Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1926, Page 58

Al 8 FEBRUARY. . 21, Y soy TIIE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. 1926—-PART 3, 'Judges as Drivers Learn How Easily Laws Are Broken UBRICANT ILLS MAY BEAVOIDED Engineer Experts Propose Remedy for Dilution of Oil in Crankcase. Siles who Too puor to own automobiles {ian magistrates and prosecutor {have been punishing violators |traffic regulations. are learning to drive motor vehicles to see at first hand how easily the laws may be | broken. The automobiles used by the judges were provided by the police department. For the first lesson, twenty officials drove automobiles or _motorcycles through heavy city traffic and over Renedy er Lo {country roads. Their worst offense @lutlon of the lubricating oil in the | W lure to heed the signals of erankease by diluting the oil before | traffic policemen. ing ) the engine was pro sed by Robert . Wilson and Rob- | NEARLY OVERCOME meeting of the Society Automotive | Manufacturers of Balloon Equipment See Efforts Largely Successful. of ne troubles due it s in Detroit vemedy for Jubrici flow to the cyli ngs. foilowed by it tion with the oil too hier operation or when ihe engine ix running at full load in low car speed. is to dilute a fairly heavy oil with from 10 tu 12 per cent of a petrolenm distillate that is prac- cally identical with the heuyy ends f the ga that gets into the pres ent oils in the crankcase. Suitable 0il Produced SUT and does no walls and bea adequiite 1 thin in hot The efforts of tire manufacturers to eliminate front wheel “shimmy” of is posible to pro- | balloon tires. which now are used as is thin enougi to original equipment on st all and mood cold (makes of cars, are said to’be largely and vet so | successtul. constant _per | The explanation of ars in use on |motion of the front wheels by tire al the predi-|experts is that the “shimmy” s its viscosity | synchronism of the vibrations of the > period of service, | automobile and road shocks timed 1 method of solving | with the revolutfon of the wheels. some of the lubrication ills due to oil | When these came at regular intervals dilution in the engine was heartily |the vibration or shaking of the «pproved by @ number of automotive ( Wheels resulted experts present at the meeting. who [ Asphalt paving with low corroborated many of the statements | irregularities, for instance, made and asserted their belief that | ducive to “shimmy the proposed remedy was entirely | run many miles on other roads with- feasible and would reduce the oil con- | out doing it until it strikes a type of sumption as well. The use of air|pavement that is conducive to this cleaners, cil separators or purifiers | action. and water eliminating devices to keep | B the oil in the e clean would be| _T¥Pe of Paving Doesn’t Matter. just as desirable with the pre-diluted | However, no matter what type of oll as with the present oils, it was |PAaving is encountered. wheels will $ald, but with such devices in use|nhot “shimmy” until the car is in the on cars the oil could be used almost | Proper speed range, it is declared indefinitely, as ofl does not wear out. | s | not a condition experienced only with Source of Lubrication Troubles. | palloon tires, as machines on high- Present lubrication difficulties are | pressure tives as well may show the due to the fact that if an oil heavy |same result. enough for proper lubrication when| At high speed the front wheels ap- the engine is hot is used in the crank- pear to oscillate from one side to case at the start, it is so thick when |the other, instead of rolling forward cold that it makes the engine hard to (along a straight path. In addition to start end does not get onto the walls | these slight oscillations there is also of the cylinders until the car has been |an up-and-down movement. all of un several miles, whereas if a light | which can be stopped by a reducfion sl 18 used to avoid these troubles it 'of the speed of the car. hecomes too thin for safe lubrication : after the engine warms up or in hot | Wt Of Bevwn BenEn. weather. | Tread design also has an effect on Neither kerosene mnor gasoline will | the susceptibility and intensity of the cerve the same purpose us the care- | “shimmy.,” according to tire engi- tuily fractionated distillate that is be |neers, the combination ribbed design ing put into the experimental oil, seing_ among the best in eliminating ording to Mr. Wilson. There it. Through the development of By 1his means it duce wn oil that give casy startin ather lubrication near the average rtage of dilution in he road that in wene uted oil will mair roughout its ent This paradox: is this dancing wavy is o snormous quantities of this distillate | gear-shaped flat tire tread, with ribs | available and the price around the circumference of the tire pared ‘“non-dilution” oil of the pre should be motion. he low-speed “shimmy." are. usually is due to slack, loose- = as now sold. The new type of |th )il has been patented and is expected 10 be on the market in sufficient quan- | de titfes to meet the demand in another [ness, or wear in the steering mech- year. anism, and is the form that most R people are familiar with. The high- speed type often doesn't appear until When Speedometer Is Fast. car has gone 10, 30, 60, and even About the only time a motorist wili | 17 miles an hour. admit his speedometer is stepped up | — = s when the man he has given a lift Unnecessary noises and lights are rne out to be a plain clothes in-|strictly banned by the Illinois traffic apecto | regulations, of | and a car may | Despite the popular opinion, this is | {in the center of the tread, tire experts | just about the same as that if medium | have done a great deal in eliminating | gineers | Company B; Company C with Com- pany E and Headquarters and Service Company with Company F, it was an- { nounced. PUBLIC OPINION - CONTROLS TRAFFIC District National Guard In preparation for one of the big- | jump. Last week this company gest social events ever staged by a | headed the top of the list with & score single unit of the National Guard of (of 75.40. The other organizations. | the District of Columbia, officers and | with the percentages in the order of men of Company C. 121st Engineers, | their relative standing, follow: Bat- headed by Lieut. C tery B. 250th Coast Artillery, 69. man, presidentyof their mpany D, 121st Engineers, 60.95: sociation, are sending out invitations | Company C, 121st Engineers, 53.03 to officers of the War Department, Mi- | 260th !litia, Bureau and Fort Humphreys for 121st | the grand ball to be given at the City | C 1218t - Engineers, Club next month. Company A, 3724 Infantry Committees are bLeing formed, ac-| Headquarters and Service Company |cording to Col. Gladmau, and the!46.95; Medical Detachment, 121st | bersonnel will be announced within | Engineers, 42.11: Company B, 121st | deavors on the part of the authorities hort time. p\v;. Ju!l)enll J. Do‘l\:‘l‘;g E:fl:::fi :}),:;g; Co?p;.;\l)}" 1;,“‘}?«‘ of Company has been appol s, 40. n ary and the citizens of the District to| of {0 CoMIAY, DUb1CRY committee, | Police Company., 27.09. obtain a solution to traffic. problems | \opiop will see that this event is fully | | within the community. the \\'ushing-‘ recorded in the archives. Two men of the 372d Infantry who | ton Automotive Trade Assodation, in | l‘]xmrmna.lil:mn of ‘(;:lnfl“!dfl;-*‘: l(](:;;:vgg:flg\;h}lnhfidtin grders as deserters P i o psterds s | Promotion y commission, fv or duty followln, he publi- Sentaioment dhsued yestenday inledane e of | eatabHahinis aneHEbIILY. | cation, fal hoaan Toteaens b ] e ort of Cpubtie opinion | list from which vacancies will be|locate’ them hefore this had fafled. [ o rober comtrol of thathe filled as they occur, will by held |The stigma of desertion has been re. T “views the| March 2 for the Coast Artillecy and |moved from their records by subse- | recent conference of the traffic council| 29th Military Police Company, in ac-jquent orders. They are Pvis. Leon | : b | cordance with orders issued at head- | Dockett and Robert Proctor, and they with city officials as a move in the|; arters, As a matter of fact, there | have been ordered to report to the direction of uniting the efforts of |\ pe vacancies in these two com- | commanding officer of their compan every one concerned and making pos-| yands made possible by the nromo- | for duty. The order further specifi sible a _composite solution to @ vexing | tjon of officers already in them to flll | “Pvt. Dockett having been. absent question that will be acceptable to all. | pogitions in newly organized units {without leave from July 27, 1925, to A most heartening development in | o' the guard. February 1, 1926, will have the period connection with agitation regarding | pirgt Lieut. Daniel B. Llo; of his enlistment extended by u period trafic_regulation in the District of | yfjlitary Police Company, is of alx months and four days and he Columbia has been the attempt 10| irunsterred to the Headauarters De- |will not be discharged by reason of co-ordinate ~divergent opinions and|iachment, 29th Division —Special | expiration of term of service until De- assemble from all quarters suggested | Troope, which new organization is to fcember 28, 1926 | remedie the W. A. T. A. state-|pe commanded by Capt. John L.| “Pvt. Proctor having heen absent | ment sets forth. | Bradford, at present a Heuterant in |without leave. from June 1, 1523, to “The recent conference of the trafic | (he 260th Coast Artillery. He will be | February 8, 1926, will have the period | council with officials who are en-| transferred to the infantry arm, of [ of his enlistment extended by a period deavoring to improve the situation | which the new organization is a Part. | of 8 months and 7 days, and he will here apparently is a step in the right | Capt. Bradford organized Battery C |not be discharged by Yeadon of expira- direction anyg should be given every | ,f the 260th Coast Artillery, but after | tion of term of service until Septem encouragement. There can be no| the personnel was ready the War De- | her 28, 1926." successful solution to the traffic| partment refused to recognize it, but problem in Washington or anywhere| (upt. Bradford remained with the | else until the community {8 & unit| other battery as an enlisted man and |on the proposition that there must | recently was promoted to first Leuten- exist a set of sane regulations and|ant. He has been designated by Gen. | that these regulations must be given | Stephan to organize and commend the the hearty co-operation and respect| special troops. {of every onme who uses the city| These changes will make imriediate | thoroughfares | vacancies in the units named, rnd the “How to arrive at a determination| highest men on the eligibility lists of what are desirable rules to impoose | will be given the promotions, it was jon the public—the motoring public in | said. particular— is a task which scarcely | — can be accomplished without the sup-| First Lieut. Walter port of public opinion. The wishes of | Second Lieut. John E. Temple, 1218t those who are to be affected by Regiment of Engineers, have baen as- regulations should not he overlooked. | signed to attend the Engineer Officers’ |1t was to make certain that no | School at Fort Humphrey Va, for a | opinion was disregarded that mem- | three months’ course, beginning | bers of the community were consulted. | March 1, it was announced at Guard “The Washington Automotive Trade | headquarters. Assoclation sincerely _hopes that | Ienons to solve our difficulties with! The local Guard will have an ex- traffic control will be productive of | hibit at the coming Chamber of Com. greater ease in handling traffic and | merce Industrial Exhibit, to be held at increased safety for every one, To| the Washington Auditorium. The {achieve this end, the association|Guard has been informed that a space pledges its support to all constructive Will be allotted to it free of <harge, measures looking to the reduction of | and the work of organizing the x| o, L v [traMe accidents_and the factlitation | which will display eome of the activi- |first class, Homer B. Millard, Com | of traffic control.” | ties of the local Guard and the oppor- | Pany I, 84.36; Pvt. Hugh Kve | tunities furnished civillans for valu- | Company E, 83.00; First Sergt. Sa able training, is being pushed forward | W. Marsh, Company A. §2.56; Stabie | under the direction of Lieut. Col. Pey- | Sergt. Joseph F. Fitzgerald, Head-| ton G. Nevitt, adjutant of the 39”"?“?":‘.5"3 Benyice o 3?‘ Sergt. Z < D o Jiiion: Snrique C. Conova, Company A, 7 " Following a_dinner of savants, A_lDM'lon Pt. David W Milne, Company 1. certain professor of physchology d ey e Co g thought he would test a negro cloak- | Presentation of medals and insignia | 75.71: Sergt. John D. Powers, Com oird - | ¥, 75.60; Corpl. Hector J. Mc- | gy > 2 - [room attendant as to his memory. | #arned by the members during target | pany I, DRl e own request, Corpl. Rudyard Y. Hesse | Although the professor pretended to | Practice 'last Summer will be held | Donald,” Company B. 78.38; Corpl.|phas been appointed company clerk. | have mislaid his ticket, the bos with- | Tuesday night in the ‘small | Lincoln . Jones, é,ompa.n; Ct'vafit"e‘ = out hesitation handed him the right | "asium n the armary w:,’;:];‘;;‘},‘*%?fii obart T. er, | Split drills have been authorized for e witdid von! lcnovs tHis after each name are the general aver. mine?” asked the learned man “Ah don’ know dat, suh.” “Then why do give it to me”" | /“’Cause vou give to to me when v8u come in, subh.’ i Use Hydrometer Gingerly. | Just one drop of acid from the bat tery hyvdrometer, if spilled on the rub- ber covering of one of the running | boards, will eat a hole that will grow {larger and larger, until a new covering| lis needed. The benefit performance (o be given at Keith's Theater March 1. the pro- ceeds of which will be distributed among the various commands for use in their company funds for recreation purposes, is expected to be largely attended. 1Success of Movement De- | pends on Support Given, Dealers Say. The officers of the 12ist Regiment of Engineers under Capt. ( v Ander- son, Regular Army instructor, as- signed to the local engineers, will in- spect the methods of printing maps, employed by the Army plant at Wash- ington Barracks, at the invitation of the commandant. Col. John W. Oeh- mann, regimental commander, is o ganizing the class, which probably will make its tour of inspection and in struction on March 1. Engineers, Commending the get-together en- The students at the officers’ school will reproduce next Tuesday night on the sand table at the armo se tion of the area of Fort Humphreys, Va., working out the data on the map. Lieut. Williani 1. Mushake and Lieut. George Harbin have been designated to work up the elevations and will direct the setting of the stakes from which the other material will be worked. This instruction is consid- ered of much value in view of the fact that the local engineer regiment will obtain its perfod of fleld training at ort Humphreys during the coming 13 ctice, reports the following scores made by the rifiemen in the indoor gallery, where they are being trained for the outdoor practice next Summer- t Artillers 6: R. Company ng Harrison. Company . 137; J. K. Beacham, Com pany D, Enginces H. Osmond. Company E. Engineers, 184, and .J First Sergt. Edward W. Ireland, | Ehtfoot. Company E, Engineers, 1 Headquarters and Service Company 1215t Engineers, has been ordered | | demoted to private, in accordance with | recommendations 8f his company com- mander. The order also announces the following promotions: Staff Sergt. Whiting P. Lightfoot to be firet ser geant and Pvt. Edward Ireland to be | staff sergeant. wood V. Adam listed in Company A, Tuesday night. “orpl. Joseph Butler. Company A 1218 ngineers, has been officially commended by Capt. Roy W. Keesee, | commanding, for his excellent service { record during the past vear. He has |been awarded the company com | mander's medal of merit for the pas vear. Company A's Social Club is plan- | ning a dance, to be held probably next | month. Mess Sergt. . A. Ross and | Pvt. Frank Hosmer have been named | a committee to inaugurate the ar- rangements. Jgse’r;h P ,\f’i‘;h’r. ;571! Bunker Hill a | road, Brentwood, Md., has enlisted in men, & a | pany B, 1215t Engineer 937 H street, en- st Engineer The following men of Company E. 121st Engineers, have been ordered { honorably discharged for the reasons named: Removal from the District of Columbia, Pvt. Ulysses S. Rodgers: | business 'interference, Pvt. Garland English. S. Welch and | The following enlisted |result of a competitive examination, !will have their names placed on the | eligibility list for promotion by com- mission to second lieutenants of eng neers: Staff Sergt. Thaddeus A. Riley Company E, 87.22; Corpl. Edward A. MeMahon, Company B, 7; Private, Sergt. Harry J. Harth, Headquarters |and Service Company, has been de | tatled to organize the drummers and | music section of the band. Trumpeters { Monroe, B. Company; Cave, C Com- pany, and Lightfoot of E Company have been ordered to report to him Tuesday night for practice. By No Means Ce | From the Roval Magazine. rtain. Corpl. Harrv Krumm has been trans |ferred to regimental headquarters a Bowman, who has been returned to duty with the mounted platoon at his gvm Pvt. Harry J. Harth has been pro pany, 121st Engineers. This will en one was ters and Service Company, 121st Engi- | their examinations. neers, and assigned to duty as| : sier 1 |UD their absence at supervised dri | sergeant bugler, in accordance with| The bowling league of the 121st En-{on Sunday morning. following the reg | orders issued by Col. John W. Oeh i :’&’:.”!,'.‘."“‘?T gg}"p’-::;‘é,:’g:;"fi“k!}mar Tuesday night assembly. mann, commanding the regiment. |4 Ty ® nnant. A new serles will| The 260th Coast Artillery are in. Company E, 121st Engineers, stili | commence Tuesday night, it was an- | stalling a minlature automatic target | maintains the top of the list in the | nounced, the company teams to play | for indoor fire control work. This will | percentage of drill attendance this | Off their regular games following the | complete their practice equipment for | week, with an average of 82.26. Since | drill periods. On February 23 Com-|this type of training. Capt. E. H. the inauguration of the attendance competition recently as a result of a | drive, the general figures of all the commands have shown a decided - | kimila huglers of the regiment into a field | mail orderly to take the place of Corp. | The flgures given | the Headquarters and Service Com-| | moted to sergeant in the Headquar- |ages attained by the candidates in ahle men who are not able to drill at | | formations on Tuesday night to make pany A’'s team will be matched with |Grove is preparing a towing device and means of illuminating the target. A further argument in favor of al- lotting space in the Pension Building to the local Guard has been sent to Senator Smoot, chairgian of the Pub- lic Buildings Commission, by Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the local militia. i Gen. Stephan pointed out to Senator Smoot_that the local National Guard is a Federal force and therefore it does mot stand in the same position as the State organizations. It is believed, he said further, that upon completion of the building pro- gram now before Congress, all Federal offices and agencies within the District of Columbia will be properly housed in Government-owned structures, and if this is the case, the Federal Gov- ernment. will_have but small use for the Pension Building. and particularly the rotunda, which the Guard wants for a drill hall. Inasmuch, he continued. as the ro- {tunda will only be used in the eve- ning, it would not materially interfere | with' the occupancy {the building by Federal itlcen\e\l desirable, he of Colutnbia could pay the Federal Government rental for the space occu- pied within the Pension Office Build ing, with the idea that the Federal vernment could contract for similar office space in other building: Tie presented some of the housing problems facing the Guard, pointing out that it is allotted 33 additipnal com pany or similar units with a strength of 55 officers and enlisted men vet to be organized. These units form parts of higher tactical units organized under the provisions of the national defense and it is contemplated that it will be necessary tu organize all of these units Ly approximately E This expansion will have to be for and cannot he cared for in any rented quarters which can be se- | cured in Washington. ~However, it could be cared for in the Pension Of- \fice Buiflding. provided the pending | building program fully covers the needs of the Federal Government. At present the Guard has 10 units, with a | officers and 600 enlisted men actually |in the service. to he housed offices. It Naval Reserve. Regular inspections by serve organizati tricts, required by the recent naval | reserve act. are to be Inaugurated {in_the near future The District Naval Reserve is to be inspected by a b d composed of the following officers: Capt. W. Pitt Scott, |head of the Naval Reserve Division of the Bureau of Navigation; Comdr. George H. Emerson. Lieut. Comdr | Holloway H. Frost and Lieut. Comdr. | George M. Lowry, all on duty in the | Bureau of Navigation here. In addi- | tion, Lieut. Wallace M. Dillon, Bureau | of Aeronautics, is made u member of | the board for ‘the inspection of such units as have aeronautical units. This val Re of the 3d Naval District, with New York City as headquarters, and the | 4th Naval District, with Philadelphia ! as headquarters. | Other Naval Reserve units through ut the country will be inspected by special boards of Regular officers to be named by the Secretary of the Navy. Commandants of naval dis tricts have received {nstructions nominate officers for these hoards and as 8oon as the names are in the boards { will be named These will be the first annual in- pections to which the Reserves hs been called upon to submit for years and is inaugurating the new policy as required in the Naval Reserve act The date for the inspection of the local Reserve has ot been decided on, but it was said that it would probably require two davs and a night. day periods will be used In examining the papers and records of the organ- izations and to inspections of the or ganization methods, and the regular The finished performance of the new 90-degree, eight- cylinder Cadillac, under any and all traffic conditions, reveals a degree of perfection that is masterful. Its marvelous 90-degree, eightcylinder engine delivers a flow of power so continuous and even that its impulses merge into a stream. 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In addition the board will vis: ize what each division has in the v of equipment, such as field guns an! rifles for landing forces, radio enuiy ment, slgnal outfits, boats, and facil ties for, storing and manning | wharfage facilities, etc. The Reserve Division has in urated the policy of calling into 1 department at Washington for t or four weeks’ duty of Regular offic assigned to duty with the Hescrves, fo: the purpose of indoctrinating ther with the policies and problems, whicl will Have to be handled. This is done for the purpose of having officers o the field who know what problems the department faces so that when the come up in their respective districts they will be enabled to handle ther | without voluminous correspondence 1 At the same time efforts { made to keep in the varic | izations a Reserve off | P duty. who will { miliar with the continuin consultant with 1h v come in from time | for this du everal officers already have | assigned to the departnient now | this duty, and while it is not prac |able to have officers from all the | tricts at this time, because of lack « funds and local c e in the Di | trict., neverthe this has been In | down as a policy for | be put into effect in entirets {as possible. 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