12 LIFE INSURANCE FOR BATTERY Manager of Willard Service Station Tells How to Pro long Life of Battery Howard S. Beck, who is now in charge of the Front-Market Motor Supply Company, Willard Service Station, was formerly general super intendent and service manager at the New York branch of the Willard 'Storage Battery Company. In speaking of battery troubles *and the cause, Mr. Beck said: •'Sev enty-five per cent, of ail storage bat tery troubles are due to the want of knowledge and neglect, in spite of the fact that the Willard Storage Battery Company spends annually $250,000 to enlighten the owner how to care for them." Continuing, Mr. Beck said: "Unless you give your battery the care it deserves you can't expect it to keep on giving you the service you demand. You can get every mile of service there is in that battery if you just follow carefully a few sim ple directions. You can't neglect it. You must give it a drink about once fvery ten days in the summer. And don't forget it, it drinks a special brand of water —distilled only. It must be kept fully charged or other wise it will deteriorate through ab normal sulphation. If you use your car a great deal at night with lights on, a corresponding amount of day driving should be done to restore your battery. If not it will become weaker from day to day and in a short time it will be necessary to have it reformed at a storage battery service station. "A battery may seem to be doing its job nearly as well as usual. It may turn the engine over strongly enough to 'get by*—may supply enough current for light—may pro duce a fairly hot spark, and may Ko on doinK so right up to the point where the spark of life goes out. But if you don't know that your battery is in good health you're taking chances. Guesses at battery condi tions opens the switch to battery trou ble.. You're running without signals unless you know what's doing in side your battery. Battery repairs may be a necessity, but they're not an excuse for-letting your car lie idle. To-day rental batteries may be h;id which allows car to continue in service. Just a little precaution may save you from the inconveninece of a motor that refuses to turn over— from lights that are dim when they should be brilliant, or from actual damage to your battery. But you must have a good battery if you ex pect good results and it must be pro vided with care and attention or lons life is impossible. "In other words, if a good bat tery is subject to occasional inspec tion that is in charge of expert battery men, and care and attention is given to battery by owner of car, it is like a free life insurance policy to your car." Unbreakable Armleder Patented Springs, Forty-Eight wearing parts, twelve oil cups eliminated. Continental Motor, three point suspension Unit Power plant, Schebler carburetor Multiple dry disc clutch, Brown Lipe Trans mission, Spicer universal joints, Timken-Detroit worm drive, full floating, and many other quality features. Ask Armleder truck users, then see us. Made in two sizes —Two and Three one-half tons. HARRISBUIIG WEI.DING, BRAZING A\II MACHINE COMPANY |)4—DO SOUTH CAMERON STREET Sfeljfljht' mm \ MOTOR TRUCKS f Three-quarter ton, one-ton, one-and-one-half-ton and | two-ton trucks. Hudson Sales Agency DELL 1300 1137 MULBERRY ST. Q O y Q We are PROFICIENT in HQ C/i the thtec R's of battery ser- C PJ jr w y i ce — anc ' we have the equip- m >- J3 ment and facilities to enable m w Q us to exercise our knowledge to the very best advantage. When your battery needs G competent, skilled attention, W p* bring it to US—we will re- H Q store its old time "punch" and vitality. gj Moderate charges. REPAIRING OF ALL MAKES REASONABLE CHARGES Only Official Willard Service Station SATURDAY EVENING, HAHRISBURG !&&&£ TELEGRXPH MARCH 2, 1918 School Board to Put $50,000 in Liberty Bonds When the next Liberty Loan Bond issue is made the city school district will invest $50,000 of sinking fund money in the war loan it was decid ed by the directors at their meeting yesterday afternoon. In addition to being a patriotic measure, this will meet one of, the recommendations of school survey report in which it was suggested that the directors should invest school board funds at a high 7 er rate of interest than three per cent. The board postponed action on bids for the purchase of the $230,000 issue of 5-30 year serial bonds bear ing 4 1-2 per cent, interest, until a special meeting, March 22. Albert E. Peffer, who has been employed at the board office for sev eral months, was elected accountant for the district. He will have charge of accounts of all appropriations, expenditures .sinking funds and similar finance affairs. Other action by the directors in cluded approval of the name "Thom as A. Edison" building for the new Junior High school which will be built at Nineteenth and Chestnut streets. Bonds of various contractors were approved! compensation insur ance for teachers and janitors was renewed and the resignation of a grade school teacher was accepted. Jury Finds Max Boyer Not Guilty of Killing Wade Hagerstown, Md„ March 2. —After deliberating only twenty-four min utes, the jury sitting in the man slaughter "case of Max A. Boyer, a prominent young businessman of this city, returned a verdict of not guilty in court here. Boyer received his acquittal calmly, shook hands with his counsel and left the courtroom with his father, David H. Boyer. Moyer was tried for shooting and kiliing Theodore W. Wade, of Buena Vista, Pa., whom he found in his wife's bedroom on the night of Jan uary 19. Bo}>er and his attorneys both claimed that he acted in self defense and that Wade had pre viously threatened Boyer and refused to cease his visits to the Boyer home. Fire Destroys Dwelling on Gettysburg Pike The home of William McElween, at Frogtown, a short distance south of Shiremanstown on the Gettysburg pike, was completely destroyed by fire late this morning. The building was part stone and part wood. The chemical wagon from Shire manstown and neighbors in the vil lage fought the fire with buckets of water procured from Cedar run, which is close by. There are no firo pumps in the village and consequent ly fire fighters were hampered in fighting the blaze. The firemen prevented the flames from spreading to the Fisher resi dence, built close by the burning house, and succeeded in preventing the spread of the flames. JUNIOR RED CROSS POPULAR The Junior Red Cross started here only a short time ago, has progress ed so rapidly that three more schools announce that they have reached the 100 per cent, mark of membership, the Hamilton, Penn and Reily. SECRET STORY OF FIRST EIGHT A Few Inside Facts About Birth of Cadillac V-Type Engine An interesting bit of "new news of yesterday" is contained in a story now first told by an official of the Cadillac Company about the design ing and building of the eight-cylinder V-type engine which was introduced by the Cadillac in this country as an automobile power plant in August, 1914. D. McCall White, designer of the engine, and now vice-president of the Cadillac Company, came to this country from England incognito, and was introduced as 'Mr. David •Wilson, of the Phoeni:c Manufactur ing Company." With one assistant he went to various factories in the east, where patterns were made and parts built to his specifications. For the most part the work was done in obscure shops. As an example of the .precautions taken, the forked connecting rods were manu factured in one place and the straight connecting rods in another, so no one would associate them and gain a possible clue The first crankcase casting was made in a small foundry in Wor cester, Mass., at about midnight, and the sand was cleaned out of the casting in the light of automo bile headlamps in the yard behind the building. The parts were shipped to Detroit separately. The cylinder blocks made the journey in a Pullman car. The assembling continued day and night for several weeks in an old one-story shack on the bank of the Detroit river, several miles from the Cadillac factory. The only approach to the building was through a de vious alleyway. The few persons who knew the secret and worked on the engine, when they visited the hidden workshop, left their cars several blocks away on a main street and never approached the building in groups. All of the win dows in the little shop were frosted, and armed men guarded the build ing day and night. Out of the many thousands of | men employed by the company, per j haps twenty-five knew the secret. I The drafting was done behind locked ! doors in a down-town office build ing, and at night the drawings were ; locked in a vault. The first engine was finished at about 5 o'clock one afternoon. ( Mr. White and a number of other offi cials were present when it started to turn over on its own power for the first time. They all stood around the engine with a feeling that a big job had been completed. "Here is the quietest demmed engine in De ! troit," is the way Mr. White, with ; a far-away look in his eyes, is said to have voiced his feelings. When the car was tested it was driven only in the back streets of Detroit. When the test driver thought he saw any one looking at him suspiciously he opened the cut out on one side, and to all appear ance he was driving a four-cylinder car. The idea prevailed in the au tomobile world that the Cadillac had something up it sleeve, and as a sort of camoufage a unique four cylinder engine was actually built. It had long cylinders and many strange features. The buiding of this four-cylinder engine was cov ered up just enough so that it would be sure to leak out and it did. The real truth was not known until the Cadilac Company chose to announce to the public that its forthcoming product would be driv 'en by the first V-type eight-cylinder engine developed and built in this country. Hauls Maxwell Touring Cars Long Way on Trucks Under the direction of Ray Mc- Namara, famous road engineer. Max well trucks loaded with touring cars recently made a speedy trip from Detroit to Washington over roads which, covered with ice and drift ing snow, raadi the right-of-way look, in some Dlaces, like tunnels and trenches on the French front. The elapsed time from Detroit, including stops along the way for lunch, was 4 8 hours and 50 minutes. Leaving Detroit, the Maxwell roll ed into Toledo in just four hours. From Toledo to Cleveland, roads were icy and, particularly between Belleview and Norwalk, Ohio, drifts of snow were very high. Cleveland, 126 miles from Toledo, was reached in nine hours, despite the snow and ice. , Fast time was made to Youngs town, though the slushy roads made careful driving imperative. The steep hills into Pittsburgh were made easily, the time for the 153- mile run being 11 hours and 5 minu tes. On through Greensburg, across the Allegheny mountains, chains were necessary and the upgrade of 108 miles was made in 10 hours and 35 minutes. The last day was the most se vere of the trip. Leaving early in the morning, Sidling, Bay and Scrub mountains wore crossed and McCon nellsburg (26 miles of climbing) reached in 3 hours and 30 minutes. From there on much snow was en countered but the Maxwell made a •speedy run through Chambersburg, then to Westminster and Gettysburg, to Baltimore and then to Washing ton. The distance from Everett, Pa., to Washington, 168 miles, was covered in 14 hoiirs and 10 minutes. Then, with the lights of Wash ington gleaming on their snow-cov ered bodies. Maxwells rolled in with another splendid run to their credit. Would Send Convicts Into the Trenches Washington.—"l do not see any reason why our boys should be sent to the trenches and the convicts kept idle in their cells." declared Dr. E. Stags Whitin, chairman of the ex ecutive committee of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison La bor, speaking before the House Com mittee on LAbor in behalf of the convict labor bill. The House committee returned a favorable report on the bill. Dr. Whitin declared • that its adoption would release 100,000 prisoners who could help defeat Germany by making war supplies. f WE REPAIR^ uRADIA | ■ Lamps, Fenders, I Hoods, Bodies and I Windshields I Suss Mfg. Co.l I llth and Mulberry St a. I ■ Ilarrlaburg, Pa. P. AND R. TRAIN TIME CHANGED Leaving Gettysburg For 2G Years at 4 O'clock, Now Goes Half Hour Earlier Gettysburg, Pa., March 2.—After leaving Gettysburg at the same hour for a period of twenty-six years, the afternoon train on the Reading rail road now lea.ves a half-hour earlier, according to the schedule which went into effect yesterday. Since June, 1891, this train has pulled out of the station here at 4 o'clock, but until further notice will depart at 3.30. The reason for the change is said to be that due to the increased express business the train has lost time be tween this place and Harrisburg and consequently made poor connections with the express train at the latter place bound for Philadelphia, almost daily making that train wait beyond its scheduled time for the arrival of the train from here. Colored People's Survey Begins Soon Plans for the launching early this month of the survey of the colored population of Pennsylvania with es pecial reference to Its availability for war service and the effects of the influx of colored laborers from Virginia, the Carolinas and the low er tier of states have been worked out. The State Industrial Board will have charge of the work, var ious departments of the state govern ment co-operating in furnishing of information within their special lines. The Philadelphia headquarters of the board will be the center for the work in that section, while an office will be opened in Pittsburgh for the western end. Several prom inent colored men will give their assistance, taking charge of certain details such as occupations, housing, social conditions and the like, while employment experts will note the new comers. Philadelphia has been one of the big centers of the colored race in the country and a study made half a dozen years ago by the Depart ment of Internal Affairs showed Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Reading, Chester and Allentown to have the other centers for the state. Since that time development of industries, especially in steel manufacturing towns like Steelton, Bethlehem and Allegheny county boroughs; and opening of other lines to colored labor have caused big changes and there has been quite a considerable movement among colored men to ward small towns and farms in some sections. The colored labor camp has also created a problem. The study will take the greater part of the year. RECOVER STOLEN GOODS The police recovered $717 worth of stolen articles during February, $314 in excess of the amount of property stolen during the month. Some of the articles recovered were reported stolen during previous months. Nine traffic violators were arrested and fined during the month. Miscellaneous misdemeanors re ported numbered only 29, as against 65 for January. The number of drunks was comparatively small. Suburban Notes WILLIAMSTOWN Mrs. John Thompson accompanied her daughter, Mrs. Raymond Wren, to her home at Pottsville. The Rev. H. E. Moyer is attending the Christian Endeavor conference at Leading. James Williams, who spent the winter with his son at Derry, has returned home. Mrs. William Paul has returned to her home at Harrisburg after spend ing two weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Paul. Mr. and Mrs. William Long, of South Bethlehem, are guests of Mr. Long's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil lNm Long. Thomas Davis made a trip to Wilkes-Barre this week. Miss Pearl Paul and Mrs. James Miller are spending the weekend at Harrisburg. Mrs. David Kemp spent Thursday at Wiconisco. Mrs. H. E. Moyer is visiting her sisters at Selinsgrove. Mrs. Jane Moffett is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Milton Esworthy, at Harrisburg. Frank Warner, of Philadelphia, was a recent guest of Miss Florence Hoffman. Cleveland Bressler was seriously injured while at his work at the col liery here Thursday. He was re moved to his home in the company's ambulance. PENBROOK Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sheaffer and son, of Litltz, were entertained at the home of Scott Hackman in South Chestnut street. Mrs. Herbert Mumma LeVan has returned to. her home at Shippens bi'rg after a short visit at the LeVan home in Boas street. Mrs. Jacob Gingriqh and daughter, Charlotte, spent Tuesday at Harris bur K . Mrs. David Binder is spending sev eral days with Mrs. Howard Bixler, Sylvan Terrace, Harrisburg. The following were present at a farewell dinner given on Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wilson in honor of their brother, Charles D. Wilson, who left for Camp Meade on Tues day: Charles D. Wilson, of Pen brook; Miss Clara Wilson, Miss Nel lie Myers, Miss Myrtle Barnhart and Miss Alice Barnhart, of Harrisburg; Mrs. Harry Wilson and daughters, Esther and Fay, of Penbrook. Augustus Early, of Illinois, is vis iting his brothers, Thomas and Grant Early. Miss Charlotte Zelgler has gone to Washington, D. C., to do clerical work. Mrs. Charles Strohm and daughter, Melba, returned home after a week's visit with Mr. and Mrs. Walmer, Mrs. Strohm's parents, at Jonestown. The Rev. George W. Harper was called home by the death of his father, Simon Peter Fisher Harper, of Lower Paxton township. Dauphin county. LIVERPOOL James L Snyder Is visiting his Fon, Eldon Snyder, a member of the Third Motor Mechanics Regiment, at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. John N. Ritter made a trip to Har risburg Thursday. F. P. Dilley is spending the wsiek at Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Shuler and niece, Gertrude Shuler, spent Tues day at New Bloomfield. Frank Potter made a trip to Mll lerstown Thursday. Miss Maude Knlsley, a registered nurse, will leave to-morrow for Paoll to take charge of a special case. Mrs. Mary Barge and daughter, of Harrisburg, are visitors at the home of Stewart Barge. U.E. CONFERENCE HEARS REPORTS Memorial Service Held For Ministers Who Died During Year Reading, March 2.—Memorial services were held at the United Evangelical East Pennsylvania Con ference in the First, Church, this place at the opening of to-day's ses sion. A number of ministers of the conference died during the year. The Rev. A. J. Brunner, pastor of the Bethany Church, this city, and a former pastol - of the Harris Street Church, Harrisburg, was re-elected for the fifteenth consecutive year. The following assistants were then appointed: The Rev. C. D. Huber, G. Wes. Marquardt, and S. P. Erisman. The Rev. D. P. Longsdorf, of Ma hanoy City, was appointed confer ence reporter. Prof. George W. Sanville, of Phil adelphia, was appointed chorister. The Rev. J. A. Heck, of Pine Grove, was appointed pianist. Prof. J. P. Stober, instructor at Albright College, Myerstown, was placed on the superannuated list at his request. The Rev. E. S. Messersmith, of Wayne, was excused from attending, as he is teaching school. The Rev. F. E. Erdman, presiding elder of the Allentown district, pre sided during the missionary meet ing and the Rev. H. F. Schlegel, of Bethany Church, Lancaster, was the secretary. The following commit tees were appointed: On missionary report, the Revs. W. T. Harner, N. N. Lower and J. A. Smith: auditing, [W. H. Christ, G. B. Gensemer and W. H. Hartzler. The Rev. A. E. Hangen, of Har risburg, corresponding secretary, read his annual report, which was interesting. He explained that there are sixty missionaries in the district, and then gave a report of the stew ardship of these missionaries. He said: "Ten of the sixty missions re port ho conversions as against six out of fifty-eight last year. Thirty had been one and ten, seven between eleven and twenty; five had twenty live or more. The largest number on any mission is 83. This is credited to Dauphin mission. Conversions on some of the other missions are as follows: Birdsboro, 50; Williams town, 50; Locust Dale, 47; Ruther ford, Heights, 30; Sunbury, Second, 27; Trevorton, 22; Allentown, Zion, 16; Steelton, 1G; Freemansburg, 15; Catasauqua, 14; total, 554. This Is a gain over last year of nine, the aver age number of conversions this year being nine plus, and this is the same as last year. For every s3l of money paid the missionaries as salary by this con ference a ' convert was made. For every S9B of total paid, not includ ing rent, there was one convert. An average of one convert for every 15 members in the mission field was made this year and for every 17 members in the stations of the con ference. The pastors serving missions had this year an average of nine converts. Those serving stations averaged 20 converts. Three of the 60 missions had no accessions at all, two had 30. Dau phin led with a net gain of 51; Birdsboro follows with 31; Ruther ford Heights, 29; WTlliamstown, 26; Bethlehem, Olivet, 23, and Sunbury, Second, 16. The total number of ac cessions is 620, an average of 11 per field. There are margins that are very big between the conversions and accessions. Twenty-nine mis sions have had a net loss, four re port the same number of members as a year ago. The net gain is far greater than the net loss. One woman delegate, Mrs. R. B. Trone, of Rutherford Height?, Is the only woman delegate. She was ap pointed a member of the committee on temperance, Sunday school and K. L. C. E. work. The following visiting clergymen will fill the pulpit at First Church to-morrow: 10 a. m., ordination ser mon by Bishop U. F. Swengel; 1.45 p. m., the Revs. A. W. Brownmiller, W. F. Hell and J. P. Miller, will ad dress the Men's Bible class; 3.15 or dination service by Bishop Swengel; 7.30 sermon by Bishop W. H. Fouke. Pershing's Speech of Four Words Called Greatest Kansas City, Mo.—"The greatest speech brought about by the war, in the opinion of the French people,' Lieutenant Paul Perigord, of the French army, said in his talk at the Grand Avenue Temple, "was that made by General Pershing at the tomb of Lafayette." Lieutenant Perigord described the impressive actions of Pershing when, leaning over the tomb, he said: "Lafayette, we are here." Lieutenant Perigord continued his expression of the feeling of France towards the United States, which, he said, he cannot express because of America's indication on every side of its response to his country. "France looks on the United States as her spiritual child," he said. "Bet ter still, does she feel this country is her twin sister, for in the decade when America was born France was rtbern." He spoke of one not only bringing a message from the French soldiers, he said, but from the whole French people; not only the heroes who saved the world for liberty at the Marne, at Ypres, and Verdun, but all of France." Don't Worry Abe ut anything when you take a pleasure spin up the river road. STAHLER Keep* all IvlndN of Auto Aooeanurlen, Tire* and TubeK—Atlantic {•nnoliiie, OIIm nn 2 SIOSO. Touring Car, Roadster or Commercial Car, $885; 2 □ j (All prices t. o. b. Detroit.) □ 2 § | KEYSTONE MOTOR CAR CO. I | 57 to 103 S. Cameron Street 2 5 Harrisburg, Pa: C. H. Barner, Mgr. □ 2, i . 2 □ □ □ ■ n ..r,l^a^annaaioions —^£ ai| Q"DtlnunnnnminnnilDilD ——- —SSS.-. i' i Maxwell Company Has Announced New Prices Announcement has been made by (he Maxwell Motor Company of an Increase In prices to become effec tive March 1. The revised schedule shows an addition of SBO to the pres ent price of all passenger cars and one of SIOO to that of the Max-| well truck. • This action, Maxwell officials state, has been made necessary by the in creased cost of doing business and curtailed production—due to short Pennsylvania Indemnity Exchange PHILADELPHIA "RECIPROCAL AUTOMOBILETNSURANCE A proved service—a proved saving Write To-day for Circular Uarrisbarg Branch, A. L. Hall, Patriot Building Manager /JWWiiWAWAVJW. r * The j> . Comfort Car THE really striking thing about this new Hupmo bile is that an almost unprecedented degree of driving and riding comfort is secured at a mileage cost low almost beyond belief. All of the old Hupmobile qualities—amazing quick ness, and an almost savage power of driving and pulling are more fully developed than ever. In addition, Hupmobile engineers have accomplished a marked reduction in weight, with all of its resulting . economy—and still provided a car whose comfort of riding and driving, superb steadiness and absence of side-swing, is a positive delight. The remarkably easy starting of this new Hupmobile on cold winter mornings is by no means the least of its comforts. Hupmobile Sales Corpora tion 103 Market Street R. J. Church, Manager. BEI/IJ PHONE 3504 age of materials, rising cost of labor and the increased cost of distribu tion due to transportation difficul ties. The new Maxwell prices therefore are as follows: Touring car, $823; roadster, $826; truck (chassis), sl,- 085; Sedan, $1,275; six-passenger town car. $1,275 (wire wheels); sl,- 175 (artillery type wheels, wood); all-weather top, $935. BANK CLEARING HEAVY The bank clearings for February were $9,068,347.06 an Increase of several thousand dollars over the clearings for jany. ( Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. —Ad