La Grande evening observer., June 02, 1928, Image 7

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VOLUME XXV.
LA GRANDE. OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928.
NUMBER 250
NEW COLOSSUS
iNAUiummLV
Second Only to Ford,
.General Motors
- NKW YORK, June.' 2 (Af)- A
now cuIumhum of the automobile In
dustry, second only to tho l-'ord
. motor com puny, unci (lenerul Mo
tors, hut been formed with- the
, mower of Dodge Brothers, Inc.,
'and the Chrysler corporation. -The
new combination h:iH a pres
ent market valuation of $450,000,
000, a Ktf regale assets of more than
$ 23 r. 00 O.Ooo and a production ca
imclty of ubout 700,000 uutomo
biles unnunlly.
The acquisition of the Dodge
company 1m only a step In tho ex
pansion program of the Chrysler
torpcirallon, Wall Htret under
stands Active negotiations are
mild to he going forwrfrd for the
Inclusion of other units.
KciisntlonHl Atlvuiico
The deal Is another milestone In
the sensational rise of Waller i1,
Chrysler. From a commcm labor
er he hull risen to tho place where
he 'ranks with Kurd und John J.
Ttnskob of General Mtors uh the
titans of the Industry. . -
The announcement of the Chrys-
l.P.n.,rlii Hoitl nnrl tlio m-inriatr i.f
Its consummation cume us u sur
prise.
Mr. Chrysler und Lawrence Dil
lon, head of Dillon. Read and coin
puny, which purchased the Dodge
motor car company from the wH
owh of Its founders In May, 1925,
met two weeks ago at an informal
luncheon. They agreed that each
company had something that 4he
other needed. ,;
Surrey Ik Mado
, , Knglnecrs were sent Into the two
plants for a survey. Thoso engi
neers and accountants met last
week in Detroit und exebunged
statistics. - . . . ' .
Mr. Chrysler and Mr. Dillon, en
KiiKing adjoining hotel suites Fri
day, remained locked . in - their
rooms until Monday night, curry
ing on their conferences. .The
merger plans were submitted to the
directorates of the two companies
yesterday and adopted.
Neither organisation Is to lose its
physical identity. Dodgo Urolhcrs,
Inc., will retain Its plants, distrib
ution forces und other elements of
organisation. Mr. Chrysler becomes
chairman of the new board, with
Mr. Dillon' hh chulrmun of the. fi
nance committee of the reorgan
ise h cni tiiirjitifin.- , tl.- Wiliucr
will remain f 'us ' prcslribul of Dodge
The' Dodge Brothers motor Com
puny was formed In 10 1 4 by John
F. and Horace K. Dodge, engineers
who had grown up In the factory
of Henry Ford. For years they
were second only to Ford in the
low priced, four cylinder 'field,'
Other mergers rumored us pend
ing in the industry link- the names
of Plerce-Arrow and Jordan und.
the Packard and Keo companies.
M. K. Forbes of Buffalo and Ed
ward H, Jordan of Cleveland, pres
ident of the IMercc-Arrov und Jor
dan company respectively,, admit
ted negotiations were under way.
Trend In Light
bix Cars Seen
By the Leaders
A new trend in the construction
of 11 arh t six curs is seen by leaders
In the uutomobilo Industry fol
lowing Willyq-Overland's recent
successful presentation of a new
WhlppetiBlx with advanced en
gineering features. These features,
It Is said, haveset a new high
standard for quality In the .lower
priced light six cylinder field.
The new Whippet Six is equip
ped with a power plant that al
ready has surpassed tho existing
2 4 -hour record for curs under
$1,000. Careful observers declare
that this new performance rating
will force other manufacturers of
light sixes to concentrate more
than ever before on quullty con
struction and more careful atten
tion to engineering details. .'
The most notable departure In
constructional features fn the new
Whippet Six Is tho Incorporation
of a seven-bearing crankshaft: It
pointed out that tho Whippet
Hix Is tho first cur among the low
er priced sixes that includes this
feature. The nearest priced six
with the seven-bearing crankshaft
sells at a price ranging $150 high
er than -Wltlys-Ovorland's new pro
duct. Other features in the new
Whippet Hix Include full forco feed i
lubrication to all main and con
necting rod bearings: invar-strut
pistons; 4-wheel brakes; low, cen
ter gravity construction, which pro
vides maximum road stability at
every speed range, and unusually
Gas Sales, Despite
High Tax, Increase
The stute of New Mexico during
ihc year 1 927 had a 22 per cent
increase in the gasoline gallonage.
This was the first year that New
Mexico had had a five cent gas tax
und this increase was rather sur
prising to a great many people.
The Oregon State Motor associa
tion. In investigating this Increase
in the tax from 3 to 6 cents per
gallon, found that there had been
considerable opposition from thoso
i Ano ion mat mere woulu uo u. n;
ductlon In gasoline sales under the
previous year. It was claimed that
tourists' would avoid going through
New Mexico and would choose
routes through other states whero
the gad tax was loss. .
After practically a yuiir opera
tion under the new law which went
into effect March 4, 1927, figures
tdiow that these, surmises wore
without foundation since the actual
Increase in mlcs over 1926 amount
ed to $666,246.00.
State Parks Given
On Car Club's Map
Tim Increasing number of motor
ists inquiring regarding state parks
which urn usually located ut scenic
points has caused tho Oregon State
Motbr association to nolo all state
parks on road maps. . ..
Oregon occupies a vory favorable
position in the acquisition and de
velopment of state park lands, a
number of which have been don
ated to -the state by private In
dividuals. ,
W'tUt WIK CHAX(iK HIS VIEWS?
LI VKKI'OOIj Folks hero are
wondering whether the charming
Miss Margaret Reavan. the lord
muyor. .will change Mussolini's
views about her iw r during her
forthcoming call on him. -
First Picture of New Rocket Auto
I
SPEED APLENTY
IN NEW RACERS
Attaining a speed of 125 miles an hour In 45 seconds from a stand-
I ing sum, mis rocnei auiomoDue, a uermau invention, amazed uerun
spectators wltn its tremendous speed in recent tests. Frits Von
Opel, its driver, intends to experiment again in July to attain a
greater speed. Tpsts are, limited as each rocket costs a small for
tune.' They fire from the tubes shown on the rear ot the machine!
The rocket motor Is also being tested lor airplane use.
i Reaction' Tiriie Of Auto Drivers
Governs Safety, Scientist Says
f'AMltHlDGK, 'Mass., June 2 ntors lind a reaction time of more
A1)( A safe driving speed for than a second.
one motorist may bo disastrous for "The experimenters claim" says
roomy interiors for driver and pus- unother, says I'rofcssor Charles l- I'rofessor I'ark. "that there Is little
sengers. - i
Tho new line of light sixes Is in
addition to tho Whippet four cy
linder models, which nro now en
joying the greatest sales demand
ever registered by any model In
Willys-Overland history.
Records of 500-Mile Race
Must Wait on Endur
. ance, Is Word
1N1UANAPOMH, Ind., Juno' 2
The prediction that a new crop of
rucing records will follow the wako
of this y oar's Indianapolis speed
way event, was mudo here toduy
by Ralph Hepburn, racing star and
pilot of ono of the cars to partici
pate In the annual 5oo-mllo classic
held hero Memorial Pay.
Hepburn returned to the speed
way, after a season behind tho
wheel of cars in American Auto
mobile association stock car events.
He was a member of tho racing
crew thnt drove throe stock fttudc-
baker Commanders to new world
records for fully equipped stock
curs at the Atlantic City Speed
way Inst fnll. All threo cars cov
ered 26,000 miles In less than 25,
000 minutes. Hepburn says that
If his own racing car had the en
durance built Into Tho Htudcbaker
Commundur, ho would guarantee
to go out and set records himself
n the 600-mile Indianspolls race.
Plenty of HpceU
"Speed Js In our little cars und
to spare. The only problem now
getting endurance," says Hen-
burn.
Practice trials have shown that
ars have moro speed than last
rear. Leon Duruy set a new un
official record with
Willamette Pass
Crossed Sunday
Park of Massachusetts Instituto of doubt that many drivers could be
Tcchnoldgy, who has inude u study picked up on the streets who would
or highway safety. . . - jinvu reaction times os long as one
"There lias been a return of tho and a hulf or oven two seconds,
speed craze," he finds, "and a lead- Thu operator, must, act uulekly.
Ing line of some dealers today Is Otherwise the distance the cur
thut tho cur will muko this or that would run during tho driver's
many miles per hour. The. pdbllu action time might- bo greater than
is' responding to this appeal, und the distance in which thu brakes
highway speeds aro now. probably would bring tho car to rest,
higher than ever before." t; "It is my opinion that when au-
Tho engineer,' who Is professor tomobollo operators ha'vo know
of mechanism and director of- me- .ledge of their reaction times and
i chanical laboratories at the Instt- know in what distanco they can
lute, comments on tho tremendous actually stop their curs under all
power represented by an automo- conditions, and when they confine
bile in motion and tho Importance i their attention to operating the
Ho car and drive at a speed at which
believes that the effect -of the per- they can bring their car to rest
sonal equation the time It takes a within the dlstunce for which they
driver to react to any situation is can see a cleur wuy, then there
a factor not generally recognized will bo fewer accidents on the high
pr appreciated. ways attributable to excessive
Professor Park assorts that C9 spued.'
percent of tho motor accidents in
HL'GKNIS. Ore., (Special) The
summit of the Cascades-was passed
Sunday by a party of Oukrldgc men
who went over the Willamette pass r being able to stop quickly.
on a xrucuir useti in county road
work, it was learned from Oak
ridge. ,
The riien, three In number, left
for the summit Saturday night,
reached tho snow lino and worked
their way to the summit, returning
to Oukrldgo Sunday night Tho
party Included J F. McGillvrey,
Ed Clark and Clarence Ryker.
Automobiles can travel to with- (irlvor
In a.hiUt.mtto of,ryjjopr tut rn,V-.r3xS: .v.'.j. .. ,. '' -
not yet cross tho summit- duo to Tests conducted by the. Hurcuu
the snow which blocks tho last half of Standards, he points out, showed
Massachusetts lust . year wen
caused by speed "too fast for ex
Muting conditions and the kind of
mile on tills side of tho summit.
Several days will be needed to clear
the road and to wait for the snow
'on the coat side to melt. It Is still
heavily bunked there.
The people who preach, that thni
is money evidently never tried to
pay their debts with It. .
that 57 automobile operators exam
lned required an average tlmo of
0.54 seconds to apply the. brake
pedal after they had received a sig
nal. Driving at GO miles an hour
and reacting at this average speed,
a motorist would run 47 feVt
after getting a stop signal before
he applied his brakes. Somo oper-
207,690 Employed
By General Motor
Oonornl MotorH C'oriionttlon lnul
i'li7.!K Individual)! In lis employ
us or April 30. I9JK. This cnn.itl
tutcs n new high record for Oon.
I'l-iil Motors -oniploycH. pxcendillK
ly r,,o:7 the previous record of
202.053 employes at Murell 31
und comparing with 192,111!
at April 30 a year ubo, an Increase
of liiTS.
diction. Kvec slnc.o tho Initial BOO- I DDirCC ftDAD AC
mllo spoodway ruco In - Jll. It busf lUWUJ 1SAUI ftO
ueen eusioumry w iuuulu ijiu mw i
of tho motors at two or threo year
Intervals. For tho past seven years,
tho third year of competition for
tho new motors has produced u
new truck record. ..-'
in 1915 the ruco was open to
enrs powered with engines of 300'
cubio Inches piston displacement,
or over. In that year Kulph 3o
Pnlma drove his Mercedes to vic
tory" at tho average speed of 89.84
miles per hours In ono of tho great
est duels ever seen on a speedway.
His record still stood when tho 13
inch motors woro adopted in i920,
no ruces having been in 1917 and
l18.
This Year's Mark
Tho 1920 raco was won with an
avcrago of 88.6 tulles an hour. Two
years later Murphy Bet a now rec
ord at 94.48 miles uu hour. Tho
next yeur tho motors we to again
reduced In size to 122 cubic Inches.
The speed dropped for the first
yeur. Then two years later Do
Paolo set the present record of
y1.13.
Two years ago the 914 cubio
Inch motors were adopted. Since
that time speeds have steudlly In
RESULT OF EILL
Jnounced that rull
tax reduction will
Ichasors.
benefit of the
be given pur.
New Tax-Reduction Law
Permits Lowering of
Car Quotations
Road Hog Causes
Half Of Wrecks
HACllAJtfENTO Th "road
ho" has (been VroastedM .by tho
stato motor vehicle departments
and servod with tho sauce of publio
condemnation;
Tho division has charged tho
"Mfhwav porcine" with respon
sibility lor more than- on halt of
tnu accidents on California hlglw
ways on the basis ot a study by
Major Louis La Place, chief of tho
statistics ot the dlvi-
'Following announcement of the I
slgnlnR by President CoolidRe of
the recently psssed congressional
bill repealing tho threo per cent
excise lux on passenger cars, a
number of l,a Qrnnde automobile
donlors havo been notified already bureau of
of price cuts and othors expect to slon.
receive official Instructions vcryl "Failure to yield the right ot
soon. way," says La Place's roport to
Toilers In La Grnndo seemed l'Vank O. Hnook, ohlef of the dlvi
generally very tatlHflcd with tho.sioiu "causes more than 60 per.
disposition or that tax. The cut cent of tho accidents. In other4,
brings substantial reductions In au- words tho operator does not com-
tomobllu prices, depending on tho Ply with section 122 of the Call-i
models. L. W. Works and W. E. fornia vehicle act, which states!
lluchanan. (Thrysler dealers, were "llt roust drive well to tho'
among those who have ulready right."',
boen notified of the cut, "The tux
jwus an unfair luxury tax on some-
creased, but no new records havo
been set ut IndinnapollR This
year Louis Meyer won tlirt classic
nt an uvorage rutb of 99.482 miles
per hour. -1
must own a
72
Off MUX OF ItKAl-TiFIKllS
LONDON Lord Justice Hcrut
lon hns opinions about braUtlfiers.
In deciding litigation between two
of them, .he said: "These special
ists trade upon tho very larse
number of people who have
plenty of money and no brains,
und who are -rt'ady ' to spend that
, money In attempting to Improve
the faces that providence has
given them." ,
You know without
being told that all
motor csrs endeavor
today to act like Chrysler
in engineering and per
form ance. That is self-evident
and obvious . . . Q, You may
have felt that some of these endea
" vors have succeeded in overtaking
the Illustrious Chryslcr"72" if notin
fact, at Ieastsupcrficially. You can quickly
undeceive yourself. You can quickly prove
2-pau. Coupe (with rumble cot 1345; Royal
Sedan. 1595; Sport Road.ter (with rumbU
ml). J1595; 4-pass. Coupe, J1595; Town Sedan,
that Chrysler'"
is still as far ahead as
it was four years ago .. .
QNot merely in principle
or in theory, but in plain,
blunt facts of performance
which you can see, and feel, and
register . . .' Q But in every one
and all of the characteristics which
Chrysler "72" created so far, far
ahead that the gap is even greater today
than it was at the outset of Chrysler history.
IBIl.": Converl I lib- Coupe fnitli rumble
wat). 74.": (nmii Kefluii. ;.-,. All
pi-lffs f.o.li. Detroit. .o Kcilerul i'xcIms tux.
WEEKS & BUCHANAN
HAIfi OPTION OIIAN'TKO
OH ANTS l'AHS, Ore., Juno 1!
(AI) An option on tho California
und Oregon coast railroad, extend
ing for 60 days, wnn granted by the
city council to J. W Heddy, in bo
half of tinnnmnd financial! buckem.
spocd of 1 toddy OKsertod thut his backers mo
more mail JJ nillfH licr hour, l-.widv to ntnrt rniiHlrufllnn nf llwt
tney nave trie spoeau 1h just a road from 1(8 prcmsnt ternilnus,
whh oi siuniinu now. nill-n nouthwut of this, city, to
Kecords of pant Indianapolis Crescent City, in northern Culiror
rncus should provo Hepburn's pre- nla. ,
thing thut has become, a necessity,"
said Mr. Weeks. Last year the
jtax wus cut. two per cent lorn tho
iorlglnul five per cent und the re
poultng of the tux mukes a throb
per cent cut.
Following Is a list of tho cuts
recently announced, from Portlund:
Kord. $12 to 15; Htudebaker-Kr-sklne,
$20 $36; Dodge. $20 to $30f
Keo, $25 to $35; Hudson-Essex, $16
to $40; Oaklund-Poutiuc. $32 to
$25; Chevrolet. $14 to $20; Krank
lln. nvcruge. $60; Lincoln, $100 to
$160; Cuditlac, $65 to $0; La Kallo.
$45 to $i6; Maunon, $30 to $60;
j 5 i lluirk. $26 to $42; O I tin mobile, $m
to $23. , . .. a ..'- : ,
Willys - Knight , and Whippet,
lfupmobilo und Orahum-l'aigu au-
920 Miles Of Road ?
Is Not Improved
According to the Orefon Btato
Motor iiABOciatlon, there aro 920
in I lea of unimproved hiihway in
tho state highway system; 74 miles
ot this Is on the Roosevelt High
wily between Newport and Marsh
tleld., It Ib estimated that approxi
mately eight years -will bo neces
sary to complete the highway sys
tem If tho present rate ot construe-
lion Is maintained. ,
The man who has senao enouuh
to hoop' his, mouth shut soon ac
quires a reputation for his pro
found WlHllOllt.
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