Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1943 — Page 6
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that | —Dollar volume of general mer-
way becaus#: the days (and manhours to work) grow shorter, weather is less favorable and less of the crop is lost when the harvest is earlier. “There is little incentive; from a
is a great need for having the ¢ as soon as possible. freight embargo is slow soybean ship-
. RUMOR making the y “some government agency” has a plan for 25,000 new
but army-navy offi-|
made $33,000,000 profit on air mail Jast year; it lost $13,000,000 on air
{larger quantity or better quality goods
RETAIL SALES * HIGHEST EVER
Reach 10 Billion Dollars a! Year, U. S. Survey
Indicates. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U.P).
chandise store sales in the first half of this year were estimated today by the department of commerce to be at the rate of $10,000,000,000 a year, the highest annual rate ever attained. : Despite some shortages in goods, the department's revised index for 1942, which has just been completed, indicated sales last year were equal to thélr 1920 total of $9,000,000,000. = Dollar sales of general merchandise stores have risen steadily since 1938. In 1039 they accounted for 15.5 per cent of the sales volume of all retail stores. In 1940 and 1941 the general merchandise group increased less than all retail sales, but in 1942 their sales rose more, Index ‘Understates’ The commerce department has constructed an index of retail prices at general merchandise stores based upon the data collected by the cost of living division of the bureau of fabor statistics. The index almost
because it does not make adequate allowance for trading up, which has been widespread, the department said. :
29 per cent from 1039 to the second
the general merchandise stores represented a price rise rather than
Department stores, including mail
{ more than one-fourth from the to 1942, and a fur-
INDIANAPOLIS ON
Montreal to Buenos Aires,
prominently in proposed expansion | of Eastern's domestic services, Petitions for carrying out these proposals have been filled with the civil aeronautics board and were explained in detail by President Eddie Rickenbacker of ‘Eastern. Indianapolis js included in the
Muncie, Indianapolis, Terre Haute,
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Lake Charles, Port Arthur and Galveston.
LOCAL PRODUCE
a breed hens 33¢c; Leghorn hens
Old roosters, 106. Eggs—Current receipts, 84 Ibs. and wp
Graded Eggs—Grade A large. 46c; grade A Hedin, 43c; grade A small, FA no
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= NE eT prohibi iting and regulating parking on certain of certain streets the City of I a hain . & penalty for violation : ng a time when the same BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF INDIAN-
rk the same ween the of 7 . M. and 9:00 o'clock A. oh on an
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certainly understates the price rise old-style regional
NEW ARLINE PLAN =:
terminal cities in Bastern Air Lines, | C Inc, plan to link the Americas from | a
The Hoosier capital also figures | &
via Toledo, Pt. Wayne, Anderson. |L
Evansville, Paducah; - Memphis, |x .| Greenville, A
Srolers, fryers and rosters. under tp
Butter—No. 1, Me. ~Butterfat—No. 1 Sud
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ther excuse for pleading that they {do not understand their first allegi{ance and responsibility.
ng sent to all naval districts that the plant guards must be given a indoctrination into the
[laws of the navy, with no chance
for uncertainty as to whether they understand the absolute require-
Iments of navy discipline in obedi‘lence to orders from superior officers.
Mr. Bard's statement followed a|
{war labor board order which estab-
day’s haul of cans—some of which touring the Tennessee maneuver
rate making.
to bring about equalization between southern and northern freight charges. ; "In a letter to Stewart, War Mobiligation Director James F. Byrnes stated that while he was a member of the senate he had expressed “the opinion on several occasions that discriminatory freight rates should not prevail against any section and that in justice to all sections there should be a uniform freight rate structure. “I have not changed my opinion.” . Vice President Henry A. Wallace asserted that “the maintenance of differences In freight rates has been one of the methods of monopoly control.” War Food Administrator Marvin Jones said that while in congress
It shows, however, an increase of {he had “fought to secure removal of
these regional differences and also
quarter this year. Thus, about 72{the discrimination against agriculper cent of the sales increase of [ture in the export trade rate struc-
ture.” Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, long an advocate of uniform rates, wrote that the Tennessee valley, the Grand Coulee
-had-a-sales increase dam area and other manufacturing
regions cannot develop industrially as they should if inter-territorial
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Four U. S. Officials Favor - Uniform Freight Charges
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U. P.) Champions of nation-wide uniform freight rate structure today received strong support from four top government officials in their campaign to abolish “discriminatory”
Senator Tom Stewart (D. Tenn.), author of a uniform freight rate Bill; revealed that the officials were in complete sympathy with the move
Local Business
Meetings
The Indianapolis \chapter of National Office Management association will hold a dinner meeting at
to hear J. A. Alltop, manager of personnel and planning “for the American United Life Insurance Co. An open forum will follow Mr. Alltop’s address on “Post-War Personnel Preparations for Office Employment.” 4 ” ” . The American Chemical society will hear Dy. Naomi Mullendore speak on “Color in Plants” at its luncheon meeting at Hotel Warren tomorrow. - Dr. Mullendore is in the biology department at Franklin college. » ” » Chitles 8. Gerth of New Orleans will speak at the Thursday lunch-
Real Estate board at Hotel Wash-
ington.
' W. R. Garten and W. P. Garten
of the Sutton-Garten Co. will speak and show two s6und films on weld=ing at the Thursday dinner meeting. of the Electric League's plant service and maintenance ‘division at
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the Riley hotel at’ 6 p. m. tomorrow |.
lished that agency's policy making the navy the unquestionable authority over coast guard temporary police, no matter whether the men belong to a union or not, and without regard to the terms of their union contract with the civilian employer. This policy will apply also to the army's temporary military police. Union Loses
The ruling was in the heated controversy between the Brewster Aeronautical Corp. and local 365 of the United Automobile Workers aircraft division’ (C. 1. 0.) and is an_outgrowth of the refusdl on Aug. 23 of four. plant guards in the company's
Johnsville (Pa.) plant to take their|d
assigned posts on the ground that their union seniority rights were being invaded. . The refusal, backed up by the union, brought on a strike which kept 6000 employees idle for four days and suspended work on fighter airplanes for “the navy. The four guards -were found guilty of disobedience in courts-martial held in the Philadelphia navy yard, and on Sept. 13 were given “bad conduct discharges,” after being imprisoned from the date of their offense. It was learned that the penalties recommended by the trial boards were much ‘more severe. than. those given, and in one case would have included two years’ imprisonment. The sentences were mitigated by Secretary of the Navy Knox on the ground that there was doubt as to whether the men had been given thorough advance knowledge of the seriousness of such an infraction of navy discipline. Plant Exceptional : The new navy instructions also provide that the militarized. plant guards will limit their duties to
eon meeting of the Indianapolis]
Necessity for the system, he sa arose from the fact that the number of men required to guard plants—working for the army as well as the navy—is more than 200,000, and to assign them from the regular armed forces would mean too much of a drain on the
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U. of a four-man army-navy
on changes
and civilian branches of -the government.
and those
that we produce only what we need and that the waste, unavoidably present in war is kept to a minimum.” Some officials are counting
where they have been, to a large éxtent, for nearly 21 months,
+ F. D. R. Orders ‘Speed Up’ On Jan. 6, 1942, nearly a month after Pearl Harbor, the President told congress that he had instructed various government departments to step up war production so that
19042 and 125000 in 1943; 45000 tanks in 1942 and 75,000 in 1043; 20,000 anti-aircraft guns in 1942 and 35,000 in 1943; 8,000,000 deadweight tons of merchant shipping in 1942 and 10,000,000 tons in 1943. Subsequently, Mr. Roosevelt conceded that production éxperts had privately from the outset that the goals were foo high: He reported that plane production in 1942 totaled 48,000 units and that the output of tanks fell below schedule. Nevertheless, he said “the arsenal of democracy is making good.” : WPB Points to Records The armed services tied their schedules to the President's astronomical goals even though industrial leaders said they were impos-
‘Reasonable’ Schedules for ~ War Production Expected
s- GRAIN PRICES TURN
P.).~President Roosevelt's creation survey committee was viewed uction program for
six months. Navy schedules still are described as resting on an “incentive” mission schedules are said to be
QUESTION SETTLED
" WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U. P). The war labor board today ruled that maintenance of union: membership guarantees with con-
permitted to terminate their union
The question of whether union members must retain their mem-
tracts or for the duration of the ‘war was raised for the first time in connection with a new contract. between the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. and the Industrial jon of Marine and Shipbuilding’ Workers (C. 1. 0) | Labor members of a WLB. shipbuilding commission insisted union
an “escape” under the new contract, but the majority Held that members must be granted 15 days— provided in the standard WLB union security clause—in which to resign. Commission Chairman William E. Simken wrote in his opinion that] he voted for the escape clause although he feared industrial relations in the
“It is conceivable,” he said, “that all employees who voluntarily assume the rights and obligations of
be required to remain members at least for the duration .qf the war if that would strengthen the hand
the fact remains that the maintenance of membership provision clearly provides that it is for the duration of the agreement.”
LOWER AT CHCIAGO
CHICAGO, Sept. 27 (U. P).— Grain futures turned slightly weaker after the Board of Trade opening today. Traders generally awaited new developments in Washington on subsidy plans. : 2 At the end of the first hour wheat was unchanged to off % to % cent a bushel; oats off % and rye off % to %. ee ———————————— Davidson Chmical Corp. Year ended June 30 net income $1,203,007 or $2.51 a common share vs. $1,007.-
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members should not be permitted Cholce—
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membership in this union should |geeq
of responsible union leadership. But Common
PORTLAND ELECTRIC "PROFIT CHALLENGED
pro- | 281 of $2.00
previous year.
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& Southern Railway Co.
wag in receipt of a telegram from
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