oc-plain-dealer 1923-09-08

AUTOMOTIVE TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR: CAR THEFTS IN ANALYSIS MILLION WILL COME NEXT YEAR Average Number of Cars Entering So. California 19,500 Monthly Staggering figures in regard to the number of auto parties visiting the southern part of California from the east and northwest have just been issued showing that approximately 234,000 antos carrying 936,000 persons will arrive here during the peak of transcontinental motor car travel, which is in July Rejuvenation Tried of Auto Trades Ass'n Secretary Glaze of the Orange County Auto Trade Ass'n was in Anaheim this week from Santa Ana, endeavoring to get back into line local members of the organization. According to the secretary, only 36 out of approximately 180 members in the county have kept up their membership. Local distributors appear to disagree regarding the benefits of the association and the need of it. The reputed fight between it and the Orange County Motor Car Dealers' Ass'n never materialized, and the former county association still has strong backing here both from dealers in and outside its rival. One local dealer, while admitting that the local good derived from the former organization was small, said the association was necessary for the good of the industry as a whole. "Insides" of Car Is Two important were made today by gineer's office. The paving on Westminster tween Santa Ana will be opened to deck on the Anahi just started will be next week. The new Carbon which is being graded be completed early. It is calcium chloride tried out on South Placentia avenue and city limits. The effect of drawing Average Number of Cars Entering So. California 19,500 Monthly Staggering figures in regard to the number of auto parties visiting the southern part of California from the east and northwest have just been issued showing that approximately 224,000 autos carrying 936,000 persons will arrive here this month. During the peak of transcontinental motor car travel, which is in July it is estimated that more than 20,000 automobiles arrived in a period of thirty days in the southern part of the state. This makes an average of 19,500 motor cars carrying about 78,000 people arriving in the southern counties of California every month. It is estimated that more than 1,000,000 people will arrive in the Southland next year by motor car. Transcontinental auto travel is 17 per cent higher this year than it was last year, and it will be nearly 100 per cent higher next year. Improved conditions on the transcontinental highways accounts for this ever increasing flood of travel, says the club. An actual check of transcontinental travel taken at Blythe by the quarantine station there operated by the United States Department of Agriculture, shows that 1,146 autos carrying 4,692 persons passed through that point during thirty days of August. Heavy travel is also reported on the Bankhead Highway, on the National Old Trails, on the Lincoln Highway, on the Arrowhead Trail, and on the Midland Trail. Over the Pacific Highway, leading down the coast from Canada, Washington and Oregon, there have been 212 cars a day arrive in Southern California during August, making a total of 6,572 cars for the month. Actual testimony secured from the thousands of these auto parties shows that they are determined to see all points of interest in the southern part of the state before making their final decision as to settling down, or before returning to their homes. "Insides" of Car Is Shown by Distributor The Southern California distributor of the Hudson and Essex cars, Harold L. Arnold, has taken a Hudson coach and turned it "inside out" according to an announcement today, to show its construction. Every slightest detail of the building of this car is visible to the spectator—nothing is concealed. The sturdy, lasting construction, the substantial yet luxurious materials and workmanship, the standard equipment that goes on every stock car—all are visible. F. M. Medbery, local distributor, will try something similar at his first opportunity. Medbery has been pushing sales since he took over the branch and the demand for both cars is excellent. AUTO SHOW AT SACRAMENTO Dealers have bespoken the entire thirty thousand square feet of floor space set apart for the automobile show at the California State Fair, Sept. 1-9. This is five thousand so-fit of floor space more this year than was devoted to the automobile department at the fair in 1922. It is shown that where a few years ago every automobile carried an average of only two persons, the cars arriving at this time carry an average of four individuals. These parties report that so-called dangers of traveling over the long, long trails are mythical and that with proper care no trouble should be had. On the Finest Super-Six Chassis Ever Built $1450 Freight and Tax Extra HUDSON COACH $1450 Freight and Tax Extra HUDSON COACH Hudson Prices Speedster - $1375 7-Pass. Phaeton 1425 Coach - 1450 Sedan - 1995 Freight and Tax Extra These are the lowest prices at which these cars have ever been sold. They make both Hudson and Essex the most outstanding values in the world. 65,000 Coaches in Service (Dealer's Name and Address) ESSEX COACH $1145 Freight and Tax Extra European Experts Call i's Chassis Greatest of i R. W. TOWNSEND Inc. 226 S. Los Angeles St. Anaheim— 506-8 N. Broadway, Santa Ana Plain Dealer Automobile Section Anaheim, Calif., Saturday, September 8, 1923 NANAHEIM DECLARED NIL BOULEVARD TO BE OPENED TODAY Two important announcements were made today by the County Engineer's office. The new concrete paying on Westminster boulevard between Santa Ana and Long Beach will be opened today and a new deck on the Anaheim-Olive bridge just started will be completed early next week. The new Carbon canyon road, which is being graded and oilled, will be completed early next week. It is calcium chloride that will be tried out on South street between Placentia avenue and the Anaheim city limits. The chemical has the effect of drawing moisture from the FORD CAR REDUCTION ON SEPT. 15 IS REPORT Following cuts on Star cars, a dispatch reached here today that substantial cuts on Ford cars would be made on Sept. 15. No word of such a reduction had reached the local distributor. The amount of the cut is not mentioned. Whether the price change indicates war among the small car manufacturers, or is made possible by further purchases of Ford enabling him to make all of the car himself is not announced. SUPERVISORS MAY ACT ON CROSSINGS PRICES OF RUBBER STILL LOW, CLAIM What are the real facts behind the statement frequently made that Great Britain through the Stevenson act, is levying a tremendous tax on the automobile owners of this country? H. E. Blythe, General Superintendent of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of California tells the story. As recently as 12 years ago 90 per cent of the rubber used in the world was wild rubber, the bulk of it coming from Brazil. About 10 per cent was plantation or cultivated rubber grown in British and the Dutch possessions in the Far East. Within five years that situation had exactly reversed itself. Today 95 per cent of the rubber used in the world is plantation rubber and five per cent is wild rubber. The principle reason for this striking change was that wild rubber could not be obtained in sufficient quantities to meet the world demands. The price soared to a dollar and two dollars a pound. The five-year average up to 1913 was $1.30. The automobile industry was developing by giant strides, and were made today by the County Engineer's office. The new concrete paving on Westminster boulevard between Santa Ana and Long Beach will be opened today and a new deck on the Anaheim-Olive bridge just started will be completed early next week. The new Carbon canyon road, which is being graded and oilled, will be completed early next week. It is calcium chloride that will be tried out on South street between Placentia avenue and the Anaheim city limits. The chemical has the effect of drawing moisture from the air, keeping down the dust. Supervisor W. M. Schumacher, who ordered the use of the chemical, is determined to use as much of it as possible. Drivers again are warned that so long as Huntington Beach itself is at work on Ocean boulevard connecting with the coast highway, the completed link of the latter to Sunset Beach may be shut off, preventing traffic. Further gravelling operations continue to be held in abeyance until the new pit at Olive is opened. STUDEBAKER SALES KEEP UP PAST WEEK Sales of the Harry D. Riley organization, Northern Orange County distributors of the Studebaker, were as follows the past week: New touring to W. H. Lingenfelter of Orange, light six touring to V. W. Sutton of Orange and to H. Wakaki and S. Hirami, both of Orange; touring to A. Understadt of Anaheim; coupe to Harris W. Smith of Fullerton and special touring to E. Bastady of Buena Park. Donald A. Simpson of Fullerton and E. C. Bussing of Orange are others who have purchased cars. "There's a lot of talk about the coming eclipse of the sun." says E. J. Cox, associate manager of the Walter M. Brown Motors, Inc., "but there never was and never will be any eclipse of the Star to talk of." Plain Dealer Want-ads bring results. SUPERVISORS MAY ACT ON CROSSINGS While no organization similar to the Los Angeles County Grade Crossing Committee has been started in Orange County, the attention of the County Board of Supervisors has been drawn to the need of eliminating certain crossings by the Auto Club of So. Cal., according to the local office. So have the supervisors of all the Southern offices. And crossing are not the only things on which improvement is sought. The club has prepared a map showing in detail the improvements which it recommends. One of these in which Anaheimers are interested is the abolishment of the bend in the road in San Diego county on the way to the southern city, whereby there are two crossings over the Santa Fe instead of one. Thirty-four different crossings now have been recommended by the Los Angeles committee in Los Angeles co for elimination. 11 having been added on Thursday of this week. Every Anaheimer who travels to Los Angeles or beyond is vitally interested in some of these crossings. CAR CAN RUN 1000 MILES ON 3 WHEELS Anaheimers who have been startled by seeing a Star car running about the streets on three wheels would be more startled yet if they knew that said car can run for 1000 miles in that condition. The rigid frame with its tubular backbone is responsible, says Sales Manager Morthland. This one piece of steel tubing keeps the entire frame firm. The shearing strength of the frame is 20 tons. Six inches in diameter, three-sixteenths of an inch thick and seamless, the backbone is all that the name implies. For the same reason the doors of all models can be opened, even when the car is on three-wheels or upside down, because the frame takes the strain off the body. The output of the Durant factories has reached 667,000 cars per day distributed by 4100 dealers, and the Dutch possessions in the Far East. Within five years that situation had exactly reversed itself. Today 95 per cent of the rubber used in the world is plantation rubber and five per cent is wild rubber. The principle reason for this striking change was that wild rubber could not be obtained in sufficient quantities to meet the world demands. The price soared to a dollar and two dollars a pound. The five-year average up to 1913 was $1.30. The automobile industry was developing by giant strides, and the demand for rubber quadrupled within a decade. Scarcity brought high prices, as it always does. It is entirely due to the fortunate circumstance that English and Dutch planters had begun to plant rubber on a large scale around the year 1905-1906 that a very serious danger was averted in the development not merely to the tire business but to the entire automotive industry. Three dollar rubber would have meant higher and higher priced tires and would have had a decided effect on the wide-spread almost universal use of the automobile. With plantation rubber entering the market, however, and quickly dominating the market, the price stabilized, then came steadily down during the next few years reaching 55 cents in the spring of 1920, the lowest price that we had ever paid for crude rubber. W. A. Fenn, manager of the N.A.C.C. motor truck division, has taken over the Service truck in the Harrisburg, Pa., territory. This one piece of steel tubing keeps the entire frame firm. The shearing strength of the frame is 20 tons. Six inches in diameter, three-sixteenths of an inch thick and seamless, the backbone is all that the name implies. For the same reason the doors of all models can be opened, even when the car is on three-wheels or upside down, because the frame takes the strain off the body. The output of the Durant factories has reached 667,000 cars per day distributed by 4100 dealers, and the company has 321,000 stockholders. FOUR WHEEL BRAKES GROW IN POPULARITY Cars like the Packard single eight Rickenbacker, Duesenberg, Buick, most of the American racing cars and practically all the foreign racing and pleasure cars are equipped with the new four wheel brakes. The new models of the two other very well known makes of car, it is understood, will appear with the innovation. Recently a stock model of one of the cars equipped with the brakes was stopped within 50 feet while going 26 miles per hour on dry pavement and within 62 1-2 feet on wet. The car did not skid on the wet pavement. DODGE SEDAN IS IN DEMAND HERE A. M. Calkins and A. Martyn of Anaheim ordered a Graham truck of Charley Mann, local distributor, this week. Bert Moody, local City Marshal, and C. C. Walker, Los Angeles salesman operating in this territory, purchased Dodge businessmen's sedans of Mann. The new Dodge models, representing conservative changes over the previous ones, are the finest cars ever turned out by the factory. When starting away on a long tour, the car should be well tired. Place the best tires on the rear wheels, and carry the oldest as your spares. The way to man's heart may be through his stomach, but the operation requires some tool more efficient than a can opener. NO NIL PAST MONTH L. A. LAW VIOLATORS TO BE TRIED ONLY IN L. A.? Justice J. B. Cox will no longer have Los Angeles violators of the new State Motor Vehicle Act brought before him if a test case at Pasadena which came up yesterday permits transfer of trials from the court of original jurisdiction to that of the city where the violator dwells. The decision has not yet been rendered. It is contended that the new law permits such transfers. System of Signs Will Be Changed A complete revision of the great sign posting system leading across America to Southern California has been undertaken by the Auto Club of Southern California. Two thousand miles of sign posts leading motorists to this part of the state over the National Old Trails Highway and its tributary links will be completely revised at the conclusion of an inspection trip just commenced by the sign posting department of the club. Many of the signs, which are NOT ONE CAR STOLEN IN AUGUST Anaheim District Members, A.C.S.C. Lot Luckier Than L. A. Ones Not a single car belonging to the approximately 1,000 members of the Auto Club of So. Cat in the Anaheim district was stolen during August, according to reports reaching the local office. This is in sharp contrast to the record of Los Angeles, where 375 machines were taken during the month. The only car of which district manager Paul V. Allen has any reefered Will Be Changed A complete revision of the great sign posting system leading across America to Southern California has been undertaken by the Auto Club of Southern California. Two thousand miles of sign posts leading motorists to this part of the state over the National Old Trails Highway and its tributary links will be completely revised at the conclusion of an inspection trip just commenced by the sign posting department of the club. Many of the signs, which are enameled metal on metal posts are reported to have been destroyed by vandals since the last renovation of two years ago. Sign notes will be taken by the club crew for the replacing of all mutilated signs and the revision of the route wherever necessary. A sign-a-mile will serve to guide motorists Pacific-ward after the new system is installed. The club inspection trip will continue on to New York. LAW GIVES VISITORS 6 MONTHS IN CALIFORNIA This winter motor tourists to California need have no fear of being handed their passports until they have had their fill of sunshine; for the state's new automobile law grants them a six months sojourn, during which their home license plates will be complimentary tickets to the touring joys of the Golden State. Washington Nevada, and Utah give them a 90 day visit and Oregon a 30 day stop over. Not a single car belonging to the approximately 1,000 members of the Auto Club of So. Cat in the Anaheim district was stolen during August, according to reports reaching the local office. This is in sharp contrast to the record of Los Angeles, where 275 machines were taken during the month. The only car of which district manager Paul V. Allen has any record is that of Joe Siegel, former president of the Anaheim Building Corporation, which was lost the latter part of July, not in August, and recovered this week at a San Diego garage by the club. This year more than $4,000,000 worth of cars will be stolen in the metropolis at the present rate of thefts. During the eight months, according to the club, 2854 cars were taken. In the corresponding period metropolis at the present rate of thefts. During the eight months, according to the club, 2854 cars were of last year there were 1701 thefts of cars. The total for the year at the present average of 356 per month will be 4270. Recoveries have kept pace with thefts, 1697 out of 2866 being re-secured. Carelessness of the owners, joy riding proclivities on the part of the young and increase in organized activity of the thieves are blamed. FOR RESULTS—Try a Plain Dealer Want-ad. Reduce the Skidding Danger! Buick Four-wheel Brakes BUICK four-wheel brakes reduce to a minimum the skidding danger every driver encounters on wet pavements. The action of the simple yet positive Buick brakes not only slows down the car safely but keeps it steady, preventing skidding to either side. Buick four-wheel brakes operate with slight pressure on the service brake pedal, are of the Buick-proved external contracting type and function independently of the emergency brake. Buick has taken this advanced step of designing four-wheel brakes on its 1924 cars in conformance with its well-known policy of providing owners with the safest and most dependable transportation. We will be pleased to give you a demonstration and let you prove the effectiveness of Buick four-wheel brakes yourself. Anaheim Auto Company WM. GOODRUM, Proprietor Fullerton, S. Los Angeles St. California IN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM