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3 TACOMA SPEEDWAY EQUALS BIG ONES, IS for an adequate supply .before, the pres ent scare, and labor conditions' have become to a great : extent stabilised. "As far as cars are- concerned, the fac tory could turn out fully 6000 a day; did they have any way of getting them to points of consumption other than by rail. : Of course there are numerous drlve-aways, but the far corners of the country and the foreign are suffering from a lack of supply.' "Conditions as a whole will improve" slowly and motor car firms now faced by a shortage of material and credit will find their feet again in a gradual return to a normal basis, which . does . not ' mean -a,', basis equal to that enjoyed before the flurry. The demand for cars will continue, and market: conditions will adjust , them selves. 'Money conditions 1 in the East are. better, already and show signs of further improvement. v "There Is no shoVtage of gasoline to speak of there. Opportunities for stor age of the fuel during the winter months when there is little touring has resulted in an adequate supply being on band now when j it is most heeded. "(Some consumer have been looking for ' a drop In the price of cars. Eastern men declare that a irop la far 'n the fu ture ; that, owing to the price of labor, the tendency CIS upward rather than downward. Raw materials have also increased . in price' and have as yet shown little movement In decline," said Dunninr. A -..- .- ' t Dunning - returned to the ' Ford " fac tory at Detroit last Thursday, Tacoma Ticket Sale Will Begin June 15 The ticket sale for the ninth annual motor car classic at the Tacoma Speed- way will begin June 15. Reservations for seats in the grandstand should be wired direct to Tacoma. Reservations for reserved seats will not be held later than July 1. Indications are that th mammoth grandstand holding 16.0U0 people will be sold out by June 30, at nee reservations have been coming in sine June 1. CONSERVE oaaoUNS Electric machinery has been invented for marking, listing; and counting cloth ing In laundries. PATHFINDER HAS WORN OUT EIGHTEEN CARS GETTING ALL OF MATERIAL HEEDED Output Is art Rate of 3000 Cars and About 500 Tractors Per 5 Day, Says Official. IBS' ' t ASSERTS BALDWIN bbpbssbbsjbssbssssssisbsbss 3 Coming. Motor Races Promise to Be the Best Ever Staged in West; Speed Kings to Come. 1 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING; JUNE 13. 1920. FORD FACTORY The world's most famous motor car racing stars guiding: the wheel of the newest In speed cars with the promise that the ninth annual event at the Taeoma Speedway will be the biggest and most important sporting event of the kind ever staged in the West, is the message brought home 1 fcy W. C. Badwin, president of , the Tacoma Speedway, who returned last Monday from Indianapolis, . "I am rpore pleased than ever with the Tseoma speedway," said : Baldwin. "X don't think Indianapolis has a thing on Tacoma from any standpoint. , Our track "offers better inducements to the driv ers for speed and : generalship and our races are far more spectacular and the " thrills so numerous as to offset Indian apolis In many ways. "I found . that Tacoma is not only well known over the United States as the center of motor car racing in the West,' but the foreign manufacturers and builders , of cars hope to send several teams to Tacoma next year. SRW CARS TRIED OUT TThlsyear witnessed' the first tryout of. the new cars with a piston displace ment limit, of 183 cubic Inches. - , The 'drivers signed for Tacoma In clude Oastoa Chevrolet, Ralph, Mulfdrd, Kddle . Hearne, Cliff turant. Eddie O'Donnell, -Joe Thomas, Joe Boyer. Jim my Murphy, Tom Milton and Roscoe Sarles. We have the contract signea with these 10 men. Ralph De Palma will be in the field If his new car Is ready in time. - Other drivers have sig nified their intention to come in if they can -fret' cars. , "The men all have excellent records and are true sportsmen. Chevrolet cap tured the 500 mile race at Indianapolis in a spectacular finish that lost the race for Ralph De Palma. Joe Boyer led this race for the first 240 miles and 1s a areat driver. Hearne and Durant -.r-ll Vnnarn mrt tna TMOUlir to need Introduction to the fans ot me .Northwest. Mulford was here in 1919 and has a fine record. Murphy is one of the new stars and first came into prominence when he won the opening event at the Los Angeles speedway. Sarles is a great driver and Joe Thomas, while he has never been! seen at Ta coma, Is a Seattle boy and has a host of friends in the Northwest He is a fearless driver.' Eddie O'DonneU is not a stranger in the Northwest, but has never raced at Tacoma.) Milton was ' here in 1916 and won second place in the-30O-mile race that was won by Ed die RIckenbacker. Milton now holds the record for the fastest mile ever trav eled by man on earth when he maae a record of 156.4 miles an nour beach at Daytona, Fla. ! f3.00 PURSE HUITG UP "We are -already receiving assurances from racing fans over the entire north west that bey will be out in force for the July 5 event. The race will cover 225 miles and the purse will be $22,500. 1 have been advised that several tire and accessory firms will add to the purse making it somewhere near $35,000 or $40,000. We have already Increased the seaung capacity from la.uou lo is.ww, and provided ample room for many new parking spaces for motor cars about the track. The field will hold thousands. "The , drivers will begin to arrive in Tacoma within the next 10 days or two weeks and will have ample time to prac tice, and have their cars in the beat pos sible, condition. The ' qualifying -tests hi vtar will , cover . two days. Jive dri will Qualify on the Friday be fore the race and the remaining five or more on Saturday, practice will then continue on Sunday and Monday morn- ing and the race win oegin prompuy ai 2 p. itu July . 6." ) 's : CONSERVE . 0ASOUHC MOSIER HILL NO LONGER i ANY WORRY TO TOURISTS on the " ( f onttnwrl fmm Pilt Ow. Tbtn Bfctlnn-) inntmni. ' but ii within easy trav-r ellng distance of - the Oregon me tropolis and is linked to Portland and Astoria In the Big Three of companion ship for the development oi jNonnern Oresron. The good road along tne i-oi am baa has come into its own at Jast, and with the passing of Hosier hill goes' the last barrier to travel between Eastern Oregon and the sea. ! - M Osier hill has. long been the thorn in the side of the man who wanted to get out of the plains of Eastern Oregon and ! come to the seaooara ior a i days. The mooted question at both The Dalles and Hood River used to be. and has been for years : "But how is Mosier hill f And then the wiseacres at euner place would raise their voices and ell of Mosier hill, what it was at the time of inquiry, and what It used to be. There are nore tales of fact and fancy woven about the Hurns and grades en that famous and infamous grade than about anvlotaer road in this neck of the woods. The " oldtimer garnishes the tangents With anecdote and enhances the nerv ausQesS, of the green driver with hair raiejng tales of the turns. "Her a machine went over", he might say.i or there the" 1ig stage in August, 1901. started over- the ' bank with a dosen people on board, and was saved only by the lash of the driver's whip being caught In the. trees that border the way,. And he would show the fidgeting motorist the very tree. . - . . . ; But the tunnel puts an end to the danger and makes the romance of the old trail a part of the fictitious history of Oregon J Now a perfect highway of dirt' anfgravel leads the motorist out of the town of Hood River, winds him about on -the surface of the hill like an airman spiraling for altitude, and then, like 'the airman, turns and shoots away In si slightly, wiggling line In the direc tion; of Mosier. -" . ,- . . . j. .; d ..There is big scenery along the j new cut-off, long vistas of rough or dreamy landscape and billowy river, bits of rural classics that have never been: seen to -advantage until the compressed air bits of the tunnel men carved out ai way through the solid rock and added a: new charm and a new engineering feat to the t wonders of the ' -Upper - Highway. .The tunnel., itself is more of a triumph than the burrow at Mitchell's Point, for the wall on the outside is thicker.- and while the number of windows is not as great, still at the mouth" of "each miniature tunnel letting In air and light to the: main . structure . there Is a. little balcony ' enabling the man who would stop his car and see the view rfrom a vantage point, to gaae to -his heart's content- at -the vast spread of river and hill-thrown at the feet of the public by a crew f men with a few tools. Tne tunnel 4s .well, worth visiting.. and those : who have up te ; this time con fined their bigh,water mark of travel to the. Vista House would find it well worth their while to go farther, accomp-ivf- t -rat by utarttnpr sooner and J v f ' ' ' .."llllll ? i 'i ' A., Ii, Weatgard, who has worn out 18 automobiles in the 17 years he has been patliunmng . ior the ; American f Automobile association, shown ready to ! leave' Washington on a trip which will map out a system of highways connecting the country's national parks. In the, photograph; from left to right, are S. T. Mathers, director national park service; Mr. Westgard, field representative of the A. A. A. Judge r John Barton Payne, secretary of the Interior, and A. G. Batchelder, of the A. A. A.' - The next oompan ' ,on on the doughty scout's travels will be the Westcott Six, shown In the picture. making the Upper Highway the recipi ent of a day of appreciation. ' - t The hand of the engineer has marked "nnis" under the career of Mosier hllL No more will its mudholes in winter, its dust In summer, and its grades at all times be a burden to the motor and a test of eourage and endurance for the driver. The guardian sprites once placed at Its - corkscrew turns may now be posted elsewhere ; for with the passing of corkscrews . began a campaign for the elimination of roads built- along the 1 same plan. ; - . Automobile Men of State to Confer on Important Matters Business of vital importance to the au tomobile men of the state will be on the docket at the meeting of the Oregon Automotive Dealers' association in the Chamber of Commerce - rooms, June 18, at 9 a. m. It is expected that a majority membership will be In attendance at the pow-wow, which may last two days. W. A. Johnson of The Dalles Is tem porary chairman, and George H. Halver son of Salem is temporary secretary. The committee on organization, appoint ed at the time of the organization of the association, consists of Sherman Lovell, Astoria; Fred G. Delano, Salem; Mark Rickard, Corvallis ; A. H. Brown, Port land, and Q. E. Halverson, Salem. i i "No scarcity of materials has been embarrassing the Ford company for some time," said C. ,W Dunning, as sistant salesmanager of the tractor department of the Ford Motor com pany, : Detroit, at the time of his visife to the- local factory branch; here last iweeki wf "The factory la putting out cars at the rate of 3000 a day and tractors to the tune of ; 4 5 0 to 500 "a day, and were freight condi tions better more cars could be turned out and shipped". Owing to the lack of transportation the production has been kept within' limits in keeping with the rail handicap." 1 ; ; ' - Dunning'' presence in this part of the country was in the Interest of the trac tor department, a special visit to .the field to make a survey of tractor needs and agricultural demand for farm ma chinery as supplied by the Ford com pany. He - has made stops at various points to inspect the work of grangers and ' be of assistance ' in .communities where the machinery idea has not yet taken 'hold, ' ".". . ; "Farmers as a. whole are recognising the 'Value , of machinery in their every day - work," continued Dunning "and could we manufacture more tractors at the present time they would still be lacking in number to fill the demand. While 600 tractors Is our maximum now, we expect, changes in plans at the factory v and additional ' facilities for manufacture that will enable a total out put of an even 1000 before January 1, 1921.- We are not handicapped by raw material, for the company had arranged f ! : ' (QrT(m I I: i ' - - Jll ! ! 1 - 'Lfk: !5j if! l 1 v -0' II v xj ikerloum CordcIires have : iwertown Lorn lives have added a brand new word to the language of motoring iwertown i -which stands for service. u 'f Best intheLongRurL 'L v1?'' K Qcodrich TMher Companrron -hia W" Silvertown Cctds, toooMitetx Fabric Ttreu 6000 Miles iaiBBBB,l,,IB,i,iB,,i,',B,,,,,1,',l"IB 6mim mi iiiiiiwiiiiiniiwiiwMiiHi.aiiiiiAiiMisiiw)liUl)iwilM MA The Thrift of a M A ELL comes from its special steels Nearly 400,000 owners know weir how thrifty a Maxwell really is. Men in the trade in.ielling other cars often use the expres sion "as thrifty as a MaxwelL Special' steels are the under lying cause of MaxweU's thrift. These are steels , made to ' MaxweU's own formulae, after years of tests, analysis and study, which make possible; the. ideal construction of great strength' and light weight. They give a Maxwell the ft li ability to stand wear, strain, twists and jolts that other cars much larger and heavier would have difficulty to resist. . But they make a Maxwell light. They eliminate useless weight; they ease, the burden on the engine and thus gas, oil and tires render long mileage j results. v Hence, the ever growing re spect and admiration " for Maxwell the world over; and its consequent fast growing numbers. Nearly 400,000 in use today; a year hence 500,000. C. L . Boss 615-617 Washington St. Automobile Co. i? Portland, Or. sK4l j IN OUR NEW BUILDING PARK and COUCH STREETS . . U.Nl(3f Wholesale Exclusively to better . serve the trade We have moved to our new building, at Park and Couch streets, where w$ will. endeavor to serve you . better than ever before from this our permanent home. We appreciate the business favors the trade is ex- y- tending us at this time It is our ambition to maintain , this confidence. ' ' No change in xphone numbers. Three direct lines. . ' Call Broadway 277 Wiggins GJpmpany, Inc. FORMEBLT aftCBKE W1GGIH8 COMPaflT . PARK AND COUCH STREETS, PORTLAND, OR.
