Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1930 — Page 2

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GAS INSPECTION' LAW DECLARED 'MONEY-RAISER' Petroleum Group to Seek Change on Grounds of ‘lnefficiency.' Charging that Indiana's gasoline Inspection law la in “the coal oil lamp stage" and has degenerated from a public service to “a mere unconstitutional revenue raising measure,” Max L. Wickersham, ex- | ecutive secretary of the Indiana J Petroleum Association, announced today that war is to be waged on the law at the next legislative session. Unanimous backing of the oil men of the state and even by the oil inspection department itself will be given the- movement, he predicted. A petition of protest la being circulated and generally signed, Wickersham declared. It reads as follows: “We wish to go on Record as protesting against the present oil inspection law of Indiana as inefficient, an excessive fee, and a public hazard.” “The motoring public does not realize that in addition to the 4-cent gasoline tax in Indiana, it also is adding to the annual exchequer of the state an additional $400,000 under the oil inspection law,” Wickersham declared in fighting for change. “The law was adequate for kerosene or illuminating oil in the old days of the coal oil lamp, but today it is impossible for our state oil inspectors to make proper inspection under the present system of highly explosive liquids such as gasoline and naphtha. ‘‘It is only a question of time until an explosion occurs which will waken the populace to action and without doubt the responsibility will lay on the Inspection department. “The revelation will show that

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Capitol City Fuel Co.—-1101 E. 46th St. Monon Fuel Co.—1015 E. 28th St. Myers Fuel Company—801 E. Ohio. Lambert Coal & Coke Co.—2409 Cornell Ave. Geo. Longstreth—92l E. 23d St. Van Wert Co.—1121 E. 33d St. E. H. Moorman—1012 E. New York. F. W. Aldag Co.—3409 E. Wash. Irvington Ice & Coal Co.—412 S. Ritter Ave. L. C. Litten Coal Co.—1002 E. St. Clair. Muesing-Merrick Coal Co.—1114 E. 22d St. W. V. Englert. John G. Keller Coal Co.—3719 E. 21st. St. Monument Coal Co.—701 E. Wash. Domino Fuel Co.—320 West 15th St. Potter Coal & Material Co.—3515 E. Wash. Penn Coal Co.—741 E. Wash. Atlas Coal Co.—1026 N. Senate Ave. Haverkamp Coal Co.—1701 Churchman Ave. Henry Kissing—2242 Bethel Ave. Enos R. Snyder—l940 Bluff Road.

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Miss Alma Teifert. left, and Francis E Hodges, right, city swimming supervisors, and Red Cross life savers, in charge of a water carnival dedicating the new Garfield park swimming pool Sunday afternoon.

Miss Alma Teifert, left, and Francis E. Hodges, right, city swimming supervisors, and Red Cross life savers, in charge of a water carnival dedicating the new Garfield park swimming pool Sunday afternoon.

highly explosive liquids are unloaded from tank cars to bulk plants, trucked to service stations and resold to the motorists weeks before a sample of the fluid reaches the state deirt>nent. It also will reveal that the inspectors have taken the invoice gallonage without a sample and billed the oil company for inspection. “The oil Inspection fee in Indiana is 40 cents per barrel. On a 10,000gallon tank car the oil company pays the state $8 to carry out the Intent of the law to protect the public. “It is understood that of the $400,00 collected each year in this

manner, about $90,000 is used for inspection purposes. The balance of over $300,000 reverts to the general fund.” Effort will be made to change the law so that inspection will not cost more than l!a cents per barrel arid all the money will be spent for “inspection at the pump,” Wickersham said. This is the fee paid in Illinois. Democrats long have made efforts to repeal the inspection law in its entirety, but the Republican majority has retained it. At the last legislative session, leading senators admitted that it was a fund-raising and job-making measure as now constituted.

Union Ice & Coal C 0.—1910 Bluff Road. Bert Kingan—6l9 Illinois Bldg. Ehrlich Coal C 0.—579 W. Wilkins. Commonwealth Coal C 0.—406 W. 17th St. Raven Coal C 0.—2002 Darwin. Sigmon Coal C 0.—1205 Roache. E. E. Heller & C 0.—1924 Fletcher Ave. Hitzelberger Fuel & Supply C 0.—1166 Roache. Casaday Fuel & Supply C 0.—906 N. Sherman Drive. J. L. Hogue Fuel & Supply Co.—29th St. and Canal. F. J. Schuster Coal C 0.—902 E. Troy Ave. Peoples Coal & Cement C 0.—109 E. 15th St. W. R. Tuttle—Spink-Arms Hotel. Acme Coal C 0.—424 W. 17th St. Wright Coal C 0.—5000 N. Keystone Ave. Frank M. Dell Co—lool Southeastern Ave. Marshall Bros 3407 Roosevelt Ave. Metropolitan Coal C 0.—945 N. Davidson. Indianapolis Coal Cos. 234 Bankers Trust Bldg. J*

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RICH WOMAN HERMIT ENDS HEROWN LIFE Leaves but $l5O and Her Curse to Relatives; Suicide Due to 111 Health. Bv T~nit(rl Prrr* NEW YORK, June 16.—Mrs. Rosalie Bar ibell, a hermit reported to have accumulated $500,000 in the course of her strange life, has killed herself, leaving only $l5O to one of her relatives and her dying curse to all the rest She tinned on the gas In her cramped little apartment on Oak Hill Terrace and ended her life. She had been suffering a bronchial cough for which she had refused to accept medical treatment. Today neighbors recalled her strange mode of living, and related tales of how she strode through the neighborhood with a sack of provisions and a glare in her eye for any orfe who presumed to wish her “good morning.” Relatives often called to see her, according to other tenants in the house. After they had pounded on the door, Mrs. Barabell would shout for them to go away. Even when her cough grew serious she would allow no one in the apartment except Mrs. Edward Morris, wife of the superintendent of the building. Mrs. Norris treated the widows cough, and then came the day when the superintendent’s wife broke both her ankles. Deprived of Mrs. Norris’ assistance and still refusing to see a physician or any of her relatives, Mrs. Barabell’s condition grew worse. Her suicide followed. Four notes addressed to relatives, contained nothing but the following message: “I wish that all the harm in -the world will happen to you and your children.”

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HAINES LEADS IN DERBY Negotiates 360 Laps in Y. M. C. A. Bunion Marathon. Vincent Haines leads in the Y. M. C. A. “bunion” derby with 360 laps negotiated in the fifty-mile marathon. Haines’ lap total is equivalent to fifteen miles. The total mileage must be completed by Sept. 15. Herman Meucke of the Big Four

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is in second place with 280 laps and Harry’ Metzger third with 212 laps. The event is arranged for systematic exercise during the summer months and not as a speed event. Editor Dies on Steamship BALBOA, n . Z., June 16.—Advices received here reported Guy Clark, editor of a Clarksville (Miss.) newspaper, had died of heart trouble on the steamship Amapala, returning from Cristobal to New Orleans. The body was embalmed for shipment to New Orleans.

RARE STAMPS ARE SOLD 200 CoUections Disposed of at TriState Club Session. More than two hundred stamp collections were sold at public auction at the summer convention of the Tri-State Stamp Club in the Hotel Lockerbie Sunday. An exhibit

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of stamps by the postoffice department was under charge of Edgar Brown of the Indianapolis postoffice. Principal speakers at the convention were C. W. Bedford of Akron, O.; Walter C. Brink of Wisconsin, Dr. E. J. Rogers of Indianapolis and Allen P. Vestal, also of Indianapolis.