “The Madonna of the House of Alba,” from the Soviet Russian government for $1,500,000, the Riga, Latvia, correspondent of the Journal Des Debates reported today. Mr. Mellon is known to have one of the greatest of private art collections. The Alba Madonna obtained its name because it w'as for nearly three hundred years in the possession of the Spanish ducal house of Alba. Czar Nicholas I of Russia acquired it in 1836. Few Motorcycles in Use WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.—A decline of nearly 10 per cent in w'orld production of motorcycles during 1933 as against the preceding year is revealed in figures just released by the United States department of commerce. Hartz Urges Caution DETROIT. Aug. 15.—Needless acceleration and racing “the other fellow'” away from traffic stops cost millions of dollars in gasoline every year, says Harry Hartz.

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AUTO EXHIBITS AT WORLD FAIR DRAW CROWDS

Motor Car Exhibitors Are Enthused by Throngs of Visitors. CHICAGO. Aug. 15.—With the advent of August, attendance at the world's fair is showing a sharp increase and the automotive exhibits are getting more than their former proportionate share. • At the General Motors building, wehre an accurate check of visitors is kept, the number since the lair opened approached the 2.000,000 mark last night, announced Gardner Cobb, manager. David French, in charge of the Chrysler exhibit, made known that close to 200.000 have ridden with Barney Oldfield’s drivers around the corporation's track and that the thrillers staged by Oldfield and his sand pit “hell drivers” have drawn capacity crowds at most of their six-a-day performances. The Ford exhibit continues its reign of popularity, not only because it is an added starter this year but because of its mammoth size and many attractions. Manager Fred Black and his staff are satisfied at the reception being accorded and the size of the crowds. Several plans for retaining certain features of the fair as permanent have just been advanced, calling for utilizing either the General Motors or Ford buildings to house the exhibits in whatever form they may take. At the General Motors building is a newly installed exhibit of some 300 coaches built by contenders in the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild.

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Chevrolet Plans Reward for Capable Mechanics

Masters’ Badge Designed for Those Who Pass Rigid Tests. The man who has had much to do with motorists being satified with their automobiles is about to receive some of the credit that is , his due, according to E. W. Berger, manager of the Indianapolis zone : for the Chevrolet Motor Company. ; Mr. Berger announces that Chevrolet is going to reward this backstage worker who seldom has much direct contact with the customer. The Chevrolet company is putting into effect a nation-wide plan of awards to the service mechanic of Chevrolet dealer establishments. The award will be a master mechanic badge. Eligibility to the recognition will depend not merely on character and length of service, but on the applicant's proof of superior ability, says W. M. Moore, zone service manager, who will have the details of the plan under his direction. The service mechanic will have to i take two examinations, a month | apart, on Chevrolet service methods. Dealers may recommend for the badge only those employes who have worked for three years as automobile mechanics and at least one year on Chevrolets. Examinations will be given by members of the zone service organization. All records and examination papers will be judged at the central office, Detroit, which will forward the badges to those who make good. Before members of the zone service staff can give the examinations

to service mechanics, they, too, must have passed the tests under the supervision of the zone manager or members of the central office service staff. The badge itself will be a large oval medallion, engraved with the employe's name and the title. “Chevrolet Master Mechanic.” It is believed that service customers will welcome the new plan, since they will recognize in badge holders mechanics whose ability is attested by the makers of the cars, says Mr. Berger.

CHRYSLER TO FILM SAFETY FEATURES Airflow Bodies’ Strength to Be Stressed. By Timet Special DETROIT, Aug. 15.—The safety features of the Chrysler Airflow cars will be dramatized in anew sound picture entitled. "Safety with a Thrill.” Preliminary work on this new presentation is now under way at the studios of Wilding Picture Productions Inc. The picture will demonstrate the durability and strength of the Airflow bodies and will be shown to the Chrysler distributing organization as well as to the public through motion picture theaters. Virtually all Chrysler distributors are equipped with 16 mm. soundfilm projectors and this effective method of sales presentation will be relied upon for an important share of Chrysler sales work during the coming year.

AUG. 15, 1934

FORD CARS SET UNIQUE RECORD FOR ECONOMY 270.000.000 Miles Covered by 34.954 Without Repairs. More than 270.000.000 miles of driving without a penny for repairs or replacements. Not a flight of fancy, but the actual record of the Ford V-8. taken from the reports, over their own signatures and in their own handwriting, of 34,954 ! owners of Ford cars. Not the projection of a record set I on a measured course by an expert | driver in a car specially attuned for the test, but the honest experience of average men and women, driving their Ford V-8 cars over all kinds of roads, on the pavements of city streets and in the mud or dust of deep-rutted country byways: in bitter cold and desert heat; under every possible extreme of climate, weather and traffic conditions. The exact aggregate distance traveled by those 34.954 cars, announced by the Ford Motor Company, I through R. A. Hayes. Indianapolis branch manager, after completing a nation-wide survey of Ford V-8 per- , formance through questionnaires i sent to their owners, was 272,815,970 I miles, or. to give a better visual conception of thaC astounding figure, j approximately 115 times around the globe at its greatest circumference. The inquiry sent by the Ford Motor Company to purchasers of Ford V-8 cars in every section of the United States took the form of four questions covering mileage, gasoline and oil consumption and repair bills.