Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1936 — Page 34
“NUMBER MORE THAN 3.000000
Million Cars Built in Less Than Year, Firm Says.
Times Special . DEARBORN, Mich., June 6—The three millionth V-8 Ford came off the famous final assembly line at the Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor
Co. Wednesday under the eyes of | 772
Henry Ford and Edsel Ford and al?
group of British cement manufac-|?”
turers headed by Viscount Wolmer, according to R. A. Hayes, Indianapolis branch manager. The car, which marks another milestone in Ford production, was driven to the new Ford Rotunda after it had been inspected by the Fords and their guests. It will remain on display there for a few days. Then it will start overland to Dallas for exhibition during the summer in the Ford Building at the Texas Centennial ition. The three millionth V-8 unit was the one-millionth Ford to be built since June 13, 1935, a year less 18 days. Its production was hailed by Ford executives as further public justification of the new principles of motor car engineering introduced when the V-8 Ford first was presented to the public four years ago. It added one more unit to the more than 24 million Fords which have been built since the Ford Motor Co. was established June 16, 1803. The 25 millionth Ford will be build early in 1937. The first V-8 Ford was produced March 9, 1932. It was the first motor car below the expensive finecar field to be powered with a Vtype engine. The one millionth V-8 Ford was built June 19, 1934, and driven that afternoon to Chicago where it was placed on exhibition in the Ford Building at the World's Fair, The two millionth V-8 Ford, manumactured last June, was driven to San Diego where it was on display all summer at the Ford Building at the California Pacific. International Exposition. 4 The three millionth V-8 Ford is a fordor touring sedan, finished in the new armory green and lettered in yellow to set it off from the hundreds of thousands of Ford V-8s built. this year.
Rounding the Row
. BY MYRON J. M'GEEHAN
ICK EDWARDS, well-known in: automotive circles, has joined PFadely-Birr Motors, Dodge .and Plymouth dealer, 833 N. Me-~ridian-sts. o = 8 8 The Miller Oldsmobile Co., 3120 E. Washington-st, is preparing for a big month in June in used cars. The firm is busy getting its cars in shape, according to William C. Miller, president.
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Paul Anderson has been appoin used car manager in . charge of the Harry A. Sharp Co. Jot at 11th and Meridian-sts.
‘Sam Abels has opened a new used car ‘store at 1030 . N. Me-ridian-st. In commenting on the policy to “be maintained at the new: store, Mr. Abels said, “We will endeavor at all times to keep at least 150 late model used cars of various makes in stock and will offer the public convenient long terms.” 8 2 ” : Anderson Chevrolet Co, 38th and Illinois-sts, has an- _ nounced the appointment of L. F. Patterson, as used car manager. Mr. Patterson has had a ~wide experience in the automobile field, and we wish him sutcess in his new position. t u 8 Harvey Oakley, Oakley Motor “Sales, 1663 S. Meridian-st, Hud-‘son-Terraplane dealer, is spending the week-end at his Schaefor Lake sostaee. ;
EB Ww. Tobey of Tobey Motor “Bales, 5410 E. Washington st, Ford dealer, has sold many new and used cars. He has made a fine showing for the beginning of his ‘new dealership. : 2 = =
DUGAN MOTOR CO.
Ralph Fink, president of Fink a Co, 440 N. Capitol-av, is 1 ne Spectiway He has a car entered ie Fink ‘special.
NEW ADVERTISING ; DIRECTOR APPOINTED
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Appointment of Brown & Schreckengost, Inc., at 2957 Central-av, as a new Indianapolis Studebaker dealer has been announced by O.
J. Litzelman and F. C.
, heads of Litzelman & Morrison, Inc.,
Studebaker distributors for the Indianapolis territory. The new firm is headed by Donald B. Brown (above, left) and Paul H. Schreckengost, both of whom were associated formerly with
the Jones Auto Co.
Mr. Brown has been identified in the local automobile fleld for the .ast 15 years. Mr. Schreckengost, before entering the local automobile field, was associated with the C. I. T. Corp.
DEALERS VISIT GRAHAM PLANT
Local Group to/ Attend Home-Coming Fete in Detroit.
Joe B. Wiles, president of Wiles & Wilson Motor Service, Inc, Indianapolis distributor for the Graham Supercharger and other Graham motor cars, went to the Graham factory in Detroit this week to attend the June home-coming and gold medal drive-away now in progress dt the Graham plants. With Mr. Wiles were other Gra= ham dealers from this district, retail and wholesdle salesmen of the local organization, winners in the local salesmen’s gold medal sales contest, and recent purchasers of Graham cars. All salesmen, service men and recent buyers will drive cars Pack at the completion of the session at the factory: “Shipments of Graham Superchargers for the first five months of this year have exceeded total shipments for all of last year by 243 per cent,” said Mr. Wiles. “The Graham dealer organization in our district has shared to an appreciable extent in this marked increase.”
CHRYSLER PLANT WAGE -INCREASE ANNOUNCED
Average Hourly Pay Boost Set at About 5 Per Cent.
Times Special DETROIT, June 6. — Chrysler
Corp. announced Tuesday a new and increased wage scale for shop employes to be made effective on June 1. The increases will vary for the different classifications of labor,
In the aggregate, the increased labor cost to the company will approximate $5,000,000 to $6,000,000-a
| year, the announcement said. The
new scale, it is estimated, will represent, after the necessary adjustments are made, an average hourly wage increase of approximately 5 per cent. President K. T. Keller stated that the action was the “third general increase in hourly wages since August, 1933, in addition to which a special distribution, amounting to $2,300,000 was made to all employes Feb. 14, 1936.
EXHIBIT IS ARRANGED General Motors Is to Have Display at Texas Centennial.
E N Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp. announ today ‘that General Motors is to participate in the Texas Centennial
Exposition at Dallas from June 6 to.
Nov. 29, with an exhibit of progress in automotive and allied fields, completely housed in a separate building to be known as the General Motors. Auditorium.
HEADS TIRE STORE
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PACE SETTER
May Period Shows Gain of :
2803 Over 1935, Claims
12,000 unfilled orders, which has remained consistently at this level. The first reporting period of May brought total sales of Buick motor cars since the first of the year fo 52,437 units as compared with 23,131 in the corresponding period a year ago, . Since their introduction last
| Pall, domestic retail sales of 1936
Buicks have aggregated 97,163 units,
Mr, Hutstader Said.
TIRE VIBRATION 1S ELIMINATED
£ [Tread Neise Also Reduced
. According to Roy Wilmeth, head of the Roy Wilmeth Co.
local Ford dealer, William Brewer '
(above) manager of the firm's” used car lot at 720 N. Capitol-av, and his sales staff, led every other unit in the Wilmeth organization in used-car sales during May. The Wilmeth company is entered in a sales contest sponsored by the Ford Motor Co: during May and June, having been challenged by the leading Ford dealer of Memphis, Tenn. for high honors. The Wilmeth company also operates lots at 1401 N. Meridian-st and 2701 E. Washington-st.
PONTIAC GUIDEBOOK USED AT WEST POINT
Manual Used in Course on Combustion Engines.
“Automobile User's Guide” piblished primarily for Pontiac owners by the Pontiac Motor Co. has been specified for instruction of cadets of the graduating class of the United States Military Academy, West Point, in the course of Internal Combustion Engines and Military Motors. Lt. Col. T. J. Hayes, Ordnance Department, and professory of ordnance and gunnery at West Point, who requested 285 copies of the book from the company, considers the User's
Guide “excellent instruction material.” )
PACKARD SIGNS ASTAIRE FOR FALL RADIO SERIES
Stage and Screen Star to Appear in Weekly Broadcasts.
Fred Astaire, musical comedy headliner of stage and screen, is to unppear in a long-term radio series this fall. The versatile star of “Top Hat, » “Follow the Fleet” and other hits,
ced | ranked as the greatest male box-of- |
fice attraction in the world today, is to be heard in a weekly series under the sponsorship of the Packard Motor Car Co., according tq Preston Tucker, president and general manager of Packard Indianapolis, Inc, Packard distrubutors for the Indianapolis territory.
APPOINTED HEAD OF GOODRICH RESEARCH
Dr. Warren F. Busse Is to Be Manager of Laboratories. Dr. Warren F. Busse, B. F. Goodrich Company physicist, has been manager of physical research br. BE. O. Dieterich, who ied April 25, it is announced by J. W. Schade, ‘direc-
tor. of research. ; § Py Busse has been a member of }
by Engineer in Experiments.
The elimination of both low frequency and high frequency vibrations caused by the impact of the tread pattern ot an automobile tire
striking the road surface is only one of the great advances in tire construction offered: py the new sev=-en-rib, de-skidded U. S. Royal Master tire, according to E. B. Moore, manager of the Indianapoiis- branch office for the U. 8. Tire Co. “It has been determined that the presence of these vibrations cause what is known as “driver’s fatigue’,” Mr. Moore said. “During. the last several years automobilé designers and tire manufacturers have placed special emphasis on the eradication of these energy destroying vibra-
tions. Anti-Skid Qualities
“Automobile manufacturers have contributed greatly by reducing the unsprung weight in their cars and by lowering the “center of gravity. Tire engineers have- been equally assiduous in their task of combining anti-skid qualities and quietness of operation in their tires. : “In order to make the U. S. Royal Master a great anti-skid tire, these engineers determined to eliminate audible tread noises to a point heretofore unknown and to go even farther and eliminate as far as was humanly possible the low irequency vibrations. As a result of their research, when you ride on U. S. Royal Masters the car-seems to float or glide and the whole mechanism appears to run more quietly, providing far less strain on the driver. “This reduction in driving fatigue in addition to the fact that the U. 8. Royal Master is the most nearly perfect anti-skid yet developed, are only two of the advances offered by this new tire.”
LEGLESS DRIVER HAS NO-ACCIDENT RECORD
Modified Controls Built in Special Car for Cripple.
Twenty years. ago, dare-devil Barney Oldfield gave driving lessons to a friend to whom fate seemed to have denied the benefits of motoring. The friend was Alfred Leroy, one-armed, minus legs. | Teacher and pupil met again while Leroy was taking delivery a new Dodge coupe equipped with modified controls enabling the owner to manipulate clutch, gear shift, steering and throttle by means other than are provided for the average driver. : Of special interest tg Oldfield ms
phone when Natalie was at dinner with Gail. Mabs had said she was at Grand Central station. Why, of all days in the week, should she choose to. pass through New York on. a Sunday? Natalie had gone down to wait with her cousin between trains—not even stopping to eat dessert—and then Mabs had discovered that Ler train didn’t leave until 4 o’clock.
off her dress and slipped "on a filmy negligee of chiffon and lace (she had bought for a trifle at a sale in the ‘store), and picked up the. Sunday newspaper. She turned at ‘once to the “Personal Notices.”
first. she couldn’t have told you. She knew all her relations and their connections so well that she could never expect to find any of them advertising for an heir!
; 8 8.8 : ET there was something excit-
change in fortune for some unsuspecting man or woman. Carefully she looked at each one, inwardly commenting on them. Then she gave a queer, staccato-like cry as she read: “Information wanted about Peter Everett or his heirs, formerly of Hudson View Gardens, New York. Suitable reward will be given by a friend. P. O. ‘Box 11, downtown.” “Say, here's where I get a reward!” exclaimed Natalie. “Evidently the friend doesn’t know that Peter Everett is dead! I wonder if it means a fortune for Gail? I wonder if she saw it? Is this what took her out?” 2 The Natalie went to her desk and wrote an answer to the advertisement, dressed again.and went outside to mail her letter. After all, she reasoned, maybe she was doing her friend a good turn. She hadn’t given the information in her letter,
‘| but had offered to meet the adver-
tiser. If she decided that there was nothing to it or that some schemers wanted to get hold of Gail, she could withhold her information. On the other hand, it might be a chance to gét a nice little check. - Natalie was always needing. money. Of ‘course if Gail had seen it and already answered, that was a different story, but Natalie remembered that Gail was not a New Yorker. Not knowing. the papers she would
Going to her room, Natalie took!
Why she always looked at them |
ing in reading these curious} ads that might mean a complete}
“All right, thank you, and Giles turned to his mail. But his thoughts were with the advert
tisement. ne suddenly deci to call Miss Cranston. Gail igen be with her still, for the girl could not be more than 19 now. Later, if he decided to answer the advertisement, it might be well to know where Gail was. | - So he put through the call, and was surprised to learn that Gail Everett was now living and working in the city. Assuring Miss Cranston that there was no cause for alarm in his call, but that he had just been reminded about his late client by a little. happening in the office,. he made polite inquiries about her welfare and rang off.
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ATALIE’S letter reached its
ai destination—the office of the Travers Mining and Development
Co. As the manager read it, he smiled rather grimly. The writer evidently knew a thing or two. They'd have to step carefully if they
- | were to keep in the background for
a little longer. 4 Pressing a button that brought the office manager, he said as the handsome, well-dressed, aged woman appeared, “I'd like to talk to you for a few minutes, Mrs, Barton. Just sit down.” “Thank you,” she answered, pulling her chair around. so that the bright rays of the sun did not tantalize her eyes. “I want you to do something for me, but it requires a little diplomacy, so first I'm going to give you the ‘inside uope’ which, you understand, is extremely confidential.” ’ - “Certainly, Mr. Gage,” she answered, : already feeling flattered that he should have sent for her. “The fact of the matter is, the Travers Mining and Development finds it emperative to secure some land out west, but the owner: has died, and we don’t yet know about his heirs: I put an advertisement in yesterday’s newspaper and have received this answer.” He handed Mrs. Barton
‘the letter Natalie had written.
» » 2 / - VIDENTLY there are some heirs,” Mrs. Barton commented, laying the letter on his desk. “Yes. Now I want you to invite this woman to meet you at a hotel and ask her to lunch with you. Talk to her and get all the information
you can, assure her that it is on|
account of friendship you are anx-
ious to get in touch with Peter Ever- |. 1
ett’s family.
You understand what I mean?”
Pleking Py the slipping
middle- |,
8 - ATALIE was thankful that her mysterious correspondent had
fonable hotel. There was no likelihood of encoun Gail there
misgivings about her errand. The woman who had written in reply to her own letter had seemed quite friendly. So when Natalie entered the hotel she was not surprised when an at-
ton?” the woman asked in g pleasant voice. “Yes, and you're Mrs. Barton!” Natalie exclaimed. “Yes. I'm so glad to meet a friend of Peter Everett's; but-come, let us have lunch and then we can talk things over so much more comfortably, “You know,” she went on, when they had settled themselves at a small table, “I really hesitated to put that advertisement in the paper, for somehow I always felt as though those advertisements are for lost heirs, and, of course, I've no fortune for the Everetts.” She smiled disarmingly. - “Well, I don’t imagine Gail is looking for one.” “I'm going to tell you exactly why I advertised. Years ago my father and Peter Everett were quite friendly. My father is an artist, too, though he’s quite an old man now, and an invalid. He often asks about his old friends, but after Peter Everett went abroad we lost , all trace of him.” ~
OW, I'd like to be able to tell my father something about his old friend. Father spends so much time in bed and gets. so tired of things, I'm always thinking of surprises for him.” “How sweet of you. I'm sorry to tell you, though, that Mr. Everett has been dead for three years.” Natalie graphically repeated the story Gail had told about her father. “Oh, that’s too bad! I must keep thif™rom my father. It's better to let him think he’s still traveling in Europe than that he's gone. But hadn’t he any children?” she asked kindly. “Yes, one daughter—Gail; but there, I don’t know if I should have answered your advertisement without consulting her.” ‘I’m sure she wouldn't mind, After all, I only resorted to the ‘personal’ column because I was at my wit’s land to think of something to inter2st Father. Of course he never met the daughter. “Father and Mr. Everett were always talking about art. Their families didn’t ' gount ‘when they
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invited her to lunch at such a fash-|{
about the whole affair. | (To Be Continued)
CITY HOSPITAL AWARDS 23 NURSING DIPLOMAS
Attorney Walter Myers Delivers Commencement Address. pe
Twenty-three City Hospital ste dent nurses were graduated last night at commencement exercises
in the hospital auditorium. Walter Myers, local attorney, delivered the commencement address, telling class members they must regard their profession as one of ever-changing methods, Dr. Charles W. Myers, hospital superintendent, presented the diplo= mas, and Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health ‘Board secretary, presided, Mayor Kern thanked the graduates in behalf of the city for the’ work
‘they have done at the hospitai while
receiving their training. Mary Jean Aufderheide, class member, outlined the requirements of nurse.
BALKS PURSE SNATCHER
Woman Fights Off Two Men Try« ing to Rob Her.
Police today were searching for 8 young man who attempted to snatch a purse from Mrs. Eva Smith, 1354 Hiatt-st, at the corner of Howard and Kappas-sts, last night. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Grace Payne, who were walking together were thrown to the sidewalk while ree sisting the eéfforts of the thief to twist the purse from their hands.
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YOUR HOMEBUYING DOLLAR IS BIGGER, GOES FARTHER
Real Estate analysts and building experts tell us that, from the angle of . value received you can get more for your home-buying Gollar now than ever
before.
a The fact that real estate prices are gill lows Patng in mind the rental val- : ues, is one. reason ear