The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-13
FOUR Indiana
CITIES LEAD IN
BUSINESS GAIN
Industry Advances at Mar
ion, Kokomo, Corners
vile and Fl. Wayne.
AID FUND SET ASIDE
Utilities Company's Plan
Expected to Be BenetI-
CiaI to State.
AID FUND SET ASIDE
BY CHARLES G. STONE.
c.sto Editor. The Times

tant data in a business and indus
trial survey of Indiana for the week
ended today. A.,
summarized, conditions In the
four cities are as follows:
MARION-An addition TO the rae
tory of the Upland Flint Bottle
Company is being erected and new
machinery installed, the work going
on day and night, to shorten the
time the plant will be closed, Fun
operation for the remainder Of 1923
Is forecast.
New heading equipment, heating
and sprinkIing systems are being
installed by the Delta Electric Com
panv. and it's Office is being en-
larged. Despite the usually dull
summer season, 240 are employed
steadily.
orders booked for the entire pro-
duction of the Case Radio Corpora
ton for the remainder of the year.
Three night shifts are being
worked weekly by the Superior Body
Corporation to keep production up
to orders.
Books Largest Order
The largest order yet received by
the Craftsman Tool Corporation,
new industry, is for a carload OF
axes.
The Economy Box and Pie Plate
Company is preparing to purchase
machinery to add new lines to its
production.
An addition to the Lindley Box
and Paper Company plant, recently
completed, is now in use.
CONNERSVILLE - Fifty more
employees can be given work at the
McQuay-Norris Company plant
when installation of new machinery
now under way is complete.
The Connersville Lamp Company
made shipments during June which.
exceed those for the month in all
other years of the company's his
tory.
Contracts assuring operation into
September are on the books OF the
Central Manufacturing Company.
KOKOMO-With removal OF the
Hamilton Ross Company here from
Chicago, business interests declare
the city's industrial rehabilitation
following closing Of the Haynes auto
manufacturing plant, is complete
The Hamilton Ross Company will
occupy the last remaining unit o1
the Haynes plant, other industries
having taken over all other Struc-
lures.
Shipments Increase
Outbound freight shipments for
June this year are 20 per cent above
those in the same month last year
Express shipments increased at the
same rate.
FIT. WAYNE+-A reorganization
after receivership proceedings has
been made of the American Art
Textile Company and it has been
sold to william Wunderlin. The
plant was reopened this week and
its product will be handled by a
canvassing organization direct to
homes.
The Mcmillan Company an
nounces plans for erection Of q
plant at Buffalo, N. Y, to handle
its eastern business.
Two new units of the Truck En-
gineering Company plant will be
completed within a few weeks. Il
is planned to add to the force.
Bank deposits gained $2,800,0OC
during the fiscal year ended June
80.
Aid for Industries
Announcement by the Northern
Indiana Public Service Company
that it had set aside fund Ol
5000, for industrial aid is ex-
pected to prove beneficial to a num-
Der of Indiana cities.
Conditions at other points in the
State are as follows.
NEWCASIIE-With others 81
per cent greater than for the same
period last year, the GaleSburg-
Coulter Disc Company plant is be-
ing operated on two eight-houl
shifts.
ANDERSON - Business is to-
good for a weeks vacation shut
down of the Delco-Remy plants
here, which had been set to Start
Aug. Is, and it has been cancelled
The plants now have $500 person;
on pay rolls.
COLFAX-Good progress Is being
made in erection of an addition tC
the plant of the Indiana Hickory
Furniture Company plant. TIKI
management announces prospects
are good for several months steady
operation.
SHELBYVILLE-A contract ha'
been awarded to Schlegel & Roehn.
Indianapolis, for erection of a new
city hall to cost $4,000.
FRANKFORT - The Frankfor
Rendering Company, with capita
of $4,000, has been formed by buy
ers of the Bernhard Fertilizer Com.
pany, which will also operate plant;
al Lafayette, Delphi and Kokomo.
Oil Drilling Begins
PLYMOUTH-A test hole for OF
IS being drilled by the Arco Oil anC
Case Company, Cleveland, Ohio, a
the eastern city limits.
SOUTH BEND-A 81 per cent in.
crease IN sales of autos is announced
by the Studebaker Corporation fol
June this year over the same
month in 1927, and gain of % PEI
cent for the first half of 1928 owe
the same 1927 period.