Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1944 — Page 10

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INITIONS PUSH

15 TAKING HOLD

November Figures Show Gain in Bombers, Artillery “And Ammunition.

By Scripps-Howard Newspapers iw WASHINGTON, . Dec. production officials said today they ‘believed the intensive drive for a step-up ‘in production of critically ‘needed munitions

13.—~War

has begun to

" By ROSETTE HARGROVE NEA Stat Writer SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, Dec. 13.—~War forced England to

food out of her land but also com-

oil out of her soil. So today she has her little oilfields at home as| well as those vast ones in Asia and |’ other continents.

Britain managed to maintain her oil supplies in those critical days

produce not only every ounce of |

pelled her to ekigact every drop of{ ==

It has now been revealed that «

“take hold” throughout the nation’s war industry. This pick up hasn't gone far enough to dispel the feeling of intense urgency of WPB and army . procurement people trying to supply "the rising demands of the armies of Gen. Eisenhower and Gen. MacArthur, but November production figures, just compiled, do disclose certain gains. These gains occurred in some of the critical items such as heavy bombers, heavy artillery and ammunition. Added to earlier gains made in October, they led officials here to say that “the-war-is-over” feeling which swept the nation early in the fall has been considerably punctured. ‘No Let-Up Yet’

“The picture isn't as bad as it was a month ago, but there can be absolutely no let-up if goals are to be met,” is the way one official put it. . Government officials trying to © And an estimated 300,000 more men needed in “tight” war industries, are laying plans now to make certain that every man affected by cutbacks in items which are heading “Into surpluses-be immediately channeled into war industries in which there are labor shortages. . By early 1945, it is anticipated, some thousands of workers will be affected by such cutbacks. An interdepartmental government come mittee com of war procurement and manpower officials is attempting, when possible, to have such cutbacks made in tight labor areas.

Urges Workers to Move

The war manpower commission is arranging that when cutbacks are approaching the layoffs result, local officials of the U. 8. employment service will approach all workers so affected and urge them to move at once into war industries. If two industries are producing an item which has been sufficiently stockpiled and on which production is to be cut, the cutback would probably come in whichever city has the tightest labor market. Many of these workers are already trained in types of machine operation which will fit them for ready acceptance into production lines making items still critically needed, it is believed. Seeks 18-Year-Olds As the selective service system continued to gear its machinery. to carry out the “work-or-get-into-uniform” order of War Mobilization - Director Byrnes to draft-deferred men over 37, Col. Francis V. Keesling, its legislative officer, told a senate committee that pressure should also be put on 18-year-olds. “The real pressure to go into war work under the new work-or-fight order should be put on the young . 18-year-olds who are not qualified for military service,” he said. “That would disturb the civillan economy less than if you forced .the older men to change jobs.”

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of 1940-41, when the U-boat cam-

tankers in the Atlantic in 10s and 20s, thanks to her efforts to bring to the surface every ton of oil she could produce at home. Today British .oil fields are yearly supplying the country with 26,000,000 gallons of high-grade crude oil—a relatively small but very appreciable contribution to the vast quantities of petrol and ofl needed: to turn and grease the wheels of the allied war machines

tions. . Britain's oil flelds have been one of the most closely guarded

secrets of the war. Started in 1918,

Local knowledge of the existence of oil deposits in England goes back some centuries, but there are no records of attempts ever having been made to put them to any use. About 100 years ago oil was found

byshire, where for more than a year a ton a day was collected and sent to a local refinery, there to be separated into burning oil, lubricants and paraffin wax, This discovery remained without sequel, however, and for many years afterwards there was nothing to prove the existence

paign was at its height and sinking

in the European theater of opera-|:

flowing into a coal working in Der-{ 7460 feet. Location is secret.

Derrick over England's deepest oil well. Bore is already sunk

other parts of the British isles. The first serious attempt to investigate Britain's indigenous petroleum resources was made in 1918. At that time, under the pressure of urgent war demands, the govern-

tain amount of exploratory drilling. When the second world war broke out, 20 areas in Great Britain had been tested by the Anglo-Iranian Co., but total production did not then exceed 967 tons. Their rapid war-time development—100,000 tons a year from 238 wells scattered over many square miles—is the cumulation of painstaking prospecting and drilling. By 1941 the target optimistically set by the British oil control hoard was 100,000 tons a year. This figure has now been achieved. The oilfields are essentially a British achievement. Skilled British technicians were called home

‘| from Persia to supervise and in-

struct local workers in what was for them an entirely new fleld of work. Early last year, however, supplementary assistance was given by American drilling contractors.

Location Is Secret

The seven-foot electrically driven pumps dotted over the rich pas~ ture land and tree-clad hillside are no more unsightly than the mechanical farm implements which ply among the pumps. Oil being a national necessity, nothing 1s allowed to stand in its way. Farmers have been come pelled to let official prospectors experiment on their land. On the other hand, every possible care has

[been taken to allow the farmer to

carry on his own just as important wartime job, that of producing foodstuffs. “Milk and oil from the same fields” has been the motto of the’ pioneers. That the creation of this new industry should have been kept secret for so long, not merely from the world but from the people of these islands, is surely unique in the history of oil. Censorship has just released the story but the exact location of the oil flelds remains a

of oil deposits either there or in

HOG PRIGES OFF 19 CENTS HERE

Top Declines t : 12,000 Porkers Arrive At Stockyards.

Hog prices declined again today at the Indianapolis stockyards, the war food administration reported. Weights between 160 and 270 pounds sold 15 cents below yesterday's prices, while other weights were unchanged. The top receded to $14.25 for good to choice 200 to 240-pounders. Receipts included 12,000 hogs, 1700 cattle, 700 calves and 3000 sheep.

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Our market letter contains timely information on selected issues together with comment on the general outlook. “ Copies upon request without obligation.

*|ot the flying wing type with a wide

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. Dec. 13.—Hug

of battle equipment by air and are

are now undergoing flight tests here The XCG-10A, known as the Trojan Horse, is the larger of the two and attempts to describe the sky giant range from “whale” to “polliwog.” It is a high wing monoplane with a broad deep fuselage curving back from a rounded nose. The wing span is 105 feet, length 67 feet. The tail assembly is set high to facilitate loading from the rear. Huge doors, opening like a clamshell under the tail boom, swing out to provide access to the cargo compartment. The interior of the cargo hold measures 30 feet long, 7 feet high, and 8% feet wide. It will carry bulky equipment such as a 155-millimeter howitzer or a 2% ton truck. The XCG-16 is a smaller glider

but shallow fuselage, and will haul five tons. The leading edge of the fuselage section is formed by twin

+ [email protected] | plexiglass doors, which are lifted| Lionel Moses

upward by means of hand-operated jacks, revealing twin cargo sections. The forward section of the cargo floor is hinged, and lowers forward for use as a loading ramp. It will carry two jeeps or one 75-milli-meter howitzer, Both gliders are made of laminated plywood and for the first time use tricycle landing gear with retractable wheels. These gliders can land at a steep angle of descent without increasing forward speed. This enables them to land men and equipment in small fields or clearings that are forbidding to our powered planes. Fully loaded, the Trojan Horse can come to a complete stop within 600 feet.

HARVESTER TO PAY $35,000 BONUS HE

International Harvester Co. will pay a $35,000 profit-sharing bonus to employees at its truck engine works here tomorrow, Harry Gottberg, plant superintendent, announced today. The bonus will be shared by 1150 eligible employees who have three or more years service, he said.

Federal Judge Willlam J. Camp-

Huge Gliders Carry Cargo Like Ancient Trojan Horse

By Science Service

[ber in the club-sponsored ‘ad

military secret.

e aerial cargo-carrying gliders, de-

veloped by the air technical service command, army air forces, and ~“|Laister-Kauffmann Aircraft Corporation here, will carry up to six tons

the biggest in combat. Still in an

experimental stage, the gliders, known as the XCG-10A and the XCG-16,

and at Wright field, Ohio.

Local Meetings

Advertising Club

Lionel B. Moses of Chicago will discuss “Co-operative Advertising” at the meeting of the Indianapolis Advertising club tomorrow noon in the Indianapolis Athletic ¢1 ub. Mr, Moses is national director of the trade extension division of the American Weekly where for 15 years his work has been devoted to promoting mare effective use of advertising at the point of sale. ~ EH, McCaffery, chairman of the club’s ad-of-the-month ' committee, will announce winners for Novem--of-

the-month contests

Electrical Engineers

R. J. Kryter, of the EsterlineAngus Co. will speak Friday, Dec. 15, at 8 p. m,, at a section meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. auditorium.

Foreign Trade

Paul Van Trees, traffic manager of J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co., will lead a discussion of “Packing for Export” at the meeting of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce foreign trade institute tonight in the Claypool hotel. A demonstration of packing methods by R. D. Treanor, of the Ell Lilly Pan-American Corp. and a film, “Around the World with Ocean Cargo,” by courtesy of L. E. Brame, with the Insurance Co. of North America, also will be presented.

Purchasing Agents

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‘MORE THAN GAS HALTED PATTON

Petroleum News Publisher Says General Out-Ran All Supplies.

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (U. P)~ Gen. George 8. Patton's drive halted because “he had stretched the army's strategical and supply plan as much as it could be stretched” and not because of lack of gasoline, Warren C. Platt, publisher of the National Petroleum News, said today. Taking issue with Frederick. C. Crawford, chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, who sald last Friday that if Patton had had sufficient ‘gasoline he would have gone straight to Berlin, Platt criticized singling out gasoline as the one reason. “The fact is,” Platt said, “that Patton made one of thegreatest military drives in all history and he had to slow down, not because of a lack of any one thing but because he had got way heVond: all his sun, plies, even way beyond, his communication system. “If he had had all the gasoline he needed to drive .such of his equipment as would have continued to run not only to Berlin but clear across Germany to Poland, he could not have gone on as much of a fighting army and he would have Heft his wounded lying unattended all along the road as even the hospital service was stretched to the limit.”

Marvin Jones, war food trator, has announced a minimum 1045 producer price of 27 cents a dozen for candled eggs (the 1944 average was 26 cents) and this price, he added, will be supported by purchases from dealers upon certification that they in turn had paid no less than the support price to producers.

Optimistically, the agenegtoest’t expect to run into so much dificulty next year. But whether it does or not, it will buy eggs anyway because it is pledged to support the market, come what may, even if that means stocking up with s0 many cases that it will have no place to store them, !

Blames the Hens

The yolk of the present difficulty, it seems, lines in the war-enthused hens. For, according to food administration officials, these unpredictabie birds kicked over .the agency’s well-laid plans for 1944 by going too far. : Altogether they will have produced approximately 4,676,000,000 dozen eggs by year's end. That's roughly 93,000,000 dozen better than they were expected to do and 54 per cent more than they laid on a yearly average during the 1935-39 period. : So it is that the war food-admin-istratioms despite strenuous reports to

find markets, arid despite the fact

With 216 Million Eggs for ith 2 illion Eggs for Sale, WFA Will ; By ROGER W. STUART’ “ Seripps-Howard Staff Writer : WASHINGTON, Dec.»13.—The war food administration, despite ‘its troubles with eggs, this year—angd it has had plenty—is all set to start off the new year on another egg-buying spree. The agency even at this moment is trying desperately to find buyers

for some 600.000 excess cases—that's a .total of 216,000,000 eggs—but this has nothing to do with the 1945 program. . adminis-

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that countless eggs were converted into fertilizer and livestock feed, now has 600,000 cases of surplus eggs to be disposed of. Many Spoiled Most of these are in the New York and Midwest areas at the present time. But they have by no mea been there all the year. They've traveled the length and breadth of the land, hunting suitable storage space. : The, most hectic period—for both the. WFA and the eggs—was last summer, when, because. of lack of storage space, vast quantities of eggs had to remain in cars. Some of them gpoiled—just how many the discreet agency doesn't say. In any event, they were shunted back and forth whenever a likelihood of storage space -presented itself in Chicago or New York or some other place. But all too often, by the time the eggs arrived at the point where they were to be stored, it was ‘discovered that other items, such as meat and fruit, had arrived first and taken the space. So the eggs remained in their cars. As for next year, the agency's chief hope is that you and I and our neighbor across the street will develop a greater taste for eggs; that we'll not only eat them fried, boiled and scrambled, but also devise new usages for them.

Move Prompted by New York Butchers’ Plan to Shut Down. 2

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (U, P). ~The threatened shut-down by New York butchers prompted the office of price administration today to renew its pleas for price ceilings on live cattle, An OPA spokesman said price chief Chester Bowles planned to ask Economic Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson to authorize the ceilings as the most effective way

‘to remedy the conditions causing

hardships for butchers and dealers in New York and elsewhere. OPA’s previous efforts to get such ceilings have been blocked by the war food administration’s contention that they would be “unenforceable.” > The OPA spokesman said that price conditions in the meat industry have grown steadily worse. Wholesale and retail prices have been kept in check, he said, but the uncontrolled cost of live animals has Jumped from 13 to 14 cents a pound

to a present high of 18, causing a .

“squeeze” on prices all along the line, -In New York, some 3500 butchers, who handle 80 per cent of the city’s trade, have voted an indefinite “business holiday” Christmas in protest against what they term OPA’s “over-strict” enforcement of “complicated, unworkable” regulations at the wholesale and retail level, They intend to stay closed until they obtain relief.

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