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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-28

MEMPHIS. Tenn, May % lP-An
estate of approximately $500. 600 was
left by Robert r. Ellis, wholesale drug
store head and vice president of the
United States Chamber of Commerce
who died here last Friday. His will.
probated Monday, left most of the
estate to his son. Robert r. Ellis. ir.
West Point. Miss. his birthplace. re-
ceived $4,000 to erect chimes In honor
OF his wife. Several charitable insti-
buttons benefited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-28
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
MILADY'S MOTORING
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL.

Try closing to one-half and, If the
engine threatens to stall, open TO three
quarters again, but not to the fully
open position. Then 60 back to one
half. If the engine runs smoothly then
close the choke altogether, going back
to one-half II it threatens TO stop.
Your new car cuts around very con-
veniently on q narrow street, but q
warning goes with this. Guard against
steering one way or the other too
sharply when the car Is In motion, or
there may be front wheel skid.
Any woman who has just purchased
set Of slip covers to hide the worn
spots in the upholstery should close
her eyes for a moment and picture a
luxurious interior recently fashioned
for use In q custom body Of American
manufacture. The whole affair Is Of
Louis XVI period, the trim being made
up Of French walnut and tulip wood
with hand carved holdings. At each
side of the rear seat is q walnut-lined
mitch for smoking and vanity sets.
Just above is an upright panel, recessed
and walnut lined. It may be swung
out Ike q miniature French window
for additional ventilation.
CcopyriGht by the Russell eervice.)
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and Is per cent in value; cotton yarn,
81 per cent in quantity and 81 per cent
in value; iron and steel plates, sheets,
skelps and strips, 1.9 per cent in guam
tity and is per cent in value: iron and
steel tubular products, 17.9 per cent in
quantity and 27.5 per cent in value;
structural iron and steel, 53.7 per cent
In quantity and so per cent In value;
power driven Woodworking machinery,
1913 per cent in value; construction and
conveying machinery, II per cent in
value; oil-wen machinery, 66.3 per cent
IN value; mining and quarrying ma
chinery, 80 per cent In value; type
writers, 1877 per cent in quantity and
143 per cent in value; radio receiving
sets, 85.5 per cent IN quantity and 1914
per cent In value; electric batteries, SGT
per cent in quantity and 103 per cent
In value; crude petroleum. 37.4 per cent
IN quantity and IS per cent In value (:
paints, pigments and varnisheS, 1876 per
cent in value: industrial chemicals, SO
per cent IN value; fertilizers. 1876 per
cent in values crude sulphur. l7.2 per
cent In quantity and IA per cent IN
value; resin, 25.7 per cent IN quantity
and 1914 per cent in value; wheat -four,
21.6 per cent IN quantity and 11.6 per
cent in value; corn, ST. per cent IN
quantity and SOL per cent In value;
bacon, IL per cent in quantity and 20.5
per cent In value; oranges, 1908 per
cent in quantity and 41.6 per cent In
value; fresh apples, 1922 per cent in
quantity and 1851 per cent in value;
canned fruit, 1872 per cent in quantity
and 1858 per cent in value, and oil cake
and oil cake meal, 31.7 per cent ir
quantity and 30.4 per cent in value.
Among the few striking decreases N
exports for the first three-quarters OF
1929 compared with those for the cor
responding period Of 1928 were tlluml-
mating oil, Is per cent in quantity and
lis per cent In value; gas and fuel oil
21.6 per cent In quantity and 264 pei
cent in value; leather, 20.2 per cent In
value; barley, 17.3 per cent In quantity
and ass per cent in value, and ciga.
rettes, 20e per cent In quantity and
j6.e per cent In value"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
SAFETY FIRST URGED
ON MOTOR DRIVERS
Peril of Driving Through Icy
Streets Described by Local
Automobile Dealer.

The futility and danger Of attempting
to drive on icy streets without chains
recently has been graphically demon
strated in Washington, it Is pointed out
by Oscar Coolican, local automobile
dealer, who uses the fact to lend weight
to an appeal to motorists to utilize
safety accessories, which have been pro-
vided so abundantly.
Some drivers ventured out without
chains and Jared well; others figured In
mishaps," Mr.. Coolican asserts. at
would be interesting to know how many
motorists who are IN the latter class
actually had chains either under the
seat or in the garage at home. There
is plenty Of reason to believe that not q
few have only inertia to blame for their
troubles.
I'm these days the motorist has avail
able a wide variety Of accessories which
make motoring not only feasible, but
eminently safe no matter what the
weather may be, and the wise car owner
sees to it that he has them, and 1r
working order, at all times"
Beyond seeing that his car is equipped
with safety devices and that the latter
are kept in good working condition. Mr.
Coolican reiterateS the warning Of
safety advocates that such features
must not be abused. On this point he
says:
THE abuse Of safety features Is ar
established fact. One Of the most con.
spicuous evidences of it Is the instance
Of the driver who seeks safety by put.
ting chains on his car and then sacri.
fees the virtues Of the chains by driv.
ing beyond their capacity to give the
car traction. Chains are an essentia
safety feature, but they can be out
driven under certain conditions. Every
time these conditions are present one
sees evidence of the fact that some ca
owners assume safety equipment to bt
virtually omnipotent."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
BETTER HIGHWAYS
SEEN NECESSARY
Motor Efficiency Advancing
Faster Than Road I'M.
provementS.

Competition Is bringing the motoring
public, which includes about 125 900, 900
citizens Of the United States, almost
unbelievable values. Eight-cylinder cars
are coming within reach of those who.
because Of worldly cares. must conserve
the contents of their billfolds. Automo-
biles are being made better and better,
and, of parallel Importance, cheaper and
cheaper.
But there is one thing wrong with
the motoring picture. Mole has been
done in creating speed and comfort in
vehicles than in providing highways
over which they may best operate. To
say that automobile manufacturers have
done all they can in the way of max
ing cars efficient would not be quite
true, for mechanical improvements are
to continue. But the great betterment
that is to come in motoring cannot be
accomplished by motor car manufac-
turers. More well-paved highways must
be built and that by John Public.
The saturation point of automobile
ownership Is elusive. In addition to the
replacement of some 100000 worn out
cars each year, the total vehicle regis
tration Is being increased by $500, 900.
There are now some 26,000,000 cars on
the highways and bywayS and by the
end of 1880 the registration will have
mounted to 27,500,000.
1t Is difhcult to visualize the impor-
lance Of such large figures, but they
do show that the motoring appetite IS
far from being appeased.
Most cars are owned in population
centers-but they do not stay there.
Hence the highway problem is not only
Statewide, but Nationwide.
Few States have really made an at
tempt to serve the motorist, but those
that have made any commemorate head
way have done so through the aid Of
the bond issue plan, which enables the
State or local community to purchase
roads In inStallmentS, as homes and
cars are purchased by individuals.
To meet the highway problem most
successfully it is necessary to make
use Of assured future income. Plans
OF various States indicate that greater
use Is to be made of the bond issue
plan. In the meantime, motorists in
those communities evidencing little
road building energy will continue to be
deprived Of true motoring comfort
at a. greater motoring cost than their
neighbors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
MOTOR PRODUCERS
REPORT INCREASE
Two Leading LoW-PriCed
Factories Institute Sharp
Rise in Daily Output.

Another sharp increase In total au-
tomotive output occurred last week, as
the two leading producers In the low
priced field instituted daily schedule
step-ups ranging from 10 to is per cent
according to B. H. Cram, president OF
Grams Automotive Reports, Inc.
One of these concerns revised It's
monthly set-up upward to 80 per cent
in excess Of the original figure fixed, as
incoming orders continued to gain. In
all about seven companies showed
heavier production, one gain being the
result Of the resumption Of regular &C
tivity.
One company in the high-priced field
increased its daily output Is per cent
and announced that further gain will
be shown next week. The largest gain
was reported by q company in the me-
dium-priced field, showing an increase
OF 80 per cent in its daily output.
The remaining concerns continued
production at unchanged levels, but vir-
tually all stated that in the present
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
DRY CLUTCH PLATES
OFFER NEW PROBLEM
Ventilation Is Provided by One
mathematician Require
Frequent Lubricant Changes.

One of the newest problems in mo-
tordom Is keeping dry plate clutches
dry. There Is marked tendency for
the clutch to create suff1cient Of q
vacuum within its housing to suck oil
either from the engine or the trans
mission.
The tendency has been noticed In
brand-new cars as well as In those that
have seen suf1lcient service to encour-
age the trouble by developing leakage
around the rear main engine bearing
Of the transmission. One Of the lead
ing producers of cars has stopped the
annoyance by providing clutch ventila-
ton. The idea Is worth considering by
any owner who is having trouble keep
ing oil out Of the clutch housing.
Other remedies are to attend to the
worn engine bearing and to change the
lubricant more frequently in the trans
mission In order to keep 1t from getting
so thin as to leak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
RICH GAS RISKS.
Motorist Endangers Cylinder Walls
by Excessive Use Of Choke.

At this time Of year it is customary
20 enrich the carbretor mixture In
order to get quicker start, but the
idea often is overdone and proves to be
costly mistake. Too rich O mixture
viii result In raw gasoline washing oil
from the cylinder walls.
Some of the larger engines take
longer to warm up 10 an ef1cient
operating temperature, and unless the
driver engages only In short runs there
viii be excessive breaking down of the
oil film on the cylinders and entirely
too much crankcase dilution. Another
mistake Is to enrich the low-speed, or
3dling, mixture when the situation may
call for enriching the high-speed mix
ture slightly.
II the engine stalls, coughs or back
6res when the throttle is opened, the
average owner figures general enrich
ing Of the mixture is needed. Just
noting that the engine idles all right
would warn him to leave the loW-speed
adjustment alone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

month fairly heavy output will be gen.
eral, and with the present rate of orders
continuing should proceed steadily up
ward.
As production gained employment at
the factories also showed q further in
crease to more nearly normal levels.
Many plants already are employing
their regular full force Of men and the
depression existing In December soon
will have disappeared.
An optimistic attitude toward the in
dustry's operations in 1880 gradually is
becoming more widespread and Is being
expressed with increasing confidence
This optimism Is conservative, however,
and there Is no indication that the
manufacturers VIII let it get an upper
hand and make them forget necessary
precautions. The buying trend Is being
watched closely, particularly by organi-
cations which finance sales Of new auto
mobiles.
Good Year for Dealer.
Current conditions and those expected
to prevail throughout the year point to
this being better year for the dealer
than had been expected, with the re-
cent numerous price increases affording
q greater margin Of profit In many lines
1AAA NOAAbAO4AC0 RAOaACJAOkA uOn1A AIl0C1l
to allay fears Of being overburdened
with stocks.
The level Of truck production showed
virtually no change. Some companies
are operating at decreased rates in some
departments, but the majority are
maintaining q steady pace. One COM
pany increased its daily schedule
slightly. Orders continue In fair vol
ume, showing little change. January's
total will be about the same as the
December volume.
The tire industry in general chung to
its previous levels Of operation, evi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

IDENTIFY awaiting the anticipated early
Spring revival In consumer ttre-buying.
Original equipment orders from car
manufacturers are not increasing apnre-
ciably, except for tires Of smaller sizes.
Crude rubber prices continued weak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
Air Pressure Need.

Balloon tires tend to increase front
wheel shimmy, and the softer they are,
the more they shimny. That's another
reason for maintaining the right air
pressure at all times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

Eighty per cent Of the gasoline and
refined petroleum carried by rail- is for
automotive use. It pays railroads $2ol,-
900, 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

The Hawaiian Islands have 23.5
motor vehicles to every mile of road,
according to the District Of Columbia
division of the American Automobile
Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

Fifty-eight per cent of all new cars
are sold on time, although credit sales
are decreasing, according to the District
Of Columbia division Of the American
Automobile Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

A woman doesn't have to be very
experienced to learn that trying to give
the traffic officer the slip is the surest
way Of getting one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

Incidentally, one reason why so many
people have trouble starting is because
they press the choke In too far Just
ing cranking Close to the three-quar-
ters point Immediately after the start
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
AUTOS LEAD U. S. EXPORT
TRADE FOR FIRST NINE
MONTHS OF YEAR

CONTINUED From Fifth Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

THE HAI0lWhata
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saddk, all bhlid0 tOsoe.
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steod but hanne never cam he.
On the following
afternoon DaUy Cmcket
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thruStS in his bod9.No
need to 80 olwththe
Stcr0 Already the cllr-
tain Was rising on
Texas Lndepeilden1e.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
NON-COMMITTAL ON
SENATORIAL MATTER
Petitions Are Being Prepared With
Idea OF Getting Him To Enter Race

Former United States Senator
Thomas F. Bayard, is non-committal
on the prospects of his being a can
didate for the nomination of United
States Senator at the Democratic
State Convention in September.
All that the former Senator will
say is, that 81 have heard that petit
tions are being circulated in my be-
half" and that 81 may have a state
ment to make in a short time"
However, in view of the statement
made by Mr.. Bayard, petitions are
being circulated by certain Demo-
cratic workers with a view of OBJ
tanning ten signatures in each leg
islative districts, Democrats only,
to show the former Senator that
there is a sentiment in his favor for
the nomination that is now being
sought by Josiah Marvel the only
Democratic aspirant so far to an
nounCN his candidacy for the Office.
When these signatures have been
obtained, it is the desire of the work
ers in behalf of Mr.. Bayard, to in
form him of the sentiment in his
favor and to ask him to allow his
name to be presented at the conven-
tion, in opposition to Mr.. Marvel.
Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
ASSOCIATION TO MEET
Business Meeting To Be Held At
RehObOth On August 1

The Delaware State Funeral Di-
rectors Association will have lob
ster dinner on the solarium of the
Henlopen Hotel on August 1, at Re
hoboth.
Prior to the dinner a business
meeting will be held in the dance
pavilion of the hotel and it is expect
ed that more than a hundred mem
bers of the funeral directing profess
sion of this State and vicinity will
attend.
U. S. Senator Daniel o. Hastings
will deliver an address, the topic
designated Organization" Frank
Denny of the well known vaudeville
team of Denny and Burns, will act
as master of ceremonies.
. The Embalmers Supply Company
of Westport, Conn, has donated the
use of a four reel motion picture,
PLASTIC Surgery" and it will be
shown at 8 of that evening, follow
ing the dinner. Souvenirs will be
presented to the ladies'.
William G. Powders, Of Milford,
is president; William A. TOrbert,
vice-president; H. E. Nichols, treas
urer, and H. Herbert Hirzel, secre-
tary. Trustees of the organization
are Jas. F. Hearn, of the firm of
George M. Fisher Estate, Whining
ton; William E. Matthews, Smyrna,
and William A. Berry, Jr., of Mil
ford.
Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
REGISTRATION LIGHT
THROUGHOUT STATE
Voters In New Election District
mcOnVenienced BY Transfer

Reports from all sections of the
State indicate that the registration
in all sections was extremely light
last Saturday, which was the first
day E,is year. Reports from Kent
county show that less than 300 new
names were added to the lists. Many
transfers were made, however
In districts where the registra-
tion books are practically filled by
the registration of the past four
years, new books were furnished by
the State Department as the law al
lows. Suggestions as to making
transfers of the names from the
books which have been in use for
four years, in some cases where the
books are not only full but some
what delapidated it has been found
that there is no law warranting such
transfer and consequently it could
not be done.
The voters in the new Third Elec-
tion District of the First Represen-
tative District in Sussex county who
will vote in the Grange Hall ~ Mil
ford had considerable trouble in
transferring from the First Election
District. The work was slow be-
cause of the condition of the regis
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
TO MARK STATE In
INTEREST OF AVIATION
Signs On Building Roofs viii Inform
Fliers OF Their Locations

Delaware will be properly air.
marked for the benefit of aviators.
The work will be done through the
efforts of the Delaware Chapter OF
the National Aeronautic Association.
1t was declared that this was the
greatest good which could be done to
the cause of aviation and is regarded
as the most important work which
has been undertaken by the chapter.
Heretofore no definite comprehen-
sive plan had been made to air-mark
the state so as to do much good for
aviation. 1t is planned to institute
a preliminary survey in a few days
throughout the state to pick out
carefully chosen representative
points near the towns along the Del
aware and highways.
When this aerial survey is COM
pleted, it is the intention of Della
ware Chapter to undertake, through
direct solicitation of the owners of
the various points chosen, to have
the buildings or the highways def
nitely marked in the manner recon-
mended by the Department of Com
merce in letters of sufficient size to
be discernible from an airplane pass
ing overhead.
w. H. Killer, the president, ap-
pointed as a committee to undertake
this survey and to make definite rec
concentrations H. F. Harkins, me-
chanical engineer with the DUPONT
Company, chairman; F. A. c. War
denburg, a mechanical engineer with
the DUPONT Company, a local flyer
and an ensign in the Naval Reserve
Air Force; and Howard Young, we'll
known test pilot for the Bellanca
Company. Mr.. Killer requested that
this committee consult with the
proper officers in the Army and Navy
Department of Commerce to secure
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Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
GEO. A. HILLS JOB
STATUS In DOUBT
Listed As "Acting" Official And Col.
WOOdcOck viii Select Personnel

Whether George A. Hill, now listed
in the new prohibition bureau as
"acting deputy administrator" with
headquarters in Wilmington, Del,
is to become a permanent official of
the bureau, assigned to another city
Or dropped from dry OfficialdOm, is
now up to Col. A. w. Woodcock, new
prohibition director. Hill is t) be
called to Washington soon for talk
about liquor conditions in this sec
ton, it was indicated this week.
Col. WOodcock, now attending to
military duties ut Camp Meade, is
due to be back in Washington in q
few days, and will then take in hand
the question of the personnel of his
bureau.
Hill is carried on the records as
an acting" Official, it was explained
because the bureau is still i'll a state
of temporary organization. Il is not
yet known whether Hill will continue
to held his job. WOodcOck will de-
eide this, probably after the confer
ence of the II prohibition administra
tors to be held in Washington, July
80, Hill is one of the nearly 80 dep
uty administrators.
About the first of September Wood
cook will begin tour of the country,
visiting the IL districts to look into
conditions of dry enforcement.
Whether Wilmington will be one of
the cities in the district to reveive a
visit from the coloney, has not been
announced.
Milford chronicle., 1930-07-25
ROAD BUILDERS
DISCUSS WORK
Review Advance Toward
Improved Highways In
Recent Years

Advancement made in road con-
struction by State and by the thrcA
counties was the subject of address
es and discussions at the summer
meeting of the County Highway Of
ficials' Association of Delaware in
the BelhaVen Hotel, RehObOth last
Thursday afternoon. r. c. Hill, of
Georgetown, county engineer of Sus-
sex county, presided.
Congressman Robert C. Houston,
made an interesting comparison be-
tween the roads of today and the
roads that existed when the first
automobiles made their appearance.
He recited the difficulties that the
drivers encountered in the years
gone by in travelling the roads and
then called attention to the great
road systems throughout the coun-
try, states and counties today.
Charles E. Grubb, former county
engineer of New Castle County and
now engineer-executive of the cOun-
ty highway officials division of the
American Road Builders AssOcia-
tion, said he will always have an in
terest in the roads of Delaware al
though he his given up his direct
ties here. His new work will send
him back here often, he said, in
telling of the duties of his new Office,
which will take him to counties in
all parts of the country.
State Highway Engineer w. w.
Mack spoke on secondary roads and
of the progress that has been made
in road building here.
George S. Williams, president Of
the State Board of Education, spoke
on the relationship between schools
and good roads, reciting the advan-
tages that good roads give the
schools. He told of the great strides
made in schools and roads in the
past ten years.
D Other speakers were Ralph L.
Morgan, Levy Court Commissioner
of New Castle county; County Engi-
neer Alban B. Shaw, J. d. Brown,
clerk of the New Castle county Levy
Court; County Engineer Clark of
Wicomico county, Md, and A. 0. H.
Grier, editor of the Every Evening.
The road officials were welcomed
to Rehoboth by Mayor Henry W.
Conant.
The delegation attending the
meeting from New Castle county
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