The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-28
TRACTORS To
BE new Line
OF old FIRM
aIiyer PloW Works at South
Bend Will Add to
Output.
NORTHERN INDIANA BUSY
Plymouth, Gary, Indiana
HarbOr and TT. Wayne
Prosper.
NORTHERN INDIANA BUSY
BY CHARLES G.. STONE
State Editor. The Times

State Editor. The Times
activities in northern Indiana
ties feature business survey of
ne State for the week ended today.
The Oliver Chilled Plow Works,
bne Of the oldest industries in South
y Bend, is to begin manufacture of a
, tractor within the next few months.
Although officials of the company
are Withholding details, it has be-
come known that a tractor for
which a high degree of efficiency is
claimed has been perfected.
Further expansion of the Plymouth
Body Works, Plymouth, is to result
from an increase of capital of
$4,000 to $4,000 and addition of
John P. Walter, Culver banker, to
management of the company. The
works for eight months this year
had larger volume of business
than for all of 1927. Already plans
for a new factory are being dis
cusSed.
Steel Plant Buster
No. 10 blast furnace of the United
t%tes Steel Corporations Gary
=. g.--pt has been started, making eight
~ in operation. Officials of the
aAnt are optimistic regarding the
steel trade outlook and indicate
more furnaces may be placed on
production soon.
Work of building huge plant
or the United States Gypsum Com
trAny at Indiana Harbor is to be
folaced on a day and night basis
IA order to get the project we'll I'M
er way before cold weather.
IL Excellent employment conditions
sire shown at FIT. Wayne in a re-
n ort of survey by j. F. Bottorff,
employment counselor. He points
out that 48 per cent of the city's
Z population is employed, against a
national percentage of only 36.
Building in Indiana for August
this year was per cent greater
he for the same month last year
es showing largest gains were
nsville, 481 per cent; Ft. Wayne,
East Chicago, 202; South Bend
Kokomo, 100; Marion, 145;
lshaWaka, 80, and Michigan City,
Building in indianapolis
bowed a 3 per cent increase. South
end has two building projects
hitch alone represent a $4,000 eX-
nenditure - the nine-story Odd
fellows building and the twelve
""Sory building of the South Bend
Iilding and Loan Association.
0Conditions elsewhere in the State
d shown in the following sum-
ANGRY; CO. .,,,- !, =.
operating day and night in efforts
n catch up with orders.
dueA Button Factory Reopened
. ago neutrality-suspicious. have been
- y umed by the H. G. Bay piano
etory, which has been in receiver
10. Forty men have been put to
k with prospects that others will
Added soon.
AIivan--A new factory of the
Phoenix Cheese Company, the
-, - lest concern of it's kind in the
,oIa r,rld, will be opened here soon.
AK 1IOII 1,OOO COWS lido oil CdOJ
rI,1t en- contracted for, and farmers
ne jubilant over prospects for aid
zig the dairy industry in Sullivan
FroIounty.
COnnerSviIIe - The ConnersVille
DOL and Die Company, new con-
1srn here, has started operations.
NJ NewpOrt-The Walter Bledsoe
o-'+ompany, Terre Haute, has bought
~, 4 the property Of the Newport Coal
lining Company, including a mine
lear here. Only negotiation of a
aew wage scale is awaited to reopen
Ehe mine, the new owner announces.
Franklin-The Joan Infant Shoe
Apmpany is to be moved here from
poresville within a few days. 1t
les employment to about fifty
men and girls.
Acknowledgement costing $4,000
eing added to the plant of the
1000.