Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1942 — Page 13
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Visiting Reporter Finds That Allison Has Mastered Mass Production Bug
By JOHN LOVE
we THE SCREECH AND ROAR OF MACHINERY and the odor of hot cutting fluids en the tools are enough to give one the feel of war production these days, even if he doesn’t get . figures any more. Particularly when he walks mile after mile along the aisles of factories on sites that were corn fields
a Year ago.
- 1 wonder why they always. build these war plants in
corn fields. Never meadows
saw two. very large works and the addition to another, all of them built where corn was growing when our defense
program started. I suppose
typically rural in the corn belt, that region which stretches from the Big Four railroad indefinitely westward. “To take the visitor to one of - these new plants they drive out past|yet in anything like the volume of the closed hot doggeries and the production that automobile engines
little groves of hickory and oak.
Presently through sible to bring in the parts on movthe coppery foli- jing conveyors, as did Ford when he age rises the dark’ built his famous assembly line at mass of the fac-/Dearborn nearly 20 years ago.
tory. No windows, no monitored roof, just bare red or gray walls, Not even the smokestack one used to associate with a factory, merely a tremendous slab . John Love that could be a warehouse or a mausoleum, : “The plants I visited were in the environs of Flint and Indianapolis. There, as in many another city, the largest new plants are in the sub-
TY urbs, and as some of these take the
work of older structures in the built-up secitons in the future, as ey probably will, these cities may find the main current of traffic moving outward in the mornings, much as it has been doing for a ldng time in Detroit. Entering the plant, the head of the party presents the list of the visitors, and their birth certificates, passports or draft registration cards are checked against another list the war department has sent on from Washington. Badges are already typed with the names, and every man gets one, Thus we entered one of the Allison engine plants of Indianapolis. i » ” 2 , A YEAR OR MORE ago it was said the Allison people were having their troubles getting up their proits higher-powered, liquid-cooled motors, but if that was true then, all traces of difficulty must have disappeared long ago. The large numbers of workers,
r many thousands of them in a sin-
gle building, the evidently even ‘flow, the finished layout of ma- , chinery, and especially the continuous delivery of motors to the shipping room, all attested to thorough mastery of that end of the American production of aircraft engines. 8 #8.»
THE FINAL ASSEMBLY line of '® the Allison plant had large stocks of finished parts ranked alongside, more of them than in any works I have ever seen which used the assembly line technique. This, it was explained, is due to the far larger number of parts the airplane engine has, and I believe the liquid-cooled job especially—some 7000 parts for the Allison,
Airplane engines naturally are not
tear on America’s tank corps.
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or wheat fields. Last week I
the corn field stands for the
{used to have, and so it is not pos-
® zs = WHEN THE RATIO of units is something like one to 10, and the number of pieces so much larger, it is necessary for a plant to have “runs” of a one-week supply of a particular part, and these are stacked up all over the place. On that account, among others, your airplane engine plant covers a good deal more ground than would an automobile plant building the' same number of motors. Floor space has been one of the | incidental aims and achievements! of the builders of the airplane industry. than they needed continuous assembly. . The technique of the au-
ing the engines; because the product was still relatively small and much power machinery was used. When it came to the airplane itself, however, there was little or no point in having moving assembly lines, though many writers like to talk about them. This was because the product was bulky and the tools were small. They could be brought
the work could be brought to the
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
Hogs—14,000; slow, 10 to 15 cents lower; good and chcice 190-325 lbs., $13.75@14; few 160-190 Ibs., [email protected]; sows steady to 10 cents lower; good and choice 300-500 lbs., $13.85@14. Cattle—10,000; calves, "800; hardly enough fed steers and yearlings sold to make a market; sprinkling choice to prime offerings stea y to weak, bidding weak to 25 cents lower on bulk good to choice kinds with Supply liberal; early top, $17.25; few loads, $16@-1; common to good, $15 down; heifers weak Y% 25 cents lower, best around $16; bulk, $15 down; most beef cows, $9. 50@12, sixty good kind to $13; bulls steady with $12
They needed space more! :
tomobile industry could be used : to some extent on the job of build-|:
to the work much more easily than| |
These girls are learning to be sawmill workers while their boy friends serve in the armed forces. Women employed at this Coricord, N. H., sawmill use “pick poles” to pull in the logs floating in the mill slip. In view of an anticipated shortage of skilled workers, the New England Timber Salvage Corp. is training women to operate the mill. If the measure is successful, other mills throughout the country will employ women for
the “he-man” jobs.
‘This girl operates : a power wench at the New England Timber Salvage Corp., one of the first companies to employ women for
sawmill work.
practical top on weighty sausage 4 ings; vealers unchamged at $15.50 down; good to choice stock cattle very dull. Sheep—5000; fat lambs strong to 15 cents higher; other classes firm; bulk good to choice native and fed ‘wooled lambs, $14.60@15; 3 decks of good westerns, $15. 10; 1 deck sorted natives, strictly choice fall . shorn lambs, $15° Shoice yearlings, $13.25; Rar dug good choice slaughter bor ewes, $6.50
OTHER LIVESTOCK
FT. WAYNE, Nov. 18 (U, Eo ya Steady to 5 cents lower; 160-200 Ibs., $13.80; 200-240 1bs., $13. 75: 240-300 1bs., $13.60; 300-400 1lbs., $13. 50; 150-160 1bs., $13.50; 140-150 Ilbs., iB 25; 130-140 1bs., $13; 100-130 ns: Sie $12. Eoughs, $13.25; ag $11.50; male h $9.5 0 Lalves, $16.50; lambs, $14. 0; ewes, $5.50 d
LOCAL PRODUCE
Heavy breed hens, Leghorn hens, 16¢. Springers 1% lbs, and over: colored, 30c; barred and white rock, 21c; cocks, 10c. Roasters, 4 lbs. and over; + oared, 20c; Wits rock, 21c; barred roc No. 2 po ultry, 3 cents on Nod receipts 5¢ be. and up, Cc.
Graded Eggs—Grade A, large, 39c: grade A, megjum, 37¢; grade ‘a, small, 95¢; no
rade, 2 g tte 380, 0, 1, 1304830; No. 8, 13.50 :
But 46!2c; butterfat, No. 1, spolis quoted by Wadley Co.)
DISCOVER IMPROVEMENT MISHAWAKA, Nov. 18 (U. P.).— The U. S. Rubber Co.'s Mishawaka plant yesterday announced soi ery of a special shock absorbing materjal that will ease the wear and The new material will be used to line
turrets and walls in tanks.
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Monsanto Mont Ward Nash-Kelv .... 6% Nat Biscuit ... 16 Nat Cash Reg. 195% Nat Dairy ... 14, N Y Central .. Norf & Chio Oil 10% Owens Ill Glass 30/4 Pla, 2%
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Complete New York stock quotations are carried daily in the final edition of The Times,
DAILY PRICE INDEX
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (U. P).—|:
. Van Camp Milk com
121 W. Washington St.
| WE Buy Diamonds PAID co.
STANLEY Jewelry
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HANGERS—1¢ EACH
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Dun & Bradstreet’s daily weighted price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press (1930-32 average equals 100): Yesterday «..v.e..ieeeen......160.10 Week 880 ..(eee’rarecroens . Holiday Month ag0 .covceveeeeesses...159.98 YeAr 880° ........civeavssess. 14418 1942 high (Oct. DH ssesssesecs 16145 1942 low (Jan. 2) .............151.54
Incorporations—
Lippman Lumber & Supply So. Co, Stiuols corporation; admitted deal in lumber and building ans bo SL ‘Battery Corp., New York co
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GORN LEADS DECLINE IN GRAIN FUTURES
CHICAGO, Nov. 18 (U. P.).— Grain futures declined on the board of trade today. Corn led the recession with losses of almost 1 cent a bushel, with liquidation attributed to the feeling that government authoritiés will maintain a policy of cheap and plentiful feed supplies. Wheat was off 14 to 3% cent a bushel in initial dealings, corn off % to %, oats unchanged to ‘off %
and rye off 1 to 3%. Soybeans were
inactive. Traders showed little Interest in buying in the wheat market and scattered long liquidation also contributed to ‘the easier tone. Elevator interests bought December and sold May at around 3% cents difference.
LOCAL ISSUES
Nominal quotations furnished by local anit of National Association of Securities Dealers. Bid Asked| M Agents Fin Corp com......,.. 7% ... Agents Fin Corp pfd ........ 20 Belt RR Stk Yds com ........ 41 - Belt RR Stk Yds 6% fd..... 52 Bobbs-Merrill com Bobbs-Merrill 4%2% Pf .coeeo. . 40 Comwlth Loan 5% pfd Hook Drug Co com 12%, Home T&T Fit 5%. pi 1% pid 51 Ind Asso Tel 5% cesses 95 Ind & Mich 7% p teeees.1068 Ind Hydro Elec 7% pid ee. 33 Ind Gen Serv 6% Indpls P&L 51% 1d . Indpls P&L com
2 Indpls Rlwys Inc. com...
Indpls Water 9% pfd.........104 Indpls Water Class A Som. Lincoln Loan Co 5% p . Lincoln Nat Life Ins oh N Ind Pub Serv 5% pid. . N Ind Pub Serv 6% pfd. N Ind Pub Serv 7% pid Plogress Laund
85%. .cececsnces 95 Van Cemp Milk ‘pfd cesesees 5 sss 1 Bonds Algers Wins'w W RR 4%9%.. 89 American Loan 5s 51 .. 2 94 American Loan 5S 46......... 98 Cent Newspaper 4%s 42-51 . - 89 Ch of Com Bldg Co 4ls 51.. Citizens Ind Te 41s 61 Consol Fin 56s 60 Crabb-Reynolds-Taylor 4s ... 5 Home T&T Ft Wayne 6s 43.. Ind Assoc Tel Co 3%s 170. 108 Indpls P&L 3%s 70 . +1 Indpls Railway Co 6s 61. Indpls Water Co 3%s ..106 Kokomo Water Works Os 58. 10at Kuhner Packing Co 4's 49.. 58 Morris 5&10 Stores 5s 50. Muncie Water Works 6s 65. 1043 N Ind Pub Serv Sus, 69....107% N Ind Tel 4%s 5s A Pub sy és’ 69 107% 10
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (U. P.).—Government expenses and reecipts for the current fiscal year ‘through Nov, 16 compared with a yeas, ae:
This Last Year, Expenses 2% 047, 1g: 290. 2 $8,128,978, 727. 31 war Saud. 23 873,17 5,729,650,124
76,535,026.59 Gold Res. 22,741, 303,931.93 22, ,794,367,501.66
- INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE Clearings . . Debits .....c0n.00inves reeeoii.. 12,353,000
Brown Go. first 44 weeks of first fiscal year following reorganization
02 “medium, [email protected]; vealers steady, top $16; good
HOG PRIGES OFF 10 GENTS HERE
Schedule Top Is $13.95 as 10,525 Porkers Arrive At Stockyards.
Hog prices turned 10 cents lower at the Indianapolis stockyards today, the agricultural marketing administration reported. The schedule top was $13.95 but a few of the best. 160 to 200pounders sold at $14. Receipts. in-
cluded 10,525 hogs, 1200 cattle, 500 calves and 2000 sheep,
HOGS (10,525)
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Good to Choice— 270- 300 pounds 300- 330 pounds 330- 360 pounds 360- 400 pounds
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Bulls (all weights) (Yearlings Excluded)
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CALVES (500)
Vealers (all weights) Good and choice .......... . [email protected] Common and medium 3 y Cull (75 lbs. up) [email protected] Feeder & Sioeker © Cattle & Calves
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500 pounds down [email protected] SHEEP AND LAMBS (2000)
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OTHER LIVESTOCK"
CINCINNATI, Nov. 18 (U. P.) 3900; steady to 5 cents lower; top $14 paid for good and choice 160-300 1bs.; extreme top $14.05 for strictly choice 200 1bs.; 300-400 lbs.,. $13.90; 150-160 Ibs. $13.90; good SOWS, $12. 5@13. 25. Cattle—115; calves—250; active and fully steady; good steers, $13. [email protected]; Sammon and medium, $10@12. Ss Sommnon medium beef cows, $8@10 up; canners and cutter, $5. PY) palit, $11.75; ‘common and
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and choice, $15@16; common an $1 214. Shee
50; culls down
ligh tore lambs Sowa bo | to 36; fat slaughter ewes mostly
Automobile Banking Corp. and
subsidiaries year to ‘Sept. 30. net
net income 2 $506, 190.
income he $3150,
s| ceilings aren't lifted,
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0 JEWELRY
ds PRICES ADD TO FARM WORRIES
Too Low, Agricultural Leaders’ Say; Fear Shortage of Equipment.
This is the second of a series of articles dealing with the farm . manpower shortage and other factors threatening a national food crisis.
‘By BRUCE BIOSSAT United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Nov. 18.—The man-
.| power shortage is not-the American
farmer’s only wartime headache.
He believes farm price ceilings are too low; he fears that rising costs of labor may ‘squeeze the profit out of his products; he can’t get. new farm machinery. except in rare cases; he thinks a pinch may be - felt: next .year even - in repair parts, although the government has allotted him ample supplies this year, : He has been assured that he'll get tires and gasoline to keep his truck rolling to market, but in some cases he lives so far from town that .he wonders if he’ll really get enough to do the job. These worries are reflected in a United Press survey of farm opinion gathered. from 30 states, They show the farmer harassed by wartime disruptions at a time when he has been called upon to stock the nation and its allies with more food than he ever produced before.
Farm Leaders Comment
This is what farm leaders said about these special factors imperiling the nation’s food supplies. PRICE CEILINGS—Government farm officials and leaders of agricultural associations asserted that the farmer's uncertainty over prices ranks next fo the manpower crisis as a discouragement to crop output. The dairy industry, with its high labor costs, will suffer most from ceiling prices, the experts agreed. Dairying was expected also to he hardest hit by the loss of skilled labor. “Ceiling prices on farm commodities are, without doubt, adversely affecting agricultural production,” said the Kansas state board of agriculture. “The uncertainty of future markets will cause many farmers to curtail rather than expand their operations.” Leo F. Card, Michigan commissioner of agriculture, said “if price they will wreck the whole picture. I'm not so sure they haven’t wrecked it already.” Machinery Limited
FARM EQUIPMENT--The de5| partment of agriculture at Washington warned that the machinery problem may become increasingly acute under present government plans to limit 1943 output of new machinery to 20 per cent of 1940 production. Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard advised farmers to share equipment with neighbors, and many states were reported already practicing large-scale pooling. Sharing plans weré counted on to avert serious trouble in Iowa and other rich midwestern states possessing large amounts of relatively new, well-maintained equipment and heavy allotments for spare arts. 4 Oklahoma, however, foresaw a two and a half per cent crop re-
‘duction next year as a result of ma-
chinery shortages, and Kansas, California and Alabama also predicted trouble in meeting production goals.
Exorbitant Prices Charged
C. J. Borum, Michigan crop statistician, said farmers often paid exorbitant. prices. for used equipment in an effort to keep their farms going. “I have heard of tractors four and five years old being sold for as much as they cost now,” he said.
loader which sold for $8 in 1941, $33 this spring and $68 this fall.”
“A recent report told of a used hay N
Henry P. Nelson, chief of systems planning in WEPB’s priorities control bureau, will speak before the Indianapolis chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants at 6:30 p. m. tonight at the Lincoln hotel. He will discuss priorities and allocations. Members of the Indiana Manufacturers association have - been invited also.
CORN YIELD UP T0 FORECASTS
Total Production of 220 Million Bushels Is
State Record.
Indiana corn yields are meeting earlier expectations as husking progresses, according to a Purdue university department of agricultural statistics report issued today. The report, made in co-operation with the U, S. bureau of agricultural economics, still indicated sa state average corn yield of 54.0 bushels per acre, or a total production of 220,941,000 bushels, both the largest on record for the state. The soybean crop was expected to yield an average of 21.5 bushels per acre, or one bushel more than last month’s estimate. Total production “was ‘ indicated at 31,605,000 bushels, also the largest in Indiana’s history. As a result, marketing conditions were said to be full, with suitable storage not available on all farms. Freeze Lowers Quality
Soybean harvest conditions have been favorable, the report said, but the large crop has taxed available machines in many localities. On Nov. 1, a considerable acreage of the crop was still in the fields. The effect of the early freeze was to lower quality more than volume of production. Potato yield figures confirmed the expectation of a stage average of 110 bushels per acre and a production of 5,720,000 bushels. Sweet potatoes contniued at 110 bushels per acre with a production of 330,000 bushels. Harvest for both kinds of production for home use still remained in fields. Fruit Meets Expectations
Final reports on fruit production were about as expected earlier with total commercial apple production being 1,392,000 bushels or 88 per cent of average. Total production of pears was 201,000 bushels and grapes, 2800 tons. During October, Indiana’s poultry produced an estimated 100 million eggs, compared with 99 million eggs for the same month of 1941. On farms with less than 330 hens and pullets of laying age, the average number of birds was 117, the largest on record, with 104 last year and an average of 99.
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 red wheat (other grades on their merits). 0. 2 yellow shelled corn was 77¢ per bushel anl No. 2 white shelled corn, 88c; Ne 2 white oats, 46c, and No. 3 red oats,
‘| tration,
Maritime Schools Expanded To Meet Needs of Growing Fleet.
By TOM WOLF Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—For
for the want of ship, a tank lost; for the want of a tank....
without more ships and more to sail them, “too little, too la could become the epitaph of de mocracy. The ships are on the way from U.S. shipyards and this is a sto: about the men who sail them. Manning the rapidly expan fleet calls for 125,000 trained offic and men. The emphasis is on the word “trained.” To get such men, the U. S. maritime service has greats ly expanded its school program fop both officers and men. More im portantly, the war shipping adminise which directs America’s wartime merchant marine, has re= cently ruled that no new sailor can go to sea without first attending one of the five U. 8S. maritime service training schools.
‘Sailors’ Wanted
“We've got to start sending sailors instead of factory workers to sea,” said Lieut, G. E. Harrington, USNR, executive officer of the
A training station at Hoffman Island,
N. Y. “The difference is a vital one. The factory worker does not feel himself individually responsible for: the welfare of his whole factory. sailor must. In case of fire, he cannot say ‘Oh, well, the boss is insured’ and jump out the window.” The 1500 apprentice seamen ab Hoffman island, the maritime serve ice’s “mother” training station, have a constant visual reminder of the importance of the job ahead of them. Their station is a nine-acre dot at the entrance to New York harbor. Past them steam convoys ‘to and from all parts of the world. Before being admitted to the maritime service schools, a prospec tive seaman must join the naval reseérve—thereby giving the governs .ment, which pays him $50 a month during training, an assurance that he will go to sea. If he doesn’t do so voluntarily, the navy can induct him at the end of his training. The schooling program was ree cently increased from three to five months. Even -the unions, which once opposed the training program, | fearing the creation of an excess labor supply which might threaten them, now applaud it.
Create Specialists.
After the basic training 4 student specializes in one of the three ship departments—deck; engine or stew= ard. He will eventually graduaté as seaman second class; fireman third class; or mess attendant second class. Before he is graduated every ape prentice puts in almost 100 hours. in the lifeboats, The men need. no prodding to master this phase of their training. Graphic. stories of courage in these lifeboats at sea are to be heard at the recently founded: United Seamen’s service rest homes for the rehabilitation of “shell shocked” sailors — men who can, and want to, go back to the sea, but whose nerves are frayed after some particularly harrowing exe perience. A Puerto Rican deck hand who broke his back in a loading accie dent plays Chinese checkers in the comfortable sun parlor of the Kermit Roosevelt home at Oyster Bay, L. I, with a Negro seaman— survivor of nearly a month in a lifeboat under such torturous cone ditions that there were reports of cannibalism.
American Viscose Corp. Sept. quarter net income $1,516,723 or 70 : cents a common share vs. $2.00, ; 464 or $1.03 year ago. :
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