Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1942 — Page 10

S CAN BE HAD RGO PLANES

Inder Reasonably Good Conditions Plant Could Be Made Ready for Production in Not More Than 15 Months, Writer Declares.

This is the fourth of five articles defending the thesis that 5000 extra cargo anes could be produced without impeding other war production. In this one e machine-tool bottleneck is analyzed.

By JOHN F. CRAMER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Again and again, the can’t do it boys have said we can’t turnout additional cargo planes without interfering with bomber production. © : : This article will explain\why we can, if- we really want to, produce many as 5000 extra cargo planes without sacrificing bombers. It also will explain why it is reasonable to believe that the first plane could be delivered in 12 to 15 months, full-scale production achieved

within 24 months, and the 5000th plane delivered within 30 month s. )

Previous articles have showed that we have the manpower—if we are, willing to work and sacrifice as do England, Germany and Russia—and that we have the materials, if we exert the extra effort to dig them out of the ground.

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Nevertheless, us a practical mat-| A pelorus, used by the navy, is a ter, the builder of 5000 extra cargo|device which fits over the surface of planes would be confronted by tWO0(g compass to enable the operator

_ great bottlenecks—aluminum and|t, take bearings on distant objects.

machine tools. : It has split hair sights, has been in ~ Aluminum, as explained yesterday, use for many years . . ., and costs

definitely in a breakable bottleneck. approximately $125.

‘As to machine tools; the builder of 5000 extra cargo planes would require: 1. Tools to equip a complete new aircraft engine plant. 2. Tools to conwert nine shipyards _ into aircraft assembly plants, a lesser job than tooling up for engines—because somewhere between 20 per cent ( 's estimate) and 70 per cent (Henry-J. Kaiser's estimate, are already available in the yards. ’

A Look at Tool Problem

Under the worst possible conditions, getting these tools might take]. : as long as 20 months, because— These instruments are essential It takes about 10% months 10|oqyinment to every American ship

tool up an aircraft engine plant. which comes out of the shipy ’ pyards. According to WPB’s aircraft branch, With the scores of ships now being

that was the time needed by one of completed each month, we need

the very largest plants.

According to Tell Berna of Cleve-

land, president of the Machine

; ‘Tool Builders association, the tool

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many of these instruments. Your purchase of war bonds and stamps will help pay for them. Invest at least 10. per cent of your income every payday in these interest bear-

months, and certainly no longer

industry has a backlog of $1,500,000,000 in orders—enough to keep it working at capacity for 9% (Ng government securities. bo . months. > Therefore, under the worst possi- STATE 0 | 0 BACKS ble conditions, it might be 9% 1 hi Us 1 months before the tool industry "could begin to tool up for extra ANTI-INFLATION PLAN cargo planes. And it might be another 10% months before the job| ne Indiana state industrial union Was Bnished. \ council today sent a letter to all Quick Shift Possible Hoosier congressmen urging the But under reasonably good con-|immediate adoption of President ditions, it ought to be possible t0|pgosevelt’s seven-point anti-infla-do’ the tooling job in as little as 12 tion program. than 15 months., Here is why: “Upon a successful checking of For one thing, the cargo-plane|the inflationary process, upon the builder would not be handicapped |mobilization of our people in a full by lack of materials, which even |wartime economy depends to ‘a

HEPARIN EASE “DAMAGE BY X-RAYS By Selends Service : ' CHICAGO, Sept. 18—A- new use for heparin, antiblood clot chemical, is suggested by experiments reported by Dr. Floyd Boys and Dr. Ivor David Harris, of Charlottesville, Va. at the meeting ‘here of the American ‘Roentgen Ray Society. ad $s . The inflammation resulting from X-ray damage to the lungs may be prevented, ‘or at least reduced in severity, by means of. heparin, pre-

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The ‘possibility of using heparin

for this purpose was. suggested by previous studies by Dr. Boys and|

associates ‘which, they ' reported, showed that the. adhesions sometimes following operations within the abdomen might be prevented by heparin. :

|| TOWNSEND CLUB TO MEET : Townsend Club No. 25 will meet tomorrow night at McClain’s® hall, State and Hoyt aves. Sandwiches will ‘be served at 5:30 p. m. and

1music will be presented by the

kitchen band.

1 3 I -¥ vil TIUN Ge RESCUES MINERALS "By Science Service - WILMINGTON, Del, Sept. 18.— Quantities of precious copper, zinc, lead, nickel, tungsten, chromium

and other strategic metals are being rescued from low-grade déposits

and mine wastes by air bubbles, |

which float them to the surface. The low-grade ores are ground in water and small amounts of chemicals are added which selectively attach themselves to the grains of the valuable minerals and float them to the surface. : This process of “froth flotation”

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which improve the process and make it more economical. The precious minerals are skimmed off the surface and subsequently smelted and refined. :

SPUR SHIPBUILDING WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (U. P.). —Shipyards will award - war bond prizes totaling $250 a month to employees making valuable suggestions. for promoting efficiency and curtailing waste under a program announced by the maritime commission.

c x Co." the development of new| chemicals by themselves and others

= CURB NEAR CAMPS" me COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 18 (U. By.| FASE TYPEWRITER BAN vision of social protection, said yes- ~The office of price administration terday that ségregation is “definite- has extended eligibility for purchase iy not” the solution to “the national |of Portable and standard |typewritplague” of venereal disease which |ers to contraciors engaged in war causes three times as many mini-|work, the merchant marine indus Jaty Sasualiies as Smalipes. diph-|try, labor unions, employers’ assohstia, Infanjille para ysis and scar- ciations and agencies auxiliary to The former Cleveland safety di-|'le War effort such as the United rector appealed to representatives|Service urganizations, the United of the National Sheriffs’ association|Seaman’s service and the Red to eliminate. commercialized psosti- | Cross.

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now is beginning to hold back tool [large extent the winning of this}

production. He would supply his war,” Secretary Walter Frisbie own. wrote. .

For another—according to WPB| He asked the congressmen to state

and trade sources, the tool indus-|their positions on the president's}

try will have much idle capacity program in letters of reply and when the present backlog dis- added “if we do not hear from you appears. It could turn very quickly |We must assume that you are Op-

to the job of constructing tools for posing it.” extra cargo planes. “This is not a Democratic or Re-

For another—according to .WPB, {publican pfogram,” he said, “it is

not all the 9'%-month backlog is{an American program, a win-the-}

“oritical” backlog. According to one |War program. If you do support _ very -high WPB official, the indus- the war, -you must support this try could plunge into the cdrgo- program.

plane job within six to . eight months. / $10,000 SUIT FILED IN TRAFFIC DEATH

Consider Kaiser’s Record A suit seeking $10,000 damages for

For another—according to WPB figures, it might be possible even

| now to squeeze extra production|the death of Mrs. Martella Weidig

"industry operated during.

out of the tool industry. , These|in the downtown traffic accident in figures, obtained from WPB's ma- | Which two other persons were killed

chine tool branch, show that the[and 12 injured was on file in the July an county clerk’s office today.

- The action was brought by Emsley W. Johnson Jr., administrator of the Weidig estate, against John W. Lee, driver of the death car, and the Fitzpatrick Bros., Inc., Lee’s employer. Lee's car jumped the sidewalk at Washington and Me*jridian sts. July 19th and plunged into a crowd of pedestrians.

average of 110 hours a week out of & possible 168. ~~ And finally, Henry J. Kaiser, on his record, is a genius at helping producers find extra plant capacity to do the job he wants done.. On the basis of the above facts {t is reasonable to believe: ‘1. That , during the first six months of the machine-tool backlog period, the builder of 5000 excargo planes could get done at Jeast 10 per cent of his tooling-up b. He would do it by providing ra materials, finding extra plant apacity, and possibly persuading e toolmaking plants to work ger hours.

months of the backlog period he could get done another: 30 per cent. 3. That ‘the end of the 9%month backlog period would find him 40 per-cent tooled up. 4, That by this time the’ toolmakers, having eaten up their back=

up the remaining 60 per cent in record time.

i 2. That during the final 3% May Get Ready in 15 Months

hash aT NE id wo - - 1 out of 2 get it! If spread over the entire industry,

Those _ dtchy blisters, tiny cracks|this Job might take as little as 2%

£ may mean Batieen foes) may Ino more than 5% months. Let's

: hlete’s Foot! 2 . . : assume 5% months. In that case, Ge Batons, gud WV-325. Keach the cargo-plane builder would be hroush coe cracks to kill tooled up and ready to produce in breeding apaolutey ale a total elapsed time of 15 months. 7s counters. Now take Henry J. Kaiser's own estimate of how fast he could turn out extra cargo planes once he got in production. When he: first ‘| broached his plan last July 19 at Portland, Ore., he estimated: ” Ten flying boats a month, from each of nine yards, for the firs three months—a total of 270. ; Twenty a month from each yard for the next three months—a total of 540. : Forty a month from each yard

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of 1080. Sixty a month from each yard for the next six months—a total of 3240. : - That would be a grand total of 5130 ships within 15 months after the assembly line started, and 30 months after the start of tooling up. J And these would be extra or | —they would not retard any item of War.

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