Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1944 — Page 6
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SINESS
Local War Plants Used for Storage; § = . ; | Ut n RE "Army Seeking Sites for Warehouses
THE ARMY 1s LOOKING AROUND TOWN for places 5 : to store war goods and machinery, when the time comes to ‘move the stuff out of our factories so the latter can swing
Hog Price$ Are Unchanged; Top Remains at $14.80.
Hog prices were unchanged at tht
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back to peacetime work.
One war plant already idle, the Fall Creek ordnance ; plant, which E. C. Atkins operated as an armor plate mill
for the ordnance department, is being used for storage now. One company here tried to buy it but didn’t succeed.
As Rep. Louis Ludlow says, a storage plant obviously can't provide as many jobs as using that plant for manufacturing purposes, The y ordnance department may have its reasons for not wanting to sell to a concern that could provide many more jobs. But it won't be good for our post-war job picture to continue such policies. The first steps Mr. Budrow are being taken by the government for disposing of our local war plants built by the government. The reconstruction finance corp., acting for the defense plant corp. (both Jesse Jones outfits) is sending out catalogs to industry, saying it is willing to start talking about selling these plants, Locally, the RFC lists the Bridgeport Brass Co. plant, a Mallory plant and two (plants 3 and 5) of Allison. Fall Creek ordnance plant is under the army ordnance department and naval ordnance plant operated by the Lukas-Harold is owned by the navy which intends to keep it. Bridgeport Brass, Mallory - and Allison certainly are potential buyers of the plants they've been operating, provided the price is right, etc. Whatever the government has in mind to do with these plants finally, the army is going ahead with its own plans for storage space. It is dickering for a lease on the longidle Indianapolis Castings Co. foundry along the N. Y. Central tracks out west near Harding st. The army also is interested in the 15 acres adjacent to the castings plant, owned by the railroad, for outside storage. It had talked of using the Speedway, but dropped the idea. The army plans to build 25 million square feet of temporary storage and has two steel mills rolling the walls and roofing now. This relieves industry of one big worry— that it would have government surpluses under foot for months, all tied up in red tape.
” » s ODDS AND ENDS-Johns-Manville Corp. filed 71,588 reports or questionnaires with the government last year, or one every two minutes during working hours. . . . Nicholas H. Noyes, vice president and treasurer of Ell Lilly & Co, is running for re-election as a Class B director of the Federal Reserve bank of Chicago. . . . An electrical labor union in Nebraska opposed purchase of a privately owned utility by the city, reports the U.S. because some of the union’s collective bar-
equipment makers are getting plenty of orders from South America, once the happy hunting ground of German concerns. . . . Last spring we heard talk in Washington saying that growing such “luxury” crops as lettuce and honey-dew® melons should be curbed in favor of more “practical” foods. Now that the figures are in, it seems that the biggest gains were made this summer by the uxury” crops such as lettuce and honey-dew melons. There's too little profit in austerity, apparently.
FORD MAKING
BOMB ENGINES
Production of Jet Robot, Similar to German Model, Revealed.
WRIGHT FIELD, Dayton, O, Oct, 23 (U. P.)~The V-1 robot bomb Germany's “vengeance weapon,” structed and fired by the air technical service command which is seeking to turn the bomb’s secrets to the allies’ advantage, it was announced officially today. Command officials said thal “They are not seeking to “copy” the bomb because it destroys at random and “the American mind tends to ac-
curate destruction of military objec-|
tives only, not in hitting homes and civilian population.” The A. T. S. C. officials said that to give their experts a quantity of robots for acual launching tests, component parts are being produced in quantity by private manufacturers. Between 1000 and 2000 robot bombs are being produced for experimental purposes, it was learned. The Ford Motor Co. is assembling impulse engines; Republican Aviation Corp., airframes and assemblies, and Jack & Heintz Co., Cleveland, control equipment which catapult the rockets.
Robots Described
The robot consists of a streamlined fuselage with stubby wings over which is mounted a tube containing an impulse jet engise which is powered by gasoline motive power comes" from a _— of rapid explosions in a combustion chamber which follow the line of least resistance, the open rear of the tube, and drive the aerial bomb forward. The front end of the tube is equipped with an ingenious “gate” which opens to admit air for combustion and closes with each explosion. The fuselage contains a war head, fuel, automatic control equipment and two spherical compressed air tanks for running control units, The bomb measures about 17 feet in span and 27 feet in length. The parts used in studying the robot were collected in England, some from duds. Engineers had the jet impulse engine running 17 days after pieces arrived with the complete robot fabricated and in working cohdition less than two months after the original parts arrived from England.
GULF OIL ADOPTS BENEFITS
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 23 (U.P.).— An annuities and benefits plan for the employees of Gulf Oil Corp. and its subsidiary companies has been adopted by the company and will make possible retirement incomes for the present 28,000 and future participating employees, the com-
pany has announced.
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NORMANDY, France—One of the most remarkable engineering feats of all time was the erection of two harbors in Normandy which had been prefabricated in Britain and towed across the channel for construction in a port the size of Dover. Two steel roadways, supported on special floats, lead from shore to wharf. Each pierhead on the roadways is complete with crew quarters, generating sets, etc. One harbor was destroyed by a channel storm before it was completed but this one was finished and put into operation.
LUDLOW FIGHTS STORAGE PLANS
Wants War Plants Here Used for Production After War.
A request that Indfanapolis war plants be converted to production of civilians goods instead of being used for storage when the government disposes of them was made by Rep. Louis Ludlow (D, Ind) in a letter to Charles B. Henderson, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. in Washington, it was learned today. Stating that a rumor had reached Indianapolis that some of the plants under the proposed disposal plan would be used in the post-war period for storage, the Indianapolis congressman said: “I think I reflect the sentiment of this community when I say that I hope this program will not be carried out.
Employment Needed
Indianapolis war plants will be used for production and not for storage. The plants to which I refer are well constructed and can readily be converted to production of civilian goods. This would maintain a working personnel at a high level and would enable Indianapolis to cope with a post-war problem of unemployment which otherwise may become serious. “A storage plant is in a sense a dead plant and affords employment only to a limited number of caretakers. I happen to know that responsible Indianapolis manufacturers would be pleased to have an opportunity to bid for the purchase of some of these war plants when
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Safety Rally Set For Nov.
The first city-wide industrial safety rally of the Industrial Safety club of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce will be held at 7 :30 p.m, Wednesday, Nov. 8, in the Technical high school auditorium. The program for the rally ine cludes a speech by Capt, A. A. Nichoson, vice president of the Texas Co., and entertainment with talent from Indianapolis business organizations.
N. Y. Stocks
High vee 0%
Net Last Change 802 — 21% — Y% 12s 1a 15% 163 a
21% 6% 675% 30%, 23% 10%
Low 891, 21% 12%
Am Can ... Am Loco Am Rad & § 8 1% Am Roll Mill .. 15% ANT &T ....18 Am Tob B .... 68 Am Water W . 9% Anaconda Armour & Co . Atchison Atl Refining ... Bald Loco ct .. Ben Ind Loan..
Beth Steel .... Borden Borg-Warner .. Caterpillar T .
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Du Pont ...... Gen Electric... Goodrich ..... Goodyear ..... Greyhound Cp Ind Rayon .... nt Harvester.. Johns-Man seed core 35%
MARION COUNTY WAR VETS RECEIVE $888
Marion county war veterans eligible for weekly adjustment allowances under the G. I. bill of rights, received a total of $888 in the last two weeks of September, according to the Indiana employment security division. There were 45 weekly payments made in Marion county within the two-week period, the division reported. First payments were made Sept. 18. For the state as a whole, $3981 was received by veterans, a total of 202 weekly payments made in 36 counties.
McKesson & Robbins, Inc, three months ended Sept. 30 consolidated net profit $1,071,200 or 55 cents a | share vs. $1,266,443 or 70 cents year ago.
Ee G & B.. 367% Leckie Aircraft 21%
65; Martin (Glenn 20 Nash-Kely .... 16% Nat Biscuit.... Nat Distillers. . NY Central. Oliver Corp.. Packard* . 5% Pan Am Air... 313% Penney 108'2 Penn R vee Phelps Dodge. .
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Owens-Illinois Glass Co. and subsidiaries 12 months ended Sept. 30 net earnings $8,543471 -or $321 a share vs. $9,431,147 or $3.54 preced-
ing 12 months.
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LIVING COSTS
1st Decline Since March Shown in 63 Cities Surveyed.
Times Special NEW YORK, Oct. 23. — Living costs of wage earners and lower-
salaried clerical workers in Indianapolis declined 0.1 per cent from August to September, according to the monthly survey of the National Industria] Conference board. In Evansville, Ind, an increase of 0. r cent in August to September living costs was shown. \ the 63 industrial cities covered by the survey, the majority showed a decline in living costs for the first time since last March, the report said. THere were declines in 37 of the cities and increases in 22, while in four cities, living costs
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U. S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, . Oct. 23 (U. P.).—Gov-
a| ernment expenses and receipts for the va | current fiscal year through Oct. 20, com-
pared with a year ago: This Yéir Last Year ..$29,393,668,323 $27,268,325,036
.11,937,723,789 11,670,314,899 17,455,944,534. 15,508,010,138 Cash Balance. 11,641,524,258 20,069,345,219 Working Bal.. 10,878,645,959 20,206,638,820 Public Debt . 211,411,983,600 168,642,514,359
% Gold Reserve. 20,727,307,256 22,132,034,784
INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE Clearings
$ 3,964 Debits 19,914,
Baus:
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Indianapolis stockyards today, the
war food administration reported The top remained at $14.80 on 12( to 240-pound ‘Receipts included 13,800 hogs, 235
‘cattle, 1200 calves and 2700 sheep.
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LOCAL PRODUCE
sn breed hens, 22¢c. Leghorn hens,
Broilers, fryers and roaster, under § Ibs., white and barred rocks, 25¢; col ored springers, ue leghorn springers, 3lc.
roosters, | Eggs—Current receipts, 33c; Grade A large, d4c; Slade A medium, 40c; grade A
small, 26c. o grade, 33c. Ri Py 1, 50c. Butterfat—No. 3 49¢; No. 2, 36c.
WAGON WHEAT
Up to the close of the Chicago market today, Indianapolis flour mills and grain elevators paid {3 61 per pushel for No. 1 red wheat (other grades on their merits); oats, No, 2 white or No. 3 red, testing 33 lbs. or bette: 64c; No. 2 yellow shelled, -old EOD, $1, 08% per bushel, and No. 3 white shelled. old crop, $1.24%
ROTARIANS TO HEAR SEGER
Dr. Gerhart H. Seger, a former member of the German Reichstag during the Weimar republic, will speak at the regular weekly luncheon meeting of the Rotary club to be held tomorrow in the Claypool
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manager,
in Eau Claire, Wis, after the first re-converted plant changed from making small arms for the services to the manufacture of synthetie auto tires, is christened by Mrs. H. O. Hutchens, wife of the Plans
Jack—who believes in “one for all giving his employees Turkish baths,
“We believe in the Golden Rule here,” says Jack, president of Jack & Heintz, huge Cleveland war producer of airplane motor parts and precision instruments, “just as we do in ‘one for all and all for one, and we are going to do something about it in religion.” “So we have invited Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergymen to speak to our associates on alternate Sunday mornings.” The 8000. Jahco “associates"— (Jack doesn't like the word employee” and besides most of them now own a share of the company following a $12,000,000 “buy” into the business by the workers)—
» don't mind it a bit.
Two different services are held every Sunday; one at 5:45 a. m., the second 2 hours 15 minutes later. And there's no service like it anywhere in the world!
4275 Machines, Stop Before the service begins ma- “®] chines in the plant roar with their 7s | Oise; springs and gears grind; saws cut into wood and metal; workers shout above the din to make themselves heard. Then, at the appointed religious service hour, as if a magic wand waved over the scene, 4275 machines stop whirring in 10 Jahco plants throughout the city of Cleveland. A stillness, like the dead of night, permeates the atmosphere and from the throats of hundreds of loudspeakers come the clear, sharp notes of a trumpet. The call of religion! . Bill Jack usually steps to the microphone before services begin and says: “Will you please see that all the
Jack & Heintz Now Provides Its Workers With Religion
CLEVELAND, Oct. 23 (U. P).—America’s unique employer—Bill
and all for one” and proves it by vitamin pills, doughnuts and coffes,
sun lamp treatments and free work clothes with their 10-hour sevene day work week--is giving them religion, too.
power is turned off at the various machines and find a comfortable seat in order that you may listen to a brief sermon.” It's Brotherhood, Understanding
Men lay down their tools and their oil cans; girls pull their chairs from their desks and typewriters; supervisors and foremen quit, too— for no one is a superior, in this ceremony. Rabbi Barnett R. Bricker of the Euclid Avenue Synagogue, who toured the war zones several months back in the interests of American Jewry, spoke yesterday. He said it was marvelous that ree ligion has been offered this ope portunity to speak in industry. It's more than that-—it's brothers hood and understanding. Fact is, it comes pretty close to a book Bill Jack has lying on his desk—"Taking God Into Partnership.”
PRICES UNEVEN ON GRAIN IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Oct. 23 (U.P). — A strong upturn in rye steadied othep ing on the board of trade today, grain futures after an easy opene Nervousness prevailed in rye with prices up as much as 1% cents in instances. At 11 a. m. rye was wheat off % tw changed to up %; ot a ne,
General Electric Co. nine months to Sept. 30 net profit $31,839 or $1.10 a share vs. $31,433.933 or $1.09 year 8go.
was up 3% to 1%} ar. tins ts up % to %,
WHEN THE OPERATOR ASKS YOU) TO MOVE T0 THE REAR = | HE IS JUST TRYING To ASSIST A FEW § MORE PEOPLE +70 | GET YO OR FROM 1 THEIR WoRK oN iM /
IR YOU WERE ON TNE OUTSIDE LOOKING on YOU WOULD APPREC ATE MIS HeGHTIUNESS
GIVE WASTE PAPER A VITAL WAR JOB TO DO!
Paper and paperboard are needed to pack and protect the ammunition, weapons, food, drugs and blood plasma which go to France—Italy—the Pacific! Yom waste paper is war paper. Save it—
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