Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1942 — Page 32

Am nose of an Allison motor, and many [am

: when discussing speed, maneuver- |Z Ct ability, etc.

a meeting of engineers here.

~The current issue of Aviation magazine has a jong, deailed defense of American aircraft. No one says. our airlanes are perfect, improved models are being designed con‘But much of the vituperative giiticism ‘has an

GRAIN FUTURES DECLINE AGAIN

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antly. terior motive. At the Society of Automotive Enineers meeting Mr. Herrington said 0 of the criticism is axis-in- . aimed at extracting a defense which will disclose useful military - informa“tion. Some is from the arm-chair strategists and of little consequence. Mr. Herrington said .the third source of criticism is from “one of our allies... whose eyes are ‘Mr. Budrow more directed toward postwar export markets than to winning the present war. These ‘gmall-minded men would like to point the accusing finger at Ameri~can designers and suggest that they emselves were the best in the world. » 2 He didn’t name them but he could * have meant only the British. It was only a short time ago that the Lon“don Sunday Times criticized the “B-17 and B-24 made in this coun-

try. Mr. Herrington pointed out that "the public should keep two things ' in mind in such arguments. What was the plane built for? Bombing _ axis-Europe from nearby Britain or . for long-range bombing? Mass raids or high, precision bombing? Re- . member that self-sealing gas tanks, ~ turbo-superchargers, heavier armor, * 87-mm. cannon firing through the

. other factors must be considered

The second thing to remember is . the box score. Mr. Herrington said we are shooting down 10 or 20 of ‘the enemy planes to the loss of one ‘of our own. “As long as the box score shows that all argument about

specifications is wasted effort.” "He did not mean that we ‘shouldn't keep on trying to turn out better planes but that the rec-

. ord speaks for itself and the unin- © formed should keep quiet.

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8 = DID YOU WONDER why the such a furore when Rubber Chief Jef- ~ fers ordered rayon instead of cot-

ton used In tires? Before the war, cotton’s biggest customer was the tire industry (633,100 bales a

year), even more than the shirt- ~ makers bought. Last year only 5 per cent of the passengers tires used rayon cord. Cotton senators fear the wartime use of rayon will permanently kill off a big customer. » ” »

. milk are fitted in large, empty shell

. cases being shipped to Britain, sav-|=®

and Friday. . . Of coffee are hard to get on trains,

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ing valuable space. . . . Girls in one Midwest torpedo plant make more money as inspectors in the factory than as secretaries in the office. . There are 1200 new. ' homes near an eastern arms plant,

“tions. . . . Philadelphia will observe two meatless days, Tuesday And second cups

| many hotels.

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: U.S. STATEMENT | WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U. P.).-Qov- _ ernment expenses receipts for the

and . eurrent fiscal year throu - pared with a ag gb Oct. 14, com

37 » id Res. 22.758; 035,188.63 Past uie

INDIANAPOLIS GLEA CLEARING HOUSE $ 3:913.000

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WAGON WHEAT

to the close of the Chicago market 1 lis flour ‘mills and jrain 1.24 per bushel for No. ed Wheat Sotyer es on their oy 2 yell shelled corn was 175¢c . .-3 white shelled

individual plane performance or go

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On Chicago Board of Trade.

CHICAGO, Oct. 16 (U.R.).—Grain futures generally eased on the Chicago Board of Trade today with wheat opening % cent a bushel higher to % cent lower. # At the end of the first hour wheat was off % to up % cent a bushel, corn unchanged to off %, oats off % to %; rye unchanged to off %, and soybeans inactive. In the December options wheat was unchanged to off % cent a

corn unchanged to off % from Thursday’s 80%, oats off % to % from the previous 48% @%, rye unchanged to off % from the previous 65% @%, ‘and soybeans inactive,

N.Y. Stocks

High Lo Last che es a Allegh Sop +.15-33 183-32 15-32 br +4 Allis-Chal «26% 26 26% — Y% Am Can .... 28%, 8s 28% ~~ Rad. 5% 5% 8% sue. Am Roll Mill.. 11% 10% 11% + T&T .....: 5 123% 124% — Am ‘Tob 1a 43% 43 — Am Water Ww. 3 Bn 6 i.e a7 + Atchisor m 51% 50% 0 i son a 1 Atl Refining . 18% "a 18% " Balt & ohio. 3% 3 3% — Bendix Ava ... 35 34% 35 + Be Steel . 58 57 58 + Borden ....... 21% 21% 21% .... Borg-Warner 26 235% 2% — Bdgpt Brass 20% 20% 20% .... Chrysler ..... a5 64% 065 e omwith & So. 5-16 3.5 5-16 ... ons Edison 15% 15 15% — ms Oil ...... 7 6% 6% — Corn Prod .... 52% 52% 52% + Curtiss-Wr .... 8% 8% 8% + Douglas Aire .. 67%2 67% 67% .... Du Pont .......126% 126% 126% + East Kodak ...139%2 139%: 139'%a + Elec Auto-L .... 29 287% 29 He Gen Electric. . 29% 29%, 29% + Gen Foods ..... " 341 33 HY + Gen Motors 40% 41 41 He Goodrich ...... % 22% 283% — Goodyear '..... 21% 31% 21% + Hecker Prod. 6a 6% 6¥a + Int SikIvester. » Bl 60% 50% — &T ..... 3% 3% ... arn «. 60% 603% 4 — Kennecott .... 31% 3113 31Y — Kresge S88 ..... 19% 10% "19% = Kroger G&B .. 26 26 26 “ees L-O-F Glass .. 29% 29% 29% — 4% Link Belt .... 35 35 35 + ‘J Mont Ward .. 30% 30% 30% + ¥% Nash-Kelv .... 6% 6% 6% + % Nat Biscuit ... 16% 18% 160% <4 % t Cash Reg. 17% 17% 17% .... Nat Dairy 1 15 15 - Ya Y Central 11 11% 11% .... Ohio I... 9% 9% Ys ees Owens Ill Glass 51% 50% 650% — Ya Packard ...... 2% 27% 2% + YW Pan Am Airw.. 21% 321% 21% <i.» Paramt Pict .. 16% 16% 16% .... Penney ead M348 M3 NK... Penn RR ..... U% 24% UB + | Phillips Pet .. 41 40% 40% — Ya Procter & G... 51% 51% 51% — 4 man 27 26% 217 + Y Pure Oil «c.cee 9% 9% % + » dio os 3% 3% 3% — % Rem Rand 0% 10% 10% — la Repuniie Stl’... 18% 15% 18% <4 % Sears Roebuck. 3% 52% 53%a + Servel Inc ..... 8% 8% 8% — % § JOCONY ys. cuum. 9% 9 o ash jouth Pac .... 16% 16%a 16% + % Std Oil Ind.... 35% 35% 25% + Y Std Oil N Ji. 43 42 43 + Yi Stone & Web... 5% 5% 5% — » Studebaker aes BY 5% SYa + t & 08. 31% 21% 2% .... Texas CO Lies 5% 38% 38% .... RB... 39% 30% 39% + % United Aircraft 29% 20% 20% .... Un Gas Imp... 4% 4% 4% — U S Rubber ... 23% 22% 23% + % U 8S Steel . . 40% 48% 49% + % U 8 Steel pf.. So 218% 113% 113% + ¥ Warner Bros. 6% 6% Sie + % West Union 20% 29 29 + 5 West Air Bke.. 16% 16% 16% — 3% Westing Bl .... 6 He 4% — Yi White tb eves 14 13% 13% — % Woolworth .... 28% 27 MB ..o Yellow Tr + 12% 12% 123% + Y% Young Sheet 31% 3% 31% + Y% Zenith Rad 16 1 186 — %

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Horinglon ‘Finds Ulterior Motives | In Criticism of American Airplanes ~ By ROGER BUDROW ee |

k YESTERDAY. EDDIE RICKENBACKER WAS QUOT- | the papers as saying that American airplanes are ving sound” and are well-liked by British pilots. Last sht A. W. S. Herrington said practically the same thing

The old and the new. . . , Robert J. Gipson (second from left) holds an airplane

engine mounted on ene of the centers he cenceived in his $1000 production suggestion at Allison's. A : fellow employee holds a gear without the center protector.

bushel from yesterday's $1.25%@ %,| &

War industry workers here quicken America’s production pace in the battle against the axis through suggestions dropped into boxes such as the one at Allison’s (above).

Suggestion Boxes Quicken Pace of Production Battle

Battles may be won by a simple idea. And it is quite likely that some far-off victory may result from the hair’s breadth advantage of an idea thought up by a factory worker right here in Indianapolis. Hundreds of new ideas for ime proved war production are pouring into the suggestion boxes of Indianapolis plants every day. Ideas that have resulted in doubling the speed and efficiency. Ideas which prove to all America that Indianapolis workers have accepted the chdllenge that this is their war. ‘Men—and women—learn at their work’ benches how to Jet every sec-

ond out of the war-time clock.| They write down these ideas and drop them into the suggestion boxes. * It might be only a simple method of holding a tool, cleaning a part of machinery or shifting the direction of a light .'. . but it adds up to thousands of hours saved by thousands of workers in their production race against the united nations’ enemies. : And there are dollars—thousands of them—in war bonds distributed to the workers who suggest these “short cuts.”

Open one of the suggestion boxes|

and youll find a story of a city united in the greatest fight it has

ever waged jor is neuen,

Allison Foreman Works Out Plan to Speed Assembly Line

Robert J. Gipson, a machine shop employee at the Allison plant, made it possible for 50 airplane engines to leave the assembly line where 30 rolled off before he earned a $1000 war bond. The saving in man-hours starts away back where gears are ground to go into the giant engines. Mr. Gipson’s memorandum in the suggestion box provided a savings of 25 minutes in grinding each gear. For years tools known as arbors were used to hold the gears for grinding. Mr. Gipson suggested: Instead of using an arbor to hold

ff the gear and its quill shaft the

entire gear was to be mounted on centers which entered the ends of the quill hole. The chief cause of past rejections was due fo differences in tightening up the clamping nut that held the arbor in place in the gear unit. The results of the charge have been numerous, elimination of errors in mounting, elimination of costly arbors, and the saving of time formerly required to mount gears and arbors. The tolerance of concentricity is now easily held to limits of .0005 inches. That's even closer than they could hold the arbors fit before. *

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INDIANAPOLIS LIFE

LOCAL PRODUCE

Heavy breed hens, full-leathered, 17c, orn hens, Me.

1% Ibs. aig owt Sololed, 13; barred and white rock, ide: cocks, 9c. No. 3 poultry. 3 i 1s.

Receipts. 64. Ibe. -and up,

Officials of the Indianapolis Life]30c.

Insurance Co. recently feted George W. Anawalt, a general agent in Indianapolis for the company, at a luncheon at the Columbia Club. Mr, Anawalt marked his 20th

Grad A la Joo; grade Hy Fe ve on ered” "ea =o Butter—No, 480Q . “ 46%ec; “butteriat, * No. Be a a 43¢c. 9

(Prices on produce delivered at Indian. * quoted by Wadley

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HIRING OF FARM LABOR SCORED

House Committee Criticizes|}

Administration Policy on Manpower.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U. P.).~— The house agriculture committee, in] 800

stronger language than is customary

in congressional reports, today de-|com nounced the administration’s farm labor policies and concluded that “maybe a few million hungry Mediu Cann

stomachs” would awaken the people to a better appreciation of those

who till the soil.

The committee’s statement was|S8usa

made in a report addressed to President Roosevelt, his chief war aides and to congress. It was a summary of its findings during recent hearings on manpower problems. The committee warned that unless farmers get plentiful labor, enough tools and better prices, the nation in another year probably will be without “many necessities of life.” The report complained that there is no well developed manpower program, recommended that all men “essentially engaged in production of vital food and fiber supplies” be deferred from the draft and accused U. S. employment offices of aggravating the farm labor shortage by acting as “recruiting agencies for war industries.” “Utter confusion,” it said, “exists today on every farm, every ranch, every dairy. We. appeal to the president and the several administrative agencies to act and act now, so the farmers may know ‘whether td plan and how to plan. »

Advocates Priority

The committee said it was “astonished” at the lack of a survey of the national manpower and recommended: Definite determination of the potential size of the armed forces and consideration of the strength of civilian manpower to support it; “an appropriate priority system” for the allocation of manpower; and the rating of all needs “according to their respective importance for the winning of the war.” “It is our definite conclusion,” the report said, “that hundreds of U. S. employment offices spread across the nation have contributed a great deal toward the present critical farm labor shortage. They have acted as labor recruiting offices for industrial plants and defense projects. They have advertised the scale of high wages as an inducement for recruits and have drawn hundreds of thousands of farmers and farm workers to the industrial centers. They have not hesitated to cooperate with labor solicitors who have gone ouf on the farm fo entice away the workers.” The farmers, the report continued, “must have ample trained help .. . ample tools to work with and prices sufficient to at least cover the cost of production and living expenses.”

Defends Prices

“Today they face 1943 with none of the three,” it said. “Bvery item entering into the cost of (farm) production has increased by leaps and bounds, yet it seems that our urban population expects the farmer to continue to produce at pre-war prices.”

The committee noted that heroic} Bo feats in the armed forces are ap-|mook

grade | Publicly production, but, it added, * ‘there is no glamor on the farm.” “It would seem the farmer is expected as a matter of course to toil on from dawn ‘till dark to provide

the food and fiber to feed and

|Top Falls to $14.60 Here:

10,500 Hogs Shipped To Stockyards.

reported. The practical top was $14.60 for good to choice 240 to 280-pounders.

100- 360 POUNAS «1 «ovronsnn.s [email protected] Good and Choice— G2 270- 300 POUNAS +oveieronss. [email protected] 3%. 380 Bo unds re it igides 360- 400 pounds nee 14.50014.60 ee 450 pounds [email protected] 450- 450 POUNAS +..seessens. 14.35014.50 250 550 POUNAS -overineenss [email protected] Slaughter Pigs Medium and Good— 90- 130 POURAS: ...ioviinanias [email protected] CATTLE (165) Slaughter Cattle & Calves Steers Choice 700-. 900 pounds ... : 18.00910.00 300-1100 pounds. red 1300-1500 pounds : fig it Good 700- 900 pounds Sessssvssenns B35 15.00 300-1100 pounds ............. 18 {Eps pounds ass sndtantes 1308 OUNAS cccesserecses 140001525 um 1100 tisessnsssses [email protected] 1100-1300 jaunts rrreesseenss [email protected]

200-1100 mounds _. 1100 noun Sata Heifers

Choice 600~ 800 pounds . 800-1000 pounds Slag !

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500- 900 pounds [email protected] Cows (all weights)

Stas strats ias stants

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Bulls (all weights)

(Yearlings Excluded) : cessesssss 11.25012.23

Cull (75 ig u Feeder Fon i Cattle & Calves

Cholce— 500- 800 pounds 800-1050 pounds .. Good—

13.00 12.78

500- 800 hoetB asst 11.00 12.00 300.1050 poungs seenssessssss 11 12.00

M 500-1000 pounds sececsccseess [email protected]

cesene esses 13.00 "eee 11. 7%

500- 900 pounds ...oe.cicises [email protected] d. and aye (steers) 500 o ds down ceciccianen [email protected] 500 pounds down at etfs” [email protected] nd Choice oad ounds abessnvesas 12.75014.50 500 pounds down saase ennai 10000127 SHEEP AND LAMBS (1325) Ewes ( tn) Good and choice .... “ws $330 on 6.00 Common and choice ' ....s.. Lambs Good and choice ........o0e0 14.50015 Medium and good ......cee0000 i 25@14. 2 COMMON, ......oocnsssissansnse [email protected]

BUSINESS AT A GLANCE

% By UNITED PRESS Electric Power & Light Corp. and subsidiaries 12 months ended Aug. 31 net income $8,019,544, equal to $10.42 a preferred share vs. $6,211,872 or $8.07 in the preceding 12 months. United Gas Corp. and subsidiaries 12 months ended Aug. 31, net income $7,818,072 equal to $17.38 a preferred share vs. $5333,520 or $11.85 in the preceding 12 months. Woodward Iron Ce. 9 months ended Sept. 30 net profit $618,184 equal to $1.84 'a share vs. $1,032,623 or $3.09 in the 1941 period. Purity Bakeries Corp. 40 weeks ended Oct. 3 consolidated net income $1,219,025 or $1.58 a common share vs. $928,406 or $1.20 year ago.

i —————————— JACKSON RECORD CITED Fred W. P. Jackson, Indianapolis representative of the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. ranked fourth among all sales representatives of the company.in personal paid production for September, the company announced today. The Lloyd S. Wright agency here was seventh among all agencies of the company in total paid production for the month, . ;

ORDERS RAISE AT LUKENS WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U, P.).— The war labor board today granted wage increases of 5% cents an hour to 6000 employees of the Lukens Steel Co., Coatsville, Pa., and made the increases retroactive to Feb. 15, 1942,

LOCAL ISSUES

minal quotations furnish local wr Na = aed Dy ities rs. Ask phi ‘98 . 14%

saves

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Receipts included 10,500 hogs, 650); ; eatile, 300: calves and 1325 sheep,

: HOGS 18 (10,500) i to pounds apie on 1% 160- 180 . i 00 L140 80 3 pounds pounds “en 3%- 360 pounds eases. er 14.45 its

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ulation emanating from official and

Good a (all Weights) «....... [email protected]| has led to hoarding and unnecessary VE ss chee wns wenn nn -: 1000g 1128 contusion Cutter and COMMON ....covvne + [email protected] . CALVES (300) “But you can put it down that Veslers (all weights) rationing will not come as quickly and cholce ..... [email protected]| 85 S0ome people say nor cover as Common and medium ........ 10.0814. many products as others predict,”

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Twenty-four workers at the Gary plant of

Corp., U. 8S. Steel subsidiary, have

Cotte lini Sto devised an unusual share-the-car

plan. All 24 have an interest in the station wagon they use on a 24hour a day schedule to get to the steel works from their homes.

OF SHORTAGES

Rationing Will Not Be as Severe as Expected, OPA Aid Says. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U. P.).—

Nationwide rationing of scarce com-~

modities will be expanded as wartime shortages increase but it will not be “as soon or as sweeping as some people predict,” a responsible official of the office of price administration said today. His statement was not directed at —but was in sharp contrast to—the declaration of other OPA officials last night that additional rationing programs will be initiated almost as rapidly as the current price and rationing boards can absorb the increased administrative load. He declined to forecast or even discuss when rationing of coffee, clothing ‘and other commodities would be undertaken. Previous spec-

unofficial quarters, it was explained,

he told the United Press. Meat To Be Next That forecast came as OPA field

of discussions about policy and overall operations. Authorities said OPA would be .decentralized and would establish eight regional, 48 state and 39 district offices and empower field officials to make decisions affecting problems in their areas. Nine commodities’ now are rationed: , Sugar, ; typewriters, . automobiles, fuel oil, gasoline, tires, rub« bér boots, farm machinery and bicycles. Meats are expected to be ratigpned oo| next. Supplies to wholesalers and retailers already have been restricted at the source. Coupled swith that limitation, the government has asked adult consumers to limit their meat diet voluntarily to 2% pounds a week pending determination of a permanent rationing program. Special meat allowances are made for children.

Plenty of Potatoes

It has been reported that the 1943 meat ration may be below 2% pounds. but the outlook now is not too drab. A survey showed: Unlimited supplies of wheat and rye flour, corn meal and breaktast cereals. : Ham may be more plentiful in

officials gathered here for two days)’

Mitsui fo Borrow Money Publicly

BERLIN, Oct. 16 (German broadcast recorded by U. P. at New York).—The German Transocean News Agency reported from Tokyo today that the great Mitsui organization would borrow capital from the public for the first time as the result of war pressure. The action would break ‘the Mitsui self-financing tradition which has been maintained for 300 years, it was said. The Mitsui interests extend to all branches of industry, shipping, banking and insurance. Transocean reported that the Mitsui trust needs 160,000,000 yen (approximately $32,000,000) and that it had reduced its annual dividend from 12 or 14 per cent to 10 per cent on the advice of the government.

BUSINESS AT A GLANCE

By UNITED PRESS

Campe Corp. year ended July 31: net income $192,819 or $3.85 a share |

vs. $565,537 or $1.10 previous year.

«Crowley, Milner & Co. 6 months’ ended July 31 next income $158,358 94 29 cents a common share vs. net

loss $134,994 year ago.

W. T. Grant Co. and subsidiary 6 months ended July 31 consolidated net income $765,931 or 50 cents a common share vs. $1,070,879 or 75 cents year ago. ‘Walter E. Heller & Co. 9 months ended Sept. 30 net income $376,021 or $1.16 a common share vs. $457,833 or $1.49 year ago. Humberstone Shoe Co., Ltd, year ended July 31 net income $19,836 or 99 cents a share vs. $5534 or 28 cents previous year, MacKinnon Steel Corp, Ltd. year ended July 31 net profit $37,505 ‘vs. $32,102 previoius year. Magma Copper Co. 9 months © ended Sept. 30 net, profit $334,602 or 36 cents a share vs, $183,606 or 20 cents year ago. . Modine Manufacturing Co. year: ended July 31 net income $377,131 or $3.77 a share vs. $411,004 or $4.10

previous year. ’ Superheater Co. 9 months ended Sept. 30 net profit $722,858 vs. $980,~ 133 year ago.

1943 but the bacon aboriage probably will continue. Out of season fruits and vegetables will fade out for the duration. ° . There is a good winter supply of.

Irish

potatoes. Present supplies of fresh :vegetablés are ample but transportation: problems make future prospects uncertain. Dwindling supplies of canned fruits and vegetables may be ex« pected. Military demands will determine the ‘available supplies of dehydrated triuts.

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