Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1924 — Page 8

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FARMERS BENEFIT BY STEEL RULING OF TRADE BODY 'Pittsburgh Plus’ System of Fixing Prices Abolished by Commission. By United Pres* WASHINGTON - , July 23.—A 130,000,000 annual saving in the cost of steel to farmers in eleven western States ic promised by the Federal Trade Commission in a sweeping decision, ordering the United States Steel Corporation to abandon Che “Pittsburgh plus” system of fixing the price of steel. The attitude of the United States Steel Corporation, controlling 50 per cent of the steel industry of the country, regarding the commisison’s decision, was awaited with great interest today, especially as to whether the corporation will contest the decision in the courts. Bitter Fight The “Pittsburgh plus” question provoked one of the bitterest fights ever brought before the Federal Trade Commission. The system, which decision of the commission outlaws, is that by which the steel corporation and each of its subsidiary plans fixes prices for steel outside the Pittsburgh district. The price formula is: Base price at Pittsburgh, plus sum equalling what the freight charge from that city would be. This meant that wherever a steel purchase was made the buyer hid to pay the price at Pittsburgh plus freight rates from Pittsburgh even if the product were delivered from a point nearer the purchaser. Among the most important effects of the abandonment of the Pittsburgh plus system, the commission declared in its decision, will be to strengthen the steel centers outside Pittsburgh, returning to the southern and western steel consumers the natural advantages of their localities. Other Evils Specifying other alleged evils in the steel industry that the decision will eliminate, the commission says abandonment of the Pittsburgh plus system will bring about price competition and will decentralize the steel industry and industries consuming steel. Commissioner Gaskill issued a dissenting opinion, declaring the commission to be withox# authority to restrain the steel corpo^on. SUMMER FIGHTTNG^TIME Assault and Battery Cases Lead in City Court, Wilineth Says. During the summer there are more persons brought to ci r y court charged with assault and battery than any other time of the year, said City Judge Delbret O. Wilmeth, at the Rotary Club luncheon at the Claypool. He said in winter the majority of cases were petit larceny, due to the theft of food, fuel and clothing. Efforts of police to enforce the law was commended. KAHN BUYS BUILDING Purchase Price of Three-Story Struc* ture Is $32,500. Purchase of a three-story building on the southeast corner of Illinois and South Sts. by Edward A. Kahn at a consideration of approximately $32,500 from Mrs. Emma Carroll of Knightstown, Ind., was announced today. Kahn said the building was purchased for investment purposes.

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If - ~ vVAS rich. For the first time since that day when, staj-v-L——J ing, I had tossed an airy farewell kiss to honesty, I was able, if I chose, to take up again a place in the sunlit world. Yes, I whom you know as John Ainsley, the master rascal of my day, was so silly as to think that I could step from the shadow into the light as easily, as swiftly as I had passed from the light to the shadow. I thought I knew life. I thought that a man could change his character as easily as he changed his clothes. Well, I was to learn differently. But on this spring night I built myself air-castles. I had been down to a certain section of the city and had closed a deal with a “fence, ’ a man who bought from thieves their loot. In a recent memoir of mine I have told how I outwitted Arrr.and Cochet, the notorious French criminal known as the White Eagle. He had stolen from Marcus Anderson, the millionaire, a casket containing all the Anderson jewels. I had stolen the casket f-om Cochet. I had y-aited a few days before attempting to dispose of any of the jewels. Anderson, unaware of his loss, Jmd sailed for South America on the morning after the theft. But the profits of this latest "venture cf mine had been so tremendous that I wished to use more than ordinary caution in realizing them. I wanted to. dispose of the lot at one transaction. I was sick of stealthy trafficking. I was a gentleman, no vulgar trader, and I would rather accept less for the loot from one man, than make more by peddling. So I had shown' this fence the complete Anderson collection; and he had offered me $300,000, perhaps a fifth of their real value. But evell that amount was too huge a sum for him to hand casaully across a counter. It would take him a week to raise the money. And in seven mone days I Would be independent, freed forever from the necessity of crime! So I thougiU. I even congrat-

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ulated myself that I was of such c fferent clay from the ordinary criminal. For your everyday thief is potentially a murderer, and worse. Devoid of imagination, he steals because stealing seems easier than working. Trapped, he kills. Oh, I was a philosopher, as I sat in the window of my living room and looked out upon Central Park, with its freshly green grass, its newlyleaved trees, the lovers walking along the shady paths, or drifting in their boats on the little pond. I was unique in history. I was a criminal who could rid myself of criminality at will, who could cut myself off forever from the ways of wickedness. I felt more than savage wrath; I felt contempt, as I tossed away from mo the evening paper with its glaring headline. It was a sickening story beneath the headline. It told of the discovery by the police of evidence indicating the identity of a brute who had shocked the city three days ago by the wanton slaying of a child. The child had been alone In the apartment where she lived with her parents. A burglar had entered, and finding the girl alone, had killed her apparently for the sheer joy of killing. The crime had been justified not even by necessity. The child could have been bound and gagged if the man had feared that her outcries would cause his capture. But the little girl, seeing the Intruder, had asked him not to take a locket which was her mother’s gift to her. Enraged at her request, he had struck her. Her parents had returned later; before she died, she had told them the facts. It was one of those shocking crimes that periodically make us wonder how far man is removed from the beast. It sent a whole city into mourning, and made detectives out of a hundred thousand citizens. And now the police had discovered that Swede Thomassen,, a notorious jailbird, was the murderer. The dragnet was spread, and the authorities were confident that the man would be apprehended within a day

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or so. I fervently hoped so; I would have killed him myself and known no compinictlon. I hfi.l read the sordid story of Swede Thomassen’s career as the paper gave it. And I saw th.-?t he had begun as a cheap gangster, had graduated into petty theft, had then become a highwayman and was now a red-handed murderer. It was at this stage of my reading that I began to congratulate myself because T was so different from Thomassen. This difference made me the great success thjtt I wa?. For other thieves visualized, in their moment of ease, future thefts; I visualized, a life of righteousness. “HALF OF THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND WOULD FIX ME.’’ And now, with $300,000 to be mine next week, my plans became cleancut, definite, not mere chaotic hopes. It would be simple. I would go to Australia. I would stay there two or three years. Then I would return to America. I would go to that city where I had been born and brought up, and where my family was known and respected. I would join my father’s clubs; I would enter into the civic life of the community. I would even—and this was the compelling force behind my plans—marry. 'lt was spring; only r a few days ago I had felt the urge to lead the normal life of men of my age and tradition. I wanted to take a prejty girl motoring, to dance with her, to squeeze her hand, to kiss her, perhaps to make her love me, to love her, to marry. I could possibly do all these things now; but if I were not honest, I tvas at least honorable.

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I <umld ask n ogirl to entangle herself with a man upon whoso collar a policeman might any day place his heavy hand. But in the few days that had elapsed since I felt the urge of spring, my circumstances had changed. I was rich; if I left America and staged away awhile, then returned and gave out that I had amassed a fortune in far-off Australia, who would doubt me? All danger from the police would have vanished in that time. My depredations would have ceased, and the police would have assumed that the mysterious criminal who had baffled them so frequently; had died. I would be running no risk of entaijgling an Innocent maiden in my peccadilloes. I woul Invest my money In my home town; I would choose some sweet and lovely girl for my wife. I am personable; I have the Ainsley manner. Other men win charming wives. Why could not I do so? I had created an Eden for myself; I had peopled it with a lovely Eve, and with our children. And into Eden came the snake. • * * The doorbell rang; my servant was gone for the day’. I was too cautious to keep any curious person around my apartment all the time; so the woman who prepared my meals and kept my apartment in order always left shortly after dinner. So I must answer the bell myself. It was the first time that it had ever rung save in tjjje daytime, when tradespeople called. I felt a sudden chill at the sound. Then I mastered my panic. Some neighbor might be calling on me, though this was improbable in New York. Or someone may have rung the bell my mistake. It was Incredible that the police should suspect the qulet-llvlng gentleman who dwelt on tha. fourth floor of the walk-up apartment building. And certainly the White Eagle did not know where to find the man who had so deftly tricked him a few nights ago. So I put oh a calm front as I opened the door. My caller stepped swiftly inside. “I come from Leedon,” he said. Leedon was fence with whom my deal was pending. "Doesn't Leedon know better than to send anyone here?” I demanded an^yily. The intruder was in my living roomfnow, and in the electric light I could see him. A big, burly, grosslooking man, with light red hair, belligerent blue eyes and a prognathous, stubble-whiskered jaw. “I didn't say Leedon sent me; I said I came from him, he answered. “What do you mean?” I asked.

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