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rit EATTLEI TAR @ BY GOODYEAR Plants Manufacture 63,824 Tires in Single Day TO OPEN ROAD Highway to Denny Creek tive Camp Clear Sunday od ; ‘ orm aay - serie, FORDSON HAS |Cross-Country Line | pe hy | RECORD MADE { Star Coupe Is Ideal for Salesmen | USE SNOW PLOW UNIQUE TOB| of Stages Planned —~ 1 f nm ; hat teaches the i the new . te z ; { es of ignition, ear actured for ¢ pares otheat syed bur ‘ Ve guarantee to r The f e : : ’ trouble, n we enter any us on Wednesdays Learn how of an nder tutelage . for only $5. Car furnished) @ CENTRAL AGENCY, INC, Broadway a ‘ph The « T R cE] Ca, 2 is h i Oetpur of its Akron, ¢ a and . a 4G Ganadian factories had tots vaais 1 tte ag i B24 tires the prev ee ay, | is a 48 and Te Ww tion ¥ } 7 Ponto 6,554 i «| and i Hark was ma t and ‘ : welor . H When the Akre trad i] t Thru : 1 ¢ While only 14.950 men w : Hloyed at the Akron factory on Fr . i May, according P. ‘ Weal manager c © Tire t and Rubber r All three Goody t Ak T Ton, O; Toronto, © « 1 Angeles, broke #rd in the 4 taldnight The total production Me three plants wa SROuEh to equip 16,000 » FH BUICK SCALES CHINESE WALL piies pe ienales. abe y ue 1.9. Dulmage Motor Co., Star and Durant| ®t the Chinese republic and the 1 Japan Plans Set dealere, is shown standing in front of one.of the new Star coupes. According to Rawlings, | an me, is su of Traffic Rules |; coupe is particularly adapted to salesmen, on account of the large compartment in ted earth and concrete The department of } Japan has decided to on form act of traffic si Com. ae ers DETROIT PLANTS Auto Associations Band Rote cee PRODUCE LIMIT Against Motor Taxation: installed traffic signs on all onl ‘ er te aes ant caitttannes cb leretin cai reese : ied fo oe Wrattie accidents HRerous points along the principal] Factories Race to Meet New |: bun Season’s Demand atQirs tx | the rear. - Hetwedt in the hist {a ur on automobiles t DETROIT, Mich 600 times without the | @ir. Increase your mii mi. to 12.000 miles without re-|'# On a ¢ or six weeks. KA In several plants sales are jimited dinary |t© production facilities only by pre ‘and makes riding a real pleas-| duction, and production, in You write Mr. A. A. Milburn ed only by the capac 333 West 47th St.. Chicago, as he), the > Mindfu ints them introduced everywhere. sag Herful opportunity for a, executives i the in' ed, write him toda: thru sounde nnels, Optimism is based on facts ders on hand Bearing out the truth of the com 0 prediction last winter that the feloned car will dominate the open! annua) revenues n she model in the future is the report! covernmental activities and in ¢ |trom several factories that about 60/ this ure placing special taxes on the |were the same, except for about ore per cent of the orders an hand call! automobile, which wre rarely based! mites on the summit of the Blue jfor closed cars. Coming at thls) ison sound theories of economics or] mountains, which are not |time of the year, when the demand | equity mountains, which are not jfor open care has been usually the! 914 committes contends that no| miles is muddy and some cars have | Sreatent, the fact is eapectally aig money derived from the special tax-/to be hauled thru. I came by way of nificant, Aside from the fact that) sion of the motor vehicle should be| Welser, Huntington, Baker, La measured by or The roads from Boise to the |tp Idaho-Oregon tine were inan to a } MeGeo pany The runway w wall is 200 feet long, Rick started the Buick “Four” at the be 20 miles per h he Howard Auto con shape. All of the roads in Oregon to the top of the machine ne t difficulty in high gear : itting the top at 10 miles an hour |the all-season car ts armas support | spent for the maintenance of high-| Grande, Pendleton, Walla Walla and Ba: frapidly thru the atts de. |WaYs Unless such highways are lo- | Colfax another reason for the cated where the highway transpor “By July 4, the six-mile stretch in at this time ts the lowering of the price differential that hax l existed between the open and closed jar. | Ford came to the front recently [with two new records. He smashed all daily production records when the turned out 6,452 cars and trucks. | Hoe also set a new weekly produc {tien mark with 36,144 cars. April Ischedule callin for a daily output of 6.385 cars. Events attendant upon W. C. Durant’s announcement of a! The conference committee regards 1$525 car recently seem to Indicate Such A theory as unwise economic MILLIONS LOST ‘ Ithat he plans to devote particular ally and entirely unfair and unjustly N lattention to this field with the Chev.| hampering to the logical and legiti-| ON USED CARS \Tolet, Overland and Gray as compet-;™ate growth to which the motor j itors. The new Durant yet io un.| vehicle In entitled. It believes tha: | gp Louis, April 26.—Automobile | named. It will be a fourcylinder|the best interests of all concerned | geatern of the United States had " e | will be best served by general taxa . sei job powered by a Continental engine | ¥ 400,000 used cars in # on March find will be built in Fitnt, Mich. 1t/tion for highway construction and tation needs of the state require! the Bi mountaine will have be that it will be and unless such highways are bullt | surfac of materials and in a manner to| to Meet these ne inted out! Pendleton an¢ that ever against an] the speed automobile, with the exception of | rock or the personal property tax, is a spe- | partment cial tax and the automobile is sub-|gon de }jected to a greater percentage of | aplendid progr these kind of taxes than any other | tho Inst « one class of property. ing theae ane ot Spx el, crushed for the hey have mite in of years in improv orth and south highways. 5% Interest, 21 Months 5, according to compilations of Down $18.89 Month [f) w:1 make its debut tate in the mum.| special taxation of motor vehicles) figures gathered by the National Include Teen mer. At present no subsidiary com. | for highway maintenance. ‘ Automobile = “Interest Bae P[ipany lias been organized to manu-| |The main consideration, the com-|-Thege stocks facture it. | mittee report concludes, is that Ir. veatment of respective of the particular form of | Dray sa’ that the” Asstevk’ oO | absorb on this stock and Investment |MOTOR - TRADE. [ster sie" imporiat tine | ste ‘ra ire on jreaches a figure of $23,591,982 | MEN TO MEET Suicide Repentant, |"? sews tnt’ ace up z ‘ | startling result were obtained from tb agency oa AB alee He Says in Letter |a sty by tie National Automonite Feendaries and’ matagecs aré. ex:| LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 34—An|Doslere’ association into. the nit pected to attend the first national Unidentified man wh Bical pr t A Atlante dt Sn cide here lett only a note saying, “1 States stretching from Atlantic Rea ate nonin ate ze 33 Mey t black: sheep.” jto the Pacific oceans and covering car experience | the Mississippi valley. The figures ference were announced today by sports: by’ these the Automobile Dealers’ | 1 dealers. who them | association which is arranging the} anives acknowledged stocks totalling include all charges [| conference, An advisory committee | | 37,015 automobiles, with a capital in organ ef association managers from: St. | , o ventment of $13,350,119. Louis, Cleveland and Chicago adopt: SOUPE $635.20 paid by the bank, wi!l be The study discloses that there ix | ed the dates and outiin an average of 10,83 cars in hands of 48,000 automobile dealers with an average capital investment of $4,005.43 per denier, | Demand for Closed Models Is Growing, Among the marked tendencies in| the automo! industry of the past | five years has | growth of the cl car, In 1916 jonly slightly more than 1 per cent }of all the cars manufact in the | country Lop 77 | mobile company, Hudson and Keaex |dealers, has just received figures in regard to closed car production. The | Hudson Motor Car company, which manufactures both Hudson and | Assurances p heen the na 1 aewocintion } from ‘more than 100 sec managers that they will attend. ‘The big feature of the conference will be that the program will be made up entirely by association secre |vho have made noteworthy sue lin one or more major activities of the trade association programe, The details of the program will be made known in a short time, AT LAST! HORSE TAKES REVENGE ON HAUGHTY CAR Sie ANA, April 28.—-An in- novation in motoring in whieh auto was assaulted by A HUGH BAIRD GOL Fourth Avenue Elliott 0750 CANAL MOTORS CO. 815 Nickerson St, Garfield 0074 Auto: the | Nex cars, has for the past two | CENTRAL AGENCY, INC horse, instead of hitting the led all manufacturers in the produc Broad ,AGENC MX, ING 2 horse, happened here recently. P roadway and Pike East 0320 tion of closed models. Thelr output When Uenry Koehler, Los An- fe low. Tir Hake Sank laa ees Beles, drove into town his ma- chine looked jike Koehler had driven it off a cliff and then hauled it carelessly back up again, ¢ Koehler went to the police station to report the accident, He sald he approached a horse, wandering in the road untethered, and that the animal parsued him and tried to climb into the car, After Kicking ont the windshield and wrecking the top, the horne rolled under the wheels causing considerable damage to varicus parte of the car's underpinning, After smelling Koehler's breath, the local sergeant gave a satisfied grunt and accepted the COLUMBIA MOTOR CO. Ralnier and Ferdinand Rainier 0425 BUS LINE FOR SALVADOR A motor bus line will undoubtedly be established in ador, if the government carries out its plane to pave the streets In the city of San Salvador in the near future, says {Consul L. W. Franklin, There no organized lines in the republic « present, altho a fow ¢ paksenger cars for hire. | Judge Gets Hostile | to Newspaper Men | STIRLING, Scotland, April 28, Judge MacIntosh notified the nove. | paper men in his court that the next | time hig decisions were eritigied | “womeone will be went 1a rages have | Third at Stewart. 4 . Phone Elliott y bm 007 4558 California Ave. You can now buy and pay for a Ford car out of your Weekly Earnings on the Ford Purchase Plan. Thousands of families are taking advantage of this new way to buy a Ford and will soon be driving their own cars, enjoying all the benefits and advantages of motor transportation. The Ford Weekly Purchase Plan is amazingly simple. You can enroll with an initial payment as low as $5.00. Each week you add to your first pay- ment as much or as little as you feel you can afford. This money is placed in » the bank and draws interest. In a short time your deposits, plus the interest sufficient to obtain delivery of the car. Start Today and before you realize it you will be driving your own Ford car, “inet flgtor Company. See Any Authorized Seattle Ford Dealer The following institutions are acting as depositories for payments made in con- nection with the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan: FIRST NATIONAL BANK PUGET SOUND SAVINGS Second Ave. and Columbia St. & LOAN ASSOCIATION WEST SEATTLE STATE BANK QUEEN CITY BANK kenbacker cAR + WORTHY ITS - NAME Many Long Strides in Advance— The Rickenbacker Six has more advanced engineering features than any other car shown this season. Let us show you the tandem flywheel, the brake equalizer, the air cleaner—all refinements that make for easier riding, longer life and greater economy, Come in today. Detroit Sedan—$1,985 Michigan, plus federal crease without notice. Deferred payments may be arranged. L. M. Cline & Alfred Ayerst Co. Distributors 1830 Broadway, Seattle % East 0156 Detroit, Michigan COYLE & WOODRUFF, INC. WEST SIDE AGENCY, INC. 1102 Enst 45th St. Kenwood 0081 4203 West Alaska St. West 8837 HART & HART, INC. LAMPING & McDONALD 6200 Stanley Ave. — Glendale 0550 MOTOR CO., INC. WM. L. HUGHSON CO. Twelfth avy Kast Pike East 7776 Third and Stewart Elicit 0076 WILLIAM 0. McKAY CO, RAINIER MOTOR CO, 404 East Pino St, East 0501 1001 Jackson St. Beacon 05632 QUEEN CITY MOTOR CO. WILSON & KREITLE 6618 Hiliman Pl. — Grevn Lake Station 4763 Ballard Ave. Sunset 4688 Kenwood 2106 300 Pike St. 8424 Frenont Ave,