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SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1927 Ul Stage Conservation Contest Lane County Ford Dealers T His Work Makes Driving Ess , IFFERED EMPLOYES I 22.000.000 AUTOS STIMULATES SALES GtXeral r M6tors Company Makes Annual Offer of Seven Per Cent Stock' ! Passenger Cars Number 19,- illnusual Roomy Accommo 465,675; . and Trucks' 2,876,791? Gain 11.2 cations of Chrysler 60 popular With Public THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON Reports SKatv Gefieral Increase Automobile Indusiw fqr Year 1927 SOW pi SHOWS OVER sn cm -r- t Alfred P.xSloaa, Jr., president of General Motors has issued the "oiiowinr state ment regarding : tne corporation s offering of stock to employes: . . ,. " "General Motors" is making the fourth annual offering of Its 7 preferred stock to the employes of the corporation nd Its subsidiar ies. Subscription; books close January 31, 1927. Ail employes are entitled to subscribe, at $110 a share; payment to be made in, full or in eleven monthly install ments. " "Employes- may" subscribe in amounts from one share up, Uri ii0 case more than 10 shares, de pendent upon their wage earn ings; the total value of the" stock subscribed for not to exceed one third of the year's wages. "As an incentive to employes to retain their investment In, the 7' ,' preferred stock and as an in ducement to remain with General Motors an extra payment of $2 a share a year will be made in addition to the regular dividends of $7 a share. 'The first extra payment of $2 will be made on February 15, 1928, and will con tinue for five years, provided the employe retains his stock and re mains in the General Motors v ser vice during this period. "In addition to' the' means' of saving offered to employes through the corporation's Savings and Investment Plan, the direct ors, recognizing the difficulty the person of moderate means encoun ters in making wise investments, have decided to again offer em ployes an opportunity for Invest ing their savings or surplus earn ings in such a way as to share in the profits of the corporation while enjoying the security af forded by its l'f preferred stock. The directors hope that through this plan, employes will be assist ed in accumulating an estate and Mill find an added incentive Tor remaining with the corporation and contributing to its success." '1 PALIUIA CONDUCTS TESTS ON NEW CAR Appearance -of Erskine Six Causes Great Surprise Here and Abroad INDIANAPOLIS, lnd. Special) Speculation that has been cur rent this week as to why Ralph .Let-aima, tne racing star and a member of the Studebaker engi neering staff, was driving a com petitive make of car on the In dianapolis' speedway was cleared up yesterday when it was learned that De Palma was conducting special tests n the new Erskine Six. Studebaker's new 2 1-3 litre car. j The competitive faake car pilot eu Dy Uel'alma was In reality an Erskine Six chassis equipped with a camouflage body. The race driv er was at, the trak to carry on certain tests amplifying the work he has been doinac at the 800-acre Studebaker proving ground near South Bend. The incident emphasizes the ex treme secrecv that has character ized the development of Studebak er "s new car. which will toe intro duced at the National Automobile Bhow In New York Jan. 8. Not withstanding the fact that the Erskine Six has been brought out in Europe, where it made its de but at the Paris Salon in October, no details of its design or con struction have been made in the United States, vV' So closely guarded was the Ers kine Six that even Its appearance in Paris was a complete surprise notonly to the American public, who had no inkling rthat Stude baker was preparing another car, but to the industry as iwell. Al though at least 15 models have been developed, the Jasttwo year and have been . under i tests for months on the Studebaker prov ingf ground;3 ever aV has -been so "welt disguised that vStudebaker has scored a cbmpIete"scoop" In withholding its plans until the car was announced InTaris. In fact, so carefully guarded were all its details that only one photo- graphjof it,r smuggled -from (Par is has made its anncarance in. the American trade press.V4"v: Have! Garage Windows Open Before Starting Automobile lie sure that the windows and doors of your garge are open ere starting your automobile, cautions a bulletin issued by the: National Safety Council, which reminds mo torists that all gasoline, engines when running; generate carbon (monoxide gas,; Scores of motor vehicle owners have died as re sult of breathing a small Quantity of this odorless gas which cannot ;-e-seen.,-Fresh . air- alone ram ; .v. rt sH5 irl ' '2eJ, ilJMMt - Jwx -f,, r; ,j 1, i ,1,1 m, ium-t r" Urn rn mi i .--, - r, - The judges right to left MAKE ELABORATE S Marmon Company to Have First Public Display of Complete Car Line The first public display of the Complete line of Jlarmon quality automobiles, which has been rounded out by the addition of the Little Marmon, powered with an eight-in-line engine, will be made a the New York National Automobile Show beginning Jan uary 8.. Four , separate exhibits, be lieved to be one of the largest ar ray of fine cars ever assembled, will be displayed in New York during show week. Altogether 40 Marmon automobiles and three chassis will be-shown. In the Grand Central Palace, where the show proper .will be held, the company will exhibit three Little Marmon and three Series 75 body styles, both stand ard and custom built, and a Little Marmon chassis. This display was selected by officials of the company as representative of the entire line, including the new small straight eight and the large Marmoor se well .known for . the ast 25 years as a precise, luxuri ous automobile. Six cars will be shown In the Hotel Commodore, including three. Little Marmon" standard body types, two Series 7 5 stand ary styles, and one Series 75 cus tom-built body.) Custom-built body styles will predominate in the Marmon display at the Hotel Belmont where four custom-built Little Marmons, two custom-built Series 75 cars, and one standard Little Marmon will be exhibited. Special preparations have been made at the showrooms of - the Marmon Automobilel company o. New York, Inc., the metropoli tan sales branch of the company. Display facilities have been en larged to permit the showing of 22 different types of automobiles and .two chassis, ; thus assembling the complete line of Marmon mo tor cars. Just : prior to the New York show, the Marmon company will show its fall line in Indianapolis for the benefit :of between 00 and 800 sales representatives who will gather for the annual convention January 3 and 4 which this year has been set aside as the "Inauguration of the Little Marmon." Many distributors and dealers will attend this meet ing and will depart immediately after the sessions for the New York show. The Marmon company also has made elaborate preparations for the Chicago riatlonal show, and other motor car displays through out the country- Jerry Newton Called Real Champion Bean Consumer If: P. S. Gannett, chief of the Gannett Motor company, gets any kick" out pf watching th -prize Salem Chevrolet" sales staff eat beans, Jerry rewton. head or tne Newton Chevrolet agency in Sa lem," will get a lot of. satisfaction himself. Jerry, according to his friends.' is the champion bean eat er of the Pacific Northwest. Salem lost to Eugene in the "turkey- bean' selling content. ; The Eu ne bunch will eat the turkey and , Salem the beans, at the ex pense or- the Salem men, as the result in which Kugene- won. Eugene Daily Guard. SIMPW2 TIIKFT IX)CK ' Drill a hole in the clHtch pedal lever close to the floor board, ami inart a. tiadlock in the hole. Of course the car could bestowed but it-could not be driven under its own power, as done in the .ma jority or thefts. . . - ' : " SILENT SHIFTING . If a driver will depress the clutctav-shift from low to neutral then from 'neutral to secondh and release clutch, this double maneu ver 'almost' invariably assures ! MS OW lent shifting: . V ... f William Bell, Judge G. F. Announce Winners in Paige Detroit Motor Car Contest DETROIT. Mich., Special. Winners in the Paige-Detroit Mo tor Car company's .slogan contest, hi which there were more than 402,000 entries, were announced today as follows: i First prize, 10.000. to J Luth er McFarland, Cairo; "AV. Va. Secjnd prize, a four-door sedan, to. Mrs. Walter F. Halleck, New Berne, N. C. ; Third prize, a four-door sedan, to F. A. Dragoun, Peoria, 111. The prizes were, presented to the winners the day before Christ mas. McFarland's winning slogan is. "Built to win without, within." "Satisfaction mounts with ev- ery mile was the second prize winner, while third prize was for "Commands respect on any road." These three slogans were se lected as the prize winners by the board of judges, consisting of Ed gar A. Guest, Detroit's nationally known writer of verse; Charles '. Brooke, president of the De troit Adcraft club and of the Bet ter ' Business bureau, and Harry M. Jewett, president of the aPige Detroit Motor Car company. . Storage Garage Solves Many Parking Troubles The increase in the number of automobiles and the limitation of down town parking space has brought about a need for exclu sive storage garages. The Fire Proof Storage garage, convenient ly located one block from the new bank building is helping to Bolve the problem. This garase offers day nd night service and so makes its easy for all patrons to come and go when they please. The busi ness man may drive his car to town and leave it at the garage. This will relieve him of the worry about finding, a parking place and then the necessity of obeying the parking time limit. Also the de preciation, which a car suffers when left outside, is greater in a year than the storage cost. In addition to" the storage serv ice the garage is equipped with the very latest Washing and greas ing equipment. People may drive their cars in the garage Jn the morning, and have them washed and greased before evening with out having them stand out in the weather part of the day. Cemeteries are filled with mo torists who contest the right of way, regrets the National Safety Council. DOWN THE ROAD rSkJj THE MORNING I ' - ' '"'" "J- V -t Skipworlft, Edwin Bailey, Elbert 'Fords Line Up for Start at Cottage Grove IS J lUihcnOwsr The winner of the gas conser vation contest staged by the Ford dealers of Lane county, Decem ber 1. was Clint William, a oung ignition expert of Eugene. He drove a standard 1926 Ford roadster at the low speed of ten n.ilcs an hour, passing successive ly all of his rivals and going nearly five and a half miles be yond his nearest competitor, lie thus re-enacted the old fable of the tortoise and the hare, in mod ern form and with a few extra frills. He made the astonishing record of 51 and 88-100ths miles on a single measured gallon of gasoline. The contest was staged under the most rigorous conditions with five of the most prominent men of Lane county acting as judges. A purse of $250 was hung up. divid- ed into ten prizes, with J100 as first prize. Forest Finley of Junction City took second prize, with a record of 4 6.45 miles. Mrs. J. C. Neely of Eugene won third, prize, her record being 44.88 miles. The contest was started in Cot tage Grove and followed the Pa cific highway through Eugene and Junction City, thence toward Corvallis by the West Side high way. Twenty-three of the entered cars passed through Junction City before stopping, which is 37.5 logged miles distant from Cottage Grove over the route followed. Seventy Fords in this contest, as logged by the certified speedome ter on the judges car made an av erage mileage of 34.98 miles. A similar contest was staged in Salem on the last Saturday of September, 192 6. Only new cars were used in this contest and of ..11 . U .. . an luiiifciiug me iivn ac vias 27.1 miles. Thf winner made! 31.6 miles to the gallon. -v ' ... r3n y J JUVVT. s .Illlli W Hll.'illl W UlilWHii .' :-., , Bede and I. O. Hall Some Sure Ways to Lose Your Auto License Today Mandatory suspension or revo cation of licenses granted motor vehicle operators and chauffeurs is provided in the model act, sug gested at the second national con ference on street and highway safety, which the National Safety Council hopes will be adopted by I'vry state of the union, as its pasage should mean a reduction in thft number of accidents. Here are the causes for which licenses will be revoked: 1. Manslaughter resulting from the operation of a motor vehicle. 2. Driving a vehicle while un der the influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotic dr&s. 3. Perjury or the making of a false affidavit to the department under this act or any other law of this state requiring the regis tration of motor vehicles or regu lating their operation on high ways. 4. Any crime- punishable as a felony under the motqr vehicle laws of this state, or any other felony in the' commission of whth a motor vehicle is used. 5. Convicition or forfeiture of bil upon three' charges pf reck less driving all within the preced ing twelve months. 6. Conviction of a driver of a motor vehicle, involved in an ac cident resulting in the death or injury of another person, upon a charge of failing to stop and dis close his identity at the scene of the accident. It is a foolish motorist, who boasts of all the fresh air he en joys while driving and then goes home to sleep in an unventilated room nbsprves the National Safe- J ty Council. ' New Ycsr . Motor vehicles in use in the United Sates now number ap proximately ,2?,342.457, Registration of passenger and commercial cars last year showed gain of 2,254,000 or 11.2 per cent over 1925. Paspenger cars registered nnm- btr 19,495,676. an "increase of 1, 831.793 or 10.3 per cent over the previous year. Commercial vehicle registra tions total 2,876,781, a gain of 4 21.688 or 17.1 per cent over 1925.. While sales in the United States in the paat 12 months were the largest on record, the percentage of registration increase was the smallest ever recorded. This was due to two factors: 1. The unprecedentedly large number of vehicles taken out of service. I 2. The fact that as the total in service increases the rate of gain decreases. This shrinkage may be expected to continue " until the number of vehicles taken out of service each year equals or ex-; ceeds the number sold. With domestic sales of passen ger cars for the next year spprox Imateing 3,525,000 and with a registration gain of only about 1. fSO.000 it is obvious that some thing like 1,6'j 5,000 cars were taken out of service. It -should not be assumed, however, that all of them were scrapped, for the number of cars which have ac cumulated in the hands of dealers since last January must be de ducted from the total. It is prob able these dealer stocks will ac count for 600,000 or 700.000. Scrutiny of the registration gains by states indicates that j rosperity was more widely dif fufed i throughout the country in 1926 than in any recent year, for there were few outstanding per centage increases, even in the south or in the grain states. Auto motive business, apparently, was about equally good everywhere New York retains its leadership with a total of 1,818,765, a gain of 193.000. It now has about half as many motor vehicles as all the rest of the world aside Jrom the United States. California still is the empire state's closest rival with 1,614, 479. Ohio is third with 1,507, 500: Pennsylvania fourth with 1,- 4X3,054: Illinois fifth with 1, 370, 5Q0: Michigan sixth with 1.- rl24,S69 and Texas seventh with 1,063,600. Michigan and Tqxas are new-comers in the more than a million class. While these figures make esti mates necessary for the closing weeks of the year, a similar com pilation made a year ago by MoToR showed a margin of error of slightly less than 1 per cent on the total and only 1-7 of 1 per cent on cars. ' FROSTING FOR HEADLIGHT LEXS A temporary frosting on a head light lens may be acquired by ap plying a thick lather of sapolio and water to the inside. It will serve efficiently for several months. For a permanent frost ing, coat the inner side of the lens with orange shellac. By FRANK BECK : Testing OIdsmob?le it eY, ifeering ciual-rie Unn! Mour Proving ground.' . - EIGHTS DOMH HEW YORK EXHIBIT International Character of ' Show Indicated by For eign Entrants The rapidly growing vogue to ward the predominance of eight cylinders among the world 8 fin est motor cars was strongly em phasized at the 20th annual New York Automobile salon, recently held In the Hotel Commodore, j says Dubois Young, "president of the Hupp Motor Car corporation. Some 100 cars, worth $1, 000,000 were displayed, in j prices ranging up to nearly 20,0j00. The Chicago edition of the sa lon will be held at the Drake ho tel in late January 1 and early February,- co-incident with the National Automobile Show In that city. f "These salons, with their fine custom coachwork, de raxe Inner vations and chassis features, hot only indicate the vogue amor the finest custom creations, but influence the trend which is to be taken by practically every make of car manufactured," says Mr. Young. "It is, therefore, excep tionally gratifying to note that eight cylinder cars predominate this year more than ever, both In number of body models shown and in manufacturers and carros siers who exhibited. One eight cylinder manufacturer actually provided 12 chassis. "The international character of the exhibit is indicated in the fact that ' the leading motor cars of France, Italy, England, Belgium and Germany, as well as the ma jority of the leading Americas, makes of fine cars, were shown. Coachwork was exhibited ba such outstanding authorities as Diet rich, Brunn. de Causae, Le Baron and Fleetwood, f "The dominance of eights in such a setting is a conclusive In dication of the vogue they are creating The roan who can af ford a fine car naturally insists on the topmost chassis principle W,E. DM EASTERN FACTORIES People Enjoying Heated Cars Would Never Be Satis fied With Others W. E. Burns-Dan Barns (not brothers-the same man), has just returned from hi trip east, where he has been in the interests of his business. 'The thing that interested me most in looking over the cars in the -east." said W- B. Burns-Dan Burns, ;is the fact that cars there are equipped with greater com fort. Practically every car is heat -ed. No one there thinks of strag gling along with a cold car. "And people herewho have en joyed a heated ear-would-never go without- The .cost of a heater W so very "lit tie compared' to the measure it gives'.? . Dan Burns, who has just re turned from an extended visit to the different equipment factories' in the east., says that one would be amazed at the new" equipment that is. now being turned out to recondition cars, "It is now possible, continued Mr, Burns, "to recondition a mo tor so that It will ran every (bit as good as new.; The tools' that have been devised with which to do this almost passes the compre hension of a person not actively interested. - Smith & Watkins Increase : Sales ancjjService Room . Smith & Watkins located at the "orner.of Court; and High streets have added to ; their .sales and serviccrooin taking on the space formerly- occupied by the Valley Parts company; 1 This, gives tbem 50 iwr. cent more display room and considerable moro space for motorists; to d rive in With this additional room.i Jim Smith, head of the firm,- states that the com pan y will have" mnch better room to display 'their stock of tires and tabes : and will have more direct connection 'with their repair and vulcanizing department, ; Smith & Watkins are distributors for the McClarenTires and Tabes. They handle shell gasoline and all the popular brands of motor oils, and greases. Two - pumps . are kept busy serving the public, one on S VISITS - Hls!r ttreetrend: ose oa Court, ' 'Xn unprecedented demand for theTphryrler Model "50". laten fbtir cylinder model from the plahtsvof the Chrysler Sales Cor-. ' ppratten. that has exceeded all ex pectations of company officials . continues to test the production -facilities for this model In the company's Detroit factories. Company officials indicate that present orders on hand, and f u ture orders bid fair . to continue i at the record breaking point for . this" full sired car -until early j spring of 1927. i . An analysis for the reasons for this unprecedented success, ac cording to J. E. Fields, vice pres ident In charge of sales of the Chrysler Sales Corporation, re veals the fact that one of the principal factors is the unusually. roomy accommodations " in the Model "50." ' "Of course.' the fact that this car is a Chrysler and. built nnder the well knows Chrysler plan of standardized quality -is a basic reason for the success of the Mod el "30, declares Mr. Fields, "and In addition fine recognition has been accorded by the. public to this feature of exceptional' room iness. - " "Thousands of Chrysler 20 owners are enthusiastic over the ample room for their family In this car. Unanimously they tell our representatives that this un usual roominess is a principal fac tor in their selection of the Chrys ler 30 - "This justifies in every way the' ideas of "Walter P. Chrysler when he Issued Instructions to his en gineers on the designing of this latest of Chryslet models. "He insisted fliat he wanted a light,, powerful ear-that would be economical to operate while cap able of the finest performance. but that it should have, more than necessary room for all five "pas sengers. ' ."- ':V;r.;.:. "That this has been completely accomplished is proven by the unanimous public acceptance of the -Chrysler 5Q! concludes Me Fields. ' - S inn II Chick Murray Makes Boston New York'Urive.jn blind ing Blizzard ; In a blinding blizzard which lashed and swept New York and the New England states a few days ajgo,"'Chick" Murray driving a Whippet sedan made' the 248 mile run from, Boston to" New York in 8 hours and 40 minutes, for an average speed of 28.4J miles an hour," setting a fuel economy record ot 30.7 miles to the gal lon. - Murray nsedj-lrat 8 -gallons and one quart' of gasoline despite the; fact. that. thWh!ppet eneoun- Xeredow more than a foot deep In many places and battled against heavy winds all the -way. 'T , The run. was made without ad-. vance preparation 'and Murray decided- to make the test to deter mine, what the, Whippet would do' under the most unfavorable con ditions.; ; " To make - the trip. official "Chick" -hurridly railed Bren nan of the National Automobile association, asking him to 'act as ofrtcial ishserver.- v " Trains jWere running veTeral hours latet trolly service tiad been suspended In many ot thf towns and flies'" along the route and general traffic was at a standstill. led from Boston" to Springfield and thence to Hartford. New Hav en, Brid geport ah d New York. . The blizzard force of the storm did not break until after ."Chick had left Hartford. The roads were unbroken by any tracks and theWhippet : had to plow its Own course with the snow piling up" over the running boards and packing ahead of the car. The start was made at midnight and the finish tame just as New Pork was shaking1 the snow from Its feet to get I Into Its business stride for the day.-- -The. car used .- was the same Whippet with! which Murray es tablished the. economy record of 31 -rallea to the ' gallon between Boston and Montreal. Wasfr Autos Often Advise Expert Laundry Operators Ramseyer - Bros.. Salem auto laundry men, located at 544 Ferry street, claim that those who have fheir-.cars washed often and do not; let" the dirt "accumulate on them find that the finish on their cars stay fn much better shape an i lasU longer x" J ; - ; If the dirt and grease is all era -c to stay -on indefinitely It trlr the paint off with it when it ' finally r'';!t -'- 1 PET ETS EEH E1H