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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 22 Feb 1929, p. 34

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.WIL,ME TT E LIFE February 22, 1929 : DON'T Next month we will be. as far behind in deliveries as we were last spring. Orders placed NOW will receive prompt delivery. !Ignoring Orders of Boy Patrols Is Now a Bad Policy trols in Chicago will be arrested on warrants and prosecuted in court, Commissioner of Polic.e \Villiam F . Russell announced today. The commissioner declared that th e patrol was hy far the most effective agency yet devised for protecting school children and pledged the complete cooperation of the police department to it aft<"r a conference ·with representative :; of the accident prevention department of the Chicago Motor club. The club has fostered the patrol. Every school in Chicago, both public and parochial, has ' a patrol. The members stand at intersections near schools and assist their fellow pupils safely across th e streets. "I have assigned a patrolman 111 each of the forty police districts to inspect at least two patrols each day," asserted Commissioner Ru ssell. "Not only will they see to it that the patrol members are working in accordance with regulations drawn by the · club,· hut they ·will also ask the memhers of the patrols for the license numbers of all automobiles which failed to stup in accordance with their upraised arm. The owners of these vehicles will he given one warning by ~he police. /\. record ·will be kept. and upon a second offense a '":arrant will be S\\' Orn nut. charging the car owner with reckless dri,·ing, and he wilt he arrested and prosecuted." Auto Briefs BIG GAIN IN AUTO SALES IN JANUARY IS REPORTED Figures for Cook County Show Increase in Registrations of 52 Percent Over 1928 Motorists who ignore the orders A record-breaking total of 3,026,273 nf members of the school boys' pa 7 nersons visited the national parks and monuments last year. Don't Wait Order NOW SKOKIE MOTOR CO. 435 Main St.. . Wit. 955 AUTHORIZED S E R VI C E IIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIImDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIj ~~~ ~ g~ ~. Highway engineers of the :United That 1929, is likely to be a recordStates set a new mark of achievement breaker in automobile sales is indicatduring 1928 when they added another 50,000 miles to the surfaced highways ed by a report of registrations for January in Cook county which has just of the r:ountry. been made public, new car registrations in the county showed a gain of 2,312 cars over the corresponding month last year. This gain of 52 per cent was contributed by seventeen individu_jJI makes and groups. The totals were 6,674 for January this year In a recent hill-climbing competi- and 4,382 for last year. Ford had the largest month in tion in Victoria, Australia, a GrahamPaige, winner of two events aroused volume since the introduction of the as much interest through the consist- new model, totaling 2,255 for the lead. ency of its performances as it did Last year Ford registered five cars. through its victories. Both climbs, over The Ford lead was by a liberal margin. a 1600 yard course, were made in ex- Cheyrolet taking second place, with actly the same time to the fifth of a 616. The latter had 1,100 in January second, the Graham-Paige being last year. However, Chevrolet is conclock at 1 minute 59-4/5 seconds siderably behind on orders since the introduction in December of the new for each of its runs. The test s was held under the aus- six. and future months should find the pices of the Royal Automobile <;iub line well to the fore. Chrysler Ia Fifth on Zig-Zag hilt at Lilydale, the climb Buick took third position with 470. consisting of a series of hair-pin turns on a difficult grade. The Graham- followed by 'Hudson-Essex, a close Paige won the trade stock standard fourth with 458. Essex as an individual event in its class. and afterward won unit, at 337, qualified for fourth position. Chrysler in fifth place had 326. the event open to all cars. Its feat of covering the course The preceding January Essex totaled twice without the least variation in 188. Hudson had 121 this year and time was hailed as one of the most 156 last. The Hudson-Essex gain was unusual defnonstrations of consistent 33.1 per cent. Chrysler had a gain of 28.3 per cent. performance and skill in driving ever recorded in Australia. The car ': vas having had 326 last month and · 254 in BOOST lOW A FOR OUTPUT piloted by \Vatter vVhithourn in both January, 1928. Oakland-Pontiac. in sixth place, reProduction of Ford cars at the local events. assemhlv plant has now reached 105 Carl Han so n of Hanson Motors, gi. tered 302. a gain of 13.9 per cent. over 1928. Oakland had 116 and Pona d n 0: ·11 M a c KaY. bra 11 c h \\'innetka is the Graham -Paige dis- tiac 186. Last year the respective to· tribut r. tats '"ere 122 and 143. Hill Climbing Feat a New· Achievement for Graham-Paige i:; ~d. Nash In Seventh Place Nash had 254 for seventh place, a gain of 12.8 per cent. over January, 1928. Dodge was eighth with 248. staging a noteworthy come-hack with 248 for last month and 121 for the preceding January. The gain was 104.9 per cent. Studebaker-Erskine had 223 for ninth place, while Graham-Paige was tenth ·with 211. as against 90 in Januar:v. 1928, a gain of 134.4 per cent. \Vith the exception of Ford this was the largest percentage of a gain for the month. Caditlac-La Salle as a combination "tepned up the ladder a few rungs. havin~ a total of 207 for · eleventh nlacr. The nair had a ~ain of 11.2 per rent .m·er last year, when 177 registrations were credited to the g-roun. Last month Cadillac contributed 140 of the 207. as a~rainst 116 last vear. L~ Salle had 67 for 1929 and 61 for 1928. From Every Standpoint 1 ·clean as the Suns Heat" is the best ····el a·o·· ··~ll!lie heati·a;; Costs less to buy - costs less to burn. Eases the work of furnace tending. Lightens cleaning tasks. No smoke or soot, little ash. More heat with less effort. Clean, convenient, efficient, economical- in every way the ideal house heating fuel. Ph!:tne for your supply today! Le.t our Service Man advise you how to ge.t best results with the fuel you burn. He is fnquenH-y Passin~ ~ur way and his services are free. Phone today. Edlngt'r k ~UII!'i HuptJ Plans Boost of Output at Two Cleveland Plant.fProduction at the two Cleveland nlants of the former Chandler Motor Car Companv will be speeded up from sf'ventv to 350 autos a dav between Mav 15 and June 1, when- the Hupmobile management takes them over, according to information received bv Gould C. Davis, Winnetka dealer. Both plants will undergo changes. The Euclid Avenue-London Road .nlaut, where Chandle.r light sixes were nrocluced. wilt he converted into a hody-huilding plant. The East 131st Street ol~nt, devoted to themanufacture of Chandler eights witt be turned ov"r for completion of the new Hnpps. Thirtv-five hundred additional emnlovees and $2.000.000 worth of new m"chinerv and equipment witt go into the new plants in the process of speed;ng uo production. l(uttt·JI nrutllt'rS ;~I Bnilctln~ Wllnu·ttt·, Ill. Pltmlt': Wllmettf' fH2 Wllmfttt' C'uatl & -'In in St., Wllnu·ttt·. Ill. Pltmw: Wilnu·ttt· 1 )lutninl l'tHtl 1301 Lake Stret-t, Wllmt·Ut·, Ill. 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