Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1932 — Page 12

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INSULL OFFICIAL SAYS MERGERS BENEFIT PUBLIC Public Ownership Would Entail Higher Taxes, Students Told. By fntled Press GREENCASTLE, Ind., March 18. —Utility rates are low and mergers have been beneficial to the public, Dp Pauw university students were (old here Thursday night by C. V. Porenson. Public ownership of utilities would be bad for everybody, he said. Sorenson is an official of the Public Service Company of Indiana, one of the Insull utility holdings in Hoosierdom. He appeared to present the “utility viewpoint” in a series of four lectures on the subject of utilities staged as an open forum at the school. These meetings have been arranged by Professor W. A. Neiswanger. Mergers Sound, Contention Mergers, Sorenson said, neither are political nor financial, but are based on sound economic principles. Customer interest in good service and the steadly lowering of rates produced the merger of today, he contended. General rate levels are lower than any time in history and the average for privately-owned plants is lower in Indiana than for public owner.'hip, he asserted. “We are told the per capita cost of government has Increased more than tenfold in the last thirty years,” Sorenson said. “Yet every day we hear more proposals to put • lie government In more lines of business, which means more property withdrawn from the assessment rolls and greater tax rates levied on what is left. Hits Government Ownership “It may be that the government should operate all business on a non-profit basis as some would have us believe, yet up to the present t here has been no outstanding business success on ,lhe part of the government, to make the average business man feel that it can do a better job than he is doing. “If the millions of dollars of utility property now taxed in Indiana were withdrawn from the tax rolls bv virtue of municipal operation the taxpayers would have their choice of paying higher rates on the property left or paying utility rates that would make up the difference. “It is significant that today the average total rate for twenty cities in Indiana having municipally owned plants is higher than the average for all the cities. “Utilities’ Turn Now" “Today we hear and read much about the utility industry. Apparently, in the cycle of evolution, through which all business must pass, it is now our turn to stand inspection. “The railroads have had it. So have the farms, telephone companies, chain stores, union labor and the coal industry. All have taken their turn. Have they been helped, or has the public that deals with them been aided? “In times of stress, hysteria, rather than common sense, is apt to govern our judgment and work serious harm for the future. It behooves us, therefore, to base our program on facts.”

CORN COBS PRODUCE VALUABLE CHEMICALS Distillation of Stalks, Wheat Straw, and Oat Hulls Also Tested. By I nitrd Press AMES, la., March 18.—The time may be not far distant when valuable commercial chemicals arc obtained from such prosaic waste products as wheat, straw and corn cobs. Scientists who work, day in and day out at lowa State college here to develop means of producing valuable products from agricultural waste on a commercial basis have announced distinct progress. The latest development Is what technically is known as a “continuous retort for the destructive distillation of com cobs and stalks, straw and oat hulls. In the retort, which is the product of research by college scientists working co-operatively with the United States department of agriculture, coarse farm waste products are placed. When the distillation is accomplished such products as acetic acid, mathanol, acetone, tar, hydrocarbon oils and carbon are obtained. MUMMIFIED REMAINS OF PIZARRO SHOWN Thousands of Visitors Attracted by Display in Lima, Peru. By Ttmes Special LIMA. Peru. March 18.—The mummified remains of Francisco Pizarro, conquering founder of this city, continues to draw tremendous tourist attention among Grace line passengers visiting here. With the docking of Grace line ships at Callao, chief port and main approach to this capital, automobiles and trolleys bring passengers to the Plaza de Armas, center of civic life. Upon one side of the square stands the great cathedral, begun hv Pizarro in the early sixteenth century, about forty years after the voyages of Columbus. The preserved remains of Pizarro ere exhibited in an air-tight glass case, resting in one of the cathedral chapels. Visitors are admitted to the chapel to view what is left of the man who created Lima, “beautiful city of the kings." CELLS IN AUDITORIUM Crowded Conditions Force Change in Nebraska Prison. By United Press LINCOLN, Neb., March ' 18.— Crowded condition of the Nebraska state penitentiary has necessitated converting the prison auditorium into a cell block. The new cell block, operated by a guard at a control box, will care for 384 prisoners. The cells will be built for two and four men each. Anew chapel recently completed will serve as the auditorium for the inmates.

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‘LADY WITH A PAST’ OPENS HERE TODAY

Constance Bennett Has the Services of Ben Lyon, David Manners, Don Alvarado and Others in New Comedy. ONE of filmdom's foremost stars, Constance Bennett, opens today on the Indiana screen ft>r one week, in a different type of role than she usually portrays. Surrounding the star in her new vehicle are a cast of favorites, including Ben Lyon, David Manners, Merna Kennedy, Don Alvarado Blanche Frederici and Albert Conti. Lady With a Past” is a modem comedy on the sophisticated side, with added romance which is naturally imparted to Bennett vehicles. The story relates to a society girl’s adventurous evolution from a wall flower to a charmer in international settings.

The action starts in New York, where Venice Muir (Miss Bennett), a member of a fashionable younger set, sees herself passed up by the men who prefer her no more beautiful but gayer girl friends. Popularity continus to elude her until she goes to Paris and falls under the teaching of a dashing gigolo. Under his expert tutelage, she begins to acquire beaux and a past. It is the past which makes her a heroine in the eyes of her heretofore indifferent New York friends, including a certain your? man whom the girl believes is destined to marry her. Dazzling gowns—seventeen, to be exact—direct from Paris, are worn by the screen’s best dressed star in “Lady With a Past.” Miss Bennett’s wardrobe is a fashion show in itself, with appeal to men as as well as women. Direction of this picture by Edward H. Griffith, the man who directed “Holiday” and "Rebound.” An organ program and variety short reels will be among the Indiana's added attractions. 9 n n Other Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Expert,” at the Lyric; “The Passionate Plumber,” at the Palace; “Play Girl,” at the Apollo; “The Ninth Guest,” at Keith’s; “The Wiser Sex,” at the Circle; “The Sacred Flame,” at the Civic, and burlesque at the Mutual. Neighborhood theaters tonight offer: “Two Kinds of Women,” at the Hamilton; “Suicide Fleet,” at the Emerson; “Branded,” at the Irving: “The Squaw Man,” at the Garfield: “Street Scene,” at the Stratford; “Peach O'Reno” at the Daisy; “Ladies of the Big House,” at the Hollywood; “Lovers CourageMEDICINAL WHISKY IS POPULAR TEXAS ‘CURE’ 15,000 Pints Were Consumed in 1931, Alcohol Permits Show. By United Press FT. WORTH, Tex., March 18.— A “spoonful every hour” —prescribed by physicians—is a .slow way to consume liquor but Ft. Worth “patients” use 15,000. pints of prescription whisky a year. The amount was used in 1931, statistics compiled by Jack Palmer, district supervisor of industrial alcohol permits, revealed. The price ranges from $1.65 a pint on “Hill and Hill” aged seven years” to $4 on “Black Gold,” aged 18 yeaw. Prescriptions cost from $1.50 to $3 each unless the doctor is feeling "big-hearted,’’ Palmer said. More than 425,000 permits were filled in Texas in 1931, according to Palmer. EXTRAS GET LITTLE PAY Hollywood Jobs Offer Small Chance to Make Fortune. By United Press SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 18.— Hollywood may mean a place where only high-salaried motion picture players work, to some people—but not to the state division of industrial welfare. Records of the division show that only 3.655 women “extras” were given work last month, and of this number of seventy-eight were listed for sls a day—some days. Approximately 40 per cent of the total received $lO a day when they worked; per cent, $7.50 a day and 22 per cfci, $5 a day.

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ous,” at the Belmont, and Rivoli; and “Rebound,” at the Mecca. MINSTRELS TO BE GIVEN HERE TONIGHT Tonight at 8 o’clock at the school auditorium of the Indiana School for the Blind, the Indiana Senior Athletic Association will present the Black Diamond Minstrels. Mabel Wiley is the director and Helen M. Lillie is the literary critic. The public is invited and there will be no admission fee. The program is as follows: • Overture, Black Diamond orchestra* opening chorus. "Swanee Jubilee.” entire company: “When the Sunset Turns the 2^ a s\£ lue _ t 0 G°W.” Black Diamond quarCan t Take My Memories From Charleton McLain; ‘‘Dusky Stevefs•, Black Diamond quartet: instruDiamond orchestra: Oh Brother. What a Peelin’,” Robert Lan- ’ On Revival Day." Black Diamond auartet. I Ain’t Afraid of Nothin’ That’s AUve, McDowell: closing chorus. Keep a Son* in Your Soul,’ entire company.

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All items in Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” Thursday, were selfexplanatory. Saturday: The Black-Haired Centenarian. BUS COST BILLION Huge Appropriations Signed Despite Economy Talk. By Scripps-Haward Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 18.— While administration forces, aided by regular Democrats, are clamoring for balancing of the federal budget, President Hoover, since Dec. 7, has approved bills appropriating approximately a billion dollars. These include veterans’ bonus and relief, $203,925,000; labor department employment service, $120,000; Reconstruction Finance Corporation, $500,000,000; American delegates to disarmament conference, $300,000; additional capital for federal land banks, $125,000,000, and second deficiency, $126,333.89. Other bills passed by the. house, but not yet law, appropriate almost a billion and a half more. These include agriculture department, $175,408,814; interior, $50,446,432.33; state, justice, commerce, labor, $124,215,992.33; treasury and postoffice; $1,059,778,163. The independent offices appropriation bill, involving $986,446„506, is pending.

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MARCH 18,1932