Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1931 — Page 3

MAY 20, 1931_

INSULL'S RATE PLAN IS PUT UP TU BOARS AGAIN Make Effort to Reinject Theory of ‘Common Power Source/ Effort to reinject thp “common power source” theory of rate making, previously rejected by the public service commission, was made today by the Insull utilities. A cross bill was filed with the commission by attorneys for the Public Service Company of Indiana asking that the properties in twen-ty-two southern Indiana counties be considered in the Bloomington rate case now pending. The original petition filed by the city of Bloomington and later extended to include Monoe -county, asked for electric rate reductions. Includes 67 Cities In the Insull petition today the company asks that instead of confining the hearing to Bloomington alone, the commission make an investigation and determine "proper and reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates for electric and gas service in all of the territory served in what is known as the ‘South system.’ ’* This territory includes sixty-seven cities and town supplied with electric light and power service and eleven supplied with gas, as well as service to a large rural territory, quarries, mines and other industries. With the present engineering staff of the commission, many months, or perhaps years, would elapse before such an inventory of properties could be made to furnish the rate base on a “replacement new, depreciated” theory of valuation. Opposed to Plan In the interim Bloomington citizens and industries would continue to pay rates which they charge are •excessive. The commission has several times gone on record as opposed to this plan and to accept the Insull proposal will be to reverse this stand. Incorporated towns served with electricity in which the company asks the commission to adjust rates are as follows: Columbus. Clifford. Elizabethtown. Jonesville. Nashville. Charlestown. Clarkesville, Clavsburtt. Jeffersonville. SellersburK, Alfordsville. Elnora. Odon, Plainville. Cannelburcr. New Albany, Francisco. Hazelton, Oakland City. Owensville. Princeton, Somerville, Bloomfield. Lyons, Newberry, Swltz City. Worthington. Corydon. Lanesville. Brownstown. Medora. Seymour, North Vernon, Vernon, Franklin, Greenwood, Bicknell. Decker. Monroe City. Oaktown. Sandborn. Vincennes. Wheatland. Bedford. Mitchell. Loogootee. Shoals. Bloomington, Ellettsville. Stinesville. French Lick. Orleans. West Baden. Spurgeon, Petersburg. Cynthiana. Poseyvllle. Shelbyville, Carlisle. Dugger. Merom. Elberfeld. Lynnville. Fredericksburg, Hardlnsburjt, Campbellsburg and Salem. Cities in the same territory supplied with gas service are: Columbus, Clarkesville, Claysburg, Jeffersonville. New Albany. Seymour. Franklin. Edinburg, Bedford. Bloomington and Shelbyville.

CHLOROFORM DEATH IS RULED AN ACCIDENT Suicide Theory Is Discounted by Coroner and Police. Death of a theatrical musician in his hotel room where more than one hundred empty chloroform bottles were found, was accidental, Coroner Fred Vehling and police agreed today. A call boy from the Colonial theater and a bell boy found Wallace Barnhart, 23, dead in his room at the Brevort hotel, Tuesday night. Partially clothed the body lay across the bed, a cloth saturated with chloroform covering the face. Other evidence in the room led officials to discount a suicide theory. Papers were found among his possessions indicating he had been divorced in Ft. Wayne some time ago. Among them was a restraining order issued there enjoining him from molesting or injuring his wife. The coroner has been unable to locate relatives. Award SIOO,OOO Printing Contract A SIOO,OOO contract for the printing of stationery forms for the Indiana Bell Telephone Company for a three-year period has been awarded the printing firm of Clarence E. Crippin & Son, Inc., 225 North New Jersey street, it was announced today.

Few Gluttons By Times Special NEW YORK, May 20.—Anexperiment in several of the Child's restaurants here has increased receipts by 110 per cent, and the number of customers by 150 per cent, according to F. C. Lane, vice-presi-dent. It was announced that for 60 cents any customer would be served with whatever he might order, and as many helpings as he liked. A checkup showed, according to Lane, that only five persons out of 100 sent back for a second helping. The champion meal so far ordered was as follow's: Grapefruit Juice cocktail, vegetable soup, two orders of veal chops, two orders of French fried potatoes, four orders of sliced tomatoes, one order of rolls, one of toast, a pot of tea, a baked apple with cream and an order of prunes.

EXCURSION Saturday, May 23 Toledo $5.00 Detroit $6.00 . Uai Indianapolis 10:15 p. m.: returning: leave Detroit 11:20 p. m.. Eastern Time. Sunday, May 24; Toledo 1:30 •l m.. Eastern Time, Monday, May 25. Tickets good in coaches only. Children half tare. Ticket* at City Ticket Office, 112 Monument Circle, and Union Station. BIG FOUR ROUTE

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Here we have America’s typical family, the Merril J. Browns, of 4144 Carrollton avenue, just “at home?’ There is John, the son, 13, with a dog on his lap, and Mrs. Brown beside him, while Louis, 15, is perched on Daddy Brown's lap as the photographer flipped the lens. According to the American magazine this family most nearly typifies in every respect the 29,000,000 families in the nation.

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CRASHES TAKE INJURED TOLL Truck Strikes Auto; Boy, 5, Runs Into Car. Two persons were injured early today when the car in which they were riding was struck by a threeton truck at Thirty-eighth street and State Road 52. Lester Utterback, 28, of 3655 West Tenth street, and his wife, Mrs. Ella Utterback, 41, are in city hospital. Mrs. Utterback’s condition is critical. She suffered from head and internal injuries. Utterback is suffering scalp wounds and bruises. The loaded truck was driven by Walter E. Harp, 1120 West Morris street, who was uninjured. The truck tore up 200 feet of fence and hurdled into a ditch. Utterback’s car was overturned. A trailer on the truck also overturned. Running against the side of an auto, Elvina Miller, 5, of 1040 North Senate avenue, Tuesday night suffered a leg fracture. She had been walking with her brother Marion, 13, when she pulled away from him and ran into the street. The auto was driven by Mrs. Alma Allison, 29, of 4553 Guilford avenue, who took the child from the scene of the accident to the Methodist hospital.

AID FOR HOME BREW Cermak Doesn’t Want Chicago Cops Bothering Beer Makers. By United Press CHICAGO, May 20.—Mayor Anton J. Cermak wants to revive another waning industry. He served notice today that he doesn’t want the police department to discourage the manufacture of wine and beer in the home, as long as it’s intended for home consumption.

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Many Vacant Tracts Still Open for Unemployed Men of City. The garden season is in full swing. On vacant lots throughout the city unemployed men have plowed ground that heretofore sprouted only rank weeds, and already vegetables are pushing their way up through the ground to ripen into food for bare tables. But still there are many other vacant lots in Indianapolis awaiting industrious, wliling men and women to work them into useful gardens this summer. More than sixty of them are listed with The Times Garden Editor, awaiting only your request to go to work on them. One woman telephoned Monday: “Would it help any if I offered free seed with the lot?” The address is 2034 Broadway. Will the seed help? .Go there and see. The Garden Editor can not look up owners of property, check maps and obtain the owner’s permission for you. There were too many requests to carry on that job. But he will try to find you a lot as near your home as possible When you write him, tell him whether you can go a mile or two miles, if necessary, to maintain the garden But write today!

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SNUB BY YALE IS CHARGED BY SINCLAIRLEWS Easier to Win Nobel Medal Than to ‘Loan’ It to School Library, He Finds. By United Press NEW YORK, May 20.—Sinclair Lewis has learned that it is easier to win the Nobel prize In literature than it Is to make “a permanent loan” of the four-inch plaque symbolic of his achievement to the Sterling Memorial library of Yale university. The author of “Main Street” and “Babbitt” is incensed over treatment which he claims was accorded him when he attempted to offer the gold medal to the new $7,000,000 institution, and will “be damned” if Yale will get it or anything else from him now. However, officials of Yale give an entirely different version of the matter. Rush Denies Story Charles E. Rush, associate librarian, said that Lewis, in the company of two other men, went to the library Saturday and inquired if there was a permanent exhibition there of coins. Rush once was city librarian in Indianapolis. Rush assured him there was and asked him if he cared to see it, he said. Lewis said “No,” but asked “Did the library have a permanent loan of coins?” I did not not know what he meant and asked him to explain, Rush said. “No, I won’t,” Rush quoted him as saying, “I’ve changed my mind.” And with that he walked out. “You Can’t Have It” “I thought the Yale library was the nautral place for the medal,” Lewis said from his home in Bethel. Vt., Tuesday night, “and so, while I was motoring to Westport, I stopped off at New Haven. “I learned better, however, than to try to make any presents to'Yale. They just didn’t seem interested, and said there wasn’t any place in their collection for such an item." He said they had asked him to make a formal application to exhibit the plaque, and he refused saying that “one doesn’t spend a lifetime trying to get rid of a gift horse when the beneficiary is looking at his teeth right in one’s face. The medal’s mine and I’m going to keep it. Yale can’t have it.” Small Estate Revealed By Times Special MARION, Ind., May 20.—Generally believed to have been wealthy, H. H. Blinn, investment broker, who committed suicide by shooting May I, left an estate valued at only $2,000, it is shown in application for letters of administration filed in Grant circuit court.

Colleen Granted Decree So Mate Can Wed Again

By United Press LOS ANGELES, May 20.—The way for John McCormick, film producer, to be married to Mrs. Janet H. Gattis in Honolulu was cleared today by the granting of a final decree of divorce to his

first wife, Colleen Moore, the actress. Miss Moore was granted an interlocutory degree May 13, 1930, but did not apply for the final decree until late Tuesday, when her attorney appeared for her. Her delay necessitated postponing of the marriage in Honolulu of McCormick to the Was hington, D.

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C., and Beverly Hill society woman. Mrs. Gattis had invited friends to attend the wedding at noon, but upon learning that McCormick was not yet free to marry again, the gathering was turned into an engagement party. Hollywood friends of Miss Moore said she soon would be married to A1 Scott, New York stock broker. She is in New York today.

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MOVE TO SHOW UPWARD WAGE REVISION NEEO Hoover’s Aids in Probe to Prove Labor Productivity Needs New Rewards. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 20. A movement to defeat attempts at wage reductions is being made by the administration through collection of statistics which will show, it is believed, that productivity of workers has increased out of all proportion to their wages. If any “adjustment” is made, it should be upward, not down, it will be contended. This became known following an unusually long cabinet meeting, when Secretary of Labor William N. Doak announced appointment of a committee of economists, labor leaders and government officials to study the effect of machine production on employment. At the same time came a manifesto from the metal trades department of the American Federation of Labor, calling upon metal workers to meet efforts to reduce wages with “active, organized opposition.” These were the most recent developments in the determined struggle being made by the administration and organized labor against

“wage scale adjustments” due to the depression. Doak’s committee will bring together views of two opposite schools

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of thought, those who insist wages should be based on living costs, and those who hold they should be based on productivity of the worker.