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 <S- Company. Corps. Charles W. Compton, Indianapolis Live Stock J. Allen Dawson, EC. IT. Woodsmall Agency. Exchange. George A. Hangs, American United Life Ins. Dr. E. N. Evans, Church Federation. Herbert Klckhoff. Stokely Bros. & Co. Co. William A. Evans, Director of Publicity, Publi W. C. Garten, Garten Feed Company. Charles L. Barry. Schools. D, Hatherly, F. S. Royster Guano Company. Arthur R. Baxter, Keyless Lock Company. D. J. Hendriekson, Citizens Gas & Coke Utility George A. Hilgemeier, Jr., Prank Hllgemeier & Joe Rand Beckett. Frank C. Jordan, Indianapolis Water Company-. Bro. Frank E. Best, Best Universal Lock Company. Fred C. Kennedy, Chief, Indianapolis Fire Del] Clyde C. Holstoin, Belt Railroad & Stock Yards Frank L. Binford, Burnet-Binford Lumber Co. partment. Company. Rudolph C. Block, Wm. IT. Block Company. Roy Keaeh, J. L. Keach. £ Arthur P. Holt. Capitol Dairies, Inc. Marshall T. Levey, Thornton-Levey Company. C. W. Hunt, Milk Foundation of Indianapolis. Walter C. Boetcher. G. E. Lewis, Standard Oil Company. i A. R. Kennedy, Indiana Condensed Milk Co. Benjamin N. Bogue, Bogue Institute for Stam­ Bernard A. Lynch, Chief, Fire Prevention Bu H. F. Kimble. Smith Agricultural Chemical Co. merers. reau, Indianapolis Fire Department. g F. EC. Langsenkamp, Jr, F. EC. Langsenkamp Co. Arthur Bohn, Vonnegut, Bohn & Mueller. Frank E. McKinney, Fidelity Trust Company. J. D. Littleton, Indianapolis Dairy Producers W. A. Brennan, W. A. Brennan, Inc. A. W. Metzger, Kroger Grocery & Baking Cc \ Council. Arthur V. Brown. Indiana National Bank. A. J. Meyer, Indiana Inspection Bureau. Simon J. Martenet, E. Rauh & Sons Fertilizer Earl Buchanan, National Malleable & Steel A. D. Miller, Gulf Refining Company. Company. Castings Co. John J. Minta, Advance Paint Company. Scott MeikS, Producers Commission Association. Charles W. Chase, Indianapolis Railways, Inc. George R. Popp, Jr., Building Commissioner. « Charles T. Moreland, John Deere Plow Co. J. Allen Dawson. IT. IT. Woodsmall Agency. Rev. Jos. V. Somes. EC. T. Perry, Banquet Ice Cream & Milk Co. Ludwell Denny, The Indianapolis Times. A. A. Zimmer, Real Silk Hosiery Mills. , Ralph V. Roberts, Wm. EC. Roberts & Sons. Hamilton C. Dowell. FOREIGN TRADE COMMITTEE l Roy Sahm, Bessiro & Company. S. O. Dungan, Polk Sanitary Milk Company. C. J. Haring, Chairman, J. D. Adams Mfg. Co. T. G. Sinclair, Kingan & Company. Philip P. Efroymson, Efroymson Bros. Charles L. Sargeant, Vice-Chairman, Diamonl ' P. P. Trlller, Wadley Company. R. C. Elliott, Standard Dry Kiln Company. Chain & Manufacturing Co. • Floyd Tyrie, Schlosser Bros. Brodohurst Elsey, Indianapolis Glove Company. Francis Wells, Secretary. J S. B. Walker, The Wm. EC. Block Company. Edgar IT. Evans, Acme-Evans Company. Advisory: Fred C. Weber, Weber Milk Company. C. F. Farrar, Addressograph Sales Agency. William Higburg, Reilly Tar & Chemical Corp1 Rabbi M. M. Feuerlicht. I. E. Woodard, Acme-Evans Company. A. J. Nugent, E. C. Atkins & Company. Frank B. Fowler, Indiana Lumbermen's Mu­ Ralph W. Showalter, Eli Lilly & Company. ( ATHLETIC COMMITTEE tual Insurance Company. General: Wallace O. Lee, Chairman, Indianapolis Power M. C. FuT.scott, Kiilin Tailoring Company. C. N. Angst, Pitman-Moore Company. & Light Company. A. IT. Glsler, Kothe, Wells & Bauer Co. Robert IT. Baron, Western Union Telegraph Co. Thomas E. Grlnslade, Vice-Chairman, Grinsiade George Glossbrenner, Levey Printing Co. Dwight W. Casey, American National Bank. CoiiHtruction Company. IT. E. Herner, Columbia Conserve Co. H. D. Caylor, C. & G. Potts & Company. W. B. Ansted, Jr., Metal Auto Parts Co. Henry L. Hilkene, American National Bank. James L. Dugan, Kingan & Company. , Edward Ash, Indianapolis Times. Russell R. Hirschman Indiana Bell Telephone Louis P. Fisher, Bowes Seal-Fast Corporation. F. C). Belzor. Boy Scouts of America. Company. Wray E. Fleming, U. S. Collector of Customs. Wilfred Borinstein, A. Borinsteln Co. A. D. Hitz, Geo. Hitz & Company. Lowell Grossman, R. C. A. Manufacturing Co. John Bruhn, Indlanpolis Water Company. Fred Hoke, Holcomb & Hoke Mfg. Company. E. Hopkins, Fletcher Trust Company. Alex Corbett, Jr., State Automobile Insuranco Henry Holt, Thomson & MeKinnon. E. P. Kinney, Norfolk & Western R. R. Co. Association. Arthur M. Hood. Hood & Hahn. K. R. LaForge, The Gibson Company. Henry L. Dithmer, Jr., Polar Ice & Fuel Co. W. IT. lnsley. Insley Mfg. Company. Dr. Vincent A. Lapenta, Italian Consul. L. C. Emmelmann, Em-Roe Sporting Goods Co. Chester Jackson, Standard Grocery Company. Mrs. D. IT. McChesney, George F. Cram Co. Frank B. Planner, Planner & Buchanan. W. Paul Jones, Philco Refrigerator Company. S. R. Sayles, Rockwood Manufacturing Co. Robert S. Foster, R. S. Foster Lumber Co. George Kuhn, Klein & Kuhn, Inc. C. W. Spalding, Link-Belt Company. W. F. Fox. Jr.. Indianapolis News. Howard J. Lacy, U. S. Corrugated Fiber Box IT. IT. Speak, Sargent-Gerke Company. Vodder Gard, Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Company. Forrest Teel, Eli Lilly & Company. Judge Henry Goett, Superior Court No. 4. Peter Lambertus, American Bearing Corpora­ Paul O. Hiulcle, Butler University. tion E. J. Unruh, Midwest Council on Internationa! J. I. Holcomb. Holcomb & Hoke Manufactur­ Hugh McK. Landon, Fletcher Trust Company. Relations. ing Co. B. F. Lawrence, The Indianapolis Star. Preston G. Woolf. Hurty-Peck & Company. L. C. Huey, Capitol Lumber Company. Irving W. Lemaux, Security Trust Co. FREIGHT AND TRAFFIC COMMITTEE Tom Joyce, Tom Joyce Company. Herman P. Lieber, IT. Lieber Company. F. A. Doebber, Chairman, Citizens Gas & Coke Frank E. McKinney, Fidelity Trust Co. Norman McCready, McCready Pension Engi­ Utility.