Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1943 — Page 27
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‘Local Bridgeport Brass Co.’s Mill,
By ROGER RUDROW In a little over a year since beginning operations, the new Bridge: port Brass erdnance works here hag rid itself of mest of the “bugs” inherent in new projeets and has exceeded expected production so mueh that it wil he presented the army-navy “BE” Monday. The big plant near Stout field has proved itself the world’s mest
-After being “cooked” in this electric induetion furnace about an ; hour, the molten brass is poured inte a water cooled mold, later to be
rolled into thinner slabs.
WASTE CHARGED IN BUILDING OF PLANT
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 10 (U. P).—The Truman senate 'investigating committee today studied charges that ‘improper management” was responsible for the wasting of large sums of government money during the construction of the Sunflower Ordnance plant last fall. ( William J. Ryan, Bolivar, Mo., a ormer inspector at the plant, testi“Ped yesterday that money was wasted sthrough . faultily constructed buildings, discarded truckloads of dumber and management-caused loafing and drunkenness among the gonstruction employees. Ryan charged "that slate "and frozen clods of earth were poured ntot he tement used by the huilders. Loosened walls gave way, he said, and had to be rebuilt at added government, expense.
S. H. Kress 5 months ended May 31 sales $46,068,680 vs. $40,192,636 year ago, up 14.6 per cent.
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Ration Banking Rules Revised
WASHINGTON, June 10 (U. P.).—In a move to lighten detail work involved in banking ration coupons, the OPA has revised methods with which commercial banks will verify ration coupon deposits. The OPA ruled that hanks need verify but 3 per cent ef stamps on deposit for the present time and authorized them to destroy stamps and coupons now in their hands. Bankers had protested to the OPA that its rule that stamps be placed in two envelopes, one to contain 2000 and the other 5000, placed too much. work on their ‘staffs.
UNDERWRITERS TO MEET
Adrian E. Wilhoite, a legal associate of George 8. Olive & Co., will address the Indianapolis chapter of Chartered Life Underwriters at a
guest luncheon meeting tomorrow in the Columbia club.
modern brass mill, the industry concedes. It not enly has taught new skills to Hoesiers who never saw the inside of a brass mill before but it has supplied raw materials for many other cartridge makers as well as for its awn fabricating plant here. : It is net possible, for seeurity reasons, to tell just what the mill's productien is, but it is turning eut from 25 te 30 per eent more brass than engineers thought it would. This is due te the efficiency of new equipment and te the fact that the workers have eaught on quickly te the business. j vir,
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THE BRASS MILL here actually had its origin baek in 1840 when a survey disclosed that, sheuld this country ge te war, there weuld be a shortage of brass shell case fagilities unless g big expansion were undertaken. Five new mills were ordered hy the government and Bridgeport Brass Co. of Bridgeport, Conn. decided to build its mill in Indianapelis. The factors in faver ef locating here were the laber supply, pewer, water and fuel. A contragt signed with the government, which paid for the 13-million-dollar plant, and a year later the first bar of brass was
. cast. That was a little gver a year ago, At that time, during dedication ceremenies, a “mited Open hase”
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was held. Then there were eight of the electric induetion furnaces in operation. Today there are 2% of them going. s wow §. 8 AT THAT TIME there were. about one-third as many emplayees as there are now. .Apd ene large part of the plant was virtually empty, awaiting more machinery. Naw it is filled and going strong. To me the casting department is still the mest interesting.
Brass, you know, is an dlloy made by melting together red ecepper
(much of it from Chile) and silyer white zinc. About 1800 pounds ef this including scrap. or trimmings from shell cases made at the plant, are dumped inte the electric furnaces where it “oocoks” abeut an hour. . “They cook a little different,” one of the casters said. “Each furnace is supposed to be like the others but there are small differences and that's we it iakes more time or less time for each eharge to cook." FR THIS IS Where SKILL is really needed. of eourse, the temperature of the charge can be determined with a pyrometer but there are some casters whe elaim that they can tell the temperature better than with the pyrometer. And it’s not an eagy job to lak at the molten metal, which is simmering at from 2050 degrees Fahrenheit to 2150 degrees. and know within a few degrees just what the temperature is. Yet, that has te be done. These casters take g skimmer and push it aver the liquid brass and by the looks of it, knows just when te pour the whitish yellow liquid into the water cooled molds. The brass being made now is cartridge brass, 70 per cent copper and 30 per cent zinc and of the highest purity obtainable because it must be dependable and still ductile to stand the cupping, drawing
and heading that pulls it into the shape to hold a bullet. The casters will have a lot more to learn when the war is over and the company
returns to making a wide variety of peacetirle products requiring some 250 different elasses of metal. %
Several ather changes have heen made in the last year. Par instance, dry soap is:new used as a lubricant when the flat slugs of brags
are stamped inte shell cage form. It was found that soap not only did the job but was easy on the machinery, too. : $F & 8 : # x = ABOUT ONE-FOURTH of the employees are women and in the fabricating plant this prepertion is about 50 per cent. And they're using 16 and. 17-year-ald boys in certain jobs that are net regarded as top strenuous. And then there is the salvage division where defects of rejected shell cases are taken off. That brings the rejection rate down to aroynd one-tenth of one per cent. ‘Lately, some war plants, such as the tank manufacturers, have had their orders curtailed but not so with Bridgeport Brass. The demand is still terrific. Fhis can be seen at the cupping presses where one slab of rolled brass is slipped in right on the heels of one being finished sp that the machine runs at 98 to 99 per cent of capacity during the 24 hours, Actually, it is running af more than “capacity” because despite the fractional loss of time in putting in new sheets, the machine is more productive than expected at first. And now, with brass shell cases going out hy the carload, the plant is experimenting with steel shell cases which the army is
Using because of the hres Shartage. /
HEAR PLEAS IN WAR FRAUD CASE
Anaconda to Plead Nolo Contendere: Today at Ft. Wayne.
FT. WAYNE, Ind, June 10 (U. P.).—Formal pleas of nono centendere were tp be made today befere Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick, leaving to the mercy of the U. S. district court the disposition of the $5,000,000 war frauds case against the Marion plant of the Anacenda Wire & Cable Ca. and five individuals. The case was to have gone to trial last Tuesday, but was canceiled Ly Judge Slick when the defense counsel made known their intentjons te enter pleas of nono coritendere,
employees were under an eightcount indictment, one charging conspiracy to commit an offense against the government and seven counts charging conspiraey to obtain payments and allowances through sale of alegedly defective communications wire for the armed forces and for lend-lease shipments through use of ingenious devices to deceive government inspectors. The U. S. supreme court takes cognizance that “for all practical purposes, the plea of nolo eentendere is one of guilt.” By placing themselves upon the mercy of the court the individual defendants are subject to a maxi- |G mum penalty of $10,000 fine, 10 years imprisonment, or beth. Besides Anaconda, defendants named in the indictment were Thor 8S. Johnson of Hastings-on-Hudsen,
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conda plants; Frank E. Hart, general manager of the Marion plant; Don R. Carpenter, formér siiperintendent of the Marion plant; Chalmer C. Bishop, ehief inspector, and Frank Kunkle, former assistant chief inspector.
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Porker Prices Up 15 to 25 Cents at Stockyards Here
‘ The hog market was active at the Indianapolis stockyards today, with porkers bringing prices 15 ta 26 cents higher than yesterday's market, the food distribution administration reperted. The pragtical top for 280-ta-225 pound hogs was $14. A few chaice 3%0- 270 pounders brought
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G0, BLAMED FOR WORK STOPPAGE
Republic’s Failure to Mine Coal Caused Shutdown,
Ickes Charges.
WASHINGTON, June 10 (U.P.).— Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes charged yesterday that the shut down ef one of Republic Steel Corp.’s blast furnaces at Birmingham, Ala. was ‘the result of the company’s failure tp mine coal when it had a chance to do se and to iv 7% pfd. 51%... maintain stock piles when coal was pid 9 \... |available. Ickes instructed the carporation to operate its Alabama coal mines at a |full capagity en a six-day week basis until it has at least 60 days’ coal in storage. Ickes said in a telegram to C. M. White, Oleveland, ©., Republie’s vice president, that the “deplerable situation was brought about because *!the company’s codl mines worked hy five days a week in Alabama, and the corperation's subsequent refusal to ga on a six-day week until foreed to do so by his arder of May 4. “The shutting down of ene of your Birmingham blast furnaces was the direet result of your failure te mine coal when you had opportunity to do so, and to maintain stock piles when coal was - available,” Ickes 3 wired White. ‘108 Icke’s order was a reply to a tele+103 gram from White asserting that the . 98 9 corporation was being forced to shut S108 down one of its two Birmingham 8 blast furpaces because the coal sup|ply was enough for only five days at full operation. He said that the second furnace would have ta be banked in a day or twe. “Numerous strikes and upayther-| ized wgrk.stoppages at our so rn eoal hes this yest’ oe building: ‘up largey” coal stocks,” White said.
JACOBS TO SPEAK Whipple Jacebs, president eof the Belden Manufacturing Co. of Chicago and Richmond, will address the graduating class of the Richmond high scheel on “The Fifth
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U. 8, STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, June 10 (U. P.).—Gov-
une 8 comear Last Year 3:51. 840,066, $05 $29,078,440,201
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. 18,443,929,152 Cash Ralance- i 2 0,8 2 378 2,188,306,081 orking bal. 748,153.82
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EXPECT NEW AIR ROUTES BY JULY
Airlines ‘Await Approval by U. S. to Begin Flight Service.
a ‘ WASHINGTON, June 10 (U. P.).— Airline officials predicted today that
Got Your $1267
WASHINGTON, June 10 (U. P.).—Per capita money circulation in the United States stand at $186.23 an May 81 compared with $79.56 immediately preceding the United States entry inte the war. The treasury monthly stateATei13Uoul 9BY} PAMOYS JuAW circulation totaled a record high of $17,112,214,619 May 31 compared with $10,639,588,768 on Nev. 30, 1841.
service on newly . authoriged air
OATS FUTURES LEAD ON BOARD OF TRADE
roytes from here to western cities would start by the first or middle of July and thus help relieve transportation facilities. Final approval for the new schedules rests with the army and the civil aeronautics board, but the ajr-
CHICAGO, June 10 (U. P.).—Oats|lines believe the heavy trafic to and
maintained independent firmness on the Board eof Trade teday, July positfon climbing to the highest level since 1928, and other months reaching new season tops. At the end of the first hour wheat was off % to 9% cent a bushel; corn
from Washington will convinge the army of the necessity for the new routes. They said doZens and sometimes hundreds of passengers wanting air transportation are turned down daily at the natienal airpert and backlogs of airmail often pile
unchanged at OPA levels, oats up % to % to 3s.
% to 3% from the previous $1.45@ 1.45%, corn unchanged from $1.05, oats up 66%-12, and rye off 4 @3 from the previous 96%-1 cent,
GEORGE A. MILLER
up D vanscantinehtal & Western Air Ine., hope to establish twe inecemipg and two outgoing flights hetween Dayten, O., and Washington, whigh would provide thraugh service to the West coast. United Air Lines was granted a new route from Toledo, 0, to Washington. Officials said “probably” two incoming and two outgeing daily flights weauld be made.
In the July aptions wheat was off
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NAMED TREASURER
George A. Miller, vice president and treasurer of the Fletcher Joint Stock Land bank, yesterday was named treasurer of the Fletcher Trust Co. by the hoard of directors ta succeed Albert S. Johnson, who died in February following his election to the post last January,
DAILY PRICE INDEX
NEW YORK, June 10 (U. P).— Dun & Bradstreet's daily weighted price index of 30 basic commediiies, compiled for United Press (1930-32 average equals 100): Yesterday sr earyssv 170.40 Week 80 ....op0eveeiiraners 17186 Month 880. .veevecsvsrsevess 170.86 Year ago veeessve 15460 1943 High (April 2) ...,.0... 17240
Officials at Eastern Air Lines, which already comes in te Washington from the sputh, and was authoyized te extend its present route from Louisville to Washington, felt their problem was “somewhat different” and might not be acted upen for some time, possibly after the war.
Peabody Caal Co. and subsidiaries fiscal year ended April 30 net profit $1,910,587 or $14.10 on a 6 per cent share in Arr. vs. $927,763 or $6.85 previous. fiscal year.
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