Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1932 — Page 2

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RATE PETITION 1 ACTION VIEWED : INSULL VICTORY! Utility Plea Assigned to Cuthbertson, Advocate of Power Loop. Another victory for the Insull in- j terests was scored with the public service commission today when Chairman John W. McCardle announced he has assigned the North- , cm Indiana Power Company rate petition to Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson. The petition asks creation of a central Indiana power loop, with! standardized rates, such as the long! fought for “south system.” Cuthbertson has been an ardent advocate of the power loop plan since he became a commissioner. He finally obtained approval of the south system set-up under the guise of a rate reduction. Written by Singleton Should the central power loop be given recognition, it will mean that I the commission stand in the Mar-! tinsville case, which makes the city, and not the electric utility district, she unit for rate making, but a theoretical matter. Commissoner Frank Singleton wrote the Martinsville order and it was upheld in federal court when three judges put their O. K. on the findings of the master’s report. Insull since has appealed the case to the United States supreme court. Singleton has many petitions for rate reductions in the district covered by the Northern Indiana Power Company, which were filed by citizens seeking relief. It was supposed when the company brought in the petition it would go to Singleton to be combined with the rate payers’ petitions. Not Loop Advocate But Singleton is not a power loop plan advocate. Under this theory, the whole property of the company in use in supplying electric service to a district must be used in making rates which would be standardized throughout the territory. The latest Insull petition hints that such standardization will mean increasing rates, as their present revenues are insufficient. The Northern Indiana Power Company supplies 185 communities and rural areas in central Indiana. Among the larger towns arc Kokomo, Huntington, Noblcsville, Rochester, Wabash, Clinton, Martinsville, Sullivan, Jasonville, Greencastle and Attica. UTILITY RATE SLASH ASKED FOR WABASH Sirey Files For House Scat, Then Seeks General Cuts. Following his filing as a candidate for the Republican nomination for congress from the fifth district, State Senator Charles L. Strey, Wabash, filed petitions with the public service commission Tuesday asking reductions in electric, gas and water rates in his home town. These properties are Insull owned. The electric service is from the Northern Indiana Power Company, which filed a petition Tuesday asking a power loop plan of rate making in central Indiana, which would mean rate increases, in some instances. Ashley citizens also filed for reduced electric rates from the Northern Indiana Public Service Company. Board to Visit Circus Members of the state board of education will drive to Peru following their meeting Fridav and visit the American Circus Corporation headquarters there. The trip has been arranged by Arthur S. Thomas, Peru, member of the board and superintendent of the Miami county schools. 1

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AKRON TO BLAZE TRADE TRAIL Honolulu Hop to Have Bearing on Air-Sea Commerce

Bv ,\ BA BerriC' WHEN the navy's big new dirigible Akron sails away from its New Jersey home port at Lakehurst in the middle of April on a cruise to San Diego and perhaps Hawaii, it will carry with it —in addition to a crew of husky and competent young sailors —the hopes of American backers of commercial transoceanic dirigible service. Already bills have been introduced in congress to provide government assistance tor such line3. This would be done by applying existing laws governing steaipship operations to aircraft. No direct government subsidies would be involved, but the airships would be allowed to receive contracts for carrying mail, which would make their operation commercially profitable. It is believed here that congressional approval of these measures well may depend largely on the Akron's performance during it3 coming Pacific flight. nun 'T'WO corporations already have been formed to develop passenger airship lines. In each cf them the Goodycar-Zeppelin firm, builder of the Akron, plays a prominent part. One corporation, the International Zeppelin Transport Corporation, takes the Atlantic for its field. Associated with the GoodyearZeppelin in it are such banking firms as the National City Company, Lehman Brothers and G. M-P. Murphy, and such industrial groups as the Aluminum Company of America and Carbide and Chemicals Corporation. Studies carried forward by this corporation indicate that service could be instituted from Washington to Paris on a two and onehalf day schedule, with three and one-half days allowed for the return trip. Flights could be made on schedule, it is believed, 80 per cent of the time, and the line could get all the business it could handle if it could win only 4 per cent of the existing de luxe passenger steamship traffic. a a a THE Pacific-Zeppelin Transport Corporation has the Pacific as its field. It includes the firms grouped in the Atlantic venture, and in addition the four Ameri-can-owned steamship lines operating over the Pacific and several

WIN CONTEST CASH Robert G. Barnhill Gets $lO First Prize. Judges, after inspecting hundreds of entries in the recent “Passionate Plumber” contest conducted by The Times and the Palace theater, today announced their awards. A total of $25 in cash has been awarded to nine people who matched the six best wisecracks to the pictures published. Winners are: First, Robert G. Barnhill, 2411 Southeastern avenue, $10; second, Louise Fletcher, 2424 East Tenth street, Apt. 4, $5; third, Pietje-Nell Lentz, 300 Board of Trade Bldg., $3; fourth. Robert Charles Hanika, 3340 North New Jersey street, $2. Next five to receive $1 each are R. S. Nordyke, 595 East drive, Woodruff Place; Arthur Hendricks, 19 North New Jersey street; Mrs. Carlena Campbell, 3926 North Keystone avenue; Harriet Essex, 3743 Rockville road, Indianapolis, and Ada Bloemhof. 3621 Stanton avenue. Checks will be mailed at once to winners.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belone to: Carrie Mvers. 3453 West, Tenth street. Chevrolet sedan, from Meridian and North streets.

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Stolen sutomobiles recovered by police belone to: Stephen Ewinsr. 2849 Indianapolis avenue. Hudson sedan, found at Northwestern avenue and Fifteenth street. TEST SUIT FILED ON CHAIN TAX FUNDS Action to Determine Whether State Aid Schools Are Recipients. Test suit to determine whether money collected under the chain store tax law shall be paid to state aid schools of Indiana was filed in superior court two late Tuesday by William H. Gentrup, Madison township trustee, Jefferson county. Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, who has announced he will not pay funds without a court order, is defendant in the suit. The store tax law of 1929 provided that amounts collected by the close of the fiscal years 1929, 1930 and 1931 should be paid to the schools. No tax was collected until the 1931 fiscal year.

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Dirigible enthusiasts, who are confident that passenger traffic of the future will be carried on giant aerial liners, will watch with considerable interest the scheduled flight of the navy dirigible Akron from Lakehurst, N. J., to San Diego and thence over the Pacific ocean to Honolulu. Picture shows map of course and the Akron in flight. Lower right, progress of work on the Akron's sister ship, the Macon, in the Good-year-Zeppelin dock at Akron, O. The sixth main frame is shown just as it was raised into place.

NAMED FIRE CAPTAIN Henry H. Schilling Promoted to Succeed Hallock Pruitt. Henry H. Schilling, lieutenant at pumper company No. 5, today assumed his duties as captain, following his promotion by the safety board to succeed Captain Hallock

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KIRKLAND TRIAL JUDGE TO FACE BALLOTBATTLE Criticism of Sentence Stirs Strong Candidates to Enter Race, ' By ri<fdl Press VALPARAISO, Ind., March 30. The widely publicized Virgil Kirkland trials and the comparatively light sentence meted the Gary youth have resulted in a rush of candidates for Judge Grant Crumpacker s bench in Porter circuit court. Two Republicans and two Democrats already have announced their intention of opposing Judge Crumpacker. Three have strong political records. Political observers here say the unusually large number of candidates comes as a protest against the one to ten-year reformatory sentence imposed by Judge Crumpacker on Kirkland when he was convicted on a charge in connection with the death of Arlene Draves, his sweetheart. In a previous trial, Kirkland was found guilty of first degree murder and had been sentenced to life imprisonment. The new trial was granted by Judge Crumpacker. Observers point out that, in contrast with the present situation, when Judge Crumpacker was elected six years ago, he was accorded the nomination and election without opposition. A few weeks ago Judge Crumpacker printed a series of articles in The Valparaiso Vidette-Messenger in which he explained his actions in the second Kirkland trial. His present candidacy, he says, is to seek public approbation of his decision in the Kirkland case. The other candidates are Ira C. Tilton, for years a leader of Porter county Democrats; E. W. Agar, former mayor; Charles E. Jensen, former county prosecutor, and Professor Virgil Berry of Valparaiso university law school. ‘WOLF’ IS ST. BERNARD Dog Is Shot Down After Killing SIOO Worth of Sheep. By United Press WARSAW, Ind., March 30, Farmers near here complained that a large “wolf” was killing their sheep. They organized a hunt for the animal, killed it, and discovered it was a St. Bernard dog. It was estimated that the dog killed more than SIOO worth of sheep in the last few months. The dog was obtained by Roy Sarjent, living near Syracuse, last fall. It ran away and was not seen by Sarjent until it was killed.

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Mrs. Phoebe Stader and William Frazer. By United Press Trenton, n. j., March 30. William N. Frazer, who was scheduled to die in the electric chair here tonight for the murder of Mrs. Phoebe Stader, with wliose body he rode through four states last March, has been granted a forty-eight-hour reprieve by Governor A. Harry Moore. Governor Moore's action at the request of Prosecutor Abe J. David of Union county, New Jersey, came while Edward S. Greenbaum of New York City, counsel for war veteran friends of the condemned man, was applying to Federal -'Judge Wi.iliam Clark, in Princeton, for a habeas corpus writ. The veterans contended Frazer was tried illegally in New Jersey for a crime they claim was committed in New York. Frazer was convicted on charges of slaying Mrs. Stader when tried in an Elizabeth (N. J.) court. According to police, he confessed killing Mrs. Stader with a .22-caliber rifle and then driving with her body through four states and the District of Columbia before he finally abandoned it near Bowling Green, Va.

MARCH 30,1932

SUES TO OBTAIN PATROL/UNDS Sumner Asks Court Aid in Road Cop Fight. Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner today had resorted to the courts in his effort to have the county council restore his road patrol system, abolished last fall be councilmen as an economy measure. Charles A. Grossart. county auditor, and councilmen are defendants in a suit filed in superior court two, seeking to mandate the council to appropriate funds. The auditor, by the suit, would be mandated to call a special session of the council to appropriate $26,706. With this appropriation, Sumner declared he could restore seventeen deputies to duty, affording police protection for all residents of the county outside the city limits. A postoffice worker in the southeastern section of London must be familiar with more than 6,700 streets. 70% ° f an ACUTE INDIGESTION "Z Night! (when drng stores are closed) Why not be safe with Bell-anff on hand .. . Now! 25c and 75e Bell-ans?W@ FOR INDIGESTION WEEK-END EXCURSIONS TO CHICAGO $5.00 Round Trip Leave Indianapolis 11:30 A M. Friday; 2:35 A. M. or 11:30 A. M. Saturday, and 2:35 A. M. Sunday. Returning to reach Indianapolis not. later than 4:10 A. M. Tuesday following date of sale. $3.60 Round Trip TO LOUISVILLE On all trains leaving Fridays. Saturdays and Sundays. Returning to and including Monday following dats of sale. Coach Service Only For Tickets and Information apply to City Ticket Office, 116 Monument Place. Phone Riley 9331. Pennsylvania Railroad