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...rained that afternoon, so they left it parked on Michigan Avenue and bought a $5000, 7-passenger Packard sedan...
...Jacobson and Frank Billings bought a $500 7-passenger Packard sedan with 16 cylinders one day and decided next morning that they should have gotten a convertible instead. So they sawed...
Indicted: National Bronze's bespectacled mustached President John L. Schmel-ler; his brother Frank, general manager-another brother, Edward, chief metallurgist; four other top company officials, and the company itself. The charge-conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by selling defective castings to the Packard Motor Car Co. for use in Rolls-Royce airplane motors. The Schmellers and the others were ousted from the company and tried last week in Cleveland's Federal Court. There, more than 100 witnesses minutely detailed the plot against...
...Plot. Witnesses testified: when defective castings were rejected by Packard National Bronze plugged and welded the holes and cracks in a secret welding room, the dirty work guarded by a special alarm system to warn the welders when Packard officials and air-force inspectors visited the plant. When suspicious Packard officials rejected $130,000 worth of castings and ordered them scrapped-after repeated warnings to National Bronze that defective parts would kill U.S. flyers-the company patched up the parts, changed the serial numbers and shipped them back to Packard as new parts. Some of the castings were so weak...
...Navy Communications Wives Club met on Tuesday afternoon at the Union where Mrs. Frederick C. Packard, Jr., entertained the group by reading poetry, following the regular business meeting...