Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1933 — Page 9

OCT. 23, 1933

NEWS OF THE WEEK IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

MOVE TO HALT WINTER LAG IN CONSTRUCTION General Contractors Will Discuss Plans at Fall Session. fiu Timet Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—Elimination of the traditional winter lag in both private and public construction, so that employment upon the $3,300,000,000 national construction program will not be interrupted but steadily gain impetus, will constitute one of the major objectives of the fall meeting of the governing and advisory boards of the Associated General Contractors of America, to be held here Nov. 13 and 14. Urgent representations are expected to be made to the public works administration advocating the launching of construction projects at an accelerated speed regardless of the seasonal tradition and pointing out the tragic and unnecessary waste of man power and wage earning resulting from seasonal operations, Edward J. Harding, managing director of the association, states. Winter Work I,ags “Investigations by the industry and by the government, itself, have shown that the winter lag in construction is almost wholly a matter of tradition,” Mr. Harding said. "With the national unemployment still unrelieved to any appreciable extent and with the certainty of more acute suffering as winter approaches, there can be no Justification for holding back until spring the great majority of the projects contemplated.’’ Leaders in the industry believe, he said, that the government can perform a valuable service by demonstrating upon a large scale that most types of construction can be economically launched at any season of the year, thereby eliminating the drastic seasonal fluctuations in employment that are typical of the industry even in normal times. Funds May Remain Mr. Harding pointed out that although approximately 50 per cent of the $3,300,000,000 public works fund has been specifically allotted to date, less than $100,000,000 actually has been withdrawn from the treasury and put into circulation. Unless an intensive effort is made to encourage construction throughout the winter, he said, the greater portion of the allotted funds for employment will remain in the treasury until spring. The fall meeting of the association’s governing boards will be attended by outstanding general contractors from all parts of the country, representing all of the various types' of construction, and A. C. Tozzer of New York, president of the Associated General Contractors, has indicated that officials of the NRA and the public works administration also will be invited.

Amortization Rates Cut on Slum Replacements

Fireproof Structures Win 35-Year Period for Payments. Bp Times Special WASHINGTON. Oct. 23.—T0 cities and other agencies planning large low-cost housing projects, where slum clearance is involved, the federal government says: "Build your homes so that they can not burn —and the period of payment will be extended to thirty-five years.” Supplementing the original provision of thirty years amortization for fireproof work as against twentyfive for non-fireproof, announcement is now made of a thirty-five year amortization period for fireproof housing developments, which are to be erectel on property now occupied by slums. Where slum clearance is not involved. the original provisions maintain. Similarly, replacement of slums with non-fireproof buildings obtains no loan advantages. Rates Lowered Robert D. Kohn. director of housing under the federal public works administration, has announced that combined interest and amortization rates on slum-cleared, fireproof buildings will be 5.51 per cent, beginning two years after the loan is granted, and extending over thirtyfive years. Fireproof construction, where slum clearance is not needed, is given a 6 per cent combined rate and an amortization period of thirty years. Ordinary brick wall and wooden floor buildings must be amortized within twenty-five years, at a combined rate of 6.56 per cent per year. Proride “New Deal” "The difference in the amortization rate per year," said Mr. Kohn. “will assist in making up differences in construction cost and the balance of the cost will be covered, in large part, by the lower maintenance costs of a fireproof project.” A total load of 5’ 2 per cent, builders agree, is indeed a "new deal.” Heretofore, combined interest and amortization of 8 per cent or 9 per cent has been considered reasonable. This means cutting into one of the biggest costs of housing—the cost of money.

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Modern City Transportation Replaces Rickety Unheated Street Cars Drawn by Plodding Mules

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If the car ads bore you some brisk morning as one of Indianapolis’ new street cars whisks you swiftly cityward, think of the trips your grandfather made to his office—and bewail your own lot a little less. Hark back a moment in your imagination to the plodding of a belled mule drawing an unheated, rickety wagon down an Indianapolis thoroughfare about the time the boys in blue were coming back from Dixie, and rejoice in the warm, upholstered chair that carries you to work. It is almost seventy years since the first street railroad began to function in this city, after the Citizens Street Railway Company received its franchise in 1864. In those first days of street railway transportation two men operated the car. The driver, from behind his dash flicked the mule along the street, while the conductor reigned over the fare box in the rear. Soon an economical move disposed of the conductor, and passengers entered and left through a side door, walking to the front of the car as they came in to drop a fare with the driver. In the summer riding was a comparative comfort. When breezes were chill straw and

CITY COUPLE INJURED Seymour Man Kurt Fatally in Auto and Truck Accident. Bp Times Special SEYMOUR, Oct. 23.—John Findley, 43. is dead here today following a head-on collision of his log truck and a passenger car driven by Harold Stauder, 122 East Vermont street, Indianapolis. Mr. Stauder and his companion, Miss Marceline Hunt, Franklin, were injured critically. The accident occurred on U. S. road No. 31 a mile north of here. WINS CONTEST OF WILL Brazil Women Successful in Trial Lasting Five Weeks. By Times Special MONTICELLO. Oct. 23.—Mrs. Daisy Tuggle. Brazil, won a jury cerdict in a suit to contest the will of her father, the late Orrin Elijah, wealthy Newton county farmer. The will was declared invalid in the* longest trial on record in White circuit court, the hearing having lasted five weeks. Tipton Woman Succumbs Bp Times Special TIPTON, Oct. 23.—Funeral services will be held at 8 tomorrow for Mrs. Sophia Mendenhall, wife of E. E. Mendenhall. Tipton photographer. who died at her home here after an evtended illness. Church Observes Anniversarv COLUMBUS, Oct. 23.—The Burnsville Methodist church observed the one hundred first anniversary of its founding yesterday with an all-day service. City Student Honored CRAWFORDSVILLE. Oct. 23. Membership in the Sphinx Club, honorary society, has been awarded Gordon Stierwalt. Indianapolis. Wabash college junior and member of Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity.

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The upper photos show today’s modem vehicles of transportation in service on Indianapolis Railways lines. An old mule car of the first street car company.

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Speedway Golf Links to Be Held Open All Fall

Pro Says Best Game Often Played During Cold Weather Season. According to C. E. (Chuck) Garringer, professional in charge of the Speedway golf course since 1929, the course will be kept open until the snow flies. Attendance at the course remains good, Mr. Garringer declared, because many golfers are beginning to learn that the best golf is often enjoyed during the fall months. “Fall is the best time to play golf,” Mr. Garringer said. “The weather is ideal for the game, as the air has the snap in it which is carried into the players’ game,” he stated. “Playing golf in

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Solution to Previous Contract Problem

Today’s Contract Problem "jV'ORTH and South hold the following cards, with the East and West hands not shown. South is playing the contract at four hearts. West leads the king of diamonds and then shifts to a small heart. How should the declarer play the hand? North- AK 5 4 VK 8 ♦ 4 +QJIO 96 4 2 South- A 6 3 2 yAJ 10 9 6 4QIO 8 3 * None Solution in next issue. 14

BY W. E. MKENNEY Secretary American Brides League 'T'ODAY’S contract problem X shows how a side suit that can be established is always a good asset to a slam contract. You generally will find it difficult to make a slam when neither you nor your partner holds a good side suit. However, persistence on the part of the declarer is sometimes necessary in order to establish a valuable deuce. The following gives an interesting example of establishing a deuce for the grand slam contract. South, the dealer, opened the contracting with one spade. West passed, and North bid three spades.

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a sweater on a snappy day often results in a lower score than the player has made throughout the entire spring and summer.” The course will be held open for group tournaments throughout the balance of the season and has been host to approximately twenty-five tournaments held by various clubs and business organizations in the season just past, as well as being the scene of the 1933 Indiana state open golf championship. Recently the tournament held annually by the Indiana Democratic Club was played at the Speedway golf course. The season thus far has been very successful, resulting in increased attendance and a larger number of tournaments than in previous years.

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West opened with the king of hearts, which the declarer won with the ace. Declarer took two rounds of clubs and then led a small club,

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their jobs and carried housewives to market and back. There w-as a rule that drivers must peer back of their cars each quarterblock to be sure no prospective passengers were running for the car—and, a company official added, to make sure no small boys had hitched rides on the rear. A driver must ask such urchins to dismount. Eager for business, the drivers were to go slowly past hotels, and arrive at church entrances, or as near them as possible just as services w-ere over to pick up a maximum load. “Hold your lines tight,” was an order to those who guided the mulecars on their journeys. Speeding in or through curves at full mule-speed was a recklessness comparable with the most daring driving of today on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Likewise a driver was to proceed carefully through tunnels, and down grades. Then, as now-, children in the street were a constant problem. The driver was directed to assume the child would run in front of the car —and consequently he must slow down to pass a youngster. For passenger convenience, if the driver saw an obstacle on the track or a track condition that threatened derailment, his riders were to disembark and walk around the danger point, getting on again when the car w-as safely past and still on the tracks. Some time when your street car journey wears heavily on your patience, think of those ancestors w-ho courageously risked their lives on a mad dash at a half-trot through the streets over which your car is roaring. It may help pass the time. Brush Knowledge Needed Good painting, like any other job, depends upon good material, properly used. A general working knowledge of brushes and their care is essential, since w-orn-out or poorgrade brushes are often the cause of dissatisfaction with the finished paint job. trumping in his own hand with the ten of spades. A small diamond was returned and won w-ith the king. Another diamond was played and declarer won with the ace. The jack of diamonds then was trumped in dummy with the nine of spades. A small club was returned and trumped with the queen of spades. Declarer won the next two cricks in dummy with the ace and jack of spades. The small club was led, and the losing heart discarded, giv-

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SALES INCREASE IS REPORTED BY MAYTAG CHIEF 905 Per Cent Business Rise Recorded: Firm Head Makes Trip. An increase of 905 per cent in August sales over the total for the same month last year reflects the j extent of the national recovery in | the opinion of F. L. Maytag, chair- I man of the board of the washing machine company bearing his name. | Mr. Maytag, who is 76. is enthusias- j tic over the recovery that is taking | place nationally and which this section of the country is feeling particularly. He recently made a trip to Indianapolis as part of a swing around the middle western circuit where meetings are being held to introduce anew washer to sell at the lowest price in the history of the company. “The extent of the recovery is told in Maytag experience,’’ said Mr. Maytag. “Last April we had an increase in business of 15.7 per cent over March. In May we had an increase of 82.4 per cent over April, and in June 39.7 per cent over May. In August there was an increase of 95.8 per cent. The total increase in August this year as compared with August last year in business of the company was 905.8 per cent. “Despite the fact that plants of the company are working at full capacity and working under the code of President Roosevelt, the company was 24,000 units behind orders at the end of August. In August also the company produced 50 per cent more units than in any previous month in the history of the company and did 40 per cent of the washer business in the entire country. “The confidence that has been brought is partly due to the NRA and it will carry farther if there is full co-operation.” Mr. Maytag is a believer in newspaper advertising. He said his company uses only newspaper advertising and that it has not missed a single month in the last ten years carrying its message to the people through the newspapers. He said in that period more than $8,000,000 has been spent in advertising. CELOTEX WILL MAKE MASONITE PRODUCTS Patent Validity Is Recognized, Says General Manager. By Times Special CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—Recognizing the validity of Masonite Corporation’s patents in the manufacture of hard boards, an agreement has been reached between Masonite Corporation and the Celotex Company under which Masonite will manufacture hard board and hard board products for distribution by the Celotex Company under the latter’s trade name, James P. Gillies, vicepresident and general manager of Masonite Corporation, announced. Mr. Gillies said that this would materially supplement the present production of the Masonite plant. Negotiations for similar agency agreements with other companies now are under way, Mr. Gillies said. Proper Care Needed for Enamel When an enamel finish is desired on an unpainted surface, it is first necessary to build up the proper foundation with flat coats of paint. All enamels, particularly white, are more or less transparent and imperfections in the priming coats are likely to show in the finished result. Warns Against Varnish Mixing Vanishes should not be mixed, reduced or thinned if the best possible results are to be obtained. Any sort of dilution affects the quality of the product and the success of the finished varnishing job.

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SPEEDY SERVICE GIVEN DEALERS BY TRACTION CO, Indiana Railroad Official Points Out Benefits of System. The Importance of fast, frequent deliveries to shippers and purchasing agents is being more and more appreciated, according to W. L. Snodgrass, general traffic superintendent for the Indiana railroad system. Always well patronized, the dispatch freight service of the electric traction lines comprising the system is being used more than ever during the fall season, Mr. Snodgrass said. "Indianapolis shippers and purchasing agents in the cities on our lines.” he said, “are able to work together more efficiently by reason of this dispatch freight service. We render this service on fast passenger schedules. Dispatch freight, instead of waiting for a freight car, usually move within the hour, at passenger speed. “We now are operating in and out of Indianapolis, for example, about 110 cars every twenty-four hours. To Ft. Wayne, we can move dispatch freight on any one of thirteen fast runs, besides the regular freight schedule. To Anderson and Muncie, we can move dispatch freight on fourteen cars between 6 a. m. and 11:30 p. m. “Eight fast cars each way daily between Indianapolis and Louisville, and nine between Indianapolis and Terre Haute, also handle dispatch freight. When shippers or purchasing agents require speed, they need not wait on trucks, steam trains nor even on our own fast freight service. The dispatch service, on passenger schedules, gives them prompt deliveries.” This service, Mr. Snodgrass added, has been valuable to merchants and manufacturers maintaining low inventories and requiring new materials or merchandise quickly. and it is taken for granted that they must be comfortable. “The Kelly-Springfield Company is featuring what is known as a fatigue-proof tire. This is so built that the life of the tire is prolonged considerably more than in other tires. Because of this tire, the Kelly-Springfield Company boasts of being not only on a par with current automobile design, but actually in advance of it.” Kelly-Springfield tires are handled by Mr. Nay at the Tire and Auto Supply, 128 Kentucky avenue.