Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1927 — Page 12

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RAIL LEADERS FEAR DILEMMA IN RATE CASE Court May Approve Charges Higher Than Traffic Can Bear. WASHINGTON, July s.—Railroads of the country may be entitled to charge freight and passenger rates “higher than the traffic can bear,” when the’ United States Supreme Court decides the railroad valuation question, President S. Davies Warfield of the Seaboard Air Line Railway tells his stockholders in his annual report just made public. Warfield sees the roads as between the two horns of a dilemma. He anticipates a Supreme Court ruling which will upset the recent Interstate Commerce Commission ruling in the O’Fallon case and give the roads high values. Difference in Method The commission decided in the case of the St. Louis and O’Fallon Railway that roads must be valued largely on the original cost of their building, and not on what it would cost to reproduce them at present. The Supreme Court, on the other hand, has leaned toward the “reproduction new” theory of valuation. The difference in the case of the railways, it is believed, would be roughly that betweeen $20,000,000,000 and $35,000,000,000. This would mean a billion-dollar a year increase in railroad rates if the roads cared to make it. Frying Pan to Fire Warfield points out that the full increase thus legalized probably would be more than the people could or would pay. If, on the other hand, the roads endeavored to hold rates at a reasonable level, their returns might “be claimed to be below the legal rate of return the owners of their securities are entitled to receive,” he added, and security holders might protest. Warfield said the public had shown little interest in the O’Fallon decision because of the fact that the Supreme Court decisions thus far incline against the position taken by the commission majority.

CIGAR STORE IN AIR Fourteen-Passenger Plane Open for Business. Bu Times Svecial NEW YORK. July s.—The latest thing in commercial aviation is a flying cigar store. The United. Cigar Stores announce that while public attention was focused on airmen' winging over the Atlantic and Pacific they had completed “the first serious commercial enterprise of this kind.” New Yorkers glanced skyward and saw the familiar red and gold lettering of the United label slipping across the sky with a stock of cigarettes, cigars, candy, razor blades, shaving cream, and green coupons. Th,e flying cigar store is a heavy fourteen-passenger Sikorsky monoplane with twin Liberty motors. Today it started on a tour of the country with stops planned at Schenectady, Rochester, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis and intermediate points. At each stop it will open for business and souvenirs .will be distributed along with information on commercial aviation.

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Theater Tickets Await Lucky Seven

Now that we are all back from our Fourth of July vacation the Whoozit editor presents seven eligibles in the identification hunt. Two theater tickets good for any performance this week will be given to each person shown in today’s picture who proves identity to the Whoozit editor. Because of the double holiday, winners in Saturday’s identification hunt may claim their tickets this week.

America’s Most Interesting, Family Is Name Given du Fonts of Delaware

They Have Millions, but Wear Old Clothes and ‘Really Are Human.’

"America’s most interesting family.” That is what Hortense Saunders, writer for NEA Service and The Times calls the du Pont family of Delaware. Superromance marks the rise of this family to untold wealth and vast Industrial influence. Miss Saunders visited Delaware to find out all about the du Ponts, and has written four stories on them. This Is the first. By HORTENSE SAUNDERS Bv NEA Service WILMINGTON, Del., July 5. Within a radius of a dozen or so miles from Wilmington lives the most interesting family—or family of families—in America. It’s the du Pont family, about 100 strong. Poor relations being inevitable, there may be some du Ponts in Delaware, who struggle along on a few hundred thousands, but the ’feeling in Delaware is that a du Pont, unless he is a minor, scarcely can be excused from the family obligation to have a six-figure bank account. “Plain as Old Shoes” Nevertheless, the du Ponts are as plain as old shoes, in the words of the head of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce. They are used to their money, and Delaware is used to it, so everybody, including the du Ponts, just forgets about it. They wear their old clothes when they feel like it, they drive their own cars, go by their first names. Whenever the community needs anything, the du Ponts generally provide it. With their property and industrial wealth running far into the hundreds of millions, they constitute the nearest approach to a feudal unit of any family in the country. They avoid all obvious manifestations of affluence. They don’t play polo, don’t crash Newport, don’t gamble at Monte Carlo, don’t compete in building private palaces. All Like to Work The du Ponts apparently like to work. The sons go to college, usually a technical school, then come home and work up in the family business—E. L. du Pont-de Nemours & Cos., one of the largest corporations in the world. The daughters go away to scnool, but come back to Wilmington to marry—usually to marry men in the du Pont-Company. Often they marry poor men. You get vivid impressions of the du Ponts if you drive out Kennard pike, which runs from the du Pont Hotel in Wilmington to Longwood, the estate of Pierre S. du P<?nt, just over the State line in Pennsylvania. This estate contains one of the finest conservatories in the country, open to the public. Any one who so wishes can revel in the color and fragrance. Hospitals Are Helped Twice a, month, on Sunday afternoons, pipe organ concerts are given in an underground theater at the estate. Proceeds of a small admission fee go to Wilmington’s three hospitals. As you travel along the Kennard Pike you will find du Ponts to the right of you and du Ponts to the left of you. The du Pcnts live in glorified farm houses. You see old homes that have sprouted new additions and wings. You see old-fashioned flower gardens such as a woman of rather simple tastes rather than a professional landscape gardener would covet. The doors of the house do not suggest the presence of a stiffnecked butler. Right at the edge of Wilmington lives Lammot lu Pont. He is president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Cos. He is young for such a position, and is serious-looking. It’s nothing surprising, however, to see him fussing with his own car in the driveway of his home. In an unobtrusive house adjoining Lammot du Pont’s residence lives Felix, and next to Felix lives Ernest. Their farms are almost prosaic. So it is that the homes of the du Ponts are scattered about the countryside. It would take days to see them all. They are homes that grew out of povraer and dynamite. Thomas Jefferson really laid their foundations, for it was Jefferson who first suggested to Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours, founder of the company that bears his name, that he go into the powder-manufacturing business, away back in 1802.

Tickets good for the Circle, Keith’s and English’s will be issued. At the Circle Ted Lewis, highhatted tragedian of song and his company give zest to a program which includes a film showing of “Is Zat So?” a great stage success. The management says the theater is always 68 degrees cool. Ann Douglass, Indianapolis favorite and McKay Morris are starred in “On Approval,” which the Stuart Walker company are presenting at the Pennsylvania St. playhouse all week.

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WHAT HAS HAPPENED DIANA BROOKS, beautiful daughter of ROGER BROOKS, owner and publisher of the Catawba City Times and a chain.of nine other newspapers, had been kidnaped and then released. Her father is engaged in a persistent fight against the corrupt administration of Catawba Citv. and through the medium of the Times redoubles his scathing attacks on politicians and the underworld. Brooks himeslf is kidnaped, but in five days reappears to find that his newspaper stock is being manipulated. He suspects JOHN W. WALDEN, and determines to fight him. _ Brook's closest friend is young DONALD KEENE, his literary editor and guardian of TEDDY FARRELL reporter and SOB SISTER. Teddy is in love with Don. who. without being sure which one he loves, flirts with three girls, Teddy. Diana, and LOLA MANTELL, Diana s C °Teddv and Don have obtained evidence against Walden sufficient for a grand Jury investigation. Brooks stages a meetine to expose his enemies to the district attorney. Bolton, and the superior court judge, Wharton. NOW READ ON CHAPTER XLVIX Roger Brooks was speaking—stating his business in his own way. Teddy tied her handkerchief into knots and then untied them again. Pop’s voice was moderately pitched, vibrant. He stood before them square on his feet, his head thrown back, his arm held composedly at his side. He sopke with slow deliberation, carefully, his words well chosen. After giving a brief resume of the Times’ business activities for the year, he paused. His audience settled back. The Waldens sat motionless, the younger man glaring with undisguised hatred at the speaker. Teddy started. Pop was describing Diana’s and his ow 7 - dnaping. Then he read the type.: reproduction of Larry story, giving the names disclosed by che ex-con-vict. The little reporter had heard her own name mentioned, then Don’s—Costello’s. She stole a look at Don and encountered his grave, serious eyes. For these two, at least, the spirit of the dead gangster who had not been good, but not altogether bad, seemed to hover over the room. The Waldens, senior and junior, had lost a little of their pose and tolerant insolence and cynicism. “Now, Mr. Canfield, a few words from you,” said Pop, turning at the conclusion of his talk to his city editor.

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“Loose Ankles” is the play chosen by the Berkell Players at the English Opera House for Fourth of July week. Milton Byron, Jean Oliver, Larry Sullivan, Idabelle Arnold and Robert St. Clair do some of their best work. Miss Garnette V. Shirley, 902 N. Pennsylvania St., was out of town when her picture was shown last Wednesday. Friends did not over look it and the young lady, who operates the telephone switchboard at the Washington Hotel, got her tickets Saturday.

Bill Canfield discarded his cigaret and arose. He said just enough to corroborate the publisher’s statements. "Mr. Keene, please!” Pop indicated his literary editor, and glanced with a peculiarly significant expression at the judge and district attorney. Don rose, his head inclined a little shyly. Teddy hung on his words, her lips parted, her brown eyes dilated. The Waldens stirred impatiently, but did not drop altogether their air of hatred and insolence. Don touched fragmentarily on the story of ihs incarceration in the subcellar. Pop had impressed his listeners by his dignity and sternness. Don’s attitude was debonair, boyishly confidential. But his manner, and particularly the portent of his speech were sufficient to enrage the iWaldens and break their sullen silence. Young Walden sprang up, his eyes bleared, the muscles of his wolfish face twitching. “Look here, Keene,” he jerked out savagely, "you’ve used our name too damn carelessly, you and Brooks and Canfield. What are you driving at? You haven’t proven anything yet!” He looked questioningly toward the judge and the prosecutor. Both remained silent, ignoring his inquisitive glance. “We’ll prove—everything!” Don made the assertion calmly, but it carried conviction. He stepped around to the head of the table. He lifted the black bag from its place of concealment. Removing it contents, the dictagraph reproducer and recorder, Don adjusted the latter and attached the cord to the baseboard socket. (TO BE CONCLUDED) Blind Folk Tuneful PARIS, July s.—Twelve hundred blind persons earn their living as musicians in France. Many are players of note, eight being organists in Paris churches, including Notre Dame. Several conductors and composers are blind.

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LACK OF FUNDS STOPS SNAKEOP OF DRY_FORCES Test Papers of 18,000 Job Seekers Remain Ungraded. BY KENNETH WATSON WASHINGTON, July s.—Shortage of funds has definitely halted the Government’s plan (jt reorganizing the prohibition service in accordance with the new law requiring all employes to be under civil service. Although more than 18,000 persons have taken examinations to be agents or inspectors, none of the papers have been graded and none will be until Congress convenes and appropriates more money. Provision for special help to inspect examination papers was made in an estimate of $203,000 submitted to Congress by President Coolidge. The item, however, was included in the second deficiency bill which was defeated by the filibuster marking the end of the session. For a time it was thought some way would be found to grade _the papers despite failure of the appropriation measure, but a deluge of 34,000 examination papers for positions in railway mail service has completely tied up the civil service commission’s force. Asa result, except for changes in some 125 administrative offices, no shakeup will take place in the prohibition unit until after Congress convenes. About 500 persons, including all incumbents, have filed applications for these important positions, which include posts of administrators and deputy administrators. They will be given special oral examinations here and at various other points. More than two months will be required for these few examinations alone. So that officials say that even if Congress appropriates money immediately after convening, no general reorganization of the prohibition service can be effected until several months later. Ancient Wheat Sprouts SYDNEY, July s.—Grains of wheat taken from an Egyptian tomb that had been closed for 4.000 years were planted by a New South Wales farmer and have grown to exceptional height. Los Angeles Dog Has 4 Ears LOS ANGELES, July s.—Lily, an eleven-moth dog, owned by H. S. Ames of Los Angeles, has four ears.

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