New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1928, Page 14

MORE WERGERS I HOTORS EXPECTED Wall Siret Is Hearing Many Rumors New York, June 29 (M—Hydra- headed rumora of automobile mer- gers stalk the byways of Wall Street. Newspaper men trail one to a denial only to learn two more. Most of them sprang full-born in to being during the night after th recent announcement of the Chrys- ler-Dodge consolidation. Others have grown more slowly to maturity Many are Invented. Despite assertions of Walter P. Chrysler that his corporation secks neither to rival the existing big combinations nor to expand faster than the market warrants, Wall street is prone to believe that Chry- aler is not done with mergers. Con- sequently it would cause little sur- prise to see companies producing steel and other necded raw material, automobile equipment and heavy- duty motor trucks taken under the Chrysler wing. White trucks and Murray bodies are mentioned as de- sirable articles to fill gaps in the Chrysler line-up. But Chrysler is not alone men- tioned in talk of mergers. The sug- gested consolidations apparently are limited only by the combinations possible by the number of compan- ies producing motor vehicles. It has been learned that White may merge with Reo. There has been talk of a White-Mack consolidation. Old rumors have been revived to the ef- fect that Mack Truck may become a General Motors unit Moon-Gardner or Moon-Auburn mergers are considered real possi- bilitles. From other sources come reports that several makers of me- dlum-priced cars and trucks may build a combination around Stude- baker. The strect persists in belie: ing that Peerless, once on the way to a tie-up with Jordan, is secking to merge with two companies, one producing bodies and the other a new type of motor. Jordan actually appears to be headed for a mer through negotiations with Arrow. However, more recent re- ports indicate that such negotiations have been unsuccessful and that others are under way looking to a consolidation of Pierce-Arrow and Studebaker. Packard is known to have been invited to consider con- solidation proposals, but its execu- tives are said to have declared they wish to remain independent, Declaration of W. C. Durant ahout a year ago that within 12 months or 80 he would make an announcement that would startle the industry has led to reports that the street is pre- paring to share the thrill by await- ing & Durant merger in the near fu- ture, Some erudite financier has figured that Durant has enough in- fluence to showing a consolidation of Locomobile, Packard, Reo, Hupp and Durant. For a while there was talk of a Packard-Nash-Hudson combination, but this has been dis- pelled in conjecture as to the na- ture of the expected new Nash models. Absurd as may seem much of the talk, the automotive industry, which has become highly competitive both in the passenger car and truck manufacturing and retail ffelds, ap- pears definitely to be toward con- solidation. The number of produc- ing companies has been reduced, through financial legerdemain or the natural risks of business, to a mere quarter of the pre-war total. There is & growing belief that the industry soon may rest in the hands of a few such gigantic combinations as Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. Bankers are said to view the trend with approval, believing that a few Top Center Full length Full width ° Full round | tails Neatly laun- | dered Pierce | solid corporations are preferable to & greater number of smaller and possibly less substantial companies. The effect upon the retail field re- mains to be eeen, although there are indications that a decrease in the number of competing sales and service stations would work no great harm. CHRYSLER HEARD GALL OF FATES Followed His Honch and Found Success June 29 (P—Walter P. T resigned from a $12,000 po- | sition to take a $6,000 job some 17 | years ago. Today as head of the | Chirysler corporation, he is a multi- millionaire. His spectacular success as an automobile manufacturer passed another milestone recently when his corporation acquired the properties of Dodge Brothers. 100k their heads doubtfully when Chrysler decided to | auit his position as general mana- | ger of the American Locomotive works back in 1911 and capitalize on a hunch that the automobile in- dustry faced a future greater than any had visione He became president of the Buick Motor company at $6,000 a vear. When W, C, Durant took over Gen- cral Motors he was made executive vice-president. In 1620 he et eral Motors to help pull Willys-Or land cut of a $64,000,000 debt reduc- ing it in one year to $18,000,000. Continuing his work of giving first aid to disabled automobile compan- ies, in 1921 he took over the totter- ing Maxwell structure. Three years later he put the Maxwell on the shelf and brought out a new motor car to which he gave his own name. In four years it has climbed to a position with the industry's leaders in point of production and sales. Chrysler was born in Wamego, Kas., in 1876, son of a locomotive engineer, so it was rather. natural [ that he should begin his working areer as a mechanic’s apprentice in the Union Pacific shops at Ellis, Kas. He was 17 then and drew five cents an hour.' Eventually he be- | cume foreman of the Colorado & Southern shops at Trinidad, Col, then superintendent of motive power for the Chicago & Northwestern. Later he joined the American Loco- motive company as works manager | and In two years rose to the position | of general manager. France Is Not Much Agog Over Nomination of Smith Paris, June 29 (P- -8ix of Smith and a half dozen of Hoover, it is all the same to France, get her bille for war debts anyway,” writes Jacgues 1Bain- ville, well known political journal- ist. The news from Houston reiched Paris too late for comuient in the morning papers. The official and public viewpoint In France toward { Governor Smith’s nomination can be | summed up in “we told you s0.” | New Aspirin- Laxative Checks Spring Colds When you feel a cold creeping on , take Asper-Lax! It's a wonder | for knocking the ambition out of & | healthy cold and setting you on your | feet again. New kind of aspirin in | laxative form. Quickly neutralizes and | eliminates toxic poisons. Harmless, effective. On sale at all druggists with money-back guarantee, ENGLISH BROADCLOTH Collars Attached or Neckband Mo, '1.44 S GREEK THEORIES | FITS TELEVISION iTenet Pointed Out by Bel Phone Company New York, June 23 (®—O0ld Greek philosophers who held that “in the act of sceing, light comes out of a person’s eves and explores the object mt which he is looking. were all wrong in their theory of vi- | sion, but they unwittingly explained the action of that modern marvel of electrical science, thestelevision eye. The parallel between this tenet of {ancient philosophy and the principle of a twentieth century triumph is | pointed out by Frank Gray of the | ' research department of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. “What a comfort it might be to proponents of this long-discarded theory,” says Gray in referring to | the belief of the Greek, “if they could know that our television sy tem apparently sees by shooting a beam of light from what looks like an eye." Television sees, he explains, by casting a beam of light over the ob- ject it 8 to picture, thereby revers- ing the action of the eye which registers only when light rays pene- trate the retina. In television, the engineer points out, the light starts from what had previously been re- zarded as its destination. Briefly, the sceing device of the television consists of a lens-eye which looks at an object flooded with light from one or more lamps. The lens forms | an image of the ohject on a rotat- | j nalist, ing disc containing a series of holes, back of which is a photo-electri cell that changes the light into elec. trical fmpulses. When an aperture in the disc moves across the lmagi\i STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW YORK "600& morning, motor’ ”(‘ OO0D morning, Boss. Say, talking shout horrible examples, you ought to look over that car next door. 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After striking the object the light is re- flected in all directions and some of it enters the photo-electric cells. These transfer the light into ele trical signals for transmission b wire or radio.” Richard Whiteing Dies At Home in England londen, June 29 (A—R" rd Whitcing, British autior and jour- died at his home in Hamp- stead today. He was an editorial writer and correspondent for various British newspapers including tha Man- chester Guardian and served us cor- respondent for seve American papers including the New York World. NO COMMENT AT VATICAN Rome, June 2% (UP)—News of le nomination of Gov. Alfred &mith of New York as presidential candi- date on the democratic ticket was received without comment at the ‘atican when the news was tele- honed today by the United Press. Mficials showed great interest in the nomination. ago, he did eighteen ANY Oil exclusively. Some of these hardworking trucks and cars havegone 90,000 and 100,000 miles without needing overhauling. Any car owner who standardizes on Socony products can do as well— and many do. Socony Special will silence If you have a new car with a high that knock tale acroes the hedge. gain hunter— drives all over town looking for cheap hobo gas. Whenever he sees & pump with a cut prige, be flls the tank. Buys his oil at the same places. If ever & motor had the T. B. that poor car has it. He's so choked up he can hardly inhale his gas. His bearings are so worn and loose, it sounds like & milk wagon going over cobbles even when he's idling. Seys bis cylinders are in terrible shape. When he was new a year about seven now. Ain't it a pity, Boss? There ought to be a law against abusing motors. SEE BETTER FUEL FOR AUTOMOBLES Wil Be Sod in Fuwe on Meri | New York, June 29—Gasoline will be sold on its merits as a motor fuel | even more than motor cars will be {sold on their merits as motor cars, | says George Granger Brown, profes- {sor of chemical engineering in the , University of Michigan. Prof. Brown forecasts “thc gaso- line of tomorrow” in a statement made public by the American Chemi cal society. Dr. Brown ia director of research of the National Gasoline Association of America. His conclusions are the result of a careful study of tendencies in the petroleum and automotive indus- tries in which he points out the in- | fluence of motor car design on the qualities of motor fuel. Refiners no longer are shifting the problem of better motoring on to manufacturers, says Brown, The introduction of ethyl gasoline, for | instance, marks the turning point. ‘ Three Fuel Eras. “The relation between these two | industries may be divided into three | periods” Prof. Brown states. “The | first period, from about 1900 to 1916 | covers the rapid development of | motor cars during the first years of which the fuel, gasoline, was consid- | ered essentially a by-product or! ! waste of the petroleum industry. 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Gas Fits Motor, Now. “The last period begins with the introduction of ethyl gasoline in 1922, which indicates the beginning of a period in which the refiners producers of motor fuel a conscientious effort to improve the qualities of their fuel and to adapt the fuel to fit the needs of the motor. “Perhaps all of the refiners have not vet fully awakened, but the which still considers #t simply a problem of the motor car manufacturer to produce a car or motor that will handle any fuel that the refiners may choose to market is rapidly diminishing.” As the present tendency In mo- tor fuel is to emphasize those prop- erties which determine superior en- gine performance, says Prof. Brown, it seems likely that the motor fuel for the immediate future will be marketed upon the hasis of perform- ability, and that the characteristics which indicate superior motor or engine performance will be those demanded in a motor fuel. BAKERY SUES FOR $500 Claiming that Zoya Oshana oper- |ated his automobile recklessly, care- lessly, negligently and at an immod- erate speed when it struck a truck of the Parker-Buckey Co. at the cors ner of Winter and Spring streets, the | Parker-Buckey Co. has brought suit {for $300. The accident occurred on November 28, 1927. Property of the defendant High street has been attached. torney Donald Gafiney the plaintiff and Constable Clynes served the papers. According to another writ filed 1t the city clerk's office Louis Ansel mo has attached property of Angein Cianflone on Day street. o Ar represen “ranci- PAJAMA PARADES CONTINUE Venice, June 29 (UP)—Fashion- able visitors to the Lido continued their pajama parades today while ordinary visitors waited for the re- construction of the popular priced pavilion, destroyed in a 3,000,000 lirc fire yesterday. It is hoped to start reconstruction of the pavilion within ten days, so t * crowds can be accommodated again. 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