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... v- U...t I show him the tires (of these he DIRIGIBLE SERVICE WILL CARRY MINERS ' INTO ARCTIC CIRCLE SECRETARY OF WASHINGTON A. T. A. TO BE IN1 SALEM SATURDAY ' Mr.' Wm. A. Simonds, secretary of the ! .Washington Automotive Trade-association,. will be. in Sa lera next Saturday in the interest of the Certified Public Motor Car market Mr. Simonds Is a big man in the automobile field in the state of Washington. Also he holds a great record aa a pews paper man in Seattle. . ; As. secretary of the Automobile -association in Washington his in terests jare closely, associated with dealer ( problems. . Because . the viised tfcr situation' Is such, a big '. problem much of - feu work is taken up in helping to find a way to handle" used cars so the dealer will ,pot suffer the loss he has inl ine past; and eo the , used carl buyer can make his purchase with cobfidettce that, he is getting the hest value for his money. Geptified PliMc MOTOR CAR MARKET 255 N.1 Church St: ; t - By the word "bargain" we mean just what the word is supposed' to , imply namely a saving of real money. 'Come in today and talk.it over.- ' , . f ; Some ; Of Our Chevrolet touring, 5 Buick 6 Roadster, 2 btudebaker big six, 3 years old. 800 Chevrolet, overhauled and ready for dependable service.. -...$190 to $210 Fords r with starters, reconditioned Dodges, ready for the hardest service 1924 LICENSE Free ; - b p'WiM&ery. Certified CZr ' I Phone 885 l-t 'xXC:'r' BYRON-WRIGHT, Mgr. ) v ; . . . V &mw Gee3aim The C. Tells MilSffirry , . . After you have looked them all over and tried them all out then put the good llaxwell Club Sedan to thorough test. This is the car that gives ' you two-door friendliness with four-door facility, de tachable upholstery , and a! jdozen othet valuable features.! Arid when you have made '.your; test, look at the pice $1045. GINGRICH MOTr J TIRE CO. "t Club' Sedan 4 ... ! . o. b. Detroit w ( - M I in iwiiii imi i m -i ii ii r-1 m The Appleby plan under which the Certified Public Motor Car market is operated performs this uouble service and because of that Mr. Simonds is wholeheartedly working for the growth of the market. XEW SALESMAN V. C. Rush, formerly wltr the Valley Motor company, Is uow nliman for the Gingrich Motor & Tire company selling Maxwell and rhrvaler cars. Mr. Rusn has had experience before selling Max- Wn pars ha vina been with the American Automobile company at Tacoma, Washington, during 13 zi and 1922 Mr. Rush has resided in Salem most of the time for the past ten years. ; - Good Boy months old:. $450 years old 675 ;..L$330 to 3770 Not the at, the . I Oakland Claims-to Be. Pio neer Car to Help Solve Problems of Car Finish "We have not solved the' final problems in any line of the auto motive industry." C. F. Kettering, president of the General Motors research la boratories, so told the gathering of 500 Oakland dealers at their recent mid-western meeting at Chicago. In the course of his remarks he lold how Duco was developed and how Oakland has been the pioneer car in helping solve the practical problems connected with this satin wax finish and the first to adopt it. "The painting of automobile todies took too long," he de clared. "We got the paint manu facturers together and they were finally able to cut down the time of drying paint to one day. Fi nally there was developed a ma terial that dried and flew away in small particles even before it could be sprayed, on the automo bile. "Then our problem was to get the paint not to dry so quickly swinging; from one extreme to an other. The problem of drying less quickly was finally solved." , The satin wax finish so devel oped is now used on all Oakland cars. C. J. Nephler, general sales manager of Oakland, announced at the same meeting that the Oak land dealer organization has in creased the last year from 40 to 45 per cent over 1922. How I Handle a pros pect With a Used Car By J. W. (Dan) Boone. (Published by request of a local auto dealer.) When a fellow drives up with a last year s car. And quietly asks for the Used Car Man, My heart commences to flutter and tnump, Because I've a feeling' I'm due for ; . a bump. I examine the car as do most all - rood buyers Look, at the paint and kick all the tires. I look wise and long, and raise up ' the hood. And then shake my head that the " thing's not much good. My prospect is telling me, all of ' ; - the while, Of condition near perfect, and many a mile thaVtflI Is Jeff la, thlst jroaflerf ul car,' That is better today than ever, by far. I point to a fender that hit a fence v post. Price- can't boast) There's a hole in the top where it once hit a tree, v While axle and steering look twist ed to me. But he's neither undaunted, nor is he dismayed. He tells me how much for this auto he paid, With tears in his eyes he pleads and he moans, "They don't build no more like this one," he groans. I look at him now and with soft ening gaze, I see his sad plight through the mist and the haze, " ' Each moment to him is sadder by far, Fdr the poor fellow was SO at tached to his car. But the troublesome world keeps pushing right on, ' K It's battle all day whether lost or half won. For the man who is taking a used- car in trade Is quite apt to give to his prospect a shade. At last I state clearly just how I will deal. There's a gasp of astonishment, look of appeal; 'Why man, you are joking; you don't mean to say For my auto that's all you are willing to pay." 'In the very next block a firm of fered me Almost twice as much more and one tire free, They'd throw in a bumper, a spot light and lock And I think, by insisting, they'd give me a clock." 'The trouble is you haven't hon estly weighed The worth of my car you are tak ing in trade; Why, look in the Blue Book which tells you the story. And place my good car in the same category." We continue to argue and gesture and scold, talk of my new car, he praises his old. And by warping my judgment and better sense too, i He sells me his old car, and then buys my new. Thte old car is painted, retired, re- bored. I found on inspection the cylinders scored, We insured it and stored it and paid all the bills, (This deal and some others quite gave me the chills) . We paid a commission for finally selling. It was high time, for our losses were swelling. But we'd sold a' new car .had con quered our goal, Our factory was happy, but we're in the hole. Now this is the story of many a trade, Of many transactions much better not made, We .sign off and swear oft "it's wrong, does not pay," And do it all over again the next . day. -Courtesy Automobile, Topics. OAKLAND THIRD AMONG SIXES Oakland's high rank on the Cal ifornia registration list in ales and gains have caused much com ment in the automobile trade of the Golden State. In December for third success ive month Oakland won third place among the new six cylinder cars registered in California with a' gain of 214 per cent over the corresponding month of 1922. af ter having gained 260 per cent in November and 245 per cent in Oc tober. Priest War Victim, Forgot Latin, Says Mass in French (By Mail) PARIS, JaJn. 21. A French military chaplin, at present with the troops in the Ruhr, is the only Roman Catholic priest in the world permitted to say mass in a langu age other than Latin. During the war. he was operated upon sue cessfully for a sharpnel wound in the head. When he recovered and attempted to read his beviary he found that he had forgotten all the Latin he had learned in col lege and seminary. After several attempts to say mass, the priest went to Rome in order to obtain from the Su preme Pontiff, (authorization to say his mass in French. He bore numerous medical certificates but Cardinal Gasparri insisted tbat the priest be examined by doctors at tached to the Vatican. Their report was to the effect that the priest had "completely lost his Latin." Plus I granted the request and the priest, thanking Cardianl Gas parri, said that no other event in bis life had caused him such happi ness. PLUMP ANKLES LENGTHEN SKIRTS (By KaU) LONDON. aJn. 21. Because women's ankles have increased in size through the wearing of very tight shoes, dresses are to be long er in length. This is what the Paris experts have told proprietors of the principal West-end stores and it is In the intention ol fash ion-creators to design dresses In such a way as to give only a slight (By Mali) ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 8. Prospectors miners and trap pers will be taken into the Arctic Circle by dirigible next summer, if a- company, whose representatives now are in interior Alaska, carries oar announced plans. Those organizing the project say they -believe the dirigible win prove a solution for the placer op erator, who finds the . lorig slow routes of waterways and dog trails a serious problem in time and fin ancing. The "farthest north" trappers' are confronted with' the same difficulty!; : The-f first airship will; ply, ac cording to the announcement, be tween Fairbanks, jthe Chandelar and Koyokuk It ia planned even tually to extend the service to oth er districts. If dirigible transportation is thus installed, the traveler may reach the Arctic Circle within eight days after sailing from Seat tle. He would travel by boat six days, landing in Anchorage, then by train 24 hours to Fairbanks, whence he would , be whisked through the air for the, last and hardest lap of the journey. With the passing of many of the famous old placer camps' south of the Yukon, the prospector has pressed over northward Into the shadow nt the polar wilderness. However, the promising fields within the Arctic Circle often re quire hydraulic operations, and. even where a "pay discovery" has been made, it is a matter of weeks, sometimes months,, to get a. force of miners and the equipment, over the snow and, lee trails into the re mote sections: . " The company's representatives declare they can carry two tons ef men and equipment into the Arctic Circle in a few hours, at a cost of about one-fourth that en tailed by dog-sled transportation. The dirigible also may be used to take summer tourists for visits to 'the Arctic silences." The announcement of the con templated dirigible service has stirred in Alaskan towns a clamor for mail to be delirered by air to such points as Notfte. the Upper Kuskokwim and the Kobuk coun try. At present this mail is car ried by dogs and 'requires from two weeks to a month -after it leaves the Alaskan; railroad. The parcel post business "has grown to the government a heavy sura to upply points that are cut off from modern transportation! Stea'mers reach Nome in summer, but the Bering Sea town is ice-locked and dependent on communication by tiTlrlanft trail most of the year. Compiled by 1 .476; 144. COMBINATION CAMP TABLE AND UTENSIL CAR RIER: v ETervtt L. Calvert, Dm r,' Coloi'- , 4H In a collapsible,; camp table, ihe combination of a pair of hingtd. open-faced, box-like sections adapted to form a table top when open and a container when closed; a boh se cured to the end member of one of saitfr sections and adapted to engage an opening formed bn the end mem ber of the opposite section for the purpose of holding said sections ex tended, said bolt having L-shaped ends adapted to fit Into grooves pro vided for the purpose of holding satd holts m the withdrawn position; re silient arms secured to the ide mem bers of said sectionis and adapted to extend parallel to said top and hold eating utensils against said top and legs pivotaiiy connected to said sides;. u-f 1,476398. AUXILIARY ACCEL ERATOR. Frank T. Fridrich, North Bmd, Nebr. i. In an automobile having bralte andj clutch pedals. ! the combination witli the usual , accelerator having a foot operated pedal positioned sub-Unrla!h- in front of the drivers seat of additional means . for , controlling tne ga supply positioned on tne flor of the. car on the same side of the longitudinal center f the car with the driver's seat and spaced laterally from said accelerator pedal" whereby either foot of a driver "may be used to con trol the gaj.supply," said Ww being eeerabW mfleoendentlv r cintrii Late St i if rt fcj rfcim I rTI f ft VUJZ J H I Eddbe TYPEr 474 South Piateiifs of 1 Recently Granted by CLARENCE A. O'BRIEN, Registered Patent Attorney, Wahmton, D. C 1,476,393. AUTOMOBILE AT TACHMENT. Cltr!e F. Cow Arwf, Fitchborg, Ma. I. An attachment for holding the foot brake treadle of an automobile in brake applying position, comprising a bar having jaws adapted to engage the opposite sides of the stem of the foot clutch treadle to setftire the bar thereto in a laterally extending direc tion and in position to hold the foot bVake treadle depressed. 1,476,347. STEERCfG WHEEL FOR AUTOMOBILES. Truman J. Mar tin, Bethlehem, Pa. I.: A steering wheel incTudTng a rimt a diametric resting arm, and a resting bar in parallel relation with the rest ing arm, the resting bar forming a part of the wheel rins. 1,476,638. TOWING DEVICE. Jo seph' W. Osbom,; Lake City, Iowa. I. In a towing cortnectidn for motor vehicles'.' a draw' baf for atiiChtoehf td the rear axle of i towing machine and provided with a yoke, a fastening element Secured to the arms, of said yolor and f ormiftga pivotal connfctirin for said "bar. a' strap embracing said element and loosely connected thertfij; a clamping member carried by the free endof said strap tot attachment toaV connecting rod of the vehicle being towed, an attaching member to be secured to the, front axleof the foVea1 machine, and "to said strap a hooked bar IviiSff'beJow the strap and attaching mertbef and extended up wardly between' the 1 arms"; o, si.d yoke, aid 4 a ttrmori fastening' -dement securing said ftrap attaching Probably no closed car has ever been: received with equal enthusiasm the nation over. This is unquestionably due td the: fact that in spite of its acknowledged beauty, and exceptional riding com fort, th TyB Sedati is sturdy as an opett car andCOgts but1 little more. The price Is $1250 f. o. b. Detroit $1475 Deli veted BONESTEELE MOTOR Commercial St. itM to Ul S. Patient' Office 1,476.033. BUMPER FOR AUTO MOBILES. Pearl P. Crabill and James Turner, Springfield, Ohio. -7 - , Iii a bumper, a rearwardly-extending attaching member having an opening, a bolt extending through said opening, and having; a hook-shaped end with a flattened face to engajje the .upper surface of the lower, flange of the channel frame, a sleeve member on said bolt having an iccKned face'to engage the lower surface of, said flange, said sleeve having a plate to elanrpthe web of said frame, and a nut on said bolt to draw the parts together. " 1,476,074. CLOSURE' FOR AUTO MOBILE RADIATORS AND THE LIKE. Han Peter Hanson, Chi. cayo, III. . In a evice of the class describe the combination with the neck of a radiator shell, of a cap'threaded ontb said neck, said cap having a vertically extending through passage, the upper portion of said passage being thread ed.' there being an ' npwardly facing shoulder at the lower end of ' said threaded oortion, a plug threaded intb said portion a ''steam-tight gasket between- the- sfrontder and' the lower face of the plug, a thermal indicator exfending , through , the plug, means for securing the thermal indicator to thepfug by the-use of a lockirlir de- yfce on. the inner end of rlie thermal maicator; means tor securing" the cap Jo the'neck of tfie'radiatof shell by tie use of an interior locking device accessible only through the plug open ing when the plug is removed, a ra dially extending an fadiallv' mbv- able locking pin- in the- tip, s there being a peripheral socket in the threaded portion of the plus' "adapted to receive the inne'f; end of, said lock injr pai when projected irtwtf4lv and meanrf in the cap for shifting tiie' pe- iincrn 01 sa-ra pin emiy py tne'use-ot a' suitable, key, substantially aa de- CO; T WMorisfe i ,476C2. COMAlTCTr BED, TABLE,'" AND ARTICLE .'CAR' mwwm. a -f w n aa nm va Frank E. Bewdeni Fresno Calif In combination, anmner te4 see- tion adapted to be bingedly aecoted to T the running board of as automoiiik!. an outer ' Bed ' section slidably.; and hingedly strhiredo the inner kettion and adapted to be -supported subsUn-; tialry' intermediate the' ends of thi. inner section when the same is vertic- -ally disposed upon the running, board, ' the aaM-alidlni'aJtd'tihltV.toDneXtiona between the two sections permitting the inner section to be swung. down-: wardry to extend parallel to the outer section for providing a bed and iup-: porting-means-.at- the opposite .ends S of the outer section when the said sections are so disposed." 1476.008; CHAm-TltTHTENERl ! TOOL. WBIiain C; SeaHes, NoW-1 , pon, iieor, aaatgnor- of one-half ' to Frank- L. Hurton, Kewort, near. i -i i. A tool of the daM Attcri&Ai cotnpnsmg pair of aTmil 1'honc 42J , - - r 1 .4 V.'r. ::U:J4'L: glimpse of. ankles. 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