The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-03
EMPLOYMENT
IMPROVES IN
. THREE CITIES
More Jobs Filled at Sey-
1. mour, Anderson and
T Evansville.
SHOE FACTORY ACTIVE
EDaily Production of $3.50
! Pairs Ordered at
\ VinCenneS.
SHOE FACTORY ACTIVE
BY CHARLES G.. STONE,
State Editor, The Times


Improvement in employment con-
clitions in Seymour, Anderson and
Evansville, increased production at
q Vincennes factory and plans for
erection of a new plant by Shelby
vile industry are noteworthy in a
business and industrial survey of In
diana for the week ended today.
The Seymour plant of the Re-
lance Manufacturing Company is
to increase it's working force to 1926
to handle eighty new machines to
be installed in plant addition now
MISREPRESENTATION.
Employees in the Anderson shops
of the Big Four Railroad have been
: doubled following completion of an
expansion program, including cree
ton OF a Sixteen-Stal round house
Z and twelve other buildings. Between
7 500 and 600 persons are drawing a
monthly pay roll of 100000.
The Overall Corporation of Amer
lea, which recently opened a plant
! at Evansville, is employing 125 and
< expe6f& to increase the force to 200.
Z OF the city's 5000 furniture factory
workers, rs to 80 per cent are now
employed. With completion of a
new plant for Motor Bodies, Inc, set
for Nov. l, force of 1900 will be
put to work.
An increase in production to $3.50
pairs of shoes daily has ordered for
the Vincennes plant of the Brown
Shoe Company, with headquarters
in st. Louis, Mo.
New Plant at Shelbyville
The Static Snath Company,
Shelbyville, is to erect a new plant
on site formerly occupied by the
Fame Canning Company factory.
In building during the first half
Of 1928 Indiana ranked tenth among
States and Indianapolis twenty
third among 500 cities of the coun-
try. Shelbyville showed 243 per
cent gain over the same period last
year, leading all Hoosier cities;
Huntington gained 139 per cent;
Lafayette, 1913; Mishawaka, IS, and
Hammond, SO. Other cities show
ing gains we're Anderson, Evans
vile, Kokomo, Muncie and Whiting.
A summary of conditions in vari-
GUS cities of the State follows:
NEWCASTLE-The GaleSburg-
Coulter Disc Company, with plants
here and at Galesburg, ILL.,, gained
SIS per cent in sales for June this
year over June, 1927.
LAPEL-The Smith & Cascadden
stone quarry, new industry, has
started operations.
NOBLESVILLE-The plant of
the Steinbrenner Rubber Company,
bought at receivers sale by the
Schacht Rubber Manufacturing
Company, Huntington, is to be used
almost entirely for production of
fruit jar rings, the buyer an
nounces. The plant was sold for
$4,000.
MT. SUMMIT-The largest and
best tomato pack on record is being
forecast by operators of the Mt.
Summit canning factory, who plan
to begin work about Aug. TO-
Acreage is 425 this year, double
that of last Farmers growing to-
matoes for the plant number about
one hundred.
RU S Will E-The Rushville
Chamber of Commerce has been
accepted as a member of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce.
BLOOMFIELD-A plant of the
Kraft-Phenix Cheese Company is
to be erected here. Contracts to
provide milk have been signed by
owners of 1000 crowds.
MT. VERNON-A new area near
Oliver is the latest to be covered
by leases in Posey County's oil
activity. The Deep Vein Oil Com
pany has signed for 5000 acres in
the Oliver section.
UNION CITY-The Johnston
Case Goods Company has started
manufacture of upholstered living
room suites.
Railroad to Spend 100000
SOUTH BEND-Announcement by
the New Jersey, Indiana and Iilli-
nois Railroad that it will build a
100000 terminal and roundhouse is
among the first projects planned in
development of new industrial sec
ton of the southwest part of the
city. Automobiles sold by the Stude-
baker Corporation during July are
about so per cent ahead of sales in
July, 1927, A. R. Erskine, president
of the corporation announces.
GENEVA Land has been taken
on option near here by the Electric
Shovel Company, operating a strip
mine near Centenary, with view to
coal production.
TRANSATLANTIC Action Toys
Company has been formed here with
: tS50,000 capital to manufacture me-
chanical toy boats.
KENDALLVILLE- The Kenrall-
vile Milk Producers Association
creamery here is to be taken over by
the Breyer Ice Cream Company,
Philadelphia, Pa.