JANUARY 25, 1939 Volume 55 : Number 1
Year of Great Industrial Expansion >een R. C. A.'s New Addition, International foundry unit, and organization of the Philco Re Harvester's Foundry Unit and Philco frigerator Company and plans to enlarge produc Refrigerator Expansion Promise In tion at the recently acquired Fairbanks, Morse & Company plant. creased Employment and Payrolls.
Developments of the last sixty days give prom Big Addition to R. C. A. Plant ise that 1939 will be a period of the greatest indus To Give Employment to L000 trial expansion Indianapolis has enjoyed for many Employment for 1,000 additional workers and a years. Chamber of Commerce officials are confident $1,000,000 increase in payrolls are assured with the that if business continues its upward trend new recent announcement by J. M. Smith, vice-president industries acquired within the last year and estab in charge of Indianapolis operations for the R. C. A. lished industries that have enlarged or are expand Manufacturing Company, of plans for immediate ing plants, equipment and operations will provide construction of a large addition to the local plant at employment for at least 5,000 additional workers 501 North LaSalle street. and add approximately $5,000,000 to the city's in The new structure, Mr. Smith stated, will be of dustrial payrolls. one story, 400 feet long and 250 feet wide, and will Latest industrial developments are announce be built on the north side of the present building. ments of the immediate construction of a large ad It will provide 100,000 square feet of additional floor dition to the R. C. A. Manufacturing Company's space, which will give R. C. A. a total of 260,000 plant, which will mean a large increase in employ square feet of space for its manufacturing activities ment and payrolls; plans for increasing production in Indianapolis. The new building is to be completed and employment at the International Harvester by June. Company's plant with the completion of the new (Turn to Page 7) Seven Directors Added to Chamber's Board Plans for an expanded program of activity by the Edward B. Raub, president of the Indianapolis Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce in 1939, which Life Insurance Company. were first developed with the creation of two addi Russell S. Williams, president of Gaseteria, Inc. tional vice-presidencies in December, were carried The Board of Directors adopted an amendment to further with the election of seven additional direc the by-laws of the Chamber providing that all elect tors at the meeting of the Board of Directors Janu ed officers and the three immediate past presidents ary 12. The new directors are: be ex-officio members of the Board and that addi tional directors be elected to serve during the period Everett E. Allison, Steinhart Grain Company. while they are ex-officio members. Seven vacancies Dr. Norman M. Beatty, practicing physician. thus were created, and a special nominating com Joseph M. Bloch, secretary-treasurer and general mittee, of which George S. Olive was chairman, was manager of the Gibson Company. appointed to nominate the additional directors. The names submitted by the committee then were rati Henry Holt, resident partner of Thomson & Mc- fied by the Board. Kinnon. The new directors will serve one-year terms.. H. C. Krannert, president and treasurer of the In Their election brings the total membership of the land Container Corporation. Board to twenty-eight. crfcfticffr&rid. OF THE INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMPLETE ROSTER OF 1939 COMMITTEES OF f CHAMBER OF COMMERCE |
A GIt 10 U LT l RA I- COM3IITTEE CIVIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION Paul G. Moffott. Chairman, Dandy Trail Road. COMMITTEE Kenneth V. .Smith, Vice-Chairman, Armour & William Fortune. Chairman. R. D. MacDaniel, Chairman, Grain Dealers Na Company. Louis J. Borinstein, Vice-Chairman. tional Mutual Fire Ins. Co. Horace E. Abbott, Marion County Agricultural Roy E. Adams, J. D. Adams Mfg. Company. Parke A. Cooling, Vlco-Chairman, Cooling Agent. J. W. Atherton. Grumme-Mum ford Company. E. B. Allison, Steinhart Grain Co. IT. C. Atkins, E. C. Atkins & Company. C. C. Bose, Indiana Bell Telephone Company. E. J. Barker, Standard Life Insurance Co. W. IT. Atteberry, Sun Life Assurance Co. of A. J. Callaway, Graybar Electric Company. E. Clifford Barrett, Evans Milling Co. Canada. William J. Curran, Supt., Indianapolis Salvag John A. Brookbank, International Harvester Co. Frederic- M. Ayres. L. S. Ayres
Will Be Made Members of "Staff of award will be made to a representative of his fam Honor" at Inaugural Dinner February 3 ily. —Order Founded to Recognize Note C. D. Alexander, president of the Chamber, will preside at the dinner, and Alexander Thomson, worthy Contributions to City's Welfare. chairman of the Champion Paper and Fibre Com pany, Hamilton, Ohio, will confer the medals and , Ten outstanding citizens of Indianapolis, all wide citations. Mr. Thomson is a director of the Cham ly known for disinterested and distinguished civic ber of Commerce of the United States and of the services to their home city, will be honored at the National Association of Manufacturers and was inaugural dinner of the "Staff of Honor of Indian- until recently president of the Ohio State Chamber ' apolis," to be held Friday evening, February 3, in of Commerce. the Riley room of the Claypool Hotel. Members of the families of the ten men to be The Staff of Honor is an order established by an honored will be special guests, and all members of "Honor Committee," composed of representatives the Chamber of Commerce and their families have of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and other been invited. Invitations also have been extended 'organizations of the city, for the purpose of honor to members of luncheon and service clubs of the ing, once each year, a group of Indianapolis men city. whose unselfish contributions to the welfare of the community are deemed worthy of special recogni Borinstein Chosen Official of tion by the whole city. The men selected will be made members of the Staff of Honor, at an annual Iron and Steel Institute ceremony. Louis J. Borinstein, of the firm of A. Borinstein, The Honor Committee announced the names of wholesale dealers in iron, steel and metals, recently the men to be so honored this year after many was elected vice-president of the Institute of Scrap weeks of careful study of a list of men deemed Iron and Steel at the organization's annual conven eligible. The qualifications for the honor are that tion in St. Louis. He became a member of the na the recipients must have attained the age of sev tional board of directors of the institute in 1933 enty-five and have done something noteworthy for and a member of the institute's executive committee the city that is quite apart from their business or in 1936. He served as director at large last year professional achievements. and, as chairman of its legislative committee, pre The ten men selected for the honor the first year sented a resume of national and state legislative is are: sues affecting business at the St. Louis convention. Arthur V. Brown Mr. Borinstein, who served five successive terms Hilton U. Brown as president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com William H. Coleman merce, from 1931 to 1935, and is a member of the James W. Fesler board of directors, is a member of the City Plan William Fortune Commission. He also has served on the Marion The Rev. Matthias L. Haines, D. D. County Tax Adjustment Board, and has been active Josiah K. Lilly many years in business and civic affairs of the city. John F. White Evans Woollen News Story About H. L. Dithmer William J. Mooney, Sr. (Deceased) A recent issue of The Indianapolis News con Mr. Mooney died December 14, after having been tained a story concerning Henry L. Dithmer, presi designated as one of those to receive the honor, so dent of the Polar Ice & Fuel Company and a director this award will be made posthumously. and former president of the Chamber of Commerce, Each man in the group will be awarded a gold with his boyhood reminiscences as a carrier of the medal, symbolic of distinguished civic service to News. The story, accompanied by a picture of Mr. Indianapolis, accompanied by an appropriate citation Dithmer, was one of a series about former News on parchment and a statement outlining his ser carriers who have become prominent in the busi vices to the community. In Mr. Mooney's case, the ness, professional and civic life of Indianapolis. OF THE INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER OF COMMERC crictfopfc&Si ^
W. 15. Talbott, Brook's. .1. E. Fehsenfeld. Crystal Flash Petroleum Ctt Committees for 1939 F. E. Thornburgh, Richman's Clothes. poration. Walter J. Twlnome, Sentinel Printing Co. Roy E. Hickman, Hickman Oldsmobile, Incl (Continued from Page 2) Erwin G. Vonnegut, Vonnegut Hardware Co. A. F. Hook, Hook Drug Company. Charles L. Walker, Chas. Walker Dry Cleaners. Herbert It. Johnson. Socony-Vacuum Oil rj JUNIOR CHAMBER OK COMMERCE Ralph C. Werner, Werner & Slupesky. M. M. Jones. Michigan Mutual Liability Co. E COMMITTEE E. J. Wuensch. Indianapolis Bond & Share Harry K. Jung, Bamboo Inn. C. D, Alexander, Chairman, Bemls Bro. Bag Corporation. I). M. Klausmeycr, Chevrolet Commercial P'j^T Company. Division. John Bruhn, Indianapolis Water Company. NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE H. E. Komitch, Prest-O-Llto Storage Batti X Fletcher S. Hubbard, Better Business Bureau. Corp. Marry T. Ieo, Matson, Ross, McCord & Clif Frank Montrose, Chairman. Indiana Dell Tele W. M. McPherson, Russet Cafeteria. ford. phone Company. George J. Marott, Marott Hotel. Paul Li. MeCord, Paul L. McCord Company. Harry M. .Martin, Vice-Chairman, Travelers In A. D. Miller. Gulf Refining Company. George S, olive, Geo. S. Olive ft Company. surance Company. B. K. Moreland, Canary Cottage. Evan B. Walker, Indianapolis Railways, Inc. J. W. Atherton. W. D. Ramsey, Shell Petroleum Corp. Edward Zink, Eli Lilly & Company. Joe Rand Beckett. Charles A. Reeve, Ballard Ice Cream Co. Frank L. Binford, Burnet-Binford Lumber Co. Paul Richey, Promotion Appraisals. MANUFACTURERS COMMITTEE James W. Carr, James Whitcomb Riley Memo P. E. Rupprecht, Lincoln Hotel. rial Assn. Louis Slicer, D-A Lubricant Company. S. C. Wasson, Chairman, National Malleable ft E. M. Chellew. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. C. E. Stoutenbcrg, United States Rubber Co Steel Castings Co. Charles M. Crippin. C. B. Crippin & Son, Inc. Alex Taggart, Jr., T & T Baking Company. Brodehurst Elsey, Vice-Chairman, Indianapolis Burford Banner, Wm. B. Burford Printing Co. Carl IT. Wallerich. C. H. Wallerich Company Clove Co. Col. J. H. Davidson, Fort Benjamin Harrison. W. IT. Wells, Severin Hotel. I-\ W. Abke, Standard Nut Margarine Co. Bowman Elder. Russell S. Williams, Gaseteria. Inc. Donald W. Alexander, Stewart-Warner Cor Russell Fortune. L. E. Yuncker, Coca-Cola Bottling Company poration. Otto N. Frenzel. Jr., Merchants National Bank. Carl N. Angst. Pitman-Moore Company. D. I. Glossbrenner, Marmon-Herrington Co. STATE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE William B. Ansted, Metal Auto Parts Co. Neal Grider, Peoples State Bank. William Baum. Heal Silk Hosiery Mills. ("apt. O. F. Hcslar, U. S. Naval Armory. Nicholas IT. Noyes, Chairman, Eli Lilly & Co CO R. Norman Baxter, Baxter Steel Equipment George Hilgemeier. Jr.. Frank Hilgemeier ft S. B. Walker. Vice-Chairman, Wm. H. Blc Co. Bro., Inc. Company. Garvin M. Brown, Indianapolis Stove Company. Arthur M. Mood. Howard C. Binkley, Bankers Trust Company I Joseph E. Cain, P. R. Mallory & Co., Inc. Jackiel W. Joseph. G. M. Bockstahler, Indianapolis Belting & Su G. L. Can field, Basca Manufacturing Co. V. I.. Krannert, Inland Container Corporation. ply Co. James II. Carnine, Engineering Metal Products Howard J. Dacy, Jr., U. S. Corrugated Fiber C. Harvey Bradley. W. J. Holliday & Co. Corp. Rox Co. Paul Buchanan. Planner & Buchanan. E. C. Carr, Federal Foundry Company. Wallace O. Lee, Indianapolis Power & Light Co. Fermor S. Cannon, Railroadmen's Federal Sa Nlles Chapman, Chapman-Price Steel Company. Eli Lilly, Eli Lilly & Company. ings A- Loan Assn. T. J, Cornwell, Peerless Foundry Co. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch. E. E. Crane. House of Crane. Stuart Dean, Dean Bros. Company. Felix M. McWhirter. Peoples State Bank. Smart Dean, Dean Bros. Company. Herbert R. Duckwall, Zonlte Metal Corporation. Brig. Gen. David T. Merrell, Fort Benjamin W. H. Deubener. Deubener Shopping Bag Co. Thomas A. Elder, Electric Steel Castings Co. Harrison. Walter R. Foltz, Allen A. Wilkinson Lumb R. C. Elliott, Standard Dry Kiln Company. Robert L. Moorhead. Bobbs-Merrill Company. Co. J. T. Meckel, Decker Products Corporation. DeWitt S. Morgan, Superintendent of Schools. J. P. Frenzel, Merchants National Bank. Frank TI. Illrschman, J. C. Hlrschman Co. H. T. Pritchard, Indianapolis Power ft Light A. II. Gisler, Kothe, Wells ft Bauer Co. Gilbert J. Hurty, Hurty-Peck ft Company. Company. Theodore B. Griffith, L. S. Ayres & Company, W. Paul Jones, Philco Refrigerator Company. Charles S. Rauh, Belt Railroad & Stock Yards George C. Grinsteiner, Commonwealth Loan C D. M. Klausmeycr, Chevrolet Commercial Body Co. Clarence ,1. Hill, R. W. Furnas Ice Cream C Division. Frank E. Samuel, American Degion. Fred Hoke, Holcomb ft Hoke Manufacture Company. p-i Henry V. Kobln, National Silk Hosiery Mills, Cnpt. W. C. Smith, Shell Petroleum Co. & Inc. J. B. Stokely, Stokely Bros. & Company. T. L. Kemp, Citizens Gas & Coke Utility. ' H. E. Komitch, Prest-O-Lite Stroage Battery Elmer W. Stout, American National Bank. Perry W. Lesh, C. P. Lesh Paper Company. TV Corp. Rimer F. Straub, Adjutant-General of Indiana. John A. Lindgren, Jr.. Atlantic & Pacific T< H. C. Krannert, Inland Container Corporation. William II. Trimble. Trimble Realty Corp. Co. ffl H. J. Dacy, IT. S. Corrugated Fiber Box Co. Col. F. IT. Turner, Indiana Military Area. H. R. Meeker, J. D. Adams Mfg. Company. M" Hlaine H. Miller, American Foundry Company. Walter Wolf. H. P. Wasson & Company. J. A. Mitchell, A. Burdsal Company. r, Jesse A. Mitchell, A. Burdsal Company. Louie Moller. Carter-Lee Lumber Company. ~* William P. Morton, Thos. I,. Green & Co. J. L. Mueller, Real Silk Hosiery Mills. „, Nicholas H. Noyes, Eli Lilly ft Company. NATIONAL LEGISLATION COMMITTEE R. B. Parrott, Service Products Co. *' John IT. Rati, Jr., Fairmount Glass Works. Felix M. McWhirter, Chairman, Peoples State Edw. W. Roesch. Hook Drug Company. Donald B. Shlmer, Indiana Excelsior Company. Bank. S. W. Shipnes, Sears, Roebuck it Company. 0. Byrom J. Smitli, Indianapolis Paint & Color Co. W. I. Longsworth, Vice-Chairman, Lilly Var I'yrom J. Smith, Indianapolis Paint & Cokq, John M. Smith, R. C. A. Manufacturing Co. nish Company. Company. o W. B Stokely, Jr., Stokely Bros. & Company. W. R. Adams, J. D. Adams Mfg. Company. J. M. Smith, R. C. A. Manufacturing Co. C. E. Stoutenbcrg, United States Rubber Co. C. N. Angst, Pitman-Moore Company. S. B. Sutphin, Beveridge Paper Company. H. N. Sweetman, Best Universal Dock Co. Samuel Ash by. S. C. Wasson, National Malleable and Stc G. A. Walnwrlght, Diamond Chain & Mfg. Co. Castings Co. U James S. Watson, Dink-Belt Company. Meier S. Block, Wm. H. Block Company. J. F. Carroll, Indiana Bell Telephone Company. James S. Watson, Link-Belt Company. _ E. J. Voting, Indianapolis Bleaching Co. C. E. Whitehill, Banner-Whitehill. 1 Karl R. Zlmmer, Zlmmer Paper Products. Russell Fortune. D. I. Glossbrenner, Marmon-Herrington Co. Evans Woollen. Fletcher Trust Company. W. D. Hamerstadt, Rockwood Manufacturing Albert L. Poller, Chas. Mayer ft Company. \i MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Co. Charles F. Zwick, Indianapolis Glove Co. Z. W. Leach, Chairman, Indiana Bell Telephone Ray Holcomb, Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Company. Co. h Robert Allison, AMce-Chairman, Allison Realty A. J. Hueber, A. J. Hueber & Company. WHOLESALE TRADE COMMITTEE Co. Omar S. Hunt, Marshall ft Huschart Machin Frank R. Weaver, Chairman, Hibben, Holhvi Joseph J. Argus, American Estates Company. ery Co. ft Co. A. E. Baker, Northwestern Mutual Insurance G. Barret Moxley, Kiefer-Stewart Company. Co. Oliver F. Shaw, Vice-Chairman, Renard Line Nicholas IT. Noyes, Mil Lilly & Company. leum ft Rug Co. -f- Earl A. Blithely, Blakely Granite Company. L George S. Olive, Geo. S. Olive & Company. James If. Ruddell, Vice-Chairman, Centr. Robert W. Bldlack. Blue Diamond Coal Co. John Rau, Jr., Fairmount Glass Works. Rubber ft Supply Co. i, Glen L. Campbell. Thomas D. Sheerln, Thos. D. Sheerin & Co. Clyde A. Bowers, Bowers Envelope ft Litlx L Clarence 10. Crlppln, C. E. Crippin & Son. Inc. William IT. Trimble, Trimble Realty Company. graph Co. Robert S. Dally, Clark Chemical Company. J. W. Walker, Northern Indiana Power Co. C. Harvey Bradley, W. J. Holliday ft Companj Henry L. Drake, Empire Life ft Accident In Russell L. White, AVhite Baking Company. A. J. Callaway, Graybar Electric Co. j surance Co. Paul E. Crane. House of Crane. T Robert S. Foster. R. S. Foster Lumber Co. PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE C. B. Crets, Van Camp Hardware ft Iron Co. G. G. Fry, Wash-Rite Laundry Co. 10. S. Dowling, Dilling ft Company. C T. A. Gllgrlst, Purity Bakeries Corp. Paul Richey, Chairman, Promotion Appraisals. M. IT. Feinberg, Indianapolis Machinery ft Stit Elbert Glass, Crown Laundry & Dry Cleaning Sam Freeman. Vice-Chairman, L. Strauss & Co. ply Co. € Co. Robert E. Bnusman, Station WIRE. 11. H. Ferguson, Kingan ft Company. , L. D. Glcason, Gleason's Home Made Pie Bak Howard C. Caldwell, Caldwell-Baker Company. Fred .F. Fox. Crescent Paper Company. I ery. Roscoe Clark. Eli Lilly & Company. E. M. Gass. The Gibson Company. Richard A. Graham, Graham Furniture Co. Charles M. Davis, L. S. Ayres & Company. Ernest M. Gates. Gates-Kopp Millinery Co. 1 W. P. Hartz. Umphrey & Hartz. .Maxwell Droke. L. D. Gleason, Gleason's Home Made Pie Bak Clarence J. Mill, R. W. Furnas Ice Cream Co. J. D. Hanna, General Outdoor Advertising Co. ery. \ H. D. Jehu, Blue Valley Creamery Co. Ernie Lundgren. Bozell & Jacobs, Inc. J. M. Haines, Stewart-Carey Glass Company. Frank If. Langsenkamp, Jr., F. II. Langsen- Frank Sharp. Station WFBM. E. W. Harris, Jr., Hamilton, Harris ft Co. ?J kaiup Co. Paul Watson, IT. P. Wasson & Company. C. C. Hicks, Hicks' Furniture Mart. Robert C. Maley, International Harvester Co. S. Carrol Kahn, Capital Paper Company. j James B. Marshall, Bowes Seal-Fast Corpora SPEEDWAY COMMITTEE Alex Katz, Max Katz Bag Company. tion. R. E. Kelly. Advance Paint Company. Virgil Martin, Community Fund. R. S. Norwood, Chairman, L. Strauss & Co. Perry W. Lesh. C. P. Lesh Paper Company. Cassatt Mart/.. O. B. Perine, Vice-Chairman, Perine Oil Re Thomas Madden, John J. Madden Mfg. Co. -i A. W. Metzger, Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. fining Co. A. Kiefer Mayer, Kiefer-Stewart Company. Allan C. Miller. Cinder Block ft Material Co. Ray Allen, Ford Motor Company. William J. Mooney, Jr., Mooney-Mueller-Wan . O. B. T'erlne, Perine Oil Refining Company. F. J. Barron, Standard Oil Company. Co. < Oren D. Pritchard. Union Central Dife Ins. Co. J. M. Bloch, The Gibson Company. Ralph Morris. The Udell Works. l The Riley. Grain Dealers National Mutual Fire Robert M. Bowes, Bowes Seal-Fast Corpora 10. A. Peterson, The George F. Cram Company ' Insurance Company. tion. Harper J. Ransburg. Harper J. Ransburg Co. . O. T. Roberts. E. J. Breech, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Silas B. Reagan, Baldwin-Miller Co. Frank C. Soverns, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Corp. George W. Stark, Stark ft Wetzel. Inc. Oliver F. Shaw, Hcnard Linoleum & Rug Co. R. D. Collins, Phillips Petroleum Company. Erwin G. Vonnegut, Vonnegut Hardware Co. Ira C. Strohm, Strohm Warehouse & Cartage George Cunningham. Claypool Hotel. Carl C. Weiland, Central Supply Company. Co. L. W. Dunham, Pure Oil Company. F. G. Weisenberger, Acme Mattress Co. '. 4 Ictf&fetntf&ed. OF THE INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Business Men United in Opposing Measures {That Would Boost State Expenditures Efforts Before General Assembly Are crease benefits of workmen's compensation. The Directed Toward Reducing State Bud proposed bill would very substantially increase the get and Preventing Higher Taxes and cost of workmen's compensation insurance. Retailers are pushing bills to reduce the gross in •o Further Restrictive Legislation. come tax rate applicable to retail gross income from y the present 1 per cent to one-half of 1 per cent. At With the 1939 session of the Indiana legislature a hearing on measures in this classification, a house ' now well under way, business men are particularly of representatives committee member suggested as .concerned over the following issues: to Balancing' of the state budget without now or increased an alternative that the law be changed to make it j taxes. obligatory on the retail merchant to pass this tax on The numerous hills that would increase faxes of local to the consumer. There are indications that such units of government. a proposal may receive serious consideration. ; Wage and hour limitation. Increase in workmen's compensation benefits and costs. Retailers, also, are particularly concerned over Amendments to the unemployment compensation act, the proposal to extend unemployment compensation n . involving reduced payroll taxes, extension of coverage to coverage to employers of fewer than eight em smaller employers, and disqualification for benefits of the ; employee who quits his job voluntarily without; cause ployees. To accept the proposal of one group that f. attributable to the employer. coverage be extended to all employers would increase c the number of employers covered from 10,000 to f Legislators have quite generally awakened to the over 80,000, and would create tremendous adminis gravity of the problem of state finances. It now is trative problems. rwell understood that the state is spending over $5,000,000 annually above its revenue, and that, be cause of the extraordinary expenditures authorized State Wage-Hour Bill Termed within the past two years, a general fund balance of $24,500,000 will be turned into a deficit by June More Drastic Than Federal Act le30, 1941. Addressing the Indiana Grain Dealers Associa In the face of this, special groups have offered tion at its recent annual convention, C. D. Alexan ' many bills that would increase state expenditures. der, president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com These include not only direct appropriations, but also merce, said that while the maximum hour provi larger grants-in-aid to local units for schools, for sions of the federal wage and hour law cause the highways and for welfare, and larger welfare costs greatest confusion in the act's application, the pro (through greater liberalization of old-age assistance. posed state wages and hour law would create even Countering these bills will be a determined effort greater confusion and complication for industry. . to reduce the state budget, and to defeat all other Mr. Alexander pointed out that the proposed state , bills that would increase state expenditures. law provides not only that overtime be paid for all The outstanding development of this session is over forty-four hours per week the first year, but the new spirit of unity among business men through that from the time the law would start operation out the state, which is giving real leadership to the overtime be paid for all over eight hours per day. 1 effort to reduce governmental costs and prevent "Keep that in mind," he told the association's higher taxes, and to prevent further restrictive leg members, "when you remember that this bill would islation against business. In every one of the nine- have no exemption for any type of employment I ty-two counties, business men are informing them which, because of peculiar conditions surrounding it selves on these issues, and expressing their views —such as grain elevators working overtime at har forcibly to their members of the legislature. vest time—finds it absolutely necessary to work The drastic eif ects of the state wage and hour bill longer than eight hours in one day or forty-four upon all types of business, especially in the rural hours in one week." 'areas, have been explained fully to members of the Mr. Alexander said employment and business in .legislature by group meetings in many communi the small towns and rural communities would un ties and otherwise. doubtedly be most greatly and adversely affected by Many business men attended a public hearing be wage or wages and hour legislation. fore the Senate labor committee on the bill to in- CrfCM>lft4kte4. OF THE INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE of the United Mortgage Company, Inc., mortga^ loans and real estate, 744 Consolidated building. D. Hatherly—Mr. Hatherly is manager of the ] r S. Royster Guano Company, manufacturers of ft, i * fM tilizers, 1850 West Raymond street. ., tur£&e& R. R. Heaton—Mr. Heaton is president of tl j ISSUED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PUBLIC Terminix Company of Indiana, termite control, 5^ RELATIONS COMMITTEE Architects & Builders building. ms Edwin C. Hurd—Mr. Hurd is a consulting el INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE be gineer, with offices at 1039 Architects & Builde;•F r "To make Indianapolis a better place in which to live, building. to work, to do business." Harold M. Jones—Mr. Jones is Indiana represent; * OFFICERS tive of the Michigan Mutual Liability Compan,- President CD. Alexander Vice-President Paul I. McCord 1126 Circle Tower. Vice-President George S. Olive Vice-President Edward Zink James A. Nickerson—Mr. Nickerson is vice-pres Treasurer James S. Rogan dent of the Bethard Wall Paper Company, 415 Ma;C STAFF Executive Vice-President William H. Book sachusetts avenue. {J Secretary and Industrial Commissioner Myron R. Green Protecksilk Hosiery Mills—The Protecksilk Ho; Director of Promotion and Extension Samuel Mueller Traffic Commissioner Harry B. McNeely iery Mills is engaged in the retail hosiery businesT lri DIRECTORS at 733 East North street. C. D. Alexander Paul L. McCord C E. E. Allison E. W. Harris Ralph S. Norwood L. B. Renner—Mr. Renner is vice-president t^ Dr. Norman M. Beatty Henry Holt George S. Olive 1 Joseph M. Bloch A. J. Hueber H. T. Pritchard Motor Express, Inc., of Indiana, 620 South Senal* Meier S. Block W. Paul Jones Edward B. Raub Louis J. Borinstein D. M. Klausmeyer Paul Richey avenue. ' Arthur V. Brown H. C Krannert James S. Rogan Joseph J, Daniels George A. Kuhn James H. Ruddell Ira Strohm—Mr. Strohm is president of tli Henry L. Dithmer P. R. Mallory Russell S. Williams Strohm Warehouse & Cartage Co., 230 West Mt Howard T. Griffith Edward Zink u Ex-OfficIo Member: William Fortune Carty street. U. M. Warmoth—Mr. Warmoth is owner of th Advertising Manager, O. T. ROBERTS Warmoth Engraving Company, 225 North New Jei^ Office: Chamber of Commerce Building 320 North Meridian Street Telephone, LI ncoln 1551 sey street. Subscription $1.00 per year; 15c copy R. R. Wickes—Mr. Wickes is manager of the In" As the official Bulletin of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, this publication carries authoritativo notices and articles in regard to the activities of the organization; in all other dianapolis Public Welfare Loan Association, 33i\J respects, it cannot be held responsible for expressions of writers. Occidental building. s
Introducing New Members of Symphony Orchestra Wins New Chamber of Commerce Laurels in Musical World c The following individuals and firms were admitted The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, whose rise * to membership in the Chamber of Commerce in De to fame under the baton of Fabien Sevitzky has beer1 cember, on action by the Chamber's Board of Di almost phenomenal in the musical world, has wor. ( rectors : new laurels in the last few weeks. ] Horace E. Abbott—Mr. Abbott is agricultural < Appearing Sunday, January 8, before a near- ' agent of Marion county, with offices on the fourth capacity audience in the Auditorium theater in Chi floor of the courthouse. cago under the auspices of Northwestern Univer Charles C. Babcock—Mr. Babcock is president- sity, the orchestra scored a musical triumph anc treasurer of the Thirtieth & Central Sales Company, won the acclaim of leaders in the city's music circlet automobile sales and service, 3009 Central avenue. and of music critics of Chicago newspapers. Dr. Norman M. Beatty—Dr. Beatty is a practicing On Sunday, January 22, the orchestra played for physician with offices at 710 Hume-Mansur building. the world-wide broadcast of the Magic Key of RCA Henry Brill—Mr. Brill is president of the Indiana program, with Lauritz Melchior, famous tenor of Tinware Company, 112 South Pennsylvania street. the Metropolitan Opera Company, as soloist. The S. A. Daugherty—Mr. Daugherty is treasurer of radio broadcast was sponsored by the Radio Cor the Central Public Warehouse & Cartage Company, poration of America in the interest of the R. C. A 601 Kentucky avenue. Manufacturing Company, the Kiefer-Stewart Com pany of Indianapolis and the Indiana distributors Wayne M. Harryman—Mr. Harryman is president of R. C. A. products. 6 crj4r>tu/-^e^ OF THE INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
:afeig Addition to R. C. A. Plant tures Philco radios. The Philco Refrigerator Com (Continued from Page 1) pany recently acquired the manufacturing rights - The company now employs 800 persons, and with and patents on the Conservador refrigerator from ^the addition of 1,000 to its payrolls, it will be one of Fairbanks, Morse & Company, and assumed control the largest employers of labor in Indianapolis. of the latter's Indianapolis plant January 2. The ^ It was stated that sound equipment will be manu entire plant, containing 212,000 square feet of floor factured in the new addition. The company is now space, and its facilities have been leased by the manufacturing all the sound equipment which is to Philco Refrigerator Company. ebe used at the New York World's Fair and the San Rearrangement of the plant is now under way, 'e;Francisco Exposition. and approximately $50,000 will be spent on new Indianapolis was selected for the addition in place machinery and equipment, which is expected to in lW Boston, Mass., which also was under considera crease production to several times more than the tion, it was said. peak production formerly attained by Fairbanks, Morse & Company. Manufacture of the new lines 1Q has been started and the new products will be shown '^Opening of Harvester Foundry to distributors and dealers at a national sales con Unit to Boost Employment vention in Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 16, 17 and 18. 0 Opening of the new foundry, latest unit of the Mr. Jones is a director of the Indianapolis Cham w5International Harvester Company, now nearing ber of Commerce and secretary of the Indianapolis completion, will increase employment at the plant Home Show. Since coming to Indianapolis three 'from the present figure of 1,300 to approximately years ago he has been actively identified with busi u3,50 0 if business maintains its upward trend, it was ness and civic activities in Indianapolis. stated recently by officials of the company. Instal- lation of $1,000,000 worth of equipment in the new Chamber Gives Assistance in unit is now under way. The foundry, in which castings for truck engines Promoting Meat Program will be manufactured, will be ready for full produc- The Chamber of Commerce co-operated with In ' tion by July, it was said. Castings are now being dianapolis meat packers and livestock interests in made at the company's plant in Rock Island, 111. arranging a meeting, held January 7 in the World The foundry structures here were built to provide War Memorial auditorium to promote the merchan for a production of 300 tons daily, but were planned dising and use of meats. Edward Zink, vice-presi so that additions can be made to bring the daily dent, directed the Chamber's activities in connection capacity up to 800 tons. with the program. K. V. Smith, general manager With the installation of the machinery completed, of the Indianapolis branch of Armour & Company, production is expected to be 650 motor castings a was chairman of arrangements. day, officials stated. Plants for the machining and P. A. Goeser, specialist of the National Live Stock assembly of motors have been in operation for some and Meat Board, Chicago, who is a national author time. The plant now has a capacity production of ity on meat merchandising, was the speaker. Ap 680 engines a day, but has been designed for ulti proximately 500 persons, including retail meat deal mate expansion to provide for the production of ers and their employes, dietitians in hospitals and 2,000 engines daily, officials said. other institutions, hotel stewards, domestic science With a steady increase in operations at the plant, teachers and other interested groups attended the ] employment has more than doubled since last July. meeting. i Philco Is Rearranging Plant Purdue Party to Aid Loan Fund The Purdue University Glee Club will give a pro For Increased Production gram at a dance to be sponsored by the Purdue As [ The industrial commission of the Chamber of sociation of Indianapolis and the Purdue Women's [ Commerce recently received announcement of the Club February 11 at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. ; organization of the Philco Refrigerator Company, The glee club, under the direction of Albert P. . a Delaware corporation and a subsidiary of the Stewart, will present a varied program, including , Philco Storage Battery Company, and of the election a novelty costume act. Louis Lowe, a Purdue gradu . of W. Paul Jones, of Indianapolis, as president of the ate, and his orchestra will provide music for the ; new organization. party, which is for the benefit of the university stu The Philco Storage Battery Company manufac dent loan fund. 7 4&tf>w>fced. OF THE INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER OF CO MMER'S*
Briefs About Indianapolis Business Men and Events
Sheerin on Utilities Board—Thomas D. Sheerin, of Thomas Peckham Heads Realtors' Unit.—Ralph E. Peckham, a m^ D. Sheerin & Company, investment brokers, 709 Fletcher her of the board of directors of the Indianapolis Real Es Trust building, recently was elected a member of the board Board, was elected chairman of the North Side Realtors, of trustees of the Indianapolis Utilities District for a three- vision of the Board, at a recent meeting. He succeeds ' year term. He was named by the other board members to liam L. Bridges. John W. Bobbins was elected vice-chair: fill the vacancy created by the death of Alfred M. Glossbren to succeed Fay C. Cash, and William G. Albershardt ner. A. D. Hitz, board vice-president, was named acting named secretary-treasurer, succeeding John H. Elam. president in the place of William J. Mooney, Sr., who died in division, which comprises twenty-eight real estate brol December. Other members of the board are Charles S. Rauh who specialize in the sale of North Side properties, last \ and Edward W. Harris. A successor to Mr. Mooney is yet exceeded its sales totals for 1937. p0 to be named. The trustees elect the directors of the utilities Joins Paul L. McCord Company—Announcement was ir.e \ district, who supervise operation of the Citizens Gas & Coke recently by Paul L. McCord, president of the Paul L. McC ,. Utility. Company, Indianapolis realty firm, of the appointment cv^1 Business Association Formed—The Thirty-fourth Street Raymond Bates to the organization's sales department, wlrgf and Central Avenue Business and Professional Men's Asso specializes in moderate-priced homes. Mr. Gates has bgll ciation was organized recently, with Charles L. Walker, of employed the last three years in the classified advertis the Walker Dry Cleaning Company, as president; B. F. Gates, department of The Indianapolis News. -av of the Gates Motor Sales Company, vice-president, and Dr. Udell Works Products at Show—Merchandise manufactir *• C. L. George, Sr., secretary and treasurer. Fourteen business in Indianapolis by the Udell Works was shipped to Chicidii interests are represented in the association, which was or January 10 for display at the national home furnishUfa ganized to promote business in that community. show, held through January 21 in the American Fur nit National Banks Show Gains—Shareholders of the three na Mart. Officials of the Udell Works who attended the shm tional banks in Indianapolis were informed at recent annual included Howard T. Griffith, president; R. D. Morris, viA meetings that the institutions ended the year 1938 with sub president in charge of sales; J. U. Myers, vice-president re stantial increases in total resources, while total deposits charge of production, and H. G. Roberts, Indiana represer reached new high records. Modest increases in net profits tive. S also were reported by all three banks. Zink Named to Y. M. C. A. Board—Fermor S. Cannon, pr
New Businesses, Expansions and Removals in Cit^)<
New Store for Daimer Bros.—A modern new store building ton business district, were announced recently by Fred Mil,- for Danner Brothers Co., Inc., is to be erected in Broad Rip of F. & J. Millis, Carmel, owners of the project, which p ple, it was announced recently with the sale and long term include a parking lot development. In one building the Gr.0 lease of the property at the southwest corner of Sixty-third Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company will operate a large retrj street and Carrollton avenue. The building will have a front grocery, and the other will be occupied by the Martha Wa age of forty-five feet in Sixty-third street and 130 feet in Car ington Candies Company. Both buildings will be of fireprv Benham & Munday, and Mr. Seiler formerly was associated Williams is president of Gaseteria, Inc.; Phil T. Williac with the Courier-Journal Printing Company, at Louisville, Ky. vice-president and manager, and Fay Wendling, secreta: Food Firm Organized—N. K. Hurst, formerly manager of In addition to its several service stations in Indianapo'.t the Indianapolis branch of the C. D. Kenny Company, has Gaseteria, Inc., has stations in several other Indiana citih organized the IT. K. Hurst Company, a food brokerage firm, and in Louisville and Lexington, Ky. , with offices in the Coburn warehouse at 321 West Georgia Standard Opens New Xarket—The Standard Grocery Coi' street. Mr. Hurst has been associated with the food industry pany recently opened a new market at 831 East Sixty-thi1' sixteen years. H. F. Buck is vice-president of the firm. street. The building is of Indiana limestone, with walls )] Two New Buildings and Stores—Plans for immediate con glazed tile and floors of Terazzo marble, and a large electy] struction of two new adjoining one-story business buildings cally lighted marquee. The Standard Grocery Company -w at 5511, 5543 and 5603 East Washington street, in the Irving- started in Indianapolis forty-two years ago. h 8 ic i< 3 1 e
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)eath Takes Three Men Long identified with Chamber ' Two former directors and a member of the civic 'ffairs committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of .fOmmerce last year, all of whom were active in »Z> tusiness and civic affairs of the city many years, 'ave died within the last few weeks. , Hiram Brown—Mr. Brown, president and treas urer of the L. M. Brown Abstract Company, died SPECIAL METAL EQUIPMENT designed lecember 24, at the age of seventy-nine. A grand- bn of Hiram Brown, a pioneer settler of the city, and executed to meet your individual ,e was a lifelong resident of Indianapolis. He was needs (ssociated with Thomas C. Day & Company for Drty years before becoming treasurer of the Brown CURRENT ORDERS INCLUDE: 'iompany in 1927. Later he became president of . Steel Production tables (he company. Mr. Brown was a director of the .Multiple-deck truck bodies lhamber in 1903 and 1904. . Carton conveyors r ; Frank M. Fauvre—Mr. Fauvre died December 28 . Wire machinery guards it St. Petersburg, Fla., where he had gone to spend . Stainless steel cages he winter. He was eighty years old, had lived in . Aluminum display cases larion county since 1864 and was identified with •lany business enterprises in Indianapolis over a . Merchandise trucks >ng period. He helped organize the companies • >hich first brought natural gas to the city, headed Present your special equipment problems to 'he old People's Light & Heat Company many years ENGINEERING METAL PRODUCTS CORP. go and organized the Indianapolis & Eastern Trac- Indianapolis BE. 4660 Indiana ion Company and the Indianapolis & Danville trac- ion system. He was a member of an • early city ouncil here. Mr. 'Fauvre served last year as a lember of the civic affairs committee of the Cham- er. Joseph E. Reagan—Mr. Reagan, who was presi- ent of the Baldwin-Miller Company, wholesale THE RIGHT nOT£ swelry firm, and first vice-president of the Bankers 'rust Company, died January 3, at the age of sev- 1 HE right note, played constant nty-two. He was a native of Indianapolis and had ly upon a violin, will cause even a een active in business affairs here for fifty years, skyscraper to fall. Selling in many [e was a member of the Board of Trade and a direc- respects is just like that. The most or of the Better Business Bureau. Mr. Reagan difficult markets will succumb to ras a past president of the National Wholesale Jew- the right note. lers Association and at the time of his death was If there is a printing idea that you member of the board of directors of the organiza- have been pigeon-holing, waiting ion. He served as a director of the Chamber in for the opportune time to launch 913 and 1914. it—now is the time to get started. Whatever your problem may be, call us in. A few minutes spent in Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Co. Clarence E. Crippin discussing the details may mean a TRUCK TANKS Charles M. Crippin helpful short cut to the right note E. B. "Bud" Byfield George B. McClellan in productive printing attuned to Industrial—Alloy Metals, Chemical and Other Tanks Ralph E. Klare your needs. Call RILEY 7406. Boiler Repairs . . . Smoke Stacks Electric "Welding, Etc. CLARENCE E. CRIPPIN & SON, Inc. 1201 BEECHER DRexel 1498 Printcraft Building 225 N. New Jersey St.
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