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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1929)
The Newf Qssgon STAxisiiAft, SaknC Oregon, Sundry Morning; Pelrrvkry 17, 1929 I 1 BUICKSHOWS DI1DEL Four Passenger Coupe Lat est Addition to Silver Anniversary Line' J Safety Zone in Cranking Pacific coast motordom : this month extended Enthusiast! wel come to-the "newest and nlne-i month extended .enthusiastic wel t tous 1919 silver anniversary. Bo-1 Ick' line." The new model, which made-its coast debut at the Pacif ic Auto show In San Francisco and has been displayed at several sub sequent western shows, is the "29 48" a four passenger coupe on the 121-inch wheelbase. .... According to Otto J. Wllaon, Sa lem Buick dealer, the new coupe Is now available for delivery at all Pacific coast points. Dealers la the territory of the Howard Auto mobile" company have been assur ed of a supply ample to meet im mediate demand. . Handling Made Kaler The new v coupe, Mr. i -Wilson pointed out. Is powered, bythe 91 -horsepower Buick' engine the -largest and xnost'powerfu mo tor yet made by Bulck. In design w "2A-48 resembles the popular silver anniversary five- . passenger coupe on tne long x sc inch wheelbase. The new carhow evar. is designed to fill a demand by persons desiring lighter weight shorter turning radius and cor respondingly greater case of park lag. The four-passenger coupe may be had in several entirely new and highly attractive color com binations. It retains the graceful ly rounded Buick body lines, com i,ntnr"tfcA hest features of Amer- loan and. European design and. adding greatly too, to roominess nnd the comfort or passengcr" The rear Beat of the car, in addi tinn to providing space tor ,eom fi.rtablv seating two ;untoally large people, is designed with a l u ge passenger comparimeni. "a n violr nomilar silver an- All luo " J -m ' r.'irersary Buick innovations are nlio included in the new caranj tably the fully adjustable 'driver mnJ.A v,arltward or forward uf . i. - -mora turn of a small knot) below the seat cushion, nd tbH electric tandom-blade winoBni- inr which insures continual clear vision to both driver and passenger. CipW ttAMMER BANKED The hammer need to tree the rim from the felloe band when chanlng a tire la not asledgo ham mer. Nor doe It have tabs used as If It were. AUght Upping w 'TMnlti than a tew heavy blows. The Oregon Mo torist. DEMONSTRATED! 2. Carcasa Have you seen our demon stration of the definite tape riority of Goodyear Tires in BOTH main parts of a tire, TREAD and CARCASS: Come In and see It. You won't be asked to boy. (1) THE TREAD TEST 1 4 YoafeelthesupcriorTRAC. , Tread, insuring SAFETY CZ) THB CARCASS TEST Too sea the extra-durable, cxrva-ela tic Goodyear SUPERTWISTCord stretch " 60 farther than ordinary cord tn earing aaore LIFE, . More people ride on Goodyear Tires than on any othet kind , Letueaplalntoyoalhenew Goodyear Ilfrtlme Guana tee every Goodyear Tire fs mad Of SUPERTWIST. Our complete lino Includes the tight sis and type lor you, at the lowest price. . It doe not cost aw to bttym Goodyear Tirm 2f . Obmmercial at Chemeketn .-v : Telephone 60 ' ' : V::--:i f - v.: : T j. ;'.:y..:-t FOR FEW HOURS Country Anxious About Fly ing Ace Until He Reach- es Charleston CHARLESTON. S. C, Feb. 1. (AP) Colonel Charles A. Lind bergh landed at the cnariesion navy yard at 8:15 p. m. today. Lindbergh will spend the night with Rear Admiral Newton A. Me- i Cully .and expected .to. take off at 'daybreak for Washington. He deemed it advisable to atop at Charleston because of unfavorable flying conditions." VES, there's a right way to do the detestable old Joband there's X wronr war to do it 1 Yon might not uppoae that there is a well denned "safety sone" In the are prescribed when you have to crank the old dob. xnere la ana a very uennue one at uuu, accoromg to uie aoov sketch reprinted by the National Safety Council through the-courtesy of the Traveler's Standard. Thirteen per cent of the personal injuries to auto drivers are broken arms caused by engine kick-backs. Take a long looK at the safety cone and the next-time you have to crank the car, remember it. Always pull up The handle. It Is unwise to -"push down or to "spin" the motor. Crank only in the Safety zone and you wui.prooaoiy avoid a bad arm smash. Backtracking Is One of Industries Problems mi By DVLD J. WILKIE (Associated Press Correspondent) DETROIT -(AP) One of the problems that development ; of the automotive industry . -has brought, but one that concerns the ndividual rather--than the Indus try, Is the final disposition of the old hack." When the automobile , reaches the -stage where ' "even a college boy will refuse it," it becomes, ac cording to information assembled from various sections, a problem to its last owner. Why, you Junk it; uninitiated suggests. "How? queries the owner of the incapacitated vehicle. c Take it to the Junk man." Yep, and he laughs at you." WelL then take it out Into the country and leave It there, minus license plates." ; - :j-'r ."Mo uerF"ntn -a-coupio oi days the police ' department will telephone to pleasantly advise that my car has boon, found a bit w one of the durr "scrapped" all cars registt 1926. but not re-registered Ing 1921. '--Under these figures the average life of the average car would be eight years . and three months The question is disputable, "how ever, for" a contest for the oldest car frequently brings forth a typo popular only in the days when au tomobiles were "hand-made," and its owner frequently , proves .that "the old bus still has a few miles In it." till up holes. At least one Instance the worse for abuse, but -all -there41 recorded where old -automobile except tua iivsun ytawo. According to the American Road Builders Association, 1, SXS.Stl cars passed the point of usefulness- and." were "taken off the road'.' In 1127. The figures were arrived at by considering as : Various schemes for disposing of cars after they have passed the stage of utility have been advan ced. As a general proposition, 'how ever, they usually find thelr;?way back whence they came the .soil. In some cases this is accomplish ed merely by dumping them. Into low lying lots and permitting the! elements to wear mtni uuu. n others, however, scrapped automo biles actually have been used to frames were used to build dikej In a river while in another a huge hole in a road was filled up with discarded automobile- chasses when tons upon tons of earth fail ed to fill it. The. motors, not. Infrequently, WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. (AP) Charles A. Lindbergh was more than an hour overdue here tonight on his. flight from Sapelo Island, on the Georgia coast, of ficers at Boiling field said the -flying colonel should - have reached hero shortly after f p. m., if he took a direct course. At 7:48 pj m.. a radio operator at Boiling field announced he had picked up a report, from Raleigh, N. C, that Lindbergh had passed over that city about :30 p. m. Raleigh Is 275 miles southeast of Washington and it was estimated that if it had taken him that long to reach Raleigh he could not ar rive in Washington until about 8:30 p. m. The officers, however, ex pressed no apprehension over the failure of Lindbergh to show up about the hour they estimated he should arrive. It was said the colonel might have landed at some point In el ther North Carolina or Virginia while another suggestion was ad vanced that he might have found flying conditions so favorable that he continued on to New York City. Lindbergh left Sapelo Island at 1:48 p. m. Officers said he should have been aided by a tail wind . and with that assistance should have reached here by 6:13 p. m. They estimated he would reach New York about .8:30 it he had changed his mind and headed for that city. been presented Jth! week by ' Dr. HJalmar Schacht,' on behalf of the Geraan viewpoint. , , . Ths week has been devoted al most in its entirely to a study of the economic v situation In r Ger many as set forth by Dr. Schacht and other members of the German ielegatlon, questions by delegates from the other-six countries rep resented have brought out a num ber of points in connection. with Germany's present- and possible future financial condition. .? . ' The committee a a whole has refrained, from, drawing any con clusions on the basis of the infor mation 'that has been developed. The Germans appeared well satis fied with the. first week of the sessional but,, were . n.ultai as re-. esrved as the other delegates when- it cams to discussing the possible or praboble direction, of-committee action. It was understood that some of the concrete -.problems are to be grappled. with next .week.' The seuioiu. are likely to. take on a more formal aspect in this second stage.: , . Among the '. vital points that are "bound to come up, the chief : oner -probably will revolve around determination . of the amount and t'jn number of the an nuities which Germany must pay. I. . ,i OLD AND MODERN SPEED VEHICLES .. . - ,' - - v.. rrrf iiJr DAWES HMTTEE FINISHES HEARINGS PARIS, Feb. 18. The second Dawes committee, as Chairman Owen D. Young has named the present reparations committee, to day completed its preliminary ex amination of the big problem which it faces and adjourned until Monday. The holiday was decid ed upon In order to give the vari ous international experts oppor tunity to think over the mass of figures and arguments which have have been taken out to do duty in stationary power plants on the farm. Fenders some times have been pounded into ornamental ar ticles, but generally the metal that originally comes from the soil goes back thereto. AAtseH OTCECGl Behind the tremendous popularity oithe new 1929 Durant Six stand three years of , successful pro duction of low-priced six cylin- cars. Tir Dnrant's success has been Tho new 1929 Six is a proved product-supreme me lanlcally and out- itaudiu in design, . v ' , r. . .... MMEtMAl KtlkMklt U&AA "I f5 fcv flevmnnr mra. p s lanrant ft wtttv vArnrvvvn . - . s sweeping success has been ATwiw?rr?'fS M . earned. Thpi iew 1929 cmvts lnirant Six is a proved Mtothmiiom I fM oprodnct-snpreniemef yT11 gsM . cuanically and out- lSf0Hil 5 L landin)Sindesi: ! : : ' , 7 s tfym . j vMf mmmtmmmmmmmm r n i n i ir rl - 'in iiinmi rn J 1 - Salem Aiiafomobile - Co. 235 N. Church Street H. E. SHADE , r ' a J. TAYLOR ' Telephone 97," H. J.WOOLEY 1 MU FISH UESTIO il ARGUED Commercial fishermen and rep. resentatives of sportsmen organ izations appeared before the joint committees on game of the house and senate Friday ' night and threshed out both sides of the proposed legislation on steelheads. There are three bills. In the house designed to classify steelhead as a game fish and to prohibit their taking with the exception of by hook and "line. R. J. Kirkwood, of the Oregon Game Protective association, .led the discussion In favor of the bills. Half a dozen speakers asserted steelheads are game fish and should be so protected by law as are other game fish. j. O. Johnson, of the land own ers league, of Curry county, ap pearing for the commercial fish ermen, said that steelhead that visit .the streams In Curry county In winter cannot be caught by hook and line and that the taking for commercial purposes is Justi fiable. He said one of the big pay rolls of the county comes from this Industry. Frank Tichener of Port Orford defended commercial fishing in Curry county and -urged against proposed legislation designed to close all streams south of the Umpqua river to commercial fish ing. He said such a measure would be discriminatory and would put a big industry out of business. ' ' . '' . .; j . . --." ' . "3.: 4' , Here's. the racing "car, ."top, belonging; to " the fi Englishman to' race at Daytona Beach, .Fli,' wUch attained, 'speed of a mile la 4 seconds, back, In 105. It was driven by A. C. McDonald. Be low is how Major H. O. D. Segrave's Golden Arrow looks. He e pects to make four miles aminute at Daytona in March , Battle oi Rogue H A Is Still-On But'J1' Columbia Savedy . -y fc 1 ! - Although the "battle of Roguo t river" continues with no change?-. in the fishing season on the Co'o lumbla river. , - jv'i-V &':Y- . This announcement-, was made by Senator Norblad Friday after he had conferred with Ed Slmi of the Washington legislature Ho', also received a telegraphic appeal. T from Henry O'Malley. United SUtes bureau of fisheries com- mlssloner. that no changes be tr i made. The appeal was based onji the grounds that season changes would mean "wholesale massacre "1 of salmon. stat; , It was decided Friday by tho?" ! delegation of sportsmen of Jack-i(1 son " and Josephine counties, , to -tight to have all streams south of the Coaullle closed to commercial a ' fishing. Their original plan wu.s to make It south of the Umpqua, , t but , as this would include Cods bay! ths sportsmen revised their program. - ..I WhenYouiaveaFlat Mi tt ' - v Jij: A -fill A ;- ' ;:: frrrw .flil: Jl fiid M 'If SEIBERLING JIRES Protected for one year against all Road Hazards Vulcanizing and Repairing 198 S. Commercial TIRE SHOP Telephone 471 it f' v ?m 1 - 1 v .... . , , In theNew All-American Six by OaklancU In this decidedly origitial treah imglj differaolt ear. r Here you will find what thousands of motorists have) long been seeking . . . distinction combined with si truly moderate price. " Magnificent new bodies createdby Rsher . , . richly upholstered . v fitted with appointments of charming design And an unlimited capacity for performance). Marvelous power pick-up and speed. It 'stirred the nation on announcement day. A car which proved that something "new teas possible in an automobile. And every day its vogue keeps on increas ing . for it look and acU as if it cost hundreds of dollars more than its actual price. And its newness is keeping all America thrilled! ; " -, - - rrUmm $114$ M tlSTS,. .fry. pirn- thmrf. tmjf gj.tf i SW Ab-r 1 JL mmti Utefmdwd im Ut prim. Biwt mrnd rmrfmUmr yrJi CfcliifclM iJarwTpricM tJMr inrhrrfr I(hmI hmmdttng cJmh-m. Gmrml SMM Time Fmywmt tlmm VICK BROTHERS High Street at Trade ' Telephone 1841 Thiteeldo Motor Oo, Corvallls, Oregon Irrins Oarage, Albany, Oregon; gflverttra Motor Oar Oo, Bilverton, Oregon; O.J. Shreere A Son, DaRaa, Oregon; T. p.Pomeror, Independence, Oregon; - Fred T. Buyen, Sdo, Oregon; Elmer Fitzgerald, " xVebaaon, ' Oregon r AusUns Service Statton, Bnmnstllle, Oregon ; H, VT. Morrla, : Waldport, Oregon; Bones Brothers, Turner, Oregon; Henry C HoOemaa, Harrisburg, Oregon; - ...... vtra - . . . .t..,.. 4- , H M I. 4i r . l 1 t r-i - . t j i i t I i i 1 .... tt- ."fTT -t 11)11" II I I ,... t H . row 7" ''PRODUCT OF CEM23AL MOTOH3 .