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MUST PLAN PEACE NOW--RUTHENBURG
Evansville Industrialist Urges Businessmen to Formulate: Post-War Policy for Industry During War & In Address Before Rotary Club. 3 By THEO WILSON :
It is the job now of the individual businessman in Indis anapolis, and in every other industrial center, to plan what he is going to produce after the war, and how he can prog duce it best, Louis Ruthenburg, Evansville industrialist, said yesterday in an interview following an address to the local
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES They Have
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Indiana Sugar Beet Crop Half as Big as Last Year
MINE SEIZURE IS PROTESTED
Hoosier Coal Official Says ‘Companies Punished
By ROGER BUDROW
THE SUGAR SITUATION WON'T GET much help this Instead of Unions.’ year from the sugar beet farmers of northeastern Indiana. : Recent reports indicate that only half as much land will be! ra BS st guinn, Eov. planted in sugar beets as last year. was made today by O. L. Scales, vice
Indiana is distinctly “small fry” when it comes to sugar president Le Enos Coal Mining : | Co., one o e larger Indiana coal y s beets. Around 1000 farmers grow them, mostly in Adam mining Jomonnies,
Wells and Allen counties because of the Central Sugar Co.’s| In letters to Senator Frederick
mi ) . ow sugar beets, we VanNuys and Rep. Charles A. Halnill at Decatur. Of all the states that gro g * Wel ok, Mr. Scales charged the Corn. grow the least. :
panies had been punished instead Yet 40 to 45 million pounds of
‘of the miners’ unions although sugar can't be tossed off as noth-| peas went over last year—I05 per companies in this area had offered ing. That was what our 16,000 acres | cent.
to negotiate a new contract with produced last year. You can trim Te get farmers to sign up some the union but were “denied even that figure 30 Per| canning facteries are promising one hour to discuss a renewal.” cent for this year. to unload tomatoes within twe | Raps Federal Answer
Farm officials] hours afler the farmer arrives at “I find myself completely unable
here say there! the plant. are several rea-| to understand how my governsons for the way, ODDS AND ENDS: A “help your- ment, when it is faced with a nathe sugar beet self” shop for wemen's ready-to- tional crisis such as the present goal is headed for | wear has been opened in Chicago one in coal, can think of no other a fizzle. There is by Goldblatts. . Some coffee is answer than to take the mines away ce competition | being Shipped to U. S. hy railroad |from owners, who according to all from other crops from Central America. . . . More the government propaganda itself, — soybeans, can- than a million ceramic fireplace have not committed a crime against ning crops, the grates have been made to save cast the public welfare at time of war. hemp (for rope) |iron—but some were faulty. . . .| “If that is the best answer govMr. Budrow program which|Chrysler has subcontracts placed ernment can give to crises such as has a mill at nearby Warren, and with 608 concerns in 61 Indiana|this, it becomes perfectly apparent the demand for corn and hogs. [cities. . . . The merger of Northwest that if three or four of our topAnother reason is that the sugar Airlines and Mid-Continent Air- flight labor leaders sought nationbeet growers apparently got in|lines is reportedly off for the time| alization of all industry, they could trouble through the weather just being. . . . British newspapers say |Tealize their ambitions by merely like the tomato growers down this| Sweden is building 48 ships for Ger- | ordering a strike,
way. Winter came early last year many. The South African Take Over Unions?
American soldiers, just arrived in India, buy bananas from a native woman peddling fruits in a street market place. Left to right are Cpl. Terrence Palmer, Harrisburg, Pa.; Cpl. William J. Fleischman, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Sgt. James G. Watson, New Orleans, La., and Cpl. Edward, Cooper from Missouri.
Contracts Renegotiation
Nets U. S. $2,500,000,000 30 UP 25 CENTS
PITTSBURGH, May 12 (U. P)
—By the end of April, the govern- |
ment had netted almost two and a half billion dollars as a result of!
and the Decatur processing plant! Broadcasting Co. is planning excouldn't handle all the beets at once! panding into television. and so farmers had to store them, resulting in some extra expense and |
“On the contrary, should govern{ment adopt the perfectly unortho- | ; dox philosophy of punishing the a LIMIT BRANDS OF MILK |eqqers of business or raniastions) An ironical twist to the situa~ | A consumer will find no more than who commit the offenses against the tion now is that the company got two brands of milk in the coolers Public welfare, instead of their vic. WPB priorities to increase its facil. | °F most, Yetall Stores at che me FOU Fesul Droge ities to handle a big arop this vear | the storekeeper stays within the where government would issue 3 gi but apparently won't need that | Milk marketing SConOMmY > ger UE Toe “ne fos ar i Unions extra © apacity unless farmers up | the food distribution administration, | themselves instead of the victims of there 4 decided iy £ |according to E. O. Pollock, adminis- | the unions. ere do a decidea about-lace. trator of the Great Lakes region. “It seems to me that it would be 2 & = —_— just as easy to take over the milONE FARM OFFICIAL here | LOCAL MANAGER NAMED {lions in the treasuries of the offendguesses Indiana will plant between | Donald W. Dornon has been ing unions and replace the man90 and 95 per cent of its geal in appointed to succeed Edwin Ma- agement and board of directors of tomatoes. He counts on last-min- [nouge as manager of the Indian-|one union, as it would be to take ute “pep meetings” to push it that | apolis branch of Dun & Bradstreet, | over the funds and the property high. |Inc., the mercantile credit agency. |and the management of 3700 coal ! mining companies.” | Mr. Scales said that “teday, we do not know whether our hard earnea funds and investments will | be dissipated or held intact. Cer- | tainly you one feels whose life savings and all of his work are invested in a company taken away from him because of acts committed by someone else.”
“Refused to Meet Us”
District 11 officials of the mine workers’ union “refused to meet with us to negotiate a new wage {scale or a temporary agreement,” Mr. Scales said but on Saturday, May 1, “refused to work on the ground they had no permanent or interim contract.” ‘ The following Monday Secretary Ickes appointed an advisory board for this district, composed of the { manager of the statistical bureau in | Indianapolis, president of the Unit|ed Mine Workers in district 11 and | the vice chairman of the Bituminous {Coal Producers board, a govern- | mental body composed of coal oper{ators and miners.
Not Angry at Ickes
| “This letter,” he wrote, “is not to | be construed as a criticism of Sec‘retary Ickes, for whom I have high regard. I only want to inquire as {to why people who commit crimes | against the national welfare are not | the people punished instead of their immediate victims.” He charged that “the managers of big business, such as Mr. Lewis’, have grown so powerful as to ignore the owners and operators of Indiana mines and challenge the government itself.” “How "long do you, in congress, hope to be free, if by either action or your failure to act, you permit minority groups to grow so powerful as to challenge the majesty of government and harass the people with continuing threats to their security?”
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| renegotiating army and navy contracts to recover excess profits, it was Porkers Weighing 200-225
announced yesterday at a conference of 350 officials of government price |
adjustment boards. About $1.732.500,000 of the
MALLORY PLANT T0 BE EXPANDED
U.S. Authorizes $1,500,000 Expenditure for New War Equipment.
Expenditure of an additional $1,500,000 for new war production equipment at P. R. Mallory & Co, Tne. here, has been authorized by the federal defense plant corporation, according to information received from Washington. The federal expenditure is for
completion of an expansion program started at the Mallory factory
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war materials for the army air corps, according to M. E. Hamilton, Mallory vice president and treasurer. The expenditure will not include construction of any new buildings, merely additional equipment, Hamilton ‘said. It will complete a $2,500,000 ex-
banks headed by the Central Na-|®
WAGE RAISE DENIED
CHICAGO, May 12 (U. P).—The regional war labor board announced today that the application for a 5-cents-per-hour wage increase by Indiana beet sugar plant workers has been denied. The application asked increases for 372 seasonal workers now re-
hour and was filed by the Central
16, United Cannery, Agricultural packing and Allied Workers of America (C. I. 0).
man of the labor board, said that previous wage increases had ex-
over January, 1941, allowable under the Little Steel formula.
U. S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through May 10 compared with a year : This Year Last Year Expenses ..$64,669,749 588 $25,208, 440,838 War spending 59 666,028,081 19 691 374,080 eip 16,899,177,819 . 47,767,107,869 Cash balance. 14,926 866 761 Working bal.. 14,164,222 177 Public debt ..138,080,966.716 Gold reserve. 22 453,767,470
9 15,196,435,161 2,814 658,772 2,052,762,657 71,682,048,054
INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE
Debits 11,799,000
(YY CANADIAN NATIONAL BE AIR, WAS INSPIRED 8Y A LARGE MAPLE LEAF THAT FLUTTERED DOWN AND SETTLED ON THE SHOULDER OF A TORONTO SCHOOLMASTER, ALEXANDER MUIR, AS HE WALKED ALONG A LEA=STREWN STREET IN AUTUMN.
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To Use Floa
of floating airdromes. _ It said three of these airdromes be required. The company’s action was announced by C. Bedell Monroe, president, who recently criticized most planners of post-war aviation as indulging in fanciful thinking. He said the airdromes, which would be mile-long airfields, would eliminate the need for extraterritorial bases secured from other countries. He described them as similar to anchored carriers with that added advantage that they would be based on underwater floats, 160 feet below the surface, and would not sway with the waves.
Avoid Fog and Ice Monroe said the proposed routes from an as yet unspecified East coast port to Great Britain would permit the avoidance of ice and
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A SCIENTIST HAS FIGURED THAT THE MEADOWLARKS OF SACRAMENTO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, DESTROY 7/93 TOMS OF INSECTS
Trans Atlantic Air Route
WASHINGTON, May 12 (U. P.).—Pennsylvania Central Airlines yesterday filed application with the civil aeronautics board for authority to establish a trans-Atlantic air route using for the first time a series
Aron NEN SEEDING fog since the airdromes, self-pro-pellable at eight knots, could be
at SOMETIMES DISTANCE BRINGS moved to the most favorable airdromes would be
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ting Airdromes
each costing about $10,000,000 would
Mig operative in renegotiations of their |
pansion program started last year. which war contractors actually are| The equipment purchased by the losing money, but manufacturers
average of $330,000,000 after rene- | i gotiation.
ceiving a minimum of 60 cents per |}
Sugar Co. Decatur, Ill, and local|®
Robert K. Burns, regional chair-| Bdgpt
hausted the 15 per cent increase|g,
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represented price cuts on war mate- | |rials, of which about $742,500,000 | ‘was in cash refunds from war con- | |tractors. The army had recovered | {about $1,625,000.000, of which 70 {per cent represented price reduc-| (tions and 30 per cent cash refunds, | {while the navy recovered about | | $850,000,000. Maritime commission figures were | not available, and the treasury and war shipping administration have | just started renegotiations. | Representatives of the five agen- | {cies empowered by congress to re-| {negotiate with manufacturers for | excessive profits gained from war { production have studied the renego- | | tiation picture at a three-day con{ference here. The army, navy, | maritime commission, war shipping | {administration and the treasury de- | partment sent representatives to the! | meeting. Some Companies Lose Money | Maurice Karker, chairman of the | {war department’s price adjustment | | board, said the object of renegotia- |
last year to increase production of [tion is to achieve price reductions | Medium—
rather than cash refunds, because | {the former benefits of the treasury | |and the public to a greater extent, [saves the government from borrowing and acts as a brake on inflation. {Most manufacturers have been co- |
war contracts, he said. i Some cases have been revealed in
defense plant corporation is to be|generally are earning a reasonable | leased to Mallory for the duration. profit, Mr. Karker said.
A survey! of 148 companies whose contracts were renegotiated showed that prior to the war, their average profit was $300,000,000, compared to a current |
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equipment. | Monroe asserted that the air-|
dromes, designed by Edward Arm-
strong of Philadelphia, would be
operated by a holding company in which P. C. A, Sun Shipbuilding
and Dry Dock Co. United States yoga
Steel Corp, Worth Steel Co., Belmont Iron Works and the John A. Roebling Co. would have an interest.
Cut Air Travel Cost
The steel and construction companies would construct the dromes. Other airlines would be permitted
to use the dromes on the same, ers used to extract by-products from
basis as they airfields. He said the construction would be started as soon as priorities for material could be obtained. This probably would not be until after the war, Monroe estimated that ultimately
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CONTRACTS ARE LET FOR GARBAGE PLANT
Bids on rehabilitation of the gar|bage reduction plant for installation of 32 cookers were let at a total of $102,780 by the works board
y. The board accepted the bid of the Graber Tank Co. of East Chicago for construction and installation of the cookers at a cost of $98,300. The Johns-Manville Co. of Indianapolis was awarded a $4480 contract for insulation of the tank. Sanitation Superintendent Donald Bloedgood said all 32 of the cook-
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The board authorized a $105,000 | bond issue to pay for the rehabilitation project.
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PRICES ON HOGS
Lbs. Bring $14.50 Top; 8025 Received.
Prices on most hogs advhhced 25 cents at the Indianapolis stockyards today, the food distribution administration reported. Hogs weighing less than 160 pounds were 15 cents higher. The top for 200-225 porkers was $14.50. Receipts included 8025 hogs, 925 cattle, 450 calves and 1175 sheep.
HOGS (3025) pounds $13.00@ 14. pounds ..........u0n 13.75@ 14. pounds ... 14.40@ 14.45 pounds ...
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Packing Sows Good to choice— 270- 300 pounds ..... TRL A [email protected] 300- 330 pounds [email protected] 330- 360 pounds .. [email protected] 360- 400 pounds [email protected]
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Medium and Good— 3b- 120 pounds ............. [email protected]
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Steers Choice . 700- 900 pounds [email protected] 16.25@ 17.00 [email protected]
1100-1300 pounds 25@1T. [email protected]
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Good— 700- 900 pounds [email protected] 900-1100 pounds .....resv0..s 15.00 @16.25 1100-1300 pounds [email protected] 1300-1500 pounds [email protected] Medium— 700-1100 pounds ....eseevunes [email protected] 1100-1300 pounds [email protected]
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Cholce— 600- 800 pounds 800-1000 pounds Good— 600- 800 pounds 800-1000 pounds Medium— 500- 900 pounds .... Common— 500- 900
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GRAINS IRREGULAR ON BOARD OF TRADE
CHICAGO, May 12 (U. P). — Grain futures developed a narrowly irregular trend on the Board of Trade today. At the end of the first hour wheat was unchanged to up % cent a bushel; corn unchanged at OPA levels; oats up % to off 3%, and rye unchanged to up %. Wheat opened weaker under scattered commission house selling influenced by better weather conditions in the Southwest.
CANCEL FURNITURE SHOW NEW YORK, May 12 (U. P.).— The New York Furniture Exchange has cancelled the summer market scheduled from June 7 to 11 in line with the office of defense transportation’s request that all furniture shows be abandoned, it was disclosed yesterday.
FLOOD PERILS WATER SUPPLY
PT. SMITH, Ark, May 12 (U. P). —This city of 40,000 faced a water
Lambs (Shoin)
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| ieaders | objective the attainment of high | | post-war levels of productivity and
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businessman today. He pre-| sided yesterday at an organization meeting of 35 Indiana chairmen of the committee
for economic development, of which he is the regional chairman. Joe Cain is committee chairman in Indianapolis. “It is through an organization | like the C. E. D.,” he explained, “that ‘in each community the businessmen may co-operate on study and research to develop a post-war environment favorable to construetive business activities.” In his address to the Rotarians, | Mr. Ruthenburg described the com-| mittee as an “independent, private, | non-profit organization of business] which has for its single]
employment.” We must plan now {or the peace, he emphasized, condemning as| “short-sighted” those who contend we must concentrate all of our energies toward winning the war to! the exclusion of the problems of
the peace to follow. Americans Unprepared
“It will profit us little,” Mr. Ruthenburg said, “to win this second phase of the world war if thereafter this country shall degenerate
into state socialism, fascism or any | other ideclogy under which the Bill | of Rights will be abrogated.” | America did not prepare for war|
during that time of truce which]
4 most of us thought was a time of |
peace, and that, Mr. Ruthenburg| said, probably “was the most costly mistake in the world’s history.”| We must, in this time of war, prepare for peace, he explained. For these reasons, Mr. Ruthenburg explained, the C. E. D. was organized since the “high levels of employment and productivity are the essential elements for preserving our traditional American freedooms. Its| program is: 1. To stimulate and help individual business managements to plan constructively for these obJectives; 2. To enlist all favorable forces! toward the development of a favorable post-war environment.
LOCAL ISSUES
Nominal quotations furnished by Indl anapolis securities dealers. Bid Asked Agents Fin Corp com ™m ... Agen pid .... 20 Belt Yds com 42 Belt Stk Yds 6% pfd 53 Bobbs-Merrill com Bobhs-Merrill 4% 9% pfd Circle Theater com Comwlth Loan 5% Hook Diu Cb com Home T&T Ft Wayne
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g fon le ik pid. .“ an Camp y . Van Camp Ni COM uae Bonds Algers Wins'w W RR ¢%%... 90 American Loan 5s 3 American Loan 5s ¢& Oh of Com B So es Bl... 0 Ne Citizens Ind Tel 4%s 61 103 Consol
Rafivays Ay 2 Sen d ter $s mj Fobomo Water Works os 58 nis uhner Packing Co 4%s 49 ... 101 Morris 5&10 mn Muncie ter .b N Ind Pub Serv 109 N Ind Tel 4%s 80 Pub Serv of Ind 4s 60 107% ub Tel 46s 58 101 I'rac Term Corp 58 § 82% U. S. Machine Corp. 58 52 100 sEx-dividend.
LOCAL PRODUCE
Heavy breed hens, 24'%c; Leghorn hens,
C. Broilers, fryers: and roasters, under 5 bs., 27%ec. old r
oosters, 16¢. Eggs—Current receipts, 54 Ibs. and up,
iC. Graded s-—Grade A large, 36c; grade A medium, 34c; grade A small, 25¢; no
de, 30c, OB utter—No. 1, 50e. Butterfat—No. 1,
Mr. Ruthenburg, president of the Servel, Inc., said this post-war planning is the biggest single job of the individual
NLRB RULES OUT MANAGER UNION
Ruling Holds Supervisory Employees Cannot Form
Labor Organization.
WASHINGTON, May 12 (U. P). —In a two-to-one decision, the national labor relations board teday ruled that supervisory emsployees cannot form labor unions to bargain collectively begause it might disrupt managerial and pro= duction techniques and have a 40 ercive effect on employees. The action in the case of Maryland Drydock Co. of Baltimore overruled the board's earlier decision in the Union Collieries case, decided June 15, 1942, Inclusion of supervisors in labor unions is a contract demand of John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers, Board Members Gerard D. Reilly and John M. Houston signed a majority opinion dismissing a C. I. O. petition which sought to represent temporary supervisors, working leaders and leaders in the same unit or in separate units, Dissenting Member Harry A. Millis, chairman, objected to ‘the position taken by the majority that petitions for 'foremen’s mits will not be acted on by the board.
DEALERS PROTEST PRICE VIOLATIONS
NEW YORK, May 12 (U. P).— Dispute over price regulations today closed 250 poultry stores in New York City and caused New Jersey fishermen to dump hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh whiting back into the ocean. Poultry dealers, organized as the Chicken Dealers of the Lower East Side, closed doors in a strike against what they described as excessive demands by operators. They charged that some operators were offering poultry at 5 cents a pound above OPA ceiling prices. Edward Irwin, supervisor of the fishery council, disclosed that New Jersey fishermen were dumping fresh whiting because New York dealers refused to handle the fish under the ceiling of 5 cents a pound,
TO ATTEND MEETING
Fermor 8. Cannon, president of the Railroadmen’s Federal Savings & Loan association of Indianapolis, will attend the first 1943 meeting of the executive council of the United States Savings and Loan league to be held Friday in Chicago.
A number of the more impor tant factors influencing the improvement in railroad securitles are discussed in a current memorandum which is avail able at this office on request.
THOMSON &s McKINNON Members of New York Stock and or Principal Exchanges 5 East Market Street Tndianapolis, Tod. Telephone Market 3501
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