Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 197, 31 May 1919 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELE GR AM - SATUKDAif, MAY SI, 1919.

Ohio Legislator May Be Expelled A s Bribe Seeker COLUMBUS., w- juay 31. Recominendlns that the Ohio house of repreKenUtlTcs "take such action as may be ntcessary looking to the censure or expulsion ot Representative Frank Delehanty of Cleveland for alleged bribe

ry activities was, made to the general assembly Thursday by the Joint legislative committee appointed to investigate alleged bribery activities. All other members of the assembly were completely exonnerated by the report. Testimony taken by the committee showed that Delehanty solicited a bribe in connection with a pending blU.

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Mrs. Ross Holcomb of Vicksburg, Miss., spent Monday with Robert Stayton and family. . ..Thomas Hamlyn and wife and Clem Inloe of Okeana, Ohio, spent Monday with George Beard and wife.... Oscar Banfill, wife and daughter Mary of Richmond, and Flora Banfill spent Sunday with Mrs.

Elizabeth Banfill and family.... Mr. and Mrs. Walter Howell spent Sunday with Virgil Harter and family of near New Madison. . . .E. A. Holcomb and family spent Saturday evening with friends in Eaton.... Four of the Eldorado boys returned home in the last few days. Elmer Holhinger returned on Saturday evening, David Bolen on Monday evening, and Eddie Klmmel

and Hale Agler on Tuesday evening. All of the boys received their discharges at Camp Sherman and are now at home after spending several months in the service. ...Mrs. Chaa. Agler and Mrs. Hale Agler spent over Sunday in Camp Sherman and returned with Hale on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Laura Holslnger, Mrs. Joseph Ware and Mrs. Herman Copp also

visited at Camp Sherman on Friday and Saturday. PLAN PERMIT SYSTEM

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a Model "90" Overland The Supreme Test

N APRIL 5 th, when Linn Mathewson drove an Overland stock car. Model 90, up the planking on the steps and into the lobby of the Lee-Huckins hotel in Oklahoma City, Okla.. a new world's record for automobile performance had been established. This Overland Model 90 had been traveling

then continuously for seven days and seven nights, in rain and fair, over muddy country roads and slippery city pavemerits, through the traffic of a busy city. The motor had not once been stopped nor had it missed a single explosion In 168 hours of continuous running. There was no gear ihift lever for the driver. That had been removed and the gear sealed in high. In this seven-day non-stop, gear-sealed-in-high run, the car had traveled 4,370.1 miles. That breaks the world's record by 129.1 miles. And the previous record was made in Los Angeles as far back as 1 9 1 4- Traveling a distance equal to that which separates New York from Berlin, approximately one-sixth of the way around the world, the Overland Model 90 established in its remarkable run, its full claim to the title the public knows it by The Thrift Car. "That's the gamest car ever built," the mayor of Oklahoma City said, at the end of the run. A great crowd of men and women pressed around the Model 90 as it stood before the desk of the hotel lobby. The mayor reached forward and turned off the button. The turdy engine died down after 1 68 hours of hard driving. The press wires that night carried the story of this remarkable Overland achievement to every city and town of the southland. Folks in New York and San Francisco knew of the accomplishment the next morning as they read their paper over the breakfast coffee. And all the southland had its attention directed to a car that gives the performance motorists demand. It was a splendid achievement. Facts of the Run The outstanding features of the record run tell an interesting story. Here'they are: 1. The car traveled 4,370.1 miles in 168 hours at a total running cost for gasoline and oil of less than two cents a mile to be exact, one and 17-100 cents for each mile. 2. The Model 90 motor ran continuously for 168 hours. The log of the trip shows that no adjustments were made to the motor during that time. 3. The carburetor was never touched. Yet the Overland Model 90 despite weather conditions and road wear never missed an explosion. 4- Not even one of the spark plugs had to be changed. Another Record Broken 5. The average speed maintained by the Model 90 was 26.01 miles an hour. The average daily mileage was 624.3 miles. Only on one day of the trip did the car fail to exceed the A. A. A. official non-stop 24-hour mileage record of 587 miles. That was the third day. The car fell short of the A. A. A. record then by eight miles only. 6. The gasoline consumption was very low. The car

averaged 20.66 miles a gallon. The gasoline used was 59 test. Sterling brand, refined by the Sammies Oil Company, of Oklahoma City. 7- The oil consumption would satisfy any motorist's pocket-book. Only 57& gallons had to be used to send the Model 90 over 4,370 miles or road and pavement. The oil cost was $4.70. All of Oklahoma was interested in the effort that was so successfully made to establish a new world's record. The judges of the contest were managing editors of newspapers of the state. Day by day, the press reported the car's mileage, giving the records for each of the four hour controls. Crowds followed the progress of the car during the day time. Late home-goers cheered the drivers during the quite hours of the night as one of the team of four tooled the wheel of the car over the boulevards of the city. During the day the Model 90 threaded its way through business traffic handicapped by the fact that the gear was sealed in high. The car spun over smooth country roads to the suburbs of Oklahoma City and then took to the rough and rutted country between Edmund and El Reno. Arrangements were made for the car to start from the lobby of the Lee-Huckins hotel at 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, March 29th. The hotel guests, city officials and the managing editors of the local papers gathered around the Model 90 when F. W. A. Vesper, president of the National Automobile dealers Association, stepped on the starter and caught the first explosion in the engine. He turned the wheel over to Linn Mathewson, the famous racing driver, and the race was on. The high gear had been wired in and sealed and the gear shift lever had been disconnected from low, second and reverse. The team of four drivers had nothing to do but keep the car rolling forward, no matter what road conditions they encountered nor what mud or sand they metTicking off its explosions as regularly and as smoothly as the finest watch, the Overland Model 90 on the first night traveled on the better pavements of the city. So that gasoline and oil might be had when needed, and the drivers rested, four control stations were established. A team of four drivers had been carefully selected with Mr. Mathewson as captain of the team. He drove the first and the fourth period of each day, which gave him the honor of starting the run and tooling the wheel at the finish when it was known that a world's record had definitely been established. With each driver rode an observer who kept the log of the trip and reported each hour of the run to the judges. The judges who certify to the world's record are George Frederickson, president of the chamber of commerce; W. H. Harrison, managing editor of the Daily Oklahoman, and G. B. Parker, the managing editor of the Oklahoma News. These control reports of the car's performance make impressive reading. They establish beyond question the supremacy of the Overland Model 90 in its field. No better demonstration of the car's ability could have been devised.

Through Rain and Mud. E. R. Cathcart, who conducted the test, told the drivers he didn't care whether they met fair weather or rain the 90 would turn the trick. The weather compromised. On the first night's run. Linn Mathewson had a cool wind from a dry sky- When he turned the Model 90 over to Smith at 3 o'clock in the morning it began to rain in buckets. The pavements were treacherous, but even at that. Smith covered 116 miles in three hours and 5 0 minutes. The run during Monday and Tuesday was as uneventful as a walk to church on Sunday morning. The skies were clear and the pavements dry. Shortly after the midnight of Tuesday, it began to pour a regular Southern rainstorm that doesn't spare passenger or vehicle. The rain continued all during the dark of the night and through Wednesday until after midnight. "This is the test now," Cathcart told the drivers, as he met them at the controls. "We haven't gone below the Chicago non-stop 24-hour record yet." "But these roads are deep and sticky with mud they told him. The city pavements were not much better. Fifteen of the 24 hours that day were spent in the city's traffic, bumping over poor pavements and threshing through the mud of country highways that are none too good for motoring when the sun has caked them firm. The Model 90 ate up a little more gasoline but the drivers covered 95, 94, 109, 104 and 115 miles between their controls. After that gruelling test, the Model 90 seemed to run better than ever. The hum from the motor was music to the drivers. "It turns over like a charm," was their report to the judges. The gasoline consumption ran down to four gallons, touched five gallons and on one occasion totaled six gallons for distances of 1 1 6, 1 1 8, 103, 115 and 120 miles for the four hour periods. It was good weather for driving thenThe heat of the last afternoon of driving, April 5. was tempered by a breeze that became a stiff wind when Mathewson took the wheel for the last four-hour stretch, and drove the car up the planking into the lobby of the hotel. The Overland Model 90 had accomplished its task and a new world's record was establishedThe motorist is interested in tests of this kind only as they point out some special feature of endurance, economy, or special ability. You have read the plain, unvarnished truth of this recordbreaking performance. The fact of greatest interest to you is that the Model 90 which made this record is the exact duplicate of Model 90 we have in stock. The test does not make the car any better. It merely serves to show in a dramatic way what more than 150,000 Model 90 owners know about the dependable, sturdy performance of this great car. Give us an opportunity to demonstrate to you this wonderful record-breaking car. which we have here in stock and ready for delivery.

The One Test of a Cars Ability is Performance Performance Proves the Exceptional Merits of the Overland DAVIS-OVERLAND Sales Co. C. M. DAVIS, Prop, and Mgr. 1209 Main St. Telephone 2411

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