Show 2—B THE THEY'RE TALKING President Loses Playmate to the of the motorist from TOURING for lands has- no thrills until he strikes the mountains Then if he isn’t prepared and is unacquainted with mountain driving the tourist’s visionary thrills will be only incidental to some more perilous physical thrills of keeping the car on the road For mountain driving requires a skill in motor operation that has not had to be resorted to in the flat country Many of the roads are In steep narrow and winding some of the mountainous districts tourists are permitted to ascend only in the morning and descend in the afternoon for the roads here y are No passing is permitted even on mountainous roads that are plenty wide enough for two cars for the danger of meeting an — approaching vehicle around a turn and there are many blind turns —is apparent the members-o- f Automotive Engineers’ meeting at White Sulphur Springs that of mounting the engine in the rear Although this may be new to mo-- torists in the United States it has been introduced in Great Britain and Europe where it still is somewhat of a spectacle Sir Dennistoun Burney is designer of the rear-egine automobile in England and the streamline designs he has conjured around the engine in back have tip' - been quite revolutionary as com- pared with the prevailing styles Introducing such ideas into this country may be quite difficult for England and Europe have always been more receptive to unconventional innovations than has America However- - once tried out and ap-- 4 proved across the Atlantic there - seems to be better promise for new plan’s future in this country As a result we hear first of bringing the Tear design to America having had ‘its initiation abroad The arguments in its favor were presented to the engineers by Herbert Chase consulting engineer of Forest Hills r recently was 4 rum-Iblin- gs ne They made a pal of him Hoover’s chief playmate and pal at By ALBERT P TERIIUNE Here they are: name was “King Tut” He the S street house and elsewhere IS “(1) Grouping all mechanism at was a Belgian Police dog- - For Suddenly without at all underthe rear gives the body engineer a what had happened and years he was the pal and fa- standing eight convenfreer hand than with any it had why vorite dog of Herbert Hooker Most himself in happened he found tional arrangement strange surroundings ‘(2) All odor and heat and much of those eight years preceded with the White House and its huge of the noise that normally is car- Hoover’s incumbency as President of grounds to patrol and with a host ried back toward the passengers is servants and visitors and governthe United States fact if news of In carried away from them when the ment employes all over the place is in the rear reports are true it was Hoover’s engine MASTER’S CHUM “ (3) A much better streamline election to the presidency which led That was not the worst of it torm of the complete vehicle behe had Where to Tut’s death is Here reigned as his masindirectly comes possible now ter’s chum there was an “(4) A more compact engine the story: of dogs arriving crowd with better balance is possible Mr and Mrs Hoover acquired all the time at the White House All (5 andTut when the big police dog was a strange dogs that seemed to threatcan be units mere scrap of a puppy They trained en to monopolize his loved master’s placed relatively close together and him themselves and they human time and care and affections to the lubricated from a single pump ized him and made a pal of him exclusion of old King Tut All mechanical parts be- The dog rewarded all this by an ut- Being only a real life dog he come more easily accessible and can ter devotion to both these deities could not understand the terrific be placed at a more convenient or E5 from the oldtime pleasant change reachwithout work to When the Hoovers were In Wash- life that had been his with upon height the disfenders and without ington they occupied a house on S Hoovers But it cut into his nerves ing overthe street later taken over by Senator body turbing into his heart as well Said GREAT SAVING IN WEIGHT Walcott of Connecticut Tut learned aperhaps Washington dispatch to the New “(7) No long propeller shaft is to look on this house and its York Times: needed grounds as his home the abode of is believed that the responsiIt chassis The his master and mistress and the bility that he assumed “(8) ordinary heavy of fawith in frame can be dispensed which it was his own duty to patrolling the south grounds nightly place of the vor of a lighter frame which if de- guard from all danger House told and him White upon DOG HAPPY Integral with the sired can be builtcase BIG fact disliked other he the that that a material! The big dog was happy at the S body In either dogs were added to the White House is in possible street house where he nad spent kennels weight saving He was serious about of his eight winters Bear his patrol work very “(9) Besides permitting a much so to refusing ? larger seating space the driver’s thatmany comes and sleeping much too little play house mind in It please seat can be placed where vision is into our story a little later on So “He grew thinner and' became decidedly less obstructed and where does King Tut’s fondness for it more nervous after a time refusing the driver can see the road much When Mr Hoover was a private to permit anyone in the grounds closer to the car than at present citizen and even when he was a except President or Mrs Hoover or as such “(10) Many fittings cabinet minister he had the right someone in a policeman’s uniform present at tires and headlamps which exter- to choose his own animal friends Worried over their loyal old dog’s tend to preclude a clean Thus if he and his wife chose to the Hoovers hit on a plan caf make King Tut their one canine condition nal - appearance and make the sent him back for him curing polish can be chum that was nobody’s business to the house onThey harder to wash and cover street S then oc still and under but their own readily placed Walcotts and the by cupied be readily accessible Then all at once everything was arranged to see him as oftenthey as “(11) Improved riding qualities changed especially for King Tut could they are rea‘dily obtainable” Hoover became president of the IMPROVED SPIRITS advantages Besides all these United States which seems to mean For a little while King Tut imdeChase argues that the engine also that each and every in proved in health and spirits after be more free to try the United States has theperson to signer too will of return to his oldtime home and right out a variety cylinder arrange- pelt him with gifts—often with this His and surroundings couldn’t he which rear ments in are neither desired nor bad temper lessened irritability which gifts The problem a normal desirable —and especially with possibly employ under like of his future seemed solved But it the hood in front Engines from dogs to was not gifts ranging could be placed raccoons and bears Late in 1929 he pined away and motors could be mounted Why a manbaby or should be let in for died The change perhaps had come and because too late Little by little the dog transversely with transmission unit this just differential in a single compact he happens to be president I don’t had sickened and weakened in clos& by know But it is looked on by a of all that could be done for spite him MORE SPACE AND COMFORT of the public as part of To the keen unhappiness of the part large in Most decided improvement his job -- During and since the nothing could prolong his such event it is pointed out would Roosevelt regime at the Whie House Hoovers life in increase be the tremendous this has gone on increasingly till Perhaps dreading the avalanche of a detailed inves space and comfort for the passen- now a zoo has had to be provided sloppy sentimentality which would COMPLETION of the for the gers presents fanews of have" mysteries o the the greeted h “If placed in the rear” Chase are most salient feature the two lock” Dogs research mous no announcement death by “vapor engi dog’s occupy no of this Breeders says “the engine asneed neers of bureau United States the was at of the time made the it by much of the send to the White House a more than half of standards may be of interest to or his wife the chassis as it now re- of their own favorite breedspecimen of dog president the motorist especially since their length ofTherefore more six Thus months than for the in hope of personal aggrandizement quires increased the space was before allowed give the cause for this frethe findings story by about 50 per and advertisement and of making passed body is summer trouble and point out become to quent the after public long 'cent” their favorite breed popular through time when it had ceased to be various ways of preventing it Furthermore such change would the publicity it will receive as “news” These scientists Oscar C Bridge and when the first sharpmake better streamline forms pos- president’s pet men and Hobart S White reported ness of for had it regret passed sible and a much cleaner appearance LATEST PRESIDENCIES their work at the recent meeting (In like manner when my great of with the lights and spare tires set' (During each of the three latest collie the Society of Automotive Engidied Dawn Gray Sunnybank — Harding’s Coolidge’s I forbade Into the body toward the front neers at White Sulphur Springs As presidencies to mention of the it effective Hoover’s — I have been ap- papers or any a and Perhaps the most sort result future automobiles may ineven to our friends for of drive proached by collie fanciers who several months Dawn was against this their suggestions for ira corporate loved my concern the questions of cooling and urged me strongly to send the pres- friend I was not in a mood lis- provements especially in the fue to of control arrangements But Chase ident one of my Sunnyband collies ten to well meant words of sympa- line system so as to avoid this difv suggests that air cooling is far in order to popularize collies In genabout his death nor to read ficulty henceforth from being a back number possi- eral Always I have refused But thy of it I think While we are driving around In tearful bilities of evaporative or steam various other fanciers have gladly President accounts Mrs Hoover must cars that become subject to vajor and cooling should not be overlooked joined the ranks of givers Soon or have felt as I did in averting any lock however we should at least be and even in case of water cooling late many dogs of many breeds such publicity over the of apprised of the causes and cures for the radiator and fan may be placed have been sent to the White House their chum King Tut Itpassing no- this trouble was where the wind pressure is fairly these past few years) body’s business but their own) high A president is placed in a hard (Copyright 1931McNaught and White define BRIDGEMAN as Control arrangements "also can so if he really be more the cate “boiling of gasoInc) &be brought to a common junction fond of dogs A throng of highfeed in line the Mfuel system causing ' to facilitate servicing This bred canines are shipped to him point DAIRY MEETING fuel flow with re of interruption deconvenience and a of matter is wants or not he whether them asso- sultant engine stoppage" The Science American Dairy that can be whether or not they include breeds ciation numbering about 400 memsign Chase says Since gasolines are now being reworked out by the engineers once which he may detest bers will with higher vapor pressure in its fined hold annual meeting the main feature of ever a man has the right to July 7 at the University of Califor- response to the demand for such If mounting is adopted use his own personal judgment and nia’s division of dairy industry Da- fuel by the higher compression faster running engines vapor lock has preference it is in the picking out vis Calif of the dog which is to become his become a particularly annoying 4f Yet a president finds WORLD COMPETITION To Be comrade problem For it is pointed out that himself with a rabble of dogs which About 90 per cent of the products the higher the vapor pressure of the been thrust at him by breed- of American farms are directly af- gasoline the lower is the temperahave Immune To Disease ers who did not even stop to in- fected by foreign competition Ar- ture at which boiling commences Fuel engineers have been trying thur M Hyde secretary of agriculquire what kind he might prefer vato find a compromise by which WASHINGTON— (NEA)— In the Well King Tut had been the ture reports por pressure may be kept low and distant future according to a rethe fuel still answer the demands port of the United States public of the modern engine But a real health service various races -- will help toward solution of the problem develop an immunity to disease and of vapor lock will come in redesigng the ravage brought about by now ing the entire fuel feed system in will be germs wiped such a way that the vapor pressure out of gasoline may be raised and the Tha bads for this report is the efficiency of the fuel increased fact that some racial groups have established already immunity N redesigning the fuel feed sysagainst diseases For the most part tem the two United States enthese groups belong to the civilized world and their bodies through gineers suggest running the fuel line along the outside of the frame constant contact with such diseases as mumps measles' chicken pox channel rather than inside This will reduce the temperature of the and others have acquired a natural gasoline in the line by more than protection against them half both at high speed and in “It has been a characteristic of the human body especially that of idling after a speed run and it would therefore reduce consider the present-da- y individual to survive the attacks of various germs ably the tendency toward stalling from vapor lock by forming protective substances Besides this major change they which like soldiers or policemen advise invadand insulating the fuel feed line destroy guard injurious against the heat of the ’engine reing germs” the department’s report states ducing the heat conduction from the engine to the fuel pump by finding a more suitable location for the STUDENT WINS SEVEN PRIZES pump such that it will be cooled by MEMPHIS— (UP)— Of the 11 honthe air stream and further assurors awarded graduates of the Unia cool pump by insulating it ing versity of Tennessee school of pharfrom the radiant heat of "the enmacy this spring Webster Price gine Dunway Selmer Tenn captured that these suggesIt Is expected seven He won the faculty medal will soon be taken up by the tions honor certificate Blidd medal for automobile manufacturers and will materia medica and four other bring about considerable improveprizes for his research work ment in the 1932 cars L°s Angeles has always been careful in traffic but he f ’ 7f broken Four players held perfect bridge nad both legs an auto ashe lay in bed Someone released it is best for the hands at a party in Louisville Ky tne brakes in his car by to back down hill crashing into the Meanwhile to consider present it causing too were excited to bid bedroom of Davids home and hitting his bed They design and be prepared for such ever-increasi- power-developi- college was sales He sold job so well six year’s INVENT GLASS BLOWER boom was caused by invention of an automatic machine to blow glass This machine brought thpm called did DENIAL MADE CLEVELAND June 27— (UP)— Tom W Girdler president and chairman of the board of Republic Steel corporation third largest in the country issued a flat denial today to reports that Republic is entertaining a merger proposal with the Corrigan-McKinne- y Steel corporation of Cleveland in a $410000-00- 0 combine Girdler’s denial was issued in reply to a purported announcement of William G Mather controlling stockholder of Corrigan-McKinne- y that the merger was in process of formation The purported announcement carried by a Cleveland newspaper said the merger was to be £ CXXSP9 WAS THEIR- - TTRSr "OtWEVS I S ng ng ng free-wheeli- -- J Finally in 1916 the bottle factory was sold and the brothers Entered the automobile field making truck bodies in Evansville Ind In 1918 they were manufacturing a complete motor truck Three years later they moved to Detroit bought out Dodge and began the manufacture of passenger cars In 1926 the brothers sold their entire holdings in both passenger and truck companies But in 1927 the automotive they lt comfield buying the pany and starting production of the Graham-Paig- e The first year of their new business they made more than $1000-00- 0 after the company had lost under the old management ' the year before Although the status of the three brothers m regard to ownership of the company is equal as a matter of form Joe is president Bob Is executive vice president and Ray Is secretary-treasurJoe is the production man Bob the salesman and Ray the financier of the company Joe is the plodder of the brothers His hobby is work He does a little Bob is an outdoor man golfing indulging in all sorts of Outdoor sports Ray Is the traveling man moving mostly between New York and Detroit His hobby Is horses and farming although he has little time to latter indulge in the 5000-acBob runs a dairy farm near' Washington Ind and raises He 'also conducts a prize cattle school for dairy farmers M re-ente- red Paige-Detro- consummated in the near future Mather could not be reached for a verification but a personal spokesman earlier in the day had denied the reported merger Cyrus S Eaton who formed Republic from a number of middle western concerns into a $350000000 company likewise said he had no information on the subject Girdler' branded the accredited If your trip takes you through announcement a “faki” moreover “It seems I would know something mountainous territory see beforehand thatt he motor is in about it if it were true ” he said perfect condition and particularly that the brakes are ship-shaBrakes however should not be Film Villain relied on solely for keeping the car in effective control going up or Goes On Honeymoon down a steep hill Signs at the tops of long steep hills today warn motorists to go into low and these HOLLYWOOD June 27— (AP)— William Powell who began his mosigns should be respected Low gear makes the compression tion picture career as a villain and of the motor act as brake for the became one of the screen’s great car on long downgrades The igni- lovers was honeymooning today with tion switch should be kept on but Carol Lombard a charmer in one the throttle should be at idling po- of his plays sition 'The ceremony last night at the OE 'loflWFD OuT HiT TiRTT fitFo IN 110 It’s dangerous to coast except home of the bride’s mother Mrs where you know your ground and Elizabeth K Peters in Beverly Hills The Graham is the car of these three brothers — left to right the hill is short and in full view was attended only by the immediate Robert Joe and Ray Graham It’s costly to turn off the ignition families and dangerous Even with the igPassage for them to Honolulu was His first job was as an egg countBy JAMES F DONAHUE nition off and the motor being booked aboard the Malolo which NEA Service Writerer in the basement of one of the turned over by the rear wheels sails today — Some men achieve city’s stores He wanted to run off through being kept in gear fuel would continue tcF be pumped into trouble as vapor lack This comes DETROIT through “pull” but and become a coal miner but his the cylinders ‘anyway and would particularly in warm weather and the three Graham brothers literally father soon discouraged him not be burned at higher altitudes where the tem- blew themselves to a pinnacle in the TWO IN SCHOOL ONE TO WORK The result would be flooding of perature at which boiling occurs is automotive industry A glass blowAll three boys went to college but the engine so that when the switch lower than at sea level ing machine got them their start Joe eager to get into business cut is turned on again the oversupply Motorists who are used to driving Now they are' heads of the Graham-Paig- e his course short and went to work Motors corporation of fuel in the cylinders would pre- at low levels should remember in a glass factory which he and his this vent ignition many a time just at when they go touring over the Joe is the oldest of the brother father started He was 19 at the moment when full control mountains time 49 was act He born about Climbing any steep years of the car is essential in Washington Ind Robert Bob and Ray continued their collong incline will raise the tempera--ag- o ture of the fuel in the feed line' was born three years later and lege courses the former attending in au- and will cause the same stall trouble Raymond made his worldly debut St Mary’s college in Kansas Adoption of and tomobiles necessitates a further that speeding steadily at 40 miles two years after Robert All three Fordham university and the latter youngsters were more or less mis- the University of Illinois regarding the operation of an hour on the level will warning cars With such devices on steep The only cure for this trouble chievous little rapscallions who terWhile Joe and his father were eswhen it occurs Is to shut off the rified the neighborhood with their tablishing their glass business Joe hills This is that the device should not be resorted to in motor and wait a while until the pranks It inbought an old automobile Joe being the oldest was the rec- terested him so that he decided to such cases The special gear con- fuel has oooled off somewhat trol whether it be the button at A temporary means to prevent ognized leader Bob and Ray un- build one of his own In 1904 he the top of the transmission lever or vapor lock is to put a sheet of as- failingly followed his guidance turned out his brain child—and it the lever at your foot depending on bestos between the engine and the Building pigeon houses was the ran is used fuel pump or vacuum tank and to first business the boys entered which type of But the glass business then exshould be locked so that the car cover the fuel feed line' especially These they sold to nearly everyone panding took his time and he set is always In gear aside his automotive efforts The along the front of the chassis frame in town Joe was the' first to go to work bottle business became so pressing This precaution will prevent any with asbestos possible trouble especially while the descending a long hill While freetwo most approved forms of fT wheeling are so devised that the gears are kept in mesh even while is in operation the added precaution of switching into positive gear control makes a long hill descent absolutely foolproof The general rule for driving in the mountains is to give the ascend ing driver the right of way when the road is too narrow for two cars to pass Usually on these roads there are frequent “sidings” or niches into which the descending car may be steered to allow the ap proaching vehicle to pass On some of the mountain roads of this sort the incline is so steep that the brakes alone cannot hold In that case-thexperienced driver l alone and usually does he takes with him a stout log Whenever he is forced to stop he has his passenger jump out and se the log just behind the back wheel if the car must stop while ascending or just ahead of the front wheer in descending pe N Y MORE FREEDOM IN DESIGN power-transmitti- that Robert just out of in to handle the Graham Brothers Blown his that he the entire months output in Into Motor Car Industry The atthetheGrahams’ bottle factory one-wa- n- rear-engi- SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 31 1931 IBoO-'DiMrPKJE- By ISRAEL KLEIN Science - Editor NEA Service of the more advanced ideas Society How’s STEEL MERGER By ISRAEL KLEIN Science Editor NEA Service Many Advantages Claimed For New Design In Automobile ONE STANDARD - EXAMINEE And Pal Due To Election She Hittin’? INSTALLING ENGINE IN REAR OF - OGKOEN Star $4-000- 1 er 000 - ! i re ' Ruth Nichols To Leave Hospital Soon - ng free-wheeli- ng 1 SAINT JOHN N B June 27— (AP) —Ruth Nichols American avia-tri- x who crashed last Monday evening when she arrived here for a proposed transatlantic flight will be able to leave the hospital early next week physicians said today i ) -- 4 PAYS TO THIN TREES Peaches paid from 25 tb 50 cents more a bushel tree run and apples paid 34 cents more a bushel where the fruit had been properly thinned over in North Carolina j 44— 1 VALUABLE TERRACES E G Johnson farm mechanics extension specialist of the University of Illinois’ college of agricul- ture estimates that terraces are worth $30 an acre in preventing ero- sion I 4 free-wheeli- ng J Production of gold in the Black Hills has shown a gain of 10 per cent in the last year free-wheeli- ng live-anim- V-ty- fore-and-- al pe aft gift-bombardm-ent four-legg- ed gift-avalanc- he j argu-fmen- ts Syndl-poslti- - rear-engi- YOUR DOLLAR UP AT AUCTION not-trave- in-li- ne V ne Future Races ou’re Not Safe In House Now on jYOUR DOLLAR is on the a Shoe-dollor a Food-dolla- r auction block Perhaps it’s or a Clothing-dollai- v You want to sell it to the highest bidder — to get the most shoes or food or clothing— as easily and quickly as possible How? ar - -- () - T Just read the advertisements in these pages There-thmost trustworthy bidders have recorded their bids in black and white: They offer you the fullest finest return for your that have been tested and proved many times over — that had to be before they could be advertised t e dollar--commoditi- ' es Y Choose from among them—and sell your dollars with complete confidence - death-dealin- - J © Advertisement! hrina von the best bids for your Hollar Z3 4 |