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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1917)
i ) 0 1) - PEHAND FOR CARS ' " EXCEEDS CAPACITY Omaha Automobile Club Notes Months Surpass Those of Any Like Period Since Com pany's Organization. " Through club efforts the police de- SHV.ciebaker Si'les of Last Two partrnent is sending to employers a j warning that their drivers of slow moving motor or horse-drawn trucks l must keep as close as possible to the right-hand curb to allow faster moving vehicles a clear and safe passage. Nu merous complaints received by the police department and the Auto club caused the action. Many truck drivers persist in staying in the immediate flow of traffic and refuse to pull over to the right to allow a faster moving car to pass. Wholesale arrests will re sult if the citv ordinance on this traffic point is not observed. Employers have A. l; Stmlcki completed tuo.e demand m excess Kr.-kine, president of the er corporation, who has just a trii of inspection of er sales agencies, says: "The lor Studebaker cars is creatlv capacity ot our to furnish the them. Sales for the months of Sep tember and October exceed those of j been asked to warn their drivers that organiza- the costs of arrest will be taken from their salary. The Auto club has received, through newspaper publicity asking for same, " uyo months since nun ot iue company. ""n January 1. 1918. compared with Ja;.;ary 1, 1917, tle cas, ,)0Sj "t the comnanv will be in iniich shape. We will have smaller inventories, more cash and less notes am lion better some valuable stolen car data wlncli is eins followed up. The club is greatly :cenu!!!s mivab e. Hie directors i encouraged bv the co-oDeration given are unanimous in the opinion that the i bv the newspapers and the motorists 1U per cei stock will "Tl abr,.. t:u : aki:i apyn share. th c common : o'.vident on be restored. H-t earnings for 1917 will be Moon Manager Hears No Kick on the Auto War Tax "This is a truly patriotic na tion," said Stewart McDonald, vice president and general manager of the Moon Motor Car company of St. Louis, "and the automobile trade is in position to know this. Strong oppo sition to the J per cent war tax was made by the automobile trade in the belief that such a tax would seriously cripple the industry because buyers would not buy cars because of the tax. "We have been agreeably surprised and our belief in the loyalty of 'our public strengthened by the fact that there has been absolutely no question I raised not even in a single instance by a buyer of Moon cars as to the war tax. "On our new Thousand Dollar six. the tax ivnnlil lip $M) On Anr l.ii-crfr' models it would be more, but our dealers and salesmen tell us that not a single sale has been postponed be cause of the war impost." Auto Show Dates This Year Xowmbrr IS-lft Iuvfr, Colo, November U-IH l.o Anfflrt, Cal. Nuvemltrr fi-19 Kl Paw, T, llfnmWr - Akron, O. Jnnunry 6-1'i New York, January B-'il levelmiil, O. January 11-1H Manhlnjctun, 1). ('. January 11-10 I'rovldrnr. K. I. January 1 1-1 riiltarirlphta. Pa. January 18-M Milwaukee. Win. January 1J-?A Montreal, Canada. January l!l-'J7 Cleveland, O, January il-Srt Seranton, Pa. January il-t York, l'a. Jonuary it-M 1'ortland, Ore. January tit-February S Chlraso. February - MlnneaiwIlN, Minn. February tt-lfl Kaeftaa lit). Mo, February 11-10 St. Louis, Mo. February 1H-S.H Syracue, N. If. February lK-'.'S tiramt Knplils, Mlcb. February 18-2.1 Springfield, O. February lX-'.M lc Mnine. Ia, February 18-SH PHtflrll, Mass. February 18-S7 South Hethlfliem, Fa. February -Marrh S Omaha, Seb. Mureh 2- Ronton, Mux. March 10-3S Trenton, N 3. April 11-13 Stockton. ill. of Omaha, and again asks all who have j had cars stolen to report to the' club; also .inv information, tins or hunches nVKKUKH). Alter deducting i which vou believe to be worth run n in 2 and preferred dividends, the . down. lor tiie common stock will i mate $5.0(1(1.000. or $17 per ; Next Wednesday morning in the The net asset value of the Auto club room the King of Trails! common stock January 1, 1918, will Highway association w ill convene to I be at least S10o" a share. The com- i determine the final and permanent: pany could discontinue the motor car routing ot the K. I. highway trom business and liquidate and pay within Sioux City to Ortonville, Minn. At 50 davs all liabilities, includine- the i Present there are two contest roads preferred stock, and have enough re maining to pay the common stock holder double the present quotation. "The vehicle and harness business alone during 1917 will earn sufficient to pay all charges and dividends on preferred and common stocks." Earnings Great. Earnings of $8,000,000, or $17 a 6harc, on Studebaker common after war taxes this year, as estimated in the wire from President Erskine, ex ceeds previous expectations, and would compare with $8,611,245 in 1916 and $9,067,425 in 1915. In the June quarter this year sales of Studebaker m s fell off seriously as a result of ivrr entry into the war, and profits were well under those of the previous year. Recovery has been made since June .30, however, and reduction has been made in the floating debt to $9, 000,000 from the high point of $13, 231,520 as of July 1. . It has been known that the Stude baker corporation had received already over $6,000,000 of government orders for harness, artillery wheels, wagons and other war products which the Studebaker has had experience in manufacturing. The company has not entered any airplane work. In August the 10 per cent dividend was reduced to a basis of 4 per cent per annum, and this rate of 1 per cent quarterly was maintained at the meet ing of the board recently. "The Home of Satisfaction" iinWi.ili' REV Satisfaction Guaranteed e Palma Defies Custom To Use New Tire and Wins In the building of fast cars it has frequently been thought that the limit in speed had been reached, but actual performance has shown that no mat ter hjvv high the record has been set, sooner or later it was bound' to be eclipsed. This is what happened to the world's 10-mile speed record last week on the two-mile board track! speedway at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., when Ralph De Palma, using a Pack ard motor of less than 300 cubic inches displacement, clipped 2.37 sec onds from the world's record set up by H.ornstedt, on the Brooklands, England, track in 1914 in a car of 1,100 cubic inches displacement. De Palma's time for the 10 miles was five minutes, 17.41 seconds a speed of 113.42 miles an hojir. There was special interest in De Palma's try for the 10-mile world's Record because of his use of Goodyear iio-hook-or straight Side Cord tires. Racing men have clung tenaciously to the tradition that only clincher tires would stay on the rims at speeds of 100 miles an hour and better and then only when fastened on with special lugs, although the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company has maintained that the braided piano .virc base in the bead of no-hook tires is sufficiently strong and rigid to hold the tire to the rim regardless of all riding condi tions. The first of the racing men of dis tinction to break away froth the old tradition was De Palma, who early in the present season adopted the no hook type of tire on his car. His lat est exploit of establishing a new world's record has vindicated the yioodyear claim and led him to de 'clare that he will in the future use this type of tire exclusively. Maxwell College Students Work Every Day in the Year Most universities and colleges are in session from September to June and some only during the summer months, but there is one whose doors are open every working day in the year the Maxwell Technical college. Maxwell Tech has a faculty, curri culum, students, finely-appointed la boratoryeverything. At the head of the faculty is Prof. Guy de Long, M.M.M.M. master Maxwell motor mechanism. In an advisory capacity is II. I. Gundcrson, known the auto world over as "skipper," as professor emeritus. Among the students of this unique university are men from every state of the union, many provinces of Canada and several foreign countries. These men, once graduated, go back into their respective sections and, by reason of their courses in Maxweli Tech, constantly contribute to the joy of motoring in a Maxwell. These students are, without doubt, the hard-tst-working class in the world. Classes are not elective; they are compulsory and rich and poor alike receive the same instruction and the same treat ment. Ford Cars Come Through Like Wheat From a Machine niirinrr the month of October the Ford Motor company made 79,675 cars. In the las tsix months its pro duction was 469,135 or at the rate of 938,270 per annum. The estimated production for the year was placed at 900,000. about 3,000 per day, but there is small doubt that unless war con ditions .irevent, that there will be more than a million Ford cars made within the Ford fiscal year, August 1, 1917. to August 1, 1918. Staggering a are these figures, this tremendous l'iun-.!i of manufacturing possibil ities, it "S equally astonishing to know that the demand" i ever ahead of pro duction, and that there has no been a day since August 1 last that there hive riot been orders on hand for Jre than 100,000 cars for immediate deliver; working for the final routing and the meeting will likely be a. warm good roads meet. The K. T. association is one of ihe younger road organizations of the country, but has made wonder ful progress in the last year, having marked nearly all their route and stirred up road improvement from Winnipeg to the Gulf. It is estimated 150 or 200 delegates will be on hand. The club has received word that the Black Hills trail is now marked BHT. from Elk City to Norfolk. The mark ing will be brought into Omaha over the Military road. ' Omaha motorists bound for Norfolk and Neligh will find the following route one of the best in the state: Omaha, Fremont, north to Hooper, Scribner, west through Dodge, How ells, Clarkson (six miles wejt of Clark son turn north to Stanton and Nor folk); for Neligh and Albion, turn south, six miles west of Clarkson, to Leigh, and go west through Creston, Humphrey, Lindsay to Albion. This is a splendidly maintained road. U. S. Ambulances Doing Great Work in Paris Zone An interesting report regarding the service rendered by American trucks lias been sent to Frank Allen Whit ten of the General Motors nonparty, by William R. Hereford, executive secretary of the American Military hospital. The report is herewith quoted in part: I hava bought SO OMO trucks for the American Ambulance hospital In France to be used for the purpose of ambulances. The ambulance service of our Paris hos pital Is now taking care of all of the trans portation of wounded In the entire Paris zone, the principal hospital zone of France. ' hese cars, with Americana driving them, meet the trainloadu of wounded coming to the distributing stations In and near Paris and carry the wounded from these stations to the many hospitals. Sometimes the work Is a great test of endurance for both men and machines, because It must be kept up constantly for hours on a stretch. Sometimes for night and day men and ma chine must co on, the men without a chance for sleep and the machines without chance to be overhauled. I feet that thli la no email tribute to your company, and I congratulate- yon on your part In the designing of this truck, which Is so admirably fitted for carrying wounded in war. Auto Factory Employes Buy Large Block of Bonds After subscribing more than $138, 000 to the first Liberty loan, the em ployes of Nordyke & Marmon Co., makers of the Marmon "34," nd other Marmon products, surpassed their previous records and took $146,000 of the second Liberty loan, according to figures just issued by the Liberty loan committee of the plant. This was ex clusive of the amount subscribed by the company itself. ON 3 13 m m USED CARS The Murphy-O'Bri.n Auto Co. hav. adopt.d a new policy of telling used cart. A guarantee accompanies erery Dodge Brothers and Paige car we sell. We assume responsibility for defective part and give the purchaser every assurance of sat isfaction. This is something new in the automobile industry a most radical change from the policy employed by all dealers in used cars. Heretofore the purchaser has assumed all the risk. He has had to depend on his own judgment, or "luck." He could never be sure he would not have a big repair bill tacked on to the original purchase price. We are going to change this.. We are going to insure you to guarantee you will be satisfied. We believe this is only fair that the man who spends his money for a used car is entitled to the same attention and considera tion that is given to the purchaser of a new car. SEVEN DAYS' TRIAL Come down and pick out your car. We'll tell you every thing we know about it. Then try it for seven days. If, at the end of that time, you are in any way dissatisfied, bring the car back and every cent of your money will be cheerfully refunded. That's all there is to it. There is no red tape. In a week's time you will know whether the car is as represented and that is what the trial Is for to determine if you are satisfied. Then, as a further assurance of satisfaction, we will give a 30-Day Mechanical Guarantee We give, for a period of 30 days, the same guarantee as to the mechanical soundness of the used car that we give with new cars. Thus we assume all risk. Wo believe the prospective purchaser of used cars will ap preciate this new policy. We know, we will derive a vast amount of satisfaction if we can say on December 31, 1917, "We know that everyone who has purchased a car, of any description, from the Murphy-O'Brien Co. is satisfied." Come in and talk it over. Now is the logical time, to pur chase, as prices are low. x USED CAR DEPARTMENT Murphy-O'Brien Auto Co. 1814-16-18 FARNAM STREET. TELEPHONE TYLER 123. as WlllliWllmlllW A DE ARE0RN $350 . F, O. B. Chicago and a FORD makes a ONE-Ton FORD-DEARBORN TRUCK $400 F. O. B. Chicago and ANY Car makes a ONE-T6n Dearborn Universal Truck $450 F. O. B. Chicago and a FORD makes a TRUCK $500 F. 0. B. Chicago and ANY Car makes a TWO-Ton Dearborn Universal Truck JONES-OPPER CO., 2043-45 Famam St. OMAHA, NEB. Distributors Eastern and Northers Nebraska and Western Iowa. TTACHMENT And Any Kind Of An Automobile Will Made a Good Truck A. H. JONES, HASTINGS, NEB. Distributor Southern and Wtettrn Nebraska and Northern Kansas. fe3 11 i He M Norway Clamoring for American-Made Trucks With only one ship plying between the ports of New York, I'nited States of America, and Christiana, Norway. the very prosperous citizens of the Scandinavian country clamor in vain for American products, motor cars, particularly. Sverre Edin of Kolbcrg, Caspary and company, engineers, Christiana, Packard dealers in Norway, who came to America on the most recent voy age of this vessel, arriving a month ago, is endeavoring to obtain licenses rtmi '.lie American government so llint I'.i.'k.ird cars and trucks, both ot which are in great demand in his cniiiitr, may be shipped. He was a visitor at the factory. "Norway is maintaining a strict neutrality." said he. "One-third of Norway's merchant Meet has been de stroyed by the L'-boats, with passen gers and crew left to drown. Some times, even, persons who are attempt ing to save their lives in life boats were tired upon. Open boats have landed on onr shores with half frozen people, telling talcs of such practices. l ertatnly no one can truthfully say there is any pro-German sentiment among our people." Liberty Bonds Taken by Olympian Motor Co, The Olympian Motor company ot Pontiac, Mich., has recently added itself to the list of motor car manufac turers who will accept Liberty loan bonds in full or part payment for motor cars, either on sales made to dealers or sub-dealers. Albert Dill of Dill & Torring has supplemented the advice by announc ing his willingness to extend this proposition to all subdealers or pros pects in his territory. ' Pee Want Ads Produce Results. C2si 3 m ewer mmmreiK-i0n0tyxT.-i iff mm mm i I j UMeatSaaWliBt AN NG-INE YOU'LL NEVER FORGET The great Chalmers engine, now featuring the cm rent Chalmers car, arrived at a rare time in history. With war on, and gasoline in use now as never before, there has been one result evident probably to most every man that drives a car the rapid decline in the grade of gasoline. Engineers never expect to see a high-grade gas again. In the face of this condition now comes the great Chalmers engine, which makes high power out of low grade gas. . It makes "one drop of gas now do the work of two." It makes gasoline work as gasoline has never worked in an automobile engine before. By means of an ingenious device known as a4Tiot spot," the gas, after leaving the carburetor, is warmed up (but not overheated) just before it enters the intake manifold. Then by means of another ingenious device known as a "ram Vhorn" manifold, it is skillfully passed on to the engine combustion chafnber. The secret here is in what are known as "easy air bends." The result is that at the time when the gjas is touched off by the spark plug it is "cracked up" intca perfect vapor for 100 results. This device in particular is one of the most notable achievements in automobile engineering iq many years. Not only do these improvements on the engine create more power out of less gas, but they also make possible a quick starting engine on a cold day. When you step on the starter button in a current Chalmers, you get results right off. And your engine begins to run with midsummer smoothness no miss ing cylinders no spitting no hesitating no backfire. So notewqrthy is this great Chalmers engine that one is tempted to overlook other notable improve ments and perfections in the current Chalmers. They are numberless, and once evident to the eye of a wise buyer, they win him. To miss seeing the current Chalmers at our show rooms is to miss the most recent and most talked-of car of the day. TOURING SEDAN S1850 TOWN CAR LANDAT7LBT S30S CABRIOLET, 3-PASSENGER $1635 LIMOUSINE, 7-PASSENGER $2925 TOWN CAR, 7-PASSENGER $2925 LIMOUSINE LANDAULET $3035 ALL PRICES F. 0. B. DETROIT SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE TOURING CAR, 7-PASSENGER $1450 TOURING CAR, 5-PASSENGER $1365 ITANDARD ROADSTER $1365 Western Motor Car Co. 2054 Farnam Street. Phone Douglas 4904. Western Distributors Omaha, Neb. CHAS. R. HANNAN, JR., President. WALTER S. JOHNSON, Secretary and Sales Manager. . V. ABBOTT, Vice President and General Manager. Branches Lincoln, Hooper, Hastings, Nebraska, and Wichita, Kansas. WE EXTEND A CORDIAL INVITATION TO ALL IMPLEMENT SHOW VISITORS.