New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1929, Page 11

inset, and below i its wheelbase is less than half the body NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1929. World’s Smallest Auto Designed To Solve U. S. Parking Problem You can drive upper photo sl Martin, > view of of rocm for two persons New ' York, Aug .2 - Tlonk! | even RbnRAL N ; the dJ pa, dear. He's bringi Fome the new car. Open the fre door so he’ can drive in. My, o ) “lor ia this tiny ne [of the road independently of the [ oth | Sixty Miles An Hour This motor midget will step out, too. Sixty miles an hour on | smooth pavement — and up to 50 on a rough road. Fifty miles on |a gallon of gasoline. driving cost s will last 25,000 miles, and | their running cost is only about one- cighth that of tires on standard | 1928 MYSS MEXIED light cars. A four-cyclinder, air-cooled mo- {or. And—bad naws for garage men —there’ll be little for the car can be lubricated almost for its lifetme when i shipped to the buyer, and th> ave ervicing” neces- | age experienced motorist should be | (Beauty Learns General Is Twice |able to give the motor most of the attention it would require, the builders claim. “I've tried to answer the Ameri- can motorist’s cry tor a place to park by building a car that can be purked alniost any aid In- ventor Martin. We've made only When London was being terror- | {ized by German air raids, the Srit- ish Admiralty called on him to plan methods of resisting maraud- ing enemy fliers. He was in Lon- | don during 17 air attacks by Ger- |mans. As an executive in post- | ing with Herbert Hoover, he won decorations from the United States and foreign governments, MURDERS HUSBA Nl]" Married, Emnties Pistol Mexico City, Aug. (R—Senora Marie Teresa De Landa De Vil “Miss Mexico” in the 1928 Galv Two cents | war relief work in Europe, work- | three cars to date—each a two-pas- | ton beauty contest, was in a prison | senger model that will accommodate cell foday, having shot and killed three without too much crowding. | her husband, General Mol Vidal Ifour-passenger trucks are coming up soon, Martin now is negotiating with Wall Stres wiers to finance a manu company for the c and he expects to market his auto- motive prod through a lar mail order hous Midget in Welght only 600 models and light | After reading in a newspaper that she and General Vidal were to ne arrested for v, she procured his heavy army pistol and turned it on him, firing six shots which ki him almost instantly. She tior placed the m to her own head {“nd pulled the trigger but the maga- zine was empty. | Police arriving found Senora Vi- ing on the ! dal prone on the bhody of her hus- Martin pointed out. “And we extras, either. There attractive upholstery, an electric starter, spcedometer, ammeter — even a windshield wipe “The car is less than half the and one-third the weight of haven't ignored the| comfortable | the I'ord Model A, the smallest | American-made smaller wheel-b. |too. than the British-manufactu | ed Austin Seven which will soon be introduced to the American market.” It is easy to understand why the cars can be produced so cheaply. | The various parts are extreneiy simple in construction, and here are | than half as many of them as the ndard coupe contains. The small four cylinder motor is air- cooled, so there is no radiator. Ihe ordinary type of difterenual on the rear axle has been eliminaced. The | | light torqy ir shaft requires no bear- | band crying hysterically, T love: him dearly.” She told them the newspaper article was the first m mation she had that Vidal was nu.r- r and won s after she had failed to win the Galveston von- test. The first Senora De Vidal lives in Gosamalopan, V ] with her two daughters. She became suspi- cious of her husband’s long absences according to newspaper ace \d following him to Mexico discovered his duplicity. She thun filed charges of higamy. The story was published in Mexico City newspapers Saturday but seen only yesterc by the vo wife. who is years old. handed the paper to the gen with instructions to read. She hen went into the general's room auna obtained his pistol. Under Mexican law hoth he and she might have been sent to prison I(':Jr the bigamo Police ecture Girls On Evils Of Soliciting Automebile Rides From Youths Who Are Strangers | Patrol West Main Street at Suggestion of Chief Halt and Are “Picked Up” By Group—Interfere With Hitch Hikers The evils of soliciting rides fro hiking—of strange young | hiking and again the girls promised Who Have Climbed Into Car. f)his lecture on the evils of hitch at they w 1d s he practice men—wero forcibly pointed out to | that they would stop the practi four young. girls on West Main | Hetibers and Brophy 1d been ¢ f of Police William C. Chief Hart was riding down West noticed two groups of girls soliciting rides. | Main street when he ag to the station he told th rs about it and sent them out to warn the girls. In one of the police cars they went, At Walnut Hill park they |Buck McGrath, met the first group of girls. “Hey! Give us a ride?” they were asked wh drew up 1o the curb. The girls had not no- ticed that the men were in polic unhiform. They go! then and there Officer Hellberg 4 livered his first lecture of the eve ning, pointing out the dang would eventually befall girls who solicited 2 men e girls pr would do it no more licemen drove on In (ront of the Masonig femple the officers drove past just in tine to see two oth and get into men, Pulling ahead in the poii ifter their at- illed to the prac- into the car an airls solicit rides with two youns 'g irews of M n POSTMASTER IS DEAD Mrs. Rose Buck McGrath Expires Today After Hlness of fal to t Soutkington, Aug Mrs. Rose wife of Postmasrer John ¥. her home on North Main stre McGrath, died suddenly a shortly after midnight last ni been a semi-nvalia for th 11 ye Her husband heard her me: W minutes before sh2 died \ to her side but =i s which ¢ aid could be sumi- moned Jesides her yand, she leavis two daughte Anna Mae and Rit ath. t younger being ! three brothers, Jan 1d Robert Buck n and e sisters, Miss Buck and Mrs f Southington and Mrs. W funcral will be held Wednes car the officers forced the driver of | day morning at § omas' church the other car and stop. Oificer Helll back to the c “Do yon know men?" b he girls to pull to cur lighted and wen; we know them.” was the reply. And when the young mer vere asked it 1k knew the girls | dition at a hospital here today as re- | the reply was an affirmative. 1l when it came 1 ving adc all partics becan hopelessly mbled in Officer Hellberg deliver Qi the accident w b | Burial will b St. Thomas' ceme- tery MOTORCYCLY Aug. 26 M i 1. son of I Selectman Greene Huling of Har ton. was reported in a critical con- sult of injuries received in a motor- | cevele accident Sunday. The youth | in the road near wrecked machine. Cause of unknown | was found unconscios all of | BADLY HURT wp | Here it is. .. the first Straight-Eight in the 1000 field the ose VG//"’ MARMON=BUILT HIS price field, once made up al- most entirely of fours, and later dominated by sixes, now has a straight-eight as its leader. Hereitis—the Mar- mon-built Roosevelt— the world’s first and ealy $1000 eight. 70 horsepower — as compared with 55 to 60in most i cars at this price. Smoother lity no $1000 power — faster pick-up —less shifting, because it’s an eight. A full-size, five-passen- for you. Willy ger car —husky, yet per- po. e 80; fectly proportioned. $746, i Easy riding—it is not ex- celled by any car, irrespec- Rooserelt 5-Pas. The great evidence is the caritself. A Rooseveltisready s Marmon 68, i mon 78, $71965. Prices at factory. Group equip- Charland’s Auio Service 132 MAIN STREET 324 E. MAIN STREET East Main At Elm Street TELEPHONE 1544 <anmm—— B A PP 4075 53 hope he doesn*t drip oil on the liv-| This dw ing room rug!" Why, hello, Wilbur 1Cs Easily Paiked ! With its five-foot wheel base and | CGarden | reduced width, Martin's midget can | it cute? What? You ho ooks like a vest- | park in half the space required by | dozen of them today? e ¢ 5 on the | the darling! Let's sce—we'll g rd—but aciually dical in- der th> Kitchen sink, one out on t ack pore world, Gesi 1 s artin, hext larger car. Until now, Martin always has been of an airy turn of mind—ror . ‘another up in Aunt h s no ch no frame | h amed as the inventor of more Elsic’s room, and . g ind no axles. ¢ ¢ wheels | than 40 patented devices applicable e are indey 1 to the| to airplanes and as the builder of Nut stuff? No, but it's the lat- body of the v itseli—and the | the Martin homber biplane and the sst.nut apd bolt stuff in the motor | floor of {1 hottom of | first light scouting plane. | industry a_ four-cylinder, G0- | the car. | Martin staged the first aviation | ail order au- [ Neither springs. | show in this country-—the Harvard- tomohile that's the tinlest ever [The wheels are sus i Boston Aero Meet in 1910. 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