The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-24
increase of 62 Per Cent
Puts State Twelfth in
= Nation.
SEVEN CITIES IMPROVE
indianapolis Among Lead
erS, Including Twenty
Five CenterS.
BY CHARLES G. STONE
State Editor, The Times

Gain Of 81 per cent in building
in Indiana for January this year
over the same month in 1927 is out
standing in business and indus
trial survey Of the State for the
week ended today. In the report
for the month, Indiana ranks
twelfth in the forty-eight States of
the Union.
indianapolis shows a gain of I'll
per cent and ranks twenty second
among twenty-five leading cities of
the country. Other cities in this
State showing gains are Whiting,
Marion, Hammond, Shelbyville, Elk
hart and South Bend.
James L. Farrell, United States
Steel Corporation president, de-
clared during an inspection of mills
in the Calumet district that steel
manufacturers expect 1923 to be
good business year. He was accom-
panied on the inspection by Myron
@. Taylor, head of the corporations
finance committee.
= A school building program is I'M
der consideration at Gary calling
for expenditure of $4,910,000 over a
period of eight y~rrs.
The Anderson Theater and Hotel
Company announces that within
thirty days work will be started at
Anderson on erecting a story
hotel and theater building.
Conditions elsewhere in the State
are shown as follows.
EAST CHICAGO1The General
American Tank Car Company has
booked an order for 500 cars.
Valunet PrOspers
HAN1MOND-The Calumet dis
trict is feeling the beneficial effects
of reviving industry, two steel COM
panieS having between them paid
100000 in wages at a single pay.
Bankers report increases in de-
posts.
EVANSVILLE - Employment to
about 125 men will De offered here
within sixty days at the auto body
building plant of the Paige-Detroit
Motor Car Company, which recent
1y purchased the Johann Manu-
featuring Company property.
MUNCIE-The Warner Gear
Company, manufacturing automo-
bile transmissionS, is steadily adding
to its force as new machinery is
installed 70 permit production. Or
ders booked so far practically assure
steady operation at least through
the coming summer. The Merchants
Trust and Savings Bank of Muncie
has bought the Durant Motor Com
pany property, idle for the past few
years, but which has been kept in
good condition. The purchaser has
not disclosed what plans are being
considered in regard to the plant.
Foundry at Peru Busy
PERU-The Peru Foundry is be-
ing operated twelve hours daily and
Sunday, and still is unable to keep
abreast of orders. It manufactures
products for use in other factories
and includes among its patrons
General Motors Corporation, Stude-
baker, Willys-O Overland, Buick and
other automobile manufacturers.
FIT. WAYNE-A printing contract
aggregatinf1 $450,000 to 100000 has
been awarded the FIT. Wayne Print
ang Company by the State of North
Carolina.
SOUTH BEND-The Bantam Ball
Bearing Comuany, which moved
here recently from Bantam, Conn,
will employ about hundred men.
Erection of $4,000 factory is I'M
der way.
WABASH-The Swift &, Co.
cheese factory here has added ma
chinery to enable handling $4,000
pounds of milk daily instead of IT,
900. The Wabash Cabinet Company
has awarded contract for erection
of three-story factory building.
Ford May Buy Glass
VINCENNES - Negotiations are
lander way between the Ford Motor
Company and the Blackford Win
dow Glass Company here relative to
manufacture of thin sheet glass for
use in Ford automobiles. Tests OF
the glass are now being made at the
Ford plant in Detroit.
ANDERSON-The DWlgg1nS WIRE
Fence Company has been merged
with the Charlottesville Wire and
Nail Company and the Adrian
Fence Company, Adrian, Mich, as
the Mid States Steel and Wire Com
pany, which will have headquarters
at Charlottesville The company
has assets of $2,500,000.
KOKOMO-The Superior Body
Corporation has started production
of a dump truck body, the invention
of its chief engineer, S. E. Frazier.
Seventy-five men are now employed
on the new work.
LEBANON-The Indiana Con-
densed Milk Company has pur-
chased 100 acres Of land nine miles
east of here where is proposes to