Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-19

trips to the WHY'S Overland plant
for cars -o
More than 10000 licenses already
h3y" been issued 10 private owners
Of Wisconsin by the department Of
state. number double that Of
y'1r ago today The total rogis'ra-5
ton during I9l7 was lGi,58o The
registry office Is overwhelmed win
Applications for new LICENCES ap
pll,aliOu1 coming MT the rate Ot
nearly 3 600 u day II IS figured that
less than 100000 licenses viii 'he
issued during 1918, while many be
li"vc the number may reach 225,-
600.
The Iobbing Interests Of New York
have organized the New York state
Association OF Automobile Accessory
iohbors aB an adjunct OF the Ma
lional Association of Automobile Ac-
nesnory jobGrrs. Tho officers are:
President, q $ owen. Chap.n-Owou
company Rochester. secretary r..
= Ball, Joseph Strauss Il Son. Buf-
f3lp. treasurer. " j. Davis, Davis.
Brown Electric company Ithaca,
JobhnR problems cffocting the ter
ritory covered will be handled, as
the national association handles ma
tiuual problems.
once again automobile clubs
throughout the country are consid-
erlng. favorably -- the suggestion
that all road and other information
should be denied visiting motorists
who are not members OF any auto
mobile club. Tho HoosIcr Motor
club, indianapolis, Ind, tx taking
the Initiative and asking clubs 10
refuse requests for inform alton that
are not accompanied by member
ship cards OF the inaulrers' local
clubs, The price Of the informa-
tion is to be a membership fee;
otherwise the "moochet' goes out
as ignorant as ne came IN.
Representatives OF tho Russian
| highways department. who are in
this country making a study Of
| American road conditions, will drive
from New York TO San Francisco,
during the coming year, over the
Lincoln highway a study Of meth
ods followed on main highways OF
this country. both as TO road con-
struction and bridge maintenance,
will bG used to further improve
mcnt in their own country at the
first opportunity They are headed
by n s Hack chief OF the visiting
highway engineers.
Encouraged by volume OF out
side business with which it's faciN-
ties are expected 10 hc kept busy
the Vim Motor company Sandnsky,
Ohio has Increased its capital and
bought the plant Of the Sandusky
Forge company I'm that city. From
capitalization OF 10000 the Vim
company has progressed to a capi- |
tall2ed value of 100000 the |
amount Of It's new stock.
Tire sales by the United States |
Rubbor company during 1917 were /
more than $4,000, 600, as compared /
with slightly less than $4,000, 900
I'm 1916. For the first three months
Of this year the company showed
la gain OF 30 per cent in sales over
the corresponding period of 1917.
Total sales In 1917 amounted to
$1T6,159,G94, OF which $3l,243,053
was operating profit and s15,340,577
surplus applicable to dividends
During the nine months ending
april /, 1918, II. 400 Republic trucks
were built and delivered, as COM
pared TO 1900 in the same period |
prior to April i, 1917. Cash re-
ceipts for the nine months ending |
April /. 1913, were $12,000,O00 as
with about S6,OOO,OOO in /
the same period OF the preceding /
year The schedule of production |
at present is sixty trucks day, or
about 1000 month.
Truck production of the REQ !
Motor Car company Tor the month |
OF March was 735 compared with |
1926 in March, 1917. The present
output of fifty per day will be in
creased. April Is the sales depart
ment was l.l19 trucks behind its
orders, OF which 270 are heavy duty |
trucks.
Giving each automobile owner a |
state deed to his car, just like a
real estate deed, is the new sugges-
ton that has been brought forward
to curb the operations of automobile !
thieves. 1t has been evolved byaJ. +.
Botkin, secretary of state for Kan
sas, and chairman OF committee
appointed by the American secretary
OF state TO draft a uniform anti
thief law. The laws drafted Is 10 be
presented to the convention of sec
retarics Of state next December, and
by them may be presented to their
legislatures. According to its pro-
visions, no one would have legal
title 10 car without such u deed
Backed by n reorganiZed and re-
inforccd Hal Motor company, the
Hal-twelve is to be marketed on
scale that is planned to be larger
than heretofore, Additional capital
has been secured for the Hal COM
pauy, and efforts are to be made TO
expand production as rapidly and as
broadly as outside forces will per
nit Dealers ara already receiving
portions OF their 1913 allotments.
Lieut.. Edward V (Eddie) Rick
cubackcr, aviation section, \. f.. f.
is happier than he ever was when
winning an automobile race, or
even when, with the early Amer-
can forces in France, he drove Cen