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BUSINESS
Two Firms Started by Vincent Bendix ot South Bend Quarrelling Over Name|
By ROGER BUDROW A ROW HAS FLARED UP OVER THE NAME “Ben-
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When Vincent. Bendix was living in South Bend and
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are fighting among themselves about, the name.
Vincent Bendix himself, meanwhile, has gone east and is trying to get into the helicopter field.
is a “Bendix!” But to get back to the quarrelling companies. One is the Bendix Home Inc, of South Bend, which makes that home washing machine. The other is Bendix Aviation Corp: which Genera Mr. Budrow \otors has a big big interest in. Some say Vincent Bendix was eased out of Bendix Aviation because General Motors wanted more say in running the company. So Ernest R. Breech, who was a G. M. official, was elected president of Bendix Aviation. It seems the row started because Bendix Aviation intends to put out a home radio and other home appliances after the war, That's our field, Bendix Home Appliances claimed, and you can’t use our name in it. Bendix Aviation retorted that it will sue back, on the grounds that Bendix Home Appliances is cashing in on Bendix Avation's nation-wide war advertising. Whereupon, Bendix Home Appliances came: back, saying that a survey shows 97 per cent of the women want a Bendix washer and Bendix Aviation is just trying to cash in on that fine regard women have for Bendix home appliances. As most such quarrels do, this one probably will end in some sort of a draw,
- *e . QUICKSILVER PRICE went into a tailspin when the government pulled out its supports last winter, dropping from $190 a flask to below $100. Now it is back to around $125. One reason it is going up is that the government (Metals Reserve Co.) has a stockpile of high-priced quicksilver which it doesn’t want to sell at sacrifice prices.
Looks as if the government is trying to rig its own market,
prices for their 12 main services beginning Jan. 15, the office of price administration announced today.
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WAR WORKERS BONUS FAVORED
Senate Check High Labor
Turnover.
WASHINGTON; Dec. § (U, P.).~ Members of the senate war investigating committee today gave tentative indorsement to the “war workers’ bonus pran” proposed by Production Chief J. A. Krug and Lt. Brehon B. Somervell as a means of checking heavy labor turnover in critical war factories, Chairman James M. Mead (D. N. Y.) and committee members, Senators Homer Ferguson (R, Mich.) and ‘Harold H.. Burton (R. 0.), said in separate interviews that the bonus plan would be preferable to a national service or labor draft act as a means of insuring steady production, The bonus plan was recommended by Krug and the army service force chief in testimony before the committee yesterday. Somervell said that unless the bonus plan and other manpower controls could be worked out successfully within 30 days, the war department might again ask congress to pass labor draft legislation, :
Author Confident
A proposed national service act introduced by Senator Warren R. Austin (R. Vt) has been pigeonholed in the military affairs committee for many months, Its author is the only senator who continues to express confidence that it will some day be passed. Mead, Ferguson and Burton said they were pleased with Somervell’s statement that ample supplies are reaching the battle areas at the present . time.
Suggests 4-Point Program
They said the bonus plan was perhaps the best possible answer to his warning that unless manpower shortages can be ‘met, the “pipeline to the front” will begin
materiel expenditure is beginning to rise above the rate of production. Mead suggested a four-point program consisting of use of prisoners of war in American industry, return of skilled men from the army for temporary work in war production, use of Mexican and Jamaican labor and a possible bonus plan worked out by the military services, the war production board, the war labor board, the A. F. of L.
‘Bonus Is No Gift’ -
Mead believed the bonus could be authorized by presidential directive under the war powers acts, but acknowledged that congress would have to pass upon it eventually
Ferguson said the bonus should be given only at the end of the war, and only to selected “key men” in “key industries.” “The idea must not get about,” “that this would be a sort of over-all gift. It would have a definite purpose—to keep key men on the production job in the most vital industries. It would have to be on a highly selective basis.”
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EXHIBIT OF ENEMY PATENTS ANNOUNCED
Forty-five thousand patents and patent applications formerly owned by enemy nationals will be exhibited Dec, 19 through Dec. 22 at the Purdue university extension building, it was announced today. The inventions, now in possession of alien property custodian, cover every field of applied science. They are available to American manufacturers by payment of a $15 fee for each patent or application and are royalty free for the duration of the patent. The university has offered the use of its building and the counsel of its technical staff for the exhibit, which is sponsored by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, the Indiana Manufacturers association and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Technical men from the office of alien property custodian, Purdue university and Rose Polytechnic Institute as well as representatives from the Smaller War Plants Corp. will be in attendance.
Local Meetings
Automotive Engineers
Archie T. Colwell, of the Thompson Products Co. and Thompson Aircraft Products, Cleveland, O., will address the Indiana section of the Society of Automotive Engineers, at a meeting Thursday eve- , Dec. 14, in the Antlers hotel. . Colwell wili speak on “Future Automotive Trends.”
Life Underwriters
A guest meeting and luncheon will be held by the Indianapolis chapter of Chartered Life Underwriters in the Columbia club Thursday. ) R. W. Hildedag; legal editor of the Insurance Research and Review Service, will speak on.“Prospective Changes in Taxation at the meeting.
LOCAL ISSUES
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The site of the proposed construction is a two-story frame house at 4902 E. New York st. occupied by W. K. Moseley, the petitioner.
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Ww. GTON, Dec. 8 (U. P.).~Government e and receipts for the current fiscal year through . 2, compared _|with a year ago:
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Nation s Bigger Glider Stands 20 In. off Ground
secrecy recently was lifted on the nation’s largest glider—made entirely of wood and dubbed Designed
the glider has a wing span of 105 feet, hauls a large truck or howitzer and carries 43 fully armed men. The cargo section stands only 20 inches above the ground.
Full Freedom of the Air
CHICAGO, Dec. 5 (U. P.)—~—Adolf Berle Jr. assistant secretary of state whose resignation was announced yesterday, has been offered the post of ambassador to Brazil but is withholding his decision until he returns to “Washington to report to President Roosevelt.on the results of the civil aviation conference, it was learned today. Berle, who is president of the air conference, is expected to return
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Market on 180-270-Pound Porkers Rises; Other Weights Steady.
A moderately active hog market prevailed at the Indianapolis stockyards today, the war food administration reported, with prices up five cents on 180 to 270-pounders. All other weights were steady and
the top was $14 on 224 to 245-pound; hogs. Receipts included 11,000 hogs, 2200 cattle, 800 calves and 2000 sheep.
fo the capital the latter part of this week, after the meeting here has ended. The final act of the conference was being drafted today for the closing session tomorrow night.
Canada Voted In
The conference executive committee late last night voted by secret ballot to name Canada the seat of the interim civil aviation organization, and decided to leave selection of the location for the permanent organization to- vote on a conference plenary session. The conference dissolved all its committees late yesterday after a closing meeting in which Britain announced she would sign an agreement granting the first two freedoms of the air to global airplanes. This means carriers will be able to fly over and land for technical purposes in the United Kingdom without negotiating. Britain, however, presumably will not sign the full freedom of the air agreement for commercial rights on a
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WORST OVER’ | AT BREMERTON
OPA Claims It Has Checked]
Rise in Living Costs; Turnover Cut.
each in ‘Bremerton, but living costs have been brought under a measure of control and labor turnover has been reduced from 8.7 per cent last June to 5.6 per cent in November,
Jnavy officials disclosed today. This figure compares with a 9.1
per cent average turnover for war
plants in the entiré Puget Sound area,
ditions at the yard that repaired most of the capital warships damaged at Pearl Harbor, spokesmen for the navy, labor unions and war agencies agreed that major probe lems have been alleviated after months of vigorous effort.
‘Wrong Base Period’
Stanley Oliver, chairman of the Bremerton OPA price control, said that “the OPA has virtually eliminated price violations, but prices still are high because the base period—March, 1942—is wrong.” “It should be rolled back to 1038 levels because Bremerton was one of the first cities in the nation to feel the war boom,” he explained. Julius Gius, editor of the Bremerton Sun which the OPA and labor unions credited with voicing the need for reform, said the biggest problem has been housing, “You simply cannot increase the population of a city from 15,000 to 75,000 in four years without serious dislocations,” Gius said. “The govemmment has built .13,000 units here and the need still is desperate.”
U. 8. Yard Pays Less
Rear Adm. Robert M, Griffin, commandant of the yard which em-~
«++. |ploys more than 30,000 workers and *"**lurgently needs 5000 more, said the
yard management has “given much attention to living costs and housing during the past six months and considerable improvement has been made.” The reduction in labor turnover was achieved despite a wage scale lower than private shipyards. Yard workers are paid the new construction rate rather than the higher ship repair rate, for which unions have been fighting. Morale . among workers is “not too bad” and improving, Oliver said. s.35| He explained that a repair yard has the unique problem of keeping workers ready at a moment's notice to repair a blasted warship and yet keep them busy when drydocks are empty.
Found Many Violations
The navy yard said its principal causes for labor turnover were illness, seasonal workers, optimistic WAr news, manpower needs of the armed services and the high living costs. '
The inflationary spiral forced upward by the influx of thousands of workers and navy personnel first was checked last summer when the OPA moved in and in one day found 138 out of 177 firms violating
| BREMERTON, Wash., Dec. 5° (U.|{ .|PJ) ~Hamburgers still cost 35 cents
As the senate investigating com- |” __|mittee began a study of labor con-
New officers elected by the Include (left to right) P. O. Ferrel, surance Co. as vice president; EK. Corp, as 194% president, and H. A. Rosener, Kahn Tailoring Co. secretary-treasurer. }
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Charges Borax Letters Faked
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, § (U. P.).—-Assistant U, 8 Attorney Joseph Alioto, prosecuting an antitrust indictment against seven Borax firms and 11 individuals, has charged in federal court that the companies placed “faked letters” in their filles to mislead FBI agents seven years ago. Charging that the assertedly faked letters had been planted in company files to delay and prevent invetsigation by FBI agents, Alioto asserted that in 1937 the defendants were “well aware” of the nature of the conspiracy charged. A letter allegedly in the handwriting of James M. Gerstley, general manager of the Pacific Coast Borax . Co, fo an exporter suggested that the latter * ‘lose’ his file copy” of an attached letter, Alioto told the court,
PROBE OF NUT FIRM PRECEDED SUIGIDE
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5 (U. PJ). —An official of the securities and ekchange commission revealed today that an investigation of the Elastic Stop Nut Corp. of America, Union, N. J, was already under way some time before the suicide of the company’s president, William T. Hedlund last week. An unprecedented 10-day sus-. pension of trading in the company’s common stock was ordered five hours after the discovery of Hedlund’s body at his Union home. Anthon H. Lund, division assistant of the SEC, said the comunission had been investigating the financial structure of the company
Hedlund's death, the company began operating at a loss as of last August, Lund said, However, said Lund, the investigation had not progressed far enough to determine the advisability of stock suspension until the suicide of Hedlund “forced the
price ceilings.
U.S. RENTAL SURVEY: HERE TESTED AGAIN
CLEVELAND, 0. ho 5~The > 8. bureau of labor statistics is cons ducting & special survey of res tenant rents in Idianapolis, the re=
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