The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-16
FOUR PLANTS
IN STATE TO
BEENLARGED
Expansion at Kokomo,
Charlottesville, Richmond
] and Evansville.
REBUILD AFTER FIRES
Destroyed Factories to Be
J. Replaced at Marion
and Brazil.
REBUILD AFTER FIRES
BY CHARLES C. STONE
State Editor, The Times

State Editor, The Times
Announcement of expansion pro-
grams by manufacturers at Kokomo,
Charlottesville, Richmond and Ev-
ansville, and Of plans for rebuilding
plants destroyed by fire at Marion
and Brazil feature a business and
industrial survey Of Indiana for the
week ended today.
Davis Industries, Inc, Kokomo,
will add dining and bedroom furni-
ture to its production, neceSsitat1ng
q 40 per cent pay roll increase.
The Kokomo Chamber Of Com
k1erce announces that the seasonal
slump which caused some factories
to operate on part-time basis Is
now practically ended. The Pitts
burgh Plate Glass Company plant
is operating on a three-shift basis.
% Other plants providing steady en-
ployment are the Kokomo Steel and
Wire, which expects to add 300 to
900 men to its force within few
months; Seven Allied Industries,
Kokomo Rubber Company and Globe
Stove and Range Company.
An expansion program designed
TO assure steady operations and a
larger working force is announced
by the Umphrey Manufacturing
Company, Charlottesville, which
produces furniture.
Plans $4,000 Addition
A contract has been awarded for
erection of a $4,000 addition to the
Richmond Fireproof Door Company
plant, Richmond.
Two warehouses that will cover
fifteen acres of ground and increase
it working force several hundred
comprises the expansion program
of the Monitor Furniture Company,
Evansville.
Erection Of factory for the Case
Electric Company, Marion, replac-
ing a structure destroyed by fire
early this year, is under way. The
building is 140x137 feet. The COM
pany plans speedy construction, to
enable it to handle steadily in
creasing volume Of business.
The United States Brick Com
pany. capitalized at 100000, plans
to rebuild the sewer pipe factory at
Brazil destroyed by fire nearly three
years ago.
Conditions elsewhere in the State
are as follows:
FIT. WAYNE-A $750,000 ware
house il to be built here for the
International Harvester Company.
A $145,000 switch house will be built
bv the American Gas and Electric
Company. A new candy manufac-
turing company has started opera
tons. Howard j Muller is direct
ing plant operations and sales are
in charge of Glen A. Fox. The Auto
Electric and Radio Equipment Com
pany plans establishment OF an
aviation branch here, offering both
passenger and freight service.
100 Miners at Work
TERRE HAUTE+The Grasselli
coal mine, employing 12O men, has
resumed operations after a shut
down.
CONNERSVILLE Production
started this week at the local plant
of the Auburn Motor Company,
which handles body, paint and trim
work. The company is occupying
a factory on which it spent 100000.
A new record was established Mon
day by the Indiana Lamp Company
factory when production reached
$4,000 automobile lamps for the day.
BLOOMINGTON of a
100000 mill for the Sare Stone
Company is under way. Continued
prosperity for the Bloomington
Bedford districts is indicated in an
announcement by the Indiana
Limestone Company that $250,000,-
900 will be spent in the United
States this year on religious Struc-
lures, and the forecast that many OF
these will use Indiana limestone.
Peru Factory Sold
PERU-Stokely Bros. & Co., New
Port. Tenn, already the owners Of
nine canning factories, have bought
the plant of the Peru Canning
Company and already plans opera
tons during the coming season.
COLUMBUS-An addition costing
between $4,000 and $4,000 is to
be built by the Noblitt-Sparks In
dustries, Inc, to handle production
of tubing for Ford automobiles. This
line is also being produced at the
corporations plant at Greenwood,
which is running at capacity, but
unable to keep abreast of the de-
mand.
More Jobs at La Porte
LA PORTE-A survey of employ
ment conditions here by the Cham
Der of Commerce shows STA more
persons working than during the
low point of employment last year.
MICHIGAN CITY-A pay roll OF