Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1943 — Page 2
é It Million . Dollars Spent 10n Project Expected to |
Cost $263,000.
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ed in not getting this building
ed and into use for the taxof the county. *The county has a ‘tremendous vestment here, and we feel the
issioners should get as soon}.
possible a general contractor’s bid to finish it up completely and as soon as possible.” Mr. Deming estimated at least $35,000 to $50,000 more is needed. “The cost so far of nearly a half million dollars is entirely out of reason,” he said, “and although the new building is a beautiful and ‘modern addition, . any taxpayer ‘would agree that too much money has been spent.”
For several weeks now, Addison} J. Parry, president of the council,|
and Mr. Deming, have attempted to analyze the , financial maze that “isin. apparent chaos. They have been unsuccessful, both admit.
The Story of Julietta:
Chronologically, as far as possible, the story of Julietta is this: On Dec. 28, 1937, a contract was entered into by the commissigners and Everett I. Brown Co., architects, “a. new wing, alterations and “remodeling” at the infirmary.
This was to include 18 dormitory|,
“rooms, one a chapel, one dining room, 13 ‘toilets and one hospital unit. The materials were to be reinforced concrete and steel, with brick walls and tile partitions—the ‘cost not to exceed $263,015. ~The contract specified that 4 per ‘cent of the cost of the building, installation and accessories, plus’ 2 per cent of the supervision, was to be paid the architects. .On Dec. 26, 1940, a supplementary agreement was made between the en and the arghitects, regarding a power plant. An’ allowance of 4 per cent was = be paid on a $200,000, power plant, for serv fees in preparing plans and specifications, plus 2 per cent of the total eost of the power plant.
Estimates Too High
Subsequent events proved the esti‘mates were, entirely too high and the power plant section was constructed for $50,000. Two per cent was allowed un the ,000, but the architect was forced to go’ through court and obtain a mandate for his 4 per cent-on the original $200,000 estimate. Not including the boiler plant, the original estimate for the: wing was for $263,015, according to figures, in ‘the hands of the members of the council. Here are figures obtained this week: ‘from County Auditor Ralph core, showing the expenditures to
nd issue; $148,300,
0 rion. $44, 000. (This last figure Was to have completed the job. WPA, $29,000. ‘Roof (allowed by council), $6500. Cou.jeil; $5000. (This request was for $15,000) This $5000 was appropriated by
present council for the purpose
of completing a fire wall between the old and the new structures. Fire Wall Incomplete “This sum. also was to take care of: some of the plastering remain1g to be done. “But the inspection by Mr. Deming osed that the fire wall has not been completed, although some of} this money has been spent, and ‘som: Nrned back into the county
"mat appropriation, the :. @atly informed the commissioners hat no more money would be Jorthcoming until the jecifications ‘for a final’ completion were: submitted. . This, Mr. Parry and Mr. Deming d, was impossible, according. to commissioners. - On Jan, 25, the commissioners 2d. for. another appropriation of . This was turned down imately and work at Julietta
hE. yesterday, birds dipped his head ghd swirled into among the ‘expensive tiles. tof the nests, they perched on s ‘fluorescent lighting fixtures, ochally flying out of the halfwindows and openings in alls. ~ It's Warm for Birds The. steam heat and water have en turned on. The building is ly. warm for the birds. The ting fountains and wash bowls lve running water, and the autolic sprinklers flush the un-used ts at regular intervals. the center of thé wing, Mr. nn saw an elevator shaft, but ‘elevator. No provision has been e for the elevator and the comissioners have informed the coun- | that it is unlikely they can ob‘priorities for one now. W ith some of the inmates of the § invalids, it will be necesto carry them to the third or where the up-to-date hospital is been installed, ‘the religious pel and entertainment hall. he fire wall runs up to the third} but stops short of the roof. y cell blocks, complete with |
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Secretary of Agriculture Wickard| has issued :a call for mobilization of 4-H club members throughout the, country. He’s asking something more, too. He would like clubs to
double their membership. In that way, it is hoped that young people, too young for the armed services and industry, will devote themselves to farm and home projects which will release adults for work in the war effort. Mobilization week is scheduled for next week but energetic 4-H members in Warren township aren’t waiting for the starting gun. They were busy a whole week early and are well on their way to their double-membership goal. The normal 4-H enrollment in the town-
ship is 300 sé they're busy recruit-|-
ing 600. They've only been at the job about four days and already have signed up 400—two-thirds of their goal. Under the direction of Mrs. Vivian | Carter, vocational and 4-H director in the township, the girl members are speeding work on several projects. They hope to finish those in
] Among prominent Warren township 4-H club members who have been helping to enroll other members this week are Ruth Monical (left), Adeline Roy and Don VanSickle.
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County Youngsters Answer Wickard Mobilization Plea
| baking, food and clothing in the spring so that this summer they can devote themselves more fully to jobs which will relieve their parents for other work. Mrs. Carter is asking the girls to place special emphasis on gardening, poultry, food preservation, recom improvement and rural electrification this summer, Walter Mowry, who is in charge ‘of the boys’ work, is also stressing the need for the boys to engage in projects which will aid in the war effort. Other fields of service in which boys and girls will serve this summer include the care and repair of equipment, the raising of beef, soybeans, corn, swine, dairy work, management, safety and first aid, salvage, child care, home care, etc. The ¢lub members will keep records of their achievements as Farm and Home 4-H Victory club members. The Warren township members will record the number of 1 hours spent, the scope of their work and will estimate the numbers of hours saved an adult worker who, in turn, will give those hours to the war effort.
J WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Stat f the Serippr-Figward Newspapers
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as he did last year in senate. OPA thinks a change in parity formula would double the menace of price inflation, < PE 2 8 8 Retail industry has its own program for fighting Inflation— increased production of consumer goods. It will start clamoring for revision of production quotas, manufacture of more goods to satisfydemand, so prices won't be so likely to rise, black markets to develop. But WPB thinks its new civilian quctas are still 23 per cent above the possible minimum. : ! » ” 2 2 # » » SQUEEZE IS BEING put on Ferdinand Eberstadt, powerful WPB vice chairman. It looked a few months ago as if he -might climb to the top, crowd Nelson out. Instead i ks now as if he’s more likely to go himself. General Electric’s® Wilson is winning in the long struggle between them for control/of production, - o # 2 ke » ” n Look for the army to take over herds. go into the meat business for itself, if solution isn’t found for ckard-OPA-packer controversy and resulting shortage. Shortage is affecting army buying now—but the army has power to stop it. ° » ”» » -» » ” Rubber Director Jeffers’ charges of “loafing” by army-navy expediters and inspectors are not substantiated, joint subcommittee of house military and naval affairs committees will probably report, on basis of hearings this week. Jeffers’ office has its own expediters and inspectors but he calls them “engineers.” Jeffers declined, at the hearings, to name names or cite industries where “loafing” would be found. 8 = 8 . 8 nee oa OWI will try to extend its power over official utterances, “is working on plan for making federal officials inaccessible to reporters except through OWI’s own news staff. - Regional offices already are to enforce it, job will be harder in Washington. ® ” 2 td
Congress Kept Up to Date on War
ARMY AND NAVY work at the business of keeping congress informed. Maj. Gen. Vandegrift of the marines and of the Solomons gave two-hour fill-in on his operations to the house appropriations committee. And war department plans another off-the-record meet ing between leading congressmen and Gen, Marshall, chief of staff, to bring them up to date on African situation. 3: 2 = = : 2 8 = Sponsors. of anti-labor legislation—like the Smith bill—perk up as John L. Lewis begins his $2-a-day drive. .They think it will get them votes. Administration may counter by goading house labor committee into investigation of labor abuses—absenteeism, feather-bedding, etc.
on theory that if smethings 10 be done it had better be done by labor’s friends.
: ® x» : . ® 8 =» : Look for large scale industrialized farming to make seven-league strides this year as farm-labor shortage grows. Recent boost in farmmachinery quotas will hélp it. ‘So will threatened cuts in farm security . administration and to marginal’ farmers. . Big-business’ farmers argue they can produce more food, should Have right-of-way because of gigantic food problem ahead. But agriculture department figures show FSA-aided farmers last year con- : tributed 36 per cent of total increased milk production, 27 per cent of increased bean production; other large shares of food gains. Congress
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Troubles of the OPA _
OPA DILEMMA: ‘Oomplex rationing regulations: scrupulously fair {to all, versus: ‘regulations, less fair but more workable. Within
the| "OPA, the debate rages. Leon Henderson was for maximum effort at simples even though it made rules complex.
oper
Brown leans. toward
ty. ‘Note: Brown may answer patronage demands of, congressmen by ‘Sppeisting. party. Workers 1. priseroontrel pest y
“ { tories,” he said.
And 2 Colleagues Planned
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hardly possible. The cabinet changes, most drastic in their significance in Mussolini's
|20 years in office, followed: imme-
diately. upon the dismissal of Mar-
¢ | shal Ugo Cavallero as chief of the
Italian general staff and the surprising dispatch to Ankara as ambassador of Augusto Rosso, many years ambassador to the United
At Ankara Rosso would be able to effect contact with Laurence A. Steinhardt, American ambassador, whose friend he “was when both were stationed in Moscow.
Doubt Report on Prince
Well informed: quarters here had no information on reports that Crown Prince Humbert of Italy had been designated to command the Italian troops on the Russian front, possibly in an attempt to keep him from being presented as a symbol of revolt in Italy. Informants were skeptical of the report. Germany as well as allied countries was slow to comment on Mussolini’s action. But it was suggested that Ciano, and the others: who lost their posts, were being made scapegoats for the disasters .which had cost Italy its entire African empire. Rome today began emphasizing the fact that the new men were veterans in the Fascist party, and seemed to be intimating that Mussuolini was falling back in Italy’s critical period to some of his. original Blackshirts. But he had dismissed” many: veterans, of various leanings. He fired Ciano, whom he once tried to build up as his political heir, and Ciano’s close’ friend, Allessandro Pavolini, propaganda ‘minister. . Grandi Pro-British?
Grandi, former ambassador: to London, is regarded as pro-British and as a member of an influential Italian government group who had urged Mussolini to take a “realistic” view now that the war has turned against Germany. The appointment of Rosso as ambassador. to Turkey interested diplomatic quarters almost as much as the cabinet shakeup. Connected with this interest was a report put out by Berlin that Gen. Annibale (Electric Whiskers) Bergonzoli, captured by the British in Libya, was a war prisoner at Washington, but the U, S. war department declined comment on the report. Report Berlin Worried
Ankara Tteported that Germany
& land its satellites were increasingly
worried over Rosso’s appointment. Rosso is regarded as a bitter enemy of Ciano and, in fact, an enemy of fascism. As'a former popular ambassador to the United States, he has many American conta and when the big break came against the axis he would be in position to start work at once. Ciapo was named to the grand council, a post he already held by virtue of ‘his office. Mussolini now is premier, foreign secretary, war minister, navy minister, air minister ang interior minister,
DELAY IS SOUGHT IN FATHERS’ DRAFT
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18, 1941, and dt a time when selec-
tion was not imminent. .4, Married men. witli children, subject "to same qualifications as category three. Local draft ‘boards now follow that order more or less. But putting it on a state basis would eliminate. cases where one board is drafting married men with children, while another in the same state still has a supply of single men.or married men without children.
Criticizes WMC Order In addition to those legislative developments, on manpower there were these others: Rep. James W. Wadsworth (R. N. Y.); co-author of the original selective service law, criticized the recent war manpower commission’s order making many married men between 18 and 37, inclusive, liable for military service regardless of dependencies if they are not in essential ‘industries. The machinery of selective service never was intended to be used as “a club to recruit labor for fac“I doubt the efficacy of it and I don’t like the spirit of it.”
manpower that went into the legislative hopper yesterday. The
Hampton P. Fulmer (D. 8S. C.) of
the house ggriculture committee, 2
would provide deferment for farm laborers for the rest of this year, or until they have left the farm, and would force the farmed servicés to return farm workers now in the services to farms.
Hershey to Testify
of -Kilday's bill. Hearings’ are scheduled to begin next Wednesday with Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Her-
Swedish Reports Say He
open méve away from him: was
States where he has many contacts. |
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Br Kilday’s bill’ was the ‘second on
other, {intréduced by Chairman|-
May predicted immediate passage
'BARE CHURCHILL TRIP TO TRIPOLI
Prime Minister Eulogizes 8th Army for Acting in Complete Unison.
TRIPOLI, Feb. 5 (U. P.).—(Delayed) — Prime Minister Winston Churchill has visited Tripoli, which
city” of Italy’s- African empire, to eulogize ¢he eighth army and British and-American air forces fighting with it, it may be revealed today. His liberator bomber landed on 10 miles south of Tripoli, on Wednesday. A crowd swarmed about the main door, forcing him to leave by the pilot’s trap door, jn the plane’s nose. : : Churchill, Gen, Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the imperial general staff, and Lieut. Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of the eighth army, drove to a grassy slope, from which 2000 army and air force officers heard him speak.
Jury Still Out In Flynn Case
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 6 (U. P.). The jury considering the fate of Errol Flynn on statutory charges fied by two teen-age girls resumed delibérations today. The jury was out for 10 hours yesterday, four of which were spent in eating prime steaks at the state’s expense. Flynn meanwhile paced the eourt house corridors, abstractedly signing autographs and gnawing his fingernails, while the nine women and three men apparently battled vigorously among themselves. Upon the jury’s decision depends ‘not only Flynn's future as one of the movies’ reigning star,s but the possibility that he may get a 50-year sentence in the penitentiary.
Communigques
NAVY COMMUNIQUE 273
(Issued Saturday, Feb. 6) NORTH PACIFIC: 1. On Feb. 4 (2) A United States plane destroyed a Japanese plane during a reconnaissance mission. . the s afternoon. five enemy float type planes bombed U. 8. positions in the western Aleutians, No damage was suffered. (¢) During the night of Feb. 4-5, avy bombers (Consolidated BMitchell ‘medium bombers (North with fighter escort, bombed Japanese postions “at * Kiska. Taree of the five float-type zeroes Thich intercepted were shot own. All u. planes returned. SOUTH PACIFIC: tude) 2. On Feb. 3: (a) U.S. planes raided enemy. positions at Munda, on New Gegrgia island, during the morning an again during the even ing. (b) During the morning, dauntless dive bombers (Douglas), with hter escorts, bombed enemy ositions on olombangara island the New Georgia group. During the night of Feb. 3-4, U. s on Guadalcanal were bombed single enemy ghianes b. 4: (a) A flying fortress on a scarch mission was attacked by three zeros. One zero was shot down and the damaged fortress returned to its ae. (b) United States troops on Guadalcanal island continued to advance along the northwest coast of the island. Enemy resistance was weak and some of our patrols reached a point one and one-half miles passed. Tossafaronga near the Umasani river.
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three weeks ago was the “jewel
Lhonor,” he said.
Wright piant in 1942,
Curtiss-Wright En ployee
the word
Capital Opinions: Say Clos ing of Bituminous Supply ~ Threat to War. |
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It is Mr. Lewis’ habit not to use “strike.” ' ‘But’ a. basic policy of his union is that “miners don’t. work without-a contract.” IT
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N. Wayne. Etlers suggestion for turning out blade gears was adjudged the best submitted at the Curtiss-
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Reaps Reward for Thinking
N. Wayne Etter of Franklin is a war worker at the Curtiss-Wright plant in Indianapolis. He's a young man, just 22, with ideas— and he’s cashing in on them.
~ Already he’s won $700 in war bonds, a diamond-studded pin and a five-day all-expense trip to New York. He left for. she East yosierday. One of his ideas—which some persons said would not' work—recently was adjudged the best submitted during 1942 in the suggestion plan at the Curtiss-Wright propeller division here, E. F. Theis, plant manager announced. The suggested improvement is’ in a cutting .tool used on blade gears for the Curtiss electric propellers, which propel . America’s fast fighting planes and bombers. &
Eliminates Filing
His prize-winning suggestion was to change the grind of the slab mill cutter on a blade gear operation so that large portions of stock are now being removed by the machine which formerly required filing by hand. For this, he was given the $100 war bond, which is presented monthly by the plant’s war production drive committee. This change saves 17 minutes per gear, according fo E. H. Leedy, chairman of the plant suggestion committee, which means thousands of minutes saved monthly, a vital factor in speeding up the production of Curtiss proyellers. In addition, the suggestion saves grinding stones, files and emery paper and turns out a neater gear, That suggestion was made in November. In December, Mr. Ritter came right back with another suggestion on a gear operation to take the: $100 December award. - And plant officials think that’s doing mighty well for a young man ‘who has been on the Job less than two years.
$500 Bond Is Due
. On his trip east, he will receive a $500 war bond and diamond pin from ‘Robert L. Earle, propeller division general manager, at the division’s headquarters in Caldwell, N. J. He also will tour the other propeller division plants in the East, several large airplane factories, as well as taking in New York shows and night clubs. Mr, Theis paid high tribute to Etter in announcing the award. “This is the type of suggestion that all management in all industries is pleased to receive and “You have contributed greatly to your country’s
S.| war efforts in speeding up the pro-
duction of propellers, so greatly needed by our air forces in their battle -against the axis all over the
| world.
“You men “on the floor often know better than we in management how to meet problems of this type. I am pleased that suggestions such as this are now being
received by our suggestion commit-
tee.” When Etter first joined CurtissWright on April 3, 1941, he started on a maintenance crew. At that
time there were only 13 men at the
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plant. Later he assisted in repair ing and setting up machines. He took his training on one of these machines and started operating,
later becoming a working group
leader. How did he happen to discover the suggestion that won him these honors? : “We were looking for something to help the. hand operations and speed up the output. .I had been studying this blade operation and came up with the idea of milling co out that portion whick was being removed in the burr room. At first, I was told that it couldn’t be done. I read dozens of books on milling which. said that my idea would not work. Finally my foreman and I obtained permission to have the tool ground the way I suggested. We tested it and found that it worked. If anything, my suggestion has increased the life of the cutter, since we are now getting more pieces from the cutter than we did before.” Mr, Etter, a graduate of Franklin Ligh school, lives in Franklin with his wife of two years, Marjorie. Before joining Curtiss-Wright he was a trainer of horses. That is his hobby, but he doesn’t have much time for it now. When he returns from the East, he will bring with him the suggestion plan grand award winners from the Pennsylvania and New Jersey propeller division : plants, who will be his guests on a tour of the local plant.
MARCH ARRAIGNMENT SET IN DAIRY CASE
Arraignment of the Golden Guernsey Farms, Inc. and four officials of the firm on charges of delivering adulterated milk to Sunnyside
sanatorium has been set tentatively:
for March 6 in criminal court.
Three affidavits filed earlier this.
week by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue against the firm and four officials charged that water had been added to the milk supplied the county institution. It was said that the charges were based upon evidence obtained by the state ‘health board after several weeks of investigation and testing of food supplies delivered under contracts let by county commissioners.
ment, mines will begin to ‘close be= cause miners will not appear for work. 4 Experts of both the government and the coal industry figure that there is more coal above ground, from 90 to 100 million tons, than ever before. That is a huge stockpile. The trouble is that it is not evenly distributed. Some, war ins dustries, partly through their own improvidence in faliing to build up big reserve supplies when they had the chance, are operating on-a fuel basis that approaches hand-to= mouth.
Three Plants Faced Crisis =
Within the past week the office of the solid fuels co-ordinator for war, Harold L. Ickes, was called on to help out three big warsproduc= tion plants, in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and a power plant in the Pacific Northwest. Their names are not made publie because they would be valuable tips for saboteurs specializing in the dynamiting of the railroad switches that must be used in getting more fuel to these plants. They are: still on the ragged edge, even though the federal agency was able to divert some coal tagged for shipment elsewhere.
day in the bituminous coal ine ¥ ‘| dustry).
Spokesmen for both the governs
ment and the industry admit withe out dissent thas in a big coal shute down some war plants would have to close within a week. - The clos= ings would multiply as the shutdown continued. A report three days ago by the fuel co-ordinator’s office contained the ominous statement that “bitumi= nous coal in storage dropped from an average of 60 days’ supply on Dec. 1 to an average of 51 days’ supply on Jan. 1.” With war plants being still further speeded up and using more and more fuel, the figure for. Feb. 1 is expected to show & further diminuation in the over-all supply. °° Steel- and rolling -mills had. a days’ supply of coal on Dec. 1, only 3¢ on Jan. lL Industrial plants dropped from 80 to 69. Retail dealers’ stocks fell from 45 to 28: This was the biggest drop, but it is the, least serious, because the ‘heating season will soon be over.
Southern Talks Deadlocked PA
Only about 10 per cent of bitumis= nous coal is used for domestic heat: ing. The other 90 per cent. fuels the railroads and industrial and power plants. . (These. figures. are almost exactly. reversed in the uses
- | of -anthracite coal.) Domestic users
of . bituminous coal go.out. of the market . when: spring “comes. In
‘round. The Southern group of bituminous operators, whose spokesman is former Senator Edward R. Burke, has asked Mr. Lewis to advance the wage conferences from mid-March to! mid-February, or not later than March 1. Mr. Lewis has replied that the first thing to do is to settle his controversy with the Southern operators about methods and terms of installing the six-day week in that portion of the industry, Most of the Northern operators already have accepted his terms, which provide for time-and-a-half pay for the sixth day, and stipulate that miners may work or may not work on that day, as they choose. = Southern operators met uritil late yesterday with Mr. Lewis and res ported “no progress.”
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