Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1942 — Page 12
‘That He Can Build ‘Dem Big Air Boats.”
+ By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
~ WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.— The
: circus, meaning Henry J. j Kaiser, is back in town for a return performance. : The big, bulky package of "cando” is here again to try to prove to reluctant officials that he can cap a career strewn. with dams, bridges, steel plants, highways, acgueducts, ships, and what-not by building “dem big air boats,” as the boys in the corner saloon would say—and the boys in the corner saloon now know all about Henry Kaiser
The circus began back in California. Henry Kaiser, wrote tg friends in the east that he expected to get back to Washington Wednes-
day, adding, in his matter-of-fact 3
way, stream-liner.
That is, he was going on the air|
. for a radio speech at the same minute the stream-liner left San Francisco, it was a half-hour speech.
Catches Stream-Liner
So by the time he was ending up with a fancy quotation from Tennyson, . the -stream-liner was whining in the distance. But he made it... . . ~ He jumped into an automobile, with a state police patrol out in front, screaming their sirens—thus California treats her No. 1 citizen —and away they went. They caught the train at Las Vegas, Nev., 375 miles away. So Mr. Kaiser got here Wednesday as scheduled. But he didn’t get a lot done and he still faced his show-down with officials. This delay is part of the circus. The trouble was he couldn't find the engineer of Howard Hughes, his co-partner in the proposed venture . to build 500 huge cargo planes, and the engineer, R. F. Ridley, had all the specifications for the big cargo ship, as well as all the data regarding the raw materials which Mr. Kaiser plans to use in doing his job. According to the government .mandate, he must find his materials outside present stocks set aside and allocated for the war program.
Finds an Engineer He finally gave up looking for Mr. Ridley who was supposed to be here. He figured that Mr. Ridley’s plane must have been grounded. - His own engineer, Douglas Albert,
the way East. After he had been to see Donald " M. Nelson, WPB chairman, he lo‘cated the Hughes" engineer, who was here all the time. But it was too late, then, for him and Mr. . Nelson to sit down and really ~ thrash the problem out, so another .. conference was scheduled for today.
Mr. Kaiser's arrival in town was|
the biggest event of the day. Consequently, a whole herd of newspaper reporters sat outside Nelson's “office in an anteroom that looks like a dentist’s.
At 6 o'clock, the big doors into] 7
Mr. Nelsont’s office opened, and Mr. Nelson himself stepped out like a Shakespearian actor from the wings,
and was . immediately surrounded. ©
He told the boys the bad news— that is, that Mr. Hughes’ engineer was missing, and Mr. Kaiser didn’t . have his specifications, and accordingly, they couldn't get down to “business. Talk About Steel
~ They had talked about seel ahd aluminum, and .duo-mold, a plastic material which Mr. Kaiser may use for his planes.
. | Medi ‘Mr. Nelson was a bit edgy. Henry G “3
" Kaiser makes them that way. When asked what they had been .talking about for two hours; he glared, and said: “We talked about a lot of things. . Mr. Kaiser and I often talk about the weather.” _ Then he closed, with an omniscient wave to end the interview, by a crack with the vacuity of a poli-
‘tician’s promise: “I will carry along)
“to the logical conclusion.” Reporters took this down, then looked up vacantly from their pen“ells. ‘But Mr. Nelson had disappeared through the doors. An hour later Kaiser met the reporters at his. hotel suite. He reterated he could do the job, that he has located all necessary raw materials, and has definite data
about where they are, how: much|Medium—
they will cost to get out of the ground or produce, and that the de-
WARN METAL HOLDERS NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (U.P) ~The
excessive copper’ inventories :
at unless they agree to sell these erves that their stock would be
15 tioned. Ne date over 14000 firms have ed a total of 111,000,000 pounds
if he could overtake the:
: GOODYEAR TIRE WINS | FEDERAL ‘E’ AWARD 5
;| be
old Tin Collection for All|Ta
“County Is Soheduled
Next Monday. =. County-wide collection: of tin
ie en |trucks, Mayor. Sullivan. announced
More ‘than 40 street and park. de-
| partment trucks wil cover every
street in Indianapolis, picking. up
: any boxes: of tin cans left in front
of homes. Persons having a collection of tin cans should take out the bottoms and smash them flat in order to conserve.space. Schools Are Centers
Township trustees and civie organizations in suburban areas have}
arranged to take all cans in those
OPEN HOG SALES DOWN 20 GENTS
Drop Registered on Weights Of 160 to 240 Pounds;
Others Also Lower.
‘ Open hog sales dropped as much as 20 cents today at the Indianapolis stockyards, according to the agricultural marketing commis-
160 to 240-pound weights. Heavier weights were 5 to 10 cents lower than yesterday and weights under 160 pounds were 15 cents down. The top was $14.50 on 240 to 270 pounds. Receipts were 12,100 hogs, 1000 cattle, 525 calves, and 2225 sheep.
HOGS (12,100)
Good to , 2 vee thames cava $13.00 13.50
. 14.20
[email protected] JiN8a)415 {Nai + [email protected] Good—
400- 450 pounds .
ana Baan 450- 580 pounds see + [email protected]
Medium: 250- 550 pounds 1275013.90 Slaughter Pigs
Medium and Good-— 90- 120 pounds [email protected]
CATTLE (1000) .
+ Slaughter Cattle & Calves Steers
ssssesanes +.$14.50 Hi
is siassseaies . 145 s 14.754
Bi
Choice 700- 900 900-1100 1100-1300 §00-1500
18. 16.
pounc poung
SeBstetenNNe IS .cessvssnnses eeveenseaies
00- 900 900-1100
pound 1100-1300
13. 30 14.75
sion. This drop was registered on 4
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oody 14.30 Int Harv [email protected] Int T & T J
Without
trend in quiet forenoon dealings tod A few specialties met demand, in featureless trade.
common firmed fractionally and the tinental Baking preferred, Hazell - Atlas Glass, Hershey and Minneapolis Honeywell gained a point or more, the last to a new high.
Anaconda Armour Ill Atchison Atl] Refining alt & Ohio.. Bendix Ava ... 34 3eth Steel .... orden 21
Gen Foods .... Gen oMtors ... Goodrich
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Mont Ward . Nash-Kelv Nat Biscuit Nat Gash Reg.. Nat Dairy
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ard Pan-Am Airways 11% oe 15%
emublie gu’: 14 c Sears Roebuck. 56% Inc ...... 1%
Morning Market Trading.
Decisive Trend
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (U. P.) —Stocks failed to develop a decisive
ay. but the main list: moved narrowly
New York City Omnibus rose almost a point, while Omnibus Corp.
preferred jumped 1% points. Con-
Complete’ New York stock quotations are carried daily in the final edition of The Times.
CHICAGD BOARD
Liberal Liquidation Locals Results in
Fractional Losses. CHICAGO, Sept. 10 (U. P)—
Grain futures and soybeans eased on the Chicago board of trade today. While mill buying continued, liberal liquidation by locals caused fractional losses. At the end of the first hour|] 16| wheat was off ‘% to % cent a
bushel; corn off % to 1: oats off % to %; rve off % to 7%, and soy74 | beans off %.
Industrial alcohol distillers were
reported scheduled to use 136,000,+1000 bushels of grain in 1943, Lawrence Norton. chairman of the Kan- % sas U. S. D. nounced today.
A. war board, anSubstitution of
by;
16.00| Sos 16.00{ South Pac
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1300-1500 Mi
tester sscase
edium— 700-1100 11.50
unds .... 1100-1300 Po
Pounds .ccenccenins
ommon 700-1100 pounds
Choice— 600- 800 pounds 800-1000 pounds
[email protected] [email protected]
13.50| uy 11.50913 80
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grain ‘ for sugar to manufacture alcohol opened another wartime market for the midwestern farmer, said Norton, and will save more
than' a billion pounds of sugar.
~ cattered . commission - house selling of corn and. substantial buying
be by many of the larger commission
houses kept trade at a brisk pace. _
Varner Bros ... Vest Union ... Vest Air Rke
Good—
El /hite » Mot
600- 800 pounds . [email protected]
Solwarth. “e
12. 800-1000 pounds. . 12.75@ 14.00 Medium— 500- 900 pounds ssssseses Common— 500- 900 pounds ......... “aes
Cows (all weights)
00 an0egtene oes [email protected] [email protected]
Bulls (all weights) (Yearlings Excluded)
vesinaneise sesreesves. 11.00@12,00
[email protected] [email protected]} ,, 8.75@ 9.75
CALVES (325)
Vealers (all weights)
Good and choice Common and medi 10.50: Cull (75 lbs. UP) ccevininein. 8.00 10.50
Feeder & Stocker Cattle & Calves Steers
Choice
ssesssescaree 13.50 ga.38]
Medium 500-1000 pounds 9800000 tes [email protected]
Common 3 500- 900 pounds '......c.. vies [email protected] Calves (Steers) :
Good and Choice—
$500 pounds down . [email protected]
[email protected] - Calves (heifers) Good and Choice 500 pounds down ........... 13.0001800
Medium 500 pounds down [email protected]
SHEEP AND LAMBS (2225)
Ewes on
Good and choice Sommen th choice Spring Lambs Good and choice -..... Seaceree Medium and good Common
Times Special . AKRON, O., Sept. 10.—An armynavy “E” flag, symbolic of outstanding accomplishments in ‘war
the flag over Plant 3 of the Gooda.
Young Sheet .
207400 The Co13 85 Gets; a 400-500 Ibs. $13.65@14. :
spring a: classes ray choice 80-1b, Idahos, $14; bulk good and choice, $13. [email protected]; throwouts, $9.50 dow two double feeder yearlings, $9.7 trade: Few opening sales spring a) to 25 cents higher; ward: choice Wa
$13.50016.00 >
500-800 pounds 800-1050 pounds .cccoccsceses [email protected] 1b. o! Good— 800-1050 pounds ..ccesscscces 11.50012.35 -
Sag eh 1650."
3.60; 1 $13.10; 100-130 1bs., | ewes, $5.50 d
‘| production, will ‘be awarded the| Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co,
Wai Be
ellow T 11 | 30% 29%
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
Hogs—Receipts, 33.000; marekt, slow; enefally 8 i) cents lower on all veights an ; good and choice 180-300 bs, $14. rd 55: op, 14. 60; few 160-180 bs., $13.85 d choice sows,
ts, 30.000: late yesterday: to 10 cents higher; other western, $14; best natives, double can
seven ner to choice rr ewes, $5. 73 sl ah
and choice, Hh tons at $14.50 up yearlings and a? stead earlings, $12; double choice Southwest wpe, $11.25; bulk
wes, $5@6. Cattle--Receibts, 10,000; calves, 800; eS best: Steers. ad yearlings steady; cents lower; most hTERT 16; a 3 oun $iss0; so some tresings, $1828: hi Ee aid 31 » ers § active a oice kinds; , $15.40; Scents higher; weighty cu sut= ern grass cows ve, firm; weighs s to $13; veaelrs steayd stock © cattle slow.’
Northern
Reid
OTHER LIVESTOCK. WAYNE, Sept. 10 (U. P. 30 Toe. . $14.20; bs., ge - {5a 0; 260- So 10; 300-350 he ; 150-160 40-150 1bs., $13. 36; $12.85. ugis, $13; stags, $148, Calves, $15.50; Tha $13.50;
U: S. STATEMENT
'GTON, Sept. 10 {. Regi) ~—Govrecei for the a 8 dom
WASHIN! pei expenses and current fiscal year throug 301 pared with a year
This ea nses. -$11,862,575,945.54 050 923,558 Wor pnd L802 81804534 e308 rr] v Receipts. 560.5. 715,851.88
ork. Bal = 1,603,168,295. : Fub. Debt §6,616,595,936.07 iid: 176.27 1d Res. 232,74
INDIANAPOLIS CLEA CLEARING HOUSE
severe iesanseny 8 41580 Ind
12,205.00 |
fesse erasscaveane
£0R
0 a he cn ana,
‘Chicago market] ed grata
The announcement of the award)red Anes has been made by Robert P. Pat-|ous : war:/ No. 3 wii
i award. will include. the holstinz af
Ktocks Belt RR Stk Yds
+635,993. 992.33 22,729,487, 107.28] Home
Oats trading was moderate with
some commission house selling and light buying by local brokers.
Profit-taking marked trade in the
rye pit with a volame of mixed buying
houses.
and selling by commission The out of town: markets followed
the pattern of the Chicago pits.
DENY RUMORS OF SALE NEW: YORK, Sept. 10 (U.P.).—
Frank G. Handren, president of Park & Tilford distillers, has categorically denied reports that distillers Corporation-Seagrams, Ltd., was 51 negotiating for the purchase of the 102-year-old liquor house.
LOCAL ISSUES oJ, ms Sse 20 Dealers. : es Bid Ask >
53 Belt RR Stk Yds 0%) pid.. wd eee
6 te Ber 5%% vtd..
Indpls: Water 5% ved, . Indpls Water Lincoln Loa
160 lbs. 130-140 1bs..| 3 Tn
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areas to the nearest school where they will be picked up by city trucks. - The last tin can collection was
about a month ago but many areas
were missed and residents whose cans were not collected at that time
| were asked to put them out again
Henry J. Kaiser, the “I Can Do” shipbullder from the west. coast, is shown holding a press conference afier he had talked with WPB Chief Donald Nelson in Washington on his plan to build cargo. planes.
for Monday's collection. The cans will be hauled to freight cars. for shipment to Pittsburgh. The Sy will’he paid 415 per ton for the scrap.
YIELDS WORK TO TREASURY
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (U.P.).— The retail advisory committee, which
ings bonds and stamps through retail establishments of the nation since before Pearl Harbor, has voted unanimously to turn its work over to the treasury department.
PROTEST RAILWAYS : WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U.P). —Appointment of a committee charged with providing railroads with protection against “sabotage and other destructive acts,” was an-
| Inounced today by the office of de-
"GRAIN EASES ON
fense transportation.
consis HEE
has been directing sales of war sav-|
‘ling Co., Cudahy Brothers, United
ate Ave; Will Carry More Than 4000 Suits. A new men’s clothing store, the | Case Clothes Factory Loft, opened today at 215-217 N. Senate ave. "The establishment, which will occupy the second and third floors of the Abbott Laboratories, Inc. building, will carry an assortment
of more than 4000 men’s suits.
Case Clothes maintains its own factories and will sell suits direct from its plants. Unique in men’s clothing stores, it will have no elaborate displays, merely gas pipe racks from which hundreds of suits can be seen in a few minutes. George Jay Simons, official of
300 Destroyed, 0 y¢ Damaged and 107 Others.
Crippled. | | een. MACARTHUR'S HEAD. |QUARTERS, Australian, Sept. 10 | |(U. PJ. —Allied planes under Gen, |Douglas: MacArthur's command thave destroyed or damaged at leass 477 Japanese planes in less than seven months, a review of the first 150 communiques of his united nas tions headquarters showed today. Of the total, 300 were destroyed, 70 so severely damaged that they |propably crashed and 107 were dame : | The real total probably exceeds
Be J
500 because on many occasions when bombs were on parked
Case clothes, officiated at the formal opening of the store today. The establishment will be kept open until 9 vu. m. every day to accommodate war plant workers who cannot shop during the day hours.
FOUR MORE PACKERS ENJOINED UNDER OPA
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 10 (U. P.)—Enjoinment of four additional Milwaukee meat packers today brought to 14 the number of local firms cited for alleged violation of OPA regulations. The four were Plankington Pack-
Dressed Beef Co. and Donner Com- | it mission Co. The other 10 packers made no objections to the issuance of temporary writs. All defendants were charged with selling above ceiling prices and six were accused of “upgrading” beef and veal in violation of U. S. aepartment of agriculture standards.
ENGINEER TO REPORT
the Wright 'Aeronagtical - Corp. of Patterson, O. who /has just completed a study of a captured Jap Mitsubishi airplane engine, will re-
meeting of the Indiana section, Society of ‘Automotive engineers here next Thursday.
members will also see slide illustrations of the engine along with many of its parts. The engine powered a Jap zero fighter before
men and was first studied by the experimontal engineering section of the army air forces materiel center, Wright field, Ohio.
section chairman Joseph Liston of the aeronautical faculty of Purdue university. . ties.
planes results could not be seen. Allied air and naval forces under
stroyers, seven ‘submarines and 13 transports and cargo vessels and have damaged one carrier, three de=
ON CAPTIVE ENGINE
W. G. Ovens, staff engineer of
port his findings at the" first fall
Meeting in Hotel Antlers, the ng operations in New Guinea.
LEASE TWO WAREHOUSES '!
.Edward Barker & Son, Indiane apolis realtors, have leased two‘ large warehouses to the Internae tional Furniture Co. of Rushville and Chicago, Ill, for the storage of furniture. One of the warehouses is in Lebanon, the other is in North Vernon. Barker & Son reports & scarcity of such buildings in Indiane apolis with railroad switch facilie
was shot down by American air-
The meeting will be directed by
Here's Your Cha
a SILENT Gas Refrigerator oo
nee to Buy )
There are no Gas refrigerators manufac iy tured today . . . Servel is busy on war
orders, but WPB order (L 5 4 Amend-
ment 2) permits the
SRE te
‘stocks to the public. Here is ‘your on 3 portunity to buy a new gas refrigerator while those in our warehouse last. "We ni
‘haven’t many.
“early for best-
SILENCE Means. Longer :