Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1941 — Page 20

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Hoosiers to whom the manufac-]huge brass slabs or “cakes” are

ture of brass is a new industry will|first fed into a large furnace and ; AB {heated to a temperature of 1500 debe surprised to find that when the | ees. When they are red hot, they

new Bridgeport Brass Co. factor¥iare ejected, one-at a time, from on Holt Road across from Stout{the furnace and conveyed on a mov-

Field is finished, there will be no|ing conveyor to BS : tools {down mill”—a powerful set of rollers belching smokestacks or blazing | erat ed by remote control. uy al n operator sits in front of a Instead, it will be a “push-button kevhoard on a raised platform at factory.” ‘ | one side of the rolls and by manipu-

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; 9500 Indiana men lating buttons directs the red-hot ED iosunaigly 25 In {cakes back and forth between steel

{rollers which are set and reversed {until a long, flat slab of brags is {rolled out. From the “hct mill,” the material {passes over a roller table where it

and women will be employed in the $11,500,000 plant. The new mill division will be patterned after the mills in Bridgeport, Conn. If the Indianapolis factory had

been built here 10 years ago, it(is cooled by a shower bath. Next, would have been constructed to|cranes transport the material to the alloy 70 per cent of red copper and| “scalping machine” which mills off 30 per cent of silver white zinc in each side, leaving a clean surface coal-fired pit furnaces. | From here the material goes to With this method of making/a machine called the “four-high brass, it would have been neces-|tandem mill” for further cold rollsary to construct 100-foot smoke- ing. Since cold rolling hardens the stacks to obtain sufficient draft to/metal, it is necessary to soften it

create a hot fire. At the Bridgeport plant, model for the Indianapolis unit, huge electric furnaces silently and efficiently melt from 1000 to 2000 pounds of metal at a time, At the turn of a valve the furnace is tilted and its contents poured into bars or billets weighing about a half-ton. All material, instead of being carried by hand, is transported by cranes, roller conveyors, elevators and pushers. Technicians compare the manufacturing process to a bakery. The

{between rolling operations by reheating it in large oil-fired furnaces. | When the brass leaves the annealing furnace, it is blackened by the heat and is cleaned by dipping in 10 per cent solution of sulphuric acid. | Steel work for the two main plants on the Holt Road now are being erected by the Stone & Web{ster Engineering Corp. of Boston. {With 13 acres of floor space, one

will be 280 by. 1250 feet and the {other 280 by 550 feet. BANDITS GET [ ' Sw

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STROUDSBURG, Pa. Aug. 5 (U. | P.) —Two bank messengers carrying la Federal Reserve shipment to the

Stroudsburg Postoffice were held up by three men today outside the building and robbed of $76,000 in 5, 10 and 20-dollar bills. The robbers escaped in a large sedan and were believed in northern New Jersey, State Police said. Roads in the area have been blocked off.

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The $11,500,000 Bridgeport Brass Co. factory now under construction on the Holt Road opposite Stout Field is modeled after this Bridgeport, Conn, unit. Above is one section showing metal ready for refinishing,

The Defense Machine Rolls—No. 1

Once-Peaceful Countrysides Now Forge War's Weapons

(Nine newspaper editors have just completed a week's airplane tour of vital defense plans, as guests of the Army. Following is the first of a series of impressions of the trip written by the editor of the Pitisburgh Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper.)

By EDWARD T. LEECH America is further along the road|bombs. The propelling charge—the

Stroudsburg police said that two men armed with “tommy guns” stepped out of an automobile, grabbed the money and then escaped in the machine driven by an accomplice. The two mesengers, identified by police as were en route to the Postoffice when

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The size of the defense industries is staggering. Whole countrysides

the robbery occurred. The bank is/have been changed from peaceful only 75 yards away.

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rural communities into roaring’ munitions factories. The buildings are enormous—and they are built “for keeps''—brick and steel and concrete. These plants stack up with the best in American peacetime industry —with Ford, General Motors, du Pont and other long familiar enterprises, The weapons which are begininng to come off the long assembly lines in quantity are strictly modern. They are frightfully destructive. They embody the latest developments revealed by Europe's battles— and they have been refined and made more deadly by the combined ingenuity of the best brains in the Ordnance Department. plus the sweat and skill of lesding mass-pro-duction experts. Barring further labor troubles— land those in the recent past have done tremendous damage—the great | American industrial machine is {almost through its transition period |from peacetime to wartime pro|duction.

Depend on Each Other

{ None of these arms plants is self|contained. - They build materials {for other plants, or fabricate things which other plants have built for ‘them. They draw their tools from {a multitude of scattered factories. Hence they can’t get going when! {other plants are unable to deliver {the parts or products they require. {That's why isolated labor disputes {play a ghastly part in slowing up the whole defense machine. Next to the willingness of workers (to keep the plants open, the ability lof the railroads to handle this leriss-crossing flow of parts and ma{terials may be the great key to all{out production, | For example, Chrysler makes me{dium tanks at Detroit. But the |giant forgings of armor plate come | from steel plants in Pittsburgh and {other steel towns. The metal parts (of the caterpillar treads are made by | Chrysler and shipped to Goodyear| at Akron, where tough, rubber treads are placed over the steel Then they are shipped back to Detroit. | The vast shell-loading plant at | Ravenna, 0. gets its TNT from {other plants and mixes it with am- | monium nitrate to make the bursting charge which explodes shells and i a SN

POSTAL PAY RAISE SCHEDULE IS CUT

: Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—The Senate Committee on Post Offices has reported out a longevity-pay bill for postal workers, but with even greater cuts in the schedule than were made by the House. The House bill provides for a |$100-a-year increase for workers who have been in the department con(tinually for 10 years, and another $100 of completion of an additional five years. The Senate committee would cut the increases to $60 a year. Both bodies provide only the two increases. Postal workers had asked for a system of continuing raises as service piled up. The Senate committee also recommends that third and fourth-elass postmasters - be excluded from the raises. he committee says the Postmas-ter-General reported that the bill passed by the Housé would cost $26,710,000 a year additional. The Senate committee’s modified version would cost $10,012,500 at once, and

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smokeless powder and black powder which fire the projectile from the gun—will come from the immense new plant now getting into produection at Charlestown, Ind., and from other plants. Millions of pounds of high explosives will be moving by freight. Yet so perfect is the system for transporting explosives, devised by the carriers and the Interstate Commerce Commission through years of experience, that there is little danger of accident. Few explosives are shipped by truck because of the danger—and these mostly in small amounts to testing grounds, say from Charlestown to Madison, Ind. Why aren't these plants located closer together, so that a process can be completed without the intricate system of shipping and reshipping which places such a burden on the railroads? One answer is safety. An enemy bomber can’t destroy a defense industry which is widely scattered. But the big reason jis that these defense industries are so vast that if all the plants contributing to a single type of munition were located in one place there wouldn't be enough workers to fill the jobs. If workers were brought in, there wouldn't be enough houses or utilities. Nor would there be enough railroad spurs and loading {facilities.

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CYCLE OFFICERS TO GET BONUSES

City Council Also Legalizes Daylight Savings; Orders Street Projects.

The City Council appropriated $2000 in bonuses for police motorcycle riders last night on the plea of Chief Michael F. Morrissey that additional pay incentive was needed for volunteers to ride the machines. Sweltering under the hot roof of City Hall, the Council finally approved the Daylight Saving Time ordinance, thereby legalizing Mayor Sullivan’s proclamation in June. Three Republicans—Harmon Campbell, Dr. Walter E. Campbell and Ralph Moore—voted against the ordinance which was carried by the Democratic majority. Approximately $127,900 of gas tax money was appropriated. for street repair and widening and $25,700 will be allocated to the Park Department for boulevard repairs. The remainder will be utilized by the Police and Signal Departments. The Council also struck from its files a proposal to raise firemen’s salaries 15 per cent at the request of Edward P. Fillion, attorney for the Indianapolis Fire Fighter's Association. Mr. Fillion said he had learned that Mayor Sullivan would veto the ordinance if the Council passed it on the theory that it was illegal.

Firemen May Get More

Some increase for the firemen is expected to be included in the 1942 budget request, Mr. Fillion said, In his plea for more pay incentive for motorcyciemen, Chief Morrissey told the Councilmen that the frequency of injuries and the wear and tear on uniforms which the men must buy have discouraged volunteers. Although the department has 49 motorcycles, only 44 men can be found to ride them and three of the riders are now in the hospital recuperating from injuries, he said. “We just can't get the men,” he said. “That's why we have five cycles lying idle in the garage now. Unless we can offer some inducement to compensate the men, I don’t know what we can do.” Asked by Dr. Hemphill why he could not “order” men to ride the idle machines, the Chief replied: “I wouldn't like to order any of my men to a duty I wouldn't like to handle myself. I've gotten hurt on the cycles more than once and I know what the risks are. A rider practically has to buy a new uniform every other month.”

$2000 Appropriated

The $2000 was appropriated from gasoline taxes totalling $200,000 which the Council allocated to the Safety, Works and Park Boards.

The intention of the Chief andi the Safety Board was to raise-|

motorcyclemen’s salaries $100 a vear, but since the increase will not go into effect until nearly September, the men will receive increase of only $33.33 for the remainder of this year. Safety Board President Leroy J. Keach said that raises next year will be taken care of in the 1942 budget, now being made up. Raises for motorcycle riders who are now paid $2092.50 a year, was advocated last spring by Mayor Sullivan’s Traffic Advisory Committee, The Safety Board attempted to put the raises through a month ago; but the appropriation was part of an ordinance creating a horse

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