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fe- - THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALE!.!, OREGON SUNDAY HORNING, MAY 10, 1925 hhssx ; productio;j up Rapid Rise Reported for Past Several Months, 1000 Per Day "With a production of 1,000 .Hudson and Eessex cars a day. tbe Hudson Motor Car company has advanced to a position of un disputed ; leadership among all six cylinder car manufacturers. - according to Fred M. Powell, Hud son-Essex dealer. ; "For a period . of several months, be said, "Hudson-Essex ha -gained rapidly, and Is at the present time making several hun dred, more six cylinder cars than anyone- else in the business, This leadership is all the more strik ing because : the Hudson-Essex business is concentrated 90 per cent on 1 the two coaches, and theer are; only six. models in the -whole Hudson-Essex line. as against , some twenty-odd in the lines, made by other volume six builders.! ' : r '.'There is one - open and one closed Essex type of car, and one Hudson open car, the coach,. and two sedans, one in the five and the other : in the seven-passenger size, v It is this specialization that has enabled Hudson-Essex to offer its coaches at actually lower than the open .cart the only such case in the Industry, The J present,' production of Hudson-Essex cars, while at this unusually : high figure, yet falls short of the current' demand. In this city and elsewhere In the United States there is a consis tent and most active demand. The present capacity production has been reached in - the effort - to make possible the. prompt delivery of cars to buyers when they fant ; them,, i r.. ' V I - "The i leadership Is ordinarily considered to be due to the coach, i but i a closer ustudy would bring out that it is rather the combina tion of Hudson-Essex chassis principles with the coach idea. The -super-six : principle, i which made .the Hudson popular for 10 years. Is npw proving no less , a source of satisfaction to Essex six owners. The smoothness, reliabil ity and quick pick-up which re sult from tbi3 principle are Indeed attractive features in a car selling at the Essex six price. , 1 "While the present Hudson-Essex business :is at this unmatched level, there, is no thought of stand-fctH'. Hudson-Essex is still ; a rapidly expanding business, and the popularity of the Hudson-Essex cars is resulting In an addition to factory facilities which will make possible iL, still ; larger volume." ; i Time Brings Many Changes in Auto Models. t 192.5 1 ' Q2J - Maud Adams, 1900-Betty Bronson, 1925-Stars of Peter Pan Time brings many changes, and hfw jigreat these are - within the short, span of a quarter of a cen tury ia shown by two large but unrelated industries the auto mobile and the theater. In 1900 Maude Adams was acclaimed the brightest star on the speaking Btage tnrough her wonderful pre sentation of Barrie's "Peter Pan." This year one of the hits of silent drama, is being made by Betty Bronson in the -same role in the Paramount motion picture pro duction. When Miss Adams made her successes she drove one of the one-cylinder, ' curved dash Olds mobiles. Miss Bronson also favors the Oldsiriobile. as the above il lustration shows. And there is as much difference in the Oldsmobile of the two epochs as there is be tween the spoken drama and its newer sister, the movies." - exports over imports never reach ed the billion dollar line, the lar gest pre-war "favorable balance," that of J 9 08, having been but $666,000,000, or about one-half a much as the prospective "f avorr afcle balance" of the fiscal year which Is about to end: i : f : I During the waradds the Trade Record, when Europe was buying largely from ns and sending us little merchandise : in 'i exchange, the excess of exports over imports of "favorable trade balance, ran Into; big figures, having been billion dollars in . the fiscal"" year li17j and a little" more than 4 billion in 1919 but made its high est pre-war. record In the fiscal year) 1908, $666,431,654 and $654,875,916 In 1913. . , 1 1 In I fact it was "only 'after I the manufacturers of the country be gan their contributions-to the ex port trade that the excess of ex-f ports began to make itself appar-? ebt in their foreign trade figures. Sea Food for 18,000,000 Automobiles By HARRISON E. HOWE Editor," Journal of Industrial fe ) Engineering Chemistry In bromine? ' ' :: . In studying the automobile mo tor, scientists have found that miles per gallon could be increas ed at least 20 percent if higher compression motors could be used and that such motors would he a possibility If -knocking' could be eliminated.' ; ; n -.. 1 It was found that, the best anti knock material was unsatisfactory unless an organic, compound, of bromine were present. The jpro ducts of i combustion were not properly discharged with thej ex haust gases, but remained behind to cause sticking valves and other troubles. ? With even a small amount of bromine present these difficulties disappeared. j j With some 17 million motors to be fed, figures ; reach astron omical proportions. j While a little bromine has been made from seaweed,- most jf it has come from bitt&fp, the moth er liquor from which salt is jcrys talized, as a ! by-product frocBj the potash mines of Germany, j and j . ' The sea had been considered a source, but it contained only!. 007 of one per cent and was ruled'out as impossible. f j ; I But now the impossible ; seems about to come to pass. ' It has been shown in the laboratory that practically all of the ,007 of one per cent can be obtained by a process which first frees the bromine and then precipitates it ! as an insoluble compound j which caii be filtered off and when (dried ' is ready for use in the motor fuel. How simple, now that it haa been accompusnea: . i : The next step Is to be on a scale treating seven thousand gallons of sea water per minute. The work Is simplified if water free from contamination, etc.,' can be obtained; and so the novel scheme of investing in. a ship factory In stead of a land factory has been evolved. The S. S. Ethyl, 4300 tons. Is the floating factory. Once she was the Lake Harminis, of the United States Shipping Board. The Ethyl Gas Corporation has bought the ship - and fitted her over, equipped, it is thought, to make 100,000 pounds .of . brcmine a month. ! ' . ' - ". " . . The water needed will be secur ed with a minimum of pumping by placing the ! machinery below the water line. Tfcare will be no Industrial waste-water .problem, no question of fumes or air con tamination, and presumably the Operating force will always be on hand when the whistle blows. By treating a cubic mile of ater per year, the world's need of bromine will be kept at equil ibrium, even allowing for a prop er expansion in the anti-knock compound business. " " Thus once i more science has stepped in to help avoid a raw Industry, backed . by science, has turned to the ocean for Taw material. A floating factory has put to sea to draw bromine from sea water so that the automobile of the country may run with less gas. .. - f . . There Ja plenty of . wealth in sea water that 'has been known lor years- but the job has been to get it out at a price which would and there have been only, three cases - In the .past ; fifty . years in which exports did not exceed; Im ports. . '; : n . t .: r.l . be profitable. 7 I Sea water isn't the same in the amount of solid matter it contains but the make-up of this solid matter is strangely, constant. " Bromine is one or the sub stances usually reported as a "trace" in an analysis of sea wa ter, j ; Seventeen hundred - gallons contain about a pound. In other words, the average sea water car ries .007 of a per cent of bromine, and heretofore the recovery of so small: an amount has been' con sidered economically impossible.' ; Why then , this: sudden Interest Acetylene welding and . Used Cars i For Sale At ' ' Barrett Bro GARAGE I 1999 X. Capitol- Phone $20 Formerly Texas Garage j material shortage and has dem onstrated how . when we discover ways for making available values occurring in traces, we can draw on great reserves of natural re sources. The automobile industry ranks first among the country's 'mnu ufcturers, accdrdig to the Burea of the Censs. the rating being on the. basis of wholesale value of products. The steel Industry Is second and meat packing third. 48 of the motor cars in tho U. S. are owned In communities having : under 5,000 population. '65. are ia communities under 25,000 population. 33 railroads in the U.S. and Canada are now using motor trucks as part of thelr shipping service. - f " LOOKS LIKE NEW ' But it isn't Just j a New Top ' V and ; " ' ; - New ; Upholstery f Put on by j : - J W.R. J.H. McALVIN : 545 North Church Street Where Will You TRADE RECORD (CoatlBn4 from page 1) more than two billion dollars since 1922. cays the Trade Record of the National City Bank of New York, is about equally divided be tween imports and exports. ; Im ports 'of the fiscal year 1925 will exceed those of 1922 by about one bfllion dollars and the exports .will exceed those of 1922 by about $1,200,000,000. - V. ' The excess of exports over im ports or "favorable trade balance" as it is sometimes called, is likely to be about one and one third billion dollars against one billion in 1922 and more than, half a bil lion in. 1913, the-year preceding the World War. . Prior to the opening of the war the excess of -3 " v ja''"'''""m " "- v ' ' " rrr Back of .Every Star Gar A"$ 5 0,000,000 O rganization Lj;THE-,i9i5 Star Car is built by one of ' ; material, is dedicatcij and devoted to I 1 'Summar Fur Some're furem None're acrin'em Those who . are Furem arc those who've used 'em. . -s Drive in and 4,Ccnfurn f2s ZOEZL'S TOE r::o? I..':.::: 471- Hill, ; the three largest automobile organiza taons in the world. Five huge plants located at strategic ! points throughout the country, repre ; senting millions of dollars in the most advanced precision machinery and equipment, daily are turning out Star ' i Cars to meet the increasing public dc ' mand for low-cost transportation, i In the Oakland plant, which has taken the I lead irv production of Star Cars for the ; CoasU-$ 5,000,000 are invested in build' ing the lowcost Star. C?fi r This vast organization C . ( o with its acres' of plants '1 its enormous resour' ! ces its control of raw but one ideal the production of the nnest lowcost automoDue iz is possiDic to build the Star Car. Every Star Car represents the actual savings and efficiency of this organize tion, and these savings are passed on to you in the wonderful value of t;he new Star Car. - . 4 , See the 1925 Star Car. In every detail it represents, value plus value from its Million Dollar Motor with its 10 r increase in power, clear through every )Js greatest value buy in the world today. , SALEM - AUTOMOBILE GO. 151 North High Street. Phone 97 Y Pacific Coast f Fifty thousand Star Cars have been built in this huge Durant plant at Oakland, California. Beginning Sunday, May 17 The Oregon i StsLtesmaim Will 'Start Its 1925 Beach, 'Se'ctioini This section will carry advertising from the various, beaches in Tilla mook and Clatsop counties and give complete information to trie tourist and to those who are planning a va cation as to the distance to each beach resort, the condition of the roads they will have to travel and what they might expect to findtwhen arriving at the beaches . i Additional information will be com piled and filed at the Statesman of fice so that those who desire infor mation about the resorts, hotels, res taurants etc., may obtain it by tele phoning the Statesman 1 " The resorts and beaches so far listed :are;v::':;;; : Gearhart, Seaside, Cannon Beach, Neah-Kah-Nie, Manzanita, Manhat: ten, Lake Lytle, Rockaway, Saltare, Garabaldi, Oceanside, Happy Camp, Netarts, Pacific City, Neskowin, De lake and Nevport See The Oregon Statesman Sunday, May 17th, or each Sunday after that date for complete information i I, v) 1 : t 1 7 - 4 ,. 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