Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1943 — Page 25
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Terre Haute Ordnance Works Built as
Insurance Against Bombing of England eee Ry ROGER BUDROW
AFTER
will be saying “We should have done it this way" it was done.
way, any criticize.
way but the way
THE WAR THE TABLECLOTH GENERALS
or that
It is so easy
The ordnance department has been criticized for build-
ing tank, armor plate and ordnance works, , and then shutting them down before country has been able to get by on
and millions of dollars
they had been completed or used but a few months,
costing millions
That
it what happened to the big Vigo ordnance works near Terre
Haute, It also happened to seven other big ordnance works. They are now in “stand-by” condition, closed or not finished. Why? The best answer is from the Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson, These huge ord- |
nance works, on Small
which millions of dollars had been
spent-—needlessly, |
it now turns out,|
reality They
were in “insurance.”
were built when chareing the smaller
the united nations were losing and
‘RUN AROUND’ BY SWPC CHARGED
‘Select Few’ Get Jobs.
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Only
tJ. PD. war plants with giving them a the executive com-
NEW YORK, July
corporation “run-around,”
fhen it looked as if this country ,oittee of the American Contractors might have to carry on the fight war Advisory committee has passed
practically by itself. These plants were built, Mr. Patterson said, on the belief the German mig
a congresthe failure
a resolution calling for sional investigation of
luftwafle of the SWPC to distribute war con- | it bomb and completely knock pacts
among small construction
out the munitions plants in Eng- firms.
land. That didn’t happen. | “Had these facilities not courageously conceived, and constructed,” he said,
adverse, waste of both manpower and money
caused by having too little too late struction contractor has been aided quirements of the war production
would have brought such tremen-
been gay
The committee members yester-
“even one contract”
mine to what extent the small con-
or will be aided to participate in
dous suffering that the present in- government work.”
activities fade into insignificance.” Therefore, from this viewpoint, the closing of the Terre Haute proji and the closing of all others, for that matter, is not bad but good news. part of the huge cost war exacts.
ort
WATCH FOR war correspondents’ reports of the battle performance of the P-63 which is a new version of the famed P-39 Aircobra. And, we hear, the Allison engoo is again being used in the -40 Warhawk. For a time the Rolls-Rovee engine, British competitor to the Indianapolis-made Allison, powered the P-40. » n 5 AMERICAN drug companies are reforted trying to break the Dutch monopoly on quinine (currently a Japanese monopoly, in reality), Plantations of cinchona trees are being started in Latin America, The bayk of the tree yields the quinine. Adtually the cinchona trees is native of this hemisphere and. like rubber, was transplanted to the Far East and production was abandoned in Latin America. ” = ® | ODDS AND ENDS: Louisville Gas & Electric has been ordered by the federal power commission to write off $30 million representing excess over original cost. . . . CofTee firms are wondering what thev xvili do if rationing of the beverage is abolished; they are limited using 65 per cent of the glass jars they used last year. Bankers | are asking the treasury to issue] more long-term bonds; they claim they have plenty, or too much, of the short-term ones Morgenthau has favored. . . . Grade A cream is being frozen by dairies, while the summer flush is on, and stored for winter sale when shortages may loom again. . , . Commerce department says Mexico's banana plantations. unhurt by the shipping shortage as is Central America, are the bigest supplier for U. 8
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news chairman, It is just a small ing for million-dollar contracts. [they throw us a couple of bones it | would save a lot of small firms.”
Asserting that a “select few” larger contractors continue to be “favored, and the small feliow left to drown or pass out,” Philip Wolf, said, “We are not lookIf
Would Pool Resources
The committee, which was formed just a year ago by 24 building
| trades associations and now grown
{to 30, charged “politics”
| member | their resources and abilities in units
in SWPC by changes in its personnel and to “some powerful influence directly opposed to our cause.” Under the committee's plan. contractors would pool
three and fours to form new for the purpose of bidding on war plant work. This was done at the recommendation of | war production board and the pools] were certified by army and navy] boards as being in order to receive contract awards, but none were ever received, committee members stated. “In the case of one $4.500,000 job in this area.” said Wolf, “a part of, it was a $350.000 barrack job, a! matter of very simple construction. | nothing was done for us. “By our method of working together, had this smaller contract been given to us, it would have benefitted four general contractors, six plumbing and heating firms, two electrical and two roofing com-| panies for a total of 14 individual firms. But in spite of everything
of corporations
to We have done, we find it impossible Philadelphia
to obtain even a eh 4 Singie award.”
. U.S. STATF "MENT
WASHINGTON, July srnment expenses and receipts enrrent fiscal year through July pared with a year ago: This Year Las! Year 4.644.171.8380 t 3.207.029, 351 4,103.722.308 2.704.023.0 1.354.623.3590 3.289.549 520
for the 20 com-
Expenses ..8 War sper nays Receipts ‘ Net deficit « Cash balance 2.710.783.827 Working bal. 8.048.108.623 Public debt . 144.435.252.390 Gold reserve 22.3 356.346.5768
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INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE Clearings 11,916,000
LOCAL PRODUCE
Heavy breed hens, 24'%c; Leghorn hens 2l%c. Broilers, fryers and roasters, under § lbs, 27%e. old roosters, 18e¢. Eggs—Current receipts, 54 lbs. and up |
dc. Graded Eggs—Grade A large, 40c: grade A medium, 37c¢c; grade A small, 26c; no grade, 32c. Butter—No. 1, Butterfat—No. 1 49¢: No. 2, 46c.
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(Third of a Series) By PETER EDSON Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 22. Civilian supply is going to become more and more of a controversial issue as the war goes on. Civilian supply — meaning the items other than food which the population at home needs to keep going—hasn't been a cause of much confusion thus far because the
the stocks built up before Pearl Harbor, But this can’t go on forever. Some |of the essential items are going to wear out and need replacement. Furthermore, the heat is now being turned on by various pressue groups to let industry reconvert part of its plant facilities from the manufacture of war supplies to resume the manufacture of civilian goods. This pressure for more conversion ‘does not all come from manufacturers. Sometimes it comes from whole- he bristles with energy. In his ofsalers and retailers saying in effect, fice, he never sits down for more “Liookit! Our shelves are empty|than 30 seconds at a time; keeps and we haven't any pots and pans pacing the floor. Le We want more pots and | Knows Way Around Some of it comes from consumers, He knows his way around Washvelling, “Uncle! We can't find any ington. He was here in NRA days, baby buggies, and we got babies.” and he was an assistant to Nelson 'Or, from lady riveters: “We gotta in the old OPM. He took charge of have more bobby pins to maintain aircraft priorities, then served as our morale.” head of Part of it may come from worried branch. He left Washington at the labor organizations complaining, end of 1941 to go back to Dun & “Hey! The war department has Bradstreet, was called back to
Arthur D. Whiteside
just eut back a contract for electric Washington 15 months later to head!
|gadgets and some of our union Up civilian supply. Knowing iron
members are temporarily out of a and steel,
essential military {ments for bullets. Knowing busiBig Job Ahead ness from his Dun & Bradstreet] Into the center of this complex background, he should be in a posi-
mess steps the office of civilian re- tion to appraise civilian demands against civilian needs.
Demand Exceeds Needs
But--“what people want,” said Whiteside, “is not what they need.” He went on to admit that nobody now knows what civilians really
(against
board, charged with the responsibil- | ity of seeing that the civilian front {does not break down during war ‘time, and that it is hitting on all eight when the boys come home. At the head of this organization is Arthur D. Whiteside, president of Dun & Bradstreet. He rates now as a vice chairman of WPB and he
of how much or what kinds of goods there are in inventories, except for
[reports direct to WPB boss Donald the few rationed items like automo- |
M. Nelson. biles, tires, refrigerators, This Whiteside is something of a!
character. He is of medium height, claims on civilian requirements how
IN BRIEF—
The OPA objected vigorously to the Hudson & Manhattan railroad proposal that it charge 10 cents fare on its downtown New York lines until it ean get priorities for materials to make 9-cent tokens. ” ” »
AT CHICAGO SOLD
CHICAGO, July 22 (U. P.).—At-
Illinois today (controlling stock in the Civic Opera | Building on condition that opera will
Bridgeport Machine Co. declared [ve tontinen Tor he Ret 10 yours, a $28 dividend, clearing up arrears Controlling stock in the huge on the 77% preferred stock, plans: building, which was constructed by 'to change name to Bridgeport Oil the late Samuel Insull, is owned by Co. trustees of the Chicago Music
foundation. The trustees decided to Isell the stock to General Finance |Corp. to obtain money to meet the annual opera deficit. The foundation's trustees were forced to seek funds for financing the opera because the building has la $9,985,000 mortgage against it and 'all net income from operations of of Cleveland the property must be paid to the Co.,
» ” »
The wealthy landowners of Argentina are frarkly worried over
dustrialization of that country, said Harold J. T. Horan, former Argentine staff member of Time magazine, 4 & #4 Austin Powder Co. was fined $2000 in federal court in Metropolitan Life Insurance after pleading nolo which holds the first mortgage. | contendere to a charge of conspir-| General Finance offered a net fig-
acy to illegally fix prices on com- ure of $125.000 for the stock. The | Monsanto
| mercial explosives and blasting sup- sale, however, required approval of | plies. The indictments included siX the attorney general because
zones throughout the country and tryst. | established “collusive” price ares
ee sow sa HATION HAS 76,704 ABANDONED FARMS
The 10,000th medium rolled off the assembly line at the WASHINGTON, July 22 (U. P.).| | —Scattered about the landscape of
Chrysler tank arsenal yesterday, Chrysler received its first tank order Aug. 15, 1940, = ” » A proposal to cut rates of the Bell the U7, 8. today are 76,704 idle and | | Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania by | | about $1,300,000 has been aban- | doned by the public utility commis- 282 acres of land important to crop, | sion. The commission votes to cut and livestock production, the bu-| {only the out-of-state long-distance peau of the census announced to- | rates by $600,000 a year, leaving the | | day.
! intra state tariff structure un-| | changed.
Most of the abandoned farms, the census said, are in New England nd the Middle Atlantic states, while the state of Towa has only 98 | farms idle—the smallest number of any state. Nearly one-third of all farms reported idle were said to be the] | result of worn-out land, erosion, drought and crop failure. Some | 12,000 were abandoned because of a {change in occupation or other rea-
P. Ballantine & Sons purchased | 50 per cent of the stock of Christian | Feigenspan Brewing Co., founded | in Newark, N. J, in 1875. Price | was not revealed. ” = » Aircraft Accessories Corp. bought controlling interest in the Phonette | | Co. of America, Los Angeles manufacturer of radio parts. | sons of the owner. 4 8.3 Comparatively few farms were Marco Chemicals of Philadelphia abandoned during the depression | will move to Sewaren, N. J., where vears when industrial workers | it has leased quarters from the Vul- | | flocked back to the farm, Only ‘can Detinning Co. Continental Can 12.4 per cent were given up between | Co. and Vulcan Detinning have ac- 1931 and 1033, while over one- hall quired a substantial interest in the total were reported abandon Marco Chemicals. | from 1935 “0 1938.
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Bobby Pins or Bullets? Civilian Supply
his white hair is crew-cropped, and |
the OPM iron and steel!
Whiteside can balance] expressed indignation at the job. How's about letting them make civilian requirements for bobby pins annoyance, but they are not conplanned faire of Washington to provide waffle irons.” “and had them with the fortunes of war continued to be asked that a general investigation | the great destruction and pe made of the situation
require-
need. There is no real conception |
Whiteside believes that all the? you'll
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HEAVIER HOGS ugher Problems
RISE 5 CENTS
Prices Are Unchanged for
are exaggerated. more of evervthing because he always has had more. The ability of business to survive in spite of shortages is demon- Pounds. - strated, says Whiteside, by the hardware stores. REvervone thought| Prices on heavier hogs advanced they'd have to close down because 5 cents at the Indianapolis stockmetal shortages stopped the manu- |yards today, while weights under facture of many things that they | 225 polinds were sold. By their own initiative, the yesterday, stores got busy and found other ministration announced. things to sell and they're still go-| Today's top remained at $14.25 for ing. But now it is necessary to!good to choice 200 to 210-pounders. know how much longer they can|One load of choice hogs brought keep going on this basis. $14.35. Receipts included 7225 hogs, 375 cattle, 425 calves and 850 sheep, HOGS (7225) 140 pounds 160 pounds 180 pounds 200 pounds 220 pounds 240 pounds 270 pounds «= 300 pounds ! 330 pounds 330- 360 pounds Medium — 160- 200 pounds Packing Bows
Good to cholce-— 270- 300 pounds
Morale Important
Any day now, Whiteside's office | of civilian requirements thinks it | will know the answers not only So | hardware but for other civilian need. Field surveys are being con- | ducted by WPB's own staff. Saving the morale of the home- | front is considered just as impor-| [tant as its physical wellbeing, and | WPB studies thus far have revealed | some curious situations: | Bobby pins are as important as bullets if they mean the difference | 3%- Fi Pounds between women war workers doing | 360- 400 pounds . their hair at home or not being able | “40. 450 pounds ........ vay {to get into a beauty shop. no 550 pounds ..... aaa | Rubber for two-way stretch girdles is important if a corset protects an| older woman worker from fatigue at the end of the sixth hour of an! eight-hour shift, Bicycles solve transportation shortages in small towns only,
Plans Definite
| Repair parts for electric irons are] essential, Lack of silk and nylon hose is an
$12,254 13.25 13.006 14.15
16014.200 14.30 14.20% 14 35 | 14.15@ 14.20 | 14.10@ 14.20 | 14.0561 14.15 13.05@ 14.05 13.06 14.00
12.50@ 13.50
13.156@ 13.50 | 13.050 13.40 | 13.00% 13.40 « [email protected]
12.754 12.90 12.50@ 12.75 fediume NL 550 pounds 11.25@ 12.35 Slaughter Pigs Medium and Good— 90- 120 pounds
CATTLE (313)
Steers Cholce— T00- 900 900-1100 1100-1300 1300-1500
+ [email protected] | 15.00 16. 25 | 15.25@ 16.50 [email protected] |
14.00@ 15. 00 | 14.00@ 15.00 14.25 @ 15, 25 | 14.26 15. 50
13.00@ 14.00 | 13.00414.00 |
pounds pounds pounds pounds
pounds pounds pounds pounds
1100-1300 1300-1500 Medium 700-1100 pounds 1100-1300 pounds Common
sidered essential. Make-up materials 700-1100 pounds
are essential. | Up to now, guesswork and argument have governed allocations for various goods. But with new determinations now being made by | Whiteside's organization there will, be a basis for revised claims on materials for the fourth quarter of the year. What the civilian economy really needs—to remove a hardship | —it will get. Many of these hardship needs- will be local or regional only, and they will be supplied re- | gionally to make up shortages. Begtes And, you'll have to make up your Bitte {mind to get by on what they say| Good (all weights) need—not what you want— Menium till ll the war blows over.
Cholce— 600- 800 pounds 800-1000 pounds Good— 600- 800 pounds 800-1000 pounds Medium-— 500- 900 pounds Common 500- 900 pounds
Cows (all
14.50@ 15.50 14.50 15.50
13.2561 14.50 13.25@ 14.50
12,004 13.25
10.50% 12.00
weights) [email protected] 10.00@ 11.25 [email protected] |
Cutter and common Canner
Bulls (all (Yearlings
weights) Excluded)
12.75 13.75
12.50@ 13.50 10.00@ 12.50 8.75 10.00 CALVES (425) ' Vealers (all weights) Good to choice . 15.50@ 18
00 | Common and medium [email protected] Cull (75 lbs. up) [email protected]
Feeder and Stocker Cattle and Calves
Net Change 'a | Cholee— 500- 800 pounda 800-1050 pounds Goode 15 500- 800 : : 0-105 Am : TL ] Tih HE Am Tob I ] : ) 500-1000 pounds AY a] . : om CHI mOn : 500- 900 pounds Armgur I Calves (steers) Bt = Ohio. Good and Choice— Beth Steel . 500 pounds down Medium-— 500 pounds down ba Calves (heifers) Good and Choice— 83: - | 500 pounds down ...... vevees 13.50014.50 & oi 34 —1-16 | Medium--500 pounds down [email protected] SHEEP AND LAMBS (850) Ewes (shorn)
Good and choice 5 Common and choice
Spring Lambs
Good and choice Medium and good | Common ‘
LOCAL ISSUES
Nominal quotations furnished by Indian. apolis securities dealers. Bid Asked Agents Fin Corp com ae Agents Fin Corp pfd Belt R Stk Yds com Belt R Stk Yds 67 pfd Bobbs-Merrill com Bobbs-Merrill 427, pfd 2 | Circle Theater com Comwlth Loan 5% pfd iDelta Blee COM .....ccoconnsune is | Hook Drug Co com “| Home T&T Ft W | Ind & Mich Elec *Ind Asso Tel 57% a’ Ind Hydro Elec 77 | Ind Gen Serv 6% Indpls P &
Last Allegh Corp 27% Allis-Chal Am Can
40'2 88%, « 143, Am > 3 1014 Am
14.50 14.25 |
13.50 13.25
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Borg-Warner 12.50@ 13.50
Bdgpt Brass
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Corn Prod . Bf 4 “- sl Curtiss-Wr A... i + Dome Mines .. Douglas Aire 8 Dow Chem ... 3 4 3 Wl Dresser Mfg .. 31!'. 31! 3 + VY ; . 8 4
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Elec Auto-L .. 381, 5 5 “ee . 10.00@ 11.50
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: Bonds
Algers Wins'w W RR 42% ... + | American Loan 5s 51 | American Loan 5s 46 | Cent Newspaper 4',;9 42-51 , . | Ch of Com Bldg Co 4'2s 51 .. | Citizens Ind Tel 44s 61 1, | Consol Fin 5s 60 95 Ind Asso Tel Co 3':8 70 ..... + J984 vd A P&L JVs 1 .. 4 Indpls Railways Co 5s 67 Indpls Water Co 3'2s 66 Kokomo Water Works 6s 58 . Kuhner Packing Co 4'%s 49 :.. Morris 5 & 10 Stores 5s 50 .... Muncie Water Works 5s 66 .,.105 N Ind Pub Serv 3%s 69 106
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; y Pub Tel 46s 55 tion of The Times. Richmond Water Wks 88 57 +. NEW YORK, July 21 (U. P).—
Trac Term Corp 5s 57 U. 8. Machine Corp 5s 52 *Ex-dividend. Tampa Electric Co. has voted to jo BOARD OF TRADE :eceem on or after Aug. 14 the joni $1,000,000 par amount of 17 per. cent series “A” preferred stock CHICAGO, July 22 (U. P)— ,¢ 105 and the accumulated divi- | om futures developed an irregu-
108 84 104 101 81 100
TAMPA TO REDEEM STOCK
unchanged from | the food distribution ad- |
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$14.75 HOG CEILING DUE NEXT MONTH
WASHINGTON, July 21 (U, P), ~The government prepared today to place a flat price ceiling of $14.73 per hundredweight, Chicago basis, on live hogs early in August and to tighten control of hog slaughtering and marketing by federal licensing | ot slaughterers. The war food administration ane nounced that its support price for hogs would be extended, effective [Sept. 1, to include lighter weights in an effort to conserve feed sup-
DAILY PRICE INDEX plies, Officials said it would be
NEW YORK, July 22 (U. P). _l necessary for farmers to markes
Dun & Bradstreet's daily weighted hogs at lighter weights; they re= price index of 30 basic commodities, quested that hogs not exceed 230
compiled for United Press (1930-32 Pounds. average equals 100): WFA action will extend the avers
Yesterday 170.10! age hog support price of $13.75 per Week Ago . 170.40 | hundredweight, Chicago basis, for Month Ago ... 170.09 the period Sept. 1, 1943, to March Year Ago 157.60 31, 1944, to include weights from [1943 High Apel] 2) 172.40 200 to 270 pounds, good to choice 1943 Low (Jan. 2 butcher hogs. The support price — | previously was effective only for WAGON WHEAT good to choice butcher hogs weigh Up to the close of the Chicago market | ing 240 to 270 pounds, Chicago basis, today, Indianapolis flour mills and grain | The support price for hogs weigh Fe hon dt phan SSL mf IDE 240 10 270 pounds will remain No. 2 white oats, 60c, and No. 2 red cats, | in effect for the period originally provided—through September, 1944,
2 Here Get 'E'
Two Indianapolis concerns | | will be presented the army- | | navy “E" pennant for excellence in war production. | They are the J. D, Adams Manufacturing Co., 217 S. Belmont ave., manufacturers of road building and maintenance machinery, and the Standard Margarine Co., division of Standard Brands, 1106 Roosevelt ave, first margarine manufacturer in the nation to receive the award.
| 80c} No. 3 yellow shelled corn, 97¢ per bushel, and No. 2 White shelled corn, $1.16
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
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| dend of $1.75 a share. lar trend on the board of trade today. At the end of the first hour wheat {was up 4 1%, oats off 4 to up %, ‘and rye unchanged to off 4. | In the uwJly options wheat was (up % from the previous $1.44, |oats off 's from the previous 69':, {and rye unchanged from the pre- | vious $1.07. .
LOUDON STOCK SUSPENDED
NEW YORK, July 22 (U, P).— The New York Curb Exchange has suspended dealings in common stock {of the Loudon Packing Co. Terre | Haute, Ind. due to termination of the transfer and registry facilities | for the issue. The company’s assets ‘have been sold to Standard Brands, ‘and Loudon is in the process of | dissolution.
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There is a real American job for real Americans like you at Bridgeport ‘Brass. If you are not in vital work, if you are physically fit, here's your chance to produce real implements of war. No special skill is required—Bridgeport Brass trains you; you will become a hard-hitting home front hero. When you drive, take the South Holt road—the employment office is just opposite Stout Field or take a ‘bus on the circle downtown. Employment office is open from 8:00 A. M. to 8:00 P, M. Monday through Friday, 8:00 A. M. to 4:00 P. M. on Saturday. Convenient parking— no gates to pass to reach the employment office.
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