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Show Nil MAIDS FITO ARRIVE Railroad Tie-up Responsible Responsi-ble for Non-delivery; j Should Be HereSoon. About the most disappointed group of automobile men to lie lound tbi-week tbi-week it at 55 West Fourth Son t street, where the Browning Auto a Supply company distributes Overland and Willys-Knights. The whole caupo of it is due to several carloads of the new little Overland touring cars whirh are in the traffic tie-up at Council p.lnffs. These machines were shipped from Toledo on or about March (i and should have reached here Inst week, but owing to the freight congestion at Coun-cill Coun-cill Bluffs,' which, railroad men say. cannot be avoided, many persons who expected to ride in their little model Lverlands today are sorely disap- yr According to the Browning officials, Ik all of their small cars are sold and onlv two of the big sixes remain unsold. Freight shipments which are expected to arrive this week will relieve the situation temporarily, however, and some heavy shipments which are due to leave the factory this week will put local deliveries in much better shape. Evidently the increase in price which was announced last week made no dif- ferenee to the buyers, according to Sales Manager -Edmonds, who reports one of the busiest weeks in the history of the Browning organization. |