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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-14
CAR TAILORING
TIME is HERE
Habig Company Equipped
for Spring Top Repair.

Equal in importance to the man
ufacturing of seat covers, tire covers,
work garments and other fabric
items, and deserving Of the same de-
gree of personal attention, the Habig
Manufacturing Company, 1895 N.
Meridian ST., is now prepared to
take care of repair work on auto
tops, upholstering, carpets and other
trimming.
The adoption Of the name Auto
Tailors and the term Auto Tailoring
indicates that this refined repair
work by expert top builders and up
holsterers is in keeping with the re-
pairs on wearing apparel by skillful
tailors. The car owner insists upon
the very best of repairs to his
clothes. 1t behooves him to extend
this same degree Of discretion be-
tween skillful repair work on his
car and work that carries the ear
marks of patched up job.
The same care and attention TO
the top and upholstering work as to
The mechanical features adds to the
life of the car and maintains its
trim appearance. The top particu-
larry should be examined every so
often-there may be leak unnotice-
able in the beginning, which if COR
rected Immediately will cost far less
to repair, than later on when the
wood frame work has absorbed its
full capacity of moisture and the
whole top deteriorates to such an ex-
tent that a complete new top is re-
quired at what seems to be a prohib-
tive cost.
Another thought worth consider
alton is the protection Of the up
with smart, attractive seat
all fabric kind, tailored
to fit by Habig experts, which can
be fully cleaned, they also protect
the wearing apparel and add a
definite value to the car. New seat
cover patterns are now ready for
selection.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-14
AUBURN SPEEDS UP
Plant Units of Company at
Capacity Production.

AUBURN, Ind, March 13.-With
all records for the number of work
men employed by the Auburn
Automobile Company broken here
this week, and with untitled orders
rapidly piling up, the various plant
units of the company have reached
capacity production, officials an
nounced today.
While production has now reached
nearly 700 cars a week it will be
at least four to six weeks before
untitled orders can be caught up
with, the announcement said.
The central production plant
located in this city is now operat-
ing on an eleven-hour basis, with
several of the departments working
day and night. Obstacles that held
up production in February have
been overcome and lines are Operat-
ing unbroken.
Production at the ConnerSville,
Ind, finishing plant is being
speeded up while the body plant at
Kalamazoo, Mich, has reached
capacity. Bodies from the various
plants are now coming in at the
rate of 125 daily.
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MARCH IA. 1928

the dealer for complete check. Sea
that the valve adjustment is corr
rect"
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Vern Reed and Don Herr
to Personally Operate
Enterprise.

Announcement was made this
week of the opening of a new radi-
ator repair shop at 111-119 Ken
lucky Ave. The establishment will
be known as the Reed & Herr Com
pany, Inc, and is owned and per-
sonally operated by two Of Indi-
annapolis best known automobile
men.
Vern Reed is president and has
been connected in an executive ca
pacity with the radiator business
for 20 years. Before opening this
new shop he was superintendent of
the radiator service of United Mo-
tors Service. Don Herr is secretary
and treasurer. He is also owner of
the Don Herr garage located across
the street from the new company.
The new radiator concern will
specialize in recoring, rebuilding
and repairing with Reeds own
special process for quickly cleaning
radiators, a feature Of the new bust
ness.
Thirty-fve cars can be cared for
at one time in the new quarters,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-14
Tail Lights
BY sWEDE SWANSON

The difficulty in the matter. of
parking along a congested street is
not so much the result Of parked
automobiles as of those desiring to
park.
1t is here that traffic is slowed up
considerably. Drivers, looking for
a place to park, cruise slowly along
the street and sometimes stop for a
moment or two, hindering the prog
resS of the main stream of cars.
-Four lanes then, instead Of two, are
practically closed to speedy traffic.
Thus the one-hour or half-hour
parking restriction defeats itself. 1t
is intended to hasten traffic on a
congested street by giving more peo-
pie a chance to park on it. The re-
suit is that drivers cruise along
slowly in the hope of catching
parked car driving out.
Perhaps, if the time restriction
were revoked, fewer drivers would
creep down congested street with
this hope in mind. More might re-
sort to the garages or the open
parking grounds, or give up driving
altogether for the street cars in
getting down town.
The idea is at least as good as
that to restrict parking altogether.
Just by accident it sometimes
happens that motoriSt can ignore
a rule of car care and get away
with it without any serious conse-
quences. This usually leads to
trouble because it suggests the pos
sibility that the rule is unnecessary.
Take the case of the starter.
Every driver is cautioned against
stepping on the starter button
while the engine is running, yet
frequently drivers violate the rule
and are surprised when nothing
happens.
To save getting caught eventually
in this sort OF careleSsness it is
good idea to know just why a
starter does not always break under
these conditions or why the starter
motor is not injured. If the engine
happens to be idling the starter
piuion may be able to mesh with
out clashing.
Just because it takes this punish
ment is no reason TO assume that
it will be able to stand engagement
when the engine is running faster.
A new method of traffic control,
not unlike our traffic lights, Is be-
ing tried out at Leeds, England. The
device consists of a signpost with
four arms, bearing the signs, Pass"
and stop" On top Of the post is a
clock. The clock is set for a length
of time, and at the end Of that pc
Rod the arms turn round, opening
traffic in the opposite direction.
The present automobile is $50 per
cent better than the motor car in
vogue before the World War, ac-
cording to w. L. Velie, Jr, vice
president of the Velie Motor Corpo-
ration. Besides, he says. the present
car Of $1,000 is as good as the car
of twelve years ago, costing $4,000
or $1,000.
Deaths resulting from automobile
accidents during 1926 totaled 20,891,
an increase Of more than 5 per cent
over the death rate for 1926.
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marks gradually worn away, high
polish acquired"
This is the statement of David
Gregg, research engineer of the AC
Spark Plug Company, who proceeds
to give some expert advice about
breaking in new automobiles
To quote Gregg, in part:
First, follow explicitly the manu-
facturer's directions for the break
ing in period, which usually is 500
miles. After this period, and when
the engine Is warm, occasionally &C
celerate up to forty or forty-five
miles an hour, Immediately the
speedometer registers forty or forty
five slow down to around thirty-flve
miles an hour. This enables the oil
to circulate freely among the NOV
ing party.
THE short bursts of speed per-
nit the parts to become accoinno-
dated to full load operation without
danger OF burning or sticking, which
might occur with continued high
speed running.
"At the end of the first 1000 miles
the car should be driven back to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-14
u. S. FUND FOR RUBBER
SURVEY IS DENOUNCED
Tire Maker Thinks Money Wasted
in Tropical, Island Tests

Congressional committee appro-
priation of 100000 for investigating
crude rubber possibilities in the
PHILIPPINES and tropical America,
was denounced today by William
ONeiI president of the General
Tire Rubber Company, of Akron.
Ohio, as a waste of money and a
foolish and impossible attempt 10
establish this country in the rubber
protection business in far away
lands.
The money is TO be taken from
agricultural department funds. Con-
greSs intends that it shall be spent
first for study of the problem. next
for experimental purposes and fin
ally for development of rubber
trees in the islands Of American
tropics.
Congressional junkets and Far
East cruises Of Government COM
missions seeking information which
American rubber men already have
in their possession, will absorb the
appropriation almost entirely, O'Neil
declares
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A.A.A. OPPOSES
TOLL HIGHWAY
PLAN IN HOUSE
Head of Car Owners Hints
Proposal Is to Hide
Real Motive.
BIZ Times SpeciaL

BIZ Times Special
WASHINGTON, March 14.-On be-
half of its 958 motor clubs the Amer
lean Automobile Association served
notice today that it will oppose
Strenuously all schemes for foist-
ing a system of toll highways on
the car owners of America.
The A. A. A. protest, which took
the form of statement by Thomas
P. Henry, president, called attention
to the resolution introduced in the
House by Congressman Allen j. Fur
low of Minnesota, to authorize a
commission to study the need and
feasibility of express highways to
be built and operated by private
capital on toll basis.
Question Motives
1--WE are uncompromisingly OPP
posed to the principle underlying the
Furlow bill, and we seriously ques-
ton the motives and the wisdom of
the forces behoind it," he declared.
Proposals for toll highways were
considered by A. A. A. directors and
the unanimous sentiment was that
no effort must be spared to pre-
vent the installation Of the vicious
toll principle" on the highways Of
the United States.
He continued:
FavOrs Free Roads
1.-THE proposal for the study by a
Federal commission is a blind that
can not fail to play into the hands
Of the sponsors Of privately-owned
and privately exploited highways.
eff there be need of such an in
quiry 1t can be undertaken by the
bureau Of public roads of the De-
partment Of Agriculture, which has
detailed knowledge Of the national
road situation.
THE association has sponsored
good roads for twenty-five years,
and as at all times bulwarked the
Federal aid principle. We must
continue and enlarge on our pres
ent and prospective bodybuilding
programs. We may need express
highways, but il we get them, let
them be free roads"
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which are steam-heated and COM
Portable for motorists who are hav-
ing work done. The slogan Of the
company will be "Only block from
Washington and Illinois Streets
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HARDEST MILES
ARE FIRST 500
Breaking In of Car Is
Highly important.

"The first 500 miles or so is the
most important period in the life
of "a new automobile, and the man
ner in which the car is driven at
that stage determines to a large
extent the kind of future service it
will give.
THE parts Of new car are care
fully and accurately made, but just
as a pair Of new shoes must be
broken in before fitting comfort
ably, so these new parts must also
be adjusted in order to function
properly.
High points on the bearings must
be smoothed out, tool and grinding
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-14
Urge BOonvilIe Publisher to Run

By Itme8 SpecldJ
EVANSVILLE, Ind, March a.
Friends of William B. Carleton, pub
Usher Of the Boonville Enquirer
and former State Senator, are urg-
ing him to seek the Democratic
nomination for lieutenant governor
in the State convention. Carleton
filed for the nomination for State
Senator from Vanderburg County,
leaving the lieutenant governorship
matter in the hands Of his friends.
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Deaths resulting from automobile
accidents during 1926 totaled 20,89l,
an increase Of more than 5 per cent
over the death rate for 1926.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-14
MARMON AUTOS
SET new PEAK
IN PRODUCTION
indianapolis Company Sets
Record for Monthly,
Daily Sales.

Through its enviable record of
production and sales so far this
year, an Indianapolis institution, the
NIarnon Motor Car Company, has
established itself as one of the lead
ing factors in the automobile in
duStry and, at the same time, great
ly strengthened the position of this
city as a motor car center.
Marmon has registered a gain of
more than 95 per cent in sales since
the first Of the year, while the in
dustry as a whole, according to the
report of the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, has pro-
duced only about q per cent more
automobiles than in the same period
Of last year.
High Points for Year
High points in the Marnon record
so far this year include:
Establishment Of new high
record month for production and
shipments in February.
Shipments of two solid trainloads
Of automobiles to New York and
one trainload to Los Angeles.
A record for a single days bust
ness early this month-800 orders
received for immediate shipment.
Reports from various parts Of the
country that show retail sales gains
Of 100 to 800 per cent in comparison
with last year.
Export Sales Increase
Export sales that were at a new
high total for all time in February
and which bid fair to show another
increase this month.
ALI departments Of the Marmon
factory are operating at a level that
is comparable to the period Of peak
production in 1927, when the COM
pany introduced it's first eight-cyl-
inder line, say officials, the Mar
mon company this year Is III the
front rank of producers Of straight
eight automobiles, offering the "68"
at 1895 f. o. b. factory and the
49, at 1895.
Reports from every section Of the
country are to the effect that sales
are mounting steadily and that the
spring buying season will produce
even a greater volume for Marnon
than has established a record for
us so far this year." said G. M. Will
laims, Marmon president. Such an
enviable record must be just as
gratifying to Indianapolis as it is
to ourselves"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-14
Hammond Officials Cleared

By Times Special
HAMMOND, Ind, March 14.-Of.
ficials of this city today stand
cleared Of charges Of graft. A Lake
County grand jury which has been
investigating the city administra-
ton nearly two months, Tuesday
reported there was no ground for
indictments. Henry Heckler, real
estate dealer, instigated the probe.
Hammond police say he was angry
at the administration, due to arr
rest for q traffic ordinance violation.
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is going to be'pretty sore when he
stops at your house this morning
and finds that you've gone on a
picnic trip with your chauffeur"
Lily didn't care. IN have this
one day. anyway" she made up
her mind. And suppose Staley
does stop at the house and find
me gone? l can think up some
kind of alibi to square things with
him."
She giggled. Carrie was GER
tainly fixing you up banquet this
morning when l stopped her." she
said. Flowers on the table and
the best silver, and a dish of bar
le-duc-Jimminy crickets, but it
was funny. / never thought I'd
have Carrie for "A rival'-She
stopped short at the grim half
angry look that crossed the face so
close to hers.
Eyes, that's just it! You and I
don't belong in the same class" he
said gravely. 81 belong to the
class that works hard for its liv-
ing, and you're at the top of the
pack-We're as far apart as the
two poles. you and /.
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Mary, would be less intolerable
than with any woman l know.
But still intolerable."
Never mind the gallantry, ole
DEAR said Mary, reaching her
hand to his cheek. But serve me
food now and I'll serve the love
later. I'm sorry / launched you
into this prize affair. You've
thought Of nothing else"
That did it.
Did you launch me into this
contest. Mary?"
II suppose I'll have to take
about three-fourths Of the re-
sponsibility. never did such
talking in my life"
He took a choking breath and
plunged. Mary. did you tell any
one you were financing me?'
Certainly not. That's just be-
tween us"
"Oh-so you think you are"
Don't be quarrelsome. You
know how I figure you, Saxon.
I'd be glad to back you for a
great deal more than $4,000"
well. don't think that you're
backing me, Mary! You advanced
the commission on the English
manor house."
well, hell's bells, why the ex-
element! Figure it anyway you
want. darling. Who cares? All
the same two or three months
from now"
An instinct warned him to de-
sist. Too late to argue about 1t
now. The facts were clear. The
Pennings had engaged him to DO
this English manor house. He
had su bm tilted innumerable
sketches. The plans would have
been finished and the place
builded. But they changed their
wishes from week to week. Ihen
the mother went to Europe for
the summer. Everything was
tied up. They were going ahead
with it in the spring. Mary had
advanced Saxon this tee.
He now contemplated the trans
action with a violent misgiVing.
He wondered holly what he had
gotten into and began to figure on
reckless means of getting the
money and returning it at once.
The presence of Mary here with
her head on his shoulder brought
the question of marriage rep7l-
lantly to mind. Why in heavens
name will you marry if you can
avoid it!
Mary reached out and flicked
the pencil from his hand: Now
I've been good enough. Sacksie
love. Eight-thirty. Let's wend.'
About the same moment jerry
was stepping along Eajly in he
warm October evening. She was
in a blessed mood.
Now I'm free OF him, she
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for you to be back there where
you belong"
III stay right here" said Lily,
her soft chin set firmly.
She sat quietly in her corner OF
the seat while they went back over
the familiar ways to her own house.
They swept past it and on into
town.
Through the business section
they went to a humble section be-
yond the A. & B. railroad tracks
a section of little low houses with
neat little back yards, narrow
sidewalks with children playing
on them even at this early hour,
and 4-o'clock hedges-a neat, clean
little neighborhood of people who
were not too poor and certainly
not too rich. A neighborhood of
the finest class in the world-the
lower middle-class. The back
bone of this great country of mid.
dle-class people.
The car turned into little mar
row street.
This is where I live" said Pat,
lin this next house."
The house was a low, white one,
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But second because of an al
most murderous resentment about
that thing she had told Sylvia
that thing about supplying him
with the money for the contest.
He wanted to hiss down at her:
did you dare to tell anyone you
GAVE money to me?'
Said Mary, rubbing her cheek
against his chin: why the grand
silence, beast? I've just finished
proposing to you"
THE answer is NO again"
But the ayes have it! It's
been yes for three weeks steadily"
Did 1 ever ask you to marry
me. Mary p
'iE beat you to it,
did l accept?'
81 think your charming speech
was this: Marriage with you,
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with dark brown shutters. The
morning sun shone in it's front
windows so that it seemed to twin
kle and wink from behind it's neat
white fence.
There were brown rocking chairs
on the front porch, and big pots of
bcgonias and scarlet geraniums.
The curtains in the windows were
crisp white dotted muslin ones, and
a white cat was curled up on one
window ledge.
Would you live in a house like
that?" asked Pat. And do every
lick of work in it yoursclf?"
CHAPTER XIV
If there was one thing in the
world that Lily Lexington knew
absolutely nothing about, that one
thing was homework.
She never had swept a room,
washed a painful of dishes, or
boiled a kettle of water in her
life. She never had so much as
aired her own bed or hung up
her nightgowns in the clothes
closet.
She got up in. the morning to a
clean house, to a well-cooked
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Its your fault If we are, Pat.
/ want to be the best friend you
have anywhere. But you keep
pushing me away. You
keep telling me that / ought to be
true to Staley Drummond when l
don't want to be. l don't want
anybody but you, Pat-Ever!
She was swept off her feet by her
feeling for him. in that moment.
Ever since the first day saw
you I've been chasing you. haven't
l. Pat France? I've made a fool
of myself-and I'm not through
making a fool of myself. Pat, 1
want to marry you-now, today,
before can change my mind
He did not answer.
But he slowed down the car,
turned it in the road and started
back towards town.
You're not taking me homer
asked Lily, and he shook his head.
II want to show you something"
he told her. Better get into the
back seat, hadn't you? You might
pass Drummond or your friend,
Miss Cain, of someone like that on
the road-and it would look better
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thought happily. "All that wench
can do is did" If he lives, he
lives; if he dies, he dies" And
laughed, recalling his trembling
hand and the urgence of his:
Wont you please come and see
my plans, Jerry? I've been wait
ing and waiting for you to ask.
She would go indeed. And II
she found Mary sitting up in her
coffin, she'd gather more vicious
nails and hammer her down hard!
But the next week passed. She
found no time. Two very absorb
ing things happened-one delight
full and one tragic.
1t was the beginning of the hoE-
day rush. They were very busy
at the shop. But Jerry had man
aged between times to do an oil
Of the ferry lanes at night. This
was the high and mighty event.
Her former teacher, Macphail,
sent her into a heaven of delight
with his comment. He said: This
is your high point, Jerry. Better
than the promise of all your other
efforts" Immense praise from
him. He hung it and put price
of SIS on it.
So Jerry scared into dreams.
She began to count the minutes
in the day, grudgingly careful of
them. Next year she'd do an oil
a month.
And they would all jaunt on to
Europe. Maria was aching for
trip. Robert CapIes would be
going again next year. And
Stephanie by the summer would
be truly well. Oh, what a gay
gypsy caravan.
They talked about it dashingly
in the long evenings that they
now spent at home. Quite a diff
ferent home than they had known
a year ago. Almost any night
you could see the lights in the
living room now.
Real old tabbies," Maria com.
mented with a gay irony, as she
cooked dinner with the aid of sew
era1 young men who were paying
ardent attention to Stephanie.
They couldn't take her out, so
they called and helped to set the
table and borrowed books which
they didn't return and sang songs
and washed dishes.
one of this retinue--a dashing
young inferno whom Stephanie
met at the ospital-brought his
moving picture machine to the
house twice week and gave them
the choicest in 1O-year-old movies.
DO you have dances in the
spring. Stephanie said one eve
nng. II wonder if I'll be able
10 be really up and going by
then? I'm so afraid the world
VIII slow up before I've a chance
to take my fling"
Aren't you having your fling