Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1942 — Page 39
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Truckers Say 35-Mile-an-Hour Limit Defeats Its Own Purpose
By ROGER BUDROW
' THAT 35-MILE-AN-HOUR LIMIT may save tires on| passenger cars but it isn’t working like it was intended on| "es
the big trucks. In fact, it is
causing greater wear on truck
‘motors, using up tires faster and causing them to use
more gasoline.
That is what a group of local transportation experts told some officials of the ODT (office of defense transportation)
who were out here from the opinion. In the first place, the motors in the long-haul trucks were built to pull the truck at speeds faster than 85, miles .an hour. In going slower than that they are inefficient and thus will wear out quicker. And we're not building truck _ motors any more than tires. In the second place, going 35 or less keeps most trucks from getting in theiryover-drive where gasoline consumption is reduced. So they're using more gasoline. In the third place, they have to shift gears more frequently, especially in hilly country, which causes some jerk and consequently more wear on tires. The local ODT advisory committee therefore told the officials that ‘the speed limit for trucks ought to be raised. This committee is composed of C. C. Hibbard of Kingan’s, F. A. Doebber of Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, E. P. Costello of AcmeEvans, B. M. Angell of Stokely’s and H. A. Hollopeter of the Indiana State Chamber of Comraerce. They also brought up that very “hot potato,” the proposal to limit trucks to hauling not more than 200 miles, leaving the long hauls for the railroads. Trucking campanies are up in arms over that idea. The local committee agreed that fn general it is better to have railroads take the long hauls and trucks the shorter ones but said that there would be so many exceptions to the rule that it would be impractical. So they are trying to figure out some other plan. ODT officials who were in the day-long conference were Charles B. Colpitts of Washington, W. C. Curren of New York, Theo Davis of Cincinnati, and George Burnett of Indianapolis.
Mr. Budrow
”» ” GRIMY, LIMP dollar bills are on the way.. Government printing presses can’t keep up with the growing demand, reserves are dwindling. Therefore greenbacks will have to stay im circulation longer than the pre-war “lifes time” of six months. 8 8 =
ODDS AND ENDS The 43 tabs to be bolted on Vermont's present auto license plates are made from tin cans salvaged from state institutions. . . . A Boston department store, campaigning to have customers return less merchandise, had 7.1 per cent less merchandise brought back in October than a year ago... . A Pittsburgh steel company, using clamshell buckets from dredge boats, will scrape the bottom of the Monongahela river to salvage steel scrap spilled from barges in the past 20 years. . . . Puerto Rico sugar plantations complain about the fertilizer shortage. . . . Average soldier in this war gets six train rides between induction and embarkation. . . « Scrap experts say New York
City ruined its big scrap collection].
by using snowplows to make compact piles. Canvas covers, wood, cloth and rubber were mashed in with the steel.
GRAIN PRICES EASE ON CHICAGO MART
| CHICAGO, Dec. 4 (U. P).—An easy tone prevailed in grain futures on the Board of Trade today. . Wheat was off % to % cent a bushel from yesterday’s 126%, corn unchanged to off % froma the previous 86%, oats off % to % from Thursday’s 50%, rye off % to % from the previous 68%, and soybeans unchanged. | Postponement of government action on flour ceilings checked bullish sentiment and eased prices. | Wheat trade continued light with a moderate amount of mill buying lending some support. Elevator houses liquidated. | December corn was changed for May at 4 to 4% cents a bushel dif ference. ;
Rye continued indepencently firm 3
in the northwest.
east yesterday, sounding out
FORD BOMBER OUTPUT RISING
Willow Run Plant Will Hit Peak Production Final Quarter of 1943.
DETROIT, Dec. 4 (U. P.).—Henry Ford’s Willow Run bomber plant already has begun delivery of completed four-motored bombers and will reach peak production during the final quarter of 1943, it was said officially today.
Not only have Ford-built Consolidated B-24 bombers started flying away from the airport adjoining the world’s largest airplane factory but the company also is shipping completed sub-assemblies to three southwestern plants for final assembly there. ; A group of touring Washington and Detroit newspapermen found Willow Run, a forest of countless machines, tools, jigs and fixtures, dramatic proof that application of automotive industry mass production methods to aircraft manufacture can be successful, There. were dozens of bombers in actual process of production along assembly lines which a few months ago were yawning floor space. It took 18 months to build and equip the plant and train an army of employees which will be doubled when it reaches capacity production. The plant is so designed that raw materials flow in at one end and— after fabrication and assembly— leave the other end as finished bombers ready for flight.
Men Work Beside Women
Men and women stand side by side, driving in rivets, of which the plane has nearly 700,000, making thousands of parts and doing assembly operations. Within a few months they will turn out the deadly, long-range bombers with breath taking rapidity. The man behind the Ford bomber job, Charles E. Sorensen, vice president and production expert, said the biggest problem in getting the plane into production was training personnel. z ; “This job,” he said, “is bigger than building the plant, making tools and machinery. What we had to do was put 30,000 ‘amateurs’ in - the plant and make ‘professionals’ out of them. The job would be simple if we didn’t lose so. many men to the armed services. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t lose more than we hire.” : Sorensen said Ford had perienced no material shortages. Likewise, he said, no “serious, basic” design changes had hampered production of the bomber in any way.
Many Time-Saving Methods
Ford has devised many impressive time-saving methods for speeding output of bombers, once considered a “custom” job. Wing sections, for example, are built on giant fixtures or frames weighing as much as 30 tons. Forty-one men employed on a center wing section, which has more than 150,000 rivets and measures 60 feet across, completed the job in the record time of 39 hours. The previous best time in the Ford plant was 93 hours. Another production short-cut is a milling machine set-up which performs 26 machining operations simultaneously. The time ,K on this job was slashed from days to fractions of an hour. Sorensen no longer is concerned about the production job. His only concern now, he said, was whether enough men and women could be trained to handle the stupendous project once Willow Run reaches capacity production. !
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at crossings.
The new steel locomotive bells pictured above weigh only 55 j pounds as compared with the old brass bell weighing 131 pounds. In addition to saving 76 pounds of vitally needed war materials, the steel bell, used by Erie railroad, is “easy” on the ears of the engine crew, yet has a clear tone and ample range to warn of approaching trains
Why Subsidize
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Many
avoid surpluses.
this paradox, if possible, for the 10 or 12 pages of printed explanation about the new setup is hardly understandable, probably not entirely so to the farmer, even though he has been dealing with this sort of bounty system for some years. Many farmers are up in arms, protesting. They want to produce to the hilt, without restrictions as to what they may plant. But the griculture department insists this can not be .done, for, while peak production is required, the production must be so balanced; it says, as to meet the needs as revealed in an analysis of the food problem.
Penalties Provided, Also
Hence the continued restriction, which is to be carried out not only by bonuses for meeting allotments, but also by penalties for failing to follow the plan, etiher in over-pro-duction or under-production, To finance this plan, congress already has appropriated $212,000,000 for parity payments, and more will probably be needed to meet the complicated list of payments in the agriculture department’s program. The farmer is being frankly subsidized as an incentive to effectuate this plan of maximum but balanced production, just as he was subsidized formerly to hold down production—that is, by payments for complying with crop-production allotments, with the added safeguard now of penalties at so much an acre for not meeting them. The agriculture department, including Secretary Wickard, is defending this system on the ground that it is merely an application to agriculture of the system imposed on industry, whereby, for example, automobile companies were required to produce airplanes and tanks. . Industry is not subsidized outright, but, it is argued, it is compensated in -profits.
Use Cotton as: Example
allotted production, it is pointed out that if the cotton and wheat farmers, for instance, trolled, they would plant to the limit in these crops, if past experience is any guide.
both cotton and wheat in the surpluses now in storage. : So, the agriculture department asks the cotton farmer, for exam-
ain| ple, to put part of his land in pea-
nuts for needed oils, and the wheat farmer to put part of his acreage in soy beans and flax. When the war shut down imports
was threatened with a billion-pound shortage. This was completely made up by the department’s plan for in-
‘creasing production of peanuts, soy
beans and flax, it was explained. “In the last war emphasis was on wheat,” Secretary Wickard said recently. “This time it is on meats and milk and eggs and oils. I don’t think of our great wheat stocks as a surplus any more, They are a useful reserve. I wish that we had as great reserves of many other prod-
ucts. But since we don’t have
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Crops Now?
It Is the AAA in Reverse
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
people are asking why the agricul-
ture department still finds it necessary, in increasing production to alltime peeaks, to make so-called crop-adjustment payments just as in former days when farmers got cash for reducing acreage in order to
It is, in effect, the old AAA system in reverse. A reporter went to the agriculture department to find the answer to
them, it is necessary to go full steam ahead on milk, meats, oil crops and other essential products. That means easing up on wheat.” The secretary also said recently that within a month the estimates for the amount of food production needed for our army and our allies was raised from 20 to 25 per cent of total production, showing what the food planners are up against.
Can Substitute War Crops
Farmers can comply with the allotment plan by substituting special war crops, or designated feed crops, for their corn, cotton, pea-
nuts, rice, tobacco and wheat. The production allotments for wheat and cotton both have been lowered for next year below the allotments for this year, themselves a reduction, while goals for peanuts, soybeans, flax and other crops have been! raised still further. If a farmer fails to reach 90 per cent of the war crop goal for his farm, which is fixed in ‘each instance by his local AAA committee, he will be penalized by a deduction from his crop payment at the rate of $15 an acre. His crop payment would be wiped out completely if he should plant only 70 per cent of his allotment. Over-production likewise is penalized. There is no penalty for the conservation phase of the program, but each farmer will be paid in accordance with the degree to which he earns his conservation allowance,
LOCAL ISSUES
Nominal quotations furnish unit of Nations Association od Suasal ler * Bid Aske ents Agents Fin Corp td. Belt, RE Stk e Stk Yds Bobbs-Merrill ee Bobbs-Merrill 429, pfd Loan 5% pfd Hom as = Ww. 7 5 ayne . Ind Asso Tel 5% ord ye % Ind & Mich 7%
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Van Camp Milk DIG. .esesoens Van Camp Milk cOM..c.ee0ene Bonds Algers Wins’'w W RR 4 “ann Aan Loan 5s 51 % 94 American Loan 5s 46.......... 98 Cent Newspaper 4%s 42-51.... 89 Ch of Com Plog Co 4%s 51... 4%s 61.......103
‘99 101 “79 108 97 08 107% 81 108% 101 101, 109 108% 101
Indpls Water Co 3%s 68 Kokomo Water Works Kuhner Packing Co 4%s 49... 98 Morris 5810 Stores 5s 50. .... 98 I Water Works 5s 66...
Pub Tel 46s Richmond Water Wks 5s 57...105 Trac Term Corp 5s 57 80 *Ex-dividend.
Schumacher Wall Board Corp.| 3
six months ended Oct. 31 net income $73,161 equal to 68 cents a common share vs. $147,380 or $1.57 a share year ago.
Chapter 11—No More Tears
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"IPORKER PRICES
RISE 10 CENTS
Local Hog Market Active; Top Price Is $13.60 on 160 to 200-Pounders.
Hogs were active today on the Indianapolis market, with price increases of 10 cents on weights above 160. Lighter weights were steady, with a top of $13.60 on 160 to 200pounders. ' Receipts were 11,500 hogs, 725 cattle, 600 calves and 3000 sheep. HOGS (11,500) [email protected] [email protected]
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CATTLE (725)
Slaughter Cattle & Calves Steers
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Choice— 700- 900 pounds 900-1100 pounds .. 1100-1300 pounds .... 1300-1500 pounds ..ceseccscsce
18.50
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1300-1500 Medium— 700-1160 pounds 1100-1300 pounds Common— 700-1100 pounds
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Cows (all weights) Good Medium ...cco0000ee “ee
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[email protected] «es 1.50@ 9.75 + [email protected] 6.00@ 7.50
Beef— Good Sausage— Good (all
Medium tens esene Cutter and common .
CALVES (600)
Vealers (all weights) Good and choice Common and medium Cull (75 lbs. up) Feeder & Stocker Cattle & Calves
Steers
Cholce— 500- 800 pPoUNds ....seceee.. [email protected] 800-1050 poUNdS ..ccesccece. [email protected] Good— 500- 800 pounds ..eececcses. [email protected] 800-1050 pounds .cecsccccess [email protected] Medium— 500-1000 pounds .ccesssscscee [email protected] Common— 500- 900 pounds ...ceeecse000 [email protected] Good and Choice— 500 pounds AOWR ceesevsences [email protected]
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Good and Choice— 300 bounas down .erveeses... [email protected] Medium— [email protected]
500 pounds down
N. Y. Stocks
Net Last Change Ya % Ya
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Beth Steel .... Borden 22Y, Borg-Warner..
Chrysler Comwlth & So
V2 9-32 Cons Edison ... 15%.
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Warner West Union ... West Air Bke Nesting oo ween 18 White Motor .. 13% Woolworth .... 29% Yellow Tr ..... 12%
3oung Sheet .. 20% Zenith Rad ... 17
U. S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (U. P.).—Govses and receipts for the ov. 2, com-
+ 11+]
Expenses +$29.006 353 872.30 $0.117,010,080.50 1 y! y 5 y » » " nd. 26,677,231,204.78 6,606,371,781.86 :148.868,178.37 3,01 40 085,663,876.85 2.219,332,799.40 | 3.323 131,070.34 "361,832 118.92 7102/871,833,180.22 61,394,958,956.11 Cash res.. 22,743,168,051.52 23,769,711,821.92
INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE
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PLANT LUNCHROOMS GETTING ATTENTION
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (U. P.)— American businessmen are placing greater emphasis on lunchroom facilities for workers as a result of rising demands for increased wartime production, the conference board said today on the basis of a study.
Executives are ‘giving increasing attention to cafeterias and other faciliéies for providing nourishing
food “not so much as a matter of
humanitarianism as a means of facilitating production,” the board said.
FILES “HOT CARGO” SUIT
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 (U. P.). ~—Montgomery Ward & Co. filed a $2,025,544 “hot cargo” damage suit against 19 California transportation companies yesterday, claiming the defendants had declined to move
merchandise to and from the Montgomery Ward mail order house at Oakland, Cal. During an eightmonth strike of A. F. of L. retail clerks and warehousemen from December, 1940, to July, 1941.
Indiana Counties Files Petition. Hearings on the United Tele phone Co.'s petition for rate boosts amounting to more than $86,000 will be resumed next week by the Indiana public service commission. The hearing, involving 75 exchanges in 18 Indiana counties, is one of the most important to come before the commission in recent months and will be watched by officials of regulatory bodies of other states for possible precedent. Permission to boost telephone rates was requested by the United Telephone Co. in a petition filed by the United Telephone Co. The company said exchahges in Marshall, Fulton, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Johnson, White, Wabash, Starke, La Grange, Miami, Kosciusko, Whitley, Noble, Steuben, Jay, Grant, Wells ‘and DeKalb counties would be affected. The petition did not state that the company is not asking for a ate increase because of failure to nake a fair return on their used and useful property. This usually is the basis for rate increases.
Intends to Raise Salaries
Instead, the company declared it intends to increase the salaries of its employees. The petition points out that the manpower situation is tough, and that it is a little company and faces a competitive situation in maintaining sufficient manpower. Adequate service cannot be maintained unless salary increases are effected, according to Albert Campbell, Indianapolis, attorney for the petitioner, The company is not engaged in interstate business. Consequently, the company is not subject to the
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What About Travel
During
Wartime Holidays?
The answer to that is a master of simple arithmetic. ..addition
War industry has added greatly to essential business travel.
Gasoline rationing has shifted much of the normal highway load to the railroads.
The armed forces here at home have vastly increased in the past year. Many more men will be traveling on leave. Many more families will be journeying to camps to be near their men.
We may also expect an increase in military movements... subtracting further from the number of Pullmans, coaches and passenger locomotives available for regular service.
What all this will mean in terms of crowded trains may prove something far beyond the experience of American travelers. We therefore advise putting off any trip you have to make until after this peak period is past.
However, if you must go, try to leave as long before the holidays as you can and return as long afterward as possible. Carry minimum luggage and allow maximum leeway for train
We'll do our best to provide the necessary accommodations. n you to make the best of this
We're hard at work to speed on their way the men and munitions and raw materials of war. And that's one job all Americans want to see put first. . . holidays acd every day... till Victory is won.
~ NEW YORK CENTRAL
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