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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1938

Automobile News—

Better Values Than in New Cars, Belief]

Oversupply of v of Sesondeiand)

Machines Forces Dealers |,

To Reduce Allowance for

Trade-in, Survey Reveals. |

By E. R. R.

To:orrow marks - the - start of “national used car exchange week,” spons fred by automobile manufacturers and dealers all over the natic:, "in a drive to rid the market of a used-car jam and stimulate recov ry. ; Al':n MacAuley, Automobile Manufacturers Association _president, said the joint sales effort resuli2d from recent conferences at the White House between President Roos: velt and industrial ‘leaders. Ne¢ one knows how many ‘used cars are in dealers’ stocks, but from

variciis- sample surveys, & figure of

800,000 has been arrived at.

Th:s oversupply definitely is" Hin--

" derinz the sale of new cars, the deal-r usually being in no pesition to eter a generous trade-in allowance on. a new sale. May Be Better Values In fact; with: so much of his capital tied up in previous trade-ins the dealer may really prefer to sell a used car. This situation may make the prospective purchaser believe tha! he can get a better value in a used than in a new car. One reason for the great number f used caxs is the high production of new cars in the last two years. Sore 3,800,000 factory sales of passengsr cars were made in the United Staies and Canada in 1936 and som: 4,050,000 in 1937, despite the fali- off toward the end of that yes! The two-year total of about 7,850,000 cars has been surpassed onl once, in 1928-29, and appro:ched only once, in 1925-26.- And a trade-in is taken on 85 per cent of il new cars sold. There is, moreover, a trade-in on abot 50 per cent of the used cars solc. - Altogether the industry normally ‘sells about 170 used cars for every 100 new cars. Only about

_ 10 per cent of the rade-ins are

junked immediately. . Autes Last Longer Now

Z.tomobiles - are: -made better the: 2 days, last longer, are changed les: from year to year. In 1929 the average retirement age of a passerver automobile was. about 6% ye: rs. In 1936 it was 814 years. The average annual mileage increased from about 7000 in 1925 to. almost 8900 in 1930 and over 10,300 in 1936. A survey in 1935 showed. that more than 20 per cent of the cars in cxistence were at least 10 years old. In 1937 more than a million usd cars were sold for less: ‘than $100 each. wenty-seven per cent of all used cars sold in 1936 were only one or two years old, 34% per cent were si* or seven years old. This record indicates, the average . car bt ver either turns: it in wi one or two years or else drives it’ for si years or more. Another reason for the :oversunply of used cars is the easier terms offered in the last. several years. This meant that cars, new or ussd, were sold to people whose

it is offered for sale.

From the Woman S Viewpoint

Modern Vehicle Outlasts 1929 Output by Nearly 2 Years; Annual Mileage Also Shows Big Increase.

engineer for ‘Humber-Hillman-Tal-bot-Sunbeam, Ltd.

Bowers Named Manager of Mill Motor Service

Appointment of Carl S. Bowers as manager of Mill Motor Service, 1121 N. Meridian St., has been announced by E. O. Mill. Mr. Bowers has been serving the motoring public here 15 years. At one time manager of a service station at 49th ‘and College Ave.,

| Mr. Bowers later went into business

The nation’s auto leaders, who tomorrow inaugurate “national used car exchange week,” are beginning to pay more attention to style, comfort and appearance of used cars. the value of the feminine viewpoint, has employed Miss Rosemary Melford to check each reconditioned used car, inside and out, before

One Detroit dealer, recognizing

financial status was far from impregnable. Of course, when the present recession occurred, many such shoestring purchasers could not meet their obligations. The inevitable result was a large number of re‘possessions. The industry agreed, at a conference called at the White House last January, to tighten up on terms of sales.

Percentage of Highway Deaths Declines

Times Spceial

American Petroleum Institute. reported today that highway deaths per thousand of miles of travel de-

1936 level. .

the. roads and highways of the country were,

safer last year than in 1936, even

creased 4 per cent. Traffic fatalities: in 1937 consti-

NEW YORK, March 4—THé|

clined :3 per cent: in 1937 from the The institute said this meant that: on a travel basis, |.

| Willys-Overland executive force is. though the number of fatalities in-

deaths, according to figures compiled by the National Safety Council. Highway deaths for 10 million gallons of gasoline consumed in 1937 stood at 204, a decline of 3 per cent under 1936, and the lowest rate for any year since 1925, the first year for which reliable statistics are available. The rate was 21 in 1936; 22.4in.1935, and 23.6 in 1934.

Cowling Elevated by Willys-Overland © : TOLEDO, March 4.—Election of

dent of Willys-Overland: Motors, Ine... was announced. here by President David R. Wilson. Mr; Crowling previously had Shen ated with the Ford Motor: Co. 2 years, six as general sales manager. Another recent addition to the

‘Delmar G. Rees, as vice president in [charge -of - engineering. For many years he was chief engineer of the

tuted 36 per cent of all accidental

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Courses Opened for

Mechanics Teachers

DETROIT, March 4.—Summer training courses for teachers of automotive mechanics in high schools and colleges will be offered again this year at the General Motors Institute in Flint, Mich. Two identical sessions of four weeks each have been arranged, one ning June 27 and, closing July 2, and the other i, from

‘July 25 to Aug. 19.

Pontiac to Open Sales

Training Schools

First of the 1938 series of Pontiac Motor sales training schools will be held here Monday. Similar schools are being held in 108 cities throughout the country. - The school, in: four quarterly sessions, will cover all phases of the selling. problem. Special attention is being. given to methods of selling used cars. The meeting is in the charge of W. S. Madigan, under supervision of D. M. House, Cincinnati zone manager.

Named Superintendent Of Bantam Co. Factory

Crist, formerly with the Marmon and Stutz Motor Car Companies of Indianapolis, has been named factory superintendent: of the American Bantam Car Co. here.

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Added by De Soto

Addition of a hew sedan-limousine to the De Soto line to fill special orders from “retail customers was announced this week by the Chrysler Corp. It features a wheelbase of 136 inches and 100 horsepower engine and, company officials assert, provides more seat rqom and comfort than many of the - ial limousine bodies mounted -on Yoger 1 Shassis.

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BUTLER, Pa., March 4.—Harold/{

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Truck ani Passenger. Traffic ‘Separated on Road 66 - Project.

Three new detours were added to Indiana’s road system and one which has been in effect for several months was lifted during the last week, the State Highway Commis sion reported today. : Because of favorable weather conditions, construction work was continued on new projects. Detours were established on U. S. Highway 27, from: just north of College Corner to Liberty; Road 66, from Rockport to Tell City, and Road 121 over Richmond city streets. On the Road 66 detour, truck and passenger traffic is separated, the truck route being 72 miles and the passenger route 46 miles. The complete detour list follows: ind. 13—From Wabash northeast, 20 miles over Roads 15 and. 114. Ind. 21—Abeut. three miles. south of Richmond, one mile. over county ‘gravel road.

Ind. 21—From ‘Muncie northwest, ;

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U. 8. 27—Just north of College

‘Corner to Liberty, eight and one half miles over ‘county oil mat and Ind. 44. U. S. 35— From Muncie northwest, eight miles over Roads 3 and 28.

nine miles over county gravel and pavement. Ind. 44—From Shelbyville to Rushville, 26 miles over Roads 29, 244 and. 3. : Ind. 62—From Leavenworth ‘to Corydon, 37 miles over Roads 66," 64 and 135.

Ind. 66—From Rockport to Tell|

City—Truck traffic 72 miles over Roads 45, 62 and 37—passenger cars

46 miles over Roads 45, 70, 245, 155 |

and county road. Ind. 221—From Ind. 18 to just south of Van Buren, three miles over county gravel. : Ind. 327—Just south of Orland, two miles over county gravel road.

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Scott Buchanan, dean of St. John’s College, Annapolis, Md., will discuss “Sacramental Art” Sunday

night at the Catholic Forum at}

Civic Theater. Mr. Buchanan formerly was associated with Dr. Mortimer Adler on

the University of: Chicago liberal |

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6 MORE GUILTY IN K. C..VOTE FRAUDS

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 4 (U. P.).—Six more party and precinct workers were convicted in Federal Court late yesterday of conspiring to defraud voters in the 1936 election, "It was the 11th in a series of trials of 198 persons. U. S. District Judge Merrill E.

Otis will pass sentence Thursday. . The convictions brought to 56 the ‘number found guilty in the 11 trials. ~The jury took .one vote to convict Mis. Frances (Boss) Ryan, woman leader of the T. J. Pendergast Dem-

The jury recommended leniency for two others, Mrs. Ruth Tucker, a Democratic clerk, and Ellis Buck, Democratic judge.” Others found | guilty were Sam Brenner, Democratic judge; Ernest Williams, Democratic precinct captain for the Pendergast faction, and Herman Supofsky, a Democratic challenger.

' COAL LOSSES REPORTED WASHINGTON, March 4 (U.P.. ~The soft coal industry is losing ‘more than 15 million dollars a month, but the National Bituminous

in its power” to. re-establish mini-} mum prices for soft coal “as soon as possible,” Commission Chairman

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