Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — ORDNANCE PLANT FOR WEST [ARTICLE]

ORDNANCE PLANT FOR WEST

U. S. Steel Will Build Big Factory for Government —To Make Artillery and Shells. New York, May 10. —The United States Steel corporation, at the request of the government, will a. ter into the manufacture of heavy artillery and projectiles in great quantities. In an announcement of the undertaking, Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the corporation, said that a manufacturing plant for the purpose would be constructed ,as speedilj - as practicable at the expense of the government on a site located in the interior of the country. Whether it will be near Chicago, in the Gary district, is not known. The work will be in charge of a committee of steel officials who will receive no compensation.