Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1943 — Page 15
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Airplanes Carried All Supplies For Two Dams Built in Canada
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i ROGER BUDROW
THE AIR POWER BOYS ARE RIDING HIGH at the moment because of the collapse under constant bombing of
Pantelleria and Lampedusa.
There is another story of the power of airplanes which didn’t make the front pages but still is a good story. It is the building of two dams in Canada in spots that were inaccessible to anything ‘but airplanes. ‘hauled all the materials to build those dams.
More than 8 million pounds of .gonstruction equipment, supplies, en and even live animals had to be carried by air freight. Among the things moved were a diesel shovel, bulldozers, a saw mill, tractors, cement, dynamite, gasoline and fuel oil, canoes, a 1600pound motorboat, six horses, four oxen and a Cow for fresh milk Mr. Budrow 4 she later went dry on them.) (The work was . Shipshaw waterpower project {Br the Aluminum Co. of Canada gnd those 4000 tons were moved in 14 months by only nine airplanes and most of them veterans. Pilots had to know every bend in the river so they could “set down” in a safe place if necessary. The record haul for one day was 29 tons by six planes in 24 trips. Average loading time, except for difficult pieces, was 15 minutes, Planes flew less than 100 miles per hour usually. . Summer flying was harder than winter when planes were equipped with skis. This was because loads ‘Had to be smaller and landings on the river or lakes were hazardous because water : levels varied from week to week. * It was hard to come to any accurate figure on pound and tonmile costs but the contract rate was about 7 cents a pound and figured out at about 19 cents per ton-mile. ” ” ” wi . TIME MAGAZINE and the Indiang State Chamber of Commerce don’t agree on the description of the Committee for Economic Development. Time says the “C. E. D. is Big Business’s biggest attempt yet to take the lead away from government in post-war planning.” The Chamber of Commerce agrees with all that except the “big” part and cites Paul G. Hoffman, C. E.D. chairman and head of Studebaker, ‘as saying that unless “little” busi- . ~“pess can be born and thrive, private “big” business is washed up. ” ” ”
AT LEAST TWO downtbwn department stores have “put up the ropes” in the shoe departments as the deadline rush for coupon . 17 swamped them. ! Not only does this save harried ‘“ clerks some trouble but it keeps out those whose stamps are detached from ration books. At 2 p. m. Saturday, one store had turned away about 250 with detached coupons. ; ” ” 2 ODDS AND ENDS: Santa Fe railroad says that much of this , year’s wheat crop will have to be stored on the ground because elevators are so full of old grain and no cars have been accumulated to handle the new grain. . . . Phelps Dodge Copper Co. is going into the aluminum and magnesium business. . + . Conference board queried 148 companies, found that half of them|A
are paying double wages instead of| am
giving vacations this year. . .
m The Curtiss-Wright propeller plant A
here has decided on vacations for workers. . . . Despite the flood, railroads hauled more freight than the pre-flood weeks.
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“IT'S THE TOPS,” said Mr. I Marrot the other day when he called to “kill” his ‘Room for " Rent” ad that had appeared dn ' ‘The Times just one day. Many other Want Ad users feel this same way about’ the effectiveness of The Times because of their expe-
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COSTS ADDED IN ANACONDA CASE
Copper Firm Fined $10,000 On War Fraud Charge
At Marion.
FT. WAYNE, Ind., June 14 (U. P.) —Court costs which. were added
to the $10,000 fine imposed on the Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. Saturday, today were estimated at “several thousand dollars.” District Attorney Alex M. Campbell, who directed the government’s $5,000,000 case alleging war frauds against the Marion, Ind., plant, two officials and three individuals, said he believed court costs “will be nearly $10,000.” Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick of the northern Indiana U. S. district court fined the company at conclusion ‘of the three-day nolo contendere = proceedings during which both the government and the defense counsel presented testimony that would have been used had the case gone to trial.
Five Officials Fined
In addition to the maximum fine handed the company, the five individuals indicted in conjunction with the Marion plant received the following penalties: Thor S. Johnson of Hastings On-Hudson, N. Y., general maneger of all Anaconda mills, $10,000 fine and two years’ imprisonment. Frank E. Hart, general manager of the Marion plant, $10,000 fine and 18 months’ prison. sentence. Chalmer C. Bishop, chief inspector, $500 fine and sentenced to a year and a day in prison.
Suspends Sentence
Don R. Carpenter, former superintendent of the plant, was fined $500, while Frank Kunkle, former
asssitant chief inspector, was given 2 $100 fine. Johnson, Hart and Bishop, however, were placed oh probation and ordered to pay their fines within 10 days. Judge Slick in making his findings said he believed the company was the most culpable, followed in turn by Johnson. The degree of guilt, the court said, led to Hart and in a lesser capacity to Bishop. Carpenter, he held, to be part of the cogs in the Anaconda machine and Kunkle’s part, the judge said, was akin to that of a: man taking orders from higher-ups. Campbell had recommended the maximum sentence, $10,000 fine and 10 years’ imprisonment.
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U. S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, June ‘14 (U. P.).~Gov-
ernment expenses ts for the mens fiscal year Re = 1 compared with a iP ago:
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MUST BE QUICK
One- Third of Coupons for Winter's Supply Valid + On July 1.
Occupants of oil heated Houses should: act promptly in‘ returning applications for next year’s fuel oil rations to their local war price and ‘ rationing boards in order. to penefit fully from plans - to assure them adequate supplies in their fuel tanks beforé winter sets in, the Indianapolis district OPA declared .today. Approximately one-third of the coupons’ in’ each consumer's ration sheet will be valid July 1 to enable householders to get deliveries well in advance of cold weather, OPA points out. War price and rationing boards have made special arrangements for renewing heating oil rations before July 1, but OPA officials warned, this cannot be accomplished unless householders fill out their forms at once and mail them to their boards. Mailing to Start Mailing of the single-page applications from rationing boards in central Indiana to householders will begin today. Since the five simple questions on the form can be answered in a few minutes, OPA has asked that ‘applicants give the form immediate attention and place it, if possible, in the return mail. This co-operation, it was emphasized, will be an imvaluable service to the rationing boards in getting out the new rationgcoupon sheets during June. While last year’s heating period system will be continued in a modified form, OPA has arranged to make a large part of the coupons
heating year officially begins Oct. 1. Types of Coupons Coupons totaling about one-third of the year’s ration which will be valid July 1, include: 1. Period I coupons. 2. “Consumer’s reserve” coupons, constituting approximately onesixth of the year’s ration. These will remain valid throughout the year. 3. “Change-making” coupons, which will make up a substantially larger proportion of the year’s ration than last year. They also will remain valid throughout the year. OPA pointed out that ration holders, in filling their tanks this summer, should use their period I coupons together with any period 5 coupons remaining from the present ration. Householders with iarge storage facilities also may draw upon their “reserve” coupons on the new sheets. ‘Otherwise, these “reserve” coupons, which will be valid throughout the year, should be held as a cushion for use later in the winter. Use Coupons Right “Change-making” coupons’ likewise should be used only after the period I coupons are exhausted, so that the ration holder will at all times have some of these small-de-nomination coupons on hand with which to “make change” when deliveries are made. Among improvements in the fuel oil ration program this year is a more generous “overlap” of the validity periods of coupons, with each period's coupons remaining valid through the following period. This will help dealers solve their manpower and transportation probleims by reducing the number of small deliveries. OPA emphasibzed that any oil purchased this summer by a consumer with new coupons is a part
%|of his ration for next year—Oct. 53 | 1, 1943, to Sept. 30, 1944. It should
not be consumed for hot water or
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Validity Dates
Coupon validity dates for zones
in B-2 and C-2, northern and south+lern Indiana, as designated by EB
and C last season, are as follows: Change Coupons—July 1, 1943, to Sept. 30, 1944. Reserve Coupons—July 1, 1943, to Sept. 30, 1944. Period 1 Coupons—July 1, 1943, to Jan. 4, 1944. Period 2 Coupons—Nov. 30, 1943, to Feb. 8, 1944. Period 3 Coupons—Nov. 30, 1943,
{to March 14, 1944.
Period 4 Coupons—Feb. 8, 1944, to
5 Sept. 30, 1944.
Period 5 Coupons—Feb. 8, 1944, to
A Sept. 30, 1944.
WAGON WHEAT Up to the close of the Chicago market today, Indianapolis flour mills and
red wheat (other grades on their merits),
bushel, and No. 2 white shelled orn, 1s,
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This is the army’s new 2%-ton amphibian truck, shown landing supplies for American forces stationed on New Caledonia. Manufactured by "General Motos, it is officially known as model DUKW ig it didn’t take long for it to be dubbed the “duck.” :
'E' Weeks Here
This week and next are army-navy “E” weeks for Indianapolis Industry. Today the Fridgeport Brass Co.’s cartridge case plant here gets the “E.” Thursday the Link-Belt Co.'s Ewart plant will be awarded the coveted pennant for excellence in war production. Next week two more local concerns will be honored. On Tuesday Quality Tool & Die Co. will receive the “E” and on Friday the National Malleable & Steel Castings Co. receives the same honor,
NEW U. S. STEEL MILL A BIG ONE
$75,000,000 Expansion at Pittsburgh Begins Producing. §
PITTSBURGH, June 14 (U.P.).— America let fly with another might, steel-sheathed haymaker in the general direction of the axis and its
stooges today. The $75,000,000 addition to the Homestead works of Carnegie-Illi-nois Steel Corp., under construction for 20 months, began producing as the first of a battery of eleven 225ton open hearth furnaces was tapped, releasing a stream of molten steel. When all 11 furnaces are producing, one and a half million tons of steel ingots will be pouring from the open hearth shop annually. Twenty-
the plant daily. . Begun by the U. S. Steel Corp. subsidiary in October, 1941, for the government’s Defense Plant Corp., the expansion project covers 123 acres containing 80 buildings with a floor space of 48 acres. Thirty miles of railroad track will assure a continuous flow of materials from one unit to another.
a mass migration of 2700 families whose homes occupied the site of the plant was necessary to make
of homes, churches and business houses were razed when wreckers moved in to pave the way for start of construction.
ATTACK KALE VALLEY JAPS
NEW DELHI, June 14 (U. P.).— Royal air force Blenheims bombed and machinegunned Japanese positions in the Kale valley, east of the Chin hills in Burma, and attacked Taungup pass road in the Arakan sector yesterday without loss, a fommuniue said today. : GUILD OPPOSES STRIKE BAN
BOSTON, June 14 (U. P.).—Delegates to the 10th annual convention of the American Newspaper Guild (C. 1 0.) today unanimously adopted
1 a resolution asking President Roose-
velt to veto the Connally anti-strike
bill.
Anaconda ‘Button Box’
The new steel works is so big that.
room for the expansion. Hundreds Beet
HOG PRICES DIP | 10 CENTS HERE
Top Declines to $14.25 as 11,525 Porkers Arrive At Stockyards.
Hog prices turned 10 cents lower at the Indianapolis stockyards today, the food distribution administration reported.
The top was $14.25 for good tol]
choice 160 to 400 pounders. Weights from 160 to 400 pounds made the 10-cent decline while lighter weights were unchanged from Saturday's low prices. Receipts included 1325 cattle, 475 calves, 11,525 hogs and 625 sheep.
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The “duck” can maneuver alongside a transport or freighter, get its load and then run ashore where a crane can hook onto the cargo net, lifting the load to the ground.
i GRAIN PRICES TURN
LOWER AT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, June 14 (U. P).— Grain futures developed an easier trend on the Board of Trade today. At the end of the first ‘hour, wheat was off 4 to 3%; corn unchanged at OPA levels; oats off 1% to %; rye off % to %. Wheat eased under hedge selling and lack of demand. A quiet tone prevailed, with the trade giving only passing attention "to reports that eastern trade bakers were still seeking 500,000 pounds of dour. Bids, the trade heard, were still below market level.
Incorporations wr
Triangle Body Shop, Inc. Indianapolis, dissolution. Standard Life Insurance Company of Indiana, Indianapolis, amendment of articles of incorporation. Benson Crop., Xokomo, change of address Hote Se E. Washington st., dianapolis. Lord Electric Co., at. .,- Delawdre corporation, admitted Indiana or engage in electrical OT busin National Farm Machinery Ca operative, Inc., Shelbyville, amendment / changing number of directors to nine. The Godfrey Conveyor Co. Elkhart, SHsndinens changing number of directors
to se Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co., Illinois re tion, change of agent to Jacob S. White 1511 Merchants Bank bldg., Indianapolis. Joy , New York corporation, ch .
ange of et to Anne Moss, 738 8 Calhoun st., Ft. Wayne. reg
farmers this year.
Peak production practically has been reached here, Mr.
|Abbott says, and the only
factor that may slow down the dairymen, live stock dealers, farmers and poulfry raisers may be a lack of adequate farm help, since the war has made the hired man a thing of the past. Urban residents here are apt to forget that of 'the county’s total 254,080 acres, only one-fifth is occupied by Indianapolis, while most of the rest is tillable farmland.
Corn Is Top Crop
From Marion county farms come corn, soybeans, alfalfa, all kinds of vegetables, chickens, eggs, dairy products, hogs and meat. Biggest crop this year will be corn, with about 40,000 acres devoted .to it. Between 1932 and 1942
: | the average yield increased from
35.7 bushels per acre to 55.5 bushels per acre. . Second is soybeans, which has about 20,0000 acres. Then comes alfalfa, wheat and oats. “About 40 per cent of the corn crop was planted recently, with farmers working night and day,” Mr. Abbott said. “Usually the corn is planted in May, but the flood caused the late planting. “If the first killing frost is late, giving us a long season, our crops will be all right. But the normal frost occurs in October, and if that happens, it will make a 10 per cent shortage in our yields per acre.”
Acres of Peas Lost
The flood also lost the county several hundred acres of canning peas. According to Mr. Abbott, this county’s total value in farm crops probably is the highest in the state, due to the intensive type of agriculture used here. In canning crops this county is a leader, too, which is an important factor in wartime. Last year if was 15th in the United States. Farmers are self-sufficient except for feeding, grain, which they must Limport because - of their heavily stocked farms. During the last three months of 1942, Marion "men obtained more government wheat for feeding purposes than ali the seven surrounding counties together. There are about 4000 general farms here, and 2300 are dairy farms, which bring in a $3,000,000 vearly income, In both canning and greenhocuse vegetanles, tomatoes take the lead. Other commercial vegetables which county farmers sell for Indianapoiis
CROP P VALUE RISE
Peak Production Practically Has Been Reached But Prices for Farm Products Are Higher, Boosting Total to $12,000,000.
By THEO WILSON It’s going to be a $12,000,000 business for Marion county,
That, says Horace E. Abbott, Marion county agricultural agent, is a $2,000,000 increase over last year, will be caused not so much from added production as from the increase in dollar and cents value of farm produce. ;
and it
consumers vary from eggplants to endive. Onions, cabbage, beets, turnips, celery, pepper, broccoli, lete tuce, kale, spinach, cauliflower, lima beans and even cantaloupes are raised.
Variety Is Keynote
There's no poultry shortage in :
this section, either. Mr. Abbott says there are probably one-half million laying hens and about one and one= half million fryers and broilers on county farms. Chickens and butter are two of the farm products which | are shipped out of this state, most of it going East. Although the flood interfered with record field crops, livestock and poultry totals this year are record= breaking, with poultry-houses espe= cially packed to capacity, Mr. Abbott says. This is caused by the meat ra« tioning. “I don’t know how the feed situ= ation is going to be this winter, though,” he added. “It may become critical.” : A substantial proportion of what Indianapolis ‘consumes is raised in Marion county, and the majority of the products raised in this and ad« joining counties is marketed here. Such a variety is available that it’s possible to eat an entire meal of all-Marion county produce, ex= cept for salt. In fact, the county agent says, every year such a dinner was pre= pared and served for farm men and officials, and even the pepper for it was ground from peppers raised locally.
Look for Biggest Season
Every tillable acre that has the manpower to operate it is being used this year, Mr. Abbott says. Be= cause of the war, the general tendency: is to produce to.the limit of everybody’s ability, taking the farm manpower shortage into consider= ation. Last year, because of a lack of machinery and harvest hands, about 3000 acres of soybeans were wasted, but there'll be little or no waste this time.
DAILY PRICE INDEX
NEW YORK, June 14 (U. P)—= Dun X Bradstreet’s daily weighted = price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press (1680-33 average equals 100): : SANICAY as risisnr er rsesnies 17084 Week ABO (ceeeovesvecnees.. 17048 Month AZ0 csesvvvescsscenee 1m 21 Year ago sesssase 104.68 1943 High (April 2) ......... 17240 i943 Low (Jan. 2)
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