The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
STATE SHOWS
SLOW REVIVAL
OF INDUSTRY
Building for March Down;
667 Cars of Limestone
Are Ordered.
BY CHARLES C. STONE

Slow revival of activities in in
dustry and a pronounced slump in
building are revealed in business
and industrial survey of Indiana for
the week ended today.
AS compared with March, 1929,
building in the state in the same
month this year is approximately
only one-third. For the first time
this year none of the seventeen
cities covered by the survey shows
building increases.
The states building for last
March was in round sums $4,000, 900.
For March this year it was ST.
100000.
Illustrative of the slump are the
following cities:
Indianapolis, from $1,930,oOO to
$4,000; Ft. Wayne, $605,O00 to
$4,000; Shelbyville, $681, 900 to
$4,000; Gary, $48S,0O0 to $145,0OO;
Kokomo, $25O,OO0 to $4,000: Mum
Gle, $4,000 to $4,000, and Logans-
port, $4,000 to $4,000.
Wage Level Above Average
A report released by Dorrance,
Sullivan & Co., Inc, New York ad-
vertising agents, shows Indiana's
average industrial wage of $1,335
year is higher than that for the
nation as a whole, that figure being
$1,000.
In output per workers, Indiana
also exceeds the national average,
the figures being respectively $3.50
and $500.
Among cities Of the state, IN
dianapoliS with the average wage
the same as that for the nation as
a whole, shows the lowest per cent
of wages in relation to cost. The
average wage in Ft. Wayne is $1,340
and in Evansville, SLOTS.
General conditions in various IN
diana cities are shown in the fol-
lowing summary:
Bloomington-The Indiana Lime
stone Company has received an or
der for GOT carloads of stone to be
used in erecting West Virginia's new
state Capitol building. This is the
largest order booked thus far in
1890.
Plant to Be ReOpened
Charlottesville business In
tereSts have acquired the plant of
the Charlottesville Canning Com
pany and formed an operating con-
Germ under the name of the Craw-
louisville Packing Company. The
new owner has force of men at
work repairing the plant for use
during the summer. The plant has
not been in use for three years.
Alexandria - Aladdin Industries,
Inc, will erect a two-story brick
and concrete building for warehouse
and shipping department use as an
addition to its plant. The shipping
department, on completion of the
building in July, will be moved from
Chicago and will give employment
to about fifty persons. The build
ing will be 95x160 feet, providing
$4,000 square feet of floor space.
Anderson The new 120-room
Anderson hotel will be opened May
Is. The building is the work of
Baynham & Co., indianapolis con-
tractors, and will be operated by
the Pick enzeI Company.
Muncie-A reduction of appeals
for aid received by the Social Serv-
ice Bureau by third as compared
to the number during the winter,
is considered as indicating improve
ment in employment conditions
here.
Dagger-Operations have been re-
sumed at the Grove coal mine after
a period of idleness which started
Feb. Is. About 100 men are en-
ployed.
School to Cost S443,0OO
Erection of a new
RobertSdale junior high school
building at a cost of $443, 900 has
been approved by the Hammond
city council.
South Bend-Operation has start
ed in the Stromberg motor devices
unit of the Bendix Aviation Corpo-
ration here. The unit was formerly
located in Chicago and was moved
to a new plant building here. The
Northern Indiana Railway Company
has placed an order for ten modern
cars, to cost $145,000, as the first
step in a program for rehabilitation
of the street railway system here.
Elkhart-The newly formed Lever
Motor Corporation of Indiana will
unite with the Elcar Motors Com
pany here to form a 100000 con-
Germ. which will manufacture an au-
tomobile to be known rs the Escar
Lever. The new car will use
radically different type of engine,
which includes a direct connection
between crankShaft and piston.
East Chicago-Erection of an ad-
dition to the Empire Refining Com
pany, Huntington, has leased quar-
ployment for LOO men. The addi-
ton will practically double the re-
inery's capacity.