oc-plain-dealer 1923-11-17

VOL XXVII, NO. 65 MORE NEW COUNTY RACE JAIL TERMS NEXT MAY BE GIVEN To Punish the Offenders Found Second Time Without Certificates Plans whereby a new drive on defective headlights of cars in Orange County will be made within a few weeks, with jail penalties for owners found for the second time without certificates showing that lights have been tested, now are brewing in Santa Ana, according to reports here yesterday. In Los Angeles, it is pointed out, fines of $15 to $25 are being handed out, with jail sentences of six months in the case of offenders who already have been found minus the precious oblongs of paper. Similar sentences are SIGNPOST PER MEMBER SET UP When it was announced some time ago that So. Calif. highways might boast of a "sign a mile" the news proclaimed a very definite service. The most active agent in the sign-posting is the Auto Club of So. Calif., which has extended its friendly activities through neighboring states to the Mississippi river. This marking of the principal travel lanes has been followed out so completely that now the great service organization for motorists is able to announce that it has placed a highway sign in excess of one for each member. All of which means something when it is considered that the roll call of the Auto club has passed the 90,000 mark. Buy In Anaheim—Rickenbacker Car Is Improved Again (By J. Edward Schipper in Automotive Industries) "The Rickenbacker Motor Co. is now using a lapping process to reduce the usual irregularities in the piston pin and piston ring bearing's surfaces. One of the most difficult problems in automobile engine manufacture has been to produce and maintain a close fit between the piston pin and piston pin hole and also between the piston ring and the piston ring." PRACTICE FOR BIG RACE LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11 Practice for the Thanksgiving day 250-mile auto race on the mous Beverly Hills speed started yesterday. Although two disastrous have burned a small portion the mile and a quarter wolf, the track has been plotted. The flames burned approximately the entire turn of the oval. H. E. Pillsbury, engineer charge of construction, and Betts have worked night and to complete the job in order the pilots of the modern car Juggernaut will have plenty time to get their mounts in best condition for the co- defective headlights of cars in Orange County will be made within a few weeks, with jail penalties for owners found for the second time without certificates showing that lights have been tested, now are brewing in Santa Ana, according to reports here yesterday. In Los Angeles, it is pointed out, fines of $15 to $25 are being handed out, with jail sentences of six months in the case of offenders who already have been found minus the precious oblons of paper. Similar sentences are in store here for the most flagrant violators of the law. Long conferences have been in progress between inspectors of the State Division of Motor Vehicles and the Stale Traffic officers and district attorney's office, but so far as the latter discussions are concerned, they have had to do only with the interpretation of the law, according to C. N. Mozley, Deputy District Attorney. Captain "Pop" Warner of the state traffic squad and District Attorney Nelson could not be seen at this writing. 27,000 MILES AND USE SAME TIRES As proof of the Hudson's durability, H. R. Grove, Annaheia and Fullerton Hudson and Easex distributor, points to two coaches in the county. Ben Yorba, well-known rancher, has driven his coach 27,000 miles without having to grind the valves, and the car still has its original tires. J. E. Fisher, Anaheim realtor, has a coach with a record of 26,000 miles or more, which also has the same tires on it as when it was purchased. "Shorty" Myers, state traffic officer, recently became the owa-a Hudson coach. You'll long remember the Phil-harmonic Orchestra. Is Improved Again (By J. Edward Schipper in Automotive Industries) "The Rickenbacker Motor Co. is now using a lapping process to reduce the usual irregularities in the piston pin and piston ring bearing surfaces. One of the most difficult problems in automobile engine manufacture has been to produce and maintain a close fit between the piston pin and piston pin hole and also between the piston ring and the piston ring groove. The Rickenbacker company states that between the piston pin and the piston pin hole, the closest commercial limit which it has been able to maintain with the ground piston pin has been .00025 in. on diameter and taper. While this ground surface is apparently highly polished, the microscope shows that in reality it is quite ragged. This ragged surface rapels down in service and finally takes on a high polish. As going so, irregularities of the piston pin very appreciably hasten the wear on the piston pin hole. "It has been found by observation that in 1000 miles of service a ground piston pin will wear hole will wear about .0004 in., giving a total added clearance after the initial 1000 miles of service of .0006 in. This great wear on the piston pin hole is due largely to the very fine file-like surface of the ground pin. C. M. Tichener, production manager, says that he has been led to adopt the lapping process after grinding because of this initial wear. The lapping is performed on a Bethel-Player automatic lapping machine, which has been recently developed. With this it is claimed that the pins can be lapped, that a uniform diameter can be maintained within .0001 in. and that the pins can be held parallel within that limit and that surface can be produced which removes the minute grinding marks on the surface of the (Continued on page three) To prevent another fire, Speedway association has guards on duty night and with sawed-off shotguns, anybody caught prowling at the premises without a good cause will be the recipient warm reception. These gates will be kept on duty until the Turkey day race. While reservations for Thanksgiving day classic are into the speedway office drivers are working hard to up their mounts. Jimmy Mc has been doing about every to his car that it is possible a racing pilot to do. In order make it fast, Jimmy Mc is on win the old championship, the only way he can do to finish first. That's what plans on doing. "I've got to be out in some time and that is the I am going to drive, it being intention to endeavor to stay the lead and flash under checkered flag at the head of pack." Much interest is being digged among the fans of South California over the appearance Martin de Alzaga, speed kit the Argentine. The sensational South A can is the man who brought five-car Bugatti team over Europe to compete in the 500-mile race at Indianapolis his work on the Hoosier speedway showed that he "lot of stuff on the ball." (Continued on Page Two) HUDSON Sedan $1895 On the Finest Super-Six Chassis Ever Built Heretofore a moderate-priced closed car has meant an inferior chassis. Now at a saving HUDSON Sedan $1895 On the Finest Super-Six Chassis Ever Built Heretofore a moderate-priced closed car has meant an inferior chassis. Now at a saving of hundreds of dollars you buy in HUDSON a car of positive reliability, chassis excellence and finest performance. More than 70,000 Coaches in Service At practically open car cost, the Coach combines all closed car comforts with famous chassis quality. Increasing thousands find it meets every need, at a big saving in cost. Super-Six Prices at the Lowest Level in History HUDSON Coach $1375 H. R. GROVE 226 S. Los Angeles St. Anaheim 112 East Amerige Fullerton THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer automobile Sectu Anaheim, California, Saturday, November 17, 1923 COUNTY HIGHWAYS ARE FINISHED PRACTICE ON FOR BIG RACE LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17. — Notice for the Thanksgiving 250-mile auto race on the fares of Beverly Hills speedway led yesterday. Although two disastrous fires burned a small portion of mile and a quarter wooden, the track has been completed. The flames burned approxily 2000 feet of the track, or excimately the entire south of the oval. E. Pillsbury, engineer in age of construction, and "Doc"s have worked night and day complete the job in order that pilots of the modern cars of bernaut will have plenty of to get their mounts in the condition for the coming ATTENDANCE "KNOW YOUR OWN EYES" DRIVE BEGUN LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17. — Determined to impress upon motorists of California the necessity of normal vision to avoid accidents upon streets and highways, the California League for Conservation of Vision has undertaken a "Know Your Own Eyes" campaign throughout the state. First steps to educate the public by the league are being made in this city, where traffic crashes have reached an appalling record, 34 persons having been injured in one day last week. The efforts of the League for Conservation of Vision are based upon 18 months' investigation, with the conclusion that defective sight is a big contributing factor to the toll of accidents and deaths from motor cars. Full endorsement was accorded the views and plans by police and traffic officials of Los Angeles, including Chief of Police August Vollmer, Captain James McDowell, Police Judge Joseph Chambers, and E. B. Lefferts, head of the public-safety bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California. SCREWS NOW PUT UPON RETAILER Tire Manufacturers Cut Discounts; More Small Producers Bankrupt Screws now are being put by the tire producers on the distributors. Reductions of only two per cent instead of five for "cash." No more consumers' price lists. More of the "little fellows" going out of business by the bankruptcy course or sale to larger manufacturers. Price tendencies absent, but apparently taking steps toward higher levels a few months off. This about describes the tire game at present in a large sense. Coining nearer home, leading distributors claim that there are HAIL DAVE LEWIS NEW SPEED DRIVER It is being predicted racing fans that Dave one of the "comers" in the game. He has devoted many years to stunt drivingious parts of the United States and lately has been set some enviable records on the Eastern Speedway. Lewis was born in Chelsea in the town of San Gabriel grandmother brought him across the Santa Fe Truckabe in arms during the rush of '49. When the Essex was signed by the Hudson Company, Lewis was called to test their first model made several remarkable in Texas and Arizona, giving cars the worst pounding car ever had. It was t that gave him the skill and dence which is making us as a speed demon to it. It was Lewis who plan route followed by four E when they crossed the both ways between San Francisco and New York, carrying Mail, in an average of 4 hours and 32 minutes. Of 13,388 miles was covered the best time was 4 days. ATTENDANCE AT SHOW RECORD LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17.—After today but one more day and night remain in which to see the great 1923 Los Angeles Automobile Show and officials of the show are looking forward to as big a week-end celebration as Southern California motordom has ever seen. The smashing finish of the nine day run will bring up the total attendance at a point where it greatly exceeds any previous year, according to an announcement made today by Burt Roberts show manager. The exceptional number of out-of-town visitors, combined with the great growth of Los Angeles proper since the 1922 show, accounts for this increase in "gate" it is stated. Then, too, there has never been a year in which there was so much general prosperity combined with such a multiplicity of new and novel automotive offerings as are being presented here today and tomorrow for the last time. The wonderfully effective color effects produced in the interiors of the great triple tents which house the striking show, are augmented as far as general advertising is concerned, by the red white and blue and yellow searchlights which nightly stain the sky with a mute message that there is something exceptionally colorful at the corner of Washington and Grand avenues. ATTENDANCE AT SHOW RECORD LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17.—After today but one more day and night remain in which to see the great 1923 Los Angeles Automobile Show and officials of the show are looking forward to as big a week-end celebration as Southern California motordom has ever seen. The smashing finish of the nine day run will bring up the total attendance at a point where it greatly exceeds any previous year, according to an announcement made today by Burt Roberts show manager. The exceptional number of out-of-town visitors, combined with the great growth of Los Angeles proper since the 1922 show, accounts for this increase in "gate" it is stated. Then, too, there has never been a year in which there was so much general prosperity combined with such a multiplicity of new and novel automotive offerings as are being presented here today and tomorrow for the last time. The wonderfully effective color effects produced in the interiors of the great triple tents which house the striking show, are augmented as far as general advertising is concerned, by the red white and blue and yellow searchlights which nightly stain the sky with a mute message that there is something exceptionally colorful at the corner of Washington and Grand avenues. Great News Pick Your Car 1923 Ford Coupe Like New $47 1923 Nash Carriole $10 Select Your Own Battery Whether you want the very finest battery made or the best battery at the price you want to pay, we have a Willard that just meets your needs. Come in and let us show you the complete line of Willard Batteries. Anaheim Ignition Depot A. Bevillard, Sole Owner OLDEST AUTOMOBILE ELECTRICAL Established 1912 218 So, Los Angeles St. Phone 489 Willard STORAGE BATTERIES Pick Your Car 1923 Ford Coupe Like New $47 1923 Nash Carriole Cost $1585.00 new; hardly tell it from new. 1923 Chevrolet Sedan Heavy Bar Bumpers, wire wheels, big wheels, other sories. 1922 Buick 4 Roadster $69 Motormeter, special Lights, cutout, motor whistle shade, wings, bumpers; some buy. 1918 Dodge Sedan $39 Wire wheels and silent running. This is an excee buy in a closed car. 1918 Dodge Touring $29 Almost new rubber, A-1 mechanically. AT YOUR —Just phone, and a Salesman will bring without making you feel obligated. Orange County C Open Evening Anaheim 250 North Los Angeles St. FINISHED OR PLANNED HAIL DAVE LEWIS NEW SPEED DEMON It is being predicted among racing fans that Dave Lewis is one of the "comers" in the speed game. He has devoted a number of years to stunt driving in various parts of the United States, and lately has been setting up some enviable records for speed on the Eastern Speedways. Lewis was born in California, in the town of San Gabriel. His grandmother brought his mother across the Santa Fe Trail as a babee in arms during the gold rush of '49. When the Essex was being designed by the Hudson Motor Car Company, Lewis was called upon to test their first models. He made several remarkable records in Texas and Arizona, giving the cars the worst pounding that any car ever had. It was this work that gave him the skill and confidence which is making him famous as a speed demon today. It was Lewis who planned the route followed by four Essex cars when they crossed the continent both ways between San Francisco and New York, carrying U. S. Mail, in an average of 4 days, 21 hours and 32 minutes. A total of 13,388 miles was covered, and the best time was 4 days, 14 hours and 43 minutes breaking. BUICK CAR STILL YOSEMITE CHAMP 6 Traffic statistics of Yosemite Park the past year show that the Buick retained its supremacy as the champion six-cylinder car for mountain travel, leading all makes with one exception, a four-cylinder car. Buick's total of 2,419 cars registered showed an increase of 32 per cent over last year. The four-cylinder car's total was 3,823. OCTOBER SALES OF NASH CO. UP Nash Motors had the biggest October in its history, and indications point to an unusually large business in November. October sales showed a 10 per cent increase over the same month last year. Actual figures were 4245 passenger cars shipped last month, as against 3928 cars in October, 1922. “This has been the biggest year in Nash history,” said E. H. McCarty, general sales manager of the Nash Motors Co., says a statement received by the Bob White Co., Nash and Franklin distributors. “Almost 52,000 Nash cars were shipped between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31, and while the spring and summer seasons are now behind us, indications from every section of the country point CUTOFF ROAD BIG AID TO DRIVERS S. A. Canyon to River Piece Done; New Paving Near Placentia Completion of the new paving between the Santa Ana canyon and the Santa Ana river, just announced, gives a fine cutoff to drivers between Olive and Richfield. Residents of Fullerton on the way to Riverside or vice versa and of Santa Ana and Orange can save much time and driving. The road will be accepted by the Board of Supervisors probably on Tuesday. Oiling of Sunkist avenue from the Wagner road to the Anaheim-Olive road is progressing rapidly. made several remarkable records in Texas and Arizona, giving the cars the worst pounding that any car ever had. It was this work that gave him the skill and confidence which is making him famous as a speed demon today. It was Lewis who planned the route followed by four Essex cars when they crossed the continent both ways between San Francisco and New York, carrying U. S. Mall, in an average of 4 days, 21 hours and 32 minutes. A total of 13,388 miles was covered, and the best time was 4 days, 14 hours and 43 minutes, breaking all previous records. This record still stands in spite of repeated attempts by other cars to equal it. ANAHEIMERS BUY OAKLAND SEDANS S. J. Cornell and A. C. Motter of Anaheim purchased Oakland sedans this week of Harry L. Turton, Northern Orange County distributor. The new Oakland "true blue" is catching on rapidly, and sales so far indicate that it will be more popular than any previous Oakland model. Turton on Wednesday and Thursday received two carloads of the cars, divided between tourings, sports and coupes. The Philharmonic Orchestra plays at the Anaheim High School Monday night. "The strong position in the industry occupied by Nash Motors is due largely to the fact that the company always has endeavored to build honestly and to sell its product at the lowest possible margin of profit. This policy has resulted in outstanding value, which the public has been quick to recognize. Because of this, rapid progress on a sound basis has been possible." New buildings, now in progress of construction at the Nash six-cylinder car plant and additional equipment at the four-cylinder car plant, will make possible increased production to meet the demand for Nash cars in 1924." Nash cars are given an A-grade rating for fire insurance. This means that the Nash, both six and four, carry the lowest automobile rate covering fire insurance. Completion of the new paving between the Santa Ana canyon and the Santa Ana river, just announced, gives a fine cutoff to drivers between Olive and Richfield. Residents of Fullerton on the way to Riverside or vice versa and of Santa Ana and Orange can save much time and driving. The road will be accepted by the Board of Supervisors probably on Tuesday. Oiling of Sunkist avenue from the Wagner road to the Anaheim-Olive road is progressing rapidly. La Habra's $205,000 improvement is practically half finished and will be completed Jan. 1, according to the office of Superintendent of Highways J. L. McBride. Cypress street is completed from the state highway north, all culverts are in, and Central avenue, which is to be greatly widened, is being graded. Chapman and Kraemer avenues, Alta Vista and Linda Vista streets, Morse avenue and Van Buren street, east of Placentia, which have been under improvement, are half done. It is four and one-half miles all told. The paving of Ball road and West Chapman avenue (Hospital road) is not likely to be started before March. Drivers between Orange and Los Angeles counties will have many new improved roads by next summer; if a bond issue to be proposed next spring by Super- (Continued on Page Two) This Is Your Lucky Day —if you are in the market for an Automobile. Our reconditioned used cars are being Sold at the Lowest Prices in the history of the Automobile Industry. Our Car Come ride in it and be convinced That Our Prices are Very Low $475 1922 Buick Four Touring ... $750 $1050 1923 Chalmers TOURING like new with added accessories; some value going at ... $950 UR Car Come ride in it and be convinced That Our Prices are Very Low $475 1922 Buick Four Touring $750 $1050 1923 Chalmers TOURING like new with added accessories; some value going at $950 $750 1923 Studebaker Light Six Motormeter, bumpers, wings and other accessories. $975 $695 1921 Buick Touring Good rubber, refinished, like new. $350 1920 Essex Touring Blue paint and some bargain at $225 1921 Buick 4 Roadster $600 4 new Royal Cord tires, reconditioned and new paint. AT YOUR SERVICE Salesman will bring the car to your door and demonstrate it thoroughly feel obligated. We want to render this service. County Certified Motor Car Market Open Evenings and Sunday A.M. Phone Anaheim 94 Fullerton Meles St. Phone Fullerton 47 Cor. Whiting and Spadra