Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1942 — Page 17
“Biggest “Evansville” E ployers "Adopt, “Central Hiring’ ' Policy
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ei : THE LATEST THING AT EVANSVILLE is central , hiring. It works like this.- When a person comes to the U.
« employment service office to ! bom sent out to one of the
adjoining room where there are representatives of the big-
gest employers in town.
# + At one desk is a man from Chrysler; at. ancilier is the Republic Aviation, Missouri ‘Valley
‘Briggs representative. - Bridge & Iron Co., Sunbeam,
Stamp also have representatives there.
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get a line on a job, instead of factories, he is sent to an
Servel and Hoosier Lamp ¢ &
+ These men can and do hire applicants right on the spot. It saves and tires and much 4 also sayes the physically handitk liaat dd ys capped much effort in seeking] work. It is the most logical step taken in that area where the r shortage is regarded as the state’s most critical and where Indiana’s first manpower office has been opened. In the 6ld days rs0 ‘managers wanting to y 4 their own departments, would use the U. S. employment service. only after they had exhausted their own files. Now, of — the labor supply picture is te.
apparent from this novel plan of hiring. For one thing, when a perSon comes in to get a job the USES "interviewer looks over his qualifications and sends to the company representative wanting that kind of workman, Often he is advised to take one of the free training courses so he’ll be better fitted for the job. And often this advice is disregarded. But when the com-
Coolie Has Become Pluto-
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alissimo’ Chiang Kai-Slek’s new circular order for the limitation of prices and wages throughout China, and the prohibition of black market transactions, is measure so far taken to check inflation in this country.
fixed—that of Nov. 30, 1942—is many times the 1937 index and was headed for still greater heights when the generalissimo’s circular telegram was announced.
difficulties have steady grown in
CHINA CONTROLS PRICES. WAGES
crat as Result of Severe Inflation.
By A. T. STEELE
The Indianapolis Times i Shitago Daily News, Inc.
CHUNGEING, ‘Dec. 21.— Gener-
the ‘most | drastic
The level at which prices are
China’s: financial and economic
From faints throughout its entire system, Pennsylvania railroad is plent at Conway, Pa., where much of it ls reclaimed and conditioned for ruse and the remainder
sent to the steel mills.
Stout Working For Consolidated
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 21 (U. P.)—I. M. Girdler, chairman of Consolidated = Aircraft Corp., ~today confirmed the appointment of William B. Stout, noted Detroit aircraft engineer, as a fulltime designer for the firm. | Girdler said that the entire Stout engineering laboratories in Detroit ‘had been “taken over” by . Consolidated and would “continue their creative résearch work in improving aircraft and allied products and in developing new product ideas.” Stout, designer of the first allmetal commercial airplane, founded his Detroit laboratories
HOG PRICES UP 20 CENTS HERE
Top Advances to $14.65 as 8800 Porkers Arrive At Stockyards.
A Hog prices rose 20 cents at the Indianapolis sftockyards today, agricultural marketing administration reported. The -top was $14.65 for good to choice 1680 to 200-pounders. Receipts included 8800 hogs, 1300 cattle, 375 calves and 1425 sheep, '
k |cessful in that most of the money .|raised : has come from : private : sources and not from banking insi-
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scrap to its reclamation
Informed French
Boats Purchased
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—The French steamship line Compagnie Sudatlantique will be reorganized with Argentine -capital so three French boat&interned here since the fall of France can sail under the Argentine flag, it was learned today.
They are Campana, 10,816 tons;
Formose, 9975 tons, and Katiola, 3891 tons. A fourth interned French ship, Aurigny, was so bad-
-ly damaged by fire last year that
she was sold for scrap. The Argentine government
vainly tried to buy the ships from Vichy French officials before the’
|$10,000,000,000 ' into the coffers of|i {the treasury in response to the De- - {cember victory fund drive which | was intended to raise $9,000,000,000 lit was announced today.
| paign in United States history.
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More Than n 10 Billion Pours] -- Into Treasury; Higher Goal Is Set.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U. P). —Americans have poured more than
Secretary Morgenthau disclosed | ;, that the treasury now plans. to lif the total for the month to $11,000,000,000—more, money than ever, has béen raised in a single selling cam-
The drive has been chiefly suc-
tutions. Of the $10,299 009,000 alieady subscribed in the December drive, $5,~ 641,000,000 has come from nonbanking sources and $4,588,000,000 from banking quarters, :
Exceeds Liberty Loan :
The . non-banking subscriptions included $1,204,000,000 in 7% per cent certificates, 2,809,000,000 in 1% per cent bonds, $2,528, 000,000 in 2% per cent victory bonds, $480,000,000 in tax notes and $530,000,000 in E, PF, and G war savings bonds. Of the subscriptions from banking sources, $500,000,000 was for treasury . bills, $2,058,000,000 treasury bonds and $2,030,000,000 in 78 per cent certificates. Prior to the present drive, the largest sum ever raised in a single financing operation was $6,964,281;100 subscribed to the fourth liberty loan in three weeks in: 1918. Secretary Morgenthau expressed the hope that a major portion of the year-end bonuses now being distributed by business will be invested in funds. offered by the
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By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special ‘Writer
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—The administration is faced with an ne
d fixed price ceilings.
virtually faced with a. choice of P ncwuring price ceilings or makup for increased costs by direct sul sid.
Chere is growing concern ins toni posed
gress lest the administration embark or 3 big scale subsidy program by tZlizing broad powers conferred aro: n Economic Director Byrnes by President Roosevelt—withcut further consulting congress. The farm bloc is against subsidies, insisting rather upon raising price ceilings, which they have been saying is necessary to meet labor costs. Other interests in congress are fearful of a-subsidy program, not knowing where it may lead, and particularly if it is done by executive fiat. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, food administrator, is trying to find some way out of this dilemna. = The price of wheat now is such
he can get, under price ceilings, for his finished flour. The price of flour was frozen early in October. Since that time cash wheat has advanced 15 cents a bushel. Millers complained to Price Administrator Leon Henderson, who- promised a new schedule’ to meet this rise in production costs, but he said recently that nothing could be worked out until. early in January., A number of mills“ have shut down. : If the price of flour is boosted, then the price of bread must be increased. Bread is a symbol, and the administration would not like to break the price ceiling on this essential. The problem is complicated by
fund drive, plus tax and other re-
till approximately 13,500,000,000
casingly acute problem in protecting its anti-inflation program, bens c ise .of producers and distributors being caught between rising costs
Crp is not a new problem, but it is dramatized now because it cure rently involves two essentials, bread and milk. The administration is
the fact that farmers have been holding their wheat off the market, Secretary Wickard recently proe a three-way -deal to farm bloc leaders which ‘called for: ‘Abandonment of the bill, ‘passed last Session} the house, -to.. ine crease Ly rices to include the "| cost of farm y ator And— . Passage of a bill to release hs 000,000 bushels of wheat now held by the government to millers, with= out regard to existing’ law which forbids sale of surplus wheat below. parity prices unless it is for feed or-is. damaged. In exchange, the government then would pay a subsidy of 58 cents a barrel on flour, which would mean 8 to 12 cents’ increase to the farms er for his: wheat. This proposal was rejected by | farm-bloc leaders, who insist that the proper approach is to raise price ceilings, They argue that the increase in the price of bread would . be almost negligible, and that people are able to pay more these days for both: bread and milk. : During one conference it wast suggested that the loaf of bread might be made smaller and sold at the same price, but it was pointed out this would require a change of molds. One agriculture department expert also poin out that the government could . call loans on wheat now held for farme ers, taking so many names at rane dom to release whatever amount was desired. The government holds some 500,000,000 bushels under loan, The secretary was warned that the - reaction to rationing among farmers would be nothing to the trouble such calling of loans would,
this month.
stir up.
ceipts, will. draw vg treasury
severity since the outbreak of war, five and a half years ago, and have become especially complicated since the ‘severance of supply lines from the outside world. From time to time, the government has taken steps to check hoarding, profiteering and skyrocketing prices.
liberation of North Africa. treasury this month. The victory
in 1919, when he built the Stout “bat wing,” first monoplane in America with internally braced wings. He also designed and built the Ford tri-motor transport, still used to haul freight on China and South American routes; the “Scarab,” first auto
pany representative suggests the same thing, the job-seeker is convinced that probably it is the thing - to do. Another benefit: Employers have been very particular about the kind of help they wanted. In days when there. was much unemployment,
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they could afford to be choosey. The opposite is true nowadays but some concerns don’t seem to believe
Teachers Suffer Rising prices have been accom-
it and still want the cream. So when they see what kind of applicants come in for.jobs, day after day, they discover they can’t be so particular about not hiring women
over 45, etc.
When you get labor, government and ‘management together in one
office like that, differences disap- {) pear pretty Task, :
OLD NEW MONEY will be coming into circulation. They are $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills Printed in 1930 but never put in tion. Government printing are so busy-now that. the has decided to bring out these old - 000,000-wo! bs They will look, % the amateur, like present bills but—and here is what worries fiscal officials— the experts, such as bank cashfers, may think they are counterfeit. That is because they have » extra printed matter on them that the present ones don’t have. ” #" FJ ODDS AND ENDS:
commerce in peace-time. . .
- women to work.
Blane windows clear in a rainstorm.
ills, never used, $660,-
Indianapoils department store sales in the sec- .. ond week this month were 24% ' ahead of a year ago. . cargo ship is being redesigned and . with more powerful engines will be able to go faster, compete in world . Pittsburgh is having trouble getting . A new chemical is being used to keep. fighter
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panied by an almost parallel increase in wages though the salaries of middle-class, white-collar workers, government officials and teachers have been only slightly upped, with ‘the result that they have suffered more than any other section of the population, To: be sure, this
10 per cent of the population but it. forms the backbone of China’s leadership. . Subsidies of rice and|a essential commodities . have been extended to many of -these whitecollar workers, but this relief measure has only partially solved their difficulties. : Naturally some have been tempt-
other ways. Undernourishment has been a problem. Student classes are among the hardest hit. It is probable _that some part. of the United China . Relief funds, raised in the United States,. will bg devoted to helping needy -students in the Chinese universities. For the past year taxes have been collected in kind instead, of money, but the farmers are getting fancy rprices for what is left. The coolie class, tdo, especially in the cities, is making the very highest wages. They: are China's new plutocracy. * Merchants have prospered in most
medities from occupied China has enhanced their gains. taking it on the chin with only a
receive food and uniforms.
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Soldiers are| x
slight rise in their pay, though they|
mobile with individual springing, and the “railplane,” first stream-lined, gasoline-driven train in the United States.
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U. S. STATEMENT
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U. P. ‘ernment expenses and receipts current fiscal year through . 18, ¢
) —Govfor the com-
‘| pared with a year ago:
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se 700.37 3,883, 583,244 . .25,541,918,173.50 6,584,376,103 ash Bel. 17,476,727,841.38 pn York. Bal. 6,714.1 5 2,839,777,
s Yea Last Year Expenses $32,491,523, 583 07 $9, 534 302/447. 31 W. Spend. 29,755,217,986 549,500,447
Gol d Res. 22,744,388,831.58 22,747,735, 048. 16 INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE
Cleveland Building Supply Co.
year ended Sept. 30 net profit $233,790 or $3.02 a share vs. Wise or
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$5.60 previous year.’ the Plastic Pigies!
too 720 pounds Packing Sows
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. LOCAL PRODUCE
Heavy breed hens, full-feathered, 21c; Leghorn hens, 18c pringers 1% lbs. and ove: colored, 22c; barred and white rock, 23c; ‘cocks; 12¢. Roasters, 4 lbs. and over ’ colored, 23c; white rocks, .23c; barred rocks, 23c. All No. 3 poultry. 3 cents ‘receipts 54 lbs. and up,
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Calcium chloride mixed with dirt is scattered on a highway ¢ to melt away snow and ice.
Although new uses are found constantly for calcium . chloride, the history of the chemical goes ‘back to the 15th century when the Dutch alchemists—Isaac of
' Holland and either his brother
or son—obtained a salt called
“sal ammoniacum fixum.” That salt today is one of the most widely used of chemicals. The most common form of calcium chloride is the small thin flake which dissolves itself in the moisture it draws from the air. One pound of these flakes will pounds of water at a humidity of 78. It is also used for dust control on dirt and gravel roads, tennis
‘courts, playgrounds and parking
lots; for ice control on streets and highways, for concrete cure ing and the dustproofing of coal. Irvin Barnett, manager of the Barnett Bottle Co. of In olis, distributor of Columbia cal-s
-cium chloride, said the chemical
will melt ice at temperatures as low as 50 degrees below zero, as compared with salt \which loses its melting qualities at or near Zero. ¢ “When used for concrete curing, calcium chloride causes the cement to set quicker, thus permitting early removal of forms and use many days before ordinary concrete,” Mr, Barnett said. “Refrigerating systems used ‘in the making of ice and ice cream require a solution to be circulated in their pipes that will not freeze at very low temperatures. Calcium chloride has been proved
the most efficient and economical
medium for making this brine
solution. It can be circulated at temperatures down to 50 degrees
WAG! op to the ASo ot the Ld Jnarket
oday, Indianapolis fl elevators paid $1.38 per shah Io for 0. 2 red wheat (other a merits).
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below zero with assurance that the solution will not freeze. “Many tons of calcium chloride are used to dust-proof coal so when .it is delivered to homes it will not be necessary to wash up the black dust which usually accompanies the unloading of coal.” During wintertime when ice and snow make pavements and driveways slippery, it is easy to prepare a “stockpile” of dirt mixed with calcium chloride to throw on the driveways and walks around the home. The calcium will melt off
dirt for safety in‘ walking or driving. The Barnett Bottle Co. which has offices at 825 S. Meridian st., also has pamphlets describing how to use calcium chloride in concrete. The company, which operates in nine-tenths of the state, is also distributor for all
LOCAL WAREHOUSES FORM ASSOCIATION
Public merchandise warehouses in Indianapolis have formed an association to allocate space for sup-
ment, agencies.
Indianapolis Warehouse and Storage Co.
house Co.
the snow and ice’ and leave the
plies being stored here by govern-|§
The Federal Emergency Warehouse assaciation of Indianapolis is|¥ managed by Howard D. Foley, presi-|¢ dent and’ general manager of the|
Members include the Henry Co-|({ burn Storage & Warehouse Co., In-| x dianapolis Warehouse & - Storage; Co., Indiana Terminal & Refrig-|% erating Co., Strohm . Warehouse .&|{ Cartage Co. and the Tripp Ware- Y
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. products. : Its operations include the distribution of other chemicals and washing . compounds used. by dairies, beverage plants and institutions; many types of cone tainers, and a complete line of soda fountain and ice cream supplies and flavors.
Local Chemists fo 3 Hear J. W. Meek
J. Ww. Meek of the analytical division of Eli Lilly & Co. will discuss “Chemistry of the Barbiturates” at tomorrow’s luncheon meeting of the Indiana section,
American Chemical society, at . Hotel Severin, The barbiturates are the sleepinducing drugs of which “veronal” was the first widely known member. Mr. Meek will discuss the ‘problems in analyzing and meas= uring ‘the purity of these drugs and will discuss particularly a new drug in’ this" series having extrendy, pid action,
TRANSIT EMPLOYEES WILL HAVE PARTY:
The third annual employees Christmas party of Indianapolis Railways will be held at 8 p. m.
tomorrow in Keith's theater, Harry Reid, company president, has an nounced. % aDprosimately 1500 persons are expected to attend. The program will include a Christmas message ‘from Mr. Reid, vaudeville acts, motion pictures and “an appearance by Santa Claus.” Each year several hundred children of employees ate tend the party. Members of Indianapolis Railways employee = committee arranging the paxty include James P. Tretton, chairman; E. H. Plumm, Evan B. Walker, James Long, James Greene, Raymond Harp, Jack Scanlon, James. Connell and Ralph Deakyne. The committee is being ‘assisted by the Ladies auxiliary of division 1070 of the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America.
Incorporations—
Indiahapolis Water Co., Indianapolis; amendment changing common stock from $10.50 par value no par value and oiper amendments. Stout Fielder, Inc., 219 E. 8t.’ Joseph | st., Indianapolis; agent, J. PF. Madden, same - address; - 1000 shares no per value; newspaper and general Tints ue and publishix hg business; Madden, Gexiova Madden, “Katharine Prendergast
Patek Electronic Research Laboratories, Inc, Indianapolis; dissolution. Eichleay Engineering Corp. of Pentiayls. vania, Pennsylvania; ow al. Elkhart Standard Service, Inc., 303 N, Main © st., Elkhart; agent, Thomas Vv. Happer, 304 Monger bldg., Elkhart; 1000. shares without par value; filling station and garage business; Thomas V. dock Marian S. Happer, Mary H. Murd
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