Show AUTO PRICES P WILL SOAR AS RESULT OF WAR fh f of fF Frank Bot Bot- 1 terill Local Loca I M Motor MotorS MotorS' I i t S' S Dealer J i lt if e Eur European pan val war is 10 io t r I ac advise viso atly any man who expects to buy I l of an automobile new or orold old to buys bUY it now bow ow This is the warning I tage mai manager of the the theT T Tom m Boter Automobile com company any of QC Sal Salt t tl to all prospective e motor motorcar motorcar motorcar car buyers in view of conditions confronting con fronting automobile manufacturers at atthe atthe atthe the present plesent time The rho connections of or the Botterill company company company com com- pany with eastern stern manufacturers enables enables en en- ables Botterill Bo to secure authentic in information information in in- formation along production lines linos and ami he stated yesterday that the outlook for next nett year is anything but hut promising promising promis promis- ing ing due u to the possibility of the war wa continuing another twelve months Botterill declares de-clart's that I if the the- war wa son Jo continue for another year prices priceR on all makes males of automobiles are certain to pro po up inasmuch as a ath th the tho manufacturers arc having the greatest difficulty In se securing securing se- se curing law raw materials at prices pricE's even greatly in advance al quotations at which they have purchased materials materials materials mate mate- rials to date In discussing this situation yeter- yeter I day Botterill said I To b gln with I can recollect no pt period rio past ten or fifteen years when there thel has been such an insistent and widespread Vid m from tho the public as there ther is s a at present JS 1 Hudson Supply q Short Our e re at the Botterill establishment nt th the the past past two weeks since Pince we have ba e ha had the new Hudson super six super display is an indication of the trend of the present demand for fol automobiles automobiles' Judging by our actual sales of Hudson super-sixes super the past two weeks we will not have enough of the new Hudsons this this' year this year to supply the demand Nor can can we count on getting getting getting get get- ting enough The Hudson company I has material on hand to make every everyone everyone one of oC the cars it planned to I produce this year and these cars carswill carswill carswill will be made and delivered on schedule The Hudson company compan however has at attempted attempted at- at tempted l to arrange to increase this years year's output to cars but has had to abandon the effort because the tho I war has so increased the cost of materials materials mati ma- ma ti ri ls that the price of ot additional cars made from materials secured under I new additional contracts would have I to be Increased each and this would create endless' endless misunderstandings misunderstand misunderstand- ings and confusions Made Big Contract When I received my first inkling of what the new new super-sixes super would be be 1 contracted for a far greater number of of these cars than the Botterill l company has ever handled in a single sing season before lefore Yet at the end of the first two weeks of Hudson sales I know that we cannot possibly hope to supply supply supply sup sup- ply the demand despite the fact that we will receive every car that we have contracted contract d forTo for To the public I wish to say with i ino I no personal motive whatever that un unless unless unless un- un less the war ends the price of all automobiles for fot which materials have Inot i inot i inot not already been contracted will very i j probably increase This his would mean I that most of ot n next t years year's cars will cost I more than this years Dodge brothers have been offered I a n million dollars cash for their aluminum I um tun contract within the past month and have refused It Many makers of I parts have notified us this month of I increases amounting to as much as 40 0 per cent These are examples of ot what what Is transpiring now with impressive rapidity among the larger automobile L Interests I say again that if the war 11 is to continue I advise any man who ex- ex expects peets to buy any kind of a car new of of- old to buy It at once once |