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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1927)
to SECTION THREE r Pages 1 to 8, Automotive Better Pomes i C L EAN T A ND VIGOROUS SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER Jl, 1927 - PRICE FIVE CENTS 4RES5 ffl PUBLIC PAH AAA STUD MOTOR GOP TELLS HIS SIDE OF STORY FILM STAR AIDS CAMPAIGN 0. S: SAFETY 8IES j " -v , . - - WW tfJ AT W II TT - - - - - - . . .- rv ' now BEirJS COPIED iTW oJ mar or l raveioaues mi & WESTERN AUTO SUPPLY COMPA ?ANY Denunciator! of Association With Similar Name Applauded Generally " Not Hard-Boiled, But Has To Appear So To Pre serve Road Safety Dnscrupulousness of Road side Advertisers Noted in AAA Warning- r" 3 mat i WASHINGTON, D. C Not in many years has any statement is fcued by the American Automobile Association evoked such wide spread and favorable comment among press and public alike as that sent forth recently, by Presi dent .Thos. P. Henry in defense of the position the A.. A.. A. emblem has won in the world of motor dcm and denouncing attempts of ether motor organizatins to rob the internationally renowned oval shield ofits glory and well-earned prestige. That Mr. Henry's statement was timely and to the point, and that it did much to create a rousing moral sentiment against auto as sociation promoters adopting an emblem so closely resembling that of the A. A. A. as to be "at least confusing" is the opinion prevail ing here after a study of the flood of written commendations that have reached National Headquar ters. Mr. Henry's statement was di rected specifically at the men sponsoring a new national motor body to be known as the "A. M. A." In what has been generally termed "a calm and dispassionate ly masterful arraignment of those who would violate modern busi ness ethics" the A. A. A. chief executive conceded to any one the right to form a competitive motor body but asked that as a matter of simple fairness that a name be adopted which would not seem a paraphrase of the symbol of Am erican Automobile Association. One portion of Mr. Henry's statement in particular, brought forth many figurative nods of ap proval. ThQ paragraph in ques tion, upon which scores of com munications and editorial com ments have touched, read: "The letters 'A. A. A.' are a symbol of outstanding character; they are, a sign which, like one's flrmtty ret or tne stnlptor inUThe' chief of the bureau, H.--K. ltialing, stands for something more than just three letters of the al phabeU they have a significance which has been built up since the early days of motoring; they ieant just about everything to the motorist of 1902, when first vre organized, and during the years of growth side by side with the growth of motoring as a nation- (rontinaad en vte 8) r Lesson In'lh S. Geography Possible By Watching' License Plates Go By Motorists are using their cars mote this summer for long dis tance traveling than ever was the casu before, according to Zosel'a Tire shop employes, who received nome interesting side-lights from the Seiberling Rubber Co. of Ak ron yesterday. In New England, Northern New York. Ohio, Pennyalvania, Michi gan, the Rockies and Pacific coast the number of cars on the bigh ways and visiting the scenic spots of the country shows, a great in crease and if you look over the license plates they will provide a lesson in American geography.1 One striking fact about touring this year is the mileage covered by the motorists. They are see ing more than ever before, stop ping less frequently along the highways, sleeping In auto camps, farm houses and small inns along the way. They are spending more money on gasoline, leas money on side lines and souvenirs. They are en--, joying riding morend soft drinks 'J. Jeas, which is a tribute to the com tort of the cars and the durability of the tires. The local Seiberling dealer pointed out today that one other thing tourists are noticing, is that they have to watch the air press ure in ballon Urea, In the eld cord tire days the' heat of the road and firmness of the tires increas ed the air pressure during contin uous driving. Today, however, the pressure in balloon tires tends to decrease, and motorists ought to check the pressure In their tires every morn ing before starting on a long trip. It will not only Insure better rid ing hut it will add. to the gasoline pnueage. MORE LONG TRIPS RULE- THIS SUMMER "XL THK l.AKKS IX THK HIGH CASCADES f It's a big country, a new world in Central Oregon, a magnificent land of mountains, lakes and forests. A trinity of beautiful lakes Rosary. Odell and Crescent are shown above. These are reached from The Dalles-Calirornia Highway by turning west at Crescent. There are numerous excellent camping spots for the motor camper. The mountain scenery makes one linger and the fishing is so excel lent that the limit set by game laws is soon reached. Hi WOULD I GUI Rlans For Avoiding Acci dents Due To Bad Light- mg Many, Reported WASHINGTON, D. C. Concen tration of lights gives a greater visibility than when they are spread horizontally or vertically, in distinguishing objects in front of an automoble, it is shown in ; eter before the final lapping op headlight tests made by the auto- '' eration. motive division. United States A final test by a scientific cpm bureau of standards. ; narison apparatus allows las than Cummings, says that in the tests now being made -the cars used each have sets of four headlights instead of the regulation two. These headlights are placed in a row. In addition one of the cars will be equipped for new experiments, with a dummy the size of a man. Mr. Cummings explains: "The dummy will work on a hinge so that it can be swung out to the side of the oar when de sired. Another car following can then get an idea of the visibility against various combinations of opposing lights." All sorts of tests will be made by the four headlight system to determine wha-; is known as the "visibility distance." The four headlights enable the driven to throw his lights up and down, to work them all together or s;-p;ir;itr!y, and thus to rcgu llae he nltsoiiitc direction of light. Bright and dull 'lights are provided for the experiments. While the greatest ,f all gov ernment bureaus is using evry effort to correct the flaws in au tomobile lights, the inventors of the country keep right on bring ing out improvements that will shield the eyes of drivers of car.? and at the same time enable them to proceed along their side of the road and in safe traffic. For this purpose many drivers have been using the pyralin eye shades which have been the vogue among young people" for the past two years. With this new fangled head piece "as a starting point the inventors have branched out. There is apparently a de termination to get the right an swer if the warning issued by the national headquarters of the Am erican Automobile Association is Significant. The statement stresses the im- (Continued ' on Pajro 8.) Hupmobile Prices Lowered $150 On 9 Standard Models Prices of the nine standard mod els in the Hupmobile Eight line are now. $150 lower than hereto for4, following announcement by the Hupp Motor Car Corporation. In announcing these new prices, the company also points out that the number of color combinations for the various models has been increased, affording the buyer a wider selection of imposing colors fr6m which to make his selection of each model. Many improve ments and refinements have also been made in recent weeks, both in body and chassis. The new prices will also further widen its market of potential buyr erB, it Is pointed out. 1 '!,. . i Vi. SO? Perfect Precision Sought By Olds Piston Engineers Oldsmobile precision manufac turing methods go to extreme lengths to insure the perfect roundness and straightness of pis ton pins and to make certain that they fit perfectly when assembled with pistons and connecting rods. Made of high grade steel, the pins are case hardened after being ma chined to gain maximum resist ance to wear. Two further heat treatments are followed by five successive grinding operations, which cause the pins to have less than one half thousandth variance in diam- ore lu.uuutn or an inch -variation in roundness and straightness of the pins. i Oldsmobile Shafts Given i . .. i . ! vnnAml nilnAhij. n:.i uycuiai mctwillie neailimyj t ' To insure that the Oldsmobile crankshaft and camshaft be per fectly parallel, the main bearings. aner installation in the motor, such people come to grief it's of with shims in place and with the ten in the middle of the night and bearing caps properly tightened, j it generally means work for the are mat hine-reamed. The fixture undertaker." , which guides -the reamer bar is; retained in correct possition bvi an integral arbor bar which closely fits the camshaft bear ings. This alignment-reaming operation is succeeded by a hand. line-reaming operation which leaves the main hearings finished and within an exacting limit. DOWN THE ROAD THE GENTLEMAN 15 MERELY SMOKING IN HIS FRIEND'S PARLOR VnIIIP IN THE SAME MANNER HIS FRIEND (fL- : : t :i. UY KRWIX CiltKCR (President Oreer School of Elec trical & Automotive Trades, Chi cago. 111.) Your metropolitan traffic offic er isn't hard-boiled at all. If he docs lose his temper every so oft en that fault is all your' own. Re cently an officer who controls one of tho busiest corners in the world dropped into my office and told mo his version of the motor car came. But let him tell the story; "Most dangerous to other mo torists are the men who snake in and out. overtaking one car. on the left and the next on the right. When I see a man doing that I J always give him a summons, and i if he pleads not guilty he has a ! darned hard time convincing the judge. These snake drivers en danger everybody. A careful man may veer slightly to the right to avoid a hole in the road a thing he has a perfect right to do. At I tho same time some fool may i trv to pass him on the right. Th,e ' result is a bump and maybe an 1 other call for the ambulance. ! "There are some drivers who i can talk while they drive, keeping their eyes on the road. But there are a lot who turn around to tho party sitting next to them, or who talk with their hands. They're bad ones. That's reckleaess , of the worst sort. "Then there's the young kid of seventeen or eighteen, generally a foreigner, who has just got a job driving and doesn't know how to do anything excepting step on the gas. That sort makes trouble j and gets into trouble in about equ- al proportions. "If every motorist was required by law to carry liability insur ance it would help a lot. Then ev ery man who was guilty of neg ligence resulting in an accident wonM" frtrMt hfs"Tnsu ranee an also his driving license. And be- j lieve me. if we cleared the road I of a few of these dumbells that j (ion i Know ineir rignr irom their i ,e" ,here 1 be a ,ot fewer hurry i 'alls for the ambulance. "And there's the kind that has stopped at some road-house and had a little too much bad liquor. We have always had that kind even in the good old .days when most of the liquor was good. When OPEN AGENCY HERE A. O. Bates, representing the. Hollywood sales company of Port land, has -opened a sales room in the Kirkwood Motor Co. building I at 311 North Commercial. . m -. THAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? r rC JrFl . i -vTx , j-. i' Kir-"-' U ' rr.- .... , s lit ?xi ---- "- ? , a ' '::" - 1 Laura LaPlante, Universan pictures headliner, inaugurating the annuaf 'fire preven tion campaign of the Richfield Oil Company. - v. IS IfJ Ml S ! Many AutOS Sold In China ; .. , uespite unseuiea uon ditions, Report OAKLAND A. graphic "story "of the performance of a fleet of Star cars on a run of 680 miles from Tientsin, China, to Urga the cap- ! ital ef Mongolia, was brought to Oakland during the past week by H. Sehoenherr. general manager of the Behn-Meyer China Company Ltd. of Peking. H. Sehoenherr visited this city on his way to New York and-Berlin and while here divided his he Star factory, Io-- cated in this city, and the retail establishment known as the Star Sales and Service company. The Tiehn-Meyer China" company tias the distribution of the Star car in China, that firm tiaving taken ov er the business of Hugo Stinnes east of the Suez. The visitor was naturally interested in the manu facturing method, employed at the Star factory as well as the retail merchandising methods ad anted bv A.' I.. WaTrnincton and . . ... . , and Service company. The Chinese distributing con cern has sold 152 Star cars since May and this number would have been increased more than iOO at least, according to Sehoenherr, had it not been for the unsettled conditions in China due to the warring factions. rHdl ma" iar curs ,,,J' i,rt-H i Continued on pane 8.) t H. Tr c PERFORM Wl August Best Sales Month In Nash Motors History KENOSHA, Wis., August was the biggest single month In the history of the Nash Motors Com pany. All previous records since the establishment of the company were swept aside during the month just ended and when the books wtre closed they revealed ship ments of 18,027 cars while Orders for August delivery totaled 20,201. This new high record following that of the previous month, which made it the biggest July in Nash history, is regarded by officials of the company as an overwhelming endorsement of the three entirely new series of cars introduced by j Nash on June 28. "We feel that the August sales record is an eloquent expression of what the automobile buying public thinks of the Nash pro duct," said E. H. McCarty, general Khles anager--o, the Nash Motors Company. "At no time since the announcement of the three new series of Nash cars has the factory been able to ship cars in qunati ties sufficient to meet the de mand." KRECT USED CAR TEXT The Bonesteele Motor Co. has erected a tent in which used cars will be on display, next to the company s garage building on North Commercial street. The American people not only like to ride on rubber but they are ii- -i 1 L- i ii ii- n. rm ii n "ii liliir iVlon i i t nuiniti uivic mi . iiu'-i. i t 1. 1 . v , - j lirnrb TOft 11 rt it-n 1 f QaiViarl in V v v. i i i j -nrrf rubher heels showed a o0 in- crease the first half of 1927 over the same period last year company is now producing This company is now producing 25.000 pairs daily in its Barberton plant By FRANK BECK SAFETY IN FOISTS El Richfield Devotes : National Advertising Space to "Be Careful" Idea Spontaneous combustion, that mysterious and much-maligned enemy of mankind,' has been charged with many crimes which it has never commuted. It is held responsible for a great share of the forest fires which annually cause the loss of millions of dol lars in trees as well as destroying the beauty of our landscapes. According to reports of leading insurance companies and state and federal authorities, over -70 per cent of the forest fires are caused by carelessness on the part of Mr. Average Citizen. A burning match or cigarette is heedlessly thrown away, or a canipfire is left uncov ered and the damage is 'done. Soon a large area is being swept by the ravenous flames and often it takes weeks to bring the fire under con tiol. There is need of continual edu cation on the necessity of fire pre vention for people soon forget the devastating fires of former years. The loss of our scenic attractions and the gigantic economic waste are forgotten until carelessness apain starts the ravenous flames on the trail of destruction. Motor Car Dealers' associations, automobile clubs, touring bureaus . . e jand other organizations have been laboring to impress on the public tbe need for taking the utmost precautions when out in the forest regions. That this effort is bearing fruit is indicated by the decrease in the number of forest fires since the inauguration of this concerted fire prevention campaign. Among the leading public-spirited corporations which have con tributed their aid in this great eause is the Richfield Oil com pany which has each year devoted a considerable portion of its ad vertising to urge the prevention of forest fires. A new series of Richfield ad vertisements stressing the "Be Careful" idea has just been re leased and will appear in all the leading newspapers and magazines throughout the state. Paige Auto Sales Reach New High Mark for jear " .:A: . e,4- DETROIT, Mlch.vsale of Paige cars reached - a new high mark for 1927 in' August, according to announcement Just made from the factory. Three thousand? and fifty'nine cars were shipped dur ing the month, bettering ApriI, the i best previous . month of the current year, by more than two hundred cars. . The figure of 3059 shipped this August also compares most favorably with August, 1926. when 1098 eras left the Paige plant. ; . "We are gratified at the man ner In which , the public and the trade- have received the new mod els." said Mr. R. C. Graham, vice president of the Paige Company. 'Spring is usually the big sales period In the automobile 1 busl 0688. The fact, that in August we bettered " the best spring month indicate, the public Interest and justifies the prediction that busi ness wllr be good this fall. We expert . September to be another record month' for Paige.; i -.. Hi COMPSI WASHINGTON, D. C -Imita tion by unscrupulous advertisers of the United States safety and di rection signs now Installed on the main Interstate motor highways of the country constitutes one of the most serious and alarming threats confronting the safety movement in America, according to a bul letin broadcast from the national headquarters of the American Au tomobile "Association. While voicing In the severest terms its condemnation of this "di abolical practice," the national motoring body took ; occasion to point out that this imitation of U. S. highway .signs is generally con fined' to "snine" advertisers and that the practice is strongly disap proved of by the United Outdoor Advertising association. "This is the worst form of com mercializing the safety movement that has hitherto come to our at tention." Thos.' P. Henry, president of the A. A. A., declared. Mr. Henry pointed out that re ports from many A- A. A. clubs throughout the country show con clusively that the standard, dia mond shaped U. S. .sign, even to the color scheme of black on yel low. Is now being widely imitated by advertisers along the highways, la addition to their appeals to the American Automobile association, A. A. A.' motor clubs have protest ed to the bureau of public roads of the department of agriculture and to the state highway depart ments. - Through the medium of the 928 motor clubs constituting the A, A. A. national chain. President Henry has directed that there be forward ed to national headquarters in Washington lists of outdoor adver tisers in various localities who are infringing on highway safety and direction signs. V"We certainly shall not l:jsiiae to, give our members and the ?ea eral public as well the names' of the advertisers who have resorted to this dangerous method of com mercializing on safety. To refer to this practice as diabolical i mild and it is to:be sincerely hopetf (Continued on page 2.) MADE. RECORD TIKE .Roads Almost' Impassible covered ; with Oldsmobile i" In Australia Trip A new time record for loni? distance I motor travel Australia; on roads that were made almost impassable by flood ed streams and washouts, was completed recently when A. J. Durkeley, of Melbourne . drove his Oldsmobile ' touring car the 3.300 miles, from Darwin, Nor thern Territory, to Melbourne, in seven days, 16 hours and 54 min utes. ' - ;4 . ... . Durkeley purchased ,his. Olds mobile in Melbourne and drove -north, by--easy stage's, hunting game, while en -route. After a few, days in Darwin he decided to make a quick dash' southward. In an attempt to lower the time record by automobile, to his home in Melbourne, and set upon the journey which., was destined to break all. previous records. Overcoming the difficult and often treacherous road conditions encountered on the return trip, the Oldsmobile with its own driv er, lowered the best previous rec ord' by 'the wide margin of 20 Jroura and 17 minutes. At the end of tbe 7th day they 4 arrived in Sydney, having averaged about 400 miles per day and 'smashing' the former record for the 2.638-mile run between Darwin and $ydney by 10 hours and 25 minutes. After a short visit in .Sydney, they completed the last lap of the journey to Mel bourne in , fast time, to be wel comed home by an enthusiastic crpwd of motorists and represent atives of General Motors, Aus tralia, who had eagerly followed the daily progress of the. trip by telegraphic, bulletins. -V Not the slightest trouble marred the. Journey of Dunkerley and his companion and it -was this -ntlre freedom from delay e routef- that made , the epocb marklngV cross.-country run feasible- a trip ih3t Ls declared to HI JOUR ET 4 J- f i.