Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1942 — Page 12
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War Plant Closed Temporarily} Had Diffi uy Retiring: Heo}
By ROGER BUDEOW ONE BIG PROBLEM LOOMS IN SHUTTING DOWN
> on hand when the. plant is ready to resume production. at means new labor must be hired, checked, trained— ch adds up to delay and expense. That is what happened at one very large war industry in this state this summer. A bottleneck had developed and “this factory had to close until a supply of vital parts was
forthcoming again. Several thousand were thrown out of work. Many of them got jobs elsewhere. When it came time to zehire, the war plant found tifat only a little more than one out of 10 of its former ‘employees wanted to come back to work. One reason was thay “the workers aidn’t like spending an hour or two driving to and from their homes my. to this plant every . Roger Budrow day. Spending that “much time, gasoline and tires in a traffic jam every day after eight hours of work simply caused workers to hunt jobs closer to home.
But apparently there will “be ‘more of these temporary and possibly permanent closing of war plants. The war labor board estimates the number may reach 1000. The trouble is we don’t have enough raw material or else it has been per- ~ mitted to be used in non-essential : manufacturing. ® » 8
~ GARY'S sheet and tin mills, which once made sheet steel for “automobile hodies and tin plate for tin can manufacturers, are . being converted to making rolled plate for shipbuilding and freight cars.
This eliminates the tempering,
~ pickling and cold reduction processes but steel workers who lost their jobs in those departments
have been hired in other mills of|Gaod—
the Gary steel industry, for the
THREE - COMPANIES in one Indiana city had plans all drawn .up to expand, do more war busi-" ness. Along came the steel and other material shortages and the WPB decided it would be better to | build guns, tanks, etc, for use this year instead of more plants to make them next year. So the plant expansion ideas of all three companies were vetoed by WPB.
8 ® ® : ~ ODDS AND ENDS: Indiana has 8 good mint crop this year, the | °% weather bureau crop report says. _« . Tobacco com
"apple. syrup to keep Yobacco ‘moist
if glycerine can’t be obtained. . . .| 400%
Medium—
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1300-1500 pounds .........us.e
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HOG TOP RISES T0 $15.35 HERE
Biggest Gains Made Among 160 to 300-Pounders; Vealers Steady.
Hog prices advanced to $15.35 at the Indianapolis stockyards today, the agricultural marketing administration reported. Weights between 160 and 300
pounds rose 25 cents. Heavier hogs were 10 .to 15 cents higher than yesterday while lighter weights were 10 cents higher. _ Vealers were steady with a $15.50 top. Receipts included 4275 hogs,
"975 cattle, 475 calves and 1625
sheep.
sin.
HOGS (4275)
$13. 75@ 14.50 14. RGIS. 30 [email protected]
pound
cesses veers. 14.45@14. 63 [email protected]
Medium—
160- 200 pounds Packing Sows
10 @14.05
400- 450 pounds ....
[email protected] 450- 500 pounds [email protected]
250- 550 pounds ... .. [email protected] Slaughter Pigs
90- 120 pounds [email protected]
CATTLE (975) Slaughter Cattle & Calves Steers
ce— 6 2 [email protected] $ [email protected]
1100. [email protected] 5 1300 1500 pounds... reivere.. 21
cesssnnens. [email protected]]
[email protected] 700- 900 pounds
338-1100 pounds .
[email protected] 1100-1300“ pounds . e
14.00815:00
pounds ....ce.ce.ee. [email protected] [email protected]
200-1100 pounds ......o...e. [email protected] a
[email protected] 1400014.76
600- 800 POUNAS .....cecee..s 13.25@14,00
Price Halt.
—Price ‘Administrato ator Leon Hen-
today.
trol act, the department of agriculture’s permission must be obtained before OPA may put ceilings on unprocessed = agricultural products.
bloc. . ceilings on livestock would: go far
such as have prevailed recently in the eastern states.
be no reason. for farmers to hold their beef, pork and lamb off the market in anticipation of. higher prices,
Wickard was the second time that OPA has asked: for permission to}. set price ceilings on farm products. Several months ago the agriculture. department = approved establishment of ceiling prices for wool. One OPA executive said that if food prices, including those for meats, started rising generally, it would be “anybody's guess” as to where they would ‘stop. The | department of agriculture reported, meantime, that the number of cattle on feed for market in the corn belt states on Aug. 1 was 19 per cent below a year ago. Offi-
GRAIN FUTURES RISE IN EARLY TRADING
CHICAGO, Aug. 13 (U. P)— Scattered buying lifted wheat futures to a firm position jn early dealings: on the Board of Trade today Other grain futures hovered around previous closing levels. Wheat was % to 5% cent a bushel higher at the end of the first hour, corn off % to up %, oats unchanged to off %, rye unchanged to up. 3%, and soybeans inactive.
U. S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U. BP) ~Ciovernment expenses and receipts for the current -fiscal year through Aug. 11 compared with a year. ag
Thi ast ‘Yea Expenses. $6, 91, oer 994. 52 $2, 297.60 692, 330. 70 War Spend. 8, 137; 321,558.73 1,426; 613, 730.79 Receipts. . goed 905, 147.69 603,6083,808.80 Ne Def... 953, 154,006.88 1,607,679; "15 .90
Work. Bal.. 20eT 1,920,152,410.86 Pub. Debt. 83,306,513,750.0% 56,902,082,041.94 Gold Res. 22,741,149,000.45 22 ,685,980,376.53
OPA § Seeks Authority From] Sewrelary Wickard for |
| WASHINGTON; Aug. 13 (U. P). i derson has asked Secretary of Ag-| FB riculture Claude R. Wickard for| on to establish price ceil-} ings on al livestock, it was learned :
Under provision of the price con-
This provision ‘ was wiitten in at} the behest of the congressional Tami,
-OPA representatives believed that toward eliminating meat shortages|.
They said that if ceiling prices} were put on livestock there would|- §
Mr, Henderson's request ‘to . Mr.}.
cials said the drop was due to un-| certainty’ of cattlemen over future s| meat prices.
Persian “laborers: ‘snioad ‘erepe rubber from the British war deprime 1
"to Russia. Some. of the quantities of supplies’ ink 5.00 Tassie: oro hee. 11 gulf to a port on the Caspian sea, thence across Persia where they are unl:
onto R
tian dag boats which ‘eave Sored the Caspian set 1a. the T, 8. & R
a \ railhead, for shipment hy road from the Persian at a wharf and reloaded
oa Ports in World War 1 eS Situation Is Poor at Indian Ports.
By JonN w LOVE
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GLEVELAND. Aug. 13 We don't a s0.much detail
et, as we used to about how efficiently the shipments ‘of war - | materials are getting through
to the uttermost parts of the"
‘world, although that may be. only ‘because dur censorship :
is more efficient.
But the manhfacturing plans which start thete prods
| ucts rolling from Ohio and Michigan get back occasional re- | ports on what happens to them.
For example, it is said in Detroit that the Russians
: have learned brilliantly the lesson from the last war in ‘the congestion at the ports of Archangel and ‘Vladivostok.
The piles of goods were almost beyond the belief: of Amer- :
icans who went there in 1918. The freight glut had con-
(tributed directly to defeat
® |and revolution. This time the
BIG CORN CROP SEEN FOR STATE
it Will Be Second Largest|ss ¥%
On Record, Purdue ‘Estimates.
LAFAYETTE, Aug. 13 (U.P.).— Borden
Indiana has prospects for the. sec-
ond largest corn crop on -record, Chrysl
M. M. Justin, agricultural statistician for the U. S. department of agriculture and Purdue university, reported today.
Present indications, Mr. Justin | Bast
said, are for a yield of 47.5 bushels an acre or a total production of 194,322,000 bushels, ‘The. record yield was 50 bushels an acre in 1939. “Warm weather with abundant
rains have more than balanced in-|In
sect damage and the effects of dif-
ficulties in seed bed I Beraratien and] gf statistician| Kresg
early cultivation,” said. : Entomologists now estimate that damage by the European corn borer:
will result in a 3 per cent crop loss.} Nash-Kely Soybeans, too, were reported in} good shape with the outlook 89 per Nat:
cent of normal or 13 points above the 10-year average. Hay tion gained 91,000 tons during the last month and is estimated now at 2,547,000 tons, Mr, Justin said.
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| Russians are said to be hauling cargoes away from docks with astonishing speed. . The British in India might profit by their example. To judge by what ' trickles back to shipping
| rooms in ‘this country, the British
organizations in India and Burma
*| were simply incapable of handling
the mass of stuff which poured in on them. The port of Rangoon, never very efficient anyway, was jammed very
‘early by goods coming in for the
Bfrma Road and the British defense of Burma. More freight was
‘1intended for the famous road to
China than could possibly have gone over it. Americans have been of much
value in India in showing them
how to unload and dispatch accumulations of cargo. In one~“instance a large number of stevedores . brought in from southern ports. in this. country are said to have unloaded ships in 24 hours which would have taken a week or more with the primitive methods that had been used there. African arbors Choked For a long time American shipping men have complained of the delays in unloading and loading ships inv harbors that were unaccustomed to such great business. Unexpectedly heavy shipments have led to labor trouble in west African
Ships. in some eastern hemisphere ports are said to have lain unloaded for as much as three weeks and ‘even more. . The Germans counted specifically on delays in the turnaround of shipping in a war, as a publication of the Berlin bureau of business research made clear in 1939.
goods the porte can “handle, based on the most recent experience, and that when representatives of Ine dian ‘and ‘other authorities ask for more, they are told they can’t have more until the ports are cleaned
up and better Sreight=handiing ho
methods are Shipments ibuted :
You don’t hear any more of how the British have. lost large quan= 3 - particular airplane ; in the sinking of a single ship. i One obvious reatbn is that sink ings on the Atlantic route have been almost eliminated. Another, less well known, is that freight is now: carefully sorted before it goes to the dock. The ships leaving American ports carry’ wide assort- ‘XY ments of . cargo—diversifying the 7 risk—and the loss of one of them wn Jot hol up an entire indus- % Sorting i done in eastern yards - specially arranged for the purpose. The outgoing trains haul CATgOES : destined for particular ships. Even from there, though, come stories of numbers of cars standing ‘waiting for waybills, and of delays in getting them sent on from WashThe movement of freight in this country, efficient as it is, could be improved if the shippers could avoid throwing large quanties at the railroad suddenly. The Great Lakes Shippers Regional Advisory board says one steel mill released two months’ supplies of steel to a consumer within twe weeks, and naturally cars accumulated. y The unbalance of inventory and materials of which so much is heard from Washington is reflected in the jam in stockrooms, factory yards and warehouses. This ‘glut could be reduced if the war produce tion board could speed up the req~ ° uisitioning of materials still standing unused in plants which have been shut down or posvercef to other work.
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WU. S. will buy all rubber produced| 800-1000 pounds ...iie.:iil i [email protected]| CleAringS .....orveovs.enns RING. BO itt.ae| « The favorable corn weather, howin Trinidad British Guiana . . .| Medum pe (hye snd ¥h nn 8 Adu] ever, ; brought about harvesting | Pullman Veedersburg, Ind., State bank has| commen To 10e13.2 © |losses of 1 to 3%: bushels an acre| ? oT : mmon ; WAGON WHEAT in n ‘The wheat yield: TR joined the Federal Reserve. . , .| 500- 900 pounds Up to the close of the Chicage market Sma ‘grains. . oh . The amphibian tank was called the Cows (all weights) today, Indianapolis flour mills and rein n was cut to around 12.5 bushels an |Serve “alligator” by its inventor but the| Medium ig Yih grades on their merits). acre Jor a total production of 15,962,- South Pac - marines changed it to the “inva-| gute elled corn was 830 per 000 bushels, 50 per cent of average. sion taxi” , .. Some members of ot Qats yielded 37 bushels per acre or stew
3 WHIT TINK “According te one source, the job| - WHITTINGTON |, that is being done in the ferry| TWO MILLION IN { ANNUTTIES Whittington, president of| service -to Africa will stand. out as ily. dinner meeting of the SE ae tai, : United States crossed the two miltioning Council of Indian-| From Washington comes word|lon dollar mark for ‘the first time 2 the Athenaeum tomorrow that deliveries of -lend-lease mate-| during 1941, the Institute of - Life
INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE
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the coffee trade are asking’the OPA | around 51,763,000 bushels,
‘to ration the beverage, although|®
Brazil is burning it. . Trouble is « .shipping space, of course. . . . Government is warning corporations not to publish any data on production or the flow of materials in the ‘nual reports to stockholders.
LOCAL PLANTS HIRE
64 TRAINED BY NYA sx;
Indianapolis employers in July hired 64 Young men and women
ing by. the NYA, Kenneth F. Hufford, personnel officer, announced today. Most of the Jobs were related to
. working, sheet metal, radio and
‘auto mechanics training given at]
the NYA center at 537 N. Capitol ‘ave., Mr, Hufford said. "Half of the number were girls. Placements were made at P. R. Mallory, Fairmount Glass, RCA,
Bemis Bag, Real Silk Hosiery and fio
LOCAL ISSUES
Nominal tations furnished by local ; or Natio Association of Securities
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CALVES (475) Vealers (all weights)
.| Good and choice Combmon and medium Cul. 78 ibs. ap)
Feeder & Stocker Cattle & Calves Steers
CRO poun esessss [email protected] 800-1050 Jounes esesesscesss [email protected]
500- 800 poun 800-1050 Pounds: ee settasve es 1 aia a8 Medium 500-1000 pounds .ccesccosess. [email protected] Common— 3 500- 900 pounds .......c..... [email protected] Calves (Steers) Good and Choice = Jounds down
£0) “pounds down Calves Good and Ghoice—
13.50915.00
oe. [email protected] [email protected] SHEEP AND LAMBS (1625)
Ewes (shorn)
Good and choice . ‘8. 8.75 Comon and choice 5.25
Spring Lambs
Good and choice » [email protected] d d [email protected] [email protected]
Chocolate Firms In Radio Work
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U.P). —The war productions board reported today it has turned to the nation’s chocollited industry for ‘manufacture of precision radio detection equipment. Such plants, which have be:n hit by a reduced Cocoa supply, are well fitted for such work because girl employees who: make chocolates are skilled (in hand work and because ‘of cleanliness of the plants, the WPB said. One contract for manufacture of highly secret military aircraft detector mechanism has been let
- to the New England Confection-
ery Co, Cambridge, «and others:soon ‘will be let t0 half a dozen or more major chocolate candy companies; WPB added,
LOCAL PRODUCE
Heavy breed nena tuli-featherea-. 18c.|
a iE nd colorea, a wer; white and barred. tock, Le: cock s, x varred and’ white rock. a2o. All No. 3 poultry 3 cents tess. nig ou t receipts 56 oe. ang un 2d Ege) Grade A, 36c; d a medium, ; 34c; sade = 260 no Butter—| 41%; Buttoriat No GQ, oe: No. ri (Prices on produce
apolis. qu by Wadley Co. Co.
white . oats, 42¢, and No. ‘2 oats, 42c. - a
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