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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1928)
Oreg pn, Often Called ' the Vacation Land of the Nation, Possesses Wonderful Scenic Places Which Constantly Attract Thousands I he Statesman Carries More Automobile News and Advertismentsl Than Any Other Paper in Oregon Outside of Portland .O.b - . ". - - r - - .. . k s ' - ... . , - '; , . ---v- . Mis Automotive Section Automotive Section WAY BETTER THAN LAST YEAR SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 22, 1928 PRICE FIVE. CENTS E Graliam-Paige Coupes Presented CERTIFICATE BEING YOUR CARD, PLEASE! TO MEET HIS r FEET IN IE 1 NEW COUPE MODEL GRAHAM-PAIGE "835" MED BY Ml -x i HUC ffl US 10 DOOM I i 27 4 i.. Victimizing Hosts of Motor ists; Demands Immediate Extermination WASHINGTON. D. C.. July 21. "Victimizing the motorist ln TohM In an accident resulting in personal ; injury, and "taking , his cot", of the unfair settlements that he forces on behalf of the In jured person in such a mishap, the "ambulance chaser" has be come the object of a nation-wide campaign on the part of motor dure, says a statement issued to day by National Headquarters of the American Automobile associa tion. -; - " Cooperating with other agencies and enlisting the fall yweight of public opinion in behalfof the ef fort to stamp out the-f'Tulturous" practices of this large and grow ing class, the motor club is in the fight until -the last trace of, the blight Is removed." the executive officiate of the ,AAA declare. As a primary step in calling a halt, to the illegitimate actlrltles of the ."ambulance; chaser" who derives his name from the des patch with which heappears. on the accident scene, the national motoring agency points out the 1 1 r ' " . . X. i , alarming proportions or iuc btui in the virrent issue of its maga-( cine, the American Motorist. In the ranks of the ambulanca' chaser are the despicable member of the honorable professions of medi cine and law, allied with un scrupulous hospital attendants, policemen and other, hangers-on whose depravity of conscience per mits them to prey upon the pub lic in a dangerous way, says the statement. Placing its facilities for legal service at the' disposal of the mo torist who ' is at a loss for the proper procedure in event he feels himself being victimized, the AAA chain of 1,064 motor clubs in tends to run down every instance of "ambulance chasing" called to Its attention. - Such a policy Is essential to the complete exterm ination of the evtl and its army: of practitioners, motor officials believe. "The service offered ie not one one of value to the motor- car owner only," says the statement, "but to the possible victim Of the automobile accident. - The latter is preyed upon bv the 'ambulance chaser' Just as" avidly aathe for mer. Out of the unjust and un fairly obtained settlements re reived by the bureaus and com panies affiliated with the general evil, tb injured person shares dis proportionately with the agent who makes the collection. "The credulous motorist involv ed in a mishap and the equally credulous victim of such an acci-f dent obviously are easy prey for (Continued ion p - .) us s Vacation Days and Good Weather Speed Sates Over Entire Country The close of the first half of the year finds the used car situa tion more favorable than It has been for many months. 'T ' Most sections of the country are reporting an excellent movement of used.car stock; during the past month, with the last - weeke of June showing-exceptional gains. Good weather, together with the impetus created by vacation peri ods, is undoubtedly largely respon sible for the steady upward trend that is being registered in used car sates by dealers throughout , the country.- ',' ... ' . "An excellent Idea of the pres ent public demand for used cars is found in the report of our deal er organization for the week end ing June 30 which showed the ' lowest inventories on record since the f!rst of January,", said W. P, Hufstader, director of used ears for Dodge Brothers, ylric. In dis cussing the situation. . , ; t . "During the last week of , June, our dealer organisation . sold' '5. 561 used cars. This is the sec ond high week of the year and the highest corresponding week la the 1-year history of the Dodge com pany. The rain during the last even days of the month over the preceding week was outstanding and m a clear indication of .the public's readiness to buy the right type of used cars : Mr. Hufstader, after checking nis reports, placed Dallas. .Okla homa City, Omaha; San Francisco and Seattle districts as the strong est used car points.. Sales, how- Yer, are good tn the Columbus, pes A Moines, - ladlasapolls, St; lxuis, -.Washington, Salt Lake ED CAR MARKETS ninovEH ' jl ' ilium r NEW MODEL I 629 GRAHAM - PAIGE COUPE l iMMIi r-:ft,.v .sX. Graham-Paige has brought out .a coupe on each of its five chassis models.' The two illustrated are typical. of the new bodies. The eight and the 129-inch wheelbase six (model 29) have rumble seats. The 119-inch and the 114-inch wheelbase (six cylinder) coupes have four interior seats. The smallest six (model. 610) Is a two-passenger model. - Coupe bodies on five different H chassis models are now being pro duced ' by Graham-Paige. With these additions, the- Graham Paige line comprises sedans and coupes on all chassis, and town and cabriolets on the -largest six and the eight. ' - ?l . The coupeSj which are all of the Graham-Paige standard in appear ance and equipment, offer a wide choice - In seating arrangement. The 110-inch six has it single wide seat for two passengers. The 114 inch and the 119-inch six-cylinder models seat four passengers. "The 129-inch six -and the 135-inch eight have a single-wide neat In side and a rumble f seat in the rear deck, for two additional pas sengers. , . j , . j , ; . - " The 10 model two-passenger coupe Is finished in blue and black with blue wood wheels. The up STAR lADMIRES TERE f .v. f. -vmmwiaj a jT' js Iff 7 LI' "Carrying a spore tire seems ridiculous when, tout car carries Fiaka all around, says the charming Colleen Moore, piquant Firs National star. "Bat Flsk are so good looking that even, a spare adds to the beauty of a car, she concinded. Chemical Research Carried On Continuously at Large Factories . AKRON; Ohio, July 2 1 Since the discovery, in 1839, that crude rubber mixed ' with e sulphur -and subjected to a' certain degree' of heat produced a tough and elastic product for many uses, the science of 'chemistry nasi contributed more than: any other factor to about 30,000 products now manufactur ed Of rubber. Chemistry was the foundation of rubber! manufactur ing in the beginning and the science of chemistry is directly responsible tor the progress that rubber, manufacturing has made since the discovery bf volcaniza tlon.: . ... tl '. . ' tn. the huge factory at Akron where Miller tires are made, there Is a modernly equipped laboratory, manned ' with , a corps ' of expert chemists who. work nader 'the su--perrision of a chief chemist In con stant exploration, of 'the realmof rubber chemistry. -"Hef e t rubber Is milled and compounded la small batches and hundred -of.; experi ments euro eoadnctedrlth the sole 'nniiiiiii mniirnii - " I V " ' v " " """""nrrirr w - holstery Is genuine blue pigskin for the bark seat and cushion.! wlth Jmitation leather to match on the doors and sides of the body. The. cover of the rear deck is hinged, concealing a commodious compartment adapted for carry ing baggage or packages. Wood wheels are standard equipment, wire or disc' wheels being avail able at extra cost The 610 may be had also with six wire or .steel wheels, carrying the. two .; extra wheels In fender wells at the, sides. The 629 and 835 coupe's are finished in turquoise, blue, with black mouldings and Ivory strip ing. The equipment includes six steel . disc wheels, the two spare wheels being mounted at the sides in fender wells. A folding trunk rack is standard equipment. The upholstery is whipcord In the driv ing" compartment, and heavy wa- a?' -p v"s ip ? . x i'. ' .Following the contours of -wag- -on trails of the "49'ers," Dublin ; Canyon Boulevard, the connecting line between JSaa Joaquin and Ssc ramento Valleys. and . the" San Francisct). bay. region, and .the western , terminus of the Lincoln . Highway.. Is now., open. Photos showed)' aiPurantTS". Sedan' oa ne of the many historic trails ; la. the-canyon; Pergola: Hill and. the mins of a fatnoui" resort of . ...w-; - . s-t;... . xaKr"g-sra..-w - V'- .it" V ' V- v - j ; -o .-X. 7 N23S3ES38BBhi terproof leatherette In the rum- Die seal. The two four-passenger coupes on the 614 and 619 chassis are finished respectively in sandrun ner gray and blue, with mould ings of black. ' , Wood wheels are standard equipment. , On both models, wire or steel wheels are obtainable at extra cost. An ad ditional option makes these mod els available with six demountable wheels; two spare wheels at the sides in fender wells. Wtih this arrangement, a trunk rack is pro vided. Value of Automobile Hinges On Services The real value of any automo bile hinges on the trouble-free performance it gives, right from the start. - Tears ago. when the automo bile industry was considerably younger, the first few mqpths af ter the purchase of a new car became a period of adjustment be tween the buyer and the dealer. Service became a bugbear to both parties, and often it was a real drag on their pocketbooks. Today, however, car construc tion has improved to a point where the man who buys a car expects to drive it from the re tail establishment' and use it . In-: definitely without requiring ser vice beyond a minor adjustment or two.. As an instance of how the ser vice problem on new cars Is dis appearing, Harry Adler, a Peer less dealer in uptown Chicago, tells of his experience since the Peerless Motor Car Corp.,-opened Its Chicago branch on March 1. Adler has delivered 40 new Peerless ears in five and a half months. In looking " over his books he has found that the actual service costs on all these ears amounts to 49 cents per automo bile. ' - . "And." he adds, "we have no dissatisfied customers." Transcontinental ft' XT' h .z&J x T f -a.: or Xs. ; i ' x. - x" 'Z . .V'..--'5-V y-- x" - I xxf . . ' ' .i''' : ' ,..,-.',,;4 n. I I X - '-J x xv rv V. s' --'t 4 Aviator Has Sense of Humor and Plays Hymn His Mother Taught Him An. aviator with a sense of hu mor recently .played "Nearer My God To Thee" on a small piano that he was carrying from . New York City to Atlanta, Georgia. The famous hymn seemed to be an ap propriate selection to render inas much as the plane was 5,000 feet in the air and traveling at 100 miles an hot: through a driving rain storm. As far as tt is known this is the fit . t time a piano has broken all n cords for speed and altitude. Here's how it hap pened : An orchestra playing what is known as "Big Time" found itself On the eve of an opening in At lanta, Georgia minus one of its principal "props' a midget up right piano. The piece de resist ance of this act was a fat comed ian playing on a little upright piano. Somehow or other the piano was delayed in transit and after the orchestra leader failed to lo cate one in Atlanta, he wired a piano manufacturer in New York to ship him one by aeroplane. The manufacturer picked -out one of his prettiest little blue models and sent it by fast truck to Mitch ell Field, where a big three mo tored plane was waiting. The lit tle piano was moved Into the cock pit, and amid a whirl of propel lors and a roar of the. big motors. it was off for Atlanta. The aviator crawled back into the compartment Containing the - (Continued oa pt . A Winner In The r r - -r y$k i J Pi a Kv X tymore Smith, member of the Digger tribe of Indians and one of the winners In the recent annual Redwood Highway - Indian marathon, with Vera Savldge and Opal Gorton and their Chevrolet sedan which they used te accompany, the runner. Smith was the official entry of Plumas County and was cheered and encouraged during the entire 4S2 mile run, from San Francisco to Grant's Pass, Oregon, by the twe young wemen and their Chevrolet. Link Completed I : ' 9 . x - u- ... . f , i( .'1.1 ;. hi' ' 1 .t . i it A Chevrolet party stopping at a typical tourist camp tn Rhodesia, Central Africa, near Victoria Falls, one of the beauty spots ef the world. The camp consists ef empty rest, huts with walls made of bamboo. The motorist tacks his visiting card by the entrance to signify temporary possession. More than a halt million of the 1928 series Chevrolet cars are on the road today, according to In formation just received by Pacif ic Coast Chevrolet Motor Com pany, Detroit. This establishes a high record figure for public acceptance of a new model, as never before in the history of the industry has so large a number been delivered in so short a space of time. It is also more than 100.000 units in excess of the output of the factory for the corresponding period of 1927. "In view of this new record and the fact that the peak-selling sea son has just got under way, the entire Chevrolet organization of the country is enthusiastls over the probability that this years per formance will surpass that of 1927 when more than a million cars were manufactured and sold, by a good margin. It is deemed like ly by factory officials that more than a million of the 'bigger and better Chevrolets will be on the highways of the United States alone before the new year dawns. 1928 Redwood Highway Indian Marathon 4 sFMI. .t. . 3 .. -r- , that name. (2) A sharp and nar- tow turn In contrast with the pres-. nt X A : font ' roa.il wit W tb I ,-turn like: many-others has been, elim'inatedt (S ) .The smooth wide " highway apprbaching Bulmer Hill. Tait canyon road, formerly seven - miles in length, has been short- nened nearly one mile, and Its e-.- construction cost; S 1 0.0 0 0. It , Is ! a retn.arkable engineering feat say Elate Highway 'officials. ' rrimtiifmimiirr -i "Reports of retail deliveries for the first four months of this year, plus the estimated figures for May. are said to indicate that the domestic dealer organization, with General Motors of Canada and General Motors Export Company, will have delivered approximately 525,000 Chevrolets by the end of this month." Every month so far this year has shown a consistent gain over the corresponding month last year, according jto Klingler, who who now dot the highways and ) states that the average monthly by-ways of the country from coast gain has been more than 20,000 to coast will repair the accident V units. As a result, deliveries to;free 0f charge for him. His Sel- t buyers during the first four berling Tire Protection certificate months of 1928 were almost on a g his naasnort to motoring 1ov. ' par with deliveries for the first rive months or last year. "This unusual performance, ae Indicated by Klingler. has been made possible through the far-see- Ing policy of the factory in plan - nlng Its production, facilities so that cars might be immediately available to the public every- where. stem t ,s4 QUALITY OF FUEL Recent Tests Reveal Inter esting Facts on Difference ' . of Gasolines Where do you find the differ ence between "wet''gasoline and "dry" gasoline? In the - crank case! : ;'' ".'.'Vs;' V' r That fact, astonishing perhaps to you as to many other motorists recently has come out in an inves tigation of the effect of using dif ferent kinds of motor fuel. Or dinary gasoline contains "heavy ends." as the oil Industry terms this kind of fuel, and these sat urated particles art not consumed. They collect on cylinder walls and drain down Into your oil. diluting It, lessening Its lubricating value. In actual tests, it was found that oil In a motor crankease was diluted nearly 0 per cent when tho car was ! run . with ordinary gasoline, , whereas V there was scarcely any! dilution wheathe fuel chosen was Shell 400, the dry gasoline , sponsored . by Ihe Shell Company, r It's: In the crankease that, you - find: tho .answer, aa.to which is the better fael! ; . - Shell 400 has none ef the heavy , ' (Ctiae4 pase 'X) . i it, i Li! . ';tW 4- r Til I - " ' - - ' "jrr CB1BE SHOWS Free Tire Service Now Avail able to Local Seiberlirig Users r$ Hundreds of local motorists wh are new preparing for their an nual take-off to "see America first" will go with free and easy minds this season, as far ae tire hasards are concerned, accord Inf to Walter Zosel, distributor - of Selberllng All-Tread tires. They will carry with them, he declared, Selberllng Tire Protection certifi cates which are open sesame to more than 5,000 Selberllng deal- era from Maine to the Golden Gate, in the event of the slightest difficulty. "And that's what tire protection should mean." Mr.' Zosel added. "A tire guarantee is only good for starting a supper fire,' If the man who stands .behind It Is standing . i m . a ' . i . . n cuupie oi lUDuuna mites awj But the Selberllng user needn't worry about that. If It should happen that Old Man Blow-Out, somewhere out In the stlcksjams a railroad spike or a half a, milk bottle through his shoe, any one 4 of the 5.000 Selberllng dealers I It will get him the 'high sign' i' of a j, handM ' (broad smle and a willing wherever he goes. "Selberllng tires are now doubly protected. The special Selberllng ) design and the extra quantities of cotton and rubber that go ' into Selberllng tires are, protection No. l. The Selberlins Tire Protection plan is protection No. 2. iiThe -' motorist who sets out thus doubly protected can toss bis worrit, into the first grand canyon be comes to. He won't have any-further need for them.". ' The Selberllng Tire Protection plan, one of the most remarkable, service plans ever devised by i a manufacturer and his dealers for the public convenience, provides that any Selberllng user is to be given free service on his tires by any Selberllng dealer for the per iod of a full year after purchased In the event that the tire i In jured beyond repair, he Is to be given a new one at one-twelfth the original cost. If the accident occurs during the first month of use, at two-twelfths if during the second month, etc. Mr. Zosel advises local motor ists who ride on Selberllng. All Treads to "forget to lock the back door when you leave, forget to bring the tire wrench and-the jack, ' but don't forget your Selberllng - TlrexProtectloa certificate." Marmon Strikes Keynote of Public Approval With Two' Lines of Car t. Another new high record for rjt- . tail sales of Marmon straight eights was established In June, ac cording to a final compilation of sales reports at the Marmon fac tory which further reveals that the company's shipments In the first six months of this year were slightly more than IS per . cent greater than the total for all of 1927. ; i. ' Last year, the, first in which the Marmon company entered into vol-" ume manufacture jof - straight- . eight cars, exceeded any previous year in the history, of the com-.' pany by nearly "300 per cent. The previous high monthly record was established in May of this year.' V ; Early In June sates of the Liar- . mon "6 8" and "7 8" reached the ' same level as last year's total and subsequent record-breaking activ ity in all parts of the country re- ., suited in the new high monthly : mark. In manufacturing approxl- -mately 115 per cent of last year's ' total In but six months of 1S28, the -Marmon company established : one of the most remarkable rec- - ords In the Industry .and, 'at the same time, climbed to first place among all producers of straight eight automobiles, "y . " . Advance orders that have been received by the company jor deliv ery the remainder of the summer" Insure a continuation of the rec ord activity, with no letup In what' . generally is regarded as tho dull season In retail automobile 'sales. . Popularity of the two lines of straight-eights -has grown rapidly and dealers - everywhere- - report . that sales are going forward at ;a . , rate , that - Is comparable to the peak seasons ol the ear. :. " , Although volume shipments, cf cars from - tho tlarmoa t artery tOi pas- RETAIL SALES BRING" ' ' . '. . X 1 -i ..- . - ,