Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1931 — Page 9

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FREIGHT RATE HIKE IS ASKED BY RAILROADS 1). S. Commerce Commission Petitioned to Permit 15 Per Cent Boost. ADJUSTMENTS OUTLINED —————— Farm Produce Might Get! Reductions If General Increase Is Granted. By United Press CHICAGO, June 25.—Executives of the United States’ railroads applied to the interstate commerce commission today for permission to Increase all freight rates by 15 per 1 cent. The increase is necessary, the petition, filed at Washington, said in order to put the roads back on a sound financial basis. The petition asked that the rate advance be made “on all freight rates and charges, including joint rail-and- j Uvater rates.” The railroads informed the com- j mission that their proposal of a 15 j per cent increase in freight rates' applies to all commodities, but that adjustments affecting certain commodities probably will be made later to “meet competition and other situations.” A statement to that effect, unanimously agreed upon by the railroads at a meeting here Wednesday, was made public today and filed in Washington as an answer to the commission's request for specific information on the commodities that erill be affected by the petitioned increase. Deflnte Data Sought The commission had directed the fcarriers to supply information as to Whether the increase would apply to such classes of freight as grain and grain products, cotton and father agricultural and horticultural products, including livestock, nonferrous metals, iron and steel articles, petroleum and its products, lumber and automobles. “The steam railroad carriers of the United States are confronted with an emergency threatening serious impairment of their financial resources and their capacity to assure the public a continuance of efficient and adeqate service,” the petition said. “In emergencies of this character, previous experience has shown that there is but one method j which has been adopted, or as a: practical matter could be adopted; either by the carriers or the commission. to afford the necessary, relief, namely a percentage increase I In rates.” Almost AU Represented Nearly every one of the nation’s railroads was represented when the petition was drafted at conferences in Chicago. Presidents, traffic officials and other executives of railroads in the eastern, western, southern and mountain-Pacific sections of the country voted in favor of the rate increase. The railroads petitioned the comtnission on June 16 for authority to raise all rates by 15 per cent. This proposal met with objections, and the railroads later stated that if the increase were allowed, they would not make it applicable to all commodities. The commission then requested more specific information concerning what commodities would be included on the increased freight list. The new petition was in answer to that request. Water Traffic Affected International freight rates would fee increased under the railroad’s proposal, the petition said. Executives of transportation companies which transport freight by water have concurred with the railroads In requesting the increase, it was announced. Railroad officials ponited out that requests for increased rates on a definite list of commodities was not made because investigations and court procedure which might be necessary would require several months. Under the roads’ proposal the commission may grant the request for the increase in one decision. The roads later may make adjustments on commodities which are believed incapable of bearing the increased freight rate assessment. WHEAT BOARD ’ URGED Western Canadian Provinces Ask Elimination of Pools. By United Press OTTAWA, Ontario, June 25.—Organization of a national wheat marketing board has been urged on Premier R. B. Bennett and his cabinet by delegations from western provinces as a means of eliminating Canadian wheat pools and similar grain marketing enterprises. Only a marketing body with national resources behind it would be able to make sufficient initial payment on this year's crop to restore the purchasing power of the western Canadian wheat grower, the delegates pointed out. They suggested an initial payment of 55 cents a bushel. The wheat pools, they said, could not pay more than 35 cents. OLDEST RESIDENT 92 Voungest in Alexandria Director Was Born Sunday. By Times Special j ALEXANDRIA. Ind., June 25.-r-Isaac Williams, 92, is the oldest person, listed in anew city directory here which will be issued in a/few days. He is a Civil war veteran and is believed the only survivor among members of a military 1 guard at the bier of Abraham Lincoln. The youngest person lifted is Nancy Ann Broyles, the Father’s day baby, born Sunday. Sire is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Marshall Broyles. )

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TOY AUTOS TO FACE STARTER Youngsters Tuning Mounts for Race Friday. With the majority of sporting Indianapolis unaware of the annual toy automobile race to be held at 10 Friday morning at the dirt track in the rear of Washington court, near Thirty-third and Pennsylvania streets, qualification trials were being held today. Jack Blakely won the coveted pole position for the fastest time. T. E. (Pop) Myers, general manager of the Speedway, was present at the qualifications. He examined the track, interviewed the racers and promised to be on hand to start the race in the morning. Promptly as the starting firecracker bangs, the sixteen owners, in position, will prepare to push their cars to victory. Entries include John Sloan, Jack Kittle, Ralph (Bud) Reahard, William (Bill) Taylor, William (Bill) Hart, Frank Powell, Charles (Chuck) Abbott, John Hart, Steyart (Stew) Ruch, Jim Wagner, Felix McWhirter Jr., Bob Taylor, Art Small, Don Herr, Bob Lauth and Maurice Barry.

WOMAN JUDGE OUSTING VOTED Appellate Division Removes Jean Norris as Unfit. By United Press NEW YORK, June 25.—Mrs. Jean i H. Norris, for twelve years a magis- ' trate and the first woman appointed i to that position in New York, was removed today by the appellate division which upheld charges of Referee Samuel Seabury that she was unfit to continue on the bench. She is the first magistrate to be ousted since Seabury first began his investigation into minor courts on behalf of the appellate division. Three others, Francis X. McQuade. George W. Simpson and Henry M. R. Goodman, have quit under fire. Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky was tried, but absolved of charges. Magistrated Albert H. Vitale was removed by the appellate division on charges of unjudicial conduct before the current investigation began. Magistrate Jesse Silbermann, who, like Mrs. Norris, sat in women’s court, faces trial next. BABY FOUND IN CAB Juvenile Court Officials Probe •AbandonmenL’ Juvenile court authorities today were faced with the problem of 1 what to do with a ten-months-old baby, found today in an automobile parked outside 420 East North street. City factory girls passing by the auto reported to juvenile court that each time they passed for several days they had seen the child on u 1 feather bed on the rear seat of the car. Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Biush, who live: at the North street address, told : police the baby belonged to a girl j who had lodged there, but had left, ; leaving the infant in their care. Mrs. Bush, who said she former- j ly was a nurse, told officers the baby was ill and that she had been put- : ting the child in the car "for fresh air.” The boy has been placed in the care of Mrs. Marguerite Hildebrand, policewoman, while juvenile court authorities investigate further. Sfuallpox Fatal By Times Special SALEM. Ind., June 25.—S— Upox : ended the life of William Marshall, 88. a Confederate soldier during the Civil yrar. His death was the first from the disease in an epidemic! here.

MOTHER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE SO CHSLDREN MAY HAVE FOOD; SAVED BY DAUGHTER

By Times Special VTEW YORK, June 25.—Her SSOO insurance policy wasn’t much, Mrs. Lena Hoose knew, but it would pay rent for a month or two, and it would feed the children. maybe, and keep the family going until her husband got a job. So today she attempted to kill herself to collect that SSOO. £fler life was saved only because

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By Times Special \ GREENCASTLE, Ind., June 25.—The most beautiful coeds will be found in the sophomore class, results of a beauty contest at De Pauw university indicate. Florenz Ziegfeld, Follies producer and connoisseur of feminine pulchritude, was the final judge. Os his six selections, three belonged to the sophomore class, two were seniors and one a junior. The six selected were Betty Jane Cox, Tulsa, Okla.; Jean Kraemer, Delphi, and Mary Sargent, Chatham, N. J., sophomores; Betty Swindler, Logansport, and Marian Shickel, Terre Haute, seniors, and Mary Frances Shock, Peru, a junior. Their pictures were featured in a special section of the Mirage, university yearbook published by the junior class. The

SCARFACE AL NOW FLAT BROKE

Gang King, at Last Facing Pen, Heavily in Debt

Editor’s Note—This is the first of exclusive stories by Robert Talley, staff writer for N'EA Service and The Time*, on the downfall of A1 Capone who at last faces a sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary, as obtained from federal officials at Chicago. The remaining stories will tell how the evidence against the supergangster was obtained and of the men who worked for years vo get it, BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer (Copyright. 1931. by NEA Service. Inc.) CHICAGO. June 25.—A1 Capone, for whom the gates of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., are to open soon, Is broke. The evil genius of organized crime who welded Chicago’s vice, gambling and bGotlegging into a

Stole to Pay for Baby's Funeral; Sent to Jail “I stole to pay for my baby's funeral.” That was the explanation given Judge Frank R. Baker in criminal court today by Mrs. Ruth Clarke, 19, of Oxford, Ind., who faced the court on a grand larceny charge. Mrs. Clarke was charged with walking into a downtown jewelry store and exchanging a 10-cent ring for a SSO one, the clerk not discovering the deception until she had gone. She pawned the ring and later returned to the store, the clerk having her placed under arrest. Many residents of Oxford, including Vernon Clarke, the girl’s husband, a pastor and an editor, appeared before Judge Baker to plead for leniency. She told the judge her husband had been out of work and thMr baby had died. She said she had been forced to theft in an ‘efforts to pay off their debts. Judge Baker sentenced her to six months in Marten county jail.

TAXES SOUGHT ON AUTHOR’S ESTATE

State inheritance tax officials moved today to collect taxes on Indiana property of Gene Stratton Porter, novelist, who died in Los Angeles, Dec. 6. 1924. Judge Smiley N. Chambers of probate court appointed Schuyler C. Mowrer, Indianapolis attorney and former state inheritance tax administrator, as 'pecial adminisFLEEING MAN CAUGHT WHEN AUTO CRASHES City Man Arrested on Four Charges by Police Raiders. Alleged to have crashed into an automobile as he fled from police, George Meek, 32, Apartment 56, 1503 North Pennsylvania street, early today was arrested on four charges. Police said they intended to raid an apartment in the building and found it empty. They said Meek rushed frem the building and leaped into his car. Less than a block from the building his car crashed into another. Meek was charged with drunkenness. operating an automobile while drunk, reckless driving and failure to have lights. RELATIVES ARE SOUGHT Former City Woman Hurt; Son Killed in Auto Accident. Search for relatives of Mrs. Emma Deßoer, former Indianapolis resident, is being conducted here after police were informed she was injured critically and her son Robert, 17, killed in an automobile accident in Pueblo, Colo. According v to telegrams. Mrs. DeBoer is the daughter of a former mayor. However, this fact has not been confirmed.

the daughter Rose, age 10, remembered while at rchool that her mother had threatened to kill herself. Rose worried over that thought for a few minutes, then hurried home frem school. She found the doer locked, so she crawled down the fire escape from the floor above, smashed the window and got help for her mother, who was near deatj| in the gas-filled room

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business of gigantic proportions with annual receipts running into the millions, has seen his vast syndicate crash on the rock that has wrecked so many legitimate enterprises—depression. Today his big underworld organization is a financial derelict and Capone himself is insolvent and heavily in debt. .■Authority for these statements are officials of the United States internal revenue bureau’s “intelligence unit,” the secret service of the income tax bureau, who worked quietly for more than three years in getting the evidence for the income tax fraud case against Capone. So deeply did they dig into his affairs and so remarkably did they

trator to determine amounts of the tax on property owned by the late Mrs. Porter in this state. Petition for the appointment was filed by C. B. Ullum, inheritance tax administrator, who explained that “the estate of the writer never had been settled completely.” The home of the novelist, familiarly known to the reading world as Limberlost Cabin, the setting for tthe novel, “The Girl of the Limberlost,”- is part of her holdings in this state. This home is located on Sylvan lake, near Rome, in Noble county. Mowrer announced that “the only reason for his selection as administrator was to clear up the matter of inheritance taxes due the state.” The petition mentioned the estate as belonging to a nonresident descendant. Officials said Mrs. Porter claimed California as her legal heme. She wro + e a great many of her novels at the cabin on Sylvan lake. CLOSE ALLISON ESTATE Final Settlement Is Made; Two Executors Are Discharged. Final settlement has been made of the $1,326,577 estate of James A. Allison, former Indianapolis capitalist, according to word received today from Miami Eeach, Fla. He died in August, 1928. Eugene H. Iglehart, Indianapolis, and Thomas J. Pancoast. Miami Eeach, have been discharged as executors. Mrs. Lucille Mussett Aliiron, widow, who married Allison five days before his death, received 8135.000 and SI,OOO a month since his death. Bulk of the estate, which went to Mrs. Myra J. Allison, the mother, who since has died, remains under litigation in probate court here.

TYENJAMIN HOOSE, her father, •*"* until a few’ months ago was a fur cutter. Then he lost his job and has been making a bare living selling ice cream bricks on the streets. Kis wife end the two children have been living on boiled potatces and black coffee, they told police today. Thfn the landlord told them to move out because they couldn’t pay the rent. “Father only earned a few cents

Marian Shickel

contest was sponsored by the editors of the book, Charles Tver of Carthage, 111., and John Pollock, South Bend. Each of the ten national sororities on the campus and occupants of two university dormitories for co-eds nominated their two prettiest members. From these twenty-four candidates, De Pauw students voted on the twelve prettiest, and from these twelve Ziegfeld made the final selection of six. Photographs of the six winners bore the autograph of Ziegfeld. Miss Cox is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma; Miss Kraemer, Alpha Chi Omega; Miss Sargent, Delta Zeta; Miss Shickel, Rector hall; Miss Swindler, Alpha Omicron Pi, and Miss Shock, Kappa Alpha Theta.

succeed that Capone chose to plead guilty rather than fight. a tt a “ \ L CAPONE is insolvent and heavily in debt to his friends,” says A. P. Madden, special agent in charge of the Chicago office of the intelligence unit. “If he had to liquidate today, his liabilities would exceed his assets by ten to one.” Elmer L. Irey, Washington chief of the income tax bureau’s investigators, who has given a large part of his personal attention to the Capone case and made many visits to Chicago, debunks some of the recent stories about Capone's vast wealth. “Capone is not the financial

THIEVES SMASH STORE WINDOWS Obtain Loot of S4OO, but Miss S3OO in Cash. Smashing glass in three north! side business places early today. | thieves obtained loot valued at S4OO. Entering the C-rosley pharmacy, 3342 Clifton street, thieves stole a revolver and merchandise, but overlooked S3OO in a cash box. Police arrested Hi.rold Smith, former employe, on a vagrancy charge as a suspect in the robbery. Police said Smith had served a prison term and had bought the gun that was stolen. Lee Perkins, operator of a dry goods store at 233 East Sixteenth street, informed police thieves smashed the display window, fleeing with S3OO in merchandise. Tools valued at $75 and $5 were stolen by burglars who looted the office of the Hamilton Weatherstrip Company, Fifty-fourth street and the Monon railroad, officials informed police. OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN BY DEMOCRATIC CLUB John Rice Temporary Head of Washington Township Group. Bi-weekly meetings will be held j by the newly-organized Washing-1 ton Township Democratic Club. Temporary quarters are at 4141 College avenue. The following officers temporarily were appointed: John Rice, chairman; Herbert Weaver, secretary; Thomas Chrisney and Fred Hinnenkamp, constitution and by-laws committ.ee; John Sthrcl and George Buskirk, membership: H. E. Arnold and F. A. Jones, publicity; Henry Koller and John Barrett, entertainment. Eoard of directors was named by the nominating committee as follows: George Fink, K. Walsh, John Barrett, George Blue, Andrew Jacobs, John Murphy and Carl F. King. Next regular meeting will be held July 7 in the grove of J. W. Allen, Fifty-seccnd and Arsenal avenue. SET FUNERAL SERVICES Woman Collapses, Dies During Entertainment at Church Funeral services for Mrs. Lucy Auble, 43, 1529 Barth avenue, who collapsed Tuesday night at a church entertainment, will be held at 10 Saturday morning at the Traub Memorial Presbyterian church. Death was attributed to apoplexy. Burial will be in New London, her birthplace. Surviving her are three sons, Bert. Harold and Donald Auble, all of Indianapolis.

a day.” Rose said today, “and after the man told us we'd have to move out, mother cried and said: “ ’l’m going to kill myself so the children can eat on the SSOO insurance money.’ “Father argued with her and told her things were going to get better. Then mother promised she vould not kill herself.”

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pow r er that the public thinks he is,” says Irey. “He might have had an income of SIO,OOO a week for short periods but that "was squandered, often in advance, by overdrawing his percentage in enterprises in w 7 hich he is reported to be interested. “There is no foundation in fact for some of the widely circulated stories that his income ran into millions and neither Capone nor any one of his representatives has offered the government $4,000,000 in settlement of the tax or criminal cases against him.” a a * AMONG other facts turned up by the government’s investigators during their long inquiry into his affairs were: Capone, hard-pressed for cash, j pawned some of his wife’s jewels to ( meet payments on his home in. Florida. He borrowed $25,000 from a money lender on Chicago’s westi side. He has not kept up his payments t on two 16-cylinder Cadillac automobiles that he bought early this year. He is heavily in debt to certain friends who have extended him huge personal loans. Os course, this does not mean that Capone is in want—or anything ■ike that. Temporarily, at least, he still can command and demand. And a demand for a loan, backed by the general knowledge that it might not be wise to refuse, can be expected to get results. Probably it already has. The reasons for Capone’s financial I downfall are not hard to under-: stand. Much of the credit is due to the efficient work of the internal revenue bureau’s agents who wrecked his vast financial organization with a series of relentless income tax prosecution against his chief lieutenants. Two of these—Frank Nitti, the Capone gang treasurer, and Sam Guzik, who the big gambling syndicates—already are In the penitentiary. Several —others—including Al’s brother, Ralph Capone, who directed the beer activities—have been convicted and sentenced, but now j are at liberty on appeal. a a a nPHE business factors entering into the collapse are clear, too. The market for beer and liquor in Chicago is off, as it is in other cities —depression is the answer. At the night clubs and other gay places, the crowds are thinner and even among those that remain there aren’t so many guests who now are willing (or able) to pay sl2 or sl6 j a quart for Capone’s best liquor. At the other end of the line, the ! cheap corner speakeasies (operating j as legitimate soft drink parlors) and the beer flats where cne can buy a glass of Capone’s beer for 25 cents, also have felt the slump caused by jobless men. His gang’s deg track, where fleet greyhounds once raced amid heavy ; wagers (and which actually paid a 300 per cent profit in one year, as shown in the prosecution of one of the Guzik cases) has been closed. His gang’s ganibling houses are having a hard time trying to find sufficient patrons who are willing ; (or financially able) to spend anything like the money they once spent, and the same applies to his j brothels. A business executive of another • kind might have seen all this approaching and applied the brakes, but Capone either was too dumb or : unable to. (To Be Continued.) Next. How A1 Capone Squan dered His Fortune.

“T>UT all day I was worried in ■*-* school. I wanted to go home, but I didn’t want to tell the teacher about our troubles. I left as early as I could and ran home. The doors were locked. I went upstairs and cams down the fire escape and smashed the window. There was mother on a couch and the room was full of gas.” I She held her breath while she opened the windows and then . screamed for. help in the hall, she

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S2OO LOOT IN HOLDUPON BUS Three Bandits Take Money From Passengers. Three bandits who worked Jesse James style early today boarded a Cincinnati-Indianapolis bus and robbed seven passengers of more than S2OO. Virgil Jones of Cincinnati, bus driver, told police the trio boarded the bus at New Palestine and rode as passengers to the Indianapolis city limits and State Road 52. Two of them drew guns, commanding the passengers to hand over their cash to the third, and ordered Jones to continue driving. After looting the tourists they dropped -ff the bus. Those robbed; Jones, $5; Lee Webster, Milfori Ind., $65; Irene Smith, Cincinnati, SSO; Miss W. Eherhardt, Bellevue, Ky., $5; Margarett Saylor, Chicago, $25; E. W. Haytter Findlay, 0., $lB, and L. A. Lee, Calbert, Ind., $23. Police said five other passengers on the bus had departed from the Indianapolis terminal before officers arrived and it was not learned whether they had been robbed. CADLE TOTELL OF COMEBACK Tabernacle Builder Will Relate Story by Radio. Story of the comeback of E. Howard Cable and the fight he made with associates to rededicate Ca.dle tabernacle to religious and civic causes and oust prize fights, wrestling bouts and marathons will be related by him Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Speaking on ‘“How I Came Back,” Cadle will make the address in the structure at Ohio and New Jersey streets. The address will be broadcast over radio station WFBM. Cadle said he expected to procure the appearance of Billy Sunday, famous evangelist, and Edgar Guest, noted poet, at future meetings at the tabernacle. Cadle outlined his comeback efforts once before, when 10,000 persons who attended the second anniversary of the tabernacle, Oct. 21, 1923. ROTARY NAMES HOOSIER Robert Heun of Richmond Is Selected as Director. By United Frees VIENNA. Austria, June 25.—Rotarians of the world, at their in- ! ternational convention here today, called on the nations to speed proggress toward disarmament. The following Americans were ; elected directors of Rotary Internai tional. Frederic Schaffer of Globe, Ariz.; Robert Heun, Richmond, Ind.; Dr. Joseph Jackson, Madison, Wis.; Colonel Abit Nix, Athens, Ga., and Walter Walthall, San Antonio, Tex. SCHOOL WILLED $2,500 I Friends of Late C. S. Stone Add $2,500 for Radium Purchase. Indiana university medical school has been bequeathed $2,500 in the will of the late Charles S. Stone of this city. The money, together with an additional $2,500 from friends of Mr. R f one, will be used to purchase radii’m for Robert W. Long hospital, it was announced by Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of the university. DR. "BENSON TO SPEAK Methodist Hospital Physician to Address Medical Society. Dr. John G. Benson of Methodist hospital will give the principal address at the annual Parke county reunion Sunday at Garfield park. A playlet will be presented by Ruth Benefiel and others. J. A. Linebarger is president of | the reunion group and Mayme Jacobs, secretaryr

said. Neighbors found Rose working her mother's arms, attempting artificial respiration. Firemen with an inhalator revived the mother. Then police and firemen agreed to provide ample food for the family and pay the back rent. But Rose, when she found her mother was all right, shooed every one out of the house, explaining: “I’ve got to fix up the house and get some supper for my little brethsr and my father.”

POWER CZARS ON VERGE OF RATE VICTORY Engineers Are Ordered by Commission to Appraise 'South System.’ STATE STAND REVERSED Move Indicates Officials Have Accepted Insult Loop Proposal. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Big power interests are about to score one of the most significant victories in the history of public service commission control in Indiana it appeared today. For engineers have been ordered to appraise the properties of the socalled "south system” power loop of the Insull-owned Public Service Company of Indiana. With this appraisal used as the basis for rate making in the Bloomington district, it will mean the commissioners will have reversed their stand in the Martinsville case, now pending in federal court, and have accepted the power loop proposal of the Insull interests. Eventually, it will mean a standard rate for various classes of electric service throughout the big power district. Confer With Leslie Towns and cities have been the basic-unit for rate making and the city of Martonsville was used, to the exclusion of the larger power district, in the Martinsville rate case. Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson, who succeeded to the post of Calvin Mclntosh, has the Bloomington rate case in tow. He said the order to make the appraisal was made before the case was assigned to him. Harry V. Wenger, chief engineer, stated that he received his instructions to proceed Saturday. Commissioner Howell Ellis and Fred 1/ King, commission secretary, discussed with Governor Harry G. Lesle Wednesday the matter of adding six engineers to the staff. Today the state budget committee approved a maximum of sixteen engineers and ten accountants at salaries ranging from $175 to $255 a month. Asked by InsuU Properties to be appraised also are included in anew Insull electric merger case now pending with Commissioner Ellis. Adoption of the power-loop plan was asked in the Bloomington rate case by Insull attorneys who argued the matter before the commissioners. It was opposed by Bloomington and Bedford city attorneys and attorneys for the stone companies in the district. The rate reduction petition originally was filed by Bloomington and later amended to include the socalled “Bloomington district,” which is largely Monroe county. Utility attorneys contended that the “Bloomington district” was an arbitrary political division, while their power loop is based on physical properties involved in the production and distribution of power. Illustrates Survey Point consumption. Cuthbertson points out that Albert S. Ward, who is handling the Martinsville court case as master, admitted power-loop evidence which was not permitted at the commission hearing. He illustrated the point of the survey by a map of the power district, which shows that there are no generating plants in Bloomington, Bedford or Martinsville. Power, he pointed out, is supplied from four different sources and unless the entire loop is included, the commission can have no basis for rate-making appraisals which will stand the court test. “We must stand oh our appraisals,” Cuthbertson declarad. Commissioners are agreed with this stand, he asserted, but said the rate case ruling may be confined to | Bloomington and other southern ! Indiana towns and cities which have filed or contemplated filing reduction petitions. Decision Expected Soon These include West Baden. Columbus, French Lick, New Albany and Shelbyville. “The time is past when a local unit can be appraised for rate maki ing without taking into considerai tion the whole power production ! plan,” Cuthbertson explained. “That i right was lost when the city psrI mitted its local plant to be aban- | doned in favor of the big power circuit. “Now the only , hope for the consumer and the job of the public service commission, as I see it, is to see that benefits accruing from big power production are passed on to the public.” Decision in the Martinsville case is expected shortly. Arthur L. Gilliom, former attor--1 ney-general, who is appearing on j the Bloomington side of the case ! before the commission, today filed Ia brief opposing the cross-petition iof the company, on the grounds j that to surrender the local unit ! right of appeal in rate cases is to surrender utility control. ! Right of appeal by local units is : likely to be upheld by the commisi sion and the victory of the utilities lies in accepting the power loop plan of audit for rate making. FESTIVAL IS ARRANGED Fish Fry to Be Held for Benefit of Englewood Christian Church. Fish fry and summer festival of | the Englewood Christian church j will be held Friday and Saturday , afternoons and nights at 2421 East Washington stret. Luncheon and dinner will bo served each day, the proceeds to be turned over to the Sunday school fund of the church. E. A. Dosch, superintendent of the Surday school, is chairman of the carnival.