Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1932 — Page 1

Bonus Army in Senate ‘Siege’ as Vote Nears

Closing at 5 Stores operated by members of the Merchants' Association will observe summer rlosing at 5 o'clock, beginning July 5 and continuing through Sept. -2. it was announced today by officials. Whether stores will close for half holidays on Saturday's will be left to the individual members, it was said.

ACT TO SHELVE PROPOSALS FOR JOBLESS RELIEF G. 0. P. Leaders Seek to Pass Appropriation Bills, and Adjourn. BY RUTH FINNEY Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON. June 17. A hasty attempt to rush appropriation bills through the senate, thus clearing the way for adjournment before unemploymeent relief bills are voted upon, is in progress today, sponsored by administration senators. Indications are that an attempt will be made to adjourn the session by June 25. This is the situation, in spite of th° failure to decide on how to save the several hundred million dollars President Hoover says must be saved If the budget is to be balanced. With Hoover still silent as to savings, in the face of the senate resolution asking him to recommend new- economies, the naval appropriation bill w'as hurried through the senate Thurday. Tills leaves only the independent offices and treasury-postoffice bills still to be passed. The first already has been cut 20 per cent except in iteifis applying to veterans; the second can not be cut. in the opinion of Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills and Postmaster-Gen-era. Walter Bro.vn. Hoover Still Silent on Savings Although the senate daily has been awaiting a message from Hoover on economy, it was apparent today that the stampede to get appropriation bills passed before it comes will continue. When Senator Robert F. Wagner (Dcm., N. Y.) attempted to secure consideration for the bonus, he was blocked by Senator Reed Smoot, who is in charge of the independent offices appropriation bill and several conference reports. This was the first, open indication that an attempt may be made to sidetrack relief measures, in spite of pledges given earlier to Senator Wagner that a vote would be had. Even after the senate votes on relief loans for construction, a lengthy process of reconciling house and senate measures must be gone through before the measure is enacted into law, and it will be difficult to keep congress in Washington once appropriation bills are passed. Wagner to Seek Showdown Wagner expects to settle the question as soon as the bonus bill is disposed of, by moving for immediate consideration of his second relief measure. If he is defeated, an attempt may be made to stop all other legislation, including appropriation bills, until consent is given for relief legislation. The naval appropriation bill carrying $318,218,461 was passed late Thursday, after an attempt to reoommil it for a general 10 per cent reduction failed by only five votes. A brilliant, last-minute attempt to halt, passage was made by Senator Robert La Follette (Rep., Wis h “You’re going to take money from the wages of employes now living below the subsistence level," said I.a Follette. "You’re going to hamatring important functions of the civil departments of government, but you 11 vote, in this third year of <Vuel depression $14,000,000 plus *10.000,000 unexpended balance to modernize old battleships. ■ Go home and try to defend that ▼oi e before your constituents. You'll find they're not so stupid as you think. They will .see you have used this hue and cry for economy to batter down the wage scale, to end the useful work of departments which they could not end if the question came up here for a vote on its merits."

FIRE ‘RACKET IS BARED Jobless Canadians Start Forest Flames to Get Jobs. By United Press MONTREAL. June 17.—A new j sort of "racket” w'as reported today | from northern Quebec where the unemployed are accused by rangers j of deliberately .setting forest fires in j order to obtain employment fighting I them. Henri Kieffer, director of the provincial forestry service, said approx- ! imatelv 10.000 fire rangers and aids 1 were fighting the flames daily. Cloudburst Floods Anderson By l h ited Press ANDERSON. Ind.. June 17.—The second cloudburst in Anderson wtihin three days brought 1.07 inches of precipitation within half an hour Thursday evening, flooding many basements. Damage to stocks of downtown stores was estimated at several hundred dollar*.

The Indianapolis Times • Mostly fair tonight; Saturday increasing cloudiness; not much change in temperature.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 32

Thousands of Veterans Jam Galleries and Overflow Out of Corridors Into Park as Final Debate Is Waged. By 1. nited Press WASHINGTON. June 17.-The travel-stained troops of the bonus expeditionary forces laid siege to the senate today in a last-ditch fight for passage of the $2,400,000,000 Patman bonus bill. While the. senate debated the bonus bill, thousands of veterans gathered at the Capitol to await the result. The greatest crowd of veterans ever to invade Capitol Hill occupied every seat in the galleries during the debate, to be present at vote that will largely determine the success or failure of their march on Washington. They spilled out into the corridors and into Capitol park. Sleep in Senate Office Building In the senate office building some stretched themselves on the marble floors and slept, exhausted after the long battle with the dampness and chill of their Ancostia camp. As the debate began, the prediction spread through the halls that the veterans’ measure would be defeated. The house already has passed the Patman bill. A vote is expected during the afternoon. Speakers, their voices rasping with the hoarseness acquired from a fortnight of exhortation, shouted at the veterans to stand firm and await the reinforcements now pushing their way across the prairies from the far west. “Stay here until hell freezes over," cried Representative Thomas 1.. Blanton (Deni.. Tex.). champion of the Patman bill. “You'll get the bonus before you quit.” More Veterans on Way Harold Foulkrod, legislative representative of the veterans, leaped up on the wall surrounding the Lhe capitol plaza. “This army and its backers represent 12.000 000 votes," he shouted. “Those votes will count next November. We'll have 25.000 speakers on the stump for our cause if we get licked here. “The California delegation is now crossing the Mississippi river. And they have their mess kits with them. “When w eget 200,000 veterkns in Washington, maybe they will listen to us.” As word drifted down from capitol hill of the unparalleled demonstration, police rushed reinforcements to the senate. Seventy extra patrolmen were on duty when the bonus debate began at 11:20 a. m. Suppport from Indiana Senator Smith W. Brpokhart (Rep., la.), pleaded for passage of the Patman bill. “These men have assembled here for what I consider their just rights. The philosophy which says we sail make soldiers serve without pay. also allows huge profits from blood money during war. “Just so long as our country permits these millions and billions to be made out of blood money I shall vote for every veterans’ compensation bill.” Senator Arthur Robinson (Rep.. Ind.), also championed the bill, saying, "This is ont a bonus but a debt —a debt that has been ocknowledged by the government.” At noon one of the bonus army commissionary trucks drove up in front of the seante wing of the capitol, and the veterans, unable to gain admittance to the chamber, lined up to get beef stew.

BANK BANDITS KIDNAP 3 Release Young Woman Soon After Holdup at Ft. Scott. FT. SCOTT. Kan., June 17.—Five bandits robbed the Citizens National bank here today, slugged two men and kidnaped three young women, releasing them unharmbed a short time later. The bandits seized an undetermined amount of money and fled with a posse of scores of citizens in pursuit.

uoovms ffPCOPD AS PR£S!D£NT Ip q IQ2Q Has he saved us from a depression much worse than that which exists today, a* the Republicans claim . . . Or has he been a w'eak. vac ill a t ing President, as the Democrats insist? You can form your own opinion after reading RODNEY DUTCHER S three impartial stories on Hoover's career as President . . . Starting Monday in The Times

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE, 17, 1932

‘STRADDLE’ ON LIQUOR STIRS G.O.P. GLOOM Affront to Progressives at Convention Also Worries Many Delegates. LASH AT ‘BOY SCOUTS’ Practical Politicians Resent Domination by Hoover and His Officials. BY RAY TICKER Times Staff Writer • CHICAGO, June 17. —“If the Democrats are wise and honest on prohibition, we are gone.” That was the estimate made today by many departing delegates to the Republican national convention as they weighed the political effects of their ticket—Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis —and (heir platform. It was not expressed publicly and there is a faint hope that the Democrats will make their customary blunders, but when the giant organ and 100-piece band had been turned off and the last colored balloon had drifted down from the convention ceiling, many Republican politicians were dubious of the outcome. Gloom Is Widespread The situation and gloom—is comparable to that which prevailed at the close of the 1924 convention at Cleveland. Calvin Coolidge then had been nominated with the cloud of the oil and Daugherty scandals hanging over the White House, and Frank O. Lowden of Illinois had refused to accept the vice-presidential nomination. But a few weeks later the Democrats put on their bloody affair at Madison Square Garden, refused to recognize the national unrest and dissatisfaction, and were badly whipped in November. Bitter Fetid Is Drawback Three factors enter into all discussion of the Republican partys apparently slim chances. They are: The "Hoover straddle plank” on prohibition. The adoption of the most conservative economic set of principles in many years. The deliberate affront to the progressives of the west. Another factor which will count ; heavily is the bitter feud that has : developed between the national committee faction and the group | which these local patriots, who j bring in the votes and cash, call j the “Hoover Boy Scouts.” A skirmish has been conducted for months. It reached the stage of virtual declarations of war at this convention. The practical politicians resented the domination of Hoover and his < federal officials, especialy in framing the prohibition plank. Antagonizes All Factions It is pointed out that Hoover has antagonized all sections and sac-1 tions. The votes cast against the ad- 1 ministration's “straddle plank." as; it has been dubbed almost every- j where, came from six states which j have about 150 electoral votes. And if threats uttered by oldfashioned Republicans may be believed, the time has come when millions will east their votes solely on the basis of which party is the wetter. “We can't settle prohibition," said a prominent eastern senator, “until one of the major parties takes a good beating because of its pussyfooting.” With many others he did not seem to care w’hether it was the Democratic or Republican. Progressives Denounced In view of Hoover’s dictation of the plank, it is expected he will be the target of wet resentment even more than members of congress. The repeated denunciations of the progressives, who were represented by a sullen, but submerged section of the Wisconsin delegation, surprised even conservatives. This may prove an open invitation to half a dozen senators—Norris of Nebraska, Blaine and La Follette of Wisconsin. Shipstead of Minnesota, Nye of North Dakota, and others—to support a satisfactory Democratic nominee, or go galloping on those famous “wild jack- 1 asses" on election day. It is obvious that the defeat of Brookhart in lowa and the La Follette losses in Wisconsin stiffened the administration’s attitude. Fight ‘Party Irregularity' Hoover may have straddled on i prohibition and in his last-minute I unwillingness to approve the ditching of Vice-President Curtis, but the platform makers were sure that "party irregularity” is crumbling the republic's cornerstone. Many mourned the renomination of the dry, middle western, 72-year-old Kansan, even though they felt! sorry for his plight. But all except Hoover, and he only in the evening of the day, conceded that “Brother Charlie's” age made him a liability. Hoover could have obtained a younger wetter and merrier man by die toting as he had done with respect to prohibition. Through presentation of numerous names as “favorite sons,” the stage had been set. But. having angered the wet east, he apparently decided to throw “Charlie" to the west. Convict Fake Cancer Doctor B l nited Press CHICAGO. June 17.—Lester Tilton. Clinton, la., and two associates in the conduct of a cancer clinic today faced fines and prison sentences on conviction of violation of the state practices act.

21 Die in Explosions on Ship at Dock in Montreal; Loss Near Million Dollars

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Upper—Wayne. .Gotta, rabbit-breeder, and one. of ,hu bunnigg in seal's clothing. Lower—" Buck” is w 7 orth one hundred bucks in coin of the realm, but try and buy him.

WHEN the Winter-coat Futurity of Mrs. Year TwoThousand. is run on city boulevards it’ll be wqn by a “hare.” Which is just another way of putting the lowly fried rabbit into the drawing rooms and out of the dining cars. And in Indianapolis, there's a man who is breeding bunnies as big as poodle-dogs that have fur so near like seals that Mama Seal would mistake them for long-lost cousins. He is Wayne Cotta. 1719 East East Thirty-seventh street, and he has fifty rabbits in the 200 in his hutches that would go a long way toward making a couple of $2,500 coats for the “femmes" of today. In fact, rabbits, similar to those bred by Cotta, have been made into a coat on but one occasion and that coat is valued at SB,OOO and is worn by Lady Watson, an Englishwoman. a a t 1 COTTA is one of the pioneers in the breeding of the Havana Rex and Seal Rex hares. It is his hope as well as other breeders that the time will come when the seal-like softness of the furs they breed for will supplant the seal of the Arctic regions for society’s “Four Hundred.” You can’t buy a rabbit from Cotta. Folk have tried, too, and have walked away at his price-tag of SIOO for a buck or a doe. The offspring of these bunnies will form the soft-furred breed of the future and probably become milady’s coat. Patience, after nineteen years of breeding rabbits, and the desire to obtain the softest texture of fur keeps Cotta from selling even one of the fifty seal-like bunnies. “I’m not quite satisfied ydt. Out of litters I’d only get one in six-ty-four rabbits like these, so you can see I’ve been a long time stocking up,” he says. a a a COTTA tells of the genetics of rabbits as glibly as a circusbarker recites the charms of the hula “gal" in the sideshow tent. He has a fawn-tan Rex rabbit bred and there’s only two others in the world like her. He has rabbits with the fur of .royalty’s ermine. He says the day will come when rabbit-fur takes its place with the foxes, seals and muskrat, as wearing apparel for women. The problem of the furriers now is quantity not quality of the fur. Cotta says. "But we’re not stopping. We’re trying to get the best we can." Cotta concluded as he tossed his SIOO bunnie some garden greens ARBUCKLE WILL WED Fatty. Ex-Screen Comedian, to Take Actress as Bride. Bit rtitled Prc #* ALBANY. N. Y.. June 17.—Rosco* <Fa tty > Arbuckle, former motior picture comedian, and Miss Addif McPhail. actress, announced todaj they will be married in Cleveland The ceremony was to have beer performed here, but this was precluded because Miss McPhail’s fina divorce decree was not filed in California soon enough. They are on s vaudeville tour.

DAVILA REGAINS POWER IN CHILE Government Overthrown in Bloodless Revolt. By United Press SANTIAGO. Chile, June 17.—Carlos G. Davila, former Chilean ambassador to Washington. w 7 as returned to power in Chile today by a bloodless revolt, which overthrew the government headed by Colonel Marmaduke Grove. Determined to “die fighting” after he received an ultimatum from the rebels. Colonel Grove was forced to surrender w'hen carabineros guarding the presidential palace observed their tradition not to engage in civil w'ar. Colonel Grove was arrested, and will be deported to Argentina. The streets surrounding the palace were cleared for a bombardment with tanks and light artillery facing the palace and airplanes flying overhead. A, rebel regiment occupied an unfinished building of re-inforced concrete from which they couid fire directly into the palace. Davila headed a civilian junta, which included ex-Senator Pedro Cardenas and Alberto Cadero, in the triumph over Colonel Grove, who had forced Davila's resignation as head of the new Socialist government. The new junta is purely nationalistic in character and is expected to be moderate. It will advocate socialism in industry, but will not be governed by communistic ideas. MRS. POOLE ELECTED Massachusetts Woman New Head of General Clubs Federation. By United Press SEATTLE. June 17.—Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole of Brockton. Mass., was elected president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs today.

AMBITION TO SIT ON CAPONE THRONE LEADS TO SLAYING

By United Press CHICAGO, June 17.—The ambition of George (Red) Barker, gangster and racketeer, to succeed to the underworld throne of A1 Capone brought him death today when he was shot down by machine gun fire. Barker, known to police as one of the most callous of Chicago gangsters, was shot to death by machine gunners in an ambush nest. The machine gun had been set up in a room across the street from a hotel Barker frequented. Apparently the gunners watched from their post for nearly two weeks for an opportunity at their victim. Physicians took thirty-six bullets from Barker’s body. The death of Barker was th first

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Scores More Are Injured in Series of Blasts on Tanker; Fire Rages for Several Hours After Tragedy. BY GILBERT DRAPER United Press Staff Correspondent MONTREAL, June 17.—A series of explosions on the British oil tanker Cymberline today killed at least twenty-one men and caused property damage of more than a million dollars. For several hours after the explosions, fires burned w’hite hot at the Canadian Vickers dry dock, where the Cymbeline had been tied up for repairs. At mid-morning the casualties were announced as: Known dead, 21; injured, 63. The explosions occurred before dawn, while the Cymbeline lay at its dock, most of its crew 7 of thirty asleep aboard. On the pier were dozens of workers for the Canadian Vickers Company. Suddenly, there was a deep roar from the center fuel tank of the tanker. Series of Exp osions The concussion was felt up and down the water front. Fire spat up through the craft. Two other explosions followed rapidly. Members of the crew, their clothing ripped from their bodies, ran screaming to the first point of rescue they could find. Many of the dock workmen are believed to have leaped into the water. “It was the w'orst experience 1 ever had," Leonard Rumble, engineer of the tanker, said. "The screams and howls w f ere terrible. 1 still can hear them ringing in my ears. I'll never forget it till my dying day.” Firemen from all parts of Montreal fought the oil fed flames. Firemen Die in Flames As the debris swirled afid smashed on the docks, they w 7 ere caught. At least three, including Fire Director Raoul Gauthier, were killed. “I saw a Montreal fireman, who w'as playing a hose on the burning ship struck in the back of the head by a large piece of timber," Rumble . said. „ "He fell face down, the hose twisting and whirling on the ground like ’a big snake. • “We fushed to his aid, but before we could reach him his clothing was afire. He w'as dead.” Signal flares aboard the vessel j were ignited. They shot up in hapI hazard and eerie display over the fire and ruin. j Many of the injured are in critiI cal condition and may die. Members of the crew', those not needing | hospital attention, w'ere given makei shift attire, and taken to the Sail- ! ors’ institute. Resrue Work Difficult Meanwhile, every fire station in Montreal had flags at half-staff because of Gauthier’s death. The firemen and police arrived at j the dry docks a few' moments after | the first explosion to find many i victims screaming for help under the debris w'hich buried them. Members of the crew w'ere aboard at the time of the blast. But most of the dead and injured were workmen who had been rushing repairs, night and day, since the tanker arrived early in May from port Arthur, Tex., with its cargo of oil. The mechanism of the dock was j wrecked by the blast that made rescue work more difficult. Tells of Saving Men “I w'as standing on a small dock,” Thomas Kirklan, 21. a Vickers emi ploye, said. “I swam to a larger dock just after the explosion. There I got a boat and returned. “I picked up five men, all badly burned. Three w'ere beneath the dock. Tw'o were at the stern of the Cymbeline. “Then after I got to the sheds w'here the men were being treated, there was another explosion. It threw 7 burning wreckage all over the place.”

SHIPS HURRY FOR U. S. Tankers and Freighters Ordered to Make Port to Beat Tariffs. By United Press NEW YORK. June 17.—Wireless orders were sent today to masters of a score or more tankers and freighters bound for the United States to make port at all costs before Tuesday when newly enacted tariffs on oil, lumber and copper become effective.

slaying of a “big shot” Chicago ■ gangster in many months, and, police said it confirmed their information that the racketeer was striving for the underworld power vacated when Capone was sent to prison for income tax frauds. Police were able to find but one witness to the slaying, although it was believed Barker was accompanied by several bodyguards. The quiet that has prevailed in Chicago's underworld for more than a year and half was broken by Barker's slaying. Police took immediate steps to halt, if possible, a general outbreak of gang warfare. Barker was a power in the Capone syndicate, and for years had been known to police as a labor racketeer. whose ruthless tactici|laid a heavy

FURTHER CUTS ARE MADE IN WATER RATES, UP FOR COMMISSION VOTE TODAY

Tragic Advice By United Print PORT HOPE. Ont., June 17. —Gwendolyn Thomas, local high school student, w'as dead today because someone told her university students sometimes took small quantities of strychnine poison to sharpen the brain and relieve fatigue. Miss Thomas, in the midst of her June examinations on Thursday stopped at a drugstore and purchased a small amount of strychnine. A short time later neighbors heard screams in the Thomas home. The girl died, despite efforts of a physician.

SUSPEND WAR DEBTS DURING WORLD PARLEY Powers Decide Not to Make Collections Until After Lausanne Meeting. BY STEWART BROWN United Pres Staff Correinondent LAUSANNF t Switzerland. June 17—War debt and reparations payments were declared suspended temporarily by the principal nations at the Lausanne conference today. Tne suspension was announced jointly by Great Britain. France, Italy, Belgium and Japan. The other thirteen nations at the conference, where the United States is not represented, w’ere expected to agree. The suspension w-as for the duration of the conference. The declaration did not state specifically whether payments w'ould be resumed after the conference. Some believe it may mean that if the conference fails of agreement, a special commission will lunction during the interim, with the suspension declaration still effective. May Bring Long Delay That might allow postponement of a final solution until after the American elections, without prejudicing France s stand against cancellation. and Germany’s and Britain's desire to see the slate wiped clear. The positive action of the five powers w r as taken on the second day of the important conference, at w'hich the principal nations involved in the tangled financial obligations of the World war are making a desperate effort to find a way out of the morass. Debt payments to the United States naturally are not affected by the declaration. Doesn't Affect U. S. Although the Hoover moratorium expires -July 1, payments to the United States are not scheduled to be resumed until late in the year, by jvhich time the debtors obviously hope to attempt some compromise with the United States, after the presidential election. The principal payments affected are due in July. The suspension is advantageous to France, Italy and Belgium but represents a sacrifice by Britain. The position of the powers was clarified in speeches to the conference. Position Is Classified “Reparations are revealed now as unrealizable and useless." said Franz Von Papen, Germany's “monocle” chancellor. Edouard Herriott, the RadicalSocialist French premier, announced firmly that France is opposed to cancellation. He said plainly that the United States must be involved in any final settlement. Neville Chamberlain. British chancellor of the exchequer, said Britain is prepared to share in a general w'iping of the slate. “We consider the suspension declaration the most vital step yet taken toward a practical and successful termination of the conference." said Antonio Mosconi of Italy. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 68 10 a. m 80 7a. m 71 11 a. m 82 Ba. m 76 12 (noon).. 83 9 a. m 78 1 p. m 85

tribute on organizations he controlled. The slaying of Barker came just a week after information of a conference of syndicate leaders with members of a newly organized gang reputed to be headed by George (Bugs) Moran, bitter Capone enemy, who had been in retirement since the famous St. Valentine's day massacre virtually wiped out his organization. This conference, called in an attempt to effect a division of gambling and liquor territory between the leaderless syndicate and the new organization, broke up without agreement. Predictions were made freely that a ruthless gang war was in prospect. Police feared Barker 1 * death was the declaration of war. V

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cent*

SI.OB Minimum, $66,000 Saving to City Kept in Schedule. INCREASE IS SLASHED Boost in Rates to Large Users Is Reduced by Cuthbertson. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Commissioner Harry' K. Cuthbertson today presented anew Indianapolis Water Company rate schedule, for passage bv members of the public service commission, which retains all relief granted consumers and the city in the order of April 1, and scales apartment house building increases from the former $7.72 peak to 95 cents. Cut of $202,617.68 is made in company revenues from the old rates which prevailed before the April 1 compromise and a $147,617.68 revenue reduction from the compromise rates. The company had sought to keep its revenue reduction down to $55,000 a year. Cuthbertson s ordpr is based on a 6 per cent, return on a valuation of $21,118,252, which he submits is an estimate made by the company's own expert at the hearings earlier in the week. SI.OB Minimum Retained Under the new rate schedule, the SI.OB minimum for the first 500 cubic feet consumption and the 66.000 cut in hydrant rental costs to the city are retained. The following rate structure then is set up: First 500 cub* feet. 21 cents next 1.500. 18 cents: 2.500, 16 cento; 7.500. 14 cents; 18,000, 12 cents; 20,DOO, 10 cents; 50.000, 8 cents, and over 100,000. 6 cento. The April compromise rates w'ere 21 *■, cents for the first 4,000 cubic feet; 17 cents next 8.000; 13 \ 2 cents next 18,000; 10 cents next 20,000; 8 cento next 50,000. and 6 cents next 100.000. Old rates, before the compromise were: First 700, 21 K cents; next 11.300 12 cents; 20.000, lo cents; 50.000, 8 cento, and over 100.000, 6 cents. Minimum monthly charge for meters above five-eights inch (the common household size) remains the same as in the compromise and pre-compromise rate schedules. Seen as Consumers’ Victory The Cuthbertson order was viewed as further victory for consumers and a defeat for the company, w'hich sought anew schedule as an emergency measure after the Moynahan apartments secured an injunction against collection of increases set out in the compromise agreement. If adopted, these new rates will prevail until audit- and appraisal of the company properties is completed by commission engineers and accountants, and a final rate schedule set up on the basis of the value disclosed. Malcolm Pirnie. New York engineer, who appeared as a company expert, had set out this value as being $26,283,152. But Cuthbertson himself introduced the United States supreme court valuation of $19,000,000 in 1924, and by Pirnie estimates established the $21,118,252 valuation. The process he used is set out in the order itself.

Sets 6 Per Cent Return A 6 per cent return is ample at this time, the order sets out. The order agrees with the company contention that an emergency exists, but uses the emergency to benefit the consumers, who are greatest sufferers. If passed, it may be taken to federal court, where utilities now are going almost, daily to stop any rate reductions. Both Commissioners Howell Ellis and Frank Singleton announced before the afternoon conference that they will oppose its passage, as they did the former ’! am opposed to any increase for any one over the old rates," Ellis said. Cuthbertson to Fight Singleton said he will contend that, under the compromise order, the company is earning a 414 p cent return on the highest, value it set, out and no emergency exists for change at this time. Cuthbertson said he is reedy to fight for passage of hi* new race schedule, and expected the support of Chairman John W. McCardl* and Commissioner Jere West, who voted for the compromise rate order of April 1. “People want relief and not a lot of rhetoric from the public seevice commissioners at this time," he commented.

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