10 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 16, 1916. BIG MOTOR TRUCKS HARDON PAVING Increasing Uue of Five-Ton Vehicles Presents New Prob lems in Improvements. HEAVIER BASES NEEDED Cole-Springfield Tour coupe Popular City Commissioner Jardine, who has charge of the public improve ments? department, finds that the in creasing use of the five-ton motor truck and motor vehicles of slightly less capacity is presenting new prob lems in connection with paved thor oughfares. The common four and five-inch concrete base.'will not stand the racket, as is evidenced by a, sec tion Of new pavement on Thirtieth street north ot tfie Belt line tracks. "I have come to the conclusion that I will have a six-inch base plased on Twenty-fourth street, Cuming street to Patrick avenue, which repaving is now in' progress," stated the commis sioner. ,. ;. i", . , '. .Y . The specifications for the North Twenty-fourth street job call for a five-jnch base and the additional inch will be paid for as an "extra." All fu ture navinu- and reoavinn on the prin- rinal streets will hereafter have heav ier bases, and it is the intention of the public improvement department to see that the dirt foundation is ' well rolled before the base is laid. The annual expense of repairing paved streets is becoming a matter of serious concern, particularly the as phalt streets. It is being realized that it pays in the long run to have a sub stantial pavement in the first instance and this conviction has been growing on account of thtf increasing use of large automobile trucks. Some of these trucks are loaded with five tons of material, and that is quite a load for a pavement which was laid under the old order of affairs. Contractor Want Men. The paving contractors just now say they cannot get enough men. "What I would like to have is one gang for the grading, another for the concrete base work and a third for the surface covering," stated a contractor. Charles Fanning has started the brick work on Center street, which is one of the largest caving jobs of the season. This work is being pushed along and when completed will make the street a popular thoroughfare. Repaving of Eleventh street, north nf Grace street, will be finished be fore long. This street is used for the East Omaha traffic and is a much needed improvement , Omaha Distributer ... For Saxon Car Lands Season's Contract Once more Omaha has scored in the eyes of automobile manufac tures. This time the score is in giving the Omaha distributer, W. L. Killy of the Noyes-Killy Motor com pany, the first distributer contract written by the Saxon, factory for the 1917 seasorii There are over 1,000 distributing organizations handling the Saxon ' throughout the United States, and it is rather significant that the Omaha distributer was given the first audience with the man who writes the contracts. In speaking of the work of the sales manager for the Saxon Motor com pany Mr. Killy was quite enthusias tic. "The day of contracting hit and miss is over' said Mr. Killy. "The sales njanager of today has a world of tabulated information regarding each section of the country, and it is his inh to know how many cars should be sold in a given territory. These figures are based upon the wealth of a ' community, the number of farms, the per capita wealth of the community nit the number of cars sold in the territory in question during the pre ceding two years. ' "There are other basic factors, but in the main they are as above. In stead of a dealer telling the factory how many cars he can sell, the fac tory shows the dealer cold figures which indicate the number 'of cars which should be sold." New Tariff Will Aid , v Japs in indo-China CorrespoMl.net of Tin Assoclatsd rtm) Tokio, July 10. Governor General of French Indo-China. has ar rivrri in laoan in connection with negotiations between Japan and France for a revision of the customs tariff between Japan and the trench colony. It is understood nere tnat France will make customs reductions which will permit of a greater ex portation of Japanese goods to In do China. Read Bee Want Ads for profit. Use them for results- ... The four-passenger Cole-Springfield Tourcoupe, the new all-year-'round car of the Cole people, is attracting much attention along the automobile rows in tle large cities ot the coun try. Reo Plant Replete With Equipment . For Testing Cars "Seems like ar awfully expensive equipment," said a Reo dealer on a recent visit to the factory, when he was shown' into the big engine and chassis testing department with the rows upon rows of dyanometers and other electric apparatus. "It does look like it." said the Reo guide.'l As a matter of fact our sales department tells us it is one of the most economical features of our plant. What seems to be extrava gant, in fact really proves to be very chesp when it comes to selling the product-you know we make auto mobiles to sell, not to keep. ' "Every Reo mbtor and every Reo rear axle, every transmission, ana every chassis each individual one is subjected to the most rigid and precise dynanometer test. Not only the power of the motor, but the ef ficiency of the transmission mech anism clean back to the tires is test- ed here and accurately recorded by electrical instruments. "It is not as extravagant as it looks, however, continued the Keo man, "for if you will notice from each of these dyanometers runs a set of wires, and if you will come over into the next room I will show you where we utilize power that is generated by Reo motors tours and sixes during their several hours of test." In an ad joining room they found two big gen erators. "Here, said the Reo man, "you will see that we are generating over 450 horsepower on an average. At times, it runs twice that. Aside from the slight loss in the lines, we put all the power developed by fifty or 100 motors, as the case may be, that are on the testing blocks, into our lines and utilizes it to run the factory. If all the motors were run ning to full capacity, of course, we would generate a good deal more, but our policy is to run the generator for several hours at a slow speed, and gradually as it limbers up, increase its speed and power output until we finally develop its maximum." Fortune Soldiers . Find Opportunity At Packard Plant Soldiers of fortune are finding their opportunity at the plant of the Pack ard Motor Car company. With re cruiting of motor truck drivers and mechanics asked tor by tne united States War department going on and those men already accepted only awaiting the word that will start them south, the spirit ot aavanture is in the air. Men of every station are rushing to answer the call tor workers in the United States army motor transport division along the Mexican border. Expert motor machinists, with shop clothes still redolent of lubricating oils and cutting compounds, rub shoulders with men who drive up in their own automobiles to sign the government contract. There are for mer soldiers, veterans of the Cuban and Philippine campaigns and the Boer war, staid shopmen who never realized they had the wanderlust un til the call sounded and any number of comparative youngsters all eager to do their bit at the border. Since June 30, 1U6 men have been sent south with Packard trucks from Detroit. - Those who did not get away with the first contingents re fuse to get far enough away from the Packard plant to run any chance of missing the word that will start them traveling any many, using their suitcases for pillows, rest in the shade while waiting. The work of supplying the 396 Packard trucks asked for in the War department's latest order is being rushed at Iod sneed, Army trans port bodies, which are made in east ern rennsvivania, arc ucmg uun.tu to Detroit by express. Read Bee Want Ads for profit. Use them for results. . . JURORS ACQUIT WILL ORPET OF MURDERCHARGE (Continued Fran Pass One.) James H. Wilkerson, former United States district attorney at Chicago; Ralph F. Potter, his law partner, and Leslie P. Hanna of Waukegan for the defense. More than 1,000 veniremen were examined before a jury, said by counsel upon its selection to be above the average in intelligence and char acter, was chosen. Judge Charles H. Donnelly presided. The series of parallels started at Lake Forest, one of a series of aristo cratic suburbs dottinsf the heavily wooded bluffs along the west shore of Lake Michigan from Chicago to Wau kegan, for Frank Lambert, father of Marion, was superintendent ot tne KuDnenheimer estate, and Edward O. Orpet, father of the defendant, super intendent ot tne estate or vyrus mc Cormick, both at Lake Forest. Fall in Love. Last summer young Orpet, then a pallid, slender youth of 19, of sharply resular features, somewhat vain of his college opportunities and undis ciplined as to character, returned from the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a vacation at home. He fell madly in love with Marion, ac cording to his letters. She had com pleted her junior years at the Deer field High school and was then 17 and known for her gaiety and laugh ter "the life of the party," as one witness put it. When Orpet returned to college in the fall of 1915 frequent letters' were exchanged, Orpet destroyed her's; she saved his and they remained after her death to speak of the great fear of exposure that came upon her. Orpet, in testifying, said that he was certain that these fears were ground less. Once he mailed her a bottle of molasses and water "to ease her mind," and he brought a similar com pound with him for the same purpose when he entered Helm's woods, near Lake Forest, with her on the morning of Wednesday, February 9, last. Orpet testified that he made the trip to allay her fears and to explain a story which had reached Marion that he was engaged to one Celestia Youker, but the elaborate efforts which he made to keep the trip secret, and his subsequent conflicting state ments of it to officers of the law de veloped into the most damaging evi dence against him. It led to the menacing question of Mr. Joslyn, reiterated again and again "Why? Why? Why? Why did you cornel Ymi hrnueht no relief: vou brought no medicine; you brought no tender ness no words ot love I vvny oio you come?" On February 8. Orpet at Madison left three letters, post-dated February 9, with his friend Otto Peterson to be mailed on the latter date, une was dated to be mailed on the latter date. One was to his mother, one to Marion, and the third to Mat'on's friend Josephine Davis. They were worded to make it appear that the writer was in Madison on February 9, the day he kept his tryst in the woods with Marion, and she came to her death. Reason For Alibi Letters. Orpet explained on the stand that the alibi letters, as they came to be known, were written so that if by ac cident he were seen at Lake Forest and word of the fact reached Marions parents, who objected to him, or his own parents, who expected him to remain faithful to college duties at Madison, they would accept the let ters as conclusive evidence to the con trary. The letter to Josephine was to corroborate that to Marion. Jo sephine testified that she never re ceived it. On the afternoon of the 8th, in a dark overcoat which he said he had borrowed to wear with a dress suit to a party which he expected to attend on the 12th, carrying the bottle of molasses and water in his pocket, and leaving behind him the alibi letters and a bed rumpled to deceive his land lady, the student proceeded by wav of Milwaukee, where he spent a half hour or so between trains, to Lake Forest. Arriving there he arranged by telephone to meet Marion on her way to school the next morning, walked about for a while to make cer tain that his parents had retired, and entered the McCormick garage where he spent the night on a cot. In the morning he and Marion met and walked through the snow into the woods, Orpet testified that there was little conversation, and he could recollect only the purport of it. He offered her the "medicine," and she refused it. He started to leave, but she called him back and asked if he was going to write to her any more. He said there seemed to be no use of it, and started away again. much after that except that on reach- g the road I threw away the medi cine and made my way on toot to Highland Park, caught a train and that evening arrived back at Madi son." Marion was missed that night and her body found the next morning. Orpet was arrested and told numer ous conflicting stories prior to the trial, these being used against him at the trial. During his cross-examination, which lasted three days, he repeatedly took refuge in "I don't remember. Me spoke in a low voice, with apparently studied effort, but nevertheless became involved at times and extricated himself by "correct ing my previous testimony." His manner was nervous and he rarely looked at his inquisitor, Attorney Joslyn. The State's Theory. Early in the case the state de veloped the theory that Orpet pur chased a two-ounce bottle from Charles Hassinger, a friend employed in a drue store at Madison, obtained cyanide of potassium from an alleged supply in the greennouse on tne Mc Cormick estate, and made a solution of it before retiring to bed in the ?;arage. It was charged that he either orced Marion to take it, or deceived her with the explanation that it was medicine. The state was unable to persuade any witness to come from Wiscon sin, and repeatedly hinted that a sinster influence of the defense was at the bottom of it. Hassinger, wanted with references to the bottle, was among those who declined to tes tify and no bottle or other container for the poison was even found. Otto Peterson likewise became a persistent absentee, despite the need for his tes timony regarding the alibi letters and as having seen Orpet, according to the latter, concoct the molasses and water. Dr. Ralph W. Webster and Dr. W. J. McNally, chemists, testified for the state that Marion died of liquid cya nide of potassium, and that the spots on her coat were left by drops of the solution. Three defense chemists testified that the poison was taken in powder form and that the important and accusatory cyanide in the green- house was not cyanide of potassium at all, but cyanide of sodium, with only a faint trace ot potassium. Dr, McNally, having made further ex periments, voluntarily appeared for the defense and corrected his pre vious testimony to agree with that of the defense, and Dr. Webster, recalled by the state, did so in reply to a hy pothetical question on cross-examination. Cause of Death. It was shown further without con tradiction by every chemists who had a hand in the examination of Mar ion's stomach content, that cyanide of potassium caused her death. Only fore her death, was alone in the lab oratory out of hours in violation of a school rule. The parallel of knowledge of cya nide did not run so straight. Orpet according to his testimony, had not looked at a chemistry text book for two years, while Marion's next lesson which she was preparing included the subject of cyanide of potassium. Or pet, however, knew of its use in the greenhouse as a fumigator, and had read an article on its use in horticulture. I i h.iuswJj; I Something made me look around i an inconsequent trace of sodium ap- i aon t Know wnat and i saw peared. When it was shown in ad Marion lying in the snow," related the defendant on the stand. "I re turned, kneeled over her for maybe a minute. I noticed the moist powder in the lines of her hand. Her eyes were glazed. Then a kind of fog came on my brain and I don't remember "Old Hickory" Motor Delivery Tracks The above picture shows a novel method of starting an automobile across a stretch of several hundred miles. L. M. 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