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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-28
OVERLAND DWTTTISTANDS TERRIFIC PUNISHMENT
 UNDER 10 FEET OF WATER
Car Settles in Qucksand Before Owner and Occupants Realize Danger-Waves Buffeting Does Little Harm Outside
 of Runing Paint and Windshield and Top

A most unique test of the endurance and stability of Overland construction occurred recently along the Florida coast, when a model SS Overland tour- ing car, after being buffeted about all night in a raging surf, was found to be only slightly damaged when rescued the following morning.
 The owner of the car, together with a party of four people, was driving along the beach at low tide when he ventured too close to the waters edge. The first inkling he had of impending danger was when the car slowed up suddenly and began to settle in the rear. Then he realized that he had driven into pocket of quick sand and the party barely had time to jump for safety before the water surrounded the car.
 The incoming tide and the danger connected with the work made it inn possible for a rescue party to render much assistance. By the time 1t grew dark the surf was breaking over the top of the Overland.
 At the full height of the tide the car was in 10 feet of water with the
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ndependent of the parent company and

pendent as a Canadian corporation. 1t will have the advantage of the advice
 and engineering skill of the Willys-Over- land company organization.
 The plan is to undertake in Canada the
 actual manufacture of both Overland and Willys-Knight automobiles. For this
 purpose, the plant of the Russell Motor Car company of Toronto has already been acquired. and this will quickly be en- larged to permit quantity production. Adequate arrangements will be made for distribution throughout the dominion.
 and particular attention will be given to the provision of service facilities for Overland and Willys-Kn owners. The
 plans in this direction call for facilities
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William J. Sc1utt of Australia
 Is Nov Visiting Hupp Official
Barrster From Melbourne Accompanied by His Wife and Miss
 Elsie Ingram, Have Visited Nearly Every Section in ! the United States in Hupmobe

William J. Schutt a barrister of Mel bourne, Australia, is visiting in Detroit. a guest' of Joseph R. Drake, vice presi- dent of the Hupp Motor Car company. MT. Schutt. Accompanied by his wife and Miss Elsie Ingram. have been travel ing through the United States since last February, and have just finished a motor trip in Hupmobile through the eastern states.
 He has now visited every part of the United States, Cuba and Alaska and cannot give too much praise for the states and has been greatly impressed with the country generally.
 The party landed in San Francisco last February and after visiting southern California, proceeded to the Grand Can yon, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Fla, Havana Cuba, St Augustine, Richmond, Washington. Philadelphia and New York; From New York. MT. Schutt's party
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-28
AUTO BLUE BOOK FOR 1876 WILL bE
 OUT IN JANUARY Book Will Contain Much Valuable Information
 for Automobile
 Tourists

Rapidly improving roads and the tions on principal routes will greatly facilitate motor travel in Dixie during I the coming year.
 | Automobile touring is making rapid strides in popularity and interest | through every one of the southern | states. This is due largely to the many local or district highway improve J ments in more or less constant progress within the territory below the Potomac and Ohio rivers, aided very materially l by the various through routes between the northern and central western states and the south, which are being de- veloped, marked and brought to the attention of thousands of motorists
 planning the longer trips. While there
 are some temporary drawbacks, such as l the long delay in completing the high way between Washington, D. C., and Richmond, Va, and the meagre ferry I service over the streams along the gulf coast, the south as a whole is putting through a road building programme unsurpassed by that of any equal area i in the United States.
 As a result. the time formerly taken l AoA e eoAAb soy AiOiii 4NCW IOih UT SHl- l cago to Atlanta, Florida or New Or leans, has been at least cut in two with l in the past few years, while facilities 1 for the convenience and comfort of the 1 tOruist have been multiplied. Optional | routes have been opened up in surpris- 1 ing numbers, some skirting the Atlantic coast as closely as the nature of the country will permit, others crossing the 1 ranges and threading the valleys of the Appalachian mountains and still others following the comparative levels of the Mississippi river valley. So wide is the choice of routes acorss this large ter ritory that the tourist may go one way and return the other for two or three l successive seasons without exhausting them Now for the first time, also, the main roads of the southeastern states have been logged on the same thorough plan as those of the north have been for several years past; and about January I 15, they will be brought out in a new volume of the Automobile Blue Book l the sixth in a series which now covers the entire country. Since midsummer | the experienced field forces of the pub fishers have been running constantly over the most important routes in Vir- ginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama. Mississippi
 and Louisiana, taking complete notes and odometer mileages as the basis for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-28

waves pounding and beating it from one side to the other. The breakers would smash into it and stand it on end, leaving 1t sometimes on two wheels, sometimes on it's side and at other times completely upside down, with the body and radiator grinding into the sand.
 The following morning at low tide Wreckfng crew managed to haul the car up on the beach. After the sand and seaweed was cleaned out of it, the owner began an investigation as to the extent of the damage. He was amazed to find that with the eXcep- tion of a broken up top. smashed wind shield and loss of paint, the car was as good as ever.
 The terrific pounding it had been subjected to during the night had not even bent the lenders. The radiator was not damaged and with the excep- tion of sand scratches the body was in excellent shape. In fact if the mag neto had not been soaked he could have driven the car home under it's own power.
 Spectators declare that the manner in which the Overland wfthstood the buffeting of the high seas, left no doubt as to the ruggedness of its con Struction
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!, started their motor trip in the Hupmo- bile. going through the Catskills to Buff falo, Niagara Falls, Toronto and back to Buffalo, thence to the Thousand Islands and to Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, and then down through Lake Champlain and Lake George to Saratoga and Albany. From Albany they toured through the Berkshires to Boston and to Portsmouth, Poland Springs and Breton Woods, then back to Boston and New York and to Buffalo by the Mohawk trail. They cov- cred 4500 miles by motor car.
 Before leaving Australia, MT Schutt, on account of his German sounding name, took especial precautions in securing not only the usual passport signed by the ernor-general, but also obtained spe- cial letters from the minister of state for foreign affairs which is the Aus tralan equivalent for our Secretary of State, and from the premier of Victoria
 which is the state in which Melborne is located
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text directions and outline maps, uni form with those of the older volumes. Similar work is now under way in Flor ida. that state having been taken up last to secure the benefit of the latest data on new construction. especially brick pavement being laid on several of it's most important routes. both along the famous east coast and in the in- terfOr.
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resident of the willys-overland Limited,

president of the Willys-Overland Limited. T. A. Russell. at present vice president of the Russell Motor Car company of Canada. will be vice president.
 Five of the directors of the Willys- Overland company of Toledo will be di- rectors of the new company. These five are J. N. Willys, H. T. Dunn. Walter Stewart Harry Shepler. c. A. Earl of Toledo, T. A. Russell and Lloyd Harris of Toronto, and two of the other Cam adian stockholders will also be on the board.
 This new company will take over the complete automobile business of the Rus sell Motor Car company and all 0f the business in Canada of the Willys-Over- land company
 Although the Canadian company Will be
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A Saving

From the Washington Star
 Your wife's dinner parties are al- ways beautiful affairs
 "Yes," replied MT. Cumrox. "At first people didn't seem to want to come to 'em.. but guess mebbe the high cost of living is making a difference.'.
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which will surpass anything previously undertaken in Canada. In fact, the orr sanization will, in it's facilities and eouip- ments. probably equal anything in the states
 The policy to go into manufacture and assembly in Canada will give employ- ment to a large number of people.
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W|[LYS-OVERLAND
 ]. EXPANDS IN CANADA

A new Canadian company. known as tine Willys-Overiand Limited. has just been organized in Canada. It will have a capital of $6,o0o,OOO with head offices in ToIonto.i
 MT. John N. Willys. head of the Willys- Overland company of Toledo. will be
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Knew the Size

| fIdTPtf " 61kIy.
 The minister of small Missouri town called the grocer on the telephone the other day and gave him the follow ing order:
 Send dollars worth of meat out to my house. If there is no one at home, just poke it throgh the key hole"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-28

NoW-to countless men and Wome open to enclosed car luxury, to it varied pleasures and privileges, tn
 barrier, that of cost, is swept away b, the coming of the All Season Saxol Six at this price. Among enclose' cars of fine quality this marks the re cord low price and it includes tn
 touring car top as we'll as the CQ2! detachable all season top, all for p/J'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-23
IN HEAD-ON CRASH


Continued from Page Ouel
remainder We're flat cars on which
were loaded the show paraphernalia.
The first nine flat cars were piled into
the length of two and the wreckage
Immediately caught fire. Bodies of
the six known victims were consumed
by the flames. One victim died at a
hospital here last night.
Victims of the Wreck.
The known dead are:
Fred S. Kempf of Kansas City and
his wife.
c. H. Hawkins, Peoria.
George Chadwick, address unknown.
johnson, address unknown.
w. M. Bachelor, of Milwaukee,
carnival employee; died Monday night
at a local hospital.
One unidentified Snowman.
The injured include:
Hazel Kempf, aged four, daughter
of Fred S. Kempf. bruised.
e. A. Kempf, possible internal In
juries.
G. w. Baxley, of St Paul, Mimi,
leg broken; possible internal injuries.
Thomas O'Rourke, St. Louis, back
injured.
1t was stated here that there were
approximately 400 people on the car
niva1 train including performers,
trainers, their families and various at
taches of the carnival company.
Known in LeavcI,worth.
Leavenworth, Kan, Nov. 23.-The
Con T. Kennedy shows left here in
April They winter in Leavenworth,
but most of the people with them are
only here in the early spring months.
Fred S Kempf and wife, reported
burned to death, have lived in Leav-
enworth the last two winter seasons
None of tn others reported injured are
known here.
Topekan in Wreck?
7. NJ. Warren, a Topeka man, is
thought to have been in the wreck of
the Con T. Kennedy Carnival COM
pany train at Columbus. Georgia. No
report as to whether Mr.. Warren was
injured or not has been received by
his relatives in Topeka. Mr.. Warren
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-23
FINDS A FORTUNE



160-acre tract to which he now seems
to hold a clear title, was a mere COW
pasture. A few houses were built in
the neighborhoOd, but the town was
just beginning to grow out toward the
Shreve land. Then a series of real
estate transactions gave a question: BILE
title to Walter Beebe. With number
of quit claim deeds in his possession,
Beebe plated the 160-acre farm and
it was sold as town lots. Samuel
ShreVe, however, never signed away
his rights to the land. Now his par
ents are dead and he is an heir to the
valuable land.
On the land which was once the
Shreve farm are many of Marion's
fashionable residences. The Rock
Island depot, the city light, water and
power plant are also on the land. Now
Shreve will fight for it all.
Taylor Riddle, former member of
the state legislature from Marion
county, brought the suit TO quiet the
title to the land. This morning Fred
of representatives, came to Topeka
to consult j. S. Dean, former United
States district attorney, regarding
legal phases of the case. Members
of the Lewis family were interested
in the property and signed quit claim
deeds waving their right and title to
property in the present Beebe addi-
ton to the town.
Now Shreve will await develop
ments in the case which means a
fortune to him if he wins. He will
not return to The mountains this
winter Instead he will stay close to
tabnsh, beyond doubt, his seeming
clear rifle TO the DrODertV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-23
KANSAS CUT OUT
Continued from Page one.)

lCont1nued from rage Onel
ago that he had authentic information
that the state censor board would
''kilP' the production.
1T is politics. he exclaimed bitter
ly, land the members of the appeal
board and the official censor are
afraid of the big colored vote"
w. D. Ross, the state superintend-
ent of public instruction and state
censor, has never given out any in
timation that he would bar the film.
Neither has the Rev. Festus Foster,
another censor. Ross goes on the
theory, he says, that he does not form
an opinion of picture until he sees
it and he will take no action on 1.-The
Birth of a Nation" controversy until
the proper time.
But the picture will never cross the
state line. THE Birth of a Nation is
being shown in all the large cities at
81 prices. Not state has barred it
up to the present, although a bitter
fight was waged upon it by several
factions in Massa chusetts. The pro-
ducers will take no risk and Topeka
and Kansas people will not see it I'M
less they have the coin to take a trip
to Kansas City this week.
The Birth of a Nation" is booked
at the Grand for solid week early
in December and also for a full week
in theater at Wichita. Roy Craw-
ford, manager of the Grand, has all
ready received inquiries from dozen of
out-of-town patrons who intended to
come IRE.
One two-dollar movie production is
now out of the question for Kansas
The scene shifts. The next one, 1.-The
Battle Cry of Freedom will come on
deck sooner or later. Will the pro-
ducerS dare bring that into Kansas :?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-23
Witness in New Haven Trial
Brings in Former President.
Says That Roosevelt Acted as
MeIlen's Counsel in Deal.
SITUATION IS CARED FOR"
Head Said Trouble
Chance Was Eliminated.
Goes Into Details
on B. & Nj. Acquisition.

New York, Nov. 23.-Theodore
Roosevelt, as president of the United
States, again appeared as adviser of
Charles S. Mellen, in New Haven af-
fairs-the acquisition of the Boston &
Maine railroad-in testimony given at
the trial of the eleven former direc-
tors of the New Haven road, under the
Sherman antitrust law. Mellen rep
resented the former president as hav-
ing, in 1907, advised the purchase of
the Boston & Maine, with the reSerVa-
ton, however, that "if you do wrong
you need not come back to me-" The
advice was given after Mellen had had
an interview, at Roosevelt's suggestion,
with Franklin K. Lane, chairman of
the interstate commerce commission,
and explained to him that there was
into the hands of Aliens if the New
Haven did not take it. By aliens the
witness said, he meant the Canadian
Pacific or the Grand Trunk railroad of
Canada and that Chairman Lane
agreed with him that such an eventu-
atty was dangerous from a military
point of view.
The testimony was brought out after
r. L. Bats, attorney for the govern
ment had read into the record an eX-
change of correspondence subsequent
to the interview between Mellen and
H NJ. Whitney of Boston.
81 have always thought it possible
that the little father at Washington
might want to get his finger in the
pie" wrote Mr.. Whitney in reference
to the Boston & Maine deal. "'In
which case, if it should happen before
the public had become reconciled to
the change, it might result in infinite
harm to all our interests
1.-THE Washington situation" Mellen
wrote in reply, 81 have, I think, COM
pletely cared for. One never knows
for certain about those matters but the
ground has been carefully ploughed
and every chance of trouble considered
and 1 think eliminated"
From this point the government
went further into the more or less
familiar history of the New Ravens
troubles in getting permanent control
of the Boston & Maine, which Gull
minated in 1909 in the passage by the
Massachusetts legislature of a law
enabling the New Haven legally to
control the 100 shares of Boston &
Maine stock it had acquired.
The government met a setback,
however, when the court ruled that no
evidence as to corruption of the legis-
lature was admissible. Judge Hunt
held that no such means were alleged
in the indictment as having been used
by the New Haven to gain its alleged
monopoly of New England tIansporta-
ton traffic.
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MUCH MONEY USED
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Continued from Page ID
the chartering and loading of some of
the vessels and that $750,000 for re-
lief of German warships was spent
under his direction here.
I'VE expect to show" Mr. Wood
said, that this conspiracy extended
from New York to Philadelphia, to
San Francisco and New Orleans. we
expect to show that DR.. BuenZ en-
ployed a man named Kulenkampf to
clear two vessels in hurry from Phil
adelphia at the very opening of the
war, telling him that this was destr-
able because the Hamburg-American
line should not appear in the transac-
ton.
1--WE can prove that one of the YES
SelS-the Berwin-was loaded with
coal bought from the Berwind Coal
company, and we understand Mr..
Buenz wanted Mr.. Berwind of the
company to clear the steamer, but
that Mr.. Berwind demurred and Kul-
enkampf received $750,000 from some
place in Germany-he did not know
where or from whom-that he put this
money in two New York banks and
that soon after Captain Boy-Ed came
to him and told him the money was to
be spent under his (Boy-Ed's) direc-
ton. We shall show that 100000 to
100000 of this money was sent to
San Francisco, where it was spent to
coal and provisions, and that there
ships sailed out and met the German
cruiser Leipsig, and perhaps the
Dresden.
Zone hundred and thirty-five thou
sand of this we shall show was spent
for the purchase outright of one of
these three vessels, and all of the
$4,000 was spent under Captain
Boy-Ed's personal direction and in
structions.
Many Ships Used.
Sixteen or seventeen ships were
used" Mr.. Wood continued, ''by de-
PENDANTS, to carry coal, water. wine,
sauer kraut and other needed sup
plies to the Leipsig. Dresden, Capt.
Trafalgar, Eba, Santa Lucia, Eleanor
Woermer and other German men of
war These steamers all carried
supercargoes placed aboard by the de-
PENDANTS, each supercargo bearing
sealed instructions which were opened
after the vessel steamed away, some
times within the three mile limit.
The defendant hotter, We shall
show, signed letters which the super
cargoes carried and these letters, ad-
dressed to captains of the steamers
selected to supply German warships,
instructed the captains to obey the
supercargoes and promised them lib
eral gratuities for doing SO.
I'VE shall show that after these
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-23
U. S. A CREDITOR NOW
New High Records in Exports for
Uncle Sam.

Washington, Nov. 23.-New high
records in. the foreign trade of the
United States continue to pile up the
greatest favorable trade balance the
country has ever known. The move
ment of merchandise and gold shown
in figures made public today by the de-
partment of commerce discloses how
decidedly the United States has been
converted from a debtor to a creditor
nation.
During the twelve months ending
with October, the foreign trade eX-
coed 5000, 100000. Imports were ST.
691, 74S,013 and exports $3.31S, ,636,
as compared with imports of $1,SS0,-
Ala, sol, and exports of $2,14O,S47,S29
dnirug the same twelve months pre-
vious. Exports of October established
a new high record, rising to 1894, 63S,-
SIS, which was $33,961,756 more than
the former record made in Septem-
mer. October imports were s14S,529,-
$40. The record trade balance made
during the ronth was $1S6, 10S,9 5S.
The previous high balance, made in
February was 174,600,O00. During
the twelve months ending with Octo-
Der, 1925, 52S,779 in gold came to the
United States to pay the debts of other
ratinnA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-23
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT i.

Chicago, Nov. 23.-WHEAT-Bears had
an advantage in the wheat market today
owing to favorable weather. continued lib
eral receipts and to lower cable quotations.
New high records for ocean freight rates
tended also to discourage the bulls. Be
sides, signs of growing unwillingness of
owners to send any vessels to the Med1ter-
ranean was a special element of depression.
&c to 11sc lower, with December 81. 0234
to 81 O3 and May at 81 04 to $1.U5%, were
followed by only slight rallies.
subsequently weakness increased be-
cause of announcement that for the first
time this season the worlds available sup
ply total exceeded the corresponding fig
ures of Il year ago. sharp rally ensued,
however when British denials were pub
lished that any Greek ships were being
held up or that a blockade of Greece was
in force. The close was nervous at the
same as yesterdays finish to 2Hc higher
with December $1.O3A and May $1.06&.
CORN-Corn developed strength a re-
suit of receipts being light. There was said
to be also active demand from industries.
After opening a shade off to 1s@Ac up,
vance
Later the weakness of wheat brought
about something of a bearish reaction, but
word of export demand in Oklahoma led
to rally. The close was strong at 1Ac
net advance.
OATS-Oats hardened with Corn Trade
though was not broad
OVISIONS-Provisions were sharply
higher in consequence of poor quality of
hog receipts. Transactions were on a large
scale.