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FORD PillCE SLICE ES AS SURPRISE 1 Reduction in Prices on Clos i'ed Models Comes Unher- aided From Factory ' - ' f ProlfsVy th biggest, (recent piece ofjntomobile. news 'Is: the Ford MoWbr j company announce ment of a reduction In price of the entire line of Ford closed cars. The new price level is ascribed to the trend of closed "r buying which has been rapidly dvelop Ing. According to statement by the company accompanying the announcement, this , trend , , has reached such a high. 'point that manufacturing economies .have been effected and -Jn. acocr dance with the established policy of the company, the benefits off these f economies are passed on to pnr jchasers of Ford . ears. X. : Vj. Coming Virtually on the heels tfot the sweping Improvements and II refinements ; made in Ford cars last fall, the new prices mark the elimaz of a-period-of general as cending values, ffLeai" ' than six months ago, Ford bodies were completely redesigned - to . make possible a greater degree of beau ty. driYingeasevnd rjdlng com fort. Xn line, with this development all-steel bodies were introduced together with closed cars in color and numerous refinements In the chassis. ' '"' - f. ; These Improvements, which were the most pronounced ever made in Ford cats, are now sup plemented by the lowest prices at which Ford closed cars have ever sold. The reductions range from $95 off the cost of the Fordor to 120 off the price of the Coupe. The Tudor,1 most popular family car of the Ford line, is reduced $60.00 coinen other states showing correspond ingly high percentages of Increase, Star entered 1926. to ; battle for leadership - with' other makes of cars that have been the quantity leaders for years," says the Salem Automobile company, r local Star car dealers." . ' , " f ' -""ft '; "Reports reaching here from the Durant Motor - company! of California, at Oakland.' show that Star:- continues to hold a strong position on the." sales ladder, ac cording to January gtires and the totals for February go farjrer corueu. - i - This can be attributed mostly to the Star. four, because only a comparatively few new Star, sixes have been actually delivered since their ' introduction, even though hundreds have been signed up-for. ; VThe Star four has built up a wonderful reputaiton i for itself, and it was through the Star f pur that the now : ; really ; great Star dealer organization in the west was built up.":. j- I WOOL BAS PRICES M FIRMER Pacific Cooperative : Wool Growers Coptract for . 3 Quantity-Supply SEEN Ci SALES Star Four Battles for Lead ership; Large-Retail." Gain i " IsNotrced " SENATE ACTION ON t TAX VINDICATES AUTQ (Continued from pe 1.) - ', ..' 1 -t ' - - - 1 1 i ! ' automobiles because we have been consistently reducing and repeal ing excise taxes and I could see no Justification at all for an excise tax on automobiles any more than on pianos or talking machines or radios. The absurdity of the situation was apparent when we consider that we place no sales tax! on pianos, on talking machines; or radios and yet in the case of the automobile, in which millions of Americans are getting v outdoor exercise in their little cars that cost from $300 to $500 or $1,000 and having difficulty in maintain ing them, the senate committee proposed to collect from them an average of about $20 each. 'There was not a member of the senate who could logically defend the 3 per cent tax on passenger cars any more than they could logically defend the 2 per cent tax on motor trucks. They could, not defend it because they had, aban doned other sources of. revenue more lucrative, much more easily collected, and much less j burden some. . '.. As a consequence, the senate had but one alternative in the faee of these hard, concrete facts, and that was to vote as it did wiping out all automotive taxes. JUSTICE IS SOUGHT FOR VETS' PARENTS New Bill Would Provide Aid far Parents of Men Killed :'. in Action k The price of wool bags has gone up. And Indications are for still higher quotations., The Pacific Cooperative Woolgrpwers associa tion has contracted ion a quantity basis for bags for its members. Price quotations upon the f . o. b. basis at Portland or San Francisco-serves thus being available to both California and northwest growers, ; The association also an nounced yesterday that pre-s hear ing advances to member .will be made on the basis of $1 per head on sheep at 6 interest. The management is closing out the 192S business, being engaged in the sale of range wools at this time. The Willamette valley and Umpqua pools were closed some weeks ago. Impetus has been, given the as sociation by thai attitude of the National Woolgrowers association as expressed at the annual meeting at Boise this month. There the special committee on wool market ing recommended cooperative mar keting of wools, discouraging con tracting as Inimical to the best in terests of the western wool indus try. ; The desirability of concentrat ing large volumes; of a commod ity In one organisation, or in a federation of independent organi zations as opposed to a large num ber of local pools has recently been brought out in a press state ment by C. J. Hurd, specialist in organization and; markets from the Oregon Agricultural college. T I r: I SHOWS FEW LOSSES Dealers Experience Practi cally No Losses in Sell- i Ing Cars on Time The commanding position as sumed during. 1925 throughout the western territory by the Star four, and. which has been held since the beginning of the present year, continues to be a -topic of discution among automobile men. 4rNJi California alone iregister ing an increase , of over; 90 per cent In the year's business, and The 6- per cent purchase certifi cate plan in operation by the Chevrolet Motor company has en abled thousands of would-be mo tor car owners to make the neces sary down payment without seri ously depleting their bank ac counts. Shipments from the .Pittsburgh district to the various General Motors plants during 1925 totall ed 8,500 carloads TnostTy of raw material from the steel mills. JAPAN TO TAX BASEBALL TOKYO r All prof esslonal base bair games in Japan will be taxed in the future, according- to. ft de cision of the taxation authorities. An American ; girls' baseball team recently played a number of games in Tokyo and the gate re ceipts were large. Plans are re ported under way for the organi sation of a Japanese National League. So the government in tends to get its percentage of the receipts of professional games hereafter. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 20 - Amendments to the World War Adjusted Compensation Act which will bring from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 tp mothers and fath ers of men killed In action or who died in service, were agreed upon recently by the Hawley sub-committee of the house of representa tives appointed to examine amend ing legislation contained In the IMlls bill. The Mills bill was j Introduced at the request of the National Legislative Committee of The American Legion and' would re move the dependency clause from the adjusted compensation legis lation as if affects parents of de ceased veterans. A sub-committee amendment would include under the presump tion of dependency a widowed mother or a mother or . father over 6Q years of age. It would allow dependency to arise any time between the date of the son's death and January 1, 198. It would allow the director of the veterans' bureau to waive proof of dependency in certain cases and would make the section retro active to May 19. 1924, the date of passage of the act. Another provision of the sub committee bill would allow $60 additional credit to the relatives of men killed in action 'or who died in service, as their relatives did not receive the $60 discharge bonus. It would correct the comptroller general's decisions concerning men who die while their applica tions are In the mail. ' It would give power to the director of the bureau to determine the proper beneficiary without reference to the courts, his rulings on all sec tions of the law not to be subject to review by the comptroller general. - The amendment would make provision to replace lost or de stroyed certificates with facility and promptness. ("From the Automotive Daily ' . News) KENOSHA, Wis.. Feb. 20. A total of 9 5 per cent of the pass enger cars sold in Kenosha are sold on' the time payment plan, and only about 1 per cent of the purchasers fail to complete their payments, according to a survey of the leading dealers here. In some cases the number of failures averaged less than 1 per cent, but all dealers were unani mous that the plan was a neces sary one in the business, and all depreciated attempts to discour age the -time payment plan or to shorten the average time for the completion of payments for the completion of payments. 'Purchasing articles on the in stallment plan might be unsatis factory for some lines of busi ness," declared Ray Stretch, pres ident" of the Stretch Motor . com pany, here, "but it is absolutely essential in the automobile retail business." George Greiner, president of the Greiner-Nash company, declared that the wave of automobile buy ing which characterizes the indus try today would not be possible if dealers did not. allow "painless" methods to pay for the cars. Full cash payment for a car these days is now the exception, he said. A. H. Dahl, of the Ford dealer ship, cites figures, saying that 3,- 000,000 new cars will be sold in the United States in 1926. 95 per cent of which, he says, will be on the installment plan. striking- against - the. lifter rod. which in turn strikes against the valve steam, and the valve head smashes down against the metal valve rest. 1 . i - Six cylinders, each with two valves, repeating this operation thousands of times a minute, with the valves getting out of correct mechanical : adjusmtent, put an impossible task upon the engineer who endeavors ; to quiet all the noise. -; " ! j In the Knight type motor there is no clash of metal. The con necting rods run in oil, the sleeves slide by each other with an oil film between-aud- the. whole , op eration la inherently silent..' ': " Practically all the present day motor adjustments i and Ills are t the direct result of valve opera tion and carbon. MOTOR GROUPS HOPE BAN WILL BE LIFTED (.loutiauOTi from pura: l when the public should 1 be In formed of the , consequences al ready apparent and which must only too. unfortunately be aggra vated if the artificial restriction oi supplies of raw rubber is to con tinue..;;; ,; r;,. i j ,;) . t ." : : j " 'It Is necessary, in the. Inter ests of all purchasers and users of commodities of which rubber forms a part, to emphasize, that the object of what; is' known as the Stevcnsjpn restriction scheme was to create an economic price, and its present results, which are accentuated every day, leave no doubt whatever j that Its conse quences are to 'create an uneco nomical price for, tire equipment for every type of road vehicle. Buy a Want Ad It Pays Big The Chevrolet Motor company employs more than 100 experts in the instruction of service manag ers and mechanics for its. dealers throughout the country! ' Condon Blalock . market road contract let, for $16,000. INDIANS TAKE DOMESTIC SCIENCE ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. Indian maidens, having adopted rouge and bobbed hair, now have taken up 'domestic science. A department of culinary in struction has been established in the government Indian school here with seven classes. The Indian flappers are keenly Interested. DEMANDS ON ENGINE INCREASING VASTLY (Continued from pass 1.) near its best efficiency. This means frequent recourse to serv ice .stations and repair shops. The mechanism which actuates the sleeves in the Knight type motor consists of two small con necting rods, positively controlled, and with no necessity for adjust ment. Again, the demands for silent operation put upon the present day motor car, are defeated in the poppet-vtlve type of motor by -the fact that the the entire operation of this form of construction re quires the Incessant tapping of metal against metal. The cam Xlma omi gzI o) HEE? HE? u LrwL,b ON ANY SET ANYWHERE i if mi H3 N . 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