Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 292, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1931 — Page 10

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INSULL MERGER PLAN IS BEFORE STATE^ BOARD Seek Consolidation of Indiana Electric Into Public Service Cos. Public service commissioners toare confronted with another Insull merger plan. This time it is a petition to consolidate properties and management hf the Indiana Electric Corporation into the Public Service Company of Indiana, formerly the Interstate Public Service Company. Indiana Electric Corporation serves a number of central and western Indiana communities, which lie between territories served by the Public Service Company, the petition states. Both companies are in the group controlled by the Midland United Company, Insull owned. Transmission system of the two companies are interconnected. Exchange of Securities Authorization of 161,451 shares of no-par-value common stock of the Public Sendee Company to exchange for all preferred and common stocks of the Indiana Electric Corporation is asked. It is stated that this will mean a reduction of 19.3 per cent in the outstanding preferred stocks and a 20.4 per cent reduction in dividend requirements for preferred stocks. On Jan. 1, 1931, the Public Service Company was supplying direct 192 communities with electric service, twenty-five with gas and seventeen with water. It supplies electric service to approximately 90,700 customers, gas to 36,800 and water to 19,100. It operates the interurban line between Indianapolis and Louisville. Operates Terre Haute Plant On Jan. 1, 1931, Indiana Electric Corporation was supplying direct electricity to twenty-seven communities, gas to four and water to two. It serves approximately 4,750 customers with electric service, 1,750 with gas and 1.300 with water. Indiana Electric Corporation owrs and operates the Dresser electric generating plant near Terre Haute, with a rated capacity of 80,000-horse power.

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FISH TO m HERE Communist Probe Head to Address Ex-Soldiers. Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, head of the congressional committee probing communistic activities, will speak April 25 at the thirty-first annual dinner of the Indiana commandery. Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States at the Spink-Arms. Annual business meeting and election will precede the dinner. Nominees include: Qavin L. Payne, for comamnder; Willard S. Boyle, vice-commander; Robert M. Brewer, secretary: Myron C. Cosier, treasurer: Paul Comstock, judge advocate; Charles C. Crampton. surgeon: Louden A. Hartman, chaplain: Joseph R. Harrison, registrar, and Guy A. Bone, national delegate. Council nominations include L. R. Gigniiliat, George H. Healey, Walter H. Unversaw, Everett C. McCoy, Norman A. Nicolai and Blair Taylor.

STAYTON FLAYS STAND OF DRYS IN RALLY HERE Plea of States' Rights Is Voiced by Wet Leader in Speech. Anti-Saloon League hirelings and W, C. T. U. leaders spent their time winning prohibition while other patriots were winning the war, Captain William H. Stayton, founder of the Association Against the Eighteenth Amendment, told the

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first l&ige anti-prohibition meeting to be held in Indiana at Tomlinson hall Thursday night. . Stayton pointed out that his organization was not instituted until Nov. 12, 1918, the day after the armistice was signed. But in the interim the professional drys had put their program into the Constitution, he declared. “The eighteenth amendment has no business in the Constitution,” Captain Stayton, an Annapolis graduate, declared. “Our organization is out to save the Constitution by removing this amendment. It isn't a matter of drinking at all. Prohibition has driven persons to drink. I do not favor return of the old saloon, but I do think that it is more important to preserve our Constitution than to keep a few citizens from getting drunk, for they are getting drunk anyway.” Stayton urged state control of liquor and some sort of non-profit

making distribution and manufacture, similar to that advocated editorially in The Times. His whole plea was based on state rights and preservation of the Constitution. Meredith Nicholson, author, who presided, declared that the eighteenth amendment is not a “noble experiment” but “an ignoble fizzle.” "To repeal it is not to give up prohibition, for there is no prohibition,” the famous Hoosier author declared. "It merely will be abolishing a great nusiance and a bore.” Leo M. Rappaport, head of the Family Welfare Association, who opened the meeting, pointed out that despite preprohibition claims for the dry panacea, there never had been so much poverty and distress in Indianapolis as at the present time. Not a single claim for prohibition has proven true, but for the most

part the contrary Is the rule, he pointed out. Praising the more than 1,000 men and women who attended the meeting for their courage, Rappaport advised "Don't let the W. C. T. U. crowd you off the sidewalk.” BAPTISTS TO NOMINATE Federation Directors in Session Monday at Acton. Directors of the Baptist Churches of Indianapolis meeting in Acton Baptist church Monday night, will nominate officers and members of the executive committee. The meeting will mark the close of the first year of service ot the Rev. Clive McGuire as executive secretary of the federated churches. Seven out of every ten persons In London are London-bom.

DIVERTED ALKY 'LEGGING LESS New Adulterants Harder to Eliminate, Says Doran. WASHINGTON. April 17.—Despite a price decline of 14 cents a gallon in the last year smaller quantities of industrial alcohol are being diverted into bootleg channels than at any time in recent years, Dr. James M. Doran, commissioner of Industrial alcohol, announced today. Due to increased vigilance of a larger enforcement personnel and to use of new adulterants, harder to eliminate, only 2 or 3 per cent of

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the total outputof industrial alcohol is being diverted by liquor syndicates, Doran estimated. “Less than 3 per cent of the total seizures of liquor now are from diverted alcohol, while a year ago 4 per cent of all seizure was liquor made from this source," he said. AGED RESIDENT DEAD Thomas McDowell to Be Buried at Lafayette on Saturday. Funeral services for Thomas McDowell. 82. former engineer of tha Lafayette wtter works, will be held at SS. Peter and Paul cathedral Saturday at 9 a. m. Burial will be at Lafayette. Mr. McDowell died of pneumonia Thursday at the home of a daughter. Mrs. J. M. Hagerman, 240 West Forty-fourth street.