Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1943 — Page 22
Hiring of Women and Oider Men| - May Increase Absentee ‘Problem
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By ROGER BUDROW—
THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER FACTORS, in addi-
those previously mentioned, that ought to be cond in any discussion of the absentee problem in war stries. There are several factors for instance, that work against any attempt to reduce absenteeism. As everyone knows, more women are coming into in-|. vr and more older men are being hired. Tt is difficult woman to combine a war job and housework yet many | ast do just that. There is little time left after work for hopping, washing, cooking, cleaning. Getting maids is
dy difficult. in try though they may, keep up the pace of a sr. worker. Time off for sickand over-tiredness is bound to increase as the age of workers rises. los Angeles plants say absenteeism among women is 50 per cent greater than among men and they now employ 40 per cent women. Incidentally, the word “absenteeism” is a very r one, as some point out. Illness } injury, which are the chief of absence from work peace-time, can’t be dubbed as of the bad habits of an “ism.” wise, the loafer or drunkard eserves a stronger name than a tee.” That is actually “slackPerhaps if you boil it down to and unexcused absence
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TELEPHONE that answers it~ If if you are not home and takes message for you has been perfor post-war use. t works this way: If the phone seven or eight times and no answers, the mechanical equivt of lifting off the receiver hook ts a recording tape which takes message, to be played when you home and lift the hook. ”» #” »
INDIANAPOLIS continues to Jead other major cities of the Midwest in the increase in department store sales. Last week's sales here: were 35% over that week a year ago. For the last four weeks, here were up 55%. Averages n the seventh federal reserve district, in those comparisons, are 21% and 30%. 2 2 =
DDS AND ENDS: National Malleable & Steel Castings Co. had 4 (@ net profit of $2.39 a share last year t $3.68 in 1941... If Lord & aylor, New York clothing, store, ‘that $5000 bet that clothes ’t_be rationed this year it could » dh the loss from" its income because the $5000 will go to ty . . . Postoffices are preparfor a rush on money orders, as 15 tax deadline nears, from who don’t have checking acts . , . Youngstown Sheet & has Defense Plant Corp. . authorization for a $1,200,000 exr nsion in its facilities in the Gary |. : ict and McQuay-Narris of Con‘mersville has an o. k. for $250,000. .. ast. year’s wool crop (459 million punds) was largest in U. 8. history.
us CEILINGS PERIL
» of all feed mills in Buffalo, st feed-manufacturing center e nation, was predicted today orn Exchange President Elmer foehnlein because of existing “price ceilings. handising of corn has ceased } as a direct result of low price gs, which have made farmers ther owners of corn indisposed As a consequence, leading officials voiced the belief that
ported as approximating 5,000,000 sels, which, because of the artibarriers raised by price fixfrozen and cannot move normal consumption out-
Koel plein said that the market 1] ut 5 cents daily for three M he price restrictions were L local ceiling is $1.14% a : ‘were established Jan. 13 will superceded by a temporary ceilpn March 13, but grainmen be-
that the normal flow of corn i not be stimulated unless the hgs are 7 Tateed more than 104
CIGARET FIRN'S
FTC Says Readers Digest Findings Misrepresented By Old Gold.
WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P). —The P. Lorillard Co, Inc., Jersey City, N. J., is charged by the federal trade commission with misrep-
resenting its current advertising of Old Gold cigarets based on a Reader's Digest report of laboratory tests. Issuance of the complaint was announced last night by the FIC, which also leveled charges aguinst the advertisements for three other Lorillard products, Beech-Nut snd Sensation cigarets and Friends smoking tobacco. The FTC said that the magazine laboratory tests reported 2.04 mg. of nicotine per cigaret in the smoke of Old Golds and the amount in two other of the sevens brands tested was slightly higher, 220 mg., while the average of the cigaret with the largest content was 3.02 mg. The FTC added: “However, these differences in nicotine were insignificant, and the Lorillard Co. in its advertising failed to disclose that the laboratory report further states: ‘The differences between brands, are practically speaking, small and no single brand is so superior to its competitors as to justify its selection on the ground that it is less harmful.’ ”
Company Says It Asked Public Read Article
NEW YORK, March 5 (U. P).— P. Lorillard Co. today denied allegations made by the federal trade commission that the company’s current advertising campaign is misrepresentation, The company said in part:
the results of the tests as published in the Reader’s Digest. “Not only this, but we repeatedly urged .in our advertising that the public read for themselves the entire article.
the amounts of differences between the brands; tests, sponsored and reported by ‘Reader’s Digest’ showed the smoke
the other cigarets tested. “The complaint refers in a large measure to other products of the company. denies the material allegations of
products as well as to Old Gold course before the commission,”
lization order and its attendant regulations and procedures will be
the Indianapolis Athletic club ballroom Wednesday. Among the speakers will be Robert K. Burns, chairman of the reOther speakers will be Frank J. Delany, acting regional attorney for the wage-hour division, of Chi-
wage-hour field supervising inspector.:
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of Old Golds contained from 7 per |Borden cent to 32 per cent less nicotine|Bagpt and from 7 per cent to 16 per cent| less irritating tars and resins than Co
ug Aire P. Lorillard vigorously |zast Xi the complaint with respect to these|S® -|cigarets and will refute them in due | $2%9zear Int Ha
WAGE STABILIZATION & a WILL BE EXPLAINED 55
_ Explanation of the wage stabi-|Radio given at a meeting to be held at|8o Be gional war labor board at Chicago. Texas Co
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Sponsoring organizations are He Zen
Farmers Are ‘Wasted’ in War Effort.
—Col. Lewis Sanders of the selective service bureau, who has made a special manpower study for the senate military affairs committee, claims that hundreds of thousands of farm workers are being “wasted” on small farms that produce only 8 per cent of the nation’s foodstuffs. os He advocates ‘a comprehensive program of consolidation of small farms into larger ones in which more land could be cultivated and
the planning could be done by
counties instead of by individual farms. The farm security administration has tried consolidation on a small scale in the Shenandoah valley. Last Tuesday it announced that small subsistence farms near Elkton, Va., are being made into larger,
1economic farms to increase food
production and bring all families
into production.
The 141 units on the project which now average 20 acres in size will be consolidated and redivided into 51 farm units of about 60 acres each for full-time farmers and 34 subsistence units of six to 15 acres each for families who have employ= ment in nearby war plants. Sanders has told congressional committees that he estimates the farm labor requirements for an allout war effort, provided small farms are consolidated and other inefliciencies are eliminated, at 9,030,000
(both seasonal and full-time) in 1942 of 10, 397,000.
GRAIN PRICES HOLD FIRM AT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, March 5 (U. P.).— Grain futures followed an irregular trend on the board of trade today as grainmen waited for developments in legislation. At the end of the first hour, wheat was up % fo off % cent a bushel; corn unchanged at OPA ceiling levels: oats up % to %, and rye unchanged to up %. Uncertainties over four demand, the cash wheat movement and pending legislation were reflected in a cautious attitude, : Some mill buying and light offerings in the wheat pit helped to steady the market. Corn remained inactive at veiling bids and no offerings.
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SHALL FARMS]
Col. Sanders Claims Many
WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P). i
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An average of 1,900,000 local calls were handled daily during the year and long distance calls averaged more than 44,000 a day. Operating revenues increased 13 per cent to $18,816,000. Expenses rose 17 per cent to $15,~ 952,000. The payroll, largest pense item, rose more than 19 per cent to $7,810,000. Taxes also increased to $4,248,000 or equivalent ads to $1.18 1 sinie* und or each on | telephone Net income was $2,573,157 compared with $2710488 in 1041, Dividends on Indiana Bell stock were reduced from $7 a share in 1941 to $6.25 last year. To conserve scarce materials, the company found a new way to splice together lengths of telephone cable using only one-fifth as much solder, which is principally tin, as was formerly used. Salvaging and re-using all %inds of copper wire were: aided by new methods. Old equipment was reconditioned and re-used wherever possible and substitute materials were employed. Construction was limited chiefly to a new building and conversion to dial operation at Anderson; two new dial office units. (Franklin and Highland) in Indianapolis; and facilities
Fidelity Mutual Elects Beall
G. T. Beall was elected secretary of the Fidelity Mutual Insurance Co. at. its recent annual meeting in the home office here. Mr. Beall, formerly manager of the agency de partment, has
with the company since its organi- |
president, and C. A. Hubbard, treasurer. The company operates through Midwestern and Southern states and specializes in writing automobile insurance.
MILK PRODUCTION IN INDIANA RISES
‘LAFAYETTE, March § (U. P.)~— Indiana’s increase in milk produc tion in 1942 was 3 per cent over 1941, Purdue university agricultural officials announced today in computing figures released by the U. S. bureau of agricultural economics. Total Indiana milk production last year was 3,539,000,000 pounds as compared with 3,435,000,000 pounds in 1841. Indiana farms reported an increase of 30,000 milk cows. The 1942 total was 790,000 and the 1941 figure was 760,000. Annual milk production per cow declined slightly from 4520 pounds to 4480 pounds.
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route from Chicago to Atlanta mits 12 telephone conversations to
two pairs of cable conductors. This expense was shared with the parent company, At the end of the year the company had 8056 more women ‘employed and 278 fewer men than at the beginning of the year. Twenty per cent of the company’s men employees were in uniform a year after war began, many of them in communications units.
PROFIT BEST EVER; HITS. RENEGOTIATION
NEW YORK, March 5 (U. P.)— Victor Emanuel, president of the Aviation Corp. today scored the present law covering renegotiation of federal contracts as a hinderance to the war effort, and urged con-
legislation to insure “fair “and on war work. Mr, Emanuel charged that the law creates confusion and uncertainty affecting corporate earnings and reserves, since it made impossible . determination “of final net profits or setting aside needed reserves until contract renegotiations have been completed.
made in the company’s annual report, which disclosed that earnings for the fiscal year ended Nov. 30 reached a record high of $4,723,804 or 82 cents a share, compared with
the previous year. . Earnings included results of the company’s manufacturing divisions and its wholly owned subsidiary,
exclusive of the company’s equity in earnings of unconsolidated subsidiaries, which include Vultee Aircraft, Inc, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., New York Shipbuilding Corp. and American Central Manufacturing Corp. The corporation’s equity in earnings of the unconsolidated compa-
against 45 cents in the previous year.
{Rubber Worker | Wins $200 Award|
‘A suggestion ‘regarding a certain
type of hot punch used on the production line at
36 {the U. 8. Rubber
Co.’s local plant brought a $200 award in war 3 bonds from the plant labor-man-agement committee. - Mr, Schroder’s suggestion not
16 BILLION DOLLARS IN CIRCULATION NOW
ey United States crossed the $16,000,000,000 level for the first time in history during the week "ended | be March 3, the weekly condition statement of the federal reserve disclosed :
On March 3 monetary totaled J16.154,000,000, an increase of $202,000,000 over the
snd $4,836.00 000: Over @ year ago,
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CHRYSLER SUBLETS 509, OF CONTRACTS
k | onrysler’s $2,000,000,000 awards in
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NO "WORK STOPPAGE PLEDGED BY TEXANS §
AUSTIN, Tex., March 5 (U. P). —An agreement serving “notice upon the world” that nothing will be permitted to interfer: with. their ‘war eYort and providing for no Ben, TD
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