Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 16, 1916, Page 10

R — 10—A BIG MOTOR TRUCKS HARD ON PAYVING Increasing Use of Five-Ton Vehicles Presents New Prob- lems in Improvements. HEAVIER BASES NEEDED City: Commissioner Jardine, who i has charge of the public improve- i ments department, finds that the in- creasing use of the five-ton motor truck and motor vehicles of slightly less capacity is presenting new prob- lems in connection with paved thor-| oughfares. The common four and | five-inch concrete base will not stand i the racket, as is evidenced by 3 sec- tion of new pavement on Thirtieth street north of the Belt line tracks. “I have come to the conclusion that F T will have a six-inch base plased on | Twenty-fourth street, Cuming street to Patrick avenue, which repaving is now in progress,” stated the commis- sioner. _The specifications for the North wenty-fourth street job call for a five-inch base and the additional inch will be paid for as an “extra.”” All fu- ture paving and repaving on the prin- cipal streets will hereafter have heav- jer bases, and it is the intention of the public improvement department to see that the dirt foundation is well rolled before the base is laid. The annual expense of repairing i paved streets is becoming a matter of " serious concern, particularly the as- phalt streets. Tt is being realized that it pays in the long run to have a sub- stantial pavement in the first instance and this conviction has been growing on account of thrE‘ increasing use of large automobile trucks. Some of these trucks are loaded with five tons of material, and that is quite a load for a pavement which was laid under the old order of affairs. Contractors Want Men. The paving contractors just now say they cannot get enough men. “What I would. Jike to have is one ng for the gfading, another for Ke concrete base work and a third for the surface covering,” stated a contractor, Charles Fanning has started the brick work on Center street, which is one of the largest paving jobs of the ~ geason. This work is being pushed . along and when completed will make ~ the street a popular thoroughfare. Repaving of Eleyenth street, north of Grace street, will be finished be- fore long. This street is used for the East Omaha traffic and is a much- needed improvement, Omaha Distributer For Saxon Car Lands Season’s Contract Once more Omaha has scored in the eyes of automobile manufac- tures. This time the score is in iving the Omaha distributer, W. L Ellly of the Noyes-Killy Motor com- pany, the first distributer contract written by the Saxon factory for the - 1917 season, There are over 1,000 distributing organizations - handling the Saxon throughout ‘the United States, and it is rather significant that the Omaha distributer was given the first audience with the man who writes the contracts. In speaking of the work of the sales manufir for the Saxon Motor com- pany Mr. Killy was quite enthusias- of contracting hit and miss is over,” said Mr. Killy. “The sales mpanager of today has a world of tabulated information regarding each section of the country, and it is his tb to know how many cars should sold in a given territory. These figures are based upon the wealth of a community, the number of farms, the _ per capita wealth of the community ;:d the number of cars sold in the tic. “The day e e T e The four-passenger Cole-Springfield the new all-year-'round Tourcou{:e. he Cole people, is attracting car of t | much attention along the automobile rows in the large cities of the coun- try. | Reo Plant Replete With Equipment For Testing Cars “Seems like an_awfully expensive equipment,” said a Reo dealer on a recent visit to the factory, when he was shown into the big engine and chassis testing department with the rows upon rows of dyanometers and other electric apparatus. “It does look like it,” said the Reo guide.”! As a matter of fact our sales department tells us it is one of the most economical features of our plant, gant, in fact really proves to be very cheap when it comes to selling the product*-you know we make auto- mobiles to sell, not to keep. “Every Reo motor and every Reo rear axle, every transmission, and every chassis—each individual one— is subjected to the most rigid and precise dynanometer test. Not only the power of the motor, but the ef- ficiency of the transmission mech- anism clean back to the tires is test- ed here and accurately recorded by electrical instruments. “It is not as extravagant as it looks, however,” continued the Reo man, “for if you will notice from each of these dyanometers runs a set of wires, and if you will come over into the next room I will show you where we utilize power that is generated by Reo motors fours and sixes during their several hours of test.” In an ad- joining room they found two big gen- erators, “Here,” said the Reo man, over 450 horsepower on an average. At times, it runs twice that. Aside from the slight loss in the lines, we put all the power developed by fifty or 100 motors, as the case may be, that are on the testing blocks, into our lines and utilizes it to run the factory. If all the motors were run- ning to full capacity, of course, we would generate a good deal more, but our policy is to run the generator for several hours at a slow speed, and gradually as it limbers up, increase its speed and power output until we finally develop its maximum.” '|Fortune Soldiers Find Opportunity At Packard Plant Soldiers of fortune are finding their upj)ortunity at the plant of the Pack- ard Motor Car company. With re- cruiting of motor truck drivers and mechanics asked for by the United States War department going on and those men already accepted only awaiting the word that will start them south, the spirit of advanture is in the air, Men of every station are rushing to answer the call for workers in the United States army motor transport division along the Mexican border. Expert motor machinists, with shop cYothes still redolent of lubricating oils and cutting compounds, rub shoulders with men who drive up in their own automobiles to sign the territory in question during the pre- ‘ceding two years. * “There are other basic factors, but in the main they are as above. In- stead of a dealer telling the factory ow many cars he can sell, the fac- tory shows the dealer cold figures which indicate the number ‘of cars which should be sold.” New Tariff Will Aid ; : Japs in Indo-China {(Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Tokio, July 10.—Governor General Roume of French Indo-China, has ar- rived in Japan in connection with egotiations between Japan and rance for a revision of the customs riff between Japan and the French lony. It i is understood. here that France will make customs reductions which will permit of a greater ex- %ohmtion of Japanese goods to Indo- ina, . ‘Read Bee Want Ads for profit. Use government contract. There are for- mer soldiers, veterans of the Cuban and Philippine campaigns and the Boer war, staid shopmen who never realized they had the wanderlust un- til the call sounded and any number of comparative youngsters all cager to do their bit at the border. sent south with Packard trucks from Detroit, Those who did not get fuse to get far enough away from the Packard plant to run any chance of missing the word that will start suitcases for pillows, rest in the shade while waiting. The work of supplying the 396 Packard trucks asked for in the War department's latest order is being rushed at top speed, Army trans- port bodies, which are made in east- ern Pennsvlvania, are being hurried to Detroit by express. ‘them for results. them for results. What seems to be extrava-| “you will see that we are generating Since June 30, 106 men have been |~ away with the first contingents re- them traveling any many, using their Read Bee Want Ads for profit. Use JURORS ACQUIT WILL ORPET OF MURDER CHARGE (Continued From Page One.) James H. Wilkerson, former United States district attorney at Chicago; Ralph F. Potter, his law partner, and | Leslie P. Hanna of Waukegan for the defense. More than 1,000 veniremen were examined before a jury, said by counsel upon its selection to be above the average in intelligence and char- acter, was chosen. Judge Charles H. Donnelly presided. The series of parallels started at Lake Forest, one of a series of aristo- cratic suburbs dotting the heavily wooded bluffs along the west shore of Lake Michigan from Chicago to Wau- kegan, for Frank Lambert, father of Marion, was superintendent of the Kuppenheimer estate, and Edward O. Orpet, father of the defendant, super- intendent of the estate of Cyrus Mc- Cormick, both at Lake Forest. Fall in Love. Last summer young Orpet, then a pallid, slender youth of 19, of sharply regular features, somewhat vain of his college opportunities and undis- ciplined as to character, returned from the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a vacation at home. He fell madly in love with Marion, ac- cording to his letters. She had com- pleted her junior years at the Deer- field High school and was then 17 and known for her gaiety and laugh- ter—“the life of the party,” as one witness put it. When Orpet returned to college in the fall of 1915 frequent letters were exchanged, Orpet destroyed her's; she saved his and they remained after her death to speak of the great fear of exposure that came wupon her. Orpet, in testifying, said that he was | certain that these fears were ground- less. Once he mailed her a bottle of molasses and water ‘“to ease her mind,” and he brought a similar com- pound with him for the same purpose when he entered Helm's woods, near The above picture shows a novel method of starting an automobile across a stretch of several hundred miles. L. M, Maynard, Denver, Colo., by using the Western Union wires, | dated to be mailed on OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 16, ke Forest, with her on the morning | of Wednesday, February 9, Jast. Orpet testified that he made the I trip to allay her fears and to explain a story swhich had reached Marion that he”was engaged to one Celestia Youker, but the elaborate and his subsequent conflicting state- | ments of it to officers of the law de- | veloped into the most damaging evi- | dence against him. It led to the menacing question of Mr. Joslyn, reiterated again and again—"Why? Why? Why? no ‘medicine; you brought no tender- ness—no words of love! Why did you come?” On February 8, Orpet at Madison | left three letters, post-dated February | 9, with his friend Otto Peterson to be mailed on the latter date. One was the latter date. One was to his mother, one to Marion, and the third to Mar'on’s friend Josephine Davis. They were worded to make it appear that the writer was in Madison on February 9, the day he kept his tryst in the woods with Marion, and she came to her | death, Reason For Alibi Letters. Orpet explained on the stand that the alibi letters, as they came to be known, were written so that if by ac- cident he were seen at Lake Forest and word of the fact reached Marion’s parents, who objected to him, or ‘his own parents, who expected him to remain faithful to college duties at Madison, they would accept the let- ters as conclusive evidence to the con- trary. The letter to Josephine was to corroborate that to Marion. Jo- sephine testified that she never re- ceived it. On the afternoon of the 8th, in a dark overcoat which he said he had borrowed to wear with a dress suit to a party which he expected to attend on the 12th, carrying the bottle of molasses and water in his pocket, and leaving behind him the alibi letters and a bed rumpled to deceive his land- ladr, the student proceeded by way of Milwaukee, where he spent a half hour or so between trains, to Lake Forest, Arriving there he arranged by telephone to meet Marion on her wnr to school the next morning, walked about for a while to make cer- tain that his parents had retired, and entered the McCormick garage where he spent the night on a cot. In the morning he and Marion met and walked through the snow into the woods, Orpet testified that there was little conversation, and he could recollect only the purport of it. He offered her the “medicine,” and she refused it. He started to leave, but she called him back and asked if he was”going to write to her any more. He said there seemed to he no use of it, and started away again. “Something made me look around —I don't know what—and I saw Marion lying in the snow,” related the defendant on the stand. “I re- turned, kneeled over her for maybe a minute. I noticed the moist powder in the lines of her hand. Her eyes were glazed. Then a kind of fog came on my brain and I don’t remember is the car, which stripped of all gears except high and reverse, is being driven from San Diego to New York City in an effort to demonstrate the hill climbing qualities of the Path- cranked a Pathfinder car at San|finder “twin six.” According to the Diego, Cal. present schedule, the car will rcach The Pathfinder car at San Diego| Omaha July 18. Next Time what will you do? Next time you have a torn or blown out tube like this If you're wise you'll be prepared. You'll have a canof the " TIREDOH 3 cfforts | | which he made to keep the trip sectet, Why did you come!! | You brought no relief; you brought | 1916. much after that except that on reach- ing the road I threw away the ‘medi- | cine’ and made my way on foot to Highland Park, caught a train and | that evening arrived back at Madi- son. | Marion was missed that night and | her body found the next morning. | Orpet was arrested and told numer- ous conflicting stories prior to the | trial, these being used against him |at the trial. During his cross-exami- | nation, which lasted three days, he | repeatedly took refuge in “I don't remember.” He spoke in a low voice. | with apparently studied effort, but nevertheless became involved at times and extricated himself by ‘“correct- ing my previous testimony.” His| manner was nervous and he rarely looked at his inquisitor, Attorney Joslyn. The State’s Theory. Early in the case the state de- veloped the theory that Orpet pur- chased a two-ounce bottle from Charles Hassinger, a friend employed lin a drug store at Madison, obtained cyanide of potassium from an alleged supply in tge greenhouse on the Mc- Cormick estate, and made a solution of it before retiring to bed in the arage. It was charged that he either orced Marion to take it, or deceived her with the explanation that it was medicine, The state was unable to persuade any witness to come from Wiscon- sin, and repeatedly hinted that a sinster influence oz the defense was at the bottom of it. Hassinger, wanted with references to the bottle, was among those who declined to tes- tify and no bottle or other container for the poison was even found. Otto Peterson likewise became a persistent absentee, despite the need for his tes- | timony regarding the alibi letters and as having seen Orpet, according to the latter, concoct the molasses and water. Dr. Ralph W. Webster and Dr. W. J. McNally, chemists, testified for the state that Marion died of liquid cya- nide of potassium, and that the spots on her coat were left by drops of the solution. Three defense chemists testified that the poison was taken in ! powder form and that the important and accusatory cyanide in the green- house was not cyanide of potassium at all, but cyanide of sodium, with only a faint trace of potassium. * Dr. McNally, having made further ex- periments, voluntarily appeared for the defense and corrected his pre- vious testimony to agree with that of | the defense, and Dr. Webster, recalled by the state, did so in reply to a hy- | pothetical question on cross-examina- | tion. i Cause of Death, | It was shown further without con- | tradiction by every chemists who had |a hand in the examination of Mar- ion’s stomach content, that cyanide | of potassium caused her-death. Only ian inconsequent trace of sodium ap- peared. When it was shown in ad- }dition, that to have taken in the | amountof cyanide of potassium found in her stomach, Marion would have | had to eaten two pounds of the sub- stance in the greenhouse, or to have drank two quarts of a solution made from it, it was admitted generally that | this subsstance as the instrument of death had disappeared from the case. The fact that young Orpet might have obtained the greenhouse cyanide had its parallel in the laboratory of tive Deerfield high school attended by Merion. The instrument of murder | and the instrument of suicide were equally available. The laboratory sub- stance was 97 per cent pure cyanide | of potassium. Marion, on the day be- i two years, while Marion fore her death, was alone in the la next lesson oratory out of hours in violation of a | w hich she was preparing included the school rule. subject of cyanide of potassium. Or- The parallel of knowledge of cya-|pet, however, knew of its use in the nide did not run so straight. 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