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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25
Commissioners Like TO
Speed 'Er Ub' Once in
Awhile on Good Roads

When the state highway commits
siouers made the trip over the upper
valley cement road last Monday,
chairman @. 3. Hancock decided that
b. wouldn't be a violation Of the law
TO have driver Turner "hit 'er up" a
bit to see how the cement road
stood fast travel Mind. il was all in
the nature OF official businessi TUr-
ner opened up the Jordan q bit and
the commissioner bowled over the
road at a speed OF so miles an hour
for awhile. When one OF them saw
the speedometer. he said that the test
had been satisfactory and asked for
slower speed.
ct didn't realize that we We're going
so fast" said the chairman and judge
Pool told him that justice Hall heard
that story quite frequently.
On arrival at Anthony. one OF the
commissioners told a newspaper man
with the party that "the Jordan is
the easiest riding car I've ever trav-
eled in." It vas his first experience
with a Jordan and he classed IL as a
$4,000 car" When told that he was
overestimatinE by a third. he com
missioner was much surprised Now.
r. z. Lewis. OF the Jordan company.
expects 10 sell three Jordans TO three
highway commissioners.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25
LICENSE PLATES WILL SOON De
HERE, PROMISES COMMISSIONER
Chairman Hancock Says Ell PasO County Allotment
Should Be Reached During Coming Week; Herald
viii Deliver All Plates for County; Licenses
VIII Be Sent Direct to Applicants

~. ENAS state highway commission
ers visited FL Paso on Monday
= They inspected the roads around
this city and were highly impressed
with the new cement road Up the val
ley. They conferred with the New
Mexico delegation regarding connect
ing interstate highways and, on leav-
ing here, started an inspection of
The Fl Paso-Fo-t Worth highway,
which chairman c. 3. Hancock Off
ciaIy designated as state highway
number one.
Reports from a long the line where
the commissioners have visited iudi-
cate that the solution Of crossing the
Monahau sands has been solved and
the big obstacle in the way OF the
big highway has been removed.
But Of big interest 70 all motorists
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25
TRUCKS REPLACE
RAILWAY TRAIN
Big Truck Will Run on
Rails Out of Pecos to
Replace Train.

When president woodrow wilson
called on the railroads to abbreviate
train schedules as much as possible so
as to release equipment for war pur-
poses. he opened UP a new field for
the motor truck. A. F. Simpson. Of
the Simpson Rice company. booked an
order this week in Pecos for a 22pas-
senEer White bus with a special front
truck and Hanged wheels 10 operate
ON railroad rails. This car will be
used to take the place Of a passenger
train on one OF the lines near Fecos
The idea is not a new one for several
standard White truck GLASSES were
fitted for rail use in Arizona during
the past couple OF years TO do duty as
Passenger trains where travel has
been light
These rail busses have to operate
on train schedule. sometimes calling
for 30 miles an hour" said Mr.. Simp-
son. The standard ton and a half or
two ton chassis is used and the gen
eral adoption Of Whites for this use
is a wonderful testimony 10 White du-
rability and reliability
AT Maria. / found two White
trucks in mail service. One had been
operated five years and the other
four years and both are good for sew
eral more years. The first ran every
day for two years. making a round
trip go miles over desert roads with
the United States mails. Now the
trucks alternate ] also ran across
q cattleman with a four year old
vs. hlte passenger car. started TO talk
of trading him for a new car but he
cut me short Look here he said. III
talk Of buying a new White touring
car. that's for the missus. but there's
has taken me over range as well as
road. 7 know what IL viii do and
it's good for four years more and I'm
going 90 keep IL and wouldn't trade
even SWIM Tor q Now ora.n
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25
Long life-low cost! FOrthe @one-truck" business
endurance and economy count most

What big business demands when it buys
hauling eqmpment-tested capacity, stam-
inaand Incorporating exPense-is eVenmore
vital for "the little fellow"
hesmaIler his truck capital, the greater
his need for Packard because he VIII find
1.-THE cheapest truck to own and operate.
First cost is imPOrtantto the scores ofna-
tiOnallyk known concerns whose hauling has
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25
AIR STARTERS FOR
u. S. WAR AIRPLANES

That American warplanes are to be
started by compressed air seems in
dicated BY the statement Of an engi-
its aviation motor starters have been
contracted for by the United States
government. for use on airpIanes.
The automatic starter IS OF the pneu-
matte type, comprising a pump, tank.
and cylinder intakes, but provides
with Ct an injection OF gasoline under
pressure. so that 70 supplies the com
preston stroke OF the engine with
out the engine itself being in opera
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25

ton These starters have been en-
ployed for a number Of years on fire
department apparatus, the Philadel-
phia fire department, for instance
having its entire fleet OF seventy so
equipped for three years. These
trucks also have the automatic air
brake, which is supplied with the
starter.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25

in FL Paso county was the statement
or chairman Hancock that the new Ii
cense plates can be expected in the
very near future
Get 10000 Plates Weekly.
The commission is getting 10000
plates a week from the manufactur-
evs. They started with the counties
in alphabetical order and began is
suing the plates. To so happens that
there are at least two counties with
large numbers Of cars ahead OF FL
Iaso. but MI Hancock figured that
the III PasO numbers should Ice
reached some time during the coming
week.
The arrangements for delivering the
numbers TO motorists in III Pas0
county are 10 be-
Each applicant viii receive his Off
cial state license by mail 10 the adj
dress given in the application
the license plates-aud there will
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25

been standardizedwithP Packard trucks. But
final cost is the factor that rules decisions.
Therefore they buy Packards.
Silent, chainless, four-speedunitsinseven
sizes. The right truck for owners of thirty
or three hundred unitsis the right truck for
themanwho needs only one. See Lone Star
Motor Company, Inc, Ell Paso, Tex. Ask
the man LUho GUMS one.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25

be enough TO fill half a railroad
freight Car-w1u be shipped to The III
Paso Herald. The plates should be
here a few days after the licenses are
received by mail The Herald auto
mobile department viii arrange de-
Dot for the delivery OF plates and
motorists. on showing their licenses.
viii be supplied with the plates 20
correspond with the numbers on the
licenses they hold
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25

And when the license plates are re-
ceived here and delivered 20 the prop
er owners. an active campaign is 20 be
started to get motorists who have
failed. even to this late date, 20 make
application for registration.
The state law regarding headlights
is now being enforced II yUu EIye
one headli SHIT "Out of commission" 10
will he cheaper TO lay your car UP for
one evening. waiting repairs, rather
than to pay a fine in the justice court
And the taIIiEh-s are being watched.
too Several convictions were re-
corded in justice Halls court this
week
There is TO be a conference at the
courthouse this afternoon on the
headlight question Following the
conference. officers are to be in
structcd 20 enforce this provision Of
the law strictly incidentally, motor
lists are warned that this law is Just
as much in effect on county roads as
in the city and also that painting
the headlight glass viii not. in the
great majority of cases. bring the
headlights into couformauce with the
new law. The law says that the glare
must not be above - inches from the
ground at a distance Of 20 feet from
Tho car
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-03
HIGH COST OF sleep
HITS Police force
Patrolman Who Fell Asleep
and Failed TO Make
Report, Resigns
DEPARTMENT NOW
HAS SIX VACANCIES

The second resignation from the
Police Department within the past
two days was that OF Patrolman VIII
liam A. Hunter, who rendered his
resignation TO Police Captain Kelleher
at $50 o'clock this morning Fear Of
the High Cost Of Sleep" was said TO
be the cause for the resignation of
the officer, who recently worked eight
days without pay for missing a re-
port. The patrolmen are fined when
they fail to make reports.
According to Patrolman Hunter. he
fell asleep at his home last night at
1890 o'clock after eating his supper
and did not awake until shortly after
o'clock this morning, He at once
notified the police operators room
and at $50 o'clock he turned in his
equipment to Captain Kelleher.
This morning at o'clock Hunter
called at the Office Of Chief OF Police
Black and rendered his resignation ia
take effect at once.
News OF the resignation Of the ofi-
Ger caused much comment and II was
reported that two other officers were
contemplating retiring.
With these two designations the va
cancies now existing in the depart
ment total six and with but one ap
/ plication on hand, It is thought II vii
/ be sometime before all OF the posi-
tions will be filled.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-03
Mr.. MECEAR Tells OF
.HARBOR BOARD MIXUP
Says His Understanding
Was Mayor Would APP
point Nominees Pre-
Sented TO Him
LEGISLATORS TOLD
SUCH WOULD BE DONE

William b. Megear, president OF the
Chamber of Commerce today gave his
version of the misunderstanding that
cropped up concerning the appoint
ment by Mayor Price Of the three
harbor commissioners, under the act
passed by the recent Legislature. Mr..
Megear said:
Il have no criticism whatever TO
make of the three gentlemen who
have been named by the mayor But
the mayors course in the matter Of
these appointments puts me and the
Chamber of Commerce in a position
where / feel that it is necessary for
me TO make a public statement.
81 may say that the whole subject
Of harbor development has been very
close to my heart The Chamber of
Commerce has been most anxious to
promote the subject.
when the Harbor Commission bill
was pending in tho House OF Repre-
sentatives at Dover. ] found some
members of that house were unwilling
TO pass the bill because It gave TO the
mayor the power of appointing these
harbor commissioners.
In this situation 7 had a full and
frank conference with Mayor Price
He authorized mo to say 10 the mem
bers of the Legislature who felt thai
way. that he did not personally desire
CONTINUED on Page Eleven
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-03
WOULD STOP LIQUOR
SUPPLY DURING WAR
Governor Townsend Adyo-
Gates This Measure in
Telegram TO Presi-
dent Wilson
SAYS 1T WOULD HELP
SOLVE FOOD PROBLEM

Special 70 THE EVENING JOURNAL
DOVER. May Governor John G..
Townsend, Jr, last night sent a tele-
gram 10 President Wilson advocating
that the use of grains in the manu-
facture OF Intoxicating liquors be pro-
hibited The telegram follows:
Dover. Del. May 2, 1911.
'ro the President. Washington ID. G.
"Appreclating the conditions facing
the nation we are using every energy
available in food production and food
conservation But this may not suf-
fee the needs Nothing suggested
appears so practical as to prohibit the
use OF grains In the manufacture OF
intoxicating liquors No act will so
fll the nations storehouse as PROFIT
bition as a war measure. No one
thing would do so much in solving the
food problem now before us. ] speak
for Delaware. in her loyalty to you
I'm the crisis Of the hour.
"John G.. Townsend,
Governor OF Delaware"
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-03
MOVE TO SAVE CANOES
FROM THE GALLOWS
Attorney for Condemned
Man Serves Notice OF
Pardon on the State
WILL ARGUE THAT
SLAYER is INSANE

J. Frank Ball. attorney for Samuel
Ganges, who is under sentence Of
death for the murder OF Catherine
Bodeski at Brandywine Springs Park
last summer, will apply TO the Board
OF Pardons at its next meeting for a
Communication OF the sentence OF his
client to life Imprisonment. on the
ground OF insanity Formal notice 10
that effect was served upon Attorney
General Reinhardt yesterday. as re-
qured by law and Mr.. Reinhardt has
acknowledged the receipt OF the no
tice.
The next stated meeting OF the
Board of Pardons will be held Thurs
day. June T. Whether Mr.. Ball has
filed his reasons on which he will base
his application could not be learned,
as Mr.. Ball is out Of the city today,
Ganges was sentenced March is TO be
executed Friday. July 20. it be ng gen
orally understood al the time that ap-
plicatiOn for commutation Of sentence
would be made Al the time sentenc.
was pronounced Mr. Ball read a let
ter signed by DR. William II. kraemer
the county workhousa physician, and
DR.. r. II. Davies, OF the Ferris In
dustrial School. certifying that in their
opinion Ganges was insane.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-03
REPUBLICANS FILE
FOR THE PRIMARIES
Several Interesting Contests
TO be Decided at Polls
on May II
RIVALRY FOR PLACES
AT HEAD OF TICKET

Members Of the executive commit
tee of the Republican City Committee
will meet this afternoon to make up
the ticket to be voted for at the pri-
maries on May u. The official list
Of candidates filed with the commit
tee was withheld this morning by
the committee but so far as can be
learned the following candidates filed
their names:
Mayor-Mayor James f. Price, Will
liam G. Taylor.
City Treasurer-Ch Charles NJ Banks,
Councilman Albert n. Williams.
President OF Councll-COuncilma
Charles NJ. Smith, George r. Lyon.
Tax Collector, Northern District
Or. G.. s. Rice. Elmer Klund.
First Councilman Arthur John
son. b. Frank Mayne.
Second ward Councilman Slant B
Atkins
Third ward-Shermer Stradley.
Fourth ward Charles r. Klund.
Fifth ward-.Iames w. Robertson
Sixth ward rd-Councilman John O. Hop
kins. James H. Sewell.
Seventh ward-lames Mearns. J
Harry Dickinson.
Eighth ward-Councilman Burton J
Heal. Howard NJ. Ward, James Spring,
Ninth ward-Charles Forwood, Alber
Stetser.
Tenth ward Harvey X. Wadman.
Eleventh ward-John Sikorski, Free
Hinderer.
Twelfth ward-Harry P. Cathcart.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-03
$4,000 INVOLVED IN
kent COURT Case
Officers of Dover Century
Club Installed at Final
Meeting of Season
MRS. R. L. HOLIDAY
is NEW PRESIDENT

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL
DOVER, May 3-In the Kent County
Superior Court here yesterday a civil
case was started in which the amount
involved IS one of the largest ever
known in a case to be tried before a
Kent county jury
It is a summons case OF John f..
Barber, executor Of Charles W. Bar
Der, deceased, and John F. Barber. OF
Hazleton, Pa, VS.. Robert ]. Glen
daniel, Of Glendale. Sussex county.
The amount of the claim OF the
plaintiff IS about $4,000. The action Is
for alleged material bought, including
lumber. etc. The trial will likely
last for two or three days.
Former Secretary OF State James H..
Hughes and John ID. Hawkins are
counsel for Barber and Henry Ridge
ly for Clendaniel
At the meeting Of the Dover Century
Club yesterday, which was the last until
next fall, Mrs. r. II. Van Dyke, the re-
tiring president. installed the newly
elected officers Mrs. r. L. Holiday is
the new president.
At the conclusion OF the meeting Mrs
w H. Baker gave a musical program
assisted by the Misses Hartnett, Beher
and Moore Mrs +. II. Atkinson, thS
retiring club hostess, served refresh
ments.
Mrs. Robert Raughley. widow Of Rob
ert Raughley, died at the home of hel
daughter. Mrs Hooper Ross, in Harring
ton. aged Sc years. lnterment will b'
made I'm Dover.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-03
ny carr u. GROAT,

lnltcu ffeaS StaH correspondent.
WASHINGTON, May Means OF
getting vast numbers OF sturdy ships
soon swept aside practically all other
governmental war topics today
Face to face with the grim realiza-
ton that Germany is eating into me
worlds tonnage alarmingly fast, the
government prepared TO push through
Congress at once its bill giving Presi-
dent Wilson a dictatorial power over
ships and shipyards.
Food questions. serious as they
still are; discussion of dispatch OF
troops to France-all theos matters
were outweighed by the overwhelming
problem OF more shipping in order
that Germany may not triumph in hel
plan to bring England TO her knees.
The government bill. PRACTICAL,
ready for definite action, proposes
that the President. II necessary. car
commander ali shipyards, all ships
and control the use OF steel mills
Government statistics showed tina
even its present program OF turninl
out 10000 tons OF the wooden ship
month is inadequate TO keep pac
with Germany's now admittedly de
yasating U-hOat toll.
Seyenty-one German and Austria
ships-of $4,000 tons-nO internet
will be ready 10 augment the Amer
can merchant feet within Ave months
II was officially announced today, an
it is assumed these will be put int
/ service al once. Repairs are eoin
forward rapidly on all vessels dan
aged by the Teutons before seizure.
AS the government plan now stands
shipyards Will be forced to grind on
small wooden and steel vessels on
standardized plan at rate far highe
than ever before estimated
incidentally, the government ha
learned with a shock that many yard
are accepting slow-tlme contracts 70
vessels OF alien ownership, sweepin
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-03
Idea is to Have President Speed Up Ship
Construction That Germany May NOt
Triumph in Her Plan to Starve England
Into SubmiSSiOn---SmaII Wooden and Steel
Vessels Needed.
SERIOUSNESS OF SUBMARINE WARFARE
IS MADE CLEAR TO AMERICAN PEOPLE

aside patriotic requests under a mer-
germany desire for perhaps more lu-
Crauve business
Aside from official warnings Of the
seriousness OF the submarine situa.
tion, voiced by cabinet men for the
first time yesterday, the shipping
board discloses that the whole worlds
ship output the next four months can
not exceed one.hfth Of tho monthly
losses by torpedoing-if the present
average OF Prussian destruction con-
! tlnues.
There is n very distinct feeling
here that unless the shipping question
Is solved-unless everybody helps TO
! the utmost-Germany will be a prac-
tical victor in the months ahead
The nearpanic evidenced by author.
tiles followed conferences with allied
commissioners and receipt of figures
showing that Germany's U-boat har-
vest is hitting far more grim totals
than perhaps even the Teutons them.
selves had anticipated
The practical upshot OF the official
warnings. It Is thought by many, Will
be TO shunt aside the clamor for send
ing troops to France Immediately and
to force upon the nation the realiza-
ton that. as Secretary Lane said the
war will be fought on this side of
the Atlantic II we do not beat the
Germans to IT,
The vital topic OF food control is
still under Senate consideration and
the outcome appears likely to be short
, shrift for unscrupulous food specula-
/, tors.
Commerce shipment figures issued
today show that In March the nation
exported sal .SSS, 1903 worth OF bread
stuns and S39.59OO2S worth OF meat
and dairy products
To carry the supplies represented
above, ships must be had and the gov.
ernment proposes that within six
months at least three vessels a day
( shall be sent down the ways at Ameri-
can yards.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-03
Nathan miller STARTS
PHILEMMA CHANDLER FUND

THE EVENING JOURNAL today re-
ceived the following communication
from Nathan Miller well-known mer-
chant. which explains itself:
Mr.. George Carter. Editor OF THE
EVENING JOURNAL, Wilmington,
Del.
My Dear Mr.. Carter:
II gives me great pleasure 10 send
10 you my check for So as a cOntribu-
ton TO be used in the procurement Of
silver loving cup to be presented to
Mr.. Philemma Chandler. formerly
County Comptroller, OF Claymont. on
the occasion Of his eighty-ninth BIRTH
day on May 9.
As q citizen and a taxpayer who en-
joyed the benefit OF the infeXible and
never-failing official honesty Of Mr..
Chandler, I feel that should be
recreant. indeed. did / fail to manifest,
in the appropriate manner you sug-
gest. my appreciation OF Mr. Chan
dler's splendid records as county
official and asa citizen in private life.
In my opinion there is no taxpayer
in the city OF Wilmington and in the
county az large who has not profited,
both directly and indirectly. by the
splendid record for honesty and eff
cheney which Mr. Chandler made when
County Comptroller
It has been said that republics are
ungrateful. Let us hope that. in this
instance az least. the people OF this
section OF our republic will not fail
/ to manifest toward Mr. Chandler the
gratitude that should be cheerfully ac-
corded 20 q man who has served that
section so honestly and so efficiently
and whose honesty and etiic 'enoy are
highly deserving of proper recogni-
ton. Yours si~corelv.
NATHAN MILLER.
Ninth and King Streets.
Wilmington. Del May 3, 1917.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-05-03
FINED SIS FOR HITTING
MAN With PITCHFORK

Walter ]. Smith was arraigned in
Municipal Court this morning, charged
with assault and battery. upon Joseph
Tribbett colored, in a stable at Fifth
and Hawley streets last Monday after
noon
Tribbett appeared with his head
swathed in bandages, and testified
that Smith struck him twice ove- the
head with a four.prOnged pitchfork
Other witnesses testified that 1rib-
bett cursed Smith and had an argu,
ment with another colored man. when
Smith paid Tribbett his days pay and
discharged him. Then the assault oc.
Cured. according to the witnesses.
Smith. who was represented by
James Salisbury. was sentenced to
pay $25 and costs The fine was
made so small, the court said, becsues
of the aggrayation OF the defendant