Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-11
Automobile Notes
From All Over the
Motoring World

Gilbert U. Radoye, director of at-
|vertising Of the Haynes Automobile
company Of kokomo, Ind, gives OFT
the information that the Haynes
company distributed to its men ard
women employee. 4 $4,000 Christ
mas present, each employee receiving
a certain sum based upon hiss length
OF service and rate Of salary.
Colliding with the grandstands and
backing over the Snish line, Andre
Eoillot won the largo Florio, the
first European postwar race. in the
Baby Peugeot in which he made su"h
a formidable showing in the ;nterna-
tlonal s00-mile sweepstakes contest
at Indianapolis, a few days ago.
l. Annual convention Of the National
Automobile Dealers ASSOCIATION will
be held January 26-27 at the LaSalle
hotel, Chicago, during the week of
the National Automobile and Truck
show.
Henry A. Kroh. southeastern dis
trlct mechanical inspector for many
years of the Cadillac Motor Car COM
pany, and later with the Lincoln
Motor Car company, has resigned
srom the latter company to take
charge of the new service station a.
the Cadillac agency in Charleston,
IS G., as service manager.
1t is said that negotiations have
been virtually completed whereby
| Dodge Brothers will open a manu-
featuring plant in St, Thomas, Ont
L. S. Shelton, new head of the
Premier Motor corporation of lndi-
annapolis, has laid out an interesting
schedule of production. The plant
will turn out 5000 cars in l9I0.
There will be 434 exhibitors al
New York's National Au.omo bile
show. This includes both the passen-
ger car and motor truck exhibitors.
There will be 50 makers OF rassen-
ger cars and 81 makers OF trucks
and 284 exhibitors of accessories.
F. A. Bates has become manager
of the Booty Carhuretor and Manu-
featuring company, Chicago. lie
was with the Beneke & Kropf Man
ufacturing company.
Cleveland will hold its annual au-
tomobile show January II to "a, iii
elusive, at Wigmore Coliseum which
has 100000 square ieet of foo: space
with the addition which has been
made.
| Boston's automobile show dates
are March 1920. Passengers cars,
motor trucks ard accessories viii
again be displayed.
Statistics have it that there arc
100000 farmers cf which number
it is claimed that 100000 are truck
prospects. Should 100000 farmers
luy in 1920 it would mean sale
from this source of about $50 motor
trucks for each manufacturer in the
field. Motor truck makers believe
that the sale will exceed the 1gu: e
| named.
National Highway Traffic associa
ton will hold its convention in Chi
cago during the national automobile
ard Motor Truck show. The con-
vention will open January %
Double the space used last year
has been allotted to tractors for tie
Twin City Automobile, Truck, Trac-
tor and Industrial exposition which
will be held in the Overland build
ing, St. Paul, the week of January
81 to February 7. Last year the
tractor exhibit occupied 24,000
square feet, and this year will cover
$4,000 square feet
The Lincoln highway from Pitts
hurgn to Philadelphia is to he kept
open all winter. The state of Penu-
sylvania will keep this important
trucking route open and entirely
clear of snow. TIE cost to the state
viii! e $2s0,000.
Frank A. Steele has been named
assistant superintendent of produc-
ton for the Los Angeles plant OF the
Goodyear Tire ard Rubber cou-
pany.
| >Hcports resolved at HEADQUARTERS
Of the Lincoln highway indicate that
| the highway IS now closed for travel
from Cheyenne, Wyo.. to the coast
Tourists are advised by the associa,
| ton tc seek more southerly routes
Inquiries for complete iniofm--
ton and copies of he rules with ell
try blanks of the First National
Motor Truck Reliability contest to
start in Omaha next June for The
Omaha Bee and other trophies, have
been received from many of the lead
ing makers of motor trucks at the
headquarters Office of the tour in
The Bee building, Omaha. S. P. La,
Due, resident manager of the torr,
with Charles P Root, general MAJ
ager, and F. Ed Spooner. promo
tional manager, will be at both ma
tional motor truck shows to impa-t
information.
Daily payroll of the Goodyear Tire
and Rubber company has reached
$4,000 or over $33,000,000 year
A big increase in the payroll for
1920 IS predicted by company Of
! icials. The average wage now to
each man, woman and boy is $3.50.
1t is believed that the payroll for
1920 will be $50 100000 with the
natural growth OF the business ex-
pected.
Arthur I. Philips, general sales
manager Of Dodge Brothers, who
overtaxed his strength to a point of
nervous exhaustion requiring COM
p1etc rest, is showing marked inn
p-ovement. He is on the high road
! RI recovery after cf1ra five n, q a e,1res