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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1920)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, , PORTLAND, JUNE 13, 1920 TRAFFIC CONDITIONS JIT DETROIT BITTER ONE DETOUR NOW ON EAST SIDE PACIFJC HIGHWAY TO SALEM. PUZZLE IS iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiii?iiiiriiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiintii?iiMiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiMiiiiMiniiiiiiiifiiiiiittifiiiiiifiifnt2 F J - J i1 ' ' '''' . ' ' ' THE SHRINERS ntiimtiihHNnittmiMtMntmiiTnHiiitnintt - .miitiMiMiniHtMtiinnuHitmnmttuimMmiiiim lltHlKUlllMtKMttllllllllltlllHIIIllllllUIUlU 4UIIIIIIIIIUIHllllUIIIUIIUlUlliaililUIIIUIIiniUIIIIIIUlUHUIIIIIllliUIIIIIUUIIIIilUIIIIUIUillUIIIIUIUIIIIUIt(lllllUI ARE COMING! Factories Enabled to Ship Out Quantities of Cars. If Your Garage Is Locked Just Gas Up and Drive. , ...... PACKARD MAKES NEW SIX NEW LAW HITS- BABIES PARKING PRODUCT 0 GENU j ... : 7V"y"VS '11 J. V. Morgan & Company Acquire J Big Interest In General Motors, Durunt Announces. DETROIT. Mich., June 12. Im proved traffic conditions In the past two weeks have proved a boon to the long-suffering automobile industries and many plants which were on the verge of suspending operations in whole or in part are slowly increasing production. More shipments of steel are being received than at any time since, the Inception of .the switchmen's strike. Plants which began the week 60 per cent active are now operating from 70 to 80 per cent of their normal facilities. Directors of the Packard Motor Car company have declared the regu lar quarterly dividend of 1 per cent on the preferred stock, payable June 15 to holders of record May 29. The financial condition of the com pany is unusually liquid and It is pre dicted that the sales for the current fiscal year will reach J65.000.000. "With the exception of 1918, when the Bales totaled over $67,000,000, due principally to the vast amount of war contracts assumed, the present year will witness the greatest volume of business In the company's history. New Packard Six t'ominK. Orders continue to pour in at such a rate that the Packard company is experiencing great difficulty in mak ing deliveries. Recently passenger cars and trucks aggregating J4.OUO.000 in value were parked on the com pany's property waiting to be driven away by their own power. The situa tion has been alleviated somewhat, but still constitutes a problem. Dealers all over the country are clamoring for the single six, the new model Packard, which will be placed on the market In September. It will be a smaller, lighter and less ex pensive car than the twin six. A number of the single-six cars have been undergoing rigid road and labor atory tests for several months and have shown up remarkably well. To finance the new car. provide Inven tory, tools and machinery for its pro duction, capital requirements for the coming year are estimated at $15,000,000. J. P. Morgan & Co. have acquired a substantial interest in the General Motors corporation, W. C. Durant, president, announced following the meeting of the directors Wednesday afternoon. The directors ratified the contract with the Morgans for the underwriting of J28.000.000 of com mon stock at J20 a share. The number of directors will be Increased at the July meeting by the election of the following: Itnnkrra in IHrectorate. Edward U. Stettinius of J. P. Mor gan & Co.; Oeorge V. Baker, vice president First National bank; Sew ard Proesser. president 'Bankers' Trut company; William 11. Woodin, presi dent American Car & Foundry com pany; C. M. Wooley, president Ameri can Radiator company; Oweri D. Youpg, vice-president General Elec tric company- Dividends payable August 1 were declared as follows: On the preferred stock, $1.60 a snare; on the 6 per cent debanture stock, $1.50 a share; on the 7 per cent debenture stork. $1.75 a share, payable to stockholders of record at the. close of business on January a, Y - II &v St The only dftonr between Portland and Salem on the main line east alde TBlch-vray at preaent branches off the hlxhway auoDt two miles out of salem, It is made necessary by paving work wairh is procrresslnar rapidly to complete the four miles, unpaved just north of salem. The lower picture shows where the detour, tarnsof f the main road, now barricaded, with a Chevrolet ear Just eomlanr off the detour. It Is Kraveled and in very fair condition, and enters Salem over the paved roud vto the fairground". The upper photo shows workmen openlnic a new concrete culvert about three miles north of Salem. This four miles of pavement should be completed within another month, which will leave the C'anby-Aurora five miles as the only unpaved stretch of any lenicth between Portland and 'Salem. 192ir: On the common stock without par value 25 cents in cash and one-fortl- cth of a share of common stock with out par value, payable to stockholders of rtcord July 1 Ju spite of railroad congestion and other difficulties which have been curtjiiliner automobile manufacturing. General Motorsxhas been keeping well up to its 1920 production schedule. which calls for 612.000 vehicles. In the 19 weeks ending May 22 it pro duced 188.900 passenger cars, motor trucks and tractors, compared with 149,000 in the corresponding period a year ago. ' This is an increase ot 48.000, or approximately 35 per cent. Nearly 10,000 vehicles have been turned out each week of the cur rent year as against 7415 a week last year. General Motors Plans. In planning a production of 612,000 passenger cars, trucks and tractors for 1920 General Motors has figured on Increasing the 1919 output of 406. 158 vehicles by 50 per cent. If the company Is not hampered through the remainder of the year in procuring sufficient raw material! the scheduled production figures wil be reached. Additional manufactur ing units. work on which was pro gressing slowly during the winter be cause of labor and materials scarcity, are coming Into production both In the passenger car and truck and trac tor divisions. For the past six months production of Buiek cars has averaged about 500 cars daily. Within 30 days comple tions of additions to the Flint and St. ouis plants will permit production of 700 Buicks a day; At present the Chevrolet is producing about 800 cars and trucks a day. These figures wn shortlv be increased to 950 a day. With the Oldsmobile soon to be on a daily production basis of 500 cars, Oakland turning out 250 cars a day and Scripps-Booth 100 each day, the produeCion of 12,000 vehicles a week by the General Motors corporation Is In sight. - In May 68.000 motor cars and trucks were delivered over the highways from factories to dealers, according to reports Issued by the National Au tomobile Chamber of Commerce, at its meeting Wednesday. Europeans Vnnt Cars. Besides the tremendous home, de mand for cars, the manufacturers re ported an unprecedented number of inquiries from foreign sources. Ex ports established a new record with the shipment of 3185 trucks valued at $400,000. and 14,702 cars valued at more than $16,000,000. To recipro cate with European manufacturers the companies in the automobile chamber have petitioned congress to reduce the tariff on foreign automo biles one-third. Reports from various parts of the country Indicate expand ing demand for trucks, whjch are being rushed Into service to relieve transportation congestion. At a special meeting .of the truck manufacturers they voted against a tnirk nlow this winter, but have in mind t,v- Dspularity of some kind of a dem'HMton of truck utility and BerVHia-Sarlng the spring. Thn annual election of officers re suited li the return-to the office of Tr-tdenlr of Colonel unaries uimon chairman of the Plerce-Arrow Motor c.,.. rammnv: Kov V. ijnapin, nun nn' Motor Car company, was elected visa-jpresldeut; Q. fi. Hancb, Maxwell v w j s S v . sji w I - - , I- . , - a ,1 r Tin "' S' 2i - -' - 'i. -4!v1i " . v v . '. : .....". .-. . ?', 1 .:.:: . . -. . . ... .... . .,.:-.-:..-. . ..jyc-j.--y.-J- :&.:. Leave Car Out After Midnight as Then There Are Less Than Five Hoars of Darkness. " The late-at-night motorist who reaches his favorite garage after it is closed is strictly out of luck under an ordinance unobtrusively passed by the city council last week, with an emergency clause attached. If he lives in an apartment house, for in stance, with no garage of his own, and can't break into a public garage, about the only place he can put his car for the night ia in vhis pocket. No more all-night parking is the edict of the new ordinance, which the police have been instructed to enforce at once. If the owner lets his car stand in front of his house or apart ment all night, the ordinance require that for the preservation of the pub lic health, peace and safety of the city of Portland he shall be arrested, haled into court and publicly fined. There probably would have been an awful yelp from motorists if they had known what the city council was doing. j?ut they cjldn't, the council slipped over an emergency clause on it, and now the police have been told to enforce it to the hilt. It's a sad Motor Car company, second vice president; Motor truck division A. J. Brosseau, International Motor compa ny, secretary, and H. H. Rice, Gen eral Motors Truck company, treas urer. The new directors elected were as follows: Charles Clifton, Pierce; Windsor T. White, White; Horace E. Dodge, Dodge; Harry M. Jewett, Paige, and w. C. Hills, Chevrolet. New Saxon Car Ready. Dates selected for the' 1920 shows: January 8 to 15, at - Grand Central Palace, New ' tork, and January 23 to February 4, at the Coliseum, Chi cago. Shipments of the Saxon Motor-Car company s new duplex model will start within a few days, according to President C A. Pfeilfer. The syn dicate, which underwrote the compa ny's stock has been dissolved, all the stock having heen sold. Colonel Charles Clifton was re elected chairman of the board of di rectors of the Fierce-Arrow Motor Car company at its recent meeting. Despite the traffic situation the Pierce-Arrow has maintained sub stantial production and is showing satisfactory earnings. Loans are be ing liquidated at a rate faster than called for by due dates. DIFFERENCE OF : OPINION BKST ROUTE TO PEXDLETOa BECMRED VIA HEPPXEIl. DEALER MEETING" CALLED STATK ORGANIZATION TO PEIU'ECTED FRIDAY. BE Men In Automotive Business In Ore gon Called to Session Here , Set V . for June 18. Writer Takes Issue With Advice of Captain Forrester, and Tells of a Third Road. HEPPNER, Or., June 6. (To the Automobile Editor. I was much In terested in an article in the auto mobile section of Sunday's Oregonian wherein Captain A. C. Forrester says that motorists en route from Port land to Pendleton will follow the best route by taking the turn to the left at McDonald's ferry. After leaving the John Day river (McDonald's ferry) there are three routes to Pendleton: 1. Turn to the left and follow the route described by Captain Forrester. 2. Take right turn to Olex, thence to lone and Pendleton. 3. Take right turn to Olex. At the top of the hill east of Olex, take the right turn, to Eightmile; Heppner, Pilot Rock -and Pendleton. The fact is that from- June 1 to November 1, route 3 is far superior to either of the others. It follows the foothills and misses all the sand that is so bothersome in the roads nearer the river. DEAN T. GOODMAN. The proposed route of the Roose velt International highway will run from Portland, Me., to fortland. Or. A call hrfs- been issued to auto motive, dealers of. the state, the term including those who handle auto mobiles and allied lines, to attend a meeting in Portland next Friday. June 18, of the recently organized Oregon Automotive Dealers' associa tion. The call is issued by Robert E. Manner, field secretary of the Ameri can Automobile Dealers' association and organizer of the Oregon body The meeting place is announced as the rooms -of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. in the Oregon bunding. Both members of the body, which was formed a few weeks ago in Eugene, and those who have not? Joined are incuded in the call. . One purpose of the meeting is to perfect the organization begun in Eugene.' At that time temporary of ficers were elected, including W. A Johnson of The Dalles, chairman pro tem, and George H. Halverson of Sa lem, secretary, pro-tem. The commit tee on- organization is composed of Sherman Lovell of Astoria, Fred G. Delano of Salem, Mark A. Richard of Corvallis, A. H. Brown of Portland and George E. Halverson of Salem. "Let's get together," is the theme of the call. Dealers are informed that questions important to the in dustry and those engaged in It are to be taken up by the new organiza tion. "The present gasoline situation," says tho call, "is but one illustration of the necessity of a strong automo tive dealers' association. The facts should be known. Too many ground less rumors are now in circulation Every dealer in the industry has right to have some authentic infor mation; his future business demands it. "Should there be a special business tax on the automotive marchant in Oregon, as already attempted in other states, to make up the lost revenue from the ealoon? What is meant by orderly retreat of credit by the federal reserve board, as applied to industry? Should the automotive business be classed as 'non-essential?' The National Automobile Dealers' as sociation standi emphatically agains this. : "There are many other questions of vital interest to the dealers of this state to be gone into with a united front." Lone Chain Not Good. Tou often see cars ambling along the wet pavements on a rainy day with a tire chain on only one of the rear wneeis. while it Is true that by nsuring good traction for one of the rear wheels the chances, are that the car will be able to move over even the slipperiest places, still it is a bad practice to use but one chain because ybu are thereby imposing too great a strain on the differential. By work- ng it overtime in this fashion undue wear is the result and no doubt jnany noisy axle's, come from Just such thoughtless stunts as this. By using but one chain you gain nothing ex cept the few minutes'' extra time it would take to put on the other chain. A word tp the wise is sufficient. Overland Dental Clinic. A dental clinic for all Ovrland em ployes has been established by the Willys-Overland company at Its To ledo plant. - Bad teeth, the company says, cause a large per cent of the llness in a working force. And good teeth mean better quality in motor cars. 12 CARS STILL IF TOU SEE ONE, REPORT.. IT TO THE POIvICE. Buick, Chevrotets, Fords, Chan dlers, bodges, Maxwell and Overland on the List. Twelve, etolen cars remain on the police records for last week as not yet having been recovered. ' Lieu tenant Harvey A. Thatcher, head of the auto theft - department of the Portland police bureau, requests that any person seeing any of the follow ing cars report them to his depart ment. The list includes one Buick. two Chevrolets, two Chandlers, two Dodges,, three Fords, one Maxwell and one Overland. There also is one Har- ley-uaviason motorcycle. Here is the list: ifuick 1917 tourlns. Oregon license, tags recovered, motor No. 3115144. - Chevrolet 1919 tourinjr. Oregon license ro. .'nii. motor :no. crj3is, hja'k. Chevrolet 1920 tourirtK. Oregon license o. ib:44, motor Ao. i:.VKtl s. black. Chandler 1018 tourinjr. Oregon llcensx No. S2l'J, motor No. 54570, blue black body. Chandler 1920 roadster, Oregon, license No. 71097. motor No. 6S.170. Dodger 1918 touring, Oregon license Ne. 31878, motor Xo. 3a05, black. Dodge 10-0 touring. Oregon license No. 821198. motor No. 509486. black. Ford 1919 delivery. Oregon license No. 30SS4. motor No. 2873219. black. Ford 1949 roadster, Oregon license No, 15737, motor No. 3215614. black. Ford 1919 touring, Oregon license No. ;0146. motor No. 3042796. black. Maxwell 1918, no license number, motor No. 227041. Overland 1017 touring. Oregon license No. 47765, motor no. 81670. Harley-Davidson motorcycle, 1919. Ore gon license No. H65. motor No. L19A22401. life, mates, a sad life. ' Baby Bugales Included, Too. The new ordinance provides that: "It shall be unlawful for any person to park or cause to be parked any vehicle of any kind in any street In the city of Portland for a longer period than five hours between the hours Of sunset and ednrise of any day. It being intended thereby to prohibit the use of any street for the storage of any vehicle in lieu of a garage or barn." It will be noted that under strict Interpretation of the ordinance, if the nurse maid forgets to bring in the baby carriage and leaves it parked outside longer than five hours after sunset, somebody is due to be ar rested and fined. The lawyers can fight it out as to whether the baby, the nurse maid, or the baby's father "parked or caused to be parked" this particular vehicle. But pity the poor cop who has to make the pinch. just now tnis ordinance is going to Jibe with preparations made for housing automobiles of visiting Shriners no member, of the council has as yet arisen to explain. Motor ists keeping their cars in public ga rages had -been prepared as a matter or courtesy to let the visitors use their garage space and leave their own cars at the curb. But now the safest way seems to be to let the visitors take the chances and park their cars at the curb. If they are arrested, they should worry. About the only way to escape the hard hand of the law if you drive home late some night and find your garage man has locked the doors on you Is to keep on driving for the re mainder of the night. Drive till 6un up. If you can get the gas to do it on. Then the only thing they can pinch you for is being out after hours. Bat All Is Not Lost. But there seems to be one small loophole for the wicked. The council probably forgot that in June the sun comes up as early as 4:30 o'clock in the morning. By postponing hi home-coming until midnight, the poor, named motorist can leave his car at the curb and go to slumber with a clear conscience. The ordinance gives him five hours and it will be eunup In 4 hours and 30 minutes. This schedule, of course, must be revised as the winter months approach, but theres no need to cross that bridge till we reach it, thank goodness. Another way to beat the ordinance would be for the motorist to get up in the middle of tho night, after his car had been parked, say, 4 hours and 55 minutes in the street in fron of his house and move it around into the side street. The ordinance pro vides only that cars may, not be parked "in any street" for a longer period than five hours between eun set and sunrise, and makes no refer ence to "streets." By the time his five hours were up on the side street, it would certainly be sunrise. Another little matter the council apparently forgot was to make an appropriation for time clocks with which to keep tab on the night park ing of cars. Just how a cop is to swear that a car has been parked in the street longer than 4 hours and 59 minutes is not vouchsafed in the ordinance. BREMER ROAD IN BAD SHAPE I UHlUUtUIUiJliilllUUtMIUUUtMUlUHIUIUHIIU w E have promised- the Tripoli Temple of Milwaukee, Wis., the use of our salesroom during the convention for headquarters. We Must Have the Room So out go all our used cars. Every Car Sacrificed Come. Pick One Out Make Your Own Terms Brunn Motor Car Co. Lexington Distributors for Oregon 28-30 North Broadway , Phone Broadway 2958 iiiiiitiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin'"""1"11111111"11111111"11111'111111"1111 iiiitiiiiiiiiiinMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiimnminiiiiiiiiiiiiimiii- , n.crVt when an impeiUS DttlUluaj a.,;,...., automobile load of people returning . . A. . w m ,.iiin At rrora me meeuns - Bremer had a narrow escape from serious Injury If not death. r .1 o emhfr Of the some l i in c or," - Bremer club stated that unless tnlB road could be Improvea, it raigm necessary to eseek to have it con demned, wnetner speiMos .. , . i i ...... not stated. or tne ciuxj upimvn There Is a wonderfully fertile valley In the Bremer section wmvi. off fcotn westward traffic by Bear . I... n ipu nnpii canyon, ana is greeny In coming to its market at Morton by the present road. Sheep Shipped by Motor Truck. "HOOO RIVER, Or.. June 12. (Spe cial.) A motor truck with a double deckload of sheep moved down the Columbia river highway toward Port land the other day. The shipment by local ranchers created a great deal of attention. TWO NEW SCRIPPS-BOOTH CARS SOLD TO ASTORIA MEN. 1 t r jv. fw . s t"ws. -k i. r I Njlaria. , 1c , , The Portland branch of the Scrlpps-Booth eonpaiy of California, recently opened here. Is wasting no time In getting Scrlnps-Boatb. cars, which are one of the General Motors lines. Into the hand of owners. In the pic ture tne new Scrlpps-Booths are being delivered to their buyers. Dr. J. Tuttle and J. Hasgeblom, respectively, 4UC Astoria. Tlx salcsmaa la W. . Worth. : Itfccnt Accident Calls Attention to Xeed of Improvement. MORTON", Or.. June II. (Special.) The efforts to secure immediate im provement of the road between Mor ton and Bremer, eight miles to the west, put forth by the Brewer Tm nrovement club, received considerable Cord Tires MHtinniimimnnHiHnmiMiniimiiiiMHiroMmminitMiitM' 33 Discount it nfimmiiHiM 10,000-Mile Guarantee nmtHNtimtiiii This is an exceptional , offer. BUY NOW We are making these special prices to reduce a surplus stock.. Malcom Tire Co. . Broadway and Everett Portland, Or. 1 BRUTE STRENGTH Complete l'z-ton 2,2-ton 32-ton 5- ton 6- ton Line Trucks Only Truck Built with 3 final Drives Timken Worm Internal Gear Double Reduction Notice to Dealers: Write, your territory may be open. W. C. Garfoe, Inc. Formerly Oregon Motor Car Co. DISTRIBUTORS BROADWAY AT BURXSIDE Phone Broadway 616 ' PORTLAND SEATTLE PENDLETON I) -J.J1II DULSI . i i Pl.l.S J. A. DAWSON Used Cars of Almost Every Make From $400 to $1500 A Way by Which You Can Be Sure There is now no longer any need forused-car purchas ers to run the risk of buy ing: a car that is in any way mechanically defective. Mr. J. A. Dawson, a me chanic of eight years' ex perience, five of which he ' has spent m our employ, has been placed in charge , of our used-car depart- ' ment. He thordughly inspects and overhauls every used car that we offer for sale. . Consequently, when you buy a used car here you have the assurance that it is in good 'condition. NORTHWEST AUTO CO. Alder at Eighteenth mm v$im Made by Duplex Truck Co. Lansing. Mich., U. S. A. SHEVIS-HOWE MOTOR COMPANY Distributors : Nineteenth and Yamhill. . Main 3516. s -"'A