Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 175, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1928 — Page 12

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SENATE PROBE GROUP OPENS ; WESTINQUIRY Records of 1926 Quiz Are Read Before Public Lands Committee. SENATE Takes up treasury and post office department appropriation bill. Resumes Boulder Dam debate. Publlo lands committee interrogates Roy O. West on his qualifications for secretary of interior. Post office sub-committee continues investigatioa of southern patronage. Interstate commerce committee considers nomination of three interstate commerce commissioners. Education and labor committee continues investigation of unemployment. HOUSE Naval affairs committee calendar day in house. Agriculture committee hearing on amending packers and stockyard act. Public buildings and grounds committee meets on proposed plans for new house office buildings. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Senators seeking the official scalp of Roy O. West of Illinois, new secretary of interior established the basis of their ca& today without a word of new testimony at the opening of the public lands committee investigation into his nomination. They read the records of West’s 1926 appearance before the primary investigating committee when West admitted he and his family had “a substantial investment” in the public utilities corporations of Samuel Insull since 1397. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Montana, skilled Teapot Dome investigator, who started the inquiry into West’s qualifications, contends West’s investments make him ineligible for his office, which includes chairmanship of the federal water power commission. Insull now has a permit application for a dam in Cumberland Palls in Kentucky pending before the water power body. “The testimony raises a very serious question of West’s fitness

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even if he has disposed of the Insull stock,” Chairman Nye said after the committee had adjourned. West’s friends in the senate said they would establish he had disposed of his water power investments, but they were unable to say whether some of these were still held by members of West’s family. It appears now that the senate investigation will hinge around this point. While the West hearing proceeded, a number of other senate and house committees were busy, but theonly important development was from the house public buildings committee which reported a bill for anew $7,500,000 office building for lower house members. This wa6 done in the face of President Coolidge’s warning against any increase in government expenditures, a matter discussed on the house floor during debate on the treasury and postoffice department appropriation bill. The floors of both houses were occupied with minor debates, in the house over naval bills, and in the senate over the appropriation bill. Boulder dam debate was to be resumed in the senate after disposal of the appropriation measure.

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FORMER CLERK HEADS GIGANTIC STORESYSTEM New Ideas in Centralized Control to Govern Hahn Chain. BY MAX BUCKINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Thirty years ago Lew Hahn was a wrapping clerk in a small New York shoe shop and began forming ideas on operating a store. Today he is one of the biggest merchandising men in the United States, having just formed a company that has acquired 22 general merchandising stores scattered from coast to coast. His plans call for acquisition of one additional store a week, beginning shortly after the first of the year. Whereas Hahn thirty years ago had a salary that would make an

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operation of the twenty-two stores he just has bought. Ideas will be formed in New York and sent out for the guidance of managers of the big stores throughout the country. Men and women who have succeeded at merchandising will be brought to New York and placed in these responsible jobs. In the stores themselves the coveted prize will be to reach a height of efficiency that they may be brought to the center of this vast merchandising enternri.tf

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composed of expert executives and buyers,” Hahn said.