Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 235, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1929 — Page 5

WTB. 19, 1929

SENATE PASSES UTILITY HOLDING BILL JOJIOUSE Power Interests Rally to Defeat Moorhead Measure. After suffering a complete rout in the senate late Monday, big utility lobbyists today transferred their attentions to the house, where they hope to halt the Moorhead measure before it becomes a law. It brings holding companies with more than 50 per cent of a utility stock under public service commission regulation. The bill passed the senate 36 to 8, after a two-hour debate in which it was pointed out that honest business need not fear state regulation or investigation. Senator French Clements, Evansville, proved to be the big gun in the battery unloosed in favor of passage of the regulatory act. He scorned the idea that to permit the state to regulate and investigate its utilities, whether a holding company or not, would discourage entrance of capital into the state. This was one of the arguments advanced by opponents of the measure.

No Harm to State “Holding companies are outside of the state now,” he pointed out. “They are not paying taxes. How will it injure Indiana to allow our public service commission to investigate their books when need be? “All power of the commission comes through legislative acts. Let us give them the power to declare these holding companies operating utilities and subject them to regulation as such. They fear it—but we should not. “Holding companies are milking local utilities and escaping regulation by evading the commission. We alone can stop it and the people of Indiana look to us to do it.” The Indiana Bell Telephone Company, owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was cited as a case in point. Senator William F. Hodges, Gary, asserted that the commission already has sufficient access to holding company contracts and other facts. Others Boost Bii! Senator Joseph M. Cravens, Madison, called attention to the fact that in 1927 the utility men made every effort to keep the public service commission intact, and that since they were so fond of state regulation they should not be denied the advantage of it in their holding companies. Others who talked for passage were Senators Alonzo H. Lindley, Kingman; Robert L. Moorhead, Indianapolis, author of the bill; Perry Jc' ’.son, Atlanta; C. Oliver Holmes, Gary and Andrew E. Durham, Greencastle. Besides Hodges, Senator Earl Rowley, La Porte, spoke against the bill. Fountain town Store Burns Bit'Times Special FOUNTAINTOWN, Ind., Feb. 19. —The George Moore store is in ruins today following a fire Monday night. The loss Is estimated at $20,000.

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Because R. W. Moore, landscape architect of Charlotte, N. C., was tardy in paying $5 for a dog he bought from Benny Mack, above, lightweight boxer who was popular with southern fight fans, he is dead, and Mack is held without bail for murder. Mack pleaded self-defense, claiming that the other man threatened to shoot during their altercation over the dog.

3 FACE DEATH CHARGE Murder Trials Will Be Held Feb. 27 at Martinsville. By United Press MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 19. Trials of Walter Wilson and George and Howard Wethington, indicted for first degree murder in the slaying of Arlie Bryant, Brown’s Crossing store owner, have been set for Feb. 27. He was slain during a holdup attempt. Jesse Squires and Logan Manis, both of Indianapolis, have been convicted' cf the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. MANf FARMERS ENROLL Montgomery County Bureau Is First in State Drive. Turning in 1,110 membership cards for this year, the Montgomery county farm bureau leads the farm bureaus of other counties of the state in signing up 1,929 members, according to Indiana farm bureau officials. Elmer T. Coons is secretary of the Montgomery county bureau.

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PREDICTS U.S, ! TO BE DRY AND | HAPPYINI93B Ten Years to Temperance, Declares House Rum Foe. This is the first of a series of two dispatches on how the wet and dry leaders in the house view the progress of prohibition. The dry side is presented today. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—A new era in prohibition will develop within ten years, with the United States automatically becoming acclimated to the complete abolition of intoxicants, according to Representative W. H. Sproul, dry Kansas Republican. Sproul told the United Press prohibition never would be 100 per cent effective, as no laws are observed to the n’th degree, but that in the next few years enforcement laws will be strengthened and, simultaneously, public sentiment will swing to absolute temperance. “The change will come through education and development of sentiment;” he said. “Those now wet will see improvement in law enforcement, will witness the benefits from temperance and become indorsers of prohibition. “The new generation will know little of .the old-fashioned saloon. Temperance will be taught in schools and churches to build up a citizenship in favor of prohibition.” Sproul recommended: 1. Improvement of the Volstead act, requiring accumulated fines and jail sentences sufficiently substantial to deter law violators, 2. Legalize the search of any building or dwelling for intoxicants, manufactured, sold or stored for private use. “Seventy-five per cent of the population would now vote for prohibition if the issue was put to a referendum,” Sproul continued. “The government, however, never can turn the enforcement work over to the states. It must continue the leadership in dry work and also increase the court machinery so as to provide speedy convictions for violators. “Enforcement activities should be transferred from the treasury to the justice department as the activities link together.

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SENATOR TO ADDRESS DRIVERS’ CONFERENCE Vehicle Operators Will Gather to Hear Safety Measures. J Senator Roscoe Martin, Logansport, author of the drivers’ license | bill, pending in the state leg- [ islature, will discuss the safety | features of his measure before the eighth commercial vehicle drivers’ safety conference, sponsored by the Indianapolis safety council, at the Denison hotel, at 7:45 this evening. George Healey of the Peoples Motor Coach Company will also speak to the assembled drivers on some of the problems of the bus drivers, and the measures taken by the company to prevent accidents. Drivers have been instrumental in bringing to attention of city authorities many dangerous conditions, and many of their suggestions are incorporated in the new traffic ordinance. Provisions have been made to care for about 300 drivers at the Tuesday meeting.

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EUROPE FACES PERILOFFLOODS Moderating Temperature Leads to New Danger. By United Press LONDON, Feb. 19.—Moderating temperatures through Europe brought fears of floods from thawing snows today and turned alarm over suffering to concern over crops, particularly wheat. Many deaths in southern Jugoslavia, Macedonia, northern Greece and Thrace from disastrous floods were reported in dispatches received from Belgrade and Athens. Heavy and unusual snawfalls for the past week, in some places as much as sixteen to twenty feet deep, made- it almost certain that the

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