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Evening star., 1927-05-01
Learned From the Dash

Have YOU ever seen more attrac-
tive instrument board?" asked Smith
the other day, revealing a little JUSTIN
able pride in his new car. 1 IKE that
indirect lighting, and the grouping
certainly is artistic
1T is a work of art" / admitted.
II wonder why they spend so much
time and effort on things that mean
nothing to drivers.
Smith settled back in his seat ana
prepared for q lecture on why drivers
should know what gauges are saying
But that was not the way To become
familiar with the instrument board.
Instead l suggested taking q little
spin down some less Travelled boule-
ward, where we could discuss these
instruments and discover their real
value.
Presently we were rolling along at
% miles an hour, with enough clear,
ance ahead to Justify an occasional
glance at the instrument board.
"Whv does that oil pressure gauge
register so high?" Smith inquired.
I've read through the instruction
but / fail to see where this tallies with
it's statements 1t says that the gauge
should register about 80 for this speed,
and you see where it is,
Pointers Position Counts.
At the moment the gauge was al
40. These graduations on the oil pres
sure gauge usually are arbitrary ana
vary for different cars. 1t is the posi-
ton of the pointer that counts. IL II
Is too far to the high side, pressure is
excessive and the reason should pe
investigated if it continues that way.
perhaps you didn't notice that
when we started the pointer nearly
touched So" / remarked. IF you had
noticed il / think you would not be
quite so surprised at what you now
find for you would have observed
that the pressure is falling as the car
get under way. This simply indicates
that the oil in the crankcase was cold
and CONCEALED when we started. AS
it reached it's normal consistency pres
sure. too. goes back TO normal"
This was a good opportunity to eX-
plain to him the advantage of the oil
pressure gauge as an index of the con-
dition Of the engine oil.
"AS the weather grows warmer, or
if you are keeping the car in a we'll
heated garage, assuming that it is
cold weather. the pointer should not
register so high a pressure even in
starting. I would suggest to you
that YOU make a note of how high the
Indicator registers some day when you
have Just refilled the crankcase. At
that time your oil will be new but of
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approximately normal starting tenn
perature.
Suppose, after noticing that With
usual conditions the pressure remains
at so until the engine becomes hot,
YOU start the car some normally warm
morning and find that the indicator
goes only to 40 Wouldn't this indi-
cate dilution of the lubricant?
Utilize Pressure Gauge,
''The oil pressure gauge. properly
read. is your cue to change oil. 1t is
far more important than the speedom-
eter in this respect. It's not q mat
ter of how far you go that determines
the need for oil change so much as
the condition of the engine, the way
you drive it, the oil you use, the type
of driving you indulge in and the
weather conditions 1t is perfectly
safe to drive across the continent on
a continuous run If you add enough
oil to keep the crankcase filled at all
times. All the dilutent, If any mate
rializes. is burned off Many crank
cases should be refilled every 500
miles, or even more frequently, par
ticularly in the case of cars that are
used only for short runs around the
city"
Smiln was WdLCnlH& tue dliliIeleI.
Every time he pressed on the brake
pedal the indicator flickered toward
discharge.
THAT simply tells you that the stop
light at the rear is working properly,
l explained.
But when I am pressing the pedal
while running at % the pointer just
lowers the charging rate, say, from
II amperes to 8, whereas when the
clutch is disengaged and I press the
pedal the pointer goes over to dis
charge" he replied.
"In the first instance the generator
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is charging current enough
to feed back to the battery. In the
second, the engine is running so
slowly that there is just about a bal
ance between charging and discharg-
ing. The stoplight, like any other cur
rent consumer on the car, reduces the
charging rate or adds TO the discharge,
depending upon conditions.
Reduce Gas Flow Later.
''Your engine has been set TO idle
rather fast because it IS new and a
bit stiff. The purpose is to keep it
from stalling. l would suggest that
later on the throttle stop be adjusted
so the engine will have less gas in
idling. Then it will run slower with
the clutch disengaged, and the am
meter always will show discharge un-
der these circumstances.
AT night. with all the lights on, the
charging rate will be less than in day
time. Consequently. the discharge will
be more when the engine is idliug.
YouH also note that when YOU get
much over 25 miles an hour, the
charging rate does not increase.
Rather, it starts to decrease for higher
speeds. The rate of charging is deter
mined by generator regulation. If
you don't want to discharge the bat
terry. don't drive so fast at night when
all the lights are on
whats this other thing?" Smith
asked, pointing to the engine heat iu-
dicator
THAT tells you how hot or how cold
the engine is. II catches cooling trou-
bles before they are relayed to the
radiator. If you obey It's warning. you
will not attempt to force the engine
until it is thoroughly warmed up
tCopvriEht 1927
Evening star., 1927-05-01

Road builders and highway engi
neers are concentrating their efforts
to build safety into roads they con-
struct and the day eventually will
arrive when much Of the hazard and
danger of a large number Of high
ways in the United States will have
been eliminated, according to Prof. s.
s. Steinberg. assistant director of the
National Highway Research Board
and professor of the University Of
Maryland.
Highway engineers are recognizing
as never before that building for
safety is one Of the greatest response
biities resting upon them in develop
ing the road program of the country,
he says '"They are getting away from
reliance upon warning signs and such
devices alone to protect the motorist
and now are making a careful study
of the causes of highway accidents.
The State HighwaE Departments of
Maryland. Pennsylvania and Connec-
ticut as well as other States are lead
ing in this movement and it is grad
ually spreading.
Records Are Made.
Records are kept by means Of
highway map on which a colored pin
is inserted at the spot on the map
where an accident has occurred. A
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indicate the kind and degree of dan
ger. The new signs make use of
system Of different shapes, thereby
increasing their vaule at night. The
shape indicates the degree of hazard
and, If the motorist cannot read the
legend the shape will tell him the
degree of caution required.
1.-THE highway engineer is bringing
science to bear upon the solution of
the problems Of highway safety" adds
Prof. Steinberg. To-day but a very
small percentage Of accidents on our
main roads can be attributed directly
to engineering defects. No public
work is of greater Importance than
that of widening and extending our
present roads as well as paving new
ones to meet our constantly increasing
need for adequate highway facilities"
Evening star., 1927-05-01
HIT SPEEDING AUTOS
TO AvENGE DEATHS
American in Armored Car Sought
Revenge for Killing of
Wife and Child.

To avenge the deaths OF his wife
and child. who had been killed by a
speed maniac. Edward Foster.
wealthy Tennessean, residing I'm Paris,
France i'm 1902, purchased What was
then considered a powerful car which
he equipped with an armored beak.
Wl.l this car he spent his leisure
hours travelling along the highways
of France searching for speeders.
whom ne would ram IL given the
chance.
This occupation kept him busy for
some time until he coliided with the
automobile of Count Mirepot. who.
with three other friends. was severely
injured III the accident. Foster was
arraigned i'm FontainebIeau. where he
told the judge he had wrecked the
counts car by intent. lie then told
the story Of the killing Of his wife
and child by speeders.
The Judge sentenced him to six
months. but being moved by tn story
paroled the accused man at the same
time.
IegIt -
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Records Are Made.

the engine balks Immediately, the car
buretor is suspected but if the balk-
ing does not develop until after the
engine has pulled for a while. the
trouble is more likely to be due to
sticky or badly adjusted valves, over
heating or distributor trouble. Mean
while the engine is forced to labor.
Before applying any remedy for a
trouble, or making any test TO aScer-
tain the cause of the trouble, the mo-
torist is justified in asking, is this
going to complicate matters by giving
me some new worry" He can Well
afford to ask himself whether there is
some remedy that will not entail a
new difficulty.
If possible it is we'll to ask re-
pairer to take for granted the accu-
racy Of ones description or car
trouble, rather than to take him out
for a ride and demonstrate it. Re-
Gently an owner complained of pc
cuIiar bucking action of his car at
about 20 miles an hour. 1t was some
thing the mechanic clearly understood
and q demonstration was superf1uous.
But the owner insisted upon showing
the trouble in action. Before he had
returned to the repair shop the uni
versal joints had been strained. When
the skip was removed from the motor
there was new looseness in the uni
VerSaiS.
Suggests Care With Remedy.
Unless the remedy is unaccompanied
by further trouble, it is best to reject
it and put up with the original trouble.
To get rid of click in valve tappet
h a I
repair shops only to come away with
tappets adjusted too closely, resulting
in noise and skipping when the en-
gine heated up. Carbon knocks are
annoying, but not nearly so serious as
a leaky cylinder head gasket. Power
is very desirable, and quickly missed
when it isn't in evidence, but many
valve grinding job has ended in disap-
pointment. Not all mechanics are SO
slxillful and so careful as to keep the
valve grinding compound ian abra-
sivel away from the valve stems and
guides. When. a valve guide is worn
it leaks, thus permitting little air to
enter the cylinders and dilute the mix
ture.
Sometimes there will be enough gum
on valve to stop an air leak in
worn valve guide. Thus. when the
valve stem is cleaned and polished
and put back into the same valve
guide, the owner finds himself with
an engine that sltips annoyingly at
low speed in traffic. That may be
more Of a nuisance to him than loss of
power on a few hills.
Getting into trouble. by trying to
get out of it is wasted effort. The
thing to do is to be satisfied until
there is assurance that the remedy"
is not going to be simply a substitu-
ton. Trouble is as much of a nuis-
ance in one part of the car as in an
other, and it always costs money to
transfer it.
Evening star., 1927-05-01
John Smith and His Car
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL

is mOtoris should welcome
willing
to Interesting experiences
of otherm the motor clam
Evening star., 1927-05-01

Highway contracts aggregating
more than S3,00O,00O recently were
awarded by the Province Of Ontario.
Evening star., 1927-11-11

quick transportation and administra.
ton of the antitetanic serum in the
stricken area was responsible for saw.
ing number of lives.
The first errand of mercy the am.
bulance plane was called upon to per-
form was on January IS. 1926. when
Flying Cadet Joseph Moffet crashed
his airplane at Yturrie Field, 6 miles
from Kelly Field. Two days later
/ Tadet r. r Stoelting crashed at Big
Foot, Tex, some 40 miles from Kelly
Field. The p:lo. of an airplane re.
turning to Kelly Field reported the
crash. One hour and twenty minutes
later The injured f1ier was in bed at
ton. Lieut.. l.. j. Carr plotting the am
bulance ship. accompanied by Capt.
S. E. Brown, fight surgeon.
On April IL, 1926, the ambulance
plane quickly brought to the station
hospital Lieut. p. " Fuqua, who was
seriously injured in an accident 8
miles from Kelly Field. and on May
Is develiver within 30 minutes to
the base hospital, Fort Sam Houston.
staff Sergt. Jorden D. Witworth, who
was severely burned while working in
a hangar.
Aid for Crash Victims.
Cadet Mcmillan and Pvt. Hillard
were seriously injured in a crash at
Gonzales, Tex, 20 miles from Kelly
Field, on June 3. 1926. 1t would have
been impracticable and dangerous to
move these men by any means other
than the Ambulance airplane. In two
hours, elapsed time. the patients were
delivered to the station hospital.
A cavalryman stationed at Fort
Clark. Tex. was attacked with acute
appendicitis. Sergt. Nendell took off
from Kelly Field Is minutes after
the call was received and arrived at
Fort Clark an hour and five min
utes later. The trip back to San An.
tonic was made in an hour and 10
minutes.
Six weeks later the ambulance air.
plane arrived at Fort Clark on an
other errand of mercy. Capt. Way
land Augur of the headquarters, 1st
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Cavalry Brigade, had suffered a dis
location of the shoulder when he
fell from his horse during a polo
game.
In addition to the two trips to Fort
Clark, the ambulance plane during
the period June 2, 1926, to February
26, 1927, made six trips to places
within a radius of 25 miles from
Kelly Field to bring to the hospital
flying personnel injured In airplane
accidents.
Early on Saturday morning Lieut..
Fraser Richardson, Cavalry, station
ed at Fort Ringgold, Tex, was in a
critical condition as the result Of A
pistol wound in the head. Sergt.
Nendell took off from Kelly Field in
the ambulance plane.
Another trip was made to Fort
Ringgold in the ambulance plane on
August II, 1927. for the purpose of
transporting to Fort Sam Houston
Hospital a Calvary soldier who was
injured during drill when a runaway
horse fell with him, crushing his left
leg.
Transportation of Serum.
On numerous other occasions Sergt.
Nendell made fast journeys by air
to distant places in Texas, trans
porting anti-crotalus serum to be ad-
mnistered to persons bitten by rattle.
snakes. He has the record of never
failing to carry out an emergency
mission assigned to him.
The ambulance airplane, product
of the Cox. .Klemin Aircraft Corpora.
ton, was designed to take off and
land at very low speed, requiring a
very short roll on the ground. These
features are essential in order to op-
Evening star., 1927-11-11

field in the meantime having been
cleared by the Air Corps detachment.
On his next trip to San Antonio he
carried two patients and one attend
ant. Lieut.. Gravely flying the ship
back to Rocksprings.
Late that afternoon Lieut.. Gravely
attempted to take off with a nurse
from the Legion Hospital and a seri.
ously wounded child. Several Mexi.
cans ran across his pathway and, to
avoid killing them, he was compelled
to run the ship into some mesquite,
which damaged it. The nurse and
child were placed in a DeHaviland
airplane and flown to San Antonio by
Lieut.. Goldsborougn.
Using cat-gut, a surgical needle,
sheets. some tacks, a splint or two,
adhesive and flour paste. Lieut..
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BIC AIR AMBULANCE
REAL MERCY SHIP
Government Records Series
OF Achievements for Kelly
Field Plane.

The Army's big air Ambulance" at
Kelly Field has earned the sobriquet
IN the service of Mercy Ship" be-
cause of its remarkable record in
rushing medical and surgical aid by
air to emergency victims.
From January, 1926, to the end of
August, 1927, the ambulance ship car
ried total of % patients, made 26
emergency flights, was 80 hours in
the air on emergency calls. covered
approximately $500 miles or these
calls, had but one forced landing and
at no time failed to return to it's air
drome under it's own power. The
fastest time on any one flight was
made last April to Rocksprings, Tex,
when the aerial ambulance averaged
speed of 120 miles an hour, a War
Department bulletin points out.
A tornado exacted heavy toll from
this town, Sc persons losing their
lives, 200 being injured and many
rendered destitute. The airline dis.
tance of 112 miles from Kelly Field
to Rocksprings is over exceedingly
rough country, and a forced landing
would have been ,extremely difficult
to make. Maj. c." l.. Beven, flight
surgeon at Kelly Field, was imme.
dately dispatched TO Rocksprings in
the ambulance plane to render aid to
the inhabitants of she town. Piloted
by Master Sergt. E. F. Nendell Air
Corps, and with Sergt. David r. Kass
Medical Corps, as the second pas.
senger, the plane was loaded with a
surgical chest and quantity of mis-
cellaneous surgical dressings.
Within few minutes of his arrival,
Sergt. Nendell was in the air again on
his way back to San Antonio. taking
with him an injured youth who suf.
fered broken arm. shoulder and leg
on his left side. Upon arrival of the
atrplane at San Antonio the youth
was rushed to the Santa Rosa Hos.
pital.
On account Of the small landing
field at Rocksprings and the con.
sequent necessity of carrying as light
load as possible, Sergt. Nendell was
able to take off with but one patient
at that time. He returned to Rock.
springs in IS minutes, the landing
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Gravely repaired the ambulance ship,
flew it back to San Antonio minus the
tail skid and with another seriously
wounded patient and made safe
landing.
Realizing the puncturing and dirty
nature of the wounds in stock
country, Maj. Beven had large
quantity of antitetanic serum sent by
airplane from the station hospital at
Fort Sam Houston. San Antonio. This
serum was administered to all pa.
tients found in and near the town
who required it. Before leaving
Rock Springs he turned over the re-
mainder of tho serum to a local ply
sician and requested him to-. make
another search of the town end
vicinity for any Individual who re.
uured it's use, Be- yond all doubt, the
Evening star., 1927-11-11
ROBBERS HOLD BANKER.
Man and Wife Made Prisoners. but
Band Fails to Open Vault.

CHICAGO. November II Up).-A. A.
Huxhold, assistant cashier of the Har-
lem State Savings Bank of Forest
| Park. suburb. and his wife were
held prisoners in their home six hours
Wednesday night by five men, who
then forced Huxhold to go with them
to the bank at am, after which
they worked two hours in a vain
effort to open the bank vault.
Shortly afterward the robbers left.
The prisoners in the bank, which In
cluded the janitor and his wife, were
discovered when other employees ar.
rived.
Evening star., 1927-11-11

crate from emergency fields, generally
small. and almost any kind of ground,
1t is powered with 450-horsepower
Liberty engine. and has a gasoline
capacity of 10S gallons, sufficient for
6 hours operation without reservic-
ing. It Is capable of accommodating
four persons, the pilot, surgeon and
two patients in two litters.
The Washington times., 1927-09-16
new TRUST ACT
WALSH AIM

A new antitrust act. aimed at
Federal control of the ten-billion.
dollar light and power industry.
may grow out of the proposed
Walsh senatorial investigation of
public utilities. 1t was indicated
here today.
Adoption Of the resolution Of in.
quiry, which Senator Thomas ].
Walsh 3D.. of Montana. will spon-
s0r, virtually was assured when
Senator Gerald p. Nye R.) Of
North Dakota, announced the In
surgent bloc would support it.
Some Administration Senators
also were said to favor the inquiry
IL assured the Democratic Insurgent
coalition in the Senate would not
use 1t as a political issue.
The proposed inquiry, however,
would delve deeply into political
activities in the various States,
particularly in its relation to public
utility commissions, Walsh de-
The Washington times., 1927-09-16

ciared the country desired "mon.
light" on the influence welded
over State commissions by public
utilities through gifts to campaign
funds. It's primary purpose though
would be to reveal the methods Of
financing used by the great power
companies in gaining control of
smaller companies.
1t was reported here that Walsh
planned the inquiry with a view to
revising the Federal antitrust act.
so as to provide Federal regulation
OF the financing of public utilities.
Under existing conditions, a parent
company in New York State NAV
own operation companies in a
score of other States, without be-
ing subjected to any regulation in
its ownership of the smaller com
panies. The local companies, how
ever. would be subject to local
regulation.
The Washington times., 1927-09-16
D. INTERNATIONAL News serrIee

BENTON HARBOR, Mich, Sept.
16.-"D Dissolution of the House Of
David in the name of the morals, de-
cency and good order of the people
OF our state" was demanded today
in a brief filed by w. w. Potter,
,torney General in the states case
against the cult.
Benjamin Purnell and his cult
truly can be said to be cancer on
the body politics of Michigan which
should now, and for all times be
eradicated and completely wiped out
of existence" the brief states.
The brief asks Judge Louis H.
Fead to issue an order to disband
the colony and distribute the pro-
perty among the members.
The state has proved that Purnell
organized and conducted the House
Of David, not as a religious colony,
but as means Of satisfying his own
The Washington times., 1927-09-16
NIGHT CLUB MEET

The Cosmopolitan Club win hold
night meeting September 20 at
the Lee House, Fifteenth and l.
Streets Northwest, it was an
nounced by Robert McChesney,
chairman Of the committee in
charge. Frederick J. Rice, presi-
dent of the club, appointed Stokes
Sammons chairman of committee
to arrange for the night meeting.
The Washington times., 1927-09-16
Honeymoon Date VIII
Depend On Fight
Victory

LONG BRANCH. N. J.. Sept.
ILL Jack Dempsey defeats
Gene Tunney in Chicago next
week Miss Grace Holden. Fl, Of
Somervlle. N j.. viii be June
bride next year. But If Tunney
wins Minis Holden's marriage to
Henry Piper. OF this city, viii be
performed next January.
Miss Hidden. a Dempsey fan.
wants to be married In June. but
Piper sees no reason for such q
long wait. The result of the fight
viii decide the wedding date.
The Washington times., 1927-09-16
CONCORD CLUB DANCE

The Concord Club will hold a bene-
fit entertainment and dance tomor.
row night at $50 at It's clubrooms,
314 c st. N. W., it was announced
today.
The Washington times., 1927-09-16


THIS YEARS CROP of corn in Kansas is a big one,
may be judged from this photograph Of the blue
ribbon corn won by J. A. Ostrand, of Shawnee County,
Kans, at the State fair held in Topeka The ears
reached almost from ostrand's waist to his chin.
Whatdre think of that?
The Washington times., 1927-09-16

lust and his desire for money and
power, the state contends.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-07-08
BUT LITTLE GOOD
HOMESTEAD LAND
s -
LEFT IN MONTANA


There is q little good land left in
Montana that is open to homestead
entry but It lies in most instances
80 to 100 miles from the railroad and
the cost Of marketing crops that dis
tance would eat up all the profits.
To make q success on such a farm
man would require livestock. The
person who has the money with which
to buy livestock could do better by
leasing, renting or buying farm
closer to the railroad.
For these reasons the division Of
publicity and land settlement no
longer advises prospective settlers to
come to Montana with the idea Of
making homestead entry. The. day Of
good homestead land is over in Mon
tana.
In the purchase Of land Montana
offers opportunities not excelled IN
any other commonwealth, and for the
protection OF buyers, the state has
an advanced real estate law, afford
ing genuine protection against mis-