THE SUNDAY ' OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 21, 19SO
AUTO RACE LIMITED
TO FASTEST ENTRIES
HAIRPIN TURN ON THE LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN ROAD NEAR DENVER.
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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, , . ... ,
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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t William L. Hughson Co. 1
60 Broadway nt Davis St. I
Phone Broadway 821 I
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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
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important part of our business.
When you have battery trouble
-consult the old reliable
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