Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1945 — Page 18
STUDEBAKER PLANS PLANT EXPANSION
$16 Million To Be Spent to Bring Passenger Car Output
‘Just Under” One a Minute at South Bend.
Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 21.—Studebaker Corp. today announced a $16 million expansion and modernization of its factory here to maintain its peacetime rank as the nation’s
largest independent automobile producer. President Paul G. Hoffman's plan includes:
1. senger car a minute. (Al-] though final assembly lines were geared to this pace in 1941, the volume could be
held over only one work shift, Mr. Hoffman said. Meantime other departments operated on two and three shifts to furnish parts to the assembly line.) 2. Tripled commercial car output. 3. Installation of batteries of fast, semi-automatic machinery, much of which is modeled after types used by Studebaker as the exclusive supplier of Flying Fortress engines. 4. Resumption of foundry operations with equipment that is far advanced over any previously available. The foundry was closed during the war, Some Ideas from War Mr. Hoffman emphasized that not all of the program would be com-~ pleted when new passenger carg go into production early next month, “We do not expect, for example, to have our new truck cab-manu-facturing and freight - receiving building ready before the end of the year,” he sald. “However, with the current shortage of certain materials, it is doubtful whether we could take full advantage of the Iacility before that time.” The factory's conversion from military to civilian goods ranges all of the way from employee health safeguards to a widescale revision of departments designed to smooth out and speed up processes, Several of the manufacturing in« novations are the direct result of Studebaker’s billion-dollar contribu tion to the war effort; others stem from experience gained in wartime activities. In the class of the former is the extended army truck assembly line that will now be applied to civilian commercial cars, Among many instances of the latter is a machine for milling cylinder blocks that copies in important respects the miraculous cylinder head machine of aireraft engine fame. Features of the converted plant layout will be the removal of all cast iron machining to a position nearer the foundry; a conveyor
that will pick up frames from the
unloading dock and deliver them to the second floor of the assembly building; and a 1000-foot flush-floor conveyor that will permit the selection and removal of any car on the final inspection line.
ASKS U, S, REVAMP PROVO STEEL PLANT
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (U. P)~ Colorado Puel & Iron Co., which has been seeking to lease the govern-ment-owned Geneva steel plant at Provo, Utah, has Informed the Reconstruction Finance Corp. that it will accept a lease only if the gov» ernment will spend $58,000,000 on the plant's reconversion, it was disclosed today. “Should the government accede to the company's request, Colorado Fuel & Iron would form a new company to operate the plant, with the rental based on production, The plant was built and operated during the war by U, 8. Steel Corp. which recently announced it was not interested in taking the mill off the government's hands. Colorado Fuel said that even after the government spending of $58,000, 000 on reconversion of the plant, the west coast cannot be assured of steel at prices prevailing in the east unless freight rates are lowered. Colorado Fuel & Iron stockholders are scheduled to meet Sept. 25 in Denver to vote on a proposal to merge the company with Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. Stockholders of the latter yesterday approved the merger.
WALLACE PLANNING DEPARTMENT SHIFTS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (U, P.), Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace yesterday announced plans to reorganize his department, He sald the proposals are aimed to promote a sustained high level of foreign trade and to improve its| services to business—particularly| small business, He said he would seek three new assistant secretaries in addition to the existing one. The new assistants would be assigned to International trade, in-| dustrial economy and small busi.
ness. The present assistant would |
handle alr commerce and related technical services. RESUMES AIRLINE WORK PATERSON, N. J, Sept. 21 (U. P).~The manufacture of 2200 horsepower Wright cyclone 18 aircraft engines will be started here by the Wright Aeronautical Corp. for installation in a fleet of Lock. heed Constellation airliners, marking the first commercial sale of aircraft power plants since V-J day, it was announced today,
U.S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (U, P.).—Government expenses. and pceipis. for the current “fsenl year tirouss Be 19 com« pared 8 year
“ois Expe $20,147, 201s $ nh ia, Sein . War. Spending 17,078,328.3 19, ane 8}
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OPA SUSPENDS LOCAL PACKER
Thomas A. Theard Firm Out for Duration.
The Thomas A. Theard Packing Co, 710 E. 16th st, has been suspended by the Indiana district OPA from dealing in meats for the duration of rationing. The suspension order by OPA Hearing Commissioner Frederick 8. Glover Jr, Cleveland, followed charges that the packing firm deposited, handled and transferred counterfeit ration coupons and transferred meat without receiving coupons, Seven other firms, Including an Indianapolis retailer, were suspended from dealing in tires for varying periods of time. L. I. Mathews, operator of the Meridian Gulf station, 16th and Meridian sts, was suspended for the duration of rationing on a charge of purchasing tire certificates, Other Hoosier firms suspended were Lester Cox, Spencer, 30 days on a charge of shortage in his inventory; Willlam H. Crays, Bloomfield, 30 days on a similar charge; Charles W. McCory, New Albany, 30 days on a charge of altering certificates, and Isidore Miller, Lafayette, and John Cochran, Kentland, suspended 30 days each and placed on probation for alleged variations in their inventories.
COMPLETE UTILITY HOME UNIT MADE
NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (U. P.).—A complete home utility unit of modern conveniences, which will substantially reduce the expense of building and equipping a home and enable between 6,000,000 and 7,000, 000 additional families to enjoy American standards of comfort, was announced today by Roy C, Ingersoll, division, Borg-Warner Corp. The unit, which combines house-
said to be adaptable to both con-ventionally-built houses and pre-
from $3000 to $10,000; Ingersoll said that he had com-
standing
construction at Kalamazoo, Mich. “Essentially we
t0icore of which contains a central oll or gas heating plant with thermostatically controlled forced warm filtered air, entire household plumbing, hot water heating, electrical connections and meters.
bility that a man can get inside and service it. core we have integrated in beautiful streamlined design all the appli-
in the most modern kitchens, laundries and bathrooms.”
Meetings
Real Estate Board
Downtown property owners and tenants are invited to the Indianapolis Real Estate Board luncheon meeting Thursday noon at the | Washington hotel, The program f will be under direction of the! {board's downtown committee,
Sales Executives M. P. Speakman, J. I. Holcomb [Manufacturing Co, general sales manager, will speak at the Indian apolls Sales Executives Council meeting at 6 p. m, Monday at the Indianapolis Athletic club.
president of Ingersoll
hold heating, plumbing, electrical, bath, kitchen and laundry elements |’ including major appliances, was
fabricated houses ranging in price
missioned seven of America's outachitects to design 12 homes to show the wide flexibility and practical operation of the unit. These homes now are in process of
have developed a_ complete home utility unit, the
“This central core is a self-con-tained package which can be rolled through the door framework and yet it so engineered for naccessi-
On three sides of the
ances and facilities which belong
Participants in a conference strike in Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co,
off supplies of paris necessary to above,
foremen Kelsey-Hayes has refused
that the foremen be reinstated.
Seek Solution in Detroit Strike
idleness on an estimated 50,000 Ford Motor Co. workers by shutting
Shown are Richard T. Frankensteen, center, vice president of the United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.) and a candidate for mayor of Detroit; Joseph Plaza, left, chairman of Company Local 174, and Chester Mullins, a committeeman and one of thrée former ]
charge after a disturbance. The strike resulted from workers’ demands
seeking settlement of the 29-day plant, Detroit, which has forced
building new models, are pictured
to re-employ following their dis-
DANVILLE, Iii, Sept. 21 (U,
methods.
in order to put competitors out of | business. John M. Toolin, Grosse Pointe, | Mich., testified in yesterday's session of the anti-trust trial against the grocery chain that it was “against the company's policy” to dominate the field in which it operated. Toolin, central western division president of the A. & P., was called {to explain over-charges to Bloomington, Ind. customers as brought out in government documentary evidence, Toolin testified that the manager of the Bloomington store had instructed clerks to overcharge in order to increase stock gains and that he had been dismissed when the order became known tq his superiors. In cross-examination, government attorneys sought to prove that the| Bloomington store was an example of the way in which the A. & P. allegedly made up losses in certain stores by excessive stock gains in others. Toolin told the court that the company policy was to keep stock gains and losses within threetenths of 1 per cent and that excessive gains and losses were frowned upon by the New York headquarters. When asked to explain why, in the 1936 division budget, the Detroit unit had been pictured “in the red” while other units were “in the black,” Toolin termed the budget “merely an anticipation.” He described the figure as the one “we thought we would arrive at, a temporary measure to lower profit rate and regain our lost volume.” Toolin said a store “might go on indefinitely” in the red without resulting in a total loss of operation. This, he explained by saying that the overhead was spread out among the stores and that the closing of one might result only in the others having to carry its overhead on such items as rent. Toolin-and J.-F. Greene, Detroit, sales manager of the central west
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ern division, explained in detail the
methods by which A. & P. arrives at its gross profit rate, Both executives told the court that predic tions on volume of business and ex« pense rates were sent first from the units to the divisions and finally to the New York headquarters, where they were “okayed” “or revisions suggested. The government has sought to show that the gross profit rate is planned on an overall basis at the headquarters according to the return on investment desired, Pre tor Horace Flurray asked Toolin if any store, operating on a national basis, had as high average volume of sales per store as the A. & P. Toolin answered that he knew of none, with the possible exception of the Safeway stores. Flurry also introduced a letter written in 1939 by Teolin, in which he said that until some competitor learned how to operate on an expense rate of less than 10 per cent, [the A. & P. did not have to worry (about its position.
RAISE APPAREL CEILING WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (U. P), ~The OPA today permitted slight Increases in manufacturers’ ceiling prices on lows«priced wearing apparel in order to maintain clothing output to meet the needs of civilfans and returning servicemen.
Farben Plants to Reconvert
war industries will be switched in than completely destroyed.
ing Germany, and it will be necessary for: us to have some long range program for continuing control over German industry for years to come,” said Boyd. Boyd sald he did not believe it was possible to prevent Germany, or any other nation, from rising “to some extent” industrially.’ He disclosed that no industrial plants as yet had been removed from the American zone to meet oe | allied reparation demands, and estimated that it would be another 12 to 18 months before any specified factories were transferred from Ger-
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198,000 | RADY.
Col. James Boyd of Denver, Col. branch, made this clear in a press conference yesterday. “We will take certain.key points out of the industries in demilitariz-
Instead of Being Destroyed ‘GLORY OF WAR' out
FRANKFURT, Sept. 21 (U., P).~Germany’s gigantic I. G. Farben
to peacetime manufacturing, rather head of U. 8. forces’ industry
tion, Russia will receive 25 per cent of the industrial plants removed from the American zone. Boyd said that Americans have a vast misconception of the present industrial situation in Germany. He denied that German industry was producing some commodities faster than factories in the United States. Out of 14,000 piants in the American zone which employed 10 or more persons in pre-war days, there are Lonly 2200 now operating. And they are only &ble to turn out five per cent of their normal capacity. Boyd said production was far be-
Asaraing to the Potsdam declara.
low civilian needs.
Pacific Tea Co. sought today to prove through witnesses’ testimony that the big chain store organization practiced good business rules and made its profits through a big volume of sales rather than by monopolistic
P.) Counsel for the Atlantic &
Good Defense witnesses denied that A. & P, tr ied to monopolize food sales sales | Medium ... “ ree (CU and common a
Beef—
U, S., BRITAIN TALK OIL AGAIN,
We Want Supply Assured, | } They Want Exchange.
LONDON, Sept. 21 (U. P.).—An eight-man American delegation battled today for a guarantee of adequate oil supplies from outside continental United States at an economical cost. Led by U. 8. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes they entered the third day of Anglo-American discussions charged with the responsibility of replacing America’s fast-diminishing oil supply. ‘The talks are centered around for{eign exchange difficulties and prob{lems of governmental control connected with oil concessions in the
remained at the $14.80 ceiling.
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Good to Cholce— a 400 pounds
Medium to Good—
Chojce—
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A. & P. Bloomington Store |: In U. S. Anti-Trust Trial
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Prices Hold at $14.80 Ceiling; Market Active.
There were 4500 hogs received at |= the Indianapolis stockyards today, the U. 8, agriculture department reported.
The market was active and prices |
Receipts also included 500 cattle,
GOOD TO CHOICE HOGS (4500)
120- 140 pounds 4. Hg. 80 140- 160 pounds .. » 4.80 100 pounds up ...
Packing Sows
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Middle East. The British negotiators, led by Minister of Fuel and Power Emanuel
LOCAL. ISSUES
Shinwell, were chiefly concerned with keeping the monetary exchange involved in any agreement in pounds sterling to protect Britain's shaky financial structure. They also hope to build up the British refining industry over a long period to cut domestic costs and possibly provide a source of exports} o to Europe,
Agreement Dropped The talks were the ultimate out-|5
isted since the early 1900's, The end of the war hecessitated | changes in the agreement reached between the two nations last year. That agreement set up a commission for. supervising international | dealings in oil which were designed to be expanded to include other Interested powers. It was ratified by the British government with a minimum of publicity and explanation to the public. American oil companies, fearful of having their domestic activities “ hampered, objected so strongly that it had to be withdrawn from congressional consideration by the late President Roose velt. The revised draft was never more than preliminary debated in congress.
LOCAL i SALES ABVANCE 149%;
Indianapolis department store sales last week were 14 per cent higher than a year ago, the Federal Reserve bank of Chicago reported today. The average gain for the seventh federal reserve district, which includes most of Indiana, Illinois, { Michigan and Wisconsin, was 9 per | cent, Milwaukee led with a 19 per | 3 cent gain, Chicago had a 14 per cent gain while Detroit showed a 6 per cent decline. For the two wegks ending Sept. 15, Indianapolis department store sales were 13 per cent over the same period of 1944 compared with a district gain of 2 per cent.’ For the four weeks ending Sept. 15, the local department stores had Sales 6 per cent larger than the similar 1944 period, compared with no change for the district. i
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TOKYO, Sept. 21 (U. P.). — The ministry of education yesterday instructed prefectural governors to delete from textbooks chapters de-
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ET ——————————————————————. MEDAL FOR STIMSON WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (U. P). President Truman awarded the distinguished service medal to
78th birthday, as secretary of war.
NEW SEWING MACHINES WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UU. P), ~About 40,000 sewing machines will be manufactured in the last three months of 1945, the war o
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