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sr. -tics rcvn THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1932 DOWN THE R0AD-THE MAN NEXT DOOR. DEMAND lines has been the most notable experience with the 3932 cars. It has been argued that this class of car buyers has suffered less in the slump. It is also true that this class could most readily expect efficient LOOK THERES A north entered and attempted to cross a through street at a speed of five miles an hour after having seen a car coming from his left 265 or 300 feet away.

The driver of the latter car was traveling 15 or 25 miles an hour. As she approached the intersection she saw the stop sign on the other street but saw no car entering from it until she struck it. The driver of the other car saw her when she was 10 or 20 feet away, but did For Hidi-Priced Cars; I ping or turning to avoid the injury and in driving at a speed in excess of the statutory limit; and plaintiff negligent in not making proper observation of the speed and approach of defendant's car and in driving at an excessively slow speed. Speed may be unreasonably slow as well as unreasonably rapid. Plaintiffs negligence did not put him in a place of danger, leave him there, and' cease to operate directly upon the collision.

On the contrary, the negligence of service from their old models. MAN WITH AMBITION. OUR CAR COULD LOOK JUST AS GOOD AS HIS IF YOU I In other words, as some of the 'automotive economics students point lout, the necessity for replacing ex-JS Xofilllle Feature Of Motor pensive makes is not near as great in the low-priced and middle cost iSilleS KeeOnlS IlllS lear. jfields. Therefore, they hold, the expression of confidence by the high-" period car builders in the form of February Productioin Is Expected htavl pther HAD A LITTLE GUMPTION.

Doesnt THAT nothing to avoid a collision. He was struck near the rear end of his car south of the center line of the through street. In a suit against the driver on the through street, plaintiff, admitting his own negligence, contended that by the exercise of ordinary care, defendant should have discovered his MAKE YOU WANT to uutstrip January uuiput uy TO DO Good Margin Market Irregular. J. W.

Loranger, sales manager of Packard, reported exceptional success with the company's new models. "Our bank of orders numbers SOMETHING negligence and peril and have avoid 1 3.200" he comemnted. "That is the February 13-The largest in Packard's history. Lin-the metropolitan coin had a story equally good. The ed the collision.

Defendant filed a cross suit. There was a judgment Detroit, larger part of both drivers continued to function actively, continuously and concurrently to the moment of impact, and the combined negligence constituted the proximate cause of the collision. The testimony shows no point of time or place at which defendant's negligence became subsequent to plaintiff's, and there is no hypothesis upon which defendant could be said to have been guilty of discovered negligence which would not apply with equal force to declaring plaintiff guilty of negligence subsequent to hers. If plaintiff's statement of the facts was true, the case presented an illustration of the oft-repeated claim that a slow driver Is a menace to traffic, as the collision would not have happened had he crossed the intersection at a reasonably rapid rate of speed. "As both parties failed to make a case, no costs were chargeable to either." for defendant for costs.

The Supreme Court of Michigan (233 N. W. 203) set aside the judgment for costs but affirmed the judgment otherwise, saying: 'The doctrine of subsequent negli gence is not applicable unless both plaintiff and defendant are negligent. We must assume, then, that the jury found both drivers guilty of the neg ligence disclosed by the testimony. From the evidence the jury could have found defendant negligent in local branch in January sold almost 50 per cent of its entire 1931 volume.

Low Priced Cars Selling. J. C. Chick, sales manager for Cadillac-LaSalle, revealed January shipments were the highest of the month in several years, with the exception of 1929. Chick finds the V-12's and V-16's especially in demand.

More orders are on hand than at the same time last year. At the other end ef the price range, reception of the new Chevro-. lets continues one of the bright features of the market. The production figure for January was not made public, but as it stood it represented almost one-half of the entire output of the industry. W.

A. Blees, Vice President in charge of sales for Oakland-Pontiac, reported production running above last year. The company built approximately 9,000 in January and will Shows in the background, the automobile industry settles into the more prosaic subjects of production and Bales wk business maintaining its January pace. Possibilities for the month are not yet clearly defined, but because of dealer shortages in some of the makes and the likelihood that one of the biggest plants will resume operations, final output figures will reveal a 10 to 15 per cent gain over January. Sentiment is mixed and the market thus far encountered in 1932 highly irregular.

The Easter- section of the country still is leading in a revival, which one week looks auspicious and the next strikes a enag. not seeing plaintiff and in not stop-1 NEW HUPMOBILE THE SIXES AND EIGHTS A year ahead in style 24 years old in reputation hold that pace this month. A. Van Der Zee, Dodge Brothers general sales manager, reported high interest in the new cars from all over the country. The most recent show, at St.

Louis, found attendance ahead of last year. The market is extremely sensitive, but the enthusiasm of dealers and the public has been impressive, according to J. A. Churchill, Vice President, in charge of sales for Buick. Sales of eight-cylinder cars was commented upon by both Oldsmobile parked off the hardened part of the It is not shown that the sedan was lighted, that the defendant saw it or could have avoided striking it." Aviation Lanes and Graham officials.

The ratio at Company officials back from Chicago frankly reported the exhibition there lacked the steam of the New York opening. Bad weather and the fact that the Chicago show has been losing ground in dealer attention due to early model displays at factories were two of the reasons cited. It is certain that dealers generally knew more about their 1932 products on January 1 of this year than ever before. No picture of the present automobile situation is complete without mention of Ford. The known fact that the River Rouge plant has new cars under development has, to varying degrees, slackened sales.

Other retail organizations may be confident of being able to sell against whatever models the Ford Motor Company produces, but they admit the handicap of combatting a car which has been sheathed from the public in uncertainty. New Ford Coming. Regardless of rumors, the assembly lines at the Rouge factory are not yet in action. Indications are, however, that production will begin soon, with the new cars going on display shortly after March 1. The strength in the high priced THE FULLER AUTOMOBILE CO.

2035 Reading Road PArkway 6006 SLOW DRIVER MENACE TO TRAFFIC Unreasonably slow speed of an automobile, as well as unreasonably rapid speed, may constitute negligence. A driver on a stop street going Olds are running two sixes to one eight, considered surprisingly high. Graham, in production of sales, is nearing in the first two months the largest "eight year" in the history of the company. Unofficially, it was learned that "Vermilya-Huffman Flying Serv demand in two of the Chrysler cor poration lines will result in a 60 per cent increase in the February sched ule over January. 4 It ice." That is the sign that will be displayed officially over the metal aircraft factory at Lunken Airport.

March 1 to tell Cincinnati that two of this city's most widely known aviators, Stanley C. "Jlggs" Huffman and Wright "Ike" Vermilya Jr. have joined forces in a new enterprise on Cincinnati's municipal airport. Huffman was general operations manager of the Embry-Riddle divis- OPEN HAND THROTTLE. Many a veteran motorist overlooks the necessity of advancing the hand throttle slightly when starting a cold engine.

That is the only way to ion of American Airways until January 25, and Vermilya also was associated with Embry-Riddle for some time as pilot and director of the Embry-Riddle Air School. This new concern has leased the entire metal aircraft equipment, including four planes, and will occupy the entire building. Shop space will be subleased to the Jones-Graichen Aircraft Corporation, which is to start work soon on a demonstration model of a new type airplane. It will be the policy of the partnership to lease space for such purposes if occasion arises, Vermilya said. Numerous Activities Planned.

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Huffman was born in Springfield, Ohio, March 16, 1900. He was a schoolmate of Billy Brock, later famous as a transpacific flier, and together they made numerous experiments in gliding. When the World War broke out Huffman was too young to enlist in the air corps, but in 1921 he enlisted as a cadet at Mc-Cook Field, Dayton, Ohio, and in June, 1922, he was graduated with honors from the primary class at Carlstrom Field, Fla. He took his advanced work at Kelly Field and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Reserve Corps, receiving his discharge in December, 1922. He returned to Springfield.

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Fivt win or dimountablt wood TO 5 TONS $375 AND UP DODGE TRUCKS 'a SEILER MOTOR CAR 2230 Gilbert Ave. Tel. WOodburn 6300 lic highway, some act of negligence must be shown in addition to drunkenness to make out a case of gross negligence. From all that appears on this' record there was nothing to indicate that the defendant was careless. He was on his right-hand side of the way.

As we interpret the evidence he was driving carefully. The possibility of danger is always present when a drunken person attempts to operate a motor vehicle, but if he acts as carefully as a sober man of ordinary prudence under the existing circumstances he is not negligent. The fact that the car of the defendant, as he got near the place of the accident, switched and changed does not mean that he was careless or negligent. The switching and changing may have been necessary to avoid a collision. A sober and reasonably prudent operator might have acted in the same manner under the conditions then existing.

It is not shown that the defendant was negligent in running into the parked sedan; he had to turn to the right to avoid a collision with the automobile coming from the north, which had left the line of travel and was on the defendant's side of the road. It does not appear how near to the defendant the parked sedan was located when the collision with the automobile moving south was Imminent, except that the sedan was INTOXICATION OF DRIVER AS NEGLIGENCE If a drunken automobile driver acts as carefully as a sober man of ordinary prudence under existing circumstances he is not negligent, is held by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (173 N. E. 427). The case in which the opinion was rendered was brought by a guest in an automobile who was injured when the automobile overturned.

There was evidence that defendant was drunk, but plaintiff testified that just prior to the accident he believed defendant was driving slow and carefully; that there were plenty of cars on the road, and one, coming from the opposite direction, suddenly left the line and pulled out to the left, compelling defendant to turn to the right; and that he always thought defendant was right. The turn to the right caused defendant's car to strike a sedan parked off the road and made it turn over. In reversing a judgment for plaintiff, the Appellate Court said: "The burden of proof was on the plaintiff to show that the defendant in operating his vehicle was guilty of gross negligence. The jury could have found that the defendant was drunk. But however unsafe it may be for a drunken person to operate an automobile, especially upon a pub The EW(D(LJOIDIEID9ir Gift to the Ingenious! Call at The Enquirer Office 617 Vine Street- ERLANOEK Kenney Motor Car Co.

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