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Show AUTOMOBILES 2-Ton-Slipping Tiros. The great desire of city motorists for speed wllli safety on slippery streets Is the underlying cause of the unprecedented unprecedent-ed demand for non-skid tires, according lo,G. II. Pumphrey of the Utah Tire and Repair company, local agents for Firestone Fire-stone tires. "Safety to occupants as well as pedestrians." pe-destrians." said he, "depends solely upon the amount of control a driver has over his car. No man whose time is valuable wishes to crawl along at a snail's pace any more than lie wants to travel too fast and risk accident. "The positive control against side-slipping on wet pavemcntn which the Firestone Fire-stone non-skid tire insures over our regular reg-ular round treads, appeals very strongly to city owners of cars." I Franklin Wins Race. Races under the auspices of tho Boise Automobile club at the fair grounds at Boise, Ida., resulted in a. doublo victory for the Franklin "Six," owned by A. P. Cruzcn and driven In the competition by J. G. Moore. The first event was one of two miles, from 11 standing start, the time of the Franklin being 2.-7 3-n. 1:28 for the first mile and 1:10 3-5 for the second. The second event showed better time for the winning Franklin, tho distance, also two miles, being covered in 2:13 2-5. A strong wind prevented tho making of tho high- 1 est speed of which the cars were capa- 1 ble. Big Business DeaL Men with their ears close to tho ground I and In touch with tho trend of the.auto-1 the.auto-1 mobile Industry look upon the Stude-bakor-E-M-F deal, consummated Inst week, as one of the most significant events of recent occurrence. As there is considerable misunderstanding misunderstand-ing as to just what the nature of this deal was, it may be stated authoritatively that Messrs. Fred S. Fish and Clement Studcbakcr, Jr., purchased tho stock of Messrs. Everltt and Metzger in the Everitt-Motzger-Flanders company, and that, further, the Studobaker Automobilo company has contracted to purchase and market the entire output of the E-M-F "30" cars after September L It will bo remembered that tho big South Bend company contracted for one-half of this season's output of the E-M-F fn.ctory shortly after the Dotroit concern was organized last July. Big Automobile Sales. Something of the activity In tho sale of automobiles hero is indicated by the fact that during the past three day's tho Consolidated Wagon and Machine company com-pany alone sold twelve cars. A carload car-load of new Buicks is expected on Monday Mon-day to fill up vacancies In the stock, and a car of Fords will be received on Tuesday. |