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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Railroad Heads
And Army Chiefs
Join for Defence
Confer with National Coun-
Gil About War Transport
tationaProblems
Baker Sees Change
Recalls Old Assurance That
Oceans Guaranteed Peace
of the Nation

Washington. March Heads Of the
country's leading railroad systems met
here to-day WITH the Council of Ma
tional Defence 10 approve plans for
giving the government the full coop
Grafton Of transportation interests in
the event of war. They came at the
call Of Daniel Willard, president Of the
Baltimore & Ohio, a member OF the
councils advisory committee of seven
captains of industry. Tonight they
were returning home to work out CO.
operation details with commanders Of
the country's four military depart
ments
The more than twenty executives
present comprised a special committee
on national defence of the American
Railway Association, and with them
met the national defence committee of
the American Electric Railway Associa-
tioE.
Army Officers Heard
After call on Secretary Baker the
railroad men heard army officers on
transportation problems, and then dis
cussed the situation among themselves.
Next 10 the number and size of guns,
Secretary Baker told them, the trans
portation problem in war is the most
important the military will face.
OF the country's state of defence
Mr.. Baker said:
we have gone on in this country
FOR a long time in the somewhat com
placent assurance that the Atlantic
Ocean is three thousand miles wide,
the Pacific fifteen thousand, or some
thing like that, and that we are sepa-
rated by nature "a well as by trad-
tons and our own desires from any
sort of difficulty.
But we have grown lot wiser in
the last few years on that general sub
ject; and while | am quite sure that
you regard the state of peace as most
desirable, we are nevertheless con-
cerned as TO the means of accomplish
ing its continuance"
Moving of Guardsmen 10 the Mexican
border, the Secretary pointed out, was
small problem compared to what the
country would have to face if called on
to move a force of half million men.
Executives in Conference
The railroad executives present were:
Representing Eastern Military De-
partment: l.. f. Lores, Delaware e.
Hudson; ". G.. Besler. Central Railroad
of New Jersey; A. W. Thompson, Bal
timore e. Ohio; Daniel Willard, Balti-
more & Ohio; A. II. Smith. New York
Central; J. II. Hustis, Boston & Maine
and W. J. Harahan, Seaboard Air Line.
Central Department r. II. Ashton,
Chicago e. Northwestern; c. l.. Peck,
Pennsylvania lines: f. +. Calvin. Union
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
$4,000 Camp Fire Girls
In Pledge to Wilson

The Campfire Girls ycsterday cont .
President Wilson telegram, signed
Dy Luther Gulick. the president, and
other officers, pledging the $4,000 mem
bers 80 preparecncss in the home"
through caring for children, economic
preparation Of food, the practice Of
fret aid and the guarding Of the health
Of the women u the nation.
u was explained a. the Organiza-
tion's headquarters here that the mem
berz would not be called upon 70 bear
sfnns Or drive airplanes Or automobiles,
but that practical preparedness in the
home, the forms u service that have
always been the vOman's part % the
significance Of the mezsage 70 the
Prezident."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Students Will Be
Examined To-day
In Cruger Case
Two N. Y. u. Men Will Be
Asked to Reconstruct
Letter Girl Wrote
Authorities Disagree
Identity of Taxi Passenger in
Doubt-Chauffeur Tells
His Story

Students of Columbia and New York
universities will be called to the Dis
trict Attorneys Office to-day to tell
what they know concerning the move
mcnts of Ruth Cruger in the days di-
rectly preceding her disappearance on
Tuesday. February IS.
Two New York University men will
be requested 10 reconstruct, as closely
as possible, a letter which the girl
wrote the Sunday before she vanished.
This note. II is believed, has direct
bearing upon the case. 1t was COM
posed after Ruth's parents had refused
TO allow a student TO visit her at her
home. and was received BY another stu
dent, friend of the first.
The recipient was asked to tell his
friend of the Cruger family's decision,
which would not allow the girl to keep
an engagement which she had made
with him for sday-the day she dis
appeared
Tore Up Note
The student is said to have done
this and shen to have torn up the note.
He is quoted as saying that he de-
stroyed it because he realized that
Ruth was "excited" when she wrote It.
According to information in the
hands of detectives yesterday, this IS
substantially the story: Ruth Cruger
met this student. whom her parents
barred. at dance gwen last spring at
a fraternity house at New YORK Uni,
versity. They danced together, and
the young man made favorable I'M
pression on the high school girl.
Two months ago the youth who re-
ceived Ruth's last letter got note
from the girl complaining that the
Young man She had met must be stuck
on himself" as he had passed her on
the street without speaking. student
No. took the hint and asked his
friend about il. Then the latter tele-
phoned Ruth at her home and made his
apologies. He received permission to
call on the Saturday before Ruth left:
That night Mr.. Cruger was Informed
of the affair.
al did not like the manner IN which
the young man approached my daugh'-
ter" he said yesterday, "and so | re-
fused him permission to come to our
house"
Other matters which will be gone into
to-day are the last three telephone calls
Ruth made on the morning before she
disappeared. Two of these were TO the
student to whom she had written the
letter.
The possibility Of connection be-
tween the telephone calls and the sub
iect of the letter has not escaped the
police.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Villa Hides to Nurse
Wound, Refugee Says
Leader Confined to Bed in
Mountain Ranch House

ID IfIcgTapl N TIC HIDING
FL Paso, Tex, March Francisco
Villa is hiding in ranch house in the
mountains near San Andreas, Chihua-
hua, according to Mexican refugee
who arrived to-day.
The refugee declared that he saw
Villa and that the bandit leader IS con
fined 20 his bed with fever, u wound in
the leg having reopened.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02

Pacific; c. II. Markham, Illinois Central,
and G. T. Slade, Northern Pacific;
Southern Department-FairfaX har-
rison. Southern; ". K. Scott. Southern
Pacific: B. F. Bush. Missouri Paciiic;
c. T.. Schaff. Missouri, Kansas & Texas.
Western Departm't- William Sproule.
Southern Pacific; +. p. Ripley, Santa
Fe: J. d. Farrell. Oregon-W Washington;
George II. Harries, representing electric
railways.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Denies He Is in Plot
Not Paymaster for Teuton
Agents in Mexico, Says Bopp

San Francisco, March Fran
Bopp, former German Consul General,
under prison sentence for conspiring
against the neutrality of the United
States. denounced as false To-Day re
norts from San Diego that he wss pay
master of German agents in Mexican
west coast ports.
These agents were said 10 have ne
oosiated purchases Of coal for German
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Falls Five Stories to Death

Max Knoll, carpenter, of IS East
Ninety-ninth Street, was killed when
ne fell five stories yesterday from the
scaffolding of building at $50 River
side Drive. The man was carrying a
plank with the help of Max Zaposfky
Of II East 112th Street, who only just
saved himself when the other stumbled
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Denmark Stops Liquor Sales

London. March T. The sale Of all
spirits and other alcoholic liquors has
been prohibited in Denmark, according
~ n Reuter- dispatch from Copcnhagcn.
The order is temporary, and calls for
returns 20 be made on all stocks Of
spirits In the country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Enlistment Aided by Plot
Chicago Reports Increase in
Recruits for Army and Navy

Chicago. March ! Army and navy
recruiting Offices here to-day reported
increases IN the number OF applicants.
The expose Of the German plot was
said to have acted as the stimulus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
REPUBLIC SHOWS
NEW MODELS
Great Output For 1916 Expect
ed to Be Eclipsed by
1917

The history of the Republic Motor
cords a story of development that
reads like a page from fiction. 1t was
only as short a time ago as 1913 that
Republic trucks began to attract at
tention in big, national way. To-day
Alma. Mich, presents q scene quite
different from the Alma of three or
four years ago in the Republic camp.
During this time, building opera
tions have been carried on continu-
ously. Within the last year alone the
plant was doubled and buildings oc-
cupy an area of twenty acres, with
other buildings in course of construc-
ton.
The Republic Motor Truck COM
pany now occupies its own motor fac
tory where the famous Republic mo-
tors used in their trucks are made.
The company also operates its own
radiator plant.
Contracts on hand dispose of q pro-
duction of $4,000 trucks for 1917. OF
this number, 1900 are for the new
three-quarter ton Republic Dispatch,
the other models. To provide for the
building of the Dispatch alone, two
new buildings have been put up, one
1000 feet long, the other 500 feet long.
Each of the other four models has
Its own separate building.
The introduction of the Dispatch
u -ton model, 10 one-ton and model
IL | II ton was the occasion recently
for the launching of one of the big
gest advertising campaigns ever PLAN
ned for advertising motortrucks,
1t is interesting to note that $500
Republic Dispatches were sold with.
out their buyers having had q DEM
onstration, photographs being used
instead, showing no mean compli-
ment TO the prestige of the Republic
name,
It is not a matter of word-play
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
LINE SHOWS
BIG IMPROVEMENT
C. L. Conover, Local Agent,
Has Attractive Exhibit at
Auto Show

Featured by several changes that
should add to the mechanical eff
cheney of the car and designed for in
creased comfort, greater convenience
and more beauty of the body line, the
1917 Case Forty, built by the j. I.
Case T. M. Co. of Racine, Wis, makes
its debut locally at the automobile
show. The new model is neither a
commentary on the high cost of living
waste of the European war; it will
carry the same price tag as that of last
year, selling for $1,190
A staunch and pioneer advocate OF
the four-cylinder motor. the Case
Company for 1917 is manufacturing
only one type of chassis, carrying a
cylinder engine of extraordinary
power and fleXibility with bore and
stroke of 3 ss and six inches, on which
is mounted either of two bodies, a
seven-passenger touring or a four
passenger Tourabout, the latter q
popular addition to the former line.
Although a better performing and
looking car than the 1916 model the
new Case has no changes that might
be termed radical. The alterations are
refinements such as might be ex-
pected from company that Is known
for wise conservatism and an aim to
build for quality, not quantity, Sim
plification is the keynote of the me-
chanical changes, while the desire to
give added comfort, convenience and
beauty inspired the alterations that
have been made in the body,
This years motor has been simpiis
fed by elimination of the cross-shaft
for generator drive, The camshafi
chain drive of a year aga has been
displaced by heilical timing gears OF
special material which in connection
with roller push rods and enclosed
valves make for noiseless operations,
Carburetion is supplied by an inn
proved Rayfield Model M-3.
Another chassis feature that is ex=
ciusiveiy Case Is the safe and com-
fort-iRsuring method Of mounting the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10

when it is stated that the appeal of
the Republic Dispatch was instan-
taneous. OF course, it had the advant-
age of the name Republic with all that
it carries. But the Dispatch, with a
maximum capacity of 1900 pounds, is
a staunch truck in every sense of the
word and designed to meet the needs
of merchants who operate light deliv-
cry service; especially those who
have believed in the past that the ac-
quisition of motor delivery detracted
from an eXclusiveness which they
wished to uphold.
The Dispatch has the Republic in
ternal gear drive, making solid tires
practicable. (While they are recon-
mended for this truck, pneumatic tires
will be supplied, If desired, at no ex-
ira charge). The ordinary light de-
livery truck cannot stand the pars and
jolts of travel any more than can a
pleasure car, making solid tires out of
the question.
1t Is the internal gear drive that
makes it possible to equip the Dis
patch with solids. OF course, with solid
tires on your truck, the expense and
bother of blowouts and punctures are
eliminated, while the smooth and uni
form transit which they afford is easy
more than the ordinary "roughing."
Standard equipment includes ex-
press body, glass front, canopy top,
side curtains. electric lights, with
generator and battery and electric
horn.
Brought out simultaneously with the
Dispatch are Model 10 one-ton and
Model II 1 Il ton; or. as their spon-
sors call them, the New Middleweights.
They are designed to meet the great
middle field of service.
Essentially. they are the same as
their originals, except that they have
been improved in capacity, in build,
In Workmanship. Both have the in
vincible Republic internal gear drive.
long-stroke truck motors, diversified
axles and bearings. Model los equip
ment includes stake or express body,
with bow top: oil lamps, side and rear;
mechanical horn, tool kit, tool box.
Model IL, chassis only, with oil lamps,
side and rear; mechanical horn, tool
kit. tool box.
With Model A. two-ton and Model
II three-ton Dreadnought. you have a
Republic series calculated to meet
every requirement in delivery service
q range of capacity that makes 1t
possible to standardize your delivery
system to a minimum Investment.
The Republic line Is handled locally
by the Penn Mar Auto Co, of which
ID. W. Dill Is district manager and NJ.
K. Thompson local manager.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
HOW AUTOMOBILE
TIRES ARE MADE
Pure Rubber From Native For
ests Foundation For Great
Industry
BY A. C. PARTRIDGE
General Sales Manager Firestone Tire
and Ruhhar Cnmnnny

Farmers in the grain belt are carried
millions of miles every year on pneu-
matte tires. If 1 should undertake to
give the figures as to the number of
tire miles made in the grain belt States
each year they would be so large as to
be unbelievable. One of the grain belt
States has about 125,000 automobiles
owned by by farmers. Each autom obile
has four tires. 1t has been estimated
that the automobile mileage in this
State is close to 500,000,000 miles a
year. Most of these miles are made on
country roads. They are made in COM
fort because of good rubber tires.
Without good tires speed and comfort
would be incompatible. Imagine max
ing forty to fifty miles an hour over
a country road with wide-tired wag
on and you will get some conception
of the convenience and luxury of
pneumatic tires. The farmer is such a
tremendous consumer of tires that We
feel sure he must have great interest
in how they are made. If I should un-
dertake to acquaint the reader with
the bigness of the tire industry, with
the immense capital invested, the
large force of men employed, the Won
derful buildings used, he would be al
most as much astonished as at the
figures on tire mileage. Manufacture
ing tires is one of the greatest indus
trial occupations of the age.
Rubber is the foundation stock for
tires and tubes. Tires are not all rub
ber. If they were we would not be
able to pay for them. Neither would
they give the splendid wearing value
that they do under the present system
of manufacture. Rubber is imported
from Brazil, and the highest quality
comes from the native trees and is
usually spoken of as Para rubber. Para
is a seaport of Brazil.
The trade now demands the safety
tread, at least for the rear tires, and
many careful drivers use safety treads
for all four. The safety tread gives an
added wearing surface, which adds to
the life of the tire. If one wants to go
to the expense of buying the cord tires
they Will get added value In additional
miles. The tire making is a definite
system and workmen in the manufac-
tories are expert and competent, The
tire may be siighted by a poor quality
of rubber or fabric by incompetent in-
spection in any department, but cut-
ting down the number of layers of fab
ric, by improper treatment of the rub
ber compound, etc,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10

cantilever springs on the rear axle, the
ball-and-socket joint at the rear end
of the springs being so designed as to
allow the springs to perform full
spring duty and making it impossible
for the shackle pins to bind or pinch.
For 1917 a change in the starting
and lighting and the ignition systems
has been made. The Autolite has been
installed and ignition is supplied by
a Connecticut high-tension distributor,
which derives its current source from
a Willard battery of 80 ampere hour
capacity, an so ampere hour battery
being used on last seasons model.
The starting button has been moved
to the floor. where the driver operates
1T with his heel instead of by hand.
The ignition switch, together with the
switch controlling the lights, has been
put on the steering column.
A feature of the electric system on
the new Case is the safety switch
which automatically turns off the cur
rent when the motor is not running
and prevents the wasteful bleeding OF
the storage battery.
Body changes that feature the 1917
Case make for more artistic lines and
greater comfort. The car is a blend
ing of power and beauty. Although
the lenSIn OF the WheelDaSe remains
at IL inches, the new model looks
more graceful thans it's Immediate
predecessor. This was attained by
changing the front of the BODY and
redesigning the hood, making the in
cline between cowl and radiator less
sharp than formerly. For a contrast
between the car of 1917 and 1916,
compare the greyhound's neck with
that of the bulldog.
In the tonneau, the pivotal auxiliary
seats have been replaced by folding
seats of the disappearing type: d
slanting windshield adds materially to
the sweeping curves of the car. the
appearance of the instrument board
has been improved by moving the
gasoline filler cap over to the right
and away from the speedometer. am.
meter and fuel gauge, and for the
convenience of the driver the hand
brake lever has been shifted from the
left to the center, near the gearshift-
ing lever,
The 1917 Case is finished in Brew
ster green with ivory stripingl all four
wheels are shod with B4 by 4 Good
year tires, carried on demounta ble
rims, and equipment includes a one
man top, quickly adjustable side cur
tains. spare rim, Stewart speedometer
and electric exploring lamp.
Five Houk wire wheels are fur
nished at an additional price. The
Case is represented locally by g. f..
Conover:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
RIGHT PRESSURE FOR BEAD MoLDs

In making sectional repairs, bead
molds should be frightened until the cav
fty is the exact size of the tire. Then
an added quarter turn of the clamp
Will give just enough pressure to in
sure the gums flowing properly This
turn saves the air bag considerable
strain. However, If much more pres
sure is exerted there is a danger that
the fabric or the inside surface of the
repaired section will buckle or bulge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
vELIE FACTORY EFFICIENT

Material at the Vele factory in Mo-
line, Ill, is received at one end of No. 1
building. is passed through inspection.
blacksmith and machine shops. to stock
rooms and then is assembled without
taking a backward step.
On the assembly floor each man has
his individual work to do and is held
solely responsible for the result of his
labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-10
MODELS AL TESTED

Every new model of the Wiliys=
overland Company is given an ex=
haustive test before it Is offered to the
public. 1t goes through hundreds of
miles of mud, sand and mountain trails
and then, II II Is satisfactory, the con=
sumers get 2 chance at it
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-11
IN AND OFT or TOWN,

Mrs. George I. Christian. Jr.. OF the
C!aremont apartments. is visiting Mrs
Robert II. Brander IA her country
home. in Louisa.
Calvin SatterhelJ. OF Wash!agtou. IS
spending severn! days as tn. guest ot
friends in t..s c!ty.
Morson Ne,lh Who recently passed
his examinations toy The aviation
corps. is the guest >: mas father. Judge
james Keith. !. Iauquicr County. FOR =
brief stay.
Miss Maudc str,nstciioS. Of THIS city.
is the guest OF her sister. Mrs. 3. r.
( Burwcll. in Roanoke.
Mrs. William S Drewry, OF Rich
mond. is the guest OF Mrs. r. Paul
Jones. at her cottage at Willouehpy
Beach.
Colonel Thomas Downing has re-
turned II his home. in Lancaster, after
IA short stay in this city
Miss Rebecca bowman is spending
the summer Camp Arden, near
Doylestown. Pa.
Miss Cordclia S. Taylor is spending
August at Cameron Hall, Goshen. and
the Red Sulphur Springs. w. Va.
Parker Burbank, of Richmond, is
registered at the Spottswood Arms.
Virginia Beach.
Mrs. Richmond Kelly Turner. who
has been spending some time at Will
loughby Beach. is now visiting Mr..
and Mrs. George A. Gibson. in this
city.
Mrs. r. A. Cauthorne and her chill
dren. OF Richmond arc guests of rela-
ewes IN Tappahannock.
DR.. Henry Street has been the guest
OF his family in Arvohia for several
weeks.
Miss Frances Thompson, Of Norfolk,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. w. +. Ste
phens, in Richmond.
T.. B. Moss and his son, of this city,
have been recent guests of Mr. and
Mrs. w. a. Moss, at Dillwyn, for q
few days.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-11
AGREEMENT is REACHED
WITH AMERICAN SEAMEN
Solves Problem of Obtaining Sufl.
cient Men to Operate Great
Merchant Fleet.
WAGE SCALE IS ANNOUNCED
Of Understanding
Made by Department Of Labor,
Which, With Department Of Com
merce, Carried on Nego>s,tions.

WASHINGTON. August lo-Ameri-
can scamen and their employers have
come to full agreement concerning
wages and working conditions during
the war. which the government officials
said to-day solves the problem OF OBJ
tanning sufficient men to operate the
great merchant fleet the country Is
building.
Announcement of the understanding
was made to-day by the Department Of
Labor. which. with the Department OF
Commerce and the Shipping Board, as
sisted in the negotiations. The agree
ment was signed by committee of
sixteen. representing employers. en-
ployees and the three governm ent
agencies.
The wage scale was fixed as follows:
sailors and firemen. $50 a month; coal
passers. $50; oilers and water tenders
$65: boatswains. $40; carpenters, SIS.
Overtime pay for cargo work will be
figured at SO cents an hour, and for
ship work at 40 cents. A so per cent
bonus will be paid to crews entering
the war zone. and employers will pay
500 each compensation for loss of
personal effects when ships are sunk
The scale Of wages and bonus for
steward and cook will remain un-
changed.
To increase tho number Of men avail
able for work, every ship will carry
certain number of boys. Tho num-
Der OF seamen will be reduced by In
creasing the number Of ordinary sea-
men in crews
1t was agreed that tho wage scale
shall remain In force for year after
the war. but the bonus will end with
the war.
Employers and seamen will unite in
an appeal to men who have left the sea
to return to service.
The st-marshal-generars office
will be requested to exempt seamen
from military service.