Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1921 — Page 8

CITY, RURAL MAIL MEN MAY MERGE Convention Will Consider Question. The matter of merging the rural carriers' organizations with that of the city carriers is expected to be brought up for consideration at the second annual convention of the Indiana Federation of Rural Letter Carriers, the opening session of which will be held at the Denison Hotel tonight. Another matter that will bo brought up, In the form of a resolution, will be the foUowing demands—an allowance for maintenance of an automobile and equipment, a cash allowance for the employment of assistant carriers in winter on all routes of fifty miles or more and a civil service court of appeals in which cases of discharged carriers may be heard. It is explained that while carriers with fifty-mile routes are able to deliver their mail on time in the summer, deep snows and bad roads in the winter sometimes make this impossible, . and that it is necessary therefore to employ assistants at times. Heretofore, it is said, ths pay for assistants, as well as

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for the upkeep of the automobiles has been paid by the carriers out of their salaries, and it is the wish to have a straight salary with an allowance for maintenance of equipment and for assistants. A session of the executive board will be held this evening, and the actual business sessions of the convention will be held Monday, the convention closing with the election of officers Monday evening. GAS COMPANY TO SELL OWN STOCK To Save by Eliminating Broker Charge. The Citizens Gis Company plans to undertake the sale of $1,000,000 in 7 per cent preferred stock through its own organization Instead of the usual method of placing it in the hands of a broker, H. H. Hornbrook, attorney for the company, announced at an informal hearing conducted by Commissioner Edgar Blessing, of the public service commission, yesterday afternoon. In reply to a question by Samuel Ashby, corporation counsel for the city

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of Indianapolis, Mr. Hornbrook said the stock will be sold to the public at 98 and $3 a share will be allowed to employes for the sales. He said this plan will save considerable money as brokers usually charge $3 to $lO on each SIOO share for similar services. In connection with the sale, Mr. Hornbrook said the company will conduct an intensive advertising campaign over a period of thirty days. There was some question as to where the expens :s of this campaign are to be charged, but it was indicated, at the suggestion of Mr. Ashby, that they would be charged out of the company’s surplus account and amortized over a period

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Kills Girl When Rival Attempts to Kiss Her PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3.—Lester Newhall confessed to the police that he had 3hct and killed Josephine Howard, a young telephone operator, a week ago, because of his rage at seeing the girl’s escort attempt to kiss her. Newhall lay In wait for the girl, and James Sullivan, . University of Pennsylvania student, ts they came from a dance they had been attending, and killed the girl ns she passed his hiding place. "I don’t know why I did it, except that 1 was crazy when I saw Josephine in another man’s aims.”

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Wiseacres Doubt Marconi Picked Up Waves From Mars Special to Indiana Dally Timas and Philadelphia Public I.edger. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Rankiug Navy and Army officers, experts in wireless telegraphy, greeted with skepticism the announcement from London that Marconi had picked up a 150,000-meter wave length making a regular call that might have originated on Mars. Inaccuracies in the statement made r>y the Marconi representative in London

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caused some officers to doul-, the story altogether. The cable stated that the highest wave length being used today was 14,000 meters. Annapolis is and has been using 17,000 meters for some time, and the Lafayette station in France has used 24,000 meters. American experts are Inclined to believe that what happened was that th* Marconi instrument encountered a sc

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past few weeks.—Copyright, 1021, by Public Ledger Cos. AMERICANS FAIL IN AIR. BASLE, Sept. 3.—ltaly ranks first and Germany second in the number of their citizens licensed as pilots in Switzerland's civil aviation. Five Americans who took the examinations failed to pass.