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1 611 PRESEUR HEIGHT HSHH Product" of Chrysler Engi ( neering Now on Dis j play Here ' DETROIT. Mlrb. Jan. The Je Soto straight eight, an entire ly new and sensationally distinc tive car priced around $1,090 In troduced for the first time at the current New York automobile Bhow as a companion car to the phenomenally successful De Soto mix which established a record for first-year sales is now shown at the W. L. Anderson sales rooms 0:1 Marion street. The present Pe Soto six vir tually unchanged will be contin ued In the line and. together with Vie straight eight, will be offered ty De Soto dealers this year. The new straight eight motor (lias an N. A. C. C. horsepower '.rating of 26.45 and develops 72 horsepower. The engine has rubber-insulated suspension; full force-feed lubrication; drilled oil passages and the same steel-strut light alloy type pistons that have proved so successful In Chrysler built cars for the past several years. The crankhaft is mounted la five main bearings, is statical ly and dynamically balanced and Is equipped with an impulse neu tralize r, insuring smooth opera tion. The remarkable power of the new" De Soto straight eight en gine is accounted for by the In corporation o f these and many other high-grade, carefully engi neered and proven features. One o f the most distinctive iiv features is the Mono-piece jody. which permits greater length, width and all-round room iness. It is permanently quiet and ? course, has the additional fac tor of safety due to its lower center of gravity and unified con struction. The shoek-reslsting qualities and fctuxdiness 0t the foody guard against the probabil ity of Injury to passengers in case ft accident. An additional safety feature is running boards of Iwavy. gauge steel. The chassis i as semi-elliptic springs mount ed on rubber supports at each nd. requiring no lubricatiou ami giving perfect readability. There are seven body styles: j roadster, phaeton, sedan, de luxe ; -dan, business coupe, do luxe coupe and a convertible coupe with folding top. With the excep tion of the latter, all closed cars are equipped with slanting wind shields affording ventilation through a crank-operated mecha nism. Additional ventilation is obtained through flush-type side cowl ventilators. Both open types have folding windshields. Standard equipment o n all xaodels includes artillery-type Yood wheels; oil pressure gauge; electrically-operated fuel gauge ou instrument board; light switch on steering post; 15 gallon rust-proof fuel tank; bowl-type liadlamps; cowl lights; hydrau lic shock absorbers and on, open, models, a one-man folding cape type top. All types except the roadster have adjustable driver's 6-at. The external appearance of the new De Soto straight eight is dis tinctive and different. A newly designed wide-band radiator shell presents an original profile view waile a new principle in fender veil construction features those cars furnished with five or six -wire wheels. All enameled parts re subjected to 'the "bonderiz fag" process for rush prevention. I O- NATURE MADE A MISTAKE 1" SJH S S ... .. . k - syaL2- tr GEIIY LI I BATTLE FOR FEDERAL EDUCATION l o o Twenty-eight years ago manufacturers made a selling- point out of comparing the motor cat and the horse. Today the appeal it based on speed, power, beauty, dependability, economy and other factors. Not the striking contrast between the first model Oldsmobile and the latest model roadster in the lower picture. Germany's Minister .of Defense Scoffs at All Fears Told by French By O. PAUL JACOB Associated Press Staff Writer BERLIN-(AP) I&eas voiced by French deputies about the tormidableness of the German ar my fill Gfeneral Wilhelm Groener, minister of defense, with surprise. He said he could not suppress a smile when he read about the "fears" expressed in all serious ness in the French chamber of the menace supposed to proceed from east of the Rhine. "Germany," he said, "is the on ly nation, in the whole world that has c'isarmed to the limit." Witb equal emphasis General Groener stoutly denied the French contention that the small army left to Germany is of a pronoun cedly offensive character. To represent the German Reichswehr, without modern ma chine armaments, without air forces, or tanks, or heavy artil lery, or reserves," or ammunition stores, as an offensive body against "a nation veritably in arms like France, profusely equipped with all the most mod ern innovations for warfare" Gen eral Groener considered indica tive either, "of malignant Intent or an utter lack of military judg ment." The argument of the French deputies that not the biggest ar my but the quickest means for The interior fittings have beauty and increased comfort features. The instrument janel introduces the modern convergent line motif for matched hardware and metal work in the interior. The De Soto six again features the seven body styles that made it so popular last year. efficient mobilization represented the most' formidable menace, the general countered with the query wny then certain nations, pre eminently Franc were so strong ly . opposed to having their re serve war material included In the agenda of the disarmament conference at Geneva. He insisted that the twenty divisions of the French armee de couverturee, "despite this cleverly chosen de signation," can be just as quick ly mobilized as the seven divi sions of the Reichswehr. It was incomprehensible to the minister of defense how the opin ion could arise In France that the German army of defeense was not 100,000 but 200,000 strong ana capable of being expanded to 400,000 men at short notice. "I am sure that every company augmented beyond its prescribed strength would have evoked a storm of indignation in France," he said. "We have no reserves, and the police force is neither or ganized nor utilizable as a mili tary body." In Tegard to' the accusation that Germany was making a spe cialty of chemical warfare, the minister admitted that military circles were constantly trying to, finu' a means of defense against gas attacks. But this was due to the fact that despite internation al interdictions on chemical war fare all foreign sowers had In cluded gas in their schedule of armaments. Germany, he said, had strictly lived up to the treaty of Ver sailles and sun's no preparations for carrying on this mode of warfare. Qtoyrlght by Podc Brother Corporattoa 1 AT THE AMAZINGLY ii PRICE- OF AND 0?-F. O. B. FACTORY the LOWEST PRICE at which o Sue by Dodge Brothers has ever been sold. -the LOWEST PRICE at which Dodge Brothers have ever offered a closed car. -the LOWEST PRICE at which a Six with internal expanding four-wheel hydraulic brakes has ever been offered. the LOWEST PRICE at which you could have a car wfth a Mono-piece Body tha jaott advanced construction known to the industry. 5IXBS AND BIB UTS UPHOLDING TsiAsmast at noose npNSASiUTV 14 Demonstration Staged by Red Labor Faction HAMUBRG, Germany, Jan. 11. (AP) Communistic disorders that broke out yesterday and this morning continued tonight despite the presence of large forces of police concentrated la working class centers. The atmosphere In the city was tense. Large groups of unemployed re fused to obey orders t- "sperse, and the police used their weapons In breaking np gatherings. Many persons were injured. Alarm Felt Among Teutonic People at Falling Off In Population By JOHX A. BOUMAN (AMocfeited Prese Staff Writer) BERLIN (AP) The" specter of the Fatherland within meas urable time becoming overrun by the more fertile Slav races is forever present in the minds of German sociologists. To them the serious decline in the nation's birth rate is a source of grave concern. '.Germany's population within 10 years, according to statistics, has risen by four millions, or 7.S per cent; but in experts' opinion this is due t o increased longevity rather than to natal accretion. Earnest propaganda for a re turn to the well-filled nurseries of the past is made by the Reichs Federation of large families which has Just celebrated the first decade of its existence. Founded by sociologists of Frankfurt in 1919 with a view to repairing the world war wastage of human material, the federation now has on its rolls about 500, 000 members in 850 branches. Qualified for membership are families with at least four, or wi dows with at least three child ren. Max DIx, a former army gen eral who is business chief of the movement, said the organization is based on broad Christian prin ciples and the biblical exhortation to "Increase and multiply." Polit ically and religiously it is wholly neutral. All who believe that the family is the only sure founda tion of a civilized state are reck oned as potential supporters. According to statistics already quoted, Germany has 'an annual excess of 400,000 births over deaths, but the generation now growing up stilK belongs to the high birth rate period before the war. When they begin to mate, say between 1935 and 1945. and the modern one or two children sys tem remains in popular favor, there will not only be a halt, but an actual loss of half a million population per annum, and it v; V. G Representative Daniel A. Reed, ef New York, and f appear before the House Committee on Educi, fellow-supporters ef a bill which he has sponsored providing for the extension of the Government's activities in vocational education. With them are crippled citizens who are now in process of re habilitation and who were brought together to tion. Left to xiffht t standing I. raaeressmei Glover of Arkansas, Lambertson of Kansas, Pat terson of Alabama, Kvale of Minnesota, and Chairman Reed of New York. 1945 it will have sunk below the 50,000,000 mark. Berlin is today the poorest in children of all European capitals. The Federation points out that there are 240,000 dogs In Berlin, but only 200,000 children. Cupid is busier than ever. The marriage rate is more than nine per thousand, the highest since the hectic years immediate ly following the war; but babies are fewer, and there is medical authoYlty for the statement that 50 per cent of present-day Ger man married couples are deter mined to be childless. A sinister aspect of the whole question is that 600,000 babies are not born annually but ought to be. It is recognized that the French system of assisting: prolific par ents is far more liberal than the German, and the consensus is that not nearly enough is done here for the man who "hath his quiver full." "So long as seven billion marks three times the reparation bur dens are spent every year in Germany on drink and tobacco, no one should. say. that nothing ies," the leaders of the movement state. The German birth rate for 1928 was 18.8 a thousand. In 1920 It by stood at 25.9. CHINESE JUDGE IS III ID POSITION SHANGHAI (AP) The provi sional court of Shanghai, one of the tribunals which may disap pear if the Nanking administra tion puts over its program of abolishing extra-territorial rights in China, has a new president, the fourth In two years. Dr. Showin Wetzen Hsu, who has succeeded to the post, is scarcely envied by his confreres of the bench and bar. His immed iate predecessor, Dr. John H. C. Wu, was constantly under fire from both Chinese and foreign quarters and those who went be fore experienced the same sort of criticisms. Dr. Wu resigned to lecture on Chinese Jurisprudence at North western and Harvard universities the latter being his alma mater. Dr. Hsu also was .educated in America, He was sent to the States In 1905, entering the law more can be done for large famll-J school of the University of Cali fornia. After the San Francisco fire he transferred to the Univer sity of Chicago, remaining on the Midway campus two years. Then in 1908 he entered the University of Indiana, graduating from that Institution In 1909. The following year he returned to China. Since the birth of the republic he has held many Judi cial posts. For a year before he ioma tr QViancrlial h a va locral adviser to the government at Nanking. Ill THEATRES 1 inr i npirm Mrwrv mt LUDIIIb iVIUIftl VIENNA (AP) A threat of strike at the famous Vienna Op era and the State Theatre, both of which are run by the Austrian government, revealed that there is a big deficit In spite of the crowded houses recorded fn both. The affair did not come to ai actual strike, bnt actors, soloists, chorus singers and ballet dancert made no bones about voicing their demands. There are approximately 900 persons engaged at the two thea tres, and their pay ranges from a few hundred Austrian shillings, which may be calculated at about seven to the American dollar, up to a thousand dollars or there abouts monthly. Foreign guest singers receive more. ffitinls in Speed lies lUmnrnnn Trnan n ttteiie hbw irDBAn(Biinr m PRICED UNDED 01OOO Week ego, leading newspaper were iiiftt-meti of mysterious new eight-cf Uader citr wBieli w per forming liisredifcla ftsts in th . steep iasjsintriiif mt 2esutfyirania- Out of ctttfosily, and sextsxrig m news story, atxtsraobile editors hurried the mopntslns to inres tigate. HSusT Uiew saw feats of pe formaoc9 tSbsl tet then to writing ' columns of praise about a new ear whose Terr name was still a secret. Now Is revealed the name of that mysterious car the ear they pro claiaaed asensatloo. It is the new CfcrTdeT-bailt Do Soto StrsIgM Eight prieed at leas than $10OO. "Another chapter in the historj of the automobile industrj "Never sod excellent perform ance by an automobile in its prfeo daw . . "Of an entirely dtTerent style .1 "The only car that Stood np wiUi it was one that sold for approximately 91500 more . These are typical quotations from what the prominent aiifomobQo editors hare been writici cade? Uteiresigiiatai On the basis of overwhelming dol lar value, the new De Soto Straight Eight is as I oubgxuding in the tlgfr cylinder field as its santous on panion car. the De Soto Six, is outstanding In the field ef sixes. Every comparison verifies tills tact. cnnYSLcn MOTons pdoduct Now On Display Bonesteele Motor Co. .474 S. COMMERCIAL TELEPHONE 423 Xtw 360 Marion St. Sftlssiiy Oregon w Anderson