Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 75, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1933 — Page 9

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NEWS OF THE WEEK IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

GARAGE GROUP APPROVES CODE FOR NRA DRIVE

Auto Service Association Enters War Against Depression. President Roosvf*lt in announcing the recent national industrial recovery act asked. Must we jjo on in many groping. disorganized, separate units to defeat, or shall we move as one great team to victory?” Because of that question, the Rfate Automotive Maintenance Assori,<‘:')n of Indiana has submitted a (axle ro Washington, and made the a son a* ion a national organization To- 1 first. Automotive Maintenance Association was formed here five years aco among local garages and repair shops, jobbers, dealers and especially houses. State Group Formed Purpose of the organization was to elevate the automotive industry’, j The organization grew locally and ' a year later the state association! was formed* This, like the local association, grew, until at the present time there are eleven local organizations, such a. the one in Indianapolis, throughout the state, in larger cities. Ail are members of the state group. The national code, submitted July 24 by the maintenance, association. was submitted in affiliation with all automotive bodies and. according to Don Herr, president of the state association, is the only code ever to be submitted nationally. Fight Poor Methods The purpose of the code, according to Herr, is to discourage poor practices, and because of the Presidents request that affiliations be made, a number of automotive concerns, which previously had not joined the association, now are seeking membership In some places where there is no local association, they are forming their own associations which later will be affiliated with the state group. Upon organization in Indianapolis five years ago. only a few of the larger companies in the city were members, but after a short period, when the local association showed great success, many firms began to seek membership During the five years of its existence the local grout) has added to its growing number of memberships until at the present time there are approximately 175 members. That number, according to Herr, is being added to weekly. The local group i.' w is headed by William A. Anderson. president. Members Divided Membership in the state association, as set out in the new code, has been divided into two classes, for which membership fees will be prescribed from time to time by the board of directors of the association. Affiliation class, first of the two classes, according to the code, will be composed of members who first become members of a local association. and thereafter, through suh local association's affiliation with its state association, become affiliated members of the stnte group. These members will have no initiaentrance or membership fee to pay *to the state group, and annual dues, according to the code, •shall be paid into the treasury of the state association by the treasurer of the local association upon affiliation. , Nonaffiliation class, second of the two groups, shall be composed of unaffiliated members who become members through joining the state association direct. Only In counties or district where there is no local association will unnffiliated members be accepted. These members shall have no initiation. entrance or membership foes to pay. but will pay annual dues direct TIN FIRM BACKS NRA Joseph Gardner Looks Forward to Upturn in City Business. Joseph C. Gardner, president of the Joseph C. Gardner Company, tin. copper ar.d sheet iron workers, has announced that his firm has joined the national recovery act and that he thinks it will improve the working of metal industry, as well as other businesses. The act has not been in effect long enough to note any change, according to Gardner, and he believes tfiat if will take some time before any noticeable change may be seen. Gone, but Not Forgotten A.• n-.ob'.irs reported to police a* stolen M .CHS tO K i c r Maid Ice Cream Company 623 * **£•**'• ater.ui Fsrd truck, from N Capitol avenue \ -rn • V. srr. 44 South Ches’er averV ' r> " oe ,rc *fw Washington and De.ftware street* I'. W :A3B East Sixteenth street. Oa*.d..u -.•. 93-239. from 3838 East tv vt : . n * rt : Or. - V. Xeas. Greenwood. Ford co irom Greenwood. Thomas p-*> 21-’* N— Meridian street. Apartment sot Oa*..: and coach 235-330 from New "York ar.d Illinois streets Ralph E Hearne. 20>, South Delaware strec Ford c upe 4:>-257 from in f-0n- ... BACK HOME AGAIN Stolen automobiles recotered bv police be. eng to Harrv Robinson 2025 Carrollton avenue C.. r .<*• Cw ape. found in rear of 2235 Winter avenue L- : * s'* hr. Morlcai. 41* North Tibbs ater. .. F :d coupe * und on Madison avenue, t ree mt.es south of citv limi’s atrippro tires F: :.K Dues Martinsville Chevrolet ros.t-'v: f. ittd >n Shepard street, between Mil.er and Howard streets R > C*o C mpan\. K iev Cab No 139 found tn a..ev in rear of bank at Kentucky ate;. :e and Morris street. E V Avers R R il. Bo* 380-C Oaslar.d lound at Torbett street and Indiana at errue C \ Octe Anderson, Ford coupe found In front of *l* North Capit, 1 avenue D w B ;>r. 64? Ea-• Ninth street. Dodge ,pe. found In the rear of 436 Agnes S':e, • s': p-ed of Iron’ tires. W M •eba-.sh 3935 Bast Set enteenth •ttf< t F t-i 1 adster. found in Brookside par . .• Pa.-aet avenue, stripped of tires ar.c battery , Dat:d Jackaon. Davton O. Ford eoupa f*cunc! i rear of 617 Camp street, stripped Jf flee tires and battery Virgil Harding CurtisviUa. Ind., Ford ruck found in Big Four railroad yards ear Pendleton pike.

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STEEL WORKERS 1 AGAIN ON JOBS 90 Per Cent of Boom Era Employes Return to Mills. I<U Tim< . Special PITTSBURGH. Aug. 7—While the steel industry is operating at about 60 per cent, fully 90 per cent of the number on Its pay rolls dur- I ing the active period of 1928 and 1929 now are employed In its various mills and mines, by a system of spreading the work. Ernest T. Weir, chairman of National Steel Corporation, has stated. "A wage increase of 15 per cent has been made recently which amounts in total to about $5,000,000 a month additional distribution to employes, which is at once transferred into increased buying jiower and employment for thousands of additional workers in other lines of activity all over the United States,” , Weir declared. "The steel industry stands squarely behind the President in his great work toward national industrial re- j covery,” he added.

REFRIGERATOR PRIGE BOOST IS ANNOUNCED Increased Production Costs Given as Reason. Hy Time * Spi i ini PITTSBURGH. Aug. 7 -An increase in the price of electric refrigerators effective at once, has been announced by R. C. Cosgrove, manager, refrigeration department, of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Higher prices range from $lO on the 8L45. with a capacity of 4.5 cubic feet to $75 on the largest sized AP2OO. providing an average increase of 647 per cent. The lower priced new model. 8L43. announced last week at $99 50 f. o. b. Mhnsfield remains unchanged. In commenting on the price increase. Cosgrove explained that higher costs have been due to the rapidly changing conditions affecting the manufacture of refrigerators. He stated: "With the price of raw materials and laber advanced substantially, it has Deen found necessary to increase retail price of the finished product to maintain a sound merchandising program and to stabilize production. Prices of some of the raw materials used in the manufacture of our product have advanced, in many cases, as high as 100 per cent within the last few months. With the prue of tin. copper, steel, rubber, insulation, hardware, cloth, labor, lacquer and other products materially increased, it was found necessary to adjust the retail price.”

City NRA Headquarters Is “Melting Pot of Life’

Pathos. Humor Mingle at Recovery Campaign's Nerve Center. Par hoe and humor mingle in a strange melange at NRA headquarters. In the anteroom of the offices on the second floor of the Chamber of Commerce building, where Frank J. Kurka. assistant recovery director. interviews the daily trirong of visitors an excellent cross-cut of life is offered students of human nature. An old woman, hardly able to hobble, came to ask about her girl of ail work. Will she have to pay her the minimum? She is relieved to find that domestics do not come under the regulations. Two flappers—a blond and a buxom brunet, storm into the office. They are indignant. After a week of work in a local restaurant they haw received a pay check for $6. How about the widely pubii-

Defective Steering is Dangerous Does Your Car Shimmy, Wander, or Steer Hard? Such Defects Are Easily Corrected Without Much Expense INDIANA CARBURETOR AND BRAKE SERVICE 325 N. Delaware SL LI, 1876

ANTLERS POOL POPULAR WITH SWIMMERS

Pictured above is the swimming pool of the Hotel Antlers, on North Meridian street. It is twenty feet wide and sixty feet long, with a capacity of 60.000 gallons of pure filtered water. A battery of high pressure filters make It possible to change and purify the water every three hours. The deepest part of the pool Is nine feet and the shallowest part is three feet, the water being kept at a constant temperature of 75 degrees. The pool is in charge of Mrs. Thelma Darby’ Willis former national swimming champion and Olympic star.

BREWERY WORK STARTED HERE Lieber Company Contracts Awarded: City Firm Included. Richard Lieber. president and general manager of the Richard Lleber Brewing Corporation. 1254 South West street, announces that the Freyn Engineering Company of Chicago, international engineers, has been appointed engineers for the construction of the brewery. G. E. Appleman of the Freyn Engineering Company, who is in Indianapolis to start construction, has let the contract for tanks and equipment. The Emerson-Scheur-ing Tank Company, 2073 Martindale avenue, will install the storage tanks. The Goetz Manufacturing ■ Company of Chicago is to furnish a 250-barxel brewing kettle, a rice cooker ten feet in diameter, a seven-teen-foot mash strainer and a hopstrainer. The Emerson-Scheming Tank Company started work last week, employing several men. Materials for the tanks will arrive this week and fifty more men will be put to work on installation. There will be seventy-four tanks of 21,593-barrel capacity.

Air Conditioning Favored in Business Firms, Homes

System Provides Comfort in Hot Weather: Business Increases. Hu Time * Special NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—'The way in which home owners and business men have accepted air conditioning within the last ninety days definitely indicates that the country is going on the "cold" standard during the spring, summer and autumn months, according to H. W. Newell, vice-president of Frigidaire Corporation, air conditioning and rerr’geration subsidiary of General Motors Corporation. Tlie fact that humanity need not be at the mercy of energy’ sapping and tormenting heat and humiditv is beginning to register, according to Newell, who stated thousands of

cized minimum scale they demand when their employer is displaying the blue eagle? Kurka presents them each with an Interpretation of the government code and they leave vowing to go back to the restaurant and "raise Cain.” On the forms of the signed agreements flowing into the recovery offices, many strange things are written. In the space marked "number of employes,” one man wrote "wife—part time.” Another signer wrote in under the caption, "title of employer," “the boys around the office call me 'Big Smoke.’ ”

COSSEY OFFERS THE BEST IN GUARANTEED BRAKE RE LINING AND ADJUSTING. SCIENTIFIC WHEEL ALIGNING WITH THE RIESS STEER-O-M ASTER. ALL WORK DONE WITH THE LATEST EQUIPMENT. BRAKE TESTING FREE. Cossey Tire Service Station 2229 E. New York St

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NATIONAL MAP WILL 8E MADE

$5,000,000 In Federal Funds to Be Expended on Survey. Eh Science Service WASHINGTON, Aug- 7.—More than $5,000,000 of the federal public works money will be spent in mapping and surveying of the country and its waterways with resulting benefits to reviving industry, agriculture. shipping, and mining now and in the future. While this money will speed the eventual completion of the country's mapping, much of it will be used for wages and will be spent locally m communities widely scattered over the United States. The allotment of $2,600,000 public works money to the coast and geodetic survey of the department of commerce will enable the department to proceed with scientific work of surveying the nation's coast lines and the making of triangulations and elevation measurements in the interior of the country. With regard to mariner's charts, the situation in respect to intracoastal waters of the Atlantic coast particularly is bad. Secretary Roper has pointed out that most of the surveys of these waters were made thirty to fifty years or more ago. Since that time both the forces of nature and the works of man have made radical changes in many sections. New charts based on new surveys will become of increasing importance with the expected increase in commerce and transportation. The money also will prevent the suspension of the survey's earthquake studies in California. No action has been taken as yet on Roper's request for public works funds for testing work at the National Bureau of Standards in connection with the recovery program.

homes, retail establishments, offices and other types of buildings have been equipped with air conditioning thus far this year. Air conditioning is proving a boom to victim of pollen hay fever and asthma, he said, by bringing cool, dry climate into hot and humid areas from which sufferers from these maladies formerly had to flee. Summer comfort rapidlv is becoming a subject of discussion in home, business and industrial circles, he stated, with the result prospects for the infant air conditioning industry definitely are brighter. Fitchey to Attend Conference C. F. Fitchev of the General Electric Supply Corporation, Indianapolis, will attend a three-dav recovery’ conference to be held Aug. 7. 8 and 9 at the G. E. plant in Bridgeport. Conn. A young pigmy elephant brought to the London zoo proved fond of bananas and ate 150 a day.

• mineral • \ (gjggggaae, WATER For faulty elimination and excess acidity. DRINK YOUR WAY TO HEALTH 143 >*. rpnn. St. Crazy Crystals Cos. Fhone Rllfj- 4818 Ts \ T T T* STEAMSHIP TICKETS 1 U ■ I LETTERS OF CREDIT Am FOREIGN EXCHANGE Richard A. Kurtz, Foreign Dept. TRAVELERS CHECKS jgNNION TRUST* 120 East Market St. RI ky 5341 We’ll Pick Up ... your shipment at your door and deliver to consignee’s door in any one of 19 principal cities on our lines . . . AT NO EXTRA COST TO YOU! w. L. Snodcrfcsa, Gen. Snpt. Traffic, 310 Traction Terminal, Bllcy 8461 INDIANA RAILROAD SYSTEM

MUESSEL CO. BEER SOON TO GO ON MARKET

Stock Is Sold and Work Is Started for Large Brew Output. fly Time* Special SOUTH BEND, nd„ Aug. 7. With the reorganized Muess?' Brewing Company prepared to return its Silver Edge beer to the market about Sept. 1, it was announced that more than 51 per cent of SBOO,OOO in capital stock will b? held by South Bend officials of the concern. Tire Chicago brokerage concern of 'JThompson Ross & Company has purchased 80.000 shares from the company and 25,550 shares from D. Sherman Ellison, its president, at $5.10 a share. The 160.000 shares on Chicago Curb is the full authorize capitalization of the brewing company. The state permit for the manufacture of beer has already been obtained by the company, founded in 1852, by Christopher Muessel of. South Bend, but the federal permit still is pending. The Drewery has fifteen acres of land and six large buildings, in addition to machinery and equipment. The brew house was built in 1915. It is expected that the plant will have an annual output capacity of 200.000 barrels. According to present plans proceeds of the sale of 80,000 of the 160,000 shares at the market price will be used for additions and improvements to the plant and to provide working capital for operations. The proceeds from 25,000 shares will be used by Ellison in acquiring s he interest of other members of the Muessel family in the brewery. The brewery's balance sheet nhows $108,820 in cash and inventories, $300,000 in the building and improvement fund and $418,753 in capital assets, including land, buildings, machinery’ and equipment. A. J. Muessel is vice-president; Frank H. Negley, secretary’, and Clarence A. Budd, treasurer. Ellison, Muessel, Negley, Budd and Frederick H. Bradshaw of Chicago constitute the board of directors.

RADIO DEALERS TO STAGE DRIVE National Campaign to Boost Sales Planned for September. A national campaign to speed up activities in the radio field has been announced by the Radio Manufacturers’ Association, with campaign headquarters in New York. During September an intensive sales drive will be staged throughout the country with a local committee in every city working to increase the sale of new tadio sets, tubes, parts and accessories. The campaign will end with a "Radio Progress Week” from Oct. 2 to 7, a five-day period cf special broadcast programs to develop popular a predation of modern radio broadcasting and equipment and to enlarge the radio audience. NEW FUEL ON SALE BY STANDARD OIL CO. Anti-Knock Compound Is Contained in Gasoline. To feature anew, wine-colored superfuel to sell at the regular grade price, Standard Oil Company has started an extensive advertising and sales campaign. The new gasoline contains an anti-knock gompound which gives it the highest octane rating of gasolines of comparable grade and price. In anti-knock qualtities. company officials state, the new product is as good a gasoline as the best premium gasolines were a few years ago. Advantage of the high anti-knock quality is only one of several new claims made for the product. Although the product is new in qualities and color, it will bear the company’s established name for medium-priced brand. "Standard Red Crown.”

Misalignment of Wheels Dangerous to Motorists

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Wheel alignment machine at Cossey Superservice Station, 229 East New York Street,

City Firm Uses Machine to Find Auto Defects Scientifically. Poor brakes, damaged front wheels and bent axles are the source of at large percentage of the automobile accidents on the road today. In addition to periling lives of the driver of the car, and all other motorists on the road, as well, misalignment of front wheels wears tires about 300 per cent faster than usual. There Is nothing so satisfying to a motorist as the knowledge that when he steps on the brake pedal, his ear will stop quickly. Good brakes would have prevented thousands of automobile accidents, attributed to other causes, in which hundreds of persons have been killed or injured. No other part of a car should be kept to a higher degree of effeieney than the brakes, unless it is the steering gear.

Brewery Report Shows Net Income of $541,776

Prima Company Audit Made at End of Six Months’ Business. The Prima Company, largest | brewery in Chicago, for the six I months ended June 30, showed a net income of $541,776, after depre--1 cation, federal taxes and other J charges, equal after prefered dividend requirements for the period to 53.12 a share earned on 150,135 shares of common stock outstanding, according to an independent audit made by certified public accountants. A premium of $2,569 on the conversion of preferred stock and an increase of $43,000 in the reserve for , doubtful accounts were credited and i charged, respectively, to the surplus j account. The company reported a net Income of $69,134 for the twelve months of 1932. Taxes paid the United States government, as required for all brewers, was $574,- ; 327.25, and to the state of Illinois, for the same purpose, of $15,876.15, which is a total of $590,203.40. The sales for the first half of 1933 totaled $2,132,890, which compare with sales of $1,355,938 in the full ' year of 1932. Prior to the change in the prohibition act, the company was one of the largest producers of near beer in the country. Asa result it was able to take advantage immediately ' of the changed situation, with conINCREASE IN SALES IS SEEN BY MAJESTIC CO.— July Banner Month for Production of Refrigerators, Radios. fly Timr * Special CHICAGO. Aug. 7.—According , to Leßoi J. Williams, vice-president and general manager of GrigsbvGrunow Company, manufacturers | of Majestic radios and refrigerators, they have had another banner month in radio and refrigerator production.

ISHSs yACATJ^ Enjoy a Vacation With Your Car Fare Savings

INDIANAPOLIS ♦ RAILWAYS ♦

Oddly enough, the only time most motorists think of these things is when streets are slippery. There always Is a rush to have axles and wheels straightened and brakes repaired and relined In the late fall, but in midsummer, when the streets and roads are crowded, most drivers take unnecessary chances. These defects may be picked out with scientific exactness at the Cossey Superservice Station, 2229 East New York street, where Steer-O-Master service is given. This machine picks out. with scientific exactness, any trouble affecting the front end of the car. showing visibly what must be done to correct it. Here also is the Reiss brake-test-ing machine, and a gauge for testing internal brakes and the Reiss wheel-aligning machine which will correct the trouble. The Cossey Station is particularly well equipped, having all the tools necessary to make driving safe. Ignition service, motor tuning, radiator work, tire repair and towing service also are provided.

] sequent substantial increase In both sales and profits. Current production. according to Hilmar F. Ernst, president of the company, is at capacity. Current assets as of June 30, totaled $1,770,637, including $348,841 in cash, as against liabilities of i $330,159. The company has no funded debt or bank loans. Outstanding stock consisted of 97.888 shares of $1.50 preferred and 150,135 shares i of common.

# August Offer A Spun Copper Ice Bucket With Solid FREE with Each ICIERE REFRIGERATOR P H There Is Nothing Finer, More Efficient, Nor More Economical Than an ICIERE POLAR ICE and FUEL CO. TA - 0689 2000 NORTHWESTERN AVE.

KELLY- A COMPLETE SPRINGFIELD AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE I fe, am% a • Motor and chassis repairs, I JfL 0 Electrical service. • Body and fender repairs. I •Duco and painting. s|wPil|SF • Top and upholstery work. ujj • Auto laundry, jer • Lubrication. • 24-Hour sendee. WI oo our RAjrr T ANARUS; jr, ~ c . DON HERR COMPANY „ O T J re . , Aut ° SU PP ,V 120 Kentucky Av. 128 Kentucky Ave. RI. 8026 ... -1) *'• 2,,< 11 a Let Us Flush Out Your Radiator WITH THE EXCLUSIVE R - & ,”-o s r em Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction We Will Check Your Radiator FREE. Drive in today. I , I.——— 1882 March 22nd 1933 Fifty-One Years of Continuous Service Joseph Gardner Cos. Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Work Repairs on Slate, Tile and Gravel Roofs, Gutters, Spouting and Furnaces. 147-153 Kentucky Ave. Riley 1562 * Indiana Breweries, Inc. I ;hoh" Indionopolit, Indiono^

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MOLTEN ROCK IS SPUN TO GET NEW INSULATION High Pressure Steam Used to Smash Liquid Into Flexible Threads. Molten rock, spouting from a miniature blast furnace at a temperature of 2.500 degrees, is smashed by a jet of high pressure steam into fluffy, flexible threads that form anew home Insulating product just placed on the market by the Celotex Company. After striking the steam and cooling, the threads are blown into a special room, where they float gently to the floor. They are then gathered up and felted into batts fifteen inches wide by eighteen inches long that fit snugly between studs and joist. 4 and are thick enough to fill neatly the space between sheathing and lathwork. Tills new product, called celotex rock wool batt. is designed to furnish high efficiency insulation where no structural strength, such as is provided by cane fiber insulating boarcL is required. By combining wall thickness tt it tt high efficiency per inch of thickness. this new insulating material furnishes the maximum protection ‘possible to obtain within the ccn- | fines of the standard wall section. This new insulating product weighs but. 2U pounds per batt, which assures increased insulating efficiency and avoids the hazards | of excess extra loads existing when i heavy wall-thick insulations are j used.

CORN REFINERS SIGN U. S. RECOVERY PLAN City and State Firms in Supporters’ List. Manufacturing firms In the com refining industry have signed tlm President's re-employment agreement and are preparing to stand behind NRA as a unit. Leading corn refining firms are: American Maize-Products Company, New York; Annhcuser-Busch, Inc, St. Louis; Clinton Corn Scrap Refining Company, Clinton. la.; Corn Products Refining Cos., New York; The Kubinger Company, Keokuk, la.; Huron Milling Company. Harbour Beach. Mich.; Keever Starch Company, Columbus. O.; Penick As Ford, Ltd., Inc., New York; Piel Brothers Starch Company. Indianapolis: A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company, Decatur, 111., and tho Union Starch and Refining Company, Columbus, Ind.