T1IE SUNDAY, OKEGOMAX, POKTLAND, 3IAHCII 31, 1918. YELLOW GASOLINE XASH I'etSSEXGER CAR AND TRUCK MODELS TO BE ON DISPLAT IN SHOWROOMS OF PORTLAND MOTOR CAR COMPANY DURING NASH WEEK, WHICH OPENS TOMORROW. SOON 10 BE SOLO CZ2pzzl STEAM FeSrd Pierce-Arrow Plows Through Mud in Dark. Also, It Will Have a Smell All Its Very Own, but Will Be as Good as Ever. SPOTLIGHT- MUCH WANTED - I C. C, Fagan, Pierce-Arrow Pacific fiCTION IS WAR MEASURE Manager, on Night Run From The (Dalles to Pendleton, Xeeded One $2 00 Worth. HEPPfIEK ROAD BAD 1 AAV it SSF1-.VXCII5 1 " Jli i TLA , ' - i ' I I' I Up Goes This Sign -z:-..- r- tn' . . . - -.-M fl eliminating Sulphuric Arid Treat ment, Saj Inlon Oil Sale Dl rrctor. Will have Much Acid, Alkali and Gasoline. If Ihe gasoline yea buy tor automo a'U fuel ha a peculiar yellow color and a at it I more peculiar and not ex art ! y pleasant amcll. don't become IirmrJ and Jump to the conclusion that ihe Ccrmans arc slipping: aoma thtna over. Ind;rrctlr. the Kaiser will be to bUme for It. at that, but for all Its color and smelt the gasoline will be Just as aood as before. -Neither color nor smell will affects its efficiency as enirtne fuel In the least, and nobody burs gasoline for Its looks. The explanation for the new color and the new smell, both of which are cosnina to stay for the duration of th war. If not longer Is very simple. It I: due to tha fact that sulphuric acid has become altogether too valuable commodity to use In treating gasoline. The sulphuric acid treatment of gas- dine, refiners declare. In no way Im rori us quality or "pep. All In th world tha treatment accomplishes, the bat. U to remove the yellow color and the. smell. Moreover, the process treatment waxte both arid and giso line, so that eliminating- tha treatmrn accomplishes two Important war econ mlcs at once. Rtaasas rally EaalalarA. There Isn't much of tha yellow Kane line In Portland as yet. for old stocks are still being used, but as soon as they are exhausted one company a least, the I'cavn Oil Company of Call forcia. will sell tha untreated prod vet. That will be in a few weeks. And it la declared that the other companies will undoubtedly lake th same action noon. V. H. Koltv, salea director here for the Union Oil Company of California. inada the following statement last week In explanation of the change: "Producers and manufacturers in every line of business.'' said Mr. Kelly, "have been working for some time un der unusual conditions. Our National tiovernment baa requested each and every on of us to conserve in every po-ible way. "Kor many years past gasoline has been, treated with sulphuric acid for tha 'claimed purpose' of Improving It color and odor. Tha method of pro ducing petroleum products during the past several years baa undergone some radical charges, as. for instance, you are all familiar with the exploded the ry of gravity aa determining the value ef gasoline. "I'ractlcally a!! the large Eastern re finers ceased treating gasoline with aulphurlc acid some months ago. real tatnc under these unusual conditions that a very large quantity of gasoline was necessarily lost during the add! ttonal handling when treated with sul phuric acid, and secondly because of the very large expense Incurred on ac count of the hlgH cost of aulphurlc arid. Also for the further reason that the Government requlrea for other pur poses the sulphuric acid which would ordinarily be used In treating gasoline. Big rvdloa Xeeded. "H la estimated that during the year lIS refiners In this country wilt be railed upon to produce about 6J.e0.X)0 barrels of gasoline, and the refining rapicity of the country will be taxed to its utmost to produce this quantity from the crude oil available. It must be borne in mind that a very large per rent of the crude oil produced does not warrant Ita manufacture for gasoline on areount of the low percentage that it will yield by the usual methods, and artificial methods would require month for construction at a great rttst. due to the demand In other direc tions for the material used In this construction. Therefore. gasoline sbo iM be conserved by every method pss!h!e. "f the estimated consumption of BJ.00rf.D0t barrels fur 11S. there will be approximately 1.0o.00 barrels consumed In the running of automo bile and other Internal combustion en gines: the balance being used in other sirertion, where acid treatment Is called for. such ss benxine for dye bouses, etc. But the largest percent age of consumers do not require acld trejtted gasoline, as tre gasoline is to be used aa a fuel In an engine, and auch acid treatment is no more nor less than a waste of material and en rgv. 'It Is the general practice to treat gasoline it?i acid before 'steam still ing.' so that the running In the still will eliminate the compounds left back bv the acid treatment, as well as sep arate for boiling point. The only re sult Is the making of gasoline of better odor and color, for which the engine not care . continental In fact, the sclphuric scid treatment is the survival ct an oM method used before gasoline c.ginea became a factor in the com mercial world. Itage CaaetlBC Saslag. - "It Is estimated that by eliminating tho acta treatment there will be saved f-r other purposes not less than liH. e.v.t pounds of sulphuric acid, wblch ts so greatly needed In tie manufac ture of ammunition and for many other pot-poses. In s.tliton there will be eased a very large quantity of alkali, whiih Is a'o much needed for other purpose. The only value of the alkali rn treating gasoline Is tr neutralise the art. J that car.not bo washed out with water. - "Hut areater than all this is the heety lcs of gasoline now occasioned be too much handling. I'rom a con servative standpoint, it is estimated tnat ith fss elimination of anneccs earv handling of gasoline affected by (''ruinating the snipuhunc art4 treat ment, plus the vatue of the a.ld saved, cost of alkali, saving of labor and maintenance of plants, there it til be saved not less than IU.siu.c9 en the estimated production of gasoline dur ing this year. A:t th:s Is now a loss, brought about by in effort t Improve, the odor and color of gasoline, which is not at all ece,ry tor operating sn Internal eembustion engine. It is further estimated that with the elimination of t'te acM treatment there will a-tuaily be saved V.'.00i barrels vf gaaoitpe wtrh with thv continu ance of the present treatment would actual!)' i wasted In handling. tvsery t'estasisser Beaeflla. "There may be a few objections on account of odor and color, but when the average patriotic consumer stops t consider that lov.ove barrels more of ga-ohne baa been added to the roun rey'a supply, and that he benefits from U. hie o&jectrora will certainly cease." The l eton I'll Company of Califor nia. Mr. Ks.iv explained, eliminated the aulpbunc acid Lrtaioical vX fca:jie ).' '-y n', ' - - - J WIBmm!1 9 WaflBBBBwaBBBBBBBsaHaHsVaHaattBMBV ttawexfaMasMaMMaBBVMteBwssjaei y - .y , ''infmmmttmWmW s f- r " in"i rr " ' -'"-- ' 'm- m'n- -f I BBaeaBSBSes,seasiHBBeaMSMeawea0HaiSws MawsswonM as mmmmmmmmmm mmmmm ABOVK XAMI TRI CK I V.E IX PORTLAND. BELOW MM) TOIR1XG CAR. produced at Its Oleum refinery Marrh J the country. We have certainly re is Thl, eefinsrv tinnlle, fh Xoeth - I eel ved some flnwlir rsnorts from this west trade. 1'revlously gasoline pro-1 section and the Gordon In proving to duced at other refineries of the com-, be a splendid service tire." pany bad not been treated with acid. On the same day that this telegram and as soon aa consumers became ac customed to the change and understood the reasons for It and that it did not affect the efficiency of the gasoline a whit, there were no complaints. TRUCK DUEL IS LATEST MAXWELL CODES OCT FIRST KW KID OP COMBAT. Scrappy Maxwell Driver Hitches te Bigger Rival Track, Bark te Back, aad Drags It Away. Prise fights have been big drawing cards for persons with a drop of sport- ng blood in their veins. That form of fighting haa been barred by the legis lators in roost states. The age of truck fighting now dawns. The first scrap between trucks of dil ferent makes is reported from Km po rta. Kansas. Other than being the home town of William A. White, the famous publisher and writer, the city will be known as the stage of the first truck duel. The combat occurred In the freight yards of the ante Fe railroad. It was an accident that the trucks engaged in this battle. During the scuffle the railroaders gathered round and cheered or their particular favorite. The trucks belonged tp the McCord- Klstler Company and the Bailey Trans fer Company. The two vehicles be came blocked back to back. The driver of each decided that the easiest way to clean the atmosphere nd relieve the crush was to pull the other out of the way. Fo they "hooked on and atarted their engines. One truck was a heavy make while the second competitor was a Maxwell ruck. A majority of the bystanders were wagering on the big truck. The Max well driver laid ail his money on his teel steed. The word was given and the drivers stepped" on the starters. The ma hlnrs see-sawed, one giving a bit. then he other machine taking a strong hold. The Maxwell engine after the first few sitatlons moved steadily . forward. ragging the heavier truck with it. The crowds cheered, the losing driver houted for time, and the Maxwell river unhooked and moved defiantly n the railroad yard driveway. 000-MILE GUARANTY MADE Gordon Tires Warranted Now for 1000 Milr Additional. An established guaranty of COO0 miles on SVxl and JOsD'i Gordon tires announced In a telegram received by Manager M. K. Swift, of the 1'aclnc Tire at Itubber Company, from theUor- on factory. The new guaranty. Increasing the revlou one of &ovo miles, brought uch enthusiasm to the Portland dls Ibutor. who haa been a consistent booster of the Gordon product. I am firmly convinced." Manager swift reported, "that the new step taken by the factory is entirely due to the wonderful reports which have been rec-etved from users In every part of arrived Manager Swift received an other, this time from the Carlisle cord factory. This brought more satisfac tlon to the distributor, the Carlisle of ficials reporting that every Carlisle tire leaving the factory la $9 per cent perfect. HE WANTED HYATT CAR, TOO This . Man Asked for Aulo Like the Famous Hyatt Roller Car. Judging from his written request for information, a man in Oklahoma thinks that the Hyatt Roller Bearing Company. Detroit, make automobiles as well as Hyatt quiet bearings. This man wanted a "Hyatt Roller car. like that one that traveled so far. Evidently he admired the stamina of this old Bulrk car which was christ ened the "Hyatt Roller" because it holds the world's record for distance, having traveled a total of 272.191 miles on Its original set of Hyatt Roller bearings. 'HOT-SPOT' WELL KNOWN ROT HEMPHILL FINDS FAME OF CHALMERS DEVICE IS WIDE. Taklssa Taller Felka Keep Dlatrlbator Boay Dlscwsslng Merits of., Gas-Savlsg Feature. Roy Hemphill, manager of the West ern Motor Car Sales Company. Chal mers distributors, found that farmers and orchardlsts of the Yakima. .Valley are much interested In the Chalmers car on a recent business trip to Xorth lakima, wash. In fact he was, kept . uivoi iuc lituu no was laere talking "hot-spot." this feature of the Chalmers' motor being the subject of many questions. The fame of the Chalmers' 'hot- spot,' which makes the Chalmers so economical of gasoline and enables It to run further on lower grade fuel than used to be the case with' high-grade gasoline, has preceded Die all over the territory." said Mr. Hemphill. ."As soon as it becomes known that I am the Chalmers distributor I have to talk hot-spot almost by the .hour. "The best part of it is that auite a number of Chalmers cars have been sold In this district and their owners are enthusiastic about the saving qual- tles of the 'hot-spot.. Their enthusiasm leads to other sales. "We are fortunate In being pretty well supplied with cars at present, due to the fact that. in anticipation of the ture shortage that was certain to come we ordered all the cars we could get last frail. However, thrre is no telling how ong thin, happy condition of affairs will continue. The man who buys a car now will be sure of getting It. which s more than can be said with certainty of orders placed later." NASH WEEK ANNOUNCED PORTLAND MOTOR CAR COMPANY TO SHOW ALL MODELS. Public Invited by Manager Kens See Display This Week of Nash Cars and Tracks. This Is to be "Nash Week" at the Portland Motor Car Company. Xash passenger cars, in both open and closed models, and Nash trucks will be on display in the showrooms of the com pany at Tenth and Burnside streets. Similar "Xash Weeks" have been held by Nash distributors In the larger towns through the country recently. and have In every case resulted in much interest in the Nash and In increased sales. In Seattle recently a "Nash Week" was one of the big events of automobile row and was a success in every particular. Manager J. T. Keena of the Portland Motor Car Company, Nash distributors in Portland, has set aside the coming week as "Nash Week" in order to give persons interested In motor cars, both passenger models and trucks, an oppor tunity to learn the many advantageous points which the : Nash has to offer prospective purchasers. The Portland Motor Car Company handles a complete line of Nash trucks, in addition to the passenger cars, in cluding the big Nash "Quad," which is a four-wheel drive and steering truck. Several of these Nash "Quads" are in the Army service at Vancouver, Wash. DANIELS CARS ARE . COMING Brnnn Motor Car Company Has Three Custom-Mad Models on Way. Isaac Brunn, of the Brunn Motor Car Company, announced last week tnat three new Daniels cars, for which he holds the Oregon distributorship in ad dition to the Lexington Minute Man Six, are on the way to Portland from the Daniels factory at Reading, fa., ana should be here at any time. All three have -special custom-made bodies. The Daniels has an eignt-cyiinaer motor, and the car itself is elegantly made. Mr. Brunn took on .the Daniels agency here at the time of the Port land Automobile snow. ine Daniels car exhibited at the show was brought here by A. Henderson, of Walla Walla, the Northwest distributor for the Dan iels, and it attracted a great deal of attention at the time. This was the only car Mr. Brunn has been able to obtain up to the present, and he has kept it for demonstration purposes. The Daniels is a car that appeals particularly to discriminating motor sts who ca.n afford a car or special ap pointments and hand-made manufac- WANTED One automobile spotlight, any make. In working order; will pay $200 spot cash and no questions asked. Of course, that isn't a bona fide ad vertisement. Rather, it is, an ex-ad-vertlsement that never was advertised. There were no newspapers handy in which to print it at the time, and no time to wait for it to be printed if there had been newspapers. Just the same, if the spotlight had been on hand, it would have been snapped up instantly for J200 in cash. This wasted opportunity for. an au tomobile accessory dealer occurred ,a week ago, and the man who wanted the spolight, J200 worth, but didn't get it, was C. C. Fagan, manager of the Pierce-Arrow Pacific Branch in Port land. Time 1 o'clock A. M. Place- En route to Pendleton, just east of Heppner. Weather conditions Muddy. Accompanied by E. G. Hoffman, of Seattle, manager of the Seattle Pierce- Arrow branch, Mr. Fagan was driving in a big Pierce-Arrow model 48 from The Dalles to Pendleton. And Then the Tronble Began. They left The Dalles at 8:30 o'clock at night and would have made the run without difficulty had they taken the road via Lexington. Instead, Mr. Fagan went by way of Heppner. There his troubles began. They told us we couldn't possibly get through the road beyond Heppner," said Mr. Fagan, "but we didn't want to go back 10 miles to Lexington, so took a chance and went ahead. It was all right for about a mile. But then well, we suddenly sank through the top crust of what looked like good, dry road and were down to the hubs in the stickiest kind of mud. "If it had been possible to back out. we certainly would have backed out. But we were in so far and so deep that the only salvation lay in keeping ahead. I tell you. a team of horses would have looked good just then but at that time of night there were no horses out for an airing on that road. 'I threw the car Into low gear and for IS to 18 miles simply crawled along through the worst mud It has ever been my misfortune to see. It came over the running boards, it oozed into the car. It splashed an inch thick over the headllghtji and it spattered all over us. mere we were in that mud, on a road we had never traveled before, which seemed to get worse as we went along, and hardly able to see where we were going. I would have given $100 in hard cash for a spotlight right then, and would have paid it on the spot, tnd I said so. 'And I'll make it another hundred,' said Mr. Hoffman. But there was no such luck. Car Smothered In Mnd. 'The Pierce-Arrow has a very low gear ratio on low, but it took -everything we had in the way of power to get us over that road. But finally we got out of it, and from then on we had easy going into Pendleton. "We reached that town at 4 o'clock in the morning. Just 7& hours out from The Dalles, which was remarkable time considering the mess we got into. When we put the car in the garage it was so plastered with mud that it looked like a truck. There was two inches of mud on the top of the car. I paid a man $5 to wash the car next day, and it's been on my conscience ever since that the poor fellow lost money at that, for it must have been a terrible job." Mr. Fagan says any motorist can drive from The Dalles to Pendleton without difficulty by taking the Lex ington route, which is in good condi tion. From Pendleton Mr. Fagan and Mr. Hoffman drove to Walla -Walla. Mr. Fagan returned to Portland by train late last week, the car having been sold at Walla Walla. Replacing Plugs. When replacing cylinder and crank case plugs, in fact any plugs about an engine, care must be taken to get these In position tightly, otherwise a great deal of harm might be done. Intermittent Hiss. Sometimes a sharp hissing sound is heard at intervals and seeming to come from one of the cylinders. Often this Is mistaken for a leak, but the irregu larity of Its occurrence destroys this hypothesis, as a leaft would occur at every period of high compression. The sound Is due to an unfired charge, which fills the exhaust port and is ig nited when the next fired charge passes the valve. Such a misfire may be due to a weak mixture or to intermit tently faulty ignition. Guy Standi fer Buys Two Hudson Super-Sixes. Head of Big Shipbuilding Cencern Gets Special Models After Inves tigating Many Cars. GUY M. STANDIFER, of -the G. M. Standifer Construction Company, being a man of discriminating tastes and notable for not doing things by halves, buys automobiles in pairs. His latest purchase is two new 1918 Hud son Super-Six cars, one of them being a handsome India blue limousine and the other a speedster of greenish hue, both special orders. While in the East last Winter on business for his firm, Mr. Standifer visited the New York Automobile Show and studied the different makes of ccrs, making minute comparisons. On his return to Portland he visited the booth of the C. L. Boss Automobile Company. He came to the conclusion that the Hudson' was the only car for him and gave orders to have shipped EAST COMES TO WEST FOR LUMBER TRACTORS. jJA ) -'.-r I": ---'T is v s 4 ? Is--.,;.' .r ., '.- '-.... ' .;'-.:. r: . ww-i . ' . AS' --- FIVE rRE5COTT LIMBER TRACTORS RECENTLY SHIPPED FROM THE NORTHWEST TO A ATLANTIC PORT. H P Ftronjr. of SU Alder vtrect. Or on distributor for the Fresco tt lumber tractor, which is a Northwestern home product, manufactured at eSul. haa received word that a consignment of five of the tractors was entrained a week ago for an Atlantic port for shipment at once to France on an ordrr from the French government Tfata is understood to be only the first of several orders to be filled for foreign governments and on the Atlantic Coast. Mr. trons; has been havina fine success with the Prescott lumber tractor since he obtained the agency last November. Among shipbuilding firms which have purchased the Prescott are the Grant Pmlth-Porter Shipbuilding Company, which has two, and the Foundation Company, which is us mar l in its tour plants in toe .ortnwriu I no irescoit lumner tractor unes a ora power plant, geared to develop 4v-norsepower. Jt consists pr a four-inch channel frame and Is equipped to haul or push loaded lumber "buggies," in which work it replaces many horses. It has a 60-inch w hcrlbase. Announcing The New Eveready Service Station John A. Walter Co. SIXTH, PINE AND ANKENY STREETS Broadway 2490, A 2490 Distributors Evereadys to fit every style and shape of bat tery box for Starting, Lighting, Ignition. Complete serv ice Jn inspecting, charging and re pairing batteries. Definite Caarantai Starting type I rearY Lighting; and Ignition Type 3 years. here as soon as possible the two cars. Mr. Standifer said it took him. longer to choose the designs of cars he wished than it did to select a million dollars' worth of Deisel engines for his ship building plants. AUTO DIRECTORY 4-pass. Rdstr., 51745.00 7-pass. Touring All Chandlers are equipped with Bosch magnetos ' TWIN STATES MOTOR CAR COMPANY 514-516 Alder Phone Main 851 ELGIN SIX HARROUN CARS PACIFIC MOTORS, INC., Washington at 16th Street Franklin offers more of "what you actually need and want in i an automobile." ' BRALY AUTO CO. Main 4880, A 3881. 19th and Washington Sts. 'tsrVT minnr rir MINUTE MAN SIX ' Brunn Motor Car Co, ' ' 444-46 Stark St. Phones: Broadway 2958, A 2958 LIBERTY SIX The car which sells best in direct compari son with others: W. H. WALLINGFORD, 522 Alder St MAC Capacities, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5; 5 Tons. T Complete Stock Repair Parts. 1 rilCKS F- c- ATWELL, Sales Agent Washington at 21st Tel. Mar. 440 SIXES New Light Six, $1250 Factory Mitchell, Seven-Passenger, $1525, Factory MITCHELL, LEWIS & STAVER CO. Broadway at Oak OAKLAND Oakland Motor Co. of Oregon 344-50 Burnside, Off Broadway. Phone Broadway 80. Oldsmobile Distinctive High Grade. Light Weight OLDSMOBILE CO. OF OREGON Broadway and Couch Phone Broadway 1640 is ready to sqtvc your requirements with suc cess. Touring $2340. Roadster $2340. D. G. Warren Motor Gar Go. 5S-60 . 23d St. MAIN 780. PREMIER The car with an aluminum motor. High-grade con struction throughout. A car for particular people. W. H. WALLINGFORD. . 522 ALDER ST. . EIGHT CA PACITIKS TO . 0. TON S Investigate Onr Tractor and Trailer Proposition ROBERTS MOTOR CAR CO., Inc., Park; at Everett St. Smith-Forra-a-Truck - BAI.LOl. Jt WRIGHT. ' Broadway at Oak. Distributors for Ormon. Some . unoccupied territory open. Write for proposition. AUTO ACCESSORIES AND P AR I "Better than average mileage at less than average cost" Archer and Wiggins Distributors of High-Grade Automobile Accessories Sixth Street at Oak BOWSER GASOLINE and OIL TANKS STORAGE SYSTEMS FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GARAGES. S. D. Stoddard, Dintrlct Supt. Salea. 719-20 Corbett Bids. Main 1470. SATISFACTORY COOK & GILL CO. JjlU lUK UAtt r Phone Broadway 26. , T?F.PATRTNO 409 Davis Street. David Hodes Co. N. Broadway and Flanders. AUTOMOBILE GEARS, PARTS AND ACCESSORIES REDUCED PRICES. ENGINES A SPECIALTY AT C Willafa 3 We Stock Them. We Repair Then. We C'hara-e Them. Free Advice and InNpectlon. ACTO ELECTRIC Eftl'IPMES'f CO, Sixth and Burnside Streeta. . .