Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1926 — Page 4

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CITY PLAN BODY MEMBERS MUSI ATTENDHEARING Stibpoenaes for Session on Rezoning Sent Out by Council. Members of the city plan commission will be forced to reveal their attitude on the proposed rezoning of the south approaches of the Delaware St. bridge and two locations at Forty-Sixth St. and College Ave., at a piitlic hearing at 1:30 p. m. Friday, Boynton J. Moore, council president, said today. Subpoenaes were being served by police today for commission members to attend the session. “We have asked them time after time to state their attitude on this proposed rezoning,” Moore said. “They have hedged and refused to reply. Now we propose to get at the truth.” Moore denied the rezoning of For-ty-Sixth St. and College Ave., would be a filling station maneuver. He said it is proposed to build storerooms on the two corners affected. The filling stations proposed at two corners on the south approach of the Delaware bridge over Fall Creek, Moore said, will solve the problem of early completion of the paving there. Council passed an ordinance rezoning these corners and Mayor Duvall signed it. Later, on opinion of John Ruckelshaus, city attorney, the city building department withheld a permit for erection of the stations on the theory that the ordinance was not adopted by a vote of two-thirds of council, necessary inasmuch as it had failed to meet approval of the board of zoning appeals. Hundreds of property owners are preparing to oppose the measures at the hearing Friday. Legal counsel has been employed.

WOODMEN DEADS TOW LODGE Officers Will Attend Building Dedication. A. R. Talbot, Lincoln, Neb., head counsel of the Modern Woodmen of America, and several other national officers will attend the dedication of the new lodge building of Marion Camp, No. 3558, M. W. A. on the night of Dec. 18. The new building has just been completed at 318-28 E. New York St. Built of reinforced concrete, it is three stories high and erected at a cost of SIIO,OOO according to John D. Volz, national director and trustee of Marion camp. The two upper floors will be used for lodge rooms, the main floor for business houses and the basement for a gymnasium. Several other camps, besides Marion, will occupy the building. There are 5,000 Woodmen In Marion County, Voltz declared. Marlon camp was organized in 1896, with seventeen charter members. Its membership now is 1,862. During the thirty years of its history more than $152,320 has been distributed for charity in addition to $480,000 to families of the 318 deceased members. THIEVES TO CELEBRATE Burglaries reported to police today indicate that the gurglars will be well provided with food and clothing for Thanksgiving. L. B. Millikan reported that furs and clothing valued at $367 were taken from his home at 1304 N. Delaware St. The theft occured some time between Sept. 5, and Nov. 15, while the family was away. Distribution of the Mexican bean beetle has increased during the present year. The insect has become one of the major insect pests in this country. For Itching Skin Use Zemo, the Clean, Healing Liquid There is one safe dependable treat. 9ent for itching torture, that cleanses and soothes the skin. After the first application of Zemo, you will find that Pimples, Blackheads, Blotches, Ringworm and similar skin irritations begin to disappear. Zemo banishes most skin irritations, makes the skin soft, clear and healthy. Easy to apply at any time. At all druggists—6oc and SI.OO.

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MERCHANTS READY FOR BUYING RUSH Electnc Signs and Decorated Windows Tell City That Christmas Season Is Here.

With another Thanksgiving day here, Indianapolis merchants turned their attention to preparation for the Christmas season rush. Huge electric signs on downtown store buildings and specialty decorated windows gave the city a touch of the yuietide spirit. Merchants spoke optimistically about the coming holiday business, and expected to make record sales in many lines. Christmas buying is expected to start in earnest next week, and stores have employed additional help to wait on customers from now until Dec. 25. Large Stocks Purchased Merchandising managers reported large stocks had been bought, expressing confidence that Indianapolis will have a prosperous period on the eve of the New Year. Each year thousands of persons from surrounding cities come to Indianapolis to make their Christmas purchases, swelling the bank clearing several millions of dollars. With the Hoosier farmer in the best condition he has been since 1920, according to farm leaders, credit managers asserted that Indiana homes will be blessed with the CONVICTS LIKE AVIATION Navy Bureau of Aeronautics Receives I jitters From Prison. .Bi / United Pres* WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Among the places where there is much interest in aviation, are the prisons. The Navy Bureau of Aeronautics received a letter from an inmate of New York State Prison, enclosing an invention for a rigid dirigible mooring-mast, and asking for a model airplane. The prisoner wanted the model airplane to attach a patent for stopping a plane on a small surface. He also asked for photographs of the "newer models” In order that “I may get better acquainted with them.” The photographs were sent at once.

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“horn of plenty" and spend the year’s profits accordingly. Easily Accessible The Hoosier Capital is easily accessible by train, traction, bus and auto, and has a buying radius of more than 120 miles. Early shoppers already have done considerable buying, in an effort to avoid the usual holiday scramble in business houses. Thousands of savings account holders are drawing their checks, which bankers say total in excess of $1,500,000 in the city, and are preparing their annual budget. A few auto dealers and jewelers reported orders on hand to be delivered Christmas Day. Parents have begun to warn children to “be good until Christmas” if they want Santa Claus to remember them, and the youngsters are eagerly awaiting the appearance of Kriss Kringle at the family fireplace. CHINESE RADIO TAX Levy of $2.50 Yearly Imposed on Sets in Hongkong. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—1f you own a radio receiving set in Hongkong you will have to pay a yearlv tax of $2.50, Consul Harold Shantz reported to the Department of Com-, meree. This additional licensing tax is provided for in a bill recently introduced by the government at Hongkong, which defines each individual receiving set as a wireless telegraph station. It Is planned to turn a portion of the revenue received from the licenses into a fund to be apportioned out to broadcasting organizations. The first white woman horn in Alberta. Canada, is still alive and well. She is Mrs. John Graham of Calgary, and was born in 1868 in a tiny Hudson’s Bay settlement.

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MERGER RULING ‘IN A FEW DATS,’ SAYSJAMPLER Decision Soon on Jurisdiction Over Proposal, Is Indicated. Decision as to Jurisdiction of the Indiana public service commission in. the matter of the petition proposing a merger of the two local electric utilities into a single company with a capitalization of $55,000,000 will be handed down "within a few days” Frank Wampler, commissioner in charge of the hearing announced today. Arguments attacking the jurisdiction of the commission were heard Monday. These attacks were launched by attorneys for the city, civic organizations and large power users. Since then briefs have been filed by City Corporation Counsel Alvah Rucker, supporting these contentions, and by attorneys for the utilities upholding the right of the commission to rule on the petition. Roosts Merger The petition proposes that the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company and the Merchants Heat and Light Company be merged into the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Those opposing the merger contend that higher rates will result. That such was not the case, directors of the Merchants’ Association of Indianapolis were assured at an informal meeting Wednesday by Harley L. Clarke, Chicago utilities promoter, who is on hand to boost the merger business. Clarke requested a hearing before' the merchants. He was accompanied by Georgo Rubens and J. B. Bailey, assistant vice presidents of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company. President Carl A. Taylor of hte Merchants’ Association, announced that no action was taken. Report on progress made In the fight to prevent the merger will be made at the meeting of the Federation of Community Civic Clubs at 8 p. m. Friday at the Chamber of Commerce. E. O. Snethen and Samuel Dowden, Federation attorneys, active In the fight before the commission, will present the report. Not Utility View Those attacking the jurisdiction of the commission contend that the Indianaoplis Power and Light Company is not an operating utility and therefore does not conform with the Indiana law and cannot engage in the merger. Having no legal standing it does not come within the jurisdiction of the commission, opponents declared. In the brief filed by the utilities It is pointed out that “a public utility must necessarily be created by successive stages”; that the proposed consolidation is not a merger, but the purchase of the capital stock of the two concerns; that the Insull interests will leave the Indianapolis utility field, and that the commission does have Jurisdiction.

CRASH INJURIES FATALIODRIVER George W. Hummel, 55, Dies After Accident. Injuries received in an automobile accident Wednesday afternoon, when two machines were wrecked at Washington Blvd. and Fifty-Seventh St., proved fatal to George W. Hummel, 65, of 64 N. Holmes Ave. He died Wednesday night at the St. Vincent's Hospital, where he had been taken with a fractured skull. Plans for the funeral are incomplete. Hummel and his wife, Mary G. Hummel, were driving east on FiftySeventh St., when their auto collided with a car being driven south on Washington Blvd., by William Mick, 2424 N. Delaware St. Witnesses told Motor Police Wenz and Miller, that Hummel failed to stop for the boulevard. Mrs. Hummel received slight Injuries. Police searched for a “hit-and-run” driver, who struck Miss Alma Lee Withers, 19. of Route J., Box 213 I, as she was alighting from a bus, Wednesday night, near her home on the Pendleton Pike. She was taken to the Methodist Hospital with a badly fractured left leg and severe cuts and bruises about her head and body. Mrs. Daisy Freyn, Route C, Box 266 B, was taken to the city hospital slightly injured. Mrs. Freyn was riding with her husband in the 4400 block on Madison Ave., when their machine struck another car and turned over.

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