The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Orejon, Sunday Morn in. May 19, 1929
PAGE T11KUU
OAKLAND LEADER
SEES BIG YEAR
Afiif Shipments Barely Miss
Record-Breaking Mark
for AH Time
A Thousand-Plymouth Surprise
Nationwide substantiation 6f the
opttnistic forecasts for a record in
119 automobile sales Is clearly
borne out in a statement just re
leased by V. R. Tracy, vice presi
dent in charge of sales for the
Oakland Motor Car company.
Shipments of Oakland and Pontiac
sixes during the firs four months j
of 1929 totaled 118,222, making'
a new high record for this manu
facturer. ., Tracy said: "April shipments,
alone,totaled 36,384 car3, which
U Just 76 cars short of the "C.460
shipped in March the high
month in the company's- records.
But for the fact that there was
rtae'less working day, than (in
March, April would have been he
greatest month in our history.
Record Shipments Made
.""Our record shipment of 118.
2 2" cars during the first four
months of 1929, more than dou
bled the total of 53,877 cars sold
i the same period of 192" and
bettered the 1928 period by 15.
591' cars."
Tracy pointed to the March and
April 192 9 sales as an indication
of the general market trend, stat
ins that the total for these two
months shows a gain close to 30
per cen over March and April of
last year.
"The industry as a whole is
.bowing Ja decided increase In
sales during the spring months of
l29. One of the greatest factors
in this increase is the replacement
market. During 1925 and 1926 a
rotal of 8,736.135 cars and trucks
were sold in the United State? and
Panada. These three and four
year cars are now being replaced
vrith new cars, and account in a
large measure for the general
sales increase throughout the
country.
"Production schedules in the
Oakland factories are keyed up to
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Not even the weapon nsed la the
crime was identified. Near the
body were several metal objects,
any one of which might have
been nsed, but none was linked
with the girl's death. Police are
reconciled to believing that only a
twist of fate or a confessional will
unravel the slaying.
The other killing Is believed to
have been the result of an at-
t emoted robberv. Theodora Chev-
' chuck, restaurant counter rnn.
was loan a dead la me nasement or
the restaurant. Police believe
that he came upon a robber and
was killed in the latter attempt
to escape.
Unsolved thfts and robberies'
include larceny of a tronk con
taining 175,000 in jewelry. It
was stolen from a railroad plat
form and never was recovered.
Two holdups are included, one
netting $12,000 to the bandits
when .two bank employes were
stopped on the Boston fish pier
and the other, $10,000, a bank
again being the victim. An auto
mobile transporting funds was
stopped and the messengers re
lieved of thejr burden. A hotel
NEW
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ETTETO
BE SEEN HEBE SODiV
Preliminary . arrangements for
the showing of the new Marquette
car.' were made here Friday by
Rev. W. Johnson, representative
of the General Motors company,
who was here conferring with Ot
to W. Walson. local dealer for Bu
ick. and future dealer for the new
Marquette, a companion car to the
Buick line.
Mr. Johnson said that the new
ear wonld be on the market about
June 1. Wilson expressed himself
as very pleased with the tentative
develrpment foreseen for the Mar
quette car.
cafeteria yielded 850.000 in dia
monds and jewelry to a bold
band of holdup men.
FISHING GREAT TS UMATIIXA
COUNTY
Sportsmen of Umatilla county
and the adjoining territory are
experiencing the greatest fishing
they have ever known, in the Mc
Kay dam which is located several
miles from Pendleton. Kastern
brook trout by the hundreds are
being daily- taken from the dam
and sportsmen of the Umatilla
country regard the dace as a sec
ond Diamond Lake. In a letter to j
the state game commission Sol J.
Baum of Pendleton reports that
fish in large numbers up to 20 in
ches in length are being caught
every day. The commission made
its first planting of Eastern brook
trout in the dam in 1927. The fry
planted were on an average of
five inches in length. .Subsequent
plantings have been made until
the waters of the dam abound
with the trout, dore plantings
will be made this year. One rea
son given by the commission for
the great growth of the eastern
brook Is that the dam contains-
almost an unlimited suppl of ''
natural food.
The bear gets the blame from
many persons for the crimes of
the cougar, according to officials
of the state game commission. He
is not by nature a killer, and has
often times been held responsible
for the slaying of deer, when, in
fact the animals were killed by
cougar. The cougar kills a deer,
takes the vital organs of the an
imal. The bear comes along, finds,
the kill and feasts upon It. Bruin
has been known to kill deer but
it was after they were crippled
and unable to escape. Unless the '
bear is extremely hungry it is
not his nature to attack other an-'
imals.
Your Statesman carrier Is a lit
tle merchant. He is charged for
all the papers he delivers. Failure
of a subscriber to pay is loss to
the carrier.
Faced with aa ever-increasing surplus of order over production, A. vanDerZee, general sales manager
of the Plymouth Motor corporation, has been "riding the Plymouth factory officials for more can.
While the forco of trained workers and production hae bees Increased steadily since operations were
begun at the mammoth new Plymouth plant in January, It was not. expected that the thoaa n nd-a-dny
clip wonld be reached until the middle of May. However, P. C. Sauerbrey, Plymouth operating manager,
came through with A welcome surprise by hitting the thousand mark on April SO, when 1002 Ply
men tha were produced. Mr. vanDerZee (center) is seen above congratulating Mr. Baaerbrey on his feat
as tlie thousandth Plymouth for the day rolla off the production line. K. 3. Pound, Plymouth, director
or distribution, looks on approvingly.
keep pace with the increasink de
mand for the Oakland and Pontiac
sixes that are meeting with partic
ular favor in he medium and low
price clas. In the low price field
particularly, spring buying has
been most brisk.
"Our plant has been operating
at capacity since January and it
now seems probable that we will
continue at top speed well into the
summer season or for a onger pe
riod than ever before."
Protect yourself against Auto
and Travel accidents with a $1 in
surance policy issued by The Ore
gon Statesman.
6 Big Crims in Two Years
Are Unsolved in Boston
BOSTON In a period of
more than two years only six ma
jor crimes have been marked "Un
solved" in the records of Boston's
police department. This record,
police experts believe, is one that
few large cities can equal.
Four of these crimes were
thefts or robberies and two were
murders. One of these killings
ranks with the strangest myster
ies, for not even a motive ever
was discovered for the slaying of
Malbelle Matheson, 19-year-old
knitting mill employee. She was
set upon and beaten while going
home one winter evening in 1127.
Her body was dragged across a
field and left on an ice-covered
pond, where it was discovered
next day.
All "Tips" Fall
Maybelle had no enemies, as tar
as police could learn. "Tips'
pourned in for weeks after the
crime, but all proved fruitless. In
spectors traveled thousands of
miles running down Tain does
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