oc-plain-dealer 1923-10-13

BUILDING 600x190 FOR NASH MOTOR CO. Entering on the final period of the biggest year in the history of the company, Nash Motors, preparing for even bigger things in 1924, has begun work of construction on an addition to its six-cylinder car plant in Kenosha in the form of a building 600 feet in length and 190 feet wide. This building, to be used for the housing of finished cars ready for shipment, will be of steel and concrete construction. It will be equipped with loading docks and with every facility for the quick and safe handling of finished cars says an announcement to The Bob White Co., Nash and Franklin distributors. "Because of the sound growth of our business we have found it advisable and necessary to make this large addition to our Kenosha plant," said C. W. Nash, president of The Nash Motors Co. "When the new building is completed it will immediately facilitate increased production. The space now occupied by the shipping department in our present buildings will become available for use in active production work, making possible increased operations in several of our departments. "The present year so far has been the largest in point of production and sales in the history of The Nash Motors Co. The public seems to have confidence in our product, and we have every reason to believe, therefore, that the increased demand for Nash cars next year will fully justify our plant extension." Including the Nash plant at Kenosha, the Nash plant at Milwaukee, and the Seaman body plant also at Milwaukee (one-half ownership of which is vested in Nash Motors), there are 156 acres of ground devoted to the process of production. Over 2,400,000 square feet of floor space are at present occupied by various departments and more than 7,000 workmen are carried on the payroll. THIRST WILL KILL EVEN GOOD BATTERY THIRST WILL KILL EVEN GOOD BATTERY Back in the days of '49 many a gold-seeker died of thirst on western desert plains, but you don't hear of such things nowadays. "Yet we see many cases of death for lack of water," says A. Bevill-lard, local Willard service station operator. "They are battery deaths, however. "The one thing most likely to bring a storage battery to an untimely end is thirst. Many a battery is expected to travel indefinitely without water, but none will do it. "A battery must be kept filled above the tops of the insulators to allow for the evaporation that will take place. "Filling a battery too full is almost as bad as not filling it enough. If filled above the right point, the acid solution will overflow and eat away the wood case and injure any part of the car with which it comes in contact. "If the specific gravity of the solution becomes less and less, the car owner may be deceived into believing that the acid has evaporated. What really happens is this: As the battery discharges, the acid in the solution is absorbed by the plates. If this process continues until the battery is fully discharged, the solution is almost all water. Recharging the battery forces the acid out of the plates into the solution again. No acid, only the water, evaporates, and all the car owner need do is to see that the battery is supplied with distilled water to replace what is lost by evaporation. Acid should never be added by the car owner." STAR ACROSS U. S. AND BACK; COSTS $5 Thirteen thousand miles at a repair expense of only $5, and that due to accident. J. F. Cleary of No. 3 Palm avenue, who returned recently from a trip in his Star car to Pennsylvania, and back, told the Appleby Motor Co. of his experience. He broke his front springs in the desert, but otherwise the trip was without expense, except for gas and oil. His gas mileage around 28 miles and his oil 400 miles to the quart. Before Cleary started he had had NOT ONLY World's Series BUT ALL SPORTING NEWS CAN BE HEARD IF YOU OWN A KENNEDY RADIO SET World's Most Selective Set A. BEVILLARD 218 S. Los Angeles St. of Motor Cars in Big Volume requires Vast Resources and Facilities DODGE CAR SALES ARE IMPROVING HERE Dodge cars are selling better in Anaheim than in months past, according to Charley Mann, local distributor. Mann expects more closed cars in soon. The latest sales include: E. R. MacMillan of Yorba Linda, roadster; Glenn Dysinger, Fullerton, R. F. D., roadster, and J. R. Viosea, Frank Baum, C. A. Anderson, Charles Kohlanberger and the county of Orange all touring cars. Harry Radin, furniture dealer, recently purchased a Dodge truck. Calkins and Martyn, fertilizer dealers of Anaheim declare their new Dodge truck is giving splendid satisfaction. EXPECT GOOD DUCK SEASON With the opening of quail season coming and "sports" wildly looking for ducks all over the country, motorists are advised that the Auto Club of So. Calif. has some interesting outing news for them. It is a question of "duck, duck, who's got the duck?" this year, and herewith an attempt is made to enlighten auto owners hereabouts as to where they may go for a little profitable shooting, whether it be duck or quail. Reports brought in by auto club investigators say that ducks have not yet migrated from the north, and just last week thousands of them were seen at Klamath and Clear lakes on the California border; also at Agency Marsh, where the birds have been nesting. It is expected that these points will freeze over about Nov. 1, driving the birds south into the southern counties of California. Although duck hunting for the unattached hunter does not look very bright at the present time, things will begin to pick up as soon as the migration starts in. Good shooting has been had in the Imperial Valley near Calipatria, but it has slowed up again, and sporting interest has transferred itself to the of The Studebaker Corporation, South Bend, where the Light-Six models are the middle view shows Plant I, also at South Bend, where the open and closed factory, for all models are made. Studebaker's Detroit plants are not shown in to give the purchaser the benefit of savings effected. One of the striking innovations and efficiency ideas in the new factory is to be found in the building where final assembly is carried on. Here an improvement on the familiar conveyor system used in automobile factories is employed. Endless Chain to Completion Moving along on an "endless chain" behind each frame upon which a car is assembled is a carrier upon which the various units that go into the car are hung. These units, such as transmission, steering assembly, axles, etc., are stocked alongside the endless chain, and placed on the carriers as they go by. When the last of these units is hung upon the carriers, the actual assembly of the complete car begins, under careful and expert supervision, an improvement upon the former method of long drawn-out, piecemeal assembly. The arrangement of this progressive assembly also provides for the mechanical handling of all material, and it reduces to a minimum the cost and confusion of moving stock. The sub-assembly building, where the various units themselves are assembled, is four stories high, of reinforced concrete construction, and has an interior bay open to the roof. The bay is covered with a glass skylight, and is equipped with crane services and landing balconies on all floors for the quick and economical handling of materials. The bay also has a depressed unloading track with accommodations for ten freight cars. In this sub-assembly building are located the store-rooms, tool departments, machinery maintenance and repair departments, together with factory administration offices and employees' restaurant. The great building that houses the stamping department which represents an investment of $4,000,000, is of steel-frame construction, with tile roof and glass sides. Heavy metal-forming presses manufacture the frames, fenders, hoods and other stamped parts of the car, while huge ovens are utilized for the baking of the enameled pieces. Visitors who make the trip through the Light-Six factory always like to linger in this department, watch the interesting processes performed—veritable miracles they seem—and study the remarkable economies in operation, as well as the perfect accuracy and efficiency with which each task is completed. Modernity of Facilities Among many notable features of manufacture which illustrate the modernity of facilities of the Light-Six plants are the machine shops which alone represent an investment of $7,000,000. Here the Light-Six crankshafts and connecting rods are machined to vary accurate limits on all surfaces, a practice that is largely responsible for the practical elimination of vibration in the Light-Six—a practice that is followed exclusively by Studebaker on cars at the Light-Six price. Sixty-one precision operations are required on the crankshaft alone. The South Bend plants contain 4,875,000 square feet of floor space. They employ 12,000 persons. They cost $33,250,000. The South Bend forge plant cost $4,000,000, the power plants $2,500,000 and the assembly-and-stock plants cost $5,000,000. The new foundries now under construction will cost over $2,000,000. Insane Patient Discards Clothes LIMA, O., Oct. 13—After sitting stark naked all day beneath a hot sun, atop a rail fence, Ralph Hunt, afflicted with an anti-clothes complex, was captured by Lima police near Yoder and returned to the Lima state hospital for criminal insane. The capture ended Hunt's second "back-to-nature" escapade within a month. GOODYEAR SALES FORCES CELEBRATE The Southern Pacific station at Los Angeles was a beehive Monday morning, when the sales organization of the Portland branch of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. of California arrived in the city on the Lark for a three days' visit to Los Angeles and the big Goodyear factories at Ascot park. Portland was the winner of a mammoth sales contest staged among the eleven western branches of Goodyear during August. The contest was based on the relative increase in business shown by each branch, as compared with its previous average taken over a period of several months. The trip to Los Angeles and a beautiful silver loving cup presented by A. F. Osterloh, vice-president and general manager of the company, was the prize, and every one of the eleven branches worked nobly to take first honors. When the final figures were compiled, the boys from the northern city were found to have the lead by a good margin, and their arrival in the city on Monday was the signal for every member of the Goodyear family to extend to the Portland delegation a royal welcome. BILL TO ABOLISH DRAINING TANKERS SACRAMENTO. Oct. 13—Oil tankers which empty their bilge tanks at sea and thus contaminate California beaches with oil scum, will be the target of a bill to be introduced in Congress by Congressman Walter F. Lineberger of Long Beach, calling for an international agreement to prevent the practice. It is announced here. Long Beach has suffered greatly from such scum on its shores, it was stated. SALES VING HERE Include: E. R. Linda, roadster; Ellerton, R. F. D., Viores, Frank on Charles Koh county of Orange furniture dealer, re-Dodge truck, fertilizer in declare their giving splendid BCK SEASON of quail season wildly looking the country, mo that the Auto has some interfor them, of "duck, duck" this year, and it is made to ena hereabouts as go for a little whether it be in by auto club that ducks have on the north, and sands of them snath and Clear nia border; also where the birds It is expected will freeze over ing the birds then counties ofunting for the does not look the present time, pick up as soon starts in. Good had in the Im-alipatrin, but it in, and sporting red itself to the SANTA FE SANTA FE LEASE, Oct. 13 (Special). Mr. and Mrs. Frank Greminger and daughter Frances and Genevieve Meranda motored to Huntington Beach and Seal Beach Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Schryer and Mrs. R. F. Jones and Mrs. George Cullen spent Thursday afternoon with Jake Collins and Charlie Williams, who are at the Santa Fe hospital. Both are recovering very slowly. Tex Humphrey of Anaheim and Mrs. R. P. Jones and Sadie Jones of this lease were Long Beach visitors Wednesday. Miss Ada Hack of Gardena is spending a week with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Greminger. Mr. and Mrs. Cornine and family and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Williams were Long Beach visitors Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Jones were Long Beach visitors Sunday also. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Schryer entertained Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Andrews of Buena Park Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Andrews have just returned from a short vacation at San Diego. Mrs. Raymond Jones and daughter Beverley of Fullerton visited Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jones Tuesday. Mrs. Joe Nelson of San Pedro and Mrs. Pete Cole of Long Beach were entertained by Mrs. Bert Ryan Tuesday, Mrs. Lily and daughter and two sons of Oregon, who have been staying with Mrs. Lily's sister, Mrs. Bert Ryan, returned home with her other sister, Mrs. Joe Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. Eddle Braner are entertaining two of Mr. Braner's boy friends from his home town, Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. Bert Ryan and son Eddle, and daughter Willie, and Keith Ford were Redondo visitors Wednesday evening. HIGHWAY BIDS CALLED IN 6 WEEKS SACRAMENTO, Oct. 13.-Bids for the construction of the first unit of the Truckee river highway will be called for in about six weeks, according to announcement made today by W.I.Mixon, secretary of the state highway commission. The road will maintain a water-grade level, Mixon said, following the course of the river, and at a corresponding level. It will be the only water-grade level road in the country, Mixon asserted. MASONS TO MEET WITH K.C. CLUBS WOONSOCKET, R.I., Oct. 13.-Members of the Woonsocket Masonic club and members of the Woonsocket Knights of Columbus will hold a social session Oct. 23, according to announcements made by both organizations. The session will be attended by some of the most prominent business men in the respective organizations. The plan originated with the Masonic club and the invitation extended to the local Knights, who enthusiastically accepted at a meeting of the council. The session was called with the view of co-operation on common grounds and greater social intercourse between the two organizations. BRITISH ECONOMICAL LONDON, Oct. 13.-For reasons of economy the British stationery office is using envelopes originally intended for the filing of deceased soldiers' wills. Lee Jaynes Andrews returned with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Schryer, Thursday evening after a day's visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.J.Andrews of Buena Park. SERVICE SERVICE Free—the kind that will save you money Ignition System Inspected Free, Bearings Oiled Etc. Proper Ignition is a Saver of Oil—Strain On Car and Battery. Let Us Serve You EXIDE SERVICE STATION 307 North Los Angeles St. Anaheim NASH Six Touring Live Passengers $1475 Delivered This Car! It's the new Nash Six Touring car for five passengers. Pronounced improvements betterments await your inspection. There's noother, keener performance due to engineer-refinements. Front and rear cushions are opened and widened to accentuate its comfort. You will find a long list of valuable new attractions settings and appointments. And the price is now at $1475 delivered. FOURS and SIXES RANGE FROM $1025 TO $2495 F.O.B. ANAHEIM Bob White Company Enter Street Phone 548