THE SUNDAY OREGONN, PORTLAND. MAY 21, 1922
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UPPER CLACKAMAS RIVER IS STREAM OF UNUSUAL BEAUTY.
FIRST JEWETT CAR SOLD IN PORTLAND AND ITS PURCHASER.
500-Mile International Most
Attractive in Years.
Cars and Trucks Produced
May Shatter Record.
MAY TRADE TO BE GOOD
OLDTIMERS ARE READY
, Ralph UeFalma, Howard Wilcox,
Tommy Milton and Jules Goux
Are Out to Win.
Increase of Employment in Fac
tory Districts Is Reported .
Because of Demand.
ENTERED
213,000 MAOHinES
MONTH'S OUTPUT
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SWEEPSTAKES
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 20.
Thirty-two cars, the largest field
since engines of not more than 183 cu
bic inches piston displacement became
the requirement. Is the entry list for
the tenth annual 600-mile interna
tional sweepstakes of the Indianapolis
Motor epeedway, Tuesday, May 30.
This is the official list of entries as
announced by T. E. "Pop" Myers, sec
retary and general manager of the
epeedway.
This Is seven mort cars than were
ntered a year ago -when Champion
Tommy Milton cune within .22 of a
second of equalling the track aver
age of 89.84 miles an hour established
by Ralph DePalma in 1915 with a
much laTger engine. During the last
11 months the drivers have been able
to Increase the speed of their mounts
and the wiseacres predict that a new
mark will be hung up by the 1922
victor.
. Four of the nine former winners are
to compete for the lion's share of the
$100,000 aggregate purse, of which
the track offers $60,000 in gold. Three
of the former winners not entered
have retired from the sport, one ' is
dead and the other. Rene Thomas,
was unable to complete his plans to
bring over a French car.
DePalma Switches Back.
The quartet aspiring to be the first
pilot to win two five centuries is:
Ralph DePalma, Howard Wilcox, Tom
my JJilton and Jules Goux. Kalph De
Palma, 1915 winner, after two cam
paigns with the Ballot, has switched
back to a Yankee mount, driving one
of the Duesenberg straight eights
"Howdy" Wilcox pins hia faith to the
Peugeot brand, having won with that
make In 1919. Champion Milton has a
car built in Los Angeles, which he
has yet to name, entered, where a year
ago he won with Chevrolet's Fron
tenae eight. Goux has shipped two
Ballots from the Paris factory,
witching from the Peugeot to the
Ballot brand. He -von in 1913, fin
ished third in 1014 and 1919 and
started in 1920 with a Peugeot. Goux
has not named the driver for the sec
ond Ballot. He may bring a pilot
from France or England but if he
does not, will pick an American to
be his team mate.
Competing with Goux, his mate and
Wilcox, for the honor of taking the
purse across the Atlantic, wih be
W. Douglas Hawkea, a London en
gineer, who is bringing over a Bent
ley car to represent England. This
will be the first appearance of this
make of car in American racing and
the entry, which was cabled, did not
give any details regarding the car.
Millionaire Is Entered.
Every race must have its million
aire, that is, every Indianapolis race.
Joe Boyer, Detroit speed king, does
not appear this time but R. Clifford
Durant, son of W. C. Durant, has
named a Durant special for the event.
Durant has not driven for two yearf
but has decided to come back. The
car he 1a driving Is the one which
Tommy Milton used the latter part of
last season to win the 1921 oham
pionshlp and which Milton turned
back to him recently when he got
delivery of his new car.
Jimmy Murphy, who won the 1921
French Grand Prix over a rough-road
course near LeMans, despite the han
dlcap of two broken ribs, was the
last driver to file his entry. Just what
tne former mechanic of Tommy Mil
ton and one of the most careful driv-
ers racing win drive is not an
nounced.
Roscoe Sarles, runner-up last year,
has switched from the Duesenberg
brand to one of Louis Chevrolet's
Frontenacs. Roscoe is a daring
driver. In his first race in California
he stood his car on end and smashed
it, to keep from hitting a careless
spectator, but a week later had it
rebuilt and raced again. He has been
one of the most consistent finishers
in the game for three seasons. Be
Ing a native of the Hoosier state
he will carry the hopes of a lot of
Indiana fans.
Oldtlmers Are Entered.
' Eddie Hearne, Ralph Mulford, De
Palma and Wilcox, veterans of the
first 00 in 1911, are among the
starters. Both Hearne and Mulford
are to be reckoned with in the final
accounting. Hearne was one of the
first . of the millionaire drivers of
the road racing days of almost a
decade and a half ago, and was a
star before many of the present day
drivers were out of knee pants. Mul-'
ford dates back to the same era.
Hearne, however, is showing his age
and being bald Is known in racing
circles as "Grand Pop," while Mulford
la still youthful and looks as young
as the youngest pilot Mulford and
Wilcox have never missed a 600-mile
race at Indianapolis.
Among other drivers entered who
will bear watching are: Art Klein,
Harry Hartz, Jules Ellingboe, Wilbur
D'Alene and Tom Alley. Klein is a
daring driver and always gets all
the speed out of a car. This year he
is driving a Frontenae for Louis
Chevrolet, a car he has successfully
campaigned in the winter races on
the west coast.
Harry Harts, the Juvenile of the
field, won the recent San Carlos race
at Ban Francisco piloting the Duesen
berg he will drive here. Jules Elling
boe took Percy Ford's Chlcago
Frontenac a year ago as a relief
driver and put It in third place at
the finish. This time he has switched
to the Duesenberg. Ellingboe was
a find of J. Alex Sloan and for five
seasons starred on the dirt tracks.
. . D'Alene Cap'ains Monroe Fleet.
Wilbur D'Alene is captain of the
Monroe fleet of three cars. Wilbur
has been driving for years, his best
performance at Indianapolis being as
runner-up to Darlo Resta in 1916.
"Soldier Tom" Alley, a mechanic on
the famous old National teams, riding
aide to Ralph DePalma, and for sev
eral years a driver. Is going to be a
teammate for D'Alene. Last year Tom
drove a Frontenae and was In third
place when mechanical trouble elimi
nated him at about the half-way
mark.
Joe Thomas, formerly mechanic for
Eddie Pullen, was one of the late en
tries. In the Fresno Speedway race
recently Thomas was taken 111 and
for a time It was thought he would
have to undergo an operation. How-
aver, he recovered In time to file his
entry for the Hoosier event and has
started to prepare for the contest. He
will drive a Deusenberg.
I. P. Fetterman, th sorrel-topped
Pittsburg lad, who gained fame as a
winner of stock car races at Union-
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VIEWS TAKES RECENTLY BT DODGE BROTHERS' MOTORISTS AT
The roads up the Clackamas river
section comes as near being a fisherman s paradis'e as amy part of Oregon. But whether you fish or not, you
will find the drive up the Clackamas one of unusual attraction with all kinds of places for. stopping and having
picnic lunch. The road up th south bank is now in fair shape, as is also the road up the north, bank, although
the former Is preferred at present
east of Estacada, while the one below
and quietly under it.
was a relief on the 1920 Duesenberg
team and knows the track.
Newcomers this season include Jack
Curtner and C. Glenn Howard, who
have entered the first flivvers in the
history of the world's greatest race.
Those cars are rebuilt Fords, the en
gines having been changed by the
Chevrolet brothers, and are known as
Fronty" Fords. In addition to being
Fords, the two cars will be equipped
with wireless receiving sets that the
drivers can communicate with the pits
by radio. '
Others making their bows Include
E. G. "Cannonball" Baker, Lora L.
Comm. Frank Davidson and William
Gardner.
Official list of entries, showing car.
driver and entrant, follows:
Dlsteel Duesenberg, Eddie Hearne, Dla
teel Flyers. Inc.: Frontenae, Roscoe Sarles,
Louis Chevrolet; Frontenae, B. G. "Cannon-
ball" Baker, Louis Chevrolet; Frontenae,
Peter DePaolo, Louis Chevrolet ; Frontenae,
Art Klein. Louis Chevrolet; Frontenae
Ralph Mulford, Louis Chevrolet; Frontenae,
unnamed, Louis Chevrolet; not namea,
Tommy Milton, Tommy Milton; Leach Spe
cial, Frank Elliott, Ira Vail ; Frontenae. un
named, Mrs. Mae Harvey; Duesenberg-,
Harry Harts, Harry Harts; Ballot, Jules
Goux, Jules Goux; Ballot, nat named. Jules
Goux; Peugeot, Howard S. Wilcex, Howard
S. Wilcox; Duesenberg, Wallace Held. Wal
lace Reid ; Duesenberg, Ralph DePalma,
Ralph DePalma; Fronty Ford, Jack Curt
ner, Jack Curtner; Fronty Ford, C -Glenn
Duesenberg, I. P. etaolnshrdlcmfwyppyp
Howard, Chevrolet Brothers company;
Duesenberg, I. P. Fetterman, I. P. Fetter
man; Bentley, W. Douglas Hawkes. W.
Douglas Hawkes; Duesenberg, Jules Elling
boe, Jules ' Ellingboe; Duesenberg, Jerry
Wonderlich, Jerry Wonderllch; Monroe,
Wilbur D'Alene, Monroe Motors company;
Monroe, Tom Alley, Monroe Motors com
pany; Monroe, Lora L. Coram, Monroe
Motors company; D'Wehr, Frank Davidson,
Frank Davidson; Duesenberg, Joe Thomas,
Joe Thomas; Duesenberg, unnamed, O. A.
Hoffman; Bentz Special, William H. Gard
ner, William H. Gardner; mystery ear, no
name; Durant Special, R. C. Durant, R.
C Durant; no name, James Murphy, James
Murphy. . v .
SIGNS WILL BE RE-ERECTED
Big Work Planned This Tear by
California Motorist Body.
SACRAMENTO, May 10. Seven hun
dred yellow and blue markers will be
erected by the California State Auto
mobile association in San Mateo
Plumas and Sierra counties. Within
the week the task of erecting 176 C. S.
A. A. signs in Sutter county will be
started and- signs for Glenn, Colusa,
Yolo, Marin and Napa counties have
ben ordered.
In Mariposa and Tuolumne counties
250 additional signs will be erected
and 398 direction and danger markers
in Santa Clara county. The associa
tion Is now completing the erection of
parking limit signs In the city of
Oakland. Three trucks are being used
by the association for this work.
New Top
New Paint
MAKE CAR
LOOK NEW
Let the Covey Motor Car Co,
Washington at 21st, paint
your car and re-cover your
top at prices reduced to suit
the times.
1919 COLE
7 PASSENGER
, Starting Price S875
Today's Price - SSOO
This car being reduced
$25.00 a day until sold.
COVEY MOTOR CAR CO.
-Washington Bt 21st St,
ESTACADA.
are beginning again to hum with activity, for it is fishing season, and this
The top photo of the two above shows
shows the same bridge and an attractive view of the river running dieej
GENERAL MOTORS ELECTS
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MEMBERS OP BOARD
DIRECTORS CHOSEN.
OF
Three Vacancies in Membership of
Management of Company Filled
at Annual Meeting.
NEW YORK, May 20 At the an
nual meeting of stockholders of Gen
eral Motors corporation, held recently,
directors constituting the board were
re-elected, and three existing vacan
cies were filled by the election of
GeOrge H. Hannum, general manager
of Oakland Motor Car company; Alex
B. C. Hardy, general manager of Olds
Motor works, and Herbert H. Rice,
general manager of Cadillac Motor
Car company, the three companies be
ing divisions of the General Motors
corporation.
The directors re-elected are:
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CLACKAMAS RIVER BRIDGE AT
the bridge over the Clackamas Just
erre S. Dupont, chairman; George F.
Baker Jr., Harry H. Bassett, Arthur
G. Bishop, Donaldson Brown, Arthur
Chamberlain, William L. Day, Henry
F. duPont, Irenee 'duPont, Lamont
duPont, Fred J. Fisher, J. Armory
Haskell, Louis G. Kaufman, Charles
F. Kettering, Sir Harry McGowan, R.
Samuel McLaughlin, William Mc
Master, Charles S. Mott, Seward
Prpsser, John J. Raskob, Alfred P.
Sloan Jr., John T. Smith, Edward R.
StettlnlUB, Alfred H. Swayne, William
H. Woodln, Clarence M. Woolley,
Owen D. Young and Karl W. Zimmer-
schled.
The organization meeting of direc
tors for the election of officers for
the ensuing year will be held in New
York shortly.
Don't Hesitate When Crossing Mnd.
Careful drivers, when going over a
poor strip of highway, especially
heavy, eoft mud, make every effort
to keep going. To stop, or even hesi
tate, is to be stuck m the mire.
A racing speed car consumes on an
average one gallon of gasoline to
every ten miles.
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Jbod th4 Whrld I Moo
Not only arc people raying with greater
emphasis than ever that the Nash is a goodinvest
mcnt, but they are proving their conviction by
the growing volume of their purchases.
It is only to be expected that a financially
independent manufacturing organization of
notable efficiency in both men and method
should produce a car to notable in value, that
it is attracting a steadily increasing percentage
f buyer.. ...
FOURS and SIXES
Prices range from $1175 to $2725, f. o. b. Portland
Portland Motor Car Co.
Tenth at Burnside Phone Broadway 521
NEW YORK, May 20. Skeptic who
have thought reports of the tremen
dous business being done by the auto
motive industry were exaggerations
have been routed by the preliminary
production figures for April, which
show that approximately 213,000 cars
and trucks were turned out in that
month, according to statistics obtained
for Motor Age, the authoritative mo
tor publication. When the final fig
ures are compiled they are quite likely
to shatter the record of 220,000 estab
lished in March, 1920. The biggest
month in -1821 was August, with
180.78L
Not only was April one of the two
biggest months in the history of the
industry, but production tor the first
three months of any year except 1920.
It marked a gain of more than 100
per cent over the same period last
year.
May is certain to be as large as
April and factories in the Detroit dis
trict will exert themselves to produce
even more heavily. Capacity output
will be necessary to fill orders now
on hand and those which still are
running into the plant in a flood
which shows no sign of abating.
June Promise Is Good.
June also promises well, although it
does not seem possible that business
can continue into the third quarter at
the present levels. It is probable there
will be the usual mid-summer decline
in sales, but nothing like a slump. ' In
fact, it now seems certain that pro
duction for the first half of the year
will be eo heavy that the total for 1922
will be materially larger than tor 1921,
even if there is a sharp falling off in
the saleB In the last half, which now
seems unlikely.
Although expansion of truck sales
has not been as sensational as in the
passenger car field, the market is ex
panding month by month and the out
put for the year will be much, larger
than in 1921. There has been a steady
gain each month this year and the
percentage of increase over the same
period last year has been large. The
output for April was almost as large
as for the entire first quarter. It is
significant of the Improvement in the
farm market that half the commer
cial vehicles turned out in the first
three months of the year were made
by three companies producing popu
lar light trucks.
Parts plants have speeded up pro
duction to suoh an extent that the
shortage In some lines, which slowed
up operations last month in a consid'
erable number of factories assembling
vehicles, will be considerably allevi
ated in May.
Akron reports a boom in tire sales
commensurate with that in the pas
senger car and truck field. Reserve
stocks are being depleted to meet de
mands and production- has been ex
panded. Factories in both Detroit and
Akron are having difficulty In finding
the skilled labor needed.
Employment Is on Increase.
Further evidence of Increased actlv
ity in the automotive industry is given
in the report of the industrial survey
conducted by the United States em
ployment service for the month end
ing April 30, lust received here. An
increase of 10.4 per cent in employ-
ment for March has been noted for the
automotive Industry, which is classi
fied as "vehicles for land transporta
tion." April records an upward move-
ment with lines broadening out, and
according to federal agents will show
increased activity in May. The rec
ords show that 20,556 employes were
Co Tttlu4
William turaemer, mecnanie of the Southern Paeifla machine shops, and new
cook Ulll company, Paige and Jewett olstrlbnton. An even two dosen of the new Jewett cars have been
sold thxaosheut the state within the last 1 2 days, aeeodlng to the report of Cook Gill.
added to the payrolls of the automo
tive trade during April.
Agents of the employment service
in Michigan report that the auto
motive Industry is making decided
gains. Much overtime has been noted
for the first time in many months.
The continual improvement in the
automotive business and general fi
nancial conditions has brought about
big demand, and rush orders for
wheels Increase the employment. In
Detroit part-time employment has
dropped to less than 1 per cent and no
plants are closed. Factories have ab
sorbed all skilled workmen and the
demand for men of that class is
greater than the supply. In Lansing
one motor-wheel company is working
full capacity with night shifts. The
automotive parts and specialty shops
in Milwaukee expanded operations
and a firm manufacturing bodies has
10 per cent Increase in employment
There is also an Increase in the num
ber of operators employed in motor
truck and rubber tire factories. The
automotive factories in Kenosha, Wis.,
are working overtime. Automotive
factories in St Louis report aug
mented employment, .
In the east a distinct increase in em-
Chemical analysis Shows that all fabricating oils are
composed of about 85 carbon and 15 hydrogen
fa chemical combination.
All tobrlrattog: o& form carbm when burned fa the
combustion chamber. The Important thing to de
termine is the emotmt andliod rfcatbonfiarmed
by the oil.
Some oils form a good deal ofcstrbon,some a smaH
amount; some produce hard, flinty carbon which
will cause a great deal of trouble; others produce a
soft, flaky carbon that will do no damage.
The important factors determining' the amount and
kind of carbon formed by a lubricating oil are the
crude from which it is made, the process and care
in refining it, its purity and stability.
Advantages of Crude and Vacuum
Refining
Great care is exercised in selecting the crudes from
which Zerolene is made, to secure only those which
contain the most desirable lubricating values and at
the same time as little as possible, if any, of the un
desirable hydrocarbons such as wax and asphaltum.
In selecting crudes for Zerolene, the Standard Oil
Company has the advantage of its own large pro
duction of practically every type of crude oiL For
this reason this company is not compelled to use
any particular crude because it happens to be the
only one available.
These selected crudes, carefully refined by our own
patented, high-vacuum process,produce in Zerolene,
oils of the highest lubricating value, which, when
burned in the combustion chamber, develop a very
small amount of carbon of a soft, flaky nature,
which can do no harm and usually blows out en
tirely with the exhaust
ployment to noted among automotive
industries. A motorcycle factory in
Springfield has resumed operations
and an automobile concern in the same
city is now operating on full time.
Reports from Connecticut show that
business is booming in the automobile
accessories trade. Automotive manu
facture in New York shows a gradual
improvement.
APRUi BIG MONTH FOB NASH
Factory Oversold and Cannot Meet
Full Demand This Month.
Nash motors in April had the big
gest month in the history of its busi
ness, cays a factory bulletin received
here., Eighteen per cent more cars
were shipped last month than were
shipped in April, 1921. Even the pre
vious record month, August, 1920,
was entirely eclipsed In point of ship
ments during the 30 days Just past.
"The fact that all previous records
In the history of our business were
broken in April, In my opinion, is
due to the soundness of the product,"
said C B. Voorhla, vice-president and
director of sales of the- Nash Alotors
iTAMDAUD OH. COMPANY '
ICaltftmia)
mra power&speed
less friction and wear
thru (med Lubrication
Jewett, which he purchased from
company. "Every effort consistent
with careful production is being made
to meet as nearly as possible the de
mand for Nash cars in May. Frankly,
though, we will not be able to supply
the full demand for we have faced
an oversold condition, now, for the
past two months.
"When we brought out our new
line of cars the first of the year there
was no doubt in our mind as- to the
reception they would meet. That was
apparent at the very outset. All pre
vious records were broken at the New
York and Chicago shows as well as at
most of the shows subsequently held
in various cities throughout the coun
try. With the opening of the spring
season the pressure of orders became
stronger until finally, some weeks
ago, we reached the point where we
were oversold.
"The first quarter of 1923 shows an
Increase of nearly 62 per cent over
the similar period a year ago,''
Many cities in the United States
strongly enforce laws against jay
walking" crossing of streets by pe
destrians in the middle of the block
as a precautionary measure for the
benefit of the pedestrian.
tuwn ,io driving a Puesenbsrg. h