Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1933 — Page 11

SEPT. 25, 1933

NEWS OF THE WEEK IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

PRODUCTION IN U. S. CLIMBING OVER*32 LEVEL 16 Per Cent Increase Is Reported in Federal Board Survey. By Timm Sprrial NEW YORK, Sept. 25—Manufacturing production in the United State* In the first seven months ol 1933 averaged 18 per cent higher than in the year 1932, according to an analysis of federal reserve board Indexes by the national Industrial conference board. In mining production averaged 12 5 per cent higher than in the year 1932. The low point in manufacturing, according to the conference board, was reached in March, 1933. A recovery of 7 per cent in the four months that followed brought production very close to the average of the three-year period 1923 to 1925. Different industries participated in this increase in different degrees. At the beginning of 1930, seven of nine specified industries were at a production level above that of 1923 to 1925. These industries were iron and steel, textiles, paper and printing, leather, rubber tires and tubes, petroleum refining, and cement. The exceptions were automobiles and foodstuffs, which were within 3 per cent of that level. Iron, Steel, I-ead Subsequently, the most conspicuous falling off was in the iron and steel industry, which in March, 1933, produced only 22 per cent of its 1923-1925 output, and the automobile Industry, which in October, 1932, produced only 16 per cent and in March, 1933, only 27 per cent of Its 1923-1925 output. In July, 1933, however, the iron and steel industry had risen to 100 per cent and the automobile industry to 70 per cent of the 1923-1925 average output. Variations in the other industries were less extreme. Apart from petroleum refining, which throughout the last three years has stood considerably above the 1923-1925 level, the highest production in March, 1933, was in the food and leather industries, each of which stood at 84 per cent of the 1923-1925 level of production. In July, 1933, the manufacture of focds was at the 1923-1925 level, while leather manufacture exceeded that level by 14 per cent. Production in the textile industry, which registered its lowest point in May, 1932, had by June, 1933, reached a point 33 per cent above its 1923-1925 average. In July, however, it fell off slightly. These comparisons make due allowances for average seasonal variation. Contrast Rubber, Autos The contrast between the production of automobiles and that of rubber tires and tubes is interesting. In the latter, where the replacement demand is more constant, the level of production follows very closely the general average, while automobile production shows wide variations. When automobile production in October. 1932, was only 16 per cent of the 1923-1925 average production of rubber tires and tubes was 68 per cent, as compared with a general average of 66 per cent for manufacturing. The figures for rubber tires and tubes, June, 1933, show a production 15 per cent above the 1923-1925 level, as compared with 34 per cent below for automobiles and 9 per cent below for manufacturing generally. In general, there was in the period preceding March, 1933, less decline, and after after that relatively less recovery in industries whose products went direct into consumers' hands than in those producing semi-manufactured goods for use of producers in other lines of industry, construction and transportation. BOULDER DAM WORKERS SET CONCRETE RECORD Mix and Pour 7,000 Cubic Yards In Day for New All-Time Mark. Rp Science Service BOULDER CITY. Nev., Sept. 25 An all-time construction record for pouring concrete was established on the Boulder dam project when in one day 7.000 cubic yards of the “liquid stone" were mixed and placed in forms on the job, according to engineers of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation and Six Companies, Inc., builders of the dam. Out of the total amount of concrete poured during a 24-hour day, 6,150 cubic yards went into the dam and the balance was placed in a spillway on the Arizona cliff of Black canyon above the dam site. The largest amount of concrete poured in any one day on any project heretofore, according to figures available here, was 3.600 cubic yards on the Conowingo dam and power plant in Maryland. POOR FAMILY SAVED BY WASHING MACHINE Earns Money as Father Goes to Work Soliciting Neighbors. By Times Special SAN DIEGO. Cal., Sept. 25—A washing machine solved the economic problem for a destitute family of six in La Mesa near here. The s tory was told today by Mrs. J. Forster Couts Jr., head of the Community Chest Association in the district. The father managed to support his family through partime jobs The mother was helplessly ill The family lived in poverty. Welfare workers who visited the home to give the family food, clothing and medical attention discovered that the mother was an expert washer woman. The Community Chest Association bought an electric washing machine for <he house, and with the family as the staff and the mother as the adviser, the home has been made self -supporting. The father, untrained for skilled work, solicits business and even helps hang out clothes when patronage Is particulaxl£ heavy.

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TEST OF FORD TROCKENDED Record of 11.54 Miles a Gallon of Gasoline Announced. After eight and three-quarter days of continuous driving at an average speed of forty miles per hour the red Ford freighter completed Its economy test run of 5,071 miles Saturday at the Standard Oil Company station, Washington street and Southeastern avenue. Loaded with two and one-half tons of Isovis "D” motor oil in drum lots, which represents 66 per cent overload above rated capacity, the Ford V-8 truck under these gruelling conditions averaged the surprising figure of 11.54 miles per gallon of gasoline, consuming a total of 439,175 gallons on the entire test run. However, at times during the run when driving conditions were at their best this truck was able to average 12.35 miles a gallon. An accurate check of gasoline consumption, oil consumption and water consumption was kept by authorized service attendants at the Standard station throughout the state used for re-fueling. The entire weight, including the load of the truck amounted to 10,170 pounds, and it Is estimated the required schedule average speed of forty miles an hour was equivalent to sixty-five miles an hour in a pleasure egr, as far as the actual effort and strain on the motor was concerned. Only four changes of oil were made during the test, each of these being at every 1,150 miles.

Indiana Bottlers Will Go to Louisville Convention

Code Provisions Chief Topic for October Conclave. Indiana beverage manufacturers, keenly interested in their industry's NRA code, will send a substantial delegation to the annual convention and exposition of the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages in Louisville, Ky.. Oct. 9 to 13. The Indianans will offer suggestions for the prevention of destructive price-cutting and other unfair trade practices when the code is discussed at an open forum during the Louisville conclave. The Indiana delegation 'will be headed by L. R. McCool of Evansville, president, Indiana State Bottlers Protective Association, and L. E. Yuncker of Indianapolis, the secretary. NRA Chief Speaker Most of the Indiana delegates will motor to Louisville, but many will take advantage of the one and onethird fare round-trip rates for members of the industry and their families offered by all railroads. These tickets, which will have a thirty-day return limit with stop-over privileges, will be on sale in Indiana Oct. 5 to 11. Identification certificates required for their purchase are being distributed by Junior Owens, national secretary. The interest which the forthcoming conclave at Louisville holds for bottlers generally, because of the naticnal recovery program, is augmented by the fact that Donald R. Richberg, NRA general counsel, will address the session Thursday morning. Oct. 12. Richberg. one of the authors of the national recovery act, will discuss its provisions and purposes. Hygiene to Be Topic Probably of equal concern to the industry is the approaching revisions of the United States revenue act. under which it now is taxed. Hon. Fred M. Vinson, member of congress at large from Kentucky, will discuss the tax situation at the session Wednesday morning. Oct. 11. He is a leading Democratic member

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a smooth finish on the glass. To the right is the polishing wheel which is covered with felt and where the cut edges are polished. At the extreme left in the picture is a shatterproof windshield which was taken from a wrecked car, and which is being replaced with anew one.

Perfection Windshield Firm Finds Safety Factor Interests Many. When the possibilities of shatterproof glass first became evident, an analysis of the causes of injuries in motor car accidents in several important cities brought out the startling fact that one-half or more of all injuries were caused by broken glass. Glass manufacturers stepped into action, and the development of laminated glass, built to reduce or eliminate dangers from shattering, assumed vital importance. Briefly, laminated glass consists of two sheets cemented permanently together by an inner layer of tough, flexible, colorless material, melded by heat and pressure into one clear, transparent plate, which neither jars nor blows can force apart. If the glass breaks, no splinters will fly. All broken particles adhere to the flexible inner layer and remain in place. The Perfection Windshield Company, 25 West Ninth street, specializes in the replacement of broken glass in motor cars, and, according to Earl Evans, president, most motorists are demanding shatterproof glass, due to the great safety factor. The company has factory specifications on all cars and replacements usually can be made in thirty minutes. Increased demand for shatterproof glass tops to be used on desks and tables has been noticed recently, according to Evans. The company also makes a specialty of bulletproof glass for police cars, and recently completely ormored a number of cars for the Cincinnati police force. *

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BETTER HOUSING FARLEY SLATED National Association Will Hold 2-Day Session in Chicago. By Times Special CHICAGO, Sept. 25.—How the blue eagle will affect home owners will be a program feature of the organization convention of the National Association for Better Housing at the Union League Club here Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. “Os particular interest to the housing industry and to the public as well will be a summarization of the various NRA codes affecting building materials, contractors, financial agencies and real estate,” announced J. Soule Warterfleld, vice-president of the Starrett Building Company and chairman of the organization committee of this association. “A concerted effort will be made to obtain favorable concessions for the home owner under the NRA,” continued Warterfleld. “Every effort will be made to keep costs within the limit of public acceptance for the home buyer. As this type of building utilizes the maximum amount of labor an upturn in such activity will do more to aid unemployment than any other form of construction for the building trades. “My recent observations in Washington indicate that the administration will doubtless make favorable financial concessions to aid sound home building projects, and a unified recommendation by the National Association for Better Housing as to conditions and policies would be received with favor at the capital. "More than 500 people attended our original conference last May, and owing to the interest in this coming meeting advance reservations will be necessary to assure admittance to all sessions. PAY ROLL BOOSTS CUPID New Insurance Record Set as lowa Firms Wages Soar to Record. By Times Special NEWTON, la., Sept. 25. When the biggest pay roll in the history of the washing machine factories in Newton, “washer capital of the world,” was released, the district court clerk set anew "high” by issuing six marriage licenses within an hour on the following moriihig, reaching a total of nine for the day. Six were to washer factory employes. The previous Newton marriage license record for a day was four.

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WASTE IN GAS PREVENTED BY NEWPROCESS Yield From Crude Raised 300 Per Cent by 'Cracking.’ Forty years ago, there were only four automobiles in the country, and gasoline was a mere waste product from the refining of crude oil, its disposition being one of the refiner’s major problems. Advent of the motor car changed the picture entirely, according to Eddie Pummel, Indiana Carburetor Company president. “With 26,000,000 automobiles in the country, the refiner's problems no longer is where to dump gasoline, but how to increase its production,” said Pummel. "By scientific means, vast new pools of oil have been discovered, production of gasoline yield increased 300 per cent, and anew and superior gasoline produced through development of the cracking process. Molecules Are Shattered “With this process, instead of merely boiling off the gasoline fraction from petroleum, the oil is subjected to terrific heat, whch tends to force the oil molecules away from each other, while at tha same time 400 pounds pressure is forcing them closer together. “In this struggle of forces, the larger molecules, which will not operate a motor car, are shattered into small gasoline molecules which bum evenly in the engine. “Another improvement has been the cracking of gasoline to produce an anti-knock motor fuel. Nature’s gasoline bums too rapidly and knocks violently during combustion in engines of most modern cars. Gum Is Prevented “By discovery and perfection of inhibitors, science has found a means of preventing formation of troublesome gum. “A gasoline which vaporizes readily is desirable for winter driving, but one that is too volatile may vaporize in summer, even before it reaches the manifold, causing gas bubbles which shut off the gasoline and stop the engine. Asa consequence oil companies regulate the volatility to a nicety to meet all temperature conditions. “With better motor fuels and better cars the motorist gets twice as much value for his gasoline dollar as he ever got before.

REFRIGERATORS USED TO CULTIVATE GERM Even Temperature Aid in Keeping Culture Fluid. By Science Service NORWALK, 0., Sept. 25.—Electric refrigerators are now being successfully used as incubators. This paradox has been reported by Waldo H. Schock, chief operator of this city’s elaborate and expensive sewage treatment plant, where two electric refrigerators have been established. What they Incubate, however, is not the conventional “settin’ of eggs,” but flasks of culture fluids in which bacteria grow. Instead of reducing the temperature below that at which germs can thrive, as is the case in household refrigerators, these incubator refrigerators raise the temerature to exactly the degree at which certain sewage germs grow best. Ordinary incubators operate at a temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or body heat, most favorable temperature for the growth of ordinary germs. But the particular germs which Schock and assistants deal with must be kept for five days at the much lower temperatures of between 66 and 70 degrees. Previously this temperature was maintained, more or less, by equipping the 98.6 incubator with water baths to cool it down. It was hard to keep the temperature steady in this way, however, so electric refrigerators were adopted.

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Sixty Car Loads of Material Ordered in Rebuilding Program for City. More than sixty carloads of material have been ordered by the Indianapolis Railways for use in rebuilding its overhead lines for trackless trolley service throughout the city. The material is expected to arrive within two months and work will begin immediately on overhead construction for the new trackless' trolley car service. Between fifty and one hundred Indianapolis men will be given employment through this construction work, according to corppany officials. More than 133 miles of trolley wire alone will be erected by the street railway in the next few months. This wire is more than equal to the distance from Indianapolis to South Bend. Almost 2,500 new poles have also been ordered by the railway company and in many instances old poles will be removed and replaced by new ones.

Refinement Is Cited as Test for Refrigerators

Ability to Freeze Not Only Quality Gauge, Says Pearson Official. Progress in the design of modern electric refrigerators has been so marked in recent years that the prospective purchaser has learned to look further than the mere ability to provide sufficiently low temperatures in the food storage compartment, according to Benjamin V. Hinshaw of the Pearson Piano Company, local Kelvinator representatives. “In the early days of electric refrigeration, a refrigerator which would keep a food storage temperature in the vicinity of 50 degrees and freeze an occasional trayful of ice was considered an efficient unit,” Mr, Hinshaw said. “Today, however, these functions are taken for granted and are performed by all good refrigerators. Other refinements have crept into the picture and the experienced refrigerator shopper today knows that there are additional qualities to be looked for. The ability to freeze a wide variety of desserts and salads, surplus power for unusually hot weather or occasional heavy demands, quick freezing of ice cubs for emergencies, the ability to preserve frozen foods —

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LIFE INSURANCE SOLD IN AUGUST SETSJOI HIGH Best Monthly Record of Ben-Hur Association in Six Years. Sales of more than a million dollars in life insurance during the month of August breaks all monthly records of the Ben-Hur Life Association for the last six years, according to word received today from the society’s home office at Crawfordsville. Ind., by Burt E. Kimmel, local Ben-Hur representative. Although August usually Is one of the poorest months of the year for life insurance sales, volume In Ben-Hur insurance during the last few years has always been high duo to a special annual campaign in honor of the president, John C. Snyder, whose birthday anniversary occurs in August. The volume of Ben-Hur business last month exceeded by far any previous August when similar campaigns were conducted as well as greater than the business in any previous month to March, 1927. Officials of the Ben-Hur Life Association are of the opinion that this increase in August, which ranges higher than 50 per cent as compared to some previous months, is a definite indication of business improvement. Ben-Hur insurance is sold throughout the country from California to New York and from Michigan to Florida, covering all types of communities and districts, including manufacturing cities and farming areas. The gain in business virtually was equal from all parts of the country and this in itself is considered by Ben-Hur officials to be significant in consideration of national economic conditions. B. & O. Will Retire Ronds George M. Shriver, senior vicepresident of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, announced today that, as a result of improved business conditions, the company is in a position to provide for full payment of the $5,000,000 of Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling First Consolidated bonds maturing Oct. 1, 1933.