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Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-01-24
Traffic Through Suez

The Suez canal Is 100 miles long.
lat feet wide and 10 feet deep. 1t Is
a sea-evei canal, and ships pass
through II under their own power
The average time OF transit Il 10
hours and II minutes The maximum
speed permitted Is 80 nautical miles
per hour. AT nIghi.yesseis carr, furr
lights and n strong searchlIghi capulli
OF sending beam 4V00 feet aheud
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-01-24

Passed Out Of Life to Keep Contentment

countable ages. For In that country
moment seemed eternity. That ex.
perience remains vivid and pleas
ant memory to this day. When
think OF death think OF that eternity
sensed when the earth-life seemed
to cease to pull me. And II seemed
good, moi evil. "-capper's Weekly.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-01-24
Iceland to Have Railroad

There are no railroads In Iceland.
Recently. however. Norwegian COM
pany contracted to build a railroad
from ReykJavik, the capital. to Tho
jorsaa, distance OF so miles. Con-
struction Is to begin May /, 1929.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-01-24
HaroLd's Mother
Knelu AnsUer

eyes, sir, | am GER
ttaInlYL proud of my
little boy says. Mrs.
n. M. Smith, 4o1 To-
'peka Ave-, Topeka,
Kansas. Hes five
and weighs f1fty-sev-
en- pounds. He's the
picture OF henlth ns
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-01-24
Cat Problem

zone cigar contains enough nicotine
to Kill twenty cats"
"But how can twenty cats smoke
one cigar7"
II put her back In circulation"
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-01-24

Fresh. sweet. white, dainty clothes
for baby. II you use Red Cross Ball
Blue. Never streaks or Injuries them.
All good grocers sell it.-Adv.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-01-24

The Shade OF Noah--How did you
luy your course when you were sub
merged2
The Shade OF Jonah-By compass
didn't have no periscope.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-01-24
Soviet Honors Woman

A woman factory worker, Tatiana
PrusakDva, has become mayor OF Co
mel. one OF the largest cities In the
White Russia Soviet republic. Since
childhood Prusakova worked in the
local match factory. After the revo-
tuition she became active In the Sow
cts. and now she has been elected
president OF the Gomel Soviet, posi-
tion corresponding to mayor or burg
omaster.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-01-24

20 Happy Day. sang the laundress
as she hung the snowy wash on the
line. 1t was a 'happy day" because
she used Red Cross Ball Blue.-Adv.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-01-24
Chief Causo of Divorce
Marriage"

"What was 1t brought about your
separation"
Marriage"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

Roadsters totaled 219,050, touring cars
226.977, chassis 14.101, among 1925
open car production; 778.802 coupes
were produced, 1,049,2 2-door sedans
1,613,474 other closed cars and 1872, 900
chassis Of that type.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
ADVERTISING URGED
FOR AUTO DEALERS
Every Phase Of Industry Must Ap.
peal for Trade, Sales Man
ager Says.

That systematic advertising is one
of the most powerful forces at the COM
mand Of automotive jobbers and dealers,
is the opinion of w. S. sherwood, gen.
eral sales manager of spark plug COM
pany, who declared that 'in today's
scheme of business, advertising Is used
by aggressive merchants to not only sell
merchandise, but to keep their concern
and product abreast of competition"
Many industries are advertising to-
day to regain the broad market for their
products which suffered because of lack
of advertising in the face of aggressive
advertising on the part of other indus
tries" he stated.
"Jobbers and dealers in the automo-
tive field need to advertise Just as the
various industries do. If they don't,
they will soon find their trade has
migrated to other concerns.
Many jobbers today are using adver-
Using TO bring the smaller dealer trade
to their counter sales department. Such
trade over the counter is very profitable,
while to secure such business with sales
men would be prohibitive.
Dealers likewise are making more
use of advertising through both news
papers and direct mail to bring custom
ers to their place of business. They
realize that they, too, are faced with the
competition of concerns selling other
commodities and appealing aggressively
to the public to buy their merchandise;
that sales diverted from them to con-
Germs dealing in other than automotiye
products means lost business"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
directly as possible between the points

directly as possible between the points
designated
One of the provisions of the bill is
that no part of these highways shall
be within any city of more than 1000
population, or within 10 miles of any
city of more than 100000 population,
including cities named as terminals.
Such highways" the bill continues,
shall be planned, so far as practicable,
to supplement rather than to coincide
with existing highway systems, and es-
pecially to carry truck trains"
The Secretary of Agriculture, who
would carry out the program, would be
empowered to determine the width and
number of traffic lanes, the types of
construction and kind of surfaces, con-
sidering the character and volume Of
future traffic.
It would carry authority TO construct
tunnels and bridges where necessary,
and also to make arrangements for the
operation of ferries if they are found
necessary on some of the routes. The
bill would authorize the President to
transfer to the Secretary Of Agricul-
ture, by executive order, portions Of
public lands or reservations necessary
In projecting these highways.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
80 : 4

American motorists will learn about
gasoline taxes at the moment the sub
ject is uppermost in their minds-when
they are paying them-under plans of
the American Petroleum Institute.
A series of folders on gasoline taxes
is ready to be distributed by the inSti-
tute to oil companies for further dis
tribution to motorists when they buy
their gasoline and pay their tax at
filling stations. With their gasoline
motorists will receive booklets explaining
their share in the aggregate $3.50, 000,-
900 gasoline tax the institute estimates
will be paid in 1929, outlining the in
crease in taxes from $4,700,0 900 in 1921
to $305, 100000 in 1928, and asking if
a rise in the per gallon rate to 6
cents from the one-cent tax first i'm
posed. hasn't about reached a limit.
The first of the series contains an
editorial from the New York World eX-
planning the stand taken by institute
directors when on March u they
of rate per gallon tax beyond rea-
sonable bounds, or where the rate con-
sumner must pay is out OF equitable pro-
portion to the price of gasoline.
The second folder, Where Does My
Mileage Coz" tells the motorist just
how much he and others have spent in
gasoline taxes since 1921, shows how
both the aggregate tax and the per
gallon rates have increased, and sug-
gests that the levy, having become a
Is per cent sales tax, has grown out
of equitable proportion to the price of
gasoline.
The way in which gasoline taxes
have become tolls is explained in the
third booklet, THE Open Road?" 1t
is estimated that If car runs IL miles
on a gallon of gasoline, the driver pays
toll of one cent every miles with
two-cent tax, every miles with a
three-cent tax, every 3 miles with a
four cent tax, every "a miles with a
five-cent tax, and every 2 miles with
a Six-cent tax. A cartoon shows how
the supposedly "open road" is barred
by a series of toll gates representing
gasoline taxes, license fees, fines. etc,
aggregating more than $800000,000
yearly. The booklet suggests that an
other so per cent increase in the aggre-
gate tax may be expected next year and
asks: Isn't it time to stop, look and
listen to reason?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
INCREASE is SHOWN
IN RECKLESS DRIVING
First -Four Months Record 10 Bal
timore This Year 207 Per Cent
Over Period in 1927.

special DlSpaIcn TO Inc DtSf.
BALTIMORE, June Reckless driv-
ing involving accidents in Baltimore in
creased So per cent during the first four
months of this year, as compared with
the corresponding period of last year,
and POT per cent over the same period
In 1927, according to report made by
the Baltimore Safety Council.
In the four months this year 1851
cases are listed, last year 982 and 504
in 1927.
During the same period this year As
persons were killed by automobiles,
showing a reduction of three over last
year AutoistS who fed after accidents
number $50 from January l to April 30
this year, against 266 the first four
months of 1928.
OF the 6.726 motor vehicles figuring
in accidents up to April 80. 1852 were
private passenger cars and 3,711 were
driven by the owners Approximately
50 per cent of all accidents occurred in
clear weather, 10 per cent in daylight
hours and Sc per cent at street inter-
sections during the 1929 period. The
greatest number of weekday accidents
have been on Saturday, with the peak
between 5 and pm. Accidents from
drunken driving, on the other hand,
show a marked decrease in the first
four months of 1929, it was revealed in
the report. This year drunken drivers
have figured in an average Of three ac-
cidents a week, as compared with five
a week in 1928 and four in 1927.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
HOOVER TO RECEIVE
CONTEST WINNERS
Massachusetts, Boy Won
First Award for Essay
on Highway Safety.

President Hoover win receive winners
Of the national safety essay and lesson
contests at the White House at 12:45
pm. tomorrow. Brendan A. Finn, IL,
of Somerville. Mass. received the first
award of a trip to Washington and a
gold watch. Miss Amy M. Striley of
Beverly Farms. Mass. who wrote the
best lessnl for teaching safety, won the
first award OF $500 and a trip to WASH
ington.
Senator Giliett of Massachusetts will
introduce the winners to the President
and Alvan Macauley. president of the
National Automobile Chamber Of Com
merce. which provided the prizes, will
head the delegation.
The highway education board. which
conducts the contest every year. esti-
mates that 100000 pupils and 100000
teachers competed.
In the pupils contest the second ma
tional winner was Jack Glover of Port
land. Greg, and the third winner. Rob-
ert w. Tufts of Sheriff., N. Y. Both
will receive gold watches.
In the teachers event the second
winner was Miss Cleata Thorpe of HUI
ron, S. Oak, who won $780, and the
third winner vas Miss Beula J. Ander-
son of Clear Lake. MINI, who won 5000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
AUTO CAN BE MADE LIKE
NEW, SAYS VETERAN
Rudolph Jose Says Refnishing
Jobs Are Done at Surpris-
ingly Low Cost.

That this is an excellent time to have
ones car refinished and the upholstery
repaired. is pointed out by Rudolph
Jose, veteran automobile dealer, who
says that in today's completely equip
ped establishments an automobile can
be made to look like new at a sur
prisingly low cost
Most motorists still cling to the be-
lief that refinishing jobs are neces-
sarily very expensive" Mr.. Jose says.
This is decidedly not the case, as even
casual survey shows.
With modern equipment, the re-
finishing establishment or department
can work wonders, quickly and mex
penSively. And the character of the
work is excellent, whether the car is
given three or dozen coats.
There is no excuse whatsoever for
allowing the cars upholstery to deteri-
crate since this type of work also is
done with neatneSS and dispatch and,
further. at costs which will not faze the
most economical owner. Nothing looks
worse than a car whose upholstery is
ragged and torn.
Il know of no better Springtime move
than to have the cars body refinished
and its upholstery refurbished"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
100 MILES OF ROADS
ARE TO BE IMPROVED
Kent County, Md, Contracts Await
81 100000 Bond Sales Author
lied by Last Legislature.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, June Approx
mately 100 miles of dirt roads in Kent
County will be improved as soon as the
81 100000 bond issue authorized by the
State Legislature is f1oated by the
county commissioners. The bonds are
now being offered to the public by local
brokers and as soon as the money from
the sale of bonds has been received
work will begin.
This is one of the largest road-build-
ing programs ever undertaken by any
of the counties in the State and the
total amount of the bond issue for road
improvement is said to be the largest
ever f1oted at one time by any Of the
counties.
Engineers from the State Road Com
mission have been in the county during
the week making surveys of five
stretches of road which will be the
first to be improved under the super
vision Of the State Road Commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
Petroleum Institute Plans Propaganda
Campaign Against Gas Tax Increase
g lu,6e,a highway Educational Bw,,p w,shinsin,sc

The fourth folder is made up en-
tirely of newspaper articles and COM
ment on gasoline taxes. The cover is
a cartoon by Warren of the Cleveland,
Ohio, News. Reproduction of news
paper clippings shows that automobile
dealers. clubs. motorists, taximen and
others have opposed recent increase in
gasoline tax rates in many States. In
Guided is an editorial from the Wheel
ing, w. Va, Intelligencer entitled
Where Will 1t End?" 1t suggests that
legislatures should follow the example
of the Federal Government and cease
to regard the automobile and its owner
as merely an easy and inexhaustible
source of revenue"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

Production in the United States and
Canada during 1923 totaled 4,024, 500
passenger cars, and 576,540 trucks. OF
this number only lis per cent were
open cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
TRADE BODY TO MEET.

The regular monthly meeting of the
Washington Automotive Trade Asso-
citation will be held tomorrow evening,
at 8 o'clock, at the City Club.
Chester Leasure, manager of resolu-
lions and referenda department, for
merly associate editor of Nations Busi-
ness. will be the principal speaker.
Following his talk the meeting will
be thrown open for general discussion
on ways and means of better promoting
association activities.
The meeting will be the last until
Fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
BROOKHART ROAD
PLAINS DESCRIBED
me Would Start From Capt.
tai and Four Others Be
Linked With Washington.

4 Washington would be the starting
pint for one link in new system OF
tional highways just proposed in Con-
ess by Senator Brookhart, Republican
Iowa. Not only would one of the
ain arteries he proposes originate
bar the District. but four OF the others
the contemplated system would be
bnnected with the National Capital by
eders
Senator Brookhart's road-building
f an would be in addition to the Federal
ID system of highways laid out by the
lreau of Public Roads, which are be-
Il developed on cooperative basis
NWeen the States and the Federal
overnment. Each State is required to
atch the annual allotments from the
overnment.
Seven Main Lines Proposed.
under this new bill there would be
zen main arteries and a number of
hillary links constructed. They
uld be national highways in the full
1se of the word-built entirely from
deral funds.
The highway starting near the Dis
ct of Columbia would extend to OK
LOrn9 DIV way Oh TblCLlIIlOIlu, va, 0llG
rough the States of Tennessee and
kansas. It would be No. 5 in the
\ bgram as mapped out in the bill. The
q her main national highways would
ENn the East with the West and the
F0kth with the South, along the follow
h& routes:
From q point on the Great Lakes
b point on the Pacific Ocean in
bregon.
1. From Portland, Me, to Seattle,
Wash, by way of Chicago.
3, From Boston, Mass to San Fran
isco, Calf, by way of st. Louis.
4. From New York City to Los An
,eles, Calf.
6. From New York City to Jackson
lille, Fla, following near the Atlantic
oast as far as it is practicable; and
rom Jacksonville, Fla, to Brownsville.
tex, following the coast of the Gulf Of
Mexico. with a branch running south
trough Florida.
T. From the western terminal OF
Eoute No. l (which would be in Ore
on) to Los Angeles. following the Pa
life coast as far as practicable.
g. From a point not less than 10 nor
hore than 20 miles from the capital of
hch State to the most accessible main
ational highway. The bill further
rovides that highways numbered 2,
, and shall be connected with the
National Capital"
$4,000, OOO, 900 in Notes Urged.
In order to finance the project. Sem
tor Brookhart proposes to authorize
he Secretary of the Treasury to issue
United States notes from time to time
s required, up to a maximum OF
2 900 100000 The Brookhart proposal
! not likely to be considered until the
OCULAR session beginning in December.
The Bureau of Public Roads would
e authorized to establish a system OF
censes or tolls to maintain these high
Iays and to redeem the United States
otes at rates that will accomplish
UGH redemption in not more than 80
ears, nor less than 20 years" Sena-
Or Brookhart indicated he would be
isposed to favor an annual license Of
ome sort for those using these direct
highways, In preference to q toll
ystem.
According to the Iowa Senator, these
ew arteries would not be laid out by
ring existing highways together, but
Tould be wholly new and laid out as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
WIDENING BOULEVARD
SOON TO BE STARTED
Three Miles of Washington High
way Between Baltimore and
Eldridge to Be Improved.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to THE Star.
BALTIMORE, June Work of
widening three miles of the Washing
ton Baltimore boulevard from the city
line to Elkridge to 40 feet will pe
started about the middle of July, ac-
cording to Harry D. Williar, ir., chief
engineer Of the State Roads Commits
sion. The widening will necessitate the
moving of nine residences which are
located on the rights of way of the
improvement.
In obtaining rights of way to make
the road a 40-foot boulevard, the COM
mission agreed to bear the expense of
moving all buildings necessary to the
widening.
Bids for the widening will be adj
vertised by the State Roads Commits
sion on June II. The actual work will
be started within a month after that
date. There will be no obstruction of
traffic while the work is under way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
CRITICIZES TOLL ROADS.

Proposals to build high speed toll
roads from point to point in this coun-
try have met no approval from Thomas
H. Macdonald, chief of the bureau of
public roads of the United States.
During recent visit to Boston, Mr.
Macdonald referred to a road now pro-
posed through CoLlecticut. Such
roads. he said, would be in practical
competition with railroads and, he as
serted, either would be unsuccessful or
would bring financial disaster to the
railroads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
HABIT NOW PROBLEM
FOR TRAFFIC ENGINEERS
Massachusetts, Official Discovers
Judgment Neglected and Routes
damned as Result.

BOSTON, June 1 CP.-Habit is a
problem for traffic engineers to solve,
says Maxwell Halsey, traffic engineer in
the Massachusetts, department of public
works.
People drive by habit instead Of by
Judgment of distance, he asserts, and
in consequence the better known routes
are choked with traffic that should be
moving on shorter and partly deserted
byways.
In Boston. he explains, more than 20
per cent of the people in fremont street
could take shorter route, but, either
from custom or because they follow the
traffic, they pour down into the most
densely congested part of the city.
Better signs will tend to relieve such
conditions. in Mr.. Halsey's opinion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

tation; if you to drive straight-eight rather
than the customary six; if you car that rides
and drives with anything on the road-and still you
want to hold your investment to around $1,000
then you will just naturally be interested in the
Roosevelt It's the only automobile that offers
aHo these things at this price If you are one of
the alert people who insist most for their money,
you will come to see the Roosevelt -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

In terms of staple farm products it
costs the farmer from 38 per cent to e.
per cent less to pay for his automobile
or truck today than it did in 1918. In
other words the exchange value Of
wheat, hogs. WOOL cotton. corn and
cattle for motor vehicles is from one
and one-third to two times greater to-
day than in 1918. These figures are
based on product prices from United
States Department of Agriculture
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-08
AT THE CAPITOL

When Anita Page, featured in
"The Broadway Melody" Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer's brilliant all-talk-
ing, all-singing, all-dancing pro-
duction, which opened at the Cap
itol Theater Sunday, passed her
voice test with flying colors, in
stead of resting on her oars. she
went ahead with plans to iron out
any small flaws which might exist.
1.-THE voice test was nearly as
much Of a thrill as my first day
in pictures" asserted Miss Page. II
was so excited I scarcely remem-
bered what I did first. T remem-
Der mother and I went down to the
university where / enrolled in a
class for voice culture.
Every night 1 would go to school
for two hours, studying enuncia-
ton, voice meditation and so on.
They have a special apparatus
called the voice dissector' at the
University Of Southern California,
which enables one to Immediately
pick out eny fauls in the voice. At
home I practiced daily my dialogue
script"
Bessie Love and Charles King
r featured with Miss Page in this
production which Harry Beaumont
directed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-08
. MOnE !
a,SlDEllGH1S q
AT THE QUEEN

Disappearing cabinets, crystal
balls and all the intriguing para
phernalia Of the fortune-telling
seer are familiar to millions, and
yet each individual mystic and his
yet every individual prop" has q
unique fascinating appeal.
The personality of the mystic Is
in itself intriguing, wrapped as he
invariably 10 in the seeming in
scruptability of his profession. And
about such a personality revolves
the compelling mystery of 1.-The
Charlatan," the Universal feature
production which will be seen al
the Queen theater today and to-
morrow.
Besides the thrilling realm of the
fakir, the picture, which was made
from the New York stage success
of the same name, flashes into the
circle Of high society and in and
out Of the lives Of the beautiful
women who come to the soothSayer
for information and guidance con-
corning forbidden romances by
which they are held captive.