Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1931 — Page 19

OCT. 22, 1031

‘NO CONFIDENCE' VOTE IS CIVEN UTILITY FIRMS Indiana Mayors Repudiate Use of Therm as Unit of Gas Measurement. Mayors atod other officials from fifteen Indiana cities and towns assembled in the house of representatives today to voice, in the name of Hoosier citizenry, what amounts to a vote of “no confidence” in Insull and other big Indiana utilities operators. • The occasio. ■’•as the public service commission nearing on use of so-called therm unit of gas measurement in seventy-seven Indiana towns and cities and rural districts of eight counties. Investigation of therm use was launched by the commission. The hearing is in charge of Commissioner Howell Ellis. Examiner on Stand Throughout the morning, William J. Gunther, who conducted the field investigation for the commission, occupied the stand. Upshot of his testimony was that the change to therms from cubic feet has made no difference in cost of gas to the average consumer, but it takes a technical expert to “figure out a common gas bill.” In concluding his findings, he said ronsumers do not understand the therm and “are suspicious of its use by the utilities.” Robert M. Fcustel, Ft. Wayne, Insull’s Indiana chieftain, and other “big shots” in the utilities involved, were on hand to hear the evidence and listen to condemnatory declarations from mayors and other spokesmen. To Get Their Chance They also will be given a chance to defend their therm program and to explain why they buy gas wholesale on the cubic foot basis of measurement, and insist on therms for their retail sales. Those opposing the therm will quote the 1901 statute requiring plainly read meter devices for gas, W’hich also is a clause in the Indiana utility law. Under the therm system, the gas is measured in cubic feet and then mathematically converted to therms. One therm equals 100,000 B. T. U. One B. T. U. is the amount of heat needed to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. Feustel previously has explained that the therm system was created to prevent loss to the company when switch is made from low B. T. U. artificial gas to high B. T. U. natural gas. Gunter discovered the therm is being used in places where there is no immediate prospect of natural gas being available, he said. The result is confusion and discontent, he asserted. Ten companies are employing the therm unit of measurement, majority of which are Insull owned. Gunter conducted investigations at Michigan City, Hammond, Newcastle, Kokomo, Richmond, Elkhart, Goshen and Warsaw. At Michigan City he said he found industrial rates had been decreased 30 !>er cent by the therm measurement. In no city were any raises in billings reported, and the protest is based on the grounds that the therm is something mysterious the utilities created and therefore it likely will turn into some new scheme to gouge the consumer. At the opening of the hearing it was predicted that the commission will vote to prohibit the therm system,

WOOD FLAYS NAVY MEN Charges “Insidious Propaganda” Is Circulated by Officers. By United l'rcs* WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. The charge that certain naval officers are circulating “cowardly and insidious propaganda” against President Hoover’s economy program was made to the President today by Chairman Will R. Wood (Rep., Ind.) of the house appropriations committee. Wood urged that the executive find out who the men are and dismiss them from the service. DRY PAPER IS REVIVED Anti-Saloon League Organ Will Reappear in November. By United Pres* COLUMBUS, 0.. Oct. 22. —The American Issue, official publication of the Anti-Saloon League, will resume publication with the November edition, according to an announcement today by S. P. McNaught., superintendent of the league. Dayton, Canton, Toledo and Cincinnati district offices have been discontinued temporarily. The announcement followed denial of recent rumors that the league was suffering financial reverses.

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KING JOHN HOLDS ATTENTION AT HERRON ART INSTITUTE

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Noted Decorator Recalls Interesting Facts of the ‘Mahster.’ SMUGGLING? Twenty years ago a young Englishman stood bewildered on the strange American dock while stranger customs officials searched his baggage and his bundle and took from the latter a lunette painting, now famous as the “King John Signing the Magna Charta," one of the finest pieces of work of Frank Brangwyn, eminent English artist. The customs officials wanted to know how the young man thought he could bring valuable paintings into this country without paying duty? Paid $2,000 Duty He explained that it was only a “sketch”—submitted by the great Brangwyn as a design for an immense mural painting for the new $7,000,000 court house at Cleveland, Ohio. He also said he intended to take it right back to England as soon as the architects had passed upon it and he had taken all the measurements necessary for the great “mahster.” But these officials were from Missouri. They made the Cuyahoga county officials back in Ohio produce $2,000 duty before the painting and the young Englishman were released. Today the painting is worth SB,OOO, with or without duty. Thus the interesting sketch came into this country for the first time. It has been back a number of times, and hangs right this minute in a special collection of Brangwyn’s work at the John Herron Art Institute with etchings, prints and other oil paintings of his. It will be there the rest of October, in one of the upper galleries. Behrens Remembers This story is one of a number recalled, recently by Henry R. Behrens, Indianapolis interior decorator. who with his brother William, had the contract for decorating the Cleveland courthouse, which took five years to build and two years to decorate. Os the many artists whose work was purchased for the courthouse, Behrens said, Brangwyn is the only one not an American. “He has a palette like Sargent’s,” Behrens said when he again viewed the sketch at the art institute, “And it takes genius to model figures in | paint the way Brangwyn does. I “You know,” he continued, “when | it came time to arrange for the | panels for the building and this 1 young Ernest Saunders arrived. I i was delegated to show him the | works. Nothing to Look at “He was certainly nothing to look at! A skinnv-looking little fellow in ,*a baggy suit, but he was Brangwvn’s chief assistant and under - ! study and how he did love the ; ‘mahster!’ We came to know him very well, and when he got warmed up over a Martini cocktail—we had ’em in those da^'s—he'd tell us about the ‘mahster’ in glowing terms. “Brangwyn had given him strict orders as how to make a scaled drawing for the lunette, and he was in a stew when he found that he couldn’t make it that way without digging up the floor. The ‘mahster’ was very critical and it all had to be just so. We compromised on another method of squaring off the allotted space and Saunders went to work scaling the lunette to exact measurements. . The Way He Worked “He used to stand making color sketches on little cards. That fellow never used ordinary painting methods—he moistened and shaped that brush with his tongue and you never saw such dynamic little sketches! I don't think he ever had as many as fifteen colors on his palette. I used to worry about him poisoning himself—but he never worried, said that was the way he often worked. In that respect he was like Brangwyn, who uses almost all primaries, mixing his own colors as he goes along. He's very partial to pure and strong colors. “I used to question Saunders abcut what the ‘mahster” would do when he got home again. ‘Well,’ said he. ‘The first thing he'll say is that he wants to see these scaled drawings. Then he’ll tell us—there are eight of us including me, and we're no bum painters, either—to lay out the canvas according to the scaled drawings. The Master Works “Then he’ll come in and check it over and put in'the basic lines and tell us to go ahead with it. When we get almost finished he’ll come in again and check it over and put in the finishing touches. And if he doesn’t like it. he may paint the whole thing over again, himself!’ “The sketch, however, was done entirely by Brangwyn,” Behrens said. “And young Saunders told me that sometimes Brangwyn would stsy three weeks on a job like that —never leave the room where he

was working—have his meals shoved in at the door—and if he was bothered by anybody, family, friends workers, or any one, he’d throw them out bodily! As Saunders said, the ‘mahster’ had a ‘nahsty’ temper, and when he works he works.” Saunders remained on the Cleveland job six weeks before he re-

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URGE CONGRESS RARE ACTS OF POWER TRUST Complete Airing of Political ‘Pull’ Is Demanded by League. By Scrippa-H award .Vrt capnpcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Members of congress were asked today by the national popular government league to extend the federal trade commission investigation of utilities to include investigation “of the political machine of the power trust,” With its letters to each member, the league submitted a forty-five-page digest of the Beauharnois power scandal in Canada, pointing out the extent to which this reaches into Canada’s major political parties and attempted control of the government. The letters suggest that “there is reason to believe the same tactics are being pursued here and for the same general purpose: capture of the power sites now in the people's control.” “It is suggested that an investigation of the political machine of the power trust and its utility allies in this country would be useful to American voters,” says the league. “The federal trade commission was authorized by the senate resolution to inquire into the propaganda and financial merging practices of the power companies—not their political maneuverings. Yet this latter is most important of all.” Discussing the Beauharnois scandal and its many ramifications, the league points out that this country’s investigation of the utility industry i disclosed the National Electric ' Light Association operating in both

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Leatrice Joy Weds Grocer; to Quit Filins

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By United Prca* DEL MONTE, Cal., Oct. 22.—Leatrice Joy, moving picture star, and William Spencer Hook, Los Angeles wholesale grocer, chose a hotel overlooking the Monterey coast for their marriage today. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Nagel were the only attendants. After a honeymoon trip to Banff and Lake Louise in Canada, the couple will return to Los Angeles to live, with Miss Joy retiring from the films. Miss Joy, who gave her age as 37 in applying for a license, was divorced in 1926 from John Gilbert. She has one daughter by her marriage to Gilbert. • the United States and Canada. Its branches in the two countries closely interwoven, each with a large group of member utility companies.

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