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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.
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ASSERTS BALDWIN
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Coming. Motor Races Promise to
Be the Best Ever Staged in
West; Speed Kings to Come.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.