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Newspaper Page TextTHE STTJTDAT OREGONIAX PORTtAXD, AUGUST 1, 1920 POLK ROADS ARE IN STATE OF SIEGE AUTDMOBiLEPLAWTS 'FEDERAL TRUCK IN HEAVY. DUTY WORK ON NORTH BANK HIGHWAY. KEEP OP PRODUCTION Varied Lawsuits Blocking Highway Improvements. Some Decline in Demand Within Past 30 Days. ROUTES ARE QUESTIONED INDUSTRY NSAR NORMAL! f 1 1 rtS Reports Circulated of Closing Fao- I Dallas, Indepen3ence and Other ' Tow ns Fighting Angles of Complicated Battle. Cories - Declared False and . Meant to "Bear" Market. 5 1-3 ItT'),J..ji " r I ill llv . a! 1 111 I H itiW .- t m - SSS5! 1 H Highway construction in the v'clnl ty of Rickreall, Dallas. Independence. Monmouth and McCoy . has become considerably involved by lawsuits, fire, and dissension generally between certain Polk county citizens and the etate highway commission. It seems probable that paving work in this election of the state will be brought to a sudden end. The controversy between D Alias nd Independence on one hand and the commission on the other is of long standing. It centers about the wording of the highway law which provides that the west side section of the Pacific highway shall pi.ss "through" certain tov ns, "by way of certain other towns and "to" Dallas and Independence. The commission has taken the attitude that the high way should proceed in .a nore or le straight line south from McMinnville. through Amity, McCoy, Holmes Gap, Rickreall, Monmouth and Corvallis. wth stub roads to Dallas and Inde pendence. It is alleged that some months ago Polk cou y citizens agreed to this plan, providing the Dallas-Salem road w'ould be paved by the commission. A contract was let for this stretch about 15 miles, which would cross connect the two north and seuth highways of the Willamette valley. Many Hills to Cross. It has been the opinion of the com mission from the beginning that it would be impracticable to build the west side highway through Dallas sind Independence both, on account of the fact that there would be many hills to cross, and because the high way would be unnecessarily long. A temporary peace was arrived at, and paving has been proceeding from Amity south to Holmes Gap, about six miles north of Rickreall. Pave ment has been put down for a dis tance of five miles west from Salem toward Dallas, and the Independence stub from Monmouth has been built. Three or four miles of hard surface has been laid from Monmouth north toward Rickreall, being within about a mile from that place. A large part of the work between Corvallis and Monmouth has been completed. The commission recently called upon the Polk county officials to com plete the grading from Monmouth south toward the work being com pieted north from Corvallis. and this resulted In many old sores being re opened, xne county officials refused and then sought to enjoin the com mission from proceeding- any further with the highway through Rickreall, -J nis injunction was finally Issued on Monday In Portland, subject to the county's putting up a bond, stopped the work south of McCoy and north of Monmouth, although a large part oi tne latter project has been com pieted. About the same- time the injunction was issued, tne paving- Dlant at Me Coy was burned, and the section of work between Amity. McCoy and Holmes Gap has been indefinitely postponed on that account, although some pavement has actually been laid Between McCoy and the gap. Prospects of Muddy Winter. At this writing no bond has Been put up ty the county, and work be tween Rickreall and Monmouth will Boon be completed, as only a small unfinished section remains to be fin ished. Dallas citizens are said not to care so much about Btopping this section, which Is so nearly done, as xney are oi nailing me work near McCoy. Providence has done this for xncm. In the meantime the eommiiuttnn has apparently stopped the work be tween Dallas and Salem, as the con tractor finished the first section more than a week ago and has made no move to take his plant to Rick- reau ror tne next "set up." The com mission is .not required to complete xnis stretcn, wnich It claims is being oone only because Dallas citizens agreed to nave the west side highway run norm ana soutn tnrough Rick reall. The commission will undoubtedly carry the case on to trial, whether the bond to Rtop work is put up or not. This will take considerable ttme. and present indications point to many miles of unfinished mud grades in Polk county this winter unless the warring factions can come to an agreement. r iSfif ! r-, e , Zjoadinff part of a blar 1 ocarina: en sine on a resnlatloa f e-ton KedcrmI track Hear Stevenaea, Waih. The load welaraa about alx tons, and wn hauled from this point to Waaaong-al. about 32 miles. Tne truck: wii purchased orlajlnully from the William I Hu'luoa coaapaay im Portlnsd and haa seen a lot of heary aauliaa; work. ' 1 31,349 AUTOS STOLEN DATA OX 19 IX 10t "IXDETX" CITIES GATHERED. 2 3,332 Machines Reported Re covered by Police Ijost Cars Worth $5,410,000. ST. XfOUIS, July SI. There were 31,349 automobiles stolen in 19 "index" cities of the United States in 1919. compared to 25.613 in the same cities In 1918, according to figures compiled by the National Automobile Dealers' association, with headquarters in this city. This is an increase of 23.4 per cent. The figures were obtained from the official reports of the chiefs of police. ' Of the 31,349 stolen In 1919. Z3.33Z were recovered, or 74.4 per cent. Of the 25.613 stolen in 1918, 20,203 were recovered, or 78.8 per cent. Cars stolen and not recovered were valued at approximately $5,416,000 in 1918 and at $8,658,360 in 1919. New Tork again led the cities in cars stolen with 5527 In 1919 against 3840 in 1918, an increase of 35.5 per cent. St. Louis was the only large city where the number was less than In 1918. This is accounted for by vigorous law enforcement campaign against automobile thieves by the circuit attorney's office. Sentences up to 20 years have been assessed in St. Louis for the theft of an auto mobile. The detailed list follower Stolen. Rwmrei 119 New York 853T Chicago 4447 Dttroit 3481 Cleveland 2338 Los Angeles. . . . . IftSs Kansas City leal Portland, Or......l52S Denver 1440 San Francisco .... 1354 St. LrfUi 1241 Seattle 1122 Lnapous iTOi loston 1002 Salt Lake City... T78 Oakland, Cal 7SO Oamah 734 ColurafeUK, O. ..... 6SO Cincinnati 530 Oklahoma City... 14a Total S1.849 3S.S13 23.322 20.203 General reduction in the number of automobiles stolen is expected dur ing 1920 because of the fact that interstate transportation of stolen automobiles is made a federal offense under the Dyer law. The national motor vehicle theft law, however, did not become effective until November, 1919. Numerous convictions have been made throughout the United States under this act this year. 19(8 11 191S S340 S124 2578 2611 3447 1954 2V9 2529 1934 2078 1786 1816 1620 135 149S 1144 7!14 60 1088 1378 890 901 1187 627 1122 1(504 1082 2241 : 944 13M 146t 1308 1378 404 B92 334 8SH 580 607 707 758 790 895 733 8t0 10X9 567 669 451 373 352 348 293 291 671 70 484 especially in the garage where several cars are kept, and where it is neces sary -to run them pretty close to gether in order to get them all In. Such a Jack merely raises the front or the back end of the car and then the vehicle may be swung around to the desired point, doing away with a great deal of backing and turning and wheel twisting where the car must be worked around to the de sired position under Its own power. But it appears that a car may be swung around in emergencies with out the aid of a jack of the kind men tioned, providing one of those shal low oil pans, such as is often slid under a car to catch any oil or grease drip' from the motor or chassis, is at hand. We had stored our car In a garage where the space for turning and maneuvering was -very small in deed, and in the absence of a jack with wheels on it, the garage attend ant merely backed the car onto the oil pan, which, by the way, had a slight film of oil and greasy mate rial on it. With the rear tires stand ing on the pan, he merely pushed the car sideways, and the tires slid across the oiled surface of the pan, accomp lishing the swinging process in a unique manner. And while it is not advocated that such a nse be habitu ally made of the pan, since it is none too good for the tires to get them in oil, nevertheless it is a kink worth knowing for emergencies. HOT-SPOT IS FUEL SKIER CHALMERS MOTOR EVEN CAX DIGEST KEROSEXE. SHORTAGE NOT REALIZED EAST DOESXT KEfO'W GASOIrlXE COXDITIOXS JTERiTC. Doit Factory Representative Says Situation Calls for Federal Su pervision 'of Industry. ROAD PHOXE AS AUTO AID One for Each Mile for Stranded Motorists, Is Plan. According to the Auto News, tele phones are to be installed upon the public roads in Ohio, for the con venience of travelers. The plan 1 to put up a small booth at each mile stone. The motorist who is stranded always will find himself within half mile of a telephone. The plan provides so simply for the solution of one of the vexing prob lems of road travel that it means it should have been prepared a dozen years ago. says the Louisville-Courier Journal. The road telephone would be an Institution so obviously necessary xnai 11 would rate with the screw point ss something which should have been instituted before. There is always towing service as wen as tire service within hail If only a telephone can be had. Tramping to the nearest farm house which has a telephone is often ardu ous. The motorist sometimes is wel comed sympathetically by the farm er, but rarely by dogs. The evolutionary outgrowth of the road phones would be the telephone Instalment, carried in the tool box with which the stranded motorist ould tap any wire at any point and otter his Macedonian cry. With such an instrument and trusty pair of lineman's climbing irons with which to run up telephone poies to oroer gasoline, tubes, cas ings. twos and ether emergency ne cessities, the tourist would be able to keep in touch with all that frees tour Ing rrom the burden of anxiety. Oil Puddles Hurt Tires. STOLEX FORD IS RECOVERED Carlton Man Gets Car Taken From Him a Tear Ago. Sam Henry, who lives northwest of town, has found a Ford car whicn was stolen from him a year ago this month, says the Carlton (Or.) Sen tinel. The machine was taken from the streets of McMinnville, where members of the owner's family had parked it one night last July, and not a trace of it was ever found until a couple of weeks ago when It came into a garage In Tillamook for re pairs. Mr. Henry's son was in the garage at the time, being employed there, it Is understood. He thought the car resembled the stolen machine and proved that It was through cer tain fixtures which he had placed upon It that were not a part of the regular equipment. The man who had It bought It from farmer near Tillamook, who had bought it in good faith from a Sher wood, Or., man. The Shgrwood man's identity was discovered, but he has not been located at the time of this writing. - Mr. Henry bought another Ford after the theft, and will now have two machines. Intake Manifold of Sot-Spot. Type Recommended by Society of Automotive Engineers. The Society of Automotive Engl neers at a recent meeting placed It self on record as recommending the intake manifold of the hot-spot type. A committee of the society for the last few months has been making exbaus tive tests relative to determining some system whereby the problems presented by prevailing heavy fuel might be solved and this recommenda tion was the result: "The recommendation of the society gives recognition to. the wlseness of Chalmers engineers, who, realising the problem presented by the ever- increasing lower gravity of fuel. adopted after thorough experimenting the hot-Bpot and the ram s horn mini fold that has been identified with the Chalmers engine for almost three years," declares C. L. Boss of the C. I Boss Automobile company. The hot-spot vaporizes the inferior gas into a cloud of vapor that is car ried through the- heated manifold to the cylinders. Experience shows that really more power Is secured from the low-grade fuel by the use of these now-famous devices. During the acute shortage of fuel many motorists have eked out their meager gas supply by using distillate and kerosene. The Chalmers engine digests kerosene readily, though the C Ij- Boss company does not recom mend its use, save in an emergency. and then only with frequent changing of oil and cleaning of the crank case. Motor manufacturers in and around rtroit, Mich., paid to the United States government $21,600,000 for the first four months of 1920. This Is said to be the largest automobile excess tax ever paid in the United States. The seriousness of the gasoline shortage on the Pacific coast is not fully realized in the east, declares R. H. Larkin, general representative of the Dort Motor Car company, who was here last week conferring with the Northwest Auto . company, dis tributors for the Iort. 'Conditions out here caused by the gasoline shortage are of sufficient im portance to call for federal supervi sion and it is a surprise to me. that everybody connected with the Indus try on the coast has not risen and demanded a rigid investigation," said Mr. Larkin. " So far reaching would be the ef fect of any undue disturbance in the automotive industry that the govern ment would be remiss to the people if prompt action were not taken. No effort should be lacking to determine that sale and distribution of gasoline are handled with entire fairness. There need be no fear of a perma nent shortage. Geologists agree that there is sufficient oil in sight to last many years. There yet remains to be developed the great shale oil deposits said by geologists to provide oil in amounts far greater than all the available natural petroleum in this hemisphere. Thsy form an enduring asset, sufficient to sustain an enor mous ultimate load indefinitely when machinery for this industry has been developed. - . The Dort factory Baa Been in production of 8006 cars a month since thei .first of the year. xo Keep up with orders, it baa been compelled to increase the output to 3500 per montn, Prices are not due for a fall this year. Labor and mtrial are still high and the demand for both is so great . that there is no prospect, oi their droDnlns. Anybody thinking the price of automobiles Is going to come down In the near miuro i "mjr Har boring a qelusion. SEW PLAXT FOR OAKLAND m Ground Broken . for $3,000,000 - Addition to the Factory. Ground has been broken in Pontiac, Mich., for a new $3,000,000 addition to the plant of the Oakland Motor Car company, which will eventually double Its capacity. Production of Oakland cars at present Is running about 215 cars a day. The new plant wm pro. vide facilities for manufacturing cer tain parts now being turned out in other General Motors' plants. This, It Is expected, will bring production up to about 500 cars daily. WHOLE WORKS OX VAOATIOX Boss Takes Employes Along and Closes TJp the Shop. MARYSVILLE. CaL, July 31-E. T. Baldwin, owner of a cleaning works here, decided to go on a vacation by automobile. So he invited his em ployes to go along, and they all went In his car, leaving the shop closed for two weeks. The party will spend the fortnight camping and fishing in Plumas and Sierra counties. LOXG DISTANCE AIR TRIP Passenger Air Service Between Chi cago and Xew York. About August 15 the busy New Tork business man will be relieved of the customary anxlftty accompanying his plans for a hasty business trip to Chicago. The Lawson Airline com pany of Milwaukee, which is the pio neer builder of commerciail aircraft in the United States, has instituted a passenger service by aerial liners capable of carrying 26 persons be tween New Yorok and Chicago. Two years ago Alfred W . Lawson perfected the largest biplane attempt ed up to that time. He was so elated by the success of Its maiden trip to New Tork city that he returned to Milwaukee after six weeks to arrange for the construction of a considerable number of them. AUTO ACCESSORIES AND PARTS .SPEEDOMETERS and "BIG TEN NECESSITIES' They're More Than Accessories Official Service Genuine Parts (3l&iKlti& rroduct Service Station, Broadway at Flanders David Hodes Co. Ill N. Broadway AUTOMOBILE EQUIPMENT PARTS, GEARS, AXLES AND SPRINGS 10,000 Springs Carried in Stock. Let Us Repair Tour Springs Where You Get Service. 15TH AND COUCH STREETS Oil has a habit of collecting .in I little puddles in the depressions the cement floor of the garage. This should be removed, because the tires are almost sure to get Into it. and If you let a section ef the shoe become soaked with oil, the affected rubber will soften and undue wear will fol low. The deterioration will be very similar to that resulting when rubber Is Improperly cured SCBSTxTUTE Km JACK Oil Pan on Wheels TJsed by Handy Garage Man. One of those special Jacks with wheels on It to enable cars to be maneuvered without trouble in close quarter is a handy thing to have. Hoi fAll mates oP batteries charged or repairecT Phone Braadwaq S46 OT0RAGE JLWTTEKi' Service Station On Park Street H.M.NISBET.Mjn WPWi U J M m. . II llll IJJIJIHBl DETROIT, Mich.. July SI. Auto motive vehicle manufacturers In De troit are Incensed at reports circu lated In various parts of the country that their factories are beins closed Because ot wholesale cancellation, of orders. Unscruplous stock; and bond sales men, it Is thought, are circulating these reports as a means ef creating a "bear" market in motor stocks for tne benefit of "short" Interests. Attention of the beard of coir.merca has been drawn to an example of these reports which appeared in Chi cago July IS. This article, a review of market conditions, stated that one motor truck company had been closed and that another company was pre paring to close down because of lack of orders. Secretary Warner has wired for Information as to the source ef this information, as officials of both companies deny that such conditions exist or are likely to de velop. Five Per Cent Under Normal. ' "Detroit Industries are operating within 5 per cent of normal," said Secretary Warner. "It Is true one factory let out 760 men. but another took on exactly 750 and has since been adding to this number." Motor car and truck factories here have more business than they can handle. On top of this there is a great foreign demand that these com panies have been unable to take ad vantage of. In the three months end. Ing March 21 last General Motors cor poration sold 119,799 ears, trucks and tractors, which, taken in conjunction with the revenue derived from the sale of various other products, netted pronts of 19,754,616. with federal taxes deducted. While there has been a noticeable decline In the automobile business the past SO days. General Motors is as sured of a ready market for every passenger, truok and tractor machine it can produce for the remainder ot the year. This year's output of Bulck cars was contracted for almost entirely in the first three months. In the fiscal year which began August 1 the Buick plant expects to produce 100.000 more cars than were manufactured in the previous year. During the approaching year the Cad illac passenger car division will bring into operation new plants capable of more thon double the output. SSO Oldsmobtlea Dally. Additions to various Chevrolet units will increase the production of this car to 1000 daily. The 225 cars day now being turned out by the Oakland plant, at Pontiac will be in creased to 850. Present plans call for the produc tlon of 300 cars a day tor the Oldimo blle plant and 100 a day for the Scrlpps-Boeth, against 150 Oldsmobile and 50 Scripps-Booth last year. Construction work on the General Motors office building In Detroit, the largest structure of Its kind In the world, which was being seriously re tarded In the spring, through inabil Ity to secure materials and sufficient labor, is now progressing at a rapid rate. When completed it will be one of the show places of Detroit. During the next fiscal year between August 1, 1920, and July 31, 1921-, the Ford Motor company expects to build 1,250,000 cars. This would be 250,000 more than the present fiscal year, which is expected to ehow'an output of approximately 1.000,000 cars. It is understood that the sedan production would be greatly Increased, probably 10 per cent over past production. In . t-'. . J.r In I HI i i I 11 ill f Useless Weight Has Been Eliminated in MAXW E by Special Steels LL Just as" superfluous" weight handicaps the heart and mind of a man, 60 does superfluous weight handicap the action of a motor car. Such weight kills tires "Eats up gas" Kills pep" in an engine Slows down car speed Makes repairs costly and too freTaent. Maxwell has no useless, weight Special steels have been used in its construction. iThey areznade to Maxwell's own" formulae. great strength. They -have. That is why Maxwell is responsive, develops a high aver-, age road,speed, is not tiring to drive, has; a quick and sure brake action, has long "gas", and tire mileage, and why it is a stranger to the repairman. Such high efficiency wins many friendships. Figures like these -speak eloquently: 5,000 a year six years ago; 100,000 a year today; now .over 400,000 in service the world over. C. JL. Boss Automobile Co. 615-617 Washington St Pen. for Speed Killers. A ruling recently made by the court of appeals In Cincinnati confirming the action of a Judge In common pleas court instructing a Jury to find guilty of manslaughter any driver who was exceeding the speed limit when his machine killed a person, regardless 253253! 1 - of what other circumstances might be involved, is something for speeders to heed. This means that any motor ist then who runs down and kills a person while speeding will go to the state's penitentiary. Regardless of the action or fault of the person killed, the driver will be held to ac count for his or her deed. A good moral would be: Don't speed. , Trailer Adds to Trade Capacity. Wth a semi-trailer attachment the Maxwell Is able to eolve most of the heavier tonnage problems that con fronts the average owner, asserts William Kelley. chief engineer for the Maxwell Motor company. With the trailer from fonr to six tons can be easily handled, which triples the truck's capacity. , Max-well With Hot-Spot. It is an established fact that the famous hot-spot Chalmers motor runs as smoothly and as powerfully in the winter time ss in midsummer and with the Incorporation ef the hot spot and ram's horn manifold as part of the new Maxwell it Is equally true of this powerful four-cylinder motor. This was recently demonstrated by Ray McNamara. Maxwell road engi neer, who drove from Detroit to New Tork and return, spending but two days on the road each way. AUTO DIRECTORY New Light Six, Mitchell, Seven-Paasenger Jordan MITCHELL, LEWIS & STAVER CO. ' Broadway at Everett S C? Sayers-Pacific aVerS OiX Motor Car Co. a T..h,.f:t SAYERS Auto Fune'1 Equipment Twenty-first and Washington State Distributors JACKSON &E?SS SIX TOURING FOUR WHEEL DRIVE TRUCK Twenty-first and Washington State Distributors Franklin offers mora ef "what you actually need and want in an automobile. BRALY AUTO CO. Main 4S80, A 2881. 19th and Washington Sta. TmsipUmir Smashes All Records in Economy and Endurance i jju Q I n Shock Absorber Recommended by a Million Ford Owners West Coast Distributors Corp. 435 Stark St. Phone Broadway 4564 i A Three Time Winner . 1. Chicago to. New York, 26 hrs. 50 min. 2. Los Angeles to Yosemite, 29.6 miles per gallon for 356 miles. 3. World's economy run, 101 miles, 32.2 miles per gallon. The most for your money in all that goes to make a real motor car. WRAY MOTOR CAR CO. 34 Eleventh St. North Phone Bdwy. 3247 i