oc-plain-dealer 1924-03-01

VOL. XXVII—NO. 156 MARKED IMPROVEMENT PREPARE TO PAVE WEST CHAPMAN Culverts Being Put in; County Park Roads All Oiled Preparations to pave West Chapman avenue (Hospital road) from the state highway to the Garden Grove road (Euclid avenue) started yesterday, when Basick Bros. commenced putting in the culverts. The road already has a good gravel base, and the job will be pushed as rapidly as possible. Drivers who motor to Orange County Park won't have to breathe dust instead of air any longer. All of the roads in the park have been piled and spread with crushed stone, J. L. McBride O. C. A. T. A. Leap Year Party Here The next get-together of the Orange County Auto Trade Ass'n, will be a Leap Year party, to be held at the Elks' club on March 6. The meeting will be the principal social event of the organization this year, and a program of speaking, dancing and entertainment will be put on. An unusually large crowd is expected out. 157,000 FORD WORKERS IN U.S. Employment in the Ford Motor Co. organization is now at the highest point in the company's history and reflects in a general way the prosperous condition existing in the country as well as in the automobile industry. There are approximately 157,000 workers employed in Ford industries in the United States, according to recent figures. Of these, more than 24,000 work in branch assembly plants. The largest number employed in any single manufacturing unit, is, of course, at the Highland Park plant at Detroit, where 68,500 men are at work. RECEIPTS MARSHJUMP Up 27 Per Cent in Over 1922; Tot $10,600,000 SACRAMENTO. March increase of 27 per cent in receipts over 1922 and crease of 10.9 per cent in doing business were ongoing features of a financial covering receipts and expenses for 1923, issued by the C Division of Motor Vehicle. Total fees collected by vision during the year amount to $10,608,655.59, the repaid This was given as an incr $2,231,126.34 over 1922 w Preparations to pave West Chapman avenue (Hospital road) from the state highway to the Garden Grove road (Euclid avenue) started yesterday, when Baslek Bros. commenced putting in the culverts. The road already harb a good gravel base, and the job will be pushed as rapidly as possible. Drivers who motor to Orange County Park won't have to breathe dust instead of air any longer. All of the roads in the park have been piled and spread with crushed stone. J. L. McBride county superintendent of highways, reports. The same contractors finished this week pouring the concrete on the Orange-Olive road, which will be surfaced with concrete. The work will be finished by March 31. The Griffiths Co. will start next week laying five-inch asphalt on Hiatt street, LaHabra, from the Pacific Electric depot south. Contractor Beals will begin about March 15 grading and paving the link of the Coast highway between Huntington and Newport beaches. Six-inch concrete will be laid for three miles, from the Huntington Beach to the Newport Beach boulevard and the other five miles to Corona Del Mar graded. The board of supervisors this week let the contract for the bridge across the Santa Ana river on the State highway to the McKay Engineering Co. of Los Angeles. The job amounts to $65,000. The bridge will adjoin that of the Pacific Electric. OAKLAND A DAY SOLD Three Oaklands were sold by Harry L. Turton in the first three days of this week—a touring with glass closure to P. A. Brunk of Fullerton, a sport touring to Benjamin A. Smith of Olinda and a touring with glass closure to Harry Kuehl of Garden Grove. Rev. Loren Howe of Los Angeles, former pastor of the First Christian church here, purchased a fully equipped touring. 7-DAY SCHEDULE FOR FORD At midnight last night the Ford Motor Co. went on seventh-day production basis for the first time in a year. The 10,000 car per day mark is expected to be reached soon. Wouldn't you like to own a car with a beautiful and enduring automobile finish—not a delicate "piano finish"? The special, permanent, Duco finish on the True Blue Oakland Six is striking in appearance and practically Wouldn't you like to own a car with a beautiful and enduring automobile finish—not a delicate "piano finish"? The special, permanent, Duco finish on the True Blue Oakland Six is striking in appearance and practically indestructible. H. L. TURTON 142 So. Los Angeles St. Phone 325 Anaheim, Calif. True Blue Oakland SIX PRODUCT of GENERAL MOTORS Plain Dealer automobile Sect Anaheim, California, Saturday, March 1, 1924 MEMENT IN SALES OF FEBRUARY RECEIPTS OF MARSH JUMP Up 27 Per Cent in 1923 Over 1922; Total $10,600,000 Four-Man Match At Ascot Sunday A "Quadrangular Championship Match" between Sig Haugdahl, world's speed king; Leon Duray, noted French speed ace; Fred Horey, 1923 national dirt track champion, and Fred Lecklider, famous eastern pilot and a great Ascot favorite, will be the feature of next Sunday's Ascot program, instead of a match between Sig Haugdahl and Ralph DePalma. The card will contain nine events. THOUSANDS STILL NOT REGISTERED SACRAMENTO, March 1.—Warning that the 1924 automobile registration period ended March 1 and that all car owners failing to register before that time would be subject to payment of a fee double the original amount, was issued today by the California Division of Motor Vehicles. There are still thousands of motorists in the state who have failed to register, division officials stated and there is no advantage in waiting until the last minute AUTO USERS MULTIPLY ON COAST Slope States Average One Car to Each 5 People Registration figures for 1922 show the seven states of the Pacific coast region to be the greatest users of automobiles in the United States. A conservative statement would be that one in every five persons in this far western district is a motor vehicle owner. As a matter of fact, on the basis of the 1920 census figures, the proportion is 1 to 3.9. It is only fair, however, to add a 30 per cent population increase for the three years since 19220, which would make the ratio to one car to 5.1 inhabitants. L. A. Deaths Number 219 A. C. S. The economic loss vehicle accidents in Los Angeles during nearly $4,000,000 figures just compiled lie safety department Club of So. Calif. is based on the tablional Safety Council the average econom males each year at $750 and females at $300. Motor vehicles were for 43 per cent of total SACRAMENTO. March 1.—An increase of 27 per cent in volume receipts over 1922 and a decrease of 10.9 per cent in the cost doing business were outstanding features of a financial report avering receipts and expenditures or 1923, issued by the California Division of Motor Vehicles. Total fees collected by the division during the year amounted to $10,685,655.99, the report said. It was given as an increase of 1,231,126.34 over 1922 when the total income of the division was 3,777,529.25. All money thus collected is apportioned to the state and county highways for their upkeep, after departmental expenses are deducted. Expenditures for 1923 were at $821,426.77 or 7.9 per cent of the total income. The report added that a reduction of 9 per cent in the overhead charges had been thus effected as total expenditures for 1922 amounted to 8.9 of the total income for that year. Savings made this manner will be used to augment much needed highway pair funds." The report said. The division began registering automobiles in 1924 two weeks earlier than usual which was responsible for heavy increases in expenses for the month of January, the report said. Actual cash dispositions, it stated, had been made in all departments up to December 31, but the heavy business in January disturbed the pre-existing showing made. The report added that in spite of the increased business a cut of approximately $70,000 had been made in expenditures for property and equipment. The division registered approximately 1,114,000 motor vehicles in 1923 and about 6000 millers. We shall probably never be able estimate the amount of permanent damage attributed to the mere violent of our modern machines. Arrests Grow As Speed Trap Resumed The speed trap, never entirely abandoned in the county, was given a legal status this week as a means of apprehending speeders when Superior Judge F. C. Drumm at Santa Ana, held that the clause forbidding it was unconstitution. Al. The judge declared that the clause was special legislation, that it was not covered in the title to the act and that it was an invasion of the rights of the defendant himself in that he should have an equal right to the use of speed trap evidence with the authorities. Registration figures for 1923 show the seven states of the Pacific coast region to be the greatest users of automobiles in the United States. A conservative statement would be that one in every five persons in this far western district is a motor vehicle owner. As a matter of fact, on the basis of the 1920 census figures, the proportion is 1 to 3.9. It is only fair, however, to add a 30 per cent population increase for the three years since 19220, which would make the ratio to one car to 5.1 inhabitants, says a Los Angeles authority. Incidentally, these seven Pacific coast states, whose population is only 6 per cent of that of the entire country, registered last year 11.5 per cent of all the motor vehicles in use in the United States. The motor vehicle registrations in the United States for 1923 follow. The California figures are those of Will H. Marsh, head of the state's bureau. The others are those of B. F. Goodrich Co., which, incidentally, are also those given out by the American Automobile Ass'n: - Regis- - Over - trations - Arizona - 48,203 - 25.0 - California - 1,107,867 - 31.4 - Idaho - 62,030 - 15.0 - Nevada - 15,700 - 24.1 - Oregon - 166,322 - 23.3 - Utah - 66,000 - 34.2 - Washington - 262,180 - 7.8 Totals - 1,727,893 - 25.6 There has been an unbroken succession of gains every year from 120,454 registered in 1912 to 1,727,803 in 1923. It is to be noted that the annual increases continued in the face of varied business conditions in the other states of the Union, thus proving the Pacific coast a steadily growing market each year for motor vehicles, in other words, always a "white spot" on America's automobile map. Its gain in registrations last year was 25.6 per cent as compared with an increase of 251,751 in 1922 over 1921, or 22.4 per cent. California ranks second only to New York and at that is only 106,823 behind the Empire State through the latter's much larger registration of motor trucks, California being far ahead of New York in the use of passenger cars. California's gain over 1922 was 264,607, or 31.4 per cent compared with a 22.4 increase in 1922 over 1921. Indications from the first returns of California's gasoline tax are that motorists under the new law will contribute a million dollar (Continued on Page Two) The economic loss vehicle accidents in Los Angeles during nearly $4,000,000 figures just compiled lie safety department Club of So. Calif., is based on the tablional Safety Council the average economic males each year at $750 and females at $300. Motor vehicles were for 43 per cent of dental fatalities and of the 60,750 non-fr or less disabling inflictions. The economic loss fatalities was $5.4 auto's part in this $313,073 with 219 days. The total economy all non-fatal accidentes 263,300, of which charged against me The total economic Angeles in 1923 from most of which were was $21,684,400. The club calls itself while large they do not sideration the automotive bachy machinery brooks bills, medicines and other expenses brouids dents. Neither is suffering entailed to count. In an effort to ghastly annual tolls work into the public among the Campfire Boy Scouts. EXPEDITION ASIA USED While science toys dinosaur eggs brought the interior of Moni Third Asiatic Exponders about their to the dinosaur skeleton then unearthed in dustrial leaders are and serious thought mercial phase of them many remarkable dale Numerous import deposits were found Roy Chapman Andrethe expedition,and matter of time u transportation makes The plains are also millions of fur bear and fur traders are at the trail followed by party in its search Mr. Andrews demo it was not necessary the plodding camel penetrate the rich three Dodge Brothers did what the fur tractors interested in tha DODGE BROTHERS TYPE-B SEDAN A woman will usually admire one thing about a car and a man another, but there is one feature of the new Type-B Sedan which both admire equally and emphatically—its exceptional driving ease. This is due to a combination of several important improvements—a roomier front compartment; a readier clutch response; a new steering wheel that offers a trim, firm grip; and control levers that are ideally accessible, yet conveniently out of the way of robes and luggage. CHAS. H. MANN Dodge Brothers, Dealer 210 S. Los Angeles St. Anaheim, Calif. FEBRUARY OVER JANUARY 4 MILLIONS LOSS FROM ACCIDENTS L. A. Deaths in 1923 Number 219, Says A. C. S. C. The economic loss from motor vehicle accidents in the city of Los Angeles during 1923 was nearly $4,000,000, according to figures just compiled by the public safety department of the Auto Club of So. Calif. This estimate is based on the tables of the National Safety Council, which fixes the average economic value of males each year at from $350 to $750 and females from $150 to $300. Motor vehicles were responsible for 43 per cent of the 486 accidents. SLUMP OVER, DEALERS REPORT Small Low Priced Cars Sell Fastest In Past Month The sales slump is rapidly vanishing. Reports of business during February show a marked improvement over January in most cases. As usual, the dealers in the cheaper cars fared best. Slid McGraw, for example, reported that he had sold 50 per cent more new vehicles during the month than in January. The Appleby Motor Co. sold approximately 35 Star cars and two or three Duranta. The Frank P. Taggart Co. sold nearly 50 new cars West Bros. The economic loss from motor vehicle accidents in the city of Los Angeles during 1923 was nearly $4,000,000, according to figures just compiled by the public safety department of the Auto Club of So. Calif. This estimate is based on the tables of the National Safety Council, which fixes the average economic value of males each year at from $350 to $750 and females from $150 to $300. Motor vehicles were responsible for 43 per cent of the 486 accidental fatalities and 10 per cent of the 60,750 non-fatal but more or less disabling injuries. The economic loss from total fatalities was $5,421,100. The auto's part in this loss was $2,313,073 with 219 deaths. The total economic loss from all non-fatal accidents was $16,263,300, of which 10 per cent is charged against motor vehicles. The total economic loss to Los Angeles in 1923 from accidents, most of which were preventable, was $21,684,400. The club calls attention to the fact that while these figures are large, they do not take into consideration the automobiles smashed, machinery broken, doctor's bills, medicines and a myriad of other expenses brought on by accidents. Neither is the human suffering entailed into account. In an effort to reduce this ghastly annual toll, the automobile club is carrying its safety work into the public schools and among the Campfire Girls and Boy Scouts. EXPEDITION IN ASIA USED DODGE While science toys with the 25 dinosaur eggs brought back from the interior of Mongolia by the Third Asiatic Expedition, and wonders about their relationship to the dinosaur skeletons now and then unearthed in America, industrial leaders are giving deep and serious thought to the commercial phase of the expedition's many remarkable discoveries. Numerous important mineral deposits were found, according to Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the expedition, and it is only a matter of time until modern transportation makes it accessible. The plains are also inhabited by millions of fur bearing animals, and fur traders are already hot on the trail followed by the Andrews party in its search for fossils. Mr. Andrews demonstrated that it was not necessary to rely on the plodding camel in order to penetrate the rich interior. His three Dodge Brothers motor cars did what the fur traders and others interested in the commercial OPINIONS DIVIDED ON BALLOON TIRES The balloon tire craze is on. What did it? Lack of smooth, paved roads, of which even California has a few in the mountains. But they are still a luxury, local tire men point out, who declared he would purchase them only on orders. The tubes, for example, cost many times as much as the ordinary tube, and in the easing strength appears to be sacrificed to flexibility. Repairs will be doubled or tripled if this tire comes into general use, one dealer declared. Another point is that four or five must be purchased, this man asserted—balloon tires don't mix with others. Altogether, opinion here appears to be divided, as to the merits of the tire, altho it is generally agreed that the loss by the use of it as compared with the ordinary tire will be made up, in large part at least, by saving in repair bills on the car. Cost--- Upkeep Depreciation The USED CAR has its advantages. From the smallest to the largest, you can buy any and every type of a DEPENDABLE USED CAR at this market, priced to suit your purse. All standard makes—sold on easy terms. Year Model Price 1923 Chalmers Coach $1075 1923 Hudson Speedster $1075 1923 Nash 4 Carriole $875 1923 Studebaker L. S. Tour $925 Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the expedition, and it is only a matter of time until modern transportation makes it accessible. The plains are also inhabited by millions of fur bearing animals, and fur traders are already hot on the trail followed by the Andrews party in its search for fossils. Mr. Andrews demonstrated that it was not necessary to rely on the plodding camel in order to penetrate the rich interior. His three Dodge Brothers motor cars did what the fur traders and others interested in the commercial development of Mongolia had considered impossible. The fur traders promptly bought up his three Dodge Brothers cars, proved to their satisfaction that it was in the car to do it—and not just luck—and are now operating fleets of the same sturdy American car in pursuit of the fortunes that roam almlessly on the plains. Trips that formerly required months are now made in days. There are no roads, but that seems to make little difference when one is using a Dodge Brothers car. Thus the fur trade already has been given a definite impetus by the Andrews expedition's revelations. Information regarding the geological discoveries, such as mineral deposits, was turned over to the Mongolian government. How soon active development of these resources will begin, depends largely on the condition of state affairs and the interest of outside capital. OAKLAND UNHURT BY MONK Even a monkey can monkey around the Oakland’s paint without doing any harm, says Harry L. Turton, Northern Orange-co-distributor. The Golden Bros’ animal, which escaped recently, hopped from one car to the other in the garage, without scratching up the enamel a bit. 43 CHEVYS SOLD Forty-three cars were sold by the Frank P. Taggart Co. during February, not counting sales on Thursday. Closed and open models are in about equal demand, the firm reports. Year Model Price 1923 Chalmers Coach $1075 1923 Hudson Speedster $1075 1923 Nash 4 Carriole $875 1923 Studebaker L. S. Tour $925 1923 Chevrolet Tour $395 1923 Ford Tour $300 1923 Ford Road $300 1922 Reo Touring $750 1922 Oakland 6-44 Rd.$650 1922 Oakland 6-44 Tr.$650 1923 Buick 4 Road $750 1922 Hudson Coach $1050 1922 Buick 4 Tour $675 1922 Olds 4 Tour $550 1922 Ford Tour.$250 1921 Dodge Tour.$450 1920 Gardner Tour.$225 1921 Hupmobile Tour.$600 —Many Others to Choose From— Orange County CERTIFIED Motor Car Market 250 North Los Angeles Cor. Spadra and Whiting ANAHEIM FULLERTON