Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1928 — Page 1

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CITY TO ANNEX AIRPORT TRACT AT BEN DAVIS Officials Expect to Take Steps After Purchase of Site Is Made. HIGHWAY TO BE ADDED Council to Hold Special Session Monday on Estimates. Annexation of the 1,000-acre tract south of Ben Davis which is* being sought as a municipal airport is contemplated by city officials. A main thoroughfare leading to the landing field also will be 'annexed to provide a good highway to the airport and to conform with the annexation law. r Edward H. Knight, city attorney, said the annexation proceidings will not be rushed through council until after steps to purchase the site have ! been taken. Council expects to meet Monday in special session to ,ad opt a plat and estimates to be .submitted by A. H. Moore, city engineer. ) Plans to Be Advertised •* Council will order the airport plans advertised for three weeks fefter adoption of the resolution to purchase and act within four weeks. Bond issue of $680,000 is planned {for purchase and improvement of jthe site. According to an opinion of Knight the residents of the vicinity can {not kill the annexation move by (remonstrance because there will be Eio resident property owners in the erritory annexed. It is planned to (annex a thoroughfare to the airport so an adequate route from the (city Will be assured. Present corporate limits on Morris street extend as far west as Eagle 'Creek. Under the present proposal the city will use Morris street, which is paved, to Plainfield avenue, and follow south of the Vandalia and traction tracks to the High School road, thence south to the airport entrance. Plainfield avenue and High School road will be paved and a wide thoroughfare constructed, looking to future traffic conditions. Morris Route Favored The Morris street route to the city is favored over Washington street, which is the heavily traveled National road, because the route would be shorter and safer. A natural traffic hazard likely would be created by throwing the additional traffic on the National road, because of its width. Use of the High School road beyond the Vandalia, connecting with Washington street, is objectionable because a SIOO,OOO overhead bridge wohld be required, according to Henry Steeg, city plan commission secretary. HOPE HELD FOR LIVES OF 2 LOST IN CANYON Beat to Be Used in Search for Honeymoon Explorers. Bn United Press GRAND CANYON, Ariz., Dec. 22. -—Hope that Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hyde, missing after an attempt to navigate the Grand Canyon, might be found alive, increased today. Rivermen prepared to build and launch a boat at Diamond creek to search for the missing couple It was near there that the Hydes’ empty scow was sighted Wednesday. The couple embarked on a “honeymoon-thrill” voyage down the river and expected to reach Needles, Cal., not later than Dec. 11. They have not been reported since Nov. 15. AFGHAN KING'S FAMILY TO FLEF. FROM CAPITAL Ruler Will Remain at Post Despite Danger of Capture, Bp United Press .• BERLIN, Dec. 22.—Several members of the royal family of Afghanistan will go to Kandahar, 280 miles distant from the capital, Kabul, by airplane as soon as possible, a message to the foreign office from the German legation in Kabul said today. The removal will be a precautionary measure in connection with the revolt. The capital still is in danger of capture. DIES AT BUTLER GAME Excitement Brings on Heart Attack • for Spectator. Stricken with a heart attack brought on by intense excitement just after the close of the first half of the Butler-Purdue basketball game in the Butler university fieldhouse, Friday night, John Vanderploeg, 35, of West Lafayette, died before he. could be carried from the building. The body will be sent to his home today. Surviving are the widow and one chilld. Arrange out-of-town appointments by telephone. Basic rate to DETROIT only sl.3s.—Advertisement.

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Gilda Gray, famed exponent of the shimmy, and of recent note in the divorce courts, is shown here in another role—a mother greeting her son. The picture was taken in Milwaukee, where Gilda, whose maiden name was Mary Michalsky, met her son by her first marriage, Milton Gorecki, 14. Gilda recently sued for divorce from Gil Boag, former manager, and Boag filed a reply charging her vith misconduct with her present manager, C. D. Krepps, with whom she recently returned from Europe.

JOSEPH H. SHEA, EX-JUDGE, DEAD

Well-Known Jurist Succumbs Early Today at Hospital. Joseph Hooker Shea, 65, former judge of the Indiana appellate court and former ambassador to Chile, died at 3 a. m. today at Methodist hospital. Death was due to embolism. Judge Shea had been prominent in Indiana politics for many years. He was a Democrat. Since 1922 he had practiced law here, having an office in the Fletcher Savings and Trust building. He lived at 856 West drive. Woodruff Place, with his sister. Miss Anges Shea. He had been sick two months. Judge Shea was born at Lexington. Ind., July 24, 1863. He was graduated from Indiana university in 1889 and admitted to the bar in that year. He practiced law a year at Scottsburg and then moved to Seymour. He served as prosecuting attorney from 1891-95. and was a member of the Indiana senate from 1896 t/> 1900. From 1905 to 1912 he wto circuit judge of the fourth Judicial district. He served on the appellate court bench from 1913 until his appointment as ambassador to Chile in 1916. He held that post until 1921. Judge Shea was trustee of Indiana university from 1893 to 1916. He was a member of St. Joseph parish here and a .member of the International, American and Indiana State Bar associations and the American Foundation. HEARS LATIN POLICY Hoover Confers on Brazil Coffee Regulation. B,y United Press RIO DE JANEIRO. Dec. 22. President-Elect Herbert Hoover began today the last of a series of informal conferences with officials of South American governments. The welcome accorded the American statesman by Brazil was one of the most • spectacular received anywhere on his tour of LatinAmerica. Hoover had one informal talk with President Washington Luis Thursday. The program for today included conferences with government officials and prominent business and industrial leaders who will attempt to convince Hoover of the soundness of the Brazilian coffee regulation policy. The question of Brazil's acceptance at some future time of the Kellogg anti-war treaty also may be considered.

ALABAMA HEATING PLANT HEARING SET FOR FEB. 6

Public hearing on the petition of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company to abandon their city heating plant at Sixteenth and Alabama streets will be held Feb. 6-7, Commissioner Howell Ellis of the public service commission announced today. The plant serves about 450 north side families. Abandonment is asked because of constant operating losses. This contention of the company is borne out by a survey and audit just completed by the engineering and accounting departments of the commission. The audit covered the last ten years. From Jan. 1, to Oct. 31, 1928, a loss of $22,527 was shown and from Feb. 1, to Dec. 31, 1927, the net loss was $27,983. Revenues for the 1928 period were listed at $91,520 and operating ex-

STEAL TOYS IN CAR Windows in Parked Auto Broken by Thieves. A large assortment of Christmas toys were stolen from, the parked automobile of Albert Reed. 1431 West Twenty-second street, Friday night by thieves who broke the windows of the locked car, which was parked in front of Mrs. Reed’s home. KING STILL IS * SERIOUSLY ILL On the Mend, Doctors Hope; Has Fair Night. By United Press LONDON, Dec. 22.—King George still was in a serious condition today, although medical circles feel that he now is definitely on the mend. The improvement in his condition which set in twelve days ago when his son, the prince of Wales, arrived from his African tour, has been slightly enhanced by the return of his youngest son, Prince George. A bulletin issued by King George's physicians shortly before noon today said: “The king had a fair night. His majesty's condition remains unchanged.” For the last few nights, the king has been sleeping better, but Friday night he did not rest as comfortably as usual. The duke of Gloucester, the king’s third son, will arrive at Southampton Monday on the mail steamer Balmoral Castle from Capetown. He is the only member of the immediate royal family out of the country. New York Stock Opening American Can 103% Anaconda 114% Armour A 15% Bethlehem Steel- 84 Chrysler 121% Cons Gas Cos 104 V* Corn Products 90% Fleischmann 78% Hudson Motor 87% Ihspi ration 42 V 2 Kenn Cod ; ...145% Mid Conti Pet* 38 Missouri, Kan. & Tex 52 N Y Central 188% Pan-Amer Pete B 48% Radio 379 St Paul ;.. 32% St Paul pfd 53% Sears-Roebuck 168% Sinclair - - 42% Std Oil NY ' 41'/, Std Oil N J 53% Stewart Warner 116% Texas Oil 18% Willys-Overland 28%

penses at $114,048, including depreciation and taxes. The 1927 period revenues were $117,090 and expenses $145,074. Profits of SIO,OOB were made in 1918, $26,651 in 1919, $7,828 in 1921 and $9,377 m 1922. Losses were $6,208 in 1920, $1,313 in 1923, $3,806 in 1924, $9,552 in 1925 and $10,251 in 1926. Petition to abandon the plant was filed in January, 1928, asking that the action be taken last fall. Citizens depending on the plant for heat organized to combat the move and abandonment was delayed. Theri contention is that the Indianapolis Power and Light Company knew at the time of the merger of the two electric properties that the heating plant did not pay and that service loss should be made up from the general profits accruing from the merger. *

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 1928

KILL TEACHER, TRY TO BURN HERINHOME Intruder Enters-Cottage as Woman Sleeps; Hard Struggle for Life. STOPPED CLOCK CLEW Think Woman Recognized Robber and Slew Her to Escape Identification. By United Press CARMI, 111., Dec. 22.—Finger print experts from St. Louis were engaged today to solve the mysterious murder of Miss Anna Preher, Carmi grade school teacher, nearly decapitated by an intruder who broke into her four-room cottage while she slept. The crime detection facilities of this small town were too limited to cope with the murder in which the motive appeared to be revenge or robbery. Although the teacher's assailant had attempted to bum the house to destroy evidence that might lead to his cautpre, there were few signs that robbery had figured in the motive. Evidence of Struggle Miss Preher’s pockeibook, containing small change, had not been touched. Throughout the room, however, police found evidence of the truggle the 47-year-old teacher had put up lor her life. An alarm clock had been hurled into the stove. It had stopped at 6 cr 6:30 and police believed the time was Friday morning as Miss Preher was last seen Thursday night at the teachers institute meeting here. She was treasurer of the institute, but all of her funds were in the bank. Miss Preher’s clothing nad been torn from her body and her throatwas cut so deeply that investigators believed the assailant had attempted to decapitate her. Clothing, curtains and walls in the room bore blood stains which told their own story of the fight which had preceded Miss Dreher’s death. Delegates to the teachers’ Institute. In which Miss Preher played a prominent part, missed her at FVlday’s session and fearing illness or foul play, asked police to Investigate. They found the body last night. Robbery Possible Motive Another theory of the murder was that someone may have broken into Miss Preher’s cottage early in the morning for the purpose of robbing her and that when the alarm clock went off shortly after 6 a, m. The robber was discovered. This theory embraces the supposition that the robber was recognized by the teacher and chose to kill her rather than fl " and have her reveal his identity to the police. Pending the arrival of finger print experts, local police were questioning Miss Preher's few men acquaintances. Among them was Isaac Austin, another teacher, was said to have quarreled with Miss Preher.

MILNOR REAPPOINTED Foley Also to Keep Job, Slack Announces. Reappointment of John E. Milnor, park board president, and Michael E. Foley, board member, was announced today by Mayor L. Ert Slack. Milnor is a Republican and Foley a Democrat. Slack declined to comment on the recent conferences with Adolph G. Emhardt and Mrs. Mary Hoss, other members, who he asked to resign a year ago. They declined to resign. Mrs. Lelia E. Taylor and L. J. Borinstein, will be reappointed on the city plan commission when their term expires in February, Slack said. Charles A. Howe, 613 North Euclid avenue, was named coal inspector.

LIVESTOCK DULL AT UNION STOCKYARDS Hogs Receipts Drop to Low Figure of 3,500 Head; Market Up. All kind sot livestock were extremely dull today at the Union stockyards. The approaching Christmas holidays had the usual effect of slowing down trade and buyers and sellers held off action expecting to resume when the holidays are pas tand every one is back into the feel of the market. Hog receipts dropped to the low figure of 3,500 head, with holdovers counted at 176. The market was generally 10 cents higher with the bulk, 160 to 300 pounds, selling at $8.75. A few small lots brought; a higher figure of SB.BO. There was no cattle market on account of the exceedingly light receipts. Veaiers were steady at sl6 down. Sheep action was that of the rest of the market. Not enough on hand to make a price range. Chicago hog receipts were 10,000,700 directs. Holdovers were 4,000. The market today was strong to 10 cents higher. $8.60 was paid for choice 220 to 240 pounds; light weights of 150 to 160 pounds brought $8.25. Cattle receipts were 200, sheep, 2,000.

CASH GIFTS TO BICKNELL CHEER FUND TOTAL $1,500

Hope to Raise $2,500 by Monday; First Truck Leaves With Gifts. HELP BICKNELL Just sixty hours before the drire to make 2,500 children in BirkneH happy on Christmas day doses. The Bicknell Christmas Cheer Fund committee wants candy, toys, food, fruit, nuts and money. Money contributions should be sent to William Dobson, vice-president of the United Labor Bank and Trust Company or The Times. All other gifts should bs taken to the committee’s headquarters at 147 North Meridian street. Money contributions also will be received there. The headquarters will be open Sunday. With $1,507.50 in cash contributions received up toB a. m. today, members of the Bicknell Christmas Cheer Fund committee exerted every resource at their command to bring the fund to $2,500 before Monday noon. The first truck load of candy, toys, food and fruit left the headquarters of the committee, 137 North Meridian street, this morning for Bicknell. Other trucks will follow the one which left today. The committee has expended $750 of the cash contributions received to supplement the gifts. Large Gifts Received Among the large money contributions received are: SSO from Governor Ed Jackson; $350 from the operators interested in the Bicknell coal field; SIOO from the Bricklayers. Masons. Tilesetters and Terrazzo Union No. 3. The Meridian street headquarters of the Bicknell relief fund will be open until late tonight, all day Sunday and Monday, to receive contributions to the drive. Persons desiring to contribute are urged to do so before Monday morning, if possible. Not a penny of the cash contribution collected in the drive is used for administrative purposes. All funds go directly to give Christmas to the 2,500 children In Bicknell. Workers Donate Services Workers at the North Meridian street headquarters as well as persons aiding with trucks are donating their services without cost. The personnel of the workers at the fund committee’s headquarters on North Meridian street are; Mrs. Hugh H. McGibney, chairman in charge; Mrs. Henry E. Hayward, Mrs. Thomas Spencer; Mrs. William Dobson, Mrs. C. A. Owen. Mrs. Mabel I,owe, Mrs. Swett, Mrs. Alice French, Mrs. Robert Shuegler. Mrs. Arthur Wills, Mrs. Kate Perry Morris. Mrs. C. G. Richie. The White Springs Water Company is caring for motor sendee and transportation in Indianapolis. Additional money contributions received up to 8 a. m. today are; Miss Ella Marie Lilly $ 5.00 Mrs. 3. A. Lawrence 1.00 William H. Avant 10.00 J. Harry Snyder 1.00 John E. Kahntck. 1.09 Ed Brockway 5.00 Mary E. Farrell 1.00 Ne Castle friend 1.00 Lena Pitcher, Martinsville 1.00 Hazel Pitcher, Martinsville t.OO Otis Pitcher, Martinsville 1.00 J. H. Thrasher 2.00 E. C. Cooper 5.00 F. S. Caldwell 5.00 A friend .1.00 L. A. Yochem 1.00 Anonymous 1.00 Mrs. Dan Resur 1.00 Stella Taylor 1.00 A. M. Baxter 1.00 A friend 1.00 A railroad man 2.00 Friend No. 8 1.00 Mrs. Max Zimmerman 1.00 Somebody's girl 50 Alice A. Gangeray i.'oo Mrs. Thomas Lynch 1.00 Mrs. O. Edwards 1 00 L. M. Dean 5.00 Frank Switzer 5.00 Betty and Molly Grip 2 00 No Name 2. 00 Harry, Martha Jane and Dorothy Duvall 5.00 L. Anna B. McKinney 5.00 Cash 1.00 Immanual Gleaners Class 10.00 H. D. Louden 500 For the kiddies 200 Cash 2.00 For the little ones 2. 00 L. W. Chilton t.OO Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hoffman 2.00 A Friends 5. 00 O. D. Carr 1.00 Total $ 109.50 Yesterday's total 1,398.00 Grand total *1,507.50 Additional contributions of toys, food, candy, etc., received: R. V. Law Motor Company, oranges, apDles. candy. University Heights Neighbors. toy* canned fruit, miscellaneous. Russell Chatham, toy soldiers. Helen Nicholson, toys and books. Mrs. Leslie Hill, toys and books. Mary Alice Hvdron. toys. B. C. Cartmell. toys and books. John Churchmvi. candy. Dehnker department store, $l5O new clothing. Miss Ruby Doaks. toys and candy. A Friend of Bicknell. canned goods. Another Friend, toys. G. G. Campbell, Brownsburg. toys, candy, food, gloves "-ind hose. Bubbles, candy. Dr. Switzer, malt sugar. L. C. Tripp, toys. Mrs. Nell Davis and sister, canned goods and toys. Mrs. W. R. Jarvis, books, candy and toys. Noel Sauer, candy and fruit. Mrs. E. M. Tomlinson, toys and fruit. Mrs. Homer H. Harvey, dolls and toys. Hoffman Coffee Company, large sack of roadsted peanuts. Mrs. Sanders, toys and clothing. Mrs. Marie Hines, toys. Mrs. James West. toys. A S'. P. Tea store. Forty-sixth and Baltimore. employes and customers, baskets of fruit, candy and food. Mrs. C. G. Wilkinson, candy, popcorn. New York Curb Opening (By Thomson & McKinnon) —Dec. 22 American Rolling Mills 96 '2 Associated Gas 47% Continental Oil 19% Gulf Oil 143 Humble Oil 100 Ohio Oil 74 Standard Oil of Ind 90% Standard Oil of Kentucky 164% Vacuum Oil 96% Standard Oil of Ohio 119 Durant Motors 13% Elec Bond and Share 159% Elec Investor 78‘i United Light & Power 'A' 29% Servel 14% Stutz Mot 3?% Cities Service 87% De Forest 18% Balt Creek 26% Ford of England 15% Curtis Flying Service 21% Bohn Alum 114'% Canadian Marconi 7 Niles B P 197% Fox Theater 34% Hudson Bay Mining 19% Southeastern Power 87% Tran Continental Air 22 United Oas Imp 1*' T ' American Superpower 'A* bOV* American Superpower ‘B’ ........... 53*4

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Dear Santa: 1 would like to have a flashlight. Yours truly , Joe Car gal, Bicknell, Ind. * n u it tt it Dear Joe—They tell Santa you're 11 years old. They say you’re one of the 2,500 children in Bicknell who won’t have a toy to play with on Christmas eve. So vou want a flashlight. We Santas are awful busy, Joe—and your order came so late. Just think how many other youngsters that have to be pleased in T*' - ianapolis and Indiana—and —Bicknell’s sorto out-of-the-way. You know, Joe, the folk of Indiana are busy—busy now with their own broods. You won't mind if we pass you up this year, will you? Os course we couldn't get to you last year, but maybe—maybe next Christmas— Wishing you all the joy and happiness in the Yuletide season and a continuation of that happiness throughout the New Year. Respectfully. ALIAS SANTA CLAUS.

BY ARCH STEINEL BICKNELL is a city of Joes and Marys. They want so Little and they hope so little for their want. The ‘Joe” of the letter is one of a family of nine children. His father, Homer Cargal, earned $250 a month when mines sucked the earth for fuel for railroads, manufactories and homes. He was a mine boss. .. .. The famine days came and with them illness in the Cargal iamily. Up to sixty days ago Joe’s father was among the more fortunate. He was a leader among those who long ago had reached the point where dinner scrapings formed the supper menu. Then his illness and the fathers of the 2,500 seemed to draw in themselves and mutter: “Homer Cargal’s sick. His family need things.” A dreaded end—an end to something—seemed presaged when their own mine boss reached their levl in lif’s tmal tunnling for new chances, better opportunities. Roland, 14, took his father's place at the head of the finny, while “It’s bad here,” explains Roland to visitors, “it isn’t us older ones that Christmas means so much to—but boys like Joe. ’ A man’s utterance out of babe's mouth telling a fretting world that the “boys” need a Christmas —and those “boys” are only three years hiS “You ought to see them come to school.” continues Roland. The words of little Joe’s letter—one of the “boys"—skip through the mind' "Dear Santa: I would like to have a flashlight. just wanting something with a button on it that presses and a h„n goes on. Magic things, these flashlights, arent they, Joe-boj . Dear Santa—We want a flashlight, too. We leant it to hunt you so the 2,500 Joe-boys and Mary-girls of Bicknell will have full stockings on Christmas day. • ■ * • Yours truly, A JOE-BOY AND A MARY-GIRL GROWN I P.

REFUSE BICKNELL PHONE RATE BOOST

‘Great Privation, Suffering,’ Is Reason Given by State Body. Public service commissioners at their conference Friday afternoon refused to grant rate increases at Bicknell to the Southern Indiana Telephone and Telegraph Company “because of the great privation and suffering there.” In denying the petition the order points out that at a hearing in the city it was brought out that pitiable conditions have long existed among the unemployed miners' families and that property values have decreased and business slumped. Rule on Buses Sale of a bus franchise from Indianapolis to Greensburg by William M. Frazee, receiver for the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction, Company, to tne Indianapolis and Southeastern railroad was approved. The line serves Shelbyville. Buses will turn west off Michigan road at Raymond street, then west to Emerson avenue and thence north to the intersection of Emerson avenue with Michigan road under a new routing which was approved. A contract for hydrants on the Richmond State Hospital grounds, made by the Richmond Water Works Corporation, was approved. Mulberry Co-operative Telephone Company was authorized to take over the Peoples Co-operative Telephone Company at Mulberry. The city of Jasper was authorized to Issue $26,000 worth of refunding bonds for expenditures made on municipal power and water plants. Authorize Freight Line A freight line between Bremen and South Bend was authorized. It will be operated by the BremenSouth Bend Motor Bus Company. Authorization was given a lease of the East Chicago Gas Company

CROSSING WATCHMAN ILL, WOMAN HURT IN CRASH

The nine-year, no-accident record of a 67-year-old railroad crossing watchman was ruined this morning by an attack of cramps, and a woman was injured seriously in a trainautomobile crash, which resulted when the crossnig was left unguarded for the first time in almost a decade. Mrs. May Taylor, 40. of 543 Bell street, was hurt seriously when she drove her car across the unguarded crossing into the path of a fastmoving train. While the watchman, Tom Summers, 615 Edison street, at East Michigan street and the Nickel Plate railroad,' writhed in pain on the floor of his watch tower, the train struck Mrs. Taylor’s car, hurled it several feet, and wedged it between the steel posts of the watch tower. The car was demolished. Mrs. Taylor was rescued from the

to the Northern Indiana Public Service Company by which the latter company will use the gas supply system of the Indiana Natural Gas ana Oil Company in East Chicago. Greyhound Lines Inc., were granted permission to purchase the permit of the Blue Goose Lines from Indianapolis to Evansville. DELAY FARM PROBE Condition of County Poor to Be Studied in January. Investigation of conditions at the county poor farm will be made by the January term county grand jury under orders issued Friday by Criminal Court Judge James A. Collins. Collins refused a formal request of county commissioners to impanel a special grand jury to immediately investigate conditions after the retiring grand jury Friday stated that it was believed some of the food products raised at the institution were not to be placed at the disposal of inmates. Commissioners George Snider and Charles Sutton said the insinuations “were very serious” in their demand for a special probe body to clear John V. Carter, poor farm superintendent, and the commissioners. The new grand jury will be drawn Dec. 31, and will report Jan 3. Collins said investigation at the poor farm will be first act of the new jury. Back Broken by Fal! PORTLAND. Ind., Dec. 22.—John Snyder, 83, is in a serious condition from a broken back and exposure. He was injured ip a fall from a haymow at his farm near here and laid helpless in the cold several hours before being discovered by his sister, Mrs. Mollie Coder.

wreckage by two city firemen who were passing on a street car and witnessed the crash. She was sent t ocity hospital suffering from possible fractures of both legs and probable internal injuries. She was alone in the car. Summers, whose post at the Michigan Street crossing of the Nickel Plate is regarded one of the most responsible in Indianapolis, has guarded his record zealously. He was crushed by the accident. Take nto police headquarters for questioning, he explained he had been stricken with a violent attack of cramps a few minutes before the crash. Walter Mauz, 30, of 3705 Stanton avenue, was injured Friday night when his automobile was struck by a Big Four train at Fletcher avenue. He suffered severe cuts on the head and bruises on legs and body.

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UTILITY HIRES EXTRA AID IN METERFIGHT Accountants and Special Counsel Engaged by Water Company. STATE PUSHES PROBE Costs Higher in City Than Elsewhere in Indiana, Survey Shows. Special counsel and accountants have been hired by the Indianapolis Water Company to build a defense of their meterization program which has been ordered on trial before the public service commission Dec, 27, it was learned today. An attorney and Harry Boggs, former commission accountant and now a member of a private accounting firm and termed a “utility lob-' byist," called at commission headquarters to find out what ammunition has been gathered against the meterization program thus far. They learned little, but both the engineering and service departments of the commission continued today to gather facts throughout the city and state. Costs Higher Here Thus far they have found that the water company makes a profit on meter box instalations, that the cost of instalations is generally higher here than throughout the state and that in many cities the entire meter installation expense is borne water companies. The latter imormation has been gleaned in a survey being carried on by William Edwards, chief of the service department. He has traveled more than 1.800 miles and gathered data from sixteen cities. The list includes every county seat town in the state. Today he started on the last leg of his journey and will visit Kokomo, Peru, Rochester and Plymouth.'' Visits to Franklin. Edinburgh, Columbus and Seymour will be made Monday. Must Pay for Pipes Towns and cities already visited include: Shelbyville, Jreensburgh, Rushville, Connersville, Liberty, Cambridge City, Anderson, Alexandria, Marion, Huntington, Fort Wayne, Columbia City, Warsaw, Goshen, Elkhart, Mishawaka, South Bend Michigan City, Gary, Hammond, Crown Point, Rensselaer, Crawfordsville, Lafayette, Lebanon' Greencastle, Brazil, Terre Haute, Sullivan, Vincennes, Evansville, Princeton. Mitchell, Bedford, Bloomington and Martinsville. Facts regarding meterization methods and costs not only are being gathered by Edwards, but also the matter of ho pays for bringing service from mains to curbing. Here the property owner must bear not only the cost of the service pipe installation from mains to curb, but also must pay for repairs of any ever are needed. That, like the local meterization methods, is not the general practice, according to Edwards’ survey. Although complete compilation of the data gatheved has not been, made, it was disclosed that where property holders did pay for meters the cost for a nominal installation was about from $1 to $4 and for box installations about $lO. Asked to Pay SSO According to Senator Robert R. Moorehead he was asked to pay SSO for a box installation in a certain cellarless residence property owned by him. He is to present an affidavit to the commission, being unable to appear on the day set. Water consumers are urged to attend and participate according to Commissioner Howell Ellis, who will preside. The commission investigation was launched after numerous complaints were received regarding allegedly excessive costs of meter installations and allegedly highhanded methods used by the water company in forcing clients to have them put in. RUNNER IS RUN DOWN Police Chase Alleged Booze Conveyer, Seizing 16 Gallons, After a police pursuit of several blocks Friday night, Lawrence Donahey, 28, of 2201 East Washington street, was arrested on charges of speeding, operating a blind tiger and transportation of liquor when police found sixteen gallons of alcohol in his car. Donahey's car was forced to the curb at 714 North West street.

In the Air

Weather conditions at 9:30 a. m. at Indianapolis airport: Southeast wind, 4 miles an hour; barometric pressure. 30.34 at sea level; temperature, 25; celling, 3.000 feet; visibility one mile; haze and smoke. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 22 9 a. m 23 7a. m 23 10 a. m,.... 28 8 a. n 24 * a