Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1945 — Page 11

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21, 1945

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1945"

Lon ' i IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC (Delayed). —De- of his arnvay THs” weoR found: MGT -alilaeing.hon- | La Rn she Hy stroyers love to pick up airplane pilots out of the ored as a Barks Sipping avisior hose N a 8 ; ngraved over the scro Sa arm reaching s. Mary Cona © ocean. When they rescued our Li. Jimmy yan Fleet of out Ngre a destroyer, hauling a wet flier out of the SECOND SECTION ts of rosaries Findlay, O,, after his plane had plunged over the sid€, : great by the seat of his pants. it was.pllot-rescue No. 15 for thet. They keep a box- 20 Gallons of le e Cr eam | score on it, "just as carriers keep score of the plangs they shoot THEY RETURNED Jimmy to us three days later L down. They even keep records of when they were delivering messages and mail from their speed; and try to set a new the flagship:" They sent him over in a bosun’s chalr, ; record. They fished out Jimmy pulled across on a line strung betweéen the two ships. |- seven minutes after he went over, We got Jimmy aboard, and then-we sent somei Their record rescue is three thing .back ‘across in the chair to the destroyer. | { minutes. TE: never guess what i was. It was 20 Re By ALLAN L. SWIM : On the destroyer they put Of ice cream. . Ss Scripps-Howard Staff Writer | sms 1 bed. $0 the water out OU SATE avs ks “hal Ahh 8 OMY MILWAUKEE, Wes, March 2 — I SE rn don't, for the destroyer sent back a scribbled note Some people called it a “crackpot £l his head. The doctat joked as he saying “Thanks a lot. That is the nicest thing that idea—but- H. L. Nunn decided to i sewed, telling Jimmy he was sorry has ever happened to us. give it a try. he couldn't find a bigger needle so it would hurt more. After they told me ihe whole story, we sent a After almost 10 years the skepJimmy was nightmarish all night. He didn't get signal batk to the destroyer asking for the names tics still shake their heads. But sick at his stomach until next morning, when he of the two men- who rescued him. The destroyer Mr. Nunn’s employees swear by tried to get some breakfast down. He had a head- came right back: : : (him, instead of at him. § ache next day, but after that he was all right. The swimmer was Seaman 1-c Franklin Calloway, And the “radical” scheme adopted Destroyers treat rescued pilots as though they of Philadelphia, and the one ‘who helped was Radio- in 1935 by the Nunn-Bush Shoe were kings. They put Jimmy up in the skippers pri- man 3-c Melvin Collins of Owmw: a, Iowa. {Co. here interests many who hope vate cabin, since the skipper was on the ridge day They're smart on that destroyer. Because a few and believe thére can be plenty and night, anyhow. hours “later here came another message saying “If |or good jobs for American workers that information is for the press, might add that|gfter the war. And Brand New Toothbrushes both men received bronze stars for similar rescue 8 » JIMMY WORE the skipper’s bathrobe and house work during’ operations off Leyte last fall!” HERE, Mr. Nunn says, is the slippers and underwear. The skipper came in a Jimmy Van Fleet is 25, and incongruous as It basic thinking” behind the Nunncouple of times to take a bath, and actually apologized S€€ms, Was 3 school teacher before he became a| {Bush plan: for intruding. fighter pilot in the navy. His home is in Findlay. | “The Nunn-Bush management Fishing out pilots is such a frequent occurrence His wife is living at Kenton, O. He has a son Tlpelieves that industry has no sothat the skipper even keeps a bundle of brand néw months old whonr he has never seen. tooiilrushes in his medicine cabinet for such sudden His Father Was a Pfe. (One of. a Series) guests. By the time Jimmy came to, the laundry had H SLny ASKED Pe #1 Byer beet m Yiebnia cial or moral right to look upon f rashed and pressed his clothes. "He didn't have Xe sald ihat was iis dad's “dream city.” His {ather ] : 5.95 i yaw Pp i 7 f the last war, and spent three years labor as a commodity—that comi his wallet with him, so his’ pictures and private was a pic. In - ’ p ee EINE THarAZETHENT - cart: off 1 papers were spared a dunking, in a hospital in Vienna, and has always wanted «to | Pe m ge 9 er no i This certain destroyer has fished out so many 80 back. adequate excuse for buying labor : pilots that they have a scroll already printed up for These tolumns are probably the first news Jimmy's cia would NY Jaw Inateliah i such cases. and all they have to do is fill in’ the folks have had of his little mid-ocean escapade. It| fe a isregards he ! name. It's a picturesque certificate like you get 18 glorious news alongside the last grave message | { altruism la usiness is made 3 when Vou cross the equator. they had. for man, not man for business, it } ¥ Across the top of Jimmy's scroll was engraved the For Jimmy's only brother, Ensign Donald Van must of practical necessity consider } words—the Rlank's Home for Dipping Aviators.” Fleet, also a carrier pilot, was killed off Formosa just the truism that no man can be exAnd beneath it was this—"“know ye that Lt James a few months ago. He had got two Jap planes in (pected to give his greatest skill or van Fleet on such and such a date abruptly appeared the two weeks before he himself was shot down. We best loyalty to a job that discards into our happy home, and due to the peculiarities are grateful that the sea gave Jimmy back, {him when trouble comes.” ” n 5 4 | THE PROBLEM Nunn-Bush and its employees faced was this: | Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum Shoe manufacturing doesn’t or8 | dinarily provide regular, all-year i CHARLES F.-SCHLEGEL, stage manager of the for the public to refuse to pay above-ceiling prices. | employment. But the company ; Murat theatér, has been running things bac kstage at What the OPA boys really need to make the cam- workers wanted steady work at the Murat ever since the theater was built in 1910. paign succeed is a slogan. And so, Old Inside, without |steady pay. And the management i But in all those years, he never saw a show from out solicitation, freely volunteers one. Whenever you're wanted them to have it. ! front. In some way, Shrine officials learned of the asked to pay an excessive price for an article, stop| So company and union officials ° situation and they “framed up” and ask yourself—or maybe the salesperson: “Is this did a lot of figuring, a lot of on Charley. When he showed up gyp necessary?” . & Me OPA restaurant price panel | arguing, and a bit of guessing— backstage Friday night for a recently discovered a small restaurant on the West and the “52. Paychecks a Year

Shrine show, the officials grabbed him and dragged him out front and into the potentate's box. There he joined members of his family, who were in on the secret. He saw the show from there, and was .introduced during the ‘intermission. A fine time was had by all, ... . Those “Walk With the Green Light” signs on downtown sidewalks may be helping to solve traffic. problems for some people, but creating problems for others. Wilbur Fuller, the barber, got the other side of the picture while helping a blind man across an intersection. The blind man was cussing out the city for installing “booby traps” on .the sidewalk. One man’s joy is another man’s burden. . . . John E. Smith, 5182 Clarendon rd. read the story in yesterday's Times about spring. And he was particularly struck by Fred Bates Johnsorr’s boast that “radishes and lettuce planted in Brown county 10 days ago are already above the ground,” Shucks, says Mr. Smith. That's nothing. He's had both radishes and lettuce above ground right here in good old Marion county several days. And he’s expecting his beets to pop up most any time now. He's going to cover over the beets in case of frost.

Inside’s Slogan Dept.

THE OPA is trying hard to get folks—both buyegs

z and sellers—to observe ceiling prices and thus to kéep then her husband awoke to the fact he then was |structively critical of management, ; 8 irregular pay. So, after going into L95 a the cost of living from going any higher. The one farther from Lafayette than when he started—and |too. If production drops, our THEY GET THEIR SHARE ... Workers on this Nunn-Bush pro- business and becoming president > best way Pp “hold dow prices—explains-the OPA, is all that precious gasoline gone to waste. workers want to know why.” duction line move swiftly and efficiently—and for a good reason. Em- of Nunn-Bush Shoe Co. he de4 Epes epee oesopeitante sie ments spam alias ___ployees get one-fifth of the total amount brought in from the sale of vised a Share the Production Plan . BECAUSE pay is based on Ht shoes they make, and they get bonuses; {es,-when.they earn them. under which his employees receive \ A / orld of S 1en B D 0 id D . ; put, not on hours worked, the ~ : a check the same size each week A c Ce y avi el {union supplies half the salary of a!mine their shares of the total We have kept workers on when and additional pay when they i S {production efficiency engineer. A.|amount set aside for wages. [there was no work for them to do— €arn it. ® J BEHIND THE TREMENDOUS sugcesses of our had to be built in record time. |G. Becker, the union's business| One group of 595 workers—the when we'd have dropped them from ! armed forces in Eufope, and in the Pacific has been Dr. Williams points out tnat one of the first bottle- | agent, explains the plan thus: {company’s permanent labor Torce | the pay roll if we'd been buying 8 the amazing gccompiishments of the American metal necks affecting the expansion of the steel industry| “The employees, through the|—has. a special classification, not | labor as we do coal” Fs a 8 was the great- shortage of scrap iron. This was over-junion, contract with the manage- | [subject to layoffs... But in 10 years| “The Nunn-Bush factory here em- . industry. Miracles of production made possible the come by a. tremendous increasé in the producti f for 2 I I b layoff for | 1 bait 900 product k in later miracles of combat ‘on land, sea and ir the air. , production of [ment for 20 cents of ‘each dollar| {there have been no layoffs ploys about production workers, “Tn this war. #é iii ro Tormer pig iron. : taken in from sale of shoes. This|those in any classificatdon. all union members. About 10 per 5 nd the we of tretals has been This pig iron was then used in one of two ways. money goes into a fund out of | Factory foremen and Nunn- Bush | cent of ‘them, ordinarily, are apDP the. masor faclor governing sue~ Ld was either converted directly into steel by the!which comes our pay each week | retail store employees will be ad-|prentices. Skilled workers “earn cesses.” Clvde Williams. director usual Bessemer process or it was made into a low- When “the fund overflows, we mitted to the plan after the war,|$3300 to $4400 a year. Two em- ’ ) at carbon product that was subsequently used in place get the overflow. In addition to|Mr. Nunn has promised. ployes—one chosen by factory of the Battelle Memorial Institute, of scrap in the open-hearth steel furnace lth reek { 8 8 # { work t b ot, s “ Columbus, O. writes in Mining ‘ | the Festina VeshlY pay Sheree Sass] THESE , SE the other y re ia} tore TERT A wr’ Pw ; \ {employee gets a separate check 5 CRE'S just no comparison |e yees—serve on the company g Rnd ete ome) Ja, of Fantastic F roduction jevery four weeks if anything is due between working under Sur plan board of directors. ; 3 and Metallurgical Engineers. ANOTHER GREAT EXPANSION - took place in from the overflow. and under the usual piece-work| No employee can be fired withAt the heart of the war effort the number of electric furnaces capable of producing, “Each employee builds up a re- | plan,” says Business Agent Becker. jou the union's approval, and Mr. has been steel production: In the alloy steel. This increase, plus developments in serve fund with the company, and| “Security is the big factor here. Nunn says he is "more than \ last analysis war consists of throw- chute aie it posslule bo rie ATngrizan Peo {draws o> it to make i thie Wires |A Yorke knows fs Weeks in ad-|pleased” with that arrangement. - 3 , Ye. ) 3 . wha r illiams calls ence if, in any week, production | vance-how much he will get on| : we pi el Je Ie Suey s) 2ate, “the fantastic figure of 15,000,000 toms a year.” doesn’t entitle him to his full reg- |each pay day. Nearly half our| il The Procter & Gamble dition to that finally made into shells. 3 " Bis Fess for calling it that will be clear when ular pay.” {union's . members began buying | © AE a “For building new plants, new transport facilities, gos Foelised Joy spars Jol Produetion of all) 4 8 {homes after the plan went into ef- | 0. E. S. Ch : "a whether by land, sea ‘or air, for our mechanized Part of the miracle of Sly Sted production | : NEW WORKERS serve a two- fect. And the plan makes the apler SATISFIED A. G. ‘Becker army, and for nearly all weapons, iron and steel has ountry has rer the. overcomir, pra ue on n wie vear apprenticeship, punching time |union fight inefficiency and waste.’ | Pl | d iabove).- business azent of Nui: provided the basic material,” Dr. Williams says. certain alloying- elements which a Orage: ot ca*ds and drawing hourly pay, be- 3 8 i ans in uction | Bush Employees’ a says he | I Figures Tell the Story time difficulties of transportation. fore they can participate in the SAYS Mr, Nunn! : MRS. ADAH B. JULIAN will be | likes the plan and that his fellow : : D. Williams points out that prior to world war Share the Production plan. They| “Plenty of times in these 10 years installed as worthy matron and | workers, do, too, Mr. Becker is THE FIGURES for production of steel ingots tell II, American metallurgists were lavish in their ase BSP begin to advance through vari- we would have laid off employees| Glen L. Moreillon worthy patron | standing beside a sign that tells the story. In 1940 the rated capacity of the nation’s ef such alloying elements as manganese, chromium, |® slassifications, which. deter-/if We'd heen under the-uly system. | of Daylight chapter, 553, O. E. S., | the number of weeks that have b facilites Way 20a ons any Hie seiuel progas. nickel, vanadium, tungsten and molybdenum. . in ceremonies at 8 p. m. Friday in | passed since employees started b tion o ,000, ons, 0 capacity and produc- To meet the increasing deman ’ . the Masonic temple, North and | gettin full ‘hecks Very * Hon, wets fiureased to SeA0IR0. ws in- 1942 and for tank armor, bomb i nd fof alloy sil Up Front With Mauldin | Illinois sts. : mon gd — i nally to its present rate o ,000,000 tons. planes, engines, guns, etc. rel. y | Mrs. Daisy ‘M. Crist, past grand ronspic sly » facWY To accomplish this it has been necessary to ex- oped the pondop) aT ee, nae ove. | matron and grand secretary, will | Pe a fae’ pand cvery unit of operation, including mining, N. E. steels. These contain manganese, Hickel, chro- serve as installing officer, assisted | brought up to date weekly. rail and water transportation, blast furnace and mium and molybdenum in total quantity of 2 per | by Mrs. Ruth R. Denison as grand | steelmaking facilities, and rolling mills, New plants cent or less. chaplain and Mrs. Vera Ginn as ' F grand marshal. A reception and > HANNAH < pk by & kd | dance will follow. | M D ; @ & Other officers fo be installed are | » Ly y ay By Eleanor Roosevelt \ ~ | Mrs. Clara Zobbe, associate matw o k | | tron; Wilbur Zobbe, associate GREENSBORO, N. ©. Tuesday.—The other day here, because it shows the spirit in which we should | § y nT. | patron; Mrs. L. Francis Pease, A I received an interesting statement: from. the Com- all approach whatever work we-can do. I am afraid v | conductress; Mrs. Luvisa Lowe, a rl mission to Study the Orgdnization of Peace, ‘he “anxious” ladies referred to cannot have "their | | CO Cosy Rization. “HE : —since—t nthe L. 8 3 's. Osce They offer a proposal to the united nations which military only, and they made the original decision. | |_L._ Williams, -treasurer; Mrs. Maru | urges “the setting up, of a commission on human rights But it is good to find people who want so badly to | E. Kidwell, chaplain; Mrs Mar-/| and fundamental freedoms to this make a contributidn, and I congratulate them and | garet J. Vaser, marshal; Mrs. | » end.” hope that whatever they do will be done in this J Mayme Passmore, organist; Miss | . It id a necessary part 6f per- same spirit! Lois V. Julian, “Ada”; Mrs. Pearl manent peace, for there can be no “We are taking the liberty to write you,” the letter Featheringill, “Ruth”; Mrs. Rose- | such thing as a lasting peace that reads, “to see if we could interest you in our prob- mary Crysler, “Esther”; Mrs, Eve- | 3 " is not founded on the decent lem, namely—about a dozen of us are beyond the lyn ,C. McKissick, “Martha”; Mrs. treatment of human beings. age to be WAC soldiers. : Winifred Rice, “Electa”; Mrs. | I gather that they propose that “We "are strong,: well educated, of good character Gladys Selmier, warder, and Mrs. |

this should he part of the docu-

from the San Francisco meeting— something like our owh bill of rights. - It is so general in its terms that I wonder if the Dumbarton Oaks proposals of a social and economic cduncil, under which all the. various groups working for economic and social aims throughout the world can find a place to work togethet, would not be the proper . place for these considerations. Certain it is thaf in. the future we do need I” have some people who will study the conditions of various peoples throughout the world and try to determine how we /can help them to obtain a decent living and to preserve .their fundamental rights and

ment which will emerge, we hope, -

1 have an amusing letter which I weit to publish

side that never had complied with regulations re- | Plan” was evolved. yi. : quiring it to register -its prices. The panel members, | It was submitted in July, 1935, suspecting the restaurant was getting away with” ex-|to the Industrial Union of Master cessive prices, called in its foreign-born proprietor. | Craftsmen, bargaining agent for The bewildered gent pleaded that he didn’t know he the employees, and approved by it, was supposed to register. Never heard of it. The | Details have altéred since, and it suspicious panel members started asking what prices | is now called the “Share the Prohe was charging. His replies made them raise their] |duction” plan, but the principle eyebrows. Instead of high prices, he seemed almost [that workers should get pay checks to be giving his food away. For instance, he was [every week hasn't changed. only charging 35 cents for a full meat dinner, with | * soup. The board members sent him on his way and

made a mental note to eat in his restaurant as often! “NO COMPANY—unless it had a as possible. | huge cash reserve—could guarantee

{its employees the same amount of A Roundabout Route \pay each week; year after year,”

FABIEN SEVITZKY, director of the Indianapolis | says Mr. Nunn. Symphony, is one of many motorists eagerly awaiting| 50 We decided that the amount tomorrow—and the validation of some more A cou- Set aside for wages should be depons. His gas tank has been almost bone dry since [termined by the total amount of last Friday, when he was involved in a slight mis-|the company’s receipts from sales. hap. The orchestra was playing in Lafayette. The The larger the production and the players went over by train. Director Sevitzky left better the product, the more the later in his car, with Ashley Paige, bass player, doing | |sales and the more the pay. the driving. . Paige isn’t acquainted with the Hooster| “That gives the worker an inhighways ahd had to ask how to get to Lafayette. céntive not only to do a good job ‘Why, just take Route 40,” directed Director Sevitzky, himself, but also to see that his Paige did.” ‘And it wasn't until they were pulling into [fellow workers do good jobs. It Brazil that Mrs. Sevitzky remarked: “I didn't know |actually makes him a partner in the you went through Brazil to get to Lafayette.” And | business. And it makes him con-

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ONE EVERY WEEK ... No matter whether business is brisk or slack, employees of Nunn-Bush Shoe They get extra pay and a share of the company's is

Co. of Milwaukee, Wis, get a paycheck every week, profits when production is high and business good. Miss Sylvia Pickarzewski, «hown here with the minimum number of paychecks a Nunn-Bush production worker receives annually.

There are 52 checks in the pile,

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and holding down men's jobs by day, and work ‘extra’ at night. We are bank clerks, bookkeepers, office workers. el “Will not our commander-in-chief have the age limit raised to, say, 66? None of us are this old . . . “We have bought bonds from ‘can to can't’ But we want an active part in the victory that will be ours eventually. Soldiers returning from the front would be glad of our jobs. We are not old, brok--en-down women,:but are alert go-getters. “There would not be enough of us to be objectionable to the young G. 1's, who of course want young girls to go with. We would be strictly business, and | feel sure that the army would never’ regret taking | us in. Physical examinations are required. for some! of us to hold our present positions, and we passed | . these without a defect, 3 2a [ON THE "ANXIOUS SEAT.”

' A GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE? A VITAL ISSUE FOR ALL AMERICANS—

Goin Idea, Some Said; but It Worked

a shoe lining cutter,

" DISSATISFIED wos HL Nunn {above) ;fearned as a production worker that he didn’t liké the way shoe factories were operated.

Pay Guarantee Up to Industry Or the U.S.

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wage guarantee on the steel ine dustry, but stated: “The question demands investigation. A guaranteed annual wage Is one of the main aspiration of - American workers.” The Byrnes’ advisory board turned /over the subject to a committee composed. of Eric A. Johnston, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce; Philip Murray, president of the C I. O.; Albert S. Goss, manager of the National Grange, and Mrs, Anna Rosenberg, New York ree gional director of the war mane power commission. ” » committee includes representative of the American Federation of Labor William Green, A. F. of L. president, is a member of the Byrnes advisory board. The A. F. of L. has spoken in behalf of guaranteed wages. But the C. I. O. was assertive in the case of the steel workers, the union headed by Mr. Murray.

An A. F, of L. spokesman explained the difference is that the A. F. of L. believes in acquiring guaranteed wages through collective bargaining, while the C. I. 0. is willing to have the principle established through gove ernment action.

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Students agree that it would be easy to establish a “system of guaranteed wages for all working people by having the government undertake to make up deficits of private employers. This would tend to make the government a partner in private enterprise. ® = n ATTITUDE of Mr. Johnston, head of the annual wage commit= tee, is shown in a speech hé made Dec. 6 before the Wisconsin state chamber of commerce: -

“I hope the day is near when regularized operations and stead. jer employment will be functions assigned to the President or the first vice president in every concern in this country. . . .

“I hope we can avoid learning the hard way. It is a mistake to force annual wages down the throats of management hy gov= ernment order. This problem goes to the roots of our free society. * a “BY FORCING business into a strait-jacket the. job. regularity attained »might be more than off= set by the loss ‘of our freedom, If everyone must pay an annual

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May 8. Waterbury,

LUDENDORFF BRIDGE REPAIRS ABANDONED

PARIS, March 21 (U. P.).—Re- | paifs on the collapsed Ludendorfl | bridge have been abandoned since | the span is no longer necessary because of the existence of other facilities across the Rhine into the Remagen bridgehead, supreme | headquarters announced. today. . |

sentinel.

{ surprising that the battered struc-| | ture, pounded by the allies before the crossing and b the Germans |

afterwards, stood as jong as it did. |

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wage many will hesitate to ene gage in business. Then the gove ernment would be tempted to step in and become the employer, as is the case in. Russia today.”

: Nearly a. hundred _companies, according to latest U. S. Tabor ~~" department surveys, are operate ing annual wage plans. Their impact on the national economy is small.

The big drive will be in efforts # to apply the idea to basic indus tries. such as steel production, ‘automobile manufacturing and coal mining. = ; ”

— We, the Women Keeping Up With Joneses Due to Return

By RUTH MILLETT A RECENT survey among clube women in San Prancisco reveals

+ dreaming of getting rid of ‘once ’

that. the wonien intend to do a lot of buying for their homes after the war. The women themselves, ably don’t realhow

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ize just mueh buying they'll do in the first few post-war years. They &will, though, wh en they see how much their neighbors are buying. For in America Mrs. Smith's needs for the house are pretty much governed , by what Mrs. Jones and Mrs, Brown are buying.

And so many of the posses sions the housewife isn't even

the war is over, may be thrown out, once She sees they fail to measure up to what her friends are huying for their homes.

The old house isn't going to be the same, once household goods are again plentiful and families start cashing in their war bonds —many of which mama already has tagged with such labels as “new stove,” “living room rug,” “bedroom furniture.” u ” 5

80 GET all the good you can out of thé equipment and furs nishings you are living with tos day. For now 1s the time to re lax with whatever 'you have.

When the war is over, and the other women start redecorating and replacing old equipment with the very Iatest Saigess, you § be able to enjoy the “old # fuls” that carried you