Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1935, Page 26

B—6 General Motors Giving Capital Second Car Show Exhibit Now On at Auditorium—Spring Buying Stimulus Planned—A Indicate G 11 Plants in Operation ood Year. By G. Adams Howard. G entire week.* ENERAL MOTORS is providing the National Capital with its second automobile show of the year witl. its exhibit now being held at the Washington Auditorium. play, open this afternoon, will be held throughout the The dis- All the products of the corporation, including automotive and refrigerating, are on view, and are well worth seeing. Admission is free. Yesterday the show was formally opened by Commissioner Allen and large crowds were reported in attendance last night. The show is planned as a stimulus to Spring and Summer buying. Similar exhibits will be held in 51 other large cities. For the first time in many months, | current reports on automobile manu- facturing show all plants of the in- dustry in operation at- one time, ac- cording to the North American News- paper Alllance. This is in contrast to conditions that prevailed during the depression, when plant operation was more or less spasmodic. The depression production rate was governed by advance surveys made by the sales divisions. Thus, while de- mand for certain makes might remain active, plant departments or assembly | lines might be halted temporarily until the right proportion of output | to distribution could be restored. | Hence, the significance of the present condition, which discloses all of the | factory wheels turning. and the lid of “controlled output” off for possibly two more months. | Plant List Complete. What makes the list of plants a| complete one is court permission for ‘Willys-Overland, operating under re- ceivership, to go ahead on a program of 6,100 Willys cars, to be completed in May. Among other factories, all of which | are swinging into April with new pro- duction levels in immediate prospect, high spots recently developed. “B. E. Hutchinson, vice president of the Chrysler Corp., announced retail de- liveries of passenger cars and trucks ! of all this organization’s divisions had reached an all-time top of 15,696 units for one week. This was more than 800 units better than any previous | week. | The entire industry has stepped up | production. and at present is turning | out approximately 12,000 units every | 24 hours. | Commenting on the market for all | these cars, Harry G. Moock, vice presi- | dent in charge of sales for Plymouth, | said: “The automobile industry would | have to manufacture 3,500,000 new cars annually for three straight years to put as many cars on American streets and highways as there were in 1929. The world is still scrapping | more cars than it is building new | ones.” From the Oldsmobile division of General Motors, a report said that the company got 4,473 six and eight- cylinder cars off its assembly line in| one week, marking an all-time high. Activity Expedited. | Hudson's activity was being ex- | pedited. According to A. E. Barit, general manager, this plant's volume ‘was to reach 2,746 units for one week. the largest since January 1. Labor difficulties or possibility of | them has ceased to give present cause | for concern. Workers of virtually all | plants are actively participating ln[’ elections to form their own bdrgain- ing agencies, uncontrolled by union organizers. Sixteen such groups, representing factories in the Michigan area, held an assembly here a week | ago to consider plans for uniting. A second meeting has been arranged for five weeks hence. Alfred P. Sloan, jr., president of General Motors, has issued the usual comprehensive report, covering opera- tions of the corporation during 1934 and its 1935 position. In it he says | the introduction of “knee-action” wheels last year has resulted in em- phasis on the importance of a “better ride.” “Anything and everything,” he re- marks, “that makes for a ‘better ride’ is desirable because of what it con- | tributes toward increased comfort and | reduced fatigue, thus promoting a broader use of the automobile as an instrumentality of transportation. Much has been accomplished recently in this direction by effecting better distribution of weight through moving the engine forward and in certain other ways.” Streamlining Facts. On streamlining, the General Mo- tors president has this to say: “The popular belief is that there is a distinct saving in the operating cost of a motor car embodying cer- tain aerodyknamic features, and that such features add much in other ways to the effectiveness of the car es a whole. The broadest possible gain that can be expected is a some- ‘what higher top speed, or perhaps at top speed an ineonsequential saving in fuel, all other features being the same. “Except for a negligible portion of motor car travel, the contribution of streamlining is definitely limited to the question of styling. There are no other advantages that cannot be ob- tained otherwise.” | Looking back on the first quarter | of the year, the automobile manu- facturers find that the plants have | built more than 1,000,000 cars and | are on the way toward 2,000,000 for the first six months of 1935. Objective for 1935. The magnates’ objective for all of 1935 is approximately 3,500,000 ve- hicles. The factors that point toward it are rising operations for the sec- ond quarter and continuation for the remainder of the year of the arrange- ment suggested by President Roosevelt and his advisers, whereby new model production for 1936 shall be advanced by approximately two months. ‘This plan, formulated with the aim of making employment more con- tinuous over 12 months, will make the introductior: period for new cars center around November 1 instead of January 1. Company executives are reported favoring the holding of auto- mobile shows in the early part of November, with a New York show to be sponsored by the companies instead of the distribution agencies which conducted the 1935 exhibition. ‘Whether or not the industry reaches the 3,500,000 total is con- tingent upon freedom from major de- lays of operation. With body and parts divisions of manufacturing for the present free of strikes, trouble from another quarter has been threat- ened. It is in the form of labor agita- tion that may tie up tire production in the plants of Akron, Ohio. Advance Routing Needed. ‘The necessity for advance routing when planning a motor trip is shown by the fact that at the present time there are nearly 700 construction jobs under way on the Nation's high- ways, according to the A. A. A. District of Columbia Motor Club. “Of these 700 construction jobs,” says Ernest N. Smith, executive vice president of the AmeTIn Automobile -} | paper. Assoclation, “about 380 involve de- tour. In the Northeastern section of the country there are 180 con- struction jobs, with 64 detours; in the Southeast, 169 construction jobs, with 104 detours; in the North-Cen- tral States, 123 construction jobs, with 73 detours; in the South-Central, 119 construction pobs, with 97 detours, and in Western States there are 106 construction jobs, with 39 detours. “With the approach of better weather and with new funds available, road work will increase tremendously and the motorist should be more careful than ever to plan his trip so as to reach his destination without undue delay because of road condi- | tions. ‘While road construction activity is pleasing to the motorist in the abstract, for it promises him even- tually improved transportation, it is nevertheless annoying to drive over those sections where the operations are under way or over poorly con- structed detours.” Police Motormen. The Capital Transit Co. sends in a contribution from a Chicago news- It is doubtful if the scheme will work out there or here. The story is as follows: Chicago's 6,000 street car motor- men will have the last laugh. They've been made special traffic policemen, and they can give & ticket to motor- ists who race past as passengers are alighting or pass on the wrong side or ignore stop lights. The motormen were given pads of blank forms and | pencils March 1 after a safety con- | ference between Capt. David Flynn of the Police Traffic Department and C. H. Evensen, traffic superintendent of the Chicago <urface lines. They were instructed to report all serious traffic violations they saw, especially those involving peril to street car riders, so that the police can trace down the license numbers and send | | offenders tickets. | Automotive Briefs I Leo Rocca, president of Leo Rocca, Inc, direct Dodge and Plymouth ealers, announces the appointment of C. E. (Gene) Ochsenreiter as man- ager of the used car department. Gene Ochsenreiter has been promi- nently connected with the automobile business here for many years. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 7, 1935—PART ONE. l DOWN THE ROAD—Embarrassing Moments. RO. “—;_’%—‘“ " ) i/ D338 wy TmisunE iNC OTORING ADVICE GIVEN FOR WOMEN Care Needed in Tinkering With Auto in Preparation for Spring Driving. BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. In modern motoring it's smart to | be safe and safe to be smart. | Promise of warmer weather doubt- I8ss will encourage many & motorist to go into a service conference with her faithful car. Let me sound a| { note of warning, however, by pointing jout a few of the special dangers in | this tinkering process, especially if you are asking some mechanical-minded member of the family to do a portion | of the work in his amateurish way.| The work, for instance, should be done | out in the open where there is no/| possibility of being endangered by ! carbon monoxide fumes. With the hood raised and the motor running| watch out for the fan. Fingers can be mangled by whirling blades. A bad burn may be the penalty for | |taking hold of the heated exhaust manifold. In cranking the motor to | test compression or to check timing special care should be taken to see! that the crank is securely inserted | |into the end of the shaft. Even with | | the ignition off there is a possibility | of breaking an arm. Never let any one | DAILY SHORT STORY TACTFUL ERROR The Spinster’s One-Night Spree Led to a Scene With Her Boss the Next Day. BY FLO e boss ring= ing for you, Miss Ma- cey!” Miss Macey dropped the pile of copy nervously as she stood up. The cataclysmic |moment was at hand. Even Ga- briel's horn on judgment day was not, she concluded, more final than this, the moment when J. Harriman Bissel would shout “You're fired!” to her from across the room. But inevitable as the outcome was to be, Miss Macey held her head high and her shoulders erect as she marched into the impeccably correct office. Everything about the place looked as calculat- ingly cold as did J. Harriman Bissel seated in the lavender brocaded chair. Motioning her to sit down he continued to stare at her with an indignant scowl. “You've been employed here—how long, Miss Macey?” “Three years, sir!” she replied methodically. J. Harriman Bissel grunted. “I see. And during that time I have always been a considerate man to work for—stern but fair in all re- spects, salary and otherwise?” “Oh, yes, sir!” she agreed. “It is also to your knowledge, Miss Macey, that I never interfere with the private life of my employes, even when gossip concerning them comes to my ears?” “Yes, sir,” she replied weakly. “Yet your behavior last eve- ning—" he reminded her, a note of anger creeping into his voice. She clung to her chair, a ‘rozen expres- sion on her face. A silence hung be- tween them as they faced each oth- er, waiting. . . . Miss Macey, spinsterish and be- spectacled, wanted to stand up and say, “I've done nothing.” She wanted to tell him everything, how it all had come about. She would tell him about the per- sistency of the woman who accosted her each night in the lobby with the plaintive plea, “Only 10 cents for a bunch of violets, please,” holding out & lush handful of velvety beauty. Last night she had given a thin dime 4n exchange for the violets, pin- ning them with excited fingers to the ‘worn lapels of her coat She hastened her footsteps, glanc- ing stealthily at the coated mirror of a weighing machine. It reminded her, with a hurting bitterness of s girl who had worn a pink dress with violets and was now nothing more than a faded print of herself. But even that knowled®e could not drown the beauty that was glowing through her starved body. Violets—she never wanted to see them again. Last night when she had arrived at the sedate rooming house which she had called home since her mother’s death to find Mr. Lamson, the perennial hcarder whose wife had died over 20 years before, staring at her with a new glance and suggesting, “Suppose we dine out to- night, Miss g had crushed the violets to her hungrily. She wondered now as she sat here facing J. Bissel, why she She had given a thin dime. GARVEY. had on that one | night out, suggest- ed the White Cel- lar. Perhaps it was the only night club of whose exis- | tence she was aware. White Cellar was one mile outside the | State line made it savagely exciting to her withered emotions. She saw it all now; the dim lights; soft music; the white bubbly stuff in frosty glasses that had made her feel very | flighty and gay. It was over the | swaying heads and | bodies of the danc- | ers that she had | seen — him. His | eyes were fastened | on her. She had | siackened her pace to reassure her- self that it really was J. Harriman | Bissel dining with’ a woman in a | bronze tulle dress. She might have made a hasty exit, and none would have been the wiser. Instead she had deliberately walked past his table in an effort to reassure him, in cese he had seen her in a more frivolous moment, that she was perfectly sober and respectable. Per- haps therein had been her greatest mistake, for surely the antagonistic look which he had given her made it | seem that she had done the incor- | rect thing. “If there is one thing that I de- mand in my help, 1t is tact!” Facing her once again he said po- litely, but with utter finality, “You may collect your two weeks’ ad- vance salary on your way out, Miss Macey.” After the blow nad fallen Miss "Macey clung tighter to her chair, her face paling and flushing in turn. Sud- denly she lurched up from her seat, faced him, her spindly shoulders shaking with sobs. “I didn’t mean to, sir'” she plead- ed with desperation. “It just hap- pened somehow. Everything was so beautiful. You see, I hadn't been to one of those gay parties for over 20 years. I guess it sort of got me— then when I saw you, sir, with your wife—" She broke out anew in a torrent of tears. At this new outbreak J. Harriman Bissel, who was used to tears of dis- charged employes, tore his glance away from the window. He wore a kindly expression on his counte- nance. “When you saw me with—my wife, She nodded her head, her face tightening. A relenting smile now mellowed the scowl as he came over to where she stood and placed a hand on her shoulder. “All right, then, Miss Macey, I'l give you another chance to prove yourself.” He reached for a cigarette, placing it with precision in the hold- er. “Beginning this very minute you will fill the vacancy left by Miss Bain- ter, my private secretary. with an in- crease in sslary, of course.” After the bewildered Miss Macey had gone J Harriman Bissel slid un- der his typewriter, wrote with labori- ous one-finger typing: “Stupidity in a woman is sometimes her greatest WHEN YOU DISCOVER THE COUPLE, WHOSE DRIVING YOU CRITICISED SO FRANKLY AFTER A NEAR-COLLISION A FEW MINUTES BEFORE, ARE COMING TO THE SAME PARTY N By FRANK BECK 7 irrras, ] | get under the car unless the hend| brake is set and the car doors are| closed. A woman who reads these weekly suggestions on carkeeping has been having considerable trouble trying to keep the carburetor from leaking. Usu- ally this sort of trouble is due to the float not working properly or to the needle valve being worn or unseated, but a check-up of these points has failled to solve the problem. I have suggested that she ask her service man to check the jets to see that they are sufficiently tight. Loose carburetor jets may develop leakage. This is a rule that applies to most carburetors. It is always important, however, to guard against making an exceptional rule too general. Iam re- minded of this by the sad case of the | woman motorist who ordered holes drilled in the oil ring grooves as a cure of excessive oil consumption. | She had heard that this proved to be a successful remedy in the case of a friend’s car, but she overlooked the possibility that it might not be suited to the needs of her own car. Reducing the pressure with the aid of the regu- lator and using a more appropriate grade of oil would have solved the trouble in her case. There's a thought in the case of & friend who is breaking in her car by doing an extra amount of shopping with it. Because the motor idles in traffic and turns ever many extra revolutions during parking it will not be necessary for this owner to await completion of the full first thousand miles before driving in the higher speed range. A motor breaks in.more quickly in traffic than on the road. Last vear defective steering mech- anism was responsible for nearly as many accidents as were punctures and blowouts. Women who do not know all the details of steering may well wonder just what they themselves can do to be assured freedom from such hazard. It is not encugh to have the steering mechanism regularly inspect- ed; equally important being the need for reporting to your service man any feeling that the car is not steering normally. When a woman driver com- plained that the car seemed to make | an odd bumping noise as the front wheels were cut for parking her service man found that one of the front springs was broken. Springs play an important role in the security of steering. The week's safety sermonette is the gentle warning to cut down speed at sundown. Dust is always especially dangerous because of low visibility | and the fact that so many drivers go Perhaps, too, the | fact that the, right into the dark period before re- membering to switch on their lights. If you have ever had your lights go out completely, leaving you groping in the dark with the car traveling at a lively clip, you won't make the com- mon mistake of increasing speed after darkness sets in and when the head- lights give a false sense of visibility. Paying $1 costs for indulging in three violations is cheap experience when the violator learns that so much can be illegal about the car when it is not even in use. She thought it would be taking a chance to park on the “no parking” side of a one-way street, but she did not realize that leaving the car too near the intersection could be just as illegal where parking was prohibited as on the side of the street where allowed. The third violation was leaving the car unoccupied with the motor running. She had meant this to be merely a brief violation, but it proved to be tripiets. Next time she will park on the sunny side of the street. Many women are just coming to realize that the police are far more forgiving if drivers are willing to ad- mit their faults. One of them who used to take a chance on going ahead when not paying too strict attention to the red lights recently decided to back up when she discovered herself half way across an intersection with the lights dead against her. Safely back to the white line an officer step- ped up to inform her that by admitting the oversight and trying to make :‘rxr‘\ends she had saved herself & $10 e, Why is it s0 many married women take it for granted that the husband should drive when they both go out together in the car? It wouldn't be so bad if milady could be treated to a high standard of operation, but that is so seldom the case. Even if the wife is the poorer driver of the two a discussion of her mistakes, should she decide to drive, would make the ride more profitable to both parties. Mus ic—.\—V eek- Celebration. T!{! District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs, Gertrude Lyons president, has made arrangements with Dr. John Finley Williamson, conductor of the Westminster Choir, to assist in a two-day celebration of National Music Week in the District of Columbia. In 1927 Dr. Williamson .came here to conduct a chorus made up of many choirs and singing clubs, and these same units are ting with the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs for the event on May 8. The concert will be preceded by a dinner on May 7, when Dr. William- scn will be the guest speaker, using as his topie, “Music the National Need” Reservations can be made for the dinner by writing or phoning Eva Whitford Lovette, 1910 N street, Metropolitan 1163, and registrations for the chorus can be made at Ger- trude Lyons’ studio, 1325 G street northwest. Mrs. Pred Lane McGif- fin, Joseph A. Hauber and Mrs. James O. Cade make up the Committee on Arrangements for. the massed cone cert. The first rehearsal will be held True Story to Continue. “The True Story Court of Human Relations” will continue its run on Columbia indefinitely as a result of & contract renewal. Newspaper Asks Station. Latest of the major newspapers to seek a radio station is the Hartford ‘Times, which has applied to the Fed- eral Communications Commission for authority to erect & new 100-watter in that city. THE NEW If you : know how and find out for yourself ho. ROUGH VIRGINIA ROADS REPORTED Some Are Broken Up by Severe Weather of Winter. Rough conditions on nearby roads in Virginia are shown on the recent map issued for this vicinity by the Washington office of the American Automobile Association. The latest bulletin warns motorists that in areas which were affected by the se- vere Winter weather, roads are in some cases broken up, and that the condition will prevail until mainte- nance forces have had a chance to make repairs. Rough roads listed on the map within 100 miles of Washington in- clude U. 8. 17, Saluda to Gloucester; U. 8. 15, Middleburg to Culpeper; Va. 2, Fredericksburg to Richmond; , Fredericksburg to Culpeper, and Va. 5, Richmond to U. 8. 15. Other road conditions listed are as follows: U. 8. 50—Between Washington and Winchester, construction east of | Winchester to Boyce is rough. U. S. 11—Short stretch of construc- tion at Strasburg, slippery after rain | and rough. | _ Va. 3—Construction between Pront | Royal, Va., and Washington, on new | location; no trouble. U. S. 15—North of Warrenton, old | road rough, construction on new lo- cation. Va. 17—Scarifying road between Fredericksburg and Bealeton. | U. 8. 29 and Va. 3—Construction | south of Culpeper, fair if dry, muddy ,and slippery when wet; advisable to use other routes when wet. Five| miles construction between Culpeper (and Griffinsburg. Scarifying road | Va. 4. Through traffic advised to go via Gordonsville and Orange. Rough and broken up between U. S. 15 and Shadwell, trucks are adcised to go via Boswell's Tavery. U. 8. 1—Five miles concrete widen- ing north of Ashland. U. 8. 60—Five and one-half miles widening pavement east of Richmond. S Deltaville-Harborton Ferry across ‘hesapeake Bay has discontinued operations indefinitely. “See™ Audiences Gain. Listeners who want also to see have put the networks into the free show business. They even rent Broadway theaters—one chain has three. Maybe the network chieftains would frown upon the term “free show,” but tickets to watch broadcasts in action do not cost a cent. They're procured by writing in or knowing a friend who knows. On the average night around 5,500 New Yorkers, suburbanites and others trek into the studios of the networks. On Sunday nights this average will go up a couple thousand more. N. B. C. was the first chain to con- sider the possibilities of a Broadway theater. That happened early in 1930 when it revamped a roof theater into a studio by installing a special glass curtain to separate the 600 patrons from the stage. Experience demon- strated that such a curtain was not at all necessary. Now the broadcast- ers use theaters just the same as is done for regular performances. N. B. C. continued to operate its theater studio until Radio City was opened in November, 1933. One studio there will hold 1,500 customers besides plenty of performers. Three others care for 300 persons each, while nine | smaller rooms handle from 50 to 100. The biggest studio has a built-in bal- | cony, while nine have glass-inclosed observation chambers. Even this space has not been ample, for on Bunday nights N. B. C. pre- sents one broadcast from a large thea- ter, using the main floor and the mez- zanine for its guests. It is C. B. S. which is the tenant of three Broadway theaters, all of | which have been fixed up with broad- | cast needs particularly in mind. It | | from Culpeper to Brandy, slippery if vet, U. S. 29 and Va. 5—Rough and | broken between Charlottesville and' “alle, you Come .y its per- formance fulfills the promise of its appearance. On busy city streets, it glides through traffic with alert and resourceful ease. On country highways, it meets the challenge of the open road with hour after hour of swift, unlabored speed. On long, sweeps to the top hard, mountain grades, it in flashing, effortless stride. $1225 started in February, 1934, with one holding 1,100 persons; added a 750-seat second in October and the third, car- | ing for 500, last February. | SENIOR OFFICERS TO GET NEW POSTS Gen. Russell Shortly to Send Them to Other Sta- tions. Maj. Gen. John H. Russell, com- mandant of the Marine Corps, will shortly assign a large number of the senior line officers to new stations, especially those officers who will have completed their courses at the Naval War Coliege, the Army War College and the senior course of the Army School of the Line. All captains “ho have not been recommended as eligible for promo- tion will be automatically severed from active duty and retired on June 30. This is in accordance with the provisions of the personnel bill and will eliminate a large number of captains who are aged in grade yet not entitled to retirement and whose retention has tended to create s se- rious “hump” in promotion. Maj. Robert L. Montague will shortly complete his course of studies at the Ecole de Guerre, Paris, and will be detached from the office of the United States naval attache at Paris to the staff of the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico. Capt. Erwin Mehlinger, who has been on duty with the American Le- gation guard, Peiping, China, will shortly return to the United States. Lieut. Col. Ross E. Rowell, now on duty as commanding officer of Afr- |craft 1, Quantico, has been selected by | by Maj. Gen. Russell as relief of Lieut. Col. Roy S. Geiger, officer in charge of all aviation activities of the corps. Commissions have been issued to the following in the grades indicated: Brig. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, Col Charles F. B. Price, Lieut. Col. Karl 1. Buse, Maj. Donald J. Kendall, Maj. Lewis B. Reagan, Capts. Willlam W. Paca, Lawrence R. Kline, Shelton C. Zera, John E. Curry and Pirst Lieut. Louis C. Plain. FLASHING LA SALLE Now examine the new La Salle detail by detail. Note the safety provided by the new solid steel Turret-Top Fisher Bodies, Hydraulic Brakes. and the big Super- Observe that the interiors are smartly tailored in quality fabrics, and that all appointments are of quality character. Check every feature of this distinctive automobile and you will find that the new La Salle has been built throughout to fine car ideals . . . that it well deserves the title, the extra value La Salle. end up, list Sedan, list price, price at the Cadillac factory, Detroit, Michigan. Offered in four models. Model illustrated, the Four-Door Touring $1295. Special equi extra. uw;’.-m.fl‘m and is available e conveniens G.M.A.C. tevws. DEALER ADVERTISEMENT CAPITOL CADILLAC COMPANY F. D. AKERS, President 1222 22nd St. N.W. at GENERAL MOTORS SPRING SHOWING—Washington Auditorium, Apr. 6-Apr. 13 Also on dis . NAtional 3300