Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1942 — Page 25
TEACHING UPSET
Local War Plant's Military Vehicles in Chasing Rommel in Africa) By ROGER BUDROW :
OFFICIALS OF MARMON-HERRINGTON CO. here]: are getting a kick out of that German order which the British found in their chasing Rommel back across the desert. The order, in part, stated that “For this reconnaissance,
Are Used
as. indeed for every desert
ritish trucks are to be employed since German trucks stick
in the sand too often.”
vp
reconnaissance, only captured
Well, many of “those British
‘BY AUTO FIRMS
Arms Repair Students Are
: Brought to the Work,
Not Vice Versa.
By JOHN W. LOVE , Times Special Writer + FLINT, Mich, Nov. “ gutomiobile men do to education when they get their hands on it is “Being demonstrated . at the Buick plant here and the Oldsmobile plant over in Lansing. Among the 16 schools operated for army and navy and other service personnel by units of General
. “Motors are several which show the strong influence of the once great
_. motor-car industry, even to the use
A eral vehicles.
of assembly-line methods.
These schools now have about 2500 students from the armed forces who are learning maintenance methods on aircraft and tank engines, ma¢hine guns and automatic cannon, and the pover apparatus of sevA party of army and
navy officers and newspapermen is
being taken through the schools this week. ‘When automobile” men speak of “progressive” eduaction they do not mean what the professors do. They
a gre thinking of schools where the
* students are moved past the work,
[i instead of the work being brought i oo ‘the
students. They get the » from the progression in the assembly of a vehicle. In Flint the instructors add on mechanical skills as the students spend a week . at each of 11 stations along the edu-
cation route.
a Graduate Every Saturday
These systems of training have been set up under the pressure of war’ and may never be used again,
~~ but they do try out a scheme of
‘education designed to impart the
hl most knowledge of many mechanical operations in the shortest possi-
ble time, with no expense spared ~ for/ equipment. As Col. Harold J. Conway said to the students today,
~ ®A gun firing in Africa is worth a
hundred on the assembly line.” The Buick school at Flint has
more than 500 men at any one time,
about 50 coming in every week for the 11 weeks’ training, and as many leaving. They learn the overhauling of the Pratt & Whitney engine, . of which Buick is one of the makers, but they go much farther with it than do the men who take three weeks’ fraining at the Chevrolet ~ school in Detroit. This the visitors . 8aw earlier in the week. The Flint ; graduates go into the fourth echelon ‘or heavy maintenance shops for air--eraft engines at the air force bases. ~ Each group spends a week in a ~ separate shop, first on basic engine principles, then on inspection, tearing down and assembling engines and so on. At the end of the last week, after learning how to test en- ~ gines, they and their loads of knoware pushed off the platform at the far end of the school. Every ~ Baturday is commencement day.
Follow Auto Pattern
13.—~What
trucks were made in this country and many of them by MarmonHerrington. Gen. B. L. Montgomery’s eighth ime perial army, now racing west past Tobruk, is using hundreds of the Ford trucks which Marmon-Herring-ton converted into all-wheel drives. A. W. Herring-
ton, chairman of the company, sald many of these
Mr. Budrow ijitary vehicles were assembled with: conversion parts from the company’s plant here, shipped to the Union of South Africa. . Ford and Marmon-Her-rington furnished: the chassis and conversion parts. The chassis were assembled and the armor plate is fabricated and the super-structures are built in South Africa. In addition to these converted Fords which are assembled abroad, Marmon-Herrington has converted thousands here and has built hundreds. of heavy duty trucks used for cargo, ammunition and troop carrier, gun tractors, wreckers and barrage balloon winch trucks. z EJ 2
INDIANAPOLIS department stores led the Midwest in their sales gains in the four weeks ending last Saturday, according to the Federal Reserve bank of Chicago. Sales here were 40 per cent greater than the same period last year, thus beating even Detroit, Milwaukee and Chicago."
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ODDS AND ENDS: Through Nov. 7 motorists had turned in 1,483,500 of those “over five” tires. . . . Auto manufacturers have more than 12 billion dollars worth of unfilled war orders. . . advising caution, saying that our North African successes are just the beginning, that many big battles are still ahead. . Rubber Chief Jeffers says we must extend our rubber conservation program at least another year. . . . Women in uniform are now’ serving as toll bridge collectors in the East. American Bankers association is telling its members to soft-pedal
bonuses. . . Palladium is being used as substitute for platinum (costs 30 per cent less) in.some jewelry. )
which carry automobile nameplates to the ends of the earth. Executives speak almost with affection of “our cannon.”
The fnétictors are old maintenance supervisors who recently crammed on gun work in special courses under ordnance men. Of the men who take the Lansing training at any one time, about one in four becomes an instructor at a camp. Has 12 Gun Shops
The students learn to keep the ammunition feeding properly, to line up the guns in an airplane’s wings, and to make them fire in synchronization with the revolving blades of a propeller. They also learn how to take guns apart and put them together again blindfolded.
. Wall Street experts are|¢
news of the year-end employee|"
GRAIN PRICES TURN
vintage 1892.
Horse and buggy days are here again for Jess McNeal, a Birmingham, Mich., auto dealer. One of his best customers planned to use the two carriages for short trips around town instead of his two soon-to-be-rationed Packards, So Mr. McNeal is working on them. One is an old-time cutter, the other a buggy,
LOCAL ISSUES
Nominal quotations furnished by joel unit of National Association of Securities Dealers, Bid Asked Agents Fin Corp €om......... 1% ... Agents Fin Corp pfd ..... Belt RR Stk Yds com Belt RR Stk Yds 6% Bobbs-Merrill com Bobbs-Merrill 4%% pf Comwlth Lesh 5% pid
Hook Dru com 12% Ft Vayus 1% pid g
98 Home REE Ind Asso Tel 8% p Ind & Mich 7% pfd ...ccce. Ind Hydro Elec 7% ohgd:eeees Ind Gen Serv 8% Indpls P&L 5% % D8enire 94 Indpls P&u com . 129 Indpls Rlwys Inc. COM.c.eo. on 1 Indpls Water 9% pid Indpls Water Class A vee Lincoln Loan Co 5% pfd .... Lincoln Nat Life Ins com.... N Ind Pub Serv 5%% pid... N Ind Pub Serv 6% pfd N Ind Pub Serv 7% pid Progress Laundry com *Pub Serv of Ind 5% pa.. “Pub Serv of Ind Inc com.
United Tel CO 5%. ..ccce0eeee 9 Van Camp Milk ptd cesesens Van Camp Milk com ....
Bonds
Algers Wins'w W BR 4%2%.. American Loan 5s American Loan 98 Dent Newspaper 4%28 42-51 .
h of C g Co 4%s 51.. Cittmens na 1d, ¢ 1 . onsol Fin 5s
Crash neyhoids-Taytor 4s .. Home T&T Ft Wayné 6s 43.. Ind Assoc Tel Co 3%s 70..105 Indpls P&L 3%s 70 .. Indpls Railway Co 5s = Indpls Water Co 3%s 68 Kokomo Water Works 5s 58. 104% Kuhner Packing Co 4's 49..°9
Richmond Water Wks 5s 87. 18% Trac Term Corp 5s 57 _ *Ex-dividend.
LOWER AT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Nov. 13 (U. P.).— Grain futures generally eased on the Board of Trade“today. At the end of the first hour wheat
up % to off 4, oats off % to %, and rye off 4 to %. Soybeans were inactive. , In the Décember options wheat was off 14 to 3 from Thursday's $1257% @1.26, corn up 1% from the previous 84%, oats off %& from the previous 50% and rye off 1% to 3% from yesterday’s 63% @ 3s. Grainmen, awaiting ments from Washington on the subsidy program for loan wheat redemptions, expressed the belief that
ceeding with ‘caution, indicating that the CCC does not wish to eliminate or render helpless the fu-
~ 250- 350 pounds
was off 3% to 3% cent a bushel, corn|Good—
develop-| Go
the Commodity Credit Corp. is pro-|%%
HOGS STEADY TO
STRONGER HERE
Extreme Top Is $14.10 but ~ Most Porkers Sell for $14 Down.
Hog prices at the Indianapolis 2 | stockyards today were the same as
rockers or 10 cents higher, the agricultural marketing administration reported. The extreme top was $14.10 with most hogs sold from $14 down." Receipts included 8850 hogs, 825 cattle, 475 calves and 1950 sheep.
HOGS (8850) 120- 140 pounds 140- 160 pounds .. 160- 180 pounds 180- 200 pounds .... 200- 220 pounds ... 220- 240 pounds 240- 270 pounds ... 270- 300 pounds 3.90 330- 330 pounds . ree 1335015. 90 330- 30 pounds 00 ces 00000000 [email protected]
Mediu 160-300 pounds evvreveky esse [email protected] |r Packing Sows Choice— pounds pounds
Good to [email protected] [email protected] pounds ... . [email protected]
360- 400 pounds
Good— 400- 450 450- 500 Medium-—
veveeassssss [email protected] et desninenies [email protected]
pounds pounds
Slaughter Pigs
Medium and Good— 80- 120 pounds
CATTLE (825)
Slaughter Cattle & Calves Steers
+318. [email protected] . [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
i Jo 130%
1 1300-1500 U eesssseecsces 0 700- 900 Pounds cecoccccsncce 900-1100 pounds . 1100-1300 pounds . conse 1300-1500 pounds <.ceecocccces Medium— 700-1100 pounds @0sssesttene 1100-1300 pounds ccecoopececes Common— 700-1100 pounds .....c.cccane Heiférs
seecsvee
14.75
[email protected] [email protected]
16.00
Choices 00 800 unds
pou [email protected] 800-1000 pounds .
sessese seve,
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[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
esses s0descoe
mmon — 500- 800 pounds ....... cesses [email protected] Cows (all weights)
Medium Cutter and common ...
Twin Cities’ Oil Crisis Is Eased
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U. P.). —The office of price administration today authorized Minneapolis and St. Paul fuel oil dealers to raise their prices “in order to prevent a threatened shortage.” The price on number two fuel oil at refinery ‘or terminal was boosted from 59 to 6.2 cents a gallon. Tank wagon prices on this fuel were raised from 85 to 8.88 cents on sales of less than 100 gal-
lons and 7.5 to 7.8 on larger sales. OPA said the increases would cover higher transportation costs caused by diversion of barges to carry oil into the eastern shortage
area. Minnesota officials and deal-|@ lers had contended that operations
could not be continued under previous ceilings.
WAGON WHEAT
Up to the close of the Chicago market today, Indianapolis flour mills and grain elevators paid $1.24 per bushel for No. 2 ed wheat (other grades on thelr merits). No. 0. 2 yellow shelled corn was %6c er sushel and No. 2 white shelled corn No. 2 white oats, 46c, and No. 3 oats, 46e.
Seven to Serve Year Ee 3
Terms, Five to Serve
For One Year.
Seven members of the Indianapolis Chamber of ‘Commerce have been nominated to serve three-year terms as ‘directors and five to serve one-year terms, ‘beginning Jan. 1, it was announced today. Those nominated for the five-year
|terms are Meier 8S. Block, vice pres-|Ea
ident of the Wm. H. Block Co.; Louis J. Borinstein, of the firm of
Ge A. Borinstein; Henry .L. Dithmer, Sg president of the Polar Ice & Fuel Co.; Theodore B. Griffith, president m
of 4 S. Ayres & Co.; Edward W. Harris, president of Hamilton-Har-|; ris & Co.; James S. Rogan, presi-
| {dent of the American National | %
bank, and: Stowell C. Wasson, general manager of the National Malleable & Steel Castings Co. :
N Those nominated for ‘one-year
terms are Donald W. Alexander, general manager of the SewartWarner Corp; R. Norman Baxter of the Baxter Steel Equipment Co.;
‘| Dudley R. Gallahue, president of
the American States Insurance Co.; F. C. Kroeger, vice president of General Motors Corp. and general manager of the ‘Allison division, and Carl H. Wallerich, president of the
- lc. H. Wallerich Co., Inc.
Election will be held Dec. 8. Memhers of the nominating committee were H. T. Pritchard, chairman; H. C. Atkins Sr. Nicholas H. Noyes, Harper J. Ransburg and C. E | Whitehill.
CHICAGO. LIVESTOCK |?
Hogs—Receipts, 8000; 5 to-15 cents higher; good and choice. 190-300 1bs. and good and choice 300-500-1b. sows, $13. 90@14:05; top, $14.10 paid for both sows and hogs; good and choice 160-190 1lbs., $13.65@14. Cattle—Receipts, 1500; calves, 500; all killing classes fairly active, steady; fat steers. very scarce; few loads, $12. 50@ 15.90; mostly $13. 50@14. 15; stock cattle slow but steady; largely $11. 50@14, with choice western caives quotable to $15.50 and better; week's liberal supply stock cattle well cleaned up; no ‘choice fat heifers here; best around $14; with grassy and warmed up kind $10 to $13; heavy cutter cows, $9; moderate supply beef cows, $9.50 @11.50; strictly good kind absent; bulls scarce, active with heavy sausage offerings quotable to $13; a few heavy fat beef bulls bringing - that rice vealers, $13@ 15.50; mostly $14@15 Sheep—Receipts; 5000; three decks good] to choice clipped jambs No. 2 pelt, $14.50, steady; bidding weak to unevenly lower on wooled lambs held fully steady or ground $15; slaughter ewes steady at $5.56
Wieboldt: Stores, Inc, six months ended July 31 net income $263,148 equal to 52 cents a common share vs. $758,357 or $1.91 a share for 63 weeks ended Jan, 31. - Ogilvie Flour Mills Co., Ltd., year is Aug. 31 net income $812,397 equal to $1.12 a common share vs. $169,-
Bat 068 or $1.05 a share for preceding
year.
‘Chrysler ...... 87 Comwith . & S0.11-32 Cons Edison «16% ‘Cons Oi Tis
Douglass Atfe’ 59%; Dow: Chem . 380
Int Nickel ... Int, T&T “J. Jarvis Co .. s-Man '... Kennecott
RY EL
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Pad ae Air’ ys 2 Paramt Pict.. Penney Penn RR
Republic stl. ie Sears Roebuck. Ci Servel Inc Socosy-Pa¢ .
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Swit Intl Texas Co United Aircraft ami
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30% U S Steel pf .. Warner Bros .. West Union .. 27 West Air Be . Westing E! «18 White Mot “ee
(NEES INE
oolworth ellow Tr Young Sheet .. Zenith Rad ...
. 29%
31% 167
Complete New York stock quotations are carried daily in the final edition of The Times.
U.S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U. P.).—Gov-
| ernment expenses and receipts for the
current. fiscal year through Nov. 11, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses. $25,041,804,439.90 $7,299,400,903.36 W. Spend. 22,900, 098, 136.70 5,573,512,110.69 Receipts... 4,668,890,537.69 2, 25, 836, 440.24 Net Def. 20, 3170, 529,952.21 5, "143, 842,763.12 4, 70, ,a11, 233: ” 2,524,354,320.54
Last Year
Pub. 0 : Gold Res. 22,740,985.675.69 22,739,488,581.65
INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE
| Week Ago
AT HARVESTER
5 Group Is Second Receiving
Award for Production Suggestions. fwenty-six employees of the Brookville road plant of Intere
national Harvester Co. havé been - given awards for their suggestions
lon improved production methods
at the plant, now engaged in war
2| work.
It is the second group of awards made in the drive for improvement planned by a labor-management committee. Those receiving certificates atid pins at a ceremony at the local plant include Frank' Ayres, Arden
‘% | Barton, Ann Biers, Harry Billger, +1 John Billingsley,
Charles Brown, . Cecil Dimmett, Thomas Gockel,
Reimer Dethlef, Archie Everett,
8 | Arthur Jordan, William Loew, John .. | Macy. Maurice McCullough, Joseph
Morris, Morris J. Nichols, George
s| Nonweiler, Granville Powers, James » | Robinson,
Ceber Simpson, Frank VanSickle, Elmer Williams, Donald Woodard, Carl Zike, Kevin King,
sl william Land and Richard RichYs|ardson.
Speakers at the ceremony includ-
sed J. H. Frolich, of the Indianapolis s| WPB office; . }4 | senior field supervisor of the Indi= »|anapolis sub-district of the Cin=
Raymond Wellings,
cinnati ordnance district, and J. C. Brumfield, general secretary of the International Harvester labor-man-
4lagement war production drive comv, | mittee,
The awards consisted of framed:
. certificates and gold lapel pins and were presented by the works super= : intendent, Harry E. Gottberg.
DAILY PRICE INDEX
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (U. P).—
s| Dun & Broadstreet’s daily weighted
price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press (153032 ‘average equals 100): Yesterday 160.57
160.61
tess edsccosconsnne
"eco nsnerencenreee
Month Ag0 ..eceicevecessess 159.80 Year AgO ......... sesarevees. 14433 1942 High (Oct. 1) ceeeeee... 161.45 1042 Low (Jan. 2) . .. 151.54
LOCAL PRODUCE
Heavy breed Lens, full-feathered, 19¢3 Leghorn hens pringers iy To. and over: Solored, ase barred and white rock, 21c; cocks, Roasters, 4 lbs. and over; Colarsa, O90es white rock, 21¢; barred rocks, 2 All No. 2 poultry, 3 cents I
rrent receipts 5¢ be. and up,
d Eggs—Grade A, 1 0c; grad A, a 376; alae, Joep grass
Eten “No, 1, 434% No. 8, 460 c; No. 4614¢; Dutteriat, No. 1, 4 0. 2, 43c. (Prices on produce deltvered at Indiane
es eve ec
Clearings Debits
When Present Stocks of New Cars Are Sold,
Re" ‘now, Buick dealers can offer you se-
Tr. Id LLIN RULE
THERE WON'T BE ANY MORE! If You're Going to Need a * New Car for Essential WarkeBETIER APPLY FOR ONE NOW.
are no ‘cars to be had!
Donald C. Hoover of Columbiana, O did this with a 20-mm. gun in 21
«| tures market. Canner
The gun school operated by Olds- Your Buick dealer will be
lection from complete
Bulls (all weights)
mobile at La Ways the influ bile industry upon the military. Here
g shows in other ce of the automo-
student armorers from five services, including marines and coast guard, ~ take four weeks’ instruction on servicing and operating three types © of automatic cannon made by Oldsmobile and the 50-caliber | machine
gun made by two other G. M. di-
visions. Though the courses were laid out by ordnance officers on advices from ~ the American and British fighting . fronts, the methods are in large part A those followed by zone supervisors of the motor industry in showing 's how to keep customers satisIn place of Oldsmobiles, how- - the students have Hispanogas—the cannon of that name, the car, but the cannon has the name on it, like a number of
Sher pleces of armament these days of armor plate.
- Tolan Fee
Tike
Do you need coal? Don't let your supply run. low before you reorder. Due to labor shortage we cannot “guarantee immediate delivery. Look NOW. . . . If you will need coal soon,
‘WAbash 4573.
minutes 50 seconds after four days’ instruction. The school has 12 gun shops and six classrooms with movie projectors, all of them together the kind of equipment many a vocational instructor in this country would give anything to possess. The layout includes parts of fuselages and one complete fighting plane. The General Motors institute at Flint had an important part in designing and developing the training courses. The school, now 24 years old, has more than 1200 students in a four-year course on the old Glasgow “sandwich” plan which Dean Schneider of Cincinnati brought to this country many years ago. * The institute also houses a miscellany of courses in Diesel engines; tank-plant work and welding
order TODAY. Call
ICE AND FUEL co.
OTHER LIVESTOCK
CINCINNATI, Nov, 13 (U. P.).—Hogs— 3724; over 160 lbs. steady to 25 cents higher; top, $14.10 for good and choice 160-200 1bs.; 200 lbs. up, $14; light weights 15 cents higher; medium 4nd good 150-160 1bs., $14; good grade sows, [email protected]. Cattle—715; calves—300; fairly active to 25 cents lower; baby beef Yearling calves, 650 lbs. good to choice, $13.75; medium to good 790-1b. mixed steers and heifers, [email protected]; few cows above $10.50; common and medium, $10; canners and cutters, [email protected]; top “bulls, $11.75; common and medium, $9. 50@11. 25° vealers steady on top kinds, around 25 cents lower on out grades; good and choice vealers, $15@ 16; common and medium, $11.50@1 4.50. Sheep—500; market fairly active; receipts limited; choice lambs, $14.75@15; good, $14@14. 50; thin out grade lambs down to $7; good fat slaughter ewes, $.50 down; few choice, $ 0 Tos
FT. WAYNE, Nov. 13 (U, P.).— Steady; 160-200 lbs. .» $13.85; 200-240 $13.75; 240-300 1lbs., $13.65; 300-400 lbs. $ 3.50; 140-150 1bs., 100-130 1lbs.,
$13.55; 150-160 Ibs., 3i34%: 130-140 1lbs., $13;
$12 Rough, $13.25; stags, $11.50; male h $9.50 down; calves, $16; lambs, $14. ewes, $5.25 down.
Decca Records, Inc, nine months ended Sept. 30 consolidated net profit (unaudited) $554,992 equal to $1.43 a share vs. $519,651 or $1.36 a share year ago. New York Power & Light Corp. nine months ended Sept. 30 net income $2, B17210. vs. $2,106,901 year ago.
(Yearlings Excluded) Beef— ocd
sseensesees 11,[email protected] Sausag Good al weights) .eceses
11 ze 12.25 11.25 9: 20
10.00 CALVES (475)
Vealers (all weights) Good and choice Spl Common and medium . [email protected] Cull (75 lbs. up) [email protected] Feeder & Stocker Cattle & Calves Steers
Choice— 500- 800 800- 1050 Good— 500- 800 ee nil
pounds ....eeeese pounds ..ecesscscee [email protected]
pounds
cessssus * 11.50 @1 2.50 pounds
essssssssees [email protected]
2500-900 pounds Common— : 500- 900 pounds esesevesenee Good and Choice 500 pounds down seccocscnces
[email protected] 9.50910.50 [email protected] [email protected]
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edium. 500 pounds down Calves (heifers) Good and Choice— og pounds dOWNn sececrseasss [email protected]
500 ads down [email protected] SHEEP AND LAMBS (1950)
Ewes (shorn) Good and choice ....ceosseee pg go Common and id : “ase
mbs Good and choice ..... seseesee I 3 Medium and Good
Yearling Wethers Sova ur and choice
ees cases
13 00 4.50 1 35 ngs [email protected]
Munitions Index Climbs
1942
Ce ot ron a ne.” a Shis war production oar fades, Air.
stocks of unused
But every week that
future,
essential service, don
the very last mile out
if you really NEED
Turn it in, for use by some other essontial user who doesn’t drive as much as you do.
New-car buying regulations are aimed at consérving both new cars and cars now in use. They also seek to put new cars in the hands of those who need them most. |
Thus if you can show real need — now, while cars are available — you can get a permit to buy now, while cars can be bought.
Permits to buy won't do any good when there
da new car—
1942 ®
‘Buicks built before automobile production halted.
goes
by increases the number of cars now in use that simply must be e yeplaged | in the very near
These cars can be replaced only from existing stocks. If you regularly drive a car in really ’t take a chance on finding present stocks exhausted by trying to get of it.
\
glad to give you all infor‘mation on new-car buying regulationsand procedure. At the moment, he can
make to qualified buyers on Buick model.
immediate delivery almost any 1942
But because Buick factories have been all-out he on war production for ‘many months, your dealer won’t be able to help you when cars now
available are sold.
Better see him NOW about applying for that
car you're going ¢ to need.
or indirectly; (2)
3) can-owners o Physicians, nurses, ¢
r the prosecution
in the! production of of the war, directly
COMMUNITY
MOTORS, ne.
37-57 West 38th St. Indianapolis, |
Ind.