The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-02
700 TO HAVE
JOBS IN TWO
NEW PLANTS
Fl. Wayne and Goshen
Acquire Industries: More
to Work at Columbus.
ANDERSON FORCES BUSY
Full Operating Schedule OF
Factories Unusual at
This Season.
By CHARLES e. STONE
EfstS Fditor The Times

BY CHARLES e. STONE
state Editor. The Time.
Acquisition Of industries by tro
Indiana cities in which 100 persons
Viu be employed IS 4 feature Of Z
business and industrial survey Of
the state for the week ended today.
The Inca Manufacturing Com
pany has been established at TT.
Wayne. Completion Of the first unit
nj It's plant. in which 500 will have
employment, is set for Oct. /. Mag
net wire, Vindings and specialties for
the radio, automobile and electrical
Industries will be produced.
Removal Of the Brentwood Chair
Company from Chicago to Goshen
will afford employment for 200. The
company vas established five years
ago and has q capital OF 100000.
Operations are expected to begin
before Sept. I. Ofncials announce
that the company now is three
months behind in orders. It pro-
duces a high class type of chairs for
hotels, restaurants, schools and con-
rention halls.
Force to Be Increased
An increase of sixty in the pres
ent force of $50 employed at the
Noblitt-Sparks Industries. Inc,
plant at Columbus is planned with
in a few days. II is expected the
force will be 300 by Oct. l.
Normal conditions are reported at
various plants at Anderson. A steady
opera ting schedule of the Delco-
Remy Corporation shows no signs
Of abating, F. C. Kroeger, president,
announces. The same condition pre-
walls with the Guide Lamp Corpora
ton. The American Steel and Wire
Company IS operating day and night.
The Lynch Glass Machine Company
has an order for eouipping a Cali
fornia glass plant, one of the largest
in the world.
Conditions in various cities are
shown in the following summary:
Kokomo-The Higbee Body Com
pany. which has been in business at
Sheridan forty-f1ve years, has bought
the Hicks Body Company plant
here.
Bartholomew county
farmers are being paid an aver
age of $3.50 daily for beans deliv-
cred at the Austin canning factory.
This years bean crop in the county
is estimated to have 2 value Of
$4,000.
New store Planned
Newcastle-The S. S. Kresge
Company, chain store operator, has
taken a twenty fve-year lease on
the Kahn Heller building here to be
occupied by a store.
Rluffton-A federal court order
authorizes the receiver Of the H.
c. Bay Piano Company to spend
$4,000 on repairs of the plant. On
completion of the work the plant
will be offered for sale.
South Bend-A sixty-f1ve-mile gas
transmission pipe is being laid be-
tween here and East Chicago by the
Northern Indiana Public Service
Company. An increased demand for
gas due to South Bends rapid
growth in population and industrial
expansion caused the laying Of the
line.
Petersburg-The Blackfoot Coal
Company. operating strip mines IN
southern Pike county, has increased
its force by forty and raised pro-
duction to 1000 tons daily By plac-
ing q third shovel in operation.
Dugger-Preparations are being
made TO reopen the Nickel Plate
coal mine. which employs between
600 and 800 men. most OF them
residents here.
Plant Being Improved
Whiteland-Addition equipment
Is being installed in the Whiteland
canning plant and the building IS
being reroofed. Prospects are eX-
cellent for a large tomato pack.
Bedford-The entire population OF
Bedford and half that OF Blooming
ton Is dependent upon the building
stone industry Of Lawrence and
Monroe counties. according to Law
renee H. Whiting. Chicago. chair
man Of the board of the Indiana
Limestone Company, announces.
The quarry district, thirty-seven
miles long and four wide. in addi-
ton 70 the United States, supplies
stone TO England, Central and South
America, Canada, Cuba and the
Hawaiian Islands.
TT. MISREPRESENTATION in the new
plant of the Stenite Radio Com
pany here will begin early this
month. Already a sales organiza-
ton covering twelve countries has
been perfected.
EIkhart-With some factories op-
Grating day and night and others
on schedules unusual in midSum-
ner. this city shows q prosperous
industrial situation. tn Time-O-
stat Controls Company, Inc. formed
recently by the merger OF the Alb
solute factor Corporation
here and three Wisconsin compa-
MES Is employing 600 persons as
compared with 275 formerly working
In the local plant.
Hagerstovn-The Perfect Circle
Company shipped 3.76Se6S automo-
bile piston rings during June. an
increase Of H. per cent over the
same month last year. Lothian Tee
tor. Vice president. announces.