TkfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. TtrEDFORU OBEGOy. SUNDAY, FEBKUAKY 10, 1935.
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AUTOMOBILE CODE
WILL STAND UNTIL
JUNE 16 IS ED!
Home Building Operations in Full Blast,
Palm Thatch Huts Rising on Mexican Road
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (AP) Presl
cJont Roosevelt said today that the
new automobile oode would stand I
until the designated date of expira
tion June 16.
Between now and June 16, h said
at hla press conference, that constant
inquiry would be made Into things
not clear, with a view to correcting :
them In whatever new code may be
adopted.
Attention was called that there will
be a new NRA, according to all plans,
by June 16
The President aatd he was still
studying a cigarette code now before
him.
He said In all probability the rec
ommendations for the new NRA
would be forwarded to congress some
time next week, but no date has been
selected.
Likewise, he expects to send to con
gress next weelt the report of ocean
mall contracts with a message in
cluding his recommendations for new
legislation.
TALENT FIRM TO CLEAR
LAND NEAR GRANTS PASS
TALENT, Feb. 9 iSpl) The Skeet
ers brothers have taken a contract
for clearing land In the Grave creeK
section near Grants Pass. They will
employ from 20 to 25 local men and
operation will begin next week. The
flrs't load of equipment went out
Wednesday.
BOISE. Idaho. Feb. 9. (API Ed
ward Dunn, 89, of Boise, lather of
Miss Agnes Dunn, secretary to Gov.
ernor Ross, and husband of Mrs. Cor
della Dunn, prominent figure In the
Democratic party In Idaho, died here
today of heart disease.
MANN'S
Custom-Built
TRUCK
BODIES
Attract Attention
Wherever They Go
The added convenience of
made-to-order bodies Is sav
ing many hours in delivery
time for scores of Southern
Oregon firms.
MANN'S
AUTO SERVICE
ED. MANN B. E. ADAMS
1729 X. rtlverslde Phone' 835-M
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10 MEXICO CITY
Beginning ntmo-t at iw American border nnrt extending to Melro City, thatch huts are common dwell
ing places or the average Mexican I arm worker. In the palm country, the huts, like the one pictured, are
erected of saplings and roofed nnri wnlletf with palm leaves making a cool rainproof dwelling. The path
finding car passed thousands of such homes en route to Mexico City on the ran American highway.
SAFETY OFFICERS APPLAUD TERRAPLANE BRAKING ABILITY
Police measuring stop
ping distance recorded
by a 1935 Terraplnne
which bettered require
ments in this respect
by nearly SO per cent
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Detroit Police and In
surance officers con
ducting rigid brake test
on 1935 Terraplane
which broke all previ
ous records for stopping
distances.
Insurance and police officers of the
City ol Detroit recently conducted a
brake test on a 1935 Terraplane Sedan.
The purpose -of the test was to com
pare the ability of this new 1935 model
to stop with the standard figures ap
proved by the Police Department at
various speeds.
Reporting on the brake test, the in
surance and police officers state that
at speeds of 40 and 50 miles per hour
the Terraplane stopped in about half
the distance called for by the Police
Department. This department uses
figures compiled as tha result of a
large number of tests made by the
Bendix Brake Company. For exam
ple, at 50 miles per hour the Detroit (
Police Department states that with
brakes in excellent condition, the car
should be able to stop tn 111 feet
The Terraplane at 50 miles an hour
stopped in 65 feet
While tabulations of the Police De
partment at 40 miles an hour call for
71 feet, the Terraplane stopped in 40
feet, 1 inch. At 20 miles an hour, aa
against the police requirements of 18
feet, the Terraplane stopped in 10 feet
8 inchea-
At a nameless road camp on the
Pan American highway, 663 miles
south of Laredo. Texas, and In the
heart of the mountain construction
of the road. Dec. 37, by mall.
It Is 11 o'clock In the morning
and we are stuck. They are blasting
on the road ahead of its. It may be
6 this evening or It may be 0 tomor
row evening before we get through.
I am In the hut of the powder man
of the blasting operations. It Is
walled with saplings and roofed with
grass thatch. The bed Is a frame of
saplings. My typewriter rest on It.
I am sitting on a box of Cla. Mexi
cans, de Explosives, 8. A. Exploslvos.
Pellgrosos. It means the Explosive
Company of Mexico, Incorporated.
Dangerous. The side of the box car
ries the notation 33 kilograms
(about 48 pounds) of 40 per cent
dynamtte. But dynamite Is not dan
gerous when warmed only by one's
rump, so here goes for the story
of the toughest automobile driving
I have experienced In 300,000 miles
over all kinds of roads and Including
17 months In France during the war
In the motorized artillery.
Leaving Tamazunchale, literally, the
House of the Prog and corrupted to
"Thomas and Charlie," 534 miles be
low Laredo yesterday morning, at an
elevation of 600 feet, the Studebakcr
pathflned passed directly Into the
beginnings of the mountains that
lead to the plateau of the City ol
Mexico, about 8000 feet above sea
level. In twenty-five mllea to Chapul-
huacan we climbed 3600 feet. The
climb waa easy but the road, under
construction all the way, with about
5000 men at work, was tougher than
touch, yet fascinating. There was
loose rock higher than the liberal
axle helghta of the car. There was
mud deeper than the hubs. There
were sections where the road clear
ance on the lower side was not more
than three or four Inches. High reck
walla delimited the high side. A
tumble down might have been any
where from a few feet to ft few
thousand. Hugging the high wall too
closely would mean scraped fenders
or broken wheels, excepting that the
Studebaker la made so sturdily that
I doubt that one could break a
wheel.
The real character of the drive
can .be gained from the fact that
In five hours of continuous driving
time and three hours of waiting tor
blasted rock and landslides to be
cleared away, the net progress was
35 miles five mile an hour. This
was high gear for a total of leas
than a mile for the entire 35. About
half the remainder was In second
and the other half In low. At times
Z crept over the rutted, blasted rock.
as rough as plowed ground crosswise,
at less than a mile an hour.
The Studebaker aueceasfully met
a teat that will be of first hand
Interest to every American motorist.
It la the newly patented front end
construction that replaces the stand
ard front axle the Independent pla
nar wheel suspension. The front end
met In the 35 miles more genuine
abuse than all of the Btudebakera
tn all of the United Statea wilt meet
In the next five years, and met It
triumphantly. At times It waa push
ing loose nnd Jsgged rock ahead of
It. Occasionally the rock piled up
as If in front of a road scraper and
had to be extracted by hand. I clip
ped off at least a hundred surveyor's
stakes and pushed tons of mud aside.
ow the front axle looks like a
stick that had been gnawed by a
c.ug. It looka like a bud caw of
t.ma 11 pox with the pit marks of
rocks. But it never faltered, never
sprung and now, with a more severe
test than would be Imagined could
be given It, stands triumphant and
shock proof. Good as gold.
HURRY UP! Road open for ten
minutes. Then another blast.
I slam my belongings together, pell
mell, and rush through. Then, from
the vantage aide, watch several hun
dred pounds of dynamite tear a wall
of rock out of the mountainside.
This story la now being finished
In Mexico City one day later.
Leaving the nameless camp, I pro
ceeded to Chapulhuacan and went
merrily beyond, but not for long.
Just one mile beyond a work truck
had gone over the roadside and was
hanging dlezlly with a drop of sev
eral hundred feet Imminent. It waa
4 o'clock In the afternoon. Too late
to wait for the truck to be balanced,
the road repaired, and then to go on.
t got Into the car to back It up a
mile to Chapulhuacan. The road su
perintendent would not let me. "Too
dangerous. he aald, wt will hav
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The two men are both from Marsh
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