Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1942 — Page 15
* shipbuilding records. wi The miracle infant of the
to deliver to the maritime commission, before Labor day, a “vessel whose keel was laid Aug. 1. Before any other yard ‘ has been able to match its]
record of 46 days between keel-laying and delivery, Oregon Shipbuilding is cutting this to 34 days. That's the sort of thing
that is making the country feel that maybe Mr. Kaiser can win the ~ war for us.
When you hear Mr. Kaiser talk
you get some insight into the rea.son he is able to beat production ‘records. His explanation is simply that the will to do it makes anything possible. When you see the -Oregon yard you sense another rea0
*' . ‘Maybe Paul Bunyan Helps
It’s building ships up near the Paul Bunyan country. Some will ‘tell you that Paul himself’ comes slipping through the Oregon fir ' woods at night with his blue ox to lift steel plates into place and weld {_them together. ; It is certain that this yard beats even the others where Mr. Kaiser is building. Or, it may be that the great cranes towering over the shipyard are the modern embodiment of the northwest’s legendary strong man. They move constantly over the ways, more of them than you can count from any one spot .in the “yard, lifting great prefabricated sections of ship into place, one after . the other.
Labor’s Spirit Is High
They are the first thing Kaiser officials name when you ask how ‘they do it. The heavyweight lifting equipment makes the new assembly line method of production possible. Probably never before have so many of them been brought together in one place for one Job. The second thing officials name is the spirit in the yard. It’s hard to describe, but it’s there. “Our labor is good,” the manage- . ment says. “We have good men over us,” the men say.
In some other shipyards, workers|"
have constantly complained that + poor planning was keeping them from doing as much as they might, and officials on the other hand have worried about the labor “slowdown. re Speed Is Contagious
In this yard, the rhythm of speed “is contagious and the pride of being first is obvious. Mr. Kaiser has met earlier bettle.pecks by mining many of his own ‘raw materials and processing them in his own plants. Now that labor ‘threatens to become the biggest "bottleneck of all, he has ‘started,
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again ahead of other plants, to|
-break this one. Ten days ago Oregon Shipbuilding “started paying men a wage to go to - school and learn how to hold shipyard jobs. It has 300 men in these “new classes and expects to: have many more. : -* Its only requirement is that trainées must not be 1-A’s in the draft. It is making shipbuilders of farmers, lumberjacks, : grocery clerks, storekeepers, garagemen and salesmen. 5 iy ‘hh Puts Women to Work . But that is not all. . Four ‘months ago, Oregon Shipbuilding—first in the United States: to do so—put women to work on actual ship construction. It has about 300 women “out in the’ field” now. It’ expects to have many more.. 5 It isn’t paying them to take irain-
ing at’ the moment, because it is do (getting all the women it. can use|!
from Oregon vocational educational
classes. It rather hopes that a great many women ‘will shift to driving taxis, running service stations, and doing| 3, other jobs mow held by men so / that these can come to the ship1, yard first. ‘But the company Knows it can’t get men for all the new jobs it has to fill in the next year, and it is reconciled to "aking do”, Women, ~ Women fodm Faster It sets no age limit, na; physical standards, and hopes it can fill the rapks mostly. with wives of men already working near Portland, so the housing problem 'won’t grow more acute than it already is. Women are harder to. fit. into a gy than into most Superintendents at Oregon
w omen: sy it sia in thei beads
“Plans: to Deliver Liberty Ship Within 3 Days After Keel Is ‘Laid; Says ‘Will to Do’ Can
Make Anything Possible.
~~ By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer
: PORTLAND, Eo Aug. 21. —Henry J. Kaiser's Ss “Oregon _ shipyard may be building cargo planes three months from| now, but in the meantime. it's’ going to break a few ‘more
Liberty ship program is going
OIL TANK CARS SHIFTED EAST
Ickes Bans Hauling Auto ‘Gasoline by Rail in 20 States.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U. P). —Petroleum Co-ordinator Harold L. Ickes today prohibited the hauling of automotive gasoline by rail in ‘20 Middle Western and Southwestern states in order to divert enough tank cars to carry 100,000 barrels of fuel oil daily into the East coast
shortage area. 4
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 21 (U. _P.)—Midwestern oil refiners today viewed Petroleum Co-ordina-tor Harold L. Icke’s stoppage of rail hauls of automotive gasoline as the first sure step toward rationing for the affected area. Ickes order, affecting 20 middle western and southwestern states, will “tarn us upside down,” said one refining company rep-
Bemis runs 8 gamut, from
i sugar fo Ne wool bag. *
Cotton, Paper Substitute
For Jute
Grown i in India
By ROGER BUDROW If the Japanese armies should strike out west from Burma and invade
around the globe.
eastern India, reverberations would be felt in an industry half way
But it would not have the paralyzing effect now that it would have
had some time ago. Because the
‘Bemis. Bros. Bag Co. plant in In-
dianapolis, although still TAREE grown jute, is now switching more
and more into making bags of all kinds from cotton and paper and even “paper rope.” Jute is grown only in the delta region of the Ganges river around
Calcutta, where the monsoons sweep
in from the Bay of Bengal. But
with|,
resentative. On the point made by Deputy Co-ordinator. Ralph K. Davies— that if the order creates a shortage then rationing should be ex-tended-—industry leaders appeared in agreement.
The-ban, effective Monday, forces the affeetc adrea to rely upon pipelines, trucks and barges for its Deputy Petroleum' Co-ordinator Ralph K. Davies said that if the withdrawal of the 5000 to 7000 tank cars from this area creates-a shortage there then
supply of gasoline.
rationing should be extended. Includes Indiana
Louisiana, Oklahoma,
Mississippi,
North ‘and South Dakota.
New Mexico was omitted from the restriction because it has no pipelines, refineries or water transpor-
tation to supply its needs.
The total of tank cars now being used to supply the: east coast is more than 75,000, or almost 70 per cent of all the cars in petroleum service in the United States. The number originally in use in the east
coast ‘area was ‘1000. Study Fuel Ration
‘War Production 'Chiéf Donald Nelson today will ‘appoint a special committee with final power to decide whether to ration fuel oil’ this
winter in the eastern area.
Officials ' hoped the committee would ‘be able: to reach a decision before the cold weather starts. A currént ban on all fuel oil de--livéries ‘for space heating SAIS;
Sept. 15.
Meanwhile, a Survey of op WPB and office of price: administration _ '| executives indicated that there still :| was hope rationing could be averted —if the ‘public will ‘co-operate ‘and if ‘the coming winter is not severe.
CHICAGO | LIVESTOUR
, fairly | active;
way of Australia.
The states affected are Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, eKrtucky, Missouri, Kansas, - Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
axis submarines now lurk in those same waters, so of late Bemis jute has been shipped overland to Bombay on the western side of India and thence the long, two-month voyage to this country. ‘ Even so, shipments are limited because India’s manganese ore, rubber, tin, tea and quinine also must be brought to this country. It is not a safe voyage by any means. No longer can cargo vessels take the shorter route through the . Suez canal and Mediterranean, but must go either around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope to America or go by And submarines are still sinking jute-laden ships when they get fairly close to American shores. Assuming that Bemis Bag were able to- get some jute into: this country, it wouldn’t do its regular burlap customers much good because Bemis now has just one burlap customer—the government. To all practical purposes all the burlap is made into sandbags which have scores of users in warfare.
Thousands upon thousands of sandbags are being made here and at most of the 18 Bemis Bag plants throughout the U. S. Just ‘how many is the. army’s business, but inasmuch as Bemis is the largest bag concern in ‘the nation, it. was assigned a major part of the work. The Bemis .plant here probably will soon make sandbags of osnaburg, which is a cotton fabric. Bemis also has a cotton mill in Indianapolis and a bleaching plant where the cotton is woven and processed into sheeting for bags. In the bag plant several blocks scuth of Fountain Square (1940 Barth ave.) this conversion of the bag business goes on without fanfare. Actually, the bag manufacturing business first got going by “converting” the public to using cotton bags instead of wooden barrels) } for shipping flour and sugar.
printing colored stripes on the‘flour and sugar sacks so the housewife would tell her husband to buy flour
or sugar in sacks so she cduld. rip |: ]
them up for towels.) Soon elevators will be shipping | +
15:| mill feeds and grains in cotton: bags.
cents power, bs.; ‘Bb YA here: ge ground $14; heifers, 25 cents under week's
‘and - cutters around stea ady, ty sausage bulls steady to a yi
is practical top; "vealers,’ firm, $14.50
CSheop_Receipts 2000; steady to st bulk ma oice fat native Jame,
@ most throwouts, $10. bulk lambs : discount: fat. en $6.75; several ‘decks com:
U. S. STATEMENT 'GTON,
current fiscal year pared with a sar 3
8.53%, = Er-12h 1 Net Net: Bet. eX,
1064.61 573.88: Work. Baer 3 Pub. 549.32 57,157 14,
Debt 85,8 15.38 ,187, God Res. 22,1444, ,358,713; 358.913.4722, 109; 615,
INDIANAPOLIS CLE/ cLEARIN Clearings : S Dati
1,692,555,253.63
| DAILY PRICE INDEX
NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (U. P)—
‘stea , $16.35, ay scaling 1260 [email protected]; no choice heifers medium grade gh; beef
;| cause fuzz from the burlap used to| Citizen
sis one ed $1; pid Rig
medium lots unsorted, * [email protected], .- scaling. 80 to 85 Ibs.
WASHIN Aug. a1 (U. P.).—Government expenses and receipts: for the Aug: 19 com64.08 3.0083 Sua 18. 18
'685,461,016. 3
nove,
10,815,000
Dun & Bradstreet’s daily weighted
151062 High (May 5) «ov evoene 4 3 1942 Low, (Jan. A. vevmescasis 151.54
price index of 30 basic. commodities, compiled for: United Press (1930-32.
Yesterday Basins STIR *tessses ' 157.26 | 5° : eee 157.61
43-281—Sted)
s. | Boston's big ‘wool concerns. already are using large paper mesh’ bags
;| (strips of heavy paper twisted: and]. then woven loosely) for bagging agers Wins'w
wool. - They like them better ‘than the burlap bags they once used be-
get ‘mixed in. with the wool.: The open mesh paper bags are being used more and more. for pack-
contrast helps sell white flour packed in a bag with a blue lining. It makes the flour look whiter. But it wouldn't do to pack sugar in a blue-lined bag because the sugar crystals would reflect the blue instead: of absorb it. So white is used. : The bag industry went through a big : conversion . in the days when apartments first became popular. Then people wanted their food in smaller packages that wouldn’t take up so much room. So the bag industry began making smaller ones until now it is
down to a 20-ounce package. That|
is for perfumes. The gamut extends up to the 300-pound bag for fertilizer. In between are hundreds of sizes, shapes and materials. Conversion at Bemis has extended even to the machine shop, here which once made and repaired machinery for all the Bemis plants. Now it keeps machinery in repair and instead of making new machines, it' is’ working on a subcon-
‘tract for machine tools needed by
war plants. And, for the first time in ‘its history, girls are working in the machine shop.
No shortage of paper bags is ex-| pected to develop. And the govern- |}
ment has diverted a ‘large quantity
Good of cotton sheeting for bag manu-
facture. This means less cotton: for drap-
ery and upholstery goods, denims, towelings, bed tickings and other domestic uses but on the other|Co hand it means that there will be sacks to haul food and products more essential to winning the war.
Nominal quotations furnished by loca) ‘anit of National Association of Securities Dealers. Stocks Belt RR Stk Yds com Belt RR Stk Yds pfd . Bobbs-Merril Som i pees ] s-Merr: shes ae Circle Theater od pe . Comwlith Loan 5% pf... . Hook Drug Co com 12% Home T&T Gt Wayne 7% ‘ptd 50 Ind Asso Tel 5% 95 od eT td. ydro Elec d:-Gen Serv 6% es 4
(That was when they - started|Rdpls P&L co
Van Camp Milk ptd ... . yay Camp Milk com seeneenn 55 Bonds
‘W. American Loan American Cent Newspaper Ch of Com g Co s Ind Tel 4
4%: Yes .
ing ‘onions and cabbages. and other. md
truck garden produce. Color is: im-
are packed either in white or tangerine colored ‘bags: to match “the | product. inside. Likewise cabbages are packed in matching green bags. Whereas color. harmony is wanted in the open mesh paper bags, color!’
It you can manufacture. any. of. these. materials, contact the war production board, 10th floor, Duis Tayst Suilding. tniflanavela; Asteri iietes sir and Sos dlestiant we os fle ate
» ARMY MISCELLANEQUS.. po on :
ou Sip ons iy —ireonn
1942, to June 8," cold ‘rolle
portant here ‘For example; onions | fox
Stores 50 . 99 uncle Water Works Ss . aa 104s B Serv 3%s 69 . N my To
apie Ne
s 65 . chmond Water wks ‘Ss 1s 21108 ¢, Term Corp 5s 67..... 80
“re
"Cholce—
2 | Medium
ies 1bs., ‘Sa CRE 160. $14.50:
Jners cut R {m= 10:50;
Sand bags protect cities against bomb damage. :
PORKER PRICES ARE UNCHANGED
Top Remains at $15.05 as 7850 Hogs Arrive At’ Shiyyards.
"Hog prices - were generally = the | Borden
same at the Indianapolis stockyards today as they were yesterday,
the agricultural marketing -ad- Sons
ministration reported.
The top was $15.05 for good to|S!
choice 200, to 210-pounders. Re-
ceipts included 7850 hogs, 425 cattle, Ge
475 calves and 1400 sheep.
HOGS (7850) Good to Choice— 120- 140
oe 14. -T8@1s. .00 . [email protected] | N' i4i0a1ess [email protected]
[email protected] Packing Sows Good and Chole 270- 300 poun: 300- 330 Sounds 330- 360 pounds ...cc.e. 360- 200 pounds ..
[email protected] J. [email protected] .. [email protected] csssssssee [email protected] Good— 400- 450 pounds setseses oe 450- 500 pOUNAS <.cccecvcces Medium: 250- 55 550 pounds [email protected] Slaughter Pigs Medium and Good—- : 90- 120 pounds 12,[email protected] CATTLE (425)
Slaughter Cattle & Calves
Steers pounds ....... ees. $15.00 1533 1 ePeseecases 15.25 1 8 eee eeee 15.25 pound . 15. [email protected]
.. [email protected] 1400 15.25
. [email protected] oe 14.00 15.26
300 1300-1300 J Medium— 700-1100 pounds. .. 1100-1900 pounds .
12. 25@ 14.00 sesesscssses [email protected]
see sesecnse
700-1100 ) pounds a [email protected] « [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]
. [email protected] [email protected]
600- 800 pounds .... 00-1000 pounds. .
2500-900 900 pounds’ . Common 500- 900 pounds
sesso cnse
cesses ennces
Bulls (al) weights) : (Yearlings Excluded) :
... 10.50@11 15 . [email protected]
CALVES (415)
Vealers (al weighing) Fi diced esas se AFe. 50 um ws
Cull (75-1b.s. up) Feeder & Stocker Cattle & Calves. Steers
Caoo- 300 unds 12.50 800-1050 pounds Lesaesesiene 12.00 Good—
Hd 3.00
500- 800 OURS ...e0eeesese. 11.0012: 800-1080 pound cevesssesess 1150013
Mediu 500-1000 10. pounds csssscsssesce [email protected]
600- 900 1 POUNAS «c.cocnvceses [email protected] : Calves (Steers)
Good and Chotce—
$00 pounds down [email protected]
500. pourida down [email protected] © Calves: (heifers) : ‘ Good ‘and Cholce— 3 \ JS Dounds down .. [email protected] [email protected]
(1400)
00 ils down SHEEP AND ‘LAMBS
Ewes (shorn)
Good. and cho 168 sessile oves ‘Comon: and ‘choice Spring Lambs Good a and - Shoe. and good
Comm mmor By dain ede; as - 11.00
* OTHER LIVESTOCK | ATT, Aue. 21 (U. £2) Erg ewe
X fear ro. pd id ase: good holes 10. Td] bs 2 235.900 Ibe. 3 30:
5.75 ) 5.235
15.50 13.25
re 160-180 J 1bs., ’ gia96; good
- pts, 450, Calves—Receipts, Jaetive, © MOS
catch as “cal uy
trade, around
‘fear - wee p ! steady; ory top. $16.50 paid for ? 4-H club club
show to top hives: nl [email protected]; 3 ocd os iy around -. @ ‘steers and. heif S181 7: can
Os 75; god “cows, ito | and : cutter medium bulls, $9. 5.30611; freely to ‘$11.50; vealers st he and holes; iin feie des
Cows, canners an
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Int Johns-Man ... 57 Kennecott .... L-O-F Glass ... Mont Ward .... Nash-Kelv ... Nat Biscuit ...
AEE EE EL EEL
. 13.55@14. 133331365 Radio
3% 2epublic Stl .. 14% ears Roebuck. 5%5 Servel Inc 8 Socony-Vacuum ° 8%
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8y UNITED PRESS
8 South. Pac .... 14% hs 3td . Oil Ind 24%
© 24% 24%
CHICAGO, Aug. 21 (U. P)— Grain and soybean futures ruled steady in cautious early dealings on the Board of Trade today. At the end of the first hour, wheat was off % to up % cent a bushel, corn up % to 3%, oats unchanged to up 35, rye unchanged to up %, and soybeans unchanged. In the September futures, wheat was unchanged to 3% cent higher than yesterday's $1.18% @1.18% per bushél, corn: % higher than the previous 837%¢c, oats 4 higher than yesterday's 49%c, and rye unchanged at 62%ec. October soy5| beans were unchanged ‘at $1.71. Uncertainty :over :anti-inflation talk ‘and the extent of pending spring wheat movements kept many traders to sideline positions. Mod‘erate buying for milling account and ‘an absence of hedging pressure held prices within a narrow, steady range. J
Hn ARCHITECTS JOIN
INDIANA CHAPTER
The Indiana chapter of the American Institute of Architects announced today it has added 20 members: in the past year, one of the largest increases it has ever made. “This indicates a renewed obligation on the part of the profession toward a -unified ‘national organization,” the chapter said, and “it also indicates an entrance into the professional organization of new and vigorous lif: that will undoubtedly pring about needed changes.” ‘The new members are N. Roy Shambleau, Karl R. Schwarz; Roy Worden, Harold V. Maurer and Ernest W. Young of South Bend; Edwin C. Berendes of Evansville; Charles E. Hamilton, F. H. Graham,
| W.-S. Carlson of Muncie; James B. ana | Hawkins of New Albany; Fran E.
Schroeder,, John G. C. Sohn and Leslie F. Ayres of Indianapolis; Kenneth ‘Williams of Kokomo; Alvin 'M. Strauss of Ft. Wayne; R. S.
pts. | Rastendieck of Gary; Joseph R.
Fallon of Richmond; Louis Johnson of Attica; Joseph Bertram of Hammond, ‘and = Gerald Brubaker er of
2nd | Elkhart.
Several applications for: member-
GRAIN AND SOYBEAN ~ FUTURE STEADY!
Trench warfare creates enormous demand for sand bags. | » 2 !
DOW-JONES STOCK AVERAGES
Yesterday ...ccoccccccscccce 106.88 0.45 Week AZO ..ccsevessssncsess 106.15 Month AO ....eco000000000. 106.37 Year Ago High, 1942, 114.22; Low, 92.92. High, 1941, 133.59; Low, 106.34.
-0.28 -=0.15
Month Ago ...:... Year Ago High, 1942, 29.01; Low, 238.31. High, 1941, 30.88; Low, 24.25.
High, 1942, 14.94; Tow, 10.58. . High, 1941, 20.65; Low, 13.51.
High % EL
Std Oil N J.
Band HERE
Woolworth Yellow Tr .s Young Sheet ..
Complete New York stock quotations are carried daily in the final edition of The Times.
1 30%
: ® ® Evansville Pigs 2 ; oil 1/0 Branded With 'V Times Special - ¢ EVANSVILLE, Aug 21.— They're branding pigs with a “V” around here. It means that the money from the sale of a “V”-brand hog will be used only to buy war bonds. and stamps. Booths at county: fairs in ‘the pocket area of the state are bringing in many -en-
listments the “Victory pig club.” :
CITY’S EXPORTS OFF FROM JUNE TOTAL
July exports from Indianapolis fell considerably from June, ‘ the local U. S. commerce department office reported today. July exports were 12,813,172 pounds compared with 21,173,787 pounds in
last year.
ee ee eeeeem——. Indianapolis Joint Truck Information Office, Inc., 60 S. State st., Indianapolis;
no capital stock; to promote conservation of motor equipment and assist motor car-
+0451 °
June and 5443,922 pounds in July | AU No,
OPA COMPLETES "LIVESTOCK ‘LID’
But Wickard Must Approve Ceiling Plan Before | It Is Published. {
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U. PY.
worked out. by the office of price administration, and the question of lowering farm parity limitations was put squarely up to
| congress by OPA Chief Leon Hens
derson. The livestock ceiling price plan, no details of which were available, must first be approved by Secre= tary of Agriculture Claude R. Wicke ard. Wickard has already indorsed the principle of such ceilings, im posing only ‘one condition—that & practical marketing plan be evolved. OPA officials hoped the lives ceilings would defer indefinitely threateried necessity of meat ra: tioning, especially _if it were supe plemented by allocation of meat products to shortage areas. The shortage areas, mainly in the east and northeast, were said by fhe OPA to have sprung from “squeezes” placed on packers through imposie tion of ceilings on meat prices with no corresponding ceiling on, ives stock. Wickard’s conditional anprovalet the livestock ceiling plan was a ree versal of his previous policy. and Henderson were understood fo be considering other price ceilings for certain farm products. ; : Wickard also reversed 'his stand on farm parity when he agreed with Henderson that the ban on ceilings for farm commodity prices untif they reach 110 per cent of parity, now in the price control law, should be removed, and the minie mum set at 100 per cent. This would give farmers the relative purchasing power they ‘had in the 1909-1914. period. ;
J. D. ADAMS DIVIDEND J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co, has declared a 20-cent dividend on the common stock, payable Sept. 28 to stockholders of record Sept. 14,
LOCAL PRODUCE
"Heavy breed hens.’ ' full-feathered, ‘19eg Leghorr hens, 16c. Broilers, 2 Ibs. and over: colored, 1908 white and barred rock, 20c; cocks, 1lc. Springers .3 Ibs. and over; colored, Ny : barred and white rock. 32¢. ~ poultry, 3 cents less o Bows ~Cur-ent veceipts 54 be. and ups
s—Grade - A, 3 um, 36c;- grade A age, 0 :
4 oh 26¢. r—No. :, 44% @45c: To. 2, uhae 43c; ‘butterfat, Fo, 1, 41c; N
riers during war emergency; E. W. K'
0. 2,-88¢. . tes on produce Selivered at diane £
rause, John Sloan Smith, John G.- Quinn.
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