Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1932 Edition 02 — Page 2

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ASPHALT PAVING AWARD BLOCKED BY GOUESLIE Highway Commissioners Checkmated in 2-Year-Old Material Fight. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Decision of state highway commissioners to award the VersaillesMadison paving Job on a bid calling for rock asphalt, highest priced ot three types considered in the letting, was checkmated today by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Leslie took a hand in the affair after reading about the award having been made for rock asphalt construction at $123,054 49 greater cost than bituminous retread and $16,131.65 more than concrete. He called Director John J. Brown of the highway department to his office and demanded an explanation. Brown was accompanied by Ralph Simpson, assistant director, whose position was created for him on Leslie’s orders. ' Contract Not Signed Leslie learned at that conference, it is reported, that none of the engineers or executives of the department wanted anything but the cheaper bituminous retread pavement on the twenty-three-mile route, which is not a great traffic carrier. So the chief executive decided to take a hand in the game, which has been going on for two years. Following the commission meeting earlier this week it was reported that all commissioners were unanimous for the rock asphalt award, which had been fought for from the start by Chairman Albert J. Wedeking <Rep.>, Dale. Rulings, Opinions Ignored Leslie is expected to attend the meeting next Wednesday and may or may not take his “temporary restraining order’’ permanent. He may investigate Wcdeking’s continued battle for blacktop in face of such repeated reverses as a court decision, three opinions from the attorney-general, the Crawford proviso in the 1931 budget law and recommendations of commission engineers. Another factor in the fight is the possibility of loss of federal aid through making awards to other than the low bidder, it has been pointed out. Retread Was low Bid In the case of the Madison road the low bid on the twenty-three miles was for bituminous retread, submitted by Blair and Franse, Lexington, Ky., at $237,725.93, Low concrete bid was $344,648.77, from the Hardaway Construction Company, Columbus, Ga. But the commissioners decided to give the job to Ray L. Harris, Ft. Wayne, for $360,780.42, for rock asphalt construction. On other occasions commissioners have been known to change their minds, even after contracts have been signed, when Governor Leslie, took a hand. This was the case in a huge truck purchase last fall. The Harris contract has not been signed.

INDIANA CORN, WHEAT SHOW HUGE INCREASE Crop Figures Nearly Double Last Year; Oats Also Gain. Bn Time* Special LAFAYETTE, Ind„ March 12. Corn and wheat crops on Indiana farms March 1 were about double what they were a year ago, and oats stocks were above average, M. M. Justin, Purdue agriculture statistician, reported today. Justin said the difference is accounted for largely by the increased corn and w'heat crops last year. Ninety-one per cent of last year’s bumper corn crop was marketable, he said, compared with 79 per cent the year before and a ten-year average of 75 per cent. While 71.8 per cent of cows on crop reporters’ farms were being milked, compared to 68.7 per cent a year ago, production March 1 was 19 pounds of milk daily against 20.3 a year ago. the report stated. Labor supply on Hoosicr farms was 128 per cent normal, compared with a demand of 61 per cent of normal.

COTTON PICKERS WAR INJURIOUS TO WAGES Silent Struggle for Existence Being Conducted, Says Woman Economist. By United Pres* AUSTIN, Tex., March 12.—A relentless, if silent, struggle for economic survival is being waged between American, Mexican and Negro women on cotton farms of Texas, Miss Ruth Allen, adjunct professor economics at the University of Texas, says. Her conclusions, issued by the University Press, are based on inquiries made among the three classes about living conditions, home and field work, sanitation, treatment of children, opportunities for education and recreation. The economic warfare of the cotton fields, she says, is driving women from the farms to towns. There, carrying along the values they gathered in rural life, they are undercutting the wage which city women find necessary. Her suggested remedy is a possible organization of the cotton industry which will control both market prices and wages. YOUTH CUT IN FIGHT One Held After Brawl; disturbance at Party Is Charged. One youth is suffering today from left arm cuts and another is held by police after a free-for-all fight Friday night at Morris street and Madison avenue, said to have followed a party in a nearby residence. A group of 3*ouths is accused of disturbing the party by switching off lights. Ronald Grabble, 17, of 328 Bicking street, is the wounded youth. Paul Tierney, 828 South Randolph street, is in custody, accused of (hashing him with a knife. Police >ay Tierney admitted the attack.

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While an airplane was taking food to the freighter Fellowcraft, two tugs steamed out of Toledo, cut their way through miles of thick ice blocks in an attempt to free the United States engineer corps dredge Taylor, fast in a mud bank three miles southeast of Put-In bay in Lake Erie. The tugs cut circles around the icebound craft in an effort to break up the ice pack. The dredge was bound from Toledo to Cleveland. Forty men were aboard.

STRIKE CALL ISSUED

Five Demands Are Made by Mine Insurgents. By United Prexs WILKESBARRE, Pa., March 12. —A call for all miners in District No. 1, United Mine Workers of America, to go on strike March 14, was issued today by Thomas Maloney, insurgent leader. The strike is not sanctioned by the United Mine Workers of America. Forty-four locals of the 120 in the district met and adopted a program of five demands to the operators of the Glen Alden, the Pittston, the Lehigh Valley, the Hudson and the Temple Anthracite coal companies and several independent operators. . The demands were: Reopening of abandoned collieries and equalization of work; fulfillment of the five-year agreement by coal companies and discontinuance of wageslashing; restoration of wage scale where cuts have been made; abolition of the contract system of mining, and a general strike for Monday, March 14. for the district, unless demands are met immediately.

Red Death Weird Ceremony Is Held for Girl Communist in Montana.

81/ United rress PLENTY WOOD, Mont., March 12.—1n a strange setting of red flags, red draperies emblazoned with the insignia of the Soviet, and to the accompaniment of the Internationale, Janice Salisbury, 14-year-old leader of a children’s communistic society, was buried here. It w f as a strange scene, more typical of the Russian steppes than Montana plains. A long line of marchers, led by two tiny girls waving red flags, walked with the casket. Six other children, wearing around their necks red handkerchiefs, on which the sickle and sledge, emblems of the Soviet, appeared, marched beside the casket. The the Farmer-Labor temple windows were draped in red and black and on them were emblazoned the Soviet emblem. The scene was dismal as 300 persons heard the weird ceremony for the dead. A choir sang the “Internationale.” A brief announcement that the Salisbury’s were not church people. preceded the ceremony. Erik Bert, an editor, spoke the funeral oration, and his speech was a denouncement of the times. His booming voice spoke of the little dead girl as a “Red” and a “bolshevik,” who had died u’ith the belief her work would be carried on. Janice’s twin sister, played the “Internationale” again. Then the little casket w r as taken to the Salisbury farm, and lowered into the grave—the funeral over.

ICE USE IS MEASURED Housewife Will Be Able to Tell How Refrigeration Works. By Science Service NEW YORK, March 12. —Refrigeration soon will be available to tell the housewife just how much ice will be melted daily to maintain proper inside temperature. This will be possible as the result of approval by the American Standards Association here of a standard method for testing domestic ice refrigerators. Manufacturers, distributors and users of refrigerators co-operated in framing the new standard, the technical work of which was done by the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers and the bureau of home economics of the United States department of agriculture. A standard code for testing mechanical refrigerators is also being prepared. P.-T. PROGRAM IS SET Dinner to be Served at Shortridge; Murat Chanters to Sing. Annual spring meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association o f Shortridge high school will be held at the school Tuesday night. Dinner will be served in the cafeteria from 6 to 7. Teachers will meet parents from 7 to 8 and a program by the Murat Chanters will follow. Annual spring exhibit of the school art department will be open in the Roda Selleck gallery.

By United Prexs DETROIT, March 12.—The lake steamer Fellowcraft, loaded with steel and frozen fast in an ice floe in Lake Erie, will remain in the grip of .the floe without further rescue efforts unless the weather turns much colder, it was decided today. The Nicholson Transit Company, owner of the steamer, said the-cap-tain of the boat reported he and the crew were comfortable and had sufficient fuel .to keep up fires and fight free of the ice when it soft-' ens. Food was carried to the steamer, floating with the ice ten miles off Kingsville, Ontario, by airplane.

RULING DRAWS FIRE Fight Looms on Transfer of Store Tax Revenues. Bn Time* Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 12. —Suit to enjoin transfer of $1,000,000 collected under the Indiana chain store tax law to the state general fund may be filed Monday in Marion circuit court. W. V. Payne, Monroe county school superintendent, said he and Jewett Tatum, Clear Creek township trustee, propose to contest the ruling of Attorney-General James M. Ogden holding the chain store tax fund should be diverted from the state aid school fund to the general fund. The suit is to be filed in the name of Clear Creek township, a state aid corporation, with Floyd Williamson, state auditor, as defendant. Williamson is reported as saying he had anticipated a friendly suit in the matter, and he would not feel free to honor vouchers for payments from the fund until authorized to do so by court order..

DEPUTY SHERIFF NOT HELD AT COLUMBUS Prosecutor Denies Arrest for Lack of New License Plates. Roy Hendershot, Marion county deputy sheriff, was not fined at Columbus Wednesday on a charge of driving an automobile without a license plate, according to Lloyd C. Bryer, Bartholomew county prosecutor. Published reports stated Hendershot had been fined $1 and costs. Bryer states that Hendershot was ordered to appear before the Columbus chief of police, and explained the controversy which developed in Marion county through refusal of officials to buy plates for certain county-owned cars, as provided in an act of the 1931 legislature. Following the explanation, he was released. Hendershot w’as not under arrest at any time, Bryer explains.

ELLIOTT JOINS LAUTH Auto Sales Executive Takes Post With Rockne Distributors. Appointment of F. L. Elliott as assistant sales manager of Lauth

Motors, Inc., Rockne distributors, was announced today by A. J. Lauth, president. Formerly associated with the North Side Chevrolet Company, Elliott has been prominent in auto sales circles for the last ten years. Elliott w'as a member of the “Chevrolet 100 Car Club.”

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PASTRY SHOP ROBBED S2OO Stolen From Cash Registers in Monument Place Store. Burglars who entered the pastry shop of Louis Weiss, 37 Monument place, took S2OO from two cash registers, Weiss discovered when he opened the place today. Entrance was gained by smashing glass in a rear door. The registers were taken to the basement and opened. Ohio Aeronautics Chief Dies By United Press COLUMBUS. March 12.—Captain Frank M. McKee, 39, Ohio director of aeronautics, died of a sudden heart attack in his apartment here today. Ohio Newspaper Publisher Dies By United Press PORTSMOUTH. 0., March 12. Harry E. Taylor, former newspaper publisher here, and prominent in Deomcratic state and national politics, died at hisjhome here today of pneumonia after a short illness.

LARRABEE OPPOSED Frank E. Blackman Files for Nomination. First opposition to the renomination of Congressman William H. Larrabee in the new Eleventh district was indicated today when Frank E. Blackman, 4701 East Washington street, filed for the Democratic congressional nomination. Other congressional aspirants who filed today with the secretary of state are Glenn A. Smiley of Ft. Wayne, Democrat, Fourth district; Ora L. Wildermuth of Gary, Democrat, First district, and Albert E. Needham of Muncie, Republican, Tenth district. Two Democrats and a Republican filed for nominations for state representative from Marion county. They are: Edward L. Hitzelberger, 5311 North Illinois street, and James W. Gibson, 3145 Boulevard place, Democrats, and Clarence A. Pope, 2320 East Twelfth street, Republican. Carl Parham, who was arrested Friday on a charge of impersonating an officer, ( filed today for the Democratic nomination as sheriff.

Blurbs Pay Pat Harrison’s Attack on ‘Bullfrog’s Love Life’ Booms Demand.

By United Press WASHINGTON, March 12. Most everyone has read of the speeches in the senate by Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, making pointed fun of government publications and particularly one which he calls “The Love Life of a Bullfrog.” Harrison’s purpose was to ridicule the administration into curtailing expenditures for such publications as an economy measure. But it has had a different effect. So heavy has the demand foh bullfrog book become that the government printing office has had to dig out the old plates and run off anew edition. It’s real name is “Document 888 —Frogs—Their Natural History and Utilization.” It is designed to teach people how to raise bullfrogs for the table or market. It speaks quite frankly, hence the “love like” angle.

STAGE HANDS’ STRIKE IS HALTED BY COURT Union Is Barred From Forcing Measure Against English’s. Controversy over payment of wages to stage hands today resulted in issuance of a temporary restraining order preventing members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes and Moving Picture Operators from enforcing “strike” measures against English’s theater. The order, issued late Friday by Superior Judge William A. Pickens, halted a walkout order from the international union. This union order was given because the theater refused to pay stage hands w’ages. said to be due them from Michael J. Doody, private exhibitor, for work during presentation recently of the film “Mystery of Life.” Pickens will hear the case Monday. BORAH HITS HIGH PAY Asserts Salaries to Farm Board Executives Almost Graft. By United Press ’ WASHINGTON, March 12. Salaries paid executives of co-oper-ative and stabilization corporations sponsored by the federal farm board were denounced in the senate today by Senator William E. Borah •‘Rep., Ida.) as amounting “to legalized graft.” MURRAY FILES AGAIN Candidacy for Presidency Put on W. Virginia Ticket. I By United Press CHARLESTON. W. Va., March 12. Governor William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray of Oklahoma, today filed his candidacy in West Virginia for the Democratic nomination as President of the United States.

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TAX PROGRAM IS DRAFTED BY CITIZENSGROUP Report Drawn for Special Session of Assembly Is Ready. Final touches are to be placed this afternoon on tax relief recommendations for a special session of the general assembly, drafted by the citizens, tax committee. This body appointed by John R. Kinghan. Indianapolis meat packer, and William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, also will decide when to turn over its report to Speaker Walter Myers and Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush. The two-legislature executives are expected to present the program to Governor Harry G- Leslie and to the members of the senate and house for ratification or rejection. Follows Leslie Edict These steps are taken in accordance with announcement by Leslie he would issue a call for a special session only when a majority of the general assembly had agreed on a program. Lewis Taylor, vice-president of the bureau and head of its tax committee and a member of the citizens’ group, frankly admitted today the program agreed upon was a compromise schedule. It is known that the farm bureau desired both corporate and personal income tax recomujendations be included in the program, which lists the latter but permits corporations to go scot free. “Never Mentioned’’ “A corporate income levy was never mentioned at our conferences,” declared Kinghan. “It was not included in our plans. It won't be needed, because our whole idea is first, reduction of governmental expenditures and then application of new sources of revenue in order to lift the burden from real estate.” Tax relief proposals outlined in the program include: A personal income tax modeled on the Illinois law providing for an exemption of SI,OOO for single persons and $2,000 for married couples with additional exemption of $350 for each child or dependent. Tax rates to range from 1 to 6 per cent. Tax on Intangibles Enactment of a tax upon the $5,000,000,000 of intangibles or stocks, bonds and other nonreal property which have been escaping taxation for years. It is proposed to have the intangibles assessed at their true cash value from which will be deducted 75 per cent and the remaining 25 per cent would be taxed at the local rate. Allocation of a greater share of the 4 per cent gasoline tax to the counties, cities and towns, which at the present time receive only 1 cent. The committee is to suggest that one-half of the tax be returned to the smaller taxing units in order to abolish local levies for road repair and to assist in paying their road bond interest and retiring the issues whenever possible.

NO WAGES IN SIGHT FOR ROAD WORKERS

$121,352 in County Highway Fund; Truck Drivers Ask Poor Baskets. Although county highway funds on deposit in banks total $121,352, I truck drivers and other employes of the highwajf department today were forced to continue applications for poor relief because commissioners withhold W'ages, due since Jan. 1. Refusal of county commissioners to recognize Charles W. Mann, Republican, as highway superintendent, has tied up wages and other road expenditures. Mann said today many of the unemployed truck drivers, unable to pay utility bills, are without light and gas in their homes. Seek Shelter for Families American Legion members came to the aid of more than a score of the distressed workmen today, providing coal to heat homes made frigid by the recent temperature drop. One driver told Mann he w r as seeking shelter for his family after he was ousted from his home for failure to pay rent. Many of the victims of the political snarl are being provided for at the city and county soup kitchen on East Maryland street. In event temperatures rise and a thaw affects county roads there is danger of township school routes and main roads for transporting farm products becoming impassable, it was revealed. “Roads have not been repaired since March 1, because of the delay of commissioners in purchasing i license plates,” Mann declared today. , Reconditioning Delayed. Although Mann started using equipment Friday despite the lack of license tags, freezing weather will prevent working of roads, declared to be in the worst shape in months. “Refusal of commissioners to honor vouchers for materials or equipment has kept the highway department from reconditioning several routes,” Mann said. While regular highway workers, their families without coal and food, were forced to borrow money or appeal for aid from township trustees, Mann’s order putting trucks, without licenses, to work relieved the jobless situation that faced 200 “made-work” employes. “Part of these were at work today, and remainder will resume their jobs Monday,” Mann announced. These emergencies in the highway division today caused county political leaders to denounce commissioners for “carrying petty politics so far.” The political fight to oust Mann,

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LEGGER CAUGHT IN ’BAD SHAPE’ Sentence Wouldn’t Matter but ‘Wife’s Down Sick.’ “It ain’t the time I mind,” said old Bill Lockridge today as he started a sixty-day term in Marion county jail for bootlegging, “it’s the shape it’s caught me in.” Old Bill really isn’t so old. He’s 58. but the depression has left its marks on him. He was convicted in federal court last week and today he came by bus from Anderson, his home, to surrender at the United States marshal's office and start his sixty days. “Luck’s funny, ain’t it?” quoth Bill. “It ain’t as if I’d been ’legging for a long time and got caught. Times are just tough. I just started. I got caught. Oh well, that’s the way it goes sometimes. “The wife’s down sick—awful sick —and I wish I hadn’t got in this mess so I could look after her. The neighbors are all we’ve got, and they’re looking after her. “Some guys get breaks like that.” AUTO HITS ZONE GUARD Police Are Told Injured Occupants Drove Off After Crash. An unidentified man and a woman were injured early today when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into a safety zone guard at St. Clair street and Massachusetts avenue. Witnesses said the occupants, both bleeding from cuts, drove away, leaving the heavy concrete guard ; n the street car tracks, where it was pushed. Later, a damaged and abandoned automobile, owned by Frank Selzer of 506 Dayton avenue, was found at La Salle and Twenty-fifth streets. Police believed it is the one which figured in the crash.

to replace him with John S. Mann, Democratic appointee, has struck snag. To uphold his appointment for a four-year term, two of which are served, Mann appealed his case to circuit court. A petition, filed by commissioners, for a change of venue from the county is delaying the case. Figures from the highway superintendent’s office show that the county faces $8,033.63 in unpaid bills for road materials and equipment, because of the Mann fight. Employes are ow'ed $12,657.10 in wages, making a total of $20,690.73 bills unpaid because commissioners refuse to allow them.

WOMAN. AWAITING CAR, IS RUN DOWN BY AUTO Accident Occurs as Physician Swerves to Avoil Collision. Mrs. Alta McVey, 46, of 1517 Hershell street, incurred body bruises and head injuries when she was struck by an automobile driven by Dr. John Wolyenbach of 1503 North Pennsylvania street, apartment 53, while standing in a safety zone at Illinois and Ninth streets, Friday afternoon. The accident occurred when Dr. Wolyenbach swerved to miss another auto. Charges of drunkenness and operating a car while drunk were placed against C. H. Sanders, 41, of 718 North Alabama street, following an accident Friday afternoon at Michigan street and Capitol avenue, where a car driven by Sanders collided with another driven by Owen Arbaugh, 28, of 2908 North New Jersey street. Anything to Oblige Wife By United Press CHICAGO, March 12.—Erich Kurt Leipe today was seeking divorce because, he told Judge Joseph Sabath, he wished to enable his wife at Schilehen, East Prussia, to marry his younger brother, with whom he was informed she has fallen in love.

THE INCOMING TIDE Dollars spent needlessly, like n outgoing tide, flow away and are gone. Dollars saved are like the incoming tide bringing a semi-annual credit of interest along. Saved dollars provide a feeling of security and form a buttress to fortify demands for best purposes. THE INDIANA TRUST surplus $2,000,000.00 THE OLDEST TRUST COMPANY IN INDIANA

■jy/rRS. C. A. BROCKWAY, 1653 North Talbot street, is a substitute who never “subs.” And, after nine years of waiting to “pinch-hit,” she's beginning to believe that she’s an insurance policy against rain or inclement weather at Eastertide. For nine years Mrs. Brockway has practiced Easter selections on the pipe-organ in readiness to serve as the music-maker at sunrise services held on the Monument circle, Easter morn. She Is in readiness to play the entire sunrise program on the organ of the Circle theater should bad weather force the Easter celebrants indoors. Blit, after nine years of practicing, she never has been called upon to play for the junior choral society, under the direction of Mrs. James M. Ogden. >t , a “T'M always ready,” Mrs. BrockA way said today as she practiced for the tenth sunrise ceremonies at ther organ in the AllSouls Unitarian church, Fifteenth and Alabama streets. “But I’m different than most substitutes, for I always hope that I won’t get a chance to play. The services are much nicer held outdoors, and, so far, the weather always has been favorable,” she said. Mrs. Brockway, for twenty years organist at the Unitarian church, however, has played the piano for the sunrise services on several occasions. “I played the piano the first time they were held, ten years ago,” she said. ‘•But this year, if the weather man keeps doling out the weather he has lately I may get the chance I don't want, by playing the organ on the morning of March 27. Let’s hope I don’t,” she said.

RATE PARLEY IS SET Industrial Users Petition Gas Reductions. Conference on industrial and commercial gas rates of the Citizens Ggs Company has been sched- : uled by Chairman John W. Mej Cardie of the public service commission for next Friday. The meeting followed filing of a petition for reduction by industrial users. The city administration, gas cofnpany officials and petitioners’ representatives are expected to attend. - PURDUE WILL BE HOST AT PHONE CONFERENCE Construction and Maintenance Men of State Meet March 16. By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 12 i Construction and maintenance men of telephone plants of Indiana will meet at Purdue university Wednesday and Thursday, March 16-17, for the tenth annual telephone plant conference. The program •will include papers and discussions dealing with better telephone service to the public and better economy in the plant. Following an address of welcome by Dean A. A. Potter of the Purdue school of engineering, the conference program will be opened Wednesday afternoon with an address by Professor C. F. Harding, head of the school of electrical engineering, who will describe the | progress that has been made in electrical research. An informal dinner of the conference will be held Wednesday evening, 11. A. Barnhart of Rochester, president of the Indiana Telephone Association, presiding. An address by Harry G. Hogan. Ft Wayne banker, and an illustrated 1 lecture on a "Trip to the Orient” by Dr. W. K. Hatt, head of the Purdue school of civil engineering, are scheduled. The conference will close Thursday morning.

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CITY OFFICIALS SUMMONED TO RATES PARLEY Cuthbertson Wants Issues Clearly Cut in Fight for Reduction. Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson of the public service commission today asked city officials and officials of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company to confer with him Tuesday. Purpose of the meeting, the commissioner explained, is to sec just what the city wants to do in the rate reduction case. Preliminary hearing in the case was set for next Thursday, but the filing of an amendment to thei/ petition by city officials has changed the plan of procedure. Cuthbertson said.

Explain Secrery The filing was Wednesday and not made public until Friday. City officials explained the secrecy on the grounds that by making public previous actions, they had aroused Cuthbertson's ire. Cuthbertson asserts the request to investigate eight points before hearings are held, as set out in the latest filing, will mean a complete audit and appraisal and perhaps a year's delay before any order oan be made in the case. The preliminary hearing was to have dealt with a showdown on company figures, which showed great profits in a stock selling brochure and much less in figures used by Cuthbertson in refusing a former rate reduction petition, following futile compromise conferences. Figures TJnmcntioned Nothing is said specifically of the stock br.ochure figures in the latest filing from the city, which was signed by Edward H. Knight, corporation counsel, and James E. Deery, city attorney. But they ask investigation of company finances for the twelve months ending Sept. 30, 1931, which would provide figures with which the brochure figures could be compared. They also ask facts be procured by the commission on holding company connections, coal deals with the United Colleries, also owned by Harley L. Clarke. Indianapolis Power and Light Company chieflain. contract with Insull to supply power, renting arrangements of socalled “Daylight corner,'’ used and useful property valuations and overhead charges.

TOW-IN TACTICS DRAW PROTEST FROM WOMAN Motorist Says Police Told Her “Maybe They Had a Grudge.” “Maybe they had a grudge against you,” is the reply which Miss Marjorie Smith, 822 North Illinois street, said she received at police headquarters Friday when she protested against impounding of her automobile. Miss Smith said she double parked on Pennsylvania street opposite the postoffice and went into the building to purchase a stamp. She estimates she was away from the car one and one-half to two minutes and was outside of the building on her return when she notice preparations to take the car. She protested, but was forced to pay the customary fee at a garage. She asserts one car was double parked ahead of hers, another behind and a third was in a nearby safety zone. Miss Smith said she is unable to understand why police should have a “grudge” against her, as she has been in Indianapolis only a month.

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