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THE SUNDAY ' OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 21, 19SO AUTO RACE LIMITED TO FASTEST ENTRIES HAIRPIN TURN ON THE LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN ROAD NEAR DENVER. 3SSC Select Aggregation to Meet on Los Angeles Track. racK Are Backed by Service RALPH DE PALMA ON WAY j-s ,? v Mr 4 SS223 Ti fiVn...A . c ' .... Nash FTP llptMV .-.--h.-.--.-.w Management of Speed-way Under stood to Be Holding Iist of Con testant to Below Dozen. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 20. (SpeT daL) The entry list for the Thanks giving day 250-mile race on the Los Angeles speedway is more of an eligibility list than an entry, list. There has never been such a select aggregation of cars and drivers In a single race. There are absolutely nothing but the very fastest cars and most expert drivers in the big race, as it is the idea of the management to make the climax of the 1920 cham pionship season a championship race in fact as -well as in name. There have been numerous tenta tive entries rejected without further consideration fay. reason of the fact that nothing but cars of proven speed aro wanted in the big race. The advantage of such a move was shown ai Fresno, Cal., recently, wlere there were only eight starters, but th-e race was one of the greatest ever seen, i The reason was that all cars In the race were approximately equal in epeed and there were no "selling platers" cluttering up the track. Entries Not Over. While the complete official entry list has not yet been released by the management of the speedway, it is understood that not more than a dofcen cars will be allowed to start and in all probability the number of etarters will be held to ten. Every car in the race will be capable of 100 miles an hour and every driver will be a known star. In other words, the management - is striving for quality rather than for quantity. At the present moment it looks as though the main contenders would be a team of four Duesenberg racers, two Frontenacs similar to the one which captured the big Indianapolis race and independent entries by Ralph De Falma, Eddie Hearne, Tommy Milton and possibly two or three other star drivers. There are a couple of mystery cars In the offing, the nature of which is known to the management of the race but to nobody else with the ex ception of the rivers. It is rumored that there is a new racing car of .remarkable possibilities now being rushed to completion for the 1921 season and which may be entered in the Thanksgiving day race if it is finished In time. It is the product of an old-time racing driver and is supposedly the fastest 183-inch crea tion in existence. De Palma Is Silent. Also there Is no word from Ralph De Palma, the secretive Ballot driver, now on his way to Los Angeles from France. Whether Ralph will drive the car in which he won the Elgin road race and set a new record or will have scsnething new to drive is not known. Pedro de Paoli, Ralph's emuing mechanician, is still in town and d-oesn't seem to be worried, so that the prospects are that Ralph will have something sufficiently fast to worry the rest of the drivers. Secretary A. M. Young says that the ticket sale is so heavy that he sees prospects of a throng big enough to completely jam the enormous plant of the speedway, which has ac commodations for 100,000 people. The rush of orders for the reserved seats has been so heavy that there is no question but that when the general admission gates are opened all the bleacher accommodations will be . filled in a hurry. The track has been closed to all spectators since Wednesday, when of ficial practice for the race com menced. The early days of practice resulted in some very fast time be ing made by the various drivers and the prospects for some splendid com petition for the $25,000 purse are growing brighter with every succeed ing day. AUTO OUTLOOK IS GOOD PIONEER CAR BTJIMER GIVES REASONS FOR FLURRY. l&ction of Bankers In Restricting Business Proved Fortunate, Says H. C. Stutz. An explanation of the present busi ness conditions in the automobile world Is offered by Harry C. Stutz one of the pioneer automobile en pir.eers and manufacturers of Amer ica, in a. letter to D. A. Pepp, head of the Pepp Motor Car company, dis trlbutors for the new H. C. S-, Stutz' new car, throughout this territory. Sttitz writes: "In regard to my opinion of the present unrest of the automobile fu ture, I believe- most of the unrest is brought about by the manufacturers themselves. A great many manufac turers seem to have lost sight of the business conditions previous to the : war and have allowed themselves to be overcome with a desire to build more cars than their neighbor. "The high prices of labor, building material and raw material did not seem to cause him to stop to consider that there must be a reckoning. In my opinion the bankers did exactly the right thing to stop .any unsound methods of doing business and waste of money. I believe that business is going to be good in the future for manufacturers who do not try to see how many cars they can build, but who desire to build better cars and give the purchasers value received T am of the firm belief that the manu facturer who uses good judgment. stays within reasonable limits, and co-operates with his banker and dealer in a business-like way will have little or no cause for complaint or dissatis faction with this great industry." The new H. C. S. car is attracting a great deal of attention throughout this district, according to Mr. Pepp, who is now beginning to receive the cars for the first time in any quantity. Beginning this week his schedule calls for a carload and a half,' equivalent to six automobiles, for this territory each week. Here's Mixture to Prevent Knst. Vaseline in which a little Bowdered Brum camphor has been added, the whole being heated over a glow fire, will prevent the formation of rust on tools. A mixture of one pound of lard, an ounce of gum camphor and a little lampblack will protect bright metal work from rust, , . ... , I UNUSUAL FEAT-RECORDED STOCK CAR CLIMBS MOUNTAIN NEAR DENVER IN HIGH. With Another Machine in Tow, and With Passengers, Automobile Does Unparalleled Work. A wager of $5000 was won recently by a stock Cole aero-eight touring car by -the unprecedented feat of climbing Lookout mountain, near Denver, Colo., with the car's transmis sion sealed in high gear,, and towing a live-passenger Ford. Starting at the South Golden road. at an altitiude of one mile above sea level,, the climb covered seven miles to the top of Lookout mountain. The road makes several hairpin turns up the mountain side, with the final stretch a seven per cent grade. The test was conducted by Jack Payment, automobile official and hill climbing expert, with R. H. Kinney, of the Denver Post, and A. V. Echter nach, of the Denver News-Times, as judges. Lookout mountain Is known all over the country as an extremely se vere test hill. This was the first time that any automobile attempted to climb it in high gear while towing another car. An unusual factor in connection with the feat was that the car was chosen at random from the used car salesroom of the Denver Cole dis tributor. Its speedometer showed that it already had traveled 22,000 miles. On the first climb to the top of Lookout, winning the $5000 wager. the Cole carried three passengers be sides the driver, and the Ford had a man at the wheel. To further test the power of the Aero-Eight, the two cars then re turned to a point below the last hair pin turn, beyond which lay the steep est part of the grade. Two additional passengers boarded the Ford, the Cole was started in high gear, and sped around the turn and up to the peak without difficulty, despite the added weight. In the affidavits, which all the newspapermen who witnessed the per formance signed, it is stated that at no time was there any sign of the engine of the Aero-Eight overheating. An extra touch was the impromptu speed trial made while the party was on the way home over the concrete Golden road. Still towing the Ford, the driver of the Cole stepped on the accelerator, and within a few hundred yards, the speedometer needle was pointing ' to trfe 65-mile-per-hour mark, which was -sustained a greater part of the way back. FLEXIBILITY RECORD SET Liberty Car Makes Unusual Mark In Competition. A new record for flexibility of speed has been set by the Liberty Six. A Liberty engineer chose one of the regular touring cars to demonstrate the great variety of speeds at which the car could move, on high gear, and with what quickness the changes in speed could be accomplished. The re suit of the experiments showed that a Liberty car, while on high gear, could slow down to around a mile an hour rate, and that the throttle could then be opened wide without stalling the car. Although a few cars of other makes tried at the demonstration could not slo-.7 down nearly as well as the Lib- erty, none of them, while moving so Blowly, was able to take the full throttle without stalling. The Lib- erty also could accelerate in eight seconds from the rate of five miles an hour to 25 an hour. Members of the Garage Workers' union in New York city are demand lng a minimum wage of $7 a day for washers, $6 for polishers and $50 week for foremen. LET'S GO! ITS TIME 1 d Above la a photograph ihawbig an attractive winnow dtoplnr of the Bob tnson-Smith company, one of the -thorlaed Ford, dealers of the city. It constats of a Cornaom tractor drawing a plow, followed hy a For o lie-ton. truck loaded ta the. amnrda with pnjnpkln, aah ether farm products. ft!" rite-" 1 ri7-, 'vl Above Cole elffht negcottntlnff bill on 1 in bins a new record for the road. "trailer Tvbicb made unusual trip NEW MOTOR IS EVOLVED TURBINE ENGINE FOR AUTO- BIOBILES INVENTED, Power Generator Said to Burn Fuel That Contains Grease or Alcohol, "With No Waste. A new type of gasoline engine. which is claimed to show the first definite step away from the basic principle of gasoline engines devel oped more than 20 years ago, has been invented by a young engineer-at Fort Worth, Tex., and a company known as the McLain Gas Turbine Engine company of H'ort Worth has been formed to put the invention on the market, according to a report in the Fort Worth Record. The company is named after R. M. McLain, inventor of the new type of engine. Like many of his predecessors on the rocky road of invention. Mr. Mc Lain has not had sufficient -capital to get his invention perfected and into production and, in fact, was not finan cially able to personally pay for the completion of the first working model, primarily because of several years of study, -research and experimentation given by him to the perfection of his patent. However, in this case, a financial sponsor has been found. The man in question is E. A. ("Trap- shooter") Rellly of Fort . Worth. known throughout the. southwest as the man who brought in the famous "Trapshooter" oil well in Kansas, the biggest well ever drilled in that state, producing, according to official rec ords, 22,000 barrels daily for a long period. Mr. Reilly regards this new gas turbine, he says, as important as the Trapshooter welL The McLain motor. It Is claimed, will burn crude oil readily and in fact any fuel that contains grease or alco hol. One of the chief virtues claimed for It is its simplicity and economy. This motor has no valves, pistons, cyl inders, crank 9hafts, connecting rods or cam shafts. It is a silent motor, says the inventor, running with con stant pressure instead of by the ex plosion process, and consequently with no vibration. It utilizes every particle of the .heat from exhauat gases, it is claimed, and also the heat from the water jacket, thus conserv tng the energy which escapes through the radiator in the ordinary motor, by reabsorbing the last ounce of power from the fuel consumed and the heat generated. ' This new gas turbine en gine, driven by the expansion of gas and steam, oombines the steam and gas engine and consists oft a motor with one rotating element ,two main bearings, one explosion chamber, a re generator and a gas and steam nozzle. FARM TRUCK. SURVEY MADE Fully 800,000 Trucks Could Be Used, Is Report. ' A survey of the farm market for motor trucks just completed by the FOR FALL PLOWING IN THE I, nfgrn, tewins a Ford car. and etab- Below CloRe-np of the Cole and ita and won $5000 wager. Goodyeii- Ture & Rubber company in dicates that the farm field offers op portunities for the absorption of fully 800,000 trucks. Thousands of farmers have come to regard motor trucks as regular farm tools and would as soon attempt to farm without a plow or a cultivator as without a truck. The one, one-and a-half and two-ton sizes seem to be the favorites with the farmers, with a widespread preference for pneumatic tire equipment. A recent questionnaire which elicit ed replies from 5000 farmers indi cated that 69 per cent preferred pneu matic tire equipment. Twenty-eight per cent were willing to get along with solid tires and the remainder liked pneumatic in front and solids in the rear. CARS IjIKENED tO HORSES Owners Take Delight in Finding Out What They Can Do. '"Owners today take as much Inter est in ascertaining the ability of their cars as their brothers of yesterday took with their favorite horses, ac cording to H. J. Mcintosh, of the Mc Intosh Motor Car company, local KiS' sel distributor. "A typical example is the following excerpt of a letter I just received from a Kissel owner, who states: "I have tried it out on the hills; I have slowed it down: to a walk on high. It is as sensitive as a thoroughbred, and is constantly surprising me with the many things which it does.' " PASSING BUCK DECRIED BANKERS CRITICISED BY TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Practice of Blaming Federal Re serve Board for Restricted Credit Declared Unethical. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. Efforts of individual bankers to place responsi bility for refusing credit accommoda tion for legitimate business wth the federal reserve board are being met with official denials wherever possi ble. The treasury department, through the secretary of the treasury and Gov ernor Harding of the board have con demned this practice as untrue and unethical. The government persist ently maintains that there Is no dis position to contract credits or to dis criminate against any Industry. Speaking directly to 4000 bankers at Vie convention of the American Bankers' association here. Secretary Houston denounced the "practice on the part of some banks of indulging in the game well known in Washing, ton of passing the buck and of ascrib ing, their unwillingness to extend loans to tne action ot tne ieaerai re serve board." He contended that all authorities of the federal reserve sys tem have a keen and sympathetic ap preciation of the difficult problem. OREGON GRAIN FIELD. The convention rater approved the board's credit policy. Voicing the sentiment of the ma-1 jority of American bankers, the con vention declared that it "disapproves all suggestions, plans and efforts to utilise the resources of the federal reserve bank9 or the government ar bitrarily to hold up-or force down prices which may be falling or rising in response to the operation of the law of supply and demand." It is evident that the federal reserve board does not intend to change its rediscount rate. In . support or its contention that the present process of rediscounting paper with the federal reserve banks has been successful, the board states that the average redis count shows the wide extent of the accommodation given the ordinary business of the country. The average size of the member bank collateral notes is much larger than the average size of customers' notes and bills re discounted. Filling Stations Restricted... JOLIET. I1L, Nov. 20.- The Mem bers of the city council have adopted an ordinance effective January 1, 1921, which abolishes all gasoline fill ing stations and air pumps from side walks. Tile' council explained to a delegation of protesting dealers that the supreme court has ruled that the city is liable for all aecidents that might occur on the sidewalks or Here you can genuinenewTimken, Hyatt, and New De ri parture Bearings for any motor car, truck or tractor ever built. Our service is official. M Portland Branch 24 N. BROADWAY Broadway 1799. streets and it became necessary to I protect the municipality by removing I all possible causes for accidents. A request from the dealers for more time to make the removal was denied by the council. Itelncarnated. The fellow who used to blow out the gas now steps on It. Chicago Daily News. Reduced Prices FACTORY FIRSTS Guaranteed. 30x3 Non-SWd ........$ 1 1 .95 32x3 Non-Skid $ 15.95 31x4 Non-Skid $17.50 32x4 Non-Skid $20.50 33x4 Non-Skid $19.75 34x4 Non-Skid $30.25 Other Sizes in Proportion. CORD TIRES FIRSTS 8000-Mile Guarantee. 30x3 Non-Skid ........ $27.75 32x3 Non-Skid $34.75 32x4 Non-Skid $41.70 33x4 Non-Skid : $41.00 34x4 Non-Skid $42.50 32x4 Non-Skid $42.50 33x4 Non-Skid $51.50 34x4 Non-Skid $47.50. 35x4 Non-Skid $53.00 35x5 Non-Skid .....$52.50 Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention. MalcomTire Co. Broadway and Everett Sts., . Portland, Or. One of a Chain of Stores. I V t William L. Hughson Co. 1 60 Broadway nt Davis St. I Phone Broadway 821 I V Quick and dependable service for Nash" Trucks by skille d mechanics is one feature of : our fixed policy 'on truck service. We believe there is no organization better, qualified than ours to assure truck owners dependable and economical hauling service over a period of years. Incidentally the list price of Nash Trucks is made possible only because of volume production with resultant low manufacturing overhead. ' One-ton Chassis. .$2175 Two-ton Chassis. . 2880 Nash Quad Chassis 3675 Prleei, . o. b. Pacific Coast Points. Portland Motor Car Co: v Distributors Tenth and Burnside Streets Important Facts Overlooked More than fifty per cent of the items that go to make up truck operating; costs are directly affected by the stability, perma nence, engineering; knowledge and service policy of the factory and distributor. The purchase of a motor truck is merely the purchase of transportation so many miles at so much per ton mile. Let us show you how these elements are combined in Garford trucks so that they do give LOW COST TON-MILE Garford Oregon Motor Sales, Co. Eighth and Davis Win. Cornfoot President SAVE YOUR BATTERY DON'T THROW IT AWAY ! Bring us your old battery, we prob ably can rebuild it for you at con siderable saving No matter what the make. Building batteries is an important part of our business. When you have battery trouble -consult the old reliable (2091 Broadway 4178 T. M. Geoghegan Yice Pres. and Gen. Mgr. FREE TESTS ALLEN BROS. Auto Electric Equipment BROADWAY AT FLANDERS Broadway 1073
