Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1946 — Page 16
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Total Emplovess’ Were 345,940 and Wagek $1 Billion;
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- Firm Says Strike Lowered Expected Figures. °
INDIANA WORKERS for General Motors Corp. last year were paid a total of $36,
231,817, the firm's preview of
its annual report revealed today. Average number of employees in all plants averaged 845,940 and the total corporation pay roll was $1,007,563,689. These figures compare with an average of 456,617 em-
‘ployees and a total pay roll of $1,380,032,467 for 1944.
» The 1945 figures, the report waid, were considerably lower than anticipated because of the five weeks of shutdown at the end of the year as a result of the United Auto Workers, C. I. O,, strike and by earlier temporary layoffs because of reconversion and work stoppages in supplier plants. Last year's figures also reflect the tapering off of war production that occurred between V-E and V-J days, as well as the abrupt halting of war work after the latter. During. the first 10 months of 1045 the average number of hours worked per week “was 438, and the average weekly earnings was $55.90. » » s BY THE END of last year more than 113,000 employees had entered the armed forces. However, during the last part of the year, the number of men inducted was more than counter-balanced by the steady flow of returning veterans, the report said. For the third successive year, the firm was presented with the National Safety council's special warAime award for distinguished Service to safety. A safety record of only 57 days lost by accident per 1000 hours worked was attained last year despite the many new work assignments incident to _recopversion. Stockholders - during the last ;quarter of 1945 numbered 425,657, sof which 79 per cent owned 50 ‘shares or less and 36 per cent hold 10 shares or less, the firm stated. More than 50 per cent are women.
ENGINEERS TO HEAR HARRY GOOPLAND
Harry Coopland, special representative of Jack & Heintz, Inc, will talk on “Seeing Is Believing” at the annual Executive night dinner of the American Society of Tool Engineers Tuesday Lincoln hotel.
Mayor Tyndall and executives of completely out of the running. both city and state manufacturing [Norway is down to 4,000,000 tons, companies will be guests. Others the
will be servicemen from Camp Atterbury and the naval ' plant. David R. Smith, president, will preside.
Name Chairmen
Of Cancer Drive!
Henry F. Schricker and Mrs. ‘Julia Ray lies will serve as chairman and co-chairman of the 1946 Cancer Control drive whieh opens
next week. © The first meeting of “volunteer workers will be at 2 p. m. Saturday at the g™ War Memorial un- “i der the direction of Mrs. Donovan A. Turk. The 30 - day fund raising drive will continue through April Mr. Schricker and
Mrs. Iles
in the | Japs, who used to rank third, and
ordnance |
FLEET AIMS AT 50% OF TRADE
Merchantmen Seek Big Share of U. S. Shipping.
BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer NEW YORK, March 28 —For the
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first time since pre-Civil war clipper ship days, the United States has a merchant fleet big enough, | fast enough and efficient enough | to compete on even terms with the British, Dutch, Norwegians, Swedes | and Danes. We have the ships, the. trained seamen and the operating skill with which, if we use them wisely, we can transport at least 50 per cent of our own foreign trade in Americah bottoms, That, rather than any quasimonopoly of the world carrying trade, is the goal for which our shipping interests are shooting. And a survey by NEA service indicates that, thus far at least, we are not missing the boat in the race for post-war shipping business.
U. S, Is Tops Superficially, indeed, we are cocks of the walks, masters of most of what we can survey. For the first time in modern history it is not Great Britain that is Mistress cf the Seven Seas; it is the United States, which only seven years ago was a very poor second. We possess around 60 per cent of the world's shipping. Of dry cargo craft alone, which are the really competitive units, we have ‘some 5500 vessels with an aggregate deadweight tonnage of 57,000,000. The best available figures indicate that the British, who had double our tonnage in 1939, now have only 19,600,000 tons, or about |a third of what we can boast. The
the Germans who were fifth, are
Netherlands to 2,000,000, Sweden to 1,700,000, France to 1,300-
center.
Left to right, they are Junior Palmer, Joe Murphy, Robert Beasley and Cecil Palmer.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES — Here Are Winners of Egg, Hen Judging Contest
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These four boys from Decatur Central high school composed the winning team in the Indianapolis District 4-H Club Poultry and Egg Judging contest held yesterday at the Purdue-Marott Agriculture
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team compiled 2429 points out of a possible 2700 points. Joe Murphy was high point man in the contest, scoring 827 on of a a possible 900 poate Robert Beasley was second high with 820 points,
TOP EG6 JUDGES
Marion County Team Wins 4-H Grain Contest.
The 4-H club grain® judging and | egg and poultry . judging contests were held yesterday at thé PurdueMarott Agriculture center. Winning team of the egg and poultry judging contest was Deca-| tur Central high school, . composed of Joe Murphy, Robert Beasley, Cecil Palmer and Junior Palmer, The team compiled 2429 points out of a possibly 2700. It was coached by William Adamson, vocational agriculture teacher. Individual high scorer was Joe Murphy with 827 points out of a possible 900, and second high was Robert Beasley with 820. 8 Teams Entered Eight teams were entered jin the contest that included candling eggs for interior quality, judging eggs for exterior quality, judging hens for past egg production, judging hens for meat and an examination on practical poultry production.
DECATUR CROUP Leaders Try for Showdown
On Truman Wage Proposal
WASHINGTON, March 28 (U. P.).—Senate administration leaders sought today to sidetrack a proposed substitute for President Truman's
minimum wage bill and force an early
owdown on his recommendation.
Spokesmen for the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition back-
in the present minimum wage of 40 cents an hour. The President's version would boost the minimum by 25 cents now, grant another five-cent increase two years hence and fix a 75-cent floor in four years. The substitute, offered by Senators Joseph H, Ball (R. Minn.) and Allen J. Ellender (D. La.) would boost the minimum from 40 to 55 cents now and .to 60 cents in 18 months. The senate is now in its second week of debate on the issue. Administration supporters, who have monopolized the oratory thus far, plan to cut it short with a parliamentary maneuver intended to force an immediate vote on the President's proposal. The Ellender-Ball substitute was | offered as an amendment to the administration bill and has priority on the present votihg schedule.
Second place winner was the New
compiled 2354 points. It was coached by Esfel Callahan.
The grain judging contest was
000, Russia to 1,200,000. No other Ination has as much as a million {deadweight tons left. That makes us look pretty good. However, it is not wholly an accurate picture because 2710 of our ships—almost half-—aggregating in the neighborhood of 30,000,000 tons are the slow, inefficient, costly-to-operate Liberties that we mass-pro-
coached by Raymond Sproat. was composed of Irvin Nahre, Fred Pieper, Kenneth Hoffman and Robert Jackson. Irvin Nahre tied for highest individual honors with Wayne Kester of New Augusta and Bill Morrison of Bartholomew county. Second place winner was the Hamilton county team.
duce to win the war, but cannot use to compete for business. We must put most of them away in preservatives as insurance against. another war,
Ahead of British The United States is some 7,000,000 tons up on the British—perhaps more, because a certain proportion! of the English fleet is antiquated. But during the war, while we were being told that by agreement the British were concentrating on warcraft and depending upon us to | provide an allied merchant marine, | actually they were turning out a million tons a year. And none of that was of an emergency type; it
Mrs. Iles this week will complete ap- tailor-made ships capable of hold- | anapolis securities dealers STOCKS
pointment of various division heads. The Marion county drive is con-| ducted under the direction of the | “Eleventh District Cancer Control | board.
wT. W. A WILL “HELP |
FORM IRANIAN LINE
KANSAS CITY, March 28 (U. P.).| : Transcontinental & Western Air, | { Ine, disclosed today it will assist !in the operation and organization | of Iranian Airways Co, The company, in its annual re- | port which showed record 1945 op- |
erating revenutes but sharply lower types released March 2 from the | in
net earnings, said it has arranged | to buy 500 shares or some 10 per cent of the Iranian company’s capital stock for not more than $0.00. 1 The Iranian airline expects to { between “ran and RE iy ' countries. - |
FIGHT STUDY ON "GUARANTEED WAGE
\ WASHINGTON, March 28 (U
i: P).—House Republicans hoped to- |
day to kick over administration | plans for a $200,000 study of guaranteed wages. Funds for the study are part of | the $233,179,153 deficiency appropri- | government departments | (and agencies for the remainder of ithe 1946 fiscal year. u Rep. John Taber (R. N. YO) said {the study would be a waste of
| money because the bureau of labor
completed a guaranteed wage plan investigation in Janu-
consisted entirely of first class,
|ing their own in any cat-and-dog fight. * Nevertheless, we have more than {enough dry cargo ships, except per- | haps for special types needed for | a few specific jobs, to handle the | 50 per cent of American foreign trade that we seek. The post-war planning committee's sub-committee on trade routes {has recommended 33 routes to pick
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GROSS INCOME TAX BLANKS ARE MAILE
Indiana gross income tax blanks
[for the first quarter of 1946 have! iyte ir it appears that some in- | been sent to 100,000 Hoosiers, the crease is going to be e granted.
{ tax division said today. The three-month obligation for | all taxpayers whose levy will exceed | $10 per quarter becomes due Sun- | day, March 31, and must be paid by April 30.
LOCAL ISSUES
minal quotations lurnished by JIndi-
Bid. Asked Agent Fin Corp com rarer TV : gents Fin Corp ol FELL 19 20 *Amer States pfd ............ 23% 28 Amer States ¢l A ,............ 33 ‘
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Augusta high school team which | verse the procedure by offering the |tecting amendment” to the substi-
won by the Marion county team | It | Ellender-Ball bill, asking that his
{decision in their hands. Even ad-
| for the 500-mile race at the In-
Administration leaders hope to re- | 65-to-15-cent pay scale as a “per-
| tute,
A Republican supporting the
name not be used, reported that a private senate poll showed that]
{40 to 43 of the present 95 votes {could be counted on to support the |
substitute. “This might be the margin needed to carry it,” he said. “It has the support of mahy southern Demo-
jcrats, and we can expect additional
support before the vote comes. Southern Democrats favor little
jor no increase for the country at
large and none for their own agricultural workers, probably have the
ministration supporters concede {that they will support the substi
HOTELS ALREADY FULL FOR 500-MILE RACE
Hotels in Indianapolis and other cities within a 100-mile radius already have been booked to capacity
dianapolis speedway May 30. In making the announcement, | Henry T. Davis, manager of the In- | dianapolis convention and visitors |
bureau, said that private citizens |
‘|with rooms for rent would be |
L 8 Ayres 42% pfd .........107%, a Ayrshire Col com ........... 31 33 *Belt R 8tk Yds com svsrvy 38 40 “Belt R Stk Yds pfd verse B2 . *Bobbs-Merrill rh be pid ..... 70 Bobbs- Merril} 1 12 ntral Soya com 58'4
Crole Thosrer oom Larter 88 Comwlth Loan 37 pid “aria
Cons Fin Corp pfd 97% Delta Electric com ,....... 17 18% Boonie Lab com 51a 6
up our pre-war business and re- | F hi t Wayne & Jackson RR pid 102'3 108% « | Her ones Co cl A pid 1 ’ place axis facilities on lines im | =H Ok PCE Go com 22% {portant to our shippers. For these | Ind Asso Te Co 2 ptd ose Ind & Mich Elec 4’ fd ..111'% 113! they figure that we would need only | J77, 7 "p% 1, om %.p 33, 32s 369 * vessels, principally of the” C|Indpls P & L pfd . 112 114 “Indianapolis Water pid 108 ndpls Water Class A com ... 21 wartime international shipping | {Inds Railways com 182 19%; Nat Life com 18 11 pool, and offered for sale under | Kingan & Co com . 8 9 . | Kingan & Oo ptd 87 100" the ship sales act signed by Presi Lincoln Loan Co 5'z pfd .. 29 2 |dent Truman, March 8. sLincoln Nat Life com 69 71% | PR Mallory com ...........: 331% 35% | Marmon-Herrington ‘com ava MW 18% ‘BUILDING AWARDS | Mastic Asphalt... 10° 11 | Homes com “a 8 HIT 16- YEAR PEAK N Ind Pub Serv. 5% ....... 100% 112% | Progress Laundry com ...... 21 $n 9 — | Pub Serv of Ind 57% «ses 108 107 NEW YORK, March 28 (U.P). Pub Serv of Ind com ass 1% 3 Private construction contracts for |+ross Gear & Tool com. ..... 30'z 32 _|80 Ind G & 8 48% pfd...... 111% 114 the past week boomed to a 16 "Dlobdly Vas Camp of iil Hale year peak, boosting total building |stockely-Van Camp com .... 32% 33% ’ i “Terre Haute Malleable a o's awards to a new high since Nov, UB Mone cn ea Ts 12, 1942, Engineering News-Record United Tel CO 8% .......... 99 nlon Title com Evens 33% reported today. Bonds Total awards for the week ended | American Loan 4'zs 55 ..... 97 American Loan 4's 60 ..... 07 | today were reported at $134,912,000 | 5. hiner Fertilizer 5s 54 ..... 98 | compared with “$105,931,000 in the [Ch of Com Bldg 4's 61...... 92 in | Citizens Ind Tel 4'28 61......103 | previous week and $37, 301,000 In | Columbia Club 113g" hens. m the corresponding 1945 period. Consol Fin 5s ." —— Indpls P & L 328 70. ‘ve: 307 Indpls Railway Co 58 57 ..... 94 27 BANK CLEARINGS LESS Ind Assoc Tel Co 38 15 ....104 NEW YORK, March 28 (U, P.).— [Inds Water Co .3'2s 68 ...104' 106 Bank clearings in 24 leading cities | Kuhner Packing Co 4s M.....100 ? er 4 va for the week ended March 27 [Pub Serv of Ind 3's 75.....108% 110 dropped 98 per cent bglow the |Eub Tel dias BS 10 ie ra rm Corp 58 67 ....:v. (previous * week when volume was|H J Williamson Inc 5s 55 ... 4B os swelled because of income tax pay- | _ ‘Ex-dividend
A kd 1045, © N __ Local PRODUCE
AY Ibs. and over, 2c; | AMolnted to ne springs, 4's pared with
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the ‘corresponding 1945 period, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. reported today. Volume for the latest week $11,788,004.000 com$13,060,104000 in the
a year earlier,
To Keep Valuables Safe fn a ® Sate Depent Box at
ments but ran 9.7 per cent ahead of |
preceding ‘week . and _$10,748,351,000
Listen ts “BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS" |
Meri) Lee, ow, Fenner § Beans ot Every night :
.. |nounced. Sales
| INCREASE
I } 1] we win glady explain
urged to make them available to
| ns ‘visitors.
. CHANGE TICKE' TICKET S/ SALES
Public ticket-sales for “Blithe Spirit,” the Civic theater's production, will begin tomorrow, and not today, as originally anto members will commence tomorrow,
U. S. STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, March 28 (U,
Government expenses sand receipis for] | the current fiscal year through March| 26, compared wih a year ‘ago This Year Last Year
| Expenses . $51,171,105,062 $71,824,072,538 War spending 41,113,025,688 65,401,371,510 | Receipts ... 32,507,163,300 33,385,988 636
Net deficit 18,663.036,762 38,438 983,402 | Cash balance. 24,030,932,329 15,301,515775 Public debt , 276491448018 234,518,835,850 |
Gold reserve , 20,257,518,915 20,419.912 286 |
INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING iy 3 Clearings vee ', 5,3 | Debits
yout Insurance LOWER | Your Ratel
how COINSURANCE frequently makes this possible. Check its possibilities tomorrow...
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ing the substitute, however, were predicting confidently that they have | enough votes to put it over. Both bills would bring an immediate hike
TRADE STEADY ON LIVESTOCK
Yards Receive 5450 Hogs, 525 Cattle.
Hog sales were steady at the ceiling on the 5450 recelved today at the Indianapolis stockyards, the U. 8. agriculture department said. The 525 cattle were too few to provide an accurate market test, and the 425 calves were unchanged. Fat lambs among the 1800 sheep were steady, quality considered.
GGOD TO CHOICE HOGS (3450)
Butchers 120- 140 pounds ... ' $13 5014.25 140- 160 pounds ... « [email protected] 160- 300 pounds . 14 5 300- 330 pounds « 14 330- 360 pounds a {| Has Medium. 160- 220 POUNDS ....corenness [email protected] Packing Sows Good to Choice 270- 300 pounds ..i.....0... 14.10 330-400 pounds .. ess 14.10 Good— : 400- 450 pounds . ees 14.10 Medium— 250- 550 pounds ............ 12,[email protected] Slaughter Pigs Medium to Good— 90- 120 pounds «+ 11,[email protected] CATTLE (525) Steers Chofce— 700- 900 pounds ...... Staves 17.00 1 5 900-1100 pounds «. 17.00 5 1100-1300 pounds « 1. ais 05 1300-1500 pounds + [email protected] Good— T700- 900 pounds .......eouee [email protected] | 900-1100 pounis .... +. [email protected] 1100-1300 pounds ... « [email protected] 1300-1500 pounds ... « [email protected] Medium— ; 700-1100 pounds .....couuveee [email protected] 1100-1300 pounds ......evee0e [email protected] mmon-— 700-1100 pounds [email protected] Cholice— 600- 800 pounds . [email protected] 800-1000 pounds ... . [email protected] Good— 6800- 800 pounds ........ sees 15,[email protected] 800-1000 pounds ..... cesunnn [email protected] Medium— 500- 900 pounds .......v.... [email protected] Common -— 500- 900 pounds .,.......... [email protected]
Cows (al! weights)
Meetings
Pilots
The Brightwood Pilots association a hold a business meeting.at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Brightwood airport.
Women Underwriters
Miss Pauline Pettyjohn, Guardian Life Insurance Co. will~discuss “Insurance Trends” at the Women's division of the Indianapolis Life Underwriters association at a luncheon Wednesday in the Y. W, C. A.
ELECTRICITY OUTPUT UP NEW YORK, March 28 (U..P).| —Nationwide production of electricity ‘in the week ended March 23 topped the four billion kilowatt mark “for the second time since Jan, 26 and rose to the highest level in: three weeks, the Edison Electric institute reported today. Output in the latest week totaled 4,017,310,000 kilowatt hours compared with 3,987,877,000 in the previous week, and 4,401,716,000 a year ago.
Sutter and common ........ [email protected] anner ... stinyanrtons a 7.00@ 8.50 Balls (all weights) . Beef— Good (all weights) ........ [email protected] Sausage— . BOO “eu ure serine inne inne [email protected] Medium -.......0 .:.iiinenes [email protected] Cutter and common ...... @10.75 CALVES (425) Good ‘and choice .. [email protected] Common and medium . [email protected] YONI ns [email protected] Feeders and Stocker Cattle and Calves Steers Choice— 600- 800 pounds ............ 35031 800-1060 pounds .....e... «vs 13.50@15. Good— 500- 800 pounds .....ceeei.. 132. Seg. Bn 800-1050 pounds eevevenvcens 12.00@13 Medium— 500-1000 pounds ............ [email protected] Choice and closely sorted .... 15.75 SHEEP (1800)
Ewes (Shorn)
| Foster L. Stanley
{relations and personnel,
Go [email protected] | Medium and good 11.00913.00
Good and choice ........ 14 nas. Common and medium .. 6.00@ 7 Lambs Choice and closely sorted .... 16.00 { od and choice .. axe 15.00815.75 |
13.50@14 75 Common [email protected]
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1946
TWO ELECTED
BY INDIANA BELL
‘Marston,.”
Stanley Named Vice Presidents.
Election of two new vice presi. dents and promotions of two others were announced today by Indiana Bell Telephone Co. The Frederick F. Marston who will have charge of public relations, and
who will head the personnel department, William A
Mr. Stanley
Hughes, vice president and
formerly
general manager, was made exece utive vice presis dent, and Harry S. Hanna, formere
Mr. Marston
ly vice president in charge of publig
was made vice president and genera] mane ager, The changes will be effective April 1. Mr, Marston, present head of the
| commercial department, started hig
telephone career in Boston in 1922, He came to the Indiana éompany in January, 1943. He is a graduate of the University of Maine. Mr. Stanley returned to the firm 30 |1ast October after more than four years of army service. A colonel he was stationed in Hawaii. He Joined Indiana Bell in 1920 after gradue lating from Purdue university.
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greatest war materiel producing States in the nation.
And now, in peacetime, Hoosier production is still widely
diversified—ranging all the way from tomatoes to aluminum
American eyes to keep trained on Indiana in the future. Her electric power is on the march—a few leaps ahead of her growing industries as always. The Public Service Company of Indiana, supplying electric service in 70 of the State's 92 counties, is backing to the limit the activities that are des-
tined to keep Indiana great. Like, the people they serve,
electric power system are Hustlers, 100!
Hoosiers Are Hustlers:
° The war years developed a new meaning for the old
word “Hoosier”,
Hoosier means Hustler, now! At the front, and back on their home ground Indiana citizens did a war job the nation will never forget. The courageous deeds of the famous Cyclone Division and all her other sons and daughters in the armed forces are history now. So is the more than ten billion dollars worth of war contracts, for which the
Hoosier State was responsible, that placed her among the
to stone and coal. And there's still another reason for
the twenty-five hundred employees of the State's largest
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