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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning, October 2, 1938 PAGE TIIREE It Looks ' and Runs Lihs new Used Car Lots Big Business New Models Get Publicity ' but the- Jaloppies Get the Volume By PAUL HAUSER It's the fall ot the year and that means a Ions with football and falling leares that the automobile moguls of Detroit are ready to - blazon forth wun weir sniny new models, all smoothly streamlined anil boasting new refinements in motive power, comfort or riding ' ease. . -.' " There's a lot said about the new v.- cars every lau ana as mucu yriui ed, but this Isn't about the new cars because In the matter of numbers It's fbe used cars, from the "looks and runs like new" models of last year to the jallopies still struggling valiantly on after " ' itsnila stf urr(ia that n ro tm- . l portant. "; There may be 1500 new cars sold In Salem this year and. in the minds of the automobile dealers that's not a conservative estimate. There "wi!l probably be between 3000 and 3500 used cars sold. There were 1551 new passenger cars registered in 1937 in Salem, a fairly good year. Ever eine the first model auto mobile was superseded by a model .with a steering wheel Instead of a, tiller the trade has been growing accustomed to the used car prob lem. Tho dealers and the manu facturers' formerly fondly thought that maybe something could be the manufacturers give a great deal of thought to reducing the number of slightly out of date ve hicles on the market, they have accepted the fact that they must sell at least two used cars for every new one. Most of the deal- . ers figure they sell four used cars i to each new one. Early Depreciation Heavy Six car owners in every ten have nevar bought a new car and probably never Intend to. The fact that a motor car's heaviest depre ciation comes in Its first two years makes many a smart automobile buyer consider that he stands to gain by buying a good used car. ' After the "smart boys who buy a "second hand" car which is really no more than second hand come the others down through whose hands the vehicle goes un til finally, some used car dealer turns it over to the auto junker for a tenner rather than try to sell It again. , One Salem automobile dealer estimates that the average life of an automobile from showroom to junk heap Is ten years. Some, of course, last much longer. Ten years Is the age of the most transferred car in the records of the automotive division of the sec retary of state. It is a Model A Ford phaeton which first started Its travels when, a new thing of beauty, it left the display room on , September 11, 1928. - It was sold ' the first time a year later,; Since then it has been transferred to new owners 11 times and repos sessed five times. Its latest trans fer was on April 13 of this year . and, as far as the automotive di vision knows, It. may still have a - few more owners ahead of it. Transfers Frequent There were 44,093 new cars registered in the state during c-In 'l i Mmtmrttr ! mrm Im with fritter, MSG Guaran tee it .Mlut(m or YOUR M ONB BACK. Mmny ' tharu amU-miih "$-!' CMrmtafa AJt mhmmt U. I 9BS nrcnnocH xmnlsE I7E?. VT. ' 20 -Years of Friendship Caught in Czech - i ' , rtusJ' $ K ' 1 I 'v's - ' .y. - ) i & 5 I Anthony Kozar and wife Two of a group of 162 Americans In Czechoslovakia who attempted I to depart from the country tut turned back at the Czech frontier : because they were afraid of being held in German refugee camps are pictured above. The two are Anthony Kozar j of Ambridge, Pa., and j his wife. Kozar married the girl, a Czechoslovak, In Prague during j his visit to the Sokol athletie congress. Later reports stated the ' Americans boarded a train for Budapest by way of Bratislava. 1937, according to the records of the automotive division. The same year there were 119,407 transfers. The transfers come in at the rate of about 700 a day. Those fig ures indicate that for every new car two and a fraction old cars changed hands. Every dealer in new automo biles has to be a dealer, one way oranother, in old ones, too. In fact, sometimes he may sadly fig ure that he is a dealer in old cars with new ones as a sideline. Nearly everybody who buys a new car has an old one to trade in for whatever allowance he caa talk the salesman into giving him. The dealer, to get his profit, has to sell the used car and he'll prob ably h&va to take another car in on that one. Unless he finds some one who wants te buy a car with out a trade the process may run its way to the ultimate end with the dealer hiring a jallopy on his hands which he can either sell to a high school boy for $25 or send to the Junk heap. Junking 'ot Solution Junking the jallopies was once promoted by the motor manufac turers as a possible solution to the used car problem. Bounties were paid for cars junked but the plan didn't make much of an inroad on the jallopies. They grew faster than they were junked. For the last four years nev cars sold have exceeded old cars scrapped. , At times the used car problem grows positively H.'ineartening tb the dealer, ibut somehow things have so far work ll out all right in the end. One Salem dealer not so long ago bad close to 150,000 worth of used cars on hand and frankly didn't know how he would ever, reali7e the capital he had tied up in them. He was saved by the summer jump in used cars mm wm am feet Aboard the Good Ship "Savings" Now With a modern used car at a price you'll like Only a few more days of these economy values I If you're still at sea about when and where to get a better car that will pass muster with' your pocketbook, here's a beacon that will pilot you to safety and satis faction: Full speed ahead for your nearest Ford Dealer's! He has the j car or truck you mmim NOW,GO BELOW FOR j Low Mileage Perfect Condition j Completely Reconditioned i : Refugee Band (March to June is the peak sea son for used car sales) and now has but "f 10,000 worth of cars from "looks like new" to Jallopies. Used Car Lots Besides the dealers who eell used cars as an unwanted but necessary sideline to the sale of the new models there are the out-and-out used car dealers, the In habitants of the corner lots. A number of them are well-established merchants who pride them selves on reliability. Some few others may be fly-by-nights but they all contribute to the enorm ous turnover of used automobiles. The used car problem in this Etate is not as bad as It was before the 1937 legislature passed a law prohibiting the importing of used cars for sale. Before the -law went into effect old cars from the east, from California, from anywhere were brought in and dumped on the market by an unscrupulous "quickie" dealer to the demorali zation of the local trade.. It was common practice to import whole fleets of outworn taxlcabs, re painted and remodeled as passen ger cars and sell them to the un suspecting citizens of Oregon as former passenger cars, which "be longed to a school teacher who kept it like a baby." ; That bugaboo is now gone and the dealers now have to face only the natural result of their sales manship -" that every time they sell a new car they add another used one to the stock. They are pretty well adjusted to the phenomenom of the used car by now. the dealers are, but they ! look, back with a nostalgic eye at the days when, Instead of selling four used cars to each new one, they sold four new cars to each used-one. (ym (sma 5 want at the figure you can . afford. A swell selection of Ford V-8's and all other popular makes. Terms to make purchase pleasant and guarantees to pro tect your investment. See him now . . you haven't any time to lose! j i :1 " '.' f TODAY'S FORD DEALER "CLEAR THE DECKSSPECIALS SecHa'cn 99 s Close Here Dues of Active Members Doubled in Closing Action of Meet Allan - O. Carson of Salem handed the gavel of the Oregon state bar presidency over to R. R. Bulllvant of Portland yesterday afternoon and the fourth annual meeting ot the state's lawyers came to a close. Other officers elected were: I II. II. DeArmond. Bend, vice- president, succeeding Oscar Hay ter, Dallas; F. M. Sercombe, Port land, secretary, reelected, and Ar thur, H., Lewis, Portland, treas urer, reelected. New members placed on the board of governors were George M. Roberts, Med ford; Lamar Toore, Portland, and Robert D. Lytle, Vale. Holdover members are Allan G. Carson, Oscar Hay ter, J H. H. DeArmond, R. R. Bulllvant, Allan A. Smith, Baker, and Arthur M. Geary, Portland. Carrying out the recommenda tion of Retiring President Carson, the lawyers voted in favor of rais ing state bar dues from $3 to $6 a year for active members, j Additional funds are needed to employ an investigator to handle complaints against bar members, Carson declared. He said he had no Intention of advocating the f'hiring of snoops or agents pro vocateur" but believed the serv ices of a trained and Impartial In vestigator should be maintained by the state bar "in the Interest of efficiency, Justice to the ac cused and the .public, and ulti mate economy." Carson also decried the condi tion whereby out of 99 law stu dents had been permitted to make - great expenditure of time and money "only to learn after all . . . that they are not fit, or at least fitted, to enter our pro fession." : He urged that a system of dis trict courts be substituted for the office of justice of the peace, that arpellate procedure be simplified and "administered a liberal dose of economy" and that trial courts be permitted to comment upon evidence. Aspects of criminal law, dis cussed by Max Radin, professor in the University of California law school, led to the assertion that "intellectual honesty should be a fundamental requisite in all pur . social thinking." 1 The state and federal courts and the convention host, the Marion County Bar association, were represented in responses at the annual state bar banquet at the Marlon hotel last night. Tumbles Into Sea i Off Rocks of Bay ; NEWPORT, Oct, -l-P)-Chan Eastham, 25, Portland, fell from the rocks at Depoe Bay today an, drowned in tne sea. His body was Hot recovered. ' His wife and three others were with him when the accident oc ccrred. Two men fishingwith him were unable to give assistance, his body dropping fromsight. Lawver Session woc 1 KD MODELS 1 . 1 mutt un noon. 1 1 terms to m 1 toot rWS 1 Gtatic Dody CpccEnl Dlccount Lot: Marion & Liberty Fanner Union For US Goods ' . ' . I V - ''. ' - . - Father : Alcuin " Declares lie Was Misquoted on Czech Statement MT. ANGEL, Oct. 1 The Ma rlon county Farmers'- union. In Its quarterly convention here to day, unanimously endorsed a reso lution disapproving ot importa tions of goods and services con flicting with, the goods and labor ot this country and pledging the membership to purchase United States products when possible and also putting the FU on record to urge other groups to act likewise. Each of the 17 locals of the county, excepting Sublimity, was represented at the well attended, gathering, with Polk and Yamhill counties also represented. Father Alcuin Speaks Highlight of the program hour was the address by Father. Alcuin ot Mt. Angel, who declared that he had been misquoted in a press report attributing to him the statement . that Czechoslovakia was not worth fighting for. Justice is a basic virtue which neither nations nor individuals can ignore in dealing with one another. Father Alcuin stated, adding that beeause of the vio lation of justice In the Versailles treaty the problems of today are disturbing the world. Other Speakers Other speakers were L. H. Mc Bee and Eben Ray of Polk coun ty; Clyde Smith, president of the Yamhill county FU; and G. W. Potts, Jefferson, state president. Musical features were solos by Miss Clara Keber, Mt. Angel, with Miss Rozella Blem accompanist. Rev. S. Hamrick, Bethel, was cap tain for the convention opening. The next quarterly convention, when annual election of officers will be the feature, will be held at Liberty the first Saturday In January. Peter Zimmerman, Yamhill county, will be Oregon's delegate to the national convention of the Farmers' union in Madison, Wis., this month, j Women of the Mt. Angel local served dinner for the convention group. Theatre Operator Gets 8-Year Terra KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. l-i Harry W. Poole, operator ot Klamath Falls theatres, was tenced today to eight year In prison on conviction of a criminal attack against a 15-year-oid girl. Coincident with the passing of sentence by Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst, US Senator A. Evan Reames, of Medfonf, entered the case for the 58-year-old film ex hibitor. Counsel for loole asked for ad ditional' timein which to seek a new trla, pointing out that Reames hr associating himself with thy defense needed time to familiarize himself with the case, but alter District Attorney H. C. Blackmer opposed the request the ctfurt denied It. Whlla a packed courtroom lis tened, Jud?e Ashurst drew a con trast between Poole's case and that of Sam Combs, who was sen tenced two weeks ago to 20 years in prison on a similar rape charge. The judge recalled that Combs previously had been convicted of a crime while Poole had lived a "long life as a law-abiding citi zen." Corvallis Given Grant Of More Than Requested CORVALLIS, Oct. l-(S)-Cor-Tallis got more TWA money than it asked for. The maximum grant offered for the fire projects of the senior high school here will be 114,670, about $1000 more than was' requested, school officials said. Our Specia Ity! Chinese Disfics! Pork L Chow Mein for 1, 35c; for 2, 50c; for 3, 75c. Chicken. Chow Mein..75c Pork Chop Suey,.35c Fried Rice ............ 35c Home-Made NoodIes..25c Best Meal for 25c ' j in Town New SHANGHAI Cafe Salem's Foremost Oriental Restaurant 121 S. Commercial Opp. Ladd A Bush Bank Why Suffer ) ((( Anv Longer? WHEN OTHERS TAIL! um our Cblsea remedies. Amazing SUCCESS tor fiooo yra - In CHINA. No matter with what ailment you are AFFLICTED disorders, sinusitis, heart, rant. Uvcr. kidney, stomacn. cas, con stipation, ulcers, dlabetla, rheu matism, gall and bladder, fever, akin, iemal complaints Charlie Chan Chinese Herb Co. 8. B. Pons. years practice in China. Office hours a to 6 PA except Sun day and Wednes day, to 10 aja. 122 N. CoaX St. d d It 1 0 3 in the Neut (By the Associated Press) BALSAM LAKE, Wis., Oct. 1-()-lIermaa Hawkins, who has been shoveling 100 bushels of grain from one part of his bin to another and . then back again for the past two days, quit shov eling tody and called the sher iff. The reason, r Hawkins ex plained, was because he could not find 1500 In bills he had hidden in the bin. He suspects thieves. . r , i? BRAZIL, Ind Oct. John Wyaongj 92, " of Greencastle, . listed as dead on the roll of tho 43rd regiment, Indiana Civil war volunteers, walked; into the annual "reunion" of the regiment , here the only member ot . the . regiment to attend. . . He explained the report of fbis death likely originated from the death, of his tim of the same name. St. Louis, Oct. Charles Tu rek paid his tuition at Washing ton University with four bags of silver dollars. . ' :j -, He carried them to the treas urer's office in his shirt front, and explained they represented his wages for a summer's work in a hotel near . Gallup, N. M. He aid he had been paid in sil verexclusively. ! PHILADELPHIA, .Oct, 1 "Mighty Ite to hare a baby out," one federal alcohol tax unit officer said to another last midnight. TUey looked beneath the blanket in a baby carriage two men were poshing nd found jog of whisky. 1 The men were arrested tor possessing illicit liquor. j . Alleged Hit-Run Driver Arrestei R. B. Miller, 80, 1918 South Church street, was kprbeked from his bicycle by a hit-and-run driver at the corner of State and Church streets yesterday, suffer ing a sprained wrist and split ear in the fall. - j :.. Bystanders obtained the ) li cense number ofthe car alleged to have hit Miller, and city po lice later arrested C. O. Perrine. Perrine wascharged with hit-ad- run drivini and is at liberty on $50 bail any Vetoes Bonds ANY, Oct l.-(iipV-By a vete ot 19 to 151. taxpayers in e Albany school district refused today to approve a 133,000 bond Issue to match a $27,000 PWA grant for financing, school im provements. . 1 . 0 - T. '. ' " AIRSTEPS Arbuckle Japan May Start South China Moe Loaded Transports -About Shanghai Indication of - new Drive . ; SHANGHAI, Oct. 1 -JPf- Re ports of troop-laden Japanese transports - off S h a n g h a i and Tsingtao tonight revived specula tion Japan would launch a. South China campaign centering on Can ton. ' "x-. ' . : -. ' :.' Incoming steamers from Tsing tao, Shruntung province port, es timated 20 transports were off Ttingtao and 35 more off Shanghai.-; . ;: -. it was: estimated there were 35,000 soldiers on the transports. . (New emergency regulations were announced in - Hongkong while Canton officials said the Pearl river may soon be closed by a boom.): v ; "." -"!-.'" Japanese forces fighting in the Yangtze valley in the drive toward Hankow' reported , they had cap tured Hsingshan, 90 miles dow stream from the Chinese , mtutary capital. - ?-.-. v The Chinese reported j twor im portant victories south of the Yan portant t I c t o r i e s . south of the Yangtze river. - i yf - In the Teian sector, where the Japanese are attempting to move on Nancbang, Chinese dispatches said the, Japanese were thrown back' after a 48-hyour tittle, losing upwards of "1,00 men. - The secondyChinese victory was reported west of Juichang, about 99 miles sauthwest of. Hankow, where military .advices said 1,200 Japanese were killed, and many prisoners taken in a crushing set backCo the invaders near, the bor derof Hupeh province. i .i ickets Surround Furniture Plant PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. A strike threat in Portland's big furniture manufacturing industry appeared today when pickets sur rounded the . big "Doernbecher manufacturing plant. The ! management Insisted it would be open Monday. The plant does not operate on Saturdays. It employs about 1000. Presumably the pickets appear ed In answer to the statement ot H. O. Chastain, company general manager, that all employes would be given work if they desired to come back on a 1 0-cent-an-hour reduced wage. The furniture un ion previously had warned em ployers it would call a strike if wages were reduced on expiration of October 1 contracts. NURSE vi ng Buster Brown Shoe Store On State Street 20 Sfteps from High Late Sports -1 TACOMA, Oct. ; l-(P)-ScorIng once in the opening quarter and twice in the third period the 1 Pa cific university Badgers defeated the College of Puget Sound,) 21 to 0 !n a Northwest conference football1 game here tonight. . The passing combination of Gil man to Racette counted for two of the invaders' touchdowns while Oilman skirted end from the ne yard stripe for the ihlrd. Gilman added all three extra points j via placement.. fuget Sound failed to threaten. 1- ( f - n i mi . . . i . . wuiie rucuic aaTaocea to me Logger sevenyard stripe as the game ende Machine Counters et Traffic Data The mechanical traffic count ers being used In various places fa Oregon. and 42 other states, doing a highly efficient Job, are ae- cording to a report by the bureau of public roads of the US depart ment of agriculture. One sueh. counter is located just south of. Wnndhnrn nn tTia To tic highway, and another is on the same hiithwav in J southern iiW- gon. About 350 such counters have been installed in 43 states.. beams of infra red light, parallel and, 30 Inches apart, projected across the highway from a ligh box to the "eye" of the counting device. The counter operates ionly when both beams are interrupted,, as by a passing car. A pedestrian, interrupting only one. beam at a time. Is not counted. While some, misses and double counts occur, highway engineers report the; me chanical counts almost as accur- ats as counts by observers. Lower Rail Taxes Hit by Truckers test of the state tax commission's recent reduction: in railroad taxes reached the commission today from the Allied Truck .Owners,, Inc., over the signature of Ralph"; J. Staehli, secretary. j The letter asserted rail taxes in Oregon had been "ridiculously low for many years as torn-, pared to . 1 . neighboring states." It accused the commission of . playing "Santa Claus to the Tail roads in an even greater degree than the state of Oregon had al ready done." . j Smart shoes dssignad in the seasons best nranner "... a delight to the fiscrinunoting end compllmentory. to1 your foot ... from o fashion stand point the very newest. . . trim lines and expert workmanship to insure you tho best footwear obtainable Air Step's exclusive, patented "Magic - Sola contains a resilient layer of etrolastic material. The thousands of tiny air cells absorb the shock of vary step. Now in Comfortable . j OXFORDS C o. SaJem, Ore.