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THE SEATTLE TOMOTY SECTION STAR PAGE 7_ BOLOMONVE NEW SPORT MODEL Oakland WILL ARRIVE IN SEATTLE THIS WEEK THE FIRST official notice of the hand In the nation wide move ment to stop the stealing of auto. mobiles, which has became one of America’s moat profitable indus tries The senate judiciary committee hax favorably reported a bill which provides a fine of $5,000 and up to five years’ imprison ment for shipping or receiving an autor le across state lines with intent to defraud owners or insur: ance companies. The value of automobiles stolen during the past year runs far into the millions, Insurance compan few have been hard hit and it has been necessary to increase prem juma to the point where protec. tion against theft is one of the big items in operating a car dents by spreading sand on slippery streets KANT SKORE PISTONS wil rTS AND WHEN THE car jerks at stow speed the motor is missing. Claiming to be the largest concern in the Northwest making an exclusive business of sell- ing its own used cars, the Warner Auto Co., 409 E. Pine st., with “Bill” Warner at its head, teclares its business is showing bigger and bigger results with each passing month, “The secret,” says Warner, “lies in giving a square deal to every patron and in adjusting terms to suit the pocketbooks of customers,” THE FAN belt should be neithe too tight nor too loose LOADED UP TO THE LIMIT 66,000 Miles | Were Covered by This Tire | The best fully authenticated record ever made by an automobile tire, ac cording to the U, 8, Tire Co., by the Kansas City branch office of I. 1D. Adama & Company of Indianapolis, / | manufacturers of road building ma-| ged . We are just abandoning a U. § | Royal Cord tire, size 34x4," says their letter, “after it has performed | |a phenomena) service of more than; S| 66,000 miles on a Buick car, and has never had a repair. j “We bought this tire during 1918. | It did Jwo seasons’ service on coun try roads in Northeastern Missouri for one of our salesmen canvassing a territory. In Septtember, 1919, the! car was moved to Kansas City and has been used daily within the city | $1485 at Seattle At last, a beautiful four-passenger S port Car with power and speed is procurable at a LOW PRICE. This Sport Model is on the New Oakland Chassis, with its greatly improved six-cylinder Oakland motor, which has new Manganese nickel steel alloy pistons and cylinders “honed” by our own process —the most perfect finish known to science. ys ns Economy Durability and Satisfaction Just a few of the outstanding features of this great Sport Car value Wire wheels. 17-inch corrugated, laminated steering wheel S2xtinch cord tires. Light maroon finish with black fenders, iatns Sites bates: Genuine walntt instrument board throughout. 44H. P. six-cylinder overhead valve engine. Special top with plate glass rear window. 115-inch wheelbase; 6r-inch frame. Slanting, weatherproof windshicid Alemite Lubrication System. ORDERS NOW BEING BOOKED NORTHWEST OAKLAND CO. Pike Street and Twelfth Avenue East J. R. Merryman, Toledo, Wash., is here shown in his 1914 Buick in which he travels no less than 44 miles a day carry- | ing with the aid of his trailer 65 cans of milk and the neces- sary feed to produce the milk. “If the market price on milk|ever since. Just now this ure is} nd feed MBS TOS he old Buick, I’ a‘ | being removed and discarded. We and feed were as dependable as the old Buick, I'd never grow | are going to present it to you that any gray hairs,” was Merryman’s comment. you may examine it. baad * “It will further interest you to know that at the time this tire was put in use, a mate to it waa put on the other rear wheel. The latter has never blown out and is now being carried for a good spare.” Examination of the record-break ing Ure showed that it had worn down smoothly and evenly to the fab- ric carcass and that the carcass was in perfect condition, Wireless Telephone Is Hitched to Auto to Help Fight Fire Hartford, Conn., has come thru fit to be attached to the automobile, | ope ar wh per 5 mgt eipe fret! enabling the chief to communicate practical application of the portable} ; wireleds telephone a8 an ald to fire-| Tt" the: Tuske station by wireless fighting. Chief John C. Moran, of | #94 have the message transmitted the Hartford fire department, in| to fire headquarters. order to bring this about, has placed| Numerous tests have been made KEEP YOUR car attuned to en- gine noises, to detect trouble. TURN TO one side when stopping behind another car. AUTOS CHEAPER ¥ THE CUTOUT will te when the engine is missing. | EAST 0842 JOHNSTON PISTONS A true check valve piston that is lighter in welgbt, increases power, decreases fuel and friction. ‘It facilitates cylinder lubrica ton and prevents overheating. ‘ | “THEY DELIVER THE GOODS” A Partial List of Installations Made Last Week. ASK THEM. 0. Auburn Gara Sima Lewis K. J. Bux Monroe St H.W. Ba rt, Seattle ar Capt. Linderman, P._8, Bridge & Dredge Co Kiek, 1411 41st No. Elliott, Auburn, Wash. Wallace, 1614 Kighth Ave. T. Mead. Black River Garage. Sweet, King County Game Metealt, ton, Was Carag: Rainier Valley Aberdeen, Wash. Carl Pfahler, Olympia, Wash Wm. Albian, Snoqualmie, Wash. ‘ Puyallup Motor Car Co. Puyallup, Wash. Fairchild Motor Co, Auburn, Wash. Yost Auto Co., Edmonds, Wash. Dick Winn, Tacoma, Wash C. E. Howell, Spokane, Wash. K. Barber Shop, Georgetown. Aub Wash. Geo. T. Ww. j Mr. J A Waraen U a) M. J. ¢ —NOTICE.—On Sept. Ist the price on Johnston Pistons and Rings for Ford cars will be raised to $32, the present price being $25. Be sure to place your order in time and make this saving. Johnston Piston & Ring Agency WINNINGHAM & PAYSSE 514 E. Pike Street—Phone East 0535 Johnston Piston & Ring Co., Mfrs. 1214 to 1220 East Madison Street | the new paved roads being built near | by means, of kerosene or some a full-fledged wireless telephone out fit in the rear of his Marmon tour ing car, In recent tests Chief Moran, sit ting in his Marmon 34, was able to talk from different parts of the city to the central station, located | at the home of C.D. Tuska. Thru the use of @ portable wireless tele: | phone outfit rigged up by Tuska, it} ts possible to reach the chief by wire joas in any part of the city, notifying | him at once of a fire or any other urgent call, While the details have not been perfected, arrangements are belng made for a sending out Acme Truck Does Heavy Duty Here Twenty-four heavy tubular bollers were carried by a 3% ton Acme, owned by McConaghy and Lamar, to! the new addition of the Seattle light ing plant on Eastlake ave Each of the boilers measured 16% ft. long, 5 ft in diameter, and of 1%-Inch ». They weighed each respective orry that must C8438 also remain a terrible hauled afl the steel for the Pacific Telephone and Tel aph Company's new building on Third ave. | Resides pulling off capers like this (8438 is regularly employed during the summer in hauling materials for Walla Walla, Wash. THE TOTAL value of tires and tubes produced in the United States in 1920 wne $28,424,000 NEARLY 4 PER CENT of the sur faced roads in the United States are of concrete. When carbon ts being blown out) pre: | pared carbon remover, this arrange ment attached to the ext pipe will condense the dangero * resulting from the process, The | howe extends from the exhaust pipe | to a pail of water. Ite f end] the surface of k pressure Gee, but Jotdt's Bi Advertisement, to determine the feasibility of the scheme. Driving twenty-five miles an hour it was possible for persons in, the car to hear a Victrola record at Tuska’a home, The portable in strument worked perfectly despite the fact that the car was in motion. After the show, we'll go to Boldt's, Advertisement, THE LATEST: A 200-pound fold ing motor car that can be fitted into a large trunk KEEP TRACK of the distance traveled by each tire. COAST WHEN slowing up and go ing down hill, to save fuel. BILL WARNER'S HOUSE of BARGAINS 409—East Pine St.—409 Phone East 0: 225 FORD BARGAINS Ford Touring, shock abs a dozen other extra orbers, moe’ $475 1919 Ford Roadster, shock absorbers and many extras; runs like new and has a new pu job and new tires .. 1918 Ford shape 1918 Ford Roadster, good condition Touring, Oakland and r, 1918 me a snap Touring ca repainted 1918 Oakland Roadster, repain and overhauled 193 and repainted 1920 Maxwell Touring, repaint and rebuilt We have fabout Chevrolet Touring, overhauled cars 0 int pte $350 . $325 $265 .$550 $575 $425 $425 pn hand, and they are all del, overhauled ted ed BARGAINS OPEN S$ AND SUNDAYS —and— WE TRADE AND GIVE GOOD TERMS 409 East Pine St. Paar THAN RAILROADS Travel Cost Less Per Mile, Says Davis Co. Man “Last year the motor cars of America traveled 63 billion miles at a cost of eight billion dollars, or 3.24 cents a mile per passenger. The present cost of transportation by rail is 3.88 cents a mile, including tax. Motor car therefore, cheaper than transporta tion by rail.” So argues Walter C. Davis, secre tary and sales manager of the Davis Motor Car company. ad “Is it any wonder that the number of automobiles in America has so vastly increased,” asks Mr. Walter C. Davis, secretary and sales man- ager of the Davis Motor Car Co “when the motor car in a peculiarly direct and personal way suppl millions of persons with swift, cheap, convenient, reliable and comfortable transportation? “We have heard lots of talk re cently about the ‘saturation point’ in |motor cars, that peculiar place we jare lable to reach when there will be no more motor cars nV 1. There isn't any saturation point, when the | motor car is supplying the cheapest transportation we have! The more motor cars there are, the more cheap transportation! Motor cars are a na tional economy. ‘Transportation ts one thing the American people can not do without. We have the est and most complete system of railroads in the world, and we have more motor cars than all the rest of the world put together!” '‘Under-Inflation Is Big Trouble Maker More tires are taken from service due to under-inflation than from any other cause. We know of no more urgent admonition we can give au tomobile owners than this: Tires must be pumped up hard if they are to give maximum mileage. So states | bulletin just received from the eer. ico department of the Spreckles age” Tire company Rep@ir shop statistics show that 7h per cent of all tire troubles are to insufficient inflation, Under cause tires to bruise to jab easily, because there Is not the resistance in an underinflated tire that there is in jone that Is properly inflated | due inflation will | readily and THERE ARE eral aid roads in 030 miles of fed this country. A REAL DRY » | appeared in San ge battery has 0. THERE ARE 9,200,000 motor cars in use in this country CHANGE WATER in the cooling |system weekly transportation is, | larg: | | MR, AUTO OWNER: ANYWHERE, Dear sirt All Tank In an EVERYWHERE— you. fer | you give me a fair trialt Faithfully yours, PRICE INSTALLED Sold on a Money-Back Guarantee $1 1.50 NATIONAL ENGINEERING & MFG. CO. PHONE MAIN 7347 | | | | | : H : 309 Pacific Block Seattle | BRANCH verett Representatives 629 ‘Tacom: Fred 'T, Haley, 305 Colby Bldg, ‘acoma a 96 G18 Videlity Hidg. Malm 3301. R. EK, DI, 2432 Colby St. ‘Tacoma Blue 1271 RELIABLE REPRESENTATIVES WANTED | ; SOPUeeseeneeeeeeaneee