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- Automotive and Building News of Interest Locally Talk of the Road and News of the Day for Mb-, torists and Outdoors folk GTE Automotive Information The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Snnday Morning, November 17, 1923 PAGE ELEVEN N HER RACE CAR J3ig Prize Winnings Piled Up In Past Four Years by Speeder WASHINGTON. D. C The, racing car with which Louis Meyer .won the national official speedway champion for 1929 has won prise money totaling $150,000 In four years and at the same time has established a record for speedway safety, according to the contest board of the American Automo bile association. A Henry Miller creation; the car is the racer which carried the late Frank Lockhart to runner-up position in the 1926 and 1927 battles for the A. A. A. champion ship. On Lockhart's death at Day tona Beach in 1928, Meyer pur chased the car and drove it to Victory In 1928 and 1929. "Only once In Its entjire career vas it forced to retire from a race due to eerious mechanical trou ble," says the A. A. A. content board. "In 1926 Lockhart drove It to win the Indianapolis clasiict In rapid succession he finished first m Detroit, won two races at Char lotte, and others at Detroit, Al tiona and Fresno. 'In 1927 he set the world's jelass "F" racing record for 91 cu. inch cars at 164 miles per bour on the California dry lake. This record still stands. A month later he set a speedway qualifying record at Atlantic City of 147.92 m. p. h. and a five-mile and ten- raile racing record of 133.56 and 135.57 in. p. h. respectively and all of which still stand. He led In dianapolis through the 300th mile and cleaned up 111.000 in lap prizes. He was first that year at retroit. second at Salem, first suc cessively at Kalamazoo, Toledo, Altoo tvn, Syracuse, Charlotte, Cleveland, and closed the year with first In two events at Salem. Only the points piled up against fcim at Indianapolis failed to. re turn him the 'championship.-On the basis of actual wins and all round driving he was undoubted ly the ehampion'ln that year." The statement continues: "In 1928 tb car was. first driven at Indianapolis. - AV the 400th mile Onlott had it in the lead. Then came rain. The race was almost stopped but it cleared and a split gas tank dropped the car back to the. 10th pace. Louis Meyer who had won Indianapolis then bought it. He placed second at Salem and first at Altoona. In year of but five major events. This year he followed by placing cecond at Indianapolis, second at Detroit ten days later and fin fjhed by winning both races at Al- toona. "Oufof the last six 200-mile races at Altoona this car placed first five times the last four times consecutively. "In 19Z7 Lockhart set a new qualifying record for flat mile dirt tracks of S8.94 seconds and in the following race put n new rec ords for every standard distance from one to one hundred miles. Two years have elapsed and but one of these records has been broken Wilbur Shaw improving the one hundred mile time at Syr acuse this year. "Had Lockhard lived and had the car been campaigned in the fat years of racing such as 1921 to 1926 inclusive, its winnings would probably have approxi mated $400,000. Altogether a Very remarkable record, a magnif icent car, splendidly built in the first place, splendidly modified by a master mechanical genius, and driven for tour successive years by two of the finest drivers in the history of American racing." Local Young Men Join Al's Station .Barney Kropp and Fred Turn er, who ran the service station, corner Capitol and Court streets, have become associated with Al. J. Rosseau at Al's Service Station, corner Church and Center streets. These young men are well known In the service station business in Salem. Dow Lovell is another member of Al's staff. Richfield gas, oils and greases are featured t this station. Absolutely COMPLETE Vbu will find EVERY automo tive necessity at your nearest V. & D. SERVICE Station. - : . SHELL GASOUNE AND OIL GENERAL TIIES AND TUBES CHANSLOt S LYON ACCESSORIES 7 , n VAN FLEET-DURKEE, INC ORGANIZED RESPONSIBILITY ..700 SERVICE STATIONS : : 'IOM CANADA TO MEXICO" facing Car On Ttenk Lockhart Original Owner VoniestRxtrd Rum Raids Are Old Story At Place -Where Immense Arsenal Found bv Police ' By CLARK G. LEE Associated Press Staff Writer HIGHLANDS," N. J. (AP) Under prohibition, this old-time summer resort has seen the de velopment of rums running to a million dollar business. Here the headquarters of a great liquor trust, with fortified, arsenal and rum tilled tunnels, has been found. Here the liquor boys have bled, bribed and died. And for all the discoveries of machine gun emplacements and the whispers of metropolitan gun-1 men lurking about an old mansion which they had converted into a club, the latter days of the dry era havebrought less terror than the first.'--. The Hammerstein estate, once the, -seat of the .mighty, was lately In the grasp of the liquor trust, onr'tovbe- captured by federal agentsv- The summer resort, in which It was built, just across the bay from the lights of Manhattan and within shadow of grim Fort Hancock, has trembled night aft er night and year after year while liqulr trucks rumbled through Its streets. Into its public thoroughfares emboldened smugglers have mus tered from ships offshore to or ganize against cleanup campaigns threatened by the Ku Klux Klan. The campaigns never materialized. Rum rumbled on. It had bfeen known for months that something was going on in the old house on the hill. That "something" had to do with speed boats .churning reed-filled inlets, to disappear in uncharted high ways. f But the liquor trust operated peacefully and quietly. No one was threatened, and the arsenal was so strong that hijackers sought weaker prey. Frank Bartelson, an automobile dealer, was one of. the- residents unterrified by earlier .violence. Bringing 14 charges against .a chief of police, Bartelson Bald con. d it ions are "so .rotten it is impos sible to obtain a renter for a house or a piece of property because r eryone is afraid to come here to VALLEY Model A Fordor Sedan cL- 1925 Studebaker Coach 1927 Dodge Coupe 1926 Ford Roadster Super Six Essex Coach. 'levM&tmm Corner Center and Chemeketa TeL 19S5 WinsflSQOOO Official AAA Circuit, St.. f Z. V w account of lawlessness. I hare been told to eet myself an iron cage becatfse the bootleggers were out to get me." Fire years ago Rum Row sent its subjects ashore to protest openly against the klan. Then it was estimated an average of 18,- 000 cases came in each week. The coast guards gare chase at 40 miles an hour and the runners rode sea and fog in powerful yachts. The coast guard won, and the rum runner gambled away easy profits and went back fishing.- The story then was that the runner would run no more. But he came back. Coast guardsmen were wounded In bat tle and bootleggers died. The latest clean-up has ap peared thorough. Highlands is wondering: "Will the rum runners return again?" -. - MI HI DIM FOB KELLY 1 TIRES It was announced late yester day that the Valley Motor Co., lo cal Ford dealers had been ap pointed Kelly-Springfield Tire distributors and that a complete stock will be kept with all sizes In the line available including Kelly tire accessories. In an interview with Mr. W. L. Phillips, mgr. of the Valley Mo tor Co., he stated that his firm was fortunate in securing the Kelly line due to the fact that Kelly has always been accepted by the public as an outstanding quality tire at no extra cost. . The company's progress during the past four years Is remarkable In the fact that unit sales' have trebled during that period. That record was its reward through their effort to consistently main tain and improve the high Quality of their tires. A warehouse stock . will be maintained at the Valley Motor Co. from which 30 associate deal ers In Marion and Polk counties may draw their tire requirements &9C HA PU3.UU $365.00 $350.00 $375.00 $150.00 $375.00 in f rears Louie Meyer AAA Champion E BERLIN (AP); German aero nautical circles herald the advent of a new era in aviation as the result of the remarkable perform ance of the tail-less airplane. With an ordinary motorcycle motor of only 8 to 10 horsepower. the plane developed a speed of 75 miles an hour. It was invented by Alexander Llppisch, glider ex pert in the employ of the Rhoen- Rossitten company, pioneers in glider construction. Llppisch's machine was built without a tall but with larger wings on the theory that such construction lessens air resistance. thereby reducing the necessary engine power. Successful flights were first made with the tail-less plane without a motor. Then the motor cycle motor was Installed. The machine showed a surprising ca pacity to rise to high altitudes. General Votes Extra Dividend The directors of General Motors corporation at their regular meet ing declared on the outstanding common stock the regular quar terly diridend of 75 cents a share payable December 12, 19S9 and also an extra cash diridend of SO cents per share payable January 3. 1930. both to stockholders of record November 23, 1929. In addition the regular quar terly dividends were declared on the senior securities payable Feb ruary 1, 1930, to stockholders of record January , 1930. Dofffe FEATURES ' targe, Powerful Engines ... Down-Draft Carburetion ... Multi-Hang 4-Speed Transmission and Gear Shift ... Sevetv Bearing Counter 1 Balanced. Crankshaft . . . Rubber Spring Shackles . , Chrysler Webtherproof 4 Wheel Hydraulic Brakes ... Hydraulic Shock Absorbers ... Roomier Bodies of Dread nought Construction . m, Metahvar by Carrier et GeT .; Fi CORNER - CHEMEKETA TAILLESS Wl Ml n INI GOB SHE KILLED DUMB Other News Reports of Work Of Game Commission During Year A total of 288 cougars were killed in Oregon during the state game commission's fiscal year which ended September 30. This was 34 more than were killed dur ing the preceding year. A total of 87 of the big cats were killed in Douglas county; 68 in Lane, 37 in Curry and Clackamas and Coos hunters took 25 each. Eight wolves were killed and seven of these were reported from Douglas county. There were 81 arrests for ang ling without a license and 82 for hunting without license. Citizens apprehended In illegal possesion of deer, meat numbered 82. In the combined counties of the state there .were 686 arrests for viola tlon of the game laws and out of these 628 convictions were oh tained. . Conviction law violators w hxx went to Jail were 33. - 'Gene Simpson, superintendent of state game farms has reported to Harold Clifford, state game warden that 17,823 Chinese phea sants were released during the year. In addition to these there was a release of 1,643 Hungarian partridges In the counties of east ern Oregon. Wild turkeys re leased numbered 356, guinea fowl 537 and golden pheasants 60 Trout eggs of all types taken during the year ending September 30, were In excess of the number taken during the .previous year according to the report of Matt Rickmin, superintendent of hatcheries. Also there was i sub stantial Increase in the number of fish planted In the state's lakes and streams. A total of 47,454.058 eggs were taken and 25,507,011 trout planted as against 42,249,- 355 eggs taken and 20,346,673 trout planted in the previous year. The trout placed In streams were much larger than during, any oth er year during the ganre commis sion s history. Several million were of sufficient sise to be within the legal length limit for catch' lug when they were taken from the hatchery ponds. White fish are reported., to be rdnning In Trapper reek in Des chutes county In such large num bers that it is possible to dip them from the stream with nets, accord ing to reports made to the state game commission. Several reports condemning such methods of catching these fish hare been made to Harold Clifford, state game warden. There is no law pro tecting the white fish and as they are of the type of the finny tribe not greatly desired In Oregon mtv CHmnu-r IHBinlb from all other cars There has always existed a real difference in performance . be tween Chrysler and other cars. Today the new Multi-Rang Chryslers emphasize that differ ence more than ever before. Chrysler, has introduced many basic engineering improvements in these new cars has adopted from aviation a new Down-Draft principle of carburetion, adding greatly to power and has 'de veloped a sensational new MulH- Range four-speed trans- pissiow andtjutckj non-clashing -Sherwin Motor Go; AND LIBERTY - Back Tracking ttie Auto By DAVID J. WILKIE Associated Press Correspondent DETROIT (AP) Standing out In the history of the automotive industry with as much promin ence as the yean of the pioneer ing period, are the years 1914 and 19Z0-21. It was in 1914 that jlenry Ford astounded the lndutrial world by announcing a minimum wage scale of $5 a day and a 310,000, 000 profit sharing plan. "Economically unsound." and "Industrially ruinous," were a few of the expressions of econ omists and business leaders. "It is merely an act of social Justice," Ford replied, and a few years later the minimum wage was Increased to 36 a day. The( year 1920 saw one of the greatest depressions the automo tive Industry had to weather, com parable in some respects to that of 1907. It saw also a frenzied ef fort by William C. Durant to re tain control of General Motors, and to stem a tobogganing mar ket that ultimately wiped him out and left him with a personal In debtedness of something like $27,- 000,000 to more than two score of brokerage houses whom he called upon to handle his orders to, buy. The stock of the corporation had reached a high point of 37 a share toward the end of March, 1920. From that time on came a continuous decline. A stock split-up in May resulted In an is sue of new par-value common stock which sold, at $24 a'share. Before the end of the year the siock was selling at ;i3.z a share. It is one of the outstanding marvels of the Industry that de spite the 'slump in sales and the feverish behind-the-scenes finan cial activities in the stock mar ket, General Motors itself was so well managed, in the opinion of banking interests, that it had lit tle difficulty borrowing more than $80,009,000 in late 1920 on short term notes to tide it over the period of depression. Tt was In 1921 that the Ford Motor company seeking to stim ulate sales, reduced prices in the face of a slackening demand. Its plants choked with finished pro ducts, the company faced a col Lapse of demand tor Its cars. The year was sometimes called that in which the Ford company "went broke.' The term, howerer, was more or less figurativealthough the need of cash and large amounts o It was admitted. By the somewhat simple ex pedient of cancelling all orders for taw materials, cutting down on overhead within its plants, speeding up production and noti fying dealers throughout the country that shipments would be waters the word has gone out for fishermen to dip np all they want as long as they do not make the mistake of catching protected trout, soval szDAX.tuccb.rfd i gear shift that completely trans form ail previous standards of acceleration, flexibility, fmeth ness and ease of handling. At the same time, Chrysler engi neering has created marvelous riding, ease in new and larger bodies which possess unusual comfort, smartness and luxury along with "dreadnought strength and durability. Arrange at once for your Mufti Range Chrysler demonstration. H Is fop fine a thrill to miss. ' set ' TELEPHONE 1132 made on specified dates- on a C. O. D. basis, the Ford Mojor com pany came through its one finan cial test. 0 But for the fact that shrewd minds were at the controls in 1920 and 1921, it is- quite prob able that the automobile indus try today would present a much different picture. AUTO FUTILITIES 1 T The department of commerce announces that during the four weeks ending November 2, 1929, 78 large cities in the United States reported 840 deaths from automo bile accidents. That la the largest number of automobile fatalities reported for a similar period since the department began collecting these data. The largest number previously reported was for the four-week period ending Decem ber 29, 1928, when the total was 771. The present total of 840 is more than one-third greater than the number of fatalities reported for the corresponding period last year. Of these deaths 670 resulted from accidents which occurred within the corporate limits of the city, and 170 were due to acci dents which occurred outside of the city limits. For comparison, the number of deaths due to automobile acci dents within city limits 'Is desir able. Such figures are available for the four-week period ending November 2, 1929, and for the corresponding four-week period of 1928 for all of the 78 cities, the four-week figure in 1929 being 670 as contrasted with 514 for the corresponding four weeks in 1928. Two new picture theatres are to be established on the Champs Eiysees, Paris, one seating 2,000 and the other seating 1,000 per sons. with ' CATERPILLAR" TRACTORS Now is the time to subsoil, putting the soil in physical condition for the storing of a plentiful supply of moist ure at a safe depth. Subsoiling airs the soil, enables the land to breath properly, and with this better sup ply of oxygen increases the chemical process, thereby, benefiting acid soil which is vital for successful or chards. ' - T W 1 MOISTURE STORAGE The deep-working KILLEFER improves seepage of water and permits storage away from sun and wind. By deep moisture storage, surface run off and bale ing are minimized. IT "DEEPENS SOIL Fertilizers in the top soil are agisted to work down, into tho root zone. JK3LLERFERING helps humus to work deeper into the soil and this extends the zone of activity of beneficial soil bacteria for which' this humus is food and a moisture holder. IT IMPROVES DRAINAGE (The KILLEFER helps drainage when cuts are made from high to low points and outlets provided. BREAKS PLOWPAN OR HARDPAN The KILLEFER breaks plowpan or hardpan in a systematic manner instead of in spots. Its under ground cracks reach out in many directions, provid ing the ground is dry when broken. STARTS. TREES PROPERLY When tree rows are planted in KILLEFER CUTS the young roots are trained in deep drouth resisting habits. It makes orchard trees STAND ALONE, each In its alloted space. i We will be glad to discuss your or- chard problems with you, if yo wlfl ' write or can on ua. , Loggers fr Contractors-Hachm h SURFACED ROADS EXCEED IN 0HFGn:j State Has 8,505 Miles of Surfaced Local High ways Now Oregon has 8,505 miles of local roads that are surfaced and 5,- 218 miles of non-surfaced roads (graded and drained) aside from the state highway system, accord ing to "Vr. R. McDonald, rice pres ident of Oregon State Motor asso ciation which is affiliated with, the American Automobile associ ation. Mr. McDonald said that a total of 432,999 miles of the nation's county and township roads were surfaced at the close of 1928. He said this leaves a total of 2.709. 839 miles of local earth or non surfaced roads. The A. A. A. club executive bases his statement on figures re ceived by tho research department of the American Automobile as sociation from records and reports of county authorities, through the U. S. Bureau of public roads. "Indiana leads in the mileage of surfaced loeal Toads, with 46, 403 miles," he continued, "while Ohio is second with 35,748 miles. Minnesota ranks third with 27, 607 and is trailed by North Car olina, California and Wisconsin." Mr. MacDonald said that a to tal of $832,142,007 was disbursed by local road authorities in 1928. "Of this amount," he continued. "1282,314,715 was expended for construction and $259,753,188 for maintenance. Miscellaneous ex penses, bond payments and in terest accounted for a large por tion of the total amount die bursed. The expenditures for local roads now comprises a substantial portion of the nation's highway bill. In 1928 alone , this bill amounted to more than ten times the federal government's annual aid. $75,000,000 a year." 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