Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1933 — Page 7

JULY 3, 1933.

NEWS OF THE WEEK IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

CITY FURNITURE FIRMS REPORT BUSINESS GAIN Manufacturers Say Trade Is on Upgrade; Retail Increases Shown. A sharp increa.se In business in the last three months has been noticeable in the Indianapolis furniture manufacturing industry, and this has been reflected by a mod- j erate sales gain among representa- j tive local retail films, officials said today. In showing this business gain,! Indianapolis firms are keeping pace j with the burst of activity which the industry has shown in other centers, j with many factories working at ca- j parity in an effort to meet demands j of furniture buyers covering their requirements into late fall. The enthusiasm of furniture buy- ; ers is explained chiefly by the in- } crease in raw material and labor I costs, but the psychology note is j struck by H. T. Griffith, president of the Udell works, 1202 West Twen-ty-ninth street. Get Homes of Their Own “All during this depression." Griffith points out, “young married couples have been living with the parents of one or the other, and now' that some advance toward prosperity has been made they've started doing more than thinking about a home of their own." Griffith said that inventories generally are low, that, an improvement in the Udell business has been marked during the last six weeks, and that manufacturing casts are rising. The company has found it necessary to put on several new employes, Griffith said. One of the most notable business strides in the Indianapolis furniture manufacturing field is reported by the John J. Madden Manufacturing Company. 1600 North Sherman drive. Operates at Capacity The company is operating at capacity and has been doing so for three months, according to John Madden, president. Madden said | his company is "swamped with orders” and a full force of approximately 250 is at work. The Madden company has called back on a fulltime basis all its old employes who have been working short days or weeks. First business increase in a year was noted during May and June at the Emrich Furniture Company, 324 West Morris street, and a gain is reported by the Lindeman Wood Finish Company, 1602 West Washington street, which is erecting a new warehouse, to be ready in thirty days. Otto P. De Luse, president of the Western Furniture Company, 1038 Madison avenue, is not as optimistic over the furniture business revival as are some of his contemporaries, but he said that his company has had a small but satisfactory business gain in the last ninety days. Prices Go Up The buying gain is not commen- j surate with the increase in lumber and raw material increases. DeLuse; said. He asserted he expected the j industrial recovery act would do ( much to correct the “starvation; w'ages” paid by southern manufac-j turers which have done much to re- j tard the industry’s recovery. New product prices at the factory are ranging from 10 to 40 per cent higher, a general survey of the manufacturing field indicates. While the majority of the lead- j ing Indianapolis retail furniture es- 1 tablishments report a slight increase 1 in business during the last thirty days, none have marked up prices on furniture on the floor. Whatever replacements were necessary rece,. have been at about a25 per j cent markup and mast houses have' received new price lists from sac- ] tories noting increases. Other Industries Gain Gains in the manufacturing and retail end of the furniture business have been reflected in the businer* of allied industries, such as the Indianapolis Paint and Color Company, the Lilly Varnish Company and the Indianapolis Varnish Company. W. I. Longsworth. general manager of the Lilly firm said several persons have been added to the pay roll, due to gain in business during the last sixty days. E. Ebner, president of the Indianapolis Varnish Company, also noted a marked business improvement and said several out-state furniture factories have boosted their varnish orders. Officails of the Indianapolis paint firm said majority of concerns with whom they do business are on a contract basis in lacquers, colors and stains, but that contract renewals probably would be on a higher scale because of higher costs, such as linseed oil. Shoe Tolish Trade Booms Despite the depression, the public has kept its shoes as well polished as in more prosperous times, according to an official at the Two-in-One-Shinola-Bixbv Corporation, 1437 West Morris street. Because of a big boom in white shoes this .season, the corporation has hired fifty additional workers. It was to aid in manufacture of white polish. It was stated that business has been good all through the lean years. WAGES TC BE BOOSTED Maple Furniture riant Will Give 10 Per Cent Increase. Bp Time* Special SOUTH ASHBURNHAM. Mass., July 3.—A 10 per cent increase in wages, effective Wednesday, was announced today by the W. F. Whitney Company, manufacturers of maple reproductions of early American furniture. "Our plant is operating full capacity,” J. P. Carney, treasurer of the company said. “In the last month we have increased our force and, If we go on the five-day week, as seems probable, we shall make a further increase of 20 per cent in employment* _

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Top: An outside view' of the police radio station. Center: An inside view, with Chief Mike Morrissey pointing out some of the equipment features. Below': A view of the bulletproof glass Installed to protect the operators against gangsters.

STEEL TESTED BY OLD TRICK Principle Used in Bending Tin or Wire Until It Breaks Employed. B.U Sri nice Service CHICAGO, July 3.—How' the old trick of bending a wire or a piece of tin back and forth until it finally breaks is used scientifically to test the strength of steel and other metals, was described before the meeting of the American Society for Testing Materials here. Professor H. F. Moore and H. B. Wishart of the University of Illinois told of anew method for determining the endurance limit of samples of rail steel arid similar metals. Short strips of the metal are placed in a machine that will bend them back and forth 1,500 times a minute. The machine is left running all night, so that by morning the samples have been put through 1,400.000 cycles of bending. In the morning the samples are taken out and put in other machines that pull them until they break, at the same time measuring the tension necessary to pull them in two. Really good metals often have their tensile strength actually increased by the long siege of bending back and forth. But hidden flaw's or faults in the metal will start cracks, and the sample either will be found broken at the end of its back-and-forth bending ordeal, or will pull in two | relatively easily in the tension maI chine. HUGE ORDER RECEIVED 500.000 Pounds of Aluminum Foil Will line Beer Caps. Bp Time* Special PITTSBURGH. July 3—The ! Aluminum Company of America has received an order to manufacture : 500.000 pounds of aluminum foil for j lining beer bottle caps at its New j Kensington works in Pittsburgh. I The order w'as placed by the Crown j Cork and Seal Company of Balti- | more. With the foil being as thin as tis- ! sue paper and one pound making a I strip more than half a block long, i astute statisticians of the aluminum j company figure that if the entire ! amount were connected in a single j strip it would reach around the 1 earth one and one-third times. OPENS REALTY FIRM ! Frank L. Martino Will Deal in Business and Residence Property. The progress Realty Company, I operating a brokerage business on residence and business properties, has been opened by Frank L. Martino, Indianapolis attorney. His son. Fiank L. Martino Jr., will be I associated with him. Offices are at ; 711 Illinois building.

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Bullet-Proof Glass Placed to Protect Operators Against Gangsters. Little chance is given gangsters to cripple the Indianapolis police broadcasting station, as a precaution against police interference in a bank raid or important holdup. Every effort has been made to protect the operator and radio apparatus in Willard park by surroundng it with a barbed wire fence seven feet high. To gain admittance, a bell is rung, and the visitor must identify himself properly by explanation through a microphone. Earl Evans of the Perfection Windshield Company, Indianapolis, recently Installed bulletproof glass in all the station windows. In the event that the electric power should fail or be cut off, an emergency power plant automatically starts and supplies necessary current. Efficiency Is Displayed Indianapolis only recently was given a graphic illustration of the efficiency of the police radio system when a chlorine gas outbreak at the Tripp warehouse, 1000 East New York street, sent two-score persons to hospitals. Through use of the radio, all police cars were mobilized at the scene of the accident and in fifty minutes all the gas victims w r ere in the hospital, and the leaking chlorine tank had been removed and placed under w'ater. The Indianapolis police broadcasting station is regarded as among the most efficient in the United States and w r as the fourth in existence. System Started in 1929 The first local broadcasting system was installed in the Knights of Pythias building in 1929, but this was removed to Willard park w’hen $12,000 was made available by public subscription for new equipment, and the first broadcast from Willard was made in 1931. Police Captain Robert L. Batts, nationally recognized radio engineer, w'ho aided in constructing the world’s first police radio system at Detroit, built the Indianapolis system. He saved the city $30,000. It is estimated, by supervising the building of all equipment, including the police car receiving sets. When an emergency telephone call is received at central police station, it is relayed to the radio station and then broadcast to police

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CAPITOL PLAZA IS NEM FINISH Gigantic Building Program Soon to Be Commpleted in Washington, Bp Time* Special WASHINGTON, July 3.—The vast Capitol plaza development program, including the stately supreme court building, is nearing completion. It w'ould be practically completed should $5,000,000 be forthcoming from the public works fund for an annex to the Congressional Library. The plaza now' contains the house and senate office buildings, the recently completed annex to the house office building and the supreme court structure. Should the annex be completed, but one item on the program would be left—extension of the central section of the Capitol building into the plaza. This extension was contained in plans for the Capitol after the house and senate wings w'ere built. At present the great Capitol dome practically overhangs the east portico. Speeds Glass Output Bp Time* Special PITTSBURGH, July 3.—Full operation of ten furnaces of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company at Ford City, Pa., is scheduled for July 5, the company announces. cruising squads. There are fiftynine of these cars, each equipped with a number and assigned definite territory to cover. The average time from the moment of the call until the police car reaches the designated point of trouble is less than three minutes. Recently, Chief Mike Morrissey was riding in a police radio car w'hen a message came to watch fv a stolen auto. The license number w'as given, and the car in front of the chief was the stolen one. Less than ten minutes after the machine was stolen, it was recovered and the thief w'as in jail.

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FAIR IS SPUR TO INDUSTRY ANDBUSINESS Hundreds of Men Helped to Jobs: Trade Increases: Rail Travel Booms. Bp Time* Special CHICAGO. July 3.—With passenger traffic by rail, air and water doubled, and in some instances tripled, since the opening of the Chicago world's fair, thousands of additional workers have been placed on the payrolls of transportation agencies throughout the United States, it was revealed today in a comprehensive survey. Virtually every railroad line serving Chicago from all parts of the United States is operating special trains and extra sections on regular schedules. For the first time in months, traffic managers are facing difficult problems in getting adequate equipment to handle Increased business. This passenger travel increase, together with increased freight traffic, has resulted in the recalling of thousands of workers to railroad shops, yards and depots, as well as additions to train crews. Helps Air and Lake Travel The same situation prevails with motor coach lines, air lines, and Great Lake steamship lines, sharing in the ever-increasing World’s Fair travel. So great are the passenger lists for Great Lakes vessels that several ships, out of service for months, some for years, are being placed in service. One Great Lakes Steamship official predicts, with a great deal of certainty, that the port of Chicago passenger lists this summeer will exceed those of Atlantic seaports, including New York City. While Chicago is the focal point of this great activity in the transportation world, the huge benefits being derived affect business volume throughout the United States, perhaps even more than in Chicago. Many Get Work In addition to added employment provided railroad workers, motor coach lines daily are increasing pay rolls, with additional drivers and porters to handle extra sections on the regular schedules, while lake steamship lines are employing whole ship crews to man the additional vessels being put back into service. Air lines are finding it necessary to use a greater number of pilots and mechanics to handle increased air travel. The influx of automobiles from every state in the Union to Chicago has resulted in a profitable business throughout the nation for gasoline filling stations, hotels, restaurants, tourist camps and merchants. Wholesale houses all over the country have been pressed for supplies for all forms of transportation, together "with increased local business brought about by travel through the various cities. Merchants Are Benefited Merchants at the point of origin of world’s fair visitors are experiencing substantial increases in business. as the prospective fair visitors outfit themselves with new clothing and other personal effects to attend the fair. The number of new automobiles which arrive in Chicago daily from every state in the Union indicate anew buying spurt in the motor vehicle field. Exposition visitors in large numbers are purchasing new cars to drive to the fair. This new buying spurt already has been reflected in the automotive business, since auto manufacturing plants have been increasing payrolls substantially during the last thirty days. In the Chicago terminal district of the New York Central, approximately 300 men have been put back to work since June 1. In addition, increased working days of approximately 1,000 employes amount to three and a half days a month. ‘

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INDIANA TENTH i IN STATE ROAD MAINTENANCE 90 Per Cent Concrete Laid, Highway Officials' Report Shows. Less than a third, or 116.455 miles, of the 372.661 in the highway systems of the forty-eight states had been improved completely Jan. 1. This road work was divided as follows : Trpe Mile* Concrete ”,<;© Bituminous concrete S.Oll Bituminous micacam IS. IBO Brick anti other block Other misreiianeous It pcs K.O’S These figures are revealed in a rerent issue of American Highways, official magazine of the American Association of State Highway Officials. Indiana Is Tenth Indiana, with a total of 3.797 miles of completed roads, ranks tenth among the states in road improvement programs. Standing ahead of tins state are Illinois. lowa. Michigan. New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin. The Indiana pavement consists of 3.430 miles of concrete and 367 miles of other types. Indiana stands well to the front in concrete construction, the per cent of concrete being 90 compared to 67 in the entire country. Illinois leads with the greatest mileage, 11,173 miles of concrete pavement or 97 per cent of its total hard surfaced roads, and lowa leads with the highest per cent of concrete, 99 per cent or 4.107 miles. Roads completed in 1932 totaled 9,357 miles of which 7,344 were concrete. The percentage of concrete for the year was 79. Indiana built 438 miles of concrete and seven miles of other types, or 98 per cent of concrete. Maintenance Figures Notv motorists, as well as highway officials, are studying maintenance figures, which throw' considerable light upon the success of various types of surfaces. A summary of surface maintenance casts taken from the detailed records of ten state highway departments for several years shows average maintenance costs a mile a year as follows: Concrete $121.73 Bituminous r.onerete 383.48 Bituminous macadam 498.60 Bituminous surface treated (Travel or macadam 1.072.83 In Indiana these costs, for a fiveyear average, are: Concrete, $2Ol ;\ bituminous concrete. $428; bituminous macadam, $489 and surface treated water bound macadam, gravel, stone and bituminous retread, $704.