Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1934 — Page 6

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AUTOMOTIVE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

MOTOR COMPANY HEAD DESCRIBES LABORATTITUDE Under Collective Bargaining Talk Lies Old Principles, Knudsen Asserts. Placing a responsibility for relationships with employes and the public in the hands of factory supervision, William S. Knudsen, executive vice-president of the General, Motors Corp., has charted the course of good industrial relations between the workmen and his foreman. Mr. Knudsen's position was defined recently before the GM Executives’ Club of Lansing, where more than 500 of the Olds and Fisher Body plant supervisory force heard his remarks. “In General Motors, we recognize organization lines,” said Mr. Knudsen. “We want you to take charge of your job; we want that particularly for your sake, but mast of all we want it for the success of the product; for the success and happiness of all our families and for the satisfaction of our customers." Started at Bottom Mr. Knudsen recalled his own experience of more than 35 years in the industry, starting from the bench, through the ranks of supervision to the desk. “As long as I was on the bench, I worked for my foreman and I expected him to look after my interests,” said Mr. Knudsen. “When I became a foreman myself, I think I had learned the fundamentals of industrial relationship.” While recognizing that collective bargaining was coming into its own, Mr. Knudson pointed out that the foundation of difficulties in plants was based upon misunderstandings of an individual nature and not of a j collective nature. Stresses Supervision “I maintain that plants having \ the best foremen and the best supervision have the least labor trouble,” he said. “Collective troubles start ' from individual grievances.” He made his position clear on collective bargaining with the following remarks; “The corporation and you and I are perfectly willing to bargain collectively with our employes on a proper basis of equity to both sides, as indicated by the statement of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General Motors. Naturally, argu-1 ments will arise as to what is equit- ! able bargaining. We depend on plant supervision to do what is right. We depend on foremen to consult with their superintendents, and we are willing, if they are not sure, to have it go to management, and if management would in turn like to consult with us, we are willing," he said. “You have been doing this all your life, although what was known as individual bargaining is now collective bargaining by law. I can not help but feel that under all this technical talk of bargaining lies the old principle of being fair and on the level; recognizing good work w hen you see it and condemning the shirker w hen you find him,” he concluded. SAFETY GLASS TO BE FEATURE IN GRAHAMS All Windows to Be Non-Shatterable in New Cars. Emphasizing the principle of safety throughout, all new models of the Graham car. to be first exhibited at the automobile shows in January, will feature safety glass in all window's of every car, it was announced by Robert C. Graham, executive vice-president of the Graham-Paige Motors Corp. Graham was the first manufacturer in its price class to install safety glass in the windshields of all Graham cars five years ago, Mr. Graham said. Now’ the company is taking the lead in equipping all its models with safety glass “all around” for the protection of those who ride in back as well is in front. It was indicated ;b“t this and other safetyfeatures wiii be included in anew six which, it was reported, will be the basis for an aggressive campaign in the lowest price field. NEW NASH CARS TO BE ANNOUNCED OVER RADIO Three-Hour Broadcasts Scheduled for Christmas, New- Year’s. B V 1• mm special KENOSHA. Wis.. Dec. s—The Nash Motors Company will make the first announcement concerning its 1935 Nash and Lafayette cars on a three-hour coast-to-coast radio broadcast, scheduled for Christmas afternoon. Another three-hour show is scheduled for New Year's afternoon over the same network. The Nash Christmas radio show will star twelve Broadway and Hollywood celebrities and will be supported by a cast of 300 performers. It will inn for three consecutive hours and be heard from approximately 100 stations in this country and Canada. Lionel Barrymore will occupy one of the featured parts of the program when he plays the role of Scrooge in Charles Dickens' famous Christmas story. CODE MEMBER NAMED Executive Appointed to Parts and Equipment Authority. Bn Timm Special WASHINGTON, Dec. s.—Frederick J. Haynes, automobile executive. 277/J E. Grand-blvd. Detroit, this week was named administration member of the code authority of the Automotive Parts and Equipment Manufacturing ihdustry. CAR REGISTERING DROPS Decrease of Less Than One Per Cent Shown in New Jersey. There was a decrease of less than 1 per cent in the number of vehicles registered in New Jersey last year, and a decrease of only 2 6 per cent in the grass income of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Can Operate on Potatoes Berlin taxicabs have been operated on fuel mad of potatoes.

AUBURN ADDS HARD TOP COUPE TO 1935 LINE

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Addition of a hard top coupe in both the six cylinder and straight eight lines for 1935 have been announced by Auburn. This model, show-n above, will have an especial appeal for the business or professional man, and others who need a chummy car with plenty of space for baggage. Fleet in appearance and of attractive design, this new Auburn has the same quality standards as other 1935 Auburn models. The hard top is covered with a water-proofed material, lacquered in color to harmonize with the body color of the car. The interior is lined with cloth and upholstery is broadcloth. The rear deck lid is hinged at the top and has a theft-proof lock. Chasses are the same as used on the other 1935 Auburn models in the six cylinder and straight eight lines. The eight is built on a 127-inch wheel base and powered with a 115-horse-power Lycoming stnight eight engine. The six cylinder model has an 85-horse-power Lycoming engine and is built on a 120-inch wheel base. These and other new 1935 models are on display at the AuburnIndianapolis Company, Inc., local Auburn distributers, 850 N. Meri-dian-st.

CADILLAC CHIEF TO TOURNATIQN Sales Manager Will Visit Distributers in All Parts of Country. A coast-to-coast trip in which he will meet with distributer and dealer groups throughout the country for the purpose of discussing the 1935 sales campaign will be made by J. C. Chick, general sales manager of Cadillac Motor Company, starting Dec. 1. The swing around the country, which will take Dr. Chick as far west as Los Angeles and to Boston in the East will give the Cadillac and La Salle distributers and dealers over widely separated sections of the country, an opportunity to go over their individual problems. Confidence that the sales increase made by Cadillac in 1934 will be continued in 1935 has been expressed by Mr Chick. He regards as particularly significant the gratifying gains registered in the fall of 1934. an off-season in which letdowns usually occur. JORDAN CONSERVATORY TO OFFER FIVE PLAYS Dramas Will Be Presented by Music School Students. Five more plays in the series of dramas being presented by students of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will be staged Friday nigth in the Odeon, 106 E. North-st. under the direction of Miss Frances Reik. Plays to be presented include ‘•Peter's Chair on the Boulevard,” “As It Was in the Beginning,” “St. Martin’s Summer.” “From Long Ago to Now” and "The Meeting Place.” Students who will be cast in the plays are Miss Jean Goldsmith. Miss Joan Krenzer. Miss Dorothea Craft, Miss Lola Beck, Jack Prosch. Harold Katlowski, Miss Erleane Eastburn. Edward Green. Miss Mary Rentz. Miss Virginia Wood, Mallory Bransford, Irving Wickland. Carroll Reynolds, Miss Gloria Feld, Miss j Katherine Kerrick and Robert Emj hardt. i Miss Beik, director of the plays, is head of the dramatic art depart- ! ment of the conservatory. MANY BUSSES UNSAFE Inspection Discloses One in Eight Fails to Meet Requirements. Careful inspection of 2558 passenger busses, operating within the ; New York City limits, or one out of every eight, have failed to meet the i safety requirements of the new state law. GLOBE TROTTER SPEAKS Young Adventurer Describes Vagabond World Tour. Experiences on a 60.000-mile vagabond journey around the world were described last night by Pete Wehmeier. 21-year-old adventurer, to an audience of several hundred persons in the Irvington Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Wehmeier left Madison. Wis.. a with less than $lO and returned eighteen months later with $165. The meeting was one of a series sponsored by the Demagorian Alumni Association of Technical High School.— Times Editor to Address Club Talcott Powell, editor of The Indianapolis Times, will address the Ad Club at 12:15 Thursday on “News ! and Advertising” at the Columbia Club. The advertising men will greet their new president, Vance Smith. Blare Threatens Library The Spades Park branch library. 1801 Nowland-av, yesterday was saved from destruction by fire set by a pyromaniac. An oil-soaked rag was found on the ground floor and the blaze was extinguished^

Chevrolet Shows Huge Increase for This Year

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Appointment of W. H. A. Fahey as sales promotion and advertising manager of the Indiana division of the Shell Petroleum Corporation was announced several days ago by C. W. Manville, division manager. Mr. Fahey is a native of Wheeling. W. Va., and is a graduate of West Virginia University, and of George Washington University, Washington, D. C. For the past eight years, Mr. Fahey has been active in sales promotion work throughout the United States. He has come to Indianapolis from the Shell home office at St. Louis.

MAYORS MAY FIGHT 'SKIP ELECTION' LAW Defeated Officials May Try to Keep Jobs. A group of Indiana mayors, several of whom failed to be re-elected Nov. 6, held a second meetipg here yesterday to decide whether or not they would attack the constitutionality of the “skikp election” law which gave them an extra year in office. Mayor John W. McCarty, Washington, leader of the group, said they might seek to hold office another three years on the ground that the postponement of city elections automatically extended their terms another four years. No definite action was taken yesterday and no date was set for a third meeting TONS OF ROCK CRASH TO BOTTOM OF FALLS Famous Niagara Slowly Crumbling, Say Park Commissioners. By United Press NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y„ Dec. 5. —Additional proof that mighty Niagara Falls slowly is crumbling, was advanced today by Niagara Park Commissioners, who disclosed that 200.000 tons of rock crashed from the rim of Horseshoe Falls yesterday. The great mass of rock, undermined by the sweeping pull of the Niagara River, crashed to the bottom of the Niagara amphitheater, leaping a gaping hole in Table Rock, a vantage point for tourists. MOTORIST TURNS COP. RETRIEVES STOLEN CAR Negro Y'outh Nabbed by Owner After Exciting Chase. William Nixon, 19, Negro, 910 Redmond-st, was in City Prison today because, according to police, Harry Barker Jr., Carmel, happened alorig yesterday just as Nixon was stealing Mr. Barker's automobile. Mr. Barker played policeman and. hailing a passing motorist, gave chase. The chase started at Pennsylvania and Vermom-sts and ended at North and Illinois-sts. where the pursuing car forced Nixon in Mr. Barker’s car to the curb. ‘Y’ CLUB_WILL MEET West Siders to Plan for l'ear-End Activities Tonight. The executive committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association West Side Friendship Club will meet at 8 tonight to complete plans for ! year-end activities. The club will visit the Indianapolis Bell Telephone Cos. Dec. 12 and will attend a watch party New Year’s Eve.

Indianapolis Tomorrow

Real Estate Board, luncheon, Hotel Washington. Advertising Club, luncheon. Columbia Club. Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade. Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade. Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington. Caravan Clud, luncheon, Scottish Rite Cathedral. American Business Club, luncheon. Indianapolis Athletic Club. Engineering Society, luncheon. Board of Trade. Allianz Francai.se, dinner, Hotel Washington.

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Production Figures Indicate Gain of Approximately 35 Per Cent. By Timex Special DETROIT. Dec. s.—Production of Chevrolet passenger cars and trucks for the model year 1934 will show an increase of approximately 35 per cent over corresponding figures for last year, it was announced here today by M. E. Coyle, president and general manager of the Chevrolet Motor Company. Analysis of this production shows that all three Chevrolet lines — master models, standard models and trucks—made gains in 1934. the highest percentage of gain being registered by the standard series, the world’s lowest-priced six-cylin-der car. Some idea of the bearing which this added production has on the country’s economic recovery may be gained from Mr. Coyle’s statement that pay rolls for the first 10 months were 45 per cent greater than for all of 1933. Wages and salaries paid to Chevrolet employes, up to Nov. 1, totaled $67.606,P94.59, he said. The greater part of the money accountei for in the present report, Mr. Coyle pointed out, went to productive labor employed in the Chevrolet manufacturing and assembly plants throughout the country. The figure represents Chevrolet's direct pay rolls only. It does not, of course, touch the vast expenditures for materials used in Chevrolet products, nor does it include wages paid to employes of the Fisher Body Corp., makers of bodies for Chevrolet cars, nor to the 50.000 sales and service employes of Chevrolet's 10.000 dealers blanketing the country from coast io coast. BOARD URGES FIRMS TO RECOGNIZE UNIONS Recommendation Made in Disputes Involving Three Companies. Recommendations to three Indiana employers to recognize labor unions was made yesterday by the Regional Labor Board. The Kokomo Sanitary Pottery Cos. and the Indiana Brass Cos., Frankfort, were advised to deal with union representatives in the respective plants. The board held that Hulman & Cos., Terre Haute grocery firm, also had violated Section 7a of the NIRA by aiding in the formation of a company union, and recommended that the company sever the relations and take steps to give employes a proper bargaining agency. STAG TURKEY PARTY TO BE HELD DEC. 20 Annual Little Flower Event to Be Given at Church. The annual stag turkey party of the Little Flower Men's Club will be held Thursday night, Dec. 20, in the Little Flower auditorium, 14th-st, and Bosart-av. Proceeds of the party will be used to bring Christmas cheer to needy Indianapolis families. Eimer Fox, arrangement chairman has announced that all men in the city will be welcome. A program of games has been arranged and refreshments will be served. LABOR PUBLISHER GETS BAIL ON LIBEL CHARGE Harry Clark Accused of Defaming Trainmen's Official. Harry Clark, business manager and publisher of the Labor Press, indicted by the Marion county grand jury on a charge of criminal libel,today was free on SISOO bail awaiting arraignment before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. Mr. Clark, whom the grand jury charged with publishing libelous articles about Martin H. Miller, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen state representative, went to the Sheriff’s office and surrendered | when he learned deputies were I looking for him. During the political campaign, it i is charged, Mr. Clark published an | article in his newspaper assailing Mr. Miller and others who are associated with another labor publication. Relief Tax Program Approved By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 5 New York City's $58,000,000 relief tax program, including sales, utility and inheritance taxes, became law today when Mayor Fiorello La Guardia affixed his signatures to the measures after a brief public hearing.

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TRUCK GROUP IS PREPARING FOR ANNUALSESSION Resolutions Advocating Law Changes to Be Heard by Motor Association. Final plans for the 17th annual convention of the Motor Truck Association of Indiana, to be held Dec. 13 in the Lincoln, are being completed under the direction of Charles E. Foreman of Indianapolis, chairman of convention arrangements, and a director of the association. Representatives of motor truck lines, motor truck owners, oil and gasoline corporations, automobile accessory companies and others affiliated with the motor truck industry will attend the convention to discuss improvement of motor truck activities in the state, Mr. Foreman said. All four divisions of the industry, private owners, common' carriers, contract carriers and local cartage concerns w r ill send delegations, and protests against what he termed unjust, discriminatory and excessive taxation will be voiced, he stated. “Resolutions indorsing proposed changes in our present Indiana motor laws will be adopted,” said Mr. Foreman. “Special taxes, assessed against highway motor transport for road building purposes, have been diverted in some cases into government channels of expenditure, which is grossly unfair to the motoring interests of the state. “We shall discuss such problems at the convention and make demands for legislative adjustment. All truck owners of Indianapolis, regardless of affiliation with the organization, will be welcomed.” Speakers from the Public Service Commission, State Highway Commission, State Department of Safety and a representative of the American Trucking Association from Washington will be on the program. J. Duane Dungan, Indianapolis, president, will preside. C. W. Abraham, Indianapolis, is secretarytreasurer.

DODGE ORDERS SHOWJNCREASE $30,000,000 in Busines Already Placed for 1934 With Car Company. By Times Special DETROIT, Dec. s.—That definite orders, accompanied by shipping instructions, for over thirty million dollars worth of passenger cars and trucks were placed with Dodge factory officials in 25 cities in which new-model pre-views have just been held, is the decidedly encouraging information released on no less an authority than that of A. van Der Zee. general sales manager of Dodge Brothers Corp. In a widely published interview occurring previous to the Dodge dealer meetings. Mr. van Der Zee, whose past automobile business prognostications have been noted for conservatism and correctness, voiced the opinion that the year 1935 would bring a sales volume increase of approximately 25 per cent; now with $30,000,000 worth of 1935 orders poured in upon the factory's books, Dodge’s sales chief withdraws his earlier estimate and sets up a higher figure as the probable gain to be expected.. NEGRO SUSPECT FACES VARIETY OF CHARGES Raid on Alleged Still Brings Much Grief to Prisoner. Harry Davis, Negro, was in jail today, with complications. Last night police found him at 1164 Patterson-st, they said, with a 30-gallon still which they said he admitted was his. They found in addition, they said, a number of sets of auto license plates. And they discovered, they further reported, that he had wired around the electric meter to get his electricity free. He was charged with illegal possession of a still, and George Heston, 1919 N. Capitol-av, also found there, was charged with vagrancy.

to CHICAGO and Return on account of tho International Livestock Exposition Friday and Saturday, Dec. 7-8 Tickets on sale beginning with No. 38 Friday, December 7 and continuing on all trains until No. 36 leaving Indianapolis 1:20 a. m. Sunday morning December 9. Good returning until No. 35 leaving Chicago 11:45 p. m. Sunday night December 9. Good in coaches and Pullman cars. Reduced Pullman fares. For reserration* or further information call W. V. Martin, City Passenger Agent 114 Monument Place Phone Lincoln 6404

NAZIS PREPARE FOR WINTER HARDSHIPS Decrees Tighten Grip on Economic Life. (Copyright. 1934. by United Press I BERLIN, Dec. s—The Nazi government today presented the nation

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with a series of drastic economic decrees which coincided with important changes, actual or prospective, among leaders of the Reich’s equivalent of the the NRA. Decrees and changes might be interpreted as an important trend in Nazi economy at the start of the winter. There are unemployed requiring relief,* the trade boycott persists, there is shortage of foreign exchange and every effort is being made to substitute German fabri-

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cated materials for raw product* usually bought abroad. Today's decrees tighten the grip of Hjalmar Schacht, acting minister of economics.

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