Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1943 — Page 40

More than 70 per cent think that,

after the post-war reconversion United States will exboom.” Almost such a boom in

cent beliéve business freedom after "the

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IN BRIEF—

W. F. Williamson, secretary of the National . Coffee association, today characterized as absolytely false, rumors .that there will be a return to coffee rationing. Coffee] stocks now in the country, certified by government audit, are sufficiently large to avoid the possibility of a return to rationing at any time during this war, he said. is war depression i % | unemployment, 72 per

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offers release from dependence on imported ‘insecticides, J. Edmond |

Degreasing Co. of New Jersey, said | today that replacements for about 90 per cent of foreign importations Seventy-one per cent want: the oan now be grown on American United States to take an active farms part in a post-war international PE organization with a court and police | proguction of dressed beef, veal| force strong enough to enforce its and lamb increased decisions. {pounds in September over the pre- | ._ Thirty-nine per cent favor lower- | {vious month's output, the American ing tariffs, and 15% per cent favor a meq, institute reported today, but free-trade policy “for the sake of | {total production of all meats reall business” after the war. {mained at approximately the same Seventy-six per cent think that, level -as_August.

LOCAL ISSUES

Nominal quotations furnished wy Indian. competition. But less than 12 per [Polis securities dealers. Bid Asked cent believe it would be a good thing | 25nts Fin Corp com ... to have more competition in their] 3

own business fields.

" Want 3,000,000 Army

‘Editors of the magazine proposed - & post-war employment goal df 55.-

well-publicized planning for de-| mobilization day in order to allay the fears of both U. 8S. soldiers and civilians.

5% pid... Ind Hydro Elec 7% pid.. d ind Gen Serv $% pfa ersnsl Indpls P & L 3% 5 . Prd sues Indpls P & L © Indpls Railways pr Te Indpls Water pf . o Indpls Water Class A com.

Lincoln Loan Co 8% pid 9 Lincoln Nat Life Ins com... I R Mallory com + § ou TIF Pub Beryl 3% pd. . 98

*N X ing Pub Serv {| *N Ind Pub Serv 4 5 pid ... } NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (U.P)—|IF Lan rs Joeeph Ullman, furrier and ani Fo Bros pr pi

| Bub Serv ot Jor 2% pd {United Tel Co §%.. | Union Title com ..... committee for | Van Samp Mik pra pd

| W sites with OPA aft-| restraining action taken! oe members of the fur indus-| n

Consol Pin 88 60 + officials that he could not con. |Ind Aso Tel Co 3iks 70 ; {Indpls P & L 3%s 70 .... .3 10a to work with one OPA group | indpis Railways Co 5s 61... % another group indpis ater Co 3%s 68 . 108 110 u was to take action omo Water Works 5s 58 , ane Kane pace Co el on | agency has! yuncie ‘Water Works sa ob brought restraining orders against | |N Ind Pub Serv us “ ‘ont 108

35 skin dealers and 45 women’s fur | an Ve na a. manufacturers, enjoining them Pub Tel 46s 8 0 from selling in violation of OPA Sl Ws Sa og 8 regulations. . 8. Machine rN 100 Trade members told OPA repre- ® “Butvidens. sentatives that it was impossible : for them to comply with many of INCOMPOration the complicated regulations. The Aluzine. Ine. enforcement officials rejoined that D°Y: Noblesville: they could not pass on whether a regulation was practical, but have to see that all regulations were observed.

————————— DAILY PRICE INDEX YORK, Oct. 1 (U, P)— lg & Bradstreet's daily weighted price index of 30 basic commodities, compiled for United Press (1930-32 average equals 100): Yesterday ...................172.19 Seskago ............ 172.26 Month ago BEstetrcreriensn F110 Year 880 .

Noblesville: agent. C. W 1000 shares no par vals metallic pets; F. J. Day, N. D. Hantzis, ©

ment providing perpetual existence. Manchester Milk Co. Inc. North Manchester: IE Gus 8. Condo, {703 Marion National Bank bidg., Marion: 1000 shares without par value; to deal | in milk, milk products, agricultural products, machinery, supplies, ete.” Walter Page, D. KE. Kelley, H. 8. Bu Commercial Electroplating, 1127} Shelby st., Indianapolis; agent, Raiph oo McKinney, 350 Barton, Indianapolis; shares Having a par_value of $100 hin Ralph H McKinney, Robert M. Worrell, Harold E. Rinne Sugars and Syrups of Indiana, Ine. 804 Hayden st, Pt. Wa t. J. - dress; 1000 shares common without par walue; J. Richard | Hawekotte, Dorothy Helen Hawekotte, | Theodore H. Puelling: dealing in, refinIRE. eic, sugar, sugar beets, sugar cane. | maianses, hyrums and food _Mreducts gens

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138 E. WASHINGTON 3ST.

Asserting that the castor plant |

Good, vice president ~ of “Woburn |;

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Farmers State Bank, Mooreland, amend. | | Medium... Wabash rd, |

HOG PRICES OFF 15 T0 20 CENTS

Top Slumps to $14.95 Here; Receipts. Increase to

10,500 Head. had the finest optical equipment. Hogs weighing between 160 and/The American optical industry was 400 pounds sold 15 to 20 cents lower; then young, dependent upon German firms and unable to keep pace with the Germans wher war broke out, severing the aid U. 8. firms were getting from Germany, ; Whatever advantages Hitler may have had over the kaiser in the early stages of this war, superior optical equipmegy was not among them. Optical equipment for war is not confined to eye lenses. It includes prisms for sights on tanks and submarines, sights to direct battery fire © 1460@m14 70 from trenches, gun sight aiming 14 Nain 88 point cameras, ‘and binoculars. i l4aseis0 These are among the current prod- ++ 148061493 ucts of Continental Qptical Co, a esas sol firm which was founded. in: 1010 as [email protected]| the “One-Piece Bifocal Co." to ac13.10@1428 quire the vahiable ©. W. Connor patents on a one-piece bifocal lens.

Merged in 1925

The small concern grew, expanding its line of products, until 1925 when four companies were merged and the'name was changed to Continental Optical Co. These goncerns were the One-Piece Bifocal Lens Co., ‘manufacturing multifocal lenses: | Simpson-Walther Lens Co., making single vision lenses; New Jersey 5 Optical Co, making frames and mountings, and C, G. Aldrich Co. making spectacle cases. By 1933 ‘the company ranked

at the Indianapolis stockyards today; “the food” distribution ~admin.

istration reported. - Lighter weights were unchanged {from yesterday. The top fell to $14.95 for good to choice 225 to 240pounders. Receipts included 10,500 hogs, 450 cattle, 450 calves and 1425 sheep.

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120- 140 pounds ...... 140- 160 pounds ... ]%. 180 pounds . - 300 pounds 200. 220 pounds | 220- 240 pounds ... 240- 270 pounds ... 270- 300 pounds 300: 330 pounds. 330- 360 pounds Medium 160- 200 pounds Packing Sows Good to Cholce— 270- 300 pounds 300- 330 pounds . 330- 360 pounds ... 360- 400 pounds .... O

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Choice 700- 900 pounds ....::i...es.. 15.00@1 | 900-1100 po . 1100-1300

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S555 GRAIN. PRIGES TURN =x LOWER AT CHICAGO

2 1. [email protected]|- CHICAGO, Oct, 1 (U, P).—Grain [email protected] | futures developed an easier trend Mo the board of trade today, Coarse 12.75014. 30 grains generally reacted to the [email protected] | prospects of increased feed supplies. £[email protected] At the end of the first hour wheat was off 1 to % cent a bushel; Bem {unchanged to off %, and rye pea 3.004 9.00 to %. ’ 5.50@ 7.90|" Improved weather conditions for seeding and the possibility that more wheat may be offered by pro{ducers at present price levels were Sol weakening factors.

N. Y. Stocks

Allegh Corp ... All on

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| Cutter and common Canner

"Bulls (all weights) . 10.75612.50

‘Vealers (all weights) | Good to choice . | Common and medium .. { Cull (73 ibs. up).

| Feeder and Stocker ‘Cattle and Calves { Choice A | 500- 800 poun + 11.50912.75 | Am 800-1050 pounds [email protected]%0 | Good Am 500- 10.509011.50 800-1050 pounds ...... Cesenee BSB AMT &T

| Com 500- | 900 pounds Calvin 500 pounds down ..... edium S00 pounds down ... ‘o Calves (heifers) Good and Choice— 500 pounds down | Medium — 500 pounds down 2.5041L.75 SHEEP AND LAMBS (1425)

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WAGON WHEAT

"WHEEL CHAIRS Why Buy One? Rent One At ‘HAAG'S ALL-NIGHT

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LOCAL PRODUCE

Indionpoli Firm to Get Army-Navy 'E For Excellence in ‘Delivering the Goods’

By ROGER BUDROW Sy The army-navy “E” which Continental Optical Co. of Indianapolis will receive Oct. 20 is not only a coveted award for the company and its ‘workers for excellence in war production but is also a slap in the face for the once-vaunted German optical industry, It is now well-known that in the figst world war, America and its allies were greatly handicapped by the fact that Kaiser Willaims army

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The Ife of a Jen Dena i (he furnace (1700 dress) where the Wank are molded lo roired curvatures After molding, the lens blanks are cooled slowly. Here they spl from Men work in 20-minute shifls in this het job.

Whe atinenling Ishe down » hue for inmpention,

could sell & great deal more optical goods than it can possi ble make.

Inspection Costly

fourth in a field of 75 manufaeturers of optical goods, a position it still maintains. The frame plant ‘That precision of the highest sort was moved from Newark, N. J, to|is required in such work goes almost Rochester, N. Y., ” Wiles is the coetiter| without saying. So exact must these of much metal work. The Indianglass parts be that it costs the comMpalis = 8 Mant Row Slavs 3a thifee . (pany three times as much for inspection work as it does in the

plant. manufacturing work,

Although the principle of the ordinary eye-glass lens or even the! The lenses, starting out as blanks

bifocal is not difficult to understand, that of the prisms is more complicated, Prisims have three purposes: To redirect- the line of sight; to shorten the physical length of telescopic instruments, and to realign images which would otherwise be upside down. and sideways. “Bend” Image > Prisms act as a mirror and In a simple prism the image is bent at a 90-dgree angle. But most of the prisms Continental is making aré far more complicated. Their result is that “an army battery commander in a trench or foxhole can by raising the objective window of

generating 1700-degree heat, so hot that men at the furnace work in 20-minute shifts. After being cooled, then come the grinding and polishing processes—many of them. As the company states, “the mills of the gods grindly slowly ‘but they grind exs ceedingly fine.” Much of the grinding and polishing machinery at Continental has been custom-de-signed in the plant for the particular job required. Great quantities of red rouge, the finest known polishing substance, and emery, another fine grinding material, are used in the abrasive work. Continental not only makes

rim of the trench, focus it on the enemy objective and direct his bat- |" tery’s fire without exposing himself or his position,” the company explains, Two and one-half years ago the company started in manufacturing, such prims and sights, in addition | to agreeing to furnish regular stock

them to ether manufacturers. At many stages during thelr manufacture, the lenses * are inspected and the final one is, of course, the most rigorous of all Instruments designed by Continental, because they could not be found elsewhere, put the final o, k.

his. periscopic . telescope Abave. the. its own. rouge. and. omery.but sells.

AMERICAN CYANAMID BUYS BAUKITE FIRM

NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (U. P).— Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. today withdrew its investments outside the United States through the sale to American Cyanamid Co. of it half-interest in Berbide Co; Ltd, a South American bauxite producer. American Cyanamid now has entire control over the bauxite company. Under. terms of the sale, .American Cyanamid granted Pennsylvania Salt a long-term contract to supply bauxite requirements, Beale also disclosed that his com-

pany is half-owner of the new Tulsa Chemical Co., formed primarily to produce anhydrous hydrofluoric acid used in production of high-octane gasoline,

polishing machines, ¢ cronsr, nd sy vo nn

Production Jobs

Needed, Hoffman

NEW YORK, Oct. } (U. Pi Asserting that approximately 56,000,000 people will have to be employed in this country after the war to maintain a satisface tory standard of living, Paul G, Hoffman, chairman of the Come mittee for Economic Development, sald today that the kind of Jobs we provide is more important than the number,

To attain a higher living stands

ard, work must be productive, he said. “Shortening the work-week will not provide more jobs. We cane not shorten working hours withe out lowering our standards of living, unless technological ‘ad vances will permit it. There ig no substitute for work.”

We take pleasure in annouticing the admission to partnership in our firm of

Mn. Jomx A. Rens of Indianapolis, Indiana Mr. Freperick R. Horvil

and Mr. Jom~ J. Maroney of New York City

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as of O October 1 1943

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or reject tag on the finished prodlenses for glasses issued to soldiers'uct. sai

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of gallant boys fighting under Stripes.

father, brothers, relatives

every volley of he guns.

CBraters. tryees and rotors, under of SE Br Senin, 4 0 wow : no

Every day INVASION battles are faking the fives

Your dear ones—sons, husband, swesthear; and friends—are, or soon may be, engaged in those bloody battles. hers fo scythe of the @fin Roger fohes i

The 3rd War Loan: of 15 Chi dollots mink

the Stars and the money!

mond fooduur WAY!

New Yorx

You Can’t Fail Them NOW!

boys need so desperately—and you must raise

~~ Buy at least one EXTRA $100 ‘War Bord in September besides your regular bond i Go all-ouf with every dollar you can scrape.up and keep right on slapping every cent into the world's safest investment—War Bonds! : ; 3

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