Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1943 — Page 17
MOND DAY, JUNE 3 21, 1043 _
BUSINESS
‘Big
Inch’
Oil Pipeline Grossing
Southern Indiana Is Half Finished
By ROGER
BUDROW
IN SOUTHERN INDIANA SEVERAL WEEKS ago 1
saw the “Big Inch” cutting across field, streams and high~The “Big Inch” is just a name, of
ways on its way east.
course, because that .oil pipeline actually i is 24 inches in
diameter,
It is to deliver mostly crude oil.
- It starts down in Long-
view, Tex., cuts across Arkansas and a corner of Missouri and has its first terminal over in southern Illinois, Norris
City. Then it comes across
Pennsylvania to Phoenixville Junction,
southern Indiana, Ohio and Pa., where is
branches in two 20-inch prongs to Bayway, N. J “v and
Philadelphia. Altogether it is 1253 miles long, biggest in the world. But that isn’t all. Another pipeline, a 20-inch one for oil products, is being built from Beaumont, Tex. to the New YorkPhiladelphia area. From Little Rock, Ark., on it will ‘ follow the Big iInchright-of-way. The Big Inch was supposed to , deliver 300,000 barrels of crude Mr. Budrow every day, but tests indicate it may go as high as 325,000 barrels or even. 400,000 if there are enough pumps. These U-boat-proof and practically bomb-proof lines will start delivering ‘their 22 million gallons of oil and gasoline to the East coast early next year. But until the whole pipeline is full, nothing can be delivered ‘at the end. That means there will be 2782 barrels of crude oil in each mile of the Big Inch before anybody on the East coast gets any. It is about half done now. The Longview-Norris link is finished and oil is put into tank ‘cars, other pipelines and barges at Norris City until the other link is finished, ” ” ” 4 STORY OF THE WEEK: An Indianapolis salesman was down at Evansville last week talking with the superintendent of a farm equipment concern who had just returned from Washington where he tried to get officials there to loosen up on materials for more farm: machinery. “Things are in a bad way in the midwest,” the superintendent told one young fellow who had quite a bit of authority in one of the war agencies, “We need quite a few chilled plows.” “Well, I don’t know,” the young _ bureaucrat replied thoughtfully, “I don’t know if we can spare the refrigerator cars.” uel Ww ENGINEERS building a power fine in India are having trouble with sacred trees. The path of the line frequently runs into trees which either the Mohammedans or the Hindus revere and refuse to cut. The solution is to go around the trees (not so good) or to offer a sacrifice of goats, the number in accordance with the degree of sacredness of the tree. Other difficulties are the hot -noon-day weather which stalls work, the monsoons, vultures, cranes and other large birds which perch on the lines, and religious festivals which, to the natives, are much more important than building any power line. os u ”
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PAY QUESTIONS T0 BE DISCUSSED
J. R. Steelman, A. F. Hinricks on Friday’s Program At I. A. C.
A wage stabilization and employment relations institute will be held Friday at the Indianapolis Athletic club under auspices of several Indiana business associations. John R. Steelman, chief of the U. 8. conciliation service, will discuss the problem of mediation of disputes from the government standpoint, a service that may assume new importance if the president approves the Smith-Connally anti-strike bill. A. F. Hinrichs, acting commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, will explain cost of living indices. Thomas O'Malley, regional wagehour director, will interpret general order 31 and amendments 5, 6 and 9 which established new restrictions in wage stabilization. Thomas R, Hutson, Indiana labor commissioner, will answer questions regarded the employment of minors in industry. Warren Martin, chairman of the Industrial board which administers the Indiana workmen's compensation law, will explain the newly-enacted amendments to the law covering the executing of partial
waiver agreements by a physically-
handicapped employee and his employer, The ‘conference will begin at 2:30 p. m. and continue through a dinner session. Sponsors are the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, Indiana Personnel association, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Personnel association and the Associated Employers of Indiana.
DAILY PRICE INDEX
NEW YORK, June 21 (U. P).—
‘Dun “& Bradstreet’s daily weighted price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press (1930-32
average equals 100): Saturday Week ago .. Month ago . Year ago 1943 High (April 2) 1943 Low, (Jan 2) ...... Sess
U. S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P.).—Government expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through June 18 compared with a year ago: his Year Last Expenses ....$74,640,145,908 30. 30,741,398, 392 War Spending. 88, 951, 261,934 58,206, Receipt 19, 810, 147,113 Net. 54, 1826, 535,894 Cash balance. 9,814,078,528 Working bal. . 9,051,418,368 Public debt ..140,103,711,118 74,729, '538,951 Gold reserve . 22,407,121,596 22, 732,641,624
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WLB FACES 20 DEFIANCE CASE
Gypsum Co. Stand on Unions Comes Up After Lewis Case.
By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 21.— The No. 1 “defiance case” to be taken up by the nation war labor board, as soon as the John L. Lewis insurrection lulls or ends, is that of the United States Gypsum Co., whose board chairman, Sewell Avery, already has tangled unsuccessfully with the board and with President Roosevelt on the maintenance-of-union-membership issue. Mr. Avery, as president of Montgomery Ward & Co. the big Chicago mail-order house, fought for six months with the NWLB over a union-maintenance order, and finally capitulated early this year after receiving two letters from President Roosevelt ordering him to do so. The gypsum company, in large advertisements signed by its president, William L. Keady, informed the public this week that “in keeping with good citizenship the company rejects the board’s order.” The advertisement, a reproduction. of a letter to the board, said also! Disputes Authority “The board has no authority to impose union maintenance and check-off (of dues) upon the company. The board is not empowered by congress to order any employer to adopt this requirement. The company’s employees are being con-
that their government desires them to join a labor union when in fact, the national policy, as declared by the congres, is that employees are free to join or not to join, as they wish.!.. “Maintenance of membership fis the starting phase in establishing the closed shop, which inevitably . the
criminate against an employee in direct violation of the national labor relations act.” The board (or a majority consisting of its public and labor members) is understood to have answers ready for these charges,
-lbut it is likely to make no move
until after President Roosevelt acts
bill. 2-Way Application?
may be an opportunity to see if it has a against ' rebellious employers as labor
leaders.
ferred to in the company’s notice of defiance, that maintenance-of-
jority asserts that it doesn’t, and also that all its actions are in harmony with that law. ‘Maintenance-of-membership was a formula arrived at by NWLB to
(meet part way the demands of
uniens for closed shops or approaches to it, and was based on the majority's belief that unions were entitled - to some guarantee of survival during the turbulent war period, and also to some return for their no-strike pledge, which has been generally though not uniformly observed. ;
fused and degeived into believing|g
on the Connally-Smith anti-strike Qhio If the bill becomes law there |5be
two-way _application— 2
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membership violates the national 8 labor relations act. The board ma- | T
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
WAVES Frain to Become Machivists
WAVES in training at the U. S. naval school, Norman, Okla., are shown here learning fo be aviation machinists’ mates and aviation eealmitis, After a course with metal and grease, they'll serve in navy
Synthetic Rubber Workers Can Out-Produce Natives
By JOHN LOVE * Times Special Writer CLEVELAND, June 21.—While 200 workers in an Akron synthetic rubber works can cook up about as much rubber as 20,000 African natives can gather and boil from plantation sap, this is not the whole story.
For it takes 250 more workers
to run the high-pressure refinery
which makes the raw material for the synthetic, not to mention the, people on the producing end of the patroleum industry farther back.
GRAIN PRICES DROP ON BOARD OF TRADE
CHICAGO, June 21 (U, P.).— Grain futures declined on the Board of Trade today. At the end of the first hour, wheat was off % to 7% cents a bushel, corn unchanged at OPA limits, oats off
3 to %c and rye off 3% to 7c More favorable harvesting conditions in the southwest and an anticipated increase in southwestern receipts depressed the wheat market as much as 1% cents a bushel at the extreme.
N. Y. Stocks Net Low Last 0 27s 2% 54 154 31% 31% 86 86 15 10% 13%
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least one business—and to hold out gasoline substitute.
today to have overcome the acute
New Gasoline Substitute Proves to Be a 'Success' |!
- WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P.).—New England ingenuity appeared ae gasoline shortage problem for at|Lincoln Lo:
hope for the development of a good
haa The “Riverside Amusement park,” seven miles out of Springfield, Mass., operates trailer-buses to and from the park for customers—and
to work to “invent” a substitute. What finally came out of Trig-
"The process controls combustion said,
But the ratio is something like one man in America to 40 or 50 in Africa. The contrast could be magnified even more by comparing the production of a synthetic plant with
Brazilian jungle could collect from wild trees. He would bring” in 150 pounds a year. In the most -effi-
the output per man gets up to about a ton a year. is nearer a thousand pounds, or one 150th the Akron output per man.
Nature Helps Out!
This contrast, however, is not so much between machine production and hand work as it is between the methods available for processing the fossil fluid of petroleum, and those involved in collecting sap from reluctant trees. Most of the
work has been done on petroleum by the earth's heat and rock pressures over hundreds of millions of years. If maple sirup could be made
32 from crude oil—and they might do
it some day—the productivity of
| Vermont farmers would suffer by > comparison just as surely.
Synthetic Saves Labor
Synthetic rubber can also be made from American corn and
»| wheat, and some of it will be, but
even with labor-saving farm machinery somewhere between 25,000
3% and 40,000 farmers would be needed
to raise all the grain the synthetic plants could use. The cost of farm labor was seldom mentioned in the
5% long argument in Washington over
the relative costs of rubber from
. petroleum and grain, but it is this
cost which throws the advantage to the petroleum process by around
+112 cents a pound in the finished
product. - Notwithstanding . synthetic production’s very great saving in labor as compared with the native labor in natural crude, synthetic at 36 cenis a pound is far higher than
% plantation rubber has been during
most of its history. Much the
i | greatest portion of the cost of syn-
thetic rubber is in the depreciation
*|and interest on the money invested
in the expensive plants. Rubber Tarif May Result This investment consists mainly of the labor employed before the plants make any rubber, and this manufacturing and construction labor bulks larger than the labor in operating thenr-will amount to for
1 | years to come.
After the war is over the American government will have before it the question whether to charge off much of the depreciation and some of the interest, and thus allow the plants to compete with the plantations, or to insist on getting a normal return. If the choice is
. the latter, then the only way the
plants could run at all would be by charging a stiff tariff on rubber.
LOCAL ISSUES
Nominal quotations furnished by Indl. anapolis Jecitities de dealers. Bid Asked Agents Pin COrp COM ..creeee TH... Agents pn Oorh pia vevaseese 20 *Belt R Si “eve *Belt R Stk vas 8% 8% pid. Bobbs-Merrill com weeses 40 +3
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successfully against wild morning
PRICES ON HOGS MIXED LOCALLY
Some Weights Unchanged, Others 10 Cents Higher Than: Saturday.
Hog prices were uneven at the Indianapolis stockyards today, the food distribution administration reported. Weights from 100 to 160 pounds were unchanged from Saturday; weights from 160 to 210 pounds were steady to 10 cents higher, and weights over 210 pounds were 5 to 10 cents higher. The top was $14.10 for good to choice 200 to 210-pounders. Re-
tle, 425. calves and 275 sheep.
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ALFALFA GOOD FOR KEEPING OUT WEEDS
LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 21.— Wherever a good stand can be obtained, alfalfa is the best of all weed destroying crops, according to O. C. Lee, Purdue university extension weed specialist. Not only does alfalfa smother the weeds, but it is cut. frequently, and few weeds can stand the combination of smothering and frequent cutting, he said. It has been used
glory, Canada thistle, and other bad perennials, : When alfalfa is used to kill out weeds, farmers are urged to see that the land is sweet, well drained, and suitable for the production of the crop. Unless the young plants are given a chance to get ahead of the weeds, the weeds may -win the battle and choke the alfalfa before. it gets well started. ; Alfalfa is- considered one of the
In New Post
Harry S. Rogers
Smaller War Plants Corp. ‘Ready for Business’
In Indiana.
The Smaller War Plants Corp. a government agency to assist small plants, announced today it is “ready for business” in Indiana. Harry S. Rogers of Indianapolis, former manager of the WPB’s production service division here, is manager for the 44 central Indiana counties comprising this district. Henry Ketcham, formerly: WPB financial representative here, is district loan agent, and Arthur E. Krick, formerly vice president of the National Dry Kiln Co. is contract specialist. The Indiana SWPC will have offices on the 10th floor of the Circle Tower building where the WPB is located but it is not connected officially with WPB.
Aid ‘Distress’ Plants
The SWPC directors promised to cut through formalities and unnecessary red tape to assist every “distress” plant in this region. A “distress” plant, Mr. Rogers explained, is: one which is operated at less than two-thirds of its normal capacity. - Normal capacity is defined as the average production for the five-year period ending Dec. 31, 1941, or the 1941 volume of business adjusted to the commerce department index. SWPC nas six ways of finding work for distress plants: 1. Contacts with army, navy, marine commission, treasury department and other government bureaus which purchase supplies so that as many suitable prime contracts as possible can be placed.
Seeks Sub-Contracts
2. Contracts with large buyers of essential civilian goods, such as department stores, chain stores and mail-order houses who can utilize the production capacity of smaller? firms. 3. Contacts with state, county and . municipal officials including officials of hospitals, asylums, poor houses and public institutions who can purchase supplies from smaller plants. 4. Letting of sub-contracts to smaller plants directly from prime and large subcontractors and by educating the public and civic organizations as to the advantages of giving sub-contracts to smaller plants. 5. Letting of prime contracts to a number of smaller plants who will form a pool to do the work. Formation of pools will be urged wherever practical. 6. Urging all industrial advisory committees and industry division functioning under WPB to point out to big business the value of keeping competition alive. Urging big business to share its contracts
EHPLOTMENT ;
HITS NEW H
Expansion of raming & April Lifts U. S. Total To 60,900,000.
NEW YORK, June 21 (U, P) —Seasonal expansion of f operations in April lifted . total. domestic employment. to a ‘record;
|peak of 60,900,000 persons, the Na-{
tional Industrial Conference board { said today. The April over-all increase was: 1,300,000 workers, of whom 900,000: went to the nation’s farms, while," most of the others entered the’ armed services, the authority saidis April farm employment was 9,900,000, about 250,000 less than the number employed a year ago and 750,000 under 1937-39. Th number of hired farm workers was “slightly more” than 2,000,000 or about 150,000 less thah a year ago, while family workers who Jabot . / without pay numbered 7,800,000, or" about 100,000 less than in 1942, = ©
Minor Slump Noted a
At the April national employe: ment peak there ‘were 7,500,000% more persons employed than: in the corresponding month last year. In: April, 1942, there were still about’, 1,750,000 unemployed, whereas toe: By day employment exceeds by 5,000, 000 persons the number comprising: the nation’s peacetime labor force, The. conference board noted a‘ minor slump in employment in’ “most of the major manufacturing: groups” with “significant gains”: only in two groups—aircraft and’’ shipbuilding and chemical products,
Armed Services Double
Practically all of the gain -ofnearly 50,000 in the durable sector: of the industrial group occurred in:
a
transportation, slight declines ap~ .. ©
pearing in iron and steel and other war industries, as well as, in cons: sumer products, such as furniture, .. In summarizing, the board stated. that current farm employment - is’ less than in world war I, factory employment is nearly 5,000,000 higher, while federal civilian em ployment exceeds 3,000,000, against 918,000 on Nov. 11, 1918. The armed’ services are nearly double the cor= responding total at the height of: the last war. Farm employment in} i942 was about 350,000 under the: 1918 average.
AUTO REGISTRATION : DEGLINES 2,500,000
WASHINGTON, June 21 (U, P.). — Passenger automobile registras: tions dropped approximately 2,500,’ 000 during the year ended May 1, 1943, because of wartime restric-' tions, according to the National Automobile Dealers’ association, which indicated that passenger cars in service at the clos®' of 1943 will be down 2,811,000 compared : with’ the .end of 1942. Figures were based on a survey of registration reports from 30: states, comprising between 56 and 57 per cent of the country's registrations, the association- said. - The survey indicated that if the. rate of loss is sustained until the end of 1943, there will then be approximately 24,216,000 passenger. cars in service, or 2,811,000 fewer than at the end of 1942, and down, 4,428,000 from the number in serve. ice May 31, 1941.
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No. 2: 2 whiis oats, 60c, and No. iy and No. 2 white shelled corn, Sie, bet’
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most practical means of controlling Canada thistle, since a crop can be grown at the same time that the weed is being eradicated. | However, it is necessary, in most cases, to leave the field in alfalfa for four or five years to complete the job of eradication. When the field is plowed up too soon, the thistles will grow back, reinfesting the field.
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