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Evening star., 1929-12-14
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Cloudy with
light rain tonight or tomorrow; slightly
colder; gentle to moderate southwest
shifting to north and northeast winds.
Maryland-Cloudy, slightly colder TO-
night, preceded by rain in south por-
ton; tomorrow cloudy and slightly
colder, possibly light rain moderate to
fresh west shifting to north winds.
Virginia-Cloudy, probably rain to-
night and tomorrow; slightly colder in
north portion; moderate to fresh south
west and west winds.
West Virginia-Cloudy, probably rain
tonight and tomorrow; colder in central
and north portions tonight.
Record for Twenty four Hours.
Thermometers pm, 43; 8 pm, Al;
IL midnight, AZ; 4 am, A; 8 am, 43;
noon, 81.
Barometer pm, 1921; 8 pm,
30.18; IL midnight, 30.15; am, 30.14;
am, S0.16; noon, 30.19.
Highest temperature, 81, occurred at
ll:3o am; Yesterday; lowest. 80, oc-
CURED at am. today.
Temperature same date. last year
Highest, SIS; lowest, 33.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey)
Today-Low tide, 1928 am. and
1920 pm; high tide, 5:55 am. and
6:21 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, .1:15 am. and
1.12 pm; high tide, 6:46 am. and
7:10 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 7:19 am; sun sets
4:46 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 7:19 am; sun
sets 4:47 pm.
Moon rises 3:09 pm; sets, sos am.
Condition Of the Water.
Great Falls-Shenandoah, Potomac
clear.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star., 1929-12-14
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE, Md, December IA (Spe-
cial) Injury to one of the jurors, Eu-
gene A. McAtee of Boyds, who slipped
on the ice on his way home Thursday
evening and sustained, 1t was reported,
a fracture of the arm, necesSitated con-
tinuance to the March term of court
the case of Mrs. Anna Marcus of 410
Surrey street, Somerset, this county,
against the Nachman Furniture Co. of
Washington, which was for an action
for damages in the amount of $4,000.
The testimony was all in and counsel
were ready to proceed with their argu-
ments to the jury when the inability
of Juror McAtee to be on hand required
the action indicated. The entire pro-
ceedings will have to be repeated when
the case comes up again.
Mrs. Marcus was represented by At
torney Stedman Prescott of Rockville,
and Attorneys Rudolph B. Berens of
Washington and Thomas L. Dawson of
Rockville appeared for the defendant.
Rev. Frank A. Tyler of the Metho-
dist Church offlciated at the marriage
here of Paul G. Potts of Detroit, Mich,
and Miss Margaret Katherine Frazier
of Quantico, and Burnett S. Working of
Brunswick, Md. and Miss Margaret T.
Hunter OF Louisville, KY, both cere-
monies taking place at the parsonage.
License has been issued by the clerk
OF the Circuit Court here for the mar
riage Of Robert A. Drury, %, and Miss
PrudiS A. Snyder, 81, both of Wash
ington.
At the annual election of officers of
Pentalpha Chapter, Order of the East
ern Star of Gaithersburg, these were
elected: Worthy matron. Miss Eva
Becraft; worthy patron, Custis L. Ward;
associate matron, Mrs. Ruth Belt as
sociate patron, James Nicol; conductreSs
Mrs. Laura Walker; associate con-
ductress, Mrs. Aleze Cissel: secretary,
Mrs. Emma Becker, and treasurer, Mrs
Harvey Selby.
Although Elgie Hawkins, a young
resident of Clarksburg district, claimed
1900 IN a suit against his father
Richard D. Hawkins, with whom he
makes his home, as wages for farm
work and for money loaned, jury in
the Circuit Court here could not see
where the young man was entitled to
anything and rendered a verdict &C
cordingly.
The mayor and council of Gathers
burg has contracted with the Potomac
Electric Power Co. for the installation
of 250-watt electric lights to replace
the 100-watt lights on two of the towns
principal oughfares-Diamond and
Frederick avenues-and it is stated that
higher power lights will also be in
stalled in other sections of the town..
For the third successive time with
in a few weeks the Poolesville pitch
team, composed of a dozen of the best
auction pitch players of Foolesville and
vicinity, Thursday evening defeated the
Rockville team, having the better of il
in the end of several hours OF play by
a dozen or more games. The hall in
the fire engine house here was the
scene of combat. The visitors were en-
tertained at supper by the Rockville
players. The teams will play again al
Poolesville In the near future.
Evening star., 1929-12-14

salary commensurate with the fees they
now receive by adding 10 per cent of
the dog license fund, of which they now
receive is per cent.
Tidewater Licenses.
The elimination of the present COM
bination license requirements in the
tidewater streams and ponds under the
Jurisdiction of this commission was also
recommended. Plans for the new game
preserve in Sussex County for the propo-
cation of wild turkeys at the State
game farm near Richmond and for the
purchase of Mexican quail to be held at
the game farm for release in the late
Spring were also discussed.
Attending the session are: Mai. A.
Willis Robertson, Richmond chairman;
B. w. Stas, Tazewell; Allan Epes,
Blackstone; S. P. Goodle, Alton: Judge
w. S. Snow, Alexandria; M. D. Hart
executive secretary, and L. H. Tyus
fiscal secretary.
Evening star., 1929-12-14
Hoover Gives Widow Job.

The President has authorized the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Germaine M. Finley
ito an appropriate position In the claSsi-
fed service without reference to the
requirements of the civil service rules"
Mrs. Finley is the widow Of James G.
Finley, vice consul at Havre for many
years. Since her husbands death. in
May, 1929, she has been employed tenn
porarily as q general clerk in the United
States consulate at Lille.
Evening star., 1929-12-14
DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA
REFLECT MISS CARTER
Fairfax Council Again Honors
Chief-Other officers
Named.
snecial pispatch tc The Star.

Special Dispatch tc The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, December 14.-Provi-
dence Council, No. 9, Daughters of
America, has this week reelected Miss
Virginia Carter as councillor for the
coming six months. Mrs. Florence M.
Whalen was elected associate councillor;
Mrs. Jeannette O'Bannon, vice coun-
cilor; Leonard A. Dewey, associate vice
councillor; Mrs. Ethel Williams, con-
ductor; Miss Ruth Hollis, warden; Mrs.
Mabel e. Sisson, junior past councillor;
Mrs. Alice G. Woodard, associate junior
past councillor; Mrs. Dolly E. Smith,
recording secretary; Mrs. Marie Wapler
assistant recording secretary; Mrs. Clara
M. Sauls, financial secretary; Samuel
w. Sisson, treasurer; Mrs. Flora Kearns,
trustee. The representative to the
State Council will be elected at the next
meeting.
Evening star., 1929-12-14
FREIGHT ASSOCIATION
FORMED TO FIGHT RATES
South Side Virginia Organization
Aims to Combat Alleged Dis
criminatory Schedule.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va, December 14.-The
Southside Virginia Just Freight Rate
Association has been organized here
fun roster of officers appointed.
It's purpose is to continue the fight
being made on new schedule of freight
rates recently approved by the State
Corporation Commission effective in
February, but which are considered dis
criminatory to Southside Virginia. The
organization also proposes to keep close
check on the general freight situa-
ton affecting this region in future.
The vice presidents are T. G.. Burch,
MartinSville; H. D. Elliott Of South
Boston; j. B. Jones, Danville, secre-
tary, and A. D. Startling, Danville,
treasurer.
Evening star., 1929-12-14
Antique Furniture Burned.

FREDERICK, Md, December IA
Especially Much antique furniture in
years was destroyed when the old home
stead of Joseph w. Smith, near Urbana,
was burned. The fire, it is believed,
originated in the chimney, and, while
discovered promptly, gained such rapid
headway that it was impossible to save
the building and much of the furniture.
A Frederick fire company responded to
the alarm, but was unable to operate
because Of lack of sufficient water
supply.
Evening star., 1929-12-14
CHILD ON CHRISTMAS
SHOPPING TOUR KILLED
Tries to Run Across Street to
Father and Is Struck
by Truck.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SOUTH BOSTON, Va, December IA.
Nancy Bell Vaughan, aged 4, daugh-
ter of Oscar G. Vaughan, was instantly
killed here yesterday evening while
doing her Christmas shopping with her
mother.
Seeing her father across the street,
the child ran OF the sidewalk and was
struck by a truck driven by Elisha
Claiborne, colored. Both wheels of the
truck passed over the child's body. The
father saw the accident. picked up the
child and hastened to the hospital,
where the little girl was found to be
dead. Claiborne is under arrest, al
though eye-witnesses exonerated him in
their accounts of the accident.
Evening star., 1929-12-14
Found Dead in Hotel Room.

LA ROCHELLE, France, December IA
R).-John Morrison Hansen, American
business man, was found dead in his
room at the Hotel De France today.
Physicians said death was due to apo
plexy. Mr.. Hansen was a stockholder
in the Societe des Enterprises 1ndlS~
trielles Charentaises Of La Rochelle.
Evening star., 1929-12-14
$4,000 ASKED IN DEATH.
c. 6 o. Railroad Sued Following
Crossing Accident.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
STAUNTON, Va, December 14.-Suit
for $4,000 damages has been filed in
Augusta County Circuit Court here
against the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-
road Co. by Attorney Forest T. Taylor
of Taylor & Taylor, local firm, acting
for Mrs. Florence E. Golf, administra-
trix of her husband, John B. Golf, who
was killed when his automobile was
struck by a train at nearby Augusta
Springs. October 4.
Goff was q cement worker, employed
at Fordwick. He was killed when his
car was struck by a westbound train
which on this particular day is said
to have been running at great speed
as it attempted to make up lost time.
Evening star., 1929-12-14
PUPILS GIVE MINSTREL.
Bethesda Chevy Chase High School
in Play for Piano Fund.

A minstrel show, with a picturesque
cabaret setting, was given last night by
the pupils of the Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School at the auditorium of the
school for the benefit of piano fund.
More than 40 young artists participated
in the event, which was under the di-
rection of Edward Muth, assisted by
Miss Geneve Bordeaux.
The affair, which met with the gen.
erous approval of the audience, was
largely attended. The proceeds will go
toward the payment for concert grand
piano, purchased by the school recently
Evening star., 1929-12-14
Succeeds T. P. O'Connor.

LONDON, December IA (P).-Alder-
man d. G. Logan, Laborite, was re-
turned unopposed as a member Of Par
lament for the Scotland division. OF
Liverpool, in succession to the late
T, P. (Tay Pay) O'Connor.
Evening star., 1929-12-14
VOTE 7 PCT. DIVIDEND.
Raise in Preferred Stock Made by
Winchester Hotel Corporation.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, December a.
Directors of the George Washington
Hotel Corporation have voted Z per
cent dividend on preferred stock, the
second to be declared on that stock
since the hotel of that name was opened
six years ago.
Last year an extra dividend Of per
cent was declared, but since then Ga
room addition has been erected and the
hotel lobby refurnished and newly
equipped, costing around 100000.
The same corporation owns Hotel
Jack. The investment in both hotels
is over 100000.
Evening star., 1929-12-14
FOR BARBER'S LICENSE.
Danville Artists Endorsed Proposed
Bill for Next Assembly.

DANVILLE, Va, December 14-Dan-
vile BARRIERS have indorsed the pro-
posed BARRIERS licensing bill to be Of
fered to the next General Assembly
meeting in January.
Under its terms all BARRIERS would
have to submit to medical examina-
ton and have to measure up to stand
ard of proficiency before being allowed
to carry ga their trade in this State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
UTOLUBRICATION MOST VITAL
TO PERFORMANCE OF MACHINE
Mechanical Age Utterly Dependent on
Petroleum Oiling of Car Engines Not
Such Complicated Proposition.

is easily enough understood for the
average person to confidently under
take to be familiar with the principles
involved. This is worth while so that
a driver may be able to know that the
engine Is being adequately fabricated
and what is likely to be the trouble in
case something having to do with
fabrication goes wrong.
In the first place, the instruction
book issued by the manufacturer of an
automobile which goes along with each
car that Is sold gives the best instruc-
lions in regard to engine fabrication
These should be studied and followed
carefully. These books will tell what
should be done at the end of certain
number of miles. Consequently, If the
owner of the car will keep track of his
mileage and be sure to present his car
to some reliable service station fol
fabrication at the proper intervals OF
from the standpoint Of engine lubri-
cation.
The usual method of avoiding engine
friction is to carry a certain amount
of oil in the compartment in the bottom
of the crankcase called the stump. There
is a pump located in the bottom OF the
stump which operates whenever the en-
CINE is running. The Oil passes through
a screen into the pump, which forces
it through proper pipes to the crank
shaft. The crank shaft is hollow and
is drilled SO as to permit the oil entering
1t to be forced into each bearing
throughout its length. Thus oil under
pressure is supplied to each crank
shift and connecting rod bearing. The
Continued on Seventh Pape)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
In the Motor World
BY q. ADAMS HOWARD.

sion for arterial flows of traffic anc
a myriad of other problems will
come before the men who handle
these matters for ironing out. Mr.
Eldridge says it will be no small
task.
There is some balm, but slight
in Mr.. Eldridge'S permit figures
A total of 40 permits were revoked
during the month for various Sc
riouS offenses against the traffic
regulations.
Eight hit-and-run drivers had
their licenses revoked. Permits
were taken away from IL persons
convicted of driving cars while
drunk. SpeederS gave up 9 per-
mitS; those with generally bad
records in traffic matters gave up
7. Two persons using learners
permits to drive around town
after the Today period had their
right to drive taken away from
them, and one revocation was re-
ported for each of the following
offenSes: Physical defect, OBJ
tanning permit by fraud, using eX-
pired permit. Two lost their per-
mits for getting involved in traffic
fatalities.
April also brought an increase
in the number of deaths from
traffic causes, 10 persons being
killed by automobiles in the Dis
trict, against six for the same
period last year.
Autos and Radios.
Development of the radio as it
has been especially adapted to the
automobile was demonstrated to
large number of automobile men
in New York this week. The new
radio for cars is mounted behind
the dashboard, balanced and
sprung so that all vibration from
the machine is absorbed before it
can reach the radio set.
The aerial is copper wire net
ting, concealed in the top of the
car, and the loud speaker is
mounted above the windshield.
For a long vacation trip the de-
vice would prove an interesting
diversion, but automobile men
about Washington are skeptical
about it's ACCESSIBILITY for cars
which are constantly used about
town.
They point to the opinion ex-
pressed recently by Traffic Direc-
tor w. H. Harland-that radios in
cars would tend to take the mind
of the driver off the job of pilot
ing his machine in heavy traffic
and thereby cause some accidents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
BY III. CLIFFORD BROKAW.
Automobile Technical Adviser.

Some folks say this is a mechanical
age Others refer to oil as a product
which affects the deStinieS OF nations.
AS a matter of fact, these two factors
of modern life are both vital to prog
ress. For every machine has to run
with a minimum Of friction. That
means oil is essential. This is pre-
eminently true of the automobile.
fabrication is one element the engine
of a motor car cannot do without The
body may be wrecked, the tenders bent,
the tires cracked and the car will still
trayel-if the engine has oil.
People who have small children and
anxiously note how rapidly the soles
of their shoes wear thin as they go
scraping their feet along the bare pave
ment can appreciate the losses which
are likely to grow out of a lack OF
fabrication. Those people who have
had the misfortune, however, to slip
on a piece of banana peel have had
brought forcibly to their attention how
fabrication facilitates ones movements.
In the case of the children there is
considerable friction. In the case OF
the banana peel the friction Is reduced
to the minimum. and this Is the sort
of thing which happens in the auto
mobile engine when the oil Is applied.
If the parts of such an engine were
all made perfect and fitted together
properly and the engine started, with
out fabrication there would be SO much
friction that the parts would very
quickly wear out. In fact, If the engine
could be started at all it would be
wrecked in a short time unless lubri-
cation were introduced.
Not 30 Complicated.
The fabrication of the modern auto
mobile engine Is not as complicated as
it might appear to many drivers who
have no mechanical turn of mind. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
USED-CAR PROBLEM
AS MENACE DENIED
Stimulates Annual Market for New
Machines, Automotive Sales
men Are Told.

If every car owner kept his automo-
bile until its retirement from service
there would be only about 100000
cars in use today and annual sales
would run about 100000 cars year
less than half of what the automotive
industry is doing today.
This statement was made by w. S.
sherwood, general sales manager Of a
spark plug company, in an address at
Flint, Mich.
These estimates are really optimistic
under such an assumption" Mr.. 1sher-
wood said, because the very act of re-
ducing production would raise the price
level of cars generally, and this, in turn
would further limit sales.
THE used car problem is frequently
spoken Of as a menace, but 1t Is In many
respects a highly construvtice force. II
makes motor cars available to persons
who could not afford new cars even al
the lowest new car prices. This adds
vitality to the industry because 1t in
creaseS the general usage of automo-
bileS. The used car stimulates the an
nual market for new cars through pro-
viding the owner with market for his
old car.
THE practice of trading in used
cars furnishes each car dealer with q
"tueL dSSoi tLnenI Va LuSiChdiN4Sc' WAlCA
broadens the range of his customer con-
facts and provides the opportunity fol
educating his used car customers into
new car buyers as they graduate into q
higher economic buying position.
IF We had only IL, 000, 900 cars in use
1t would be economically out OF the
question to maintain such highly de-
veloped and widespread services as now
exist with regard to service stations, tire
stations. gasoline distribution, etc.
Furthermore, such drastic reduction
in volume would curtail time financing
operations and bring about higher
financing charges. which would tend
toward a still further reduction in sales >
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
BRITISH HORSEPOWER
TAX IRKS DESIGNERS

It is somewhat difficult to present a
correct idea of the development OF the
automobile in Europe, said Sir Herbert
Austin, a prominent British automobile
manufacturer, at recent dinner meet
ing Of the Metropolitan section Of the
Society of Automotive Engineers. It is
a subject that inks the designers in
England. who have been trying to get
rid of the restrictions of the English
method of automobile taxation so that
they can follow America in the effort
to develop foreign trade.
The British method of motor car tax
alton, based on the bore of the engine
cylinders, was formerly satisfactory, said
Sir Herbert, but it has led to an engine
design In which the stroke has been
heightened repeatedly and the bore
made smaller. This introduced diff
culties in connection with torsional
vibration of the crankshaft, small water
spaces, small valves, and other pro-
blems. Many of the associations which
are interested, together with manufac-
turers and individual users of cars, petit
toned the government to change the
incidence of the tax and put it on fuel.
They were very successful in getting the
fuel tax imposed. but, unfortunately
Parliament forgot to take of the horse
power tax
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
Special Dispatch to The Star.

| Special Dispatch to The Star.
DETROIT, Mich, May 4-This week
there has been much talk Of front-drive
models, following the first showing of
car of this type on the Pacific Coast.
It is known as the Buxton" and has
been exhibited in Los Angeles
1t is the product of new company,
Era Motors, Inc, of New York City, and
the design is credited to C. Harold
Wills. former Ford chief engineer, and
William Muller, a racing driver. The
car is said to have been built in Phila-
delphia and Is straight 8 with a
body by Budd. In Los Angeles it was
said the car had been lent to the man
agement of a department. store "for dis
play purposes only
The president of the company, A. M.
Andrews, New York banker, was said to
be in Los Angeles to attend the show
ing. New York information was to the
effect that nine persons, described as
nationally known" were associated in
the company for which Offices had been
opened at IT East Forty-fifth street. 1t
was said that all the stock had been
subscribed and that none would be Of
fered for public sale.
Pictures of the car show 1t to be
mounted on a chassis with extremely
low road clearance, within one step of
SDGCulCdllOIlS
have not been issued yet.
Front Drive Not New.
Front drive is not new to the indus
try. Fourteen or fifteen years ago the
chassis principle became known through
races in which Barney Oldheld drove
the old Christie" and a model of this
make has until recent years been in the
service of the Detroit Fire Department,
it being seemingly impossible to wear
it out.
Modern progress in the front-wheel
drive has been made in the annual 500
mile races on the Indianapolis Speed
way and in other speed contests on
board and dirt tracks throughout the
country. It's chief proponent has been
Harry Miller, Los Angeles builder of
racing cars, whose designs in the 81
inch displacement class have scored vic
tories in some instances, but not in the
500-mile event itself.
For passenger car work builder in
Indiana has been developing a 'front.'
drive model, which was to have been
shown early this year, but was with
held. 1t is now reported that this model
is scheduled for introduction later this
year. Experimental models are said to
be able to make road turns at 40 and As
miles an hour.
AS contraSted with the conventional
passenger car type Of rear-wheel drive,
the front-wheelers pull the car forward
rather than push it. Therein lies the
front-drive advantage, according to
those who favor it. With the propulsion
in front the car has less tendency to
skid. It's ability to hold the road on
sharp turns may be likened to man
crawling over q slippery surface. He
can proceed with less danger of slip
ping or falling than one who walks
upright.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
American shipments Of automotive
products have increased more than 40C
per cent within the last six years
opening an enormous foreign market
which has made possible price reduc-
lions at home and abroad.
American motor manufacturers ship
ped $3.50 ,097, 974 worth of their products
abroad last year, export statistics as
sembled by the Department Of Com
merce show.
This total is more than 400 per cent
larger than the tremendous business
enjoyed by the motor industry in 1922,
when $104, 505,518 worth of its products
were shipped abroad.
The export shipments last year were
90 per cent higher than 1927, when
units valued at $404, 699, sos were sent
abroad In 1922 manufacturers set a
new high mark by exporting 66,791
units.
This foreign market has grown
steadily until last years shipment was
1858, 1923 cars valued at 416 times the
record shipment of 1922.
Almost 10 per cent of all passenger