Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 147, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1931 — Page 3

OCT. 29, 1931

ENGINEER KITS INSULL DEFENSE OF THERM PLAN Evansville Succeeding With Cubic Foot Measurement of Natural Gas. Arguments of Robert M. Feustel, Ft. Wayne, Insull's Indiana chieftain, favoring retention of the therm system of gas billing, were handicapped somewhat today by a ■witness who preceded him on the stand at the continued hearing before public service commissioners. The witness was William J. Gunther, commission ace in the therm probe ordered ‘by the regulatory body. Since testifying last week, Gunther had made a trip to Evansville. Today’s testimony dealt with his fin lings there. Feustel’s contention Is that it is unjust both to consumer and producer to measure natural gas by the cubic foot method. But Gunther found that Evansville offered the one laboratory where natural gas is being metered under the old cubic foot methdd and the rates which formerly applied to artificial gas are being retained, with only temporary injury to revenues. Overcoming Difficulties He told of the eleven-month experience of this experiment carried on by the Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company, a nonilnsull utility. Cubic foot consumption had dropped about 30.1 per cent with the natural gas, but at least 5 per cent of this drop he attributed to loss of customers due to the depression. Much of the other loss he attributed to the adjustment period required to get appliances to function properly on the natural gas with its higher heat units. He cited the sfact that 10.000 stove pilot lights failed to function and lost $2,500 fisr the company. j' Termed Scientific Method Conclusions arrived at by the commission witness was that increased usage of natural gas will bring the cubic foot total, to about the same with artificial gas and there will be little or no loss to the company. The Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company lost about SII,OOO on the switch from artificial to natural gas, but is not clamoring for adoption of the therm system of measurement, he testified. Feustel defended the therm as the scientific way to measure actual heat- consumption and pass on savings in natural gas to the consumer. Commissioner Howell Ellis is presiding in the case. It appears the therm is slated to lose. THIEVES LOOT 6 AUTOS Clothing and Tools Are Taken From Parked Machines. Clothing and tools valued at $177 were stolen from six parked automobiles Wednesday night, police reports revealed today. S. C. Kivett, Martinsville attor* hey, reported theft of two overcoats valued at S6O from his car parked near Capitol avenue and Sixteenth street. Other car owners reporting thefts and losses follow: Mrs. C. D. Murray, 140 Pleasant street, SSO; Harold Cuban, 4314 Park avenue, $32; David McCamm, 1318 Brookcr street, $25, and Roland B. Rust, Richmond, Ind., $lO. BING LEADS CLOTHIERS Anderson Man Re-Elected to Presidency of State Association. Lester B. Bing of Anderson was re-elected to the presidency of the Indiana Retail - Clothiers’ Association at the closing session of the organization’s convention Wednesday at the Claypool. Others who were named to offices .■were John Miller of Winchester, Vice-president; William Sullivan of Bloomington, secretary; Isadore Kornblum of Indianapolis, treasurer, and Jack Rohr of Indianapjolis, field secretary. Newly elected directors are Jack Knecht of RushtVille, Edward Wilson of Muncie, Harry Krause of Indianapolis, and Max Rosenblatt of Clinton.

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HE OBLIGED THEM Fires Another Volley at Taunting Prowlers. Prowlers, creeping through the back yard at the home of Clyde Hollett, 519 East Merril street, Wednesday night, awoke Hollett. Grasping a shotgun at his bedside, Hollett peered cautiously through the window and saw two men approaching the back door, he reported to police. Hollett said he yelled “halt, or I’ll shoot.” Hollett fired a first shot, he said. “Shoot again d— you, shoot again,” Hollett said the men shouted in response. And Hollett did. The nocturnal visitors faded from sight, Hollett said. WINS HUSKING CROWN Robinson Beckner to Represent County in State Contest. After he had husked 22.9 bushels of corn in 1 hour and 20 minutes, Robinson Beckner today wore the crown of Marion county’s 1931 corn husking champion. He will represent the county at the state contest in Peru Wednesday. Downing eleven competitors in a contest at the Herbert A. Minturn farm on West Eightieth street, sponsored Wednesday by Clarence Henry, Marion county agricultural agent, Beckner, received sls as first prize.

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Hundreds of graduates of Butler university are expected' to attend annual home-coming ceremonies at the Fairview institution Saturday. The celebration will open at 10 a. m. with a parade of students and alumni, followed by fraternity house luncheons and the Butler-Wabash football game in the afternoon. A dance Saturday night staged by the Blue Key, college organization, at the Knights of Columbus hall, 1301 North Delaware street, will terminate the celebration. Members of the student committee in charge of events: Marshall Tackett, chairman; Charles Barry, Ralph McElroy, Frank Jones and Howard Chadd.

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STATE'S POWER RIGHTCDNCEDED U. S. Willing to Talk Over St. Lawrence Project. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. The state department is willing to recognize New York state's rights in the development of water power on the St. Lawrence river, officials said today. It is prepared to discuss those rights with the state. It does not plan, however, to delay negotiations with Canada, pending the federalstate discussions. This position was taken by the

department today following conversations between Secretary of State Stimson and Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York power authority. Walsh presented a memorandum maintaining the federal government and New York should reach an agreement in advance of United States-Canadian conversations. The federal government draws a sharp line between navigation rights and hydro-electric rights on the St. Lawrence. Respecting the former, the federal government holds it has full authority under the law. Regarding the later, officials here point out that the federal power comIf you want to buy, sell or lease property, use a Times Want Ad. Phone RI. 5551. —Adv.

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mission has jurisdiction to the ex* tent that New York state must gain its consent before building a hydroelectric dam.

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