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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-23

o.; Dallas, Tex; Decatur. Ill; Des
Moines Ia; Greensboro. y. c.; In
dianapoIis, Ind; Kansas City, Mo;
Los Angeles. Calf. Louisville. Ky;
Milwaukee. Wis; Omaha. Neb.;
Philadelphia. Pa: Pittsburg. Pa;
San Francisco. Calf; Springfield,
and Muskogee, Okla.
Great French Business.
Since the armistice has been
signed the firm is doing its best TO
handle the enormous French trade
most OF these foreign orders calling
for the Brabant pillow, which is
typical product OF the South Bend
Chilled Plow Co. These plows, which
are double decked affairs. found in
slant favor when introduced in
France with the result that they are
now loaded with orders from that
country.
Their foreign trade Is not. how
ever, confined 20 France. but en-
braces every civilized country on the
globe.
The officers are J. Oliver Casa
day. president: George a. Cleveland.
vice president; :. s Perley. secre-
tary. and Claude L. Campbell.
treasurer.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-04
Truck Fleet Makes Trip
From Akron to Macon
Battling Their Way Southwark Firestone "Ship by
Truck Vehicles Receive Ovations Wherever
They Had Occasion to Stop.

But the crowning feature was staged
on the second day. Four trains of sixty
trucks each had been organized and
assigned routes radiating out fifty miles
from the city.
Loaded to capacity, these truck trains
departed to deliver goods OF various
character to farmers Ell route, picking
TIP return loads of farm products IN the
trip back to Macon. a speed OF fifteen
miles per hour was maintained thruout.
This was very striking first-hand
demonstration Of rural motor express,
as under actual operating conditions.
With a rousing send-off, the "ship by
truck fleet left Macon for Savannah.
thence to make its way up thru the
Carolinas to Richmond, Washington,
Philadelphia and New York City.
The data which is being accumulated
on this trip will make up very valuable
fund Of information which the Firestone
company will place at the disposal Of
the shipping public and all others in
terested.
Verify, "ship by truck" is here to
stay. 1t must be reckoned real factor
IN transportation now. More power
to it!
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-04
HIGHWAY COURSE
WILL HELP MUCH
University of Michigan's New
Technical Curriculum to IN
clude Road Study.

One Of the most farreaching develop
ments to place our national highway sys
tenn on sound, uniform and economical
basis is the recent announcement by
President II. B. Hutchins that the Uni-
versity of Michigan will offer course
in highway transport to its students
says the 3. 4. Goodrich Rubber com
pany.
The significance of highway freight
transportation was wildly brot to light
by the war. and is now recognized as
much a part of our shipping and com
munication scheme as are the railroads
and the steamship lines.
The army has trained several hundred
thousand experts in the haulage Of
freight over the roads. and many of
these men will want to round out this
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-04

Battling their way southwark from
Akron, Ohio,-one day hub-deep in
southern clay, and bowling along at a
40-mile clip the next with wind and
rain alternating with blue sky and spring
sunshine-two big truck of the Firestone
'sShip by Truck" fleet arrived at Macon
III time to ring TIP the curtain on the
truck demonstration conference at
Macon, Ga, April 3.
The trucks in this fleet were the only
ones that made the trip from Akron
to Macon under their own power.
The purpose of the trip was to make
a thoro test Of long distance hauls by
truck under all conditions and to boost
the "ship by truck" movement in a
practical way.
1t was By all odds the most convincing
demonstration of the feasibility Of motor
truck express ever staged. Other long
distance truck runs-yes, but never
under like conditions for long distance,
These arc regulation two-ton trucks,
one shod with giant pneumatics. the
other mounted upon giant solids, Riding
on the big solids was well enough, but
on those pneumatics-believe me, it was
just Ike Pullman" said one of the
crew.
Down in cor Kaintuck," In the
mountain country Of Tennessee, and in
dear old Georgia there were many
little incidents which made the trip very
enjoyable for the crew The Firestone
film division sent director and oper-
ator along, with a movie" camera, and
they were kept busy filming matters of
special interest on the trip.
The journey was one continuous
ovation, the people all along the way
welcoming them enthusiastically Pa
rades. banquets, receptions everywhere.
Probably the highlights Of the trip
were the banquet given in their honor
at Nashville, attended by the city off
Gals, the motor interests and leading
citizens; the reception, parade, and pub
lie meeting at Atlanta; and the great
parade and rural motor truck demon
stration at Macon.
On entering Atlanta, two brass bands
and a delegation Of one hundred trucks
with thousands Of citizens in tow, voiced
a vociferious welcome. Public addresses
and filming Of the scene followed.
The reception at Macon was even
more impressive. There the Firestone
trucks led a parade of several hundred
trucks~thru the principal streets. Again
the film crew went into action.
An interesting incident of the first
day was a Firestone tire-changing CON
tests;n front of one of the newspaper
participated in by number OF
popular Macon girls, Red Cross workers.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-04

education by entering colleges and there
prepare to take up highway transporta-
ton as their life work.
The University Of Michigan, which is
the first great American school to offer
a highway transport course, also pre-
sents courses in automobile engineering
and in various phases of the transpor-
tation problem as presented by the de-
spartment of economics. These different
courses will tend to develop students
into all-round transportation experts.
Coincident with this training, an op-
portunity will be given the student to
take the university course in highway
engineering, as it is now recognized that
the roadbed and the highway vehicle
that travels it are as closely related as
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-04
ELIZABETH FORD
BY WALLACE IRWIN.


we carried her over the sea, we did,
"A cute little jimmy, all noisy and tihny'
But full Of American pep.
Recruited into the corps she was
She came OF her own accord. -
And named her Elizabeth Ford.
Cute little 'Lizabeth. dear little 'Lizanetn'
Bonnie Elizabeth Ford!
She was short and squat, but ner nose
For the Hindenburg line-o. Lordl
She hated a Hun like a son-of-a-sun,
Did chunky Elizabeth, Hunky Elizabeth,
Spunky Elizabeth Ford.
we took her along on our hike. we did,
And a wonderful boat was sne,
Shed carry physicians, food and muni-
Generals, water or tea.
she could climb bank like ftrst-rate
And deliver the goods aboard
when we touch our steel Kellies to "seri-
per Fidelis.
Remember Elizabeth Ford.
Cute little 'Lizabeth, dear little 'Lizabeth,
Bonnie Elizabeth Ford.
She took her rests in machine gun nests,
And on bullet-swept roads she choreo.
Where the "Devli HOUNDS were Lis oAA
OF a section of France restored
why, there was Elizabeth, chunky Eliza
spunky Elizabeth Ford.
But twas on the day at those murder
Which the Yankees pronounce Belioo;
We were sent to knock silly the hopes
Of Prince Willie,
An fy,ryt G.
We prayed for munitions and cleared
our throats
With a waterIess cIick-Good Lord
When out OF a crater with bent radiator
Climbed faithful Elizabeth Ford!
Cute little Elizabeth, dear little 'Lizabeth,
Bonnie Elizabeth Ford
With q cylinder-skip she had made the
trip,
Water and cartridge stored.
With her hood a wreck and broken neck
She cracked like rotten board
Hunky Elizabeth, chunky Elizabeth,
Spunky Elizabeth Ford
When they towed her out Of the town
next day.
Said Corporal Bill, Look there.
f1~know of one hero who shouldn't draw
When they're passin' the croix de
Guerre.
Who fed the guns that's startin the Huns
TIuItlU UdCE 10 SdIdl bA ~SoAh
So his Cross-and he'd won tt.-he tied
to the bonnet
OF faithful Elizabeth Ford.
Cute little Elizabeth, dear little 'Lizaheth,
Bonnie Elizabeth Ford.
Where shrapnel has mauied her we've
now oyerhauled her,
Her wheels and her gears restored.
Her records clean, she's a true marine
And we're sending the Dutch war lord
A note by Elizabeth. chunky Elizabeth,
Spunky Elizabeth Ford.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-04
Marine Ford Historical.

Marine Ford Historical.
Elizabeth Ford, as the regiment
knows her, has a unique career. Not
only in Quantice, where / drove her, but
in Bordeaux, ard later up in the train
ing area, she carried everything from
sick men to hard tack. Then we had
two months in the trenches near Verdun.
and at the end it seemed as though she
would have to go to the scrap heap.
Her top was entirely gone and we made
men, who have an affection for her that
you can hardly comprehend patched her
together and we brought her down to
our first billets. A week later we had
to go to another area, forty kilometers
north of Paris, and in the long trip the
Elizabeth Ford sailed along without mis-
hap and was the talk of the division.
'4Then we came up here and she rose
to the heights of her service and her
record The night we took Bouresches
with twenty odd men, and news came
through that others had filtered in and
the town was ours, We shot out truck
load of ammunition over the road. The
road was under heavy shell and machine
gun fire. Later in the night we sent
| the Ford out with rations. For the next
| five days she made that trip night and
day. and for one period ran almost ev-
cry hour for thirty-six hours. She not
| only carried ammunition out to the men
who were less than 200 yards from the
| Rosche. but rations and pyrotechnics:
| and then to the battalion on the left
Of the road. in those evil Belleau woods,
| she carried the same. and water. which
was scarce there For these trips she
| had to stop on the road and the stores
were then carried by hand into raVine.
7 saw her just after her first trip and
| counted twelve holes made by machine
| gun bullets and shrapne1.
loan of Arc Machine.
"At one time the driver Private
| F'leitz, and his two understudies. Haller
| and Bonneville. had to stop TO make min
or repairs. and another time. when they
had blowout how she and the men
escaped being annihlated is a mystery.
The last time I saw her she was resting
against 4 stone wall in the little square
If Lucy-le Bocage, shell wrecked town,
end she was the most battered object in
the town. One tire had been shot off.
another wheel hit. her radiator hit, and
there were not less than forty hits on
her We are trying every possible way
to find new parts and make q new Ford
of her. She is our Joar OF Arc and If it
takes six old cars to make her run again,
well get those six and rob them"
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-04
"" ELIZABETH FORD WAS
JOAN Of ARC WAR CAR
Struck Forty Times by Shot and She'll Sturdy Little
''Lizzy" Stuck to Task and Brot the Yanks
Food and Water at Bouresches.

During the bitter fighting in France
in September, 1918, when the United
States marines took the heart out Of the
Prussian Guards, and in fact, out of the
whole German army, and during the
wicked fighting at Belleau woods and
vicinity, some twenty marines captured
the little French village Of Bouresches.
man trenches. As the Germans were
driven from the village of Bouresches,
their artillery dropped fierce barage
behind the village to make impossible
re-inforcements being sent to our soldier
boys. Our boys fought until their ammu-
milton was exhausted, their food was
gone, and they had no water and still
they held the village, and still the barage
fell around them, when suddenly out of
the he'll cf fire Of the barage a truck
broke thru bringing water, food and mu-
nitions. Upon receiving this, our Amer
lean war dogs proceeded to drive the
Germans out of the trenches.
1t seems to have fallen to a certain
American motor car company that here
was an opportunity to do some advertis-
ing, and so it ran full page advertis-
ment in the newspapers recounting the
above facts, and then inserting the fol-
lowing line:
1T was a truck that did this
s1DIiOuS WOTk.
Everybody was glad and rejoiced that
American industry came in just at the
right time to endorse American courage
and heroism
A manufacturer of another motor truck
doubted the statement, and wrote the
war department asking it if wasn't one
Of their trucks that should have received
the glory. and was informed by the war
department that neither their truck or
the truck mentioned in the advertisement
was entitled to the glory, but that it was
\ Ford" truck that showed up just at
that particular time. The latter manu-
facturer advised us of these facts. and
we wrote the war department, and the
attached correspondence speaks for it
self. FORD MOTOR COMPANY.
Headquarters e. s. marine corps,
Washington, February Is. 1919
Sir: Receipt is acknowledged of your
letter of the 18th inst. and in reply
the major general eommandant directs
me- to inform you that the truck mem
toned in your letter was a Ford truck.
There arc enclosed for your informa-
tion an extract from letter from Major
Frank +. Evans. I. S. N. G., adjutant
to the 9th regiment Of marines. A. T..
F.. and copy of a poem by Wallace Ir-
win entitled Elizabeth Ford" Very
respectfully. J. ID. BRADY.
1st Lieutenant, a. 4. & |, NJ. G. r.
Mr. g. A. BrownelI, manager Of ad-
vartising, Ford Motor company, Detroit,
Mich.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-04
the rolling stock and the roadbed of

the rolling stock and the roadbed of a
railroad line.
It is predicted by prominent officials
IN the automobile industry that many
other universities will offer highway
transport courses by next fall. The
country favors a great expansion in
road building activities and traffic over
the roads. Many hitherto inaccessible
sections Of the country will be opened
up to commerce. and likewise, great
inter- county and Interstate express and
passenger traffic over the highways will
be created,
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-04

Uruguay. much of which formerly was
treeless, has planted more than 17,000,-
600 forest trees within a few years.
Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-05-04

Extract from letter from Major Frank
E. Evans, Z. S. NJ G., adiutant, sixth
regiment, U. s. marines, A. IT, IT,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-27
PERUVIAN SINGER
TO GIVE CONCERT
Marguerite D'Alvarez, Con-
tralto, Here After Tri-
umph in England.

Marguerite D'Alvarez, the celebrated
Peruvian contralto, whose recital work
in England during the last two years
has caused a sensation, arrived in Amer
lea last week and will make her Ameri-
can concert debut at Carnegie Hall Sat
urday afternoon, November 1. Mme.
DAlvarez is well remembered in this
city for her work as q member of the
Hammerstein and Boston Opera COM
panies nine years ago.
Born in Peru the daughter of a diplo-
mat, b. Alvarez Venero de Lobaton,
descendant of an old Spanish family on
which the Spanish crown had bestowed
two Marquisates, and Marie Poupart de
Neuflize, Nine. D'Alvarez comes from
one of the oldest and most distinguished
families in South America. Her brother
is now at Washington as secretary of
the Peruvian Embassy.
Nine. D'Alvarez received her musical
education at the Brussels Conservatory
under Nine. Cornelis and NJ. Gavaert
director of that institution. After OBJ
tanning first prizes for singing and
tragedy, and also the Prix de la RENE,
being the first foreigner to receive the
award of this latter distinction, she was
appointed as court singer to II. M. Leo
pold /. She continued her studies with
Van Zun Mullen in Brussels and Adela
Borghi in Milan.
Her debut was made at the Theatre
National of Rouen, leading to an en-.
gagement the following year at the The
atre Royal of Antwerp. Here she was
heard by the late Oscar Hammerstein,
who paid a large forfeit to obtain her
release for her appearance at the Man
haitian Opera House. New York, where
she appeared in 1909 and 1910.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-27
DR.. PARDO DEFENDS
ACTS AS PRESIDENT
Peru's Deposed Ruler Issues
Manifesto.

LIMA. Peru, Oct. 26.-EI Commerce.
ana La Prensd. the leading Lima news
papers, which are opposed to Augusta B.
Leguia, President OF the Republic, have
published a lengthy manifesto to the
PERUVIAN nation signed by DR.. Jose
Faroo Barreda, who In July was re-
tive.
The manifesto is dated Colon, August
is. 1t defends DR.. Pardo's administra-
ton, and particularly his Governments
course during the war. Neither newspa-
per comments editorially on the docu-
ment which occupies several full pages
and Is virtually a message to the ma
ton covering the Anal year OF the Pardo
regime.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-27
CATTLE SHORTAGE
DISTURBS URUGUAY
Shutting Down of Packing
Plants Affects General In
dustrial Conditions.
BAD WEATHER A FACTOR
War Demands Caused Heavy
Drain on Supply and Drought
Made Deep Cut.
Special core.pondenee to TEE suv.

MoNrEvIpEo, Uruguay. Oct. 3.-Indus-
trial conditions In Uruguay are very
much disturbed at present by the shut
ting down of some of the large packing
plants. due to a lack of cattle. During
the war the great demand for meat
caused a considerable expansion Of the
packing industry and slaughter went
forward at rate faster than the normal
increase of cattle justified. In fact as
early as 1916 the livestock census
showed that there had been a slight
decrease in the number of cattle in the
republic and q very heavy decrease in
the number of sheep.
This falling off was due partly to the
unfavorable weather in recent years,
the excessive rains of 1914 in particular
having caused much disease and heavy
mortality. In that year about soc, 900
cattle and more than 5000. 900 sheep
died from disease and starvation. On
the other hand in 1916 heavy drought
is estimated to have caused the death
of 100000 cattle. Another factor In
the decrease Of the number of cattle has
been the growth of small farms. The
census of 1908 gave a total of 47.S74
rural establishments of which 1892
were devoted to farming, 5,527 no both
farming and stock raising, and 1915
to stock raising alone.
The figures for 1915 were 26,531,
16,1S2 and 1921 respectively, making
a total of 1914 establishments. Farm
ing and particularly mixed farming and
stock raising have continued to show
important gains, whereas the number OF
establishments devoted solely to stock
raising have decreased. This Is of
course eminently satisfactory in view
of the future prosperity of the country.
for the tendency has been to neglect
other forms of rural activity, but II is
having a bad effect on the packing in
dustry.
The closing down OF the frigorificos
at this time Is particularly unfortunate,
for the Industrial problems are already
acute and 1t is feared that with several
thousand laborers unemployed the situa-
ton will become increasingly difficult.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-27
GUIDE FOR TRAVEL
IN SOUTH AMERICA
Pan American Union Issues
Pamphlet.

Seeing South America" a pamphlet
which has just been published by the
Tan American Union, Will be sent to in
terested parties upon application. The
pamphlet gives the principal routes, larger
cities, natural wonders, time required,
approximate cost and other condensed
information for prospective travellers.
With the dawn and growth of the
worlds new era, 1t seems reasonable to
believe that travel upon land, on the sea
and in the air will be greater than at
any period of the past. The tendencies
of the times are to visit lands other than
ones own. to lend aid in upbuilding, In
undermining, in developing. to buy and
to sell; and these activities foreshadow
increased passenger traffic all over the
world.
The author. William A. Reid. trade
adviser Of the Pan American Union. has
made numerous trips to all parts OF
Latin America and is an acknowledged
authority on the subject Of travel and
trade.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-27

BUENos ArREs, Oct. 26.-Congratula-
tions from President Wilson, Premier
Lloyd George. the Italian Foreign Min
istcr Signor Tittoni the French Foreign
Minister NJ. Pchon; the Spanish Pre-
mier. Senior Sanchez Toca; Premier Bor-
cen OF Canada, eX-President Taft. Gen
Pershing and many other prominent men
have been extended to La Prensd, which
recently celebrated it's fiftieth anniver-
sary with n sreclal edition.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-27
BRAZIL NAMES DELEGATES.
Workers and Employers to BE
Represented at Labor Congress-,

RIO DE JANEIRo. Oct. 26. - Fausto
Ferraz, a member OF the Chamber of
Deputies. and Roberto Simonsen have
been appointed by the Brazilian Gov
eminent to attend the labor congress to
be held soon in Washington. the former
TO represent workers and the latter the
employers
This step by the Government was
taken after a number of persons were
asked to go to Washington and declined
for various reasons.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-27
Latin American Notes

II IL reported that the partially com
pleted Puerto Witches Railway in Colom-
bia has received much new building mate
rial with which to continue its construc-
ton, the work on which Is now moving
rapidly. When completed this line will
connect Bucaramanga with the Magdalena
River.
The steamboat service on the Magdalena
River has been taxed to capacity to handle
the large shipments of coffee consigned
from the interior to the Colombian ports.
Twenty Thousand sacks from Antioquia
have been waiting In Puerto Berrio since
the end OF July for transshlpment to the
coast.
Not only is Cuba feeling the effect of
prohibition through an influx of tourists
who recognize II as land where wine
still flows freely, but Cuba Is also benefited
by the increased demand for her sugar
crop owing to the enormous quantities Of
"srgared" soft drinks now being consumed
In this country.
Both Ecuador and Panama have for
mally recosnised'the new administration in
Peru.
As q result of a recent campaign car
ried on by the Patronato National de Ia In
fancia. 10000 pesos (Chilean), or approxl-
port Of the institution in Santiago which
cares for orphans.
According to a recent municipal report
OF Havana, from July to August Of
the present year, trafiic plates have been
applied for by 1925 vehicles, giving the
number Of four seated automobiles for hire
reached ISIS. The number of private
automobiles was 1924.
Cuba, like many other Latin American
countries has suffered from the high cost
OF drugs as well as their scarcity In an
enort to remedy the situation, there has
been formed a company known as the
National Medicine Products Company. com
posed OF Cuban capital, whose object is to
study the products OF the island and other
Latin American countries in order to
manufacture medicine for home consump-
ton.
good field Is said to exist in Brazil
FOR the Investment of American capital in
cotton mills which could readily obtain
their raw materials from the large cot
ton fields In different parts OF the coun-
try and which could sell the finished
products to great advantage in the native
There is great demand for common
nails In Montevideo.
A new customs tariff became effee . ye
In British Honduras September 20 The
the consent Of the legislative council may.
as he sees At. exempt from duty any raw
material intended for use in any manu-
Is used The act also provides for an
excise duty on spirits manufactured in
the colony.
The Peruvian Government has under
taken the enactment of measures designed
TO reduce the cost OF living. The retail
price of sugar has been fixed, which price
must be plainly marked on all sugar ex =
hibited for sale. Those. violating the T"so-
lutions are subject to a Tine. Among other
measures designed to reduce the high cost
OF living was decree prohibiting the ex-
portation of coffee until the retail price
IN Lima and Callao should be reduced to
SlAc per kifo. free market has been
established In the city OF Lima to meet
the expenses OF which n tax OF 10 per cent.
on all tickets sold at places of amusement
1's been levied