The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 23, 1924, Page 14

MiUHDAY, bu eLANa co, 1 THE SE UTOMOBILE SECTI ~—TRAINMEN TO BE AUTO TARGET Railway Cars Stopped on Streets Assailed CORNERS ARE BLOCKED Club ATTLE S'TAR ; BUYS SIXTH DODGE _- UNDER WATER Auto Club Wams Autoists : of Everett Flood | ey TIDES TIE UP TRAVEL| Thirty Vehicles Stalled at Cavaleros Corners BROTHERS’ AUTOMOBILE = astute, Washington Pledges Support in Fight not’ ope t contrad According to reports at Bile Club of Washingt if § ‘ ters : Ptalled at Cava h Desday a ¥ you'd bet rive either Tolet, office Cavaleros ¢ homish, Evere highways inter povered seve ide and & few « Prater ts from ¢ here. 7 Mt. Ve Everett, ts Buick Body Construction In constructing its open car bodies, Buick uses bolts in fastening the metal braces to the wood, instead of ordinary screws, These bolts pass- high avigated by when t raffle me wdinance mplainants state ing completely through the wooden frame os ee are OF REL OCROLTIA prevent joints from loosening under driving half miles | ; 1 up from elg + Low tide travel Thursday and Priday was still tc Mlcations we ains. A more than usual number of bolts secure the Buick body to the chassis, holding Kenyon, president of the K. A. corporation, with his new Dodge Brothers roadster, This i Kenyon We tides k t rigidly i ely eliminatin " yr and one of the first of that make to be equipped with balloon tires. € it rigidly in position and entirely eliminating Re eee ; all squeaks and rattles, Pount of the broke ° @treams and marsh Be potions nets i whee thal, CARY tad state authorien, for the cond better automobiles are built Pempt by water getting into @mechanism and that drivers of Mars were advi use extren Paution in navi; ¢ inundat Strip of hishway . * inder at ¢ Buick will build them ‘ELpripee New “Sparkers” Held Aid |< to Dad’s Pocketbook [pence ed of the engine fe, A 200foot dirt s! | Long time expe ments by motor Ren ni ar manufacturers have pr Jogrees up to 2 ston-Bellevue highway this week has cos i rearcrpuerhy steScag hgh up. 67 a 0842 Pyelosed that road between Renton | tit fa actual was neit, the averag EA st. itd Hazelwood. Autoists are ad-| | East Pike at Harvard to a motor r to'run Vited to use every the detour around th precaution on} + year wi e same set of spa | New Downtown Store—Stuart Bldg. —Photo by Prices @ Carter important changes in attitude on the | >“!PPeTY W hen WET “Part of visitors. A greater interc than before in fine workmanship, GGreful design and comfort was ap Parent from the questions asked Star Mtaff Photographers ‘Tommy Milton Enters for KE When b MOTOR COOL weather comes, ren ber this tip: apply a coat of ‘The visitors also showed greater num paint to the under side of the Beneral knowledge of important B ] B ] R t top and a white reflecting paint of motor car des:gn, and in. to the upper sid Thus, says Dr Meat in funamertal cages ma DEVELLY DOW! Nace Even W. W. Cotent ef the Us & bares ‘Deen stimulated, without doubt, by | —— ot jg : the = ee we a the radical improvements which} : ’ * : reflected, instead of being a Hse teen made during tho past! Washington’s Birthday Classic Has 17 vsti aime sat eine te months . gore, Soran sexausnten, vice orsitent| Drivers Ready; Last Contest on Track pete te apd general salen manager of the} == = =~ = == =~ 9? = AUTOS GGING SOUTH =, motor Caf company, WhO) crommy Milton has affixed his sig-| Antoine Maurre, a butlder of light h America, during 1923, asus returned trom attending | Jsture to a Los Angeles Speedway | cars in France, who, it is mid, has| more than half a million aut r of automobile shows, includ- | | association entry blank for the Wash in mind continuing their manufac bilea from the 1 od States, Can. fhe national shows at New! ingion's Birthday classic, which will| ture in this countre France ay, England. S¥erk and Chicago, was greatly im-| be run on Sunday, February 24, and| NO DURANT TEAM and Belg is country Wpressed by the active buycr inter-| be the last race on the soonto-bedis TO BE ENTERED Despite the fact that Clift Durant will not be formally represented b a team carrying his colors specials will continue to fig y in the race, Incid contributed nearly the a as much as all in the highest grade of motor! mantied Beverly Bowl ear craftsmanship. | Milton's decision to turn a deat ear| “McNaughton states that the cut-/ to the $250,000 song of the dirt track iOpen chassis was the center of at-| siren and to continue his racing ca “Araction at the Cadillac booth| reer on the board speedways of the Wherever shown, and that it was| American Automobile assoc ra comt Durant and 1s ask personal letters to friends Geof the most popular features} add n formidable and famous con-/ goles Speedway nesociation will p . ae mom pub ag @f the national! shows. jtender for the 1924 championship] sonalty drive his own $20,000 nickeled ‘achueabian and epaly: parva {Closed bodies also came in for a| race, on which the Beverly Bow!| racer and not bes taote spectator | “Comeents soar as daree share of visitor interest. Buy-| wind-up will ring up the curtain. | from a grandstand box The lure of ‘Tho oigoad ny bein Ne _aa00 ers today insist upon having not} HEPBURN ALSO the speed game again proved too a paren tere 02 = M lng an as ‘only attractive lines but also com-| AFTER $25,000 strong for tho young millionaire : , ation: amp fortable and beautiful interiors, that | Are furnished with the very best) jt quality of materials.” ected to the members of co! r added. “Each a clear-cut ata Tommy’s entry will also carry with | SPortsman to retire from it just yet the addition’of Ralph Hepburn to! The entrants and the cars they | the list of contestants for the $25,000 | Will drive follow two ment in be | Purse to be put up bythe Los An-|Fddie Hearne .......Durant Special | DS Tocklicioluhy {theeoue’ the _ AUTOS LIVE LONGER seles Speedway association that day.| Jimmy Murphy . Miller Special | -intry are f this up with jAverage life of an automobile has| This motorcycle racing champion manny see Special! personal lett réssmen and wa ‘increased from 5% years to 6%| will be at the wheel of the other Harry Hartz .. Special | nen rs. SSSSSSOSSSOS SS SSS SSS \ le hh Ae, he Lge ee : Catiaee! ieee by : Tommy Milton Spectal = = =<. => = < Btler repairs and less tendency to| raised the number of Washington's | Cliff Durant ..,......Durant Special |#¢S910N of congress {t will not be turn in a car for a @ new one before| Birthday candidates to 17. the old is worn out. | Among the late entries was that of Joe Boyer .....Duensenberg Special “Red” Shafer . .Duensenberg Special Ernie Anstenberg . Duesenberg Spec Hrd Conner; Durant Special |™ined unwillingness of congress to | Earl Cooper . Miller stat | FIVE Up $146,000,000 of revenue ob. | Ira Vali. {-Miller Special | ‘ined from the taxation of motor Jerry Wandeiiich ...Durant Special | t#-” Ralph Hepburn ..,....Miller Special | Antolne Maure faurre Special Frank Elliott . Elliott Spectal It will bo noted that the first six | named above finished in this order for the 1923 A. A. A. champlonship. Before the program 4s printed it is possible that several drivers of Miller Specials may give to them other rac ing names, among them Earl Cooper } and Tra Vail. on account of lack of information | on the subject. The only answet for failure to act will be the doter. Luxury RF AUTY ee Geared To Your Pocketbook. We like to believe that one reason why Star owners are so thoroughly sold on | the new Star Sedan is the indefinable luxury which quietly, but unobtrusively surrounds it. Under the hood, back of the disting- uished radiator, the Red Seal Continen- tal Motor awaits the contact of your foot with throttle to purrits way through - traffic or growl its 50 on the highway, AUTOISTS SEEK i (OMPANY plugs. aie . Thousands ofe motorists have Fourth Ave. at University Street found that a new set of plugs after — — ; _ —_ rat oe ra 7 ——y ‘ from §,000 to 10,000 miles, not after w long period of service. The| COSTS GOING UF «DP ‘ ; —— : makes better performance cer electrodes are pitt d oxidized by| Cost of automobiles and trucks CHANGE VIEW ut actually anves enough In oll and heat nd the incessant} expenditures on thelr mainte + gas to pay for the new wpark plugs i This materially increases | nance will amount to 12 billion dol WE « er thousands, when they prepare t « uation is not near no 4 resistance. stath fans estimate. This ir thou nd y prep " 5 Appreciate — Workmanship thelr cara for another season ot | complete Thin process is #o slow that the Ti bq. 42,000,000,000 moore than the irtvin, complete set) The pr ta of combustion grad-| motorist rarely notices ut the a : a ; t t ~- nent ¢ expe ¢ in 1923 and more than More Than Ever oe ee rs Meera : to the surface of the | operation is actually about the same nee cr tka tice * | Everett roads are still flooded as shown above and the autoists held up near Cavaleros 8 used in motor cars| core and ¢ fentually induce a Partial! retarded nal debt of the United Seasoned observers at the auto-| (7, C inly believe in signs, such as above, which announce that “This Pavement [3|today, the charge in fired in each | leakage, which wesdena he spark ch a mixtu ; ‘orners certainly be € in signs, Fi Mobile shows this year have notec Old-Style Gasoline Again! The kind of gasoline you used to get— Gasoline that is high in the volatile ele- ments that vaporize perfectly in your carburetor and give you quick starting and super-power—is now available for the automobile as well as for motor boats in the Pacific Northwest, | TAX RELIEF * | —— | Washington Auto Club Will) Plead for Action | |“WRITE CONGRESSMEN”) | Shelor Sounds \ Warning on “Discriminatory Act” “It is now up to members of con gress themselves to give the needed | relief to the 15,000,000 motor vehicle The Gardner goes from 2 to 60 miles an hour with no perceptible vibra- tion at any speed. The famous 5- | bearing crank- | shaft Gardner motor is the rea- son, General Gasoline {s distilled by a spe- clal_ process which preservos. those lighter fractions, often lost by other methods of refining, and gives you a fuel similar to that produced in the early days of motoring, acon RE SAAT FEY. owners from the discriminatory war nick getaway— faraor oy this 2008 gas tn your tank. it up |Il erctee taxen,” tald Donen Shetor, | HD ora toh Td at company's office. and let your engine decide! | manager of the Automobile Club of | tiles an hour ta high, Washington, Friday. “Motorists | have been astounded at the refusal jot the ways and means committee | of tho house to even consider the removal of the war excise tax on motor vehicle repair parts, which fy a tax on misfortune, and yet | Brant relief for soft drinks, ean dies, jewelry, theater and movie ad missions, bowling and billiards, airk knives and other items. “Our club has brought this un fair treatment of the motorists to the attention of our congressmen! Smallwood Motor Co., Inc, 1024 EB. Pike at Mth st-1069 GENERAL | GASOLINE | “clean power/” | Copyright, 1924, by General Petroleum Company Prices of Models Here~Tax and Freight Paid Touring Car $630 Roadster - - - 625 Coupe - - ~ - 830 Special Sport Sedan -- 1145 an - --- 990 F. O. B, Lansing, Mich, Long, low lines, glistening lustre of finish, armchair seats that rest you as you ride, silver-nickeled trimmings in- side and out—in a word, the complete ensemble that causes a glance of envy in the best of company. A car to take dig- nified pride in and—to the ladies—a veritable coach of Cinderella, Built to an ideal—the new Star Sedan is tangible evidence of just what we mean when we say—Geared to your pocketbook. Call your dealer on the phone—now, He has 27 additional feature reasons— why the Star Sedan is your best buy. W. S. DULMAGE MOTOR Co. 925 EAST PIKE STREET Fourth Avenue Motor and Sales Ca “TeV 1114 Fourth Avenue r; Tacoma Branch 731 Broauwy Everett 219-2721 Colby Ave, 4 — scacieannsnetn oT sca eens