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SEEN DOOMED; VOTE IS NEAR Measure’s Foes Will Fight to Put Burden on Ineomes, Estates and Luxuries. SUPPORTERS WORRIED Amendment Exempting Food and Clothing Final Effort to Win Passage. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Tlm. Staff Wrltfr WASHINGTON. March 24.—Belief that, the sale.s fax will be defeated. pervaded the capitol today as the time approached for the house to vote on it. The showdown will be reached this afternoon. Debate was to end at 2 p. m. Foes of the $600,000,000 levy on consumers predicted it would be stricken from the $1,100,000,000 Democratic revenue bill, and the tax burden would be shifted by income, estate and luxury taxes to those most able to pay. Sales tax advocates for the most part maintained a worried silence. The parliamentary situation, however. appeared to favor acting Chairman Charles R. Crisp of the ways and means committee, chief supporter of the sales levy. His amendment exempting food, clothing, farm implements and medicine from the 2.25 per cent tax will be voted on before the house ran act on the motion of Representative Robert L. Doughton <Dem,,-N. C.i. to strike the sales tax provision completely from the bill. Principle Inflames Foes Indeed, even before the vote on Crisp's committee amendment, generally conceded to be a last-minute effort of the conservative leadership of both parties to corral votes for the tax, other perfecting amendments widening the list of exemptions must be disposed of. But even if Crisp's amendment, prevails, the Democratic bill still would levy more than $400,000,000 in sales taxes, and it is about this, and the fact that the principle would be undisturbed, that the opposition is rallying. Saifs tax opponents also are investigating what they fear is a ".joker” in the Crisp amendment, involving the question whether the provision would not levy upon the articles used in making the exempted foods, medicines, etc. If this levy is 'mposed, it would have the effect of extending the tax through the manufacturer to the consumer of the exempted articles. Substitute Is Pu/zie Fart of today’s crucial engagement is the controversy over what, if anything, to substitute for the general sales tax, if eliminated, and how far to go in special excises on luxuries and semi-luxuries, if it is emasculated. Doughton and Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia (Rep., N. Y.), leaders of the anti-sales tax forces, apparently prefer (o have the bill sent back to Crisp's committee. But Crisp wants it rewritten on the floor. The committee undoubtedly would offer the house the entire original Hoover-Mellon program, which includes taxes on automobile, radios, phonographs, higher postage rates, higher tobacco taxes, and stamp taxes on bank checks and drafts. La Guardia has his own substitutes. including a higher levy on Wall Street stock transfers than the 4-crnt stamp tax proposed by flip committee. Among other substitutes is that of Representative Thomas H. Cullen iDem., N. Y.t, to tax beer.

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Shot Routs Bearers of Ranch Sheriff’s Sale Order

By United Press MARLAND. Okla., March 24. Colonel Zack I. Miller, picturesque plainsman, who was one of the founders of the great 101 ranch, today reverted to the manner of a "son of the old west,” and routed with shot two lawyers who called to sell his property under a court order. One shot from the gun routed R. O. Wilson, Ponca City, and Newt Sullivan, Newkirk, who called to represent Fred Clarke — one time manager of the Pitts-

One-Pound, Six-Ounce Baby Is Born in City

Physicians and nurses at St. Francis hospital are watching closely a mite of humanity, the baby daughter of Mrs. John Hudson, born Wednesday night, and who weighs only one pound six ounces. Except for its size, the infant is normal in every respect Dhvsicians said. ’ The baby’s parents live at 1112 North New Jersey street. There are two other children in the family. Swathed in cotton, the baby, as yet unnamed, lies in an incubator, where it will remain for at least two months. Milk is fed to it with a medicine dropper. Baby Hudson is only ten inches long. Her head is about the

JUDGE IGNORED IN ‘LOST’ BOOZE CASE

Dry Chief Britt Gave No Heed to Demand That He Destroy Liquor. Immediate destruction of the large stock of whisky seized in an Evansville raid, part of which is "missing” from the storeroom in the federal building, was requested by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzeil weeks ago, but no action was taken by Claries P. Britt, then deputy prohibition administrator, it was revealed today. Approximately 1,200 pints of the confiscated liquor had been lost when the stock finally was destroyed, it has been learned. This loss brought about investigation by high federal officials, one result of which was demotion of Britt to New Orleans as special agent. George R„ Jeffrey district attorney, today declared when he learned of the "evaporation” as approximately 100 sacks of liquor containing twelve pints each, he notified authorities in Washington and asked for an immediate investigation. Knows of Only One Key This, acording to Jeffrey, brought to light the fact that there existed “only one known key to the storeroom and it was in possession of Britt.” "When it was necessary to store confiscated liquor in the basement, George Bugbee* an agent, was told by Britt to do the work. Bugbee insists that every time he went to the storeroom he was accompanied by witnesses,” Jeffrey said. The fact that Baltzeil resented the presence of the confiscated liquors in the building was learned today. It is known that Baltzeil warned Britt to destroy the whisky, retaining only a sufficient amount to be used as evidence in the trial. ’Libel’ Must Be Issued Baltzeil can not order destruction until a "libel” is issued, but because of the disappearance of $225,000 of Squibb s whisky from the ouilding in 1924. 1925 and 1926. he has felt, that it was unwise to store any large amount of contraband in the building. Request for the destruction was repeated several times by Baltzeil, but as no action was taken. Jeffrey filed a criminal libel petition April 27, 1931. in federal court. The liquor then was "seized” by the United States marshal. Alf Meloy, pending order of the court, Meloy said. Britt Kepi Key It was pointed out in the marshal's office, however, that ‘he “seizure” was only technical and it was asserted that Britt retained the key to the room, declaring he had other liquor, in addition to the Evansville carload, stored there, seized in a raid on the mansion at Eightieth street and College avenue, leased by Claude Bittroff, who pleaded not guilty when arraigned last week. Baltzeil issued a “final” order to destroy the whisky and it was poured into sewer openings in the basement by the deputy marshal, prohibition agents and special agents on June 30 and July. 1, 1931. Meloy declared he made no check of the liquor in the storeroom when he formally “seized” it on a court order. The return of destruction signed by him and three deputies showed then only 1,156 sacks of twelve bottles each, instead of 1,182. were destroyed. Meloy said he had no information on the amount of liquor in the Bittroff "load.”

GREATER LOVE HATH NO DOG THAN THAT OF ‘PENNY’ FOR ‘WHITEY’

BY ARCH STEINFX ‘"PENNY" is dead. He was the JT seventh dog to be poisoned within the last two weeks in the vicinity of Forty-fourth and Illinois streets. “Penny” is a wire-haired terrier. He was the playmate of the block—that is. he and “Whitey.” "Whitey’s” alive today because of “Penny.” “Whitey,” of course, had no to speak of. and that's Sit*fee liSM* followed “Penny”

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burgh Pirates baseball club and now receiver for the extensive 101 ranch properties. The lawyers summoned aid from the sheriff to sell the 862 head of cattle and equipment. "I'll held this ‘white house,’ my ancestral home, in spite of hell and high water,” Miller said later. "And I’ll do it in the manner of any son of the old west.” nun THE attorneys had gone to the "white house” to serve papers authorizing an auction sale of 826

Ashes in Eyes Cause Crash; One Is Killed Cigar ashes that*blew into the face of a motorist today resulted in an accident causing death of a hitchhiker, and the driver was cut and bruised. Velch Battic, 50. of Brownsburg. the hitchhiker, was alighting from the car of Charles Bady, 43. of 542 Holly street, at Sixteenth street and Kessler boulevard, when another automobile, driven by Robert L. Ramsey, 32, of 5058 West Fourteenth street, struck Bady’s car in the rear. Battic died two hours later in city hospital. Ramsey was cut on the face and bruised. Ramsey told officers he last control of his car when he was attempting to brush cigar ashes from his eyes and face. He was charged with reckless driving and assault and battery. Battic’s death raised the county's 1932. traffic toll to twenty-two.

ROOSEVELT IS VICTOR Defeats Garner 10 to 1 in Georgia Primary. By United Press ATLANTA, Ga„ March 24.—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York has won Georgia's twentyeight votes In the Democratic national convention in the most onesided vote ever recorded for a candidate in a presidential preference primary. Roosevelt rolled up a margin of not quite 10 to 1 over Speaker John N. Garner. Virtually complete returns of the vote today shows he received 52.901 to 5.905 for Judge G. H. Howard of Atlanta, entered as a. "proxy” for, Garner. Garner's candidacy was of a passive nature, insofar as the Speaker himself was concerned, but the Hearst interests, which have urged the Texan, conducted one of the most vigorous newspaper and mail campaigns in their history in this state. M'ADOO WISECRACKS CURIOUS QUESTIONER “Are There Any Politicians There?” He Asks. Leaving for N. Y. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 24.—William G. McAdoo. former secretary of the treasury, left Washington shortly after 9 a. m. today by private airplane for New York. “Are you going to see the politicians in New York?” someone asked him as he was waiting for his plane to warm up. “Are there any politicians in New York?” he countered. TERRORISM IS CHARGED Two-Thirds of Chicago Unions Pay Capone, Borah Is Told. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 24. Two-thirds of all labor unions in Chicago are controlled by or pay tribute directly or indirectly to Al Capone’s terroristic organizations, Frank J. Loesch, president of the Chicago crime commission today wrote Senator William E. Borah.

around. And “Penny” knew “Whitey” liked him, and that’s why “Penny” died game and saved ■’Whitey” from the throes and agonies of strychnine poisoning. u b b /~\F course if you’re a fellow who doesn’t like dogs and you kick them the first chance you get, then you may believe that it was “Penny’s” greed for a bone that saved “Whitey’s” life. But, you'd -better not express

head of cattle, including buffalo, elk, cattle, and equipment today. Miller, In bed suffering from a nervous disorder after his efforts to save the ranch, met them. A few moments later, one shot was heard and the attorneys rushed from the house and telephoned the sheriff at Newkirk. Miller gave his version of the incident in which he admitted firing the shot and defended his action as being justified because he said the sale was illegal.

‘FRIENDS’ FAIL DALE; WATSON COMES TO AID G. 0. P. Senator ‘Puts One Over’ on Democrats, Seeking to Dodge Issue. BY WALKER STONE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 24. Senator James E. Watson, veteran Indiana Republican leader, today left the Hoosier Democratic delegation in congress looking sheepish and foolish when he stole their thunder in the George Dale Muncie liquor conspiracy case. While the nine Indiana Democrats in the house had their heads together, apparently trying to find a way to evade Mayor Dale’s simple request that they escort him to the office of Attorney-General William Mitchell. Watson came forward with a magnanimous gesture and volunteered to perform the courtesy. For two days, the Hoosier Democrats had been talking about doing something for Dale. They agreed he was entitled to an audience with the attorney-genera], but they couldn't decide exactly who should secure the audience. Each tried to shift the responsibility. Enters Jim Watson It was while Dale w-as being shunted from one to another of his fellow Democrats that Watson heard of the matter. "Why, sure, I’ll take George Dale to the attorney-general,” blurted the dean of Indiana Republicans. “It's only an act of common courtesy, of common decency. George Dale is a citizen and every citizen is entitled to a hearing.” When informed of Watson's offer, Dale immediately accepted. “Isn't it queer,” observed the Muncie firebrand, “that when J need a friend I find one in that old cuss, Jim Watson. While my fellow Democrats hesitate, Jim acts.” The only request that Dale had made of the Indiana Democrats was that they introduce him to the at-torney-general and tell the at-torney-general that he was a person entitled to a respectful audience. Dale had not asked that his Democratic friends vouch for his innocence on the liquor conspiracy charges. Brief Riddles Charges With no aid, Dale had prepared a brief, knocking down, one by one, the counts in the indictment which caused the arrest of himself and twelve others in the Muncie case. His brief contended that the iniTum to Page Three) MRS. MOONEY IS ILL Attends Detroit Meeting in Spite of Heart Attack, By United Press DETROIT, March 24.—Physicians placed Mrs. Mary Mooney, 84-year-old mother of Tom Mooney, under constant surveillance today after a heart attack prevented her from addressing an audience of 3,000 assembled to protest the imprisonment of her son. Despite the orders of physicians, Mrs. Mooney attended the protest meeting. She •was given an ovation on her arrival and sat. in silence as other speakers voiced impassioned pleas for Mooney's liberation. WRONG WAY DRIVER ON CIRCLE LOSES LICENSE Fine, Jail Sentence Suspended for Williamsport Man. Convicted of driving in the wrong direction around Monument Circle while drunk, John R. Brodie of Williamsport, Ind., returned to his home today minus a driver’s license after a session with Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer, who revoked Brodie’s license for one year. A thirty-day jail sentence and a fine of $lO and costs were suspended. A motorist who, it is charged, lectured a speed cop for arresting "innocent motorists” rather than “capturing thugs and bandits” was fined $5 and costs for speeding by Judge Sheaffer. He is Floyd Newland, 3466 Carrollton avenue.

those sentiments around “Penny’s” mourning owners, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Bingham, 4429 North Illinois street. It happened Wednesday night. Someone who doesn't know what dogs mean to children and who never has understood why dogs brush companionably at your trouser-leg gave “Penny” a big bone. B B * WHITEY” was along with “Penny” at the time.” Peeny” took a chew v k two of the

"I was in bed when they came,” he said. "They told me they were selling my property, such as harness, cows and pigs. That didn't belong to them at all, and I told them so. "They replied they were selling the property, and asked what I planned to do about it. Then Sullivjn laughed in my face. St It tt "HpHEY had hounded me almost X to death in recent months. So I torn them I’d like to see

Girl Scout of City Is Winner of Trip Abroad

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DISTINCTON of being one of three girls in the United States chosen to attend dedication in Switzerland of the world chalet of the international organization of Girl Scouts, has been won by Mary Vance Trent, 17-year-old Shortridge high school senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Trent, 4211 Sunset avenue. The Indianapolis girl and the other American representatives will join twelve girls representing six European nations at the chalet dedication which will be held in August at Adelboden, Switzerland. Expenses will be paid by the Julietta Lowe memorial board. Prior to sailing abroad late in July, American representatives will spend several days at the national experimental center, Andre camp, Briar Cliffe, N. Y. The chalet is a gift of Mrs. James J. Storrow of Boston, to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. a tt tt "DORN in Madison, Wis„ Miss XJ Trent has been a resident of Indianapolis a year. She formerly was a member of Girl Scout Troop No. 3 and now is assistant leader of troop No. 6. She has been a member of tjie organization four years, during which she has won thirty-three merit badges. Her activities have included service as junior councilor at Camp Dellwood during two summers and a leading part In two Golden Eaglet ceremonies. She is a member of the honor society at Shortridge, and during the last semester was in the high honor group.

Tragic Love Blind Mother Gives Up Six Children That They . May Have Home.

SPRING is here, but it is winter in the heart of Mrs. Clara Weidman, blind mother of six children. Unable to provide a suitable home, the mother has given the children, the youngest 4. into the care of the juvenile court. The husband and father, Fred Weidman. 41, of 610 Buchanan street, a butcher, faces a jail term because of his failure to support his family. A long record of nonsupport, drinking and friendship with another woman was related to Judge John F. Geckler in juvenile court. Mrs. Weidman's career as a mother began eighteen years ago. For the last three years she has been blind and also deprived of the sense of smell. Weidman abused the children, the mother told the court. She asked protection be given them, and placing their welfare above her mother love, she told Geckler: “I am willing to be separated from my children if they can have proper homes. Juvenile authorities will place the children In an orphanage.

bone’s meat. It was his prenogative. He started home with the bone. “Whitey” tagged along for he knew he'd get last bites. The poison stabbed him. But he wouldn't let “Whitey” take a bite of that bone. He dug his teeth deep in it as he suffered. “Whitey” stood by. “Penny” fell on the front porch of the Bingham home. His owners found him there, dead. "Whitey” was guarding him and the tell'tale boa*.

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them break their necks running. I pulled out my old shotgun and blazed away at the floor. "They ran then. I hear they called the sheriff. "I haven't had a break in all these court actions, but I am determined to preserve the peace of my homestead. I’ll hold this white house, my ancestral home, in spite of hell and high water, and I'll do it in the manner of any son of the old west. If the

STORM-TOSSED BABY STRICKEN BY PNEUMONIA Scratches Are Only Bodily Injuries in Half-Mile . ‘Ride’ in Tornado. * By United Press ■ CLANTON, Ala., March 24.—A 22-months-old waif, blown from her home Monday by the tornado which took 330 lives in the south, carried through the air for half a mile, and then deposited gently in an open field, lay ill from penumonia today in a Clanton hospital, no longer nameless. Her parents were found to be Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Butler of Union Grove, who were injured in Monday’s storm and are in Birmingham hospitals. The baby's identification was made by a distant cousin. The child’s name was found to be Hazel. She had been called "Little Tess” by those who had attended her during the time her identity ] was not known. Rain Beal Down Hours of lying unprotected in the, field, while the wind roared over- ! head and rain beat down, were re- ! sponsible for the girl baby’s illness I after the tornado left her un-! harmed, except for scratches and bruises, and her subsequent illness. The infant's identification provided the last link in a set of circumstances which indicated the strangest story of tragedy to come out of the stricken territory. The Butlers’ home at Union Grove was wrecked when the I tornado struck Monday evening. The parents were seriously hurt, , one of their children was killed, another was Injured fatally and a third escaped. Feared Under Debris The baby, w-ho was at the home before the storm bore down, was missing when rescue workers came to aid the parents and the injured child. It was feared the infant had been killed and buried under debris. Circumstances now indicate that the child was lifted bodily from the ground, wafted through the air along with flying branches and timbers, and set down in the field without a scratch. At any rate, the next known of the baby was the following morning. when she was found in the field by an ambulance driver as the search for surviving injured spread to rural areas. How else she got there, unless blown by the tornado, no one could conjecture.

HOOVER PUTS DOUBTFUL O. K. ON LABOR BILL

BY RUTH FINNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. March 24. Gratification on the part of Senator George W. Norris that his antiinjunction bill has become law at last, was mixed today with apprehension that the manner of its approval by President Herbert Hoover may lead to attacks upon it in the courts. The President, in signing the bill, made public a statement from At-torney-General William D. Mitchell calling attention to charges that the bill is unconstitutional, and declining to express an opinion upon them. This is unusual procedure. “I have no doubt that the antiinjunction bill is constitutional,” said Norris, who, as chairman of the senate judiciary committee, • has studied the matter for the last five years. “I have looked up every possible contingency, and cited numerous decisions supporting my position during debate on the floor of the senate. “However. I suppose the attorney general’s statement may be used as a peg by some judge desiring to find the measure unconstitutional.” Mitchell, in reporting to the President on the bill said: "Objections have been made to this measure because of the alleged unconstitutionality of some of its provisions, among which are those relating to contracts between employers and employes by which the latter agree not to be members of labor organizations and which

Today police officers are searching the neighborhood for the poisoners of “Penny” and the six other dogs. B B B 'T'HEY'RE hunting someone who could never understand "Penny's act to save “Whitey’s” life. They’re hunting a distorted mind that has naught but deathgreed in it and who fashion* that death by giving poisoned bones to dogs, the playmates of children and grown-ups. *

officers come for me they'd better bring a machine gun.” AS Colonel Miller, tall, stalwart pioneer spoke, the scheduled sale was going forward outside, despite his action. But he indicated he might decide to permit no one to remove their purchases from the ranch. Officers had not arrived from Newkirk. Miller criticised the way in which Clark had handled ranch affairs as receiver. He also said he had arranged promise of credit sufficient to refinance the ranch.

Admits Firing. 32 Houses ‘To Soothe Nerves’

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JANGLED nerves which nothing could soothe except the sight of' leaping flames and the clamor of fire trucks brought Herman Jessee, 26. of 619 East Market street, back of jail bars. , He told today of the mania that drove him, day and night, into a state of mind where fires were his only consolation, and where peace came to his tortured nerves only when he was watching a blazing house. He was arrested Tuesday night while watching a blaze at 620 East Market street, and today faces a charge of first degree arson, following his confession that he set fire to thirty-two vacant houses in the last seven months, causing a loss of about $3,000. ZEP STRIKES MAST Dirigible Slightly Damaged When Moored in Brazil. By United Press PERNAMBUCO. Brazil. March 24. —The Graf Zeppelin was slightly damaged when it was moored here Wednesday night after crossing the south Atlantic on the first commercial flight of the season from Friedrichshafen. A strong gust of wind threw the big ship against the mooring mast. HORSE ROUT COMPLETE By United Press TOPEKA. Kan.. March 24. The horse has yielded his last stronghold here. For the first time in history, a truck- was attached to the sled for cleaning the statehouse walks during this week’s snowstorm.

commonly are called yellow dog contracts. "There are various other aspects of the bill the unconstitutionality of which has been debated. It seems to me futile to enter into a discussion of these questions. They are of such a controversial nature that they are not susceptible of final decision by the executive branch of the government, and no executive of administrative ruling for or against the validity of any provisions of this measure could be accepted as final. These questions are of such a nature that they can only be set at rest by judicial decision.”

TWO DIE GANG DEATH Ex-Deputy One of Victims in Roadside Killings. By United Brett COLLINSVILLE. 111., March 24. Two men, one a former deputy sheriff of St. Clair county, were killed by machine gun bullets on “Miller Hill” near here today, after apparently being overtaken by another automobile carrying the killers. Joseph Colone, 43. Collinsville politician and former deputy sheriff of St. Clair county, was found slumped in the seat of an automobile with thirty-five bullets in his body. Charles Bowers, 41. Collinsville, acquitted in federal court in Springfield. 111., Wednesday on a prohibition charge, was found twenty feet away on the highway. APPROVE SHOALS BILL House Committee Favors Leasing of Nitrate Facilities. By United Brett WASHINGTON. March 24.—The house military affairs committee by a vote of 13 to 8 approved today a Muscle Shoals bill providing a liberal leasing provision for the nitrate facilities, but retaining government control of the power generated.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marlon County. 3 Cent*

EAT SALARIES PAID BY HIGH ! WATER RATES President Clarence Geist and His Manager Feel No Depression Sting. SLASH DEEMED LIKELY 1 Monthly Minimum Cost for City Users May Be Pared After Hearings. Clarence H. Geist, Philadelphia i man who owns the water supply I in Indianapolis, gets SI,OOO a month ! tor being president of the Indian- . apolis Water Company. As Geist does not live here, it is necessary to have a resident manager for the company, so he employs H. S. Morse as general manager at $1,250 a month. The 1931 report of the company shows no reductions in these salaries. Quiz Real Estate Man These points were developed at the rate reduction hearing before ; the public service commissison. which entered its third session toj day with company witnesses taking I the stand. A New York lawyer, who also is high salaried, has been imported to block the rate cut proposal. This morning's* session was de- , voted to cross-examination of John j J. Reilly, local real estate man, who made an appraisal of lands for the i company. His total valuation of all company lands was given as $3,711,203.45. The company pays taxes on $1,085,260 valuation in Center townI ship, tax rolls disclose. Rate Cut Expected Commissioner Harry K. Cuthi bertson, who has the case in charge, is likely to issue an emergency order cutting the $1.50 monthly minimum, despite the high-priced help and counsel. For, at the Wednesday afternoon meeting, Cuthbertson introduced some commission testimony to show that meterization has reduced the water consumption so that the minimum payers are not using nearly the amount for which they are being assessed. This greater conservation also will affect lands held in reserve, for expansion of the company, in regard to valuations as claimed by j the company, it v/as brought out. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan's ! committee, which has been prose- ; cuting the rate reduction case or | the city and the South Side comi munity club petitioners, presented , testimony to show the dire plight of people here, caused by unemi ployment. Sympathy for All William L. Ransom, New York attorney for the company, expressed j sympathy, but. pointed out he doesn’t want his client, Giest, also to suffer. Ransom, aided by Harry Boggs, former chief accountant of the pub- '■ lie service commission, scored a sig- | nal victory at the Wednesday hearj ing. Webb Gilbert, chief commission accountant, had taken the stand to testify that club dues, donations and association assessments had been | charged as operating expenses from 1925 to 1929. The pgint was developed further by questioning of Edward H. Knight, corporation counsel. Then on cross-examination the company counsel brought out that nearly all items lusted were not charged as operating expense, but taken from the company profits. List Land Valuation* One of the commission exhibits shows consumption of 12,618,710,000 I gallons in 1929. 12.819.800,000 in ; 1930, and 11.116,160.000 in 1931. Revenues for the three years were $2,714,458.68 in 1929; $2,780,547.76 in 1930. and $2,708,773.16 in 1931. The Reilly land valuations listed today by the company were made up as follows: Riverside station. 1703,952.50; Washington station, $134,607.50; Fall Creek station, $80,360; Booster station, $2,040; filtration department, $298,250; canal department, $127,626; canal right-of-way, $1,166,932.55; Hamilton county holdings, $9,212.40; South Capitol avenue, $2,400; office, warehouse and stable, $440,659; easements, $5,855; tank land, $24,203, and reservoir lands. $715,105.50. rainTnd~warmer7 WEATHER FORECAST Mercury Will Not Reach Freezing Tonight, Says Armington. Cloudy skies and snow today accompanied an area of unsettled weather reaching the city today as it moved eastward. For a short time this morning a heavy snowfall was recorded, but the flakes melted rapidly. Rain with climbing temperatures is scheduled for tonight, according to J. H. Armington, weather man. Lowest temperature tonight will be about three degrees above freezing, five degrees above Wednesday night's lowest temperature, he said.

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