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Plans of tbe coinpany provide for the production of 2,000 of the nev cars this month, 4,000 in March and 4,500 per month thereaf t'e. Accord- in oexecutiyes of. the. company, however. prelimninary sales have been recorded- in such numbees that pro- duction. may have to be: materially increased as quickly.as is possible. The new Packard 120 plant is de- clared to be the m'ost modem and'ef- ficient lu the industry. It is the first complete automobile plant, including facilitiesý for making both bodies and chassis, that bas beent created, with empty floors only as a start, in years. For nearly a- year machine tool builders lu maRly parts of -the country bave been working on tbe equipment-.' With the capital goods industry oi ie of tbe, hardest hit during the depres- àion, machluery manufacturers have worked intensively on new develop- ments for the last two or tbree years as a meâns of stimiu1ting business. Machinery orders, front Packard for its new plant gave theni an oppor4qni-,. ty to show hov far they bave carie. their, development work. New Ways of Haudliu gMaterls Many machines now turning out parts for the "120» are said to repre- sent such advances in precision and efficiency as to be labeled revolution- ary in the whole machinery field. Com- pletely new methods of hftndling nia. terials, with conveyor systems espe- cially designed for the work, are noticeable in the plant. Pl ant executives and niachinery ex- perts from ail parts of the country, bave been at the~ Packard plant dur- isng the last two weeks in large num- bers to study opérations of the newY model equipment. They have been quoted as' predicting that many of the new processes developed for the Packard 120 will be universally adopt- ëd, resulting in a substantial better- ment of business in the machine tools industry.t For the building of its new car ai %anon psa u LUtest L I JisJ limited comnmercial license 'Wednes- day of last week, when. the Depart- ment of Commerce inàpectors were at Curtiss airport.. Leong,, who bas been doing' considerable flying at Curtiss in -recent, weeks,,made a. tipý to ..Bloomington, 11,1., r.ecently and passed, the test, for bis privàte pilôt's license there It was- upon tbie sug-, gestion of. a Départment. of. Com- merce man that he took the I. c. test. R. Beeler ond P. Wàger Fy to Berrien Springs On' Tuesday, February 5, Richard Beeler, Beechcraft.distributor in tbe Cbic'aqo area, and; Paul1 Wagner -of the Curtiss airport staff fiew to Wagner's.'"oAd home. town," Berrien Springs, Mich., in Beeler's Beech- craft. Returning, with a tait wind to push them along, they covered the 120 miles from, Bernien Springs to Curtiss fieldi in >37 -minutes. P,lies Owsley's Model R Stinson to Muncie, Ind. Dr. Chester Trowbridge of Oak Park flew Dean Owsley's model R Stinson from Curtiss airport, wbere the plane lu bangared, to Muncie, nd., Tuesday morning of last week. Dr. Trowbridge returned on, Wed- nesday. Owsley made a trip in tht same, plane last week to the duck hunting club of which he is à member on the Illniois river near ,Putnam. Curtis.s Mechanic Goes East to Motor School Harold Shanklin, a mechanic at Curtiss airport, left. last Friday night for Patterson, N. J., where he will get thet latést information and in- s truction available on Wright engine s at the Wright Atronautical Service school. t is expected. back at Cur- tiss field sometime néxt. week. juilu zîîc mmes iin unmri t£5rx- press, effective at once, was announc- ed this week by Rogers M~. Combs,( Jrý, chairman of the Interline system1 and express traffic manager of Amer-1 ican Airlines. Operating from -Ft. Worth and-: Dallas, to Houston, Austin, SanAný- tonio and Brownsville,, the Bowen system will ýserve as an outIet for Gener al Air.express to these im-, portant. Texas cities,-,Combs said., Connections1 will be made ý at% Ft. Worth with American Airlines' planes, linking these cities with the, re- mainder of the United States, and at Brownsville with Pan-American Air- ways. planes to Central and Souith: America. Me mbership of General Air express now' includes American airlines,c Transcontinental and Western air, Eastern Air lines, Northwest Air lines, Pennsylvania airlines, Varney Speed lines, Bowen Air lines and Na- tional Airlines system, Conibs said. h Fly to Stinson Factory. From Curtiss Airport H. S. Damr, president of tht Chi- cago Aviation corporation, operatdrs: of .Curtiss airport and Stinson dis- tributors in this area, Robert Peck, mechanic at the airport, and C. W. "Slim" Freytag, Stinson salesman, made a trip to tht Stinson factory at Wayne, Mich., fast week. While there Peck,' who had just returned from Omaha, whère he was called, by the serious illness cf his father, was, notified that bis father had died. Buys a Waco, Keeps It at Pal'Waukee Hanga r Dr. Charles Lieber of Waùkegan, chief. surgeon at tht Lake county hospital, bas purchased a Waco A side-by-side open coçkpit Plane which he is keeping at the Pal-Waukee air-, port hangar on Milwaukee avenue. Tht ship was delivered, by a New York pilot on Saturdav. Februarv 2. Godfrey Atkin, one of the sponsors of the club, will introduce Lewis Bernays, British cons ul general, chair- man of the evening. In bis turn, Mr. Bernays will introduce Mr. Speaight.* The club's othersponsors are Arthur- Andersen, Ernest S. Ballard., Wil- liam, Jerome Clark, G., Donald Cowin, Robert S. Laird, C. G. IAttell, Mellen C. Martin, and Donald F. McPberson.. Tickets, for Mr. Speaight's recital, are obtainable at Winnetka Com- munity House, from Alfred'Allen, 584 Lincoln- avenue, Winnetka, or at the Ackermiann gÉalleries, 408 South: Michigan a 'venue, Chicago., The Lon- don Times said of this actor: "Mr. Speaight is modest enough to, attribute a large measure of bis. suc- cess to bis choice of a subject, but there can be no doubt that. the popu- Iarity of these interesting recit als is due to bis own great talent, and his singular gift of facial expression, as iveli as bis power of passitng from comedy to tragedy and back again within the space of a few minutes, if flot seconds." Invite N. T. Stuùdents to Table Tennis Event The Illinois Table Tennis associa- tion is sponsoring a Chicago District High .School Table Tennis tour- nament. to be held on Washington's birthday, Febru*ary ", at 1 .o'clock, at tht Stay & Play club, 168 West Monroe street, Chicago. This tour- nament is open to ail boys and girls now in high uchool in Chicago and suburbs. Events consist of boys'. singles, girls' singles, and boys' doubles. Those wishiig to enter aie requested to mail or telphone ther entries to street, Chicag.o, tel.ephone Dearboirn 5709. euce of thr- a815Q date for catries iWn uaa Louis,1 ,St.I vIc anru rvice in the ,"and: Omha.