Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1928 — Page 17

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CITY-OWNED PLANT LIGHT RATESLOWER Private Companies in State Get More Money for Service. SURVEY IS COMPLETED Results Will Be Used to Refute Claim Public Is “Utility Minded/ Municipally owned electric light plants in Indiana are offering thousands of consumers lower rates than privately owned plants in cities of comparable size, according to a survey of rates on file at the public service commission. In twenty-eight cities, grouped in fourteen pairs of nearly equal size, the municipal rates are lower in ten instances, even in two and higher in two. Differences run from 1 to 5 cents. In Anderson, a city about the size of Kokomo, the municipal plant sells resident lighting at 6 cents, commercial at 4 and cooking and heaSing at 3. Kokomo’s private plant charges 9, 8 and 5 cents for the same service. Logansport municipal rates are equal to those of the privately owned company at Lafayette and the same comparison holds true between the Mishawaka municipal and the Michigan City private companies. Higher in Two Cities The municipal rate in Rushviile is 2 cents higher than the private rate in Valporaiso. Peru is the other town where higher municipal rates for resident lighting prevails. They charge 7 cents for both resident and commercial lightinng and 4 for cooking. In Whiting, a city of similar size, the rates are 5 cents for residence and 9 for commercial. Only the resident rate is lower, the commercial being 3 cents higher than the Peru municipal plant. Other cities and rates in the survey are as follows: Crawfordsville municipal, residence lighting 7 cents, commercial lighting 7, and cooking and heating 3. Huntington private, 8, 6,6. Frankfort municipal, 6,6, 4; Laporte, 11, 11. Fort Wayne municipal, 5,5, 3; South Bend, 8, 8. Richmond municipal, 6,6, 6; Muncie, 10, 10. Columbia City municipal, .065, 6, 065; Alexandria, 10, 10. Decatur municipal, .075, .075, 4; Elwood, 10, 10. Rushville municipal, 10, 10, 10; Valporaiso, .085, 8, .085. Tipton municipal, 8,8, 5; Plymouth, 10, .095, 4. Washington municipal, 7,7, 7; Wabash, 10, 8, .045. Auburn municipal, 8,8, 8; Noblesville, 9,9, .045.

Survey Arouses Interest The survey has aroused Interest because utility lawyers point out that although the law makes it easy for a town or city to acquire a plant, none have done so during the last year. People are getting the “utility viewpoint,” the assert. The federal trade commission inquiry disclosed that millions have been spent in propaganda to “educate” the public to this viewpoint. Anti-municipal ownership propaganda has thrived in schools, from public platforms and in newspapers, the inquiry disclosed. Repeating a declaration made in a recent public service commission order, Commissioner Calvin McIntosh commented on the Indiana rate survey by declaring that electric light and power schedules are generally too high. “Since this survey Indicates lower rates of municipal plants, it will be of service to commissioners in scanning operating costs of private plants,” Mclntosh asserted. State Can Set Price “With the constantly increasing large mergers of utilities, only the government will be able to offer any competition and thus prevent loss of commission control. “Since the utilities are ardent in defense of private ownership, and perhaps justly so, it is up to them to prove the economy and efficiency of which they talk.” Under the Indiana statutes, the Spencer-Shively utilities law, a community can go into the local courts and prove to a jury that public ownership is advantageous. Then the commission must set a price on the local private properties and the city or town can buy at that price. FINANCIERS HELP” CITY Real Estate Board Hears Address on t Promotion. P. Dwight Peterson, assistant manager of the City Securities Corporation, was the speaker Thursday noon at the regular meeting of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board at the Chamber of Commerce. Peterson spoke on “Real Estate Financing.” He declared financing of office buildings and other structures in the city adds much toward the growth and development of the city. PRINTING PLANT SOLD Formation of the Clarence E. Crippin & Son,' Inc., firm and its purchase of the Enquirer Printing and Publishing Company, 311 East Ohio street, was announced today. Clarence E. Crippin, president of the new firm, was president of the Enquirer company until that company went into receivership several months ago. Other officers of the new organization are Malcom Lucas, vice-presi-dent. and Charles M. Crippin, sec-retary-treasurer. The new company vyill move its plant to 225 North

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‘HEY RUBE’ DAY PAST

Circus Owner Now Raises Birds

iHMHf 2 . performer, and his two sons. Harr .. •** fjjjjflfr A stunts done by performers unde k.\ , cnavas today are just as difficult a 1 those accomplished by their predc cessors, but are done under safe MiIIIm prosecutor is gyfflll FREEDOM

J. H. La Pearl, retired circus owner, with one of his 2,000 White King pigeons and Spangles, traned relative of the big “cats” that once graced the cages of the La Pearl Allied Shows. The kitten has been raised with pigeons and can be allowed around the nests with the squabs, a dangerous temptation for the average feline. “Those were the days” (below) when La Pearl took part in his own show, thrilling the crowd by performing high in the canvas on trapeze and flying rings. IT’S a far cry from a managerie under the white tops of a twentycar circus to the little poultry farm three miles southeast of Indianapolis, where J. H. La Pearl, once owner of the La Pearl Great Allied Shows, now lives. Devoting his time at 67 to raising squabs, chickens and rabbits, the veteran showman recalls the days of forty years ago when his circus was one of the largest in existence —days when happy, shouting youngsters tramped beside the gaudy red parade wagons; nights when “Big Charlie,” La Pearl’s best elephant, dragged the heavy caravan from the clutches of a muddy lot.

“I started with one wagon In 1888 and I didn’t own even that,” explains La Pearl, “but at the end of the season I owned three wagons and three good teams. The show grew, until in 1899 it was surpassed in size only by P. T. Barnum’s and Adam Forepaugh’s.” Show Was Honest Graft and the average circus went hand in hand then, but the La Pearl show bore an unusual reputation. "They called my circus the ‘Sunday school show,’ because I wouldn’t permit shortchanging and the kindred arts,” smilingly remarked the old sawdust king as he recalled the names of several dishonest showmen who “got rich and died respectable.” La Pearl sold his circus thirty years ago to go into a mining venture that proved unsuccessful. Since then he has kept in touch with the circus world only through some old cronies and his son, Harry La Pearl, who .with his wife, holds down an important berth in “Clown alley” with the John Robinson circus. J. H. La Pearl can weave many a vivid account of the "Hey Rubes” or free-for-alls, between circus employes and “towners,” or “rubes,” back in the old days when the circus was law unto itself, fighting for its existence against town drunks and trouble-makers. Battled With Students “When we played Urbana, 111. years ago, the college students tried to drown out the circus band with organized cheering. I warned them repeatedly and then ‘Dirty-face Jack,’ my boss hustler, hitched the teams to the bleachers where the students were sitting. “Several hundred college boys went down with the bleachers and the fight that followed lasted long into the night. When my show played the same date x he following year, the students put out of commission the only street car running to the showgrounds and our crowd was pretty thin that evening ” Declaring prohibition to be the greatest boon to the modem circus. La Pearl tells of the days when women and children were afraid to venture near a circus tent after dark because of the local toughs, who brought their liquor to the show with them. "Hey Rubes” are a thing of the past. The present-day circus will go to almost any extreme to avoid trouble with its customers.

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performer, and his two sons, Harry and Roy, were the youngest bareback riders in circusdom. Commenting on the modem circus, La Pearl explains that the stunts done by performers under cnavas today are just as difficult as those accomplished by their predecessors, but are done under safer conditions.

PROSECUTOR IS FREED ON BOND Los Angeles Attorney Is Linked With Bribe. By United Pre LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2.—District Attorney Asa Keyes was freed on bond today, awaiting formal arraignment Nov. 8 on charges of accepting a bribe in prosecuting the Julian Petroleum stock scandal. A search continued for three men named in indictments in the case. Keyes and Jacob Berman, defendant in the Julian case from whom a grand jury charged Keyes accepted the bribe, appeared yesterday for arraignment, but no motion of Rex Goodcell, attorney for one of the defendants, the action was postponed. It was learned that the action of the Jury was started by three tailors employed in a small shop where Keyes was said to have bartered with Berman on the deal. The three kept a diary which they placed in the investigators’ hands. The diary declared Ben Getzoff, shop proprietor, and his son, Dave, were go-betweens. The grand jury charged that Keyes accepted money in the Petroleum case and then directed the trial so that charges were dismissed. He also is charged with transportation of liquor. The indictments charge that Keyes accepted SIO,OOO from Berman, a $630 watch from Ed Rosenburg and an unknown sum from A. I. Lasker and that Keyes later had further indictments brought against Lasker to extort more money from him.

80 WOUNDED IN RIOTS Students Battle Police With Stones in Lemberg, Poland. Du United Press BERLIN, Nov. 2.—Eighty Ukranian students and Polish police were estimated to have been wounded in Lemberg, Poland, during a disturbance today. Students fought the police with stones, and police replied with revolver shots. HOOKUP FOR LESLIE Candidate Goes on Air Tonight Over Five Stations Five Indiana radio stations will provide the hook-up for an address tonight by Harry G. Leslie, Republican nominee for Governor. The stations are WFBM, here, WOWO, Fort Wayne; WSBT, South Bend; WJAK, Kokomo, and WGBF, Evansville. Auto Kills Nobles ville Man By United Pres* NOBLESVILLE. Ind., Nov. 2. Meade Smith, 45, was killed here today, presumably by a “hit-and-run” driver, police said. His body was found on a public highway, he had apparently had died without gaining consciousness.

Where to Vote The Times has received requests that it print precinct boundaries in Marion county. This would be so intricate and take so much space that it manifestly is impossible. Desiring to aid its readers, however, The Times is prepared to tell voters who telephone for the information where they will vote. Telephone Ri. 5551 and ask for the Voting Place Editor. Tell him what street you live on, which side of the street and between which cross streets. He will give you the address of your voting place.

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BEN DAVIS TO WAGE WAR ON ANNEXATION City’s Move in Connection With New Airport to Be Combated. TAX BOOST IS BUGABOO Wayne Township League Is Leader in Battle on Aviation Action. Residents of Ben Davis today started a movement to block annexation of territory west of the city in connection with contemplated purchase of a municipal airport. Citizens between the city limits and Ben Davis, along the National and Rockville roads and Morris street voiced disapproval of annexation because of the increased taxes which would be brought about by coming into the city. The city administration has shown no inclination to purchase site No. 30, north of Ben Davis, recommended by the Chamber of Commerce airport committee, but it is believed that a move would be begun to annex the territory in event the city should establish a landing field west of the corporation line. Other sites are under consideration. It would be desirable to have the airport in the city limits to control building and real estate activities and make necessary improvements. The plan to organize resident property owners to fight any annexation moves started at a recent meeting of the Wayne Township Civic League, of which William C. Holmes is president. The remonstrance bearing twothirds of the names of residents would be filed in event an ordinance to annex was introduced in council. Several moves to incorporate the town and vicinity have been headed off by citizens who moved from the city to avoid high taxes, it was said. A committee named to organize workers will meet Nov. 8 at Grade School No. 14, National road and Roena street, according to George Mercer, editor of the Old Trails News. Mercer estimated 3,000 persons reside in the Ben Davis, Lynnhurst drive, Mickleyville, and Fleming Garden vicinities, which would be affected by the annexation. CURTIS’ SISTER TALKS Republican Women Hear Speech by Mrs. Edward E. Gann. Five hundred Republican women were on hand at the Columbia Club Thursday to greet Mrs. Edward E. Gann, sister of Senator Charles Curtis. Mrs. Gann is hostess at the Curtis home in Washington, since the death of Mrs. Curtis. Declaring that the Republican party stood for prohibition and immigration restriction she was given a round of applause. Prominent Republican women of the state organization and the Hoover clubs, as well as those on the State ticket, talked.

TURNS THUMBS DOWN Columbus W. C. T. U. Opposes Two Republicans and Dailey. Ry Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Nov. 2. Checking candidates on their stand on the prohibition question, the Columbus W. C. T. U. Thursday, designated as “unsatisfactory,” Frank C. Dailey, Democratic nominee for Governor; David A. Myers of Greensburg, Republican nominee for the Indiana supreme court, and Charles S. Hisey of Aurora, fourth district Republican candidate for congress. | Other Tickets SOCIALIST TICKET PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS—Laura A. Allen, Ellsworth B. Mitten. George a. Tilley. Francisco D. Edwards. William J. McMUlen. Oscar Swlveley, Doneto Ballerinl. Silas Woods. George M. Larralr, Ingersol 8. Walker. Forrest Wallace, Eugene Cooney. Joseph M. Arlington, Gustave Pfoffmati, Jacob E. Schrader. UNITED STATES SENATOR—PhiIIip K. Reinbold. GOVERNOR—Clarence E. Bond. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR—Jacob Mueller. . SECRETARY OF STATE—Mary Fogleson. AUDlTOß—Anthony T. Klingebiel. TREASURER—ArIington Blnlord. ATTORNEY-OENERAL—LincoIn OrlawSkl. SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION—Louis Newlund. \ JUDGE SUPREME COURT (Second district) —Chester Y. Edkins. JUDGE APPELLATE COURT (First dtvlison)—John Truckey. JUDGE APPELLATE COURT (Second division) —Alva S. Hodges. REPORTER SUPREME COURT—Effie M. Mueller. No congressional, legislative or county candidates nominated. SOCIALIST-LABOR TICKET PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS—Alexander Burkhardt, Roland Stevens. UNITED STATES SENATOR Charles Ginsberg. GOVERNOR—Cassimer Benward. SECRETARY OF STATE—Charles Lynch. No other candidates. THE WORKERS PARTY TICKET PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS Bertha Garner. Blagoy Philips. SECRETARY OF STATE—Frank Hotinskl. No other candlates. NATIONAL PARTY TICKET UNITED STATES SENATOR John Zahnd. GOVERNOR—Harry O. Shaw. LIEUTENANT - GOVERNOR Elva C. King. SECRETARY OF STATE—MabeI La Rue. AUDITOR—David L. Campbell. TREASURER OF STATE—W< ley J. Romlnger.

Children Give Community Fund Plays

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School 81, at 1701 North Rural street, is one of thirty public schools which has arranged a community pageant for tonight. Children in grade 1-B, of which Miiss Ruby McCammon is teacher, have worked out a clever skit in which community fund is spelled out by the costumes worn by thirteen youngsters. The taking part In this Dart of the program, photographed above, include (top row, left to right), Lee Aughlnbaugh, Norma Auch, Melvin Davis, Mary Davis, Walter Friehofer, Erna Santaross, Donald

Candidate List for Tues day’s Election

Here is the complete list of candidates of all will ballot next Tuesday. The lists are in the same and printed ballots. REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC FOR PRESIDENT ‘Herbert C. Hoover ‘Alfred E. Smith FOR \ ICE-PRESIDENT ‘Charles Curtis ‘Joseph T. Robinson •Name does not appear ‘Name does not appear on ballot or machine. Vote on ballot or machine. Vote lor IS presidential electors: lor IS presidential electors: Arthur Blnlord Meredith Nicholson Morris Ritchie Frederick Van Nuys James Boonshot A. Clarence Thomas Frank Ollklson Robert W. Mlers Horace M. Trueblood George Badger William A. Guthrie Michael F. Bohland Gall Roberts Leonard B. Marshall G. Andrew Golden Bamuel L. Trabue Charles O. Roemler Samuel E. Rauh Harvey . Swisher Charles Dehority Bert McKinney James L. Romack Charles W. Henley Jacob B. Cunningham Benjamin F. Long George W. Rauch William M. Griffin Ephraim K. Strong Oliver M. Klnnison Lon E. Bernethy FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR Arthur R. Robinson Albert Stump FOR GOVERNOR Harry G. Leslie Frank C. Dailey FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR Edgar D. Bush Addison Drake FOR SECRETARY OF STATE Otto G. Fifleld Arthur J. Hamrick FOR AUDITOR OF STATE Archie N. Bobbitt George W. Sweigert FOR TREASURER OF STATE Grace B. Urbahns Jap Jones FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL James M. Ogden Curtis Shake FOR STATE SUPT. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Roy P. Wisehart John A. Linebarger FOR JUDGE SUPREME COURT (Second District) David A. Meyers Thomas H. Branaman FOR JUDGE APPELLATE COURT (First Division) Elmer Q. Lockyear William Curll FOR JUDGE APPELLATE COURT (Second Division) Noel C. Neal Glen Gifford

PROHIBITION / PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS Basil L. Allen, Henry 8. Bonsib. Harlen Merrick. John E. Thompson, Oliver P. Allen. Jennie Brown, William F. Webster. Ross S. Davis, Stafford E. Homan. James Robinette. Samuel A. Klger, William Johnson. William Elliott, Morris Hlmler, Margaretha M. Nold. UNITED BTATES SENATOR—WiIIiam H. Harris. GOVERNOR—AIbert Stanley. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR Owen Wlerd. SECRETARY OF STATE—devy 1 H.

White, Jane Young, Joseph Kettery and below (left to right), Betty Heath, Carl Priest, Dorothy Moreton and Robert Hooser. Another sketch enacted by the children in grade 1-B shows the work of the Public Health Nursing Association. The young actors in this skit (right, below) are Thelma Gray and Charles Gunther. "The Beggar,” especially written for community fund pageants, is being enacted by the children in grade 6-A. William Wheasler (left at left below) and Robert Williams were caught by the camera as they rehearsed their roles.

parties for all offices upon which Marion county voters order in which they appear upon both voting machines

REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC FOR REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT Genevieve Brown May Hack FOR CONGRESS Ralph E. Updike Louts Ludlow FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY Judson L. Stark Raymond F. Murray FOR STATE SENATORS J. Clyde Hoffman B. Howard Caughran Winfield Miller Arch D. Hinch Robert L. Moorhead Walter O. Lewis John L. Niblack Edward O. Snethen FOR JOINT STATE SENATOR (Marion and Johnson Counties) Joe Rand Beckett ■ John F. Linder FOR STXTE REPRESENTATIVE Thaddeus R. Baker Herman F. Backemeyer Thomas C. Batchelor Howard H. Bates John L. Benedict Henry C. Cox William Bosson Jr. John Lynch Lloyd D. Claycombe Roy T. Milbourn Henry A. Kottkamp Harry B. Perkins John E. King Miss Bess Robbins J. H: Lowry Robert R. Sloan Louis B. Markun John B. Webb Frank J. Noll Jr. Leo F. Welch Frank E. Wright Joseph A. Wicker FOR JOINT STATE REPRESENTATIVE (Marlon and Johnson Counties) [. Newton Brown Michael W. McCarthy FOR TREASURER (Marion County) Clyde E. Robinson Glenn B. Ralston FOR SHERIFF (Marion County) George L. Winkler Charles Sumner FOR CORONER (Marion County) Dr. Charles H. Keever Dr. Robert Dwyer FOR SURVEYOR (Marion County) Paul R. Brown Rush F. Pickens FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER (First District) John E. Shearer Thomas H. Ellis FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER (Second District) George Snider Ernest K. Marker

PROHIBITION TICKET (Continued) TREASURER—LuIIa Swisher. ATTORNEY-GENERAL—CharIes A. Salyer. SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION—AIIen Bowman. REPORTER SUPREME COURT—lsabella Everson. CONGRESSMAN—Edward M. Lent*. STATE SENATORS—Burris W. Adams, Alva N. Clark, William T. Lynn and Hatel B. Schuck. JOINT STATE SENATOR—Oeorge W. Arbuckle. STATE REPRESENTATIVES Jesse R. Blenten, Vernon Creighton, Adeline Denny.

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PROHIBITION TICKET (Continued) Frank W. Hubble, Hettle M. King. Amelius B. Milan. Ralph T. Morse. James Robbins. William F. Schront*. JOINT STATE REPRESENTATIVE—AIfred A. Boa*. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY—CharIes A. De Vore. TREASURER—John Gibson. SHERIFF—John W. Huddleston. CORONER—SamueI T. Johnson. SURVEYOR—Raymond K. McLain. COUNTY COMMISSIONER (First district)—Nettle Abbott. COUNTY COMMISSIONER (Second dla-

$30,000,000 CONTRACT TO INDIANA FIRM Ulen & Cos. of Lebanon Signs With Greece. EXPOSITION AT KOKOMO Forty-Two Concerns Put Products on Display. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Signing of a $30,000,000 irrigation and drainage contract by the government of Greece with Ulen & Cos., Lebanon, which will be associated in the project with John Monks & Son, New York engineering firm, was the outstanding even in Indiana business and industry for the week ended today. The project includes irrigation of the Struma valley, north of Salonika and drainage of the marshes of Philippi and those of the area included in ancient Thessaly. The .contract is the climax of negotiations conducted for several months between Greek government representatives and those of the Indiana company. Kokomo Shows Products Another event of the week was the three-day exposition held at Kokomo, consisting of a display of products manufactured in the city. Forty-two companies took part. The Overhead Door Corporation, Hartford City, has completed an extensive expansion program for 1929, and the first advertising of a national campaign will appear Jan. 5, in a publication of' wide circulation. The company has added three lots to its real estate holdings as a site for additional plant buildings. Electrolock, anew locking device for automobiles has been added to products of the Delco-Remy Corporation’s plant at Anderson. Officials of the Big Four railroad announce plans are being made for erection of a $1,250,000 passenger station at Anderson. A survey for the week shows the following in various Indiana cities: Grcencastle—Work on a $90,000 apartment building here will start Monday. The financing is being done by James G. Cole, Indianapolis. Lebanon—The Empire Securities Corporation has been formed with 2,500 shares of no par value common stock. The corporation will deal in bonds and securities of various kinds, patents and inventions and real estate.

Labor Clash Eased Hartford City—Labor trouble which for a time threatened to cause a shutdown of the American Plate Glass Company here, apparently has subsided and officials announce that half of 300 men who walked out after demands for pay ( increases were refused, have re-/ turned to work. Tecumseh—The Eagles mine of the Eagles Coal and Mining Company here has resumed operations, giving employment to 150 men. Kendallville—Raisers of peppermint in this section of Indiana, one of the few areas in which the crop is grown, harvested a profitable crop this year, with prices from $3 to $3.75 a pound for oil. Announcement is made that on Jan. 1 the Noble county bank and the Kendallville Trust and Savings Company here will be merged under the name of the Noble County Bank and Trust Company, with a capital of more than $2,000,000. South Bend— Net profits of the Studebaker corporation for the third quarter of 1928 are nearly $1,000,000 in excess of those for the same period in 1927, officials of the auto manufacturing company announce. Block & Kuhl, operating four large department stores in Illinois, will establish a store here about Dec. 15, in quarters on which a seventeenyear lease has been signed. BANQUET'FATHefS?-80NS Historian to Speak at Church Dinner Tonight. Ross S. Lockridge of Bloomington. historian and lecturer, will speak on “George Rogers Clark,” at the fathers’ and sons’ banquet at the Tabernacle Presbyterian church at 6:30 tonight. Sons appearing on the program are: Meredith Shaffer, Emsley Johnson Jr., Charles Tevebaugh, Harold Dunkell and William Boswell. The Nitwits, a quartet from Shortridge high school, will entertain. J. A. Brookbajik, R. B. Wilson and E. T. Shaneberger have charge of the banquet. Men wishing to bring boys to the banquet are requested to call J. B. Martin at the church. KLAN SEEKS QUASH Move to Strike Out Twenty-six Parts of Complaint in Ouster Suit. Motion to strike out twenty-six parts of the state’s complaint against the Ku-Klux Klan, in which revocation of the klan’s Indiana charter and appointment of a receiver for the organization are sought, was filed In circuit court Thursday by klan attorneys. Special Judge Frederick Van Nuys will set a date for hearing of arguments on the motion soon. Van Nuys recently held Attorney General Arthur L. Oilliom had authority to bring the ouster suit in overruling the klan’s objection that Gilliom was not acting in proper