Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1941 — Page 19

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DENVER AWED BY BIg ARMS PLANT

Factory Built in 7 Months To Make 4,000,000 Cartridges Daily.

i Times Special ; * DENVER, Oct. 2—Within a’ few " ,days a great new ammunition plant here will begin to turn out .30-cali-

ber cartridges, for machine guns and] | .

“Garand and Springfield rifles,

... .Thereafter production will in.erease steadily until it reaches 4000000 a day, with about 10,000 persons employed. The plant is ‘owned by. the Government and will _Be operated by the Remington Arms Co, a du Pont subsidiary, which +.has had some 400 Denverites in “training for foremanships at its home plants in the East. ~4 Last March 1—seven months ago the 3000-acre site of the new plant

gWas a pasture, part of the famous|,

old Hayden ranch. The plant cost plenty—about $30,000,000—but it went up ahead of schedule.

Start New Plant

It is one of many such plants that have been going up without fanfare, “but fast, and that within a few “months will tombine to give the +United States the mightiest’ war ca~ pacity in its history. Because of the speed achieved "here, Broderick & Gordon, the Den‘yer contractors who built this plant, shave been commissioned to build a similar one at Salt Lake City, which ‘4s just being started. -= A major factor in the speed rec--ord was a complete labor agreement with some 27 craft unions of the A. F. of L. The agreement was ~serupulously observed by both sides, and it kept construction going 24 Ftours a day. 2 Though Denver is a community “®f some 380,000 persons, with its ‘Suburbs, it has heretofore been so “slightly industrialized that the plant ‘will have far more impact on the community life than it would have had in the East. Its force of 10,000—of whom about 4000 are to be “women—will be the largest indus~trial force in the region, at least ~-85 many as are employed in all other -manufacturing enterprises in the “Denver area.

Aid Recipients Decline

+ During August, the number of -families of employable persons receiving direct relief from the Denver county welfare organization

sthe WPA program. In other words, «Jirtually every employable had a b. :

Therefore, since the impact of

Plant is yet to be fully felt, people -drom outside may have to be hired. Federal commitments to build the plant, and for the first year’s cart3: ridges, total about $122,000,000. Plant y-capacity was a military secret, kept sgdnviolate by the newspapers at the .stirgent request of the officers in stcharge. One day, however, a company official hlurted it out at service club luri neon.

VAST EXPANSION IN STEEL URGED

Indiana to Play Major Part In Incredsing of Output. 1

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Indiana’s share of the proposed 10 millionton expansion in the nation’s annual steel-making capacity is 1,153,200 tons the OPM reported today., Only two other states would provide greater increases, Pennsylvania with 5,224,680 tons and Ohio, 1,925,200 tons. OPM officials began preparing requests to Federal financing agencies to carry out specific projects that will be included in the expansion. Announcements as to individual projects approved will be made as they are submitted to finance agencies. - The priorities and allocation board acted after considering a report prepared by W. A. Hauck, OPM steel consultant. The Hauck report recommended that a 10,000,000-ton expansion should be undertaken im-

The Indiana Democratic Club’s the Speedway couse next Wednesday.

. The fearsome four includes Mayor Sullivan, ex-Mayors L. Ert Slack and ‘Walter Boetcher and City Controller James E. Deery who has been

assigned to keep score for everybody. All hopes are pinned on Mayor Sullivan, - whose golf game in the past has been occasional. The Mayor is being coached by Mr. Slack who is the putting expert on the team and holds the distinction of having made a hole-in-one in 1936. ~ It had been intended originally to have a four-man team of mayors, but this could not be accomplished

"41 REACHES 52

Month Dies; City Man: Killed on Rd. 36.

Michael Hayes, 32, of 4 N. New Jersey St. died at City Hospital

ceived Sept. 19 wken he and another man were struck by an automobile while crossing Washington and New Jersey Sts. : Mr. Hayes was the City’s 52d traffic victim this year. His death brought the total County death toll to 99—the same as of this day last year. The other victim of the accident, Harold Rooker of R. R. 1, Box 202, was treated at City Hospital. - Police said the driver of the car

- |was Shelley Moore, 56, of 910 N.

Left to right . , . Mr. Slack, Mr. Boetcher, Mr. Deery and Mayor Sullivan . . . that fearsome foursome. se Mr§

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The Mayer Finds Office O. K. To Prime for Annual Match

fearsome foursome opened practice

at City Hall yesterday for the organization’s blind par golf tournament at

This is. the. annual match in which elders of the Democratic Party, it ‘has been repeatedly: reported, reach the conclusion their improve if they kept their golf up and their heads down.

games would

The Democrats didn’t have enough ex-mayors around to make up a foursome, a situation, it is believed, it is their intention to rectify as soon as they can find out when the next election comes up. Republican ex-mayors were not considered. ; With Mr. Slack casting a critical eye over his stance, Mayor Sullivan attempted a few practice putts on his green carpet at a brass spittoon. Mr. Deery and Mr, Boetcher looked on. : Nobody commented. It was the concensus that the fearsome four would render a good account of

because of a political oversight on the part of the voters in the past.

themselves at the banquet which follows the outing. >

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

0. E. 8S. Luncheon Tomorrow— Prospect Chapter Auxiliary, O. E. S., will meet tomorrow. A covered dish luncheon will be served preceding

Merle Robinson and Bradford B. Evans are in charge.

Sewing Circle Meets Tomorrow—

Miley Ave. He was not held. Killed on Road 36

Harry Eastes, 35-year-old Indianapolis resident, was killed yesterday in an auto-truck collision on U. S. Road 36, east of Danville, Ind. The truck driver, Paul Neeb of Fountaintown, is reported in a serious condition in Methodist Hospital. Mr. Eastes, who lived at 3736 E. Washington St., driven to Terre Haute yesterday visit friends and was on his way home when the accident occured. He was an employee of the Circle Motor Inn and had been a resident here 16 years. He was born in Gem, Ind. and was a graduate of the New Palestine High School. His father, Frank Eastes, with whom he lived, survives. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. jomorrow in Philadelphia, Ind., his former home, with burial there. : In other accidents, William Patch, 61, of 513 E. St. Clair St., was injured when he was struck by a car while crossing Michigan St. at Pennsylvania St. He was taken to Veterans’ Hospital.

RESCUE FLIERS AT SEA WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. P.) — The Navy Department announced today that a Navy plane and its personnel had been rescued by American warships after it had plunged into the sea 210 miles east

of Boston.

Pedestrian Struck Last :

today as the result of injuries re-|

Wilbur and Orville Wright, once

Not Yet, Hoosier Cadet!

— i Vd = n § From all appearance Cadet Richard M. Wright of Richmond, Ind., is about to board an airplane at the very site where his famous cousins,

taken at Maxwell Field, Ala., in the Southeast Air Corps Training Center, where Cadet Wright is now enrolled in the Pilot Replacement Wing, might be called “Wishful Thinking.” 700 other cadets in his class, Cadet Wright will not be allowed to enter an airplane until he has completed an initial five-week training course, which will condition him to enter flying school.

‘ |“went much further than the

conducted a flying school, Photo

Keen to start flying like

Stressing the need for harmony between industry, labor and government, Abner H. Ferguson, Federal Housing Administrator, told the American Bar Association today that the United States is fully able to cope with the housing situation. “However,” the administrator,said, “ways must be found to prevent its being confronted wh thousands of Government-owned “houses overhanging the market and menacing private investment. “Already the Government has guaranteed the insurance of nearly $3,400,000,000 on more than 761,000 properties throughout the country.” He told the bar members that the . highest priorities ratings on construction ' materials . now apply primarily to housing projects suit-

able for availability to workers en-

gaged in defense activities within the area. : He suggested two ways by which the problem may be solved on defense housing after the emergency

is over; the repair and remodeling

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U. S. Able to Solve Housing Problems, FHA Head Says

of older houses, and the construction of pre-fabricated or demountable houses which can be easily moved to needed localities when defense areas close down.

Last night the Association members heard Britain’s most famous trial lawyer, Sir Norman Birkett, declare that England is keeping up its fight for the individual's freedom despite the war.

“We have before us,” hessaid, “the spectacle in the aggressor countries of subservient judges, and a Bar whose independence is gone. We have before us the spectacle of a secret police above the law, and where the rights of the individual are non-existent. : “All those safeguards which protect our own lives, and of which the law is the shield, are in issue at this moment, and just as a.great responsibility is cast upon us so also is a great opportunity given to us, and I am satisfied that lawyers on both sides of the "Atlantic will not a; aid

[CHALLENGE FOR

ON RED STAND

Dies ‘Asks Clarifying of

|, -President’s Remarks on

Religious Liberty.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. P.).— White House Secretary Stephen T.

Early today declined to discuss the motives behind President Roose= velt’s recent comment on constitu« tional Russian guarantees of religious freedom. He did say, however, that some published reports statement of the President.” “ Mr. Roosevelt, in Tuesday’s press conference said that Article 124 of the Soviet Constitution provided for freedom of religion in much the same way as does the Bill of Rights in"the American Constitution. Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex.) of the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities today asked Mr. Roosevelt to make it “unmistakably clear that the Soviet regime is utterly repugnant to the American people.” In a letter to the President, Mr. Dies protested against “any effort in any quarter to dress the Soviet wolf in the sheep’s clothing of the ‘four freedoms’.” : Mr. Dies said he was not ate tempting to assign any motive or purpose to the President’s state= ment regarding religion in Russia and that his “sole concern” was to point out that the record of Soviet Premier Josef Stalin “makes a mockery of his constitution.”

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (U. P).— Borough President George U. Hare vey of Queens today denounced President Roosevelt’s remarks about religious freedom in the U. 8. S. R. as “another step in the shotgun wedding of the United States and Russia, with war as the best man.”

HULL IS 70 TODAY BUT BUSY AS EVER

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. P.).— Secretary of State Cordell Hull is 70 years old today. His associates planned little re= membrances for the day but Mr. Hull arranged a full day of activity on the proposed modification of th Neutrality- Act. .

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WAGGENER ELECTED TO NATIONAL POST

mediately and that an additional 5,000,000-ton expansion should be undertaken when practicable. Steel companies already have

The Sewing Circle of Myrtle Temple 7, Pythian Sisters, will meet tomorrow noon at the home of Mrs.

the 2 p. m. business meeting. Mrs. Floyd Rohrer will preside.

DRESSES

Exchange Club Meets Tomorrow

Marc Waggener, State Conserva‘jon Department publicity director, : geturned here today from Pickwick ‘Dam, Tenn., where he was elected # director of the National Conferon Conservation Education d Publicity. * The conference, formed four “iyears ago, is comprised of conserYvation publicity and educational ¢‘glirectors. - 5 Mr. Waggener, a former resident of Franklin and a former State Representative, has been associated with the Conservation Department ‘#everal years.

PALACE GIVES UP IEON

“*" LONDON, Oct. 2 (U. P.)—King|

.- George VI today approved plans to sremove sections of iron railings _and gates from Buckingham Palace 8s a contribution to the scrap iron

» Collection campaign for the manufacture of tanks and other weapens. It was believed 20 tons of iron would be removed from the palace grounds.

submitted definite proposals of expansion of capacities by 13,118,768 tons, most of which would require Government financing. Additional proposals ‘running the total to 15,000,000 tons and more will be submitted by the companies shortly. “Mr. Hauck estimated that it will cost up to $1,250,000,000 to increase the capacity by 10,000,000 tons. of the large steel companies in the Calumet district of Indiana have proposed increased ingot capacity, and also the Continental Steel Corp., Kokomo, 30,000 tons, and the Ingersoll Steel and Disc Co., New Castle, 9600 net tons. First action will be taken on West Coast plants, -the OPM report stated. :

FOUND DEAD FROM GAS

Escaping gas was blamed for the death of Fred Milligan, who was found today in the rear of his poolroom, 850 Massachusetts Ave., by his son, George. He is survived by two other sons, John, Los Angeles, and Herbert, Evansville,

‘Hotel Severin tomorrow noon. This

All {i4ent: Dr. Logan Hall, third vice

—The Indianapolis Exchange Club will have a closed meeting at the

will be the group’s first meeting under the new officers. They are Frank L. Thomas, president; Ralph L. Schaefer, first. vice president; Glen L. Steckley, second vice pres-

president; Tom S. Elrod, secretary; Walter H. Eggert, treasurer; George C. Reinhart, Royal B. Colby and Harry E. Morton, new members of the board.

V. F. W. Auxiliary Plans Party— Mrs. Anna Connors is chairman of a pillowslip card party to be given at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Food Craft Shop, 230 Century Building by the Hoosier Post Auxiliary, 624, Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Legion Post to Hold Benefit Party —Service Post 128, American Legion, will hold a public benefit card party at the Legion Hall in Oaklandon

Friday at 8 p. m. Fred C. Duzan,

Lula Gunsett, 649 S. New Jersey St.

Here's How to Be A Test Checker

WOULD YOU like a job grading papers? . The State Personnel Division needs several “test checkers” and today it announced it would take applications for that position up until Oct. 22. The “test checkers” themselves will be selected after an examination, including an intelligence test. They will receive 50 cents an hour. There will be both full-time and part-time jobs for the “checkers.” Those who are hired will grade the examination papers which are to be given in the es-

tablishment, of a merit system for |

the State institutions. Applicants must have a high

~school - education or its equiva-

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