Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1925 — Page 3

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I.C.C. STARTS HEARING R. R. MERGER PLANS Van Sweringens Take Case Before Commission for Final Perrpit. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, April 15.—Another round—perhaps a decisive one—•in the railroad "battle of the century*’ is on here today. The Interstate Commerce Commission started hearings on the application of the Van Sweri gen brothers to complete their consolidation of five railroads, with a trackage of 9,000 miles, into a single system tapping the richest industrial section of the nation. Orris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen of Cleveland, Ohio, who were ordinary real estate men until ten years ago, when they took a flyer in railroads, are engineering the gigantic merger of the new "Nickel Plate” system. Value $1,500,000,000 Properties of the roads involved are said to be valued a t $1,500,000,000. The old roads are the New York, Chicago * St. Louis Railway (the old Nickel Plate) and Chesapeake & Ohio, the Erie, the Pore Marquette and the Hocking Valley of Ohio. The new company is called the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company. The boards of directors and the stockholders of each of the five old companies in meetings in the last six months have approved the merger plan, under which the stockholders in the old roads are to be given stock in the new company. The Van Sweringens announced their consolidation plan last August. Tt is based on a clause of the Esch-Ciyn-mins transportation act of 1920, which authorizes voluntary mergers, if they are approved by the interstate commerce commission as being for the benefit of the public. Greatest Merger The proposed new railroad will be one of the most important in the country if the merger is effected, ranking with the Pennsylvania and New York Central in the East and Middle West. Through the Chesapeake & Ohio holdings, it will have us an outlet one of the most important coaling ports in the world, Newport News, Va.. This huge harbor Is connected by the Chesapeake & Ohio directly with the tremendous coal deposits of Virginia and West Virginia. The Hocking Valley route extends practically all across Ohio. The Erie in the East, the Pere Marquette in the North, and the Nickel Plate from St. Louis and Chicago to New York will complete a system which will tap one of the richest industrial regions in the world, including the States of Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Yojk, New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, Virginia. West Virginia, Misosuri. and Wisconsin and the cities of Rt. Louis, Chicago. Detroit, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, New York, and Richmond, Va.

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mOSEPH HIGGINS, E"ansville, a millright making a small salary on which a wife, mother-in-law and four children depend, adopted six children whose father drowned recently. Old-fashioned thieves were reported to Gary police to have stolen two horses from Charles Prott. Mrs. Thelma Kite McPheters of Terre Haute, who married during spring vacation, was the first student barred under the new school board ruling preventing married persona from attending shcool. Reuben Trance, 72, of Wabash had to have his right leg amputated when it was burned when his clothing caught fire as he was burning grass near his home. Two flivvers wandering about the roads near Washington after dark without lights collided head-on. None of the occupants was seriously Injured. At Bloomington 987 Indiana University students have received “smoke-ups” which, in campus parlance. means notification from deans that their work is unsatisfactory. The majority are men. A dog and cat hospital with all the modern conveniences of the large hospitals for humans has been opened by Dr. W. B. Wallace, veterinary surgeon at Marion, C' 1 that started the Chicago fire was emulated a 1 El fc__J wood. Chickens belonging to Mrs. William Murphy scratched some live coals from a pan of ashes and set the chicken shed on fir*. Warren Bush, Hartford City drayman, had two fingers on his left hand broken and his bicycle wrecked in a collision with a flivver. Marion Is to be the center of operation of the Highway Transporta t,ion Company, which is expected to have thirty trucks in operation through 200 towns.

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Mrs. Frank Croger addressed the Crescendo Club, Tuesday in the Auditorium, or. her student life abroad. Robert Schultz, Ccrol Mayborn, and Mary Esther La-vlor gave musical numbers. A “Life of Wagner” was read by June Wilson. Miss Rousseau McClellan, head of the b.ology department, spoke at a meetings of the Patent-Teachers Association of School 43, Wednesday, on “In the Field With Boys and Girls.” It has been announced by Mrs. Winifred Craig that there are certified seniors now. fourteen more than last year. Boys’ musical organizations gave the program at the auditorium exercises Wednesday in Caleb Mills Hall. The band and Boys’ Glee Club each gave four numbers. Hyde Woodbury played a cornet solo. Miss Evelyn Wood, speaker for the Central Council for Nursing Ed unation, spoke before senior girls, Thursday, in the auditorium. Members of the Officers’ Club wore instructed in "Guard Mount” by Ca det Major Robert Hurt Wednesday. Plans were made for forthcoming parades and reviews. Applications for attendance at the citizens’ military

Pigeons Are Happy —Fountain’s On The pigeons that live around the Courthouse are happy. The huge stone fountain in the grounds north of the Courthouse has been turned or.. Dozens of birds swoop down upon it daily to bathe and bask in the sun. Fish from the fisheries at Martinsville. Ind., will soon be brought and put in the fountain’s pond.

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training camp are being taken by Hugh fiomcs, Robert Hurt and Lieut. George A. Naylor, R .O. T. C. commandant. * ■— Friday’s Daily Echo staff was host to Helen Noble and Alberta Jones, two former Shortridge stiylent*, now attending De Pauw University. Committees for the Junior Fair, appointed by Ronald Green, president, were: Ruth Lewis, Oscar Monteith, Marjojl© T Joseph Stout, Kelso Elliott, Dorothy Rubin. Bertha Co;ya, Norma Davidson, Mildred McFall, Helen McCoy, Janet Little. Margaret Kent, Lena M jDole, Hugh Baker, Theodore Callis, David Brown, Angus Cameron, Merrill Bassett, William Hadley, George Dirks, Dorothy Lambert. William Otto, Betty Ann Parrott and Mary Ann Ogden. The Shortridge Trio, Edwin McCormick, violinist; Janet Little, cellist: Susan Grey Shedd, pianisi, will furnish music at the Lorado Taft lecture. April 23. Louis Dirks, assistant principal, has returned from Whitley County, where he served on an education survey committee. The seventh hour public speaking class recently organized has elected as officers. Edward Schumann, president; M/ury Kathryn Campbell, vice president; Arthur Schumacher, second vice president, Joseph Hartwell, secretary; Edgar Berry, ser-geant-at-arms. The "forest,” a feature in the Jnlnor Fair in the gym, was made in the Art Department. Miss Carolyn S. Ashbrook and John Waltz dre wthe design and were assisted by Norma Davidson, Susan Grey Shedd, Vivian Dynes. Delma Vestal, Dorothy Lambert, Nellie Munson, Alice Baker and Ruby Lee Creager. A resolution concerning entrance of the United States Into the League of Nations was the feature of the

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meeting of -the Senate, Friday. Herbert Sudranski entered a report of an investigation committee. Speakers were George Clayton, Charles Roberts, Albert Levi, Marshall Chandler, Morris Feuerlicht and Louis Dean. Franklin Couts was accepted for membership. Miss I .aura Donnan, sergeant-at-arms announced dates of spring events of tho organization: Extemporaneous Contest, May 1; Annual Senate-Ban-quet, May 15; Senate Pin Contest, May 29. A number of students aided in a campaign to make tbe Tri-State Debate a success. Speakers were James Murdock, Dallas Burres. Edward Van Riper, Alice Ball. Hdwell Brooks. Helen McCoy, Edwin Hauseman. Belle Kaufman, Tevie Jacobs. Virginia Shay, Mary Alice Shaw, Maurice Feuerlicht, Miller Keller, Kbtherine Price, and Reva Rudy. Several Shortridge alumni were visitors during the past week, including Herman Carrington, Robert

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NOT LONG AGO, somebody made a play upon words by saying that “Main Street, not Wall Street now owns the big industries.” The observation was more accurate than its maker supposed The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) belongs to nearly 11 times as many stockholders in 1925 as in 1919. There are at present 49,277 owners of this Company, of whom not one owns as much as 6$ of the whole. 15,264 of these owners are employes of the Company. It is the earnest desire of the Management of this organization that the number of stockholders in the future will multiply in considerably more than direct ratio to the growth of the Company. It is to the advantage of the public that ownership of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) steadily becomes more deeply rooted and more widely spread among the people as a whole. It is to the advantage of society that customers, stockholders and employes should cease to be three separate groups with distinct interests in oil matters, and with frequently divergent viewpoints. At the present time, thousands of people are at once patrons and employes of, and investors in, this great Company. This joint interest and ownership are giving a steadily increasing firmness and dependability to the service which this organization renders the public. Much of the efficiency of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) —much of its smooth functioning, its avoidance of labor difficulties, its freedom to adopt progressive methods — are due to the fact that Main Street owns the Company’s oil; Main Street refines and distributes this oil, and Main Street uses the oil products. This organization is essentially democratic. It is financed by the people, operated by the people, and patronized by the people. \ The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) in ownership, management, labor and patronage, is an integral part of modern American civilization its products enter into the very texture of our daily life. When, therefore, we speak of the service of this organization to the public, we are speaking of something which is fundamental to society. Especially does this apply to the ten Middle Western States in which this Company operates —and in which it has operated in such a manner as to have gained the respect, confidence and esteem of thirty million people. Standard Oil Company ( Indiana) ' General Office: Standard Oil Building 910 So. Michigan Avenue, Chicago

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