The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-14
ChrySIer, Studebaker Fac
tories Increase Produc-
ton Schedule.
ACID FIRM AT HAMMOND
Anderson Aircraft Company
to Start Production
Monday.
BY CHARLES E. STONE,
State Editor. The Times

sulphuric acid plant to be erected
at Hammond, and development of
aeronautical firms at Anderson and
Elkhart featured a week of much
activity in Indiana business and in
duStrial circles.
Officials of the Newcastle Chrysler
plant are rushing work on the in
stallatiOn Of a large battery of new
machines in a recently completed
addition. Employment for approx
mately 200 men will be provided by
the new machine shop. The build
ing alone cost $4,000, in addition to
an unannOunced sum for a large
number of new improved machines.
Both pay roll and the number of
employees of the Studebaker cor
poration in South Bend we're 40 per
cent higher during the first five
months of 1929 than during the
same period in 1928, it was an
nounced. The number of employees
on the plant pay rolls on June was
1852, an increase Of 1000 over the
same date last year. Both the num-
Der of employees and pay roll are
due for further boosts this month,
as production is to be much heavier.
Bids Ordered
Bids on the new acid plant at
Hammond will be received this
week, according to the Stauffer
Chemical Company All international
concern.
Indiana continued to gain foot
hold in aviation production, with
the announcement that the Wright
Tuttle Aircraft Motors Corporation
will start actual production June II,
at Anderson, and the purchase of
the Herbert E. Bucklen Corporation
Of Elkhart by the Bendix Aviation
Corporation.
The announcement of the Wright
futile Corporation at Anderson fol-
lows considerable delay due to
clearing up of details, D. j. Des
Champs of Brussels, Belgium, who
is to be chief engineer of the Ander-
son company, arrived there this
week and made ready for the first
activities.
The Bendix Aviation Corporation,
a recently formed aeronautical mer-
ger Of worldwide scope, will con-
tlnue the manufacture at the Elk
hart plant of wind electric generator
sets to supply current for airway
beacons. Acquisition of the Buck
len corporation is the latest move
of a gigantic combination combin-
ing every branch Of aeronautics un-
der the Bendix corporation, includ-
ing the BendiX Brake Corporation,
Curtiss Aviation Corporation, Strom-
burg Carburetor Company, Fokker
Aircraft Corporation and a dozen
minor concerns.
East Chicago Active
The following is a summary of
developments in Indiana cities dur
ing the past week:
East ChicagO-A new operating
schedule at the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube plant affected $500 work.
ers. -Four turns per week were add
ed, increasing by 30 per cent the
pay roll production and orders in the
sheet mill department. East Chi
cago water department plans to ex-
tend the city water supply mile
and quarter into Lake Michigan.
at cost of approximately S750,00O.
Greencastle-The American Mill
ing Company has established one of
its chain mills here, having pur-
chased the Harris Milling Company.
MariOn-General Appliance Cor
poration of San Francisco, Cal, ma
tionally known manufacturers of
electrical appliances, are locating a
branch at Marion as sales Offices
for the territory east of the Missis-
sippi Plans to locate the eastern
factory of the firm in Marion are
in a tentative state, and will be de-
termined by the business increase.
Princeton-The Shell Petroleum
Corporation has secured three leases.
one each in Gibson, Knox and Pike
counties, and will start drilling soon.
Muncie - The Glascock Brothers
Manufacturing Company has ac-
CURED an entire city block adjoin-
ing the present plant to care for
future expansion. A small addition
to the factory will be erected this
summer.
TT. Wayne-A new 100000 cubic
foot water gas generator which will
cost $4,000 will be installed by the
Northern Indiana Public Service
Company at once to increase the
output Of the Fl Wayne plant.
Gary Coupled with the an
nouncement that the Gary plants
of the United States Steel Corpora
ton are maintaining operation of
about 95 per cent capacity is the in
formation that the American bridge
plant has been awarded the con-
tract for furnishing $500 tons of
structural steel for the Patterson
building, now being constructed in
Chicago. officials Of the Empire
Refining Company have announced
that the first unit of the company's
plant will be operating at capacity
by January, 1880. When completed,
the plant will be the second largest
in the middle west and will employ
a force of about 700 men.
agerstown-Three car loads of
Perfect Circle piston rings were
shipped TO the Pacific coast recently.
The Colyear Motor Sales Company,
with nine locations in principal
cities in the west, and the Chanslor
and Lyon stores, with chain stores
in Aalifornia, received the orders.
tho largest piston ring shipments