Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1943 — Page 6
Evansville and Calumet. Region . i Lo 1m 0 4 Ordered To Go On 48-Hour Week
-By hot BUDROW
IF INDIANAPOLIS WANTS TO SEE what's probably : in store for it, an eye should be kept on Evansville and the Calumet are along Lake Michigan. Paul V. McNutt put both areas under the ay work week today. Apparently government policy is that the 48-hour order| & is applied when an area’s manpower supply becomes critical. There are 38 such areas im the nation now. Three areas where the labor supply has improved, Bath, Me.; Akron, O., and Porthmouth, N. H., are being kept on the 48-hour plan,
NEW YORK, March 29 (U.P = Requiem mass will be celebrated to~ morrow for James A. Farrell, 82, who rose from a.$2.50 a week laborer ; to the: presidency of the giant United States Steel Corp. ior ‘Mr. Farrell died at his home here yesterday: after an illness of two months. Born in New Haven, Conn. he was fofced at 15 to leave school and go to work when his father, & shipowner. and sea captain, failed to return from a voyage. He en- . tered a New Haven steel wire mill as a day laborer, but continued his education in the Horatio Alger tra-
Purdue -Says Pasture Land Will Be Sacrificed This Summer. on LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 29. — Indiana farmers on March 1 indi- | cated they will mobilize 3.5 per cent ‘| more acres for spring planted crops this season than the acreage ‘devoted to these crops last year, it was shown today in a report made by the Purdue university department
| of agricultural statistics in co-oper-ation with the U. S. bureau of ag-
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The effect on war plants will probably not amount to much ‘Most of them are working 48 hours anyway in Evansville, But the service industries, places like banks and stores, will certainly have | to do some changing over. The area director of the war manpower com = mission can grant some temporary exceptions to the order. In some cases no manpower can be .re‘Mr. Budrow eased by an industry going over from a 40-hour week to 48. In that case, it is a needless expense and may not have to make the change. An interesting sidelight about the Evansville case is the coal mines there and in Warrick county. Is Paul McNutt risking a tangle with John L. Lewis’ union by ordering them to go from their 42-hour week to 43? A local union official said he thought the order didn’t apply to coal miners. It may be that the Evansville erea will not include the coal mine district and thus sidestep the whole situation.’ If those old, abandoned coal mines in-<Evansville itself were still being worked, it would be a head-on collision. ” ” 8 LIVING COSTS in Indianapolis rose 0.4% in February, according to the National Industrial Conference board. In Anderson the in‘crease was only 02% while in
, Evangville it was a mere 0.1%.
# =. 8 IT TOOK THE WAR to give boys
a chance to realize their ambitions _ to become railroadmen. The Illinois
Central is opening a school, first of its kind, at Carbondale, Ill., to give boys a 10-day break-in. It will be followed by actual work and those that make the grade will get regular pay. i ; The jobs will not be permanent; if the draft doesn't get the youngsters, they will’ lose out wher the men they replace return from the
© war.
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ODDS AND ENDS: Sugar rationing .didn’t hurt profits of National Sugar ‘Refining Co.; they went up $200,000 Instead. Sacramento is providing wai fike to victory gardens up to 2000 square feet. . . .
Army uses 18 pounds of candy per|©
soldier in a year. . , . Some seed stores are closing a day or so a week to catch up on rush orders.... Net income of Public Service Co. of Indiana in the first two months of this year was $110,000 over same period of 1942. . .. A survey of absenteeism in. west coast aircraft plants shows 75% was caused by illness. . . . American Foundry Equipment Co. at Mishawaka, Ind. will, get the army-navy “E” April 16.
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HOG PRICES OFF
Late to Buy, Paying $15.65 Down.
Hog prices fell 10 to 25 cents at the Indianapolis stockyards today, the food distribution administration reported., Local packers bought late in the day at prices from $15.65 down. The early top was $15.80. Receipts included 8900 hogs, 1625 cattle, 650 calves and 750 sheep.
HOGS (8900)
pounds pounds ceevecess pounds pounds pounds ‘ceceseseces pounds ...
120- 140 140- 160
$12 ge 31 85
. 55 : 15. sais. 75 +15 [email protected] 5.65@ 16.80 [email protected]
p 330- 360 Medium— 160- 220 pounds Packing Sows Good to choice— 270- 300 pounds 300- 330 pounds .. 330- 360 pounds ... 360- 400 pounds ..
Good— 400- 450 pounds 450- 550 pounds Medium— 250- 550 pounds Slaughter Pisy Medium and géod— 90- 120 pounds CATTLE (1625)
Steers
[email protected] [email protected] . 15,[email protected] + [email protected]
ssveserens
Choice—
pounds . 38 als. 30 pounds “
pounds ... ves 16 stairs 1300-1500 pounds «ccesesseces 16.5 Good— 700- 900 900-1100 1100-1300 1300-1500 Medium— 700-1100 1100-1300 Common— 700-1100 pounds .......
Heifers
ceeenanny ees. [email protected] [email protected]
pounds c.eceesccces 1340018.00 pounds ..ees.e S016. 25 pounds .. 1s. [email protected] pounds . [email protected]
pounds .ecseeccees pounds ....
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veers [email protected]
Choice— 600- 800 pounds 800-1000 pounds .ccecsaceess Good— 600- 800 pounds ...essesiees 800-1100 pounds ... Medium— 500- 900 pounds . Common-— 500- 90 pounds Cows (all weights)
GO0R oii esens 12,[email protected] Medium .
[email protected] civaseses [email protected]
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$s0000 080,
Bulls (al) weights) (Yearlings Excluded)
eesosens [email protected] . [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]
Beef Gud
CALVES (650)
Vealers (all ae) Good to choice Common and medium Cull (75 lbs, up) Feeder 2 Stocker Cattle & a ih Steers Choice : 3 - 500- 800 pounds ..... sesve es [email protected] 800-1050 pounds .... . [email protected] Good— 500- 800 pounds: ..se. 800-1050 pounds ..... Medium— 500-1000 pounds .. Common-— 500- 900 pounds ~ Calves (steers)
Good and Choice 500 pounds down es.cucen.
. 3g 13.00@14, [email protected]
Medium— » 500. pounds down .......s..s [email protected]
Calves (heifers) Good and Choice— 500 pounds dOWR esceess [email protected] Medium-— 500 pounds down + [email protected] SHEEP AND LAMBS (750)
Ewes (shorm) Good and choice .. esesane 6.50@ 7.50 ‘~Lam bs
Medium and Youd ses ican Common
Lambs (Shor) Good and choice Medium and good Common
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Local Pickers V Wait Until Gun crews fire 75 mm. guns and the 105 mm. howitzer at the Jefferson Proving Gound | near Madison, Ind.
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News correspondents enter the shell-proof shelter to watch effects of ammunition fired more than 500 yards away.
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Jefferson Proving Ground Even Larger Than Aberdeen
By DON CARLSON
MADISON, Ind., March 29 (U.P. .—Bombs are dropping regularly on what once was peaceful Indiana farm land where now is located the
Jefferson proving ground.
More than 56,000 acres of Hoosier land have been taken over by the army ordnance department to provide a site for the testing. of artillery, projectiles, bombs, - grenades. and other explosives and - non-explosive
IN BRIEF—
Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser was in Detroit over the week-end, conferring with officials at the army’s tank automotive center. It was reported that Kaiser may manufacture a small non-combat army vehicle, may buy a plant in the Detroit area.
” ” 8 The WPB’s planning committee will submit its resignation this 0 week. The committee, once top 50} inning unit in WPB, no longer reports to WPB Chairman Donald
M. Nelson® directly, but to a WPB vice chairman, Robert R. Nathan, 34-year-old chairman of the com-
4.00| mittee, requested and received can-
cellation of his occupational draft deferment. The other three members, Thomas R. Blasdell Jr., Fred Searles Jr. and Marion Hedges, also plan to resign to permit Nelson to do as he wishes. » » » An OPA requirement that it fill out 96,000 documents to record 6000 transactions in 1942 was too much for the Berg Metals Co., one of the ‘West's largest scrap brokers. In-:a series of affidavits presented in federal court in Los Angeles the company has filed an injunction suit against the OPA, the first of its kind. * ” ” Paul 8. Willis, president of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, warns that “shipments of food out of the Uslited States threaten this country with an acute shortage,”
Jand says that “further pledges to
send food abroad should be withheld until congress determines what share of our reserves ‘can be spared.” 2 8 = Treasury figures reveal that non-war expenditures so far this fiscal year are about $477,000,000 less than a year ago. From last July through Monday of this week, the government spent $3,857,999,288 for “general” purposes, compared with $4334,801,109 in the same period last year. { ae
f "A 92-man committee of the National Association of Manufacturers has outlined “the principles necessary for post-war prosperity” and includes among them a recommendation that the United States cooperate “with other nations in a real effort to maintain post-war world peace, and participate in international agencies for that pur-
2 8s 8 The English government has taken over management of another aircraft corporation—General Aircraft, Ltd. Reason: Government determination to insure that every war factory is operated with “maximum efficiency” and that the wishes
~ Jackie ‘Elmore, 17-month-old son|.
missiles. being . manufactured in American war plants. The tract, covering part of Jefferson, Jennings and Ripley counties, is the largest reservation of its kind in the world. It is larger in area than even the famed Aberdeen proving grounds in Maryland.
All Types Tested Guns and cannon have
$15,000,000 installation went into operation in May, 1941. The ground has tested all types of ammunition and ammunition components, including projectiles, propellants, cartridge cases, primers, fuzes, flares and signals which are used in warfare and fired from weapons ranging from 20-millimeter field guns to eight-inch and 20-millimeter field howitzers. The ordnance department also
has conducted acceptance tests of]
material shipped from manufacturing and loading plants tao insure production. specifications. The proving ground is almost rectangular. One area is the industrial district
which contains administration of-|
fices, service shops and storage buildings and quarters. Jefferson has its own “front lines” —a district where artillery pieces of varied sizes are used in proof firing. Stretching northward for 15 miles is the partly wooded terrain where the projectiles drop. The bomb field, where aerial bombs, parachute flares and other missiles are dropped by bombers for
{functional tests is located in the
extreme north portion of the reservation. Testing bombs as large as 1000 pounds is one of the impbrtant jobs at Jefferson. A large airfield, hangars, barracks and other facilities have been provided for the air corps’ detachment, stationed at the proving grounds,
[Year ago .... 11943 Low (Jan. 2) .
‘be én ; booming at Jefferson since the}
DAILY PRICE INDEX ‘NEW YORK, March 29 (U. P). —Dun & Bragdstreet’s daily weighted price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press (1930-32 average equals 100): : Saturday ssvsvesrsvai 11181 Week 880 civassesces Ae 171.58 Month 880 secessssiesicocees 171.28 . . 157.50 1943 High (Margh 8) ........ 172.05 cvevssess 166.61
er a————————————— 5 0 N U.'S. STATEMENT WASHINGTON, March 29 (U. P.).—Government expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through, March 26 compared ‘with a year ago;
a Yea Expens .$53 T1445 sia rr 3a, 3.620 War Spending 8318 58, 711 15,033, 012,366 Receipts 4,709,173 8,872,538,562 Net Deficit ..
Cash Balance. 4,513,174,292 Work. Balance 3, 750, 555, 6 2 3 Public Debt ..119,704,337, 181 67,959,003 Gold Reserve. 22, 595, 201, 000 22, 685, 002, 836
INDIANAPOLIS $ CLEARING HOUSE Clearings
seven
ricultural economics. This increase, it was explained, will come from intentions expressed
by Hoosiers to plant 9 per cent
more acres to corn than a year ago, 8 per cent more soy beans, 16 per cent more potatoes, 8 per cent more tobacco, 1 per cent less oats and 21 per cent. less barley, With a 10 per cent smaller acreage seeded to winter wheat last fall than the year before.and with no expected change in the total hay acreage, the grand total of all these farn: crops is predicted to cover an
area 350,000 acres larger than the
acreage devoted to these crops in 1942. This area is likely to come at the expense of plowable pasture and idle crop land, it was explained. “The extent to which farmers realize these intentions,” the report stated, “will depend on weather conditions, winter loss of winter grains and new: clovers, availability of farm workérs, and numerous other factors.” : Also, Indiana farmers have contracted to grow ga little more than 8000 acres of fiber hemp this year and about 1000 acres of castor beans. Co-operating farm reporters gave positive assurances that their cows and hens are producing at capacity. Milk production per milking cow at 20.4 pounds per day was the highest
Debits
N. Illinois st.
her company are called upon constantly to help solve new problems encountered by young couples who are giving up housekeeping iam. :
porarily. “We are well-equipped to" a. such tasks,” Mrs. Shank said. “When your household goods come to us, all the rugs, draperies and upholstered pieces are first placed in a vault of laminated
metal and gas is injected into the vault to kill every moth and every
Ration Calendar
Important dates in the new meats and fats rationing ‘program are as follows: : March 29 to April 10—Institutional users get point allotments from local war price and rationing ‘boards.
Industrial users register with local
boards during same period and receive point allotments. .
April 11-— Retailers, wholesalers
in their Purchases: of the ‘Tationed items. April 25 to May 1—Allowable ne ventories of wholesalers and retail-
ers based on sales, in points, during ;
week.
May 1—Retailers and wholesalers|
moth egg. But even the finest fabric is unharmed. i “Overstuffed furniture is then wrapped in heavy kraft paper and sealed, carefully numbered -and placed on, metal racks in a department used only for that furniture. Rugs are wrapped and put in ' burglarproof, mothproof | vaults having combination locked metal doors. Draperies are placed in immense paper bags and hung - upright in a special vault just as clothes hang in your own closets. “Other goods are Stored in tain. one family’s JBelongines. alone.” Mrs. Shank, in ihe of her. | duties as “housekeeper for. the duration,” said the whole ‘wares
take point inventory at close of] iis
business on May 1.
May 3 10 May MoiRetatlers' and]
wholesalers register with local boards
and get allowable point inventories. -~
~ Mrs. Shank said many families quarters and that as a result the
locked compartments “which con- |
hours a day in the mill. In little more than -a year, he was a mechanic. He left New Haven at 20 and went to Pittsburgh as an expert wire-drawer. vance there was rapid and by the time he was 26 he had become sales manager - of the Pittsburgh wire company. Four years later he was general manager. Then the steel industry was prostrated by the panic of 1893. Mr. Farrell invaded the foreign field for orders, the step that was to bring him the most fame in the steel business. He trebled the export business of U. S. Steel when he became its president in 1911. He retired in 1932, but remained on the board of directors. He is survived by a widow, the former Catherine McDermott, and five children, John Joseph Farrell, Mrs. Theresa Murray, Mrs. Catherine Stapleton, James Augustine Farrell Jr, and Mrs. Rosamond Buck.
GULF GIVES AWARDS |* TO 11 EMPLOYEES
Eleven Indiana employees of the
Co. “have been "presented service awards consisting of jeweled lapel
000 since 1925.
Gulf Oil. Corp. and Gulf Refining | 33c.
dition by extensive reading after 124 :
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PACIFIC MUTUAL CO. REPORTS 42 GAINS
The Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. reported today that insurance in force last year increased to more than $600,000,000 and that an alltime high of $262300000 In assets was reached. Principal asset ftems are sdouities amounting to $104,412,228 and first mortgage loans of $106,322,551. In his report, Asa V. Call, president, pointed out that of this investment, $62,526,603 represents government bonds and $57,960,759 va insured mortgages. b7
LOCAL PRODUCE
breed hens, 3% Ibs, and over, 20%, 6 lbs. and under, 23%g; Legh Oras, -
“Broilers unde Ds colored and Barred a Pryer 3 ." and over, colored and Barred ®nd White Rock, 29c. Stags—Leghorns, 21c; heavy breed, 2308 cocks,’ 16¢c. Eggs—Current receipts, 54 Ibs. and a. Graded BygeGrde a) A large, 36¢; grade A medium, 34c; grade A small, 25¢ no
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‘WILL SPEAK HERE
Charles F. Kettering, one of the nation’s leading engineers and in- | ventors, will address a’ dinner meets ing of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Friday evening, April 16, in the Riley. room of the Claypool hotel.
Through the Eyes of Research,” Mr. post-war problems.
Council will: be co-sponsors of the
= _ | meeting.
The large Shank firepfoof warehouse at 1430 N. Illinois st.
‘This spring the thoughts of many young peeple are “turning to moving. The army is calling up young husbands and their wives “are going home to mother for the duration,” according to Mrs, Samuel “Lewis Shank, operator of the large Shank fireproof warehouse at 1430
are how consolidating their living moving and storage facilities of
“These men know how to pack and have every means for doing good work. Lamp shades and | innerspring mattresses have their own cartons made especially for them. Metal bands are put around trunks or packing cases when “necessary. Moving is no longer ‘just loading,’ but is a science ‘all its own. We are equipped for moving around the world by the combination of land, air and water when occasion demands.”
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Mr. Kettering, vice president and director - of General Motars Corp.
: land president of its research labora~
tories division, is a member of a
lf |national Committee for Economic
Development, designed fo formulate a national post-war program.
PURDUE AID URGES USE OF PASTURES
LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 26.— Good pastures will save from 5 to
{10 per cent of the grain and 30
to 40 per cent of the protein supplement in growing and fattening hogs, according to C. M. Vestal, of the Purdue ‘university agricultural experiment station. Indiana farmers are urged,
pasture crops, not only for the sows
summer.
to market. . SCRAP FROM STATE PARK
to the national scrap drive.
lemblems and engraved certificates. ' yo.
In his. speech, “Looking Forward Kettering . is expected to. Sigust
The ‘Indianapolis. Sales Executives
wherever possible, to provide good]?
and young pigs but especially for|X the shoats and fattening hogs nexti{¢ An acre of good alfalfa,|X clover or rape pasture will carry|¢ 15-to 20 full-fed hogs 1 from weaning |X
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (U. P.)—The | Chickamauga national park in Ten- |? nessee gave 8000 cannon balls and |@ all unessential markers and placques |
| pe 30c. Butter—No. 1, §0c. Butterfat—No. 1, 40¢; - 2, 46c¢.
KETTERING OF G. M.+ Railroad Finds
Canvas Substitute
The Chicago laboratory of the: Chicago & Northwestern railroad has developed a new product as a result of the war—a product that is pinch-hitting for canvas. ° Robert E. Coughlan, charge of tests, said “the ma! is made -of ordinary blue denim, just regular overall denim. We experimented for a month on “he ton denim and finally . produc the finished article by spraying denim with a specially-developed - cement lacquer. It has proved. be three times stronger than re ular canvas, is water, fire and weather resistant.” .
SHELL UNION OIL C0¢ PROFITS INCREASE
Shell Union: Oil Corp. :and its
. | subsidiaries had a net operating in-
come of $21,205,000 in 1942 before a special reserve of $4,345,000, giving a net income of $16,860,000 as compared with $16,768,157 in 1941, to| President R. G, A. van der Woude reported today. The company wrote off in fall ‘intangible drilling costs of $8,954,000 last year, in addition to the reserve of over $4,000,000.
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