Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1940 — Page 15

| WEDNESDAY, oC. 2,

1940

SCHWITZER MOVE DUE NEXT MONTH

WPA to Leave National Motors Building by Oct. 31; New Addition Nearly Finished; Floor Space to Be Doubled.

The Schwitzer-Cummins Co. expects to begin operations in its newly-acquired National Motors Building, 22d and Yandes Sts., early next month, President Louis Schwitzer

said today. The building, acquired at a receiver's sale Friday, now houses the Indianapolis district offices of the WPA and other relief agencies under a lease which does not expire

until Oct. 31.

However, Mr. Schwitzer said he hopes to be able to take over and start moving machinery into a part of the building within the next three weeks or SO. The new build- _ ing, with its 242, 000 square feat of floor space, and a 30,003 square - foot addition under way at the firm's present automotive division plant, 1125 Massachusetts Ave. Mr. Schwitzer will more than double the present 200,000 square feet and provide space badly needed for expansion. The addition, scheduled to be completed and in operation by the end of November, will house ma- - chinery for turning out a Government defense order of nearly $2,000,000. for artillery ammunition components. Company officials declined to reveal the nature of the contract but it presumably is for the manufacture of shell casings and similar munitions equipment.

3 Divisions to Be Moved

As soon at the National Motors -building is available, Mr. Schwitzer said, the firm's stoker, blower and furnace divisions will be moved into it. The automotive division will remain in its present quarters. The company employes about 1000 skilled and semi-skilled workmen at present, and this number will be increased by several hundred: within the next few months. With the additional space, the company will be able to accept further defense orders. The $2,000,000 artillery ammunition components contract announced in Washington last week is the first direct defense order received by the Schwitzer-Cum-mins Co. since the armament program was started. However, the company has been doing its part in the program through use of its regular products by other firms holding government contracts, and by doing engineering work on Army and Navy mechanized equipment. On Advisory Board Mr. Schwitzer, nationally recognized as an engineer, is a member of the U. S. Army Advisory Board for the engineering of mechanized equipment. He is one of the three members of the Board's committee

to co-ordinate standardization of |

Army engine equipment. The manufacture of stokers

represents about a third of ‘the | 3 company's business and it is turn-

ing out more that 150 stokers a day. By now, neartly 100,000 of its stokers. are in operation throughout ‘the United States and the world. About 40 per cent of its products

CITY MAY GET AIRPORT FUNDS

$360,000 Tentatively Set “Aside; Runways Would Be Extended.

The Indianapolis Municipal Airport is tentatively scheduled to re-

lotment of nearly $7,000,000 in Federal funds for airport construction

“land expansion.

Under the nation-wide civil airport program, in which $521,000,000 will be spent in the next few years, civil air fields are to. receive their tentative allotments in order of their military importance. For this reason, it is believed that the allotment to Indianapolis will be among the first to be actually spent. Both Army and Navy officials have surveyed the local airport as a prospective site for flying schools and training bases.

Runways, to Be Extended

If and when the $360,000 is made available, the funds will be used largely to extend runways, I. J (Nish) Dienhart, airport superintendent said. Congress appropriated $80,000,000 to start the program during the current fiscal year under the direction of the Civil Aeronautics Board. But the Board has made no decision on which projects will be started soon or which will be deferred.

$457,000 to Gary

Army and Navy recommendations will have much weight in determining priorities, since the¢ airports will be designed to provide intermediate fields suitable to military uses as well as to assist civil avia=~ tion. The largest tentative allotment in the state is destined for Gary-Ham-mond airport. - It totals $457,000. Next highest is $399,500 alloted to Ft. Wayne. Others in the tentative list for Indiana follow:

Anderson, S158: 000; a 8% 0 oe 000, Auburn, $10,000; Aurora, 0; Bedford, $50.000; ati on, ton, $10.00; Brookville, ville, $10 (two 10.000; 0 on. as Connersville, $155,000; ela 000; Decatur, $10,000: 000° Elkhart-Mishawaka, $170,0 $10.000; Evansville, 35, $7000; = Franklin, $15,000; Fren $1000- Goshen, $155,000; Greenfield, $7000. Greensburg, $155,000; Greencastle. $155, - 9003 Hartford iCty. $10, : Huntington, 7000: Huntingburg, {198-000 Jasner, $10.060: Kendallville, $50, . _ Kokomo, $165,000: La Porte, 5,000; Lafayette, $249,500; Lebanon, 12,000: Logansport, $155,000; Lowell, $10,000: son, $155,00: Martinsville, Sto p00 i 000; Michigan City. $155.000; Monticelio. $10,000; Muncie, $173,000; North Men chester, $50,000: Now Albany, $160.0

New Castle, North Vernon,

Portland;

Bend. $10.000: Terre Bate $155.000: = Vincennes, 000: s $10,000. Warsaw, $50.000; Washington, $8000; Winchester, $10.000.

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BELLE GUNNESS CASE

SHERIFF DIES AT 74

LA PORTE, Ind.,.Oct. 2 (U. P.).— Funeral services will -be held tomorrow for Albert F. Smutzer, 74, Sheriff of La Porte County in 1903 during the prolonged investigation of the disappearance of Mrs. Belle Gunness after she had been accused of 14 murders. Mr. Smutzer died in Holy Family hospital yesterday after a long ill-

ness. He directed a lengthy search for Mrs. Gunness who disappeared after fire destroyed her home. She was accused of slaying 14 men from various part of the United States, who came to her home in answer to “matrimonial advertisements” inserted in magazines and newspapers.

DETROIT, Oct. 2 (U. P)).—Common Pleas Judge Robert Sage, 41, a one-time lumberjack and prizefighter, who was reported toc have

killed a business partner and seri-

ously wounded two men last night, was a fugitive today. In Judge Sage's office in the Wayne (Detroit) County Building, the four men were discussing disposing of their athletic field which they were having difficulty in operating. Police Inspector John Whitman said that two partners argued violently. Judge Sage suddenly took a pistol from his desk, announced he was going to be a “pacifier,” and fired, according to Maurice Smiley, 56, one of the attorneys. Ralph Nadel, 48, who sat at the desk facing the: judge, was killed almost instantiy. Mr. Smiley was wounded in the shoulder as he started to leave the room. Mr. Nadel's brother, Alfred, 39. was hit in the chest. Two other shots struck the ceiling. Judge Sage fled in his shirt sleeves. He stopped at a bar for a drink, then disappeared.

CHICAGO MILK PRICE UP A CENT IN STORES

CHICAGO, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—The price of milk sold in stores was up one cent a quart today in the Chicago area. Officials of major dairies said the increase was the result of a wage settlement with drivers. The increase brought the price to 91: cents per quart. Home deliveries of quarters were exempt from the increase, the price to remain 13 cents. The price on home delivered gallons was increased 4 cents to 44 cents and the price on half gallons

one cent to 23 cents.

Trapped 2 Hours by Blast, Hoosier Miners Rescued

EVANSVILLE, Ind. Oct. 2 (U. P.). —Two Boonville coal miners, res-

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cued from the Decker Shaft Coal{surface. Daugherty was pinned in

Mine near Boonville late yesterday after being trapped for nearly two hours by an explosion, were in fair

condition in local hospitals today. They were Oscar Decker, 40, owner of the mine, and Wavy Daugherty, 43, an employee. Both

the wrecked cage by falling debris. More than 200 volunteer rescue workers commandeered rope from throughout the county, made a makeshift cage from a barrel, and took turns dropping into the mine in an attempt. to evacuate the men.

suffered lacerations, bruises and Fumes made it impossible for them

shock. The two men had placed charges of explosives in the mine and were ascending to the surface in the mine cage when the powder exploded prematurely. The blast hurled the cage! to the top of the 125-foot shaft. Then the cage dropped to the bottom of the mine, -

to remain in. the mine for more than a few minutes at a time. Daugherty was pulled out after 90 minutes while Decker was rescued 45 minutes later. Both were rushed to Evansville hospitals. The mine shaft and tipple were damaged badly but no estimate of

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