THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 12, 1919
LOGOMOTIVE IS
GIVEN BETTER
CARE THAU AUTO
Trucks Stand Up Wonderfully
Weil When Attention They
Receive is Taken Into
Consideration.
Truck owners don't give tlieir
trucks enough care, according to
Ralph V. Jones, manager of the
Card-Adams Motor company. This
l'i what the Denby Motor company,
i cpresented by Mr. Jones, says
'.. lbout it:
't "Consider the parallel between the
locomotive and the motor truck.
Mach is an indespensable unit in the
" scheme of transportation.
"After the powerful locomotive has
drawn the train anywhere from 10!'
-to 200 miles, it is uncoupled and
- taken to the round house. There it
.-"is given a most caretul inspection.
, Not a part is overlooked. It is
'tuned up for the next performance.
" "What of the motor truck? Is it
; Riven such care? It is inspected from
radiator to rear tires? Not on vcur
"lite. And truck owners expect 100
rper cent efficiency from their motor
vehicles and kick if thoy don't get
Ducks Big Shells When
He Knows War Soon Over
Iri Argonne Forest on Nightfborder,
Before Armistice is Signed;
Prays V(hile in Shell
Hole.
Studebaker Company
- Expects to Complete
i ,New Building in Yea
If jiothing unforsecn intervenes
,the construction of the modern new
-.uitomobile plant, which was started
jhy.the Sttidebaker corporation at
South Bend, Ind., in 1I6, will be
completed January 1, 1920. Consid
erable progress in the construction
;if die new plant was accomplished
in the execution of the orders for
: military supplies for the government
and, when finished, the new plant
will have a capacity of 100,000 cars
!ier annum which, with the facilities
of the Detroit plant of 60,000 per an
num will double the capacity of the
corporation, and give it manufactur
ing: advantages unexcelled in the
.country from the standpoint of ef
ficient and economical manufacture.
,! The new plant at South Bend
will be devoted to the production of
new light four cars, while the De
troit plant will continue the pro
duction of six-cylinder cars and au
tomobile parts. The layput and de
sign of the buildings and equipment
f the new plant are the concrete
result of the experience and study
of the engineers and manufacturing
Experts of the corporation, assisted
by the engineering staff of James
Stewart & Co., Inc., of Ney York,
whose. long experience and engin
eering reputation are world wide. .
"How would you like to be duck
ing eight-inch shells all night when
you knew that at 11 o'clock the next
day the war would be over?" asks
Private J. E. Smith in a letter to his
former employers, Toozer-Gers-pacher
Motor company.
Smith is with a headquarters com
pany in the Fifth division, and a let
ter from him, dated November 26.
tells of some of a soldier's thrills
over there.
. He says in part:
"1 was in the St. Mihicl drive, and
it was sport compared to the Ar
gonne forest drive, Vhich I've just
been through.
"I wrote to some of my folks, and
I still have the letters in my pocket.
This just goes to show( we've been
after the boche so fast' we couldn't
stop to mail letters.
"At present I am on the Belgian
President Prefers the
American Made Lars
in' Trips About Paris
- Photographs just received from
France show President Wilson bow
ing to cheering Parisian crowds
as he is about to start in a Cadillac
car for a drive in the boulevards.
The car is one of the standard
seven-passenger Cadillacs furnished
to the army, and on its door bears
the official army designation, U. S.
14759. The driver is all American
soldier.
The fact that the president rides
in a Cadillac while in Europe on
his peace mission is particularly in
teresting, in view of the part played
by the Cadillac on the battle fronts
and in all the American army activ
ities in France. It is well known
that the Cadillac was designated as
the official seven-passenger car for
the army. Upwards of 2,000 of
these cars were furnished to the
army, and they were standard
throughout except for a few minor
details.
Twelve standard Cadillac limou
sines also were shipped to France
for the use of the American repre
sentatives at the peace conference.
Omaha Radiator and Tire
Company to Build Tanks
I. N. Cherniss, of the Omaha Ra
diator and Tire company, received a
telegram Friday from Sam Fleish
man, secretary of the company, to
the effect that he had purchased the
Illinois Auto Radiator Manufactur
ing company.
According to Cherniss, the" em
ploves of this company and the
equipment will be brought to Oma
ha very soon and plans for a large
radiator manufacturing plant are
under way. In addition to building
automobile radiators, the new com
nany will build gasoline tanks and
fenders.
The Omaha Radiator and Tire
company at the present time have
a location at 1819 Cuming street and
have been engaged in assembling
radiators for the past year. The
new equipment will enable them to
build the radiators, frame and cars
in Omaha and will add another man
ufacturing plant to Omaha s fast
'growing list.
Bolt Pliers.
It is possible to make of an ordin
ary hand pliers a convenient hand
vise for holding bolts and screws.
The jaws of the pliers are closed
on several thicknesses of paper, af
ter which holes of appropriate size
are drilled, half of each hole being in
each jaw. These holes are tapped
and tire jaws are hardened and tem
pered again, the temper having first
been drawn. The paper between
the jaws when the holes were drilled
makes these latter a little smaller
than the size of the screw or bolt
which it was intended to hold, so
that.it takes a solid grip of the part
when in use as a hand vise.
When the armistice was
signed I was in the town of Tauppy.
There's a big chateau there where
the crown prince made his home
and so did I.
"The night before the armistice
was signed was one hell of a night.
I slept in the 'Argonne forest. I
was in a hole in the ground and the
boche sent over about 100 eight-inch
shells. Say, I prayed that night.
We had the news that the next day
at 11 the war would be over, and
here I was to get knocked off. Oh,
boy, those damn things came over
me, I tell you. There was a shack
about 20 feet away from me, and it
was full of men. One of the boche
shells hit it and you can guess the
result.
"The boys did not cheer at all
when the time came to quit. We
stuck mjout holes for about an hour,
and ,th?n went out. We walked
around quietly and so did the
Heinies. We both knew it was over."
Shortage of Oil and
Candles Brings Back
"Svetilc
in missia
With American Forces on Dwina,
(Correspondence of the Associat
ed Press.) The shortage of kero
sene and candles in Northern Rus
sia has brought into use once more
a primitive lighting arrangement
known as the "svetila," an arrange
ment to burn birch twigs.
The "svetilas" have been resur
rected from some ancient storing
place in the log houses of the vil
lages and are now lighting many of
them. The arrangement consists of
a wooden trough about two feet
long, with an iron pan to eaten the
ashes from the burning birch twigs,
which are placed in a fork-like ar
rangement so that they slant down
ward and burn easily.
Each twig, or "lutchinka," burns
about five minutes, with about as
much light as a candle and much
more smoke. The members of the
family take turns feeding it.
The "svetila" is but one sample
of the resort to old time customs oc
casioned by the general shortage of
almost every imported commodity
in the villages along the Dwina
river. The peasant women are again
generally employing the "preelka,"
a primitive wooden loom on which
they card and weave flax tor their
garments. The result is cloth, both
of coarse and fine varieties, and not
at all bad looking.
National Car Sales Company
Moves Into New Quarters
The National Car Sales organiza
tion with J. C Helbert as general
manager, is now located in its new
hame at 2429 Farnam street, at
which location complete sales and
service facilities are at their dis
posal. It is the plan of the National Car
Sales organization to put on whirl
wind sales campaigns during the
coming season and all arrangements
have been made for handling serv
ice and storing cars. Mr. Helbert
returned from the factory recently
and while there made arrangements
for shipping a number of special
colored jobs to Omaha.
The service on National cars will
be taken care of by the King Bros.,
who have recently returned to Oma
ha from Detroit, Mich., where they
have been employed by the govern
ment as inspectors of Liberty
motors. Eoth John and Victor King
are well known among users of
high-grade automobiles in Omaha.
They have been connected with sev
eral sales organizations here during
the past few years.
Trior Bonderslev has recently
joined the new organization and will
have charge of the work in the territory.
W. L. Killy. of Noyes-Killy Mo
tor Co., and T. H. McDearmon, of
the Nash Sales Co., were in Kansas
City several days in the interests
of their firms.
Buick Men Are Back from
Various War Activities
Lou Drefson and C. A. Bowers
are again with the Nebraska-Buick
Automobile Co. Drefson has been
honorably discharged from the avia
tion mechanics school at St. Paul
and Bowers from the ensign school
at San Diego.
Bowers is in charge ofBuick re
tail sales in Omaha and Drefson in
charge of the district tributary to
Omaha.
J. Edward Kaufman has been
made office manager of the Buick
house.
Contracts to Sell Four
Hundred Trucks Before
the First of Next Year
"Just to prove I hive confidence
in the future of the automobile and
truck business, I have contracted to
sell 400 Defiance tiu.ks by next
January 1," said Carl Changstrom,
of the Standard Motor Car corn
pany Saturday. "I'm looking for
the greatest year ever. I believe-,
our quiet days are past.
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Heavy Oil Faucet.
Many motor car users have ex
perienced difficulty in getting heavy
oil to flow from the storage tank in
which it is kept. A way around this
is to solder what is known as a mo
lasses faucet on a five gallon can.
This faucet works on the principle
of a gate valve, and the heavy oil
will be found to flow easily.
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convertible Sedans
You undoubtedly know the power and stamina of the
National motor Six and Twelve and the enduring sturdi
ness of the National chassis. These proven superiorities are
basic features of the new National Highway Convertible
Sedan, an all-task automobile which also combines unlimited
utility with every-season comfort and protection. We are
now showing these timely and able motor carriages.
The Six Scdah, $3120
The Twelve Sedan, $3720
Government's War Revenue Tax Extra Charge
NATIONAL MOTOR CAR & VEHICLE CORP., INDIANAPOLIS
Eighteenth Successful Year
National Car Sales
J. C. HELBERT, General Manager
2429 Farnam St. Omaha ' Phone Doug. 7940
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Ecccfene-Treated Gas Gives
Greater Amount Horse Power
Under the auspices of the contest
!bard of the American Automobile
association, a test was recently con-
( iKtcd of Eccolene-treated gasoline.J
. a result, a certificate was issued
as follows:
"The trials in general showed an
increase in horse powerand saving
Hi fuel when Eccolene-treated fuel
was used, as can be noted by the
I'.orse power and fuel economy
curves plotted from the data and
omiplete detailed report on file in
the office of the American Automo
bile association and in the hands of
the Edward A. Cassidy Co.
"The test was started with a clean
motor, the plain gasoline test be
ing run first, after which the Ecco-ieue-treated
test was run without
attempting to remove any carbon
which may have accumulated. On
t : ietion of the entire test the
tuosor was examined and no carbon
t oiriiation was found." Motor Life.
Universal Motor Company -Ho!ds
Monthly Meeting
"Sales as Related to Service," was
t!:e subject discussed at the regular
iior.Uily efficiency meeting of the
I'niversal Motor company tm
ployes. This month's meeting took
the form of a banquet and was held
L.-t Monday night in the green
room of the Loyal hotel.
In the discussion, which followed
the dinner several ideas were
hrotsht out which will result in a
further improvement of "Universal
iatisticd Service."
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Wniys-Ovcrland Company
His Salvage Department
The Willys-Overland company of
Toledo has installed in its Toledo
i.ictory a reclamation department
whose purpose will be the salvage of
" aierial that has hitherto been use
: r ss except for very expensive sale
;o the junk man. The initial plans
licate that at most conservative
e :n ;l t e saving for the first year
X It not less than $50,000 Motor
The signing of the armistice sent the battery
business back to its pre-war footing. Several
expert mechanics who were called into the
service from our shop have returned and we
are now back to our before-the-war-plan of
free service on all testing and filling on any
make of battery.
Drive in where it's warm.
Nebraska Storage Battery Co.
20TH AND HARNEY STREETS.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
It is no longer necessary to go into the details describing the practical
merits of the Ford Car everybody knows all about "The Universal Car.'
How it goes and comes day after day and year after year at an operating ex
pense so small that it is wonderful. This advertisement is to urge prospec
tive buyers to place orders without delay in order that they may be assured
of early delivery, as it will be some time before the Big Ford Factory gets back
to normal production. Place your order now. We'll take good care of it
get your Ford to ymi as soon as possible and give the best in "after service
when required, using only genuine Ford materia and charging Ford Factory
prices.
Any of the dealers listed below will beglad to take your order or discuss
with you any questions relative to the purchase of a car.
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HOLMES-ADKINS CO., 4911 So. 24th St.
McCAFFREY MOTQR CO., 15th and Jackson Sts.
SAMPLE-HART MOTOR CQ., 18th and Burt Sts.
UNIVERSAL MOTOR CO., 2562 Leavenworth St.
NICHOLS-RICE MOTOR CO., 20th and Ames Ave.
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