The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
S175,OOO WILL
Be SPENT TO
EQUIP PLANT
Indiana Service Company
at Marion Announces
Program.
100000 GOAL SET
Showers Furniture Plant
Officials Plan for
Greater Volume.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
state Editor. The Times

state Editor. The Times
Among outstanding developments
of the week in Indiana industry
was announcement that $4,000
will be spent at Marion in equipping
the new $4,000 building of the In
diana General Service Company,
producer Of electricity.
This work will complete the third
and final stage of placing all
electric service in Marion under
automatic control. The improve
ments will increase the output of
the plant from capacity of 10000
kilowatts to $4,000
Stockholders of the Showers
Brothers Furniture Company, meet
ing at Bloomington, were told by
officials that it is probable the COM
pany will be on a basis of capacity
production by June 80, with
anticipated sales for the year set at
100000, an increase of $1,000, 900
over 1929.
All Factories Working
Industry at Anderson shows a
marked improvement, with every
plant except one, which is working
four to five days, running on full
schedule and two small factories
using extra shifts. The only unem-
ployment problem affects men en-
gagged in construction work, as little
of that is being done in the city
this season.
Aladdin Industries, Inc, AleXan-
dria, has awarded a contract for a
plant addition 90 by $50 feet. When
the structure is completed, the cor
poration's shipping department, now
in Chicago. will be moved to Alex
andria. The unit will be Of fire.
proof construction.
Coincident with announcement
that the Indiana Limeston Com
pany, operating in the Bloomington
Bedford field, had received a thirty
six-car load order for use in con-
struction of the Potomac Power and
Light Company building at Wash
ington, stone company officials said
that limestone now constitutes 81
per cent of all building stone
shipped in the United States.
The Greenfield Chamber of Com
merce, aided by more than 200
residents of the city, financed build
ing of a factory structure with floor
space of 1900 square feet to be &C
cupied by a garment making con-
Germ headed by Max Friedman, New
York. The building cost $40, 900, and
constitutes part of the chambers
plan for industrial expansion in
Greenfield.
Railroad to Be Improved
Forty car loads of steel rails have
arrived for use in improving the
Central Indiana railroad line be-
tween Anderson and Lebanon,
through Noblesville. When track
replacing is completed, three new
locomotives will be put into use.
With completion of rebuilding a
stack at the Gary works of the Illi-
nois Steel Company, preparations
we're made for the same work on
another stack. One rebuilt furnace
now has a capacity of 1000 tons of
pig iron daily. Nine of the twelve
furnaces comprising the works are
in operation.
A $4,000 addition is being built
at the plant of the E. B. Lanman
Company, East Chicago, manufac-
turer of bolts, nuts and washers.
At South Bend, excavation has
been started for the twelve-story
Hoffman hotel which is to be con-
nected with Hotel La Sale by a
bridge.
Manufacture of baby carriages
will be added to the activities of
the Waters & Portman factory at
Kendallville, necesSitating an in
crease of twenty-five in the work
ing force.
Officials of several Elkhart in
dustrieS express a belief that the
business slump Of the past several
months is at an end and cite a
gradual increase in orders in the
past few weeks as the basis for
their opinions.
Leaders Optimistic
Among officials subscribing to the
optimistic outlook are those of the
Chicago Telephone Supply Com
pany, which has increased its force
800 in the last three weeks; Henry
Weis Manufacturing Company,
Metal Forming Corporation, Elcar
Motor Company Buescher Band In
strument Company, American Coat
ing Mills, DR.. Miles Medical Com
pany and the Elkhart Packing Com
pany.
Building in South Bend during
April shows a gain of IS per cent
over March, on the basis of permits
issued. The April total was 1894, 900.
A new high gravity oil field Is to
be developed in the Terre Haute
section. according to Lucky Jim
Thomas, who, with associates. oper-
ates more than four hundred pro-
ducing oil and gas wells in Ken
lucky and Illinois. The section to
be developed is in Sullivan and Vigo
counties.