Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1941 — Page 2
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In New Plants, Bringing Mass Production Ever Nearer.
ast of series of articlés on aireraft engines and |
make America a real air power. By WALTER LECKRONE Defense emergencies have thrown lines clear across the United States.
warplane assembly
Two years ago no U. S. plane factory had an aircraft |
: © assembly line, in the sense in which Americans use the : term. Today an “assembly line” may stretch from Providence to Seattle—and end in Omaha or Kansas City.
It may begin with steel forged in Pittsburgh, which “turns into a valve in Cleve-|lages built pehame a. hoe Poses _Jand, becomes part of an en- Sts gine in Indianapolis and is|radio fa + fitted into a
a Score of other essential
ctories, rubber factories and warplane in Miathine shops in a score of distant : cities
Santa Monica. They will build nothing-—origin« Mass production of airplanes in|ally. Their job is to put together © America is on the way. In its es-|the parts that flow toward them. ° gentials it is the same kind of Already there is a story current
. the East that these com ent * production that enabled American 1a “the Spon:
J parts will not fit, when they ar- - Industry to build more automobiles|rive, that the automobile industry
than all the rest of the world com-|is ill-equipped for the job assigned bined. But this is on a vastly[to it, that the assembly line, in a larger scale. What it may do to|brief, is too long. “the aviation industry once the : Up Allison Produeti | = emergency is passed, even aviation Step Up netion "manufacturers are unwilling to| Confronted with this, the auto think about now, . | manufacturers reply: Few Bottlenecks Yet - “Of course they won’t fit. We'll : . throw away a dozen planes, maybe, - It has not yet settled down to the machine-like production of mo-|before wet get started. No matter tor Santi War plands are not yet oui how fine the engineering,’ only ficlently standardized, their models ractical operation finally takes all ‘net yet, “frozen” to the point where the kinks out of any new model.
this is possible. There are still We find that out every time we
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still lost motion in its hectic prog‘ress. The men who guide it are not, even quite sure yet of its di- ~- Two years ago America’s aircraft ‘ industry was strung along the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Today it 1s moving into the flat lands of the Middle West—1500 miles from ‘any seacoast, far beyond the reach . «of any possible enemy bomber. From more than 100 factories, in more than 50 cities, some of them a thousand miles away, airplane ‘parts are today beginning to flow into the prairie, there to be assem- © bled into fighting ships. ~~ On the .outskirts of Wichita, Kas, last summer, farmers cut the
ended; they expect no more difficulty than they experience in building a car. “3 For the defense aircraft program the Packard Motor Co. is turning out Rolls-Royce engines, which are now going into new-model Curtiss pursuit planes. General Motors has stepped. up production of Allison engines to around 800 a month (to be 1000 & month by Christmas), has its Buick and Chevrolet divisions building 211 million dollars’ worth of Pratt & Whitney . engines for bombers, and a new plant going into production on 71 millions in propellers, be-
‘usual. This summer those acres|®ides many lesser parts.
Su grew Suother crop. ont of the Design Standardized wheatfields. has risen a factory a half-mile long, and out of it, pres-| Ford has begun to build more ently, will roll giant Boeing bomb- than 9000 Pratt & Whitney 2000ers. horsepower bomber engines, is rushAhead of Schedules ing toward production of a 2000-
. Boeing's big new plant is already horsepower liquid-cooled engine of “in production, but not making com-| Ford design, embodying radical new pleted airplanes yet. It now makes| principles, and in December will wing tips and tail assemblies, which |begin production of B24 Fortress- %° by rail to Seattle to become part|type bombers in another new plant of Bl17-E bombers, the Flying Fort-|near Detroit—a plant designed to “yesses, The factory is not quite|produce 250 a month néxt year. completed but it is already close to| The whole system has tended to ‘three months ahead of production standardize design — a step for “schedules. which the aircraft industry was not Beside it is rising another plant,|quite ready, but a step essential to till bigger, from which, sometime
true mass production. Under the in 1042, three Flying Fortresses a ‘day will fly away. Boeing's Stear- production is starting in man Aircraft division already hasi{four plants, owned by four com‘turned out more than 200 training|panies—but over an identical deplanes a month, though currently|sign. ‘ is doing only half that because] It is as if Packard, Studebaker, of ‘materials shortages. Chrysler, Chevrolet, «+! agreed on Across the field's, a mile away, the{an identical model and began rollCessna plant is rolling out trainingling out iclentical cars. The same es—and currently developing a]system has the B26 trainer to fit new pilotsjmedium bombers, though not quite kly into the Army’s fast new medium bombers. eside it is the Beech factory, loaded with orders for training In one year these firms have 1 their pay rolls from hundreds employees te thousands, trained usas farm boys to run complimachinery and perform “and sextupled their aspen, es, an gone "em "producing airplanes interests of the ministerial pension
Parts Flow lo Aisembly Plants |p of the church and for Indians
" These are complete factories,| Central College. “built to turn out complete airplanes. Mr. Wolfe was graduated from fit Omaha, Neb., at Tulsa, Okla., at| Indiana Central in 1920 and re-
to the same degree.
WOLFE HEADS DRIV OF UNITED BRETHREN
Ronald M. Wolfe, 4165 Otterbein Ave, has been named field secretary for the Victory campaign, sponsored by the United Brethren Church. The campaign is being held in the
from Curtiss plants in Indiana and
from automobile factories,|
In a burst of fares, 10: tons of blazing coke is pushed into a “quench” car, starting on its journey to
NEW OVENS END COKE SHORTAGE
Million-Dollar Battery Put In Service; Industrial Bottleneck Broken.
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potato—through the 19-inch, a brick oven walls was turned on. And the coal began to bake. At 4 p. m. yesterday, Utility engineers announced ‘the product finished. City and Utility officials, industrial plant executives and newspapermen assembled at the Prospect St. Plant to watch Battery H break the bottleneck. There had not been enough coke in Indianapolis. There had been rumors of a shortage so drastic that sales would be curtailed for home consumption. The rumors-and bottleneck disappearéd when the door of the first oven opened. The carbonized, cokey mass immediately burst into flame.
The watchers could feel the heat}
from the catwalk on which they stood. ; ; Water Quenches Flames
Slowly, the fiercely flaming mass, weighing 10 tons, was forced out of the oven. A long, open steel car, ike a railroad flat car, waited beow. A whistle shrieked twice. And the flaming mass began to fall into the car, splitting lengthwise as coke is supposed to do when it has been
distant thunder. Puffs of black smoke arose as tie car moved slowly along its track,
fell off at the sides. The car moved down the track fo the quenching station where streams of water extinguished the blazing mass. And when the coke had cooled, the sides of the car
opened and the coke sild down on|
a slanting platform as great clouds of steam billowed upward.
Store Gas in Tanks
The conveyor belt below the platform began to move, first slowly, then swiftly. Iron gates at the lower end of the platform lifted, the coke rolled onto the. belt, which carried it to machines for crushing, sizing ‘and it.
screening ; ‘In one charge, the 41-oven bat-
tery. H will produce 410 tons of
which comes off coal as the charge is heated in the oven to fantastic a It doesn’t burn. It)
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ARMY PLANES, 13 of Original 19 in Squad Wing Over Peaks While
Indians Search-Afoot.
7 SACRAMENTO, -Cal., Oct. 25 (0. P.) ~Thirteen Army planes, left
re scattered” sald Maj). C. E. | Hughes, flight commander, “We lost sight of each other and the ground and it becamé a matter of every
man for himself.” : When the fog cleared six of the planes had made their way safely
Judge Is Fined
For Passing Bus
HUNTINGTON, Ind, Oct. 25 (U. P.) ~Probate Judge Clarke 8. Gregory of St. Johns, Mich, knows a guilty man when he sées one, He voiced no protest yesterday when Sheriff Nelson Stern halted his 55-mile-an-hour ride, informing him he had passed a school bus while it was unloading chil-
dren. “No arguments, I'm guilty,” the “Which court do we
9 DIE IN STATE AUTO ACCIDENTS
Local Driver Fatally Hurt as Trucks Crash on Kentland Bridge.
Five persons, including an Indianapolis man, were killed in trafic ‘yesterday and last night in Indiana. : Raymond S. Kegrice, 37, of 3839 Spann Ave. was killed when a truck he was driving collided with another truck on a bridge on Road 41 near Kentland. Mr. Kegrice was a driver for A. L. Kelley, Inc, a trucking firm. The driver of the
by his wife, Mrs. Kegrice; a daughter, Donna Jean Kegrice, 15; his. mother, Mrs. Blanche Blackwood; a brother, James Kegrice, and three sisters, Mrs. Lena Jones, Mrs. Lulebelle Preston and Mrs. Mary Sutt. The other dead are: DALE BOLLINGER, 41, and MALCOLM TALMADGE, 1V, both of North Manchester, who were burned to death in a fourstruck pileup on Road 30 east of Columbia City. . ROBERT HENDRICKSON, 47, New Carlisle, who was killed when a train struck his car near his home. WILLIAM BURKETT, 18; Kokomo, who was killed in a crash on a country road near Kokomo.
Two Local Men Struck
In Indianapolis, two men past 80 were struck by cars last night.
and |His shoulder was dislocated and he
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JUNIOR ‘AT BUTLER HEADS CONFERENCE
Frank Kottlowski, junior at Butler University, will preside at the Y. M. C. A~Y. W.
include Herbert Schwomeyer, Y: M. C. A. president; Miss t
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS
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Ann Jordan and Joe Scherschel are jn entertainment committee
to their objective, McClelland Field here. Eight others had arrived at Smith Valley, Nev., ‘although. one cracked up in landing.
4 Of the remaining five, only one was accounted for——that of Lieut. J. H. Pease, which crashed on Split Mountain in the Tehachapis. Lieut. Pease took to his parachute, but .. | has not been found. ; New Dealer Says Detroit Indians Join Search Housing Dispute Prov The Army enlisted the help of g Lisp e Pro es radio amateurs, the Forest Service Need of Unity. and Indians to page by wireless and : search on foot throughout the By THOMAS L. STOKES mountain area. . The planes had Times Special Writer only a five-hour fuel supply and WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Sena-|could = have flown far after they re tor Mead (D. N. Y.), New Dealer|" 3. tine the ‘Army opened an and recognized friend of labor, to-|investigation into the Sa ot an day used the bitter ©. I. O.-A. F:|Army bomber which ‘exp on of L. controversy’ over a Detroft lis Sisters Deals Beas oo nil defense housing project as an object|ton Field, Cal., to McClelland Field, lesson in deploring the evils which|Five men, all stationed at Ft. Dougflow from labor’s split. ; las, Utah, died in the crash. * o Coast Guard at Ketchikan, I can see in this te an ealed that an Army eloquent appeal for the unity for JORIS, TRYST SL SN per which President Roosevelt has of vl = un had been unreasked,” he said as the Truman com- | O°: Persons a a since leaving Yakutat, Alaska, ities; > Wily: he a nab, Tuesday. It was en route to continu ves Coast Guard Richard J. Gray, acting president of i Alta,, the kG the A. F. of L. building and con- ’
struction trades department, on the
8 . Mr. Gray, a member of the board of review of OPM’s labor division, defended the action of Sidney Hillman, OPM co-director, in advising HE J, Corrie mo oct do pate] cHARLESTO ck J. Currier, who offered to dj _ 300 defense homes $216,000 cheaper|P.)~Six Army fliers stayed with than anybody elese. Mr, Currier’s|their flying fortress during plant is C. I. O. the night and at the risk of their lives put out the fire and brought Trouble Is Predicted
i aritod ately Mr. Gray threatened there would Jaemhet : Pes Lier. be no peace in Detroit, but Plenty] toners J. 8. Doctor Ho of trouble, if the Federal works|his ship down with only flame scars
RISK LIVES TO LAND "FLAMING FORTRESS
N, 8. C, Oct. 25 (U.
S. Porter. He brought
. : The four-motored bomber was Currier, because of the hostility taking part in maneuvers and her among A, F. of L. building-trades|phomb bay was loaded with magand teamster unions against Mr. nesium flares, representing bombs. Currier, She had dropped more half of This threat of trouble was|them when one caught in' the reechoed by Ed Thal, secretary of the [lease mechanism and sent hot Detroit A. F. of L. building trades. | flames into the bay. Hugh Fulton, committee counsel,| Lieut. Porter turned the controls said he could not quite understand |over to his co-pilot, lieut. A. -B. how the A. F. of L. trades | Grundmann and went to the bomb were living up to their no-strike |bay whery the other flares were in agreement with the Government, |danger of being ignited. He found in face of the “trouble” threats, that Se rev of He bay Sad, sucTeamsters Might Act. = |io flare clear. He ordered the Mr. Gray countered that team-|bay’s opening closed as far as it sters are not in the building trades. {would go and fold the three in the They are, however A. F. of L., and [crew to jump. it would be they who would retali-| They came down safely and the ate against Mr. Currier by pre-|plane landed an hour later. venting deliveries of building ma- : terials to him, he made i plain. TONE JAILS EX-FRIEND - Previously he had there| HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 25 (U. P.).— would be no repudiation by the |Franchot Tone, film star, charged in building trades of their “no-strike” |a complaint today that a former - with the Government. |friend, William Seymore, misappro“The principal thing I think la-{priated a $14,000 sapphire diamond bor gave up in this agreement is|clip. Seymour, a Beverly Hills jewthe right to strike—the only wea-|eler, was accused of theft in a warpon we have,” he said, rant issued after weeks of investi-
t| applejack. And now every after-
| OVER WILLKIE
| Given Applejack for | Torn Mouth, ‘Fish Likes Treatment.
NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (U. P.).— The New York Times yesterday publishéd the following story:
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. Oct. 25. —While fishing in one of his privately stocked - ponds recently, Homer M, Green of Mount Joy nooked When
a sunfish, about to toss it back as too small, discovered that the fish’s mouth "ot having Be ia Ise at ot 8 a hand Mr, Green applied a little
noon while fishing at that same spot, Mr. Green observes that the same. fish “makes its appearance near shore, evidently seeking further similar treatment. Upon receiving it, the poor fish does numerous flip-flops .in: the air,
CAPITAL AGOG
Surprise Moves Steal Play From Democrats in the Neutrality Fight. * (Continuéd from Page One) G. O. P. Congressional delegation but it is a' safe ‘bet that it will do so shortly, It is almost proverb ial that the average Hoosier politico prefers riding on a bandwagon to “taking a walk” ala Al Smith. - Already reports are reaching here that the organization leaders in the State are laying off “cussin-out Willkie,” which was sald to be one of their leading pastimes last summer. : A split in the Hoosier party leadership on the foreign policy issue is reported brewing and some observers say it may flare into the open at the G. O. P. editorial meeting at French Lick next week. To date, the Indiana Republican Committee has taken no definite stand, although a few weeks ago it pigeon-holed a resolution which would have labeled the G. O. P as “the peace party.” For several weeks, there has been a swing away from isolationism in Indiana, according to reports reaching here, with labor leading the way. Another factor not to be overlooked is the difficulty being encountered by Republican fundraisers because of the voting of the Hoosier G. O. P. Congressional delegation and Senator Willis.
EAST SIDE G. 0. P. CLUB OPENS DRIVE
A membership drive has been launched by the members of the East Side 15th Ward Republican Club. Harold Shulke is ward chairman. : has made plans for closer co-opera-tion between the precinct.committeeman, worker and voter. Club
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down in relations between the Prese ident and the dissatisfied founder of the C. I. O. Either Mr. Lewis will strike the captive mines tonight or he will defer to the wishes of the . head of the Government. Mr. Roosevelt has offered Mr,
Lewis an obvious “out” through suggesting that he serve as one of the two head men on a joint mane ‘agement-labor - board that would conduct further negotiations toward an agreement. The head man for the steel industry would be Myron C. Taylor, retired chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corp., currently the President's representative to the Vatican.
The Company Attitude
It was Mr. Taylor who collabore ated with Mr. Lewis in an agreement which gave the Steel Workers Organizing Committee an entry into the mills of “Big Steel,” and from there into the steel industry generally. That agreement, howe ever, did not give the S. W. 0. C. a closed shop or a union shop in steel, The steel companies have resisted the captive-mine demand because they are not willing to give the C. I, O. an exclusive labor contract, with its accompanying check«<off. The general assumption is that Mr. Lewis would be glad to dicker with Mr. Taylor in the captive-mine situation, because of their previous pleasant relations. But associates of Mr. Lewis have been complaining recently because they thought Mr, Taylor was “feeding” the steel com« panies’ side of the closed-shop argu« ment to Mr. Roosevelt. :
MORE TIME TO FIND NEW HOMES SOUGHT
The Federation of Associated Clubs, on behalf of about 80 family tenants of Lockefleld Gardens whose incomes above the
are
"| statutory specifications for tenancy
there, today asked that these famie
lies be given time to find new quare ters before being forced to leave the Gardens. The Federation pointed out that the housing situation in Indiane apolis is critical, especially for Negroes, since there has been no building for Negroes. Starling W. James, association president, said that his organization is not contending that the families should be allowed to remain in the Gardens, but only that they: shall have time to find other suitable quarters. Lionel Artis, project manager, said that families which have to move wili be given reasonable time to find other quarters,
Personal Loans
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activities for the year will consist of card parties, dances and precinct tin,
The Peoples State Bank 130 EB. Market > seb Member Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. |
cane are some of our people gation, who are complaining we, them down the river.”
WOMAN IN RED’ GETS 10 YEARS IN HOLDUPS
ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 25 (U, P.). —Mrs. Dorothy Lucille Skaggs, 31-year-old “woman in red” who confessed nine filling station holdups, today was under a 10-year sentence in the Indiana Women’s Prison. She pieaded guilty yesterday in
Her husband, Roy, captured with her in Inidanapolis, cording to police. They indicated he would be tried later on'auto theft i termed “the
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