Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1943 — Page 8

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OLD MOLDBOARD Big Inch’ Given Final Welding PORKER PRICES PLOW A A FOLLY DER i 4 TURN STRONGER

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‘Use Disk re Instead, Ss y 1 | Quotations Steady to Five Writer Advocates Cents Higher as 8925 .

In New Book. Hogs Arrive.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Hog prices were steady to 5 cents Times Staff Writer | higher at the Indianapolis stockWASHINGTON, July 19.—In the | yards today, the food distribution midst of all the wailing about labor SUIminisire tion reported. : Bl 56.8 and machinery shortages on farms, on Re as JA for £god 10 Qliojce — 3] se Do Veen o | Sleigh Press steady with a $16 top. Receipts in- + 368] : prauee as a re mai cluded 8925 hogs, 2025 cattle, 525 -— 98%) calves and 1325 sheep. be stepped up with less labor and HOGS Nb turning some standard farm ma- pounds... $12.00@ 13.00 chinery into the scrap drive. pounds 12.756113,90 | Having published a best-seller poun ge iL : 0.3 during the dust-sterm days (“Des- pounds + ° 7 erts on the March” by Paul B. Sears) 29.0 the Oklahoma school may have an- pounds pounds 330- 360 His idea is to throw away the mold- | y TR t 3 — 71.3 board plow and farm with a disk : TT : Gao in shoes. 330- 360 pounds { 360- 400 pounds —95.00 larger crops with less labor. | 3h o a 4100.0 | reason—letting nature take — 43.5 course.

TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1943

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EMPLOYMENT

Compared With June, 1942 61,910 .. $2,203,344

June, 1943

Compared With May, 1943 16.617 $3,259,752 3,654 3.191

Employment (Manufacturing) Payroll (Weekly) .........::. Sought Jobs (Persons)

Obtained Jobs

seilbiiniag $3,435,763 1,200 1.169 .-124

120- 140 160 180 200 220

TRANSPORTATION

Inbound Freight Outbound Freight Streetcar Passengers

BUILDING

Houses Permit Value) Apartments Business Industrial Public Repairs

(Carloads) 16,491 12,213

.9,935,669

18,259 11,890 9,804,028

9,891 «18. ‘80 13.95%

ve. [email protected] 13.65 13.75 13.65@ 13.70

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vo [email protected] cking Sows

. [email protected] + 12.706212.90 12.65@ 12.85 12.50@12.%0

12.40@ 12.55 12.30@ 13.48

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pounds { written by Edward H. Faulkner. gE \ i ond ; | "160- 200 pounds Bs | Pa | 300- 330 pounds — 50.0) The result, he maintains,

will be The

pounds | other here. It is “Plowman’s Folly,” Medium | 270- 300 pounds 0 harrow. 400- 450 pounds its 405- 550 pounds Medium— 250- 550 pounds ‘ Slaughter Pigs Medium and Good--00- 120 pounds CATTLE (2025)

Steers

+ [email protected]

Bank Clearings Bank Debits

MARKETINGS

(Head)

.8133,356,000 §439,821,000

£123,285 p00 $366. 0 15.00@ 16.00 366,488,090 15.006 18.25 15.25@ 16.50 [email protected] *

pounds pounds pounds pounds

[email protected] 14.006 15.00 [email protected]

Hogs [email protected]

Cattle Calves Sheep Corn Wheat Oats Rye Soybeans

MISCELLANEOUS

Telephones In Use Postoffice Receipts Electricity Output Gas Consumption Water Pumpage (by Imports Relief Relief

231.418 7.328 11,134 -- 10,398 1,370,000 ..1,159,000 327,500 59,400 .. 147.200

13.00@ 14 13.00@14.

{Bushels) [email protected]

(all weighs) 129,809 . +. -5441923 88,874,000 . 582,503,000 ..1,510,340,000

129,247 $430,242 23,023,000 376,266,000 1,266,580,000 $377,300 1,369 S14.8356

04 2% 435 1.1 19.2 — 749 — 10.9 1.8

$408,743 68,831,000 463,146,000 1,241,150,000 $224,909 2,269 $21,812

(by kwh) (by Cubic Feet) Gallons)

Cites Egyptians, Chinese Throughout the book Mr. Faulk-

13.25@ 14.00

13.00913.70 . 10.506 12.78% 9.257 10.50

(Persons)

(Cost) 4

of above information: Indiana Fmployment Security division: New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohin. Monon. Illinois Central and Nickel Plate Railroads: Indianapolis Railways; Indianapolis Municipal Airport; City Building Commissioner. Indianapolis Clearing House Association: Dun & Bradstreet: Agriculture Marketing Service: Indianapolis

Roard of Trade: U. S. Commerce Department; Indiana Bell Telephone Co.: Indianapolis Posioffice;: Center Township Trustee; |

Sources

Government Yields

oi Choice 500- 800 pounds 800-1050 pounds

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Local Stockyards Asks OPA Help to Get Corn for Hogs

said today they have apin order that they might chase grain for feeding hogs brought to market. Harvey elvin, vice president of the Belt Railroad and Stock Yards Cec.. said that the supply of corn for feeding purposes was exhausted on June 28 r farmers refused to sell t the ceiling price of § SI. 1m 4

13.506 14,50 [email protected]

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Nd [email protected]

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Oper rs of the Indi pealed to the OPA to waive corn

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6.00@ 7.00 4.50@ 6.00

[email protected] [email protected], 10.00@ 11.75¢

The corn, however, has visible effects on Melvin an ahead of th

f 1942

. 845,300 : £158,300 ) s100000 ...... 89. 0 ..861.400 £1,228,640 300 8 .... The “Big Inch,” which will send 385,000 barrels of oil a day from Texas to the East coast, was dedicated . 857.814 £102,312 Made Experiments mile 24-inch pipeline which cuts from Longview, Tex. through eight states including southern Indiana, to Such a revolutionary program | yeliver the oil to refineries in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. £122.349.000 + 108 pend on argument from authority, wm £339,802.000 + 294 as well as experiment. The pub- | Joo. 900 4 lishers feel that Mr. Faulkner meets 1100. 1300 pounds 1300- pounds py But Public's Apathy Worries Davis Most “=. 10.4 “Edward H. Faulkner is an agri- | Jor-1100 | cultural expert who has carried on{ ‘This is the first of a series of | "Shall we now raise wages he- | home front in the war There | “756!1150 pounds { 1 peunds a jeu al hn aktiomture at! ington’s top civilian agencies who |chase up the spiral. must be agreement on policy in all 1100-1300 pounds hhh w—. s y omm — 218 name prc A rg eT discuss home-front plans and | Most workers already have the| branches of government. 700-1100 pounds problems, advantage of a little inflation. But| Chairman Davis’ idea for helping | othe - 1 i a | Srmte Soon iri Pg By PETER EDSON advise that we let the thing alone|is a fact-finding board of the caliber | S$00:1000 pounds 14.7515,18 : 0; & g Times Special Writer of the Baruch committee which | 600- 800 pounds [email protected]! + BLY agriculture, and a soil and crop in- |are a good bit like a man who's| 80 p }3.33814.78 , WASHINGTON, July 19. The winning at Monte Carlo. He doesn't could make a report that would| 89 JeINCY pounds [email protected] + i 00- 900 pounds “He recently has carried on his BY ; . ma oak c groups of this country are makin | experiments in garden plot and on{man of the national war labor 80 On and break the bank. ye . Davis believes that the oe! 500- 900 pounds [email protected] a farm scale near Elyria, O.; his|board, is that there is in the United! It is this failure to believe that | lof wage earners today has more | Good [email protected] States today no acceptance what- wage Medium . 10,00@ 11.25 experimental plots commercially | this lack of fear of inflation, w hich | der rationing there is a better dis- | canner... . © 7.00@ 8.25 | » 3 Bulls (all weights) profitable. He likens it to the experience of Ce the WLB chairman most] ‘tribution of the available goods| (Yearlings Excluded) the lady from Boston who got lost seriously (than there has ever been before. |Beel= “My good man!” she said to the thing.” as he calls it repeatedly, | and it would b sa | Good (all weights) : fr probably draw fire] ; | ner Bn Hig he Progam first native she encountered, “I/and the problem is to convince the from lobbyists and from people who eam nd common - | 0 ¥ : | represents 3 relish Xtter Tanms (waht 10 go (0 Keene. country that the government feel that their sacrifices at home Vealers (all weights) ee | Good to choice . ... 15.50@ 16.00 departure. He insists that me said, “Why don't you?" | » Common and medium . . [email protected] {moldboard plow merely threw U. The question which the much- | “Miners Better Off | “VPecder and Stocker Cattle and Crives _Chamber of Commerce |and British farmers off the track | kicked-around but still unruffied’ There have been plenty of dec-| put Davis ghes on to point out Steers | argues that Chinese and Beyptian | gapilization, avhy Bon't we stabi- of stabilization. And plenty of pres-|pay now have fewer luxuries than | farmers produce far more per acre | jises |sure groups immediately have gone ‘they had before, they must be 500- 800 pounds | mmm with a wooden stick than do Amer- | The answer is that there is still |to work on them. Lobbyists, manu-|pajanced against many more mil- | 00.1030 pounds their modern Ee that ernment or by the people of the labor leaders—the paid agents and pefore but now have much more. | 500- 900 pounds The SEC said it had reason to be-| The reason, he asserts, is thatiy,., of stabilization of wages and organizers whose own jobs Sepent; Davis mentioned the coal dispute | good and Chore. ganic matter of the topsoil so far ti d clients] as the freshest in mind and the| 3.5 pounds down ............ by Oil Ventures Corp. of New York : Sania “Ww Inflation?’ organizations and clients—have set|oreatest threat of inflation from an | “e0'Sm—.. down . | ‘contained untrue facts and mis. | underground that all natural bene- What Is In upon these statements to break gyt-and-out pressure group. In| di Calves (heifers) i Mr. Faulk rges using the disc ' 9 h 500 pounds down a hearing July 29. r. Faulkner urges using SCithe word ‘inflation,’ ” explained the gress, sometimes before OPA or) | miners, believing them to be suf- |Medium— ££ & § harrow so that the field stubble, WLB chairman, “because they don’t| WLB. And all along the line, the! fering from a hard life and high | A aw Lamb : ink Ewes (shorn) bushe ~|first half of its fiscal year, which | merely are i a PP . been through it. And so you can't|the pressure groups, usually with | Actually, however, Davis wishes it | Common and choice GRAIN PRICES TURN began Oct. 1, 1942, was greater than | natural fertilizer to rebui e soll. [educate 'em on the needs of a support, at least with public|eould have been stated authoritae | oan ch Spring Lambs mar- | Good and choice fiscal year. “Excellent employee | erosion, form a reservoir for mois-}* “We have said that we're trying “We've got to say, better off than they ever have been. Common UNEVEN AT CHICAGO morale,” said Beech Aircraft, was| ture and curtail the ill effects of to save the workingman's dollar. | | Pressure = groups and mean it’ | For years their average work year | a Th tg a largely responsible. | insects and other pests, he insists.| But it carries no real conviction. | | declared the WLB's head, and that] |wac 180 days or less. Now it is close | LOCAL PRODUCE A Heavy breed hens, 24153c¢; Leghorn hehs,

300 <1.000 at Phoenixville, Pa., yesterday by Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes. This final welding joined the 1388FINANCE | for American agriculture must de- | * . Pressure Groups Hamper Wage-Fixing, Be our both qualifications. Here is what Jood-— 9.8 | hi : : effort come | 1300-1500 his own experiments during recent| j,¢erviews with heads of Wash- | cause of that? If we do we erely back to this fundamental: 48347 8 v ine i [URIVCISIEY 01 Ronny, RE Fas peeh Sa the people who for that reason (0 sell stabilization to the country | 600- 800 pounds [email protected] vestigator in private employment. dn ium— 2 P Wy plaint of William H. Davis, chair- know when to quit. He wants to|show what the various economic [email protected] Cows almost unbelievable yields make his ance wha stabilization is worthwhile, | money than ever before. and that| Cutter tl Comiiticn ETERS 2.004s11.28 ever of the idea of “stabilization. while driving in the Berkshires: | People still don't understand “the | That is a challenging statement, Sausage— CALVES (523) | ing methods. rather than a new| without stopping his work he honest and sincere about it. |nave been unbearable. Cull (75 Ibs. up) [email protected] Indianapolis Power & Light Co.: Citizens Gas & Coke Utility: Indianapolis Water Co; S. Customs Office; Indianapolis (To support this contention helepairman Davis asks is. “If we want larations of policy on this question pat while some few million people \ican and British farmers with all|,\, ceneral acceptance by the gov- | facturers, wholesale or retail groups,|jions who had less than subsistence 500-1000 pounds omn Calves (steers) lieve a registration statement filed|the moldboard plow turns the or-|, ees or of the need for it. on making a showing before their ume leading information,” and ordered | fits from it are lost. “You can't scare Americans with |them down. Sometimes before con-! general, the country favored the | Good and Choice— 500 pounds down ..... Beech Aircraft’s production in the | dead leaves, grasses and the like know what it means. They haven't government tends to yield before | prices. Good and choice its entire output for the preceding] | At the same time this will prevent |ation. sympathy. tively that the miners today are|jredium and good CHICAGO, July 20 (U. Py # 2 | ‘Let Nature Do It They say we can't stabilize—that | means that BOTH CONGRESS | to 300 days. plus overtime. Never- | world’s largest, was blown into |

‘No’ to these

salq, as re-

ppers have been able A new blast furnace, one of the | the cost of living will go up any- | AND THE PRESIDENT TOGETH-| theless the miners have been led to | JC

way. And some labor leaders—red | ER—not just one or the other— | | believe they can expect an annual | roles in the face because they know that must declare what the policy is to|income in wartime far greater than | Sd uipts, 54 Ibs. more American workmen today be on stabilization and then stick] anything they had before, putting 3c. have a higher wage standard of to it.”

them among the topnotchers among | Graded EO al 3 JAIE0, el Brads farmer are at a minmum, the )jying than they ever had before—| Eventually, it seems, all these labor. That, in the Davis view, is grade, 32. : Bicol 2 = ved rofit | author points out. come before us with the plea that | questions of what's wrong with the! not stabilization. oe At the end of the first hour wheat Ce. a ents ‘ ye | “The idea is abroad that man Is| we should raise wages because OPA was unchanged to off 'i cent a . the lord of creation—that he dom- gdoesn't do anything to freeze ? a for the first half of this year, com- | jnates the earth” Mr. Faulkner |, ices. Vo

bushel, oats unchanged to off ™./nareq with 72 cents a share in the! writes. LOCAL ISSUES

Grain futures developed an easy, | uneven trend on the Board of Trade today following: the announcement of a $14.75 ceiling on live hogs effective next month, and reports! that distillers will switch from grain {0 sugar. |

i feedin fryers and roasters, under § ior 1 UNE NORS

| In forests and in fields where] production today at Carnegie-Illi- ‘man has not interfered with Nanois’ Thompson works at Pitts-

[ture, all such soil and seeding | burgh. It has a daily production | problems as perplex the modern of 1330 net tons of pig iron.

for the eastern market, and up,

farmers have been forced i to provide grain at the stockyards. Normally company maintains feeding on a non-

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SH IE an woh first six months of 1942. The 1943| 1 certain minor respects this Pit trading took on a bearish, 6: was after $136,000,000 federal yay be t : wives tone. influen bv the live ho may be true, but in the main it is : ys e five NhoZ tax liability and $12500000 post- tn. purest propaganda: as ineffec-

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tual, when we examine the facts, as whistling in the dark.” So he argues that man must do | “Mother Earth can smile again.” Idea Used Charles R. Enlow, chief agrono-

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{erything,” Mr. Enlow said. “There such | 2| plowing is absolutely essential. “But he does have some very

*| good points. In fact, we have pub-

Mulch Farming for Soil Defense’

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DAILY PRICE INDEX NEW YORK, July 20 (U. P).— Dun & Bradstreet's daily weighted price index of 30 basic commodities, {compiled for United Press (1930-32 ‘average equals 100): | Yesterday

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