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ARCTIC GRIP FASTENED ON ENTO U. S. Score Dead, Suffering Over Country Intense in Polar Wave. 53 BELOW IN MONTANA Temperatures Fall to Near Zero Mark Even in Far Southern Cities. Bu Uiritcd Press The entire United States today suffered from cold, floods and snow storms. Twenty persons, at least, were dead from exposure and accidents contributable to the weather. Hundreds were injured. Two ships on Lake Ontario were feared to be lost with passengers and crews. No relief was in sight as the snow storm swept from the Middlewest to both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The cold weather, which had tied up traffic, caused deaths and inconvenienced all northern United States, was advancing on the South. Atlanta and New Orleans reported exceptionally low temperatures for this season. The blizzard which accompanied the frigid blast yesterday apparently had died down, although snow still was reported falling in many places. Suffering Is Intense Police, hospitals and charitable organizations in all large cities were taxed to capacity in their efforts to relieve suffering and care for the storm victims. Almost unprecedented temperatures were reported. The Northwest suffered from weather of 15 to 20 degrees below zero; the Great Lakes territory from zero temperatures, and the Southwest and South from near zero. The coldest spot probably was Culbertson, Mont., which reported 53 degrees below. Other places reporting included Glasgow, Mont., 47 below; Chicago, 2 above; Nashville, 10 above; Chattanooga, 7 above, and Atlanta, 12 above. Communication Cut Off Communication over what few telephone and telegraph lines were left standing after the blizzard in Colorado, Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Minnesota, lowa and Wisconsin, reported little progress had been made in digging out from under the heavy snowfall. Schools still were closed and traffic was practically at a standstill. Snow-blocked highways made travel impossible and many appeals for aid were forced to go unheeded. Railroads reported all trains hours behind schedule, and in many instances almost completely stalled by snowbanks and snow slides. Air mail service west of Chicago was abandoned. Damage from fires caused by overheated stoves was expected to run into millions of dollars. Snows of Record Depth Suffering among livestock was intense. Farmers were prevented from reaching bams by the heavy snow and feeding of the half-frozen cattle was deferred. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan reported snows of almost unprecedented depth for this time of year. Car ferries were held in port by the fury of the blizzard which swept lakes Superior and Michigan. The subnormal weather, today’s weather predictions said, would reach the two seaboards, locking the entire country in its grip. Cold Causes Death Here The cold wave claimed its first death in Indianapolis today. An unidentified Negro, found in a shed in the rear of 645 Blackford St., died at city hospital. Weather Man J. H. Armington predicted temperatures will rise into the twenties today and the lowest mark tonight will be about 17. The slow rise will continue Saturday to the thirties, he predicted. Temperatures Thursday night averaged lower than Wednesday night, low being 6 degrees at 5:30 this morning. Recreation Director Jesse McClure and firemen flooded a low spot in Willard Park in the hope it would be frozen solid enough for skating when school was dismissed this afternoon. The new concrete toboggan at Coffin golf course also was iced, ready for coasters today. shifT air mail plans Celebration to Be at C. of C. Instead of Flying Field. The program celebrating arrival of the first air mail plane from Cincinnati to Chicago, Dec. 17* will be held at the Chamber of Commerce instead of Indianapolis Airport, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson,. announced today. The change was made becauite of cold weather. Governor Ed Jackson and Mayor L. Ert Slack will speak. HOURLY TEMPERATURES Thursday 7 P. M 8 I 10 P. M 8 g F. M 8 I 11 P. M 8 9 P. M 8 I 12 M 8 Friday 1 A .M. 8 ' 7 A. M 7 2 A. M 7 1 8 A. M 8 8 A. M 7 9 A. M 11 4 A. M 7 10 A. M 14 5 A. M 7 11 A. M 16 5:80 A. M 6 1* (Noon) 17 A. M 7 IP.M. 20

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$95,000 LOSSES IN SIM FIRES Mentone, South Bend and Harrodsburg Hit. Fire in an Indiana cit) and two towns today caused a combined loss of $95,000. One-fourth of the business district of Mentone, twelve miles southwest of Warsaw, was destroyed. Rochester, A,kron and Warsaw fire departments finally got the flames under control at 11 a. m. Loss of $50,000 was caused by destruction of the Jeffries Furniture store, Jones grocery, Harris Millinery store and Harber grocery. The Mollenour restaurant, where the fire originated was badly damaged. For an hour, the entire business district was threatened and pupils in the public schools above the fourth grade was dismissed to assist in removing merchandise. A defective chimney on the Jones store building was believed to have started the blaze. Part of the business district of Harrodsburg, twelve miles south of Bloomington, was wiped out. Loss was estimated at $25,000. Fire departments from Bloomington and Bedford assisted in fighting the blaze and prevented It from spreading beyond an area covering half a block. Included in the loss were two business buildings owned by George Sylvester, housing the postofflce, Knights of Pythias lodge-rooms, a moving picture theater, a barber shop and general store. T’ivo stores owned by Wyatt Fowler and the residence of Fred Thrasher also were destroyed. A defective flue was believed to have been responsible for the fire. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed three floors of the LaSalle Hotel annex at South Bend, causing damage estimated at $20,000. One of the fifty occupants were overcome by smoke before he was reached by firemen. / , FLOOD FADES New England No Longer in Danger of High Water. Bn United Press MONTPELIER, Vt., Dec. 9.—The threat of a recurrence of floods in Vermont seemed past today, as the swollen Winooski River, and other streams, began to subside, i All over northern New England a clear cold penetrated the air. High waters In some sections of Vermont had passed the usual heights for this time of the year. But, with morning today, the waters began to subside in the whole Winooski Valley. During the twelve hours, ending at midnight, the Winooski River had risen ten feet, flooding cellars near the river front here.

RICHMOND TO TAKE BUSSES FROM CITY

Indianapolis will lose some busses when lines of the Peoples’ Motor Coach Company and the Indianapolis Street Railway Company are unified, it became known today, through a letter from G. K. Jeffries, general superintendent of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company, to City Clerk Baltz A. Bescher of Richmond, Ind. Richmond will get the busses taken from Indianapolis. Robert I. Todd, street railway president, and Jeffries differed as to the number of busses Indianapolis will lose. Jeffries wrote the Richmond offlcal that that city will get bus service as soon as the Indianapolis lines

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Here is a graphic record of what a sudden cold wave means in increased heat consumption—a pressure gauge of the steam heat system of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. The linee to which Miss Margaret Kroeger, company employe, is pointing, is a record of the pressure from 11 p. m. Wednesday to 11 a. m. Thursday. From 11 p. m. to about 6 a. m. the curve is fairly constantalthough the temperature was dropping during those hours, the pressure was not changed because the stores and office buildings were not occupied. But at 6 a. m. a sharp break was recorded, when janitors began opening valves, and further increases , were ■movxutt, 3 a. m. and later, as stores and offices were opened. At 5 p. m. Wednesday, when the temperature stood 55 degrees, the Power and Light Company’s steam plants were sending out to the system 260,000 pounds of steam an hour. At 9 a. m. Thursday, the output was 546,000. The Power and Light steam heat system is one of the largest in the United States, serving more than 2,000,000 square feet of radiation, heating practically all the downtown stores and office buildings. The graph below shows exactly how heat goes up as mercury goes down.

POLICE FIGHT NEW WAVE OF BANDITRY

With five hold-ups following in rarid succession the robbery of the Madison Ave. State Bank, Thursday afternoon, Police Chief Claude M. Worley today again put police on twelve-hour shifts. One of the hold-ups, on Market St. just east of Pennsylvania St., in the downtown evening rush hour, was'one of the boldest in the city’s history, and netted two well-dressed young bandits SSOO. W. R. Carbaugh, R. R. J., Box 101, collector for the Western Oil Refining Company, reported that hq had stopped his auto by the Market St. side of the Fletcher American National Bank to deposit his collections. The two bandits, he said, crowded into the car as he stopped and ordered him to drive on, as one shoved a un into his side. At Market and Oriental Sts. they ordered him to stop and fled east on foot with the SSOO they had taken from his pocket. Later at the Indian Refining Company filling station, Arlington Ave. and Washington St., a bandit in overalls who asked inside to warm himself, forced Attendant Cecil Adams, 25, of 1329 Reisener Ave., to open the safe. He got $63. The Teeters drug store, 1802 Madison Ave., was robbed by a bandit who asked for headache medicine, then pulled a revolver and demanded money. He fled when handed S3O after ordering three customers to stand still in the rear. Fiftee nminutes later a bandit of the same description, who also ordered headache pills, got $23 from the drug store of H. C. Morris at Villa Ave. and Minnesota St.

are unified and equipment :is available. Todd declared that the street railway company now is using several busses belonging to the T. H., I. & E. and that these will be turned back to the traction company as soon as lines here are merged. Unification petitions are pending before the public service commission. Jeffries said the railway company has only one T. H., I. <fc E. bus, and that he expects to get this and two other cars now in use in Indianapolis for Richmond as a result of the merger. Street railway officials have insisted they would give; better bus service when the lines were unified*

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 9,1927

At the Sinclair Refining Company filling station at Prat St. and Capitol Ave. a lone Negro bandit obtained $75. The twelve-hour police shifts started today. Police who went on duty at 7 a. m. will work until 7 p. m. The regular 3p.m.to 11 p. m. shift will work from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m. The regular 11 p. m. to 7 a. m .shift will be on duty from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. Detectives will work twelve hours. Chief Worley ordered two additional motor squads to patrol streets, bringing total number of patrol squads to five. CONNELL MAY STAY Safety BoaVd Expected to Get Democratic Majority. Retention of Fred Connell, Republican, and Ira Haymaker, Democrat, upon the board of safety will be announced soon by Mayor Slack, it was understood at city hall today. Slack, It is believed, has decided to replace Robert F. Miller, Republican member, with a Democrat, to give the Democrats a majority. The new appointee probably will be named as president. A shake-up of the board of works to provide Democratic majority was announced by Slack, Thursday night. He named John McCloskey. former county commissioner, Democrat, to succeed John W. Friday, Democrat, and Oren S. Hack, Democrat, to succeed Oscar F. Smith, Republican, as president. The appointments are effective Dec. 15. ‘MANY POSES MAN’ HELD Wyman Arrested This Time for Claiming to Be Lawyer. Bu United Press _ _ NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—The versatile Sterling Clifford Wyman was under arrest once again today—this time for posing as a lawyer without having been admitted to the bar. He was charged also with selling a list of names, the property of some one else, to th§ American Insurance Company of New Jersey. Wyman previously posed as a naval officer before the late President Harding, as personal physician ot Pola Negri at the time of Rudolph Valentino’s death and gained the confidences of Dr. Lorenz, noted surgeon of Vienna, former Mayor Hylan, Senator Copeland and Princess Fatima of Afghanistan,

G. 0. P. AGREES ON TRUCE IN SENATE WAR Indepen ients Are Promised Vote on Their Pets; Vare Baiiui Today. REED, FESS BACK HIM k Compromise Is Offered by Keystone Colleague to Seat Pennsylvanian. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—A peace pact to protect the slender Republican majority in the Senate was entered today by Senator Curtis, Republican floor leader, and the Republican independents, who had threatened to bolt. ■the agreement was reached after Curtis had assured the independents that a majority of the Republican conference had agreed there should be no unnecessary delay in voting on legislation the independents desire. Curtis announced the peace terms in a brief statement which was followed a few minutes later by a confirming announcement from Senator La Follette, Republican, Wisconsin. Bolt Was Threatened The independents had threatened to bolt unless assured s final vote upon farm relief legislation, a bill to limit Federal courts in Issuance of injunctions, and a resolution for investigation of the policy of the administration policy in Central South America. A compromise to admit SenatorElect William S. Vare, Republican, Pennsylvania, conditionally to the Senate was offered today as a vote neared in his case in the Senate. Senator David A. Reed, Repubican, Pennsylvania, in charge of Vare’s fight for his seat, introduced a substitute resolution which would permit Vare to receive the oath of office, refer his case to the Privileges and Elections Committee for investigation and require that a report be made_by the committee be%e Feb. 8. Vare Given Support The Reed resolution was in the nature of a substitute for the pending Norris resolution. The latter would declare Vare’s credentials were tainted \rtth fraud and corruption and thut therefore he should not be permitted to receive the oath of office, although entitled to a further hearing by the Reed Primary Investigating Committee. Reed promised that if his resolution were adopted, he would concede Vare should be expelled by a majority vote rather than a twothirds vote. Reed’s resolution was proposed after Senator Fess, Republican, Ohio, had defended Vare’s right to be sworn. “If we cannot require a State to elect a Senator, we cannot refuse to give the oath to one it elects,” Fess said. “It Is the popular thing to charge men in high office with fraud and corruption. But the right thing to do is to give the oath to Vare, and I shall vote for it.” Watson Takes Stand Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Any man who comes to the Senate with regular credentials, and with qualifications outlined in the Constitution has a right to be seated in the Senate, Senator Watson of Indiana argued yesterday with Senator Bruce, Maryland, and Senator Robinson, Arkansas. During debate over admission of W. S. Vare, Pennsylvania, Watson cited the case of a man once characterized to the House as a “moral monster.” In those days it was considered something, though in these days it might not be considered a charge against him,” said Watson. “You do not have to resort to generalities of that kind in Indiana, I am sure,” Bruce retorted. Watson already was voted for the various motions to admit Frank h. Smith of Illinois. Senator Arthur R. Robinson, who missed the opportunity to vote gainst Smith, canceled a speaking engagement last night In Newark to remain here to vote on Vare. “Jim Crow” Case on File Bu United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 9.—A suit similar to one in which a Richmond, Ind., Negress, caused a bus driver to be fined several weeks ago, was on file in probate court here today. The action here was brought by Helen Dorsey, Negro, against the Blue Goose Bus Company and asks SSOO damages allegedly suffered when a driver refused to permit her to ride in the bus.

School News Modem school life is not the simple, monotonous thing it used to be. In the eighty-two public and two score private and parochial schools of Indianapolis, some of the most interesting features of the city’s daily life occur. Fvllow school activities through the weekly School Page of The Times. Read it every Priiday.

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Was This Nice? Bu Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 9. Three Newcastle firemen don’t see anything nice abbout this. With the temperature close to zero, the fire department was called by phone with this message: “This is the marshal at Shirley and the town is burning up.” The three firemen made the fourteen-mile trip to Shirley on a truck to find there was no fire and the marshal didn’t know who called.

COLLINS SCORES TWO Special Contsables Told tb Return Phonograph. Activities of horsethlef detectives and constables were scored by Criminal Judge James A. Collins today, when William Minton, 3301 Euclid Ave., horsethief detective, and Frank Snipe, 330 N. Parker Ave., “undercover constable,” were arraigned on charges of fraudulently confiscating the talking machine of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Edelin, Negroes, 615 W. North St. Collins ordered the machine returned before Monday or he would “act so the horsethief detectives and constables will know how this court feels about similar situations.” Mrs.Edelin testified the men showed badges, declared: “We are the law,” and served her with a warrant charging unlawful dentention of property, alleged to have been ordered by a local music company. Company officials declared they knew nothing of it. Minton and Sipe told the court they explained she was delinquent in her payments and she told them to take the machine. WELCOME OCEAN FLIER Captain Haldeman Forced Down by Engine; Banquet Goes on. Bu United Press LAKELAND, Fla., Dec. 9.—Lakeland “welcomed home” Lieut. George Haldeman Thursday night, although the pilot who accompanied Ruth Elder in a transAtlantic flight attempt was in Fayetteville, N. C., wheie he had been forced to land his plane because of engine trouble. Haldeman was expected here late today. State Kiwanis Clubs gave a dinner in honor of the absentee Lakeland aviator and a smoker at which he was to have spoken followed. DOTY IS ON WAY HOME Immigration Law May Bar Soldier of Fortune; Sails Saturday. Bu United Press PARIS, Dec. 9.—Bennett J. Doty, American vagabonding adventurer, is through with wars. i Doty, who saw service under the name of Gilbert Clare with the French Foreign Legion In Algeria and Syria and who enlisted with the A. E. F. during the World War, was in Paris today preparing to go home and peaceful quiet, He will sail Saturday for the United States without knowing if he will be admitted as a returning citizen or will be barred as an alien because he served under the French flag. * • PLAN $135,000 GARAGE Building Will Be Erected at Thirtieth and Pennsylvania. Construction of a $135,000 garage, with capacity of 250 automobiles, at Pennsylvania and Thirtieth Sts., will be begun as soon as weather permits, according to Cartmell-Bur-caw-Moore, Inc. It will be opened about July 1 and will be known as the Embassy Garage, owned by the Embassy Realty Company, directors of which include William W. Hammond, B. E. Kipp, B. C. Cartmell, R. C. Burcaw and J. W r Moore. The building will be of reinforced street concrete construction. Dance by Flashlight Bu United Press NEW V ORK, Dec. 9.—Flashlight dances Jrave become the latest rage of New York society. The only illumination in the ballroom is supplied by tiny flashlights carried in the hands of the dancers.

GRAND JURY QUIZ FACED BY SLACK

With the fact that he had been called as a witness carefully guarded by prosecutors until he was seen entering the room, Mayor L. Ert Slack went before the Marion County grand Jury today. He was there more than an hour. A few minutes later Russell T. Mac Fall, member of the city sanitary board, appeared in the jury ante room. He’ conferred briefly with Foreman William J. Mooney and left. Later he returned with a handful of papers and was before the jury for an houi;. The mayor appeared in the third floor corridor outside the grusd jury

HUNTINGTON FIGHTS TO SAVE ITS LIGHT PLANT AS MILL SQUEEZEOUT IS THREATENED Mayor and Aids Refuse to Stand for Thinly Disguised ‘Grab’ Despite Tax Commissioners , Advice. SERVICE IS GIVEN AT LOWER COST Municipal System Operated for Twelve Years, With Success, Declare Forces Opposing Absorption. “You can buy your power cheaper from In$ull!” This unofficial advice from Tax Commissioners John J. 4 Brown and Will A. Hough has failed to stop Mayor C. W. Snider and city officials of Huntington, in their effort to save the municipally owned lighting plant of that city. The tax board will hold a hearing about Dec. 10 on the question of whether it is cheaper for the city of Huntington to buy its electricity used in street lighting or to make it. Mayor Snider is fighting to keep the lighting plant which has been operated for twelve years and for continuance of which the people of Huntington voted five to one.

He declares that the publicly owned plant shall not be sacrificed and that he will make a determined stand to prevent the closing of the Insull monopoly upon city-owned plants. That the Insull Interests are making a determined drive upon ten or twelve plants now. operated by Indiana cities often has been charged, and to it is laid the efforts of the Insull people to control legislation which* would enable cities to free themselves from the electric monopoly. Light at Low Rate The Huntington plant is operated in connection with the city waterworks and for this reason has been able to light the streets and public buildings at a low rate of cost. Repairs and extensions are needed for the city plant and a $60,000 bond issue has been asked for. It is here that the State tax board steps in to tell the people of Huntington whether thsy can spend their own money for si ch purpose. The domestic rates charged for home use in cities served by the Insull companies indicate to Mayor Snider and his associates that a publicly owned plant serves as a curb on rates. Power coming from the big Insull plant at Dresser, Ind., near Terre Haute, is distributed throughout the State. Competition Cuts Cost The rate in Huntington, where the city plant serves only the street lighting and public buildings, is 9 cents a kilowatt. At Wabash, nineteen miles closer to the source of the power, the rate is 10 cents. But at Ft. Wayne, twenty-six miles farther, with a municipal plant to give competition, the rate is 5 cents. That is one of the reasons why Huntington is determined to keep the present plant, worth $30,000, which Judge Hough has suggested be scrapped. This plant, Snider contends, could be enlarged at any time the citizens of his community get tired of high rates. Judge Just Grunts Brown admitted that he told Snider that he thought the city could buy power from Insull for less than the city could make it, when questioned. Judge Hough, who told the mayor the same thing in more amplified form, only grunted .when asked about it. Figures submitted to the tax board for consideration by John W. Moore, consulting engineer for Huntington, show the cost of producing the current in the city plant to be less than 1 cent a K. W., while Harry O. Garman, reported to be frequently used as consulting engineer by the Insull interests, contends that it will cost almost 2 cents. Garman’s report was referred to by both Hough and Brown. It Is based on comparative producing figures from other Indiana municipally owned plants on coal cost, while Moore takes the actual condition into consideration by which the plant buys steam from the cityowned waterworks. In the Huntington plant steam is purchased by the light part of the

room, without coat and hat, and sauntered toward the jury room with the air of a casual visitor. As soon as the mayor entered the jury room the door was shut Immediately. Appearance of Mac Fall indicated that the jury was Inquiring into the tangle of the city sanitary department, growing out of the political shake-up engineered by Mac Fall before he was shorn of power by Slack’s appointment of a city civil engineer who refused to team with Mac Fall. Homer Florey, a clerk, was the only other witness today.

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plant from the waterworks part. A crew is maintained day and night in the waterworks on account of fire, which decreases the cost. The bond issqe which must be passed on by the tax board was asked last spring in a declaratory resolution passed unanimously by the city council of Huntington. It, contemplated repairing the present plant, which has a maximum capacity of 200 K. W. and adding a 500 K. W. turbine unit. The council action came shortly after Dr. Mark H. Thomas, now deceased, had waged a fight against the Insull interests placing the “active room rate charge” in operation. This method of .charging for current Is fostered by the Insull interests and on order of Public Service Commissioner Frank T. Singleton now is on trial. „ Remonstrance Filed On the last day of the remonstrance period, thirteen taxpayers filed a remonstrance. They were represented by Eben Lesh, law partner of Otto H. Krieg, who represented the city in the matter. Lesh frequently was prompted during a hearing before a representative o' the tax board by members of the ’aw firm of Bowers, Feightner & Bowers, who represent Insull. In the hearing held before James A. Shaughmss, as agent for the board, no witnesses were sworn and no stenographic notes taken. At its conclusion the remonstrators asked for a thirty-day extension, to get expert advice. Prof. Blaylock, of Purdue University was called in, but refused to testify in the case. Then Garman was retained. Insull Is “Recommended” About that time Snider and Ford Paul, city waterworks superintendent, called on Brown. The tax board chairman admitted that he had seen no reports, but told them: “I don’t see why you fellows want to go into this, when you can buy from cheaper.” _ About Nov. 26, Snider and Paul tried to see Brown, but had to talk with Hough. He told them the same thing, but when pressed granted time for the city to have Modre presents report. Last week Snider, accompanied by Arthur D. Sayler, a Huntington attorney, again called on Hough. Hough said that he had had the Garman report analyzed and it had been found correct from the standpoint of figures. “In the absence of other evidence,” Hough is reported by Snider and Sayler to have said, “it is evident that you can buy cheaper from Insull.” Sayler, speaking for Snider, told Kough, he said, that the Garman report was based on comparative cost and worked an unfair hardship on Huntington. Suggests Insull Contract Then after other conversation Hough suggested a five or ten-year contract with Insull. “Such contract would not be binding whenever they got ready to raise the rates,” Sayler told Hough. They argued the matter back and forth, Sayler says, and finally Hough suggested that the city of Huntington junk Its $30,000 plant and an Insull contract. Without the requested $60,000 bond Issue, Huntington still has a bonded debt limit of $125,000. It Is paying the bonded indebtedness off at the rate of $20,000 a year and this year built anew fire station and rebuilt another. Its streets are well paved and the city park system well established. Need No Bond Issue “Except for a possible viaduct to bring a State road through town, I know of nothing this city needs to the next few years,” Snider said, “that would call for a bond Issue. Os course, a calamity of some kind Is not anticipated.” Should the tax board refuse tha bond Issue, Snider Indicated that he had other steps to take, but under no circumstances would he Junk a plant which now makes current for l\i cents per K. W. and could make it for less than 1 cent, If overhauled and additions made. The best rate to be obtained from Insull Interests Is cents.