The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 20, 1923, Page 9

$< we have dincounted every bl) Seeea | or the ledger, and that every month the first.” |ninoe we have showed a profit, the | “When it im recalled that Ricken-|record i most gratifying,” says | backer Motor Co, began business a | Hickenbacker IS MAKING GOOD): ego, January 2, and thet we! Local doslers are L. M. Cline @ | built only 14 cars in that month, that | Alfred Ayerst Co., Broadway, corner eet Applications Swamping Motor Heads in Charge Exhibits to Be Housed in Huge Tents as Innovation for 1923 Despite the fact that detalls of arrangement for the coming show of the Seattle automobile and accessory dealers, to be staged during the week of Febru: ary 10 to 17, are stilt in a prelimi nary stage, applications for space for exhibits are pouring in at such a rapid rate that the en- tire block reserved for the show will be spoken for before the opening date, officials of the Aw tomotive Trade association re ported Saturday, Spaces for 125 automobiles are pro- vided for in the mammoth car tent.) tents will be floored and heated, which will be erected on the block | Leaving po atone unturned to bounded by Fourth and Fifth aves. | make the show the most attractive and Blanchard and Lenora st. The | Seattle or the Northwest has ever at canvas, 100 by 260 feet, will spread | tempted, Charles W. Goodman, over half the block. charge of decoration In the accessories tent, to measure | the Chinese motif 4 80 by 160 feet, every modern evice | be followed out to the am known to the automobile world will | tau, even to the incense pots. be exhibited, advance information a# | W. 0. McKay, of the Automottve sures, Special attention is being de-| Trade association, has announced voted to preparation for this section | the following men, all leaders in au of the show. Previous motor exhi- | tomobile circles in Seattle, and thru. Ditions here and elsewhere have| out the Northwest, ag in charge of brought surprisingly large crowds | the undertaking to give the innumerable inventions; A. W. Simonds, managing secre. that add to the comfort and conven-| tary of the King County and State fence of motoring the “once over, Automotive Trade associations; Ken. and this feature, which was, a few/|neth MeAlpin, president of the Me years ago, a mere minor attraction, | Alpin-Schreiner Co; George now is expected to rival displays of | Hughson, manager of the W. L. the late mode! automobiles. | Hughson Co.; A. F, Folts, of the Sun: More than 60 spaces in the acces | set Motor Co dL, A. Hubbs, of sories tent have been signed for, ao-' the Frakniin-Wicks Co. cording to figures released Saturday the committee tn cha: Jer appllcations are pouring | rate that threatens to swamp accom. | modations The innovation of holding the show under cavnas, instead of following the usu astom of housing the exhibit in a build. ing, wilt be an improvement, thru facilitating arrangements and making tt possible for visit Ors to see all makes of cars with out making thelr way from floor to floor and room to reo Both MAY BE DRASTIC STREATHAM, Eng. Jan. 20. | sued the latter and his sister for per- . TR AFFIC RULE Guests Sue Hosts | for Auto Injuries Three guests Injured on a ride tn the automobile of E. BR. Williams have ai | 1 dama; Mise War Pedestrian Must Co-oper- |irivin |than one-third of the automobiles | registered there, | ‘Trafiers on the island of Java have devices for making sharp turns w.| WEST SEATTLE Y 2 90 days we were on the right side! Denny nnd ON ADATOV ay AGENCY OPENS After a busy week of tnatalling| service equipment and an attractive system of show windows, RQ Hubner, who last week obtained the Hiawatha garage, 4200 Admiral way, for the purpose of handling the West Seattle Chevrolet agency, re ported his new place ready for bust ness late thin week | The action of Hubner tn deserting | the truck selling field to handle the| Chevrolet ts regarded by enthustaste | of the popular little car ae a sub: stantial tribute to the merits of the 1923 model 5¢ 1010 Hubner has been en-| 4 tn bendling White motor! which have proved to supply and it was not known that! yy», ‘ % Esunia tolecd tee pba proportioned car for two or eld until his announcement that he had completed arrangements to take over the Hiawatha garage and the Chevrolet agenay for that Aistriot, Hubner haa severed all connec | tions with the truck game, he said exceptionally large and all oi five neat nickeled ie gy Cord tires, dome light, spee Delivery of the firet of the new Chervolet sedanettes, Fred S. Haines Co., Seattle distributors. neat waterproof trunk is provided at the rear and there are shield swipe are standard equipment. ht, well- by the the demand for a li four, are being made an be raised and lowered. A bars at the rear of the body. edometer, vacuum tank, wind- Saturday, and will devote all of his | -——~ time to sales and service of Chew | n | roteta. iS nvnnmon ana w. a. xem an QUaNtity Producers Have Monopoly on Automobiles Ford Company Produced 50.4 Per Cent of 1922 Auto Total | connected saleamen. Pennsylvanta ts considering widen- | z | ing its highway bridges to accomme-| now available show that auto mant 4 facturing is fast being concentrated What ts said to be the largest! in the hands of some eight or ten garage in the world has been com-| quantity producers.” pleted tn Berlin. In 1921, 325,000 persons were tn- jured by and in autos in this coun- 60.4 per cent of all ow try. " |turned out. This includes both do A Saskatchewan dentist takes his! mestic and foreign business ental parlor to the patient on a! Other interesting features of the motor chasats, sein entienn’ Motor care carry annually stx| Six bie makers, times as many passengers as the | Produced 83.6 py steam railroads land trucks, This left only Jeent of the total production to Fieven months of production test! Siviaed among some 170 emi year exceeded the output of the whole | manufacturers, In 1920 the "Bix en rem, | Bix" produced only 76.6 of the total Sixteen per cent of the copper) Auto ratios for the year produced In this country ta used in| eomething ke this: automobile manufacture One out of every two « Ford lout of every six @ oar m A dirty dintributor head or wabbly| General Motors, which with the new firm as) BY ©. C. LYON WASHINGTON, Jan reality. Production figures 1922 credit the Ford company with i record are these including Ford, 20-—Mguren very other car a Ford” te now for cent of all cars 16.4 per were includes, | test, jdaily output will have been tm creased to 6,000. General Motors made 464,000 ma chines In 1922, with at least 660,000 | tn sight for this year, Dodge Broth-| ere expect @ 1923 output of from 560 to 1,000 a day, as against 660 « day last year, Chevrolet is ready cars 9 day this year, and and ing from 26 to 60 per cent “Automobile making is now our second largest industry,” says A. R Erskine, president of the Btudebaker corporation. “Since 1903 a total of 16,000,000 machines have been made, of which 11,000,000 are still in ser- viee, It ts eimated automobiles now carry seven times as many passen- gers as railroads and make twice the mileage.” | Edsel Ford president of the Ford Motor Co., haw this to say: y It is to be a survival of the Mt and the manufaetarer who latstriputor arm may cause misfiring. |\mong others, the Buick, Chevrolet | rushes in with desire to get a lot x. * &@ allly asg® fie regulations. $2 for his first offense, $4 for the second, $3 for the third, $16 for the fourth, and so on, the practice wi be effectively curbed.” Observation of the Griving rules while on crowded streets ts also pecessary, Carr said. | for blocks behind him for sev- eral minutes, while be is either arguing with the traffic officer or stubborniy waiting for street cars to give him a right-of-way that he is not entitled to,” Carr explained. “In general, we have tried to be lenient with the public in the part —have carried out @ sort of educa! tion campaign, letting violators off with warnings or minimum fines for minor transgressions of the trat- fio and pd¥king laws; but, unless de- | ‘Can Science Prolong Life? *s # Doctors Dispute Theories and Cadillac: Dodge; one out of 25 Studebake: out of 45 a Hudson or Kesex. * * * | trucks Inst year, but HOBO KING, IN JAIL, IS HEIR Inherits $10,000 From His Dead Sister DENVER, Colo., Jan. 20—Just 24 hours after he been lodged in the city jail for the ninth time In « year, William A. P. Soull, 68, “king of Denver vagrants,” recetved word that he had fallen heir to™= fortune. | For two weeks his son, Delroy | Soul, @ well-to-do merchant of Ster- ling, Colo, hag been endeavoring to find him, that he might be told of the death of his sister, Fannio Fill more, In Williamsport, Pa, three weeks ago and the subsequent read- ing of her will, In which ho was |named a beneficiary of « third part of her $30,000 estate. Two other ais tera share in the fortune After all efforts of Delroy and his brother, H. Bugene Soull, to find their father, had failed, they wrote |to Jim Goodheart, city chaplain and | founder of the Sunshine Mission, aak- |ing him to lend his services. Jim |went direct to the police station, where the elder Scull baa been apend- ing @ large part of his time in tho last four years, | FOUND IN HIS “FAVORITE CELIP Soull wan reclining com; fn his favorite call. He told Jim that he had been incarcerated just the day before when he had defaulted, as usual, in the payment of a "$60 and costs” fine following @ conviction for vagrancy. He had been arrested on three or one out of every 16 a of sales without consideration of what he gives in return Is not ike one out of 33 a Willys-Overland; one/|ly to find the year a success, There are hundreds of thousands of poten- Ford turned out 1,262,000 care and| tial owners tn all parts of the coun- ¢ plans a bigitry who are yet to buy their first) ‘inerease this year. By April hie| car” Bigamists Arraigned After 23 Years Pass FALMOUTH, Png, Jan 20-— | Liewsllyn Perkins and Marie Par sons, both aged 64, have been com mitted to jail to 4 trial for big- y committed 23 years ago. auotionsering business at Sterling. Ax time went by he amassed « smail fortune; then his wife died and it gradually slipped away. He eventually became indolent and Gineatinfied with his lot at Sterling, |despite the repeated invitations of jhis sons to make his home with |them, and drifted into Denver four yearn aga JAILED % TIMES Since that time, according to Jim | Goodheart, Soull has been in and out of jail no lees than 85 times. He has become the “king of Denver vug- |ranta,” even going to the jafl on nighte when he waa at liberty to ask for his favorite bed. For « time he resided in the Bal- vation Army hotel, but in the last year has contented himeelf with quar ters in the city Jail, “The Sunshine Mission hae put no lean than 10 or 12 sults of clothes on Soull during hin stay in Denver,” Jim said. “We have procured him sev. eral jobs, but he never held them be cause he would never work. He got 80 he would not take care of his per- sonal self. “In fact, he has been cussed by more membera of the Denver police department than any other man, In spite of their admonttions and warn- ings, be has lost his self-respect. He has given up hope. “But even in his hopelessness there has come « Nght, Eventually the sign on the front door of this mis. The windows are | ,, eided tmproverent is shown, stricter | rules must be enforced,” Carr con-) eluded, | Police records for 1929 show little | t€ any improvement in accidents) over 1921. Fewer accidents were re-| corded, but more persons were killed | fn the latter year, A brief accident wammary follows: ‘Total necidents - Persoge injured “Persone killee Minors Injured Minore killed Old Man Killed by Falling Tree| A falling tree Friday afternoon | caused the death of E. B. Maxwell, 72, near Alderwood Manor, when the tree struck a smat! log on which Maxwell was standing and threw him high in the air, Maxwell's! neck wus broken when he struck the | ground. His son-in-law, Oscar Fisk, was witness to the accident, Funeral arrangements for Maxwell will be ar ranged by the Bonney-Watson Co. in| Seattle. Maxwell is survived by two} sons in Bremerton, two married | @aughters and a widow living at Alderwood Manor. Man With 35-Ounce Heart Dies Suddenly HACKNEY, Eng., Jan. 20—Henry T. Barry, who died suddenly, had « heart weighing 35 ounces, or four| times the normal weight } ‘There are 121 automotive schools in this country, 99 of which are run by peral-religious institutions, | developed a life, and Dr. Alexis Carrel who's trying to prove it can. BY ALEXANDER HERMAN NEW YORK, Jan, 20, — San science prolong life? Will John Smith, born 600 years from now, have @ better chance of living longer than the John Smith of 19977 “No,” says Dr. Adolph Lorena, world-famous surgeon. Yes clany who have eries which revi return to the age of Methuselah. Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Roc ke- feller institute, has found a new function of the white corpuscles of the blood which may be utilized ia lengthening life. ‘These leucocytes, hig experiments have shown, pro- tect the body against infection and give new vigor to cells that have lain dormant—even in old age Dr. Benjamin Jablons has discov. ered « serum for the treatment of gangrene, hitherto declared to be incurable. A canadian physician has rum for the treatment of diabetes; other scientists have been experimenting with the revigor made new discov speculations of a ating of cell tissues by using ra- eum. conjecture eminent physt-| Dr. Adolf Lorenz (left), who says science can’t prolong) \ | “I fully believe," says Dr. QO, By- Jerett Field, director of the Radtum institute, “that within another 10 | years this use of radium to extend |the period of man’s life will be common.” | But Dr. Lorenz, who bas cheated @eath many times by miraculo knifeless operations, doesn’t believe! | that these discoveries—or any others) «vill ever sticceed in prolonging | life | | “Man's laws, such as prohfbition | jana others,” he says, “may be bro-! | ken, But nature's lawe—never!" | “"Dhe days of our years,’ Bible tells us, ‘are three-score years | and ten.’ | | “A healthy ite, espectally tn the! lopen air, with exercise, good food, | | no vices, will help prolong lite more| | than all the serums that ever could) be invented, “Sclence can help humanity by | teaching the living of @ natural life, “Of all the peoples T know Amert. | cans lead the Jeast natural existence. |They are slaves of their labor, whether they be poor or rich, | “Tile country needs more calm, | more peaceful living and less of the} rush.” the four occasions as a “sleeper.” He/ sion, ‘Hope for All Who Pnter,’ finds was sentenced to 30 days, Novernber | ite mark. In the case of Scull it has 10, and had been out just 18 days| been a will, . when he was picked up again. “When he has been released from Jim did not tell of his good fortune, | jail we shall make one supreme ef- but decided, instend to raise the|fort to bring the man back to re amount of his fine and obtain hig re | spectability. We have striven in the lease first. past, but the utter want of aspira- Soull was born in Williamsport,|tion in the man himself has caused Pa, in 186: Thirty years ago be) our efforts to go astray. We are en- emigrated to Colorado, where he set-| gaged in the business of rebuilding tled down in the undertaking and men. It ts never too Inte to begin.” ta OLDSMOBILE MOTOR CO. PHONE EAST 0128 1000 EAST PIKE STREET Eddie Rickenbacker’s Car Sells Well DWTROTT, Jan. 20—The Ricken backer Motor Co.'s first annual share- holders’ meeting ted all the or. tginal directors and officers, and all executives remain the same as from | the inception of the business, accord. | ing to & report received by the L. M. | Cline & Alfred Ayerst Co, Broad way and Denny way, local dealers. | These are: | Byron ¥. Bverttt, president and general manager; BH, V. Hicken backer, vice president and director of sales; HM. L. Cunningham, secretary treasurer; Ft. M. Hood, annsistant gen. oral manager in charge of purchases; ©. M, Tichenor, factory manager in production, and EK. R Evens, ohtet on, ‘The report showed the concern to | be in @ flourishing condition and the prospects for the coming year most encouraging, Not only has the com pany built 6,000 cars, but it also showed a nice profit on tte first year's business which permitted a 5 per cant dividend being declared. “Not a dollar has been borrowed | from any bank,” Everitt says tn his ftatement to the shareholders, “but TIREPRIGETO BE HELD DOWN No Increase Coming, Says} Local Film Head | Announcement waa given out ute} week by the Westen Auto Bupply company that their Western Giant Cord and other tires would not be , Inereaned in price, even in the face of practically .« the entire standard tire pric Officials of the companys ex. prensing great eatisfaction at the reception which has been accorded the Western Giant Cord tire during the past year. This tire was evolved from a long series of experiments and tests conducted over a period of neveral y: to determine just what characteristics would make a tire best suited for Western con- ditions. Sand conditions, alkall, off roads varying weather conditions, tn naddi- tion to the terrific friction of con- crete pavements were all taken into consideration in these experiments, ©, H. Pound, local manager, said Saturday, Finally the tire as ft etands at/ Present was developed and for the| past yeare two Eastern tire com. | panies have been building them ac-/ cording to the specifications fur | ished by the Western Auto Supply | company, Sales of the tire have been most gratifying in ali sections) where the company have stores lo-| cated and the reports from custom: | ers who have subjected the tire to) real teste of hard service are ex-) Dressing complete satisfaction with | it," Pound said, universal jump in field. 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