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i wo vvuargui Marmon Models Commodore Gar Wood, holder of the world's speed boat record of 102.256 miles per hour and famousI throughout the world, for lis activi-. tics in speed boat racing, has . pur- chaeed two Marmon Sixteens, on e for his personal use, the other for Mrs. Wood. Mr. Wood made this purchase fol- lowintg a trip tothe Marmon factory in, company with Orlin Johnson, bis, chief mhechanician andcompanion .on ail speed trials. Mr. Johnson had4¶re- Viously: visited the Marmon factory to inspectý the new 200-horsepower Siteen engine and thé, methods by ,which it is rnanufactured. Durning'bis visit, Mr. Wood dis- cussed the 'new Marmnon and its al-, aluminumf engine with Howard. C. Marm.on, designer of 'the car and vic e-president in charge: of engineer-' ing. Mnr.- Marmon recently was awarded a ineda1 by the Metropolitani section of the Society of Autornotive engineers for his design of the engine which wvas voted the most .noteworthy achieveme nt of the. y-ar in the pas- senger car field.. Oaland Reports Biggest Month Since August 1929 May was the biggest month the, Oakland Motor Car company has had since August 1929 Production figures issued today place the output for the rnonth at 14,829 cars as cônpared with 11,972 for May of last vear. Iii view of the fact that M.\ay pro- duction exceeded the high Apnil fig- ure of 14,188,. which had been the .biggest month the conipany enjoyed since August 1929, spécial significance attaches to, the Oakland-Pontiac May performanc e. The company statemnent revealed, the in:terestiing fact that. each 1month this ycar has siownvi a gain in. Oak-1 land-Pontiac production.-- February was. bigger than January; .March top ped February; Apnil, ini turn, ex- ceéded March and now the May fig- ure exceeds ail.9 1 Farly june operations are in ex-.1 cess of the corresppnding Period of1 *American traffic. control meth- ods are flnding their way into the far pla ces of the world. A request bas corne to the Na- tional Safety council for permis- sion to translate A, Traffic Offi- cer's Training Maniual" into Jap- anese, from the PÏi-fèctural office at Osaka, japan. c "Your wonderful book," writes T. Shigenari, directon of the traf- fc section, "lias. been most he- fuI totlhe field of our work. We h.ave corne, to. think that if this manuel be printed in our mother >tongue it would mean, mucb bene- >fit and instruction to'hundreds of officers related to traffic., Hence we take liberty of asking y ou to allow us to translate the above meioned book into Japanese for *the purpose of f urnishing our compatriots with the. essence of traffic* researc.h in the United S3tates." In addition,. requests for the book have corne fromn Perth and Sydney, Australia, front the jap-, anese government, from New Zeaý- land, Hawaii, Norwayan Eng- land. Namei C. W. McKinleyý Development Engineer Appointment of Charles" Wesley McKinley as chef development en- gineer of AC Spark Plug company was announced this week by Harlow H. Curtice, president and general manager. Mr. McKinley, wh& has made nany important contributions in the development of the automobile, started as engine designer for Pope- Toledo 25 years' ago.: At that timie automobiles were steened from the righit.side, -with the gean shift located on the outside of 'thé bo dy of the car. He is. credited. with' designing the flrst- auto(moble that weént:' into production with thetenter ýgear shift. Chevrolet June Sales Far Ahead, of Sehedule Chevrolet sales ini Detroit during a caretul survey of conditions, indi- cate that Cheivrolt business in thiis city during the present month will, exceed the sales of J-une, 1930, by one hundred percent." Road Projeets- Planned in 1Ail1 Sections of State With ,$25,618,066.87 -Worth of road andbridge work under contract, UP- ward'of $6,000,000 in proposais pend- .ing action, the state 'highwayd ivision opened bidsthis week for more than $5,OOQLt000 worth of additional con- struction. With these contracts awarded, about three-fourths of the $45,000,9000 quota set for 1931 willsoon be under- way. The remainder wiIl follow in ample time for' the completi on of many.miles of pavement, a vast num- ber -of bridge ad a long Eist of im- portant grade separations duringthis building, season. The week's pro- gress in placing building pnojects unfder çontract *embodies jobs. in Af sections of "the state. Motor Buses, Taxicabs Are Revealed as Safer Motor buses and taxicabs are growing safien, according to a sunvey of mnotor accidents issued by the stateý department of public health. A survey of motor fatalities oif recent yeans, shows that buses and, taxies were involved in 21 percent fewer accidents in 1929 than in 1928 and 30 percent fewer than in 1927. HAI4DSOME AS IIANDSOME pe.ramc. PACKAI dollar* thon the reliabili nome'Packa 1 BELIEVE that -a Used Packard ýcar as we seil it, off ers more for the any new car at the same ýPrice. It has Wtye the com fort and the. Prestige of aq ird at ôonly *Part Of the neu, car.-.Price. 5*Pass, haeton .....$85 ... . . . .. 850 -and vacuum cleaned inside Wt- STIRE OIL WELL Bob 'n' Mac- Main. St. at Linden Ave.l é4Pone Wilmette,3ý334 925 Linden Avenue, Winnetka 3070 -9 leenJeaf'6030 KITH& MAN WHO* OWNS ONE" APPIS AS WELL 'TO. PACKAItD,,USZD» CARS CtIEVPULLýFL- Il