Clashing Gears Are Eliminated Packard Company Has Ma ..cliine Which Rounds Off Sharp Edges of Teeth. A few years ago there was a grind ing and clashing of tortured metal when the gear-setting lever of an automobile was shifted into "first" *t tiie start, or from one speed to another. It was accepted as neces sary for a time. Knglneers of the Packard Motor Oir company, however, conceived tiie J!dea that if all the teeth of each gear ' ivere rounded off In some manner each time a change in speed was re quired the gears would slip quietly '■Into mesh with a force on the shift ‘‘lag lever no greater than that which could be applied by the unassisted little finger. A nw car was taken from tiie plant and given a long trip. After the re turn Col. J. (.!. Vincent and other engineers took the car all apart and studied the gears. It was found that tiie shifting from one speed to an other had chipped and ground off the sharp edges of the gear teeth and that they lmd been rounded off until they resembled the top of the ordinary steam radiator used to heat a home. An expert in the making of ma r bines for the manufacturing of gears was called in to work with company engineers to devise ft machine which would accomplish this rounding off operation before the gears were put into a car. The simple looking little njachino, no bigger than a baby chair nttd with a cutter no larger than the tapered end of a led pencil, has been taking the noise of clashing gears out. of Packard cars ever since. This cutter, through the employ ment of a “cam,” that Important little discovery^ hat lias allowed men to make machines which are almost hu man In their operation, trims off the edges- of a geur tooth just as easily and with somewhat the same motion that grandmother used to turn a peeling off the end oif a potato. Auto matically It passed about the round gear, trimming off one tooth after an other until all are done, and when It has finished it signals one man who takes care of a whole battery of ma < bines that it is ready to start work oh a new gear wheel. Stutz Territory Grows. The Stutz Motors company of Cali fornia, composed of an Impressive group of prominent Pacific coast business men, has been appointed dis tributors for Stutz cars in northern California and Nevada, according to an announcement by the Stutz Motor Car Company of America, Inc., of Indianapolis. V __ _ _ _ I Vaudevillians Tour Entire Circuit in Car Bought in East The vaudeville team of Gordon and Healey, which played the World the ater last week. Is out after the unique record of making the entlro Pantnges circuit without setting foot in a Pull man car. The team travels in a Studebaker coupe. In which it left New York on May 17 of this year. They visited Detroit, Toronto and Chicago, Los Angeles, Salt'Lake City, Minneapolis. Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Spokane, Seattle. Vancouver, Bellingham, Tacoma and Portland. They are now swinging back along the circuit to New York. While in Omaha they congratu lated C). N. Bonney, local dealer, on the performance of the oar under all sorts of road snd weather copditione. Wind Resistance Lowers Mileage, Says Reo Dealer "Amazingly few motorists pause to consider in these days of good roads and refined automobiles that they are driving faster than they did five years ago. with a consequent sacrifice of gasoline economy,” says Mr. Opper of the Opper Motor company. "Tests and calculations show in dif ferent instances that n car driven at 50 miles per hour and having a cer tain body shape requires £2.6 horse power to overcome the wind rests tance alone. This same car driven at 30 miles per hour .requires only 4.8 horsepower to overcome wind resis tance. Another car with a different body shape requires 10 horsepower at 50 miles per hour and only 2.3 horse power at 30 miles per hour. General Motors Produced 87,500 Gars in October Alfred P. Sloan, jr., president of General Motors, made the following statement in relation to current con ditions in the motor car industry, ns reflected by the operations of Gen eral Motors: "Believing that any actual facts tending to throw light on business conditions will be helpful, it may be interesting• to point out that the schedule of General Motors for Oc tober wM approximately 91,000 cars, which include our Buick, Cadillac. Chevrolet. Oakland, oldsmoblle and GMC truck: Preliminary reports in dicate that we manufactured and sold about 87,500. Cars on hand on oqr own account stood at 18,986 as of November 1, an Increase of 3,449 as compared with October 1. Town Brougham Car. First models of the New Peerless five-passenger town brougham, the addition of which to the company's line of attractive body styles was an nounced last week, have come through production and are being shipped to distributors. This latest New Peer less creation, built complete In the big Cleveland plant, combines the practical utility of a small capacity enclosed car with the luxurious com forts of a sedan. It is sure to be an object of admiration wherever seen. It is a beautiful design and will be immediately singled out In any gath ering of automobiles as a car of quality and distinction. The color Is Collins blue. National Father and Son Week, November 11-18 Dodse Brothers COMMERCIAL CAR Merchants are growing more and more particular about the appearance of the de livery cars they send to their customers’ homes. • The reason is perfectly clear to anyone who has ever analyzed his impressions on seeing a handsome, dignified delivery car draw up in front of his own, or his neigh bor’s door. Good appearance is one of the three fore most attributes of Dodge Brothers Com mercial Car. The others''are low upkeep cost and long, dependable service. Panel Commercial Car $998 f. o. b. Detroit; $1098 4olivero4 O’BRIEN-DAVIS AUTO CO. 2STH AND HARNEY STS. TEL. HA RNEY 0I2S Sales and Service Branches at Council Bluffs, la. Denison, la. JN&CQ..GRC • D. «. Plane Flight Lost Recital For Pianists ArtisU Attempted to Fly From 1-os Angeles to Frisco; l-o*t in Fog. Guy Maler and Lee Pattlson, pian ists to lie heard In Omaha In 'piano recital at Brandets theater on Thurs day evening. November 22, under the auspices of the Tuesday Musical club with Kirill Telmanyl, Hungarian violinist, have had the unusual ex perience of being lost In a fug 10.000 feet above the Pacific ocean. In an effort to keep an engagement for a recital on a Sunday afternoon In San Francisco the day after one given In Los Angeles, It wa* found necessary to make the distance by airplane. They started Sunday morn ing at six. They cruised along at the rate of 90 miles an hour, a dense fog completely obliterating the land and sea two miles below. After five hours of wandering in the air the plane made a nose dive two miles down. The dive was made successfully. Flying a few hundred yards from the ground, suddenly a mountain loomed up out of the mist and a forced landing was made. The plane tipped over and It took three men to right It. The two pianists decided to trust to their feet and shouldered their suitcases for a start across country. They were soon picked trp by s driver In a flivver. They rode as far as Lebec when the plane over took them and they climbed In again. It was soon after that they scraped the side of a water tower and came to earth in a cemetery. They decid ed that trains were good enough for them in the future. They lost the opportunity for their first San Fran cisco concert. To Celebrate Day in Appropriate Way Special Piepetch to The Umah* Bee. Shenandoah, la.. Nov. 10—Sunday will be observed as Armistice day in Shenandoah with appropriate sovlces In all the churches and the war vet e'rans will attend the Congregational church in a body. But the people of Shenandoah wish to add to this by an obserAinoe on Monday. The banks will close all day. ar.d the business houses close Aotn 1:30 on. Th» Shenandoah Red Oak foot ball game will be the attraction of ihe afternoon. After the game the Ro tary club of Red Oak and the Klwanis club of Shenandoah will have n sup per nt the Hotel Mizpah. The auxll lar.v will entertain the legion men and their wives and families at an oyster supper. Closed C a r Sales Make New Records Kudosed Drive. Limousine Continues Most Popular of Pierce-Arrow Models. This Is the year of the closed car. That at least Is the apparent lesson which w ill be established by the sales figures of 1923. And the finer the car the greater the demand for the enclosed type of body. The aale of Pierce-Arrow enclosed models has been over per cent of the entire production this year, according to L. tj Corcoran, general sales manager of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car com pany. "While the sale of enclosed models naturally predominates at this time of year,” states Mr. Corcoran, “the surprising part of the prevailing trend to the closed car la that It composed almost a major part of the June, July nnd August orders. This trend Is not regarded as a fleeting tendency, but as a permanent buying policy on the part of those people who have come to regard their auto mobile purchasing as an Investment and naturally find the enclosed car the one that l» productive of the moat pleasure and service, as well as the maximum comfort.” Closed Cars Popular. “Old King Winter no looter put* a blanket on the automobile bueine** aa In earlier days," Bays O. A. Will •son of Andrew Murphy A Son* com pany, local dealers In Durant and Star cars. “Hefnr* car beaters and tha mod ern curtains that open with the doora were Invented the automobile owner could not comfortably ride In frosty weather, and, furthermora. motor car engines did not always perform well at aero temperature. "Now ell that he* changed. The modern automobile. If It la rightly made, performs well In *11 sorts of weather and so comfortably can It be fitted for winter that It la really a pleasure to ride. “The closed car, too, has played a great part In that change. Th* fin eat coach-and four of olden times could not rival the comfort and dig nity of the modern closed car. Well protected from the elements, warmed by th* car heater, still a generous expanse of plate glues window makes the car aa light and cheery aa an open model and excellently ventilated at will. “The closed car will never entirely displace the open models, but It Is rapidly gaining. Manufacturers find the demand for closed models now nearly BO per cent of production and still climbing." !)00 Oakland* Daily. Tontine, Mich., Nov, 10 Kxten *lve alternat ion* anil new machinery equipment which have reaulted In practically rebuilding the entire In terlor of the Oakland Motor far coin pany fHctortee have finally l»een finished. The machinery and altrraltona have Involved an outlay of approx! mately $2,000,000, which la In nddl tkm to the new $2,000,000 Klaher Body corporation factory completed a inqnth ago adjacent to the Oakland factory to hulk! Oakland hodtea. Tllia outlay of $4,000,000 give* the Oakland plant a capacity of !>00 cm* a day, twice tla prevloti* capacity. At tha present time the cqimiuny ha* reached no outpnl of .100 eiVv* 'flfjltj, which I* above the pe*k pniUUstlyn of the banner mouth of lMi. New Kind of Metal Lessen* Weight; Increases Power The results anticipated by the Hupp Motor Car corporation, the first manufacturer with large distribution to combine duralumin connecting ro Toledo The Difference is Finish / The famous Willys-Knight Coupe-Sedan is now avail able in two finishes; De Luxe, in rich blue, nickel trimmed, with black superstructure a i running gear, at newly reduced price; and Standard, by request, entirely in black, with washable Spanish lpng grain upholstery, at a still greater price saving. Doors front and rear no seat climbing! A demonstration will reveal the reason for this fine cars great popularity. Other new low prices: ^-pass. Tearing $117$; 2-pae*. Roedsar $117$; 7-pee*. Touring $1325; 5-pess. Country Club $1635; 5 pus Sedan Standard $179$t 5 pass. Sedan DeLuxe $1895; 7-pa**- Sedan $1995; all prices!, o. b. Toledo. We reserve the riaht to chance cnees and srrrihranons without doucw WILLYS-OVERLAND, Inc. 2562 Farnam Street Phone HA rney 0353 Factory Branch—Open Evenings CITY DEALERS Folaon Auto Co. Opocenaky'Brother* Byron L. Fowler 5915 Military Avenue 5134 S. 24th Street Fort Crook Wickland Motor Co. Council Bluff* Overland Co. 2921 Sherman Avenue 602-4 Eaat Broadway On the Finest Super-Six Chassis Ever Built Heretofore a moderate-priced closed car has meant an inferior chassis. Now at a saving of hundreds of dollars you buy in HUDSON a car of positive reli ability, chassis excellence and finest performance. These are the lowest prices of all time on the Hud son Super-Six. They make both the Sedan and the Coach the most outstanding values in the world. KILLY MOTOR CAR CO. ATIantic 7461 2060-62 Farnam Street Omaha, \th.