ASK TO WILLI a GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER BANKHEAD HIGHWAY. to take over have the government *u in the latter part of 1114 that the Bankhead Highway as one of he Georgia States west of Birmingham. ganizes Division With Capital City and vlrln ty and loeal sition of the au.omotlvt industry U the A. A. feeling ran high iftlnit the "6tier!mlnatory war exctw And South Carolina. Bill Ullman in Charge. A. (when the administration meth- ode of the national officers prompt¬ Uxti," C. C. Hanch. chairman of tfce PUBLIC ALLEAGER ed him to reelgn. taxation committee of the National COVER 400 MILES HAVE 100 MEMBERS Werkiu With Relrkt^ff. Automobllo Chamber of Commtro®. "VI1 men waa not only a long- has addreaeed a latter to each nomi¬ FOR CLOSED CARS t me buelneee aeaoclate but waa nee for Coners.. ask in* llm vhHh- Highways in States West of Will Maintain Infor¬ alao a rloae friend of A. G Batchel- Touring er he favors repeal of this v dar. The two worked at Waehing- 1 l«fis Birmingham Soon to Be mation Depot and Gen¬ ton In complete harmony. Mr tlon. . of Pro¬ with Mounting Percentage Batchelder dealing aatlonal The communication, which wae Visited. eral Service Bureau. arret. and Mr. Ullman keeping the duction Reported by A. K. A. to the front before execu¬ unanimously approved by the board and Washington. of directors, out thst Con¬ BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Oct. 7.. Brothers. That the recently-launched Na¬ tive legislative points Dodge "That Mr. Batcheldere trade and gress Itself emphatically Indicate' (Special).J. A. Rountree. direc. tional Motorists Association, which unt death waa a hard blow to Is a mely Its to these tor general of the Bankhead Na¬ the outgrowth of countrywide hla old coworker waa cloarly rr.an- desire repeal tasea la Production schedules prepared by demand for an effective national tional after the motor-car manufacturers for the Ifeeted In the next laaue of Amer¬ the passacs of ths 1921 law. when Highway Association, organisation of automobile owners. the wors coming year reflect accurately the ican Motorlet. The tribute to hla taxee removed from eoSft* a two weeks' tour In the States of Intends to become thoroughly es¬ late chief written by Mr. Ullman articles and reduced on others "la constantly increasing desire of the tablished throughout the United Georgia and South Carolina, in¬ closed-car comfort. la generally regarded aa a claaalc no caee." Mr. Hanch points out. "ftid public for States Is made clear in the an¬ Batchel- specting main line and branches of The strength of the closed car de¬ and Ia traaeured by all of Congreea increase each taxee or add nouncement last night that a Na- der a old fr'enda." new onee. th« Bankhead Highway, has re¬ mand is illusrated by the fact that 1. R. H. Harper, President tlonal Capital division of the Brothers, Detroit manufac¬ asso-1 Call a I ass lnHtsHi. turned to Birmingham. Director Dodge " elation is to be formed to further are 2. B. D. Jenkins, Secretary- General Rountree is enthused turers. planning to flevote ap¬ strengthen the great chain of af¬ "Apparently Congreea belleood K quite 35 per cent of their Treasurer. over the splendid condition of the proximately filiations already extending from Recording Device of greater Importance to relieve these large production for the latter half coast to coast and from boraer to musical instruments, sporting roods. BaiUchead Highway in two 1922 construction of closed 3. R. S. Davies, Sales Manager. States, as well as interest of to border. chewing gum. thermos bottles, far the and The of this D. C. Service Is Almost Human enthusiasm are cars. importance figure 4. Helmes, Mgr. Equal In importance to this articles, picture frames, perfumes, the people manifest¬ with an-j ing In these twQ States over the is emphasised by comparison 5. J. B. Barnes, Used Car Mgr. nouncement is the news that the toilet watora. and hair dyee than ls- buflding. marking, and last year's closed-car percentage, new division is to be formed under dividual tranaportation ID thia be¬ maintaining was IS beautifying the same. which approximately per Each man is an expert in his the leadership of William Ullman. Bureau of Standards Has lief we do not concur, and we fe*l There are 250 miles of the Bank- cent. for eight years an executive at the that the only equitable thing in tKm head Highway in Georgia and The production schedule shows line and under the direction of national headquarters of the Amer¬ Machine That Notes Every¬ Interests of fair play and the wel- 150 miles ;n South Carolina. Eighty. that the closed car pf today Is dis¬ their capable leader has achieved ican Automobile Association. fare of all Industry aa a whole U to Ave cent of tinctly not a "luxury" car. It Is In to Executive thing About Auto. war per the highway in success for Durant According Secretary repeal all discriminatory easts* each of these States has been built great demand because It will stand fcreat the Fred H. Caley, establishment of a taxee" or under and is being built of hard surface up hard driving pounding Car in Washington. National Capital Club was the log¬ The Bureau of Standards hat de¬ The letter Is accompanied4 |gr s arai-top soil road. They are in ex¬ on bad roads Just as sturdily ae the ical sequence of the N. M. A.'s re¬ memorandum which shows fr grcsk- cellent condition. open car.and at the same time of¬ cent capture of the Keystone Club veloped a device which Is almost hu¬ Ic form tbe repeals and roduodaa* ExtPMivelj Entertained. fer closed-car protection and com¬ of PhiladelDhia. the Atlantic City man In Ita ability to record many of made In tbe tax law of fort. Club, the Automobile Club of Mary¬ the things which take place In the against the law of ltlt. / t The inspection commission of the The which land and Bafikhead steel body construction the Delaware State Auto¬ mechanism of an automobile wfetie Highway consisted of Dodge Brothers recently Introduced mobile Association. Hop. Bennehan Cameron, president; being driven on the road. Thla ma¬ In addition to the stgrtstuso J. Rountree. director in their business coupe and business IUmi Landed. odfr, general; sedan provides strength and resis¬ chine Is entirely automatic, and re¬ Hanch. who Is vies presldssr of »h« Mrs. R. K. Rambo. chairman of the "And." says Mr. Caley In a state¬ Lexington Motor tance to strain which is possible ment concerning his organisation's cords the speed of the automobile. Ob«ipaaK Cftp&or-s woman's commission for Georgia; the Wallace Breaks rllle, Ind the lotterbeare tb* an« M. J. Abney. vice president for only where construction CLOSED CAR BODIES latest enterprise, "the next move was Its acceleration, and the And tempera¬ of the other members of the opvm- Georgia; J. C. Duckworth, vice throughout is of steel. pricss to obtain the best man for the Job. of closed cars can by no means be We ture of the water, gasoline, and oi!. mUtoe as follows: H H. Htea, pres¬ pres dent for South A. N. An Old consider ourselves fortunate in * Carolina; Tradition Even the and direction of of C^dfllac Motor' Cbr - AlXord and C. N*. thought of as prohibitive, as they winning the Interest and active co¬ velocity ident Com Ferguson, direc¬ have been The IN GREAT DEMAND the wind Is measured and recorded. pany: J. Walter Drake. VhSlrman el tors from might years ago. operation of Mr. Ullman." Georgia. This commis¬ An Ingenious gage th-* board ef tbe Hupp Motor sion visited more than prices of Dodge Brothers all-steel While the new venture is to be photographic C»? twenty-five Agriculture Secretary Aban¬ makes a record of the quantity of Corporatloa; Ooorr* M O-sS* ttfwns and cities in Georgia and closed cars, for example, now ex- undertaken at the most Inauspicious cars Fisher Soon to Have the gasoline being used by the en¬ rloe m eeldent Chandler Motor Cat South Carolina. Addresses were ceed the prices of the open by Company dons Horses and West Virginia Has Production season of the year for launching an Carriage moment. snd F. J. net. « . dilfvered by Pres dent Cameron. narrow margins of $100 to $300. automobile club. N. M. A officials are gine at any Company: Hay pr General and In the northern and eastern Largest Manufacturing Which Runs Into Millions confident that spring will find the This very interesting apparatus dent Dodfe PuWlisre rharloa Clif¬ Director Rountree Mrs. For Lafayette Sedan. was described by R E of ton. of'ths Rambo at each one of them. The States, where from 5 to 7 months cf Washington organization strong on Carlson, presides* chatsbar, tad Floor in World. the Bureau of Standards, at a moot¬ shall man of the commission was extensively enter¬ the year are too cold for comfort- Space Annually. its feet and functioning 100 per cent Pterro-Arsow ,Mo< tained. able driving in an open car. the pop¬ In official Washington,. a tradi¬ in behalf of motorists. This confidence ing of the Society of Automotive tor Car Company, is also *. * Director of the closed car is Is gained from the fact that the mere Engineers last Thursday evening rt member ex-ofBoio of General Rountree se¬ ularity growing Impressive evidence of the re¬ tion of more than thirty yeara* Gasoline ¦¦ a live It ta tbe/oovncnlttes, cured Even subject. announcement of a or¬ the Cosmos Club. of which Pyke Johnson le esortitn, all the data and information by leaps and bounds. In ihe markable shifting of public demand standing hag Just been shattered. Washington in'fegard to the roads so that re¬ south the buying public appreciates particularly Interesting to the US,- ganization. together with the acknowl- ports can be made to the executive the instant protection against rain for closed car® Is shown by the re¬ Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. 249 automobile owners In West Vir¬ edged interest of Mr. Ullman. brought Wallace now a hundred council of the Bankhead Highway, or inclement weather which this cent announcement of the Fisher rides up and down ginia. who are compelled to buy inearly voluntary member- and* be prepared to furn sh the type affords. Body Company that they have ar¬ Pennsylvania avenue In a motor ships. Bureau of gasoline for their machine*. Under the direction of Sec¬ Public Roads and the The rapidly mounting percentage ranged to build or take over six car.a vestibule sedan that bears Field Congress, which will meet in De¬ of clo«ed-car production shows how large plants near Chevrolet assem¬ Many of the automobile owners, retary Raymond Beck, the National the Lafayette cameo on Its radiator is to cember. A request will be made at well the motor-car public is taking bly plants for the sole purpose of however, do not know that a large Capital Club have a touring in- the.cominc meeting of the Congress to this type of car. closed cars to Chevrolet front. formation depot and general service supplying percentage of the "gaa" they use Is bureau in full Motor Company. If you are ignorant of precedents keeping with the city's taken from natural gas. And com¬ importance as a motoring Aditlon of these new plants will the latter statement is not objective at all few in West Vir¬ and a point of radiation for automo- give the Ftsh?r Body Company the astonishing and you might right¬ paratively people bile total floor know tours. Plans to this end are al¬ largest manufacturing fully inquire: "Well, what about ginia that the first natural ready under way. space in the world.the aggregate It? Doesn't all Washington, l^ke gas gasoline plant erected in the for Tssrlits. The Cadillac You a being over twenty million square all Kokomo or all Oskdloosa, mo¬ Washington Company Can United States was near It is Now Afford built Slaters- generally conceded that feet, nearly three times the area tor?" of the United States 8teel Corpora¬ The facts In the case, however. vllle. W. Va., In 190J. This plant Washington gets more tour ats tion. are these: from more sections of the United Announce was the type known as the com¬ than to Colin gen- Horse*. States any other city, and it According Campbell, A'w«y« Used pression process and operated on is with the idea of GOOD CAR era! sales manager, Chevrolet Motor Never before In the history of the adequately these motorists Chevrolet is the lowest Department of was gas derived from oil wells. servlng from all The Really Company, Agriculture.it corners of America that Na¬ Appointments The fame of the Overland and Willys-Knight is too well known priced car on the market carrying established In 1889 near the close 1»20 Hecord »1S.«4I1.SS1. the to need reiteration. The present low prices mean that you can buy of tional Capital Club is to be launched a car of a Fisher body, hence It has at- President Cleveland's first term There Is probably less known unquestionable reputation at prices that were unheard of both .has the holder of this and lofted to the very h ghest .even a few months ago. This is your opportunity. Prices were tracted buyers from the lower particular T. W. BARRETT ne\er portfolio had occasion to about this Industry than there 's plane. lower.quality never higher. and higher price classes because of patronize In a a gasoline filling station. In fact, about any oth;r Industry In the statement concerning the the high quality of the body and the man who will lead engineering improvements in the the horse-drawn carriage In which State that approaches Its magnitude. the Washington the first of Agriculture, club Secretary Caley says: As Associate Dealer chassis. Chevrolet is now the Secretary The market value of seems Norman J. was ac¬ gasoline pro¬ "All Washington gratified largest producer of closed cars of Colman. rode, at the cepted as the official vehicle of the duced in West Virginia in 1920, -he announcement that William this quality. Ullman is to become active under In one Chevrolet Motor department by all of his successors latest statistics available, was 111 - year and the the banner of the N. M. A. closed car requirements during administrations of 049,551. Company Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, "When Mr. Ullman resigned from have increased from approximately This Industry began to develop In the American Automobile Associa¬ 9 cent of Its volume to McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft and Wil¬ His sales and service will be located per nearly son, the a practical tion last Apr 1, the entire Wash¬ at 50 and indications are that Secretary of Agriculture way about 1910, al¬ Touring. Model 20-A. *1.235 Model per cent looked to a team of ington advisory board, comprising Sedan. 20-A S1.95A 1923 of spanking bays though active expansion of the n- a 24th and M Streets N.W. Roadster. Model 20-A... 1.235 Touring. (7 Pass.) 1,435 in more than half Its pro- or prancing blacks for motive number of the city's foremost Coupe. Model 20-A 1.7S3 Sedan. (7 Pass.) 2,19ft duction will be closed cars. dustry did not take place until 19 IS. citizens, resigned with him. togeth¬ power. In West 2880. The fact that the of mi there were in the United er with many Indiv dual members. Telephone Secretary States 196 No man in the [Agriculture has clung so to plants for the recovery National Capital en- ANDERSON HAS NEW long more the horse-drawn carriage as his of¬ from "®tural gsa. and in Joys popularity among mo¬ ?Ln*S01lne1920 we And 1.149 such torists. and he has the Indorsement FACTORY MANAGER ficial vehicle Is all the more sur- operations. prising when you consider that the There are two methods »f recov- of the press and public generally class of citizen he represents.the erlng gasoline from natural gav as well as the Washington auto¬ J. G. Murphy has been made fac- farmer.Is the very backbone known as the compression mobile dealers Indiv dually and the Anderson Mo¬ of IJ7 T® Touring. Model 4 952ft Coupe. Model 4 970ft tory manager of the automobile market and has and absorption processes. In l'ie collectively. at a Roadster. Model 4 ft2ft Sedan *75 tor Company Rock Hill. S. C. taken more advantage of the au¬ compression process all the gasoline In Newnpaper Man. Commercial Chassis 9425 Mr. Murphy is well known in tomotive power than any other manufactured Is from ga; gathered "Mr. Ullman hap been a newspa¬ manufacturing circles having held productive group. Nor is the horse rrom oil wells. This gas Is subject¬ per man practically all his life. It EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 18, 1922. some important positions in the any longer the infallible of ed to varying pressures that cause automobile in the symbol IMMEDIATE DELIVERY OX A I.I. MODELS industry past farming. the gasoline contained In this gas seventeen years. He was for some Dol'y and Ned Gone. to condense. This product Is of a time assistant factory superinten¬ Plodding Dolly and patient Ned, '"baracter and must be mixed dent for the Pierce-Arrow Motor which once were prominent in al¬ withi V a heavier petroleum prodict - Company, super ntendent of Kelly Overland Wheeler most every rural picture, have been before it can be used for fuel or au¬ Company Valve Company, of Chicago, and has replaced by truck and tractor, and tomotive units. 2415 Fourteenth Street held several other responsible po¬ if Rosa Bonheur were to pa nt her N. W. sitions. famous Ha« 163 Planta. Phone, Columbia 3651 "Horse Fair" today, the West Mr Murphy has already assumed automobile show at the county Virginia In 1920. had 1«3 Service Station: Rear 2112 Fourteenth Street N. W. his new duties and is now prepar¬ fair would be brushed upon her wUh "" ou'Put Phone, North 1031* ing for the production of twice as canvas. ^mfr?,5.,0",plan,sof 1 j 972.833 gallons of gasoline OPE\ EVEXIXGS AND HALF DAY OX Sl'XDAY many Anrterson cars as were pre¬ valued at *3.169.859. This State viously scheduled to be built dur¬ ranks fourth In the production of ing the next twelve months. natural gas by the compression TRUCK process. Oklahoma leading with a WRECK GETS wide margin over California. Texas and West Virginia Howerer. ths value of gasoline produced in West LIGHTNING REPAIRS '* hlgh*r than that pro¬ & duceda, i ?In any other State In the Union. The average barket price In Standardized Parts Remake 1920 was West Virginia. 19.S4 cents. .!? 17"S4 c'nt»; California. Job in Two and a Quar¬ Ps1* c'nts and Texas 17.48 cents. © Gasoline produced by the absorp¬ ter Hours. tion method consists of passing drv or lean natural gas. that produced by gas wells, through a light Making over a badly wrecked petroleum oil which absorbs the delivery truck in only two hours gasoline contained therein, and tl.la and fifteen minutes recently avoid¬ o,l is ed subsequently piped to a steam many days of expected service distilling apparatus where the gas,- «ey, loss and saved $100 in expense for line the Fame absorbed by the oil is recovered Hupmobile Laundry Company of In¬ This product having been steam dis¬ dianapolis. tilled does not contain the This lightning reconstruction per- was made light and possible by the stand¬ .1Imevolatile °/fractionsth.f characteristic of ardized stock parts and economical the product made methods of the Martin-Parry Cor- by the compres- When at poration of Indianapolis, largest sion process. FALL driving you have Has l night, commercial body builders in the Little >n>na. world, who \>uilt the laundry's de¬ By the addition of from 10 to 20 undoubtedly noticed the livery fleet. per cent of natural gas gasoline to many The truck had been sideswlped the refinery gasoline, that produced which and overturned In a ditch while on from crude oit a very satisfactory Hupmobiles you instantly its delivery rounds. When the motor fuel is produced which in¬ -:i wreck was righted and pulled out sures easy of the ditch starting and freedom the the laundry manager from carbon. As natural gas gaso. identifyby rear believed an entire new fan-shape lights. body yould 3 h'Kh vo'atility. it Is also be necessary. He despaired of get¬ k, . / with the blended other refinery prod¬ 11 ting truck back into service in ucts, such as naptha. thereby In¬ Not is it less than two or three weeks. creasing the value of such blending only pleasing in ap¬ Almont Totnl Wreck. materials. Its vestibule was entirely de¬ It Is of Interest to pearance, but it is also thor¬ molished, top West Vir¬ crushed, trimmings ginians to know that the largest torn of. fenders smashed, and it gasoline in was thought the elaborate panel absorption plant In the oughlypractical illuminating world is located in ths State at decorations, seal and monogram Hastings. W. Va. . the when would have to be painted new on This plant roadway backing at another body. owned and operated by the Hope and the rear of car A new body and this expensive Natural Gas Company. It was built night, the painting to maintain the laundry's in 1910 being the first gasoline when off a prid« In the attractive appearance absorption plant ever constructed in taking spare tire, of its delivery fleet was expected the United States. There were Convention to cost at least $150 and keep the forty-eight absor*. Hall or truck out of service for many tlon plants in West Virginia In inspecting gasoline gauge. days. 1920. They recovered 42,968,e66 gal¬ The wreck was taken to the lons of gasoline valued at $9 879 Oct. 21 st To 28th Martin-Parry factory with instruc¬ 692, leading by an 85 per 'cent tions to rush the job as the truck greater output than Oklahoma and STERRETT AND was badly needed. Just two hours of course, by still greater per¬ FLEMING, Inc. and fifteen minutes later the laun¬ centage over California and Penn¬ Champlain Street at Kalorama Road dry manager got one of the shocks sylvania. The average market price Telephone North 5050 of his life when told that the We" Vlr*,nia gasoline In Washington Automotive Trade Association wreck "had been completely re¬ ?L,he1920 was. per gallon. 22.99 cents Branch Salesroom 1223 Connecticut Avenu paired and was * again ready for for Oklahoma 13.24. and Pennsyl¬ service. < vania 22.16. j