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THE OREGON STATESMAN; SALEM.- OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1 02fr i 3 0 4t w mm -51 Submarine Salvagers ; Rely ufiL unaer-water;iorch and T Compressed Air " etnpung the tremendous or raising the submarine 8-5 7 rammed and sunk MCBfeck Island tne new England coast last September, the narr den&rtment f undertaking one of the most dar ing and ingenious' salTage opera tions la maritime history; for the wsty hulk of the fighting ma chine lies fast In stick clay at the bottom of the ocean under 130 " feet of water.-' The plan of salvage, as' erolred by Lieutenant-Commandef Edward " Ellsberg of the" construction corps after months fstndy -calls' for jnethods and apparatus "never be- fore tried." One Invention which wlH play a vital part In the job. writes L. U. Reavts in Popular Science Monthly for June. la a re markable cutting torch, lnrented byv Commander Ellsberg. which will work with lull efficiency under water. Air pressure is sup plied in such a way that it forms an envelope around the flame, of the torch. At present a buoy Is anchored by a long rope to the deck gun of the S-51. A diver from the Falcon the principal salvaging vessel, will slide down this rope and land on the deck of the submarine. Other divers will follow. First they will lash : eight steel pontoons, to the sides of the wreck. Each of these will be fitted with a hose connect ed with air pumps on hoard the Falcon; J -. Two smaller "pilot" pontoons will be attached to the front and rear or the- craft by; sixty-foot chains. - Meanwhile other divers .work ing with nnder-water torches, will close as many of the water-tight doors in the hull as possible, and cut ventholes in the bottom of the hull. Holes also will be cut in the bull at other points and the air hose lines from the Falcon will be fitted to them. V I . At the word of command the air pumps will be started, forcing the, water out o fthe pontoons. The eight pontoons, when filled with air, will have a combined lifting power. of 760 tons, and the two "pilot" pontoons will add 120 tons, making a total of 880 tons pulling steadily against the dead weight o( the hull. SThe supreme test will come when ialr pressure 4 is applied to the htfse lines connected to the wr, lines COMW-ott o me I It nit (Clf t I- Kn' in.t tf fl- I civ rater' can tqrtor&Q .-out to .xfi wfnr nnt tI V leasts 00 tons of buoyancy lit to break the grfp of the clay. .ERICAN AUTO MEN - 7 . Kb III I r w . , mmm V I ML TO un MS r CAUnD I IflUT PADCland fish There Is but one place T i mm m mm I mm I I m.jmm 1 '(Cotttta4 front pag . - - - - - r - resulted in a much higher torque than is evident in the motor per formance of the " European cars, would eliminate the necessity for changing of gears and Sir William cites this in his prophecy. 1 , ( The use of a motor developed along these lines would represent a yearly, saving in iuei expense. covering over 50 per cent of all cars in this countryi of around 30 per cent which, In money would represent the staggering , total of 1286.000,000 of dollars ajrear.ln I 1st Item alone, -rf saving In oil expense whfle the value of, the time saving in a ear which would cover the road at from '20 per cent to 40'Ter "cent i faster than oar present small cars could, scarcely be made the matter of figures. . ? v-iv '. : . ;.,. The performance . capacity of a car with such a mtor would, be far more in line with , recent legisla ;! tion advocating higher speeds on ' highwayshan is the case with our present small car,. - . The quicker; acceleration would have ; a -pronounced- influence on city traffic driving and European I 'small cars, which have been driven in the main traffic arteries of our larger cities 1 hare shown a con vincing ability tokeep well, ahead . of the line. FoW wheel brakes are standard equipment on tie -European small " cars and would be necessary on an American buUt product duplicat ing the speed and power features of tle European types. J V The -higher speed, possibilities I t -M ..it mm tAWnrln 9 thA mm J X IU. mms,mmmmmm.mt - i i. m ii.. thla wrtnld WCII5UI W- V mm " . very' likely result In much lower ' looking car that we have in the small car field at the present time. Knrh co'ntsrutcfon would necessar- Ily influence Hhe amount of Toad . clearance which wdnld . probably ; be taken care . of by fprlng sus ' pension and "frame construction. American car buyers would not I take kindly to a car which! did ot fford them .the roominess and ; seating , spaced which has become ,pclatedu with .ourj standards of '-: w lfort but;tbe use -of a standard . 5 inch treatl on a car with a ' wheel base which would probably approximate ; 100 lnehes should '- give, ample room to afford the same body dimensions we nave tuxm Accustomed to. J A ; car motored with, the Euro pean type power plant would ne cessarily require a standard slid ing gear transmission to- get the American engineers have been studying theEui-dpeari smallar for some time and it has been ex pected throughout the industry that this study would soon make Itself felt in material changes fn certain phases of construction. -Vi. Lighter- weighty ? smaller; piston displacements, increased power de velopments nave been presented In steady progression but, as yet we hare not had anything radical ; in the way of change as has been pre dicted in the article by Sir William Jotts;; lir: "1v. If such a change is made, it will Lnot be In the nature of an experi ment for it. ia safe to assume that the American maker who would tackle the problem would take ad vantage of proved construction and would go after the field with 'mass ' production. Sueh a maker would find a ready acceptance of a car with American comfort ad vantages combined with European performance advantages, not alone, in the.domestrc field but in foreign production as, well and British and French makers have already sounded the1 warning that manu facturers in,' this country are like ly to invade the foreign market with a car of this type. D. H. Mosher, Merchant Tailor, is turning out the nobbiest and best fitting tailor made suits to measure. luo business ana pro fessional men buy of Mosher. () MOTOR FATALITIES INCREASE SLIGHTLY (Continued from page 1.) . accidents during March was Louis ville. Ky. No motor vehicle fatalities were reported . last month ,in the fol lowing cities with a population of more than 100.000 and less than 300,000: Cambridge, Mass.; Du luth. Minn.; Erie, Pa.; Fall River, Mass. ; Fort Wayne, Ind. i Lynn, Mass.; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Lew- ell, Mass.; New Bedford. Mass.; Providence, It. I.; Springfield. Mass., and Worcester, Mass. Accident reports were received from twenty-three cities under 100,000 population, which stated there were no automobile fatali ties in March, Thirteen of these cities have had no motor vehicle deaths this year. Fewer, pedestrians were victims last month, the reports showing that only 64 per cent were pedes trians and 38 per cent of the pe destrians were under 15 years of age, against the February figures showing 74 per cent, as pedestri ans and only 17 per cent, being less than 15 years old. Forty-eight cities, with "a popu lation of almost 15,000,000, re ported 111 other public accident fatalities', 48 of these being traf fic accidents other than motor ve hicles; 12 resulting from drown ing and -25 "from accidents ,of . a mta-oll-nik,.,,,- , ' ,s-i-J --rJ. J. t ,.,., ninety-twdcitles arid New York. Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The Midget Meat Market never falls n trttra vrtn thn finest meats w w fin Ho I Am . . in Salem to get the finest fish. The Midget Market has it for you. () Bend Oiling Dalles-California begins on highway. The , -: n :r;R j;tiT rr70 iizx SIX TIMES as many Paige cars have alreadyjwen -aold this -year as were - sold in the same Period a year ago. . - Three timea as ttariy Paiges have been : built and sold these . first . four i months as were sold; during; all of 1925. 5 ; . And tenyes, twenty times as many men. and women are clamoring for this car as i ever before aspired to Paige ownership. Throughout, all America the pendulum ' is swinging to Paige! , -!-" I1ME11ED1L SEA, GGDO AS EVER Star Power Plant After Two Month's Salt Bath,. Proves; r ' Efficiency . . LONG BEACH. CaW May 8 -It takes more than a two month's salt water bath to stop the .per formance of a-Star car, "Million Dollar Motor." according to the results of a performance tes staged between here and . San Diego. The motor, .taken from the bottom of San Fraaclsco bay some time ago, was mounted in the chassis of a French motor car by Eddie Miller, former speedway racing driver, who drove his own creation on an Economy and en durance test a few days ago. At sustained speeds' of better than 35 miles an hour (a. a driving rainf storm,! Miller iame through the test with flying colors and over aged better than 25 miles per gal lon of gasoline. The Star car mo tor was one formerly used in a commercial delivery job by a San Francisco merchant. SPEEDERS HALTED By MMETS Automatic Device Slows Auto to Safe Gait, at Grade Crossings A novel and fascinating idea came to Charles Alder of Balti more, Md., one evening not long ago, as he sat by his laboratory window and watched the twinkling lights of commuters trains flatt ing by in the railroad yards be low. He contrasted their orderly operation with the helter-skelter rush of : home-going automobiles on the road that crossed the rail road tracks at the end of the yard. "Why not." he thought, "apply a little signal engineering to the problem of preventing auto acci dents at grade crossings? surely there must be some way to keep the reckless driver from commit tin suicide whether he wants to or not." Adlerset to work to solve the problem. As a result he has In vented a sytem that automatically slows down the fast-driven car as it approaches the railroad cross ing. No matter how' hard the driv er steps on, the throttle, the car JMtrfliL4UiAJixeed Jtreatit f"f iRhan fifteen miles an hour until it has passed the crossing, The device, described in - the June Popular Science Monthly, consists essentially of a powerful magnet concealed In a concrete box beneath the surface of, the roadway at the proper . distance from the railroad crosing." As the approaching car passes over a magnet, the latter operates a sys- u i J ' - ; . i fmr S 12951 7 prnttrnger Sedrnn, xm. The amazing fact that a Paige can now be bought for nearly a thousand dollars less accounts for some of this - popularity;. But "there f is also the infinitely more significant fact that a great many? shrewd motor-wise buyers are turning from cars priced much .higher to this less costly but equally capable Paige. If yob would know aD the reasons for this tremendous; popularity come in and drive this Paige, entirely . wunout Trumm Motor Co. tern of relays and a governor ' so designed that it will allow'" cur-, rent to flow through the automo bile ignition system at spedes be low fifteen miles an hour but. cuts it off when the car is traveling faster than that rate. This action; continues until an other road magnet at the-danger point Is reached, when the ignition circuit is restored to its normal path. The road magnets .are made up of flat strips of magnetized steel, placed side by side, in the concrete beneath the road surface.. ' This remarkable Invention may help to solve other Important traf3 f ic problems besides that o fthe.; railroad grade crossing. Control ling magnets could be placed at any point where slow and careful operation of automobiles is ne cessary for "the public .safety. . The Marion Automobile Co. The Studebaker. the world's greatest automohile value. Operating cost small. Will last, a lifetime, with care. Standard coach SI 415. () DEMAND Ml Export Trade Is Declared 'Important Factor for Bus iness Leaders , Export trade is no longer Inci dental to American business but is an important factor in Industry, according to H. H. Rice, a director of the National Automobile Cham ber of Commerce, addressing the National Foreign Trade Council at Charleston,-S. C. April 29. Foreign trade at one time, "Mr. Rice pointed out, was Jargely a side . line with many factories in most industries of this country. It was welcome extra business but it was not an outstanding feature of the business. In the automobile industry 12 per cent of the production of the factories is now shipped abroad with the expectation that this per centage will increase rapidly. More . and more it is expected that the United States will be man ufacturing products for foregin markets, especially those products which can be made more econom ically here. Forward looking ex ecutives, accordingly, will be pay ing .particular attention to the ex port field In the nex few years. Carload automobile shipments from 'the main plants have greatly exceeded previous records during the last two months. In February a new figure was established, with 60,604 carloads and this was far outstripped in March when 74. i 5 6 carloads were shipped on the jraU3-J3rlveawsys . harr? not kp paee with the rail shipping, the February figure being 43,889 ma chines while March was 58.295 The record driveaway month was during the car shortage period ot May 1920, when 74,286 machines were , driven ' over the roads through lack of railroad facilities and - freight car supply; that month carload shipments by rail were 21,977. iMwt imdmnm. siaroi n $199S, CmkwioLtt, i2St 93 iut.fc. umntt. i tlit 4-Wkcci hrmka facia PmigHydrmmUt obligation. ; I' Ml ETS 0 TO ESS GLASS IS ED SUCCESS Laboratory Tests Now Be ing Conducted in Cornell; . - Rare Element Used ITHACA, N. Y., May 8 Sand less glass is being made in the cnemisiry laboratory at Cornell University. L .? The substitute for sand in the process'of manufacture is the di oxide "of germanium, a r -ire, mys terious "and costly element which Professor- L. M. Dennis, head of the department of chemistry, is now able to produce in quantity after years of experimentation. Whether the new glass has properties that will make it of great value for optical purposes is 3 a si DU ill WA f 111 Xh' ' in li 3i r . At v V XI r' I fi Own THE price reduxtrorr bf tiefirly a thousand dollars, made in 1 925, put Packard Six com fort, beauty and distinction at last within the reach of thousands to whom the possession of a Packard had been a lifetime ambition. And Packard Six sales more than doubled in twelve months. If you have been paying over $ 1 500 for your motor cars you, too can own a Packard Six. And here are four reason's why you will find this fine car your best possible transportation i nv ee t m e n t this Spring. Costs No More to Own Packard Six transportation .costs no mdre by the mile than cars of lower first cost because owners keep their cars at least twice as lorig as they keep half-price cars. And all operating and maintenance charges are no greater. Can Be Paid for Monthly The Packard Six five-passenger sedan with all necessary accessor- . ies costs but at' your door, freight ; and tax paid: .Under our lib eral budget plan : of - pur chase the down payment is $72975 aAd the monthly paymentsj$l 23.25. - i stin : undetermined, but the re8uits thus, far btained indicate that .it has unusual refractive 'qualities. if Chemists; ar sUll puiiled fey germanium. They frankly admit that until it w'as put to work mak ing glass they Thad not knownVhat to do with it. Even now they are comment it has other more im portant uses to which science some day will apply it. At present Pro fessor Dennis is studying its com pounds iwth a view of determin ing whether the element has med icinal properties that will make It of inestimable value, to mankind. Germanium is extracted" from crude zinc oxide. In crystalline form it is a gloss, flaky sustance resembling 7inc-, hard and ex tremely brittle. It is wcrth many dollars a gram, and Cornell ex hibits the largest mass of the ele ment ever assembled, a round piece, beautifully crystalline about the size of a silvec dollar and weighing 104 grams." It has been learned that crude zinc oxide can be heated with strong acid under, such conditions tis factory 30x3 V2 Fabric. . .$ 7.95 30x3 V2 Cord 8.95 30x3i2 Oversize Cord 11.50 29x4.40 Balloon.....! .. 13.95 Other Sizes Priced in Proportion SMITH & WATKINS Court at High Street Phone 44 You, too, can a -and here are four sbund reasons 1 .... . ; why you should buy it now $29 1 9.00 delivered yjtl'ivho owns jlVJ c3gji one -Vjrji PACKARD ",- . . .-.. ;;.. !.s . , . '. '. ' : ' .-; . . ' : ,: ' - . V ' "' ' - - " - " "' ' ' ' ' Fred M. PowellMotor Cars 350 N. High that a voiatue compound ot ger volatile compound, of manium Of high purity I; distills over. This is decomposed by water so as to produce pure germanium oxide, a whltej powder. '.Professor Dennis further . discovered that ingots of the pure metal could be you should knov about - . n I n n ! : n I. H nn rr n n f) Sub-frarrfe Engiri&Mountinii ; ; J V ; V!i"r " THE STUDEBAKEk .engine: is r mounted - in . sub-f ranie.; This ;4 prevents the twisting or torsional;' ! strain on rough I arid uneven ; ; roada . and eliminates bearing strain. : It l protects the engine in case of side- - swipe or collision. MARION AUTOMOBILE "CO.: i . ... . -..I. . . 235 South Commercial Street Telephone 3C2 ' DAY AND NIGHTj SERVICE -. .7 . PACKARD We willcredit the- allowance -for-. your present car agains : he down, payment. If there is a surplus it goes to reduce your monthly pay-; ments; thus making cash outlay at any low. -j - . Prompt PeliyeryNow If you act at once.you fcan,secure immediate or early deliyery'of any model Packard Six. put while prepared now with foresee a repetition shortage when thousands who wanted Packard cars coiild not get them for months. Qua ity cannot v be built hurriedly. ' . - . . - k, , : : ! ( " .- ' ' Used Cars at Peak Value Now - Right now your present car can be disposed of in the best and Highest , used car market of the year, r Nat urallyj this is your advantage. V It means a miximum alloWaftce tof ap- ply on your Packard Six purchase even! if you do not w sh to take immediate delivery. V Will you let us tell you more about the iJracKara oix with which onef Uur 2 1 26. - Call usl and let us ! appraise your present can : i Tliere is no obligation. : Telephone 21! by fnsioit of the powder: under -ordinary salt. Laboratory test's disclosed that a gram; oL germanium couia. o. extracted . from . a pound, of sine. , and the; production has since pro- ' " 7 n r, in pg: Six a -5. th required one time very Possible : full of last year's ana tne ease you, can have teiepnone IS - . - .. .m 1 2 1 1 9 tiA aYirliiA In 349 N. Commercial Telephone 359.;. p-pneral use. If-1 a well-known-fact-thatlj: . : ; i -I