Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1931 — Page 5

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STATE MAYORS JOIN TO FIGHT GAS RATE HIKE Concerted Effort to Set Aside Commission Order Is Pledged. Concerted efforts in a battle to set wide a recent public service commission order permitting changing of gas rates to the thermal heat Htv o ?! Were pled(?ed b y mayors and ity attorneys of a number of cities affected by the order at a conference today. i Approjcimately forty representaTres of Indiana cities attended the conference i n the Board of Trade I assembly room, called by Mayor I Sidney Baker of Newcastle to pre- 1 Pare for hearing next Thursday be- | tore the commission on the reasonableness of the order. The hearing was ordered by the commission after complaints had been registered by various cities affected that the new rates were ! exorbitant. Issued Without Hearing The commission several months ago issued a norder, without a hearing, permitting gas companies j proposing to serve natural gas later to change at once from the; cubic foot basis of measuring gas j to the thermal basis, because of the higher heat units of natural gas. Mayor Baker, a leader in the tight against the order, charged that j rates in Newcastle would be in-' creased from $1.40 per 1,000 cubic feet to $2.40 under the new order, j and that the new rate provided for! charging off the pres entartiHcial i gas plant valued at $400,000 over a period of ten years, making consumers stand the loss. A large factory at Newcastle is ; billed for gas at only 42 cents, Baker said. High Time for Action The Public Service Company of Indiana, serving Newcastle, is buying natural gas at Muncie on the cubic foot basis and there is no reason why we should be charged on the higher basis,” he added. Fight of The Inidanapolis Times against exorbitant utility rates was praised by Mayor H. K. Volland of Columbus. “It is high time something is be-

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ing done about extortionate utility rates in Indiana,” he said. “We are fighting for reasonable light and water rates and improved service not only for our own city, Columbus, but also for erery city in the state. “We own our own water plant now, and, as a firm believer in municipal ownership of utilities, I hope eventually that the city will own its own gas and light plants.” Cities represented at the conference included Newcastle, Shelbyville, Columbus, Wabash, Brazil, Lebanon, Crawfordsville, Bloomington, Franklin, Richmond and Frankfort.

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BUSINESS PICKS UP FORAIMEE She Draws 18,000; Jobless May Get Some Money. By United Press BOSTON, Oct. 16. —Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton thinks that, after all, her Boston revival may produce some funds for the city’s unemployed. After she promised Mayor James

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M. Curley last week to share the net proceeds with the jobless, it began to appear as thought the free will offerings would not even cover the expenses, estimated at $2,600 daily. Thursday night at Boston garden, however, the evangelist preached to the biggest audience to date—approximately 18,000 —and the amount of the collection, though not announced, was understood to be the largest since the revival opened. To make doubly sure that some money would be available for the unemployed, Aimee Thursday night distributed envelopes for a “love offering,” suggesting that every one donate a $lO bill.

NAB SECOND OF SUSPECTED TRIO John Steddenbenz Charged| With Store Burglary. John Steddenbenz, 22, of 241 North Minkner street, faces charges of burglary and grand larceny today because a wedding “celebration” j went awry, detectives said he ad- 1 mitted. • I Steddenbenz confessed, it is said,

to looting the P. B. Condit dry goods store at .Clermont, last August, as a “party” of *five returned from a wedding at Brownsburg. He stated, according to officers, that he and a companion. Herbert Stewart, arrested for the same offense, cut a hole in the door in the rear of the store, carrying shoes, hose, sweaters and jewelry to the car in which other members of the “party” waited. A third man is sought in connection with the burglary. Stewart was arrested a short time after the alleged offense, but Steddenbenz left town, he said in the statement, “riding the rods" to Los Angeles. He said he stayed two days, returned to find police were looking

for him, “rode the rods” again to Los Angeles, stayed ten days, and returned again. He was captured then. Suit Seeks $8,700 ANDERSON, Ind., Oct, 16.—Three suits filed in circuit court name the Nickel Plate railroad defendant in damage suit demanding a total of $8,700. The suits grow out of col- i lision of a switch engine and an [ automobile driven by William C.; McCreery, Muncie, at the Ander-; son street crossing in Elwood. Al- | leging permanent injuries, Me- ; Creery seeks $3,000; his wife, Elsie McCreery, demands $5,000, and S7OO is sought for damage to the Me- j Creery automobile.

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Aeronautics Expert Speaks By Times Special MARION, Ind., Oct. 16.—“ Modem Aeronautics” was the subject of an address here at a joint meeting of service clubs by V. R. Jacobs, assistant manager of aeronautics of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

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