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The Washington times., 1929-11-13
STATE BOARD IN SESSION

LEESBURG. Va, Nov. 13.-Dr.
Horace C. Littleiohn Is in Rich
mond this week attending the
sessions Of the State Board OF
Pharmacy of which he is a mem
Der.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
POLICE USE DEVICE
FOR BRAKE TESTING
Decelerometer Functions Perfectly,
Detroit Law Officers Find in
Recent Experiments.

The decelerometer, device for regis
tering brake tests. is being used by the
police for the first time in connection
with the annual safety campaign con-
Quoted by the Detroit Police Depart
ment in the motor metropolis.
The first car chosen by them for the
test during the opening day Of the drive
was sedan with an established repu-
tation for exceptionally dependable
and efficient braking equipment. The
decelerometer. which resembles a
speedometer was clamped to the run
ning-board of the car and It demon
strated its ability to stop quickly at
various speeds.
The instrument functions perfectly,
according to the police, who have car
ried out many thousand tests since the
campaign opened. The figures on a
dial that shows the number of feet
required to come to q full stop after
the brakes are applied by the driver
are set at zero. Another dial for show
ing the speed to be tested is set before
the run is begun.
Detroit this year is carrying on six
week drive in place Of the regular week
set aside each year to test brakes Of
cars driven in the city. The test is not
compulsory, but voluntary on the part
Of drivers. Following successful tests, a
sticker given by the examining officials
is fixed to the windshield and shows
the inspection has been passed. Lights,
horns and driving permits also are in
cluded In the inspection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
HEARING DATE SET
FOR new PERMITS
Cumberland Session Called for July
II for Issuance of Conven-
fence Certificates.

BALTIMORE, July 6.-The first
hearing by the Public Service Commits
sion for the issuance of employees GER
tif1cates of convenience, authorized by
the last session Of the State Legisla-
ture, win be held July II in Cumber-
land.
Employees Of factories at Cumberland
and Amcelle, Md, were the first to
apply for the new permits.
The law provides that an employe
of a firm who drives daily to work in
his own automobile may carry fellow
employees to work with him and charge
a fare, providing the plant is not rea-
sonably accessible to the employees by,
transportation lines now in service.
The law was passed after bus COM
panies in Western Maryland claimed
that individuals were transporting peo-
pie for hire without. a license, thus
cutting into their business. The men
involved eountered with the charge
that 1t was the only means that they
had of reaching work on time.
The law provides that the applicant
for one of the certificates must register
with the commission a list of the names
of the men he plans to transport, and
that he shall only hire his car for TAX
ing them to and from work. A special
license plate will be issued by the Com
missioner of Motor Vehicles to the sue
cessful applicants at an additional cost
of So per year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
ROAD SCOUTS TO AID
IN SPEEDING TRAFFIC
A. A. A. Workers Confer to Help
in Moving Summer Tourists
Army.

Americas motor touring army, which
will number $4,000, 900 this year, will be
moved with greater dispatch as q result
of a conference of A. A. A. road scouts
now under way in the Capital. .-
The meeting. always staged on the
eve of the Summer travelling season, is
held under auspices of the National
Touring Bureau of the American Auto
mobile Association. and is primarily foz
the purpose of developing accurate road
information from the four corners OF
the United States.
The A. A. A. road scouts are contin-
ually on the highways Of the Nation
logging highways, reporting detours and
generally acting as the vanguard OF
motordom. They travel in specially
built and equipped automobiles and at
all times respond TO the call of motor.
lists for assistance or information.
G. G. Gale, one of the trauscontinent-
al ENJOYS of the highways" drove to
Washington for the conf srence in q
car that has been pronounced the finest
and most completely equipped car In
the country. Approximately $2,5o0 is
represented in special equipment and
accessories, which extends to chromium
plated tenders, altimeter, compass and
the most approved lights and horns.
Elmer jenkins, manager Of the A. A. A.
National Touring Bureau, Is presiding
over the conference, which Is attended
by Mr.. Gale, j. M. Broderick, w. D.
Allen. Darden Allen, A. NJ. Durling, B.
H. Trimmer and r. G. Rim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
Auto Parking Tower Holds 10 Machines
In Space Usually Allotted Only Two

other working parts Of the device. 1t is
a reinforced concrete structure.
The engineers say that q tower on
ground space no larger than that &C.
cupied by the structure here can be
erected to height sufhcient to house
so autos. For accommodations above
that number two or more towers would
be installed In series.
In operation, the tower is much like
an automatic electric elevator. The
driver puts his car into the tower on
the ground level, and when he does so
IL rests on q steel platform-an indi-
vidual parking space--suspended from
the heavy endless chains. He leaves
his car, steps outside the tower, pushes
button or turns a key switch, and
presto! his car moves upward and out
of the way into It's own place.
When the owner wants 1t again, it is
delivered to him on the ground floor
level at another push Of the button.
An electric motor, of horsepower per
car, housedsz provides the operating
poWeTss ~ sses. -,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
In the Motor World
BY q. ADAMS HOWARD.

National Capital this week by the
American Automobile Association
anent the rotary left turn now in
force at controlled crossings here
is just another of the many that
this traffic abomination has elicit
ed from baff1ed visiting motor
lists. So many criticisms have been
aimed at this rule of Washington
traffic that it seems hardly nee
eSSary to print any more COM
plants, but here Is Just another,
written In by motorist who ad-
mits that he made none of the
unorthodoX turns during a three
day stay in the Capital, hit no
one, and only had to beg of with
the aid of Ohio tags once. His
letter follows:
During a recent three day stay
in the Capital I was at first be-
wildered, then only amused, at
the antics of, your motorists as
they wreStled with left turns at
the light and policeman controlled
crossings. The left turn rule in
force in your city did not bother
me but cnce, the first time I
brushed with the law on the mat
ter. Then my Ohio tags got me
of. Thereafter, when I found
traffic all messed up on one side
of the street waiting the pleasure
II the lights or the crossing police
man, just went on around with
regular left turn. like we do
back home here in Columbus, re-
CARELESS of cop, lights or what
have you. The policemen gen.
orally blew once, then saw my tags
and did not bother me further,
thinking. perhaps I was already
on my way out of the city. It
certainly is a shame you all do
not have Ohio tags in Washington.
(SignedD "E. j. SMITH,
Columbus, Ohio"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
oVERTEST FOR SHOCK.
Automobile Factories Put Cars
Through Severe Examination.

Artificial road tests as administered
in the research laboratories of the big
automobile factories of the country
lean toward everlasting the shock-ab-
sorbing qualities rather than to under
testing them to provide a margin Of
safety.
Bumps which might not be encoun-
tered more than half a dozen times IN
motor cars existence are delivered
hundreds of times to stock cars used
as test machines, and where SEEM
ing weakness occurs that part Is
strengthened to meet the proportion
ate strength of the other parts. Shocks
are administered to wheels and springs
from all possible driving condition an
giles In these tests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
LATIN AMERICANS PLANNING
VAST SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS
Network Of Smooth Paving in View,
Linking Magnificent Roads in u. S.
and Canada.
and Canada.

taxes Of all sorts. general merchandise
sale taxes and assessments on abUtttng
property owners form the principal
sources of the revenue used for road
building in this country.
Most Of Panama's roads have been
built with funds from the national gov
eminent. About $4,000, 900 of q loan
fioated in the United states went for
roads in 1923, and another loan last
year provided IS 900, 600 for roads. In
addition, there Is 10 cents a gallon
duty on gasoline in this country, which
is providing about $250,o0o annually for
roads
Throughout South America there Is a
great movement for better roads to
catch up with the pace that is Deiag
set In the manufacture Of automobiles.
1t can easily be seen, however, the
need for greater coordination, il the
great sources of revenue that the auto
mobile tourist trade opens up are to be
tapped, is a crying one in the Latin
American countries, particularly north
Of the Panama Canal.
Tourists Looking Forward.
1t is not hard to envision the motor
tourist of a short while hence going
into those beautiful tropical countries
for the Winter vacation period, pro-
vided the proper highway facilities are
available. Nor can 1t be hard to i'm
agine the great returns that will acc -ue
to the Latin American countries which,
by good highways. link themselves TO
the great and prosperous country to the
north Of them.
In this country, where the automobile
almost overnight became mighty tool
of business and q great necessity for
pleasure, the opening-up effect it had
on some communities was marvellous to
behold. It can safely be said that The
motor car has developed many commu-
mites and brought them prosperity
where before there was little TO draw
the visitors with money to spend.
All of Stk1is the Pan-American High
way Congress realizes and will attempt
to impress upon the officials of the
countries sending their delegations. TIE
whole Of the Western World is looking
to the development by the congress Of
plans for opening mp the whole of the
Western Hemisphere by highway ard
super highway systems. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
KEEP PARTS TlGHTENED.
Motor Mechanics Hold Practice
will Lengthen Life of Car.

Keep your new car frightened up and
it'll last you just that much longer, is
the sound advice of almost every mo-
tor mechanic.
Mechanics explain that the varying
conditions under which the touring mo-
tor car operates necessarily bring about
a certain loosening up of the holding
together" parts of the machine. Ex-
pansion of the metal of machines under
drastic changes of temperature en-
countered on long tours make it almost
imperative for the motoTist to shop
his machine on his return to get it
back into the tight, tiptop shape that
makes city driving 80 much easier and
more pleasurable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
77,441 Miles of Highways.

Since the inception of the Federal
aid highway system in 1916, total OF
77,441 miles of Federal-aid highways
have been built, says the American Mo-
florists Association. Despite the plea
of motorists for more improved high
ways, there remained on May /, 1929,
a balance of $79,267 in the Federal-aid
fund which was available for new high
way projects upon application by the
States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
URGES BRAKE CARE.
Attention Held Important at This
Time of Year.

That special attention should be given
to the cars braking system at this sea-
son of heavy and fast motor travel Is
emphasized by Rudolph Jose, local au-
tomobile dealer. Mr.. Jose declares that
at no other time of the year is 1t more
important for the motorist to be abso-
lutely certain that his braking system
is operating at peak efficiency.
Town and country travel both are
heavier at this season than during any
other, and in case of the latter 1t Is
much more rapid" he said. Good
brakes, under these conditions, are vital
to safety, and the motorist who fares
forth without being certain of their eff
ficiency runs the biggest kind of risk.
Modern maintenance departments
are equipped with devices which check
braking qualities and are manned by
mechanics able to give precisely the adj
justment necessary. The wise car own
er will take advantage Of this equip
ment, mechanical and human"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ABSoclaLeo EreSs.
SANDUSKY, Ohio, July 6.-Ten au-
tomobiles parked in a building cover
ing a. ground area II feet inches by
Is feet, the size Of tie plot occupied
by the average two-car. garage
But the longitude and latitude have
nothing to do with this case.
In this invention of j. e. Morton,
Sandusky engineer. it's the altitude
plus a novel endless roller chain ar
rangement carrying steel platforms,
each of suficient strength to support
an auto, that makes the first auto park
ing tower success. It is now in use
With this auto parking tower, Mcr-
ton and his associates believe they
will solve the parking and garage
problems caused by the congestion In
the centers of population. Memphis,
Tenn, men have invested their capital
in the invention and are preparing TO
market the idea.
First, they have erected q demon
stration tower in Sandusky on Local
ton adjacent to the factory OF com.
pany that manufactures the chains ana
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
60 TRAFFIC DEATHS.
Baltimore Reports 1,e41 Injured
in Five-Month Period.
oecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. July 6.-There were
$40 trah1c accidents in Baltimore in
the first five months of this year, in
which so persons were killed and 1,941
injured, according to figures compiled
by John RoStmeyer, director OF the Bal
timore Safety Council.
While the total land area of the city
is 10 square miles, Mr.. Rostmeyer's in
vestigations disclosed that 74s per cent
of the 5,34e accidents. happened In an
area of 19 square miles. g,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
AUTOMOBILE TESTS VARY.
Temperatures in Factories Range
From 20 Below to 14o Degrees.

From 20 Below to 140 Degrees.
Automobiles are tested under many
conditions in the engineering research
departments of the big automobile fac
tories Of the country.
Rooms in which engine performance
can be tested at temperatures as low
as 20 degrees below zero, in which the
workmen operate In suits similar to
those used by altitude flyers. and others
wherein temperatures as high as 140
simulate the highest desert heat. are
q part of this automobile third de-
gree" equipment In other rooms, made
sound-proof. the noises of engine OPP
Grafton are eliminated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
HOW TO SAVE TIRES.
Changing From One Wheel to An
other Prolonrs Life,

Changing about of tires greatly
lengthens their life.
Tests have proved that the right rear
tire gets the most wear Of all on the
automobile, with the wear on the 9TH
ers going down the scale in this order:
Left rear, right front, left front.
Every two or three thousand miles
move your right rear to the left front
and the right front to the left rear to
equalize the wear Punctures probably
win take care of the wear on the spares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

Skidding tires are costly to the mo-
torist. Tests have indicated that main
travelled pavements, after few years
of, use, become about 8 per cent rubber.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

From IS to 30 per cent more mileage
may be obtained by keeping tires in
hated to the pressure recommended by
manufacturers, tests have shown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19

dark brown, is getting reddish. How
can I make it dark again safely? (2)
Please give he recipe for a simple,
safe curling fluid. 90 have a broad,
short face. How should 1 dress my
hair? What colors are becoming to
me? DUBOIS. IND.
AnsWer-D The reddish tinge may
be due to exposing your hair to the sun
without hat. or to using the wrong
kind of shampoo soap. Use only pure
CASTLE soap for the shampoo, or tar
soap. Apply olive oil to the scalp and
hair before washing it and steam 1t in
with hot towels for about 10 minutes,
then shampoo. Dry by rubbing between
warmed towels and shaking in mild
sunshine. Avoid very strong sun or
artificial heat in drying the hair. You
may use sage-tea rinse before drying
the hair If you wish. as this tends to
darken 1t and is harmless. (2) Mix
2 drains gum tragacanth, 10 drops
glycerin and 8 ounces rose water. Let
1t stand overnight before using (3)
Wear a high side part; bring your hair
forward over your cheeks and cover
your ears Have it shingled behind.
You forgot to describe your skin tints
or the color of your eyes. SO that I
cannot judge which colors are most be-
coming. Please try again.
LOIS LEEDS.
Copyright. 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19

ficiency is stressed and housework re.
lieved.
Silver dressing table accessories re-
quire constant cleaning to keep them
bright and shining. Instead of choos-
ing them, therefore, pick out ivory
which is equally de luxe, and which
takes but fraction of the time needed
TO keep silver polished. Silver for the
dining room is not so easily dispensed
with. but it is possible to reduce the
number of pieces to those in constant
use. The other pieces will require
polishing before using, but not the
weekly care Flat silver can be washed
daily in hot suds to which little
washing soda is added. and be rubbed
dry with towel of outing or, domet
flannel. Then it will not require fire.
quent polishing.
BraSSeS take good deal of time
and enargy to keep shining unless they
are lacquered. If they are so treated
they take no more time to care fol
than any other ware.
Few ornaments and fine ones are
preferable to many that are mediocre
and with few to 90 over the time OF
erS clean dustlessly, and without the
rooms having to be upset. They save
hours each week
The competent housewife who wishes
simplified but adequate homemakins
should go over her rooms and see in
what way she can reduce the work OF
caring for them.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19

The decorating of a house may be
much that great deal of energy is
needed to keep it in order, or 1t may
be so carefully planned that house.
work is simplified. The home maker
who does her own work should give
these phases of interior decoration
much thought. Unless she does, she
may find herself Swamped with work.
On the other hand. if she does pay
them enough attention, she may be
able to have the desired amount of
time for many outside activities that
she would enjoy and know that they
are not encroaching on her home
duties.
There are certain things that can
be arranged to decrease care without
eliminating the articles altogether.
There are ways of substituting one va
riety of article requiring much care
by others. equally good that take far
less work to tend. And there is a group
of things that can be eliminated, or
at least put aside for special occasions
and not be in constant evidence,
thereby diminishing their care.
For example, books are a delight in
q home. They serve as backgrounds
in decoration, and as friends for spare
hours. They may be a great care or
not, according o the way they are
treated. If they are on open shelves,
they need constant busting, as do the
shelves themselves. If they are behind
glass doors they are equally handy
but are protected. They require al
most no busting and re-arranging. Eta
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
Today in
Washington History
BY DONALD A. CRAIG.

January 10, 1869.-This morning a
delegation came to President-elect
Grants headquarters, on Seventeenth
street. and extended an urgent invita-
ton to him to go to Baltimore Thurs
day and meet the people of that city.
The delegation represented the Balti-
more City Councils, and was headed by
Henry Duval. president of the first
branch, and James Webb, president OF
the second branch. Gen. Grant told
them that he felt under many obliga-
tons to the people of Baltimore, but
that he could not promise to hold
public reception, or even to meet the
members of the councils on that day.
He would be glad to accept the invi-
tation, the President-elect said, except
for the fact that he had other engage
ments on that day. However, he eX-
planned that he was going to Baltimore
as trustee of the Peabody Educational
Fund Thursday, and after he arrived
and discovered what arrangements had
been made for his entertainment by the
! other trustees he might be able to meet
the people of Baltimore. He antici-
pated that the meeting of the trustees
would be finished by Friday evening
and that he might be able to accept
the gracious invitation Saturday morn
ing.
committee representing the Col
ored National Convention called on
President-elect Grant at 10 o'clock this
morning at his headquarters and de-
livered an address to him. to which
the general responded. Later the COM
mittee called on Speaker Colfax of
the House of Representatives.
| President Andrew Johnson. answer
ing a resolution recently adopted by
the Senate, today declared that the
authority on which he based his procla
nation of amnesty was the Constitution
of the United States. the second section
of which provides that the President
shall have power to grant pardons
and reprieves for offenses against the
United States, except in cases OF i'm
parchment" He cited presidents by
President Washington. President Madi-
son and President Lincoln to aid in
establishing his point
Representative Kelley of Pennsyl-
vania read statistics in the House to-
day showing that since 1860, when
skilled workmen were glad to work for
so to 60 cents day." the wages of the
working classes in cities Of the Nation
have been steadily climbing upward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19

HOLLYWOOD, Calf. January 10
The village has gone green. feel like
that Scotsman who stopped watering
the lawn and bought himself green
spectacles. A brief tour of our main
section, including luncheon at the pop
ular stand, reveals the ladies and gen.
ties of the colony caught in the grip OF
a hobby for that color which put Old
Erin and jealousy on the map.
I bumped into Mrs. Bob Armstrong
in a green and tan checked Spring suit,
green shoes. green hosiery and a green
leather and felt hat. Very pour lie sport.
Caroming away from this encounter.
I backed into Lilyan Taskman In a
coat of pale mouse-colored molesk1n
and vivid green velvet hat with long
side tassel. Quite Alpine chausseur;
very devil-may-care.
Over the puree of spinach soup I saw
Evelyn Brent i'll y green felt hat OF u
poisonous and very becoming shade and
a notified sports suit which was not IN
nocent of green, either. Now hold all.
for she carried square of verte green
chiffon some 20 inches across.
In Hollywood these days you just must
hankie in a great big way. When you
get tired Of hopping the brow you
thrust them through ring in the purse
top and let them dangle Imply and
colorfully.
At tea time Norma Shearer was in q
suit of gray. Very run-like were 1t not
for her green hat, so slick and tight
that 1t gave the appearance Of being
nodded onto her head. The small head
was intensified by the huge collar OF
platinum baby fox and cuffs of the
same that reached almost to the elbow.
The inevitable hankie was gray chif-