Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1943 — Page 14
ny| nary fountain
a single tube the sise of an ordi-
hter at
Ps in: the
Flashlight bulb
Savas the
" KNOCKED ALMOST OUT~Indiana’s buliding limestone Indus-
there Production how is running
8. employment t on a special <0. get new ye made 10}
minum
ght foundries; - there aré 18 iron
LATEST GADGET is a cigaret ghter; flashlight and fountain pen pencil so compact they fit into
abblt 1/10th as much as It Averaged between 1919 ana 1941
stone. mills are now in war work
| of some kind.
" » . ODDS AND ENDS: Onion grow-
ers. in northern Indiana report the
|
{be mixed at the
onions are smaller this year be{cause they are harvesting earlier; fearing wet rot this fall. . , . Lane [Bryant's sales last year to women were $8 million over the previous year but profits fell from $5.20 a share to $4.28 a share, chiefly due to taxes. . , ; Newest food to be de-
g | hydrated is mushrooms.
RAILROAD BUILDS FIRE-FIGHTING CAR
NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (U P) == New York Central railroad has completed the first of 10 fire-fighting cars: designed to insure the safety of vital war shipments such as oil, PE Williamson, president, announced today. 5 The fire-fighting car is equipped with an 8000 gallon locomotive tank tender and gasoline pump... Water may be applied as a spray which creates a blanket of steam, or it may. nozzle with a chemical which produces a foam to blanket a blaze from such & volatile
“| Hquid as gasoline,
Oars in the new fleet will placed at strategic locations selected
1s! With consideration to the movement
of oil in tank cars.
Hh SrA A en ete ter bibilin
.| done.
WHEEL CHAIRS Why Buy One? Rent One At - HAAG'S ALL-NIGHT DRUG STORE
be
-OPA hopes to check prices, instead
throughout the country, though it
Here. as 5150 Hogs Atrive At Stockyards.
| Hog prices at the Indianapolis
The top Was $15.15 for good to choice 210 to 325-pounders. ~Re-
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ROGS (3150)
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LIQUOR PRICES
WORRY THE OPA
Fear Gouging May Loose
Forces That Brought Prohibition.
By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—Fedr that liquor price gouging is causing resentment which is betting in motion the forces that led to atonal prohibition in 1819 is being expressed here by some spokesmen of the liquor industry. Price ceiling regulations of the office of price administration have been largely ineffectual and are being jettisoned now in favor of new controls.” A host of Johnny-come-lately brands of liquor have been rushed to dealers’ shelves by distillers or rectifiers seeking to avoid ceilings placed on old established brands as of March 1, 1942 OPA officials say they have ._received reports of black market operations in’ liquor, both at whole sale and retail. In areas where whisky is scarce . it . is changing [hands both in case lots and by. the | bottle for undér.-the-table money considerations in addition to lat price payments,
Fear Bootlegging
Manufacture of fllicit bootleg liquor‘ apparently is not increasing: bechuse of inability of moonshiners to get Sugai And other ingredients ih large quantities. But some offi. clals believe that And when théy do become availa resent high costs of whisky i be an in. centive to a revival of bootlegging. OPA officials concede their past
Who Said Tax Is Simplified?
NEW YORK, Sept. '1 (U. P), ~Taxpaying is never simple, not even with the “simplified” form 1040-ES. Experts of the Wall Street Journal estimated today that Americans will spend, in making out their Sept. 15 returns, enough manhours to build 100 warpisnes,
IN BRIEF—
Ray r. ‘Sparrow, vice president of P. R. Mallory & Co. of ‘Indianapolis, and E. A. Nicholas, president of Farnsworth Television &. Radio Corp, of Ft. Wayne, have been named mémbers of the postwar committee of the Radio Manufacturers’ association, ®» 8» Transcontinental & Western Alr, Inc, plans immediate filing with the civil aeronautics board of an application to operate between Los Angeles and Honolulu, and in the near future expects to y for “service across the Atlantie-and to other parts of the world" ‘ing 10 President Jack Frye. 8 2» A sharp migration of residents Away from thé wheat belt into Aréas of war production of army camps took place in the three years ‘ended last March as total U. 8 population rose by about 5,000,000 as a result of a record number of | marriages and births, the national industrial conference board said today. s » uw 8 a
A $75,000 plant that will increase
énforemeent of price controls. There have been 400 to 500 viola-! tions cases in the last two months, including some in which - out-of-court: settlements were made, but this probably has been very small in comparison to the humber of viola-| tions committéed:
Enforcement n district rR
{offices generally is being done by
the same force of men enforcing ceilings on food and cost of living items, and in most cases has been sporadic. Officials say they do not!
New Regulations The new regulations by which
of setting a flat ceiling a8 of an earlier date, a8 did the genéfal meaximum price controls of last yeas, limit the mark-up, or margin, which wholesalers and retailers may take. Under them, the wholesaler 1s allowed a 18 per cent markup on whisky, 25 per cent on wine and 20 per cent on cordials, The fetailer's mark-up is set at not more thah 33% per cent on whisky, 50 per cént on wine and 46 per cent on cordials and liquers. These controls, OPA believes, will establish ceiling prices at levels below those now prevailing
18 conceded that unwarranted mare gin increases might oteur. -To guard against this, regional
revise percentage mark-ups downward where they are found excesfive, New controls are also being plained at the processors’ level, and if the violations continue as flagrant a8 in the past, some officials say that there will be drastic new enforcement action,
Reports Called In
The OPA is now requiring reports from distillers and retailers
inability to do a thorough job of | tion of plasmochin, an antimalarial,
OPA offices are being empowered to”
Winthrop Chemical Co.'s produc-
by 300 per cent was under construetion today at Rensselaer, N, Y,
The plant is expected to bé dom-}
{pleted Sépt. 15 and in operation around Nov. 15, cording to Dr: Klumpp, Winthrop president,
Theodore G. is
used in combination with atabrine ]
in fighting malaria and is used by American armed forces. =i » . A special stockholders’ meeting (of Armour & Co. of Illinois, the
parent organization, was held to- |p have the personnel necessary to do} Gay to approve 4 merger with Arthe enforcement Job as it should be mour & Co. of Delsware, subsidtintated :
iary group, to effect An es saving of $2,225,000 anhually,
{éarn why it has been deeméd necessary to jump prices. TAA Ohne concern reporting 49 quotations on & brand of 4-year-dld str ~at 00-proof rye whisky in Mar 1 ¢ for Quarts as Against $29.00 oe A new brand of 90-proof of fe Sadat a ™ processor MAY not the Same, but OPA officials indicate théy are not impréssed by most such assertions. Charges as~high as #5 and #8 4 pint at retail have been reported in some areas, especially around southern Army camps.
‘Name Brands’ Gone
Industty people here, seknowt:| Treg the almost complete disap-
1 ITIRE PROGRAM
Plasmochin, ac-| 5
T0 BE REDUCED
Jeffers Hopes to Beat Goa s
By Boosting Output in Present Plants.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (U, P). —Rubber Director William H. Jeffers disclosed today that the pro= posed $05,000,000 program to expand synthetic rubber had been re-examined and scaled downward to an unrevealed extent. He also revealed that a drive has been Initisted to exceed the 1948 goal of 5,000,000 synthetic tires, An-
other 30,000,000 tires are to bé produced next year, Following an all-day conference with representatives of tire. and
facilities |}
1
Joins poung pound pound
. 13.50@ 13.
4% pounds ranenshasvers 13 38013.68 i. 340 850 pounds. .civeinine [email protected]
Slanrhter Pigs ium ‘and Good— 550 pounds
CATTLE (1068)
rH ifs
ahiessnssnid ‘16.50 18.28
3 bag
Hi
ssasbsaia
pou 1100-1300 pounds Common 700-1100 pounds oo 308 young - pounds $00-1 pounds 600- 0 pounds 800-1000 pounds
14.25@ 15.50 14.25015.75
12.756 14.25 TIT I TS 12.75g 14.28
« 11.00912.75
tube manufacturers and the United | Son ses
Rubber Workers (C.1.O) and
affilinted unions... Jeffers. reported! Good that the rubber program is “in good | Meer Cann
shape. ” - The purpose of the conférence, he said, was to determine whether it was possible or practicable to increase the'output of tires with the present equipment and facilities through better co-operation between Iabor and management, © “It was theconsensus of the meeting that as a result of the exchange of opinion that it would be possible to iherease the output of tires with the present existing equipment and facilities through béttér ‘co-opera-tion and more attention to details on thé part of both the men and management,” he said.
LOCAL ISSUES
Nominal quotitigns furnished Indian. polis securities d ANTE, id Asked |
spe spar.
Bely "ee k a 4% wid. we
Bis
MN 81% ..
ne Wagne iv pid. Hall
- 8 wl n-vitend,
LOCAL PRODUCE
aa breed hens, 23¢; Leghorn hens, €.
B i {1bs,, 2%c.
BE Swi 4 14
ook Boat gore, uw, de
Lowe Butterfate BN
9: 3,
Good 4! Medium and
’ E818 Am © 4008.50
Balls (all weights) (Yearlings excluded)
Medium “Cutter anid common CALVES (308) eatery (all weights) Good ti choi Common And medium <...., Ay Cull (78 Ibs. up)
Feeder ind BiScker Calin and Calves
Cholce—~ : ais 500-800 pounds 12.75@ 14.00 800-1050 RS esnanen seve [email protected]
Good . 500- 200 . pounds [email protected] 300-1800 pounds ....i
[email protected] SHEEP AND LAMBS (M15) Ewes (horn) Good and choles ... Common and choice Spring Lambs and choles ...
besanidune
+19 EX- PERKINS MEN
IN OEW DISMISSED
* WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (U. P).—
ley, of the officé of economic warfare on administrative procedures led to the resignation of Morris Rosenthal, assistant director In charge of imports, reliable sources said today, Rosenthal’s résighation at the re-
queést of Crowley was announced
yesterday by the latter and all Rosenthal would say of it was that Crowley “wanted his own man.” Rosenthal Was replaced by Sidney H. Scheuer in one of a series of staf! changes made Sows, The departure of ne heimer, general counsel] of OEW, who was replaced by Assistant Attorneéy General Hugh B. Cox, was said to have no connection with the resignation of Rosenthal. However, both had been closely linked with
Beira on
Wholesale Commadity P Price Index Rises Less Than in 1918
céipts included 5150 hogs, 1050 cat- | tie, B00 calves and 2475 sheep.
i personnel
ververs [email protected]] aa cipess [email protected] | ; [email protected]
[email protected]| 11.50013.25 Pen
Risa o& #
Std 14.00
A clash with Director Leo T. Crow-|
x ey _ Keith H. Hoffman o Keith H. Hoffman, Tomer. director of Motors’ Packard Bedre division at. Warren, O, today became personnel director of the |Allison division here, O, T. Kreusser, who has been acting as personnel director temporarily, will again devote full time as director of service and training, E. B. Newill, Allison general manager, said. Mr. Hoffman was born near Andérson, went to public school there and graduated from Ball State Teachers’ college in Muncie: He taught and coached basketball in the Anderson schools and studied at General Motors institute ‘at Flint,. Mich., before returning to the Delco-Remy division in Anderson as director of education. He became personnel director at Packard Electric in December, 1936. In Warren Mr, Hoftman served on the war manpower commission, was president of - the Trumbull County Foremen’s club and an active Ki. wanian,
N. Y. Stocks
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13% hi 154 8% 0%
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Atl Refining . . 2% But 0 pl .. 10% Beth Sieel 7 pf 118% Borg-Warner... 34%:
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* Complete New York stock quotations are carried daily in the final edition of The Times,
BENDIX 10 REDEEM REST OF ‘A’ SHARES
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Sept. 1 (U. P.) ~All outstanding class A Shares of Bendix Home Appliances, Ine. will be rédeemed on or before Nov. 30, it was announced today. Outstanding sharés number 21,007. Completion of redemption of the
mon stock on the books. All mort. gages, shares have been redeemed, retired or converted.
BUSINESS AT A GLANCE
Eagle Lock Co. year ended June 30 net income $93,005 or $1.19 a share vs, na or $2.24 previous year,
National Leck Ce. year neded $964,952 previous year.
bushels over an earlier estimate,
eaten U. 8. STAT WASHINGTON , EMENT ernment _. for surrent fiseal yed? Through fo 30 pared with & year er ;
wl aan Year. i 4,298, 40.1% 95 $10,077 z= war endiig iy 260, oy 1s : 330 romp Cath bates. 8.97 Hi na oes i 515,351, 147, ig a; n a 130731438
Working bal... a Public debt 06,126,731,438 23,202,504, 23,754,261,548
Gola reserve. .
INDIANAPOLIS s cane mouse. :
class A stock will leave only com-| debentures and preferted]
Juhe 30 net income $536,030 vs. *
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