The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 10

TENA THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Sunday Mornlnp, November 24, 1940 New Era of Development Opens at Muscle Shoals; Metals Plants and TVA Speed Activities in Area rs Jfer "i KNDDSEN, DDRANT TO TALK PEACE Will Address Manufacturers' Congress of Industry New York NEW YpRK. Nov. 23 (Spl) Will Durant, philosopher and historian, will share the rostrum with William Knudsen. defense production chairman, at the concluding banquet of the 45th annual Con-gre of American Industry at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel here on December 13, H. W.

Prentls, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, made known late yesterday. "Total Preparedness for America," the theme of this year's annual N. A. M. sponsored Congress of Industry, will be interpreted for the thousands of assembled industrialists from all sections of the nation through the eyes of Knudsen, the practical production expert, and Durant, the theorist and philosopher.

Knudsen, America's first defense authority, who sees defense In physical terms of tanks, guns and planes will tell the 5,000 manufacturers who have ordered reservations for the banquet, that industry has met the challenge of mass production. JACK FROST WILL GET IT McGREGOR. Iowa. IP Emma Big Bear, an Indian, has a beanstalk which is 19 feet high and still growing. EDWARD E.

SCHIEL "YOUR PLUMBER" -ONE TRJP" Plumbing Shop on Wheal Repair Senric 2211 Cathey-Darnell Paint Co. 809 Broad Streat Atlas Paints, Varnish, Wallpaper Phona 6-3451 Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels Srita bars listKniU'iS syn I te SHke asraMMe sad smv to Me When constipation brings on add Indigestion, bloating, diziy spells, sat. coated tongue, sour taste ana Mil breath, your stomach is probably "cry ing the blur" because your bowels don't move. It calls (or Laxative Senns to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels, com bined with goed old Syrup Pepsin ta make your laxativo more agreeable and easier to take. Kor years many Doctors have used pepsin compounds, as agreeable carriers to make other medicines more palatable when your "taster" feels easily upset.

So be sure your laxativa contains Syrup Pepsin. Insist on Dr. Caldwell's Laxative Senna, combined with Svnip Pepsin. See how wonderfully its herb Laxative Senna wakes up lary nerv es and muscles in your intestines, bring welcome relief from constipation. And see how its Syrup Pepsin makes Dr.

Caldwell's medicine so smoot and agreeable to a touchy gullet. Even finicky children love the taste of this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell's Laxative Senna at your druggist's today. Try one laxative that won't bring on violent distaste, even when you take it after a full meal.

HsMsSEsm Jl i i 4. tow 1 II III I I wsst fc This is the start of work at the Reynolds Metallurgical Company's new aluminum plant near Sheffield. in mayor wiiuam collier of Florence is one of the busiest men In the Tri-Cities area, working on defense projects. 13 expected to helo trade in tha Tri. free the bridge carried.

Tolls are Tx imp Tenntuean SUM Photos This picture shews hew business Is on the upsurge in the Trl-Clties area. This line of cars was taken in downtgwn Florence, Ala, on an average weekday. Parking space Is at a premium. The new ammonium phosphate Dlant to be constructed the Muscle Shoals area by the government will be just behind this building, which is the fertilizer works of Nitrate Plant No. 2.

0 -U; Urn lit mi con improve or mar your appearance particular about the way your shirts are laundered hava thtm done at MODEL whei tbey are hand finished with a velvety look SIZED instead ot starched, (which makes them wear more than twice as long) ond returned to you with a fftifliMr mm sslMSSMWWttiSHwsjMsanssfcjJiiT wwimm j. Hundrtds of Satisfied Customers Each Week Model Steam Laundry O. D. CANFIELD, Mgr. Phene 5-3114 SAVE 15 whtn brought to our main plant 101 WOODLAND Freeing of this 7 1 four miles east of Sheffield.

Preliminary work has begun, and approximately 400 men are now engaged in grading and staking out the sites for the new buildings. Coming under the national defense program, construction will be rushed, it Is stated, and the plant is expected to be in operation by early Bpring. The Reynolds Metals Company did not recognize the advantages of the Muscle Shoals area by chance. Early In 1939 the foundation was laid for the entry In this section of the light metals industry. In an effort to get favorable action on the use of the wartime No.

1 Nitrate Plant for the manufacture of light metal, the advantages of that structure and the nearness of raw materials were shown in a hearing before the sen ate military affairs committee. However, because of the objections to the government entering into competition with private industry In the manufacture of light metals, the hearings were halted and the proposed development side-tracked. mm ii -j i wt i wt'MfasK jsi.ii SMweMSSHSSSSSsswssMMwatiPriiMTi Housing of defense workers is getting the full attention of business leaders in Florence. Structures such as this 10-unit apartment are being built throughout the area to take care of workers. Cities area.

At the general election, a proposal to expected to be removed within 90 days. I Santa l. I i FRANKLIN OFFICER SHOOTS MAN TWICE Ernest Ledlietter, in Hoipilal, Here, in Critical Condition FRANKLIN, Nov. Ernest Ledbetter, 23, wu In a critical condition at Vanderbilt Hospital In Naahvtlls tonight after he waa shot twlcs in the stomach by Williamson County Sheriff Gilbert Sullivan. Sheriff Sullivan said that ha shot only after the man had twice threatened to kill him and had pulled htm Into a room at the Ledbetter home In Lynnhurst, suburb of Franklin.

TO SERVE PAPER Ledbetter was taken to the Franklin hospital, but later was transferred to Vanderbilt Hoipital. Sheriff Sullivan said that he had gone to the Ledbetter home to serve a paper on the man for failure to make. bond on a contempt of court charge against him. He said he sighted Ledbetter a short distance from his home. Ledbetter got into his car and sped to his home with the sheriff following, Sullivan said.

Sheriff Sullivan said that Ledbetter ran his car against his house and got out As the sheriff followed him, Ledbettef began to curse and threatened to kill him, Sullivan THREAT REPEATED The sheriff said Ledbetter grabbed him while he stood on the 'front porch and pulled him into the house. "He appeared to reach for a gun on a bed. He repeated his threat to kill me and I pulled my gun and shot him twice in the stomach," Sullivan added. "I believed that he was going to kill me." The sheriff added Ledbetter had made threats against his life about a week ago when he arrested W. C.

Ledbetter, a brother of the wounded man. MRS, B. G. DUNCAN RITES SET MONDAY Wife of Railroad Engineer Dies After Stroke Of Paralysis Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Gibson Duncan, 67, wife of Walter E.

Duncan, locomotive engineer of the L. N. Railroad, will be conducted at 11 o'clock Monday morning at Hobson Methodist Church. The Rev. H.

M. Jarvis and the Rev. J. T. Parsons will officiate.

Mrs. Duncan died at 7 o'clock Friday night following a stroke of paralysis at her home, 1116 Sharpe Avenue. She-will be buried In Woodlawn Cemetery. A native of Nashville, Mrs. Duncan was educated in the public schools here and at the former Price's Seminary.

She was a member of the Auxiliary of the Spanish-American War Veterans and a member of Hobson Methodist Church. She was' active in the missionary society of the church. She Is survived by her husband; a daughter, Mrs. C. D.

Jordan of Nashville; four sons, Walter Jr. Knoxville, Gibson Sum ner L. and Hickman Duncan of Nashville; two sisters, Mrs. Frank Seel of Pittsford, N. and Mrs.

A. H. Nabors of Nashville; a brother, Newsom J. Gibson of Nashville, and three grandchildren. JOHN F.

HIGGS Funeral Services Are Scheduled For Monday Afternoon Funeral services for John F. Hlggs, 43, who died yesterday afternoon in the Davidson County Tuberculosis Sanitarium, will be conducted Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock t.t the home, 3730 Baxter Avenue. Mr. Higgs, a member of the Nashville Unit No. 429 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, nn affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, had been ill since September 9.

He was a member of the Church of Christ. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Higgs; three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy McMicael, and Misses Margaret and Elizabeth Higgs, all of Memphis; one sister, Mrs. Margaret Jones, Birmingham, and a brother, J.

H. Higgs, Glaston, Miss. Interment will be in Spring Hill Cemetery, with the Phillips, Robinson Funeral Directors in charge. TECHNICAL SCHOOL Classes Are Scheduled to Open at 5 M. Tomorrow Davidson County's new aircraft technical school will open for classes at 5 o'clock tomorrow aft ernoon at the former telephone warehouse at Second Avenue, North, and Madison Street, it was decided at a session yesterday of consultants and the advisory com mittee for the school project.

The school is being sponsored by the County Board of Education, through the State Department of Vocational Education, with national defense funds. Graduates are expected to find employment at Vulte Aircraft, he're. C. L. Brockett, county high school supervisor, has charge of putting the oroKram into effect.

Students must either be listed on WPA rolls or on the rolls of the Tennessee State Employment Sorvlce. Brockett said that 70 students would be enrolled in the first 10 weeks' course. MRS. LOWE Shelbyvllle Woman's Funeral Will Be Held loaay SHELBYVILLE, Nov. 23 (SpD Funeral rites ior mrs.

Hattle Mae Lowe, 55, who died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy Halthcoat, will be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at Thompson's Funeral Home here. Rev.

K. Dunn, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will Burial will be in Willow Mount Cemetery. Besides her daughter, she is survived by one son, Coy Lowe; two sisters, Mrs. Ora Koonce of Shcl-byvlll and Mrs. Desalev Crane of Kansas City, three brothers.

Will Reed and Clifton Reed' of Shelbyvllle, and Joe Reed of Manchester. FROM DEIJIIISOII FURNITURE COMPANY Magazine Article Lauds Work CELLOPHANE TOPPING. Model BT-55 Five Tubal. Top It of sliced Walnut, front and wrap-around andt of haart figured sliced walnut. Top and bottom trim of simulated French Rosewood.

Cabinet dimensions: 9," high, 15" wide, 7W deep. 9 24 95 EASY TERMS AVAILABLE! Of Dr. Goodpasture on Vaccine Model BC-82 This Big Powerful 8-Tube Radio in this Fine Cabinet Here's a Farnsworth radio that is real value at this low figure. It has everything. Over seas tested for foreign stations.

In fact it's the Apex in value the sensation of the season. You must see it Hear it. There's oo doubt in our minds that you'll want it. Has television sound connections. iSJ i bridge over the Tennessee River is The final approval of the plans for the modernization of a section of Nitrate Plant No.

2 and the construction of additional buildings for the manufacture of ammonium nitrate by the Tennessee Valley Authority by the national defense advisory committee, which came a few weeks ago, was delayed several weeks because the TVA insisted that the original plan for the nitrate plant be carried out That is, that the plant should be used for the "manufacture of munitions in the time of war and fertilizer in time of peace." The TVA demanded that when the war crisis is -over, the plant to be constructed with the $6,500,000 allotted be turned over to the Authority for conversion into an adjunct to its present fertilizer plant. TVA WINS POINT Approval was given and steps were immediately taken for the early manufacture of this much needed product. It was announced that 500 men would be required to rush this plant to completion. This plant in no way conflicts with the fertilizer manufacture that has been in progress for some years at Nitrate Plant No. 2.

The area allotted for the new Industry adjoins the present plant but is in no way related. Although the original plans and operation of the nitrate plant were for the production of nitrogen fertilizers, the present fertilizer plant produces phosphate fertilizers. As in the case of the Reynolds plant, more men will be required to operate the new ammonium nitrate plant than are now needed in the construction work. TVA officials have announced that 1,000 men will be employed upon the completion of the building and the installation of equipment, 500 more than are required in the construction work. So, although the three plants are now busily building to meet the present war crisis, each is planned and constructed with the future in mind the future when its products will be used in peacetime to serve the people year after year and not just in an emergency.

Added to the picture of development as shown by these three new industries is possibility of early operation of Nitrate Plant No. 1 in Sheffield by the Chemical War fare Division of the United States War Department. The Muscle Shoals area Is definitely headed toward being the light metal manufacturing center of the South and the development of this war-time plant either by that group or the Chemical group appears a certainty. STOVE FIRMS ACTIVE Also figuring in the national defense plans in this area are the Martin Stove and Range Company, of Florence, and the King Stove and Range Company, of Sheffield; both plants being busily engaged in manufacturing stoves for army cantonments. The output of both plants has ben devoted almost exclusively to this work.

Gardiner-Warring Company, Florence knitting plant, has been engaged in the manufacture of undershirts for "the army and navy for months, and a considerable percentage of Its outpuf goes to these two branches of the service. Another plant available for war service is the King Company, of Sheffield, manufacturers of metal whiteway posts, which would be fairly easily converted to the manufacture of metal products needed for the defense program. With all the hustle and bustle of construction and plant operations, one of the bigger assets of the Muscle Shoals area has not been overlooked. That Is the recreational advantage of tourists' attractions that abound throughout the Immediate vicinity. "The Great Lakes of the South" have their finest example of recreational facilities here in the district.

Fishing, boating and hunting make this section a paradise for the sportsman. The fame' of its waters and hills have attracted a growing number of visitors to the Trl-ClUes. By HAROLD S. MAY Special Correspondent MUSCLE SHOALS, Nov. 23 A new era Is upon the Muscla Shoals district.

It is a far cry from the excitement of 1918 when the Nitrate Plants, No. 1 and No. 2, were being built. None of the high pressure methods of that day are in evidence. Instead, in an orderly process, workers are being engaged, construction work is being pushed and immediate housing needs are being provided.

As construction goes forward on three important "fronts," plans are under way for adequate housing facilities for the large number of men who will be employed permanently in the operation of the new industries that have selected this area for their operations. There is no boom. The idea of a boom is the thing farthest from the minds of the leaders or the Tri-Cities who are attempting to meet the situation that now faces their people. The influx of new people is steady and their needs are being met without the confusion that a boom brings. TKWEE MAJOR PLANTS The three major industries form ing, the nucleus of this district's enlarged Industrial program will be operated by the Electro-Metal lurgical Company, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Reynolds Metals Company.

All of their manufactured products are essential both in war and peace. Therefore the encouraging feature of this trinity of industrial operations is that it is sound and permanent. A brief study of the background, the present set-up and the future promise of the latest developments at Muscle Shoals show that the new activities that bring this area into the nation's spotlight again are not boom-inspiring but are basis for solid, progressive betterment and civic expansion that will create higher community values and a permanent prosperity. The vast possibilities in the utilization of the great concentration of hydro-electric power in converting the enormous wealth of minerals in this district is not now predictable. The trend of indus tries into the Muscle Shoals area is a vistbleeven If now only partial, answer, and in a measure jus tifies the forecast that here in the Tennessee Valley will be created a great electro-chemical center for service to the nation.

BEGAN IN APRIL The Electro-Metallurgical Com pany, a subsidiary of the Union Carbide and Carbon Company, gan operations in the local plant in April, 1940. The site selected was a 300-acre tract near Wilson Dam on the South side of the Ten nessee River, where it Is served by the Southern Railway with the future possibility of water service The manufacture of ferro-sillcon was started Immediately upon com pletfon. This product is used in the manufacture of steel, and is pro duced by electric furnaces from scrap iron, mainly machine 'shop turnings, silica gravel and coke. To date only one furnaoe is being used although another is being con structed, as well as a warehouse building, at the cost of $150,000. Strong financially and thoroughly organized with an excellent group of employes, the Electre-Metailurg Iral fnmtunu la ahowlne ateadv srrowth.

with the nrospect that ad ditional units will be added from time to time to take care of the manufacture of additional prod' ucts, especially carbide, plastics and other alloys. The expansion of the plant, although in opera tion less than a year, will double the number, of employes, It la stated. MUCH POWER USED An unusually large amount of electricity is needed In operating the electric furnaces at the plant and the company takes its powei directly from the switchboard at nearby Wilson Dam. The Reynolds Metals Company plant, one of the largest single de velopments announced recently will be located on a 640-acrs tract Alabama's Sen. Lister Hill, however, took the findings of the committee and used them to Interest the Reynolds company in the Muscle Shoals area.

Their determination to reap the benefits shown in the program and desire to cooperate with the government in the production of the necessary alumninum brought about the loan of $15,800,000 by the RFC for the construction of such a plant and the final selection of this area for its location. With the production here of raw aluminum, after the present war crisis has ended, the Reynolds Metals Company will be in position to supply its 18 manufacturing plants with necessary raw materials and so keep the vast plant in steady It Is understood that the construction force will be steadily increased by the contractors building the great plant until approximately 800 are employed. However, it is stated that between 1,500 and 2,000 will be required to operate it when it is completed. W. Goodpasture discovery, obtained egg-grown vaccines preventing measles and horse sleeping sickness, a disease which, in 1938, spread to the human world in Boston and killed 75 per cent of those stricken.

End of the, benefits expected from Dr. Goodpasture's discovery la not yet in sight, says the writer. Influenza, the common cold and a host of other diseases may yet fall before their egg-grown enemies. Dr. Goodpasture, member of one of Nashville's leading families, lives with his daughter, Miss Sara Goodpasture who graduated at Vanderbilt last year at 408 Fairfax Avenue.

METHODISTS CLOSE SESSION TODAY North Georgia Conference Assignments Scheduled At Final Meet ATLANTA, Nov. 23 UP) The North Georgia Methodist Conference here today approved the selection of Henry B. Mays, Fulton County superintendent of public welfare, as the new superintendent of the- Methodist Orphans' Home in Decatur. Bishop Arthur J. Moore today Invited Dr.

Edward Q. Mackay, pastor of Atlanta's First Methodist Church, and Dr. Wallace Rogers, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Griffin, to sit with him and other district superintendents in a called cabinet meeting. The new assignments for the conference will be announced at tomorrow sight's closing session. Dr.

EASY TERMS AVAILABLE! Discovery Now Saving Lives in Hungary And Poland A Vanderbilt Medical School professor is credited In this week's Collier's Magazine with laying the foundation of a vaccine discovery that already is saving human lives in Hungary and Poland and horses Montana. The article Is "Egg Trick," the author J. D. Ratcliff, and the Vanderbilt medical professor is Dr. Ernest W.

Goodpasture, pathologist, who says the writer, "is at 53 a veteran of research in cancer, flu, rabies and other diseases. FERTILE EGG DID TRICK It was a fertile egg that did the tnick, explains the author. "Until a i short while ago," the article begins," uses for eggs were somewhat restricted. Some were good for eating and others for throwing. Now, thanks to eventful work at Nashville, a third use has turned up: the egg has become an extremely promising weapon against a host of diseases." Looking for a way to grow a chicken disease virus from which he might ob.tain a vaccine, Dr.

Goodpasture, after many experiments, found that a fertile egg was the answer. Formerly, explains the article, there was but one method and that not wholly satisfactory of pro ducing virus microbes, and that" was in the bodies of experimental animals. This was a poor method because "the virus would likely kill the animal before any truly rich concentrations were reached and the chance that the virus would be contaminated by microbes of other diseases." LIKE HATCHERIES Dr. Goodpasture's use of an egg, said the writer, resulted In "laboratories' beginning to look like hatcheries." Research heads all over the dropped their old vaccine experiment methods and began working with eggs. And, after successful tests on laboratory animals, vaccine prepared from typhus Inoculated eggs was sped by plane and boat to northern Hungary for Polish refugees who had brought with them typhus fever from German-occupied areas.

In the meanwhile, the Rockefeller Foundation "investigated the possibility that the egg might play a heroic role against yellow fever," and vaccines derived from egg microbe cultures are now being tried out In' the torrid belts of Africa and Soiith America. Other pathologists and research leaders, following Dr. Goodpasture's VI Model BT-55 Chassis Specifications 7-tube AC superheterodyne; two wave bands; pushbutton tuning; Bilt-ln-Tenna; brilliant and bass tone control; 12-inch electro-dyrlamic speaker; phonograph and TELE-VISION-sound connection. Cabinet dimensions: Height, Width, snd bass tone control; IZ-inch electro- dyrlamic speaker; phonograph and TELE- VISION-sound connection. Cabinet dimensions: Height, Width, osx i iiiipvr.

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