The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-27
Warner Gear Company to
Expand for Manufacture
of TranSmiSSionS.
LARGE ORDER BOOKED
Company at Bloomington
Sells 450 Carloads Of
Building Stone.
BY CHARLES C. STONE
State Editor. The Times

the outstanding Development in
Indiana business and industry for
the week ended today.
The new unit will be capable of
producing 1000 automobile trans
missions when operating at capac-
ity. More than one hundred men
are already engaged in the con-
struction, and on completion of the
plant, within the next six weeks,
production will be started.
Wilde L. Maitlen will establish
plant at Muncie for manufacture
of light ornamental and structural
IRON. A permit for erection of
$1,000 building has been obtained.
$50 Cars of Stone Sold
The Shawnee Stone Company of
Bloomington has obtained one of
tic largest cut stone contracts SO
far this year. It calls for $50 car
loads to be used in construction of
an Office building for the Gulf Re
filming Company in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The stone to be used is carrara two
tone, produced only by the Shawnee
company. The order will assure the
company's employees steady work for
several months.
Temporary relief from some I'M
employment in Kokomo will result
from months work for 600 men in
the grinding and polishing depart
ments and warehouse of the Pitts
burgh Plate Glass Company. How
err, it is announced that with COM
pletion of The work, the plant will
go back to a status of a shutdown
for an indefinite period.
Two Mergers Effected
Consolidation of two Kokomo in
dustries, the Kingston Products
Company and the Kokomo Stamped
Metal Company, will become effec-
tive Tuesday. Toys and CONNER
cial Stampings, products of the lat
ter company, are to be exploited on
a larger scale as g. result Of the
merger, officials announce.
Another merger affecting Kokomo
is that of the Riess Manufacturing
Company in that city, and the Mas
ter Electric Company, Dayton, o.
1t is announced that several lines
will be added to the production Of
the Kokomo company as a result
of the consolidation.
Elwood's tinplate industry will be
on steady operation basis through
out the summer as result Of heavy
demands from canning companies.
The industry is running on the ba-
sis of IS to 80 per cent normal.
Considerable remodeling work will
be done in the G. I. Sellers Kitchen
Cabinet Company plant during a
vacation shutdown which will end
July 5.
Plant Moved to ElwOod
Equipment of the Monticello
Manufacturing Corporation has
been moved to Elwood from Mont
icello, and it is planned to begin
operations within a few days.
The Eureka-In Oil and Gas
Company, which holds leases on
10000 acres of Harrison county
land, plans considerable activity in
drilling.
Conditions in various Indiana
cities are shown in the following
summary:
RichmOnd-The Miller Brothers
Hardware Company and John j..
Harrington, Inc, the city's whole
sale hardware and accessories con-
Germs, will be merged Tuesday.
Of1cials announce that it is planned
to increase the merchandise stock
with the aim of building up one of
the largest concerns of the kind in
the central states.
Winchester-Issues of bonds for
road building in Randolph county,
total of $111,510 including
premiums, have been sold to the
Merchants National bank Of Muncie.
DanviIIe-A new industry here is
the Danville Chair Company, COM
posed of Ray Redifer and Frank
Trotter, producing new type OF
lawn chair designed by Redifer.
Wabash-After being idle since
late in April, the United StraWboard
Mill has resumed operations with
about 200 men on the pay roll. Fifty
more will probably be added within
a few days. During the shutdown
an extensive improvement program
was carried out, including much new
machinery.
Terre Employment condi-
tons here have improved in several
quarters. A force Of eighty-six men
is working in erecting a plant for
the American Can Company. Sew
eral are working On construction Of
laundry at the Quaker Maid plant,
and the force of the shipping de-
partment is to be doubled. Shops
of the Pennsylvania railroad have
re-employed men dismissed several
weeks ago.
North Anderson-The Indiana
Bell Telephone Company plans an
early start on a $4,000 expansion
program here.
South Bend-Removal Of the Nc
Kenzie Manufacturing Company
here from La Crosse, Wis, to be-
come a unit Of the Oliver Farm
Equipment Company, is set for
July.
neutrality-suspicious. have been
completed for merger here of the
Elcar Motor Company and the
Lever Motors Corporation, and the
Lever Offices viii be moved here
from Oak Park, H., and its plant
from Quapaw, Okla. The Elcar
company is now engaged in man.
ufacturing taxicabs. on an order
optional for 500 to 1900 units.