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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1928)
The Automobile Industry Is Largest Industry bj Today; More People Are Employed in This LineTlian in Any Other Single One 44 People Killed and 1328 Injured in Railroad Crossing Accidents This Year in Oregon; Careful Driving Means Fewer Accidents . .V SECTION TWO PAGES 1 TO 8 wm AUTOMOTIVE BETTER HOMES SLOGAN WAY BETTER THAN LAST YEAR SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS Eight Times Around Globe! E flf USEFUL CAUSE ACCIDEtTTS 10ID ACCIDENTS, I j ''DDr in Nature's Curio Shop" I j'COMFf'BK HEADLIGHTS OFTEN It HHG SOUBDED ssiippmhihm PRDV hi, ts w wwwaaar Wrecked Car Disolaved at tf Manon Garage Attracts Many People I ' - ' - ?, s - - Stop! Look! Listeen!" So reads a large sijn displayed on the front of the Marlon Garage , ouuatng tills week, it called at tention to the fact that many peo pie are 'killed annually at railroad . crossing and them ajority of them - through carelessness. Since Jan :4 oarjr 1, in Oregon, there haTe been j 44 people killed and 13 28 injured ; In automobile accident! when cars : hare been hit by trains. Just inside tbe main entrance of tbs, garage a wrecked automo I'-Aile -aura -ken --displayed. Thi particular car was strucs or a train in the MsCoy district about a month ago and as a result sev- wll people were seriously injured '- It was completely demolished. . At one time this car was a nice appearing sdan: but now It la jKAamg nor than a mass of Junk fP'' with top completely ruined nd driren down into the seats. All of the glass from the windows and windshield has been broken. The body, running boards and fenders are warped out of shape, while the remaining two wheels are out of line. Very little about the car Is worth salvaging according to the i garage men. It presents a gruesome appear ance. During the past few days oyer 5.000 people have stopped to in spect the ruins. One man has been-kept busy most of the time explaining how H happened and calling attention to rations de tails. Statistical from the American Automobile Association show that oyer 45,090,000 people will be touring this summer. That num f ber will be endangered unless a certain amount of caution is used at all times. Motorists and'otb- ers, who hare viewed this rhirf of a once nice ear at the Martoirga Crage. hare before them a splendid f Illustration of 'what might happen to them unless they are carefull. y The demolished car at the Mar j ion Garage has been serving as an Mimnlt and a virninr Anrinr tti past week. TH BE IMPORTfm Interview Received by Doug las McKay From Vice President of Chevrolet An entirely new slant on the need car. elevating it to its right ful place in the Industry, was tak- (n by R. H. Grant, vlce-pre!2ent in charge of sales of the Cbev- USED CAR fl j-oiei Motor company just prior fio sailing on a month's trip to Europe. A copy of the interview given by the automotive executive has just been received here by Douglas McKay of the local Chev w rolet organisation. "As evidence of the growing importance of the used car." said Mr, McKay, "It is pointed out- by Mr. Grant that during the first quarter of 1 9 8 the Chevrolet .-dealers of the country while mov ing 250,000 new cars delivered at retail more than 200,000 used automobiles. This was made pos sible by a. changing attitude to - ; ward the used ear on the part of tae automobile dealer and the jtubllc." In his interview Mr. Grant as ."serts that w..eas the dealer for iinerly" paid little attention to the i x used car the proportion of used p new car salea has mounted so Ign tnat auiomooues watcn nave jpeen service are now an Important irm. jrt of his business. Today, as he indicates, virtually all, Chevrolet dealers . have Ducolng equipment . with which they refinish used can ;n a manner similar to the factory. "Scars are : gone over from head ight to Ull lamp by skilled me chanics trained in approved fac tory 4 methods and"- reconditioned ' cars bear'an "O. K." tag showing . that every vital -part has been - eheekedXtenient time payments are ml available , to the pur j chaserl 1. . ... ; "The pablklo'ireawlractly.ip : thased car the wide . range of prijy at" whleh traaapoTtatlon ; may be purchased and the large , variety of Hdelsrrom which e- lectloas my be made." said Mr. f ranUj "If there were ao trade 'Jn price the , owaer . of aa au to mo T11 would wear it out, jnat he now doea hli f arnltare or his rm Implements - There wonld tkn Imi an used ear market ana nIllion of : 3"t'omobUlst waald ' Tenll find a whele cende section la the Mnthwestera desert eoiatry. 1 Chevrolet party found m maieMi ef sandsteae tcalptarlags, Keto the dog and the squirrel ea the ruaalag heart ef the Chevrolet eoape. , ' CROSSES DESERT FDR NEW RECORD Los Angeles Driver of chrys - ler Roadster Sets Fresh Mark in Run Alone, and almost noiselessly through a starry night on the des ert and a biasing day following over the National Old Trails route east from Los Angeles. August J. Minke. Jr., an amateur and pri vate owaer of a Chrysler roadster, avowedly "out for the ride", suc ceeded in setting a new time rec ord to Albuquerque, N. M.. when he arrived in that city one Sunday evening in April. The new record, as officially checked and certified by the West ern Union TeVaph company, is exactly 22 hours, 38 minutes, between Los Angeles and Albu querque, a distance of 918 miles an average of a fraction less than 41 miles an hour for the en tire trip. Prior to setting out, he had driven his car over 2S.000 miles, Minke declared. Most of these have been tracking through the mountains of California, cal led by him "pretty rough usage The car performed perfectly f bacon, some sections of sausage midnight May 1 and just one min throughout the gruelling run. he'aBd a ricantic cleaver, airrhaped n nrerions Earl Cooner. can- j declared . or high average would (not have been possible. The ac - tual average speed is marxea ati 40.8 miles per hour for the dis- tance. although tne speeaometer was registering aoout &u miiiw mental Hock company, and W. H.! home In order to satify a super hour most of the way. High' chener of Fieh Snrinzs. nresident stitiona whim or the race track speeds of 60 and 6. miles p?r hour were touched frequently. Minke set his preliminary schedule at 22 hours, a against the former record of 23 hours. 29 minutes. Prior to the last estab lished time. Louis B. Miller on hL now historic Chrysler Imperial "80" round trip transcontinental run had set a mark of 26 hours. 29 minutes, between th "two cities,' The schedule was; main tained most of the way, detours encountered cutting the time slightly: : ' ! 's.-v J Minke had no trouble on the road, according to, Information he brought back to the Greer-Robbins company. Southern California Chrysler distributors. The car he drove was fully equipped and com plete with many accessories.' The entire trip was made with the top up, and Minke says he was com fortable all the way,, even If; it was a little lonesome in the mid dle of the desert reaches' and -with nothing ahead but the black night sky. TAXI DRIVER CONVICTED Seattle Jury Retwws Verdict -of Firs Degree Murder SEATTLE. May 18 (AP) A verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree was returned bj? a Jury late today "aginBt'deoTga H. Die bold. taxi-driver who i while , o'rrvTnif '"'ahT automobile V without permission of the owner, plowed through q fronp. ot high J school girls, killing two and seriously in juring two" othera,-.-;--.-vrf ,-r O" -. It was the first time in state Jurisprudential history that a con viction oa murder charges was ob tained In a case where druuken driving was blamed " for traffie deaths." - - Most people who have motored to Imperial Valley in the south western corner of the United States will recall the bleak and forbidding stretch of desert which lies between Fish Springs and the irrigated country around West moreland. Yet, that very section. in spite of Its grim appearance ;h,ds . prhap mor geological uac4 auu w uiiucicijiiU3 ut viui Mother Nature than any other sec-i tion of the southwest. -Here, on what was once the bed of an an-' cleat sea, there extends for many square' miles deposits of broken sandstone; carved by the action of water and perhapo. later, of. wind,1 into the myriad -of curious shapes.) A. day's stroll over certain of the desert sections a few miles south and west of Fish Springs will prove one of the most Interesting Howard MarmoD, vice-president in excursions that can be taken any-J,harge of eBgllieerlng of the Mar. where in the desert. . i mon Motor car company. . The motorist who halts at Fish Two pecU1 raclnt ca were Springs service station for gaso-j preT,OI1B,y announced by Marmon line can in a few moments see a, entrje. n the annual event for enough of the curiositiee that have the pnrp08e 0f tting. under ac been gathered there to convince tna, COBditlons, new engineering him of the humorous mood of idea8 developed by Cooper and Mother Nature when she amused; Marmon. Another car, lncorpor herseTTIn carving the desert sand-jating ldeas tnat are nnU8uai even stone. A party of Chevrolet mo-1 1 raeins car8. has been in the torists set out recently t visit this coarse of development at the Mar section of the desert apfl stopped mon factory for some time, but at Fish Springs for in-formaion Th.. fJ kj,M o Vnotor ..Innl - ' carvings, including a dog a "h f . " """"-o ing an orange. A "butcher shop table" held a perfect ham. a side as carefully in sandstone as though human hands had made them. Several hundred acres of the sandstone formations have been ;ac()ared Dy the Imperial Orna- (Continued on pas S.l AUTOMOBILE USED f MESSAGE TO HOME OWNERS OF THIS CITY The arrival here yesterday ot The Paraffist Companies. Inc service ear containing the Pabco displays to be shown in thU city at the Pabco Display at 141 High SW during Pabco. Week May 21st to May 2th. revealed a new departure by a progressive Western concern to assist dealers to edu cata the public In the possibilities of Improving the value of their homes . by the applleatloa of color ful roofs, and hetter Interior decorative finishes. , - ' . - - . . The automobile was accompanied by experts who will explain In detail every feature of the new Pabco Product to residents ot this city during the life of the display. These products consist of Pabeo Shingles, Paints and Lacquers and Dustle3s Rugs and floor covering. 1 . The Paraffine Companies. Inc.,- are recognised generally today as being the leaders In the mod ern colored roof idea. Many progressive steps on prepared shingles have originated with this com pany. . The firm has found that one of the most effective ways of demonstrating to home owners the value of this type of shingle is to actually bring the various types of colors of shingles mounted oa display boards to each city' la tracks especially designed to carry them. 1 Ml ENTERED 111 EVENT speed Classic to be Held on Indianapolis Speedway 30THofMay A third Marmon 68 Special bas been entered in the 500-mile t,peed cia8Bje on the Indianapolis Epeedway May 0 as a result of a last-minute decision by Earl Cooper, veteran driver, and Col. It was not until shortly before thethe ederal trade commission in- . - .... . . zero-nour ror niing speeaway en- tries that it was certain the carl wouiu oe complete in lime lor me race. Sneedwav entrv lists closed at tain of the Marmon racing team, (handed his third entry to T. E. "Pop" Myers, general manager of the Indianapolis speedway. Coop- er made a flying trip to Myers' i (Ccntiraeil on pige 4) TO CARRY MANUFACTURER'S Smith and Watkins Give Real Service at Their Up-To-Date Station "Comfy" cushions are a quality product made from the rem nants of au tomobile upholstering and clip-' ings. They aregeneroua in size j and rally luxurious, being 17 I inches jn diameter and from four to six inches in thickness. All of these cush ions are made from materi als, velour. mohair, plush and tapestry in a wide variety of colors. They are an excellent, addition to the car equipment, may be used at home, on canoeing trips or while camp ing. They are proving very pop ular. " Smith and W a t k i n s have a limit ed supply of these "Com fy" cushions and the pa trons of the service station may obtain one under certain condi- tiona Ip order to learn of these conditions it would pay the auto- mobilist to drive around to the service station at the corner of Liberty and Center streets and talk to either "Jim" Smith or "BUI" Watkins. e.o Td u c7 Ergons a real ser vice station t lifer ft tm 4rit(j. ised in every " -way and they sell only high qual ity products. They repair tires, grease the car, wash tbe car, sell gasoline and do a multitude of other useful thing for the auto mobile owner. Courteous service is their watchword and they cer tainly live up to it at all times. In fact they live up to it 87S0 hours each year, ' which means day and night. Coolidge Gives Opinion Upon Trade Group Quiz WASHINGTON. May 18 (AP) President Coolidae feels that """ Te8tigation of the financing of public utity comt,anies may re. real means for the states to bene ficially exercise their control of such concerns. It ie his belief that such controls fyes within state jurisdiction rather than that of the federal government. While the president is aware that the commission's authority may produce a need for national j legislat ion, he regards develop ments to date as suitable for state action rather than federal That's the approximate distance covered by this Buick in one year ! It was used by the Cooper Corpora tion, makers of tires and batteries, as a test car. It was replaced with a 1928 Buick after 191,314 miles, and its successor has covered 62,000 miles in the four months since the change I i 1SH SALES HBO Many Changes Announced in:, ed with a ?Peciai box body Personnel of Automobile Organization R. H. McCarty has been ad vanced to the position of vice president and director of sales of the Nash Motors company, and C. H. Bliss bas been promoted to sales manager. This aaounce ment made yesterday by C. W. Nash, president' of the company, carried with it also other Import ant additions to the Nash factory sales organisation. The increased man-power has been made neces sary and advisable, officials point out. by reason ot the large growth of the company's business and be cause of definite plans for further expansion of sales in the months to come. There will be three assistant sales managers, Mr. Nash an nounced, E. L. Smith, C. P. Turn er and C. L. Mason. Each will specialise in an Individual terri tory, and as direct assistants they will have C. F. Barkenhagen, R E. Tacke and Claus Anderson. Mr. McCarty, the new director of sales, joined the organisation six years ago. He was madee a director of Nash Motors several years ago, and recently he was elected a vice-president. In an nouncing the promotions, Mr. Nash said of Mr. McCarty: "His splendid record of executive and administrative ability, his per sonality and untiring energy have earned the confidence and respect of all of us." And of Mr. Bliss he said. "The fine work he has done in the past and his highly efficient manner of handling his job hare made this promotion a well earned one on his part." Mr. Bliss has been with Nash Motors ever since the company was organised and he was identified with the automo bile industry prior to that. He has sold cars at retail and he has had practical production exper ienced as well, having for many months been employed in the Nash Motors shops, working through various departments in the actual building of the cars. Later Mr. Bliss went into the sales depart ment and for the past six years he has been assistant sales manager." Mr. Smith has been with the Nash organization for the past six years, coming to Nash Motors from another automobile manu facturer for whom he was a branch manager. Mr. Turner joined the Nash factory sales organization five years ago as special traveling representative. His ability was recognized by the factory and by Nash distributors and his promo tion comes as a reward. Mr. Mason has been with the Nash Motors company for some time as special representative. Prior to going with Nash, he was a branch manager for a large automobile company. Willys-Overland Leads Industry in Production Figures compiled for the entire motor car industry shows a total gain in production for the first three months of thisyear in pas senger car output, of 6.6 per cent' over the same period far last; year. The gain registered by Willys-Overland In the same per iod as compared with last year is 42 per cent with the percentage ot comparative gala : steadily , in creasing at a rapid rate, accord ing to a statement Just given out by the sales department of the To ledo, manufacturer, " ; ' -. April shipments of Whippet and Willys-Kalght ears were ti per cent over last year for the same period and the gala for the year. Including April, nas been over 40 per ent.--i:' L ?''; While the Industry as a whole was over 12 per cent below IS 24 for the first quarter year, Winys Overland vkas exceeded all '. pre vious records for the same period by a substantial margin, accord ing to the sasae statement. si'-ss.--! FLINT. Mich., May 19. From ; the Cooper Corporation, of Find 'lay, o., makers of Cooper Arm ored Cord Tires and Tubes and j Cooper Long Service Batteries. comes another striking testimonial to the stamina of Buick cars. This manufacturer ues a Buick master six seven-passeneer sedan rhas- tor naming wetgnts, to test its products. The Buick now used for this testing has covered 62.000 in the last four months. A. H. Johnson, advertising manager of the com pany, writes. It is the latest of four Buicks similarly employed. Its predecessor was replaced only after 191.314 miles of service, de livered within a period ot 12 months. Tire testing is one of the most exacting uses to which a motor car can be put It calls for al most constant running, at every speed, so that the performance of tires undfr all the various oper ating conditions may be checked accurately. That Buick should havS stood up so well under this treatment averaging more than 500 miles each day as to justify the purchase of a second, third and fourth car of the same kind. Is regarded by officials' here as a splendid tribute to tbeir pro duct's excellence. 5 Record April Schedule Places Record Production Ahead This Year PONTIAC, Mich., April 13. With an April schedule calling for 7,500 more Oakland and Pontiac Sixes than during April ot 1S27, the Oakland Motor Car company is establishing a production rec ord of nearly 100,000 cars for the first four months of the year. This Oakland-Pontiac produc tion represents an increase of 85 per cent over the 53,657 automo biles which the company built dur ing the corresponding period of last year. Each of the four months of this year saw the company establish a new Oakland-Pontiac production record. Twice during February itJ was found necessary to increase the production schedule and the continuing influx of orders from the company's big dealer organ ization has resulted in equal pros? perity during March and April. J The schedule increases during February were rendered possible principally through the opening of a third production line in the Pon tiac Six factory. High production was maintained in March despite the fact that the Oakland Six fac tory was closed during the last week of the month to permit equipment .to be moved from the old Oakland assembly building to the new $3,000,000 -assembly structure which started producing cars on April 2. "With both cars now being built In ultra-modern factories whose equipment Is the last word in pre cision machinery, we face the growing Spring demand with en tire confidence," said W. R. Tracy. vice president in charge of sales. LUMBER PLANT BURNED Hoqniam Company's Loss Esti mated At Quarter Mfllloa HOQUIAM, Wash, May it.-(AP).--The Keff Lumber com pany mill here was destroyed by fire today with a loss estimated at mors thaa $250, 00. The flames originated In a comer of the building and, fanned by a strong breexe, leveled the structure de spite efforts of the fire ; depart meats of Hoquiam and Aberdeen. The mill was the newest on the harbor and was opened In Febru ary, If 2f. It had a capacity of 100.000 board feet in each eight hoars shift. - 7, .-' mm FOUR MM TOTAL Lights on 95 Per Centum of Cars Found to Be im properly Adjusted WASHINGTON. D. C. May 1$. There are close to 22,000,000 motor vehicles traversing the highways of the nation with im properly adjusted headlights, it 5 per cent of the entire number registered in the United States, while only a little over 1.000. 00 or five per cent fully meet the requirements of what might be termed "safety lights". This statement was issued today by National Headquarters of th American Automobile, Association in connection with its natlon-wie campaign for testing of head lights, which is being carred em by the 1047 affiliated A. A. A. motor clubs, and follows a careful study of figures revealed in tests made by individual clubs. "Properly adjusted headlights are of vital importance to safety in night driving," says the nation al motoring body, "and the signif icant figuree shown by peTiowe tests reveal that motor car owners are careless 6f this feature of safety or are not familiar with the importance of this feature of their car." Some of the tests upon which) the A. A. A. bases its estimate of deficient headlights are as fst lows: Tests in the District of Co I u la bia showed that lights on only 237 cars out of 4,591 examine were in compliance with the lw and correctly adjusted. The Bureau of Standards found only 22 out ot 400 cars tested bad proper, lights and Immediately launched a searching lnvestigatle for a much needed basis for cor rect headlamps.' In Norfolk, Virginia, only sta out of 3,000 cars' tested had lights complying with safety regulation. At Scranton. Pa., the Lacka wanna Motor Club found only 14 out of 400 cars tested to have "safety lights". In a certain eastern city, the traffic bureau, cooperating with the A. A. A. motor club, found only 124 out of 5,071 cars teste to have properly adjusted light. The A. A. A. points out that the peak of automobile accidents oc cur about 5:30 o'clock in the evening, when traffic is heaviest. During the period from late No vember until April, drirers are obliged to burn their lamps a that hour and. unquestionably, badly adjusted lights cause many collisions and accidents. Another critical time for accidents is aboaf 7:30 in the evening, when the (Coatianed on pa( ) care of mm HELD VITAL ED Rules Given for Treatment ot Essential Part of Automobile By Blllle Matbh, U. H. L. Servlc - Station Iorated at 215 Center Street. Besides starting your car and furnishing electricity for your lights and horn, the storage bat tery serves you by supplying the electricity for ignition, without which you cannot run. The battery is thus one of th most essential parts of your car and 'must not be neglected. If you will adhere to the follow ing, instructions your battery will live a long, healthy life, giving Utile If any trouble. Your Battery Nerds Aa Occasional Drink. Think of your battery as though it were human and treat it ac cordingly. If you could not i get a drink and thereby taxed your reserve constitution, you would soon become weak and exhausted. Likewise your battery require a drinkf pure distilled water at regular Intervals, and like you. It drinks more in summer then It does In winter.' Clve it water up to the pre scribed filling point ( H-lnch above top of plates) once every, two weeks in summer and once every month In winter. Never he tempted to offer is acid- It should not require it, unless a Jar is broken, and then a battery service maa should be consulted." ' J, Correct Charging Rates, j Your battery must bo fed. and its nataral food Is electricity generated while yon use your car. If you . store your ear or do aol use it say for three months yoar battery will starve (become die- ' CoaUM pat 4)