Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1942 — Page 10
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Record Traffic on Railroads
—e By ROGER BUDROW, THE OTHER DAY AT UNION STATION a ignesse
man dashed in a few minutes
off for the air corps training school at Miami. So he thought. Walking back through the station he discovered the two sitting in the waiting room, consulting schedules again; the train they were to take had been full.
~~ Possibly some others will have _ that same experience this week-end. Because the .Labor Day holiday is sure to set an all-time record for : the railroads. " Their passenger business is already at level Although they have. been trying to get summer vacationists pack from the lakes and resorts earlier this year, many wait until ‘the last minute. Roger B Budrow ° Add to that the troop movements and the increasing freight hauling. Trains are running faster, waiting ‘in terminals less than they used to. Locomotives are repaired in record ~ time. Efficiency has been improved up and down the line since the last world war. : But before any disappointed cus-
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tomers cry out for government con-|cattle, 375 calves and 1175 ‘sheep.
trol of railroad operations, let him _ remember that such week-ends as the one coming up represent a peak which exists only for a few days. Day in and day out, the railroads
: sould handle twice as much traffic] 1 : Bs they did last month, according way Age. 3
” » 8 ONE ORGANIZATION here is experimenting with getting jobs for salesmen who have nothing to sell any more. The U. S. employment service, now busy with finding war workers, likes the idea of someone else helping out. If the organization gets results, it will make public its offer. ® 8 =
A LARGE CONCERN, with headquarters here, planned to build a branch factory before the war. . Came the steel shortage and the president doubted whether steel should be used to put up a new factory, even if he could get it and even if his product is fairly “essential.” So the machinery (all of it bought and ready to be in-
stalled) and plans are being held 3
up for the duration. 2 2 8 PLANNING TO BURN wood this . winter, in case Washington: orders fuel oil rationing in the Midwest? A cord of dry wood has about the same heating value as a ton of average coal or 200 gallons of fuel oil, says the American Forest Products Industries. Prices vary widely, de- + pending on how close to the source] of supply you are. » ® 2 ODDS AND ENDS: About 60% of southern Indiana’s corn is advanced far enough to be safe from frost now. . . . Black market price for chocolate candy in axis Europe is $7 a pound. . . . Millers around here are having soft red winter wheat
shipped back from Buffalo elevators|
because of the short crop this season. . . «+ WPA is making another house survey here. Its February . survey showed only 1% of the habitable houses here vacant.
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By Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Aluminum from clay may get war production ‘board approval.
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Hog prices advanced 10 to 15 cents at the Indianapolis stockyards today, the agricultural marketing administration reported.
Weights under 160 pounds rose 18 cents while those above 160 pounds were 10 cents higher than yesterday. The practical top was $14.70 for good
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U. 8S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 .(U. P.).—Government expenses and is for the current fiscal year through Sept. 1, come pared with a year ago:
This Yea! Expenses $10,541,412, 318, g 83.571 308 ina 53 War spend. 9,535 5.092,13 306.7 5.7 Receipts . y 863,510,204.36 oe 9,185,531,174. 13 2,387, we: 158.17 Cash b i 3.913.193. Sis 424. eek 7,329,799. 60,168.77 Pub. er 26, 206. 573, 086.28 57, '870.143.49¢. 15 Gold res.. 32,755,685,871.02 23,718,603,343.95
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to choice 220 to 240-pounders but|grade bauxite (containing less than|
‘75{of the alumina and the clay process
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clay, but alunite, low-grade bauxite and other domestic sources in the event that our supplies. of highgrade bauxite from British and Dutch Guiana, which has accounted for.60 per cent of our. whole supply, may be greatly diminished or wholly cut off by the U-boat warfare in the Caribbean sea. These processes have been investigated for more than a year by scientists of the National Research council of the National Academy of Sciences, and a report has been made at the request of the WPB by Dr. Zay Jefiries, chairman of the metals conservation and substitution group of the advisory committee on metals and minerals.
Use Bayer Process All the aluminum in this country || has been made until now from high-
7 per cent of silica) by the Bayer process, which is the cheapest way, provided high-grade bauxite ‘is available. But this process does
At least E the board is intensely considering several processes involving not only
_- This ‘is the “beeby prize” they ‘give at the Charlestown, Ind. smokeless powder plant to the department whose employees have the worst record in not showing up for work.
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To the department where minor accidents cause the greatest loss of » production time goes this white elephant.
not extract all of the alumina (aluminum oxide) from even the best of ore, and the poorer the ore,|, = the greater the waste and the greater the expense for chemicals.
two ways, the committee found.
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No.! 1 yellow The clay processes can be used in ak oats,
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"lof the legally established maximum, OPA said. According to OPA at- . |torneys, complaints from all parts -|of :the country were. that certain
Selling Inferior sales atl Ceilings Set for Better Cuts Is Charged.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U. P). ~The office’ of price administration today will seek ‘injunctions in federal courts in 18 cities to compel more than 100 meat packers and distributors to comply with Beles regulations. OPA said that most of the. cases involved so<called “up-grading” of beef and veal, ‘which consists of stamping and selling meat which is inferior at prices established for higher grades. Many of the cases, however, are concerned with “plain and simple over-charging” OPA asserted. ; Carcasses and wholesale cuts of meat subject to price regulation must be accurately stamped and must not be sold at prices in excess
packers* and wholesale distributors were “palming off ,inferior cuts” ‘above price ceilings and ignoring regulations generally, : State OPA Administrator James Strickland said no injunctions are being sought against Indiana packers because the OPA legal -department believed evidence obtained was not sufficient on which to base court action. ‘The Washington OPA office named three Indiana packers in connection with the injune-
tion proceedings but Mr. Strickland said the Indiana’ OPA was not
white oats, 43c, 42c.
planning to take such action.
|in our economy.”
By RUTH FINNEY WASHINGTON, ‘Sept. 3—-When {the war ends, America is ‘going to |find itself with a new kind of in-
dustry and a new kind of worker. This picture is beginning to emerge from war production. It has two parts. In the first piace, plants are diversifying as never before, making things they didn’t know they could} mike. And on the other hand, workers’ skills are “becoming more limited as machines are developed to . make processes easier and quicker. A quick trip through war plants in the Far West and Middle West Shows that these trends are .gen-
Scarcely a plant in the country today is turning out just a ‘single product. Some of them are making as many as 200 different war materials. In many cases the products are sensationally diversified.
More Competition?
“When the war ends you are going to find plants all over the United States’ able to make anything,” J. W. Frazer, president of WillysOverland Motors at Toledo, said in commenting on this development. “You're going to see this reflected How, he was not ready to predict. Another official thought the result might be greater competition among companies than ever before, since a few will no longer have a corner on difficult technical processes. A third suggested that it might make sections of the country more independent of each other than they have been. Still another believes the increased efficiency that American industry is learning, and . its speed-up of already fast mass pro-
EY sel ll world markets despite the, {higher American wage.
‘This speed-up'is partly due to in-| stallation of more machines than in : dustry has ever . before assembled, and that leads to the change Sia
age of skilled labor,” Mr. Frazer
on, but it is for people who have never worked in a factory before.” -He was talking about the process, under way for nearly a year now, or breaking down operations requiring’ a high degreé of skill and experience to simpler jobs: that less “trained people can perform un-er supervision. The method was adopted: when manpower shortages first began to develop in a few industries. As the shortages spread, machine tools were developed to take the place of many skills.’ A pipe, for instance, that had to be bent twice to fit inte an used to be bent by hand slowly and meticulously. Now a worker sets a machine which does it quickly and without danger of error. In plant after ‘plant, employers are praising their new “fool-proof” machines, and putting new work= ers to running them: after only two or: three weeks of training in general machine-shop methods. Entrance of women into industry} is increasing this trend. The supply of women with any experience whatever in shop work was very limited. In some cities employers took girls: who had been through the courses offered by vocationaleducational schools, but -in others they hired them and provided their own brief training, co-operating with WPB’s training-within-indus-
duction methods, will enable it to
try programs.
“We aren't worrying about & short-|
anywhere. Lots of training is going|a
No one has a clear idea of this will mean in peacetime, w er it will mean a raising or a ering of living standards. company officials have little - : tience with postwar speculation, They feel they've been given a. job to do now, and should devote their energy to doing it.
HOME CONSTRUCTION CUT AGAIN BY WPB
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U. PJ. — The war production board today ane nounced drastic cuts, effective Sept, 7, in the amount of civilian cone struction allowable without specifio
authorization. The new classifications and the limit which may be constructed i without specific authorization coms I pared with the previous limits. dential, cut from $500 to 003 multiple residential, $500 increased : to $1,000: commercial construction such as clubs and lodges, cut from $5,000 to $200; other types of E mercial, including highway and utilities construction, cut from $5000 to $1000.
Aluminum oxide (alumina) can be extracted directly from the clay, or
from high-silica (low-grade) bauxite to convert it to low-silica bauxite which can then be treated by the Bayer method. In either case the ‘metal is then extracted by electrolysis. ; The tailings, thrown out by the Bayer plants, called red mud on account of its color, can be considered as clay, the committee pointed out, and the clay process applied: They recommended that clay-reducing plants be added to existing Bayer plants. High-silica bauxite can then be fed to the Bayer plant which will remove about 70 per cent
applied to the tailings will get most of .the rest.
Red Mud Is Hope
In particular the committee recommended that the clay process be applied to the millions of tons of red mud that has accumulated during the past -thirty or more years at the East St. Louis plant of the Aluminum Co. of America. This mud contains as much alumina a8 is contained in 1,000,000 tons of It also contains large quantities of lime and soda, materials used in both the Bayer and the clay processes. The proportion of alumina to silica is higher than in kaolin clay which is almost pure aluminum silicate. It is good aluminum ore. It is already mined and pulverized, and contains a part of the materials needed for. its own reduction. There's half a million tons of aluminum in that thar hill. There are two kinds of clay process, the acid and the alkaline. committee favors the latter which consists in the main in mixing the clay with lime and soda, sintering and washing. The Ténnessee Valley authority has been experimenting for the past five years with an acid process applied to white kaolin clay, but the committee finds that the alumina it produces is not as yet sufficiently pure. However, the TVA is continuing its investigations and hopes to perfect the process. Finally alunite or alum stone, a common mineral, is another source
quires sulfuric acid, a substance for which there are enormous other demands in the war effort. But the stone is composed mostly of potas-sium-aluminum sulfate, so that the ;|acid ‘can be made from the sulfur present in the mineral. : Next to low-silicon bauxite the
silicon bauxite, and the best use of
with a Bayer plant, the committee concluded. Meanwhile search for
should be vigorously continued.
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By ELMER
NEW YORK, Sept. 3—Wall
Great BPritain suspended gold payments and frightened New York into a temporary suspension of short selling, Sept. 2, 1930, is remembered as
Wall Street Says Anything Can Happen in September
United Press Financial Editor
in September. Many of the notable incidents in Wall Street et ppen took place in the ninth month of the year. . + World war No. 2 began in Setember, 1939. Back in early September, 1928, the market made its all-time record high. On Sept. 31, 10381,
Mexico or Canada.
C. WALZER
Street says
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