The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-15
TWO MILLIONS
TO Be SPENT
AT GARY MILL
Construction to Start at
Once on Immense Unit
at Tube Plant.
GAS CONCERN EXPANDS
Twenty Points Are Affected
by Program of Central
Indiana Company.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
state Editor, The Times


Among developments IN Indiana
industry and business during the
week ended today was the an
nouncement that the National Tube
Company will build a s2,0O0,OoC
unit as an addition to its plant al
Gary. Construction is to begin al
once with completion expected
within five or six months.
The Central Indiana Gas Com
pany announced an expansion pro-
gram from its headquarters in Mum
Gle which will affect twenty-one
Indiana cities and towns.
Seventy-eight miles OF high
pressure transmission mains will be
laid and 100 miles of distributing
mains to supply gas to Summltvlle
,Jonesboro. Gas City, Dunkirk, Red
key, Albany, Farmland, Upland
Chesterfield, Frankton, yorktown
CASTOR. Eaton and Parker. Add
tions to distribution systems will be
made in Muncie, Anderson, Alex
andria, ElWood,- Paramount ano
Hartford City.
Betterment of industrial condl-
tions in the CsIumet district is seen
in an annoU' Sement by the Stand
ard Forgings Company that it has
started production on an order from
the Ford Motor Company.
The General American Tank Car
CORPORATION has an order for 500 box
cars from the Minneapolis ana St.
Louis Railroad. Five large orders
from Chicago hospitals have been
booked by the F. S. Betz Company
of Hammond, for cabinets and other
equipment.
Plant Resumes Operation
The following summary shows
conditions in several Indiana cities:
Neutrality-suspicious. have been
resumed at the Capital Furniture
Company plant, which had been
practically idle for six months. Of1l-
Gals announce that half the usual
force is working, and that more per-
sons will be employed as ADJUST
ments are made. They announce
enough orders are on hand to as
sure steady operation until Jan. !.
Straughn-A pipeline Of the Gulf
Refining Company from Bartles-
vile. Okla, to Pittsburgh, will pass
through the southern part Of Henry
county and a pumping station viii
be located three miles east OF here.
FrankIin-Two contracts obtained
by the Wagner Manufacturing
Company will require five tons OF
sheet copper. One is for new build
ines at the Indiana Masonic home
here and the other for the residence
OF Grafton johnson at Greenwood.
100 to Get Work
Greensburg-Of Officials of the Cy-
clone Fence Company announce the
plant viii be in full operation Sept. l
with 100 persons employed.
Muncie-The local unit of the
DeIco-Remy Corporation has in
creased $500 to 5000 daily. En-
ployment in a new unit of the War
ner Gear Company has been in
creased to $50 men. Full production
is expected within a few weeks.
Mt. Sumnit-The Summit Prod
ucts Company's plant will begin can
ming of tomatoes about Sept. l.. The
crop this year covers 700 acres.
observation-disclosures mills in this
section are providing 300 men with
employment on night forces.
Observation-Disclosures operation Of
the Indiana Underwear Company
plant has been started.
Elwood-Sale of $4,000 in bonds
by the Community council covering
removal of the Monticello Manu-
featuring Company here from Mon
ticello has been completed.
Peru-Twenty-two men lost en-
ployment when the Chesapeake 6
Ohio railroad shops discontinued
heavy car repair work. which here
after will be made at Russell, Ky
Light work will be continued here
providing eighty-four men With EN-.
ployment.
Terre Haute-The new Quaker
Maid factory will be completed by
Sept. IS, and will provide work fol
100 persons. Erection of q building
for the American Can Company i.
providing employment for $40 men
NIishawaka Plants Busy
Mishawaka-A survey of employ
ment conditions here shows thu
Mishawaka Rubber and Wooler
Company has so per cent of it:
normal force on the pay roll; Dodge
Manufacturing Company, $50 of {
normal force of $50; a force Of 32'
3 is working in three shifts at tht
plant Of the Rubber Regeneratins
Company. The force Of the Amer
lean Farm Equipment Company i
only so less than normal. The IL
persons on the Major Brother
Packing Company pay roll is prac'
tically a full force, the IndestructS
Trunk Company has a full forc'
employed.
Washington-Insta of ma
chinery in the new plant of the Re
lance Manufacturing Company l
under way. When completed thu
factory can employ a maximum
force Of $50.
TT. Wayne-The Amrad Corpora
ton will be moved here from BoS'
ton, this fall. 1t manufactures con
densers used in radio sets, employ
ing about 200 persons.
South Bend-The Associates In
vestment Company is the onl,
automobile finance concern listeC
among eighty-nine firms which
shows better earnings for the frs
half OF 1890 than for the sam'
period Of 1929. in list compiled b.
the Chicago journal Of Commerce
MonticeIIo-Fred NJ. Luntz. man
ager Of the United Corporation. an
nounces this city viii soon be made
headquarters Of the concern. which
operates telephone exchanges II
twenty Indiana cities and one II
Illinois. The main once is nov
heated h Abllene. Kan.