Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1927 — Page 4

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Don’t Bea Cipher Tomorrow you can either be a figure or a cipher. The question of whether this city shall have a business system of government and get rid of partisan politics in city affairs will be settled at the polls. The people will decide whether they wish to keep the system that has brought them nothing but humiliation, disgrace and high cost or discard it for a City Rfanager system which works well in other cities. The citizen who votes will have a part in this decision. The man or woman who stays away from the polls counts for exactly nothing. The law bars only three classes of residents—children, imbeciles and those who happen to be in jail. The citizen who does not vote takes his place with these classes. The citizen who does not vote is the best assistant of the professional politician. It is the stay-at-home vote which enables the boss to rule and to take possession of the government. He understands that he could never, in any American community, get control of the offices with his tools and venal, selfish men if all the men and women entitled to vote really voted. The boss never has a candidate or a cause which would appeal to a majority. He understands that better than the good citizen. He knows that he can only win when good people are apathetic and uninterested. He knows that his one chance tomorrow is in the hope that very many men and women who are interested in better government will not vote at all. If enough stay away, he can perhaps line up his minority of voters against the proposal. The politicians started in to fight this change in the open. But after two or three speeches they discovered that they had no argument and no appeal. The very silence is suspicious. The men who have looted this city for years through manipulation of public office have found it far too profitable to take this blow lying down. The last Legislature made fraud easier than it has been in the past and the elections in this city have been notable for their frauds. It is quite likely that they are counting on the belief of very many people that their votes are not needed to get in at the last minute and defeat this proposed change. That scheme can be defeated only by a very large vote and by active participation by good citizens wljo want to free Indianapolis from its shackles. The Times first proposed this change in government. It was first in this city to advance it as a remedy for civic ills. For more than two years it has consistently and persistently shown the advantages of the City Manager system. •> It stood alone at the start. But it is alone no longer. The people indorsed the attitude. This proposal can be defeated only by men and women who prefer to be ciphers in the mathematics of government. Count for something. There is only one way. Go to the polls and vote. The Mayor and City Employes Orders to policemen, firemen and other city employes to act as solicitors for a private enterprise of Mayor John Duvall might seem to call for some drastic action. The fact that he is using them as solicitors for a newspaper which he intends to launch has nothing to do with the matter. As far as The Times is concerned, it welcomes the mayor or any other citizen into the field of publishing, as long as the enterprise is started as is any other private enterprise and depends upon its service to the public for its foundation. But The Times has protested in the past against the use of city employes for the private advantage of public officials and expects to protest against the use of city employes for any purpose except those for which the people pay them. It would have protested had the mayor ordered all the city police to eat one pie a day and sell ten others, had he chosen to embark in a revival of the pie vending business in which he was once interested. It would have protested against the use of firemen and park employes to sell oil stock had he started them off to use their official jobs to force such sales to citizens. ' The Times has an idea that city employes are employed by the public for certain public purposes and do not become the private agents of the mayor, no matter who the mayor may be, to use their jobs to advance his private dnterests. The Times has an idea that public employes are servants of the public and owe nothing but service and good service to the appointing power. The Times has protested on every occasion against any threat being held over efficient employes

You will soon be told, no doubt, I that the City Manager plan takes from the people the right to choose their chief executive. The fact is it takes his selection out of the hands of the political ring. Under the party system the people vote for their chief executive, but he is chosen for them long before the time comes to vote. Our forefathers never intended that cities should choose their chief administrative officer by popular election. The fact is they did just the opposite. The laws originally provided for the election of a town board of council, who chose the mayor. Up' to the year 182d no mayor was chosen by popular vote; the process of direct election has been brought about by state legislation. The statesmen who assert that the manager plan is un-Amer-ican because the mayor and the manager are chosen by the council, should read the history of their government. If one-half of the cities in this country were getting decent government under the mayor-council system, there would be some ground for concluding that the fault in the otter fifty per cent was <Jue to the inability or unwillingness of the

BOYD GURLEY. Editor.

“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way” —Dante

I people to choose the right sort of officials, but when the scheme is making a miserable failure in a large majority of our municipalities, we are forced to conclude that the fault is inherent in the system itself. There is not one single city in America that has had a consistently successful municipal government for a continuous period of fifteen years under the Federal system. On the other hand, we can cite Dayton, Ohio, as one city that has been outstandingly successful with the City Manager plan of government for

IMPORTANT You do not have to register to vote June 21. You must cast your vote in person. You cannot vote by absent voter ballot.

ROY W. HOWARD. President.

that they owe something to the appointive power in the way of personal servitude. The Times has protested and will protest against any public official using the government and the employes of the government to further his own private interests. If any official desires to embark in any commercial or industrial enterprise, he should have the decency and the honesty to found that enterprise by the same methods as he would be compelled to use if he were not an official. * u A resignation or an impeachment would seem to be in order. No Juggling at Geneva! Today, at Geneva, the United States, Great Britain and Japan meet around the big green table to talk naval arms limitation. The American thesis is quite simple: Extend the Washington naval agreement or 5-5-3 program which I now applies only to battleships and airplane carriers, to apply to cruisers and other auxiliary craft. But Britain and Japan are understood to be backing a program not so simple. If forecasts are not too far from the truth, each of these empires intends to \ try a little high powered juggling. Each wants to win some advantage for itself at the expense of the other two, particularly at the expense of Uncle Sam. We are told, for example that both Japan and Britain will seek to limit the size of cruisers to 6,000 or, at most, 8,000 tons, They will solemnly argue the economy of the move, how much all hands would save by building only the smaller sized cruisers instead of the 10,000-ton ships now permissible.

All of which is true. The smaller cruisers would undoubtedly be cheaper. But smaller cruisers would place the United States at a vast disadvantage because of their limited zone of action. Unlike Britain, this country has no chain of naval bases stretching clear around the earth, north and south of the equa-t tor, from which its cruisers could operate. And, unlike Japan, whose territorial interests are confined to the region of the Western Pacific, v/e have interests far removed from metropolitan United States which must be protected. Britain and Japan, it appears, will also try to reduce the size of guns which cruisers may mount from eight to six inches. This, too, would place the United States in a hole. For while other nations have many ships in their merchant fleets capable of conversion into cruisers in war time, and which are built strong enough to carry six-inch guns, we have very few ships so convertible and, from the looks of things, we may have even less in the future. There is talk of Japan and Britain proposing similar reductions on the size of battleships and submarines, which again would be an advantage to them and a corresponding disadvantage to us. And so on. It is to be hoped, however, that Ambassador Hugh Gibson and his colleagues of the American delegation, will stick to their formula and let it be known at the start that they did nov, journey to Geneva to engage in a sleight-of-hand contest. If the parley beginning today is to be productive of the slightest good whatever—and its usefulness is ( already limited because France and Italy are present | only as interested observers—the three powers Active- ! ly in conference must, above all, be perfectly open and above board with one another. They must put all their cards face up on the table. The proposition is as simple as A. B. C. The Washington conference of 1922 put certain limitations on the bigger units of the- world’s principal navies. ■ Do the powers now conferring at Geneva wish to ex- j tend similar limitations to cover the rest of the units? , That’s all there is to it. There is no cause and no room for sharp trading.

Law and Justice by Dexter M. Keezer

A woman slipped and fell on a sawdust-covered butcher shop floor and was injured badly. She sued the butcher shop proprietor, claiming he was negligent in- leaving his floor in such condition. Because of her injuries she said she had no opportunity to discover just what it was she slipped on, or how It got there. The butcher shop proprietor claimed he should not be held for damages because the woman did not know what she had slipped on and had not proved that it was negligently placed there by him or his employes. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The decision: New Jersey Supreme Court decided the woman was not entitled to collect damages because she was unable to show that the object on which she slipped belonged to the butcher shop proprietor, that it had been placed there by him or his servants, or that they knew it was there. These facts were needed, it said, to prove the butcher shop proprietor’s negligence.

that time, and 363 other cities have succeeded and are succeeding with the City Manager plan where previously they were ranked among the failures. At the time the United States Federal system was adopted in 1789 there was not a city in the United States much larger than Muncie. Therefore, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson and other founders of the Federal system could not have had an understanding of the problems of great municipalities which would not arise until long after their death. Under the City Manager form of government, as proposed for Indianapolis, public emphasis would be transferred from the question of how to elect certain persons to munlfcipal offices to the more vital bonsideration of how to give the public its full value in administration. The practical question is not “Is the City Manager plan perfect?” but “Is it better than the other i plans so far as tried?” To argue that we shall have no government unless it is perfect is to argue for anarchy.

W. A. MAYBORN, Business Manager.

MONDAY, JUNE 20. 1927.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. TRACY SAYS: Aviation Developments Hit Great Britain-U. S. Sea Control.

Out of all this conferring over naval armaments and their limitations there comes one big idea, and that is Anglo-American rule of the sea. The 5-5-3 ratio, which was established at Washington some years ago, and which promises to stick, no matter what is included, means Great Britain and the United States have undertaken to divide the sea between them on equal terms and other nations have submitted to it. Were it not for the part aviation seems destined to play, one might take this as a line-up by which to chart the future of international affairs. Dance to Old Tune It required no conferring to send such ships as Nelson and Farragut commanded to the scrap heap, and it w r ill require none to do the same for those of Von Tirpitz and Jellicoe. As usual statecraft is merely dancing to the tune of invention and discovery. Though making a fine gesture in the name of peace, governments are only yielding to the inevitable when they decide to reduce present day battle fleets. Ducks have no chance against eagles w'hen it comes to a fight.

Way Shown to Worid Lindbergh and Chamberlin have shown the world what can be done. Byrd is planning to fly from New York to 9aris and back again, where Lindbergh only flew one way. The German ace Anton Koennecke is planning to fly from Berlin to San Francisco and back. Two army aviators are planning to fly from San Francisco to Hawaii. Each day sees the records of the day before go to smash, and who can doubt that each tomorrow' will repeat?

Tennyson foretold it all, though he never saw an airplane. Science and poetry are close akin, when we come to think of it. England’s break with Russia gives Germany the best chance she has yet had to come back. Some nation must act as mediator in the resultant impasse, and none is in a better position to do so, even if it wanted to, than Germany. Ifrance and Italy feel they should stand by England for old time sake, if for no better reason though neither wants to break with Russia. Poland wants a peaceful adjustment before it is 10 late, well knowing that if conflict occurs she will be expected to play the Belgian role. This leaves Germany as the only available go-between and Stresemann is quick to seize the opportunity.

China Has Dictator That grand old bandi:, Chang Tfeo-Lin, savior of the east from Bolshevism, as some people fancy, becomes dictator of north China to the boom of 108 guns. What this outrageous -number signifies nobody seems to know, but it certainly represents a waste of powder that Chang is likely tc need if the Cantonese keep up their advance of the last lew weeks. More than one war lord has lost out by pausing to let himself be glorified when he should have been attending to his business. From this distance, it looks as if Chang might be that kind. Past Holds Its Lure No matter how fascinating the present is, or how the futuie intrigues us with its rapidly unfolding possibilities, the past still holds mystery, romance and enchantment. Old plainsmen, meeting to discuss a day that has gone, take a moment to talk about Caster's last stand, especially in the light of a painting that is supposed to convey an accurate idea of how the heroic general died. According to most of them, he did not live to defend himself alone or even with the last few survivors, but perished early in the massacre. According to a young Indian writer, he committed suicide. Tradition Too Strong A French author rises to assert that Christopher Columbus was no navigator, no scientist, no discoverer, no conqueror and no faithful historian, but a cheap braggard, hypocrite and liar. What is the use? The traditions regarding Custer and Columbus have been too firmly planted to be spoiled at this late day, and the traditions are good, no matter what the facts may be. Somebody discovered America or we would not be here, and everybody died in Custer’s gallant band. That is quite glorious enough even if we do not know all the details. Huge Loss Cited Secretary Hoover estimates that the Mississippi flood represents a loss of from two hundred million to four hundred million dollars. In human terms, he says that 1,500,000 people actually faced death, that 750,000 were obliged to flee for their lives and that 600,000 have been made temporarily dependent. It will require thirty million dollars in one form of relief or another to take care of the immediate situation, he declares. After that comes the problem of making these people permanently safe. OTHER THEATER OFFERINGS TODAY Other theaters today offer: “The Butter and Egg man” at Keith’s; “Grounds for Divorce” at English’s; “Sunbeams” at the Lyric; Loretta Gray and company at the Palace, and “Good as Gold” at the Isis. When was Bobby Franks murdered by Loeb and Leopold? Mfey 21, 1924.

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The Last Word in Movie Theater Entertainment Arrived Here With the Opening of the Indiana

The last word in movie theater i entertainment is now' available in Indianapolis with the opening of ! the new Indiana Theater. ! Today marks the third day in the history of this new house as jan inaugural program was given

given Sat urday night when Dick Miller, represenative of the Chamber of Commerce : Governor Ed Jackson and Mayor Duvall officially accepted the theater on part of the citizenship of the city and State. There are many f e atures which stand out on the program now being presented at the Indiana. One of the most striking features

Lewis Stone.

is the appearance of the Indiana i Concert Orchestra, which rises from I the pit on a moving platform. At I first you only hear the orchestra. I then slowly the platform starts mov- ' ing upward until the orchestra is in full view. And when the picture starts, it again disappears. The same applies to one of the most Wonderful pipe organs I have ever heard. Harold Ramsey is one of the recognized artists of the country and he admits that this is one organ whose possibilities he will never excell. This artist can turn this organ into a gigantic orchestra, and I then with as much ease he can get I the quiet effect of a mandolin. RamI sey, on this week's program, is playing a novelty, “Organs I Have Played,” which has been arranged t to show Uie marvelous tone as well as how perfected the instrument is. Special lights on the organ cause it to stand out. The entire presentation idea of the organ music at the Indiana is something entirely new to this city. This weeks bill brings to this city the first of the Publix presentations. The introductory one is called “The Inaugural Banquet.” Here is lavish and beautiful revue entertainment and looks as rich from scenic standpoint as any of the big legitimate revues. The principals are recognized entertainers from the revue stage such as Jack North, singing comedian; Helen Fouts Cahoon, soprano: Peggy English, a blues singer, /who stops the revue as does Cy Landy, eccentric dancer. The dancing girls in this revue have been splendidly trained and : many of their formations are entire- ! ly new to the revue Stage, i I can say with ease as well as ■ safety that there never has been ; such a lavish revue ever presented j in a movie theater in this city as The richest type of revue entertainment. The feature picture for the week is Lewis Stone in “The Prince of ) Head Waiters.” Stone appeared I personally on the inaugural program and left yesterday for New York. “The Head Waiter” is mightygood theater. It is wise theater, i The subtitles are filled with smart remarks. The story concerns the efforts of a head waiter not to spoil the life of his son. The son in his story never knows that Pierre, the Head waiter, is his father. The lad tries to be wild in the night life of New York, but it is the wise Pierre and a good girl who shows the lad what a boob a youngster really can be when he attempts to be “swift.” Personally, I like the way the picture has been directed and acted. Stone has a dress suit role, and he I certainly knows how to play this type of a role. I “The Prince of Head Waiters” is interesting and effective theater. The lengthy bill includes an overture, “Solenelle 1812.” At the flrsj performance the orchestra was directed by Nathanial Finston, general music director of Publix Theaters, in the capacity of guest conductor. Other events include a presenta-

Hush-Money

By Walter I). Hickman

tion. “Pioneer Days;” a news reel, "Enchantment,” and much music. The Indiana is a gem of a theater. It is the last word, and the opening bill certainly measures up to the gem of the theater in which it is being presented. On view' at the Indiana all week. As the audience left the theater after the inaugural performance, , each one was presented with a ; souvenir edition of The Indianapolis Times, which was specially printed in honor of the occasion. TOLSTOY’S BIG STORY' HAS REACHED SCREEN Tolstoy will always be remembered for writing “Resurrection.” a tragic story of the old Russia when Siberia was a fact. Here is a gigantic novel which would tax the ability of any director to produce. The story is concerned with the tragic faith of Katusha Maslova, a beautiful Russian girl and a good one until she

was insulted and mistreated by Prince Dimitri Nekhludof, a man of rank, who had rank habits and a low regard for tiny woman who didn’t have a title. The first part of the movie version of “Resurrection" is devoted entirely to the ruin of Katusha and her fruitless effort to explain her innocent part in the tragedy and the

Rod La Rocque

failure of the Prince to realize the part he had played in the terrible affair. The next part of the movie version shows how low Katusha sinks in life. This is not pleasant, but it is a part of the story. To my way of thinking, this movie does not begin to measure up with the genius of the author until Rod La Rocque, as the Prince, realizes the shame that he has brought to one woman. You actually see the soul come to life in this man. And then you see him renounce his title, his position in society and give way his wealth so that he may march side by side over the snow covered road with Katusha to Siberia where she had been sentenced on a charge of- murder. It is in the last half of the movie that Edwin Carew# in his capacity as the director of the film catches the great pathos and meaning of the author. “Resurrection” is a big picture from a scenic standpoint and La Rocque and Dolores del Rio as Katusha do magnificient work. You will remember La Roque for his great performance in the last part of this movie. “Resurrection” is powerful drama but it is often unpleasant. It has to be it seems because the novel although a masterpiece is often unpleasant with its truths. The stage presentation this week is Max Fisher and his California orchestra. Bill includes a news reel, Topics of the Day and other events. At the Circle all week. ED WYNN BECOMES A WISE DETECTIVE Since so many funmakers on the legitimate stage such as W. C.

Fields, Eddie Can- j tor, Wiil Rogers, and others have gone into the j movies, it was to oe expected that j Ed Wynn would land before the eye of the camera. Wynn makes the leap in a comedy called, •Rubber Heels.” Those who have; seen Wynn on the evue stage will have no difficulty in becoming adjusted to the Wynn brand of j

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comedy. He is no different on the 1 screen than on the sta|>e. He has

always been a comedian of many disguises and he uses several dozen of 'em as a correspondent school detective in "Rubber Heels.” I like his individual comedy efforts, because I can associate his voice with his actions on the screen. | The big scene in “Rubber Heels" is when Wynn as the detective is atj tempting to recover a trunk full of 1 jewels before it dashes over Niagara Falls. Here you have funny melodrama with Ed Wynn getting good comedy support from Chester Conklin. I can not tell just now how Ed. Wynn will be accepted by the regular movie patron. The revue enthusiast will welcome a chance to see the comedian on the screen. It is my opinion that Wynn is a comedian of so much individual ability that he will be welcomeed in movie theaters. His method is entirely different even from such a movie veteran as Chester Conklin. The Apollo this week has a novelty melody event when the orchestra with the aid of Abe Farb, soloist, stages a minstrel show’. The idea is a good one but the slides, which carry the comedy as well as the words of the songs, did not keep pace with the musicians w hen I was present. This of course is remedied by this time. Bill includes an Our Gang comedy and a news reel and an organ solo by Earl Gordon. At the Apollo all week. AGAIN MILTON SILLS HAS ANOTHER FIGHT It has been often said that in a Milton Sills movie there must be at least one good fight. Am about ready to believe it after seeing Sills in “The Sea Tiger.” There are a bunch of fights, espe-

dally one very rough affair in the rain. And didn’t it rain? Meaning that I never saw' so much water used in one movie in all my life. They use ,water in the ocean, of course, and then the picture is just flooded with several lovely rain storms. In “The Sea Tiger” Sills is supposed to be one of those real he-men of the

Milton Sills

ocean, who loves his younger brother. In fact, he loves his brother so much that our hero is even ready to turn over his best girl, and she decides that she will do her own choosing of a husband, regardless of what any one might say. Os course, she decides that she really lpves our sea hero when a good-for- | nothing girl attempts to be good-for-nothing with our hero. The result is that Mary and Milton marry before the next cloudburst. "The Sea Tiger” has its moments, ! but not very many of them. Sills is going to wake up to the fact very soon that he is being cursed with some mighty poor vehicles. That is my opinion of “The Sea Tiger.” Be your own Judge as usual. The bill includes a Helen and Warren comedy, a news reel, and I Ruth Noller at the organ. I At the Ohio all week.

Movie Verdict Indiana—A wonder show in a wonder house. Apollo—Ed Wynn makes his movie debut in “Rubber Heels,” in which he gets a pretty good movie start. Ohio—Milton Sills in “The Sea Tiger” is an unsatisfactory story for Sills. Circle—An elaborate attempt, partly successful, has been made to film Tolstoy’s “Resurrection.” The acting is splendid.

JUNE 20,1927

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor; What the W. C. T. U. needs most of all is a “Memory Contest.” They need to go back to the days of the old saloon on the corner, to the time when a man could go in and buy a drink and be on his honest way, without making himself a felon in the sight of the law. In those days we had “liquors,” but we also had lower taxes, and laws to protect our young people.* Today taxes are out of sight, and boys and girls not yet out of high school patronize bootleg joints where they obtain the worst kind of bad liquor at the highest prices and greatest possible risk to their life and liberty. Would it not he far better to permit those same boys and girls the enjoyment of a pitcher of beer in their own homes? You members of the W. C. T. U. who are so strongly opposed to the use of alcoholic liquors, are any of you equipped professionally to say whether or not Indiana may or may not use whisky for medicinal purposes? It is far better, far more honorable, for our Governor to be branded a “bootlegger" than a murderer, and had he done as you honorable ladies of the W. C. T. U. say you would do in such an emergency as he faced, he would have, in the eyes of the law, committed murder by refusing to provide the medicinal aid that his doctors recommended. Far better be known as a bootleg Governor, and save the life of the woman who is his wife, than to uphold temperance, which even the Bihle condemns, and brand himself as a Christian Temperance murderer. If the W. C. T. U. and all such organizations would withdraw from politics and leave the laws to the Legislature, it would be for the betterment of all concerned. Their views are narrow and bigoted, as is the Wright bone dry law, and when even Volstead believes in whisky as a medicine, why must one State take it upon herself to dictate that whisky shall not be used as a medicine? Ladies of the W. C. T. U„ go into the municipal courtrooms for an hour or two. See the boys and girls from 14 to 23 up before those judges for vagrancy, drinking, delinquency and many other serious offenses. Fifteen years ago, on Monday, there was a line of red-nosed, mid-dle-aged men with bloodshot eyes before “His Honor.” They were the chronic barrel-house bums, but there were no youngsters in court in those days. We had laws to keep them out of the saloons. There were also laws that permitted our boys and girls to drink their wine and beer at home with their parents, and they never abused the privilege or drank to excess. The boys and girls of today are the future lawmakers of the State and the bootleg liquor they consume now will show its effect in later years. Better by far let them drink honestly, than deny them and force them to sneak around and drink liquor strong enough to scorch sewer tile. MRS FRANK A. OTTO. 1406 8. Capitol Ave.

Mr. Fixit Garbage Collector to Help This Citizen.

A west side restaurant slighted by the garbage collector today sought the help of Mr. Fixit. Dear Mr. Fixit: I would like to know why they do not collect garbage south of Arizona and west of Illinois Sts. We haven’t anyw’here to throw the garbage except over In the dumps. I don’t think that is very healthy. Do you? PROMPT TAXPAYERS. Truly Nolen, garbage collection superintendent, informed Mr. Fixit your request would be granted.

Dear Mr. Fixit: Would you please see if the city cannot do something for the people on Thirty-First St, between School and Euclid Ave.? The street has been graded every spring, but this year nothing has been done. We would like to have it graded or filled up with cinders. RESIDENT 3201 PHIPPS AVE. Deputy Street Commissioner Charles Riddle informed Mr. Mixlt it would be impossible to grade the street at present, as three graders are broken and only one in service. But he promised to obtain ciders if possible.

Questions and Answers

When is it proper to wear a Spanish shawl It may be worn as a summer wrap or as an adornment at a winter party. What is the meaning of the name Hilda It is Teutonic and means “supporter.”

Brain Teasers

The first five of these questionos ask you to identify people promtment in the news of the day. Answers to all the questions will be found on page 14: 1. Who is the United States ambassador to France? 2. Who is President Coolidge’s secretary? 3. What Governor of what State is now investigating the SacchoVanzetti case? 4. Who is William Hale Thompson? 5. Who is E. L. Doheny? 6. Are tomatoes and cucumbers vegetables? 7. What is weighted silk? 8. Where were the Maya Indians i found? • \ 9. Are there more automobiles or telephones in the United States? 10. Who were the Krupps? 11. Did the Federal Radio Commission change the rating of either local broadcaster? 12. What are the new frequency and power assignments of the Indianapolis radio stations?