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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1919. PAGE nVB NO OTHER m USED PERFORMANCE OF i my. . f v. : ' j , v Sergeant Earl Eby, Having Made HI Hi Vow of "Berlin or Bust," Hat Hit Way Home. Those who have kept Informed on the great problems confronting the United States army In the pursuit of war realize that the question of trans portation is one of the most dif ficult ones. It was only six years ago that the quartermaster department rec ognized the Importance of motor truck transportation, and when the campaign against Mexico was opened In 1016 the desirability of limiting the number of designs became evident The United States army bought its first one and oue-hnlf-ton truck as late s 1913, and by 1916 it hud accumu lated experience with but a limited number. In that year Col. C. B. Baker, then chief of transportation in the office of the quartermaster general, in vited the Society of Automotive En irinecrs to send representatives to Washington to confer with army offi cers and representatives of about fifty truck builders, to co-operate In the pre paring of specifications for standard one and one-half-ton and three ton trucks. This conference was held Hay 8, 1910, and the specifications were Issued in June, 1918. On these plans trucks were hurriedly purchased for use against Francisco Villa. This gave the army the first good chance to test the usefulness of motor trans .portatlon under trying conditions as Ihcjr existed on the Mexican border. Designed Standard Truck. Shortly after declaration of war on dennany Col. Eater's staff entertained liopes of having a completely stand ardized military truck. They pro ceeded to have new drawings and specifications made, including all the suggestions and experiences recorded to that date. A number of members tf the S. A. E. were asked to assist in the design of the new truck and they Shortage Of Automobiles I Is Prophecy Of Lee Gilbert An acute -shortage of automobiles as' the increased demand and inability of manufacturers to immediately resume capacity production is the prophecy of Ve li. (lilbcrt, Kli n hix distributor. iMr. Gilbert says that country dealers aro constantly demanding more and more El,j;in cars, which proves that eopIo in tho small towns and country list nets aro mure, eniansinsiic BUtoinoliilcs than ever before, demand in Oregon for quulity hows a material increase so Mr iint aiv lita imitllem 4 to 1C The cars Oil- ablo rfn ,ii ni,niti'li Vlutna from the fuc tory to supjily the increased spring and summer demand. The increased demand in Oregon ter ritory, together with the fact that the manufacturers are not producing near ly a 9 many carg as they ' were before ithe war, is certain to mean a severe shortage of cars in this section for sev eral months to come. Tho production wf motor cars for 191S was 7-13,391 ears short of the 1917 production. iKven though manufacturers are doing all they can to get back to normal pro duction, so many new families are plan ning to buy car. and the supply of second hand cars is so low that even more than 743,394 buyers are going to IWFWMlffiEClSi TOO MANY BARGAINS IN OVH P.ACE-WE SIMPLY CANT KEEP 'EM-IF YOU HAVE A CAB YOU WANT BOLD QUICK BRING IT IN ivn WTT.L BCBE SELL IT-IF YOU WANT TO BUY A CAB COME IN AND HAVE A LOOK AT 1917 Maxwell 5 pass 1425. Maxwell Delivery car $325. 5 ps;ss Maxwell 2"3 Detroit, bargain, 250. Studebaker, 6-cyl. perfevt eosdihon 490. Hudson 6 cyL good as new, 11000. OPEN TILL EVENING E Salem Auto 229 STATE OVERSEAS EQUALED THAT MADE FOR ARMY f.ltTr .... s Entry Into Germany, and Realized itoa!"-. j u- -i . . Again elie answered the rail. In an Turned His Slogan Around and Is cn inm,,ib!v 8,ll)rt ,ime ttaMua)la of Vel.e i trucks, each provided with a driver, commenced work in Washington on!'1' ,n tUoir "outh- VeUo tru,k,s Aug. 1. By Oct. 1, 1917. all detain!!"" " IT. -V7 and designs were completed, and ten eollstllllt gourc0 of ,y t0 y,ettiiag J days later one sample war truck each bluw of operations nearly two hundred of class A and B were ready for test- mil,., iuto the Mexican iuterior. Ing. One truck was driven overland I The success of Velie trucks in Moxi to Washington and the other had to co, as well as in France, placed the cross the Allegheny mountains. On stump of military approval on Velie Oct. 1!) the trucks, after successful truck construction even when applied to trips, were presented to Secretary waf purposes, and 110 doubt this ht-d s Buker and driven to the White House, bear"' on later events, where they were examined by Presi- . Tho l,ul Rrow"' of the aviation see dent Wilson I our army "omaiu,td motor nil. Arri.r. a,, bi,,.a truck particularly adapted to the special Big Orders Are Placed. Bcwto of tu )nrtment, n Volio The general staff and Secretary w recognized-the truck fi- Baker at once authorized the produo nauy decided upou bei the stBndard Hon of 10,000 class B trucks, and to Velie truck in all major features only execute this great task the military some minor additions being necessary truck production section of the trans- to better adapt it to the special work portatlon division of the quartermas- required. The local concern was award- ter's corps was organized, composed 'd contracts totaling well over MOOO,- of civilians only. The work was die- 01)0 on ,nis ""e type of hcuvy aviation trlbuted among seventeen truck ck alone. t builders, each to make 600 to 1,000 Deslgn "rty trucks. The Brst five trucks were ' T.h ,"K"l?r of the motor truck in available January 10, 1918. By April, tTF' -WD " ' ioia i.,n ' motive engineers, were called to Wash- 1918. production was proceed ng so ington to eonfor with th fl satisfactorily that the general stall. meBt and d(lsi0n , Bpccial Libcrt t'rU(.k authorized the purchase of 8,000 more that would be standardized in all fac- trucks, and In August. 1918, an addl- tories this truck to be the basis of the tional 25,000 were authorized, but 'irtcrm&ster's transport division in the armistice was signed before the France. last order was far advanced. ' I The Liberty truck was a wonderful Class B Trucks Lead. success. They maintained Pershing's It has, however, been clearly dem ' army on all fronts. They carried our onstrated that the class B trucks arei J" o Chateau Thierry. They helped not equaled In performance by any "lo3,c ,he 8t- Mihu"' client. They other type of truck used overseas. bueked"P n the Argoune sc- The experience acquired by the auto- or and wer? ',.T,t bvdan:, !"cver m -.in i. ti t has un uruly lia1 BUch dependable trans- t hi! ?1 T.. ,medlate,y Portation. Even now th. American available In their peace-time occn- army of OC(.upation rcUeg eonfidently on patlons, and the motor transport a never failing source of supply and corps acknowledge that the success- maintenance. Velie nlono was given or- flH solution of the motor truck prob- ders for more than three thousand Lib- lems is In a large measure due to the co-operation of the Society of Auto motive Engineers. be disappointed in 1919. A shortage extending over quite a long period ol , ' , . large trucks would be unwieldy or cuni- tiiue while manufacturers are eatching ;bersolnCi and R ordor for thrc ton trail-u-.i seeing absolutely certain. Buyers :er ,.x,.HiM(, a l,uif million dollars in arc goin;? to compete for every good jva!ue. The trailers are used in con car that goes on the market this sea- .nPrtion wtih the heavy nviution truck "on. jnnd by an ingenious storing nrrange- jment follows the courso of the truck it- Vc.car.ic hmhn h South A"TOrif? 1111 T?lT nT?19fra , . . . ... , Rio Janeiro, April 4 A violent voI - came erupnon m tu. moun. ' near Palmeiro Dos Indjo has resulted in I the denjh of many persons and great j propenv uiimng , u. i,mU1k ,v . .. ri,af(.r importance to carrv ammuni advires received here today. (i0n i(!((.lf Tn(,He onrt!, ar0 sbf nritial- Dispatches report that at midnight on ;,y ,)uUt fQ stnnd 1h(1 r- o war tnd March 30 a sudden explosion tore a- vp r)ulorato , thcif C(iui,mcn, ir.ui-r UK'i - "r - mountain nesr the vilage. Huge streams of lava- and boiling water poured down T " T 2 T .ZS m their path. The eruption was aeeom- panieu oy a nurricauw ot rcfc iuikubuj w fiilded to the destruction. The eruption is eontinuing and tho popula tion of that entire region is fleeing to the coasts. This is the first time any volcanic activity has ever occurred in these mountains. More than 800 applications have been filed by schooi children of Vancouver for membership in garden clubs. TIIESE BARGAINS: 1916 Maxwell, good eosdition 423. 1919 Maxwell, new, 1965. 1918 Dodge, if yos want a good car see this at S00. 1913 Paige, cWtrie starter sad . lights, 273. PHONE m Exchange STREET J10,GOO,000 IS BIG YfAR CCNTRACTOF VELIE -CO. VeHe Company la Wonderful Ccatibutica To Wmnng Of Wcrid Ccnfad On the outbreak of the great war in 19H the Fronts government seat repre sentatives to the Velie factory to in spect the Velio line of motor trucks and determine whether they were built prop- lertv to withstand the severe demands of wnr. ! A . Maul A tlid!. incinwtiiiN Ar? were placed for nearly two thousand stamlarj Velie trucks to be fitted with the accepted type of covered transport body. All these trucks were shipped wuhin due season and later evidence proves that they served nobly in the de fense of Verdun; that they were a great dependence in the second battle of the :JIarue and even now are a principal part in the motor equipment ot the French army. Sent Into Mexico. Trouble broke out in our own coun try early in 1916. Vila raided our bor der and made it necessary to send an army into Texas to protect our citizens. An expedition was sent into Mexico as a warning of what might happen if the .1... ...... 1. a .1... ..tUa-a A i.l erty trucks. Many Trailers Made. To round out the local tompany 's motor truck activities it received addi tional orders for s thousand small jtrucKs ot Wton capacity, used in all the most necessary weapons in modern aid to the effectiveness of that equip m(,1t Small carts are required to carry the Wlg ,u th(ir , nipla(.,.lnpnt. to "C1.rry - nifl PXtra!li and f p,.rhaps ,..,,1 :,.;,,, P,1., f,.r ninrn ftiiin 2.1.. 000 machine gun carts have been ban died by the Velie concern, a production i" 'lf, greater than that handled, by (n)v of consid(,rabl(. war imc activity. This product alone represents a volume nenrine 3,000,000. $10,000,000 All Told. Summing up the wartime effort of the Velie Motors corporation since America entered the great wnr tho aggregate of contracts handled exceds $10,000,000 aind this entirely apart from the tllied and I'nitH Htatea army deliveries made prior to 1917. Perfect Lubrication Bv Use Of llotorlise" I The one thing looked for and needod in all gasoline engines is the proper oil j ing of tho upper chambers, pistons and piston rings. Whca the piston rings are ,corodcd and a part of them are sticking ; is where a great amount of unburncd ' gasoline is escaping. A great saving !can be made when all parts are working ! perfectly. "Motorlife" is an oil and is noncumbustiblo at fifteen hundred : degrees Farenheit and will go through and to all "arts of your gasoline engine , properly oiling every part and is the oil that has long been wanted, and at the same time removing and preventing carbon deposits, keeniti? your engine clean. You lose money evcrr day you jrnn yonr car without "Motorlife." 6TBIKE MAY END TONIGHT I Ban Francisco, April 3. The shipyard ! strike tying up shipbnilding on this I side of the bay nir be ended tonight, jThe California Metr.l Trades associa ition is in sessios today arranging fina' : terms to be submitted to the striking machinists and boilermskers tonight in an effort to end the deadlock. AUTOMOBILE FENDER HAS BEEN INVENTED Frank Konbek, a member of the mer ' chandlslng staff of a Cleveland manu facturing concern, has been granted letters patent on a new type of au tomobile fender or bumper. One of its principal features Is the rubber, sleeve which slips on over the trans- New Type of Bumper. verse bumper bar and which takes up the first shock growing out of a col lision. Bars of spring steel, pluced lateral ly, fit Into longitudinal rods,. and these in turn are movable longitudinally within a short limit in sockets. An other feature of the patent is that the longitudinal bars impinge against rub ber buffers enclosed within the sock ets. The transverse bar Is bow shaped and all shock Is distributed first through the rubber sleeve, then the transverse bur to the lateral bars, through the longltudinul rods to the buffers within the sockets. TIME TO ADJUST CARBURETOR Always Best to Make Adjustments to Motor After It Is Thoroughly Warmed Through. A great many car owners make the mistake of adjusting the carburetor when the engine is cold. It Is always best to make adjustments to the mo tor after it has been run long enough to get thoroughly warmed through, and this applies equally to the valve tappets, etc. For Your Motor. It has been found that a mixture of 25 per cent each of gasoline and ben zoin with 50 per cent of alcohol works very satisfactorily as a fuel for ve hicle motors. CARE FOR STORAGE BATTERY Beeauss of Comparatively Brief Life It Should Ba Given Good Treat ment by Owners. - After a storage battery Is fifteen months old the - dealer considers it worthless. The fact that the battery has such a comparatively brief life at best, should lead owners to give I careful treatment, so as to get maxi mum service from it Adding distilled water to the cell, to bring the fluid nn trt tha rtrnnor lovol. annum ha rinriA ones a week In summer and twice month in winter. But this is not enough; the gravity of the solution may not be correct A hyd-ometer syringe test is the only sure method of determining the condl toln of the battery, and if the cells show below 1,200 each, they require recharging. Once every two months the battery should be tnken to tha service station for charging, espe cially If the user Is a doctor or one similarly occupied, whose enr is start ed and stopped many times each day. LOOSE FLYWHEEL SYMPTOMS Trouble May Be Determined by Sud denly 6peedlng Up Engine and Closing Throttle. When there Is a suspicion that the flywheel Is loose the way to determine It is to speed tip' the engine suddenly and then quickly close the throttle ; If this procedure produces a knock from Lbs vicinity o( the flywheel just at the Instant the throttle is closed It Is pret ty certain that a loose flywheel is caus ing the trouble. CAUSE OF A SHORT CIRCUIT ,L, . ,, . Rubbing of Cables on Sharp Edges of Battery Box Soon Wear Through Insulation. Electric cables that rub on sharp olirea nf the hntterv box or other places will soon wear through the In sulation from vibration of the car and a short circuit will occur that may be hard to find. Such parts of the wire should be protected with adhesive tape and should also be frequently in spected. Speedometer Drive. The average owner never gives the slightest heed to the speedometer drive, and yet this part needs pe riodic Inspection and lubrication. ' - 1 HAZE GREtw KUIES . " (Capital Journal Special Service.) Haiel Gren, Or.. April S Mrs. Eose Chapman spent a eouple Says 01 we past week in Hheridan on business. Ocorge Punigan came up from Port - land Saturdav, for the week-end amd to ateid the Hnndny school convention at Chcmawa. Walter Weinert arrived home lti week from Pan Francisco where he re-1 ceiveft hi r1irh.irire from te navv. In 1 nr. ,A Mm Jnt,n V.n Hv. r. dinner weni 10 inuomain, v.. . . . ti.. .... If - ..i-.MnA r tlm mnrt - si tiah. t - t Jiuii'mT. ui 1 umiiaii t irii iiia k. 11... Jerome Parmenter who recently came ! Haysvillc church last Hiitnrdnr. Bcv, Ma Hilda Williamson is spending from Astoria, visited his parents here'. Fisher officiated. Mrs. Leigh was, tlm week st home. last week. member of the Huwl (ireen U. B. About fifty people from this district Mr. and Mrs. Charles VanCleave, 0. church and she leaves many dear .attended the convention at C'bemsKu Today One Girl Does the Work of Two Men and Six Horses with the. Fordson Tractor Mr. Farmer, if you have not already purchased one of these labor and horse-saving machines, put out and backed by one of the largest organizations ' in the world, you are losing money. . Your plowing will be made a pleasure in stead of work. In fact everything in the power line that you now use several horses to do, the Fordson does easily and better. Small fuel consumption and efficiency are FORDSON FEATURES. This Tractor can be seen and Demon strated at Valley Motor Co. Vick Bros. Elbert Thompson, Manager. "The HOME of the 237 State Street --tta,i MOTOR TRUCKS WILL . ALL ftKIHAbLt oh Transporting Cow to World's problems are being solved I by the motor truck, according to Wil liam Fulton Melhulsh, president of a largo motor truck concern, Care- iful gathering of stutlwtlcs by Mr. MdnulHhi cI)guta,oflll wltn ,utnort. t,M bave ovn C01,.usv,,Iy thIt 5,) per cent of ,he pcr,snu,,,e pro(U(.tl, : of the American farmers do not reach i the market "Motor trucks will ultimately fill the bill and enable every farmer to get to the market 100 per cent of his produc tion of perishable foods," siild Mr. Melhulsh. "As America promotes Its road building efforts and Improves the highways the furmers will see tho light by millions and motor truck milk ers will never be able to meet Uie demand for their product. Work of One Man. "Some days ago I learned of real facts regarding the use of the motor truck by one farmer. Thls man, liv ing only 17 miles from a big city, was at the same time ten miles from his nearest railroad. Inability to secure "hipping and inability to get bis goods 40 the nWrmi caused losses Dot only 1 10 hlm bUt t0 othcr tarmvn- 1 9 was Induced to use a motor truck. At that time he hud only .j00 ta the bank. He bought the truck, 1 took on work for bis neighbors of ! - rlil,Uft . w- Vmm. nt tennVrl -w - ... - i . .... the faneral of Mrs. A. Leigh at mo -..--1 -U3Se(rtf. - --. - rnrrr rs FORDSON" 'The Salem, Oregon ULTIMATELY CARRY KUUUUIb IU MAKKtlS .svvjoni -. . .nOSSwK.. -v..' .., . , f?K.'i Wl . mm tmmf Hi ""-Jt. ' .V..v.- ... . ., Market in a Trailer. hauling their produce to market along nnd a tract owned by J. M. Jli-oyli-s to with his own, and today bus three the top of the hill on the f ry farm, trucks in operation, all owned by him thenru in n direct line to the ltergerson and paid for, and 1ms $.VXK) in the farm house, then down the hill on an hank. Neighbors whose work be orlg- Krl"l''i and on to Barlow and Canby lnully did llnully became purchasers ,he Me "f lh milrouil opposiiu of trucks nnd hn took on the work of 'f h. t(",us- Tllc r0llt ,iMl'" tw" others. The neighbors likewise pros-1 'l'7 MHt,'f rll,r! through both p. red and spread out. Todiiy the orlg- Uarlo,w oml C",lf,v- W.h,le ""' inal fanner, able to reach the mar. r-reJim.nary survey, .( .nay be adopUd , . , , , lieriiiino it is a mile shorter than thi ke with his produce and dependent , ut (.n(ii(,r ,, only up..n hlinRelf for tho huulngn, ,voi,l8 two rn(,. .rr,KifiK-oins at r lms Increased his acreage and Is buRy w on Kt Csiibv tihserver. with his own affairs largely, and mak-1 Ing more money thnn he ever thought hundred tens of Ki d Tre-vs sup possible from fiirmlng. P'i's for Vladivostok are being loaded Used Everywhere. ninmr.l tho Japanese liner Yokufukii "Sfotor trucks are today being used 'Maru ' ""lr by farmers everywhere. Every day I , . . . ,. . , 11 .1 Tufccrculnsis smoii? the Indians or we lenrn of dealers who have seen ,, . .. , ".., . .!,., the rand Monde roservatioa threatens the light and who are giving op the .rmin8timi of th(! entirP tri))e wjth, hard work of selling In the overcrowd- i R V(.ry f,,w yenrn. ed elites to travel to the farming pop- ' ' ulntlon and to educate them Into the ; Final work on tho Varhc a S;lah irri mysterles, as they call them, of the nation canal was completed last Mon horseless wagon. One sue Tssfui furra- 'lay. itepairs and new conlrction er using a motor truck I t a reeommon- f-st the sum of $.150,000. dntlon equaled by no other that I know, and the market created Is well worth while. On the other hand, the salesman and the nvker who Inspires that salesman Is d ilng for humanity a good turn, for bo Is accomplishing wonderful results la lowering the high cost of living." friends to mourn her Ions. 1 i:r.ii.imi.. I'nnnrinn vi.rtirniiii ismt p ri ; ' . ' . "'. ' ,. ; H - tii i tit h 'at Vtuit 11.' 1 1 it rclUtlVI , around r-tnvton. HOME of the FORD" 260 N. High St. Sifrday and brought back the bunscr for tho largost atti'ndniife. O. O. Looney went to Tratum Jfondaf to trot a new cow. Eddie Ziolinski has heca Iicliiinor his 1 brother, KJiss, set out two acres of strawbenes. Murk Aspinwnll hns moved into the Jones house noxt to J. Collins. J. Wilson is plan! Ink more strr.wber res. . ; IIEEEDIA BBIMUS NOKBtS .'ew York, April 3. The transport jllereilia arrived In-re today with bl tQiirseit, two ci-.hidiI officers and five ei Ivilianssiid wss followed by the l'hilip j pines with "71 Jtdiliers of tho )lu2nd ren jter tiink rnrps, hesiliimirters first depot company and mciliinl (li'tiu hinent. i 1 ul 1 New Aurora-Caniy Rode Has Been Surveyed A highway comiui.tHinn engineer hns iiiucle u prclimiimrr survey of tho Ait rora Cunliy unit of tho Paciie highway, Iho pant week. Just to the east of tlm Pudding river bridgu the route turn to the lift on a per cent grade up the Irvtn hill, arms the Hrackert tilacit ; 1 j ; : I ; Pls-nWng and Water Systflms Installed ! !y OKABEE BEOS, 141 Bonth Liberty j St., Phone 650. Also agent for Tiir- '.auk Morse Oas Engines. s-L mm)