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TIIE SUXD AT OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, MARCH 7, 1920 E E CAMOUFLAGED WHITE ARMY IX TRUCK THAT SAW SERVICE ON TWO FRONTS IN FRANCE NOW TO HAVE THE CAR OF TH E AMERICAN FAMILY PORTLAND ON RECRUITING DUTY. COiSTPLlI Recruiting Station Gets Rea Work Rushed on New Fac tory' at Los Angeles. War Vehicle. DID DUTY ON TWO FRONTS OLD ASCOT TRACK IS SITE noconnaisunce Truck Built on One Ton White Chassis Had Service ear the Battle Lines. Project Going Ahead so Fast That Engineers Figure Operations Will Start June J. 1 nnnmnn II, If- K ii nil i nil I W W W aV mma HAS COMBAT RECORD Mm p mm MB I i,?zdSg' M2&&- -li BY WILLIAM T. PERKINS. It's gray with what once was Flanders mud, and still In its sturdy tires there's a bit of the valiant air of "la belle B'rance" the jinconquered. A mile away it blends into the land scape in such mannnr that even though it were moving- rapidly you would be unable to discern it. It's a camouflaged one-ton White army truck that spent something less than two years of its young life "over there" at the front. Just now it's en 'joying "shore leave." and is spend ing its holidays in Portland Willi Liwle Sam's army recruiting forces. From Captain Ernest T. Jones. 33th Infantry, in charge of the two Port land recruiting sub-stations, from the khaki-clad young dare-devil "Shorty," who wanted to run up Washington street 60 miles an hour, and from other sources, has been gathered th remarkable record of this sturdy truck. It is what is known in army parlance as a "reconnaisance truck' for advanced service at the front. It body, lettered "17. S. A. 20200." is built on a one-ton White chassis. With 45 H. P. motor. Its complement, when in service at the front was one cap tain, one reconnaisancw officer, and eight armed men, with necessary bag gage. Mllr-a-Minote Track. Naturally, it can get up some speed and many a time it has been called upon to do 60 miles an hour, which is "going some" for a heavy truck. It aw etcrn duty on two fronts, the St. Miliiel and the Argonne. and there's many a man who's willing to testify what that meant: Not always, however, was it out on the rim of no-man's land. If there were supplies to be brought up quick ly, it brought them: if there was i hurried trip to be made with men or officers, it was willing and eager to go; if there was a shortage of ambu lances, it was pressed into service to carry wounded men to the dressing stations behind the lines. No one can say how many drivers it has had but their name is legion. Where roads there were none, it made its own, asking- no favor, and yet it came out of its fiery baptism unscathed. with thousands of miles to its credit. and many thousands more in its pent- up sinews of steel. Back in the office of the president of the White company, in Cleveland, they have proudly hung on the wall a Croix de Guerre. It is the tribute of a grateful republic across the 6ea to the service performed by this truck and by thousands of its mates whose service was equally brilliant. Recruiters Show It Off. The recruiting force are very proud of their truck and of its record. Every night they drive it down to the White company's plant and stable it on the floor between a big White fire ap paratus glistening in red paint and nickel and a squadron of gray-clad AMI SOW COMKS THE COX t'RKTK TRICK We have concrete ships. Now we are to have concrete rail way trucks. These trucks, car rying a load of (55 tons (10 per cent overload), have Just passed the most crucial tests. The great advantages of concrete trucks are that they do not need paint ing, maintenance costa are prac tically eliminated, and they last much longer than wooden trucks. Plans are under way for the production of a considera ble number of these trucks. It is too much to expect that con crete' will be utilized for the bodies of passenger cars, but it is possible that we shall see the advent of the concrete mo tor truck at no very distant date. dump trucks whose mettle is yet to be tried. And if there's a truck language (and who will say there isn't?) we can imagine . the war scarred' veteran speaking in this wise, not vaingloriously. but as one con scious of loyal service, modesty, yet with authority: "I tell you. fellows, service is what counts. Service is what our family always has been noted for, and I can tell you there were no yellow streaks in any of the bunch that went over with me. Just remember that when you go out to do your life work. You may not have to fight I hope you won t but there are loads to carry, roads to build; timber to haul. If they let me out of the army I'm going to jump right into the thick of it. I like the life. The little experience across the water has just put me In good trim to do big things." And then the big- red-and-nlckel fire truck will nod brotherly assent, and the gray-clad dump trucks will surreptitiously feel of their muscles and nudge each other, as much as to say: "Just you wait; there's going to be something moving when we get on the outside." HERE'S LrOW KEPAIR RECORD Chevrolet Car Goes 10,000 Miles on t Maintenance. Supervisor Little of Modesto, Cal., claims a record for economy of auto mobile operation. While driving ' a Chevrolet "Four-Ninety" more than 10,000 miles, Little says he had a total repair bill of less than $1. The su pervisor has covered rough dirt roads and steep mountain highways during the 10.000 miles he has driven his Chevrolet, and out of the four tires originally on the car there are three still In use. which he says are good for many more miles of travel. The other casing was driven more than 9000 miles before it was replaced. KEEPLXG RAILROADS BUSY 300,000 Carloads of Autos Hauled Daring Past Year. The chairman of the traffic com mittee of the national automobile chamber of commerce. William E. IJetxger, reports shipping figures on automobiles for the last live years as follows: Carloads. 1915 J9J.5T.-, JK11 271,174 1!IT l'1.54l! WH 1H1.4T0 i n ii urn i ii i iii ii 300,000 rl Above Tkia U the truck, a one-ton White, photographed irlth recruiting detail in front of the White company's branch la Portland. ole the camouflage or the aide curtain flaps. ' Below vhovting how fields were won ffoluir Into action in no man's land, above Washington park. AUTO FACTS EXPLAINED FRKIGIIT CAR LACK SERIOUS, SAYS II. R. ROBERTS. Uupmobilc Factory Representative Also Has Praise for Sun Francl.sco Show. was designed for, and fnjury'is likely to result. Study the question of load 'distribution in the individual truck and then see that it is properly carried out. The surpassin gbeauty of the San Francisco automobile show, held simultaneously with the recent Port land exhibition, and the perplexing problem of freight car shortage, were the chief topics of H. R. Roberts, Pa cific coast district representative of the Hupp Motor Car corporation, who arrived in Portland last week. 'From a decorative standpoint the San Francisco show was wonderful," said Mr. Roberts. "And the attend ance seemed every bit as large as at Chicago. The wares of the .various passenger car, motor truck and ac cessory dealers were arranged attrac tively on the three floors of the civic auditorium. .The show paid for itself in the first three days of the week. Discussing the freight car shortage. Mr. Roberts said: 'A few far-sighted distributors have taken delivery of all the Hups they could get, even though impos sible to obtain shipping equipment. The JIanley Auto company, harf fol- owed this policy, so has received all cars that could be obtained under its allotment, although a considerable number of these cars are still stored Detroit warehouses awaiting suffi cient freight cars to bring west." Mr. Roberts explained that govern ment officials during the. war emer gency were prone to confiscate auto mobile freight cars because they were arge enough to held quantities of war supplies. This policy resulted in cattering- automobile freight cars. Furthermore, the large cars were used so constantly that many are in need of extensive repairs. To ease the situation the factories have recently placed an embargo on the use of freight cars for delivery of utomobiles to points within a radius f 1000 miles of Detroit," said Mr. Roberts. "Within that area it is nec- esary for dealers and distributors to call at the factory personally and drive the cars overland to tho retail destination." Goodyear Men Advanced. The automobile industry will learn with interest of recent personnel changes In the Goodyear Tire & Rub ber company by which I. R. Baileyv- manager of the mechanical goods de partment, has been made assistant sales manager; D, K. Burr, formerly manager of the mechanical goods de partment, is made manager to suc ceed Mr. Bailey, and C. A. Jones ad vanced to assistant manager of the department. Mr. Jones was manager of the hose, railroad supplies and rub ber band departments. These well deserved promotions are the result of exceptional executive and organiza tion ability. FACTORIES UP AGAINST-IT PLEXTY OF CARS, BCT RAILWAY EQUIPMENT. NO CALIFORNIA RANKS FIRST ONE AUTOMOBILE THERE FOR EVERY' 5.6 PERSONS. DISTRIBUTING LOAD ON TRUCK Center of Load Sirauld Be at Cer tain Point on Chassis. The importance of properly distrib uting the load of a motor truck can not well be overestimated. All por tions of the truck chassis are de signed with the view of carrying the load centered at a certain point on the frame. If the center of the weight of the load is at a different point, then naturally the chassis is not going to receive the proper balanced stress it Experience of State Indicates That Increase in Cars Follows Building of Highway. LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 6. Al most coincident with the announce ment that California has nearly $70, 000,000 available for paved highway construction in 1920, is the official tabulation of motor vehicles for the United States, showing that the Gold en state leads all others in automo biles in proportion to population California, with 433,463 motor ve hicles has one to each 5.6 persons in the state. This distinction formerly was held by Iowa, with Nebraska second. Last Result Is All the Big Auto Factories Ca-n't Get Shipments to Their Dealers. Failure of the railroads to handle the output of the big: automobile fac tories at Petroit has caused that city to be literally flooded with finished motor vehicles, which the trade is clamoring to absorb. The unusual se verity of the weather, the shortage of equipment and the embargoes in many parts of the country have so paral yzed the railways sitfee the middle of last month they have been unable to furnish half the necessary freight ears to move the constantly growing output. Toledo, Flint and Lansing are in much the same fix. Detroit is utilizing the abandoned breweries, the state fair building boats in winter quarters, the Ameri can league bUseball park, deserted factories and hotels, and, in fact, every bit of storage space there and in nearby cities in an effort to house cars until they can be moved. As none of the factories has more storage space than will take. care of a single day's production, the industry faces at least a partial shutdown, and some plants may be forced to close altogether. To meet the emergency, last month telegrams were sent to dealers and distributors all over the country stating that those who want ed cars would have to come and get them, as produttion could not be maintained unless the finished prod ucts were moved out of the was-. In answer, dealers swarmed to De troit from all directions and at once' more than 1000 cars a day were streaming away from the city over every available highway. Many of the year, however. California gained 141,- 600 over the previous year in regis- roads, none too inviting at their best. irauons, a percentage or iu.i, j.n:s are now ribbons of snow, mud and brought California from seventh place ( water, and as a result at present hun- to first, leaving Iowa in secoiul place. This situation is claimed by good roads workers to prove their con tention that the highway is parent of the automobile. Automobile en thusiasts have contended that the rapid increase in the use of automo biles forced the building of good highways, but the history of high ways and autos in California as evi denced by official figures indicates that automobiles follow good roads rather than the reverse. When California, years ago, began systematic construction of a etate highways system, it was argued by many that the travel would noi justify the expense. Time proved that the travel increased as roads were developed and today the state finds itself with more automobiles in use per capita than any other sec tion of the United States and with more millions appropriated tor the construction of more highways than any other state in the union. HERE IS THE LATEST COLUMBIA SIX, AND ITS WHOLESALE REPRESENTATIVE IN THIS TERRITORY. dreds of cars are stalled at various places along the countryside. When possible always go to the cor ner where the traffic policeman is on duty. He Is your friend. One of the busiest places in the west right now is the famous Ascot park in Los Angeles, where the big plant of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company of California 4 in course of construction. In a city not possessing a manufac inrino- f-.nnp.ern of mammoth propor tions, it was at first difficult for the people to realize that their town was to be' the seat of one ot the largest pnhher manufacturing plants in the country. But as the gigantic shovels, derricks and other excavating ma chinery appeared on the ground and ton after ton of concrete was poured into the massive building foundations, and when hundreds of men began to fit the big steel beams together, Los Angeles began to realize that it was to have a great industry. The unprecedented expansion of Goodyear's world-wide trade caused the officials of the company early in 1919 to investigate possible sites, for establishment of a big plant in the went, and after the most thorough in voat ic-ntinn nf conditions in all the western cities that could be consid- ered for the seat of the western plant, Los Angeles was selected as combin ing the greatest number of the favor able cqnditjons required. 13,000 Gallons of Paint. An idea of the magnitude of the building operations can be gained from the extensive outlay of construc tion materials required. Among the important materials which 1800 men are fashioning together into a mam moth industrial enterprise are uuu tons of structural steel. 15,000 gallons of Daint. 33.000 tons of sand. 60,000 barrels of cement. 600,000 tons of crushed rock, 4,000,000 feet of lumber and 10.000,000 brick. The building scheme embraces con struction of three units a tire manu facturing plant, a cotton fabric mill and a warehouse. Around these three main buildings will be grouped the various service buildings, such as the power house, machine shop, cement house and administration building. The. power plant contains three 600 horse power boilers of the oil-burning type. An ample supply of water will come from six 200-foot wells driven on the tract. They will have a com bined capacity of 7200 gallons per minute. Electric power will be used in pumping. The operation of the tire plant and the cotton mill will involve employ ment of about 9000 workmen. The daily output of tires will approximate 7500 and the cotton mill will turn out weekly 75,000 pounds of cord fabric and 75,000 pounds of woven fabric The raw cotton from which this fabric is to be manufactured will come from the Goodyear plantations in the Salt P.iver valley In Arizona and the Im perial valley of southern California. Bungalows for Workmen. A most important feature of the company's project is the extensive plan to provide homes for the work men. The construction or is Dunga- lows and two large apartment houses is now under way on a ten-acre tract adjoining the factory site. About April 1 work will be started on the 'Goodyear Gardens, a lbO-acre tract just north of the factory, on which 800 houses will be erected to be Bold to (loodvear employes. This great home community, which will represent an outlay of $3,000,000, will be one of the most beautiful in the Limed States. ' ' Provision has been made for spa cious parks, athletic field, gymnasium, swimming pool, school, library, churches and stores. And to provide flowers, shrubs and trees for the streets and) parks, a large nursery is being maintained, where thousands of these are being grown under ex pert care. Such satisfactory progress has been made to data on the entire project that Goodyear officials and engineers are confident the tire-manufacturing plant and the cotton mill can begin It is easy to seewhyour belief that the Hupmobile is the best car of its class in the world, is so widely shared by others. For example, Tlie Comfort Car is held at a consistently lower depreciation, and a higher cash value, in any market The fact is that these are sound values. They go right back to long life, noteworthy economy, satisfactory service, and conspicuous performance the sound and substantial foundation stones on which the good name of the Hupmobile has been built, HUPr SIOTOK CAR CORPORATION. A. B. Manley, Pres. Manley Auto Co. Distributors Eleventh and Oak at Burnside Phone Broadway 217 E. C. Habcl, Sales Manager actual operations shortly after June 1, as originally planned. RAILROAD BRIDGE FOR AUTOS Northern Puciflc Permits Vso .of Viaduct for Motorists. ABERDEEN, March . (Special.) The Northern Pacific railroad brirtjrc. crossing the Chehalis river near Cos- mooolis. which has been planked to permit auto travel the next- three months while paving the new road way entrance from the- east, is to be opened this week. The Northern Pa cific company made the concession to the city and county in permitting the use of the bridge although It is on the Ocosta branch and is not so much in use. Selecting Drivers. The matter of picking drivers is a difficult on at best, even though our stock of truck driver has been improved by the addition of thou sands of men trained In the military service. Some of the big companies have certain definite conditions that must be met by all drivers entering their employ. One of the biggest truck usera in New York will not, use a man unless he has gray hair. A company in the west makes it a rule never to employ any but married men. j Wltk With, tk ear f A. H. Kndrla, territory man for the A. M. Braver Motor company, TtUck aaadlca the Columbia alx Ik Oregon. Render Universal Service Under Every Road Condition fof'the S. j Dealer - tniininiiMtiuiimitmiiMHiuiii "Put on a Hood Today. Forget It for a Year." Multnomah Tire Co. W. L. Powell. Mrt. 102 N. BROADWAY Broadway 40 13 i 1 il " 1 II f i,l il 1 1 Vi H fc.??!!295-arjW - il iiiiTT TT ' " n i " V'Wi v. i " .. T ur &-w - ' - 1 tn The superiority in the way ffA-: Liberty rides and drives sMM- 1 ' : If' T n ' It has its origin in the very design and construe- Ik X V y'xly- Il - . - tion of the car. , . Iff ' ' fmx m - ; W. H. Wallingford Co. ij T l Yf ' ' I " Sixteenth and Alder Broadway 2492 , ' ' C. Cogan, Hillsboro, Or. Has Added Another , GMC Truck To His Fleet Another' Truck Owner Is Convinced of GMC Quality Wentworth-Irwin, Inc. Second Street, Corner Taylor, Portland, Oregon