The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-05
Indiana firms
TAKE LEAD IN
LUMBER Deals
Showers Brothers Hope
Buying of $500, 600 Feet
viii Help Business.
PLANT ON FULL TIME
Lafayette Box Board Fac
tory Resumes Work After
Brief Shutdown.
BY CHARLES G. STONE
State Editor. The Times

Two orders for lumber placed by
/ Indiana furniture companies, one
being declared the largest in the
history of the industry, formed the
most noteworthy development in
Hoosier business during the past
week.
The large order, calling for g.
100000 feet of southern gum wood,
was placed by the Showers Brothers
Company, with plants at Blooming
ton and Bloomfield, in Indiana, and
at Burlington, Ia. The other order,
for 100000 feet, was placed by
| the G. I. Sellers e. Sons Company
of Elwood, kitchen cabinet manu-
1 facturers.
| G. I. Sellers Of the Elwood COM
pany, member of Governor Harry
G. Leslie's state unemployment re-
lief commission, started the lumber
buying as a means to stimulate
business and induced the Showers
firm to follow suit, as did the
Kroehler Manufacturing Company
of Chicago, which bought 100000
feet.
Stimulation Intended
In discussing the Showers trans
action, John Sutphin, the COM
pany's purchasing agent, declared:
I'VE believe that this ordsr will
have the beneficial effect of lend
ing confidence to other furniture
factories to open up with buying
and that the general industry will
be strengthened by our action"
At Evansville, increased produc-
ton of furniture was planned at a
meeting of factory statesmen and re-
tail dealers.
Other encouraging developments
during the week included resump-
ton of full operations at the Lafay-
cite Box Board Company plant after
a ten-day period of idleness.
Lower Vein Mine No. 3, near
Terre Haute, idle more ~ than a
year, is to be reopened soon. giving
employment to seventy-one men at
the start and with monthly pay
roll of $4,000. In connection with
erection of a $4,000 plant at Terre
Haute for the American Can Com
pany, 1,000-foot levee will be
built along the Wabash river. Ma
chinery is now being installed in
the plant with the hope that it will
be ready for operation Jan. 1 or
soon thereafter.
Pottery Factory Planned
Robert L. Sodaker, Brazil business
man, has purchased a factory for
merly occupied by the Wood Turret
Lathe Machine Company, and soon
will convert it into a pottery plant.
Department store sales at Mar
ion increased nearly one-f1fth in
November over those in October,
executives of five stores announce.
Employment until about Jan. IS
is being given forty men at Peru
in the $35, 900 improvement work OF
the Indiana Bell Telephone Com
pany.
Officials of the Chevrolet Motor
Company have leased property at
FIT. Wayne for use as a Sub-aSSenl-
bly, plant for the commercial body
department, which will serve Indi-
ana and parts of Michigan and
Ohio. About twenty-five men will
be employed.
New Company at Radnor
The Great American Products
Company has been formed at Rad
nor for the manufacture of devices
for control of liquid and vapor
pressure.
All units of a hog cholera serum
plant, except the biological, which
has been in operation at Zionsville
since 1913, will be moved by the
Pittman-Moore Company to Sioux
City, Ia, Feb. /.
Huntington Laboratories, Inc, has
moved into its new building at
Huntington. The structure cost
$4,000.
The firm of Schenker. Michel &
Weinstock, Inc, manufacturing
women's coats and suits, will be
moved to Gary from Chicago. It's
plant will employ 200 persons and
the annual pa roll will be at least
Aoonr mn