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‘Edison Is Grocer Boy Bernard Sturgis, Choice of State as Successor to Wizard. Works in Store Owned by 'Dad.’

/■'/ 7 >mr. >/,< rial BUTLER, Ind . July 2 —Bernard Sturgis, the Indiana boy best fitted to follow in the footsteps of Thomas Edison, knows ‘ quite a bit” about batteries, ever so much more about groceries—but never even heard of Edison’s famous questionnaire. Further than that he isn’t greatly concerned about the matter of the questionnaire even after it was explained that it was a list of questions in which Edison challenged the intelligence of the millions of boys, who admit that they were educated in the better colleges. His chief concern at present is in better, coffee and beans. Bernard is 17. and rather tall for his age. He had to think for a moment when asked his height. “I’m five feet nine inches—no—l guess I must be taller than that now ” He gave himself over to a minute of calculating as to how fast a boy should grow in the “sprouting” age. "I guess I'm five feet, ten inches,” he concluded. Boys in the sprouting age never are fat. Bernard weights 135 pounds. O O O HIS father. George Sturgis. owns the grocery store in Butler. Bernard decided after winning the state Edison contest that he’d rather work in the grocery for the summer until he goes east in August to take the final examinations at the Edison laboratories in East Orange. N. J. He went out for sports while he was in high school, but never made the varsity in any branch. And of course on Saturdays he worked. Up to that point Bernard is pretty much the average boy that you find in any little Hoosier town with a population of 1.745. But from that point on Bernard is anything but average. a a a WHEN the little group of boys and girls had their commencement exercises at the Butler high school last month. Bernard delivered the valedictory address. Why shouldn't he? He had an average grade for the full four-year course of 98 per cent. That 98 per cent rather bothered him and it took quite a bit of questioning to bring out the fact that he finished “on top” of his class. His victory over the-hundreds of boys who sought to . present Indiana in the national contest for the foui -year course offered by Edison he took as a matter of course. ‘ The questions weren't very hard. I had a little trouble with one on biology, but I hadn’t studied that for four years so I forgot it. “We’ve got a pretty good laboratory at our school and good teachers.” he added in explaining his victory over boys from the big cities who came from schools with more students than there are people in Butler. a B a •y ALWAYS liked the science JL courses better than the others,” he continued. “Especially physics —physics deals with mechanical changes, you know—and that includes electricity. Chemistry is interesting. too. "Did I ever invent anything? Yes, I did. "It was a chronograph. It had some special little features that I thought up and " “What is a chronograph?” “Well it's an instrument for measuring very small standards of time It's operated by electricity and it makes it very simple to regis- , ter such degrees as one-sixtieth of a | stop watch would be in such matters." "I made our own radio. But. of course, that's nothing nowadays. #You can't go wrong.” BBS SJqTUDY isn't going to worry Bernard a great deal during the aummer. He intends to spend most * erf his time in the store and at home and take the final examination when it comes with just as much ease as he can command. “Os course it would be great to work under Mr. Edison and get that scientific training. But there will be forty-seven other boys at that examination who want it as l badlv as I do. “I'm reading about Mr. Edison's Ilise now f “I never knew much about it before except what you read in the histories about him as the inventor of the incandescent electric light and the phonograph.” TRAINMEN WALK OUT Street Car Service Tied Up by Strike in New Orleans. I Rv United Pres* [ NEW ORLEANS. La.. July 2. AStreet car and bus service of the |New Orleans Public Service Company was at a standstill today as the result of an employes calling put more than 2,000 workmen. Officials of the employes’ union coted unanimously to reject the wage contract offered by the company. Hourly Temperatures 6 ft. m 63 10 a. m 68 la. m..... 63 11 a. m .... 69 6. 66 12 (noon).. 70 9 ft. 67 l p. m..... 70

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STATE CHIEFS ENTER DANA MINE DISPUTE Delegation of Nonunion Men Ask Leslie for Protection. INJURED DURING RIOT Declare Sheriff Refused to Aid Them When They Were Being Mobbed. Indiana today entered the Dana mine war after a delegation of black-eyed, toothless and rib-frac-tured nonunion miners appeared before Governor Harry G. Leslie and pleaded for protection by the state. The men were a half dozen from the group that were assaulted by alleged union miners at. the Bono Coal Company mine near Dana last Friday. They told the Governor that their bruises were nothing compared to those received by some of their comrades who were unable to appear. They blamed Sheriff Harry Newland of Vermillion county for their plight, contending that he failed to interfere when they were being mobbed. Conference Set Wednesday The Governor told them to report back to his office for a conference at 9:30 a. m.. Wednesday. It is considered likely that Vermillion county officials will also be summoned for interrogation at that time. The battered miners explained that they have been assaulted twice as they emerged from their shaft. The union miners object to their working at $4.50, while the union scale is $6.10 a. day. But the miners contend that they are working the Bono mine on a co-operative basis, sixty-five of them owning shares of stock to be paid on the partial payment plan. In this way they assert the dividends will eventually make up the difference in the scale. Willing to Pay Dues James Ewing, vice-president of the co-operative company and spokesman for the group, told the Governor that they were willing to pay their dues to the state and national miners union. He said that he had always been a union miner and had lived in the Dana field since 1913. He also asserted that unless given protection, he would be forced to move with his family to save his life. The miners refused at first to tell reporters who it was financed their trip here, but later they declared they came in automobiles provided by their owm company. Describing the riot of Friday they said the fans were shut off in the mine and the cage halted near the top when they went to emerge. They then were forced to leave the shaft one at a time and run the gantlet of some 500 cursing miners, who told them they were going to give them “the United Mine Workers of America’s first degree for scabs.” Teeth Knocked From Head John O. Tarvis, bookkeeper at the mine, displayed several long-rooted teeth which he said had been knocked from his head. Ewing claimed three fractured ribs and Sherman Conner, miner and director of the company, displayed two black eyes. Others present were Clyde Beauchamp. secretary and treasurer of the company and also a miner, and William Gibson, bookkeeper for the former owners of the mine. They asserted that Newlin knew the miners’ mob was coming the day before and that when notified they had arrived took two hours to make a thirty-minute trip to the mine. “When he arrived the men who were beating us up waved at the sheriff and said ‘Hello Harry’,” Ewing told the Governor. He also declared that Newiand refused to make arrests on the ground of lack of evidence and told some one that he wasn't going to do anything to "these boys who elected me " Ogden Attends Parley “We were at the sheriff's office when The Indianapolis Times called and asked if the riot was still going on." Travis asserted. "The sheriff told them that it was all over and he would not ask the Governor for troops. Then he turned around and said to us. "If that Governor sends troops down here he can go to hell!” The business men of Dana are back of the co-operative nunc operation. but the two riots have made further activity dangerous if not impossible, Ewing said. Attorney General James M. Ogden sat in with the Governor in today's conference and will give legal advice regarding the state's action. County officials, besides Newiand. who may be summoned to the conference are Prosecutor Homer Ingram and Judge William C. Wait of the Vermillion circuit court. Road Treating Completed Ey rimes Special COLUMBUS. Ind.. July 2 Approximately 90.000 gallons of oil, with an asphalt base, were used by the state highway department in oiling the state road from this city to Nashville. The work has been completed.

Calls on Cal Hu I nited Pm* NORTHAMPTON, Mass., July 2.—May Elizabeth York. 2, of Albany, N. Y., gloried today over an “interview’’ which she had with Calvin Coolidge. While visiting with her parents here, she decided she wanted to meet and talk with the former President. Alone, she went to the famous house on Massosoit street and found Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge sitting on the front porch. “How do you do," said Mr. Coolidge. When Mary made no reply, he said: “How are you?” “I’m all right, thanks,” said Mary, and left.

LOSES SI,OOO !N BASEBALL POOL Young Man’s Story Results in Arrest of Two. A young man's story to the prosecutor’s office that his SI,OOO losses in baseball pools caused him to mortgage his home, provoked the arrest today of John Passwater, 35, and Carl Schaefer, 37, in a raid on Passwater’s soft-drink parlor, 228 Indiana avenue. Although no baseball tickets or gambling machines were found in the place, both were charged with operating a gambling house and keeping gaming devices. Passwater obtained his release under SSOO bend, while Schaefer, clerk in the place, remained in jail. John G. Willis, criminal court investigator, swore out the affidavit and made the raid, accompanied by Sergeant Groger Hinton and Deputy Sheriff Roland Snider. First information of the young man's alleged heavy losses came to the prosecutor’s office from the victim's sister, Willis said. When the girl related her brother's losses amounted approximately to SI,OOO, the brother was questioned, admitted the loss and the fact that he had mortgaged their home. Willis said. Most of the money was lost on baseball pool tickets bought at Passwater’s place, the young man alleged. FOURTH STARTS EARLY rplice Answer Many Calls to Stop Use of Firecrackers. Police today were busy answering complaints from all parts of the city where children were firing firecrackers in disregard of the regulation permitting their use only on Thursday. Most of the complaints came from homes where persons were ill. Almost invariably, the offending youngsters scampered away before police arrived.

CHICAGO MAN IS FARM BOARD HEAD

Accepts Post Offered by Hoover: Sacrifices Huge Salary. WASHINGTON. July 2.—President Herbert Hoover today announced that Alexander Legge of Chicago has accepted the chairmanship of the federal farm board. At the same time the White House officially announced acceptance of a place on the board of C. C. Teague of Califorina. President Hoover announced that Legge would be chairman of the board for the first year and J. C. Stone of Lexington. Ky„ whose appointment was announced last week, would be vice-chairman. Mr. Hoover said that in accepting the place Legge probably had made the greatest sacrifice any citizen ever had made to enter public service. He pointed out that Legge is giving up an income of more then SIOO,OOO a year to acept the chairmanship of the board at $12,000 a year. Legge has long been intimately associated with the agricultural industry through his connection tion with the International Harvester Company of which he has been president since 1922. Teague also is making a great personal sacrifice in serving on the board, President Hoover said. He is president of the California Fruit Growers' Co-operative Marketing organization and the Walnut Growers’ Co-operative Market Association. Teague’s home is in Santa Paula. Cal. President Hoover now has selected five of the eight members of the farm board. The remaining three will be announced next week, it is said. SCIENTIST FEVER VICTIM Studied Tropical Disease, Dies of It. fit/ United Preen NEW YORK. July 2.—Dr. Paul A. Lewis, pathologist and bacteriologist. who had gone to Bahia. Brazil, to study yellow fe'er prevention, died there Sunday of the disease, it was announced here by the Rockefeller Foundation. <

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 2. 1929

LOWTHER IS FREED IN AUTO DEATH TRIAL Doubt of Guilt Created by Witnesses in Mind of Judge. TWO DIED OF INJURIES Suffering From Disease at Time of Accident, Court Told. Richard Lowther, 17-year-old high school youth, 5540 Central avenue, was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter, today in criminal court, because state’s witnesses created doubt of the defendant's guilt in the mind of Fred Bates Johnson, special judge. Lowther was on trial for the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Underwood, Jamestown, Ind.. as the result of an automobile accident Jan. 7. Mr. Underwood was killed instantly, and Mrs. Underwood died three months later, without recovering her mental faculties, it was alleged, after their car was demolished by Lowther's machine, traveling more than fifty miles an hour, at Fifty-second street and Central avenue. Suffering of Disease ’The testimony of an expert witness for the prosecution brought out that the boy was suffering from a disease, as contended by the defense, and was subject to fever, thus he had no judgment of distance, speed, right or wrong,” said Johnson. The witness to whom he referred was Dr. Fletcher Hodges, who, in answering a hypothetical question put by Prosecutor Judson L. Stark, in which was contained the defense’s assertions that Lowther was suffering from smallpox and had a fever of more than 100 degrees, said: “He must have been a very sick boy.” In his opinion, the physician said on the stand, Lowther’s calm after the crash was a daze, and delayed nervous shock. Stark Not to Appeal “That being the evidence, it is impossible for me to find the youth guilty,” said Johnson. He declared that the speed of the machine was the proximate cause of the deaths, but added shat there was no proof of Lowther’s alleged criminal intent Stark, who was not in the courtroom when the verdict was returned. said he would not appeal the case. He entered the room as Johnson was leaving the bench, and was met at the door by the defendant and his father, Richard Lowther Sr., attorney. The youth shook hands with the prosecutor and the father laid an arm around his shoulder.

PEANUT IN LUNG OF BABY CAUSES DEATH Child. 19 Months, Dies After Successful Removal Operation. Bit United Pres s QUINCY, Mass., July 2. —A peanut, which he swallowed two weeks ago, resulted in the death of Theodore Glenn, 19-months-old son of Dr. Chester L. Glenn, Quincy baby specialist, at the Children's hospital in Boston today. The peanut, lodged in the baby’s lung, had been removed by surgeons at a Philadelphia hospital, but Monday, while believed recovering. the child became ill again. Less than a fortnight ago Dr. Glenn's 3-day-old daughter died. DIES STEALING TO PLAY - Child Locked Up by Parents Falls to Death in Chicago. Hu United Press CHICAGO, July 2.—Ten-year-old Sanges Lupe's parents, Peter and Petra Lupe. locked her in their third-floor apartment when they went to work Monday. Sanges, wanting to join other children at play, climbed out a window onto a flower box. She fell to her death when it gave way.

KILLER MUST SERVE Supreme Court Affirms Life Sentence. Ertlo Ting Taylor must serve life sentence at the Indiana state prison for the murder of Earl Cook, shot to death at Muncie, Aug. 1, 1928. Taylor was originally sentenced to life after being found guilty of second degree murder in the Delaware circuit court. Today the supreme court affirmed that decision. According to the evidenec. Taylor shot Cook, who was partially drunk and waving a putty knige as a weapon. He had been painting at the Taylor home in Muncie. Taylor pleaded self-defense.

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ENDURANCE FLIERS AVERT DISASTER

Plane Narrowly Escapes Crash With Refueling Ship. Bu I nited Press CLEVELAND, July 2.—Efforts of Byron K. Newcomb and Roy L. Mitchell, to establish anew refueling endurance flight record nearly ended in disaster here today when their plane. City of Cleveland, narrowly averted a crash with the refueling ship at an altitude of 5,000 feet. A heavy bag carrying food and water caught on, the tail fin of the endurance plane. For a moment it appeared the plane might be thrown out of control. Ernie E. Basham, refueling ship pilot, expertly lowered his plane as Jim Hayden cautiously disentangled the bag from the fin. The bag swung free and the two planes straightened out. Further transfer of gasoline and accessories was postponed until late afternoon. Newcomb and Mitchell at 1 p. m. had been in the air 90 hours and 22 minutes in their attempt to better the endurance mark of slightly more than 172 hours established in May by Reg Robbins and Cowboy Kelly over Ft. Worth, Tex. Both fliers are suffering from colds. Record Flight Fails Bu United press LOS ANGELES, July 2. Leo Nomis and Maurice Morrison, attempting to establish anew sustained flight record in a Cessna monoplane, were forced to land at Metropolitan airport early today after forty-two hours in the air. Failure of the motor brought the flight to an end after they had been aloft since 7:30 a. m. Sunday. Their craft was damaged when they pancaked it while trying a dead stick landing through a dense ground fog. Neither was hurt. Starts Endurance Bit United Press CULVER CITY, Cal., July 2. Lorren Mendell and Peter Reinhart, piloting a Buhl air sedan, took off from the airport here at 7:29:30 a. m. on the start of an attempt to break the world’s sustained flight record. Admiral Moffett Loses Suit WASHINGTON, July 2.—Rear Admiral Bardley A. Fiske, retired, was awarded a judgment of $198,000 in the district supreme court today against Rear Admiral William Moffett in charge of the naval bureau of aeronautics for an allleged disregard for patent rights on torpedo planes.

PATROLMEN WEEP WHEN TEAR GAS GUN IS FIRED Boys Get Revenge as Weapon Is Accidentally Discharged. Small boys around city hospital who fidget under policemen’s firecracker warnings were tittering disrespectfully today. They saw Patrolman Norval Bennett, Negro, proudly displaying his combination mace and tear gas gun to Patrolman Ben Gaither late Monday. They saw the two bluecoats dodge as a jet of gas spurted from the night stick a-s the trigger was touched accidental. At a safe distance with the two officers they watched the gas becloud the atmospnete se.eral minutes before Patrolman Jennett gingerly retrieved his weapon.

Howard Buck

‘Angel’ Hubby NEW YORK, July 2.—Professor Charles C. Peters of the sociology department of Pennsylvania State college, has completed his “blueprint of the model husband.” Among other things, the model husband must do the following: Meet the economic problems of family life. Be able to repair faucets, fences and furnaces. Care for his own clothing and that of the family. Be able to manage a checking account and verify bills. Know how to care for children. Be able to maintain peace and harmony in the home.

ASSAILS DEMOCRATS Smoot Says Tariff Will Aid Farmers. Ru United Press WASHINGTON, July 2.—Amerj ican farmers and producers have received by far the best of it “so far | in the drafting of the new tariff ! bill, Chairman Reed Smoot of the | senate finance committee declared j today in a prepared statement J charging the Democrats “with play- | ing politics" on tariff issues, j “The Democrats looking for politicals in the tariff adjustment sit- | nation are making many public | statements about the ‘raw deal’ the ! farmers are receiving at the hands jof the readjusters," Smoot declared. “Asa matter of fact, noth the ways and means committee and so far the finance committee in gestures have given the farmers and pro- ! ducers by far the best of it.

PLEA OF NEEDY FAMILY FAILS TO FREE MAN Judge Keeps Him Behind Bars Until He Is Sure of Losses. B’l I nitrd Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 2.—A dependent wife and four children won't get Bernard S. Reiss out of jail until skeptical Federal Judge George Faris is convinced the young ex-shoe merchant really lost $27,345 he owed creditors in a gambling game before Bankruptcy proceedings. Reiss has' been in jail six months. Judge Faris refused to permit Reiss to testify as to the number of his children and the degree of dependency of his family.

OPEN PEONAGE TRIAL Georgian Accused of Keep-, ing Two in Slavery. j Bn United Press AMERICUS, Ga.. July 2.—Georgia’s first peonage trial in several 1 years began in federal court here today with a prominent Webster county planter. W. D. Arnold Sr., the defendant, accused by a Negro and white man of keeping them in servitude two years. Claude King, the white man, , charged Arnold ordered him to be whipped when he tried to escape I with his wife and four children.

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SURGEONS’ SKILL IN BATTLE TO CURE ‘BRAIN FLAW’ OF CONVICT, HURT ON GRIDIRO; Leslie Aids ‘Check Kiter,’ Injured in Football Game With Purdue. Alma Mater of Governor. SEEK TO STRAIGHTEN WARPED LIFE Friends Hope Operation Has Removed Crime Tendencies Which Sent Howard Buck to Reformatory. BY AID H STL IN'EL Honesty battled dishonesty, morality bucked crime, Monday on the gridiron of the medical profession—the operating room of the Robert W. Long hospital—and sought to save a football ‘‘ace” from becoming an habitual criminal. For honest hands of a surgeon, with clean, honest steel his knife, and guided by the honest desire ot Indiana s Governor —Harry G. Leslie—to right a football mishap of his alma mate, against an opponent, sought to bring Howard Buck, 28, of Yin-\ cennes, inmate of the state reformatory at Pendleton, to the goalpost of rectitude and give him just another “kick-off” ill life.

Men hovered near the whilesheeted operating table as they hovered on a football field at Chicago university one crisp fall day in 1922, when Buck suffered a. skull fracture, that it was believed caused him to “kite checks” and be sent to two-to-fourteen years in the state reformatory. In low monotones—the same monotones that Quarter Back Buck called for a punt, “Thirteen, four-eight-three-hike,” in his first Big Ten game against Governor Leslie’s school, Purdue—surgeons signaled nurses for instruments to cut away the thickness of bone that may have turned Quarter Back Buck into Convict Buck. Makes Varsity Eleven A mile away Indiana’s Governor awaited the verdict of doctors while in Vincennes a mother hoped for a babe that its father would be made whole again—a new man. Hemostats clicked in the operating room as they were fastened on the head incision and disclosed the brain of a man. Surgeons peered in and saw— Just a boy in a Cedar Rapids (la.) high school who could do the hundred yards in ten flat and the “fifty” in 5.6. He tried out for the football team —and made it. A year or two and he was all-state quarter back of lowa. In 1919 in a game between Cedar Rapids and Dubuque he was knocked out with a lacerated head. Chicago university wooed him. He made the varsity eleven. Forced Out of College His first big game came Oct. 18, 1922, against Purdue. It was in the third quarter that it happened: ‘I was carrying the ball on a punt, someone clipped me, and I fell. My head struck the knee of a Purdue half back. I didn’t know any more for four days,” the brain relates. The injury forced him out of college. He was operated on, but the head injury bothered him. Headaches throbbed daily for him. In 1925 he went to work at Vincennes and married. He worked as a draftsman for a bridge company. The headaches grew worse. He drank to ease the ache. He needed money to buy the ease for his headaches. His salary wouldn’t do it—he was drinking too much. He gave checks that he couldn't make good, one of them to Bert C. Fuller, Indianapolis insurance man. The checks came back “no funds.” Buck skipped out. In July of 1928 he called his check victim, Fuller, on the phone and Fuller urged him to go back and “face the music.” He did. They sentenced him two to fourteen years in the reformatory, but suspended the sentence on a promise of good behavior. Gets Old Job Back He got his old job back. The headaches kept on and he drank again. He “kited” rrfore checks. A $3 slip of paper given for restaurant meals brought him back into court. Fuller, knowing of his head injuries, interceded for him. but the suspended sentence was revoked and on Feb. 20 of this year he began serving his reformatory sentence. He was placed in the shirt shop at the reformatory, then transferred to

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clerk for chaplain. His athleti prowess gave him the place of short-# stop on the reformatory ball team;; “Then one day we were playinj the Remys. It was the seventh ir. i ning,” the brain on the operatior room table tells you,” an* 4 every thing seemed to go black. I’d gr two hits, but they had to carry ir| out of the game.” Chance to "Carry Ball” Again Prison officials became intereste? jin his case. It was called to the at tention of Governor Leslie by Fur ler and the officials. The Governor —a former Purduf football star—decided to give the lif of a man who had been inju r physically as well as morally in game against his school a fresh fi to make his line-bucks on. He had Buck examined by pr; , physicians and an outside doc ! They announced that his criir* | tendencies might be brushed i by an operation. The Governor sered Buck his chance to carry ball again—he took it. It’s Up to Him Two weeks ago he sent Buck parole to the Long hospital, today— Buck lay .on a clean, white I while surgeons discussed the prey ble results of the operation, rallied nicely and probably will's physically well again. The doctors say they have done; they can and believe Buck will h 4 no more of the devastating he aches, but whether Buck kites more checks — That is a matter between Con Buck and his God. EDUCATORS OPPOSE SCHOOL PROPAGANDA Both Candidates for N. E. A. Presidency Take Stand. Bn l nited Pram ' ATLANTA. Ga., July 2.—Certainty the next president of the National Education Association will take a definite stand against es- ! forts to use public schools for propaganda came today when the two ! candidates for the office announced | their views. Miss Ruth Pyrtle, Lincoln, Neb., jsaid: "Commercial propaganda in ! the schools is not at all desirable. However, I believe in teaching temperance in schools.” Miss Effie McGregor, Minneapolis, Minn., said she agreed with President Uel Lamkin of the asj scciation when he attacked the re- ! cently discarded plan to spread prohibition pamphlets in the schools. FIGHTS MURDER COUNT Counsel for Mother and Son Alleges Irregularities in Fixing Charge liy I nited Pram VALPARAISO, Ind., July 2.—Attacks on validity of evidence taken at the coroner's in quest in death of Miss Cameola Soutar are being considered by Circuit Judge Grant Crumpacker today in connection with a plea of abatement by counsel zor Mrs. Catherine Cassler and her adopted son. Edward, held on first degree murder charges. Charges that the grand jury returned indictments without full investigation. and that witnesses at the inquest did not sign their statements, were made by Ira C. Tilton, counsel for the defendants. UTILITIES ARE MERGED Ten Tennessee Companies Joined New Firm. I Bn I nited Pratt } NEW YORK. July 2.—Consolida-f ; tion of ten public utility subsidiaries® j of the Cities Service Company into® one concern, to be known as the 1 Tennessee Central Service Company j has been announced by the parent# organization. ’l'he new company, which unites* ten electric light, power, gas and traction units, operating in upper east Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina, is capitalized at $10)000,000^1