The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-11
Warner Gear to Complete
Program at Muncie; In
$45,0O0,O0O Combine.
NEW PLANT AT K0K0MO
Contract Signed for Re-
movaI of Chicago Con-
Germ Employing 300.
BY CHARLES C. STONE
State Editor. The Times

Entrance of the Warner Gear
Company of Muncie into a merger
which represents $45,OOOoOO at cur
rent prices of stocks of companies
involved, will not affect the expan-
sion program of the Warner COM
pany, Ray P. Johnson, president,
announces. New buildings and ad-
ditional machinery comprise the
program.
The merger, declared one of the
largest in the history of automobile
parts manufacture, was the feature
of activities of the past week in In
diana business and industry. Be
sides the Muncie concern, the
merger includes Marvel Carbureter
Company, indianapolis and Flint,
Mich; Borg and Beck Company,
Chicago, and the Mechanics Com
pany, Rockford, Ill.
New KokOmO Industry
Another interesting development
of the week was signing of a con-
tract for removal of the Hamilton
Ross Company from Chicago to
Kokomo, contingent upon the
raising of a $4,000 fund by the
city's Association of Commerce,
which it is announced is assured.
The company employs force of
800 in the manufacture of electric
floor and table lamps, shades and
metal furniture.
Two plants recently damaged by
fire will be rebuilt. They are the
Dean Forging Company, Muncie,
loss $4,000, and the Portland Drain
Tile Company, Portland, loss $75 1000.
Unemployment of $50 miners is
forecast by the signing of wage
agreements by operators Of two
mines-the Tighe, north of Terre
Haute, and Gladstone, three miles
east of Petersburg.
Conditions elsewhere in the State
are shown to be as follows:
Within the next few
days, the Thomas Auto Top Com
pany will be operating in its new
plant, where more space will permit
handling increased business.
ANDERSON-En Enclosure of an
open court at Delco-Remy Plant No.
8 has increased floor space by one
fifth. The old Indiana silo plant
is being dismantled as site for
the new Delco-Remy foundry, which
will employ 200 men. The W. A.
Clark Reality Company has signed
a contract with the Foster Engi-
neering Company, Indianapolis, for
erection of a $125,000 warehouse.
Factory on Overtime
DELPHI-The Eoyd-Martin Com
pany plant is working overtime in
an effort to keep up with orders.
Production of $500 boats is forecast
for the summer.
RENSSELAER - The Rensselaer,
Artificial Ice Company is a new
business here, to engage in the sale
of the product of the Biederwolf
Coal and Ice Company, Monticello.
FIT. WAYNE-The Becker Paper
Company and the Rothschild Paper
Company have been merged, under
the name of the former, making one
of the largest firms of the kind in
Indiana. Thirty statesmen are en-
ployed.
ST. PAUL-The local canning
factory is being put into condition
for the coming season, the work in
GLIDING improvement Of machinery.
ORLEANS Heise Bros, ice, feed
and coal manufacturers and dealers
have bought the Lon Lashbrook
business in the same lines at Paoli,
where a new building will be
erected.
LOGANSPORT-The Sykes Metal
Products Corporation, Chicago, will
move here. 1t employs about $50.
New Theater for Marion
MARION - Universal Pictures
Corporation is to add to its chain
of theaters with a motion picture
house here. The local theater will
be a replica of the $75O,00O Granada,
recently opened at indianapolis by
the corporation.
COLUMBUS-Gradual expansion
of the Cummins Engine Company
is the object Of it's recent increase
of capital from 100000 to $4,000,
Clessie Cummins, president, an
nounces. The $4,000 addition to the
Farmers Marketing Association
building will be ready for use in
about ten days.
CLINTON-A wholesale branch
of the American Bed and Nachman
Spring-Filled Mattress Company
has been opened here.
BLOOMINGTON = The THYME
Bottling Company is the newest
addition to business here.
Upton A $4,000 grand stand
with 1000 seating capacity will be
built at the Upton County fair
ground here.
GARY-April was the best build
ing month thus far in 1928, permits
calling for structures with a value
of $4,000. There are siXty-f1ve
projects on the 1923 civic improve
ment program to cost approximately
$2,600O00.