Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1932 — Page 2

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PUBLIC UTILITY FIGHT TS WON; BILL ISPASSED Measure Permits Cities to Buy, Build and Run Own Concerns. Several years’ battle came to a successful conclusion today when Governor Harry G. Leslie was presented with senate bill 417, which permits municipalities to purchase, construct and operate utilities without interference from the public service commisson. The bill, framed by the Municipal Rights League of Indiana, passed the house of representatives by a 64 to 23 vote after a desperate attempt to amend was made by its opponents in order to force delay and ultimate death Os the measure. Under this bill a city may condemn a privately-owned utility for the purpose of its purchase, and retire the bonds to pay for the property through earnings. Council May Fix Rates Rates may be fixed by the city council instead of the public service commission and existing munici-pally-owned properties are removed from the domination by the latter body. If the city council and utility officials are unable to agree on a purchase price the records are submitted to the circuit court whose decision shall be final. A duplicate bill which was introduced in and passed by the house, was amended beyond all recognition in the senate and the final hope of public ownership proponents was based on Senate Bill 417 which managed to get out of that body without change. Leslie Believed in Favor Although Leslie has uttered no expression regarding public ownership, it is believed that he will sign the bill. It, is backed by 400 cities and towns in the state, eager to escape from under the yoke of private ownership of utilities, according to the speakers. Those seeking to amend the bill were led by Representatives Walter E. Stanton (Dem.), Gary, and Gerritt Bates (Dem.), Indianapolis, despite the warnings by the proponents that changes meant the measure’s death. The vote on the bill follows: For the Bill (64) DEMOCRATS (58) Ale Linkc Bennett McCammon Benz McClain Biddle McKesson Black Martin Bold Masselink Bran (rhton Modisett Byers Monnig Cantley Nelson Combs Phelps Conner Place Curry Priddv Douglas* Reisingcr Egan Ryan Elkenbary Schlegel Finncv Simpson Fitzgihbon Stamp Frriling Star.ion Fries Stein Galloway Stoops Haines Vellom Hawkins Webb Jonrnay Weiss Kenncv E. Curtis White Krueger John F. White Kucspert Wilson. Lee REPUBLICANS (11) Adams Knight Eshelman McGaughcy Evans Remley Foster Smelt'zlv Griers Trent Grimm Against the Bill (23) DEMOCRATS (ID Allrrdt Karrer Bates Morean Core Smith of La Porte Dahlintr Stolte Gwin Watson Hoffman REPUBLICANS (12) Babcock Guard Bachtenkircher Kisller Coleman Knno Cromer Smith. Tippecanoe Denny Stauffer Furnas Strict Absent (9) DEMOCRATS (7) Crawford Simmons Ellyson Vanderveer Farv Walsman Salata REPUBLICANS (2) Farrell Guernsey ‘VILLAGE SMITHY’ IS SAVED JAIL SENTENCE Judge Remembers Ilis Longfellow; So He Merely Fines Fred. Longfellow and his good-natured "village smithy,” who always stood beneath a spreading chestnut tree, was the only thing that pulled the chestnuts out of the fire for Fred Blasengym of 809 South New Jersey street, in municipal court three, Wednesday afternoon. Blasengym, charged with being drunk and turning his smithy shop at 952 South East street into a recuperation depot for intoxicated buddies was saved from a state farm sentence because T. C. Whallon, judge pro tern., knew his Longfellow. "Ten and costs and costs suspended. I'll give you two weeks to shoe horses to pay the fine,” declared Whallon as he admitted seeing kindred spirits—not of the beverage kind—in Longfellow’s anvil worker and Blasengym. STEAMFITTER PRESIDENT CANDIDATE TO SPEAK Socialist Labor Party Choice to Head IT. S. Will Be Here Friday Night. Verne L. Reynolds of New York, the Socialist Labor party's steamfitter candidate for President, will speak at 8 Friday night in the old Elks building, 116 East Maryland street, as a part of a coast to coast campaign tour. Reynolds, whose parents were born of pioneer stock near Peru, Ind., Is a native of Parsons, Kan. Before mastering the steamfitter’s tra ie. Reynolds worked as an insurance and real estate agent, farmer, powder plant employe, cook, sprinkler fitter and shipyard pipefitter. Because of his radical views, he was once expelled from the steamfitters union, but later was reinstated.

Cell Olympics By United Press JOLIET, 111., Aug. ll.—The first penitentiary “Olympic games” were tentatively scheduled Wednesday for the week of Sept. 1. Warden F. D. Whipp of the Stateville penitentiary and Assistant Warden E. M. Stubblefield, in charge of the old prison, went into conference, after track and field athletes of the two prisons petitioned for permission to hold their own Olympics. “The pole vault is all that’s worrying us,” said Stubblefield. “We don’t want any convict getting proficient enough to vault fourteen feet—that would put him over the wall.”

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Trixie, the poodle owned by Monroe Jackson, 51-year-old recluse, whose body was feund yesterday afternoon in his shack at the Adler street dump, remains on guard at the scene cf the slaying. She is shown with Orville La Follette, 21, of 520 West McCarty street, friend of Jackson’s, who discovered the body.

REALTORS BACK DRIVEFOI BANK Federal Home Loan Branch Sought for City. Support of realtors throughout the state is being accorded the movement to obtain one of the new federal home loan banks for Indianapolis. To telegrams and letters sent to the newly named federal home loan bank board by local realtors, builders and bankers, has been added a letter by Harold Hobbs, Muncie, Indiana Real Estate Association president, giving support of the 1,000 Indiana members, to the local movement. "Lack of adequate financing has throttled residential construction in Indianapolis the last two years,” J. Harry Miles, Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association president, wrote the board. “We believe that a most conservative estimate is that there are 250 families in our community willing and able to build a home today if they could receive the usual financing—the financing which the new system will make available.” 150 AT STATE PARKS Annual Farmers’ Guide Trip to Conclude Saturday. State parks, game preserves and state forests in several southern Indiana counties were to be visited today by 150 persons who left Indianapolis on the annual tour of the Indiana Farmers’ Guide. The tour of 400 miles will conclude here Saturday. Conservation ; department representatives will ac- : company the tour to explain differI ent phases of the department's work.

Steals Child to Lavish Love on Her; Held as Mental Case

Achieves Dream of Dressing Girl as She Wished; Then Goes to Jail. By Times Special NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Men can’t resist her. Women sigh and exclaim over her; they love her. And if you knew Florence, you. too, would understand that she is the belle of her neighborhood. She’s the kind of girl that the shopkeepers always give six licorice drops for a penny, instead of four. All the mothers secretly long for their daughters to be just like her; she’s that sweet. For Florence has eyes that are blue, that sparkle with all the mischief. the pathos and the guile of any siren of history. Her hair is yellow, until recently done in a Dutch bob. Perfection to Rita She is 4 years old. To Rita, who lives a few doors away, Florence is the peak of all perfection, the wonder of wonders, the climax of the development of the race. Rita, is a hard working girl of 20. a good girl, and a girl to whom the soft voices of children are tile same as a great symphony to a master musician. “Florence is so beautiful,” Rita bften said to the baby’s mamma, Mrs. Markowski. “But you do not fix her hair right. She should have pretty dresses.” “Dresses, you think she should have, huh?” Mamma Markowski would exclaim. “And my man out of work! No, no! Food before dresses.” - Then She Vanishes Monday Florence vanished. Tuesday, the Markowskis told the police the child had not returned, but were not alarmed. Wednesday, when Florence still was missing, 200 patrolmen and detectives got busy. They searched methodically. They expected to find a body. Instead they found a clew that led them to a hotel, miles from the ten-

Freaks Fear Seal Boy Hurt, in Hospital; Dime Circus Folk See Evil Omen.

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