Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1918 — NO MORE PASSENGER AUTOS TO BE MADE AFTER JAN. 1st [ARTICLE]

NO MORE PASSENGER AUTOS TO BE MADE AFTER JAN. 1st

The following letter from the war industries board to the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce is along the line that many have been expecting for some time. The letter is plain within itself. “We have given careful cqnsideration to , your communication of Au£. 8 embodying the resolutions passed at your meeting at Detroit, Aug. 6,” the letter said: “We notfi that the manufacturers have voluntarily agreed among themselves to curtain the production of passenger cars 50 per cent. Further curtailment's inevitable. “Fairness to your industry iiriipels us frankly to state that the situation today indicates clearly there will.be little, if any, of the principal materials required in the construction of passenger cars available for npn-war industries after the war requirements shall have been provided for, and the war industries (board cannot at this time make any promise whatever regarding the supply to your industry of steel, rubber, or other materials for any definite period in advance. <» ' “We strongly believe it is to the best interest of your members and all other manufacturers of passenger- automobiles to undertake to get on a 100 per ’cerit war work basis as rapidly as possible and not later than Jan. 1, 1919, for in no other way can you be sure of the continuance of your industry and the preservation of your organization.” It was stated by one member of the board that allotment of steel to the industry has been stopped and those far sighted enough to obtain stocks of steel prior to the restrictions on delivery will in all probability have their supply taken by the government to be turned over to war industries short of it.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam received word today that they had a new granddaughter. % A fine, girl having arrived in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Wilcox, who live in Marshfield, Oregon. Judson J. Hunt is in Pulaski county today looking after some business matters. President C. G. Spitler is assisting in the Trust and Savings bank dunng Mr. Hunt’s absence. C. H. Mills is absent from the bank and is enjoying a two weeks’ vacation at a Michigan summer resort.