Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1926 — Page 12

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MILLIONS TAKEN FROM PUBLIC BY POWER COMBINE General Electric Operates Utility Plants in Forty States, Report. Timet Washington Bureau. ISM Aeu) 1 ork Avenue. WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—The American power combine la extracting from the people more than $165,000,000 gross income a year, according to figures just made available. The combine is known along Wall Street at the Electric Bond and Share Company. It is the golden baby of the General Electric Company, being controlled by the same financial group that owns the latter. The-combine now operates in 1,700 communities, scattered through forty States. In the various regions it controls the public utility field through the following operating companies: East: American Gas and Electric Company and Lehigh Power Securities Corporation. South: Southeastern Power and Light Company, National Power and Light Company and New Orleans Public Service Company, Inc. West: American Power and Light Company, and Electric Power and Light Company. Organized in 1905 The Electric Bond and Share Cos., was organized by General Electric in 1905 with a $2,000,000 common capital. Today the common capital has increased in valued to $120,000,000, a sixty-fold Increase. Net earnings of this common stock in 1925 Is estimated at $10,000,000, which does not include an enormous undivided surplus. If divided, the latter probably would add $5,00,000 a year. Nor do these earnings include any of the rake-off allowed the operating companies out in the fields. They represent merely the superprofit or supervising income of th'e General Electric. So profitable has it all been to General Electric that that company in 1923 organized the American and Foreign Power Company, Inc., to spread out in Cuba, Central and South America. How all this information happened to become public is a story. In December, 1924, Senator George Norris of Nebraska launched an attack against the General Electric Cos., branding it as the center of the power monopoly. That was the first break for the public. Norris alleged that no matter to what private power company in the South the Federal government gave its $150,009,000 power project at Muscle Shoals, it would probably be under control of the General Electric. Norris pointed out how General Electric through the Electric Bond and Share Company dominated the Southern power field. Thirteen days after this attack General Electric reorganized its baby. Asa iresult, however, some of the common stock became avail able to the general investment public. Pamphlet Written Thus Investment brokers became interested in just what was going on. And thus Philip M. Tucker, a Boston investment expert, was moved to write for his clients and prospective clients a pamphlet entitled “A Study of the Electric Bond and Share Company.” The figures used here are taken from Tucker’s pamphlet. Tucker says, “The offioers of the company are in no sense responsible for the study, its conclusions or its publicity. The basic figures, except for estimates, are official.” In February, 1926, the Senate ordered the Federal trade commission to probe the General Electric Company’s alleged domination of the power field. The probe is still in progress and probably will hot he completed until late In the present year. In the meantime. Tucker, in

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Some boys and ’ girls dread this season of the year because it is report card time. Especially those pupils who are in boarding schools, as they are not at home to explain away any of their poorer marks. Mr. Aldridge received John’s report card in the same mall with John’s letter containing the usual request for a larger allowance. He wrote a short reply stating that enclosed In the letter was a small card containing a comment on the report card and if this comment were heeded a larger allowance would soon follow. But John could not read the card. Can you, do it for himr puzzle answer: The man who won the open golf tournament held at the Los Angeles Country Club was Harry Cooper. His last name is hidden in this telegram: "The tobacCo OPERator was not even among the first ten.” his effort to sell his securities, has published some of the most important information desired by the Senate.

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Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Lawrence A. Kiefer, 1403 Union St., Ford, frpm McCarty St. and Virginia Avff. Joe Walton, 633 Dorman St., Ford, from 605 E. Market St. John Ketry, 3308 English Ave., Chevrolet, from 825 E. Ohio St. Sorensen C. Sorensen, 4506 Winthrop Ave., Ford, from 4510 Baltimore Ave. Viola Bradley, 2917 N. Olney St., Ford, from 2000’Roosevelt Ave. Ernest Rutledge, Danville, Ind.. Ford, from Capitol Ave. and Wabash St. C. A. Wolsifer, 1202 S. Meridian St., Chrysler, from Meridian and Michigan Sts. J. D. Mullane, 3241 N. New Jersey St., Oldsmobile, from 3530 N. Pennsylvania St. James B. Stuart, 1822 Roosevelt Ave., Chevrolet, from Washington and East Sts. “ William A. Blessing, R. R. O, box 34, Chevrloet, from Maryland and Pennsylvania Sts. Delburt Hull?. Forty-Ninth St. and College Ave.. Ford, from Commerce Ave. and Fourteenth St. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found by police belong to W. E. Christie, Windsor St., Overland, found at 100 S. Pennsylvania St. E. C. Atkins Company, Ford, found at 700 W. Washington St.; driver arrested.

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