The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-16
Delco- Remy Putting on Men
at Rate of 100
Weekly.
MINE OUTLOOK BETTER
Negotiations Under Way to
Open Two Large Pike
County Shafts.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
State Editor. The Times

to be added weekly to the working
force of the Delco- Remy corporation
at Anderson until a total of 10000
are on the payroll, set for March l,
is noteworthy in business and in
duStrial survey of Indiana for the
week ended today.
G. E. Wilson, president and gen.
eral manager of the corporation in
announcing plans for increasing the
force said: satisfactory business
for the balance of the year is now
assured and the prospects for the
first three months of next year are
very good indeed"
The newest Anderson industry,
Wright 81 Tuttle Aircraft Motors,
announces that it has enough Or
derS booked to insure steady opera
tons for two years. The concern
. will manufacture a f1ve-cylinder
radial engine for airplaneS.
Mines to Be Reopened
Settlement of the coal mining
wage controversy is reflected in
preparations for opening of a num-
Der of Indiana mines. After being
idle more than a year, Atlas Mines
/ and 2, largest in Pike county, are
now the center of negotiations look
ing toward resumption of opera
tons. The mines employ 500 men.
1t is planned to begin hosting coal
OF Va 10
about Dec. l.
The following summary shows
conditions in various cities of the
state:
Marion-A 6Ox30O foot addition is
to be built to the Indiana Truck and
Corporations plant. The contract
has been awarded and work will be
rushed.
Muncie-Production of automobile
batteries at the Delco-Remy plant
has reached 1000 day, a mark not
expected until Jan. l. On that date,
Clifford Cord, manager, now pre-
diets the output will be 1900. The
plant employs ESQ.
Carload of Candy Shipped
La POrte-Five tons of candy are
being produced daily at the Reid,
Murdoch Company plant here and
it is planned to double this within a
month A carload of the product
was shipped within the last week to
Los Angeles, Cal. The company Is
a new industry here. The Sterling
Electro-Plating Company will be
moved here from Chicago within the
next few weeks. 1t will employ fifty
men.
KOkomO-Capital of the Kokomo
Automotive Manufacturing Com
pany has been increased from $780,
900 to 100000, to provide, officials
announce, funds for working use
and to build up a reserve to be used
in expansion.
Peru-The American Refrigerator
Corporation here has been absorbed
by the Gibson Refrigerator Com
pany of Chicago, and its name
changed to the Peru Wood Products
Company.
Wabash-Officials of the Relay
Truck Company, Lima, o., are con-
sidering this city as a site for a
plant to manufacture a farm ma
chine which it placed on the market
a year ago.
Considers Expansion Plans
Logansport-The Associated APP
parel Industries, Inc, is considering
program Of expansion for its plant
here which would result in increase
of the working force to 600.
Lapel-The Sterling Glass Com
pany announces plans for building
warercon, 80x100 feet, construc-
ton to start at once.
KendaIIvilIe-Work has been
started here on gas storage tank
for the Northern Indiana Light and
Fuel Company which will be the
second largest in the United States,
according to A. E. Harvey, construc-
ton foreman for the Stacy Manu-
featuring Company, Cincinnati,
holder of the building contract. The
tank will measure 96.4x24 feet.
Bluffton-Stock and machinery of
the H. G. Bay piano factory has
been purchased from receivers by
Theodore Freideberg, New York
capitalist, who specializes in buying
industries and rejuvenating them
for resale. The plant is now in
operation and it is expected more
men will be added to the force soon.
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