Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1929 — Page 9
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YOUNG’S IDEAS ON MONOPOLY JOLTJENATE General Electric Chief Is Frank in His Appeal for ‘Trusts/ TOUTED FOR PRESIDENT Industrial Leader Brings Split Among Democrats With Testimony. lIH Bcrinps-HQWfirtl Xiwsyavrr A llionre WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Around the quiet, assured figure of Owen D. Young, a witness this week before the senate interstate commerce committee, political history is being made. Young has been talked of as the Democratic party’s strongest candidate for the presidency, but the Democratic party, insofar as it 4 represented in the senate, already has split into two camps over Young's testimony. The interstate commerce committee, which has before it a proposal to create a federal department of communications, summoned Young, as head of the Radio Corporation of America, to give his views. Young did so, saying, among other things, that he believes business monopolies are of more value to the country than competition. He repeated a statement he has made before, to the effect that the Radio Corporation of America, accused of ha ving a monopoly in bot h commercial and manufacturing radio fields, was organized after President Wilson had sent word from Paris by Admiral Bullard that he considered it of first importance that this country build up its own powerful system of communications. Senator Dill (Dem„ Wash.) sharply questioned this last statement. Dill and Wheeler of Montana took issue with the theory of monopoly. Other Democrats quarreled with the line of questioning put to Young and challenged the value of any testimony from him, beyond his statement that he favors a federal department of communications. While committee members stormed among themselves, the man who heads two of the most important business enterprises in the country, listened with detached calm. He answered with directness whatever questions were put to him. He outlined his views without hesitation. Briefly, Young’s theory about business is this:
The telephone business hat, developed faster than the telegraph business. has made more progress in inventions, and has given better service, because it is a monopoly, while telegraph companies must spend large amounts of time and money meeting competition. Business monopolies must be regulated adequately by the federal government. Unless there is adfquate regulation, government ownership is sure to follow. Development of an international communications monopoly by this country, either closely regulated by the government or ow r ned btf the government, is as important in world affairs as development of a strong merchant marine and control of petroleum. “If you have any hesitation about unifying our external communications in the hands of a private compahy under government control, then I beg of you, in the national interest, to unify them under government ownership, so America may not be left in the external communication field, subjected to dictation of foreign companies or governments,” said Young.
URGES USE OF HOME COAL TO CUT SMOKE Lilly Engineer Explains Proper Care of Fuel In Plants. Proper care in burning Indiana coal will greatly reduce the smoke evil, declared W. A. Hanley, engineer director for Ell Lilly & Cos., before the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League Tuesday night. Hanley explained the ways of burning soft coal to avoid smoke, citing Indiana coal as economical for industrial plants. Janitors and engineers attended the meeting at the Chamber of Commerce. The danger of smoke to public health was explained by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health commissioner. Dr. Morgan attributed much of the respiratory infection to the smoke nuisance. Professor A. W. Cole of Purdue university, also spoke. DISCUSS BUDGETS AT LAST WESLEY SESSION Foundation Committee Recommends Reduction in All Branches. Allotment of budgets with reductions scheduled for the various foundations concluded the meeting of the Wesley Foundation joint committee today in the Claypool. Bishop E. G. Richardson of Philadelphia, Pa., chairman of the committee, composed of representatives from the Methodist board of education and the board of home missions. presided. Reports given at Tuesday’s meeting showed the foundation is reaching more than 150,000 Methodist students in tax supported institutions. Postmasters Nominated Rv Time Special WASHINGTON. Dec. 11.—President Hoover has sent the following Indiana postmaster nominations to the senate: Bluff ton, Ralph C. Thomas, and Gary, Allred & Hess.
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FOUR ARE DEAD OF MENINGITIS Two Rooms at School 33 Are Closed. With deaths of two school children and two other persons in seventy-two hours from cerebrospinal meningitis, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health commissioner, today ordered precautionary measures against spread of the drea** disease. Eurlene and June Lessman, 11 and 8, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Chester H. Lessman, 1226 Tecumseh place, died within half an hour Tuesday at Methodist hospital. Henderson Chapman, 38, of 1340 North lllnois street, and Joseph Johnson, 5, of 433 Douglas street, succumbed to the malady Tuesday at city hospital. Tests of spinal fluid of each of the victims revealed positive symptoms of meningitis, Dr. Morgan said. They are the first cases reported here, although epidemics of the disease have been reported in eastern and southern states. Two rooms in school No. 33. at 1119 Sterling place, where the Lessman children attended, have been closed, and all children who came in contact with the girls have been excluded from school and placed under observation, Dr. Morgan said. Public health nurses will watch other absentees closely for symptoms of the disease, he declared. To prevent against a local meningitis epidemic, Dr. Morgan warned parents to keep children from crowded places, and to notfiy physicians immediately if children displayed symptoms of illness. BREAKS LEG IN FALL Elevator Company Official Drops Fifty Feet in Local Hotel. Dropping fifty feet at the Edwards hotel today in a hand-power elevator, John T. Roberts, 63, superintendent of the Indiana Public Elevator Company of South Sherman street, suffered a fractured leg. A board on the rndh-power elevator, which Roberts was using, broke. He was taken to city hospital.
GHOST TOWN WILL BE RESURRECTED FOR SHORT HOUR OF GLORY
Bv SKA Service BUTTE. Mont., Dec. 11.—The worn-out old ghost town of Pioneer, where Montana’s first great gold rush began three-quar-ters of a century ago, is about to come to life again. Its vacant streets, grass grown and weedy, are peopled with busy men, motor trucks and puffing tractors. Its ruinous old buildings are housing live workers once more instead of the ghosts who have occupied them for decades. Things are looking up. For there still is gold in the sands of Pioneer, and men are assembling modem machinery
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Widow of 50 Declares He Promised Marriage and Deserted Her. Bn Times Rvecial DUBLIN, Ind., Dec. 11.—Deserted by her prospective husband at the altar on Christmas, set as her wedding day, is the allegation of Mrs. Edna B. Reed, 50, Dublin, in a suit in the Randolph county circuit court at Winchester against Charles B. Kepler, 82. She alleges breach of promise and asks $25,000 damages. Both parties are well known in Wayne county. Mrs. Reed is the widow of Dr. Ernest Reed, formerly of Dublin, who was graduated from medical schools of Indiana university and the University of Michigan. For a number of years Dr. Reed was engaged in chemical research work for the H. K. Mulford Company at Philadelphia. His widow is the daughter of the late Captain Allen D. Bond, a lifelong resident of Dublin and widely known over the state. Captain Bond served as a member of the staff of Governor Allen P. Hovey of Indiana. For several terms he was sheriff of Wayne county. Served in Civil War
He served as a captain in the Eighty-fourth Indiana volunteer infantry during the Civil war. He was a thirty-third degree Mason and held high rank in the Scottish Rite, Knights Templar, Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows. Kepler, a retired farmer, lives at Centerville. The case was sent to the Randolph circuit court on a change of venue from the Wayne circuit court at Richmond. Mrs. Reed, she alleges in her suit, that in November, 1924, the defendant promised to marry her and that the date of the wedding was set for Dec. 25, 1925. Mrs. Reed further states that friends were informed of the engagement date generally announced. The arrangements for the wedding were completed and the defendant, Mrs. Reed alleges, had promised to take her to Florida to spend the remainder of the winter. When Christmas day arrived the wedding did not materialize, she claims, as the defendant did not appear for the ceremony. Humiliation Is Charged She further states in her complaint that grief and humiliation caused her to become ill. The Bond family is one of the oldest families in Wayne county For several years Mrs. Reed has made her home with her mother at the old farm home of the Bond family adjoining Dublin. Mrs. Reed and her mother came into much prominence when county officers by force ejected them from the old homestead where many of the Bonds were born, reared and died The farm had become heavily mortgaged, the Prudential Insurance Company being the mortgagee. At the time, Mrs. Reed and her mother declared the officers £ad subjected them to harsh treatment and that Mrs. Bond, 80, a soldier’s widow', then under the care of two physiclons, was forced to vacate the home during inclement weather, which later resulted in a prolonged illness. Fall Leads to Death ANDERSON. Ind., Dec - . 11.—E. G. Vernon, 71, pioneer building supply dealer, died at his home here as the result of a broken hip suffered in a fall several weeks ago.
and building anew highway so that they can get it out. But, in the process of coming to life. Pioneer is to pass out of the picture forever. Its decayed buildings soon will be tom down, and anew town —to be called New Pioneer—is to arise three miles away. For the gold deposits underlie the townsite itself. Mose Dezell, one of the few old-timers who stayed in Pioneer after the boom collapsed, can still remember the old days. So can J. F. Slaughtner, another who remained. But few others know anything about the days of Pioneer’s glory, except by hearsay.
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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1929
INDIRECT TAX CITED REMEDY FORSCHOOLS Logical Way to Pay for Education, Spencer Man Tells Trustees. HIGH APPRAISAL BURDEN State Group Expected to Draft Recommendation on Bankruptcy. Taxes on luxuries, cigarettes and incomes should be levied to pay for the education of Indiana children, declared Albert Free, sperintendent of Spencer (Ind.Y schools in an address today before the annual convention of township trustees at the Claypool. Free substituted for Harry Kirk, state aid auditor in the office of the superintendent of public instruction, who could not speak because of a cold, and discussed the bankrupt conditions of township schools. “I nope to see ths time when every school corporation in the state will receive aid from the state through indirect taxation,” Free declared. Indirect Tax Needed
“Lower taxes for every locality are necessary and through an indirect tax, this can be accomplished withotu any one feeling the cost of the schools in the same manner that roads are built and maintained through gasoline taxes. “Through higher tax appraisals, the richer counties have to support the schools in the poorer counties under the present system of taxation. This palpably is unfair and imposes a great burden. “Indirect taxation is the answer and if it is true that the present Constitution will not permit this form of taxation, then every man and woman in the state who is interested in education should climb upon the housetops and shout for constitutional revision. “Not every township is in a bankrupt condition, but all over the state they are in poor condition. “The fault also lies in inadequate local taxation. Many townships which are able to afford a higher school levy adhere to the $1.20 limit and expect the state to defray the remainder,” Free charged. Explains Budget Law Greenberry G. Low, of the state board of accounts, explained the budget law passed by the 1929 general assembly and held a round table discussion. Resolutions bearing directly upon the bankrupt conditions of township schools were to be drafted late this afternoon. E. J. Richardson, Indiana poet laureate, provided the entertainment, and the Southport (31e6 Club gave several musical numbers. State Senator John Hewitt, director of the Indiana coal bureau, made a plea for trustees to purchase Indiana coal so that more money would accure to. the state through mine operations. The teacher tenure law was discussed by R. B. Stewart of Brazil, and Frederick Landis, editorial writer, spoke.
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“On the banks of the Wabash, FAAAAAAR away!” Heroic deeps of Indiana's pioneers gleamed brightly in the minds of Hoosier school children today as they sang praises to their native state in commemoration of Indiana day. Indiana was admitted to the Union Dec. 11, 1816. John Dixon Jr. and Fema Micu, pupils of school No. 5, at 612 West Washington street, demonstrate a bit of the enthusiasm with which Indianapolis boys and girls observed opening exercises this morning.
IN 1852 a half-breed trapper named Benetsee panned the first gold in this region. Six years later Granville Stuart, famous explorer of the northwest, built a cabin here and began prospecting. News of his discovery traveled fast, and by the early ’6os a riproaring boom town mining camp had sprung up, with a bank, saloon, dance halls, gambling joints and all the other paraphernalia of a wild western mining town. Business was good until the early ’Bos. Then the sands played out and the prospectors moved away. A few miners remained to work the old tailings with hydraulic methods, and Pioneer
Mollycoddlers Anger Wales by Solicitude for His Safety
The prince of Wales, upper left, never may secure a pilot's license so he can make solo flights, but neither will be abandon airplane travel in company with an experienced pilot. In the center you see H. R. H. entering his plane near Norwich and pictured lower right is his personal pilot, E. H. Fielden, 26-year-old reserve officer who was awarded the Air Force Cross this year.
DISEASE SOURCE BALKSDOCTORS Nurses Chief Victims of Hyperemesis Wave. Hospital and health authorities have been unable to trace the source of infection of an intestinal disorder which has been sweeping the city for several months, and which has stricken fifteen nurses at city hospital and ten at Methodist hospital. The disease, generally described as intestinal flu, really is hyperemesis, according to Dr. William E. King, Methodist hospital resident physician. At present city hospital has ten patients ill with hyperemesis, besides its nurses. Methodist hospital has ten patients suffering from the trouble. Dr. King today said the disorder has been general in Indianapolis for several months. It causes discomfort, loss of weight and a generally weakened conditions. It is not dangerous in itself, Dr. King declared, but complicating diseases may develop due to weakened vitality. St. Vincent’s hospital has hac! a large number of similar cases, and private physicians of the city, in a medical society meeting recently, discussed the widespread condition, Dr. King said today. The total number of cases In the city is not known. Bank Defaulter Drowns Self Bn United Press DETROIT, Dec. 11.—Alexander W. Mercer, 65, an employe of the People’s Wayne County bank, drowned himself in the Detroit river after having lost $75,000 in the stock market crash. He ignored a life preserver that was tossed toward him.
had a brief revival. Then this method became unprofitable, and the town died again. Then came the Chinese, proverbially frugal and industrious. Headed by an astute celestial named Tim Lee, several hundred Orientals made Pioneer their own. Their patient care brought them riches out of sands that the whites had abandoned. Tim Lee became rich, and his underlings prospered too. tt o u BUT Tim Lee, like others of his race, loved to gamble; and althought he took a fortune out of Pioneer's sands, he died penniless a short time ago. The gamblers,
English Prince Takes to Air Despite Protests of Subjects. BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Writer T ONDON, Dec. 11.— The mollycoddlers of England again are beginning to get on the nerves of the prince of Wales. The plain truth is that they make him “edgy.” Under their misguided zeal for his safety and well-being, they are always trying to butt in and prevent him from having those rather ordinary pleasures which any manly,' high-strung person of 35 likes to have. Some time ago they were in great fear because of his hard riding in fox hunts and point-to-point racing. Now they are in equally great fear because of the frequency with which he travels in airplanes. In Hurdle Races Up to the time of his royal father’s serious illness, which began about a year ago, the prince was a prominent member of the Melton Mowbray hunting crowd. He also took frequent and active part in the point-to-point hurdle races gotten up by regimental organisations. His frequent falls became a subject for jest upon the part of some, of fear on the part of others. Then the mollycoddlers got in their work. Their theme was that the heir to the throne had no right tp risk his life. The matter was echoed in parliament. One day the then tory prince, Minister Stanley Baldwin, for whom the prince has a high regard, had a quiet chat with him in which he told the heir to the throne the feeling of many people about this riding business.
Had No Time The prince thought it over and w'hen he came home from Africa in his celebrated dash to be at the sick-bed of his father, it was given out that he was disposing of his Melton Mowbray horses. The reason given was that, as he was taking over a large number of official duties of the king, he no longer had the time for racing and hunting. The mollycoddlers breathed | a sigh of relief. But now they are all up in arms ; again. For the prince has taken to traveling by airplane and even learning to handle the controls. His first experience with flying machines was when he stayed at the British front in France and made trips with some of the British airmen. Bought His Own Plane Two months ago he bought a two-seater Gypsy Moth plane w'ith a speed of ninety miles an hour. He became a member of the Brigade of Guards Airplane Club and the plane is painted in their colors, red and blue. E. H. Fielden is now his pilot. The plane is fitted with all modern devices. It has the slotted wings, which have increased the safety of flying. Several times the plane itself has figured in forced landings, but the prince was not in it. However, that was enough to start the mollycoddlers. The story circulated that the prince was doing dangerous flying; that he had had some narrow escapes; that he was flying in dangerous weather; that he was doing a lot of secret flying. Minister Dies B,u Times Special CONNERSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 11.— The Rev. G. W. Florey, 55, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church here, is dead. He leaves his widow and a son, Harry.
long since, had taken all of his great winnings. Pioneer died again. Then, in the late ’9os, a syndicate of Englishmen came in and prepared to use modern dredges on the old placer claims. The syndicate became involved in litigation over the old mining claims, however, and finally went broke without having turned a shovelful of earth. Their abandoned dredge still remains in a gulch near the old town. Then Pioneer died in earnest. Dezell, Slaughtner and a few others still lived there, but there was no mining. Houses fell to pieces. Owls and mountain rats
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BRIDE AND POET IN DUAL DEATH Shooting Climax to Unhappy Alliance. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Clasped in each other’s arms, a young bride and a poet friend ended an unhappy love affair in the studio apartment of an artist friend here Tuesday night. The bodies of Mrs. Josephine Rotch Bigelow, 22, and Henry Grew Crosby, 32, both socially prominent, were found lying on the bed, partially covered with a blanket, by the portrait painter and studio owner, Stanley Mortimer, when he broke open the door with aid of a janitor after his repeated knocks and ringing of the bell failed to gain him admittance. Mrs. Bigelow was shot through the left temple and Crosby through the right temple. Clasped in Crosby’s right hand was a .25caliber automatic pistol. Crosby arrived from Europe with his wife and two step-children two weeks ago. He was a poet of the new school and as an associate editor of “Transition,” a Paris publication, which is described on its title page as “an international quarterly for creative experiment.’ MrS. Bigelow was the wife of a Harvard post-graduate student, Albert S. Bigelow. She was married June 21. Bigelow’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert P. Bigelow, live at Brookline, Mas. According to friends the tragedy was the climax of a love affair extending over a period of five years, originating when Mrs. Bigelow and Crosby met in Paris.
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Harlow Hyde, secretary of the Indiana Section of Automotive Engineers, recently named execu-tive-secretary of the Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association. He has been connected with the auto industry and trade here since 1912. City Jobs Dispensed Bu Times Snecial RUSHVILLE, Ind., Dec. 11.— Mayor-Elect Samuel L. Trabue and the Democratic council, in caucus, selected the following city officials for four-year term starting Jan. 1: Levi Crull, chief of police; Claude Smith, fire chief; William Newbold, city attorney, and James Jordan, street commissioner.
inhabited the old dance halls and saloons. Now, however, Pat Wall, wellknown mining man of Butte and Spokane, has taken over the old claims, and is preparing to begin dredging them in the early spring. The old bank has been turned into a restaurant for the 100 men who are building anew road, to connect the town with the main highway. The bank’s vaults, that once held millions in gold dust, are now full of canned food. The old city hall is a bunkhouse„ Pioneer is alive again, 11 only for a brief hour.
PHONE RATE HIKE BLASTED BY SINGLETON Terre Haute Patrons Will Be ‘Gypped,’ Charge of Commissioner. MAJORITY OPINION HIT $66,672 Excessive Returns Given Company, Says Dissenting Official. Patrons of the Citizens Independent Telephone Company of Terre Haute will be paying toll on $404.736 of excess value and these tolls will bring the company $66,672 annually in excessive returns. This contention is set forth in an opinion today by Commissioner Frank Singleton of the public service commission. He dissents to the rate increase order passed 3 to 2, last Friday. Commissioner Calvin Mclntosh also filed an objecting opinion, setting out that the new rates are “unduly high and work an unwarranted hardship on the public.” Mclntosh, who heard the rate increase petition, prepared an order granting a few increases, but it failed to pass. Singleton alone supported it. He prepared another, granting the higher and more numerous rates, but Chairman John W. McCardle of the commission told him that he had written one himself.
Attacks McCardle Order The McCardle order was approved by Commissioners Howell Ellis and Jere West. It is this order that is attacked in the Singleton opinion. “The order in this cause,” Singleton sets out, "permits allowances for capital account to enter into fair value as a rate base in excessive amounts as follows: Cash working capital excessive by $20,000, work in progress by $184,736, and going concern value by $200,000. “Upon this amount the order authorized a 7 per cent return amounting to $28,331 per year* .Continuing, he points out that 5 iiistead of 4 per cent is allowed by the McCardle order on depreciable property and holds that 4 per cent would be ample. Amortization Attacked Amortization of SIO,OOO over a tenyear period also is attacked and Singleton holds that this matter should have been handled when the plants were combined nine years ago. “This allowance has no justification in equity or in practice at this time,” his opinion reads. Use of the company’s depreciation reserve since 1925 then is cited, and the opinion points out that $398,386 was expended in 1927 for retirement of central office equipment and other items included in the amortization. The company does not come in with “clean hands,” the opinion continues, and cites that it has failed to comply with the Act of 1925 in regard to building up a depreciation reserve. Called Wrong in Principle Excessive returns are listed as follows: Rate of return, annual excess, $28,331.52; depreciation reserve, annual excess, $27,689, and amortization for a duplicate property, $lO,652.14, making a total in excess of $66,672.66. “I believe that this order is wrong in principle,” the Singleton opinion concludes. “It does not protect the patrons as it should protect them in the preservation of a fair rate foxservice rendered. The company is prosperous to a desirable degree under the rates as they existed at the time of filing this petition. “Rates at that time were as high as they should be, and the only excuse for increasing them is that the estimated cost to reproduce the property today, depreciated, furnishes a higher figure as a rate base than any other evidence of value would furnish.
GIVE DINNER FOR NEW C. OF C. DIRECTORS Seven Just Elected by Chamber Will Be Guests of Honor. Honored guests at the annual dinner and meeting of the Chamber of Commerce tonight at 6:30 in the chamber’s building will be seven newly elected directors of the civic body. The directors elected for threeyear terms at a meeting Tuesday are: Howard T. Griffith, Frank E. Gates, Paul Q. Richey, George S. OUve, C. H. Rottger, Dick Miller and Charles F. Coffin. The balloting for new directors began at noon Teusday and ended at 7 p. m. W. A. Atkins was chairman of the nominating committee. The new directorate will meet within a few days to select officers for the ensuing year. MRS. PIERCE IS DEAD Wife of Association Secretary Passes Away at Home. Mrs. Belle R. Pierce, 59, wife of James E. Pierce, secretary of the Railroadmen’s Building and Loan Association, died Tuesday night at her home, 3419 North Pennsylvania street. Mrs. Pierce, bom in St. Louis, came here when she married Mr. Pierce in 1893. Besides her husband, two sons, Robert E. Pierce of Brooklyn, N. Y., and George O. Pierce, Minneapolis, Minn.; three daughters, Mrs. John F. Wild Jr. and Misses Martha Belle and Mary survive.