TTTE , SUNDAY OREGONIAN, TOIIIXAXD, FEBRITATIY 12. 1922
BIBJUmG MOTORIST
IS PROJECTED
MOTORIST IX OVERLAND CAR VISITS UPPER COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY, WHERE PATH IS
CAR OlffllEBS URGED
TO MARK MACHINES
BEING CUT IX HUGE ICE DRIFTS WHICH HAVE KEPT HIGHWAY CLOSED ALL WINTER.
American Association Is Out
for Members.
Identifying Stolen Autos Is No
Easy Matter.
Demi-Sedan $2850
MUCH WORK IS AHEAD
THIEVES CAN BE FOILED
An exclusive model, combining- the chief advantages of both open
and closed cars. Removable, non-rattla glass panels give thorough
weather protection. Permanent top, 4 doors, for 5 passengers.
Energies Will He Bent Toward Get
ting I'nlform Traffic Laws and
Expert Tells of Means by Which
Owners May Readily Distin
guish One From Others.
This is the way to find out why the "Franklin
sold twice as fast as the. industry in 1921, and
why today's car is having such a fine 'reception.
Desirable Camp Site. -
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XKW YolJV Feb. 11. Big. power
ful ami inf laentlat an !t unquestion
ably i today, the Amerlatu A'Vomo
bila association. the world's greatest
nrr&n iution of motor car 01
now propones to reach out and bring
Into Its fold by means or intensities
and concentrated effort In each eeo-
tion of the United States STery mo
torist in the land, wherever he or she
may be located. Tills was tna aeci.
aion reached by the A. A- A- icn
tlve board at a meeting- held last weel
in New York city.
Not only does the A. A. A. Intend to
weid into one . gigantic organisation
all tho car owners of the United
States, but it proposes to set before
each individual motorist every con
ceivable variety of reasonable service
that such an association should ren
der to its members. That this should
be done was the unanimous verdict
at the executive board.
Feeling that Its years of efforts to
bring aoout a comprehensive road-
bulidtna- proa-ramme have advanced
to a point where almost complete
success may be boasted, the A. A. A.
now intends to brine closer and make
mora readily available to its mem
bers all the lesser comforts and con
veniences for which the tourinff mo
torist frequently finds need.
Pnirai "Mapped Oat.
Henceforth, according- to the execu
tive board s recent decision, the A. A.
A. shall bend Its energies in obtaining-
for its members uniform traffic
laws, national motoring reciprocity.
reliable tar ace service, dependable
aid when accidents occur., the estab
lishment of more and better regu
lated camp sites, and the giving of
belter and broadened touring direc
tions as well as a multitude of per
sonal services that will make 'the
organization invaluable to all who
may be fortunate enough to hold a
membership card in the national body
or one of Its affiliated clubs.
According to President Ueorge Diehl
the A. A. A. does not Intend by any
means to abandon any of its previ
ous activities, but rather to add to
them. In a statement dwelling; on
. this point. President Dtehl says:
"The A. A. A.'a psst achievements
In behalf of road-bullding and vrovld
lng map service are generally recog
nised and praised by all who motor.
But this work has now reached a de
cree of success where attention can
be given to other needed activities
without losing ground, and the opin-
' ion prevails among our executive
hoard members that more direct and
personal service to the individual mo
torist should be taken up and carried
along."
The New York city meeting was
held primarily to pass on the many
suggestions received at the recent De
troit conference, where there were
present several hundred delegates rep
resenting practically every motoring
and promt roads organisation in the
I nite.l States, and at which time it
was the consensus of opinion that the
good roads programme in this coun
try and the individual motorists in
the I'nited Ststes would benefit more
through one large, influential organi
sation combining all roads and motor
Interests rather than through several
smaller associations of naturally
lesser strength and Influence.
Bryaa l ra-ea Orgaalaatioa.
The meeting also followed the re
cent rally of moterists at Jackson
ville. Fia.. where a southeastern
division of the A. A. A. was success
fully launched with a membership In
cluding the bulk of the car owners
of Florida. Georgia. Alabama. Missis
sippi. Tennessee and the Carolina. It
was at this meeting that William
Jennings Bryan addressed the as
sembled motorists and urged organi
zation as the quickest and most ef
fective means of bettering motoring
conditions generally.
So successful was the Jacksonville
fathering and so evident "was the en
thusiasm for the A. A. A. that no
doubt was left In the minds of the
executive board as to what procedure
should be followed in other sections 1
of the country. 1
New Kngland is the next territory
to be invaded by the A. A. A. and
plans are now well under way for a
meeting in Boston to include all
roads and molding Interests in that
section, when It is hoped to form a
New Kneland division which in its
potentialities should equal If not sur
pass m strength and character any
other division of the national organi
sation. The A. A. A. drive will be under
the direction of Kxecutive Chairman
L. Morgan, who thus comments on
the organisation's activities:
"Kver fini-e its Inception in 1901
the -V. A. A.'s activities have accrued
to the benefit of -every person who
owns or drives a motor car. but the
organization Itself has never' made
the Intensified and concentrated drive
for the membership it deserves and
can unquestionably muster. The Pe
troit meeting and the Jacksonville
Catherine, topether ith a genera
survey of the national situation, have
convinced us that motorists every
where want and would welcome es
tabltshed A. A. A. divisions. Hence we
are goitiif ahead, for the will of the
motorists is our guidance. The A.
A. A. Is not a commercial enterprise
and piles up no profits for any perr
son or persons. It is co-operative and
Us officers serve without salary. They
are just everyday motorists doing
their part in a programme of mutual
help fr motorists. All revenues are
expended for Its members, and the
more revenue the more the individual
member will receive."
KOAI CREW IS OUTFITTED
Preparations Made fur Work on
Loon Lake-Mill Creek Stretch.
EEEPSIVUT. Or. Feb. 11. (Spe
cial.) C. A. Catching, construction
foreman for I'ouk'js county, and a
crew of men have been outfitted to
start work on the Loon lake-Mill
ereek road, one of the feeders of the
Kerdsport-Uoscburg highway.
Mr. Catching expects to put sbout
4J men to work on this 11-miie stretch
right away and as soon as this and
the Reedsport-Scottsburg sections are
completed the rich Loon lake section
will have easy access to market.
loug'as county's road programme
In this section and out to the county
seat is held to be one of the most im
portant in the slate at this time and
1 causiug a fioo.1 of inquiries to the
Keedsport chamber of commerce as
to homestead, business and Industrial
opportunities in this little developed
section.
Obey the traffic cop.
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Maltaemak falls. Center, left Crew at work clear
lax blab way at Wahkeeaa falls. Center, right
Cattlaar the trail at Mist falls, the first barrier am the
blgbway east af Portland. Btlew OTerlaad ear am
aichway Juat west-of Mist falls, ahewlag how high
way Is Uttered with lew aad reck elides, wklek ara
ew belag reaaaved.
Operationa are now well under way looking toward
the removal of enough snow and Ice
Kiver highway to make a pathway
through to Hood River. From that point east the high
way is already open. Excellent progress was made by
the big crew under county supervision
expected another week or so will see
a width of ten feet all the way to the Multnomah eounty
line. The above photos were taken on a reoent trip up
the highway with Pat Blalte. territory
photos show, the ice. Is packed so hard
dling it has been to cut off great chunks of ice with cross-cut saws and then
hitching them to a team of horses, or to break up the chunks with picks and
the road.
LELAND TO BE COVTIXCED AS
HEAD OF BIO COXCEHX.
No Change In Foliciea Expected,
but Deal Holds Center of In
terest in Motor World.
DETROIT. Feb. 11 The past week
was a big one in the American motor
industry, the week seeing Henry ana
Kdsel Ford, in association with Henry
M. and W ilfred C. Leland. who orig
inally founded the Lincoln Motor
company, take over the entire plants
and eauioment of that company.
This is believed to be the beginning
of one of the most far-reaching affil
iations in the motor car industry. It
brings to the Lincoln' company Ford's
almost limitless resources, ana iaca
of finances w-as the only handicap
the Lincoln Motor company -had ever
experienced. It also brings together
two men who are recognised as un
questioned leaders In their respective
fields. Ford as the master manufac
turer in quantity production, and
Henry M. Leland as a master of fine
things mechanical.
While the new Lincoln4 company be
comes affiliated with the Ford Motor
company, the executive personnel of
the two concerns will be held separate
and distinct, the management of the
Lincoln company continuing with
Henry M. and 'Wilfred C. Leiand: in
fact, this was one of the conditions
Insisted on by Mr. Ford at the out
set of the negotiations.
An Increased manufacturing sched
ule will be inaugurated immediately,
there being a large amount of stock
la various stages of completion and
much which is finished and ready for
assembling. The former Lincoln man
ufacturing organisation has largely
been held Intsct and preparations
were all made in advance so that
everything would be in readiness to
go forward as soon as the necessary
fi realities had bee 1 completed.
It is apparent that many persons
have been misled into the idea that
the Ford connection indicates a rev
olution in policies, particularly as
those policies concern manufacturing
practices and selling prices; but it is
contended t.ial this will not be the
case.
Both Mr. Iceland and Mr. Ford have
NEW INTERNATIONAL MOTOR TRUCK GOES ON "MEAT ROUTE" IN CITY.
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Tmi-ee-vartcr-lateraatleaal speed track Jaat added t the fleet sf .Swift A C. for ase of the city branch. The
aale was naada by th track departasrat ef the Partlaad breach of the Iateraatioaal Harvester company, distrl fe
at era ter IateraaUeaal track thrangkoat this dlstrtct-
ear ' ' . ' . ' IU
iee drifts
on the Columbia
for automobiles
last week and It la
the road cleared to
man for the Wlllya-Overland Pacific
that it cannot be shoveled until after
emphasized la the strongest possible
terms that any thought of change in
the Leland manufacturing standards
would be out of all reason. !
AITO STAGES ARE BIG ASSET
Seven Passenger Lined Operate In
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CHEHALIS. Wash.. Feb. 11. (Spe
cial.) The automobile stage business
Is one of Chehalis most substantial
assets in the matter of bringing, busi
ness to this city. At this time there
are seven stage lines operating-. In
and out of Chehalis on regular daily
schedule. In addition there is an ex
tensive business carried on in the
line of motor freighting, not to take
into account the many trucks that
haul produce from the farms to the
mi!k and other factories In the city.
Crockett Rose, who claims the dis
tinction of being the oldest stage
driver In .Washington, in point of
years of service and mileage traveled.
has a line between Chehalis and Kiffe.
This he has operated regularly the
last 14 years without having missed a
triD. and after wearinir nut 2 ti auto
mobiles he has covered upward oP
528,000 miles. W. H. Belcher runs the
line between Chehalis and Onalaska.
the thriving milling town 16 miles
southeast of here. Between Chehalis
and Olympia the Blair Motor Trans
portation company is operating a
stage de luxe line that is proving
profitable and that relieves an old
time question as to how one could get
to the state capital and back th4
same day by givlr.e- local folk five
round trips daily. E. M. Dubold takes
care of the traffic between Chehalis
and Raymond. The Moffltt Auto
company has five stages on the Che-halis-Toledo
run. Light & Nelson run
stages regularly to Aberdeen and re
turn. The Chehalis-Morton busses
affords people in that part of eastern
Lewis county daily access to the
county seat and western Lewis coun
ty points. K. L. MiddauFrh hss a suc
cessful freight truck business be
tween Chehalis and Tacoma. connect
Ing with the resular service between
Tacoma and Seattle.
Drill Work Made Easy.
When a piece of work to be drilled
is too small or of such shape that it
cannot be bolted to the drill press
table-it can be kept from turning- by
putting under it a piece of stiff emery
cloth.
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either to haul the chunks away by
shovel the broken ice off the aides of
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TEMPORARY QUARTERS ARE
PPEXED OX BROAD WAV.
Work on New Paige Home at Cor
ner Xinth and Burnside Will
Start This Week.
Cook & Gill company, Paige distrib
utors, established its show room at
the northeast corner of Broadway and
Flanders last week, which quarters it
will occupy until the new building
being erected for the company at the
northeast corner of Ninth and Burn
side is ready.
The new location is a well-known
one so far as the automobile industry
is concerned, having been used for
auto display for 'several years past.
For a considerable period it was the
home of the Willamette Oakland com
pany and more recently it was occu
pied by the Roberts Motor Car com
pany. Republic truck distributors, for
display of passenger cars. The build
ing gives adequate room tor display
of half a doxen or more automobiles!
and In addition provides office rooms
for sales manager and salesmen.
Work on tearing down the frame
structures now occupying the prem
ises at Ninth and Burnside, where the
new Paige home will be erected, will
begin next week, it has been an
nounced, and actual construction on
the new building will start soon
thereafter. Plans have now all been
completed and all is in readiness for
going ahead with the building. The
company expects to be located there
by April 15.
Until the new home is ready Cook
A Gill will continue to use portions of
the old building at Eleventh and
9urnside streets, which was recently
secured by Braley. Graham & Childs,
Dodge Brothers dealers, together with
the new salesrooms 011 lower Brosd
way. Retail sales will be handled en
tirely from the new downtown loca
tion, while the machine shop, welding
shop, service department for ne-w
Paige cars, warehouses and general
offices will be maintained in the old
Paige building until they can be
moved Into the new structure.
The first practical American eltc
tric automobile was built by Fred
Kimball of Boston in 1SSS.
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BY H. A. TAREXTOUS.
u.mbsr Society of Automotive -Engineers
If the average car owner were asked
whether he could identify his own car
unrir uit set of circumstances, his
Impulse would be to return an un
qualified and indignant affirmative.
The police of one of our larger cities
would-disagree with him Just as un
qualifiedly.
As a matter of fact most car own
ers depend for identification on some
scratch on the body, some broken
crew In t&e chassis or some . other
equally uncertain factor. They do not
sto.p to consider that our Jig manufac
turers are turning out models In the
10.000 lota that differ from each other
In not the lightest discernible de
gree. By the time a successful thief
las run a stolen car tnrougn ms
service station" it would pussle the
moat careful owner on earth to iden
tify nds vehicle.
An instance in poiilt ia found in
the recent experience of a car owner
In a middle western city wno tosi nis
car, a touring model ot a popular
make, and after some weeks or
anxious waiting was summoned to
police headquarters to see whether
he could Identify a vehicle answering
to his description of his lost oar.
Arrived at the DOlice station ha
found a small aroun of other owners
who had assembled to try to identify
the same car to see which he had
been summoned. The hopeful owner
had a number of marks by wnacn ne
felt confident he could prove hia own
ership of the restored vehicle. There
was a bent screw in one pan or me
chassis, a dent in one fender, a scratch
of peculiar shape on the dash. The
oar with which he was comrontea
was undoubtedly of the same vintage
as his lost boat, but unhappily it was
painted a rich ultra-marine blue, in
stead of the dark green that had
graced his vehicle.
Marks Not Dependable.
Thi most earnest scrutiny failed to
disclose any of the distinguishing
marks on which, he had relied. A
slight chipping of the new coat of
emamel revealed the fact it had been
put on qver a previous coat of dark
green that our friend naa oescrioea.
but two of the other assembled own
ers had put in bids for 'dark green
cars and eventually one of them man
aged to identify the car by a chip in
the gearset housing. The identification
was not particularly convincing, but
in the absence of anything better it
served to give the car to the owner
who had been able to describe tne
imperfection.
As a matter of fact no car owner
ought to depend on such casual means
of identification as slight imperfec
tions that may have accrued during
the opea-ation of the vehicle. When the
professional automobile thief steals
a car he takes it to what amounts
practically to a rebuilding factory. In
many cases the entire mechanism is
taken down and the different parts
redistributed with those from other
cars of the same make and model to
turn out what amount to new vehicles.
The only safe method 01 placing
identification marks on a car is to
place them on all major parts of the
mechanism. Perhaps the most satis
factory method of doing so is to place
nunch marks on the various units.
All such marks should be put in places
where they will not be readily dis
cernible; for Instance on the inside of
the axles, on the flywheel, on tne up
per side of the gearset housing. After
the marks have been made tneyenouta
be rubbed over with grease until iney
are as nearly indistinguishable as
tjossible. The car owner can have a
prick punch made with his initials on
it in very fine type and with this
it is possible to place identification
marks on the various parts that will
generally escape notice and yet re
main permanently.
Thieves Caa Be Foiled.
The owner whom I know has had
the upholstery of his front and rear
seat lifted up and has tacked his card
on the wooden framework of the seat.
This is not at all bad because the
thief would seldom think to look in
this location for an. identification
mark of any sort.
Another clever idea is to bors a few
small holes a mare fraction of an
inch into the framework at a given
place carefully measured from per
manently located landmarks. Then fill
these holes with lead and smear the
spot well with grease. If there comes
a time when it is necessary to iden
tify the car it is a simple matter to
measure off the proper distance,
scrape a little lead off and prove own
ership of the car.
In some cases an owner has been
able to identify his car by reason of
some simple, but ingenious mark so
placed that it is apparently part of
car or equipment. Not very long ago
the New York police recovered a
stolen car and nabbed the thief at
the same time. The car corresponded
in every way to a description given
by a certain bereaved owner except
that it had recently been repainted
in an entirely different color scheme.
At anv rate the police summoned
this owner to see if he could identify
th reclaimed car as the one He naa
lost. He came. to headquarters, looked
the vehicle over, paying considerable
attention to the- dash and turning to
the detective in charge said: "This is
my car all right, in suite of the fresh
coat or paint.
"Agist" Proves Owner.
"Have you any marks to identify It
by?" asked the officer.
"Yes. sir." replied the owner. "My
name Is J. K. Siwith, as you know,
Just take a look at the face of that
clock." ,
The officer looked. On the dial of
the clock was the legend: "Brown
Clock Company. Boston, Mass." In fine
script beneath this maker's name was
"Sold by J. W. Smith, Agent." The
thief had accepted this as a bona fide
agent's name instead of a really clever
identification mark which It was.
In a recent theft case in Boston the
owner of a stolen car was able to
prove his ownership of a recovered
car by means of his initials, which
were engraved in ach of the hub
caps.
The Individual owner can probably
find a dozen distinctive wayB of mark
ing his car for possible identification,
but the point is that this should be
done, because when a car has been
stolen the police demand something
more than say-eo on the part of the
owner before they return it to him.
Be sure that there are more ways
than one by means of which you can
prove that your car really is yours
In case you are ever unfortunate
enough to lose it.
Good roads aid everybody.
50 to 500
Salem Marion Auto Co. .
The Dalles Franklin MotorCar Co.
Yakima Henry H. Schott.
E IS NEXT TO
QUANTITY PRODUCTIONS FOR
1920 TjARGE.
No Changes Take Place In Position
ot Two Leading Auto Manu
facturers In ' Past Year,
DETROIT, Feb. 11. Present reports
indicate that no changes occurred
last year in the positions of the two
leading automobile manufacturers,
considering the total production of
cars. As was the case in 1920, Ford
ranked first and Dodge Brothers
second.
The total number of passenger cars
built during the year, according to
an estimate published recently by the
Wall Street Journal, was 1,635,000, as
compared with 1,883,150 for 1920.
Dodge Brothers in the third quarter
ef this year ranked next to Ford
among the world's automobile pro
ducers, vith a monthly .shipment
record of better than 11,000 cars.
This average is nearly maintained
within several hundred cars in
October, an unusual achievement in
this year of unsettlement and compe
tition in the motor Industry.
Considering that production the
first quarter of the year was down
are built in a modern plant, equipped
with the latest machinery; that we
have an unsurpassed tread and design, and that we use only
the finest materials that can be put into a tire. The results,
proved by COAST TIRE performances, justify our claim
that "There are no better tires made anywhere."
See that your next set of tires are "Coast"
LEHNHERR-ROSE, INC.
' 111 TWELFTH STREET
Phone Broadway 2511
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The Franklin Standard
of Demonstration
FRANKLIN
1 We have made it just as easy to know
what the Franklin will dof3t you as to
guess about it.
The fact that we have found this com
plete demonstration pays us is about the
best of evidence that motorists have found
it pays them to know the Franklin Six.
The demonstration is comparative with
all cars in comfort, ease of handling,
safety and competition as a road car.
PARTS PRICES REDUCED
Franklin cuts motoring upkeep costs still further. Price re
ductions on parts range from 10 to40. Effective at once.
Touring Car $2450 Touring Limousin $3800 Runabout $2400
Sedan $3450 Demi-Coupe $2750 Coup $3200 Brougham $3300
(All Price lab. Syracuse)
BRALY AUTO CO.
501 Burnside St., Portland, Or.
Pendleton Pendleton Ante Co.
LGDde David I. Stoddnrd,
Walla Walla Franklin Sales Co.
to 3000 cars, less than one-eleventh
of the same quarter in 1920, and less
than any single month's subsequent
productions, -the record' of Dodge
Brothers was remarkable.
It is understood that Dodge Brothers
finished the year with a total pro
duction of 92,476 cars, which is over
12,000 cars greater production than
the next nearest competitor, not in
cluding Ford.
AUTO CAMPS TO BE UNIFORM
Standardization to Be Complete in
. Northwest This Year,
SPOKAkE, Wash., Feb. 17. Tour
ist camps throughout the northwest
will be completely standardized when
the 1922 tourist season starts, is the
opinion of Major R. A. Laird, publicity
secretary of the Spokane chamber of
commerce. Since the recent Pacific
Rocky Mountain northwest tourist
camp conference more than 18 camp
resort operators and managers have
joined the organization, and are
planning to standardize their camps.
"I believe more than 30 camps
throughout the northwest will be run
on exactly the same basis," said
Major Laird. "Already .18 have
adopted the regulations outlined by
the conference."
Testing Gas Mixture.
If the mixture is suspected of being
too rich shut off the fuel In the tank
and open the throttle. If the mixture
VYE do not claim to be the
v only people who know
ow to make
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The Coast Tire & Rubber Co.
Factors and Main Office
Oakland - California
passing into the cylinders is too rich
me engine speed will increase as tne
level of the gasoline in the float
chamber is lowered, since this opera
tion weakens the mixture consider
ably. If the mixture is thought to be
too- weak the float chamber can be
flooded while the engine is running,
and if this causes the motor to speed
up it may be accepted as an indica
tion that the mixture is not rich
enough. .
Locomobile Seeks Receiver.
Upon the representation that the
interests of banks and merchandise
creditors, as well as stockholders, of
the Locomobile company can be
served best through a reorganization
through receivership, attorneys for
the company and for several creditors
joined in application to the United
States district court for the appoint
ment of a receiver, says a report from
New York. The application sets forth
that the company is -doing a consider
able volume - of business and has
something over half a million dollars
in cash on deposit. Officers of the
company stated that several plana for
reorganization "were considered, but
that, in any event, the policy of tho
company of a limited number of high
priced cars would be continued.
A metal production company' of
Fairmont, W. Va., is now using empty
shells, old guns and millions of rifle
shells for the manufacture of auto-
mile radiators, etc. The shells are
rolled and made into strips of brass.
tires, but we
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