Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1943 — Page 19
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Soap Manufacturers Caught in|.
Vicious Spiral of Shortages,
By ROGER BUDROW
HOUSEWIVES. HOLD THE ANSWER To THE soap| ‘situation, according to soap manufacturers. They can bring| sprees as Indianapolis house-| Or by sensible buying and}
on rationing by such buying iwives staged last week-end.
greatly increased saving of fats and oils, they can stretch
_supplies,
Soap. production has been ent 16 per cant from 1940-41]
average output. The shortage of fats and oils is genuine.
Ordinarily the big companies nut oil and palm oil from the
have a year’s supply of coco-
Philippines, Africa and Pacific}
islands. They have been using up those reserve supplies.
In its annual Teport Colgate-Palmolive-Peet admitted that its inventory was used to the extent of $1 million last year. In other words, soap companies actually’ are living off their fat. That is why the soap manufacurers are financing the national kitchen fats
Mr, Budrow Meat rationing ‘will put a crimp in this salvage
dfive. In normal times soap makers use
‘about half fats and oils and half
tallow from the meat packers. Now they are using almost all tallow but "still haven't enough. It is possible that sometime in the future the import situation might improve, enabling returning ships to bring tal-
A low from Australia and Argentina
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¥ Burney, president. DAILY PRICE INDEX|
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or copra (the oily kernel of the coconut) from the South Pacific. There is a definite war angle to
the situation, too. In manufactur-|..
ing soap, the coconut oil produces glycerine as a by- -product, a basic
material in manufacturing explo-|:
sives. If tallow is substituted for coconut, glycerine output is about 40 per cent Jess, ; 8 a" ONE FLING STATION here in the city has been closed for 30 days by the OPA for taking gasoline _ ‘coupens from motorists without sell- ‘ ing any gasoline in. return. It was done by employees at the end of ration period when the unused couons were no good to the car-owners, but could be used by the filling station to take care of customers who “wanted gasoline but kad sed up! their coupons. . ‘The station in question was caught and was held up as an “example.” It seems to bear out the - Sbientin ‘that the burden of make rationing work falls ing stations. It is here that the OPA must Soncenisate to prevent violations. 2 >
GENERAL MOTORS" payroll in
BO Saal | ena
Chevrolet commercial body plants, was over $45 million last year, compared witht nearly $28 nfilion inf, 1041, G. M. payrolls rose in ‘Kokomo
and Anderson also but fell in Mun-|$2%3, -
cie, about $2 million. For the whole state, it paid out $99 million in wages against $65 million in 1941. ” ” # : _. ODDS AND ENDS: General Foods’ Corp. found in a survey that nearly half of its stockholders plan to grow victory gardens this summer. . . . Llammot du Pont says “I'm
told they're planning to dye even{
the soldiers’ underwear a khaki color so it won't be so conspicuous on wash day when put out to dry.” « « + A labor stabilization plan for the Bloomington-Bedford-Columbus area is in ithe mill; ‘it will be somthing like the Indianapolis plan if adopted. . . « Cocoa imports are increasing. . . « Chrysler'is tooling up for a “secret” weapon.
CLUB TO HEAR TALK BY MARINE DENTIST
Dr. Albert Lilly, Indianapolis ‘dentist who landed with the first detachment of marines on Guadal‘canal Aug. 7, 1942, will address the ‘Indianapolis Manufacturers: Representatives club next Monday at the monthly. luncheon meeting im the Warren hetel. . Dr. Lilly will describe his experi‘ence during the 45 days he spent in
_the Guadalcanal area. The meet- Me
“ing will be in charge of Herschel A.
.
NEW YORK, March 30 (U, P.)— Dun & Bradstreet’s daily weighted price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press (1930-32 average Susie 100) : Yesterday .. Week AZO: coveeecssssssonses 171.85
Month Ago 0000000 BRRRDANINNDS 171.83 ; vainkeirssnessuvis 197.14 | HOOK
Year Ago . 1943 High (Merch 8) .......171205|I ¥ (Jan. 2)..
re reese ynnalE
Ind sessccscese 186.61 nd
HOGS BRING 10,
6075 Received Here; Vealers Steady.
the Indianapolis ‘stockyards today,
tion reported. The early top was $15.65. Vealers were steady to weak, with a top of $17.50.
Receipts included 6075 hogs, 1650 cattle, 525 calves and 175 sheep.
HOGS (6075)
pounds pounds pounds ..... pounds .... 220 pounds ...
pounds rah pounds .... pounds
revs 160 35@15. 40
[email protected] Packing Sows Good to choice—
[email protected] 3 2 B15. 40
tocesnassas xy 1515 154
330- 360 pounds 360- 400 pounds
Good—
400- 4s0 pounds 450- 550 poun
—— 260- 560 pounds Siaughter Pigs
oo [email protected] dS secceveseee. [email protected]
13:60914.60
13,[email protected] gf (1650)
Chotce— | 700-
3100-1300 1300-1500 Good— 700- 900 900-1100 | 1100-1300 | 1300-1500 |
Medium-—
700-1100 Pounds 1100-1300 pounds
Common— - '700-1100 pounds ...... Sevres Heifers Chol
800 a0 800 pounds a 800-1000 pounds
Is Songs .50
1 Nal. 25 16.50@17.
Seer cscs
16.00
15.00 15.
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400000000000 ss0s000c0c0s
15.00 16.00 15.25
tasssenss [email protected] Setar gesevy 14.8 @15.50
unds Se0esttsnre 14.50: 15.50 800-1100 pounds ssnsssscsene .. 1s0ginso
R00 a0 900 Pounds cesescecscscs 13.00914.50
Common— §00- 90 ssvsesseneiss 11.50013.00
[email protected] 11.00@12.
wu (Yearlings Excluded) Good ...ce.0000n secces [email protected]
Sausage— Good | (all weights) ....... [email protected] Medium 12.
CALVES (525) Vealers (an weights)
Good to choice 3 1 fogia se 16.50 Cull (75 1bS. UP) .eceusennn. ves 10,[email protected] Feeder & Stocker Cattle & Calves Steers Choice
[email protected] [email protected]
500- pounds . So0-1o0 POUNAS .ccovcrncese Good— . 500- 800 pounds 800-1050 pounds Medium— : 500-1000 pounds Common— 500- 900 pounds Calves (steers)
Good and 01CO—= 500 rena Medium 500 pounds down ° Calves (heifers) Gaod and Choice 500 pounds d
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12.50@13%0
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9.00 «es 6.50@ 7.50
LOCAL ISSUES
Nominal Suotations Jurntehed - anapolls securities deals. i 5 Agents Fin aii com Acents Fin Corp pf
FerrereanlID. Seqcente’ 08 S000 24
Algers Wins'w w BB 444%... 99 American Loan 5s § 98 Loan 8s
15 CENTS LESS]
Porkers Sell at $15.65 Top;|
: Hog prices opened 10 to 15. cents ‘| lower than yesterday's opening at
the food distribution administra-|
Mrs. Kathryn Hughes, physical solange. ald in the metallurgical group, operates an elestro analysis tube at the Jeffersonville, Ind, General. Quartermaster Depot, which is charged with responsibility for. the procurement of more than 20,000 articles of. supply for the armed forces. About 7000 persons, mostly ' civilians, are employed in producing, storing and preparing articles for shipment at this military installation, an Obio river landmark since the Civil war. :
war centers. ated by E. I. du Pont de Nemours &
Corp., have become gigantic industrial brothers in the war effort. The Indiana works, a permanent installation: that :began operating in April, 1941, utilized two peacetime wastes—cotton linters and wood pulp—to produce smokeless powder. Thé ,Hoosier plant, where cloth bags are manufactured, is the bag loading point for the smokeless powder. The bags of smokeless powder are used to hurl cannon shells at the enemy with-a force 25| hitherto unknown in the art of killing. : Spread over more than 15,000 acres of rolling southern Indiana land bordering the Ohio river, the two plants were built at a combined cost of ahout $16,000,000. No official announcement has been made but employment has been estimated at more: than 24,000 persons. ; . Indiana newspapermen learned
‘wher they stopped here-for inspec
tion of the two plants as part of an army-conducted tour of Indiana war. plants and military - installations that smokeless powder: is a sixday routine requiring 15 processes. Cotton or wood pulp is the basic material used in making smokeless
28| powder. The transformation involves
processes in which there is the inevitable industrial’ struggle to remove moisture and at the same time keep the materials wet for safety purposes. This is the great problem
12.00 in making gunpowder.
The mixture of cotton or wood pulp and acid when dry would cause immediate fire but when wet up to the point of about 25 per cent, the mixture is harmless. Alcohol subsequently is pressed into the mixture to force out the water. - Linter ether is employed in drying processes and finally the substance is forced through instruments resembling macaroni machines. The string of powder is
{sliced into small pieces completely
dried by a chemical process that turns weeks into hours and is then loaded into cannon shells ranging from 20-millimeter to 16-inch naval guns. Four of six lines at ‘the Indiana. works currently are producing powder from cotton and two from wood pulp.
TRADING IN GRAINS
CHICAGO, March 30 (U. P.)— Grain futures developed a steady to. firm tone on the board of trade today. Traders continued to show only secondary interest in the mar-
. | kets, focusing full attention on farm
legislative action in Washington. In early dealings wheat was unchanged to up % cent a bushel, corn unchanged at OPA’ levels, oats up % and rye unchanged to up %.
changed from $1.01,:0ats up 1% from 63, and rye unchanged from 84%.
Willis Discards
‘WASHINGTON, ‘Because his rubt
March 30...
which he desired most, Senator
the senate to cancel any further reports. : : The Willis resolution ‘Rubber Director William Jeffers to make detailed reports to the senate regarding the progress made in synthetics. Since no comparative data was submitted res garding the relative costs between’ rubber made from grain and that
° | made from petroleum, Mr. Willis
termed the matter . a. waste of
(Hoosier War Plants Turn Waste Into Gunpowder,
By DON CARLSON. United Press Staff Correspondent
LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 30.—One of Indiana’s first military tnstallations for world war II has become one of the state’s most important |
The Indiana ordnance works, owned by the government and oper-
Co. and the Hoesier ordnance plant,
also owned bythe government but operated by the Goodyear Engineering
SLOW AT CHICAGO
In the May options wheat was| up % cent from $1441 corn un-}'
Data on ards st
resolution pro-. | | duced all ‘the data except that |
Raymond E. Willis (R.Ind.) got.
‘manpower and asked that the re- 14
IN BRIEF—
' The ‘senate Truman “committee has recommended the rénegotiation
‘of war contracts by one policy-mak-
ing and review board to: eliminate the “confusion, uncertainty and misunderstanding” caused by the present system of having four government ‘departments adjust them. At presént, the war, navy and treas~ ury = departments and maritime commission review and adjust war contracts individually. » » »
Chairman James G. Scrugham of the senate small: business subcommittee on mining and minerals industry, = warned hat unless the WPB provides for te domestic production oo ¢ minerals, congress may have to set up a co-ordinator for the industry to be known as a “war minerals director.” t J » » : ’ WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson today announced the creation of a management-labor council to discuss with board officials “formative” plans and policies: that affect organized industry and organized labor. Members named to the council included President Eric Johnston of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, C. I. O. President Philip Murray, President William Green of the A. F. of L. and President Fred Crawford of the National Association of Manufacturers. » » o8 The. OPA today granted the $100,000,000 “five and ten” cosmetic trade temporary permission to sell its products at present prices despite wartime changes in containers. Affected by the order will be such 5 and 10-cent retail items as tooth pastes, lotions, lipstick, face powder, rouge and facial creams. 8 8 8 Lockheed Aircraft Corp. of California has offered to reduce prices on its 1942 war contracts by $30,927,180, although renegotiation has not yet been completed. The corporation’s 11th .annual report. shows 1042 consolidated net income at a record high. It amounted to $8, 163,721 or $759 a share, ® = = The London radio .said today that, the Italian lira fell 65 per ‘cent at Swedish banks following he; British capture: of the Mareth
Women employees now comprise. 13 per cent of all Packard Motor Co. workers, and the management expects this percentage to ‘increase to 30 per cent as draft demands in-
WORK HALTS AT AUBURN PLANT Walkout oF Workers Called
Union Leaders.
AUBURN, Ind., March 30 (U. P). —War production at the Warner automotive parts division plant of Auburn was virtually at a standstill today after a sizable percentage of the company’s estimated 300
‘employees, participating in an “un-
authorized” strike, refused to return to work. The work slowdown began late yesterday afternoon when 45 workmen in the gear cutters department walked out. The strike spread throughout almost the entire plant by late last night. Officials of the United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Im-
0.), of which the strikers are memsbers, said the walkout was unauthorized and that it was blamed only to “labor trouble.” Keith Smith, local 285 president, said the union was making every effort to call a halt to the dispute and to get the men back on production lines. R. E. Allison, president of the Warner division, could not be reached for comment. Union officials said there was no violence or picketing in connection with the walkout. :
DRY CLEANERS HERE RATED ESSENTIAL
Commercial dry cleaners in the Indianapolis area today were added to the list of essential industries. Employees, by the action, come under the Indianapolis labor stabilization plan. The war manpower commission said 18 commercial dry cleaning establishments in Marion county, representing about 85 per cent of the industry here, petitioned for the classification because of thé heavy labor. turnover. The “essential” rating does not change the selective service status of the workers in dry cleaning establishments, however, the WMC pointed. out.
RUSSIA DEVELOPS NEW SPRING WHEAT
Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times |, and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
MOSCOW, March 30.—A new type
resistant to diseases such as rust brand was reported to a recent meeting of the Timiryazev agricultural academy of Moscow, according to accounts available today. The discovery is credited to the academician, P. M. Zhukovsky, who won the Stalin prize for developing a hybrid from two. varieties found in the Georgian Caucasus. According “to V.: 8: Nemchinov; academy director, ‘there is a campaign under way already to obtain~ sufficient
seed. for large-scale. planting.
plement Workers of America (C. I.
‘| PEAKING OF Skelton, recalls & | the time Red did a show for Chinese - |cadets at a U. S. army air forces
fleld in Arizona. He had been invited to do a special performance for the Chinese airmen, but when he got there he
lfound that most of them couldn't
understand his gags in English. That didn’t stump him. The redheaded comedian then proceeded to do his show in the oldest language in the world—the sign language. He brought down the house with his pantomime. 2 8 #8 ARCH OBOLER, Columbia's thrill creator, will offer another of his
sents ‘‘Money, Money, . Money!” in the “Lights Out” ' series to-
axiom about money being “the root of ‘all evil” and weaves it into the tale of Svenson, ' the sailor, who loves money for the good it can - Mm Oboler do, and ‘Tony, his friend, who ‘loves money for its own sake. It's on WFBM at: 7. 2 & = ON WISH TOMORROW at 3:30 p. m. George Hicks, the Blue network’s ‘roving reporter, interviews wounded American veterans of the allied campaign in Tunisia now convalescing in England.
their meeting with Rommel’s Afrika Corps. They will be transported in ambulances: to the special studio where the short-wave broadcast will
originate, : ss » =»
IF YOU HAVE been wondering about what happened to Rudolf Hess since he landed in the British Isles, almost two years ago, hear Arthur Hale discuss the mystery of the former NO.-3 Nazi on his-*Con-fidentially Yours” program tonight over WIBC at 6:45. He'll tell you when Hess will be tried and by whom. . J 8 8 ENEMY PROPAGANDA will be exposed on ' the 'government-pro-duced anti-axis series, “This Is Our Enemy,” tonight on WIBC at 8:30. The program will dramatize how Hier and Hirohito are attempting to divide and conquer the American people by “sabotaging” thoughts.
AMERICAN AIRLINES
American Airlines today reported an increase in profits despite some curtailment of commercial services. Net profit for 1942 was $3,016,868 after provision for taxes, compared
share against $3.93 in 1941. Because the government took over
- | some of its airliners, revenue plane
miles flown decreased 13 per cent, but revenue creased only 1.7 per cent and airmail pound miles increased 55 per
tion of our planes, facilities and
PLANS ABANDONED
Consolidated Oil Corp. has temporarily abandoned its plans for an
benville, O., through Columbus to the big war emergency pipeline that links Texas fields with the Mid-
How Helmets Are Made
| of their inability to obtain priorities for the hevessary. Sonstruction. ing
|terials.
U.S. STATEMENT:
{asi Jar 0 (U.P) Go the io Xgemas’ ani fecdipts “forth
current
PATE With 8 Jer NE
Be Spending 48130.001.150 "18.120
19, 40.92 «8 54,000, 000,308 $ $3 in 107,426
10,082,084.851
(2.801 880.516 gh
secsens event eet ence. 4,371,000 17,335,000
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PROFIT INCREASES =:
with $2,473,160 in 1941, or $4.88 a Potgias. Als
passenger miles de- Hu
cent and air express 120 per cent. |; “This indicates the greater utiliza- |Kresg:
) Gl personnel,” President A. N. Kemp of spring wheat, said to be specially {cajq. Nash
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Alisth Corp .. Allied Chon on Allis-Chal ...
8 Am Roll Mill .. 14
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By UNITED PRESS Air Reduction Co., Inc, and subsidiaries 1042 net income $6,791,171 -|or $2.50 a common share vs. $7,116,677 or $2.62 in 1941. Alaska Packers association 1042 net income $390,944 or $6.87 a common share vs. $1,027,066 or $17.94
BUSINESS AT A GLANCE|
$10,343 vs. net loss $77,340 previous| ¥¥& year. !
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DIETS MAY. BE USED FOR WAR ON DISEA
By Science Service LAFAYETTE, Ind., March Vitamin or other dietary mean preventing and curing now vu olla diseases, as we now
*{orodieted for, the future by F C. A. Elvehjem of the Univ of Wisconsin, in a Sigma Xi here last night. : Recent - studies” in’ his own other research. laboratories of 12 or more B vitamins furnish basis for Prof. Elvehjem’s fo! for the. future of. nutritional search, : : * Lack of one of the newest B vi a mins, folic acid, may be the. cau of a blood disorder, a sort of w blood cell: anemig, that deve occasionally in patients Seti sulfa drug treatment ‘and sometimes without such treats “We can only speculate as to ] importance of the other factors human nutrition,” Prof. Elve ‘concluded, “but I “am willing to wager that equally important lationships will develop. “As research continues we: learn from it nutritional means ® handling diseases which are controllable today.” ;
EXPIRED STAMPS MAY BE REDEEM
Wholesalers and retailers - have allowed expired sugar sta and certificates to accumulate an opportunity to redeem their rationing boards. ; They may apply to the boards: certificates validating stamps: :1 through 9, received by the chants before March 19. If the excess inventory filed: the time of the application is equi to or greater than the weight of the surrendered stamps, the
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will make' the proper adjus
OPA officials said. Application for the adju: