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THE WILMINGTON DISPATCH, SUNDAY, MSRaf 3I J;i9T6
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CAR
THROUGH
SIX FEET OF
SNOW
Made Trip Through Blizzardy
Weather 1 2 Miles to the
Gallon
AUTOS
OF
COUNTRY
A
FOR
BUSINESS
EDS
Eighty Per Cent, of Cars Used
for Business Three-f ourths
of Time
Breaking trail through untried
oads, in many places overriding
enow drifts more than six feet deep,
H. E. Throne- recently drove a new
model Haynes "Light Twelve" open
car from the factory in Kokomo to
his salesroom in Toledo, O., against
seemingly insurmountable odds. The
difficulties6f the trip included mount
ing snow banks and ploughing
through drifts higher than the top of
the car, with a fierce wind blowing
and a low temperature, the thermom
eter but recently having registered 23
degrees below zero.
But despite these obstacles the big
70-horsepower car averaged 12 miles
to the gallon of gasoline on the last
132 miles of the trip, and only two
quarts of oil were used throughout.
The car which was driven through
was a part of the Thome Auto Com
pany's exhibit at the Toledo Auto
Show. Although the roads were
1 known to be almost impassable, Mil
; Thorne decided to attempt to drive
through when he received no assur
ance from the railroad companies that
, they would be able to handle the cars.
From Marion, Ind., to Van Wert,
O., the Haynes .ras first to traverse
the highway, which lay covered un
i der a blanket of , snow of a depth
i which had never before been knowm
in that part of the country. In . some
places the snow was packed suffi
ciently to carry the weight of the
car. At others the crust broke and
the driver frequently found himself
deeply imbedded, where the only so
lution was to dig out. At times, when.
the car had settled down to the solid
roadway, it was completely hidden
between the high banks on each side.
The tremendous power of the 12
cylinder Haynes enabled it to nose
through without great effort wher
ever the wheels could get traction.
The ease with which it negotiated
the last 132 miles undoubtedly ac
counts for the high gasoline mileage.
This was the only part of the trip on
which an accurate account of the
gasoline consumption was kept.
DRAFT SOLDIERS HERE.
Delegations From Jones, Craven and
Pamlico Counties Passed Through.
Twenty-four recruits, all members
of the early capsule . lot . with the. ex
ception, of four who had voluntarily
enlisted, passed through the city yes
terday en route to Camp Jackson,
Columbia, S. C, where they will go
into military training for duties
abroad. Craven, Pamlico and Jones
counties were all represented. Four
teen of the men were from Craven
and were in charge of Charlie Mc
Sorley; six were from Pamlico and
were traveling under the direction of
L. J. Hardy, while the remaining four
were from Jones county.
"From my personal observation and
talks I have had with 'automobile
owners from all parts of the country
and with . other manufacturers, 1 be
lieve I am perfectly justied in saying
that 80 per cent of the automobiles
m America are used strictly for bus
iness purposes three-fourths of the
time," said D. C. Durlands, president
of the MitcTiell Motors Company, Inc.,
of .Racine, wis.
"Mind, that I say strictly business
puprposes, and that is exactly what
I mean. Since our country has been
drawn into the war hundreds of thou
sands of men in all walks of life "have
been called from their daily tasks to
do their part in the great struggle to
f preserve democracy. With the de
parture of these men business did not
slow down, it simply could not. In
fact, business is going ahead with
greater strides than ever before. Ev
erybody is busy, and every man who
wants to can enjoy real prosperity
now.
"But aside from these strictly bus
mess purposes, think of the import
ance of the automobile in what
might term 'semi-business' purposes
"For instance, recall for a moment
the business man or woman of ten
yes, even five, years ago. At the
end of the week, tired, worn an3
weary from the press, of business, he
sought the great out-of-doors for the
recreation, the rejuvenation he need
ed. His brain cells had been torn
down by the rigors of busines. He
was brain-fagged and tired. What
did he do? Boarded a train and went
away. And in his new surroundings
he revitalized himself, and returned
to his work on Monday with new vig
or a keener and a more active man.
"The men of 1912 didn't jump on
the train simply for the ride for the
pleasure of spinning along over steel
rails and the men of 1918 aren't us
ing their automobiles for pleasure,
either. While it is true that they
might ride out into the open country
frequently, still they are doing it, you
will fin to give their .. miafds . and
bodies the rest necessary to fit them
for the work that must be done to
win the war."
RECORD
BREAK
RUN
ACROSS
AUSTRALIA
Not So Much for the Time
But for Difficulties
Encountered
OBIECT IS TO BUILD
OF
UMDHE
NATION
Noted Speakers Will Be at
the-Academy on Wednes
day Night Next
MOTOR TRUCKS HELP
BUILDING
WAR
ROADS
Estimated That 1,800 Miles
Built Behind Lines in
France
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"When the history of this war has
been written," says D. O. Skinner, In
ternational Motor Company, "it will
be more fully realized what a vital
part good roads have played in the
great struggle. At the start, motor
trucks leaped to the front as the mod
ern pacemaker of flexible transporta-
tion, and ever-increasing war needs
I have demanded new roads and better
roads as most necessary for the prop
er backing up of fighting forces.
"Motor trucks by the thousands
will contribute an enormous advan
tage do United States road engineers
engaged in new construction back of
our lines. It is estimated that 1,200
miles of highways will be built in
1S18 by American .road engineers in
the rear of the firing line in France.
To the special road building battal
ions is delegated the important task
From Australia comes the report
of a record-breaking cross-continent
tour that makes similar undertakings
in this country look like pleasure ex
cursions, not because of the time
made but because of the difficulties
encountered. From Freemantle on
the Westv coast of Australia to Syd
ney on the East is a distance of 2,677
miles. In January two men in a Hup
mobile covered this distance in seven
days, two hours, 19 minutes, beating
the -former record for the trip by 45
hours and 18 minutes.
People unfamiliar with, the country
have no conception of cross-country
touring difficulties in Australia. Our
United States ijfe by no means free
from hundreds of miles of terrible
roads, but in Australia the hardy
tourist, in most cases, does not ex
pect to find a road at all. The Amer
ican tourist is annoyed if he misses
even a single meal; the Australian
knows before he starts that he will
travel hundreds of miles, and def
after day, without a single opportu
nity of securing food or water other
than the supply he carries with him.
It seems almost inevitable 'in this
island continent, where the animals
and trees are unlike the animals and
trees of other lands, that the road
conditions should be equally unique.
There is no sand quite so deep and
ffuite so shifting as Australian sand.
Riding, or "jockeying," as the Austra
lians call it, the spare time to give
the rear wheels more traction, is com
mon practice. Rivers with innocent
white sand bottoms have a habit of
swallowing up cars that attempt to
ford them. Trails that meander
tiresomely for miles over perfectly
level plateaus lead suddenly to gorges
500 feet deep.
. All of these hazards were encoun
tered by the Hupmobile tourists in
their record-breaking run. So severe
were the road shocks and strains that
although frames and springs with
stood the wrenching, the hood was
split from end to end. The tourists
themselves slept only six hours in
the entire seven days and then only
in snatches while strapped to the seat
beside the driver.
Record-breaking insofar as it deals
with the time element alone is of
small consequence in this practical
age. The importance' of this recent
trip lies in the fact that an Ameri
can car came through the grind ab
solutely unharmed and without re
pairs of any kind. This is extreme
ly significant when one considers
that most of the cars sold in Austra
lia are purchased by men living on
the ranches, or "stations," as they
are called often hundreds of miles
from town, necessitating constant
driving over roads like those encoun
tered in this cross-country tour.
When the good people of Melville,
Chile, decide that the automobile is a
menace to the community, instead of
resorting to legislative
Admission to next Wednesday eve
ning's meeting at the Academy of
Music, the object of which is to build
up the morals of the country in sup
port of the government in its efforts
to win the war, will be by ticket, but
these will be freely distributed and
the attendance is expected to be un
usually heavy. The hour is 8 o'clock
and those who attend are asked to
be in their seats by that time.
be Rev. James I. Vance, of Nashville,
Tenn., Dr. Sidney L. Gulick, of New
York, and Captain MacFayden, of the
British army. These speakers will
have a message that will be of pecu
liar interest to all Wilmington and
it is but seldom that one has the op
portunity of hearing three speakers
of such rare ability on a single
OPEN
HEADQUARTERS
HOUSEWIVES LEAGUE
The Woman's Liberty. Loan
League of County Com
pletes Organization
The Women's Liberty Loan Com
mittee of New Hanover county has
completed its organization and head
quarters will be opened at the House
wives' League. Miss M. M. Price,
the secretary, will serve on the com
mittee and receive the daily returns
of the committee.
About a hundred workers will be
engaged to canvass the city by dis-
i in meir seats uy mat uute. 4 . . , , , , - , ,
The speakers of toe eveoing will A Jh " & hJJb?J
All LllUDC CUgagCU TV 111 W 7Cbl Li-LO UU.1'
cial badge to show the cause they
represent. No separate blanks will
this time be used by the Women's
Committee, but only one kind will be
used to avoid confusion.
Though representatives of different
organizations, there will.be no rivalry
between teams, but all will pull to
night. The keynote of the program sether and do team work as a unit
is summed up in the following bor
rowed "paragraph:
"Believing in the words of the
President, 'that the supreme test of
the nation has come, that the very
principles upon which the American
republic was founded are now at
stake, and that it is essential in this
hour to speak, act and serve together,'
we pledge ourselves and our organi
zations to full co-operation in a
speaking campaign which shall bring
home to the whole people 'their duty
to fight and farm, mine anJ manu
facture, conserve food and fuel, save
and spend, to the onev common object
of vindicating the principles of our
peace and justice, freeing the peoples
of the world from the menace and
actual powers of a vast military es
tablishment controlled by an irrespon
sible government.'
"Therefore be it resolved, That it
is the sense of the Advisory Commit
tee that organizations represented on
this committee should definitely re
gard the winning of the war as their
primary concern, that they should be
national In scope and activity, arid
that they should either be carrying
on patriotic speaking campaigns c:
have organized audiences throughout
the country available for patriotic ed
ucation."
VERDICT IS PROMISED
Cases Against Nellie Russel,
Ethel Coley Unsettled
AMERICA
USING
IS
ALL HER MEANS TO
IT
TRANS
TROOPS
(Continued from Page One.)
Thus stood the shipping and troop
prblems tonight while the big battle
still raged on the West line.
Confidence in the outcome was
still the keynote here today.
The War Council led some mem
bers of the Senate Military Commit
tee to fel, however, that perhaps
there had bene a trifle too much op
timism in some press accounts though
in the same breath told the solons
that much could be expected from a
counter offensive.
.This information was vouchsafed
before receipt of reports of the re
vived eGrman offensive in the Mont
didier sector against the French.
What that drive will mean is some
thing that the experts were in doubt
about tonight. They felt that the
United States and her allies, though,
could have a new feeling of ultimate
confidence in the appointment oftjen
eral Focoh to supreme command ai
this time. Whether his appointmeni
is rxarmanpnt or nnlv rinrinsr the Tre
ent drive is a point in doubt. .
That the Allies have not deyelopecj
a strong counter offensive wnicx
would have thwarted the present Gen
man drive in the Montdidier regior
caused some surprise. It did no
mean, in the expert view, however
that the Allied punch will be lack
ing. . ' :)
That Germany is digging . ia. on
small section of the line proved-
lieve the Teuton should not be give:
an opportunity to get back inW thrt
trenches, but should be fought in tnj
open. ""'.sfi
However, as a whole the situati
is still hopeful, authorities; saf
though critical days are still' ahe
Now that Eddie Rousch, the N
tional League batting champion, ha
signed up with the Reds, Christ!
Mathewson's wjarriors are all' aet fd
men usual spi 1"& uiirc, cuuu
about July 1.
William Hoppe, billiard chanlpic
of the world, declares hia "willingnei
to play Walker Cochran, or any oi
else, but stipulates that the chalU
ger must put up $ 2,500was a. side b
The work starts off very auspicious
ly, one member -of the committee be
ing the first to buy $5,000 worth of
bonds.
Liberty Day, April 6, the anniver
sary of the date of America declaring
war, will be observed throughout the
land and part of the programme will
be its observance in the schools.
The committee is as follows: Mrs.
M. L. Stover, chairman.
Mrs. W. L. Parsley, vice chairman;
Miss M. M. Price, headquarters.
Mesdames I. W. Solomon, W. G.
Whitehead, William Latimer, W. B.
Cooper, H. L. Vollers, G. B. Pes
chau, E. L. Prince, Wallace West.
County Wrightsboro Mesdames E.
I. Herring, Castle Haynes; W. H.
Shearin Acorn Branch; J. T. Kerr,
East Wilmington; J. O. Browne, Win
ter Park; A. J. Howell, Audubon; Ed
win Schulken, Seagate; Wrightsville,
L. A. Blue; Masonboro, Addison Hew
lett; Myrtle Grove, Henry Home;
South Wilmington, George Grant;
Sunset Park, Mrs. G. A. Matthews
Carolina Beach, Sam Lewis; Delgado,
J. W. Coley; Seagate, Miss Ann! 3
Herring; Middle Sound, Miss Bessie
Canady and Mrs. J. R. Shepherd;
Scott's Hill, Mrs. W. H. Alexander
and Mrs. D. P. Canady; Delgado,
Mrs. Goley, Mrs. Carter and Mrs.
Fickling.
The special verdict, promised by
the Recorder in the case charging
Nellie Russell and Ethel Coley, white
women, with conducting houses of
ill fame, following their arraignment
in court, was not handed down yes
terday as had been expected, and will
not be made public until after, con
ference with Solicitor Homer L. Ly
on, who comes here today to prepare
for "prosecution , of the criminal dock
et in Superior Court this week. So
measurelicitor .E T. Burton and Woodus Kel-
Luxemburg Bombed.
Amsterdam, March 30. Allied air
men dropped bombs on Luxemburg
Thursday afternoon killing ten per
sons and heavily damaging a number
of houses, according to dispatches
from Berlin today.
ARE WHAT" WE MAKE A f Mm
SPECIALTY OF r J;
AW
Tires and Inner Tube
We have practically every'J standard
make in stock and ?they;igq : at - reduced
prices. i -J '
A FEW USED 'FORDS- FOR - SALE
C. S.Burnett Tire Station
10 No. Third St.
Phone 67j
of keeping lines of communication! make it at a fraction of the cost. The
BE AHEAD OF TIME
Have Your Motor Car N
Revarnished NOW - be
fore the finish is so
badly destroyed as to
require an entire new
finish down to the
wood I agree to use
Valentine Vanadium
Varnishes on the job -the
best and highest
priced made
Send us the car to
day . J. E. LEWIS & SON
Corner Fourtlfand Princes
Phone 898-J-
constantly open, and Mack trucks
working in conjunction with modern
American road machinery will help
to build new strategic lines and keep
communicating roads in constant re
pair. "Although France is particularly
well endowed with good roads, it is
often necessary for military reasons
to construct many new lines. An
; estimate places the present mileage
of French roads at one mile of road
for each one arid onal-half square
miles of ground surface. The tre
mendous task of keeping these roads
in perfect condition and building new
ones at the same time, can well be
imagined when it is realized that so
far as wear and tear are concerned
war traffic is ten times, as great as
that on Fifth avenue, New York.
"Of course the pressing object olj
American road construction is to pro
vide for the immediate needs of trur
forces, but the wtork carries with it
both utilitarian and historic ;value'.
When Caesar's legions poured
through Gaul and into Britain and re
turned to Rome again, they left in
their wake military roads so carefully
constructed that many sections re
main today as permanent monuments
of their presence. American system
and modern methods likewise prom
ise to contribute many enduring ben
efits to France."
which at the best is a slow and un
satisfactory method, they take the siF
uation into their own hands and ap
ply the remedy. At least this was
the experience of Arturo Calvo, Chil
ean distributor for the Hupp Motor
Car Corporation, when he put in a
bus line over the mountains from
Melvillo to Cartagena, a popular Chil
ean summer resort, and thereby dis
rupted a comfortable monopoly en
joyed by an organization of coach
men and mule drivers.
Calvo fitted out a fleet of six Hup
mobiles with bus seats, canopied top
to protect the passengers from the
dust and sun, and luxurious cushions.
He made the trip in 25 rajnutes when
it had formerly taken by the old
method several hours. .He could also
first day he encountered only mut-
terings and black looks. On the sec
ond day, however, he found that the
enemy during the night had dropped
a barrage of broken bottles, barbed
wire and tin cans, which he was un
able to penetrate until he had organ
ized a small army of street sweep
ers. After one or two days of this
police power was invoked and one or
two arrests successfully curbed the
annoyance.
PALMER TAKES OVER
NEW ORLEANS PLANT
New Hanover Represented.
- New Hanover was represented at
the conference held at Tuskegee In
stitute, Tuskegee, Okla., March 12-14,
inclusive, by Pearl C. Thurber, head
of the domestic science department
of Williston Industrial school. She
was sent to the conference.Jy the
Board or Education.
Washington, March 30. A. Mitchell
Palmer, alien property custodian, to
day took over K. and E. Neuinond
Company, of New Orleans. The com
pany makes brewery supplies and has
$100,000 capital stock, a largepart of
which is enemy owned. Mauritz Pyk,
vice president of the Whitney Cen
tral National Bank, of New Orleans,
has been named to act as director.
NOTED MISSIONARY
DIES IN CONGO
Nashville, Tenn., March 30 Dr.
William M. Morrison. 51, one of the
most noted missionaries of the South
ern Presbyterian church, died at ue
bo,. Belgian Congo, March 14, accord
ing to advices received today by the
Presbyterian Mission Board. Dr. Mor
rison played a conspicuous part some
years ago in bringing the atrocities
in Belgian Congo to the attention of
the civilized world. He was a native
of LexiDgton, Virginia. "'
lum and A. G. Ricaud, Esqs., counsel j
for the women under indictment, are i
to agree to a state of facts and these;
will be si$nedu The Recorded will
then hand down his judgment and j
the matter will be carried to Superior i
Court and possibly to the Supreme
Court for final settlement. All fu
ture cases will be governed by this
decision.
Recorder Harriss, who is anxious
to have this matter settled once and
for all and a precedent established
whereby future cases can be determ
ined, was to have rendered this ver
dict Thursday noon, but at that time
court was in the midst of the trial
of Officer George on a charge of for
cible trespass and the matter went
over. Friday was observed as Good
Friday and postponement was neces
sitated yesterday because confer
ences concerning tne proposition
were not completed. The matter will
in all probability be disposed of to
morrow.
CHILD BITTEN BY DOG.
i :t
Little Black Cur Was Executed at i
City Hall Late in Afternoon.
Murder wras committed in the rear-
yard at the City Hall late yesterday!
afternoon and the victim, a little
nameless black cur dog, was lying un
covered early last night, awaiting the
arrival of a member of the health de
partment who was scheduled to per
form an operation of severing the
head from the body for the purposa
of determining whether the cur Tas
rabid or not. The trouble, started on
MacRae street yesterday afternoon,
when the small son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. Davis, of 228 MacRae street,
was bitten through the lip by the do?,
the property of Roselle Brown, of 226
MacRae. The bite was inflicted when
the child peered through the fence.
It was stated at police headquarters
that the dog was being tormented by
youngsters who stuck poles and
sticks through the fence cracks and
prodded the dog. The Davis child
was then snapped when it peered
through a crack in the fence.
Egg Came Labelled. ,
N. A. Swift, an old colored woman
living at 1009 Moore's alley, is report
ed to be exhibiting . an egg with the
njumerals "63" plainly stamped on
the shell and she claims that the
numerals were there when the egg
was laid by one of . her hens a week
ago. Many persons have been tj the
jjiouse to see It. , .
This Is The Seasonf The Year
When An
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ICTOJE
Will not only give you the most PLEASURE but will be most U5FUL.
Ride one yourself and buy one for the "kid.
It Cuts Delivery Expenses in Half
iWe sell them for Ash or on Easy Payments and they're IVER JOHNSONS !
Best Made. "
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