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J ROSEBURO NEWS-REVIEW. WEDNESDAY. MAY 21, 1924. MOB PIVI 2 V STAR THE 27 FEATURE CAR NEwsm jfrF- STAR COMPETES !N W 4-WHEEL brake test i The Touring Car F. 0. B. Detroit Demountable Rim nd Starter 85 extra Evey Motoring Need At Lowest Cost The Ford Touring Car meets every motoring require ment at the lowest possible cost. It is sturdy, depend able, long lived; easy to drive; convenient to park and possesses the highest re? sale value in proportion to list price, of any car built. C Detroit, Mkhloa - Runabout $26S Coup 1 525 - Tudor Sedan $S90 Fordoor Sedan S6SS All prices f. o. b. Detroit SEE THE NZAREST AUTHORIZED FORD DEALERS THE UNIVERSAL CAR You can buy any model by making a email doum-payment and arranging eaey terms for the balance. Or you can buy on the Ford Weekly Purchaser1 Ian. The Ford dealer in your neighborhood uMl gladly explain both plans in detail. r.'rnnn dm re ounui runu unLLu mm ' PROPER REPAIRS Prevent Trouble After our Mechanics go .over your Motor, you need not worry the car will purr along just like she was brand new. Maxwell-Chrysler Service . WE STAND BEHIND OUR WORK STEPHENS AUTO COMPANY 323 North Main St Phone 582 ASGOOD AS NEW if repaired by us! Master Mechanics do all of the work that's one of the reasons. All classes of work quickly done. WE SPECIALIZE IN CYLINDER REBORING AND HONING The highest form of compliment la paid the Star Motor Company of Cal ifornia by the Riikeubacker Motor Company 'of Detroit, Mich., In a six hundred word telegram reaching Oak land Friday, accepting Star's defiant answer to the open challenge broad cast three weeks ago by Rickenback or to all cars, both two wheel and four wheel brake jobs, to deceleration, or braking tests. It Is now certHin that the motoring public of America is to be treated to a real comparative test between au tomobile ' manufacturers, ' over the burning question that has sounded from one end of the country to the other, regarding the equipment of many cars with four wheel brakes. Rlckenbacker's original challengo was not definitely clear as to Just what type of contest was desired, but the Star Motor Company of Cali fornia, drafting an answer to the Rickenbacker wire, suited that it was accepting all of the terms of the contest imposed by Rickenbacker of ficials, stipulating only that if, after sixty, days grace, other automobile manufacturers have cot entered the fight," then a definite comparative test will be arranged for, as Boon as possible, between star and liicken back er after July 1, 1924. The terms offered by the Ricken backer Motor Company are briefly these, according to the telegram to DeVnux: that the tests will be check ed by public officials and newspaper men, and by the American Automo bile, Association, as planned by De Vaux, but that an official test also be made by the United States Bureau of Standards, with a deoelerometer, an Instrument that will show up "trick driving" in any form. Rickenbacker company says that It had "hoped other manufacturers would enter the contest," and Infer red that they were certainly not looking fur an answer to their chal lenge from Star, or a car In Its price class. Rickenbacker Is willing that the contest, or test, be held any time or place, and urge the Star executives to Bee if they cannot "coax or coerce" any other or all makers of two and four wheel brake cars to enter the test. "Regardless of who wins," the wire continues, "The test will prove that there are certain to be more ncci dents, due to Insufficient braking, among the light cars with two wheel brakes, because they are so many in number." Weight of the car certain ly makes no difference, they state. Rickenbacker'g Intention Is obviously to prove that all cars must eventual ly be equipped with four-wheel brakes. 9 There Is unbounded admiration for S'ar "spunk" in the answer of Rick enbacker. "Certainly," It says, "have the po lice supervision., aud the newspaper men, in the interest of the public, and the A. A. A. and the Ilurcau of Standards to tako the official deceler omcter readings for the public." T DETROIT, Michigan, May 21. Retail sales of Ford cars and trucks In the I'nited States rose to 2 1 1 .-4 1 II during April, a substantial increase over the record-breaking deliveries of .March, the Ford o.Mlor Company announced here today, Af the same time, It was stated which hud been steadily increasing since the first of the year, exceeded 12,00 in April. Further, In the hlgh-prlc.ed car field, sales of Lincoln cars, which are produced by a division of the Kord Motor Company, reached a new monthly record with a total of Tfii retail deliveries. During the firt OAK STREET GARAGE Phone 508 C. W. LAWSON, Prop. Oak and Stephens Sts. raacaaazsasvi SURE WE HAVE IT AT SARFFS Auto Wrecking House 329 N. Main St - if not it is sure worth your time to come and see what we have got. W'e have the most up to date wrecking house from Portland to San Fran cisco. Phone 553 Prices of Models Hm-Th and Freight Paid Roadster ... $662 Touring Car . 667' Coupe .... 846 Special Sedan 1076 Touring Car $525 . f. o. b. Lansing, Mich. An early start happy faces lunch in the hamper then off for the winding trail to happiness in your new Star Car. To sylvan glades and mountain crests, the new Star Car wit.S four-wheel brakes takes you quickly and comfort ably, for the Star Car is built to give the maximum of motor satisfaction to the family of modest income. Its beauty of line plus its faultless" meclianical performance due to its 27 Feature Reasons make the Star Car not only the ideal family car, but tAe lowest priced high grade car in the world. ma RAPP BROTHERS Douglas County Distributors Drain Garage Sutherlin Garage PRICE REDUCTIONS No better Indication of the In creased demand for Willys-Knight and Overland closed cars during the current whiter Can bo given than the announcement from Willys-Overland headquarters that prices on two of Its most popular enclosed types have been slashed as a result of a factory output in excess of all original anticipations. According to the announcement the price reduction affects the Over land Champion model, which has been reduced to JB55 from $1185. a cut of 4'i, while the YVillys-Knh:ht standard sedan has been reduced I1U0 to f I .'. All these are Toledo four niou'lis of the present. year. Lincoln Sab s showed an increase of appro!niaie!y fi.l per cent over the tamo period a year ago, the company says. While the sales figures of the company craphlcally illustrate the constantly grow-ing popularity of all Ford products, they likewise present an optimistic business outlook. A review of the sales records shows that fur two years retail de liveries of Kord cars and trucks in the I'nited States have exceeded lhO.OOH a B'.nntb, the company s.ivs. while for nine of the months during the past ear sales were well over the Jao.fing mark, and the big de mand during March and April this year carried salon for -ach of those months considerably over 20(1, nuv? Despite late spring wcathi r in many section, the demand for Ford son Tractois for agricultural use continue to trow, while a noticeable Increase In the prc-ntace of Ford sons goini; into Industrial u,-e is ac cepted as reflecting general pros perous conditions. Annlsis of the sale reports re ceived from its various branches, th company says, ludhatcn an In creased volume of business lor May. factory prices. Accompanying the announcement i- ni.m,.,i frnm .Inhn N. I IB a IS ii'i iiniuiin ii. ....... -- rwillys, president of WHlys-Overlund, setting for tne reasons ior una -markablo action: "January and February produc tion has exceeded all expectations. During the first month of the new year wo manufactured 21'.04K cars. i more than double the ouipui oi year ago. In February wo maintain ed an average shipping record of more than a thousand cars dally. Icloslng the month with total shlp- I incuts of 22,130. "ti,i. rumarkolilp inrreaso In do- 'nand has stepped up production to ; a point where our production costs per car have been lessened. In tho case or the Overland Champion, for i example, we find that we aro able I to maintain Its position as tho low est priced enclosed car on tho mar ket, with doors Iront and rear, be I cause of the Temendous demand that has ensued since the original ! announcement of this model last ! fall. We have stepped up our I schedule on this model and even now tare unable to copo satisfactorily with our dealefs demands." "In no single year of the (ndus ' try has the sale of all-weather mod els advanced so rapidly as It has i during the pas; six months. Our ! plants have been fairly swamped 1 with orders for this type. The re sult has been an Increase in closed car nroduction, with a proportlon- 1 ate decrease In production costs, in 1 which we are desirous of allowing the public to participate." IlllsilK-Mt i:paildllis ! With the completion of tho New land bullding.on .Stephens street, W. It. Drown, who conducts an automo tive electrical shop at Fine and Oak i Streets, will move his establishment I to the new place. Mr. llrown will add new machinery and electrical ap pliances, and when he gets the plunt ; sit up will have one of the finest I shops of the kind in the state. H. i L. Il'iucoi k. who also occupies part of the building at IMnit and Oak, 1 will move the Auto Electrical Sta tion and Wlllard service at the same tlni", and will establish his ,bHttry station in the new Ncwland building. I Mr. lloucix k .has a complete plant. These two lndtiirlal concerns both have a well established business, and In the new location their field of service will broaden considerably. Kills lUtilonako While hunting up Farrott Creek Stindav. 1.. F. I-angenherg killed a rattl snake having four rattles and a button. Mr. 1-angenberg has killed several rattlers in that vicinity und claims that there aro a lurge num ber of them there. Visiting I'nrciits W. K. Ilelt, who has been teach ing school at Wheeler. Oregon, has arrived in Itoseburg to spend tho summer nt the home of his parents. Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Mutt, lie has been employed to teach In the Myr- tlo Crcuk hlt,n school next year. To Visit Parent Miss Myrtle Weathorford who hns been attending tho high school In Hopeburg during tho winter left tills morning foi Riddle where Bhe will visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Wenlherfuid for several weeks. 1 -HJE BIRD World's Lowest Priced Car With BilloonTires Standard It's here now. Come in! OIJC WHlCLfttUtXTRA'P.O-.TOLEDO SERVICE GARAGE GLENN H. TAYLOR, ROSEBURO, OREGON VI 17: U H P if
