The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1924-02-17
Auto Show
Doors Open
on Monday
Promoters of 10Th Annual Ex.
hibit Expect Largest Crowd
in History of Event
to Attend.
40 Makes Are on Display

Promoters of the Omaha automo-
bile show, which will be opened in
the Auditorium Monday afternoon at
2, are sanguine that there will be
more out-of-town visitors than have
attended any previous show held
in this city. This will be the 10Th
annual motor vehicle exposition and
will be open from $50 a. m. to 1890
Omaha Automobile Trade association.
After the opening day the show
Will be ope from 9:3o a. m. to 1890
p. m, until next Saturday, inclusive.
Thirty-five exhibitors will display
40 lines of passenger cars and nine
lines of tractors. The achievements
Of the best engineering and manufac-
turing skill of the automobile indus
try in the United States will be rep
resented at the show in $50 models,
most OF which will be closed cars
Plan Trade Frolic.
One of the incidental features of
the show will be the fourth annual
dealers dinner and trade frolic of
the Omaha Automobile Trade asso-
citation, in ballroom of Hotel Fonte-
nellie, next Wednesday night, at 6.
C. F. Kettering, who will be the
speaker of the occasion, is head of
the research bureau of the General
Motors corporation. He Is speaker
of national Importance and Is said to
have an ability to interpret the future
OF the automobile interest as few men
in this country can do.
Two orchestras have been engaged
to enliven the automobile show. Fri
day night will be musical night
when special features will be offered.
The decoration scheme for the show
this year was worked out by Cook
Rettinger, who has charge of the dec
oration department at Burgess-Nash
store. The color scheme Is white and
green and TIE lighting effects will be
an improvement. The exhibit of ac-
cessories will be on the stage and
trucks will be shown In the basement.
The show managers and workers Ia
bored all last night and will be busy
today on the finishing touches. Ex-
hibits we're shipped last night by ex-
press from the auto show at Kansas
City.
Four Wheel Brakes.
Attendants at the show will have
an opportunity to examine four
wheel brakes in demonstration and
also view the balloon type of tires.
Models of the Chrysler, Rollln and
Flint cars will be shown here for the
first time. Many factory representa-
tives will be here and sales confer
ences are scheduled.
A. 3. Waugh, commissioner OF the
Omaha Automobile Trade association
and manager of the automobile show.
stated that reports indicate record
attendance of out of town visitors.
''There will be more visitors to the
show than we have ever had and l
say this advisedly." Mr.. Waugh as
serted. 1.-The outlook in this auto
mobile trade territory for 1924 Is
better than 1920. During last year
there were 3.s44,o0o passenger cars
and $50 900 commercial cars manu-
factured in this country. 1t Is esti-
mated that between 4,260,000 and
500 900 cars will be the output this
year"
Association Officers.
The officers Of the Omaha Automo-
bile Trade association are: Guy l..
Smith, president; Lee Huff, vice presi-
dent; Clarke G. Powell, secretary
treasurer: A. B. Waugh, commits
sioner. The directors are: Guy l..
Smith, Lee Huff, Clarke G. Powell.
J. M. Opper, r. e. Davis, A. c. Storz
and j. II. Hansen.