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5 MILEAGE PIRATES SIGNED FOR RACES ' TWO MORE CHEVROLETS PURCHASED BY PEAKE, "THE SHADE MAN.' UNGflSTEH CAMP OPENS RESORT NEAR EAGLE CREEK BEGINS SUMMER SEASON. Hash Leads the World in Motor Car Value Six Touring $J6$0 Ground Broken for Lost Lake Camp, Which Is Expected to Be Ready Early in July. Tacoma Event to Be Great est in Northwest. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 18, 1922 FAMOUS MEN WILL VIE Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, World War Ace, May Attend July 4 as Official. f Following is a complete list T of the field of drivers to par- J ticipate in the lHh annual 4 national championship race to be held on the Tacoma speed way July 4, together witn car to be driven: ' ;- Jimmy Murphy Murphy Spe- . cial. Harry Harts Duesenberg Spe cial, Ralph De Palma Duesenberg Special. Tommy Milton Leach Special. Cliff Durant Durant Special. Ralph Mulford F rontenac ' Special. Howdy Wilcox Frontenac Special. Roscoe Sarles Duesenberg Special.' Joe Thomas Duesenberg Spe cial. Peter De Paolo Disteel Due senberg:. Bennie HJJ1 Car not named. Jerry Wonderlich Duesen berg Special. Leon Duray Frontenac Spe cial. Art Klein Frontenac Special. Frank EIliott-Leach Special'. Barney Oldfield Pacemaker. CLOSED CARS INCREASE HUDSON SAID TO TOP LIST FOR GAIN. TACOMA. Wash., June 17. "On to Tacoma" is the battle cry of the speed kings, for the next real big race of the year is to take place on the Tacoma speedway on July 4. There are two other races sched uled before the Tacoma race, but they will not equal the northwest event. On June 14 a small field of drivers will drive at Uniontown and another at San Francisco. With 15 of the fastest cars and drivers in the world headed for Ta coma, the greatest speed programme ever witnessed in the northwest is scheduled to take place, on Inde pendence day. Entries for the Ta coma event closed early last week and the cream of the racing world are entered this year. Mileage Pirates Listed. The mileage pirates who have signed and their cars are: Jimmy Murphy, driving a Murphy Special; Harry Hartz, Duesenberg Special; Ralph De Palma, Duesenberg Spe cial; Tommy Milton, Leach Special; Cliff Durant, Durant Special; Ralph Mulford, Frontenac special; noway Wilcox, Frontenac Special; Joe Thomas, Duesenberg Special; Pietro de Paola, Disteel Duesenberg; Ben nie Hill, car not named; Jerry Won derlich, Duesenberg Special; Leon Duray, Frontenac Special; Art Klein, Frontenac Special Frank Elliott, Leach Special. Of the 15- drivers entered, three have been picked out by the dape sters as strong contenders for first money: Jimmy Murphy, winner of the Memorial-day( classic at Indian apolis; Harry Hartz, a close second to Murphy and Tommy Milton, na tional champion for 1921, are the prime favorites. Murphy is driving the fastest 183-cubic-inch car tnat ..... tn the trai-k. His "perform ance at the Indianapolis race was the sensation of tne' aay. narry Hartz, a youthful meteor from San de Jimmy keen his leet to the floorboard most of the time. Hartz is driving a duplicate nfvni, wlnnjnir Dnesenbere: of the grand prix in 1921. Milton is moVtno. a dp.snerate effort to oust Murphy and Hartz from the top of the race calendar with his fast Leach Special. The car is new to Milton and he nas noi quite iounu its tricks yet. Oldfield to Lead. Barney Oldfield, "master driver of 4Um vnriH " in to act as nacemaker ih. avnt In Tawima Oldfield will lead the field to a flying start and then will watcn tne young sters" circle the same speedway ' which helped to make him famous. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, ace of aces during the world war; Joe of the track, are endeavoring to ar range their scneauie so mat iney toiu on hand thin Fourth in Ta- soma. They will act as officials if they attend the race. Requests for boxes and seats are flooding the mail of the speedway office. The seat sale has been under way for eeveral weeks and advance indications point to a crowd of 40,000 or 50,000. Branch offices and touring bureaus of the Automobile Club of Western Washington in Ta coma, Seattle,' Bellingham, Chehalis, Ellensburg, Everett, Ilwaco, Mount Vernon, Olympia, Raymond, Vancou ver,' Wenatchee, Yakima, Hoquiam, "'lMtnFtATi null Port A ncrelpifi TA act ing as official representatives for tne speedway ana reservations may DO maaa at eica dub. STUDEBAKER MAKES RECORD May This Tear Greatest Month in History of Big Corporation. Studebaker production, sales and general financial progress during , the month of May shattered all pre vious records, according to news re ceived from A. R. Erskine, president of the big corporation, by Manager Leander of the Portland branch. Sales for the month, according to ' Mr. Erskine's statement, were ap proximately 14,000 cars, production amounted to 10,853 cars and collec tions came to $17,000,000. This rec ord shows almost 100 per cent rreater activity than May, 1921, de. spite the fact that 1921 was an ex cellent year for Studebaker. In May last year sales were 7383 cars. Widespread demand for Studebaker cars continues unabated, according to Ers,kine. and is exceeding pro v duction capacity. Velie Dealer Named. Harry S. Wels, a prominent bus! ness man of Kelso, Wash., has taken the dealership for the Velie car in that section, according to arrange ments ' concluded last week" by Mr. Wels with the W. R. Delay Motor company, Velie distributor for Ore gon and a portion of Washington. Mr. Weis made a visit to Portland to confer with a number of dis. trlbutors regarding a dealership and after his investigation selected the Velie car. His territory will consist of Cowlitz county." including the towns of Kalaroa, Kelso and Castle Rock, and he will open headquar ters In Kelso. Nevr ears delivered last week to local firm by the Fields Motor Car company, Chevrolet distributor. The cars. an "F. B." model tonrlngt and "4&0" Marina;, bring the total to cleat Chevroleta which Mr. Peake haa pnr chancd for his business. Proportion of All Cars Reaches 25 Per Cent in 1921 and Is Still Growing. DETROIT, June 10. Automobile maufacturers are agreed that the tremendous increase in proportion of closed cars made since 1916 has been one of the outstanding features of the automotive business during that period. In that year 1.6 per cent of all motor cars made in the United States was closed cars. This proportion has risen rapidly each year since, reaching 25 per cent in 1921, and it is still growing at a phenomenal rate. The Hudson Motor car company. which has been a leader in propor tion of closed car sales, due to its pioneering in this line, probably tops all manufacturers today. Fifty five jer cent of 'its entire output since January 1 has been in closed cars, it announces. Essex Motors is believed to be in second place in this respect. Slight ly more than, half of the Essex out put since the year started has been in cars of this type. Both companies state that the pro portion of this business is continu ing at approximately the same rate. even with summer at hand. In fact. it is quite certain, they declare, that vh(n production totals for May are compiled it will be found that the closed car business for that month was even higher than the yearly average to date. It is believed that each company s proportion w 1 1 J mount even higher during the re mainder of the year, since closed car business is always heavy in the fall. In 1921, 31 per cent of Hudson s entire manufacture and 19 per cent of the Essex output was in closed cars. Decision to build the . new coach type and the ability of each concern through volume sales to of fer this model at but little more than an open-car price are gener ally accepted as the reasons for the gain each has made. Orders lor these types continue to pour into the factory in undiminished number. it is reported. The great demand for- closed cars has, however, curtailed production for all manufacturers and has re sulted in making the country-wide shortage of many makes of cars even more acute. This is so be cause of the greater time necessary to produce closed car bodies. 3IOTORISTS LOSE LICENSES Over 500 Washington Drivers Forfeit Right to Use Roads. SPOKANE, June 17. More than 5.00 Washington autoists already have lost their licenses this season for failure to obey highway law, according to L. . D. McArdle, state director of efficiency, during an in-. snection trip here. McArdle expects several thousand white driving cards to be taken up by judges and jus tices during the present season. Jail sentences for speeders ana reckless drivers are proving effec tive here. Some days the total sent to prison for a short term runs as high as seven or eight. McArdle said special attention would be paid by highway inspectors this year to- overloading of trucks. The limit is 24.000 pounds. WILLS PRODUCTION HEAVY Eighty Wills Sainte Claires Were Shipped in One Day. The last day of May marked a new production record : for Wills Sainte Claire cars, according to word received by Charles C. Fagan, local distributor. On that day the Marysville plants of C. H. Wills & Co. shipped 80 cars. The. best day's production up to May SI 1 was 63 cars. The May production ' showed an Increase of about 80 per cent over April. The Witts Sainte Claire plants at Marysville are now working dou ble shifts and production la going forward virtually 24 hours a day, it was stated. The day shift goes on at 7 A. M. and quits- at 5 P. M. The second shift starts at 5:30 P. M. and, with an hour intermission at mid night, works until 5 A. M. With the Athol Manufacturing company and the American Bushings corporation also working double shifts, Marysville, Mich., these days is a very busy and very prosperous industrial center. INSURANCE LOSSES SEVERE Steps Mnst Be Taken to Protect Underwriters, Is Statement. Automobile thefts all over the country have been so numerous, ac cording to a report by Joseph W. Russell, a member of the New York Underwriters' conference, that in the last 12 months the reported losses have exceeded the premiums by $20,000,000. "Many of these claims have been crooked," he writes, "and the under writers are making efforts "to pro tect themselves by inspecting the physical condition of cars more carefully and scrutinizing the record of owners. I have favored an asso ciation of all automobile und-er-writers in order to have-the physical inspection, of cars undertaken by One central bureaur "It is difficult to deal with the moral risk in this way, however. That wuld mean that each com pany -would report to all other com panies anything they found against the-character of an applicant. This would amount to a blacklist. We might find ourselves in conflict with the state anti-trust law in proceed ing this way. "Then again, it is dangerous to exchange information as to the rec ord of individuals, because of the danger of mistakes and of libel. However, drastic means of self-protection must be adopted by auto mobile underwriters in view of the ruinous losses of the last year." LIEUT TROUBLES TD END ADJUSTING STATIONS OPENED FOR SERVICE AT NIGHT. EIGHT LUKES OM ROAD TWO WATERFALLS TO BE SEEN NEAR SPOKANE, HEAD OF TIRE ORGANIZATION RESIGNS. IV v rl-tlll I nss mMaeamimk$t:fittimi M W.' L. Bartlett, who is leavins tire business here after five active . years. Announcement has been made that W.L. Bartlett, who for the jjast five years has been president and gen eral manager of the Perfection Tire company, has resigned to take up other lines of business. Mr. Bartlett, who nas Deen in business in Port land for some 27 years, brought the first Perfection t'res to this coast, and during tne past five years has opened a chain of stores from Sdo kane to San Diego, all of which have shown splendid growth. Certificates of Work Are Issued by Permission of California State Auto Department. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 17. One of. the greatest problems con fronting the motorcar driver in California is well on the way to so lution. It is the problem of glaring headlights on the road at night. Through the efforts of the Cali fornia Trade association, and the California Motor Vehicle depart ment, of which Charles Chenti is su perintendent, official headlight ad justing stations have been estab lished throughout northern Cali fornia and others will be appointed in the south just as soon as the two illuminating engineers cover the ground. These stations must be inspected and the men instructed in the proper manner of adjusting headlights. The engineers are making rapid prog ress and in a few months the entire State will be equipped. Stations have already been estab lished in San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Joaquin and Fresno counties, and the engineers are working south. By arrangement with the state motor vehicle department and the California Automobile Trade as sociation, official headlight adjust ing stations are allowed to issue certificates to motorists when the headlights on their-cars are , ad justed, showyg the work has been done, and the lights are right. These certificates will be good as long as the lights remain in adjustment. If, for some reason, the lamps get out of kilter, the officers have the right to send the offending motorist to the nearest station for a new ad justment. . NEW LIBERTY MODEL NAMED The Cavaliers Is Title Selected for , Roadster and Touring. "' "The Cavaliers" is the" name just announced - by the Liberty Motor Car company for the two special models recently Introduced, which will, be known Individually as the Cavalier roadster and Cavalier tour ing. Four months ago the Liberty company' developed a "special" touring model. Recently this was followed by a companion car in the roadster type. But they were with out any particular designation ex cept "special" tpuring and "special" roadster, which didn't seem ade quate or appropriate. A distinctive name for these particular models was thought necessary and sugges tions invited. Within five days nearly 1200 suggestions had been received from Liberty employes and friends of the company. Among those who had been asked to submit an appropriate name was one of the men responsible for Lib erty advertising, W. A. P. John, an author of note, whose writings are familiar to many readers. He promised a. good one. His sugges tion was submitted, approved by acclamation and henceforth the Lib erty special models will be known as the Liberty Cavaliers. Devil's Well and Great Cave Are Within Reach of Visitors to District, Mostly New. SPOKANE, Wash., June 17. The Portland motorist visiting Spokane will find that this section offers within a comfortable 25-mile drive eight lakes, two waterfalle, a "Devil's Well," and a mammoth cave. You can't get into the cave, but then, caves are damp and un healthy, anyway. The section containing this acen ery is about 80 miles from the city, in practically virgin country. The roads are good, considering the broken nature of the land, and with careful driving no difficulties should be met. To re,ach the string of lakes, the tourifit turns at West Branch, on the Newport highway north of Spo kane, and follows the West river. Three mile from the main road in Aloika lake. The next is Fan lake, where tha T. M. C. A. boys hold their annual encampment. A few miles further on . la Horseshoe, which, until tlis summer, had never seen a white man's boat. Just a' short distance beyond Horseshoe -lake is the "Devil's Well," an apparently bottomless pit, circular, carved out of eolid basalt. It origin is a mystery, but it , Is supposed to be an old volcanic blow hole. For some distance the ground sounds hollow to the tread, indicat ing a cave of immense proportions, as yet unexplored and with no Vis ible outlet. Past the ' "Devil's Well" the tourist passes Fan. Falls and an other waterfall, nameless as yet, and arrives at Lost lake. Above this again Is Trout lake and fur ther on is Sacheen lake, last of the main string and source of the west branch. It is only about 15 miles from lake No. 1 to lake No. 7, more lakes to a given j stretch of road than in any other part of the north west. According to local .road ex perts. . , Five or six miles above Sacheen is Diamond lake, and from here- the tourist can make his way through Rocky gorge around Kalispel lake and down the Pend d'Oreille past "Z" canyon to Metaline fallss There are some bad hills, but for the auto wanderer who isn't ob sessed with the notion that he must roll on asphalt all the way there are few scenic trips" better than this in the whole northwest. Lancaster's Columbia Gorge camp) at Eagle creek, on the Columbia River highway, opened yesterday,! ushering in the summer tourist sea-1 son in the great Oregon vacation land. A number of prominent men! from Portland attended the formal opening as guests of Samuel G. Lan caster, founder nf th, .. a In I camps In the northern Cascade range I oearing his name.. I An opportunity to show residents Of Other sections nf thA rnnntrv. what Oregon is doing to providsl (acuities ior tourists who wish to I enjoy the beauty of the Oregon mountains will be afforded today, wnen a number of Shrmers, return ing' from the convention! at San Francisco, will visit -the . camp as I guests or Mr. Lancaster. . The, opening of the camp, accord ing to railroad officials and other tOUrist-travel unthnrltla, ntorlt, n epoch m the development of Oregon! as a vacation lunrf wmiim Mn. Murray, general passenger agent of me Oregon - Washintrton railroad. nd Franklin T. Griffith, president of the Portland Riilvav. T.io-ht Jb I Power company, visited the camp a tew aaya ago and became highly enthusiastic over its possibilities. A score of Reed, r.nllo tnrintsl have been at the camp for a week,k maxing nnai preparations for the I opening, a nail dozen girls are in cluded in the Anlles inntinv,t)t I They will have charge of the cuisine of the camp. First visit to the camp by : the Reed college students was made on their "river dav" nrhon than inu. neyed up the Columbia river by boat ana enjoyed the unique experience of freezing ice cream in a mid-June snowbank in the camp territory, 100 ieet aoove sea level. A SCOUtine- nartv sent nuf hv Mr. Lancaster is t T.nnt ink nv,r the I week-end, studying conditions thersi preparatory 10 tne opening or ian- I caster's Lost lake camp. Although the heaw snows in tha mntinffllm have, retarded the opening of th Lost lake camp, Mr. Lancaster hopes io nave crews in tnere this week to break ground for the camp. It is hODed to have ths T.nnt lplrs I and Wahtum camps in operation earlv in .Tnlv- - A miniature Lancaster cams will I be exhihitA In . fh, aemtiv hf I Week at the Chamher nf Cnmmre show in conjunction with the Rose I festival. The radio station, which In to be erentAll at T.nnnnnf Aea Cn. lumbia e-orce eamn will h, InstnllAn On the balconv nf th urmnrt and witn its magnavox, win receive the concerts broadcasted bv Pacific! coast stations. CHARGE CAMP SUCCESSFUL Eugene Favors Fee System Over Bee Camp of Last Year. EUGENE, Or., June 17. (Special.) The Eugene chamber of com merce has recently received letters irom chambers in Oregon cities where a charge is made for the use of the automobile tourist camp grounds and in every instance it is stated that the change system is meeting with success. The Eugene municlnal nf ing ground is under a fee system iiiiu year ior tne tirst time. There has been some criticism on this ac count. Some rjen-nlA hAlne. u - .- . ..... i two ue- lief that not as many tourists stop unaer tne iree grounds sys tem, but the records of the ground keener show tbnt mm. . tered during May this" year than during the corresponding month last j wuen me grounds were free. More water was furnished this week at the camp and there is now pjonuy ior everyooay, said B. E. Parker, park superintendent. A two-inch main was run directly from one of the city reservoirs on the butte to the grounds, affording a great deal more pressure than was obtained from the one small pipe that has heretofore served the grounds. The pressure in thia pipe was very low when the laree num ber of campers and people in the oungaiow were using the water at one time. The main was extended to the furthest end nf thA smr, grounds, thus serving more camp sites than before. IS ASSEMBLY AND TEAM WORK ARE PERFECT. Detroit Newspaper Men See Mod ern Inspection System of Cadillac Plant. , DETROIT, Mich., June 17. Pur- haps no department of the average automobile plant in America has undergone such development during the past year as the inspection de partment. In the face of keen competition the manufacturers have striven to bring out better cars, that will be perfect not only as to each individual unit, but perfect as to assembly and "team work. Newspaper men of Detroit this week were given a view of what the modern inspection system in auto mobile manufacturing is when they were taken through the big new Cadillac plant here. " Five hundred Inspectors are per petually at work at the Cadillac plant to see that every Cadillac car leaves the factory in perfect con ditlon. This body of inspectors guarding; and guaranteeing Cad- The certainty of getting unusual riding comfort in the Nash is proving a powerful attraction to buyers in every section of the country. The first quarter of this year ran 51 greater in sales than the same period last year. April set a new passenger car sales record, and the month of May registered a full 23 increaseloef and above April.' FOURSwiSIXES ... Price rangJrom!flJ75 to 42725, f. o. b. forttand. m JOT Portland Motor Car Co. Tenth at Burnside iliac performance constitutes a small army of workmen. These 600 inspectors, working under a master inspection depart ment, have at their command to maintain . the prescribed standards of accuracy 20,000 precision instru ments. . It is interesting to note that more than 14,000 of these pre cision instruments are constantly in use. Even the instruments themselves are not Immune from inspection. They are constantly tested. The piston ' gauges are checked twice every day. The Johansson gauges, known as the last word in mechan ical measurements, have been used for many years in the Cadillac fac tory for checking all precision in struments. Dimensions are all held to fine limits. The fineness of these meas urements may be appreciated when it is remembered that the ordinary newspaper is three one-thousands of an inch in thickness, and that many measurements are only one-tenth of that thickness. v More t:.an 200 gauges and mi crometers are used to make certain that the connecting rods and pis tons conform to the exact specifi cations set by the engineers. The machining and finishing of one pair of connecting rods and pistons in volves 336 operations. 1 1A- . - IcranKcase service II w i' UberUefineci stillreducedrwt blended HyViS dealers Upward of $1,500,000 is spent each week in New York city for taxi rides. -A Farmers In the Unijted States had a total of 2,146,512 automobiles in 1920. - . "MECO" Ring combination makes the best compression and oil proof job you can obtain for your motor regardless of price. DALL PISTONS ; MECO PISTON PINS ' PEERLESS PISTON RINGS . 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