THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, , PORTLAND, JUNE 13, 1920
TRAFFIC CONDITIONS
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ONE DETOUR NOW ON EAST SIDE PACIFJC HIGHWAY TO SALEM.
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Factories Enabled to Ship Out
Quantities of Cars.
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PACKARD MAKES NEW SIX
NEW LAW HITS- BABIES
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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Men In Automotive Business In Ore
gon Called to Session Here
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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.
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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
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Bremer had a narrow escape from
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Bremer club stated that unless tnlB
road could be Improvea, it raigm
necessary to eseek to have it con
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There Is a wonderfully fertile valley
In the Bremer section wmvi.
off fcotn westward traffic by Bear
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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.
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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
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Portland, Or.
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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
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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
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Lansing. Mich., U. S. A.
SHEVIS-HOWE MOTOR COMPANY
Distributors
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