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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1926)
V n ; n 0 ; mndJCAcfiviii i Dealers iti Salem rTejtirBm V :.- i SECTION THREE Pages l to 8 i Automotive Good Roads C LEAN AN D VI GOROUS SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAB V. SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNIftG, MARCH 7, 1926 ; PRICE FIVE CENTS .. LV ems 41 BBEAT ADVAHCE S seen inioii Developments in Both Mill tary and Commercial I Phases Arft NntpH. . DAYTON, O.. March . Avla tion, both military and commercial has been, advanced along several lines during the last year by ex perimentation and research at the engineering division headquarters of the army, air service at McCook field. , ; v. .; . The developments hare pertain ed to improvement of metals and other materials used in airplane construction,' to more economical airplane construction, to improve ments in designs of planes, and in ventions and adaptations of ac cessories and methods in connec tion 'with aviation, says a report of the year's progress. -;: i The predominant trend In mili tary aircraft - development has been toward a marked redaction In the number of. types of planes required for military purposes. Formerly fifteen standard types of. aircraft were considered neces sary properly to f nlfill aU military functions.' Today only five gen eral trees are rnnlrd tn prom. v. pllsb, the same purposes. The,re- pS signing aircraft in certain instanc 4 .hr es,to perform two or more fun- 1 wv" luivugu uiieixnaugeaDie equipment. The five general types to which planes now conform to meet mlll- A I tary requirements are: Pursuit. ill 1 j . , wiuuMuaieBi, oDservauon, train ing and transport. The first plane i built in the United States exclusively for am bulance purposes made its appear- ance during the year." It accom modates a pilot, a flight surgeon mad two patients, the latter being Sried latters In the fuselage. . Oieal supplies are carried ' Practicability " of i the Loening Amphibian plane for land-water-1 sUt use was proved by the MacMU lan , polar flight and the photcn graphing tour in the Minnesota watershed region, said the report. , New-accessories developed dur ing the year included pneumatic landing shock absorbers and the airplane brake. The shock ab- ixorDers are : telescoping cylinders containing oil and v water. The I; brakes decrease by about one-third , N the distance of roll on the ground '. t ,4 (Coatlaed.a pag 6.) PRAHKWG, IS PAttGEROUS fltOPKIt CARE M CST BE TAKE3T TO PBEVE.VT IX JURY Thousands of motorists whose automobiles do not have self star ers are Injured every year because jthey do not know how to crank the machine, says a statement Issued by S. J. Williams, Director of Pub lic Saftey, National Safety Council. Driver of commercial cars, deliv ery trucks, taxi cabs, etc who are professional chauffeurs constitute a large number of the people hurt In this manner, strange as it may seem for one would assume, that men who are engaged in this occ upation would know how to avoid : jsuch hurts, - comments Mr. Will i lama. Following are some pro cautions to be observed when cranking: ' ;-.' r ' Always pull the crank up, not Hown,'. and, don't spin it unless Absolutely nekessary.. When grasp- LIng the crank, place thumb on the Jf-fliame side of handle with tbe fln- jgers; then it there is a kick-back, 4& "V handle will slip from hand. Keep ine sparic reiaraea unui u en gine has started. P ! I . ; m ,, . Ir i ; : r. : : : " - ' ; New Finish Job Is Pictured - ' - - 2 . I . , . . . ,---. - , , :;. jr : ---:- i V.YJ 3 St ' 1 " I v? --i I - . - - - " Mw Til ir Six SXeade baker pictWred above" la an example of the i TMk turned out by the Wood Auto Top ralnt aliop, ana 2by To Wood-of that firm. The old topWa. taken off ?nd!T-w CaUfornla lop with lWln panel typewladows t Thb new paint Job is made, np of golden brown with a black ?2 flSi Ae new Oil-Lad style, solid finish that take, a trim, rinisne " RmMm this h naint haa a Bfv and all scratches will H SPEED TESTS FUB B KICK "Wild Bears' and Bullocks Fail to Prevent New Record by the Jeweft. Newspapers from India bring detailed report of a record-breaking performance of an American car, a non-stop run from Bombay to Delhi. 920 miles. In 28 hours, 32 minutes, : The record, houra faster than the best previous pertromance, waa made by Lawrence P. Kent, an American and former United States Army officer, in a standard Jewett. Re was accompanied by Don C. Bliss, assistant U. S. trade commissioner and 3. Preston Wills of the E. I. DuPont De Nemours company. All three, took turns at the wheel. , i The actual elapsed time was 32 hours 42 minutes, much time hav ing been lost in ferrying across two wide rivers, and in inducing village petrol dealers to get out of bed frfr supply fuel. Judging from the Indian papers, the roads of India are not de signed for high speed runs, and the editors all treat the feat as extraordinary. Bombay's leading paperj "Times of India," says .the run ''must rank as one of the finest in the history of motoring in India," and "to drive a motor car 920 miles on Indian roads without stopping the engine is in Itself a sensational performance, and to average 32, miles an hour is more wonderful still." Another interesting sidelight on motoring In India is gleaned from the Hindustan Times, published at Delhi,' which says that "round about ; Owalior the speeding car came across a number of games and nearly killed a wild bear by running over it." The reader is left to Judgewhether the motor ists actually ran, over the bear anl all but killed: it or whether the bear, escaped: by being nearly, but not quite, run over! "Wild bear" in itself is an intriguing ex pression' suggesting aa.it does that in India one must distinguish be tween wild-bears and domesticated bears. Or else that, even in India, the linotype operator is not infal lible and changed a wild boar to a bear f At any rate, they nearly killed the bear (or boar) by run ping over it quite different from the common method of killing boars (or bears?) in India by en ticing them into an air-tight gar age and and running the automo bile engine until petromortis en sues. N Other bothersome things to be met with during a speed test in India are the bullock carts. "There were crowds of them, transporting cotton," said Kent, "and when yon overtake two of them, and finally induce them to pull over to the side of the road, it's more than likely that one of them pulls to right side and the other to the left, blocking the ; . i cotin!B4 b ps 7.y t - UTILITY IS MAIN POINT CARS NOW PURCHASED FOIU AL.L WEATHER DIUYIAU Utility in the nfodern automo bile has- probably : won more friends for it than any other fac tor, declares P. G. Delano, of the Salem Automobile Co., local Star car dealer. "People today buy cars for winter ; and summer alike," he stated. "That accounts for the voRue of the enclosed car. and for the fact that so many mo dels of the present, day automo bile may be used for either dusi ness or, pleasure purposes." . - txr r.w Ktff fliatiimsktr.) polish out! The Wood company can MJy TOOLS USED IN niR PLMJT Parker Company, Ford Service,- Has 1, 145 Tools , for Repair Work How many tools have you ' in your garage at home, for use on your car? That Is how many of them can you find when you want to tighten up a' thinga-ma-glg or put on & new dohinkus or install a what-you-call-it? - Somewhere you undoubtedly have a variety of. cresent wrench, a monkey wrench and a screw driver. One usually finds them, with the tire pump, tangled up with the; mud-chains.. Then, some place in the garage, maybe under an old coat, you doubtless have a number pf the common garden variety of wrenches of the non descript class. If you are an aris tocrat, it is possible that there is a set of socket wrenches stowed away somewhere. But with all the tools you can muster together, and with all the work you can do "with them, they dwindle into ' nothingness when you consider the' equipment of a first class garage. In the Parker & Company shop, 444 South Com mercial, j for example, Mr. 'Parker found after an inventory, that they have ' 1,145 tools. These tools, he declares, represent an outlay of $7,023. t "It is this magnificent equip ment, in willing and experienced hands," Mr. Parker said, "that makes it possible to do your re pair work better and quicker." Each one of these 1,145 tools has its place in the shop and is re turned to that place after it has been used on a car. And in prac tically all cases, each, individual tool is j made for one purpose alone. It is this systematic use of equipment that enables a repair company to turn out accurate ( ContHtnad off" pg 1 ) Business Exceptionally Good Firm Says; Closed Cars Much in Demand. Exceptionally good business in automobile circles is noted by the Vick Brothers company here, local distributors of the Pontiac and Oakland cars. "We -are selling better than forty cars a month," George F. Vick said 'yesterday. ''Beginning tomorrow we will receive a carload of Oakland and Pontiac cars each day -for the next twelve days," Mr. Vick declared. (Continned on pg 5) VICIv BROS REPORT CAR SALES GROWING DOWN THE ROAD WHEN THE LADYi NOVICE ATTEMPTS TO BACK HER -CVR INTO THE SMALL SPACE IN FRONT OF YOURS- wsSi tfm pip Demand For Pontiac Car Causes High Production Demand for the new Pontiac Six since its initial presentation at the New ' York show early In January and the continued ' In creased demand for the Oakland Six have caused production at the Oakland factories at Pontiac, Mich., to 'be pushed up to 439 cars a day at the present time. A production of 450 cars daily Is scheduled for March and 500 cars daily beginning in April. The production of February and March this' year as a result of in creasing' demand . represents a 300 per cent Increase ever the sched ule of February and March last year. That the demand for the new Pontiac Six has more than fulfilled- expectations of Oakland and General Motors officials is Indi cated by the Increased production schedule for the new line. How strongly public Interest and curiosity has been aroused by the new Pontiac Six may be gauged from, the fact that at New Yorfcr and Chicago shows despite the unfavorable display of the car on the third floor of the Grand Central Palace, New York, and in the Annex of the Coliseum, Chi cago (because the new car had not been in production long enough WOOD'S AUTO TOP T E Repair and Paint Shop to Have New Equipment, Special Construction. Woods Auto and Top Shop is to have a new home here soon, it u as announced . here last week. Immediate steps, towards the .con struction of a twe-story concrete building on Chemeketa street, rear High, between the Newton Chevrolet company and the alley, will be taken by Charles S. Wel ler. The building has already been leased to Tom Wood of the auto top company. The new building will have a frontage of 64 feet and a depth of 84 feet. A portion of the house will be sub let to the Salem Automotive Ser vice, to operated by Art Sand burg. The building will be construct ed with everything in mind for the auto service and top depart ment and will house modern equipment throughout. A run way has been provided for, shunt ing cars from the ; street to the second floor. The second floor will be devoted entirely to the paint shop. Accommodations will be had for 20 automobiles on this floor at one time. Three finish ing rooms will occupy the front (Continued on pgo 6.) ORIS mi : - inn mi , m tim i Apprehensive JJontenls of ijJi9lr1l to obtain a favorable display posi tion) thousands constantly went out of; their way to reach the Pon tiac booth and to learn what new features of value had been pre sented In this new car-. The num ber ot orders received at the fac tory left no doubt as to public acceptance. ' f The entire facilities of the greatly enlarged Fisher body plant at Pontiac are now being devoted to producing bodies for the Pon tiac Six and Oakland Six. Demand for the Oakland models is also starting out with unusual strength this year, with schedules set 25 per cent higher than for the same months last year. To take care of the peak pro duction at the Oakland factories which is scheduled for early In April 600 employees are being added to the payroll. This is in addition to the increased force at the Fisher Body plant. With the enlarged production schedules now in force and the even larger contemplated sched ules, fhe Oakland Motor Car com pany is starting the year on the greatest extension program in the history of the company and one of the greatest expansion program ever contemplated by a single company in the industry. King S.,Barttett of Fred M. Powell Company, Tells of Motor School King S. Bartlett of the Fred M. Powell Motor Cars, local Packard agent, having just recently re turned from the Packard. plant at Detroit says that this is goYng to be one of the greatest years in the sale of high grade automobiles that we have ever seen. Packard is making great im provements In their plant so as to be able to take care of their share of this increased business. Mr. Bartlett attended school at the Packard plant for the study of salesmanship, automobile con struction and repairs. This. course was very thorough and was given by the best men in the plant. It took a lot of patience on the part of the instructors to answer all questions asked them, but they stood the test fine for the reason that they all feel a per sonal Interest and pride in doing this part to make a high class automobile. They all feel that Packards' in terest does not stop with its sale but continues through the life of every car they make. .There were 121 men at this (Continned on pace 8.) - -W I H PU D Ml BACK FROM FACTORY T EI E vn . . . . r.i i c G Rh i mm Cadillac Company Sees De cided Swing Toward High Class Motor Cars The swing of tho pendulum of public demand toward a greater proportion of high grade cars Is seen by Lawrence P. Fisher, presi dent and general manager of the Cadillac Motor Car, company. In the present phenomenal growth of sales of Cadillac cars and he sees in the situation even greater sales possibilities for cars iu the quality class. "During the past five years' states Mr. Fisher, "the trend of American economic life has been toward increased economy and efficiency, and that trend has been reflected In the automotive indus try. It has enlarged the market for low-priced, , light-weight cars. Slashing price reductions have in many cases required a sacrifice of quality.' "The counter-current of this de mand has now definitely set in. A class of owners whQ realize that genuine quality in its last analysis is economy are today in vesting in the highest grade of motor car transportation. Cadillac sales during the last five months of 1925 were more than double those of the corresponding period of 1924. "In addition to this class who see ultimate economy in buying what is best mechanically, there is also another class who in addi tion require the ultimate of re finement. They travel in Pullman cars and stop only at the best hotels. The' added comfort, con-I venience and prestige is worth the additional rate. For this class of people the Cadillac custom line has always held a strong appeal;; and that holds today even more strongly on account of the new Billion and Half Dollars to Be Spent; During Present Year, Said. WASHINGTON. March 6. A great national ' highway system. partly financed by the federal government, and connecting im portant , cities I throughout the United States will result from the $1,500,000,000 road building pro gram of the present year, accord ing to Frank Page, president of the American Association of State Highway Officials and ex-presi- ( Con tinned on pace 7.) By FRANK BECK . - il I mm S MUCH IN D n niHieu SS?pSed LITTLETn PIDHEER Englishman Who. Started In dustry Shares None in1 Millionaires' Profits. ... LONDON, March 6 Rubber's great romance, which has proved to be a tragedy with automobile tire buyers in the United States, began with an old man in London, Sir Henry Wickham. However, he has shared none of the profits rub ber boomers have made out of wild speculation. Sir Henry Wickham developed scientific rubber cultivation in the Orient by transplanting the hevea. or rubber plant of the Amazon, to the Far East, thus making possi ble the rubber monopoly which now lies in the bands of tho Brit ish and Dutch planters. Para was the center of the rub ber trade when Sir Henry Wick ham began his investigation back in the sixties. His was a voice crying in the wilderness In those days, when he tried to interest Britishers in rubber cultivation. But he finally enlisted the sym pathy of Sir Joseph Hooker, at Kew, and ' showed him the first drawing which was probably ever made from nature of a leaf and seed of a Para rubbber tree. A little later Sir Henry got the ear of Sir Clements Markham, of the India office, who gave the young explorer a roving commis sion to bring the rubber tree seed back to England. The rubber seed was so short lived that this was a difficult task. Sir Henry was then engaged in cultivating rubber at Santarem, over 300 miles from the mouth of the Amazon. One day an ocean liner, the Amazonas of the Inman Line, arrived in the river to the great astonishment of the little British cdlony. By a strange fate, which probably prevented Brazil from holding the grasp on the rut- ber trade, which is now" in the hands of the British, the steamer was stranded in the river by her two supercargoes and lay empty in the river with no cargo for her return trip.. . Although Sir Henry had no money, he wrote to the captain and chartered the ship , in the name of the government of India. (Continued on par 6.) SPRING COMPANY GROWS SEVENTH FACTORY TO BK BUILT IX WEST OAKLAND, CaL, March 6.-r-The Laher Spring - company, largest western manufacturer of springs and bumpers, and. already operat ing six Pacific coast, factories, to day announced the. opening of a seventh factory at Salt Lake City, Utah, to take care of a huge interf mountain distribution. ; The new plant will be under the direction of Jack J. Caps, former foreman of the Seattle, Washrt Laher Spring- company factory, and will carry a stock of $46,000 worth of springs, bumpers, and fit tings. It is equipped to manu facture . springs in quantity. Other Laher factories are oper ating in Spokane, Portland, Seat tle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and in this city. Their volume ot business is among the largest in the . country.. .,' -7- r PEDESTRIAN GREATEST VICTIM OF, AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS ' ' - ' " pBpsssjBessMf - insi r s mm. l The. pedestrian is the greatest sufferer in autoraoUlo fitalitita, according, to records analyzed by the Stewart-Warner Safety Council for. the prevention of automobile accidents. No complete record U available for the United States as a whole, but a report based On 3.023 auto fatalities occurring the first seven months of 1925. cover ing, a population of thirty-one million, ia significant.,--Two thousand of these 3,023 fatalities have been classified according to type, tlx-ty-eigbi per. ent.of the victims wer pedestrians. 11.5 occurred v U' another motor vehicle; - 7 per cent with horse vehicles, 4. 2 with fix I objects, such as: lamp posts, '3.5 per. cent with street cars. 2.7 wit!i railway trains and 1.4. per cent with bicycl-j. , The remaiair ir 6.3 per cent involved, he collision... The small proportion Involving tz: way trains is encouraging and doubtless due to the graiual Etll.' of unguarded graded crossings. " The menace to tLa pedestriaa Lo . -ever, is alarming, and calls for greater care on fcSa jsrt in trc ftreets and a the driver's for, morj cfjffvj r'""'-t ' IS 0PE1ED Operators; t of Commercial ; Vehicles, Especially, Are Urged to Take Care. Approximately SO per cent of the 21,000 'men women and children killed' by automobiles during 1925 were run down by trucks, delivery' cars and taxi cabs.' ' , r ' ' Almost 20 per cent, of the 800,000" persons Injured by automobiles' last year were struck by commercial cars. To reduce this toll, the -National Safety Council is inaug urating j a country-wide cam paign designed to make safer drivers of chauffeurs employed by fleet owners. V . CHICAGO. March 6. -Inauguration of a country-wide educa tional campaign designed to make drivers ot operators of commercial motor vehicles, - trucks, . delivery cars and taxi cabs, owned by re tailers, wholesalers, manufact urers, van,, storage and express companies, .was announced to night by W. H. Cameron, Manag ing Director ot the National Safety Council with headquarters here.. The program Includes a series of lectures to be delivered in var ious cities, radio talks to be broad cast by leading stations, dash cards for thousands, of . commercial ve hicles, printed booklets containing instructions relating to safe drive- Ing, slogans to appear upon bill boards, and . four different illus trated posters every month which will be displayed in garages, ser vice stations, etc of fleet owners. Letters asking for the co-oper-. atien of corporations, companies and individuals who own large numbers of commercial cars will be sent to the managers who rfll be requested to have, their drivers attend the ' schools which are to be conducted by Community safety councils throughout the country. ..More than 4;000 concerns are now enrolled in the National Safe ty Council and it Is the hdpo'of Managing 'Director Cameron that hundreds df other fleet owners will be glad to receive the new type of service which ha been developed to assist them in edu cating their drivers whose atten tion wilt be called to the Impor- tance of -safe .thinking and safe . practices; The series of six leaflets on safe driving, cover the following sub jects: "Rules of the Road "Me- , i' -. " " ' J (Cot4aa4 oft rC ' SHOW ROOM NOV READY OTTO J. WILSON INCREASES iR SPACE - . . ; c t The new show room of the Otto Wilson Automobile company, local Buick distributors, has been com? ' pleted and the shop is to be fin ished soon. Mr. Wilson said yes terday. The show: room now ex tends the entire length of the building and will accommodate many more cars than heretofore. It measures 80 feet by "40? New equipment has been Installed, with lighting fixtures and f urni ture.'' -;. -'P: ' " " tt is thought the remodeling of the entire shop will be completed during. .this week... ' DRIVING I he r-t, ... ir - f