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TWO MURDERS MAY BE LAID TO ACTIVITIES OF STARTLING STEUBEN COUNTY CRIME RING

Investigators Declare Corruption Plot Among Worst in History. AID GIVEN RUM DEALERS Angola Was Base of Operations for Liquor Running Gang. BY BEN STERN Time* Stall Correspondent ANGOLA, Ind., Jan. 4. —Two murders and a connection with an auto theft ring centered in Indianapolis which resulted recently in prison terms for thirteen persons may he linked with an official corruption ring in Steuben county which investigators declare is one of the most flagrant in Indiana’s history. Miss Marion Durbin, found dead with tier head battered in in a Ft. Wayne apartment, last August, had ben seen in the company of a man connected with the Steuben county case, investigators assert. Tommy Burke, one of four men who robbed the First National bank here, was the victim of the second slaying believed a part of the ring’s operations. Legal and police powers of Indiana are concentrated in the county today in an effort to clear up the situation. Arrest of at least six persons prominent in the public and political life of northeastern Indiana on affidavits made on information provided by between forty and fifty witnesses will be attempted within the next twenty-four hours. George McHie, assistant chief of state police, declared affidavits will be sworn out following a conference of Merl Wall, assistant attorney general, who arrived here today; McHie, State Police Lieutenant Charles Bridges Forest Huntington, investigator for the state criminal investigation and identification bureau, and T. A. Redman of Kendallville, special prosecutor. Evidence collected by the investigators will be presented to Wall. The evidence is expected to show the following: 1. The fact that Angola has been the clearing house and refueling station of a gigantic bootleg ring which operated all through Indiana shipping liquor by truck through Ft. Wayne and Detroit, Mich., via Angola, to Ft. Wayne, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Evansville and points in Kentucky. 2. That bootleggers were accorded adequate protection and guard by officials on the lap of their journey to Ft. Wayne. Declare Officials Knew 3. That powerful law enforcement officials were cognizant of this traffic but made no attempt to stop it. 4. That members of this ring with whs" tis believed to be official aic Manned and executed daylight h- Jup of the bank early in the me |ng of May 8, 1928, in which sl6,v / in cash and $90,000 in negotiable mds were obtained. 5. That for some undivulged reason, n all official investigation of the crii was made by officials of Steuben pty. 6. Clay and the later burning of the b of Burke, alleged to be one of t oank bandits. The body was f our Uug. 22 in the smouldering ruin a bam on an abandoned farm ne Fremont, a short distance north < jngola. 7. Wb persons or person was respons , for the placing of an automo I driven by the slain bandit sou In the garage of Charles Zimme ,n. then sheriff, adjacent to the unty jail. The car was disco v Aug. 22. ,nk Sheriff in Case 8. H the pistol belonging to £ jiff Zimmerman, taken from • irawer in his desk in the jail office happened to b-' in the car. 9. Who placed suitcase and other belongings of Burke in a loft over the jail garage. 10. Why no definite action in the case was taken by Steuben county grand jury. 11. Who called Sheriff Zimmerman at 4 a. m.. May 8, just before the robbery and what was the call he answered that took him away from the office. 7,800~d7e of choLera Epidemic Takes Heavy Toll in India in Four Months. By United Press BOMBAY. Jan. 4.— A virulent sholera epidemic is raging in Travancore state, and 562 deaths occurred during the last week in December, it was learned today. Dur. ,ng the last four months, 7.880 have died from the disease among 14,000 who were stricken. Seven Killed by Storm in Japan JB!hl it'd Pres* TOKIO, Jan, 4.—Sewn were killed and twenty-six .njured by a blizzard which swept northwestern Japan Thursday, an official annoracemeent today said.

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Dry Row Flares in Congress Sentencing of Michigan Mother to Life Term Causes Fight. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—The prohibition issue flared up in the house today when Representative Ketcham (Rep.) Michigan, rose to defend his state for sentencing Mrs. Etta Mae Miller, a dry law violator, to life imprisonment on a fourth conviction. Ketcham read a newspaper editorial which assailed wets of other states for criticising Michigan laws. He said his state needed “no gratuitous advice from members from New York and Illinois.” Representative La Guardia (Rep.-) New York, jumped to his feet and attacked Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, for approving such severe punishment. “That is an example how far some people will go in an effort to justify a law which cannot be enforced,” he shouted. Majority leader Tilson stopped the debate and the house got down to business. JUST A STORY BOOK “How to Get Rid of a Woman” Author Is Married. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—Edward Anthony, who recently published his novel, “How to Get Rid of a Woman,” announced today his marriage to Miss Esther Howard, a Brooklyn artist. The couple met when both were employed in the publicity offices of the Hoover-Curtis campaign last fall. STREET STALLS - TO GO Market Stands Will Be Moved After Complaints. The board of safety will remove city market curb stands from Delaware, Alabama and Washington streets around the courthouse, in response to complaint of county commissioners that the noise of hawkers disturbed courts, Fred W. Connell, board of safety president, announced today. ‘PEACHES’ EYES PARIS But Mother Denies Mrs. Browning to Be Night Club Hostess. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—“ Peaches” Browning, wife of Edward (Daddy) Browning, is considering a trip to Paris, it was learned today. Her mother and her personal representative denied, however, reports that she Is to be a hostess in a Paris night club. INDIANS PERIL CITY Americans in Danger as Town in Ecuador Is Besieged. By United Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Jan. 4. Five thousand Indians threatened to attack and pillage the city of Riobama today, in mutiny against the government, according to reports received here. A number of Americans are periled. PAROLE iS APPROVED Jackson Puts O. K. on Release of Johnson From Prison. Governor Jackson today approved the parole from Indiana state prison for ninety days of Charles Johnson, Negro, who acted as houseman for several years at the Jackson summer home at the Dunes. Johnson was sentenced for life for murder in Delaware county in 1919. LESLIE MUM ON~PLUMS Governor-Elect Has 15 Applications for Adjutant-General, He Says. Governor-Elect Harry G. Leslie saw a few friends at the statehouse today, announcing he had no appointments to 'ke public, but had "about fifteen applicants for the job of adjutant-general.”

MOTHER MACHREE DEAD; SON’S SONG LIVES, MEMORIAL TO LOVE

BY JACK POWERS Press Staff Correspondent CLEVELAND. Jan. 4.—Funeral services will be held here Saturday for a mother who inspired the song about which an entire nation has sung—“ Mother Machree." Mrs. Nannie Ball, 72, who died Thursday at Beechurst, Long Island. and who is credited with being the mother immortalized in that song, will be laid to rest in

Steal Epidemic Millions of Flu Germs Taken; Fear Serious Outbreak.

Bit United Press LONDON, Jan. 4.—A number of glass tubes containing millions of influenza germs were stolen by an unknown person from a doctor’s automobile today. Authorities feared the tubes might be broken unwittingly, causing an influenza epidemic. The theft occurred while the doctor’s automobile was parked on Brook street in the fashionable west end district. The culture tubes were left unguarded in the automobile of Dr. M. R. Brady by Dr. W. M. Crofton a bacteriologist. Dr. Brady said: “If the tubes are broken there is undoubtedly danger of their contents causing an influenza epidemic. “The cold probably would kill the germs if they were exposed to the air but in warm hands or indoors in warm atmosphere they would survive and multiply.” BEATS DEATH TO SON’S SIDE Races 1,000 Miles by Air, Rail and Auto. By United Press CINCINNATI, 0., Jan. 4.—W. S. Perutz, Hartford (Conn.) theater manager, beat aeath in a 1,000mile race to the bedside of his son, Carroll, 7, here, but physicians today were not sure his victory would be long lived. Carroll, ill from scarlet fever, was still in a coma today and doctors expected the crisis momentarily. Perutz, meantime, was at the home of his brother here. The theater manager, advised in Hartford Wednesday night that his son’s death was imminent, raced to Cincinnati by airplane, automobile and train. He arrived late Thursday. The boy was too ill to recognize him and after spending a short time at his bedside Perutz went to the home of his brother. The lad’s -mother is quarantined with him. She has maintained a constant vigil at his bedside. MOORE SELLS HOUSE ExrCounciiman Gets Little Less Than $25,000. Boynton J. Moore, former city councilman, has sold a house at 5706 Washington boulevard, to Fred W. Connell, president of the board of safety, for a “consideration a little less than $25,000,” it was announced today by B. M. Ralston, realtor. Ira P. Haymaker of the agency, and Democratic member of the board of safety, negotiated the deal, it was announced. In part consideration Moore took in exchange Connell’s home at 3609 Salem street. Moore was one of the city councilmen who resigned after indictment recently. ‘GYPS’ PEGGY IOYCE Forges Name to Check and Gets Away With, It. By United Press NEW Jan. 4.—Broadway is awaiting with eagerness the sight of a man who allegedly “gyped” Peggy Hopkins Joyce, veteran wife of millionaires. Denver police advised that Joseph E. Bolton, 35, whom Peggy accuses of indorsing her name to a $250 check, and getting the money, is under arrest. Peggy professes not to be bothered about the money. “It’s the principle, my dear,” says she. IMPARTIAL QUUTURGED Senator Seeks Nonpolitical Probe of Prohibition. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 4.—lnvestigation of prohibition by a nonpolitical and impartial commission rather than a committee of the senate was suggested today by Senator Edge (Rep.) New Jersey, a wet. Edge introduced an amendment to the Jones bill which would carry out his proposal. Probe Death by Bullet Bu United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 4. William Hall. 24, died here today from bullet wounds, said to have been accidentally inflicted by George Kelly. West Terre Haute, or Ted Jeffers, 24. both held pending an investigation.

a grave beside that of her son, Ernest R. Ball, composer of the classic. Just a year before Ernest Ball, native Clevelander, died, in May of 1927, his mother sat in a box iu a downtown* theater here and heard her son sing the song to her from across the footlights. And for twenty months alter the son’s oeath until her own death this week, Mrs. Ball would i

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JAN. 4, 1929

POLICE HUNT PETTIS LOOT, SEVEN HELD Move Ton of Coal Looking for Money; Find Only $lB. ‘TWO-TIMING’ BARED Chicago Gangsters Beat Local Men to ‘Job’; Left in Lurch. Police Chief Claude M. Worley and two detectives today moved a ton and a half of coal in the investigation of a clew which it was thought might lead to the recovery of some of the $6,000 loot taken in the Pettis Dry Goods Company store safe robbery the night of Dec. 27. With two more men under arrest in Chicago and one more held here, police today had a total of seven of the alleged Pettis robbers behind bars, four here and three in Chicago. Resists Arrest The additional Chicago arrests were made by Detectives Claude Stone and George Stone who fought a rough, and tumble battle ,in the apartment of one of the Chicago gangsters before they were able to subdue him. The coal-moving loot hunt here followed interception of a note which one of the local men attempted to slip out of county jail. The note directed the receiver to get a brief case from a shed in the rear of the suspect’s home and make a get-away with it. Worley, at once took Detectives John White and Emmett Englebright to the shed and directed a thorough search. A tin can containing eighteen $1 bills was all that was found, however. The suspect then was summoned to police headquarters to explain the mystery of the brief case. Tell of Double-Crossing With the arrest of the additional suspects police gave hints that a thrilling story of “dpuble-crossing” is involved in the story of the Pettis robbery. The local gang involved in the robbery received none of the loot and only one of the local men, “the inside man,” an employe of the store, actually took part in the crime,” it is reported. The other local yeggs stole the torches and dynamite caps used to blow the safe and cached them at an appointed blace. They were to join the Chicago gang later and stage the robbery. Instead, the Chicago gang picked up the burglar tools ahead of time and went ahead with the robbery, leaving the Indianapolis bad men in *he lurch. The two men arrested in Chicago Thursday night, according to a long distance report to Police Chief Worley today, are Benjamin Solkem and James Martin, alias Wilson, both with a nation-wide reputation. Their arrest followed the arrest of a James Burke by Detectives Stone and Johnson at Chicago, Wednesday night. Makes Desperate Fight Solkem fought desparately before he surrendered, the officers said. In his apartment were found guns and some of the jewelry taken from the Pettis store. Martin, under the name of Wilson, according to the detectives, was sentenced to Folsom penitentiary, California, for life in 1916, and escaped. He also previously had served terms in San Quentin prison, California; Sing Sing prison, New York, and federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. Solkem, according to the records, served a sentence in Sacramento, Cal., in 1918 for burglary, was sentenced to Sing Sing for six years for robbery in 1914 and in 1920 was sent to the Folsom penitentiary for a postoffice robbery. Detectives now are seeking three more local men said to be involved with the Indianapolis robbery gang. Burk Waives Extradition Burke, according to word received by Worley, has waived extradition and likely will be brought here today. If the other two Chicago men attempt to fight extradition he will ask federal ald in, bringing them here. Postoffice receipts were in the robbing loot. ‘ Both Wilson and Burke, according to the Chicago reports, have admitted their part in the robbery and said Solkem was the safe expert who blew the Pettis strong box. Solkem has refused to confess anything. Fatally Hurt as Trci Falls CAMDEN, Ind., Jan. 4.—lnternal injuries received when struck by a falling tree proved ■ fatal today to Ray Lenon 40.

hum the tune of the song and comment to herself, and close friends said that with her son’s death the greatest thing in ner life had passed out, according to Miss Ruth Ball, her granddaughter apd daughter of the author who lives here. • Such was the feeling of the mother to *a son whose own filial love brought him to write a song which gripped millions of persons

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The little god of love’s first victims of 1929 were Mr. and Mrs. Everett Downey, 512 North Delaware street, shown here. They had to go to a lot of tiouble to win the honor. The marriage license bureau was closed New Year’s day, so they hunted up Horace Lineback, deputy county clerk, at his home and got the necessary papers. Then they went to the residence of the Rev. C. B. Riley, pastor of the Garden Baptist church, 314 Bright street, and were married Wednesday evening. Mrs. Downey was Miss Floris Davis, 310 East St. Clair street.

TIME FLIERS SET FOUR RECORDS

STREET PROJECT 0. K. City Engineer Approves Move to Widen Sixteenth Street. Adoption of a declaratory resolution to widen Sixteenth street from Northwestern avenue to Delaware street and eliminate the Illinois street job was recommended to the works board today by City Engineer A. H. Moore. He said the work probably will be actually begun this summer. It is estimated that the property to be acquired will cost $327,000 and the construction of new roadway SIIO,OOO. The street wil be eighty feet from one property line to another. UTILITY INQUIRY SET Probe of Publicity Methods to Be Renewed Jan. 10. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—The federal trade commission will resume its investigation of the publicity methods of public utilities Thursday, Jan. 10, it was announced today. Hearings were interrupted about two months ago, when the Electric Bond and Share Company of New York refused to produce certain records which the commission called for. SANITY PLEA IS DENIED Governor Refuses to Appoint Commission for Lovers. By United Press FRANKLIN, La., Jan. 4.—Judge James D. Simon today refused the request of attorneys for Mrs. Ada Bonner Leboeuf and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher for the appointment of a lunacy commission to inquire into the sanity of the couple condemned to die on the gallows Saturday for murdering Mrs. Leboeuf’s husband. MANY OLD FOLKS WED Run on License Bureau by Graybeards Laid to Cold. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 4.—Cupid is cutting capers among the oldsters in Chicago these wintry days. Within the last twenty-four hours more than a dozen persons who have passed the sixty-year mark have taken out marriage licenses. County Clerk Robert M. Sweitzer says it always happens when the mercury drops down around zero. Brands Lincoln Letters Fakes By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. 4. Worthington C. Ford of Boston, past president of the American Historical Society, today said there is not a genuine document in the whole collection of alleged Abraham Lincoln love letters being published in the Atlantic Monthly.

who scarcely knew who wrote it. Mrs. Ball's body was to be brought here Saturday morning, and after short services will be buried in Lakeview cemetry. When the funeral of Ernest Ball was held here, a string qi artet strummed ‘ Mother Machree,” and that is the tune that will be heard Saturday, as Mrs. Ball is laid to rest. The song, “Mother Machree"

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World Sustained Flight Mark Is Set in Tour of Question Mark. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 4.—The giant army monoplane, Question Mark, shattered its third endurance record early today and roared on over southern California to amass more ’’glory. The world record for sustained flight— 6s hours 25 minutes—now held by Johann Risticz and Wilhelm Zimmerman, Germans, was bettered by the Fokker tri-motored plane at 1:51 a. m. (Pactic time) today. The sixteenth refueling of the Question Mark occurred over the El Centro airport this morning. Although the army plane had surpassed the Germans' record, their plane was not refueled in the air and their mark will stand. So far more than five and a half tons of gasoline have been transferred from the two contact planes to the Question Mark without accident. Added to that was onehalf ton of oil and more than 100 pounds of food, newspapers, magazines and cigarets. The second record smashed by the pioneer fliers was the world’s endurance mark for planes refueled in the air. The giant triple-motored Fokker equalled that mark at 7:33 p. m. (Pacific time), Thursday night, and at 8:33 had officially broken it by remaining in the air the extra hour required by international rules. The previous mark was held by Adjutant Louis Grooy and Sergeant Victory Groenen, Belgian aviators. They flew sixty hours and seven minutes, June 2,3 and 4, 1928. Earlier in the day the army aviators had passed the American sustained flight record for planes refueled in the air which was held by Lientenants Lowell Smith and Paul Richter. That mark was thirtyseven hours fifteen minutes and forty seconds, established in San Diego in 1923. STATE GETS 1,129 ACRES Takes Over Deed to Ninth Park Located in Brown County. Fine. acquisition by the state of the nL th state park, of 1,129 acres, valued at $30,000. was announced today by Richard Lieber, conservation department director. Brown county commissioners turned over to Lieber deed to the 1,129 acres in that county which will be used for the park. Three Rum Runners Shot By United Press LEWISTON, N. Y., Jan. 4.—Three alleged rum runners were wounded, two seriously, here today, in an encounter with United States border patrolmen. The men were taken to a Niagara Falls hospital.

was first used in one of Chanucey Olcott’s shows, according to Ruth Bali. She was unable to say which of the shows it was, or the year in which it came out. At the time Ball was about 27 years old and with his mother was living in the east. The home in \Vhich the author and his mother lived when he was a small lad in Cleveland, still stands.

WATER COMPANY TO PAY FOR METERS; CONSUMERS TRIUMPH IN $250,000 FIGHT

Slayer May Quit Prison as Minister Clemency Granted Farm Boy for Killing of Paramour’s Mate. By United Press MADISON, Wis., Jan. 4.—John Beier, the farm boy of Chipmunk Coulee, whose love adventure led him to murder, will emerge from the Wisconsin state prison a potential evangelist. Falling under the influence of a strange woman, twice his age, when he was only 14, Beier one day broke from a closet where the woman had kept him concealed for months, shot her husband and fled. Governor Zimmerman today granted clemency to the 29-year-old prisoner who has served eight years of a life sentence. The Governor commuted his sentence to fourteen years, the minimum for second degree murder, making him eligible for an immediate parole. Beier entered prison with a fifth grade education. During his confinement he studied through high school subjects, finished three University of Wisconsin extension courses in architectural drafting and two Bible institute courses, one in evangelism. “I may go to work as an evangelist, or in some of the other lines I have studied,” Beier said. VARE HELD INVALID “Helpless” Says Attorney; Can Not Appear at Hearing. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Senatorelect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania was described as a helpless invalid today by Francis S. Brown, his attorney, at a hearing before the Reed special elections investigating committee. It is impossible for Vare to appear before the committee at this time without jeopardizing his life or to know when he will be able to conduct his case in person, Brown said. SCHORTEMEIER AID Ex-Secretary of State Gets Job From Fifield. Frederick E. Schortemeier, whose tern as secretary of state expired Dec. 1, has been appointed an assistant secretary of state, temporarily, at $2,000 a year, by the new secretary, Otto G. Fifield, it was disclosed today. The employment is part time, Schortemeier having gone into private law practice. Fifield announced that Schortemeier is partially filling the post left vacant when Herman B. Gray, resigned as Schortemeier’s assistant in October. TAKE UP BILL JAN. 10 House Reallocation Measure to Get Hearing Soon. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Majority Leader Tilson announced today the reapportionment bill for reallocating the house membership according to population movement during the last twenty years will be taken up Jan. 10. He said he would ask the rules committee for a special committee to take up the measure and the bill would be acted upon promptly. KILLED , AS BURGLAR Shot by Wife of Friend Through Mistake. 1 United Prttsts WILKESBARRE, Pa., -Jan. 4 Mistaken for a burglar, Charles Merelli, 30, of West Wyoming, was shot and killed today by Mrs. Anha Manta, 19, at her home in Exeter. Tire dead man was a close friend of her husband. According to Mrs. Manta, she had been living in fear of burglars. COTTON FROCKS FAD Popular on Southern Beaches First Time; He ! p in Getting Tan. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—Cotton frocks, created to permit the wearer to become tanned easily, are the predominating features of the new styles which are being worn at Miami, Palm Beach and other southern winter resorts in the south. New York fashion experts reported this was the first season in many years that cotton had met any social recognition. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 20 10 a. m 30 7 a. m 20 11 a. m 34 8 a. m 21 12 (noon).. 37 9 a. m.... 25 1 p. m 39

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Public Service Commission Orders All Costs on Corporation. AFFECTS 25,000 HOMES Utility Surrenders After Flood of Evidence Is Submitted. All future meter installations, including cost of pits, must be paid by the Indianapolis Water Company. ►Such is the order passed today by the public service commission. It means a complete victory for protesting consumers and an estimated saving of $250,000 to owners of the 25,000 properties where meters *sll are to be installed. The company surrendered its right for a hearing in the matte*', which was set for Jan. 7. The order is not retroactive, however, and the same 65,000 persons who have paid for water meter Installations since 1923 will not be recompensed. Cpmmission Orders Probe Such order would have been Impossible in the face of the 1923 commission order, approving the company’s meterization program, It was pointed out. After numerous complaints of high-handed measures of the company in forcing meters to be Installed and alleged excessive costs of such installations, the commission launched its own investigation in charge of Commissioner Howell Ellis. Wide publicity was given a public hearing in The Indianapolis Times, and when it was held in the house of representatives, Dec. 27, numerous citizens appeared to complain of their treatment ’ y the company. Dynamite in Meeting Commission engineers and accountants were loaded with facts and figures, but the irate citizen took the stand and injected verbal dynamite into the meeting. They told of how their water was shut off, when it had been paid on a flat rate, because they didn’t Install meters; of how numerous Inspectors came to feel the bathroom faucets to see if they were leaking, and of numerous other instances which they believed justified complaint. Protest to Frank Jordan, a company official, according to one of the witnesses, brought the reply that the public service commission had ordered the company to carry on in that manner. Ellis declared that the company had been “passing the buck.” The 1923 commission order stated that the company should proceed to secure full meterization. All action was halted by the commission when the investigation was • launched. Company Made Profits The commission learned that the company made a profit on materials for pit installations and that In some Instances costa to consumers had been as high as SSO. At the close of the public hearing, Fred Bates Johnson, attorney for the company, asked for time to prepare their side of the case. The commissioners, all of whom sat in the hearing with Ellis, set Jan. 7, as the company hearing date. A letter dated Jan. 3, was received by Ellis from H. S. Morse, general manager of the company, asking that the hearing be cancelled. This was done at today’s conference and the order for free installation by the company passed. It applies to all unmeterized properties, except new construction. Commission Makes Comment The commission order comments' “While meterization appears desirable, it should not be continued except under modified regulations and practices. The practice of requiring consumers to meet the cost of meter installations appears, from the evidence, to be particularly burdensome at this time. The company has been too quick to adopt the extraordinary measure of shutting off service in dealing with its patrons. The existing practices, in some instances, have been arbitrary and unreasonable and have strained the public relations of the company.” The order then requires free installations, “including pits,” that the flat rate hold when paid in advance, and that no meter deposits be required on rental property where the owner and not the tenant pays the water bill. If there are any such deposits, the orcer requires they be refunded at once.

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