Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1943 — Page 6

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Local War Plant noreasing; |

Draft. 1s Not b Blato; It's the Quitters

rh ARE TOO MANY: QUITTERS IN TOWN. Even

| quitter i in ‘wartime. is one

too many but the way workers

r e just quitting war plants is reaching serious proportions.

‘When a worker quits, a

Jn 3 are available, the : turnover rate was 7.43 per cent as against

{ ‘that ‘if we ‘didn’t have the labor stabilization plan ‘ here, the turnover rate would be: much, much . higher, ‘The trouble, ". they say, is not «in the skilled worker or the fellow who has been on the job for a long time and has always: worked. The trouble is in the new workers, ‘those ‘who haven't worked: before, many of them women. They get a ‘war job to pay taxes and then quit. Or to make a down payment on a ‘home or buy a fur coat. Or hus‘band goes to the army and they

‘quit to be near him. Some of them i

just can’t take it, the work is

2 ‘hard. As a consequence more than

Nor can you blame d miss of

workers by the companies. That |S? figure, about 11 to 13 per cent of| 900-11

tite total, has changed very little.

- ‘Employers are trying all sorts of | Medium

remedies to keep workers.” They are

using ‘exit interviews,” trying to|Commo:

find out and remove the reason for

a worker's quitting. They are pay- |Cholce—

ing bonuses for staying on the job.

They send personnel department|Go

visitors to homes of those who don’t show up for work. They try to find day care service for children. Some concerns even help get groceries and do banking and such: family tasks for workers.

LOCAL ISSUES

¥ Nominal quotations furnished by Indian. rities dealers. d Asked orp com

ion A;

new one has to be hired and

OG PREESISE 5 T0 15 CENTS

Jumps to $14.90 Here; 6950 Received.

Prices on hogs advanced 5 io 15 cents at the. Indianapolis stockyards today, the food distribution sr red reported. The top for 200-210 pound porkers rose to $1490. Receipts included 6950 hogs, 2000 cattle,” 525 calves and 1300 sheep.

HOGS (6950) 120- 140 pounds 60 ds

270~ 300 poun [email protected] 300- 330 pounds asariisae «io [email protected] - 830- 360 poun [email protected] « [email protected]

[email protected] [email protected]

[email protected] Slaughter Pigs Medium and Good— 225- 550 pounds ;

CATTLE (2000)

Choice— 700- 900 pounds 900-1100 pounds 1100-1300 pounds 1300-1500 pounds 0d

pound pound 1190-1300 pound 1300-1500 "pound

700-1100 nds 1100-1300 % Sounds

16.50 . 15.50

+ 14.00 anevee esessss 14.00

16.50 16.50

15.00

700~ 300 15.28

[email protected]

[email protected] [email protected]

700-1100 00 pounds

600- 800 pounds

800-1000 pounds [email protected] od—

+ [email protected] [email protected]

: [email protected] Cows (all weights) : i Hal. a5

Bulls (all weights) (Yearlings excluded)

[email protected] [email protected]

7.715@ 9.25

CALVES (526) Vealers (all weights)

mmon and medium v ] Cull (75 lbs. up) Feeder’ and Cattle and Calves Steers Choice— s+17. Bua

[email protected] [email protected] sera dies [email protected] [email protected]

[email protected]

i 500 pounds down [email protected] ~ Calves (heifers) Good and Choice—

§00 pounds down [email protected] Medium—

500 pounds down [email protected] SHEEP AND LAMBS (1300)

3 Ewes (shorm) Good and choice

9.50911.00

LOCAL PRODUCE

Heavy breed hens, 24'%c; Leghorn hens,

Broilers,” fryers and rosters, - under: § 1bs., 27%e. Old roosters, 1 Segs—Current IR 54 1bs.. and up,

/Bgga—Grade 4 | A large, 43c; grade | grade A small, 26s; no

a oF 7 . He 1, Boe. Butterfat—No, L

How T0 PAY OFF YOUR DEBTS ‘WITH AN HONOR LOAN

Here's a simple way fo clean up your old hills on a regular monthly payment plar

NE some ; extra ' cash quickly? Want to pay off old debts? Apply ousehold Finance for the money He ey job is welcome to apply for an Honor oan of $20 to $300. Just give ut a

loan costs $1.55 1 repaid in three monthly instalte of 38.55 each, but only 3%

_ when repaid at the end of a week. A $50 loan repaid in four monthly instalments of $13.46 each costs $3.84 — or if repaid in one month costs $1.50. Honor Loans are made without en-

dorsers—without security of any kind

: tr, urance, taxes, _— als True for almost any

purpose. Ifa loan can help you phone, + Household Finance.

write or visit

¢.

Top for 200-210 Pounders

5 | attention of the secretary of war 10a 31 %5e|by a presentment of a grand jury in New York which. grand. jury also indicted’ the companies involved.

[email protected] | bany,

*1200° re Go

9300+ | PLANES.

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SOURCE: U. S. ARMY AIR FORCE

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AQUA STILL HAS |

Despite Pattersons Order To Contrary. By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

break a monopoly in fueling systems for army airports, after being advised of the indictment of Aqua Systems, Inc., of New York.

Undter-secretary Patterson’s mem-

orandum for the chief of engineers|pan 14.00015.50 is enlightening. It is dated July 15, 1942

It reads: “The commanding general of the

[email protected]| army air. forces has transmitted to|Servel In me original and supplemental re-|siq [email protected] | ports of thé board of officers in: re Std Oi Ind action of the federal grand jury in the matter of investigation of Aqua

Systems, Ine. Flotation Systems, Sun & 11, [email protected] Inc. et al. Ui

“Prices High” “The matter was called to the

“I note that it appears that Aqua

Systems, Inc., and its related com-|:

Flotation Systems, Inc., have been charging high prices for their installations, or parts thereof, because of patent control. “In so far as hydraulic systems are installed in the future and you are unable to obtain reasonable prices from the holders of the alleged patents, will you please ‘procure the parts from other suppliers, leaving the patentees to their remdy in the court of claims , ,.”

Gets Brushoft

The term “alleged .patenis” was chosen advisedly, for the justice department held that the Patent claims ‘were ‘specious. ' Despite this Instruction, the army

hundreds of the . so-called Aqua “traps” for sepdrating water from gasoline in hydraulic pumping’ systems, and without: asking for bids or in any way announcing the purchase. One manufacturer of sephrators who inquired was dismissed with the announcement that such matters were “war secrets.” The house military affairs committee has some pertinent information submitted by a manufacturer of separators . who . was. acting ‘on the assumption that this busihess .was to be opened: be to others,

Told Bids Not Permitted

Hearing that 10 separators were *|to be installed af a field in Florida, he inquired last November ' (four months after the Patterson memorandum) at the mechanical section of the U. S. engineers about his company supplying separators which had been given a 99.5 rating in bureau of standards tests. He was referred to the procurement official, “ Daniel This official, he related, told him that the separators had been purchased from Aqua that morning ‘The manufacturer said he asked Mr. Drummong whether ‘bids had been invited and was told that this was

ITS MONOPOLY i

3{ Army Continues Puchases 3

Co| WASHINGTON; ‘Aug. 16—Under- So Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson moved in over a year ago to|Do

year The company still retains its]|int Nickel monopoly despite Mr. Patterson's 7 [email protected] order: to the army to buy élsewhere if prices were too high, and de-|rF°L spite findings of the bureau of 15.00016.00 standards - that Aqua’s hydraulic|y [email protected]| pumping process was not efficient in separating water from gasoline.|gp;

Wrigley » 68 Yellow Tr. .... Young Sheet ..

mong ‘for the aiithority, and was

air forces since has bought. several |.

N. Y. Stocks

WHEAT AND RYE

- FUTURES WEAK

1 0ats ‘Maintain Firm Tone

In ‘Early Trading at Chicago.

CHICAGO, . Aug. 16 (U.. P.).—

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not permitted. He asked a Drum-

referred to a memorandum from: Ist. Col. John’ I, ‘Perion, ‘air forces section, office of the chief of ‘engineers, which was for the attention of Mr.

Drummong in the: ‘materials . and|

equipment section, This = memorandum is. headed “purchase of water separators for air, forces gasoline fueling systems,” nd dnted Sept, 2, 1942, It starts out: “1, In accordance with requests from field officers concerned, , you are requested to . purchase water separators for gasoline fueling systems at the following air force stations” (and then lists 17 stations involving a total of 178 complete units).

“3. Purchase requests for water

separators prepared by your section are returned herewith, ; “3. This request, is: made because itis understood that Aqua Systems,

value although not 100 per cent effective.”

Thus ‘Col. Person indicated 'his|

acquiescence in “the . fiction - miantained by Aqua that its fueling system. requires the use of its own separator, There is reported to. be nothing

in the files about the guarantee|

WERLOned. in this memorandum,

WAGON WHEAT

Tp to the clogs of the Chiengs make

War spending 9,514,491,00 Receipts 3, Net Cash balance . {Working Bal. Public debt vo la Gold. reserve’

rowly irregular on the Board of Trade today, and, oals maintained a firm tone. . Af the end of the first hour wheat was unchanged to .off 3 cent a

% bushel from the previous. $1.43@

1.42%; oats up % to % from 68c,

%|and rye unchanged to off % from -.|96@957%¢.

Wheat moved within a narrow range. The market opened easy, rallied briefly on resting demand and mill buying before slipping fractionally below the previous level. Commission houses acted on both sides of the rye pit. Elevator interests were on the selling side arid prices followed an uneven trend. Not much trade took place in oats futures. * Busihess' was largely confined to: evening up in Seniomber contracts.

U. S-STATEMENT WASHINGTON, fue. 16 - (U.. P.) - ernment expenses recepits yo the

current fiscal year gad so Avg, 13 com-

Pare Wh a ye ea

.$ 10,386,018 310 $ 7.306, 068,15 ,324,851

g.2 ihas | “8

, 86: C14 1 619,008 23,305,9 36,358

Charges Eastman Seoretly|

Abandoned “Featherbed’ Methods on T. P. & Ww.

- CHICAGO, FINE 18. WU. By. —

managers as unworkable,

McNear charged in his interim

report to T. P. and ‘W. stockhold=-

ers that the government refused to] give the railroad any pay compen-|

sation for the use of its properties or agree to an impartial investiga tion | of. facts involved in: the dis-

| pute,

“Joseph P. Eastman, director. of the office of defense transportation, who operates the line, admits that he secretly changed rules which he inaugurated on our railroad in July, 1942" and which, for the most part, he Drdared ‘us to accept,” McNear Untaxed Profits $3,000,000 President ' Roosevelt ordered the railroad placed under government control after McNear consistently defied war labor board and other government agencies seeking to set{tle a dispute between him’ and the railroad brotherhoods. The seizure terminated an 84-day strike. McNear said Eastman’s abandonment of the “featherbed” rules was admission that he could not operate under them. The government has increased train miles only 3.3 per cent, although the ‘untaxed profits amount to $3,000,000, he said. Company stockholders who are entitled to the interést payments on which they depend and which are now one year in default, McNear said, and workers should have pay compensation. McNear said among the “wasteful” rules relaxed by Eastman were calling crews several hours before they * were needed, placemeny of both a yard crew and a road cow for switching at the terminal of the 84-mile line, additional pay for spotting cars of perishable goods on sidings, and a day's pay for each leg of the trip if a erew turned around and .came back when more than 30 miles from the starting terminal.

A. F. OF L. CERTIFIED FOR CRAM WORKERS

The national labor relations board has certified Local No. 23422 of the A. F of L. as bargaining agent for the employees of George 'F.Cram Co., Inc, 730 E. Washington st. map makers, as a result of a recent election in which 51 voted for the union and 10 against. All production J maintenance oo | employees, except supervisory and 55 | clerical workers in the main office, phical workers, printers, bookbinders and truck drivers, are affected by the order.

engineers at Washington, D. C., is dress, which preceded his official 'J. D. Adams Co., makers of road

Gol. Hany A. Mohtgmers. executive officer, supply division, U,

shown delivering ‘the principal presentation of the award to § building and earth-moving.

ment, in a ceremony at the plant, 217 S. Belmont ave, last Fri ay

President Rov X. Adams of the company Is st his right.

J. Ralph Fenstermaker, president of Hugh J, Baker & Co., local building supplies firm, has been appointed to the national advisory committee of the National Federa-|. tion. of Sales Executives, which is working with the Committee . for Economic Development, ‘wrx =

Employers liability insurance for farmers, with indemnity. limited to $5000 for an employee, will be available soon, according to the National Bureau of Casualty & Surety Underwriters. x» » ~ The OPA today prohibited “kickbacks” from retailers to packers vhich the agency said were being nereasingly used, particularly ‘in New York and Pennsylvania, to evade’ the wholesale price ceilings on beef and veal, » » ® Average pay of * workers in "all manufacturing industries- in June was 95.9 cents an hour, an increase of more than 13 per cent above the average for June, 1942, the labor deparkment reports. ; x =

The federal government purchased more than 40 per cent of all goods and services sold in the United States in 1942, “well over twice the percentage taken by government expenditures in 1938,” the National Industrial Conference board reports. ” ». =. The war food administration says that ‘plants which use corn to make war materials are running full blast again after a temporary slump, due to a shortage of corn on the open market. ri

Business in Brief—

Deliveries of Vought F4U-1' oon, sair fighter planes to the U. S. navy in ‘the first seven months this yeay were 96 per cent greater than in the year-ago period, according to B. Beissel, ‘general manager of Chance Vought aircraft division of United Aircraft Corp. nox =» Joseph Liston, special assistant to’ WPB Chairman Donald Nelson, said last night at Chicago that present production of war material does not meet the demand from the fighting. fronts, He urged a 30 per cent ine crease in production each month for the rest of the year.

None / The SEC has denied approval of

a voluntary plan of corporate si plification of the United Corp. and” >

+ |ordered that the company cease to

be’ a holding company, - declaring that its “continued existence constitutes an undue and unnecessary complexity in its Roding company Sysiemn. " » » » Hg ' The Illinois, Central railroad to day applied to the ICC for autho: ity to issue equipment trust tificates in the amount of $15,000 000 to pay off an RFC loan. The securities will be sold on the open ° market.

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Construction of additional m facturing facilities at the Mo. Chemical Co. plastic plant, due to: increased demand’ for high impacs phenolic plastics compounds in war ™

aplications, has been approved

the: WPB. iu

EVEN THOUGH 1 STILL WORK

FOR MY

LOW

, PRE-WAR WAGE

“win and now is no time for waste.

T is , very easy. to waste = anything that is very cheap i in cost—"

and Electricity i is no “exception. However, there’s a_war to)

Today, as in the past, there is plenty of Electricity to] serve’

‘your known needs in home, office, store and industry. But in

an effort to save fuel, transportation, and manpower for Uncle -

Sam, we're asking you not to waste Electricity so we can help the other fellow ‘who is also carrying a terrific war load. ‘This does not mean to refrain from using Electricity Wim and where it is needed —just don’ t needlessly waste it. This'is’ . a time when alt types; o of Lifeatrie users can join, sogetier and.

help our war. effort. *s

Fon instarice, avoid waste in athe use of oh e by operating: them efficiently. Reduce. ¢ 3 mental lighting. by the maximum practical,

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ctric. : appl ances ve, and’ ‘ornas) amount, and. turn.

off lights and appliances when not actually needed. Remsen, 4 pu : |

4 waste ] in wartime. is not patriotic.

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