Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1942 — Page 12
5 A “Curb-Stone’ View of i the) HERE 18 $13.60 City’s Major War ‘Factories
By ‘ROGER BUDEOW
; WELL, IT WAS A NICE DAY FOR A DRIVE and the vernment man wanted to see some of the local war plants fore’ gasoline rationing put a crimp in such sight-seeing] 1 took: him on a quick tour of the industrial section of|
city.
One thing he noticed right off was s that the new factories ow, one-story affairs. Most impressive of these are the
ew Curtiss-Wright propellor factory on Kentucky ave.,
dgeport Brass and the newest Allison plant out south-
est of the city and the Naval Ordnance plant.
about transportation when he how far these plants are from ’ homes, ‘The steel shortage was evident “in two of them. Curtiss ~ Wright's ~new.’ plant is. being built = with wooden beams and brick and Al~lison is - using cement supports and ‘brick on the side walls’ with a wood : roof. The modern, blackout factories,
Stay out of Speedway City when they are changing shifts at AlliSon. There's so much traffic in and out of the factory parking lot that it takes quite a lot of police to
The smoke ‘abatement people ‘ought to be pleased with Bridgert. In spite of ‘the work hey: do with metal, very little Smoke pours from their chimneys. there are other plants that make up for it. One big plant was more than a month behind schedule because of the slowness in getting machine - tools. Others aren't going at full * capacity because of shortages in " metals. Girls were coming out in Torge numbers from several factories and when I told the government man ‘how many girls one big war plant is expecting *o hire in the next six months, he was astonished but didn’t think they would have any trouble getting them because girls would like to earn good money while their husbands are away at war. : Most of the war plants are fenced in with guards at every entrance ‘but we saw one (from the back) that looked like it.was operating under. peacetime precautions. And at one we could see the assembly line from the street, with the important war product it makes right in full view. ~The government. man concluded that Indianapolis ranks as one of the more important war production centers but he didn’t think that many people realized just how important. I allowed that it would be ‘just as well not to brag about it until there was no danger of stray bombers getting over this part of the country. i A VAGUE ADVERTISEMENT by a local manufacturer seeking women workers swamped the U. S. employment service office here ‘this week. :The company advertised for 300- women but gave mo specifications about age requirements, experience, etc. By 8:30. Monday morning 500 women showed up at the job ‘agency. They had to turn the rest away, telling them to come ‘back the next day. By 8:30 Tues‘day morning there were 300 on ‘hand. The same thing had to be ‘done again. . Which may prove that many ‘disappointments could have been saved if the ad had been more {Specific but also proves that there
of fwomanpower.” : # oDDS AND ENDS: Britain is to all of Argentina’s surplus butr and dried eggs and U. 8S. will e more cheese. . . . Two large ‘electric. steel expansion projects in the Chicago ‘area are being held up by lack of material. . . . Brokers wonder if the new control- law will use speculators to shift from heat and: cotton markets to the tock market. . . . Ice cream manuacture has been banned in Eng-
AMERICAN WEAPONS
NEW. YORK, Oct. 8 (U. P)— imerica’s war weapons are making in. “exceptional performance” on prid battlefronts, despite the criti- ; voiced by “armchair strate8,” according to Arthur W. Heron, a leading expert now ened 4n producing tanks and mo“equipment. for the government. if. Herrington, head of the Sovy of Automotive Engineers and
man . of Marmon-Herrington, | J
, Indianapolis, producer of spe-il-duty trucks, told. the. society night that other criticism also rom “enemy agents” seek-
;s have won the admiration of men using them and “all the clamor for more American » Mr. Herrington declared. ocuetion of war supplies in the
STATE PAYROLL
Nearly $16,000,000 Spent ‘Weekly by. Factories in
September.
A weekly payroll of nearly. 16 million dollars set a new all-time peak for Indiana factories in Sep-| tember, the Indiana ' employment
i.| security division reported today.
Indiana factories increased employment. 4.6 per cent from midAugust to mid-September and payrolls rose 3.6 per cent, Col, Everett L. Gardner, division head, reported. “Defense plants and canning factories accounted for many of the additional wage earners,”. he said. “The lower earnings in the canning factories as compared to other factories helped to explain why the increase in the number of wage earners was not accompanied by a corresponding increase in payrolls.
Decline in Food Stores
“Another factor was that many plants observed a Labor day holiday which was included in September’s pay period reports.” Non-maufacturing industries on the whole remained constant in employment and payrolls. Retail trade showed no significant changes although food stores reported a 3.3 per cent loss in employment and an equal loss in payrolls. There was a similar seasonal drop in food stores a year ago. “Wholesale trade had a 3.3 per cent decrease in employment and a 1.1 per cent decrease in payrolls. Coal mining employment did not change but increased average weekly hours resulting in a 2.5 per cent increase in payrolls.”
City Payroll Higher
Together, manufacturing and nonmanufacturing employment in the state increased 3.1 per cent and|Se payrolls 2.7 per cent. The Indianapolis report showed a 7 per cent increase in manufacturing employment from August and a 1.7 payroll increase. Compared with a year ago, factory employment here was 12.7 per cent higher and payrolls 36.1 per cent higher.
‘WALLACE FEARS
TARIFF ON RUBBER
NEW YORK, Oct. 8 (U. P.). Vice President Henry A. Wallace said in a letter to the New York Daily News: today that should .the United States put a high tariff on natural rubber after the war to protect its synthetic rubber industry, that action might lead “within a few years to world war No. 3.” Mr.: Wallace's letter was in reply to News editorial criticism of his view that the United States should dismantle all but a few pilot plants for the production of synthetic rubber after the war and go back to the importation of natural rubber.
Stouffer Corp. year to July 31 consolidated net profit $378,458 equal to $2.01 a share vs. $355,237 or $1.85 in the preceding year.
AT NEW RECORD|
TRUCK GROUP T0 MEET HERE
To Be Discussed at - Convention.
Transportation of war. materials, gasoline and tire rationing and labor shortages are among: the topics up for discussion Friday and Saturday at the annual tonvention of the
the Claypool hotel. Owners and operators of truck
lines from all over the Middle West as well as Indiang are expected to attend. The convention will ‘get uridler way Friday morning with - various committee meetings. Governor Henry F. Schricker will - speak ‘at
motor transportation in the war effort. William G. Power of the Chevrolet Motor division of General Motors also will talk. : Speakers at the Friday dinner will include J. Howard Pile of the Chek-Chart Corp. of Chicago, ‘authority on lubrication; Col. Robinson Hitchcock, Indiana’s selective service director; James Strickland, director of the state’s OPA office, and George Burnett, district manager of the office of. defense transportation. The 1 p. m. luncheon Saturday will feature talks by John'V, Lawrence, general manager of the American Trucking associations, Washington, and E. J. Buhner, president of the Silver Fleet Motor. Express, Louisville. The convention will end Saturday
members = will attend. James E. Gheen of New York will speak. Claude L. Jones of ‘South Bend. is president of the association:and B. Edward Luglan is its executive secretary. I. J. Caoeper is serving as convention chairman.’
DAILY PRICE INDEX [i
NEW YORK; Oct: 8 (U. P) —Dun|m & Bradstreet’s daily weighted price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press. (1930-32 average equals 100): Yesterday ...... Week 880 ccsvercoacees . 161.45 Month 8g0 cceeivisescssseses 158.65 Year ago 1941 High (Oct. 1) ...evvees. 161.45 1942 Low (Jan. 2) ...
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|KINGAN ASKS U. §,
TO GRADE ALL BEEF =
Kingan & Co., Indianapolis meat
| | packers, today indorsed the govern- | ment's effort to insure uniform beet | io.
grading, along with controlled beef
W. R. Sinclair, Kingan president, described this: step asa “measure of co-operation with the OPA in its
efforts to insure xndtormity of qual-
4 »| Lend-lease meat i, (handled almost exclusively by large s| packers, and small packers have +|complained vigorously that the price
.| pared with a year.
CONCEDES ‘BREAK’ FOR LARGE PACKERS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U. P.).— Deputy” Administrator James K. Galbraith of the office of price administration conceded before a congressional committee today that OPA price policies on lend-lease meats had given large meat packers an “advantage” over small packers. Testifying - at the senate small business committee’s inquiry into the problems of small packers, Gal-
‘y,|braith said that the. original maxisl mum price margin of two cents a
pound granted to large. packers for lend-lease meat was “more than was necessary” to meet the increased
+|costs of preparing ‘the meat for
shipment abroad. ‘He added that the OPA’s recent
Hy action, reducing the margin to 1% - | cents, still provided the packers with
more margin than is necessary. shipments are
policies involved are ruining their business. Galbraith told the committee that the OPA is preparing a revised beef
land veal ceiling “to correct the ina equalities of variable ceiling prices.”
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£$300,000,000 SAVED BY RENEGOTIATION &
' "WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U.P.).—
000,000 to $400,000,000 by renegotiating contracts and has about. $500,~ 000,000 under negotiation, it was disclosed today. Undersecretary of the Navy James
timony made public by a housé appropriations subcommittee.
tiating contracts, but mainly the
said, “are much too conscious of their own public relations fo: id to make a lot of money.”
U.S. STATEMENT
Ww. Oct. ‘8 (U. ) ~Government . and rece ts iw the
. current fiscal year through - 8, comThis ear Last Year 17,465,449, 43 $ 5,509,205,645.71 789,673,272.39 3.7517,746,398.82
prices, and asked that agriculture|°** department graders grade and stamp ‘|all of its beef in the future. pl
Vv. Forrestal gave the figures in tes- .
Mr. Forrestal told the committee | Fu “we are having difficulty” in renego- | 50, Ind G&L
small producers. Big companies, he|y
22-Year Record Equalled By 25 to 35-Cent ~~ Advance.
Hog prices rose sharply at the Indianapolis stockyards today, putting the extreme top even with last week’s 22-year high of $15.65, the agricultural marketing administration reported. The practical top was $15.60 ‘for good to choice 240 to 280-pounders as. weights over 160 advanced 35 cents from yesterday's prices and lighter weights rose a quarter.
cattle, 450 calves and 2050 sheep. HOGS (5400)
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Good— 400- 450 pounds ...cecece. 450- 550 pounds
Medium— 250- 550 pounds Slaughter Pigs Medium and Good— 90- 120 pounds
CATTLE (1200) Slaughter Cattle & Calves Steers
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Medium: 500- 900 pounds ..
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Cows (all weights)
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um Cutter and common Canner " Bulls (all weights) (Yearlings Excluded) Beef—
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Sausa *Good all Weights) eeveseess 11.50g12.00 “Medium
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CALVES (450) Vealers (all weights)
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Calves (steers) Good and Choice— 500 pounds d Medium 500 pounds down . Calves (heifers)
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Medium— * 500 pounds dOWNn ............ 10.00012.75 SHEEP AND LAMBS (2050) Eyes (shorn)
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Good and choi Common and choice, ceseansas Lambs Good and cholce Medium and good Common
OTHER LIVESTOCK
FT. WAYNE, Oct. 8 (U. P.).Hogs—25 to 30 cents higher; . 260-280 lbs., $15.50; 240260 lbs., $15.40; 220-240 1bs., $15, 30; 200- ; 280-300 lbs., $15.35; 3005 180~ ; 1503 130-
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Roughs, $14. 75; stags, $13; $9.25 down; calves, $15.50; lambs, $13.90; ewes, $5.25. down,
LOCAL ISSUES Nominal quotations furnished by local
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Henry H. Heimann, executive manager of the National Association of Credit Men, will be guest speaker "at the annual dinner meeting of the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men«Oct. 14 at the Claypon! hotel.
STATE BANKERS ASK TAX FREEZE
Doubling of Social Security Rate Opposed by Association.
Indiana bankers are in favor of “freezing” social security payroll payments at the present rate instead of permitting the rate to be] doubled Jan, 1, 1943, as existing federal laws provide, ‘the Indiana Bankers association said today. Arch C. Voris, association president, has written Indiana's representatives in congress urging the passage of a “freeze” amendment. Present laws require increasing the present tax rate for old, age and survivors’ insurance from 1 per cent to 2 per cent, making a total of 4 per cent. The total rate is scheduled to go to 5 per cent’in 1946 and 6 per cent in 1949. Mr. Voris said the “additional revenue which would be collected under the doubled tax rate is unnecessary and undesirable at the present time when every dgllar 5| should be directed to the war effort 0land the preservation of national security. Statistics show that revenue collected under the social security program is more than eight times the benefit payments.”
If you can manufacture any of these materials, contact the war production board, 10th floor, Cixcle Tower building, Indianapolis. Asterisk indicates plans and specifications are on file there.
BIDS WANTED
ARMY MISCELLANEOUS Invitation Number
43-472—Steel: round, structural, open hearth, arbon, medium; sheets, bot rolled; cold rolled, round; steel
Date Bid Closes
Item . Oct.
aren Fruits and Vegetables: Apples, oranges, cabbage, carrots, celery, cucumbers, - spinach, lettuce, arsley, peppers, potatoes, radishes, omatoes, cantaloupes, grapes, pears, prun es for . delivery to Vet. Adm. dianapolis on Oct. 10 2511- Skies, ginger snaps,
( 38| Class 37, Sup. 1—Special wearing a
Squpmens for t o 2 to April 30, 1943. deliv-
parel and safet, period Nov. 1, 1 43-74—Superphosphate, 20%, for ery to Vet. Adm. Indianapolis 43-70—Packing House and Dairy Prod« ucts: Beef dressed veal, beef carcass, lamb, backs, legs and shoulders, pork hams, shoulder, loins, veal legs, brains, calf liver, beef liver, sweetbreads, bacon, hams, pork sausage, dried beef, fryers, sucss: fowl, Jurkeys. 55, 1 for the peri Nov. Nov 1942, or Vet. Adm. a Ae 1 3.200 Tgianapolt *are clay, plastic, for delivery. to Vet. Adm. Marion,
Indian 43-73 Furnish all items of plants and bulbs: ‘Flowering wood, Panls scarlet thorn, spre ing cotton Easter, slender deutzia, winterberry, double kegria, regel ’ Privek: Jethead, bridalwreath, “spi= rea, ie spires, hybrid lilac, Iancelent i ily; Siberian suqill, or delivery to Vet. Adm. Indianapolis 2-138 Forceps: Clamp, intestinal, morussue, ‘rome plated, for Jo rion,
ve . dian 1 43-137—White lead, basic oo anbte; in et. Adm. Marion 1
dar cheese, domestic Swiss process - cheese, sweet cream cheese, butter
for the period Nov. 1 to Nov. 30, 1942 to Vet. Adm. Indianapolis.. 43-72—Ocean perch fillets, halibut steaks, salmon steaks, fill pompano, quick-frozen for the yg riod Nov. 1 to Nov, 30, 1942, to Vet. Adm. Indianapolis 1 X01 Libary hooks (fiction ‘and nonon 6574—Incand wy searchlight (12-in.) running light indicator, and insulated RE ils (for shipboard use) OS rCoINAGUIS, (solderless, .
off $750,000 From. Last Year.
State gross: income tax colleotidns fell nearly $750,000 short of ° last year's collection in the second quarter of ‘this year, Gilbert K. Hewit, division director, announced today, - The collection from July 1'to Sept, 30 on second quarter” 1942 income was $5,710,267 and Mr. Hewit pre
| dicted “severe decreases in gross in-.
come tax revenue during next year.” Nearly two and one-half times more business houses are shutting down this year as compared to last year, Mr. Hewit said. “This 150° per cent increases . in. business ‘closeouts,” Mr. Hewit declared, “substan tiates recent predictions by the Fed.|eral Reserve bank in Chicago that retail’ sales in 1943 will be -only 50 to. 60 ‘per cent of 1941 retail sales and lends force tosestimates of U, S. economists that 300,000 small'retail stores will be forced to close by the end. of next year on account of declining supplies of civilian goods and store labor.” Collections of tax now. due and annual collections due in January, 1943 will furnish an important indication of whether or not the gross
- {income tax as it now stands can
continue as the backbone of: state financing during the war emefgency, Mr. Hewit said. He expects ranother important inroad on gross income tax collection from gasoline | rationing.
COUNTY FARM TRUCK AIDS TO BE FORMED
Farm transportation committees will. be formed in every Indiana county immediately to assist farme ers and .truckers hauling farm, products in ‘filling out applications for certificates of war necessity as required by the office of defense transportation, it was announced today. The committee in each county will consist of the U. 8. agriculture department war board chairman, two farmers, one trucker and one farm supply dealer. On Oct. 22, 23 and 24 farm truckers are to contact transportation committees for certificates which will govern maxie m mileage and minimum loads, ree district meetings have been uled to explain the ODT order to the farm transportation commit« tees. These will be at Peru Oct, 14, Indianapolis Oct, 15 and Bedford Oct. 16.
NEW METHODS OF HEATING TO BE TOLD
Prof. W. T. Miller, head of Pure due’s heating, ventilating and. air conditioning department, will speak at the dinner meeting of the Air Conditioning council at ¢he Indian apolis Athletic cluh tomorrow. ; New developments and applica tions: in the field of imbedded floor and yall panel types of heating, on which Purdue has been _experimente ing, will be discussed’ by Prof. Miller,’ Carl I. Boester, director of housing and research at Purdue, also will speak. '
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