The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-28
1000 WORKING
AT MARION IN
RADIO MAKING
Logansport Plant viii Go on
Full Operation Basis
Next Week.
BALL FACTORY CLOSES
Strawboard Production
Stops for First Time in
Several Years.
BY CHARLES C. STONE
state Editor. The Times

Favorable conditions reported
during the past week in Indiana
business and industry outweigh the
unfavorable, it is shown in SUI
vey of the state ended today.
With a pay roll Of 100000
monthly, the plant of the United
States Radio and Television Corpor-
alton at Marion has started pro-
duction of a new model radio set.
The force numbers 1000 men and
women.
A full force on full time opera
ton will be the schedule beginning
Monday at the plant of the w. D.
Craig Garment Company, Logans-
port. The factory has been oper-
ating at about half capacity for
several months. Fifty persons will
be employed.
Force to be Increased
Within few days the Indiana
Rayon Corporation factory at
Greenfield will add twenty persons
to its force, to operate fourth
battery of machines, installation Of
which is near completion. The
plant was opened in August with a
force of twenty, and forty-f1ve are
now employed.
Among companies at Elkhart
showing activity are the Finnell
System, Inc, the Parisform unit Of
Associated Apparels, Inc. and the
Metal Forming Corporation.
H. w. Lyndall, sales manager of
the Finnell concern, announces
sales during 1890 are equal to those
in 1929, which was the best year in
the company's history.
The Parisform unit. according to
E. G. Shaw, has had "a very sue
cessful year." and is now employing
225 persons. Recently nearly fifty
sewing machines were added to
equipment
$4,000 Order Filled
The Metal Corporation has COM
pleted shipment of a $4,000 order
of steel molding to be used in con-
struction of the Farmers Trust and
Savings Company building in New
York, and is arranging to market a
new metal product.
Walter j. Buettner, treasurer of
/ the Bendix Aviation Corporation,
/ South Bend, announces shipments
/ by it's brake unit showed an in
crease of 100 per cent in November
this year as compared to the same
month last year, and there has been
a gain of so per cent in employ
ment. Orders already on hand in
dictate December business will be 100
per cent greater than in that month
in 1929.
Another South Bend business
leader, A. r. Erskine of the Stude-
baker corporation, reports it's auto
mobile sales in October were 4,70O,
which is 100 more than sold in
October, 1929
100000 Monthly Pay Roll
A survey at Princeton, Gibson
county seat, shows a monthly pay
roll of 100000 to employees of four
mining companies, and those of the
Southern railway shops and Emge
Packing Company.
The Citizens bank has been
formed at Manila, replacing an in
stitution closed by the state bank
ing department. The bank is a
private institution with a capital
of $4,000
blitt-Sparks Industries, Inc.
which operates plants at Seymour
Columbus and Greenwood, shows q
decline of about one-f1fth in bust
ness for the first ten months Of
this year as compared to the same
period in 1929.
Lack of orders has resulted ir
closing for an indefinite period Of
the Ball Brothers strawboard plant
at Noblesville. This is the first
time in several years that the plant
has suspended operations.