Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1941 — Page 3
ISN'T GOING FLAT
Dealers Here Expect Retreading and Recapping Service
To Make Up Part of Rationing
What does tire rationing mean to the average motorist
Loss Resulting From by OPM.
and tire dealer in Indianapolis ?
Surveyed on the impact
of this first, natjon-wide cur
tailment of civilian goods, the local dealers made this point
clear
“We're elastic enough to take it”
The public and the dealers were philosophical about it.
Most had expected it. After It doesn’t mean that the tire business is going flat al-
together. Although new tires will be
out of the picture for Mr: A. (for average) Motorist, there
will still be some new tires. But the new tires wont be for Mr. A. Motorist. They will be available for physicians, public health nurses, veterinarians, school bus operators and essential transport services. Boards to Determine
Which transport services are esgential and which are not will be determined in many cases by county rationing boards, now being set up throughout the nation. Persons who believe their motor vehicle operation is essential will fill out application cards for submission to authorized dealers or garagemen. If the dealer or garage| inspector finds existing equipment} unsafe, he will certify the condition on the application which will then be submitted to the local ration board. The board may then issue a permit authorizing the applicant to putchase new tires and tubes. Used Ones Available. This doesnt mean that Mr. A Motorist who operates his car to and from work and for pleasure in the evenings and on Sunday will have to put his car up on blocks for the duration when a tire wears out. He will still be able to get used tires, at least for a while Tires are going to be like shoes. When they wear down, you will rebuild them. Thats what the tire business is doing now—retreading and recapping worn tires, making them 80 per cent as good as new for less than 50 per cent of the cost of new tires.
Some tire concerns are giving virtual new tire guarantees on retreads, ranging from six months to & year. All claim that a good re-| tread job will give from 75 to 80) per cent new tire mileage. So the tire business is going on briskly at the service end. Once Just an auxiliary of the sales end of the tire business, the service end now is the tire business
Rationing Begins Soon
Tire rationing will begin soon after Jan. 5. J. D. Strickland, 424 E. 49th St, has been appointed Indians Tire Priorities Division director by the State Civil Defense Council. He will supervise the priorities sys- | ten of pationing tires. Meanwhile, it was announced at that new cars from now on will not have a fifth tire. They will be sold with only four new tires, We Spare being eliminated. The OPM also ruled that “takeOff™ tires, new car tires which have | been traded ia on a new set of a different make or style. must have at least 1000 miles wear before they can be sold as used tires. When new tires begin rolling again, under strict rationing, the service end of the business will continue to be important. Several tire concerns anticipate a in service costs. They know they | going to be berated for it, but say theres nothing else they do.
Waste to Stop
One dealer explained: “In normal we threw service in We
have to charge for it to make it at! jeast self-supporting.” The dealers are unanimous on another point: The waste in tires has been tremendous. Now, it has to
all, it is war. They said:
grooving are assuming new importance around town. Up to recently, many motorists distrusted these processes. He thought something was being put over on him. But since this is now the tire business, with the addition of some used tire sales, the dealers are making sure of their work. They won't attempt to retread a tire with the sidewall worn through, broken or cracked in a dozen places. It's a waste of time, money and valuable rubber, Three Ways to Rebuild If the tire carcass is sound, the dealers regard the tire as a good Ik Sd Hl OI ie re three ways of rebuilding Regrooving is the cheapest and the simplest. It simply means cut-
Possess Manpower and Courage for Knockout If They Get Supplies. By A. T. STEELE CAE fhe "Bhai Daly RoR mee
MOSCOW, Dec. 30—With the Nazi tide turned back at Moscow, the Russians are rather more sanguine about the prospects of coping with their enormous problem of supply during the long cam-
altered. At Moscow the Red Army _ performed & an engmy better equipped with engines of war. But German resistance is stiffening. The Germans have suffered a grievous blow but the knockout cannot be expected until the Russians have built up their material to something like equality with that of the
Reds Have Manpower
What the Moscow battle has shown is that the Russians possess
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WRITER ASSAILS Aron Reports 11% Decline to
ting new tread marks in the rubber. |the manpower, leadership, resourceThe dealers believe it's satisfactory fulness and courage to deal that if the tread rubber is still thick|ultimate knockout if provided the
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enough, Recapping is more expensive, costing less than half the price of & new tire. To most dealers, it means adding rubber to the tread only and then cutting a new tread. Retreading is slightly more expensive than recapping because it involves the use of more rubber. In retreading, not only the tread but the shoulder is built up. The tread and the shoulder are
part of a white-wall tire. The shoulder the dealers define as the part of the tire between the tread and the wall, the part which flexes as the tire rolls
Top Tread—Full Tread
Some dealers break dow - retreading into (1) top tread and @ full
tread. Top tread means a simple on the tread itself. Full means building up the shoulder as well as the tread. The dealers are firm in their conviction that recapped or retreaded
instruments with which to do it. During my front I heard reo Mupateny HY Rad virmy of rs. “Give us material help and we'll beat the Germans” was the gist of what they all said. The bright side of the supply picture is this: By barring the German hordes in Moscow and Lenin-
industrial machinery for the production of munitions and war engines,
Equipment Swtiched
Most industries remaining in Moscow are light industries. On a visit to the biggest plant in the Soviet Union, I saw machinery which formerly made motor parts turning out trench mortars, automatic rifles and ammunition. A considerable part of the equipment of this huge plant has been transferred to the Urals and beyond where it will resume uction.
tires are the next best thing to new |prod
tires. One dealer said: “If I didn’t think so, I wouldn't have let my wife drive to Texas from here on a set of retreaded tires. She won't have any trouble” Another dealer said:
“A trucker friend of mine was in!
a little while ago. He told me he had 127000 miles on retreaded tires. We retreaded the tires for him. Of course, they were truck tires.” When the OPM order came through banning tire sales at first for 11 days, then until Jan. 5, most dealers shut off sales as soon as they read it in the newspaper. he they Kteived cients from their su rs the order. They ee ng he
|for inventories, but they weren't. [Some of them made inventories,
anyway. Few Get Excited
Only a few motorists got excited. Friends dropped in and asked how they could save the tires on their two or three-year-old cars. The answer was, recap or retread. The order came at the time when it would affect tire sales least. The dealers said that December is the low month for tire sales, in spite Qf Christmas, and January and February also are slack months. Some dealers expected rationing to begin as far back as last spring. Apparen
distributor said: “Maybe I will go out of business eventually. Maybe I won't. Listen, buddy. In the long run, my business, like everything else, depends
ion the country staying in business.
I'm not worrying.”
HOT STOVE CAUSES FIRE
An overheated stove caused a fire last night in a frame storage build-
The smart motorist has stopped it already. He doesn’t drive so fast |
the pavement, Retreading, recapping and re-
IN INDIANAPOLIS—VITAL STA
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Latheran Men's Service Club, luncheon, Men's Grille Wm. H. Block Co, noon. a Thaltng Fraternity, meeting, ¥. M. © “w 1 pm,
MEETINGS TOMORROW La Association of Ameri. COnYNtION, neoln and verin Hotels, all day. Fraternity, convention, Extension, all day. Liens Club, luncheon. Claypool Hotel
Indiana Meter Truck Association, lunch. eon, Hotel Antlers, noon. : Yeu Men's Discussion Club, dinner, Y. M A, §p m
Co-operative Club of Indianapolis, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon. 58 Fras b, meeting, Chamber of Com30 p. m.
WASHINGTON - TESTS BLACKOUT TONIGHT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U. P) — The nation’s capital, in & mid-holi-day lull that has followed Prime Minister Winston Churchill's departure, gets its first real blackout test tonight. Homes will be darkened. street lights turned off in part of the city and all ordinary civilian activities halted when the air raid sirens blow sometime between 7 and 9 p. m. The achat will continue for 15 minutes. Since the war started, the Cap‘tol dome, monument and the White House hav: been blacked out each night. Elaborate instructions have been issued for motorists to pull to the curb, leaving keys in their cars so that they can be moved if necessary; for pedestrians to walk—not run— to the nearest shelter; for streetcar and bus passengers to walk to
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RULES FOR FARM Modern Lang
d of the last war, in which thousands of college students gave up the
By Priority Laws, [study of the German language because it might give the impression
Bromfield Says. of sympathy with that nation, does LUCAS, O, Dec. 30 (U. P).|nOt exist in the present day, at least
Louis Bromfield, Ohio author-farm- |ROt yet. er, charged here that efforts to put| Prof. Albert W. Aron, head of the farm production on a war-time German department at the Univerbasis have been seriously handi-/Sity of Illinois, said today that regiscaped by military conscription and [trations at that college for the study priorities regulations. of German had declined only 11 per Mr, Bromfield, who operates a|Cent, against a general decline in all 600-acre fram in Richland County,|Subjects of over 15 per cent. wrote to Secretary of Agriculture] Ie was in charge of a meeting of Claude R. Wickard that “at the|the Germanic Section of the Modern same time that the farmer is being | Language Association at the Sev. asked to double production, the|erin Hotel. The 2500 association Government proposes to take away members are holding their 58th anfrom him, by increased conscription {Rual convention here, which is to demands, what labor remains” last through tomorrow. Mure than that, there are con- Recalls Effect in 1917 hans eh Sl Ye Mig ed “During the last war,” Prof. Aron on & high production level, will|S8d, “I was teaching at the Univer.
sity of Wisconsin and our German have to rubber-tired equipment A ~ without or enrollment dropped from 1800 to 175
“ immediately. chinery and teh Spare parts,” Mr. “There is none of that prejudice
now and it is a good thing. PreDoubts Deferment Chance medical and chemistry students need
He said that recommendations|German now just as they always that skilled farm labor be deferred did and there is no sense in our from military service had proved slowing up our future doctors and “about as useless as the Govern- chemists Just when we need them ment farm labor employment most.” bureaus.” Prof. Aron said that, of course, he “The recommeéhdation for defer-/couldn’t tell how national feeling ment or exemption is left to the Would affect registrations later on, discretion of the local board, with|but that for the second semester of the result that deferment and ex-|this year at Illinois there was no emption is almost never granted,”|dropping off in German language the novelist said. students. Mr. Bromfield cited the plight of neighbors, one of whom had to give Dr. Robinson Speaks up poultry raising because his son,| Meetings of the various sections who tended the chickens, was in that make up the Modern Language the Army. Association were to continue today - and tomorrow with the Claypool, Lincoln and Severin Hotels serving
STUDY TRAINING FOR [us gptnering pices CIVILIAN VOLUNTEERS |, Stoups making up the M. L. A.
are the College English Association, A subcommittee of the City's
the American Association of Teach Civilian Defense Council will plan |ers of French, and the teachers of the training of volunteers at a|German meeting at 4 p. m. tomorrow at the Indiana World War Memorial Shrine. Subcommittee members are Frank L. Mumford, 12th District Legion commander; Ora B. Keller, county commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Col. Guy O. Boyle, national vice commander, Spanish-American War Veterans; Police Chief Morris-| 8 sey; Fire Chief Fulmer, and Safety], Board President Leroy J. Keach. Mayor Sullivan said the volun
Production Is Handicappe
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tee will complete plans soon for the training of auxiliary firemen, he said obtain in Borneo and the Indies. pendent on the United States, Borneo and the Indies for her oil. These supplies having been cut off, she has to carry on a total war on reserves until a fresh source of
16 DIE IN TRAIN COLLISION
LONDON, Dec. 30 (U. P) —Sixteen persons were killed and 81
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supply can be opened by conquest. The Japanese domestic output of synthetic oil is insignificant. How long Japan can continue war on the present scale without new supplies of oil has the experts stumped. The best opinion in London and Washington, however, is about one year.
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versity president, delivered the address of welcome at a dinner in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel last night after which there was a reception on the messanine floor of the hotel. He spoke for Dr. Edward D. Elliott, Purdue University president, who had been scheduled to appear, but who was called unexpectedly to ‘Washington, D. C. English Section I, under the chairmanship of Prof. Bowie Millican, New York University, was scheduled to meet this morning, as well as two discussion groups, under chairmen W. Powell Jones and Frank Cudworth Flint, Dartmouth College. The business meeting of the M. L. A. was set for 2:30 p. m. today in the assembly hall at the Claypool Hotel, followed by discussion groups, in charge of J. M. Cowan ef the University of Iowa; Urban T. Holmes Jr. of the University of North Carolina; Minnie M. Miller of the Kansas State Teachers’ College of Emporia; Matthew W. Black, the University 8f Pennsylvania; Wallace Stegner, Harvard University; Erich Funke, University of’ Iowa, and Jacob Warshaw of the University of Missouri. Prof. Will T. Hale of Indiana University is to be toastmaster of a dinner at 7:30 p. m. today in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel, at which Prof. John T. Frederick of the University of Notre Dame will be the speaker. Prof. H. C. Berkowitz of the University of Wisconsin is to preside at a meeting of the Romance Section tomorrow at 9:30 a. m. in the Travertine Room at the Hotel Lincoln, at which Profs. Amado Alonso of the University of Chicago and Gustave Cohen of Yale will be speakers. English Section II meets in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel at 2:30 p. m. under the chairmanship of Prof. Austin Warren of the University of Iowa. Speakers will be Dr, John J. Welker of the Western Illinois State Teachers’ College; Prof. Raymond Havens of the Johns Hopkins University; Prof. Dixon Wecter of the University of California; Prof. Howard Lowry, Prince-
.Jton University, and Prof. Morton
Dauweh Zabel, Loyola University,
War Moves Today
By LOUIS F. United Press War Analyst
The initial force of Japan's. drive for her first objectives in the western Pacific, Spent, seems to be accelerating
far from being as the invaders outer defenses of Manila and Sing-
These objectives are military. If they are attained, the next is economic—Borneo and the Dutch East Indies. - Among other essentials, Japan needs oil, tin and rubber for a long war, which both Washington and London feel this one will be. Most important to Japan is oil, which she can
Japan has been almost totally de-
No statistics are available, because Japan suspended their publication several years ago. Her imports during that period were greatly in excess of requirements. She partic. ularly sought high grade gasoline to run the air fleet which now is being used effectively against the Philippines and Malaya. Possession of these keystones of American and British defense in the western Pacific would give Japan almost a stranglehold on the Indies and Borneo. If she takes possession, it is almost certain, of course, that she will find the wells and refineries destroyed. But even if the wells were destroyed, it is estimated that they could be put back in production in six months, either by restoration or new drillings. Japan would have difficulty in replacing the delicate American machinery required restoring the refineries. The crude oil would have to be transferred by tankers for processing in Japan's refineries. Japan's tanker fleet is hardly adequate to
ofthe full task, and would have to
get safely past hostile naval patrols. In the matter of rubber and tin, she is better off. Thailand and Indo-China, which Japan holds, produce 8 per cent of the world’s
y (left) and Hannibal LaGrange College, Hannibal, Mo., and Miss Irma R. Berner, Association of Emanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich., look at books on
DUTCH LEADER RELYING ON U. S.
Expects Material Help in Time to Stand Off Any Japanese Assault.
DUTCH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, N. E. 1, Dec. 30 (U. P).— Lieut. Gen. Hein Ter Poorten, Dutch East Indies commander, said today that he has been “deeply impressed” by latest indications from Washington that material support will reach the Dutch East Indies in time to stand off even a large scale Japanese assault on the vital Indies positions. Ter Poorten said the support must be “given with the least possible delay” and in great quantities to “bring about a turn in the present events.” The. Dutch commander revealed that thus far no Japanese troops have landed on Netherlands Indies territory and that reports of Japanese parachutists landing in the Medan area of Sumatra Sunday proved incorrect. He expressed - pride in the achievements of Dutch pilots in sinking Japanese troop transports and supply ships, but noted that these feats have been carried out at the cost of losses which must be made up.
MELBOURNE, Dec. 30 (U. P).— Prime Minister Winston Churchill's message of “Great importance” to Australian Premier John Curtin indicates that Mr, Churchill and President Roosevelt have agreed on definite defense measures to protect both British and American interests in the Pacific, competent quarters said today. : They said Australian ministers were “deeply gratified” by a “favorable” turn of events. This change they attributed to Mr. Curtin’s week-end statement that America must become the keystone of Pacific strategy.
IRVINGTON AIRPORT DAMAGED BY FIRE
Walter Remy, owner of the
Rd., sleeping in the conning tower there, was awakened shortly before 4 a. m. today by the crackling of flames and the smell of smoke. He called firemen, who helped him put out the fire. The blaze was caused by the overflowing of an oil stove. The loss was estimated at $250. Mr. Remy lives at 4348 Central Ave.
BRITAIN
Irvington Airport, 7000 Brookville
10. WAR ERRORS
Telegraphic Poll Shows’ How U. S. Can Profit By Isle’s Mistakes.
By GEORGE GALLUP Director, PAI nyt itute
PRINCETON, N. J, Dec. 30—Qut
suffering of their two years’ war ex-
perience, Britain hope the American pepole
will avoid certain mistakes which .
they feel Britain has made since the war began. To take full advantage of the British experience, the American Institute of Public Opinion asked its British affiliate, the Britsih Instiof
duct a special sur-
vey among the people of Britain in
all walks of life on the following question: “In the light of the British peo= ple’s two-year war experience, what mistakes would you the Ameri= can people to try to avoid?”
Results Cabled to U. 8
The survey was conducted in less . than three days with the aid of the: telegraph in Britain, the British ine terviewers wiring their returns to the British Institute headquarters in London. The results were then cae bled to the United States. The one piece of advice that was offered by the largest number of Britons interviewed was advice which placed major emphasis on better fighting equipment and pro duction—advice with the haunting echo of British experience in Nore way, France, Crete and Libya. Following are the 10 chief takes, in order of mention, which Britons would warn the United States to avoid if we are to profit by the British experience: 1. Make sure that before men go into action they ‘are completely equipped, particularly with tanks and airplanes. Eliminate Red Tape 2. Don't make our mistake of under-rating the power of the enemy. We were too complacent. 3. Take the initiative whenever you can-—don't leave it with the enemy.
womanpower efficiently and at once. Don't take half-way measures. : 5. Eliminate all red tape-—don't put up with inefficient administration. We lost valuable time that way. ; 6. Get set immediately for aire raids, and pay special attention to fire-fighting and civilian ‘watching service. 7. Be sure your commanders are’ thoroughly ' schooled in modern fighting techniques—this war is dife ferent from the last one. 8. Make sure all branches of the fighting forces co-operate completely with each other, Remember Nore way and Crete. ' 9, Deal drastically with Fifth Columnists now—don’t wait. 10. Insure Government control of war materials and industry, and eliminate profiteering.
HEARING TODAY FOR CLUBROOM MANAGER
Herman Higgs, 41, manager of the clubrooms of American Legion Post No. 13 at 46 N. Pennsylvania St, was to be arraigned late today bee fore Judge John IL. Niblack of Muse nicipal Court 4 on charges of ase sault and battery and- violation of the 1935 slot machine act,
to the confiscation of 10 slot mae chines at the post's clubrooms, Poe lice said they raided the place on a warrant signed by a woman who charged that she was thrown out of the place Saturday night after she had lost $7 in the slot machines,
RESTRICT SUGAR SALES
ELKHART, Dec. 30 (U. P).—A housewives’ run on sugar here; which began with America’s entry into the war, was still going strong today. Elkhart grocers have set a three-to-five pound limit a eusto-
pletion of stocks,
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IF you are going ¥o be among those present—who will do some dining or dinning or dancing . , . as the year 1942 breaks in on Father Time . . . and if you need something or other in formal attire or accessories to make you feel better—or more comfortable —Drop in, please . . , we are prepared for emergency service in fitting . and deliveries!
Tails, Dinner Suits, Vests—Third floor al Formal Accessories—in a room to themselves-—First floor, south.
A harried and hurried man ...ean accomplish a lot by phone (LI. 1561) (Direct service to the Formal Room).
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