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THE' INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1938

TEXAS COWBOYS TO RALLY “Automobile News

STAMFORD, Tex., April 8 (U.P.).

- 31 Per Cent of State Tax Revenue Derived From Gasoline Levies, Survey Discloses

Wilmeth Co. E Co. Enlarges

Sales Staff, Careless Drivers Warned.

‘By E.R. R.

State government costs borne by motor vehicles last year were 37 ‘per cent of the total in the nation as a whole, a survey by the Tax 1Policy League reveals. "The survey showed that the combined yield of gasoline and motor vehicle taxes was exceeded by some other one tax in only five states. Sales taxes produced more than motor vehicle levies in California, Illinois and West Virginia. Income taxes produced more in Massachusetts and New York. Twenty-nine states, according to ‘the survey, derived more revenue from gasoline taxes alone than from any other .one revenue source. In Indiana, the report said, gasoline taxes brought 31.63 per cent of the total tax yield. Nebraska's gasoline tax and other levies on motor vehicles provided 67.62 per cent of the State's total revenue. Four other states last year derived better than 60 per cent of their total tax revenues from gasoline and motor vehicle levies, Florida, 66.61 per cent; Georgia, 64.46 per cent; Kansas, 6291 and Ten- - nessee, 67.83. The gasoline tax has not reached its 20th birthday, the first levy of this type having been imposed by Oregon in 1919. Other motor vehicle levies are scarcely much older. Two decades ago property taxation was the backbone of state financing. In 1937, only three states, Minnesota, Nevada and Pennsylvania derived more money from property taxation than from any other one revenue source.

Wilmeth Enlarges Sales Organization

Roy Wilmeth, president of Roy Wilmeth Co. Inc. 720 N. Meridian St., has announced the enlargement of the company’s sales organization from 14 to 30 men. He said the

company sold 228 used cars and 37]

new ones last month. Personnel in the service department also has been increased, Mr. Wilmeth said. “We are looking forward to increasing our business in 1938 over 1937,” Mr. Wilmeth said, citing that the sales volume last year was $650,000 on 5000 units. “We feel that from the larger volume of customers in our files we will receive a substantial amount of repeat business as well as new business.”

Truck Fleet Travels 40,000 Miles in City

_ Trucks

Beverage Distributors, Inc, have

traveled 40,000 miles over city]

streets and highways without an accident since they were entered in the inter-fleet safety contest, according to Arthur Quiesser, manager. “Our fleet of trucks covers 250,000 miles a year,” he said. “Because of that fact we constantly caution our drivers to keep safety uppermost in

their minds and we keep our equip- |

ment in good condition.” The company recently acquired another truck, an International, Model D-50, three-to-four-ton tractor truck with a 21-foot semitrailer.

Motorists Ignoring Special Road Signs

Too many motorists are showing | little regard for special markings |

on the state highway system, according to reports received by Todd

of the Marion County |

mobiles is this “graveyard,”

The last stop for hundreds of Indianapolis autoone of several in the City. They are burned and then the metal is scrapped.

Accident Prevention officials have urgea burial” for dilapidated cars; branding them a menace to other traffic.

Journey's End’ in Safety Drive

Times Photo. “earlier

tion and marked with signs and yellow stripes on the pavement. Extra-hazardous routes were created and the commission was au thorized to prescribe maximum speeds. It has the power to remove unauthorized speed signs.

Service Man Urges Drivers to Check Cars

Times Special

FLINT, | Mich, April 8.—Every

dealer, C. |W. Jacobs, Buick general service manager says.

the appearance and all operating parts of the vehicle, but added that, for safety’s sake there were certail “musts” in getting the car ready for spring. He said these absolute necessities included changing the engine oii from winter to summer grade, changing transmission lubricant to summer grade, draining and cleaning the .cooling system, brake adjustment, headlamps and steering linkage, checking of tires and a complete grease job.

‘Dodge Names New | General Sales Head

Times Special DETROIT, April 8.—Appointment of W. M. Purves as general sales manager in charge of Dodge pas- | senger cars and commercial vehicles has beeh announced by W. J. | O'Neil, vice president and general | manager of the Dodge division of the Chrysler Corp. He is to succeed A. van DerZee, who has|been appointed a vice president of the corporation. Mr. Purves formerly was assistant general manager of Dodge division sales.

Lincoln-Zephyr Exports Increase

Times Special DETROIT, April 8.—Sales of Lin-coln-Zephyr motor cars

at Lincoln Motor Co. offices. Exports reached 2276 units, the reports said, 26 per cent better than the same périod of the 1937 model | year. Exports in January and February broke previous records for |

automobile needs an effective spring | | tonic at the service shop of some |

He urged a general check-up on |

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abroad | during the current model year to April 1 showed a sharp 0 today according to reports released today |

Tire Executive

Arthur E. Rose, state director of the National Association of Independent Tire Dealers, has called a state-wide meeting of independent tire merchants at the Claypool Hotel Monday.

any single’ month. Shipments were

heaviest, to Europe and Central and '

South America.

MAIL FRAUD SUSPECT FREED ON $1500 BAIL

Taylor Stewart. 54, of Conmnersville was free under $1500 bond today pending his removal to St. Louis, where he and 48 others are under Federal indictment ' on charges of using the mails to de fraud. Bond was set at a hearing yes= terday before U. S. Commissioner Howard S. Young, following Steww art’s arrest at Connersville by U. 8 Marshal Charles W. James | and Deputy Marshal Edgar Collins. The indictment charged that Stewart was a salesman for g socalled “Civil Service Training Institute.” The “Institute,” the indictment charged, mailed correspondence lessons to “students” with the promise that they would receive U. S, Civil Service appointments following “graduation.” Federal officers said that courses, each composed of 50 lessons, were sold for about $75. They declined to estimate the number sold in Indiana.

DICKENS’ BOOKS SOLD NEW YORK, April 8 (U. P.).— Ten copies of Charles Dickens’ works, which the author used in rublic readings. and marked profusely with revisions and comments

in his own handwriting, brought $29.875 at the auction of the library of the late Cortlandt F. Bishop.

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tary-manager.

He declared the 1937 Legislature

had authorized the Highway Commission to place special markers on

the highways, with penalties for viclations, and had provided that

all automobile accidents be revorted

within 24 hours.

The acts provided center line |

markings on pavements 40 or more feet wide and penalties for not keeping to the right of the center line. No passing zones were pro-

vided where vision is obstructed for | a distance of 750 feet or less by | reason of a curve, hill or obstruc-|

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Gasoline: Content of Some Fuel Sold Schools Held Too High.

: z v Atty. Gen. Omer Stokes Johnsos has ruled that the Indiana Oil Inspection Division has authority to check on crude oil sold for heating purposes. The opinion was requested by Chief Oil Inspector Fresley J. L. Martin, who said he wanted the division to have the right to inspect fuel oils “in order that possible future disaster hight be avoided.” He said he had been informed that some crude oil sold to schools for fuel purposes contained as high as 25 per cent “natural gasoline.” Fuel of this type when kept in retaining tanks, he said, is dangerous, since heat from furnaces easily vaporizes the gasoline. Under the Indiana statutes, various petroleum products of a highly combustible nature must be so marked to warn the buyers. The | Attorney General's opinion pointed out that crude oil was not specifically mentioned in the statutes setting up the duties of the Inspection Division, but that the statutes did provide for a checkup on all oils used for fuel.

BALLOT FRAUDS BY

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BERKELEY, Cal, April 8 (U. P.).—Even American gangsters owe a debt of gratitude to classical Greece which they have never ade-

quately recognized or paid, according to Oscar Broneer, professor of classical literature at the University of California. Any idea America’s gangland may have that it originated the “frameup,” Broneer declared, is entirely disproved by recent finding in Greece. These consists of 190 tile ballots used in voting there and which show that they had been tampereé with to bring about the ostracism of Themistocles.

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- PINE BUSH, N.Y, April 8 (U.P.). —This village is considering instal lation of a water softening. plant which would, experts estimate, pers mit the villagers to use about onesixteenth the amount of soap now required with “hard” water.

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