Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1943 — Page 7
American National Bank Has Best Year Since Its Opening|
————y ROGER BUDROW
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF AMERICAN NATIONAL
bank of Indianapolis is a revealing one, if you are interested
in what is happening to banks. Since the day it opened its doors on Aug. 24, 1933, deposits have gone from 10 million}
dollars to more than’ 70 million dollars. Last year deposits increased almost 18 million dollars.
The bank (on Dec. 31, 1942) had around 12 million out
on loans which is nearly three million less than a year ago.
The answer to that is that the war has restricted work of
- some of the peace-time borrowers and government has
placed restrictions bank noted a pick-up in “V”
instaliment sale credit.
loans toward the end of the
year. These are government-backed loans to war industries.
The bank has 96 per cent of its investment in government securities. The met return on investments was 1.53 per cent which partially explains why a bank can’t afford to pay more than 1 per cent interest on deposits. Two years ago the bank began to hire and train young women to replace the men taken into the Sg armed service. or : Mr. Budrow who left for war jobs. Today 55 per cent of its employees are girls and g women. Yet, selling war bonds and with ration banking coming soon (no profit in either), means the bank has had to increase the number of employees by 13 over a year ago. All in’ all, however, the bank earned $248,579. After putting $21,750 aside for the regular preferred stock dividend, $29,578 for depreciation and $22,814 for taxes, the net profit amounted to $168,056 or $1.68 per share on the common compared with $1.09 for 1941 and an annual $1.18 since the bank was organized. From that standpoint, it was the best year of all. ” 2 ” LONDON STOCKS are thehighest in five years. The boom is due to optimism over the war and the tax situation. Speculators and investors are hunting tax-free profits through the stock market. Favorites are stocks of companies in the new plastics business.
MARMON-HERRINGTON turned in an impressive record last year. It boosted. production from $10,000,000 in 1941 to $60,000,000 during the first year U. S. was at war. In that time it also quadrupled its plant.
Honors have come thick and fast to A. W. Herrington, the kind bf recognition that is gratifying to a man who spent 10 years in pioneering. up-hill manufacturing. He was elected president of the- Society of Automotive Engineers, a top-flight technical group of men; was sent to India by President Roosevelt to eid industry there convert for war. This Friday night he will go back to his alma mater, Stevens Institute of Technology, to make the big annual address. o 2 ”
ODDS AND ENDS: WPB says ‘small concerns (500 or less employees) got a billion dollars worth of army contracts in the last two months. . , . ODT claims 14,500,000 tire miles are saved every month by its regulation of intercity busses. . Livestock interests are trying to nullify the 25 U. S. reciprocal trade agreements that Secretary Hull has promoted since 1934. , , . Drait deferment of men from 38 to 45 cught to improve demand for men's wear because these potential buyers have been holding off, thinking they - might be wearing uniforms shortly.
LOCAL PRODUCE
Heavy breed hens, 3% lbs. and over, 23c; jens 3% Ibs. and under, 20c; Leghorn 20c. Springers, 1% Ibs. and over; colored, 3% Barred and While Rock, 23c¢; Legho springers, llc. Roasters, 4 Ibs and over: colored, 26c; Barred and White Rock, 27e. Stags: Leghorns. 20c; heavy breed, 3lc. Capons, 7 bs. and over, 32c; under ? ibs. 28c; slips, 2%c. Cocks, 156. All No. poultry, 3 cents less. § Esse Current veceipts 54 lbs. and up,
Graded Eggs—Graae A, large, 39¢; grade A, medium 37c¢; grade A, small, 35c; no grade, 25c¢. b. ter—Nb. 1, 48@48'%4¢; No. 3. Pog aor butterfat, No. 1, 46c; No. 3, {Prices or produce delivered at Soon:
PLASTIC TAKES
New Hercules Substitute Made of Vegetable
Fiber, Pine Resin.
By DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor A new plastic, capable of replacing steel and other metals, for the construction of pipe, wall panels, air-conditioning ducts, structural members, corrugated sheets, etc, has been perfected by chemists of the Hercules Powder Co.,” Wilmington, Del. Raw materials for the plastic are vegetable fibers and a resin recovered from southern pine trees. Perfection of this plastic follows another success of the Hercules chemists—the production of a soft ethyl cellulose plastic that can be used to replace rubber, The war has made heavy de‘mands on Hercules’ facilities, and 1943 finds it engaged in large-scale production of military explosives as well as the manufacture of a diversified list of chemicals required for the manufacture of planes, tanks, ammunition and other war equipment.
Expand Tenfold
“The products of the chemical industry are in general intermediate products, essential materials having thousands of uses,” Charles A. Higgins, president of Hercules, points out. “Because of this, we have had few problems of conversions, retooling or redesigning. We have had the problem of rapid expansion, which has been the primary hurdle in shifting production and research
away from peacetime uses far chemicals.” . . Mr. Higgins reveals that in order to supervise construction and operation of six government-owned plants for the production of smokeless powder, TNT, other military explosives, and ammonia, the company's explosives department has been expanded tenfold. The cost of the governmentowned facilities which the company is operating is placed at $400,000,000. Exceed War I Peak
Production _ ‘figures from these plants are a secret. It has been disclosed, however, that U. S. powder production last March—four months after Pearl Harbor — was already larger than the peak of American powder production in world war I. Other new products. recently developed by Hercules’ chemists which are of importance in the war include a new insecticide concentrate known as thanite, which is replacing pyrethrum, formerly imported
_|from Japan.
The company has also developed synthetic resins for making quickdrying protective coalings with domestic drying oils—replacing Oriental and South American drying oils—and resinous compositions for the manufacture of flameproof and waterproof canvas tents, for adhesive and for binders in camocuflage coatings.
WAGON WHEAT
Up to the close of the Chicage market today, Indianapolis flour mills and grain be paid Ri. 44 per bushel for No. 2 .red wheat | (other gaat on their merits). No. 2 Noe oats, , and No. 2 red oats,
apolis quoted by Wadley Co.!
53 3 yellow corn, 88c per bushel, al No. 3 white corn, 98c. P
FUNNY BUSINESS
But the
PLAGE OF STEELS
1 wind
Drills 100 Holes at a]
More than 100 holes, at the touch of a button, are drilled on three sides in the big Hudson Invader engine cylinder block, shown above being inserted in the drill. The machine and another which does the tapping of the holes, handle more cylinder blocks in one hour than were produced in a day under former methods.
Since Early October Last Year.
Indianapolis stockyards today, lift-
| | Ing the top ‘to $15.35, highest since
| | early October last year.
hands of 100 of the large companies, while sub-contracting is proceeding at a “snail’s pace.”
the committee said, “to prevent the pattern of concentration developed in war production from becoming the pattern of concentration for all manufacturing after the war.”
an§ machines in the hands of small business men, the committee said, is hampering the war production drive. “If we allow the concentration of
hands of a few large corporations,” the report continued, “we are thereby tolerating the continuance of many production bottlenecks and of acute. shortage of manpower, transportation, and housing that have developed in the communities where these large companies are located.”
Makes Four Proposals To meet the problems of small pusiness, ‘the committee disclosed |r that it has under consideration four proposals which it may present to congress in the near future: 1. Establishment of a war min-
eral director to co-ordinate production and distribution of critical materials and to step up their flow to smaller plants. “2. Creation of a civilian supply administration within the war production board with full authority to determine and meet civilian needs. 3. Provisions of government assistance to small firms in liquidating inventories and in adjusting leases, mortgages and other obligaticns to war conditions. 4. Granting of special war-time loans to small business to aid rural stores in building up depleted stocks and to facilitate “mergers or pools on the part of small stores or plants.” " WPB Assailed
The committee accused the WPB of “a definite tardiness” in recognizing that effective prosecution of the war depends on “preserving a minimum of so-called civilian goods and services,” and added: “We now face the danger that an
only cut off- the fat, but, in some cases, will cut deep into the bone of our civilian economy. . . . “We feel that there is no justi-
any procurement officer to use the war as an excuse to help build the new industrial America along totalitarian lines. We feel that those who are planning the war and building the future of our country ought to put the nation’s existing capacity to maximum use for production now, rather than continue building magnificent factories which
| are likely after the war to be leased or otherwise disposed of to large|194
corporations. Besides Murray, the report twas signed by Senators Francis Maloney (D. Conn.), Allen J. Ellender (D. La.), James M. Mead (D. N. Y.), Tom Stewart (D. Tenn.), Arthur Capper (R. Kans.) and Robert, A. Taft (R. 0.).
STATE FARM INDEX UP ANOTHER POINT
LAFAYETTE, Jan. 18 (U. P.).—
-| Indiana’s farm commodity price in- | dex rose one point in December to 1942 with a total gain of|
ts over the 1941 Bverage,
Asks Laws to Restrain Big Corporations’ Dominance:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U. ‘P.).—The ‘senate small business committee today called for “fundamental and. far-reaching legislation” ‘to tide smaller firms over the war period and to prevent giant corporations from dominating post-war economy. In a report submitted to the senate by Chairman James E. Murray, (D. Mont.) the seven-man committee said that ‘over 70 per cent of all orime contracts are still in the
“It will take forthright measures,” |
e existence of idle factories|a
war contracts to continue in the(® i
jll-planned war program will not|
fication for any large company or|
N. Y. Stocks Last Coe He? 3 Eh
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114g 132%
H Allegh Corp... Allied Chem . Allis-Chal Am Can Am Am Am T&T Am x 26% 3% 69 20 3% 5
Anaconda Armour Ill .... Atchison pf . Atl Refini
58% 23%a 27%
Borg-Warner 9%
Bdgpt Brass .. )
Elec Auto-L ... Gen Cigar pf .133% Gen Electric . 327% oodrich 25% Goodyear ..... 26% Hudson Motor . 5% Inp: Harvester.. 58 ’ go
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Int Nickel Int T&T Kennecott
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Nat Biscuit..... Nat Cash Reg.. Nat Dairy N Y Central ...
Pan Am Airways Penn 25 Phillips Pet .... Procter & G... Pullman 2 Pure Oil «eu. :
Republic stl. Sears Roebuck ... Servel In ¢ Socony-Vacuum. South Pac Std Oil Ind.... Std Oil N J.... Stew-War Stokely Br Studebaker .... Swift & Co .. Tenn Corp ...
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United Aircraft. 28%2 Un Gas Imp pf.104Y% U 8 Rub 1 pf..102% U S Steel pf....116 Warner Bros... % West Union ..., 28 West Air Bke.. 17% Westing El .... 82% White Mot .... ‘Woolworth Yeliow Tr
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Young Sheet ..
Zenith Rad . 20
Complete Jew ‘York stock quotations are carried daily in the final edition of The Times.
BUSINESS AT A .GLANCE
: By UNITED PRESS i American European Securities Co. year ended Dec. 31 net assets $7,103,902 or $5.93 a common share vs. $6,808,413 or $5.35 previous year, California Electric Power Co. and subsidiary 12 months ended Nov. 30 pot income $862,042 vs. $679,096 in
| 3300 sheep.
Ys s | Good and Choice
2 Good And choice ediu
1, | Agents Fin Corp com .......
The agricultural marketing ad-
i | ministration reported receipts were
6500 hogs, 625 cattle, 375 calves and
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+ HOGS (6500) Good jo shales. 120-1 cessaness-$14.10014.85 140- Hr Dy sestasanneas
Seen sssn ess “esas entnne
330- 30 pounds ..... . [email protected]
Mediu i0-" 220 "pounds : - Packing Sows
270- 300 pounds .i...i iia 300- 330 pounds .....:,. 330- 360 pounds .....:... Sea 360- 400 pounds .. Good— 400- 450 pound® ...isvirseei 450- 500 pounds ...ccoee0s000 13
Medium , 250- 500 pounds ........es.. [email protected]
Slaughter Pigs Medium to Good— 90- 120 pounds CATTLE (625) Slaughter Cattle & Calves Steers
14.400 14.60
[email protected] .00@ 14.40
see sents
Choice— esses [email protected] «« [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
ts8escnnsse
pounds . 1300-1500 pounds
[email protected] [email protected] '[email protected] [email protected]
Good— 700- 13a 9 pounds .s .e 1 Oring ounds 1aaiasenaess, 1300-1500 pounds Set esonntene
Medium: 700-1100 pounds 1100-1300 pounds Common— 100-1100 pounds
sess
12.50 . 12.50
14.25 14.25
Choice— 600- 800 pounds .....se.c0.s 800-1000 pounds Good — 600- 800 poun 800-1000 DS Mediime— 500- 900 pounds Common — 500- 900 pounds ........ Sasee Cows (all weights)
. [email protected] [email protected]
14.25 14.25
seve sess
13.00 13.25
[email protected] [email protected]
sedetennnnnne stsscssssncee
13. 5
Bulls (all weights) - (Yearlings Srandad)
. 13.00@%4.25 . [email protected]
Bette
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CALVES (375) Vealers (all weights) Good and choice Cull (75 Ibs. up) @11.00 Feeder & Stocker Uattle & Calves Steers Choice—
500- 800 POUNAS ...ceveeses. [email protected] 0 1050 pounds ...cccceeee. [email protected]
500- 800. pounds 800-1050 pounds
sesssssssess 11.
[email protected] esesssssesss [email protected] 500-1000 pounds esessscsness [email protected]
ommon— 500- 900 pounds ....c..se. [email protected] Calves (steers)
s | Medium
.. [email protected] [email protected]
39 Jotnds down ........
500 a ads down Calves (heifers)
Good and Choice—
2 Jounds down .. [email protected]
1500 a ds down [email protected]
SHEEP AND LAMBS (3300)
Ewes (shorn) Good and choice ..........o ve Common and choice .... . Lambs Good and choice cessens Meduim and good ....... wees Common
1.00@ 8.0 5.50@ 9.00
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Lambs (Shorn) Good and choice Medium. and good Common
5.00@15 1: 15@15. 0 [email protected] Yearling Wethers 13.25 12.50
12.75 10.00
LOC AL ISSUES
Nominal quotations furnished by local unit of National Association of Securities Dealers. Asked Ma...
Agents Fin Corp pfd
2 | Belt RR Stk Yds com
Belt RR Stk Yds 6% pfd.... 52 Bobbs-Merrill com Bobbs-Merrill 4'%2% pfd Circle Theater com Comwlth Loan 3% 8 pfd Hook Drug Co ¢ 12, Home T&T Ft Wayne 7% pid. sts
hdpls Water p pls Water Es A com ... n Loan Co 5% pfd .... n Nat. Life Ins com Pub Serv 5%% Pub Serv 6%. N Ind Pub Serv 7% ‘pfd P R Mallory com Progress es Pub Serv of Ind 5% pid.. Pub Serv of Ind com ........ So Ind G&E 4.8 pfd.. “hee Stokely Bros pr pfc ...... ae ‘United Tel Co 5% . 95 Union Title com ; 24 Van Camp Milk pfd ..... viv Van Camp Milk com Bonds
Algers Wins'w vw RE 4%2%.. American Loan 5:
5: hi Font Newspaper 4'%2s 42-51.... of Com Bldg Co Ties SL ja Gitisens nd ac 4% . Consol Fd Asso T
Indpl ines
N Ind N Ind
Martin-Pirry Corp. and subsidi- | Ind
aries quarter ended. Nov. 30 net profit $46,799 or 13 cents a share vs. $22,539 or 6 cents in 1941 quatrer.
Professor Named
Muncie N Ind Pu ‘N Ind’ Pub § Pu
PAY AS You WEAR THEM
: 't. Jet shortage of ready cash keep Bon et pan FLaye Magers engrave - moun complete
ly _groun _.&t our. new low Hl branch. Fay a
RISE 2% 25 CENTS|
{Top of $15.35 I Is Highest
Hog prices rose 25 cents at the
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Two representatives of the Chinese. government viewed the production of aircraft engines at the "Allison factory. Shown, left to right, are R. W. Emerick of General Motors Corp.; Maj. Gen. Dai-fung King; Maj, Tawei Li; Maj. J. K. Hampton, resident representative of
PEG WAR JOBS IN CALIFORNIA
WMC Approval Needed to Shift to New Work 500,000 Affected.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 w. P.). —A half million southern California war workers were pegged to their jobs today. All workers in 30 essential industries of the 11 southern counties wil} be unable to change jobs without a certificate from the area committee on’ the war manpower commission. Certificates will be: issued “only when a change of employment is
323 in the best interests of the war ef850 fort,” Harnish announced. Discharges and
Committee Director H. R. layoffs are subject to the same restriction. Workers will be shifted from civilian to war work where
3-23 necessary.
A committee statement said similar stabilization plans being developed for other parts of the nation as a “nation-wide program.” Although only war industries are under today’s order, all employers both in and out of war work, will be included later, the committee revealed. The plan was put in effect first .in essential industries to prevent overloading of the WMC facilities, Harnish. said. Announcements of dates for other industries will be made later. Meantime, workers in non-es-sential industries may transfer from one job. to another at will.
OTHER LIVESTOCK
FT. WAYNE, Jan. 18 (U. P.).—Hogs— 5 cents higher; 160-200 lbs, $15,20: 200240 lbs. 315. 10; 240-300 1lbs., $15; 300-400 JiSa: $14. 90; a $14.90; 140-150 1bs., 31485: 130-140 1lbs., $14.40; 100-130 0! Ips. ‘$14.15; Roughs, $13.75; stags, $12; male hogs, $10 Son Sewn; salves, $16; lambs, $15.50; ewes,
CINCINNATI, Jan. 18 (U. P.).—Hogs— Receipts, 2500; weights over 160 lbs., 15 to 20° cents higher; lighter weights and sows mostly 26c higher; today’s top, $15.50 for 160-250-1b. weights, 350-300-1b. weights, $15.40; 300-400 Ibs. $15.25; good ' 150-16) 1bs., $14. 95; 140-150 1bs., $14.50; lighter weights, $14 down, according to weight and quality; sows over 450 1bs., 50; smooth lightweights under 450 lbs., Cattle—Receipts, 600; calves, 300 ket fairly active; most: early scales of butcher steers and heifers around steady: some weak present on several loads common to good medium weight steers; some held up to $15; most early butcher steers and heifers, $12.50@13. 85; cows active and fully steady to strong’ common and medium, [email protected]; good cows up to $12: bulls, $13 Sow vealers, steady, good and
choice, $15@ Sh 100; fat lamb trade very light receipts; fat lambs, salable at $16 dowd: wn.
CHICAGO LIV LIVESTOCK
Hogs-—Receipts, 15,000, active; 15 to 25 cents higher than Friday’ s average; top, $15.50 bulk good and choice 180-330 Ibs., [email protected]; good and choice 160180 lbs, tials: boa good 360-550 Ibs. sows, $14.25@14 Cattle Roasts 13,000; calves, 800; fed '% | Steers and Jearlings, 10 to 15 cents higher; bulk, 75@16; early top, $16.50, $186. 5 bid; Te lone goarlings, 6 heifers, stron S°@hts h er; $15.75; bulk, 2014 ws cows lt weighty cutters to and good beef cows, 1012.05: ull ray, outstanding heavy sausage offerings to. $13.85; several loads western bulls here unsold; vealers scarce, firm .at $16 down. Sheep—Receipts, 6000; fat lambs only moderately active and strong with i Priday's average on light supply; good to choice light wooled lambs, [email protected]; choice held above $16.15; "good yearlings held above $14; no slaughter ewes. sold and as yet no definite action on yearlings.
FEAR ENGINEER SHORTAGE WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U, PJ). —War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt said today that war-time demands threaten to create a na-
Y2{tivnal shortage of sanitary engin-
eers. A subcommittee of the war manpower commission’s procurement and assignment service for physicians, dentists and veterinarians has been hamed to locate and assign sanitary’ engineers to the
_— ve services, he said.
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the army air forces at Allison, and Lieut. D. 8. Kromer, assistant resident representative. Expressing confidence in the united nations’ ability to win the
war, Gen. King said, “As an officer of the army of China, a member of
Charges Hoosiers
Are Tire Wasters
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U. P.). —A great majority of war workers who ride to work do not use their cars efficiently and many misuse them, according to a survey by the federal works agency of 140,000 war workers in 10 states. The FWA said in a report that a serious tire shortage faces most workers, and added that unless group riding becomes more prevalent some effect upon the war effort may be expected. Of the 140,000 workers whose method of travel was checked, 73 per cent rode in private cars and only 15 per cent used street cars or buses. Ten per cent walked to work, and 2 per cent used bicycles. Cars which arrived at war plants with empty seats indicated that workers are not. doubling up here possible, the FWA said. At an Indiana plant, for example, it was found that more than half the workers used their cdrs to go home to lunch, although 69 per cent of them lived within walking distance of the place. “Most large plants would be forced to close down if they had to depend entirely on workers who could walk to work or travel by public conveyance,” the FWA reported.
the united ns tions, I ‘feel very good after seeing this great plant and am sure if m; people could see what I saw today they, too, would Yes joice with m2. I wish tc express gratefulness ior your efforis on the part of Chin:.” 3 §
Qfficers anc directors of Security Trust Co, were re-elected at. the annual meetings today. Directors are Edward W. Harris, Irving W. Lemaux, Edward i3. Raub, George W. Snyder, William Storen, Hugh V. Bradey, Maj. Samuel J Mantel, Arthy: C. Shea, Donald M, Campbell and Reily G. Adims. Mr. Lemau: is president; Mr. Storen and M*. Snyder, vic: presis dents; Mr. Biady, treasurer; G. 8 Blue, secretary, and Thoraas Mi Hendricks, assistant secretary. Mr. Lemaux reported a Sibstang tial gain in de in de oosits,
GRAIN FUTURES DIP IN LIGHT TRADING
CHICAGO, Jan. 18 (U. P)~ Grain futures turned irregularly lower on the Board of Tride toe day in light tre de. At the end of the first hour wheat was off % to % cent a Hushel; corn up % to off 3%; oats end ry off % to 2 cen|, and soy beais up 1 cent, rt The interest 'n the wheat inarket of the last few days lagged ‘n dull trade. Quiet trading prevailed ir corn
DAILY PRICE INDEX
NEW YORK, Jan, 18 (U, P).—| Dun & Bradsteet's daily weighted price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press (1930-32 average equals 100) : Saturday ...eeeeecccescceecss 168.23 Week 280 ecsecsccessssncss. 165.17 Year ago .ceeiceccecsccceees 154.31 1943 High «vveveececsceasess 168.33 1943 LOW ‘tqscecescecesescs.. 166.61
U. S. Leather Co. and subsidiary year ended Oct. 31 net profit $1,-
futures with th: market maintain ing a firm und¢rtone due to | iimited offerings.
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