The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
Industrial Conditions Are
on Upgrade in Columbus
and South Bend.
KOKOMO SHOWS GAINS
Evansville and Newcastle
Also Say Employment
Is Better.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
State Editor. The Times

! Improved industrial conditions IN
Newcastle, Kokomo, Columbus, South
Bend and Evansville are noted in a
business survey of the state for the
week ended today
AT Newcastle, the Welfare society,
formed last fall to aid those in need
due to unemployment, has ceased
operations with the announcement
| that the few cases remaining will
be cared for by township poor funds.
So far in March, factories in New
castle have added 500 men to pay
rolls. The Thomas Manufacturing
Company has started operations in
its new plant.
The Continental Steel Corpora
ton, with plants at Kokomo, Indi-
annapolis and Canton, O., reports
profits of nearly 100000 we're
made during 1929, and that, de-
spite a general business slump, VOL
ume for the first quarter this year
was ahead of that for the first three
months Of 1929 The 1929 pay roll
was $1,00O000 and cost of improve
ments to the Kokomo plant was
$207, 900.
100 Added to Force
Officials of Columbus industries
report steady improvement in the
employment situation. The Reeves
Pulley Company plant is near a
normal basis. One hundred persons
were added to the force of Noblitt-
Sparks Industries, Inc, this week,
and more will be employed within
a week. Full operation is repor
by the Reliance Manufacture
Company and Columbus Handle a
Tool Company.
The first annual report of the
Bendix Brake Corporation, one Of
the giant industries of South Bend
shows annual earnings of 81 100000.
Since Jan. l the corporation has
added three subsidiaries, bringing
the total to seventeen. Among the
new units is the 100000 Hydraulic
Brake Company, Los Angeles, which
holds patents on Lockheed brakes
used on many automobiles, and
which developed an airplane brake.
Another acquisition, the Stromberg
Motor Devices, Inc, is moving to a
$250,O00 plant adjoining the Bendix
holdings. When in full operation
this unit will employ 1000 persons.
Hiring of a force will be started at
once.
Some Overtime Schedules
A few plants at Evansville are
working on an overtime and in a
number Of others employment is
approaching a normal basis. The
Graham Body Corporation is work
ing at 30 per cent of the 1929 peak,
while there is full operation by
Servel, Inc. The Chrysler-Dpdge
plant is near capacity prod zion
and that point has been a. he'd
at the Mead-Johnson and B Ius-
Erie plants.
Conditions in various I. ma
cities are shown in the fol ing
summary:
Anderson - The Midwest II
plant and Seton Manufact
Company, units here Of the b
tainer Corporation of Amer
have been consolidated, which Civ
Anderson one Of the largest planC
of the kind in the country.
Plant to Be Repaired
acknowledgement are being
made for starting full operations at
the D. c. jenkins Glass Company
plant April 4.
Brazil-With installation of new
equipment by the Dominion Coal
Company, strip mine concern, it has
become one of the largest coal and
clay producers in this field.
Trafal~ar-A unit Of the Hoosier
Ca~~ing Company is to be built
here by o. E. Fulmer Bargersville
contractor, who submitted a low bid
of $6,240 Equipment to be installed
will cost at least $4,000, company
officials announce.
Bloomington-The board of the
Bloomington hospital, cooperating
with the local Council Of Women.
is planning erection of a $10e 600
addition to the institution building.
Charlottesville The Crawford
hotel is being improved at a cost
of $4,000.
Packing Company Expands
Terre Construction of an
addition to the Loudon Packing
Company plant will be started
Tuesday. The addition will be 240
feet long and $50 feet wide. For
mer owrers Of the Schwartz Pic
ture Frame Company's factory are
again in possession, having bought
the property at receivers sale. II
is announced the factory, which has
been idle, will be reopened Monday.
giving employment to fifty persons.
Winchester - Randolph county
commissioners announce an addi-
ton to the county hospital here win
be built at cost Of $4,000.
Otterbein The State Bank Of
Otterbein has been formed to re-
place an institution Of the same
name which was closed recently.
Griffith-A spring expansion pro-
gram of the Keen Foundry Com
pany contemplates expenditures of
10000
Washington - The Green Mound
Coal mine, five miles southeast of
here, is being dismantled. At on
time 1t was one OF the largest pso- s
ducing pits in Daviess county.