Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1929 — Page 12

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CITIZENS HELD LEGAL OWNERS OF GAS PLANT Attorney, Associate of Organizer, Declares Claim Is Just. Oscar L. Pond, 1109 Peoples Bank building, utility lawyer, today expressed the opinion tni *>>e Citizens Gas company financial plan, whereby the city becomes owner of the property, is fundamentally “sound” and that the city has an enforceable claim to the $20,000,000 plant. Pond was a business associate of the late Alfred F. Potts, attorney, who organized the Citizens Gas company as a public charitable trust. Belief that the gas company agreement is “airtight” and free from flaws which will enable selfish financial interests to prevent the city from taking over the property, as originally intended, was expressed by Pond. Dream of Potts’ Life. “The life dream of Mr. Potts was to see the gas company plan a successful utility and ultimately have it become property of the city. He was a very capable organizer and financier and always went to the bottom of everything he undertook.” Pond declared. The late organizer of the utility spent a year In England studying financing methods and costs and processes, preliminary to formation of the gas company here. He had experience in formation of the old Consumers Gas company and sought to “eliminate all possible > mistakes” in the franchise with the city, which was signed in 1905, when John W. Holtzman was mayor. Holtzman and Fred C. Gause are special attorneys representing the city's interest and drafting proposed legislation creating a utility board which will enable the city to manage the properties. Wizard as Organizer Potts was known as a wizard at organizing financial corporations and was successful in many projects which still stand as a monument to his efforts. “It was the idea of Mr. Potts that the citizens buy stock in this project and naturally they would own it in the end. He had opportunity to make huge individual fortune, but refused to accept any profits, because he thought it would be wrong. • “He never did anything of which he was more proud than formation of the gas company. He had the advice and counsel of some of the best attorneys and business men in the city. The project was launched on such a public basks that there was no question as to feasibility of the plan or the final working out of it. “I personally can’t see any reason why the city can’t own it, because the citizens have made it what it is today. The original plan was sound and the values are there, because the rates have put them there.

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“The good will is a public good will. The original motives were a public proposition.” Pond pointed out the desirability of issuance of bonds at 5 per cent to redeem the common stock, to check as soon as possible the } lO per cent interest being paid to certificate holders. NOTABLES TO SPEAK French and German Writers on Program Tonight. Wolf von Dewall, editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung, and an official of the Frankfort (Germany) Rotary Club, and Pierre de Lanux, French publicist, will give a joint lecture on “Franco-German Relations and World Peace” at Caleb Mills hall, new Shortridge high school, at 8 tonight. . Under auspices of the Indiana Council on International Relations, Dewall and Lanux will discuss diplomatic relations and the growing friendship between their countries. A group of Indiana university students is to attend the lecture. Mrs. Dewall, a noted sculptress, will accompany her husband. They will be guests of friends here. Lanux will be entertained at dinner by members of the L’Alliance Francaise. Ray S. Trent, executive committee chairman of the council, will preside and conduct an open forum following the lecture. There are, as nearly as can be figured, sixty-two million Americans whose lives are insured in some way, for a total of nearly ninety billion dollars.

LINOY DELAYS VISIT Expected to Fly Here on Sunday or Monday. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s visit to Indianapolis to inspect Indianapolis airport, Mars Hill, probably will not be made until Sunday or Monday, it was learned today by ‘Captain H. Weir Cook, general manager of Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana. Lindbergh is making the trip in a Ford-Stout tri-motored monoplane, accompanied by officials of the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., twenty-four-hour, coast-to-coast, air-rail passenger line, and of Curtiss Flying Service, Inc. Indianapolis airport is to be used by T. A. TANARUS., which plans to begin operations April 1, until the new municipal airport is available. According to word received today, Lindbergh and his party were in Pennsylvania today. They will take part in ground breaking exercises for the new Columbus, 0., airport before coming here. MRS. MINNIE BOOIT CLAIMED BY DEATH Pioneer Came to City Seventy-Three Years Ago With Her Parents. Mrs. Minnie Book. 81, a pioneer resident, died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. F. Means, 3306 Ashland avenue, after an illness of several months. Born in Germany, Mrs. Book came to Indianapolis with her parents seventy-three years ago when she was 8 years old. She was educated in German Lutheran schools, and married John Book, a Civil war veteran, at the close of the war. Her husband died in 1921. They lived in Brownstown for a number of years, returning to Indianapolis in 1911. Besides Mrs. Means, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs. A. D. Armstrong; two sons, John Book Jr. and Theodore Book; twenty-one grandchildren and’ twelve great-grandchildren, all of Indianapolis. Funeral service will be held Saturday night at 8 o’clock at the Fred W. Vehling undertaking establishment with burial in Brownstown.

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CATTLE RUSTLER IS INSULTED BY CAR THEFT QUIZ ‘Reckon I’ll Never Get So Low/ He Tells Police Who Hold Him at Memphis. Bu United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 11.— Charles Hughes, 26, wanted in Cody, Wyo., for confessed cattle rustling, became indignant here today when police questioned him concerning the stealing of an automobile. “I’ve rustled cattle pretty well all over the west,” said Hughes, better known as "The Pronto Kid,” “but I reckon I’ve never got so damn low as to steal an automobile.” Hughes walked into police headquarters and announced: "Cap, I’m wanted in Cody, Wyo., for cattle rustling, and here I be.” An inquiry to Cody authorities brought the information: "The Kid is a bad egg, hold him. If you’ve got a felony charge against him there and can send him over the road, do so. If not, advise us.” At his own request Hughes will be returned to Cody within the next few days to face charges of stealing cattle. He has waived extradition and wants to get back to Wyoming "because its a great country, with lots of punk jails.” “The Pronto Kid,” a nickname given him by Mexicans because he always left tight places with so much dispatch, is almost as proud of his jail-breaking record as cattle rustling. “I didn’t come down here to spend the winter in your jail,” said the Kid. “If it holds me a week it will make a record for itself. You had better not try to keep me here long before sending me back to Wyoming.” SET PETTIS SUSPECTS HEARING FOB MONDAY Hearing on removal of Benjamin Salkin and James Martin, wanted here in connection with the $6,000 Pettis Dry Goods Company robbery, has been set for Monday in federal court at Chicago. William C. Ela, postal inspector, and Detectives Claude Johnson and George Stone, who were in Chicago to fight habeas corpus proceedings instituted by Salkin, returned Thursday night. The habeas corpus proceedings were dropped when Ela swore out federal warrants for Salkin and Martin. James Burke, another prisoner held in the case, who was taken to Chicago by detectives to testify a. the habeas corpus hearing, was returned here.

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AUTO HALTED, HOLDUP MEN TAKE $61,000 Furs, Jewelry and Money Seized by Two Robbers. Tin United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 11.—Two bandits overpowered the chauffeur of Dr. Frank E. Pierce’s automobile today and robbed Dr. Pierce, his wife, \t and three guests of jewelry and furs valued at $61,000. Dr. Pierce, Mrs. Pierce, Luther D. Hammond, insurance broker, and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Murphy, Detroit, were returning from a night club and had stopped at a traffic light when the two bandits boarded the automobile. Roy Dellefield, Pierce’s chauffeur, was knocked unconscious Yyith a blackjack. The bandits then stripped the women of rings and coats and forced the men to turn over nearly SI,OOO in cash. Murphy is the owner of the Penobscot building in Detroit. A steadily increasing group of words making its way into the dictionary is that of dialectal, provincial and local words and expressions.

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PAPERS MISSING FROM COURT IN ROTHSTEIN CASE Files in 1919 Indictment Gone; No Explanation Offered. Bit United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 11.—More mysteries in the affairs of Arnold Rothstein were revealed today when the New York telegram asserted that parts of the files on the gambler’s indictment in 1919 for shooting two policemen were missing from general sessions court files. None of the officials of the court could explain the absence of the files. Rothstein was indicted in 1919 for the shooting of Patrolman John McLcughlin and John J. Walsh, who with other officehs had raided a

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jury censured for returning the indictments. Judge Mclntyre finally granted Fuchs motion and said the returning of the indictment was “incomprehensible.” Fuchs, the telegram said today, refused to comment when advised of the missing files and suggested that nothing need be printed about the matter.