November 10, 1918 



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of the council, was much impressed by the data and figures produced by 

 Mr. Moses, proving that while the city has added to Its population, it is 

 losing out even more rapidly in the number of houses being built since this 

 country entered the war. It also was pointed out at the meeting at the 

 state capital that not only are there thousands of persons willing to 

 build houses right now, but that many of them can finance the entire 

 projects themselves, while the other can obtain private money, thus not 

 Interfering with any money in baniis here. The injustice of lieeping capital 

 tied up in material that could not be used for war purposes, but which can 

 help to win the war by giving the worliers of the city more comfortable 

 homes, also, impressed the Columbus contingent. 



The Cleveland group will not wait on Columbus, however, but will 

 Immediately send a committee to Washington, to confer with the national 

 non-war construction committee, outlining the program as it now stands, 

 and thus avoid any complication that might develop at the national capital 

 over the action of the state committee. 



Quantity production of airplanes at the Glenn L. Martin plant in this 

 city Is expected to offer a new outlet for certain hardwoods, leaders In the 

 Industry here believe, as a result of the urge along that line by the senate 

 military affairs committee to John D. Ryan, director of air craft produc- 

 tion. The committee urged the start of quantity production at once, and 

 that no changes in the bombing plane, which will be produced, be made. 

 This plane was ofiiclally accepted by the government this week, following 

 a month of tests at the Dayton proving grounds, when a plane was sent 

 from Cleveland. At least fifty planes will be started at once. It is explained, 

 these to be made by hand until tools to provide for still larger production, 

 arrive. To. facilitate production, Martin plant officials say, other airplane 

 plants, some of which are producing only forty per cent of their capacity, 

 owing to lack of proper design, will be given contracts. Contracts for parts 

 will also be let to fifty Cleveland firms, it Is said. 



Hardwood factories are being visited In the middlewest by D. M. Hess 

 of the Midvale Steel Company, with a view toward expediting rifle stock 

 production, that the output of the Midvale, 8,000 rifles a day, may be 

 expedited. It Is said the Midvale Is making two-thirds of the entire rifle 

 production of the country at present. Mr. Hess was in Cleveland this 

 week In the Interest of production of metal parts of the rifles as well as 

 the stocks. He will receive Inquiries from wood plants and others at lock 

 box 428, Chester, Pa. The plant of the Midvale Is at Bddystone, Pa. 



=■< EVANSVILLE >« 



The Pioneer Pole and Shaft Company, Evansvllle, has built a plant for 

 the manufacture of coal mine cars and the Industry promises to become 



quite an extensive one In view of the fact that so many new coal mines 

 are being opened in southern Indiana, southern Illinois and western and 

 northern Kentucky. The new plant will give employment to a large 

 number of men and boys and a high grade coal car will be turned out. 



J. D. Craft, vice-president of the Hercules Buggy Company, who under- 

 went a serious operation a few days ago at a local hospital. Is much bet- 

 ter at this writing and physicians say he will recover. 



Elmer D. Luhring, manager of the Luhring Lumber Company, who has 

 been seriously 111 with typhoid fever for the past several weeks, is now 

 on the road to recovery. 



A few days ago Michael D. Helfrich, president of the Helfrich Lumber 

 and Manufacturing Company, closed a deal for the purchase of the Stock- 

 well farm in Knight township, a few miles east of here, the consideration 

 being $160,000. The tract contains 560 acres of fine timbered land and 

 is one of the finest in this part of the state. It Is the intention of Mr. 

 Helfrich to erect a sawmill and all the timber will be cut up and after 

 the land has been properly tiled, Mr. Helfrich will sink a shaft and open 

 a modern coni mine that will give employment to a large number of men. 



Charles F. Smith, sixty-four years old, a well-known wagon manufac- 

 turer at JefEersonville, Ind., died a few days ago after an Illness of more 

 than a year. He had spent most of his life In JetTersonvilie and was well 

 and favorably known by the lumber manufacturers of that section of the 

 state. 



John H. Rohsenberger of the Buehner Chair Company, and field secre- 

 tary of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, Is expecting notifica- 

 tion in a few days that a new date has been fixed for the annual conven- 

 tion of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association at Louisville, Ky. The 

 date of the convention was originally set for October 24 and 25, but was 

 postponed upon order of the army-surgeons at Camp Zachary Taylor, 

 Louisville, because of the Spanish Influenza epidemic. George O. Wor- 

 land, president of the Evansvllle Lumbermen's Club ; Daniel Wertz, Maley 

 and Wertz, hardwood lumber manufacturers ; Frank M. Cutslnger of the 

 Evansvllle Band Mill Company and other lumbermen of this city, will 

 attend the Louisville meeting where the question of the Government con- 

 trol of the towboats and barges on the Ohio river will come up for dis- 

 cussion. 



The Evansvllle Coflln Company, In company with all other firms of 

 this character in the country, has been ordered by the United States gov- 

 ernment to discontinue making all but one style of casket, a plain, 

 standard style and to concentrate on that. Edward Burtlss, president 

 of this company received this order a few days ago by telegraph. He 



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