Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 94, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1933 — Page 11

AUG. 29, 1933

NEWS OF THE WEEK IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

ELECTRIC RANGE BUSINESS GAIN IS ANNOUNCED Washing Machines and Vacuum Cleaner Trade ‘Also Is on Upgrade. R >/ Timex Special NEW YORK. Aug. 29 sales of vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and electric ranges are cited as a definite sign of improved consumer buying over the last few months, according to statements made at the Westinghouse sales meeting in the Pennsylvania hotel, here. ' Our washing machine business for the first six months of this year was 30 per cent, better than that of the entire year of 1932,” said Lloyd Shawber, division manager of the merchandising department, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. “Vacuum sweeper business was even better, it being less than 88 per cent better to date than our orders for all last year. Daily, the volume of orders now being received is equal to three days* production at our factory, thus providing us with a substantial backlog of business. These orders are being received from every section of the country. Expect Greater Increase "Business is not falling off, even, in this period, which normally is one of a seasonal letdown, so that our predictions for the future are based upon an even greater increase next year.” The increase in washing machine sales is a strong indication that people are washing more clothes. Appaiently the increased wages, attributed to the NRA activity, is enabling the average wage-e?rner to lay in a stock of shirts and other cotton goods before prices advance. Reese Mills, manager of the range and water heater division of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, empnasized the fact that practically the entire market for electric ranges was a virgin one. “Following the peak in refrigerator sales, I believe that the next trend in public buying will be in electric ranges,” stated Mills. About 12,000,000 ranges of all classifications, which are not modern, are being used. A large proportion of this total is ready for replacement by modern cooking units. Modernization Is Forecast “It is my opinion that a large percentage of these replacements will be with up-to-date, automatic electric ranges, which, because of their many features of control, which electricity makes possible, have increased the efficiency of the kitchen greatly. “There undoubtedly is a strong public trend toward electric kitchens. Through these, the interested, thinking housewife is seeing the necessity for modern cooking equipment. “The replacement market I have mentioned and the public interest in electric kitchens will provide the electric manufacturer with a large market which will be increasing steadily during the next few years.” BUSINESS IS MERGED Zapon and Brevolite Lacquer Plants to Combine Sept 1. Rif Timex Special CHICAGO, Aug. 29.—The Zapon company, a subsidiary of Atlas Powder Company, announced today that its western business will be combined Sept. 1 with that of the Brevolite Lacquer Company. North Chicago. 111. The will be known as the Zapon-Brevo-lite Lacquer Company. A new T corporation of that name now is being formed. Although for the present the Chicago branch of the Zapon company will continue its present location at Forty-fifth and La Salle street, it is planned to centralize the activities of the new company as soon as possible In the Brevolite factory and sales office tn North Chicago. Except for this, no change is anticipated in either the Brevolite or Zapon organizations. Personnel, products and policies will remain unchanged. PIERCE ARROW CO. SOLD Former Stockholders Pay More Than Million to Studebaker Rtf United Prrxx CHICAGO. Aug. 29 —Sale of the major portion of the stock of the Pierce Arrow Motor Company by the Studebaker Company of South Ber.d to the former stockholders of the Pierce Arrow Company was announced here Saturday. The stock was sold lor $1,000,000 plus certain announced considerations. Arthur Chanter, former Studebaker official, who acted in an executive capacity with Pierce, was named president of the Pierce Arrow Company. Harold S. Dance, coreceiver of the Studebaker Company, acted in behalf of the South Bend company. This move returns the Pierce Arrow Company to the independent motor field. Removing Old Wallpaper Wet the paper thoroughly with water applied with a sponge. Then scrape off all the paper with a broad scraper or putty knife. Cars should be taken to avoid injuring the plaster walls by scraping through the glazed surface. After the paper has been removed and all the holes have been filled with plaster of paris or crack filler, a coat of shellac will be found helpful in stopping suction and making a uniform surface for painting. After the shellac is dry, two or three coats of wall paint should be applied. Washing Painted Walls An effective way of washing a painted wall is to mix a mild soap, a small Amount of washing powder or sal gods and a little flour and water paste, with water. Then brush this water solution into the wall with a calcimine brush from the bottoa upward. Let it stand two or three minutes and then sponge it off with clear, warm water. The flour paste holds the soapy water on long enough to dissolve the dirt.

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The new style bar, as shown at the Polar Ice Company plant and (below) an old-time bar, of the vintage of 1900.

Perfect Draught Brew Is Claimed With Use of Modern Equipment. Perfect draught beer! That’s the slogan for the Polar Ice Company, distributor for the Wepsco modern service bar, now being sold to city beer dealers. Every glass of beer is uniform in foam, taste and sparkle, declare manufacturers of this new bar and bar equipment. 'Waste is eliminated, they assert, with use of the Wepsco equipment. The draught unit is built into a high grade refrigerator cabinet of steel, fabricated over a seasoned spruce frame. It is heavily insulated on all sides, top and bottom, with three inches of the most efficient insulation known. Doors are sealed with cushion gaskets. All metal joints are broken by an insulator, which prevents heat conductivity. Exposed metal is hot galvanized to prevent rust. Spot welded joints give the cabinet sturdiness and long life. The exterior is lacquered in a variety of color combinations, the most popular being black and white and brown and white. The bar tops are available in stainless steel, or black bakelite, with chromium inlay around the edges, or bakelite in imitation walnut. Pressure keeps beer from going flat, but it also creates excess foam, which must be scraped into the drain. Besides being annoying during busy hours, a considerable quantity of beer thus is wasted with the ordinary equipment.

LIGHTING EDUCATION CAMPAIGN PLANNED Home Owners to Be Shown Maximum Benefits. Because few of the owners of the more than 20.000.000 wired homes in this country know how to use light correctly and to teach every one to derive the most benefit from home illumination. Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company will launch a nation-wide campaign this fall, according to L. A. S. Wood, manager of the lighting products division. “The Westinghouse campaign,” Wood says, “will tie in closely with the lighting activity which th’e Edison Electric institute has planned for the fall, to enable home owners to get the most out of the money they spend for lighting current. “Better Light—Belter Sight, the slogan of the lighting activity, will concentrate on how floor, table and mdirect portable lamps should be used, so that the light they produce best may be use for reading, bridge and other indoor pastimes and still protect the eyes from unnecessary strain.” Paint Copper Screens Copper screening should be varnished or painted to prevent the surfaces directly below T from becoming stained an unsightly yellowish color.

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The ABC of the NRA Below are given answers to questions sent to The Times by readers seeking information on problems arising from the National Recovery Act. Answers to other queries will be printed from day to day. If you have problems to which you wish answers, write to The Times, or call Riley 5551, ask for the ABC department, and dictate your question. In giving your query, please state definitely the industry, business, or occupation on which your question is based. It will be answered as soon as possible.

Q —Can an employer add 30 minutes a day to your hours to overcome the relief period, or should the relief come off the company's time? Z. R. P. A—There has been no official decision on this as yet, but the policy of the NRA seems to be to carry over industrial practice into its rulings. Thus if you were not paid for this time before, you should not be paid now, but if this relief period was on company time previous to the adoption of the PRA, it should continue to be on company time, a change in practice being an evasion of the provisions of the PRA.

Q —l am a piece worker. We got one raise of 10 per cent on July 15. while the hour worker got from 10 to 20 per cent, and then on Aug. 1, the hour worker was raised again, making as much an hour as he did in 1929. The piece worker did not get any raise at all at this time. Why doesn't the NRA see that the piece worker gets his raise just the same as the hour worker? R. E. A—This is provided for in the PRA. Employers agree that when they raise, the wages of certain classes of employes to the minimum they will raise the wages of other classes, so that long-standing differentials in compensation of different employes will be maintained. u n a Q —Has a code for the hosiery industrybeen approved by President Roosevelt? To be classed as operating 100 per cent under the NRA, is it necessary for a company to increase wages of those employes who already are receiving more than the minimum wage, in the same proportion as the increase given those receiving less than the minimum wage? For example: The minimum wage was sll a week before the NRA. and. under NRA, It is raised to $14.50. Should those who have been receiving as much as S4O a week be increased in the same pruportion (about 31 per cent?) This does not raise the wages above the 1929 wages? Is a company operating under a proposed code which does not include all employes and those not covered by the pronosed code are not operating under the blanket code, entitled to dismay the NRA emblem and to advertise that it so Is operating? T. S. K. A—A code for the hosiery industry has been submitted, but it has not been approved by the President. The wages of employes now receiving more than the minimum should be increased when the wages of employes now receiving less than the minimum are increased to the minimum. The direct proportion does not have to be observed, but should be used as a guide in “equitably readjusting” wages. A company has no authority to display the Blue Eagle unless it is operating under the PRA, and ap-

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proved temporary modification of the PRA, or an approved permanent code of fair competition for that industry. A proposed code does not come within these provisions. u n a Q —An answer sent in by The Times staff r.t Washineton stated that registered pharmacists were exempt from the hour provisions of the agreement. Owners, managers, executives, professionals, etc., are classed as $35 week employes—are they not? Hasn’t a registered pharmacist the right to classify himself as a professional (he is exempt from the usual hour provisions) and operate under the $35 a week plan?—O. C. M. A—Under the PRA pharmacists specifically are exempted from maximum hour requirements. So are professional persons employed in their professions, owners, and managers and executives who now are receiving more than $35 a week. The code merely exempts certain persons now receiving more than $35 a week from the maximum hour provisions of the code. Your confusion probably could be dissipated by reading a copy of the PRA, obtainable from the postoffice or the Chamber of Commerce.

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CANADIAN FIRM TO BUILD HUGE U. S. DISTILLERY Peoria Plant Is Planned to Balk American Tariff Laws. Bp United Prexx NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—Construction of the world’s largest distillery, costing $3,500,000, will be started at Peoria, 111., in September, it was announced today by W. E. Hull, general manager of Hiram Walker & sons, Inc. Hirman Walker & Sons. Inc., is a subsidiary of Hiram Walker-Good-erham & Worts, Inc., a Canadian firm, which will build the Peoria distillery to avoid United States tariff Jaws. Hull said that more than half of the stockholders of the subsidiary, chartered in Michigan, live in the United States. “We start ordering equipment next week,” Walker said, “and start the building some time in September, without waiting for repeal. The plant will cost us more than s2,soo,ooo—about $3,500,000 with the bottling house and warehouses. “The world’s biggest distillery will occupy twenty acres on the bank of the Illinois river. It will run 20,000 busheis of grain a day and will make 2,000 barrels of 100-proof whisky. The elevators will have a capacity of 285,000 bushels. There will be twenty-four fermenters, holding 120,000 gallons each. The shipping room will handle twenty carloads a day.”

Tool Measures Cutting Properties of Metals

Intelligent Estimates Now Can Be Made on Depth, Angle and Feed. P,y Science Service ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 29. Machine shop foremen and mechanics will welcome the invention by Professor O, W. Boston and C. E. Krauss of the University of Michigan of a tool which measures the cutting properties of metals. With this device, intelligent modifications of tool angle, depth of cut, feed and type of cutting fluid used can be made to suit the particular job at hand. The special toolholder, for use in lathe, planer or shaper, is fitted with a dial which indicates the vertical force on the tip of the cutting tool. By checking the readings df the dial against known loads, the force on the tool in pounds can be determined. If the tool is employed in different ways on the same metal, the proper technique for the cutting of that particular material will be apparent. On the other hand, the machinist may judge accurately the machinability of different lots of material, such as screw stock. The inventors found that with the new device they could determine rapidly and with little expense the relative efficiencies of various cutting fluids. For example, on soft rolled steel, lard oil was found to be superior to heavy mineral oil under certain working conditions. Other mixtures, such as minerallard oil and various emulsions, were assigned their respective places in order of desirability. For harder steels, however, the order was not necessarily the same. The shape of the tool also was shown to have a pronounced effect. Simplicity of the device is in marked contrast with the elaborate methods usually employed in tracking down that somewhat vague and illusive property of machinability. Hence the investors feel that it should have a wide application among shop men who hitherto have had to rely primarily on their judgment or skill alone in developing proper technique.

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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

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Gardner employes working on anew type monel sink.

Joseph Gardner Cos. Reports Business on Gain; Here 51 Years. The business of the Joseph Gardner Company, sheet metal contractor, 147-153 Kentucky avenue, established fifty-one years ago, was reported today as showing a steady gain. The company specializes in tin. copper and sheet iron work of all kinds, installation of metal ceilings, skylights, cornices, ventilating work,

PAPER COMPANY HAS EXPANDEDJJARTERS Ostermyer Firm Now at 219 West South Street. Increased business and plans for expansion have made it necessary for the Ostermyer Paper Company to move into a larger quarters. The concern now is located in the Falender building at 219 West South street, occupying 20,000 square feet of space with facilities for switching. The Ostermyer company has been in business in Indianapolis since 1921 and today is considered one of the largest companies of its kind in the country, doing business over the entire staate of Indiana, present plans calling for further development of outside territory. Its line includes a complete assortment of paper products from wrapping and tissue paper to bags and paper cups and towels. The Crystal Springs W r ater Company is owned and operated by the Ostermyer Paper Company.

FOR ECONOMY PLUS QUALITY 2,000 Bathroom Ostermeyer Paper Cos. Riley 6902 148 Virginia Ave.

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dust-collecting devices and blow pipe work for factories, manufacturing of tanks, chain guards, hoppers, hoods, stacks, boxes, pans, chutes, ovens, funnels. Repairing and replacement jof guttering, roofing, downspouts for private residences and factories, manufacturing of milk cans and dairy supplies, chimney tops, smoke and other piping and castings are some of the activities. Among other ideas developed by the firm is the use of monel metal and stainless steel kitchen wash sinks, drainboards and cabinets to replace old cracked enameled sinks and split wood lined sink and drain boards. The use of sheet metal in the backgrounds and window decorations for display windows have been developed. The sheets produce an effect similar to pleated fabric background and by the use of bronze or silver paint unusual modernistic settings have been produced. The firm has a complete staff of employes available for all kinds of metal work. Because of the years of experience the firm has the advantage over many firms, in trying out various devices, giving them the test of time and service. New Walls for Old Plaster walls that have become unsightly from repeated patching can be made extremely attractive by covering them with canvas or muslin and then painting the covering.

PERFECT DRAUGHT BEER TO THE LAST DROP Websco Perfect Draught Service Bars Bring More PROFITS to the BEER Dispenser. Keeps BEER Fresh, Peppy and Fine Flavored Right Down to the Bottom of the Keg. Every Stein Is Cold, Inviting and Tasty When It Comes From A WEBSCO PERFECT SERVICE BAR No More Waste No More Cloudy Beer— No More Flat Beer. POLAR ICE and FUEL CO. TA. 0689 2000 NORTHWESTERN AVE.

Swim in the Beautiful Pool of HOTEL ANTLERS Relax your muscles and your mind in the limpid waters of this beautiful Egyptian tile-lined plunge of pure filtered water. The only indoor pool in the city operated with bathing beach rules. You may wear your own suit, and stay as long as you wish, or we rent you a suit. Pool open continuously from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. for men and women. Single Swim, 35c Children, 25c HOTEL ANTLERS 750 N. Meridian

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18.5 FURMULA MAY FIX CRUDE DIL, GASPRICES That’s Constant, If President Utilizes Power in Fair Practice Code. By Scrippx-Hotcai and \cie*paprr Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—What three-point-two is to beer, eighteen-point-five will be to gasoline and crude oil—and to consumers of these products—for ninety days, at least, after Sept. 2. This figure. 18.5, is the constant by which will be determined the price of crude oil, if and after President Roosevelt utilizes the power granted him in the Petroleum code of fair practices, just approved by nim and NRA. During the 90-day test period, if the President fixes the base price of gasoline per gallon, it will be multiplied by 18.5, to determine the price of crude oil. Thus, if the tank car price of gasoline were set at 2 cents per gallon, 2 cents multiplied by 18.5 equals 37 cents, which would be the price to be paid for a barrel of crude oil. If gasoline were six cents a gallon, crude oil would be sl.ll. The base price of gasoline which the President thus is empowered to fix, is not, of course, the filling station price. But. rather, it is the price at the refinery, before transportation charges and gasoline taxes are added. It is apparent, from this formula, that in fixing the base price of gasoline, the President also fixes by indirection the base price of crude oil. The constant, 18.5, by which he accomplishes this, is described in the code as representing the relationship between the average price of gasoline and the average price of crude during the period 1928-1932. If President Roosevelt assumes the price-fixing power, many expect him to take only this step at first; but under the oil code, practically unlimited authority to fix prices from well-mouth to filling station pump, are granted. Repainting a Blistered Surface If old paint does not adhere evenly and firmly to the surfaces it covers, but is blistered in round patches, the loose paint should be scraped off clean with a putty knife. Paint blisters are not to be confused with general cracking or scaling. Blisters, usually surrounded by firm paint, are formed by the action of the sun on moisture in the lumber—or by the expansion of the paint while elastic.