Show SCRAPPERS IN THE AUTOMOBILE PRICE WAR 5 BATTLE FRONTS OF STUDY"7 SEIKUTTINe BOYS CHEVROLET WHIPPET 'Americans Go To Holland To Learn Yquh AMSTERDAM Holland — (By The Associated Press) — A number of young Americans are learning in Amthe diamond cutting trade i sterdam " They will have plenty of time to learn the ways of Holland tor at least five years are required Dutch experts say for the novice to learn even where the grain of a diamond lays And that is the first thing to know because nearly all diamonds have toj be split with the grain or sawed against the ' n f i j9 4 '£ £ 2 ij 3 r i v 2 2 £2 2 D 5 v 4 the leading small cars photoed here at the New York Automobile Show And what a battle it will have become along about May when the weather warms and the open road beckons I Look close and you will recognize their battle fronts as the somewhat modified radiators of (left to right)' the Whippet the Chevrolet the Star and the Ford V It 12 V4 i - W v 1" II I n i 71 - " 35 i S II I j YEARS TO JJSARX two and a half years to learn how to shape $r cut a stone and three or four years to acquire the knack of polishing it and srlving it the facets that brings : out all its fire Diamond cuts diamond in the shops where the sparklers are turned out Nothing else willr wear down the surface of the stones and one of the first thing tho American apprentices learn is the value of diamond dust and how to recover it from tools from 'floors and from the hands the hair and the clothing Of the Iworkers The boys sit for years opposite watching them expert workers and watching the stone as1 It goes through different processes They ee6 first the study by an expert Of the rough stone to decide what can best be produced from it and where it can best he split If he finds it can be split jWith the grain he marks the proper spot with In dia ink and hands t to a splitter who makes an incision in it with another diamond anil with a chisel separates the gives it a tap which rough stone into two parts If the stone must be separated nVsinst the eraln it fcis handed to a sawyer who works on it wun raws of bronze and copper made in the United States about a of an fnch thick The saw- has no teeth but is given the proper wearing property by the cementing of diamqnd dust on its circumference When the stone has been split or sawed it is handed to the cutter or gives It the proper shaper who which form after jit goes to tne polisher He brings it to sparkling brilliance by wearing off the cor-ne- rs and giving: it as many facets as it should have i NOT 'ALARMED Amsterdam diamond cutters say - they are not at all alarmed by the effort to introduce: diamond cutthe United States ?'It ting Into takes too long to develop such ana i industry" they say "without ' wholesale exodus pf experienced workers such as tiat from Belgium to Holland whfn the diamond workers of Belgium "were obliged before the Spaniards vto fly s W grain-- Vil r r i i 1 1 1 I I I It takes hi'' " " '— POLICE SPEED UP- ACCIDENT PROBES ' ' fQ Kj er the-collld- - quar-ter-millio- JZf -- jeo cru vjwimw iw iiwiw n jiiiwvwwj ' " ' j" ' " ' ' ' J ! - v - r 1 4L — —— — JI w i ' :v? "— j Vv ' ' ' s - s jt j '- ' lag overnight as the intersecting mail air lines would connect and would reach principal V railroad points before the departure of sec ondary trains to small towns una- lBoursret airfield where berrh landed would be the postal and aerial center Private enterprise for the opera tion of the nlanes is suggested as the most desirable by the government postal - engineer who have counted the mapped out the routes probable oost and are rurnisning ammunition to backera of the idea The government In parliament however would retain supervisory control over the service Air postage it is calculated need be only double ordinary rates for letters to make the venture self supporting Air field equipment ana air wis ilcrhts could be obtained from Ger many under the Dawes' plan repara tions STRAIGHT AHEAD TP AVPrv fliitnmnhilft filonj? a crowded thoroughfare Kept go I intr in a straight course I traffic would be speeded 251 percent and the capacity of the street wouia oe increased pro' "t j portionately ia 9noh is far from thfi rase DOintS out MUler Drivers who areirY a hurry squirm mous traffic authority in from one traffic lane to another ana DacK again iney cut short pn their turns a few feet They crowd over to the left of the road awaiting the green lightt and so 3 keep -others coming An the opposite direction irom making neauway JMCV-rimlO- - T about this is still problematical Efforts feovA hppn marlft in various cities to keep motorists running xt wun intoi lanes oinno on — fnnrw— hv riiviflind' the mam arteries i of wh tft nfl nt This has had some psycnoiogicai ei- feet' But still drivers cut in and out mamng nine neaaway for themselves and keeping others irom tamng a straignt course There's danger in this practice too If only for this reason police authority should be brought to Dear on xae bum otiv ers A few arrests might stop the practice What ran hi "done 4 " 1 j fha-uR- - BURGLARY EXCUSE - PARTS — fBv because sonie months ago royalists control of telephone lines from got thA minittm n f fhA Interior and bv impersonating" the minister and his over the telephone they PARIS — (By The Associated assistant caused uaudet royausi ieaaLon doesn't er to be released from prison Press) — Premier Poincare uses it trust the telephone He rarely and never when secrecy Is NIGHT AIR MAIL Important "I do not use it" he said recentIS FRENCH PLAN ly in the chamber "because your In political friends sometimes listen PARIS — (By The Associated on minster'a calls' replying to reair man ser-i- s Press)— Night flyingmarks by a hostile deputy pat planned! In ' France Polncare's admission aroused a the American and gooAVi deal of discussion because one terned after ftranirnnnt's Arguments in firmn avstems diverging lines from Par' of the telephone monopoly is to Eleven favor the country" would all parts that public operation guarantees be cut bv fourof transversa iims' Secrecy There was humor In the incident letter would reach almost any vil FRENCH PREMIER DISTRUSTS PHONE - The Associated Press)— Fire bankruptcy floods overstocking have at various times been given as reasons for "bar gain sales" Paris has found a new one One of the leading afternoon papers recently carried the follow- n from a ing advertisement well-know- men's furnishings store on it read: "BAROATN BURGLARY" SALE AFTER THE ICrXEASED DEMAMD5 —r i : one-eigh- th use than in 182 o J — t n" 7- - V INCREASES PRODrCTION' Oerman automotive production for 1927 Increased with a bang Inover 1928- - Passenger car creased over S3 per cent while more trucks were in " ' The Great Independent "ociaI w t&oEds every etndvL&2iaice as& speed The New President Straight Eight m5 ' n 6 i U 100 Horsepower w Well-manner- ed —-ea- sy ft Ai'W a b Detroit price! 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Cbet Mlttendof real estate salesman of Jjo Angeles believes SO In an afternoon program from station KNX Mittendorf A placed a house i for sale resident of rituburjc heard the and a few days later program was 1 Los Ansolcs less than a week later he wired his family to pack up and move to the coast for the house salted him and radio had made another sale Boyle-Dayto- n x ' - 14— can1 just about do 1 - f I cars ouses ana river uoai a nicu car break down only every eooo miles and a bus every 65000 miles Accidents it Is explained are be lnar reduced steadily but very slow now ly because a bg part of them run are caused" by other vehicles nins into the cars and buses By NEA Service Jan ANGEIES i1 v in PARIS (By The Associated — Four thousand times Press) the world Is the total milearound age of Paris street cars and buses In a year And la all this voyaging-- says the annual report of the combined yy tiff" v j j HAVE BIG MILEAGE House 1b Sold By Radio -- I II CAES AND BUSES UGHTS WASTE IDfii" The present regulation of signal lights controlling street cross ings waste 50 ''pert cent of cross ing time concludes the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce LOS PARIS — (By The Associated' Press) — Arguing chauffeurs ana scribbling policemen holding- a public ppst mortem on an accident are to be eliminated from the pic turesque life of Paris It has been discovered that these hourly as semblages block traffic A minimum of fifteen minutes is consumed at the scene of any by respectably Important collisionwav and the collide ing- their arms establishing to the assembled crowd their absolute in nocence the listing of witnesses by the 'two sides and the policeman's investigation All taxi chauffeurs hereafter are to carry printed slips giving the details of their identity in stead of havlnsr the policeman get them laboriously well punctuated with speeches on the hopeless Imbecility of the other party to the controversy Likewise the police have i been instructed to observe the relative position of the two cars quickly and to clear the highway before taking testimony - CHEAP 'v t ' If This Intensive Production of Autos Gets Any Worse-- 4 -- ' h 1 Trade FORD STAB They're all shined up for the imminent price war are these 928 models of n or o -- on AvpnnA 76 years of manufacturing integrity Phone 555 and experience stana oac oj oBioeouo:iiM- - S610 WASHINGTON AVENUE ' ' In the Automobile Business in Ogdcn Over 13 Years - |