South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 187, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 6 July 1919 — Page 26
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U. S. Army Motor Truck Train to Cross Country Will Demonstrate. Practicability of Moving Army Over - .!. Continent and Need of Good Highways.
Ti? or;rof 'the vnr department! & motor transport train, thru mil'?' lor.. will Imivo Washington on July. T and crow the continent to th Pacific coast, jrachin? Fan Francisco! ovr the Uraroln highway. j This long: Journey U to h-t rna'l la 60 days. It will frvo as a test! of the efficiency of tho army's transport eervlc. but "what 1 considrrcl i mor effectSv, vsT!, ; 'demonstrate to J tho nation the 'Inestimable value ofj
a ryptem or national hUhways. The plan's for the adventure hv ten completed hy the war department. A11 equipment has r.-n assembled and th personnel detail assigned. This transport train will b1 the heaviest In th- history rf any army. ;Ti will be even havl'r than any rinfc!o unit of the hugre transport service usl to keep the armies of the allies supplied nlon? the French- front. No motor transport train of any nation has ever brore attempted a continuous Journey of 3,000 miles In 50 days with full war eoulnment. The motor trucks will
carry' not only their own supplies to la5t,the entire Journey, hut will carry upply and repair units, as well ai full complements of men and officers. The marching orders call for an average of 73 miles a dav. Thla schedule necessitates u pped of 15 miles an hour all the way from Washington to the coast, no matter how unfavorable the weather or geographical conditions. The war department, through the chief of th motor transport corps. Urig.-Gen. Drake, ha officially notified the War Camp Community service of the departure of the transport train and requested It to care fen the men all the way from Washington to San Francisco, sending the itinerary of the line of march. The War Camp Community service, has been authorized to make ofllclal announcement of the event for the war department, and has already dispatched special Utters with
instructions to all of its organizers and field workers along the line of march. Plans for tho men's care ar.fi recreation during their brief evening In each community have already been perfected. The decision to send three, miles of army trucks across the country wa.i reached several diva ago in Washington after consultations between Gen. Drake, In command of th transport service. Col. Owen fceaman and Lieut. -Col. J. M. Ritchie working in close collaboration with the Iincoln Highway association. The most picturesque features of the long Journey will hf the manner in -which tho long1 snake-liko train of motor vehicles will wind its
heavy, bumping way over the llocky mountains. It will cross by way of the continental divide. The engineering stuff of tho army ha.s carefully figured out the j urney so that no mechanical or engineering obstacles stand In the way of its success. The start Is to be made on the morning of July 7 from Lafayette square in front of the white house. The van of the train will immediately leave the capltol, heading for Pittsburg. The course then followed will take the soldiers' trucks through Ohio. Indiana, Illinois. Iowa. Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada. The transport trucks will finally drop down the .vestern slope of the Sierra Nevada range to Sacremento. Calif, and then on to San Francisco. For many years the Lincoln Highway atciation has endeavored to secure the backing of the government in its project to build a thoroughly sound ocean to ocean highway. The proposed journey of the three miles of motor transports is lh first otlicial assistance that it has received in its project. In many states good roads have been campaign slogans, and many governors
and mayors have heen made or unmade according to their ideaj on this public question. The war department In its official fctatement to the War Camp Community service called attention to the political Importance of pood roads throughout the country. It Is planned to establish a flood rtoads day in the various states on the days the transoprt convoy is passing through them. The schools will be closed as on a holiday and the train will be welcomed along the route by various civic organizations. Because of the Importance of good roads the cross continent Journey of the motor transport convoy will not only interst the nation as a spectacle, of military efficiency and preparedness, but will appeal to every business interest. Good roads mean good business. From a military standpoint the necessity for g.od ocean to ocean highways Is incalculable.
The governor's staff of each state will grret the motor train and escort it from the eastern to the western boundary of the r täte line, where in turn It will be met by the officials of the adjoining state. When the convoy reaches California at the western terminus of the Lincoln highway, arrangements have been made for Sen. Hiram Johnson to preside over the elaborate welcoming ceremony. The Journey will demonstrate the practicability of getting a huge army across the continent in 60 days. It is also proposed to have the president of the United States dedicate a tab!et in Lafayette square marking not only the starting point of the cross continent army Jaunt, but also serving as the original point of all national highways in the country. The tablet will consist of an engrave-d map of the United States. All national highways, now and
later authorized will be filled in in gold.
HOWDY WILCOX DRIVES A.COLE AERO-EIGHT
Among Jhe late?t addltlono to the long list of prominent owners of Cole Aero-Eight motor cars in Howard (Howdy) Wilcox of Indianapolis, winner of the 500-mile race held at the Indianapolis motor speedway. May 31. "I have been watching the Cole Aero-Eight ever since it was first Introduced In 1918," eaid Wilcox in speaking of his new car. "From the standpoint of appearance I believe it to be the most Itcished and symmetrical car now on the market. But, of course, the mechanism was of vital concern to me. "I believe in confining one's speeding to the race track, but I can say frankly that I make a car give me all that it has to deliver. I'm accustomed to long touring and I want a car to go wherever the road leads and do that without effort. I can't stand to drive a car that labors.
GREAT YEAR FOR USED CAR SALES!
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Scarcity of New Machines Makes Business in Second Hand Ones Brisk.
"This Is the greatest year for second hand car selling in the history of the automobile busings," said William Nichols, Ruick dealer and proprietor of the Twentietn Century garage, this week. "Every dealer in town is settintr up a new record for second hand car business. In fact the second hand machines are selling so fast and are so easy to turn over that thty are proving almost as good a proposition as if we had new cars to sell. "The failure to get new cars Is of course responsible for the demand for the second hav.d ones." Nichols continued. "Wc could svll a half dozen times as many machine.
as we are aMe to get hold of now. and many times when a man comes to see us about buying a new car. he is so anxious for a machine of some kind that he Immediately inwuire if we hae ary second hand cars to soli. He usually prtfeis a second hand machine to waiting for a promised new car. The unusual prosperity of the country is responsible for the way the automobile business is goir.?. Every dealer and every manufacturer has but one problem today, that of meeting the demand for Pleasure cars. We are receiving a few Duick cars now from time to time, but the supply is far below the demand. I expect to see the situation improved in the next few week?, but the car shortage is extremely acute throughout the country." Mr. Nichols will receive a carload of machines within the next few
care of some of the of orders he has on makln-g every effort the cars he possiblj constantly in touch
with the factory and driving tht, cars through, whenever this helps in prompt deliveries.
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MICHELEN COMPANY INSURES ALL EMPLOYES
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