Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1944 — Page 6
Foundries Criticized for Taking
"iy On’ Too Much Civilian Business,
—————— By ROGER BUDROW
SOME INDIANA FOUNDRIES ARE HEADING for
trouble by filling civilian orders when they ‘are already be‘The WPB is burned up
about it, and may revoke the authority it gave those foun-
hind on their military sched
ules.
dries to do a little civilian work on the side. : , The difficulty is that the foundries were urged by bigger manufacturers to make this or that for them, possibly with the promise of getting good post-war orders, and such a lure
was too tempting for some to. resist.
work than they should have.
Only 'an “inconsequential” number of concerns in this area have
. been permitted to return to civilianj ™ manufacturing, according to Albert
O. Evans, local WPB district manager, The few approved were made to prevent hardship of one sort or another, he said. And there is not much prospect of many more, he added, because the manpower “Mr, Budrow shortage” in this ‘area generally is so stringent and because this area produces 0 many of the “hot” war items, heavy field \artillery ammunition, for example. Being thus caught betwixt and between, it doesn't appear that there can be much reconversion e until contracts are canceled after Germany's capitulation, Tele. HUMAN “FLU” VACCINE is being manufactured commercially for the first time by several pharmaceutical firms, among them Eli Lilly & Co. here and PitmanMoore's plant at Zionsville, After much experimenting, it is believed by the army and navy that an effective vaccine can be mass-produced. Pitman-Moore also is shipping millions of doses of typhus vaccine from its local and Zionsville plants and is making sterile ampules for intravenous medication for the army and navy, 3 ® 8 8 A HOUSE costing $5000. to build, before the war would take at least $6550 now, the Wall Street Journal concludes after a survey, It finds overall building costs are
up 39 per cent since 1939, national« edium-—
cent. So a $5000 average house of 1939 would take $700 more today for
‘ODDS AND ENDS: Philo “T.
Farnsworth sold 2400 shares of his common stockholdings in Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. of
i Wayne Jecently, leaving him | yreqy, : ime
pp “Snsiders" Shows. h worth officials sold 5000 shares alto-
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been’ changed again—it's StokelyVan Camp, Inc, now, . , . William J. Wardall, board chairman of Best Foods, Inc., parent company of the Shinola shoe polish factory : here, was pald $58,250 last year, while its President Leonard Blumenschine was pald $55,750, SEC reports. . . . Bridgeport Brass Co, earned 7lc a share in the first nine months this year against $1.07 in thaf time last year. . . . The ranpower situation has improved. in Anderson, which has been put back from a group 1 critical shortage rating to group 2; and in Connersville, which WMO shifted from group 2 ‘ating to group 3.
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HEAVIER HOGS UP 15 CENTS
Prices Drop 10 Cents on 160 to 180-Pounders; Trading - Active.
Hog prices were 15 cents higher on 240 to 270-pounders at the Indianapolis = stockyards today but down 10 cerits on 160 to 180-pound weights, the war food administration reported. The higher price on heavier weight hogs was wdue to low receipts as most of the hogs brought in were under 240 pounds and an increased demand for that class, the WFA reported. Prices remained steady on all other weights. The top was $13.85 on choice 1% to 240pound hogs, ~ Trading was active and the-WFA said it was expected that the 737 hogs brought in today and the 1000 held over from yesterday would be cleaned out. Other receipts ‘included 1150 cattle, 550 calves and 1750 sheep.
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J. S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Nov, 1 (U, P,).-Qovs ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Oct. 30, compared with a year ago: This Year Last
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| Expenses | War Spending 1 804,217,034 | Recelpts 2,464,925 177 | Net Jelleit i. 225,491,006 Cash Balance 10,145,079,212 Working Bal 9,382,107, 806 Public Debt. 211.695.078.455 169,021,504, 884 Gold Reserve. 20, 126.5 504,543 22,115,173, "
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another to the Mediterranean, but the largest goes to France. It is this supply lirte into and across France with which” these articles are concerned. The supplying of our armies Is, in essence, the genius of peaceful ied whole-heartedly to winning the war. It is the genius of mass production. of cars, of bathtubs and breakfast- cereal, of the mail-order houses and the corner grocery transformed to the business of giving our men the stuff they need to kill Germans. It is a miracle of organization, starting with the planning of Gen. George C. Marshall and Lt. Gen.
. |Brehon Somervell in Washington
and ending with. GI Joe beyond (Aachen and Nancy, headed for the Rhine. Ploods Continent
It is an unimaginable hell of back-breaking labor by thousands upon thousands of men. Here, indeed, is the toil and sweat of war: It is a flood as it enters this cone tinept. By the time it reaches the armies the line sometimes seems only a trickle, At the receiving end it should be greater. - No fighting general ever has all the supplies he needs. That means greater production at home of the munitions needed in this war. In the supply system there have been errors. But mistakes could be expected in a job which requires the delivery of millions of tons of hundreds of thousands of individual items to nearly three million fight= ing men. There have been some failures, and there has been some criticism. But the primary fact is that since D-Day last June 6, and before, America has been doing a successful job of supplying her fighters. Since June 8 the Germans have isjoutn TO AIRS 8
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By MARSHALL M¢NEIL Scripps-Howard Stat Writer PARIS (By Airmail). ~The longest supply line in the modern military history of this battle-scarred continent is pumping the life blood of victory into seven allied armies along the western front. This line, whose sources are the factories and fields of the u. 8,
Nazis, ; One prong leads to England,
PARIS, Nov. 1. -=Ideally, there would be a 30-day back« log of supplies behind an army, If American armies now have a five-day supply, they're lucky, Reasons: The --fast movement through France, the lack of adequate port facilities, « There are shortages of ammunition and some other itéms, but thus far there has ben no shortage of aviation gasoline at the front. Some 600,000 troops make up the services of supply in this theater, and “roughly one-fifth of that number are troops in the medical service,
Brig. Gen. Lord, chief of staff to Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee, com=mander of services of supply in this theater, described the supply head-
The original plan called for spurts and stops—the Russian method— to permit the bringing up of munitions, the establishment of dumps, the restoration of roads, railways and communications. But except for the lull after D-Day when our forces were bottled in the Normandy peninsula, the plan could not be. followed. The man who upset it was Lt. Gen. George 8S. Patton-he found the Germans’ soft spot.
Supplies ‘Loused Up’
Gen. Patton first intended to turn west after the break-through at Avranche, to get to Brest in 10 days—Brest, the port which had been studied with painstaking care (for two years, as the probable main port» to maintain our invasion. But Patton found the Nazis weak to the east, so he turnend that way and
Longest Supply Line in History oF Europe Keeps Seven Armies i in Field
Marshall McNell, Scripps-Howard staff writer, who followed the allied lines of supply through the ports of France and to the battlefronts, tells the revealing story of the services of supply in the following story, which is the first of a “series.
was a. winning war he was fighting, but at the same time the fast movementn caused supply to. be “loused up.” From a supply viewpoint our armies are- “fighting too. damned well” But Generals Lee and Lord aren't fretting over it. They're only pushing harder. In the over-all picture of supply there are two outstanding necessities. More. Ports Needed
First, we must have more ports. Specifically, the armies need Antwerp, and they need it- badly. Second, more ammunitionn, especially heavy ammunition, more trucks and more tires must be manufactured and sent to this front. Although millions of tons of supplies have been moved across the invasion beaches in Normandy, and although little ports-aré being used, and Le Havre and Brest and Marseiller are contributing, the fact is that we actually have only one
ache this way: -t.
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major port to supply our armies in France: Cherbourg.
And Cherbourg is some 450 miles from where the fighting is going on —a supply line longer than the Russians used in their advance across their own country and into the edges of East Prussia.
Antwerp Almost Intact
It looks now as though a winter campaign is ahead. But a factor which may change that situation is the opening of the port of Antwerp. It is that important quicker victory.
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retreat across France, it was to prevent our getting the ports we need, We were several days late in capturing Cherbourg. They held long at Brest .and Le Havre. We have the town of Antwerp, its docking and unloading facilities almost intact. But they hold the reaches of the river from Antwerp to the sea. They must be cleaned out of there before Antwerp can be useful to us. When it is, the distance between Liberty ships at the docks and fighting nfen at the front will be reduced by hundreds of miles. And that means even moge unre-
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Indianapolis, secretary - treasurer, and Harry E. McClain, Shelbyville, executive secretary. Jules B. Guinotte, Kansas City, an aviation insurance authority,
that 100,000 “sky flivvers” would be in use five years from now. The speaker also urged insurance men to study * the nomenclature of aviation .in oruer to provide proper
“The local ‘insurance agency Is afforded an excellent’ éross-section view of community life and.should play an important part in it,” Mr,
Newell R. Johnson, Minneseta insurance commissioner, spoke at a
by Frank J. Viehmann, insurance commissioner, who presided, BUSINESS AT GLANCE. National Tea Co. 40 weeks to Oct. 7 net profit $443,101 or 61 cents a
Charles Pfizer & Co. Inc, § months net income $1589,122° or
year ago. A. O.. Smith Corp. and wholly owned subsidiaries year to July 31 net income $6407.283 or $12.84 a share. vs. $5,633 32 or $1120: fre. vious year. Studebaker Corp. 9 months net profit $2,947,284 or $1.27 a share vs. $2,552,084 or $1.14 year ago.
Insurance Group Re Elgcts
Herman C. Wolff, President
Herman C. Wolff, Indianapolis insurance man, was re-elected president of the Indiana Association of Insurance Agents as the group concluded its 45th annual convention today in the Claypool hotel. Other officers re-elected were Fred C. Richardt, Evansville, chairman of the board; Howard J. Gescheidler, Hammond, first vice president; Harold ©. Phend, Monticello, sécond vice president; George W. Mahoney,
TLIGHT STEEL |
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Research ‘Engineer: Claims New Product Will Outlast Wood.
ATLANTIC. CITY, N. (U,
J. Nov. 1 P.).—Milton Male, research en-
Pittsburgh, today told the annual convention of the American Institute of Steel Construction that a new light gauge steel will be the chief competitor ‘of lumber. for use in homes, barns, small-factories and
‘apartment houses after the war.
Male declared that the war tested applications of the new product
proved that it was more economical
and more efficient than wood. He described the advantages of the new product as fire protection, greater strength, reduced maintenance cost and ‘economy and speed in building. Male said the product was designed for the building of large structures in combination with structural steel framing and could be used alone for small building construction, He listed army barracks, mess halls, plane hangers and factories as examples of the product's success. Male said that time will prove the main advantage ‘of the light gauge steel. - “It will outlast wood for many years,” he said. The Gunnison Housing Corp. of New Albany, Ind. a leading manufacturer of prefabricated housing for several years, was recently purchased by the U. 8. Steel Corp.
_ |LAKE TO ADDRESS AD CLUB TOMORROW
Chauncey J. Lake, advertising and public relations director for Waco
Gliders” at a meeting of the Indi-
tomorrow noon at the Indianapolis Athletic club. Mr, Lake's presentation will include screening of an official army film, showing gliders in combat activity.
38,144 PLACED ON FARMS. THIS YEAR
Times Special LAFAYETTE, Nov, 1.—A total of 38.144 seasonal .-and year - round workers were placed on Indiana farms between Jan. 1 and Oct. 30, J. B. Kohlmeyer, state supervisor of emergency farm labor, has announced, of The workers were placed through the “offices of county agricultural agents and the emergency farm labor office, it was stated. None of the big war-time ‘crop
{was lost through labor shortage,
Mr, Kohlmeyer said. Peak demand for seasonal help came in August when corn detasseling and tomato picking started. 4
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NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (U. P)— . Thanks to Adolf Htifer the Amer< “ican $2 bill is the most png after currency in Europe, Carlos Sanguinetti, Uruguayan delegate to the international business con=ference, revealed today. It seems the Germans heard the two-spot was in disrepute with Americans. Hence their counter= feiters tossed it aside and concentrated on biggér and more respected bank notes, ~ Sanguinetti said European refugees, admitted to Uruguay, are allowed to bring ony $50 inot the. country. Whenever possible, he added, the $50 is made up of 25 $2 bills,
SECRETARIES STUDY PERSONNEL PROBLEM
Personal problems and 1abormanagement relations were discussed at the closing session of the
association’s annual meeting hére today. A divided legislative session in the. interest of fewer and better laws in Indiana will be advocated By the Hoosier State Press asso-|Pl ciation, Wray E. Fleming, general counsel for the association, .told members attending the pre-legis-lative study meeting last night in the Columbia club. ; Mr, Fleming said the press association’s legislative plan: called for a 30-day period restricted to introduction of bills in the general assembly followed by a 30-day recess in which the bills will be studied. Enactment of the laws would be limited to a. third 30-day period, he explainéd.
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c. Broilers, fryers and roaster, under § 1bs., white and barred rocks, 25c; col ored springers, 23c; leghorn springers, 21¢. Old roosters, l4c. Eggs—Current receipts, 38c; large, 40¢; grade A medium, 44c; grade A
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Electronic Laboratories * Leases Four-Story “Building.
A four-story building at M2 8 Meridian st. has been leased to Electronic Laboratories Inc., Barker and Son, Indianapolis realtors, ale « nounced today. The building cone tains 15,000 square feet of floor space and has a frontage on McCrea st. and Louisiana st.’
Interior altérations are now being J narie on the building, which will be used for storage, manufacturing and display, the realty company said. Other leasings announced by thefirm include - a - four-story building containing 20,000 square feet of floor space and located at E. 9th and Dorman st. to the Glidden Feed Mill Co. for additional storage space. A two-story brick building at 520 §. New Jersey st. containing 15,000 square feet of floor: space was leased to Chase Brass and ‘Copper Co, Waterbury, Conn, who fore mi tnd offices in the Architects Also leased to that firm was te ground to the north, measur« ing 58 feet by 200 feet for parking space. The one-story garage in the rear of 518 N. Delaware st. which cone tains . 12,000 square feet of floor space was leased by the Harry Lattimore Garage Co., formerly loe cated at 1029 N. Capitol ave. The sale of a two-story building at 446-448 E. 10th st. by Rush and Hebble Co., wholesale druggists, formerly in the Jackson bldg., was also announced.
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