Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1943 — Page 8
BUSINESS
Passengers Left Off Airliners To Make Room for Air Express
By ROGER
BUDROW
“THE ARISTOCRACY OF THE LOW LICENSE
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but that aristocracy has given
’ used to be the butt of supposedly-funny remarks,
away to a new one, the aris-
tocracy of the high priority number. And as a good many concerns know, especially those without high ratings, some of the consequences are far from funny, :
A friend was telling me
yesterday how the airliners
work a system of priorities, not only for passengers but for express and mail also. Everyone has probably read of where a general was forced to wait for another plane while a mere private took his seat, the private having a No. 2 priority because he was in the ferry command.
. Well, there have been cases out at the airport here where air express has been loaded in the seats of airliners and civilian passengers .were forced to wait for the next plane. Air express is a very fast way to get materials and parts trans-| ported quickly, but it costs, too. A good many times, . the charges for air express have amounted to more
PULLMAN GROUP IS FOUND GUILTY
U. S. Court of Appeals Says
. Firm Violated Sherman Anti-Trust Law.
‘| Maritime
‘6000 ENOUGH’
Official Says Investigation Proves
Plate ‘Sound.’
WASHINGTON, April 21 (U.P), —A maritime commission official said yesterday that an investigation by the navy, the commission and the war production board showed
Carnegie-Illinois corporation was “perfectly sound steel for ships.” The Truman senate committee re cently produced evidence that steel
works, near Pittsburgh, had been faked. .The maritime commission official said that some of the plate did not meet strict peacetime specifications of the contracts, but he added that all came close enough “to be pers fectly sound steel.” The deviations from peacetime specifications, the official said, provided a “tolerance” which ene abled the plant to establish produce tion records. a little rough on the outside, it was said, but did not affect “the strength, durability and safety” of ships in which it was used. The official did not contest the Truman committee's findings, but
plate tests at the corporation's Irvin
Some of the steel was
that all steel plate delivered by the
PHILADELPHIA, April 21 (OU. P.).—An expediting court of three U. S. circuit court of appeals judges last night found the Pullman Co. i ilt violating the Sher- : a act Bune ordered it| Students go over.an Allison reduction gear. The instructor is A. G. Covell.
to separate its car manufacturing |
business from its service branch. : “Judges Herbert F. Goodrich, John HOG PRICE S UP that the policy of the group in re-|. 1 0 T0 1 ; CENTS
Biggs Jr, and Albert Maris held quiring railroads taking its perPorker Market Is Uneven;
sonal service to lease or purchase Top at Stockyards $15;
indicated that he felt that their significance was exaggerated.
‘Food Goal Will Be | Met' —Townsend
DES MOINES, Iowa, April 21 (U. P)~M, Clifford Townsend, food production director for the agriculture department, predicts that 1943 production goals will be ‘met because the nation’s farmers have more “know how” than they had in 1918, Townsend, former governor of Indiana, told Iowa members of the agriculture department's wer
than the shipment was worth. But expense isn’t - the important thing, many times; it’s speed. The Aluminum Co. of America’s plant at Lafayette has had occasion to rush some of its products to ~ | west coast aircraft factories, using . air express. Allison speeds aircraft engine parts by plane, Eli Lilly & Co. has big shipments of drugs go‘ing out by air, much of it to South America. J. D. Adams sends repair parts for its road builders to South America, where they are needed in the construction of airports. When, one concern here in town gets behind Schedule in its shipments to an eastern raft factory, it sends
Students get first hand knowledge on the Allison crankshaft from Melvin Olsen.
CITY IS ‘LABOR SHORTAGE" AREA
Marion County May Have a Lack of Manpower in
Air Force Ground Men Learning How To Get Planes Back Into Action in a Hurry
Special training also is given for instructors for army schools, contract schools, overhaul- depots and sub-depots. Not among them, but along side the air force personnel, are being
cars from Pullman was a violation of the anti-trust law. The federal government instituted court action against Pullman, Inc.; Pullman Co., and the Pull-man-Standard Car Manufacturing Co., and 31 of their officers and
By ROSEMARY REDDING
When those combat planes come_ limping home “over there” ‘the job | of the guy on the ground—that unsung hero of the ground crew—is just I | beginning. \ He may be at a forward base—even under fire. And it’s his job to
~ practically everything by air express ‘until it gets caught up again. The bug in all this speed is at the pick up and delivery ends. One plant in Anderson has to send a special truck down here every time it has an air express shipment, as does the aluminum plant. If the air service of this country were developed as much as the railroad and truck industries, much time and inconvenience would be eliminated ‘in such shipments. But that’s impossible at present, what with half - of the airlniers taken over by the government,
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” 2 TO GET RUBBER from the almost impenetrable jungles in the Amazon basin region of Brazil, . . airplanes will drop men by parachute. With their machetes, they will hack out a landing field for airplanes which will carry out the newly tapped rubber, 8 8 = - GOING DOWN: Continental Steel Corp. of Kokomo ' made $118,158 ~~ . profit in the first three months of this year, against $169,337 last year. That is 68 cents a share against 50 lcents. Sales were down more than ‘one million dollars in the period. | | 2 #8 8 : ODDS AND ENDS: A Manchester, England, furniture store that got a bad shakeup from Nazi bombs posted this sign: “But you ought to see our Berlin bran¢h.”|; « . . Lothair Teetor, president of the}: Perfect Circle Co. and a navy bands- - man in the first world war, is to speak at -the Great Lakes naval _ training station Friday. . . . With every jeep, Willys-Overland sends maintenance manuals printed in English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and French. . , , Liver is being dehydrated now. . . . March weather was hard on the peach crop; cold weather and labor shortage has cut _ the supply of early vegetables from the south.
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directors July 12, 1940.
In New York, President David A.
Crawford said the case would be appealed to. the United States supreme court. |
“Ours, after all, is a business
which has been conducted under the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce commission since 1906,”
rawford said, “and we naturally
find satisfaction in the fact that the ICC has raised no voice of complaint in this case.”
The Decree The opinion, written by Judge
Goodrich, contained six provisions for carrying out its decree aganist the companies.
They were: 1. Separation of the business of
Pullman Co. from that of PullmanStandard Car Manufacturing Co.
2. Establishment of the right of railroad to purchase used sleep-
ing cars from Pullman Co.
3. Terms to be included in a di-
rection that Pullman shall be required to operate and service sleeping cars designed and built by any manufacturer, and tendered to it for operation and service.
4. The right of any railroad
which wishes to operate all or a portion of its own sleeping car business to do so, regardless of existing sleeping car contracts with the Pullman Co.
5. The establishment of the obli-
gation of the Pullman Co. to furnish through-line sleeping car service to any railroad or group of railroads.
6. Elimination of exclusive deal-
ing contracts between the Pullman
0. and the railroads and the abro-
gation of such provisions in existing contracts.
WORK WEEK 46 HOURS WASHINGTON, April 20 (U. P.).
—Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reports that the average hours worked in manufacturing industries in February were 44.5. said this | work week of more than 46 hours.
She
indicated a scheduled
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FUR COATS
Largest Selection in the State
7959 Received.
The hog market was uneven today at the Indianapolis stockyards, with porkers weighing 160 to 275 pounds 10 to 15 cents higher
than yesterday's prices. Those weighing 275 te 400 pounds brought 20 to 25 cents more. The top was $15. Receipts included 7959 hogs, 660 cattle, 465 calves and 102. sheep.
HOGS (7959)
120- 140 pounds 140- 160 pounds 160- 180 pounds 180- 200 pounds 200- 220 pounds 220- 240 pounds 240- 270 pounds 270- 300 pounds 300- 330 pounds 330- 360 pounds
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Good— 400- 450 pounds 450- 550 pounds
Medium: 250- 550 pounds
Slaughter Pigs Medium and Good— 90- 120 pounds CATTLE (660)
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Medium— 600- 800 poUNdS ..ieesescsss 1100-1300 pounds . Common— 700-1100 pounds
Heifers Choice— 600- 800 pounds ....cc..ee.. 800-1000 pounds Good— 600- 800 pounds . 800-1100 pounds . Medium— 500- * 300 ) pounds eseeesessnsen Com 500- 900 | pounds % Cows (all weights) G00 ..voiiiivianseise,s Medium
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Bulis (all weights) . 159 9.00 (Yearlings Excluded) Beef—
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Sausage— God all weights) ceeenesese 12521425 3a
CALVES (465)
Vealers (all weights) Sood to choice [email protected] Common and medium . 12 o 15.50 Cull (76 lbs. up) [email protected] Feeder and Stocker Cattle and i Steers Choice— .500- 800 pounds o-1050 pounds
500- 800 pounds BS 1ui0 pounds edium— Noo 1000 pounds Common— 500- 900 pounds
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500 pounds down 12.50914.00 SHEEP AND LAMBS (102)
Ewes (shorn) Good and choice
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Common Lambs (Shorn) Good and choice Medium and good . Common
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LOCAL PRODUCE
avy breed hens 3% Ibs. and over, as % lbs. and under, 23%¢ Leghorns, Cc.
ier under 3 oy colored and Barred and White Rock, 27%e¢.
lbs. and oe. coiored and Barre White Stags Leghorns, ale; heavy breed, 22¢; co — Bos Current receipts, 54 Ibs. and up, | Graded Eggs—Grade A 2, Joes Jade A medium, 34c; grade small, no grade, 30. Bujter— No. 1, 50c. Butterfat—No, 49¢c; No. 2, 46¢c.
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It didn’t happen overnight. In fact, it all began a year and a half before the United States got into the war. It was away back in 1940 that the Allison service school was established. Its original purpose was to train U. S. air force and united nations key personnel in the maintenance, operation and overhaul of the Allison engine. In the beginning there were only about six students a week in training at a building out at Speedway. Today, the school has grown to include an average of 225 air force personnel—and 175 fleld service trainees—in training a week. Growth Has Been Rapid And that isn’t .all. The resident school is here but through branch schools and instructors at air fields and bases, hundreds more are being trained. So large has the program become that there are now facilities for turning out 25,000 air force personnel a year and an equal number in the field. Perhaps you've seen the present resident school. It’s really Allison's plant 6. It’s that large three-story brick building out on the Holt rd. that once housed the Lafayette Motor Car Co. and later the Hercules Printing Co. On the outside it looks just like any other building, except for the high fence and the guard house at
| see that the plane gets back in the air. They're training men like that right here in Indianapolis!
the gate. The only indication as to what goes on inside is to the far side of the building where the fuselage of planes powered by:the Allison engine have been set up to teach installation, removal of engines, inspection, starting, warming up, etc. : Live in Barracks
Over toward Stout field there are those green barracks where the air force men live while in training there. They've had basic training at army mechanics school before being sent here to get special training on the Allison motor, The school here includes a faculty and residential staff of about 80. On one floor there are class rooms where men are given demoustrations and then asked to repeat what they've learned at the bench. Then they move onto another floor into the laboratory for work. From there they go on outdoors to work with the engine right in the fuselage. The training given is based on past experience of the trainee and the type of work in which he will be engaged—actual maintenance at the front, behind the line where important repairs must be made, at an air base where still more important repairs have to be made, or at a location where major repairs must be made.
trained certain factory personnel, field service teehnicians and Allison representatives. The school reaches beyond the resident one here. Three schools have seen set up in the British isles. Non-resident training programs are carried on at depots and air fields. Instructors from the service school here also carry on training programs for Bell, Curtiss, Lockheed and North American where the Allison men work in their training schools to teach Allison engine phases,
Instructors Trained
The scope of the program includes the training of instructor personnel for the Royal Canadian air force, the Royal New Zealand air force, Chilean air force and Chinese air force.
The Allison school here is the largest training activity in any of the General Motors divisions, based not only on the number of studants trained but also considering the number and variety of courses presented and the space devoted to training. And although the growth of the school seems almost’ phenomenal, plans are underway to meet the ever-increasing need to train men to maintain thousands of Allison engines now in combat throughout the world.
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RUBBER PATENTS T0 BE ‘ROYALTY FREE’
NEW YORK, April 21 (U. P.).— A Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey proposal to make millions of dollars worth of synthetic . rubber patents available to competitors royalty free, needed only the approval of stockholders today to be put into effect. Ralph W. Gallagher, president of the company, announced the proposal last night. It provides that
for the government's $600,000,000 synthetic rubber program, be released permanently to all petroleum companies, The patents already have been made free to all for the
, ' duration of the war.
Rubber Co-ordinator William M.
:| Jeffers, in accepting the plan for
the government wrote Gallagher
¢ that it was “very definitely in the i | public interest and this is an emi/2inently propitious time to make this
offer.” The proposal stipulated that the government increase its expenditures on synthetic rubber research
% to not less than $5,000,000.
GRAINS ARE STEADY
: ON BOARD OF TRADE
CHICAGO, April 21 (U. P). — Grain futures retained a steady to easier tone on the Board of Trade today. Corn held to ceiling levels. At the end of the first Hour wheat was off % to 3% cent a bushel; corn unchanged at OPA levels; oats unchanged to off %, and rye unchanged off to %. In the May options wheat was off % cent from $1.44%; corn unchanged from $1.05; oats off % from 62%, and rye unchanged from 84%.
U. S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, April 21 (U, P.).—Government SXPenses and receipts for the current fiscal yoay through April 19 compared with a year ago:
This Year. Last Year. Benes ine’ 000081 423.800, It 001 ar Receipts. ... 15,673,128.189 66 Net Deficit . 43,527,000,991 Cash Balance 8,384,467, Working Bal. 7621, Public Debt 127,601,756,196 70 Gold Reserv.
,245,626,889 ° 22,501,603,502 22,678,687,149
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LOCAL ‘ISSUES
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anapolis Revuriiies Sealers, Bid Asked Agents Pin Corp ¢ % ... nts Fin Corp pd ews Bort R 8tk Yds com . Belt R Stk Yds 6% pd. Bobbs-Merrill com . Bobbs-Merrill 42% ptd Circle Theater com Comwlth Loan 5% pfd Hook Drug Co com 1 Home T&T Ft Wayne a pid. 50% *Ind Asso Tel 5% Fe a 1 Ind ‘& Mich 7% oa Ind Hydro Elec Ind Gen Serv 6% ..coevee. Indpls P & L 5Y4% «uuue Indpls P & L com Indpls Rlwys, Inc, com . Indpls Water pf Indpls Water Class A com... 88
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N Ind Pub Serv 5%7% pid.. N Ind Pub Serv 6% N Ind Pub Serv 4 pfd P R Mallory co Progress i ry Pub Serv of In
Stokely Bros pr pic . United Tel Co Co 5% . Union Title com Van Camp Milk pfd Van Camp Milk com .
Algers Wins'w w RR 4%%... American Loan 926 American Loan 5 2%
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29 Cent Newspaper 4%s 42-51 ... “3
Ch of Com Bldg Co 4%s 51.. iz Ya
n 5s 60 . Ind Asso Tel 15 3ias JO covone 1108 Indpls P & L 3%s 70...... +=-105% Indpls Es Co 8 67 oees T Indpls Water Co 3%s 68 .... Kokomo Water Works 5s 68.. Kuhner Packing Co 4%s 49 ... 9 Morris 5&10 res 5s Muncie Water Works 5s
N Ind Tel 4%s 55 Pub Serv of Ind 4s 60..,,.... Pub Tel 46s 55
Trac Term Corp CT. 8. Machine Corp. 5s 62 *Ex-dividend.
WAGON WHEAT
Up to the close of the Chicago market today, Indainapolis flour mills and grain elevators paid $1.54 per bushel for No. 1 red wheat (other giades 9 on their merits), No. 2 white oats, 60c, d No. 2 red cats, @0c; 0 2 yellow shelled corn, $1.03 per bushel, and No. 2 and No. 2 white shelled corn, $1.16.
Six Months.
WASHINGTON, April 21.—Indianapolis, including all of Marion county, remains an “area of labor stringency or in which a labor shortage may be anticipated within six months,” according to the latest listing announced by the war manpower commission today. Evansville and Lake county, however, are included in Group I as “areas of acute labor shortage.” Indianapolis, Anderson, Michigan City, Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Terre Haute, New Castle and La Porte are listed in Group II. Other WMC groups are Group III—areas in which a general labor shortage may be anticipated after six months; Group IV—areas in which the labor supply is and will continue to be adequate to meet all known labor requirements. The Bloomington-Burns City area (transferred from Group II), and Muncie areas are included in Group III. No Indiana areas are listed in Group 1V. The WMC listing carried the following explanation: “This - classification 1s intended primarily as a guide for procurement agencies in the placing of war contracts. Areas are reclassified from time to time, as conditions change. Areas in Group 1V, where there is a plentiful supply of labor, are designed as those in which an effort should be made to renew contracts, place new contracts, and locate new production facilities.”
Ft. Wayne Labor Now Stabilized
FT. WAYNE, Ind, Apri. 21 (U. P.) —Labor stabilization in the Ft. Wayne area, comprising 10 northeastern Indiana counties, became effective today following the initial meeting of the newly-
organized war manpower committee,
The committee, composed equally of four members of management and labor, held its first conference late yesterady. - A labor stabiliza-
board yesterday that “nationally the picture is great.” He said 40 per cent more farm produce was grown last year than in 1918 and attributed the improvement largely to the use of crop rotae tion and better farm machinery, The farm machinery allotment for 1943, Townsend said, will be sufficient to fill all the farmers’ needs.
POOR WEATHER HITS FOOD PRODUCTION
Poor weather is handicapping Ine diana’s food production effort, the Indianapolis weather bureau reporte ed today.
has beén slow in some sections of the state and at a standstill in other sections, Winter wheat was killed by a winter of freezing tems peratures ‘and the worst fields are being resown to oats, the bureau said, Wheat plants are short, ranging
eight inches in southern counties, There was considerable winter killing in hay crops but generally these are “fair to good” and showe ing some slow improvement, Pastures have turned green bus are still short. However, livestock
southern orchards, apple trees are starting to bloom. Showers delayed plowing for corn and beans lats week and reports ine dicated a lower acreage sown ‘to
(| cannery peas than last year,
CARRIER CORP. GETS LOAN SYRACUSE, N, Y,, April 21 (U, P.) —Carrier Corp. has announced that a $4,500,000 “V” loan through the co-operation of the navy dee partment, has been arranged with a group of six banks and will exe tend over a three-year period,
Investment Study Pays
tion plan was adopted to controlf: .
the channeling of labor into the right jobs at a time when their
1 ie skills would be most beneficial to
the war program. Dean William H. Spencer of Chicago, regional director of the war
manpower commission for Indiana,|®%
Illinois and Wisconsin, said the plan, which became effective at
12:01 a. m. today, supplements the 3
recent order by Paul V. McNutt, WMC chairman, which imposed hiring controls over jobs in 35 essential activities. “Specifically,” Spencer said, “the stabilization plan adopted by the committee is designed to curb job shopping and job lifting, pirating of labor, and wastage of man-hours by workers wandering about in search of work at higher wages.” Territory in the Ft. Wayne area
under jurisdiction of the labor-|
management committee is made up of Wabash, Huntington, Wells, Adams, Allen, Whitley, Noble, DeKalb, Steuben counties. !
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: Sous of tex more important | factscovering the Rayon Indus. try are in a current memorandum which is avails able or request at this office.
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will be held at 6:30 o'clock tonight in the Lincoln hotel. The speaker will be Russell Wilcox, associate professor of accounting at Ohio State university. His Subject will be. “The Effect of ie War Emergencies on Standards
and Budgets.” George 8.
NEW YORK, April 21 (VW. P.).— Dun & Bradstreet's daily weighted -| price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press (1930-32 average equals 100) : Yesterday essessessenssnssns 171.93 Week Ago te sets VNRLIIRANLS 171.41 : Month Ago ssesscsesessesess 171.92 Year Ago Tesssnasistssseesge 157.38
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