Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1943 — Page 14
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BBUSINGS
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South Bend Group Warns Business
To Be
Decent To Customers Now
F—By ROGER BUDROW
USING THE WAR AS AN EXCUSE to palm off shoddy merchandise and shoddy service on the public will boomerang after the war and hurt concerns that now resort to
guch practices.
That is the frank warning of the South Bend Association of Commerce. Other business organizations also might well warn their members against biting the hand that]
feeds them. The Sout® Bend self-criticism was directly especially at laundries and eleaners but applies to anyone, for that matter. The text, I think, is worth reprinting. “Our laundries and cleaners today are erowded to capacity, many
manned by inex-|
perienced help. Under conditions
like these many|
accidents are bound to happen, lost articles, misplaced laundry Mr. Budrow and general minor damage. “Almost every customer of a laundry or cleaner realizes these things and is willing to be tolerant § and considerate. However, the number of laundry and cleaning ! complaints is increasing daily. “Surprisingly enough, many of ' the complaints are not damage, but actually lost and misplaced articles.
- The attitude of the laundries and
cleaners, in some cases, unfortunately, is ‘take it or leave it'—'if you don’t like the way we do your work, do it yourself’—or ‘we maintain an adjustment department, and if we do not think your adjustment justified, we will not grant it; and if you
don’t like it, we don’t want your]
. business anyway.’ =» “While some complaints are entirely unjustified, it is only good business sense to know that courtesy and consideration of the customer go a long way. Some of the laundry and cleaner personnel seem to think they are dealing with a bunch of morons who can be put off from month to month, whose laundry and cleaning can be lost,
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CRISIS IN TIRES EXPECTED SOON
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‘Non - Essential Motorists
| Facing Long Wait, Jeffers Warns.
WASHINGTON, May 17 (U. P). —Rubber Director Wiliam M. Jeffers reported today that 30,000,000 new tires will be produced in 1944 but that non-essential motorists cannot expect new tires for a long time. “The rubber problem,” he said in| his third progress report, “is a long | way toward solution, and we are jevery day nearer to the time when we can put the construction of i rubber plants, as a problem, behind | us. “In short, while the rubber program is not yet solved, it is in the best shape it has ever been.” He said that 30,000,000 new tires is the probable minimum replacement program that the country can |get by with next year and that this figure forecasts retention of present conservation measures, maintenance of present driving speeds and general recapping. 2-Year Supply on Hand
The rubber crisis, he said, will {come in the next four to six months, during which time most of the synthetic plants will have been built and turned over to operators “who will be held strictly account-
mutilated or damaged without any recourse.
able for performance.” “War gives no business the right Hie ughee or Ofte Sgn-nanded ol ae” notin the United States and Canada ive the 1 py {has a rated capacity of 850.000 long
SiS the Customer the HEN be | ons annually, or 79 per cent of the
rude ughigmperel " dealing | riginal recommendations made by
gh {the Baruch committee « 3 t 3 : i - Rn Ow Her ent All synthetic rubber plants will
pusiness—that is true—but the war] won’ then satis. be in production in 1944. Will proI ad forever Mw Dhen Sails | duce 750,000 long tons next year,
fied customers will be the ones who! ren it is ted that at least
ay the i. i 4 74000 tons of new crude exports a bed will be available. SUBSTITUTES give the South| ye ynited States-Canada rubBend business association another |,.. stockpile at the end of 1943 will ficcasion to eps its members, “The po 142,000 tons, or about 40,000 tons war has necessitated many substi-| . co the mimimum recommended tutes for evervday articles and the oo the Baruch committee. public has agreeably accepted these| “fy. country has two years’ sup-|
Spstitutes. {ply of scrap rubber for recapping.
“However, when a merchant sells N. Y. Stocks N
a substitute without telling the customer what he is buying, he is tak- | ing an unfair advantage. Informa-| | Allegh Co High Allied Chem .. 138'4
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tive practices pay dividends.” TWO INDIANA canning factories | Alc caer . .. 33% will change hands if the General 3D £20 oo Jo Foods Corp. offer to buy SniderjAm Roll Mill . 1% Packing Corp. goes through. Snider] Am ton B .... has plants at Marion and Fair-| 3m water Ww. mount, Ind, eight in New York Armour II .... state and one in Maine. | AY "Refining «ss BB Sa THE BATTLE GROUND state 25 Steel bank is liquidating, apparent’y be- |Bdgpt Brass .. cause I. Floyd Garrott, majority |Comw & So ... owner, believes it isn’t a profitable | Cons Bh capital investment. {Corn Prod .... Note—The bank is being ligui- |SurUSGNT A--- 35 dated under a new law passed by | Douglgs Airc ... the legislature, introduced and |Eiec Auto. ... sponsored by Mr. Garrott, a state | Gen pagal Bh... senator, member of the budget |Gen Milis pf... committee, large land owner and |Soodvear part owner of three banks. i Hud Bag M & 8 = = = ODDS AND ENDS—General Motors has used only 100 million dollars of its billion-dollar credit with the banks and has paid back 50] million of that. , . . Federal reserve] board is revising its index to reflect war changes. . . . Homer Capehart|yoias Sheet. 3 has put out a 16-page slick paper Zenith Rad ... brochure full of pictures of the “E” award ceremonies at his Pack-| ard Manufacturing Co. here (he is| shown in 13 pictures). . . . Peru, | Ind, Trust Co. is limiting savings] accounts to $1000, pays 1 per cent) interest. ‘ Frank McKinney, president (on leave) of Fidelity Trust Co. Indianapolis, is a lieuten-| Incorporations ant colonel now. He is in charge of| geocier co. me. army loans to war contractors in bldg, Indianapolis; | same address; 500
1048 Consolidated agent, Sam Wides, shares without par
the New York area. { value; real estate and construction busi-|
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URGES U, S POWER ipar value; real estate and construction business; Sam Wides, Louis Wides, Jack B. Kammins. Atlas Development Co., Inc., 1048 Coni solidated bldg. Indianapolis; agent Sam
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| Wides, s ddress; 500 sh WASHINGTON, May 17 (U. P). [ value: real estate and constuction bus~The house appropriations commit- | R55; Sam ides. Louis Wides, Jack B. tee, recommending $72861,316 of a| Brice Building Co, me, Alabama cor383,188.57 aprontiation requested by Sach thop. | Southern Ralivay Co. a nterior eparimsan or , | Princeton, . Rural Natural “% . today urged the war production tion: ‘admitted ne prospect board to reconsider its stop-work|for oi and gas Lewis-Shepard Sales Corp, order on 23 reclamation projects de- Corporations 2 change Sof Rame or rh signed to swell food and electric: STRAT FRAE GRE 4h Mefehante power supplies. | bank bide. Indianapolis. nd It asked a reinvestigation of the RN" iacration: Eha jane, Delaporation; cha of : & need for resuming work on irriga- Jacob Saha 1511 Merchants "bank bidg., In a 1 tion and Power eojetts in en Cabital city Cleaners, Inc, Indianstates, whic nterior Secretary s; dissolution. mm, m and Timm, Inc, R. R., Harold I. Ickes says may be the aedaryville; agent, David J. Timm, ir ghiet means of averting serous 1% 11 oma, alisha tages on the Pacific coast. ; David J. Timm, Anna Timm The orders, it said, have involved chine ry Co a serivus delay in the development edit 2 i. #. Shelbyville; solution. "of 8T7500 Se Oe es sal registration oof trade mark, “Botany, 1 acres existing n ‘or | class 33; clothing. - | 2,085,000 Zitterell-Wills Co, Towa etorporation: swhich a supplemental water supply admitted to Indiana to eheage. in ton: 3 8 ction work. is needed. Squadron 527-1 Civil Air Patrol, Inc. AN APPOINTED |heizer. George. EB. Deyan William: M. Ew N ty f the Hylton, Walter L. Stace, win J. . Springer, secretary 0 ckett. Frankfort Distiller} ne., Louis Atking Savings & Loan association | gy \ registration of ad b Creek. Oscal r, ‘of Indianapolis has been, appointed | Bus Mu Ola Velvet Broad Rivnie : al | Gallant Knight, cl So Rictiled spirits
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little pigs,” American agriculture abundance instead of scarcity.
crop curtailment. Only last week on corn and wheat, and they have » » =»
fans. Richard K. Law, parliamentary
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tons of iron ore is now in hand.
HOG PRICES UP 25 GENTS HERE
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Top Advances to $14.60 as. 8075 Porkers Arrive At Stockyards.
A 25-cent advance in all weights was made in the hog market at
the Indianapolis stockyards today, the food distribution administration reported. The top rose to $1460 for good to choice 200 to 225-pounders. Receipts included 8075 hogs, 1525 cattle, 500 calves and 150 sheep.
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A. F. OF L. MEETS FOR POLICY DISCUSSIONS
WASHINGTON, May 17 (U. P). —The executive board of the American Federation of Labor meets to‘day to bring its wartime policies lup to date and to determine its stand on the administration’s economic stabilization program. The A. F. of IL. leaders are expected to join the Congress of Industrial Organizations in demanding still greater powers for the war labor board and more effective price contral.
U.S. STATEMENT WASHINGTON, May 17 (U. P). vernment expenses and fo! current fiscal year through y 14 compared with a year ago: Expenses ... $63,721 ho $25.00 § Son 376 Wear spending mati dae sd mI Net. efieit 'o: 2.0301 3.083 12 1181983 Seth Piet. Hanis 3 \
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U.S. Drops Crop
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
million of more acres will be re-
turned to production of major crops this year due to the lifting of AAA restrictions, the agricultural department estimated today. Thus U. S. delegates to the international food conference at Hot Springs, Va., can report that for the first time since the “killing of the
has returned to an economy of
A second year of global warfare and the necessity of feeding armjes, allies and conquered nations finally forced the abandonment of
were the acreage restrictions lifted not yet been taken off cotton. 2 ” .
EVEN SO. THERE will be no “abundance” of foodstuffs for civil-
undersecretary of state and chair-
| man of the united kingdom delegation to the food conference, has suggested that this sharing should continue in the past-war world. If so, agricultural abundance in the U. 8. A. still might be accompanied by scarcity and rationing for Americans.
Iron Ore Moves Again as Ice Blockade on Lakes Is Broken
W. LOVE
Times Special Writer CLEVELAND, May 17.—The Arctic came down to sabotage our war production this year, but the blockade of its bergs and floes on the upper lakes has been overcome at last. A month later than a couple of weeks late by normal schedule, the task of moving 91,000,000
in 1042,
The deficit in tonnage as compared with last year reached 7,000,000
tons and may go a little higher. Only the construction last year and this of government and private lake carriers, capable of moving 5,000,000
tons in a season, enables the ore]
STATE WHEAT
ns in trade to catch up. After more than two weeks of the hardest work in her history, the famous car ferry Ste. Marie, queen of the icebreakers, has been released from government charter and will be hauling railroad cars again on the straits of Mackinac. The Ste. Marie was locked through the Soo canal April 20 to thresh channels up and down through Whitefish bay. The lakers are moving through the straits this week at normal elip.
Russians Copied Method
The Ste. Marie is the vessel which rushed up to clear a channel for the grain fieet caught at Ft. William and Port Arthur in the autumn of 1926, and rescued 247 vessels caught in the ice. Her wide beam, her spoonshaped bow, her two propellers and her power make her more generally useful than the specialized icebreakers of the lakes, though these latters were copied years ago by the Russians to keep open the ports of Murmansk and Archangel. This year the pressure for iron ore made it necessary to tempt the weather far earlier than a purely commercial fieet would risk it. If these were peace times the lakes would not yet be disturbed by ore and coal carriers.
Difficulties in Last War
The same difficulties, or worse ones, occurred in the last war. Lake Superior harbors were choked with ice all through May, 1917. A heavy snowstorm covered the Soo on May 23. A gale packed the ice against 17 freighters in Duluth harbor the first week in June. Icebergs, with bellies 70 feet below water, were reported at Whitefish bay the middle of June. So there may be more troubles even yet this spring. Perhaps the war production board took the delays from weather into account in scaling down the season’s target of ore movement first from 95,000,000 tons to 94,000,000, and last week to 91,000,000.
Less Steel Needed
Primarily, though, the WPB based its recalculations upon the presence of the ore piles still at all the southern ports and the mills, the prospect that industry will need less steel this year than it had expected a year ago, and the inability of many of the blast furnaces to keep going longer without shutting down and relining. Even with all this, however, the
oo| task confronting the fleets is os
great as it was last year. The lateness of the season shortens the time on the spring end of the calendar and there is no assurance next autumn will be as favorable as last autumn was. (The great storm of 1913 began Nov. 8). Hence the movement of ore and coal is being concentrated into fewer weeks. The assignment per day is 400,000 tons or ore alone, and over 1,000,000 tons a day of everything, ore, coal, limestone, oil and wheat. No other route on the world’s great production lines will begin to approach the daily tonnage of the lakes this year.
CONSOLIDATION COAL WILL RECAPITALIZE
NEW YORK, May 17 (U, P)— Stockholders of Consolidation Coal Co. will meet on June 10 to vote on a recapitalimtion plan for the company, it was disclosed today. Under the plan, each share of currently outstanding 5 per cent non-cumulative preferred stock of $100 par value wili be reclassified into one share of $250 cumulative preferred of $50 par value and two shares of common stock of $25 par value.
JOINS NATIONAL CAN CORP.
Arthur G. Hopkins, vice president of Canonsburg Steel and fron Works and Tate Jones Furnace Co, has been elected executive vice president of the National Can Corp. in charge of the engineering and manufacturing die visions.
DENNY TO SPEAK
Robert H. Denny, superintendent of agencies of the State Mutual Life Assurance Co. will address the Indianapolis Association of Life Underwriters at a luncheon meeting in the Lincoln Hotel Thursday.
LOCAL PRODUCE Heavy breed hens, 24%e; Leghorn hens,
2c fryers and roasters, under § bs, 27 old 16e. Eggs—Current receipts, 54 Ibs. and up,
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Speaking of post-war planning Mr, Law said: \
at his first press conference here,
“I hope that the food conference will accept the principle that during this period there must be co-ordinated production, procurement, storage, allocation and transportation of foods and agricultural
products. ” ” s
“THIS WILL INVOLVE, no doubt, further sacrifices on the part of
thosa peoples which have been less
immediately affected by the course
of the war. But I do not believe that any of our peoples will regard these sacrifices as unbearable when they are related to the sufferings
of the occupied territories.”
Orders lifting the corn and wheat acreage restrictions were signed by Grover B. Hill, acting secretary of agriculture,
Here is how the corn order starts out: “Whereas, during the present emergency it is necessary to utilize
in the most effective manner the production in order to provide for
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In Tons. One Flying Fortress Weighs 32 Tons
Re
1941 | 43,500 Tons
1942 145,500 Tons
455,500 Tons
soil, labor, and other facilities of the production of food and fibers
sufficient to maintain normal domestic consumption . . . and
U.S. WARPLANE PRODUCTION
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1943
1944 708,500 Tons
Figures revealed by President Roosevelt show amazing growth and predicted goal of America’s warplane production.
CROP IS SMALL
Acreage Declines But Yield Will Be 15.5 Bushels,
Purdue Reports.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 17 (U. P.).—The second smallest crop of winter wheat harvested in Indiana since records were started in 1866— 992,000 acres—is expected to yield a crop of 15376000 bushels, Purdue university’s department of agricultural statistics reported today. The yield will be 12 per cent more than the 1942 harvest, but only about one-half of the 10-year average from 1932 to 1941, the Purdue statisticians said. The 992,000-acre yield this year will come from 1,067,000 acres seeded
last fall, with the yield per acre] expected to be 15.5 bushels, as com- | pared with 12.5 last year and an| average of 17.5. Rye production was forecast at 1,332,000 bushels, about two-thirds of last year’s crops and 15 per cent less than average. This drop is attributed to a reduction in the acreage from 114000 in 1942 to 111,000 this year. Hay and pasture condition on May 1 was reported at 75 and 74 per cent of normal, respectively, about two points below average.
U, S. PRODUCTION | IS ON SCHEDULE
WASHINGTON, May 17 (U. P) — WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson today assured America and her allies that President Roosevelt’s huge but undisclosed 1943 munitions goals would be fully achieved and in some instances exceeded by a comfortable margin, The entire picture now is good and there is every indication that it will improve, he said in an interview. He warned, however, against letting allied triumphs lull the nation into false complacency. “On all important categories we are up to and ahead of schedule,” he said. “The one exception is the number of airplanes being turned out, but in this the question is not one of numbers. It is a question of what kinds of planes are needed and in what numbers to meet conditions arising from the fluidity of war.”
BUYS REFRACTORY AT LOS ANGELES
PHILADELPHIA, May 17 (U. P). —The General Refractories Co. of Philadelphia announced today purchase of the Refractories Corp. of Los Angeles. The company said the acquisition would cause no new financing and that the West coast plant began
operation under its new owner Sat- |X
urday. It will be used as a warehouse and distribution center as well as a manufacturing plant.
Co General Refractories Co, which now operates 23 plants, is the sec- BR
ond largest refractories manufacturer in the United States.
WAGON WHEAT
Up to the close of the Chicago market today, Indianapolis flour mills and grain elevators paid $1.51 per bushel for No. 1 red wheat (other des on their merits), y oa and No. 2 red ca liow shelled corn, 87c per
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Not Necessary
Dealers who require new car buyers to agree to turn in used cars as part payment or to purchase unwanted accessories are violating provisions of the price schedule on new automobiles, the OPA warned today. Reports that some dealers, who have 1042 cars on hand which are part of the nation’s small and important stockpile of cars, were imposing such restrictions have reached OPA and are being investigated.
GIVES METHOD FOR SUGAR ALLOWANCE
Retailers who take in the new “sugar allowance coupons” issued to consumers—for obtaining sugar for home canning — today were instructed by the OPA to place these coupons into envelopes before depositing them or passing them along to suppliers. Separate envelopes are to be used for coupons of each denomination 1, 3, 5 and 10 pounds, except that sugar stamps from war ration book one may be included with coupons of the same weight value. Not more than 500 coupons and stamps may be put into one envelope. Retailers are further instructed to write the words “sugar allownee” in box “A” on the front of the envelope, in the space provided for stating the type of stamp enclosed. Depositors will list envelopes containing these coupons in the “stamp” column on the deposit slip, if sufficient space is available. Otherwise each envelope may be listed individually below this column. Sugar allowance coupons will be valid for consumers from the date of issuance to Feb. 29, 1944; for the trade, until March 31, 1944; for deposit, until April 10, 1944,
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$0c; wo bushel, and No. 2 white shelled corn, $1.18.
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acreage allotments heretofore proclaimed will limit the incentive to produce in areas on farms where an acreage of corn larger than the corn acreage allotment can be grown more economically than other crops, thereby discouraging the production of corn in amounts sufe ficient to maintain normal domestic consumption during the present
national emergency,” ete.
The order winds up by lifting the AAA restrictions.
However, the.
soil-conservation and domestic-allotment features remain in effect. So the AAA organization remains intact and government checks still will augment the farmers’ income, which last year was the highest in history and is expected to be exceeded in 1943 if there is no crop
failure.
In addition, some specially needed wartime crops are given subsidy payments. Government money also is to be given to all farms making
90 per cent of their wartime crop goals.
ferred to as “AAA in reverse.”
This latter feature is re-
Where the farmer used to be paid for not planting he now will be
paid for increased production.
HINTS SCANDAL IN MINE FUNDS
Jensen Says ‘Some Power’ Stopped Ickes From
Making Loans.
WASHINGTON, May 17 (U.P.).— An “awful scandal,” involving strategic war materials and “a power greater than” Reconstruction FiCorp. Administrator Jesse
Jensen (R. Ia.) during hearings before a house appropriations subcom- |
| mittee. Testimony of the hearings) was made public today,
Jensen made the statement as Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes was testifying in support of his request for $82,188,567 to carry on the functions of the interior department during 1044, Jensen charged that government funds required by private companies in Arizona and New Mexico for the development of strategic metal deposits have been blocked, adding: “I am talking a little plainer than some folks would like to hear me talk. There is some great power stopping Jesse Jones from letting these companies have this money, which is greatly needed and which they cannot operate without because naturally it is dangerous business to go in and develop these mines. “It has been proven that the metal is there by government geologists and metallurgists, but yet something is stopping them, and they have been stopped for the past two years or more.” “I know that,” Ickes replied, Jensen urged Ickes to “take hold of the matter,” warning that if something isn't done “there is going to be an awful scandal one of these days and somebody's hide is going to hang on the fence.” “Well, it will not be mine,” Ickes replied,
PURDUE DEAN TO SPEAK
Dean A. A. Potter of the Engineering school at Purdue university will address the Central section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on “The American Patent System” at 8 p. m, Friday in the Indianapolis Athletic club. A dinner, at 6:30 p. m., will pre
cede the meeting.
Oats Futures Up In Chicago Trade
CHICAGO, May 17 (U, P)), == Oats futures maintained a steady to firm trend on the Board of Trade today, countering the easier tone of wheat and rye. At the end of the first hour, wheat was off 5 to 4 cent a bushel, corn was unchanged as OPA levels; oats unchanged to up 3%, and rye off sx to 4. The oats market displayed ine dependent strength under buying of a fair quantity of grain by a leading commission louse. The trade believed demand was stimue lated also by unfavorable weather for corn planting.
CRITICIZES JUDGES IN ‘HOT OIL’ GASES
WASHINGTON, May 17 (U.P. == Government officials have been une able to stamp out the “hot ofl” traf« fic in western fields because federal judges are reluctant to send viola= tors to jail, according to administra« tors of the interior department. The allegation was made in hears ings before a house appropriations subcommittee on the interior de« partment’s appropriation for 1044, J. W. Steele, acting director of the department's petroleum conserva tion division, told the committes that fines imposed by the Judges run as low as six-tenths of 1 cent per barrel on stolen oll. “Do you mean to say,” asked Rep. Jed Johnson (D, Okla.), “That we have federal judges, who are sworn to obey and uphold the law, and personally do not believe in the law and are not co-operating to the extent that they are impeding law enforcement?” “That is a serious charge to make, but I do make it,” Steele answered, “It is possible to impose a jail sentence or a fine under the Connally act (forbidding the interstate shipe ment of contraband oil).”
DAILY PRICE INDEX
NEW YORK, May 17 (U. P.).—
Dun & Bradstreet's daily weighted
price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press (1930-32 average equals 100): Saturday 170.70 Week ABO svievieeresisnisee 171.38 Month ABO «iievveerenrnnies 17141 Year Ago sesssses 156.62 1943 High (April 2) .e.eevee 172.40 1943 Low (Jan. 2)
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