Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1929 — Page 3

MARCH 12,1929

DISCUSS NEXT ACTION IN GAS COMPANY CASE City and Utility Officials Confer; Seek Early Settlement. City officials today held a preliminary conference to determine the procedure in taking over the Citizens Gas Company properties in accordance with the provision of the "enabling acts” recently passed by the Indiana legislature. The laws carry emergency clauses and are effective at once. Mayor L. Ert Slack and Oren S. Hack, city corporation counsel, met with John W. Holtzman a*d Fred C. Gause, special city gas case counsel. It tentatively has been agreed that early action would be advisable. law provides that the mayor shin name two members of utility district created by the new legislation. The circuit judge shall name two and the city council the fifth member. Nonpartisan Body Sought An effort to obtain a nqnpartisan body was made by the authors of the statute. Trustees shall name eleven directors who will be actively in charge of the company’s affairs. The city council and circuit court have sixty days, ending May 11, in which to certify to the mayor their choice for the utility posts. It has been suggested by some that the present trustees be named. In creating the utility district die city is empowered to take over, manage and operate the gas company properties, and issue bonds stock. Purpose of the city in obtaining passage of a law legalizing the proposition before demanding the properties was explained by Slack Monday luncheon before the Service Club, at the Lincoln. Explains Delay “Passage of the enabling legislation by the general assembly will make possible early completion of plans to take over and operate the gas plant in a way which will be satisfactory to everyone,” the mayor said. Referring to newspaper articles criticising the administration for not making a formal demand for the

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Noted Pacifist Will Be Speaker at City Club

Roger Baldwin of Civil Liberties Union Here March 22. Roger N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, pacifist and internationalist, will speak' at the Athenaeum at 8 p. m. March 22, it was announced today by Alex Vonnegut, secretary of the Indianapolis group of the liberties body. Baldwin first attained national prominence during the World war when he organized the National Civic Liberties Bureau to oppose conscription, aid conscientious objectors and defend persons prosecuted for opinions against war.- He has been active with the American Civil Liberties Union since 1920. He recently returned from a year abroad, studying particularly European dictatorships and making a two months’ survey of liberty and repression in Russia. The speech here is part of a tour of the middle west and south in which Baldwin is stirring interest in anew program against racial and religious discriminations and

properties before the proper set-up was decided upon and the city’s stand strengthened by the legislature, the mayor gave four reasons for waiting until the proper time to reveal the city’s program. They were: As long as the city did not take a legal step to control the properties those selfish interests seeking to block carrying out the original plan for municipal operation and ownership were without anything to base a fight in courts. Lower Interest Achieved That the gas laws passed almost unanimously by the legislature were needed to "strengthen the city’s stand and make the road easier.” That the city could not force the gas company to liquidate the $2,000,000 common stock indebtedness until Aug. 30, 1930, unless the bonds were retired through surplus from earnings. The earnings were not sufficient at tilts time, he said. The city, could not have enforced a demand for immediate possession under the charter. That the retirement of the $2,000,000 common and $1,000,000 preferred stock can be accomplished under the plan at a lower interest rate without any questions as to whether the bonds will sell.

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RAPS TRAFFIC CODE Mayor Urges More Liberty, Pleads for Fewer Laws. A plea rfor fewer statutory restrictions was made by Mayor L. Ert Slack Monday before the Service Club at the Lincoln. “We have so many laws and regulations nowadays that people resent them. I believe we should have more freedom and elasticity,” Slack .said. N Slack took a rap at the numerous detailed regulations of the new city traffic code, urging greater, discretion for police officers in handling traffic problems. Alluding to the abandonment of the bell system on Washington street, Slack said: “Traffic is purely a police problem. You can’t write everything into the statute and settle it for all time. There should be elasticity instead of hard and fast rules. There is a different problem at each corner.”

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VOTE BUDGETS > REQUIRING TAX 1 RATE INCREASE! —* Boost in Levy as Much as 10 Cents Necessary to Pay Bills. Sleepy-eyed legislators straggled back to their constituents today to explain that a boost in the state tax rate, possibly as much as 10 cents above the present 23-cent level, will be required to meet $55,284,969 budget appropriations voted in the closing hours of the seventy-sixth general assembly. It was 18 minutes to 4 this j morning before the last bills had I been passed and signed by presiding officers, the- last songs sung and gavels in senate and house sounded adjournment of the biennial legislative session. The clock had been stopped at midnight, when by law the session ended. Behind them, in the Governor’s office, senators and representatives left their contribution to Indiana’s •laws, and to the state tax board the responsibility of boosting the tax rate, to provide revenues they were unable to provide by special tax measures. Clip $200,000 Final approval of the biennial appropriation bill came with adoption of conference committee reports which clipped $200,000 from the $440,500 added by senate amendments last week. Half of this reduction w T as effected by eliminating provisions for a $50,000 annual appropriation for armory construction. The other half was trimmed from the Governor’s emergency fund, leaving it $200,000 annually instead of $250,000 as §et by senate amendments. The report caused a flurry among senators who had pushed the armory building probe and feared that elimination of the armory appropria- \ tion amendment of the budget bill might amount to abandonment of the “pay as you go” policy to which the senate was committed. The report, amended with this safeguard, was adopted and signed by. Governor Leslie. Pass Store Licensing The store licensing measure, too, won belated approval by adoption, of conference committee reports reducing fees for single stores from $5 to $3 each while leaving the maximum fee at $25, as set by senate amendments, for each store in chains of twenty or more. Agreement was not reached until one house conference committee had been discharged for inability to agree with senate conferees. Representative Oscar A. Ahlgren, Whiting, was the committee member who would not consent to bringing filling stations within provisions of the bill. Arguing on Ahlgren’s motion not to accept the second committee’s report, charges were hurled that Ahlgren’s opposition had foundation in the Standard Oil Company’s interests at Whiting. Representative Herbert H. Evans of Newcastle argued the state tax rate should be boosted to 35 cents if needed, rather than levy excise taxes. Return $2,000,000 Annually Representative Samuel Farrell of Hartford City, ways and means committee chairman, estimated the measure would return approximately $2,000,000 annually, the equivalent of a 4-cent tax levy. Os the session’s major enactments, the 4-cent gasoline tax measure, effective April 1, probably held first place in general interest. It is expected to raise an additional $4,000,000 annually for state highway building. The most important special levy provided by a 1929 meaesure is that for a $1,000,000 state library and historical building. The levy is fixed at one-half cent for 1930 and 1931, and 1 cent for 1932.

Primary Modification Political interest centered in the Republican platform primary modification measure signed by the Governor Monday. It places nominations for Governor and United States senator in state conventions, retains voting privileges for proxies and repeals the presidential preference feature of the primary. Its passage through two houses was the session’s outstandings example of expert steering with the adept application and removal of amendents. Three bills passed had a bearing on constitutional revision or amendment. * One would submit to the voters at the 1930 primary the question of calling a state constitutional convention in 1931. The others would provide for referendum, in the 1930 primary, on constitutional amendments empowering the legislature to prescribe admissions to the bar and to levy a state income tax. More severe penalties for crime, particularly when flrearfhs are emVbur Child’s SfsiCold Needs this Double / T Treatment Children hate to be “dosed.” When nibbed on, Vicks relieves colds 2 ways at once without “dosing”: (1) Its healing vapors, released by the body heat, are inhaled direct to the air passages; (2) “It draws out” the soreness like an old-fash-ioned poultice. e.*c£\ w ays once ICKS VAPORUB Over tit Mi lugn Jars Used Yearv

ployed, were provided in a number of bills advanced to the Governor in line with his recommendations. Substitution of “reasonable and prudent” speed for the torty-mile limit now in effect on state highways was the most important change in motor laws. ' Unless the new acts carry emergency clauses or specific, dates, they will not take effect until the acts are distributed, probably about May 15. SUIT ASKS RECEIVER fOR LUMBER COMPANY Complain O. D. Haskett Firm Is Unable to Pay Debt. Suit asking appointment of a receiver for the O. D. Haskett Lumber Company was filed in superior court five Monday afternoon by Wolf & Cos., Chicago accountants. The complaint alleged the company is indebted to the plaintiffs for $338.56 and is unable to pay other debts. W. H. Stein, vice-president of the company, said the firm now is in the process of liquidation and no longer is in the lumber business, the building, stock and equipment having been sold to the Nickel Plate Lumber Company, shortly after the death of O. D. Haskett, several months ago. Rhine Tributaries in Flood BERLIN, March 12.—Several villages, crops and vineyards were damaged when a sudden rise in temperature Monday caused small tributaries of the Rhine in the province of Hesse to overflow.

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REFERENDUM ON CONSTITUTION IS VOTEDJN HOUSE Bill to Call Convention to Revamp Code Sent to Leslie. Weary from two months of listening to bills affecting purely local situations the Indiana legislature in its closing moments early today approved a referendum vote to bring the constitution up-to-date so that legislators will not have to spend most of their time getting permission from the state for their communities to do things. The bill, which pafesed the house 62 to 25, was a senate measure providing for a referendum on calling a‘ constitutional convention. The vote will be taken in conjunction with the,, general elections, if the bill becomes a law. A convention would be held in May, 1931, instead of -March, as originally provided. One hundred and twenty delegates would attend. The session of the legislature just closed pointed out defects in the present constitution, such as the impossibility of levying an income tax and the need for each city to seek legislative permission to carry on purely local affairs. Although introduced early in the

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i the Democratic party, but the bill | passed. Marion county municipal court I judges will receive a SI,OOO salary I boost if a bill passed in the last ! few hours is approved by Governor | Harry r. Leslie. ! The statute of limitations exten- ; sion measure, passed early in the i senate session, was approved by the I house. Armistice day, Nov, 11, will be a ; legal holiday under one of the bills passed by the house during j the closing hours. The bill was passed by the senate several weeks ago. The Governor will be empowered to call a conference of leading business men and farmers of the state to discuss tax problems under provisions of a resolution passed by the senate Monday afternoon and j concurred in by the house.