Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1931 — Page 2

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COMMISSION TO HEAR PLEA FOR RAIL RATE HIKE U. S. Officials Surprised at ‘Bold’ Demand of Carriers. BT H. O. THOMPSON t’nlUd Prf* Staff tnrreapondfnt WASHINGTON, June 18.—The first reaction of officials who must pass upon the petition of the nation's railroads for a 15 per cent increase in freight rates was disclosed today to be one of surprise that the carriers had made such a bold and in some respects revolutionary demand. The machinery for official consideration of the document was set in motion as soon as the petition was filed with the interstate commerce commission Wednesday. A meeting was set for Saturday between a committee of the interstate. commerce commission and a committee representing state railroad commissions. Rees Threat in Trucks The various state railroad and utility commissions, interested in the petition because intrastate as well as Interstate rates are concerned, have been informed by John E. Benton, general solicitor, that the document "in some respects is a surprising paper.” The letter sent out by Benton expressed surprise that the carriers, realizing the Inroads truck competition might make if rail rates were increased, actually proposed to increase all rates. "That the carriers really intend to do themselves the injury which would result from thus increasing all rates regardless of consequences seems scarcely possible. They doubtless depend upon the regulatory commissions to save them from their own proposal, he said. Dwindling Revenue Stressed "The second surprising thing about thp application is that it openly asks the commission to authorize their proposed increases ■without passing upon the reasonableness of the rates which will be produced thereby.” The petition, stressing the emergency which confronts railroads because of dwindling revenues and instability of their securities, asked the commission to waive the usual extensive investigation. Any inquiry by the commission, the carriers urged, should "be of a limited character and should be for the purpose of reaching a determination as to whether or not the general schedules of rates and charges proposed should be permitted to become effective without suspension.” TIMES CONTEST TRIO SEE LINDY’S PLANE Smithsonian Institute Also Inspected on Trip to Washington. By Times Special WASHINGTON. D. C., June 18.— Lindy s plane and the oddities of the. Smithsonian institute was the cynosure of the eyes of The Indianapolis Times popularity contest winners when they visited this city Wednesday and the naval academy at Annapolis. The contest winners, Miss Birdie Williams and Richard Harold, accompanied by their chaperon, Mrs. W. D. Eastland, and 300 other Hoosiers took advantage of the Lyric theaters excursion to the nation's capital. "It's been some week.” the popularity winners agreed as they prepared for their return to Indianapolis to recount, to school-mates of the "rubberneck” jaunts and what they saw. STATE BOARD HEARS PETITIONS FOR ROADS Waveland Citizens Ask Extension of No. 5!) From Bellmore. Open meeting was held Wednes- I day by the state highway commis- ' sion to hear petitions for roads in various sections of the state. A delegation from Waveland asked the road No. 59 be extended north from No. 36 at Bellmore to Waveland. Citizens of Warsaw. Goshen, Elk- j hart, Etna Green, Mentone and Akron petition for an extension of No. 19 south to Peru. State Senator Glenn Slenker and Representative Cecil Bachtenkirchcr headed a group from Winamac and Monticello which asked that a highway be constructed following the Tippecanoe river from between those two points through Buffalo. U. S. DIPLOMAT IS ILL Ralph Booth, Minister to Denmark, Suffers from Pneumonia. WASHINGTON. June 18.—The state department announced Wednesday that Ralph H. Booth. American minister to Denmark, was reported seriously ill at the Kaiserhoff hotel at Bab Gastcin. Austria. Booth, a Detroit newspaper publisher, was said by the American legation at Copenhagen to be suffering from pneumonia. The minister recently left his post for the Austrian resort. His wife and daughter are with him.

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DETECTIVE HELD AS LOVE KILLER Sweetheart Is Murdered at Booze Party. B;i railed Pi ess LOS ANGELES, June 18.—Eddie Nolan, a veteran Los Angeles detective, was arrested today after Mrs. Grace Duncan, 36, said to be his sweetheart, was* shot to-death during what officers said was a drinking party in a hotel room rented by C. V. Williams, a salesman, of New York. Police Captain Frank CondafTer said he found Nolan in Williams' room with the body and that Williams “was too drunk to talk.” CondafTer said Nolan and Mrs. Duncan went to the party together and that Nolan, becoming jealous when his sweetheart kissed the traveling sa>:>man, beat her with his gun and then shot her twice.

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TWELVE STATES TO SEEK TRUCK LICENSE PEACE Conference at French Lick Called to Attempt Reciprocity. End of the truck license warfare that annually flares between states will be the goal of a conference to be held by executives of twelve states at French Lfck, June 30. On suggestion of Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, heads of the motor vehicle departments and public service commissioners will discuss reciprocity between states on li-

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censes. James W Carpenter, head of the Indiana department, will attend with Mayr. Announcement of the meeting followed receipt by the public service commission of a letter from the Georgia commission, stating Indiana trucks must comply with the new regulations enacted by the Georgia legislature. An effort was made in May to reach an agreement, but then it was decided to consider the matter further at a later meeting. For several years states have impounded Indiana trucks or threatened such measures: in turn Indiana has threatened retaliation. States, representatives of which will attend the meeting, in addition to Indiana: Wisconsin, lowa. Illinois, Missouri. Ohio. Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia. West Virginia. Michigan and Virginia. A machine is being developed by the American Machine and Foundry company that will produce 2,000 cigarets a minute.

ALL EYES ON MELLON AS HE VISITSBRITAIN Foreign Nations Hope World Depression Relief May Be Result. BY HERBERT MOORE T nited Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, June 18.—High significance was attached today to the conversations which Andrew Mellon, United States secretary of the treasury, is having here with govem'Tnent and banking leaders. It generally was hoped that, the conversations would lead to allevi-

ation of the world's financial and trade depression. Mellon, despite reiterations on his arrival that he was here "not on serious business,” conferred at length with Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald and Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson Wednesday, at ! the house of commons. He subsequently met Montagu Norman, head of the Bank of England. The conversations in both instances were confidential. However, iit was said that the premier and Henderson discussed the problem of war debts and reparations with Mellon, giving special consideration to the situation in Germany, and i Austria. Both these nations are facing increasingly difficult financial situations, and Germany lias asked a reduction in reparations payments, threatening to declare a moratorium ; otherwise. However, no definite proposals were made either bv Mellon or MacDonald. the United FTess was reliably informed.

HOLD WOMAN IN STATE SWINDLE Suspect in ‘Stock Deal’ Is Nabbed in Ohio. By United Press CLEVELAND, June 18. Mrs. Mary Hamilton, alias Cosgrove, 37, of Muncie, Ind., was held by Cleveland police today for Indiana authorities who charge she and three companions swindled Vasil Naomi, Ft. Wayne (.Ind.) business man, of SIO,OOO last week. The woman, arrested at the home of relatives, was identified by De- , tective Sergeant Eugene Bouchard of Ft. Wayne, who said she, a woman companion and two men extorted

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