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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1925)
I It It i it 1! .; I i f li 4 t it i .1 t ; l n i i .- I t I i .i t l i i.'f- I If f i M ti ft STODEBffl ELECT VICE' PRESlDEfiT Paul G.' Hoffman is Chosen to Succeed H. A. Biggs, ' . Resigned -. NEW YORK, April , 1 1 The directors of the Studebaker, cor poration, at their meeting today, elected Paul G. Hoffman as rice president In charge of sales to succeed II. A. Biggs, resigned., Mr. Hoffman entered th employ of the Studebaker corporation in - : ;. , .: .; V :. ... , - v.-.:-.-:.. Paul Qlotf man, .vice-president of Studeb&ker -sales service. 1911 as a salesman In lios An geles district. " ;i!!ti!!!:;;;-i;:!ii !H -.. He served in the artillery ; div ision of the army in 191718, and upon leaving it in March, 1919. purchased from the corporation Its retail business at t-os Angeles atfd " Became a Studebaker dealer ononis" own account. The- Paul G. Hoffman company, marling business with $60,000 capital, now has $1,500,000 assets. ' Mr. "Hoffman has been quite "active-" In' the" civic. af fairs ' of bis cityr For the past two i years he 'Has' Been president, of .the traffic commission, a voluntary "organiza tion of business men formed for the- purpose of studying- measures of relief from traffic congestion, including re-routing of streets and ity planning. He is a director of the Chamber of Commerce and chairman of its roads., committee, also a director of the California Bank of Los Angeles. : j In securing Mr.i Hoffman for .the Important position of -vice president In charge of sales. Presi dent Erskine feels that !he has . 4 Good Piston Rings ' :-;! V:.; Uito . " -i MAICE A POWERFUL THE COST SMITH & t t GUARANTEED PARTS FOR ALIi CARS Sure! Quit Service Js On Aiaix MAKES If ' JOE WILLIAMS The Battery JVIan I ; 531 Court Street. member Willard Battory men : gWM Ml ' ' 11" in .. r 1 id ... ' n 1. 1 n T ' t "11 W 'H.!.rj--jr:v: -; if ' 1 r .)..-":. . I Vnmiiii iumi 'i rt mmm m "" "' m , :U; !!j -j': N l ' -j s.- w -1 ."., 1 " - r-J - S.K J. The ;foHoyingUsecl Curs for sale at real Bargain Prices and on the most reason able terms to clean out stock. Come in and look them over ; and try them out Willys-ICnight Touring Dcdge Sedan Eccex Sedan HuDmob3e Tourinrr ' rranlilin R. N. MacDonald IVlarmcn Phone 703 obtained a man Ideally suited for the work. Mr. Hoffman's head quarters will be at the general of fice at Eouth Bend, Indiana. He has been elected a director of the corporation and a member of -Its executive and "finance committees. 11, A. Biggs, who is beisg suc ceeded by Mif. Hoffman, Is retir ing from active business. - His ser?ices to the corporation and administration of the affairs of the , sales department for six years were highly satisfactory and suc cessful. His numerous friends in the automobile industry as well as in the Studebaker organization wilt; miss him. H vis compelled to establish his residence in a milder climate,, and expects short ly to move from South Bend., to Southern California isn USED BY DRIVER ;r: Imir J . j" ; t' Averase Driver tndansers Electrical System Through Ignorance The ammeter, the least under stood ' dial on the instrument board of a motor car, is in many ways the most Important. Few automobile owners, how ever, understand the story the am meter tells- as the miles . fly by. The ammeter is the guardian of the whole' electrical system of the car, particularly during 'extreme of I winter cold and "Bummer heat, and is connected to every bit of electrical apparatus with the sole exception . of the starting motor, . If you et acquainted with the ammeter it will tell you at a glance whether or not the whole system is functioning properly. It will tell you if one of the head lights is out J It will tell you if there is a short circuit In the line; it will jwarn you a moment if the generator fails to function. An : understanding glance at the ammeter every 20 miles or- so is a trouble,; saver of great Im portance? j : J When the motor Is started, and everything is working properly, the little hand moves over to a certain spot on the charging side and there It' Invariably restg varying In location with the speed of the car until something goes wrong irt the electrical system. If one of the headlights goes but the ammeter shows a slight increase in the charging rate; it the gen erator, fails to function for an) reason, the hand swings away over to the discharge side and the driver knows that the whole load Is being carried by the battery. The ammeter never shows the MOTOR IS SMALIi "BILL" WATKINS ITS a R-e-a-1 Service, too , -7-the kind that helps you get all the perform ance out of your present . battery first. If yours is a WillatCharlfe3.ry Battery ycVve got a big ad vantage- We'd like to tell you why. , . Phone 108 Koadcter Dealer 256 State St. IN IT Cannon Ball Baker Mixes Service With Speed .-- In Record-Breaking Night Intercity Auto. Run ' r " - ; ; iVdrj j y -i - - ' ffl -tV. U oil 1 5 y " tyTi 1 m 11 1 mi 1 1, IM, f -n, a ' 1 ) r Jl O u. & u. . - f . . . . . J. - s . f THE first photograph of the middle west tornado "disaster to reach Ixg. Angeles, CaJ.," newspapers were brougltt over the - last lap of 212.9 miles by Cannon Ball Baker in a Itictenbacker car. equipped with Kelly balloon . tires. Driving on Uie tonuous, mountain ous highway between San Luis Obispo nd Ios Apgeles in black night,' he broke the inter-city rec ord. I lis tiine; was 4 hours and 24 - minutes, an -average of 48.4 miles per hour. And this over a tig-zag Highway with scons of hairpin turns which we're; taken at 45 miles per hour without .slipping or skidding. ; - Baker left San Luis OUirpo at 7.45 a-m. and reached Los Angeles at 11.09 a-iu. The JAY WALKER . By BEIiTOX BRA LEU j t . Illustrated by Charles Dunn I He's target for warnings and slo- gans of censure ? -' J And death-heads on placards are grinning at him. And yet, In a way, he's a Knight . of Adventure ! ? w no jousts through the traffic with truculent vim. f To motor-car dragons be flings his defiance, I ' . ; j Gives battle on foot to the ogres . on wheels, ; And juggernaut trucks are the up-to-date giants Whose charges he foils with, a fleet pair of heels! , Jay Walker' Jay Walker? Blithe motor-car Btalker; - Who daily goes "gaily 4 to dally with chance, ' . AH traffic rules flouting.. i A fool? ' Beyond doubting! Yet somehow a fool with & tang of Romance! -' '.-!''; ::-.', -1 " - Denied the brave hazards his an cestors battled, , Ills pulses still with their blood that is 'red. i ' ' ,: ' Insouciant and valiant, ' unawed and unrattled. II i3 spirit on danger demands to be fed. ; Life's vapid T when lacking ,some i valorous saucing; The Jay Walker finds It In traf fic,and scorns To "wait for the lights" or to full flow of electricity from the generator, : but It t does i indicate the amount of electricity that is! flowing into or out of the battery, hence the importance of. the tell tale current indicator and its ability to tell what is going on all along the line. The generator is the whole source of supply of electricity and It keeps the : entire . system ; in operation but it requires little, if any attention, from the driver. It is important to know that the electrical ontpnt of the generator may be varied on Chevrolet cars by what is known as third "brush adjustment, for the car consumes more electricity In cold weather than it does in warm and'tbye gen erator should be adjusted, accord ingly by one who Is - experienced in doing this kind of work, j It is easy to know when gen erator adjustment is required for the battery will tell you all about it. Give your battery a hydro meter test every two weeks. . H you find the battery fully charged and requiring only a little dis tilled water, everything is all right. If "at the end of successive two week's periods you find the battery persistently out of water, it Is an indication that the gen erator Is supplying too much elec tricity and if allowed to continue will result in serious damage to the battery. If. on the other hand you find the, battery persistently undercharged the generator should be adjusted to supply more current. ' ;.''.v vf 4- : It is Important for the driver to follow ; instructions carefully when adjusting the gap on ; his spark -plugs. A high voltage is required to make the spark: Jump the gap ad the wider the gap the higher the voltage. However, if the gap is widened the voltage is automatically Increased, and if li goes high, enough will cause a failure in the ignition coil and will require a new unit, which la rather expensive. . Many drivers, and not a : few mcehanics, have found that an en gine wbicn will not run properly when idling, due to leaky valves or some other cause, will run fine i s -?Vv,"Xs At top "Cannon BalV Baker tn hi ear read if j for n record breaking run; and below, just "Cannon Bali" Baker. The flood pictures had been wired to San Francisco by the newest of inventions, j Carried to San Luis Obispo by' motorcycle and picked up there by Baker. The tiresj used were the same set on which Baker a few days ago smashed three inter-city records in "cross at the crossings." He sneersj at the signals and ha ha'i the horns! . Jay Walker! Jay Walker! Let whistle and squawker And tooter and siren rip gashes .'in air; t . , He goes where he chooses And stoutly refuses To let any motorist give him a ; scare! A huge landaulette with a footman and chauffeur Is no more to him than a five- year-old Ford. v Part greyhound, ; part fox. and part squirrel and gopher, He darts where the thickest of traffic is poured. . . He sidesteps and wriggles, he leapsj and he lunges, ' He risks his' fool neck, making drivers grow gray. ; And yet you can't help being - thrilled by his plunges , ; As boldly! he Jay-walks along on his way! J - Jay Walker! Jay Walker, ' The I'safety-first" balker; . He's playing a senseless and dangerous game,' ' But though disapproving. His inethod of moving You've) got to applaud at his nerve just the same! !-American Motorist. if the spirlj; gap is widened, but they are taerely relieving the dif ficulty for a time at the expense of the electrical system, instead of finding the real cause of the trouble and correcting it at the source. , .-.I i.-- . ' .; JEWETT SIX Wins EN REGENT TESTS The new. Jewett Six was an the public at the nounced to various automobile shows through out the United, States as the best performing! automobile In ' its class. -The Paige-Detroit Motor Car' company, its builders, to back an, this assertion, asked Its dealer organization to demon strate, the car In competition with Its rivals wherever .possible. The result, Mr. Harry M. Jew ett, president of the company has informed! Mr. Miller,' manager of Folsom Motor Car company local, distributors, bas been a country wide' demonstration of the perfor ming qualities of the Jewett Six, in many j instances , before-: large audiences. h--'t The Thompson Motor Car com pany of Tulsa, Okla., was: among the first to start the demonstra tions. It challenged every dealer in town to a competitiyo high. speed and low speed in high gear hill-climb. Six dealers accepted the challenge and the hew Jewett won easily in the presence of over 3,000 "spectactors, according to a report received at tne factory. ' The Scranton Paige Motor Car company! of. Scranton, Pa., was next. In this case acompetitiver six ' cylinder automobile's dealer challenged ' the Scranton com panyV advertising. . The compe titor defied the Jewett Six to beat his product up a 17 per . cent grade, four-fifths of a mile long, just outside of Scranton and of fered to bet $500 on his car. The Scranton Paige company accepted the challenge and put up the $500. s. s r r 2 . 81 a race from 1 Paso, Tex., to Los Angeles, CaL i ms was ! a continuous run. Baker made Los Angeles in 21 hours and 23 minutes, beating former auto record by 2 hours and 58 minutes, land beating Sunset Limited train by 2 hours and 12 minutes. The run from El , Paso to Phoenix was made iri 10 hours and 12 minutes, beating: former auto records by 1 J hour and 3 minutes and the best train time of1 2 hours and 18 minutes. ' The run from -Phoenix to Los Angeles was made in 11 hours and 11 minutes, beating former auto' record by 1 hour and 37 minutes., lie had no tife trouble except one; puncture, altliough the course is x-i trenwly rough. - i i More than a thousand people were on hand toi see the fun. A standard stock Jewett Six touring car-that had been driven but 80 miles was selected to de feat the Jewett's fair name f in Scranton. According to news paper reports of the affair receiv ed at the factory the Jewett went up the hill in the first, trial in 4416 seconds;' This was the only trial made by the Jewett.! ' Then the competing car tried it. The first time was 2 minutes 1 seconds, . according: to the news papers. - Thej dealer argued that something was wrong and the Jewett dealer magnanimously ; of fered him another trial.VThe com-, petitor's time j on the second j at tempt was one minute, 55 seconds. Then the competitor gave up and the Jewett dealer collected the 1500. h - j;. I' FOR TEN YEARS i "For ten j year3 dependable. These words Express the successful-attainment of i an ideal con ceived in thej minds ot the foun ders before the first car bearing Dodge Brothers name was placed in the hands of a! purchaser late in 1914." says Russell Bones teele of the Bonesteele Motor company, local dealer, In com menting on Dodge Brothers latest advertisement.' : I - i "The word ,'Dependable, when it appeared on the poster boards and In the magazines and news papers several .years ago.j focused public attention on one basic char acteristic to which,! more than any other. Is due the good name which Dodge Brothers Motor Car i en joys everywhere. . , "Having 'decided to produce a car bearing their" name; Dodge Brothers kepb; 'Dependability' con stantly in mind while they jrere designing the units, selecting 1 the materials, prescribing the beat treatments and determining I the machining and assembling pro cesses and inspections, j j "The four-jcylinder, L-head type of engine was selected because it has always been known, over great OKLY TWO CONTROLS i Only two controls still remain on the steering wheel ot a prom tnent motor car manufacturer; but they are not the same controls that once rested there. : l. An automatic spark i advance, which gives; to , the engine Itself the task of regulating the timing Of the spark in accord with the speed of "the engine, ; has taken the old-time spark advance lever off the wheel. The throttle still remains.' i' v'.;!' -' T':'h:'; . In place of the spark lever, .the entire lighting control has been put on the wheel, right at the driver's finger tips, so he ean dim his lights without taking his eyes from.;; the road at a critical mo-' ment when to do so might mean piling his car and hia passengers Into the ditch . .. . :.' '.j 1 It Is just one more of present day Improvements In car manu facture, designed, to add to the convenience and safety of driving. PROVE DEPENDABLE i .... V -t. J ' . original 471 SOUTH COMMERCIAL ' riiiiiiii Tfoii - periods of service to be the most dependable and free from need of repairs orpdjustments. " "That their judgment a decade ago was sound is evidenced clearly by the fact than over 75 per cent of. all passenger cars .today are powered by four-cylinder engines and that last year Dodge Brothers sales showed an increase of over 25 per cent against a loss of 11 per cent by ! th automobile in dustry as a whole. . ; "Dependabflity of the chassis is the result )f a well balanced de A U Ml In Keauty of finish and upholstery, and in rich refinement, the Hupmobile De Luxe Sedan far surpasses anything which has ever been offered the public at anywhere near the price. You can drive it along-side the highest priced closed cars made today and be proud of the comparison. ' " ' - v ' ' . .. . " , . , l' . - r - .- v... - : ' ' - ' .- ... - ' i f f ' ' f " Features of the De Luxe Sedan include: Color choice of new Hupmobile blue or - 11 ' odge-Brother s p & cial j TQURINB CAR , r. r 1. -.:'. '.:y'.'": .!---.:.. . :' The first cars J bearing Dodge Brothers name were Touring Cars. - They were good and sturdy cars, so gqod ! and so sturdy that no radical change in basic ' design has been found necessary during these ten intervening years. This fact has had far-reaching results. It has enabled Dodge Brothers to dedicate those ten years to the constant betterment of the product. , More recently this endless process of im provement has manifested itself in various and impressive ways in a new degree of . riding comfort a new smoothness of opera- tion, a new and appealing beauty of line, and in those special details of appointment which distinguish the Special Touring Car, $085 f . o. b. Detroit; $1175 delivered BONESTEELE MOTOR CO. sign of ' which Dodge Brothers Motor car is; an outstanding- ex ample. All units and component parts; are designed and manufac tured to .work together in, smooth co-ordination -none overdevelop ed at the expense of others.) j "The .well known policy of con stant development of aj basic design as contrasted with the pro duction of radically different an nual models gives the- buyer com plete assurance of dependability. Every year since the first Dodge : ' i ' . - . - . . ' ) " rS (I II 7-x '! I ill 1 I 1 tm?T1. .in w.i v v r I . I i i i ' ' i ' -; .; ' THE HIGH fOINI AND beige (a rich shade of tan) ; Duco finish; nickel radiator: cowl lamps ; balloon tires, and disc wheels or natural wood wheels, optional; fine hardware of special design; lifters, for rear windows; "platinum" mohair upholstery: automatic windshield wiper; rear view mirror. The beauty, comfort and durability of J the body await your inspection. The reliability and fineness of the chassis r you may safely take for granted. KIRKWGOD MOTOR CO. Corner Commercial and Chcrnehcta '.IKiQiliEIITrQ PIIOXK 423f T , ! Brothers Motor car was built it has -been made better by refine ment, of detail. "When- one million Dodge Brothers Motor cars had been pro duced it was found that over 90 per. cent were still in" active serv ice. This fact affords ample evi dence of generous public approva of the sound policy of building car of enduring dependability." ( .. :- " ' " i Head the Classified Ad 1 9 -i m 1 1 i - 'REFINEMEPT PS' 1.
