Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1932 — Page 9

SEPT. 20, 1932.

EMPIRE STATE POWER DREAM TO BE COSTLY Government Imposes Heavy Burden on New York in Waterway Plan. Thi* Is the last of a series of articles on Possibilities of the St. Lawrence waterway. BY WALKER STONE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—1 tis a great dream New York cherishes —industrialization of the now sparsely settled St. Lawrence valley and electrification of the farms and homes of its citizens. New York wants to harness the mighty flow of the St. Lawrence for the benefit of its industries and its people. It wants to stop the migration of factories to Canada—work and wealth-producing factories that are now establishing plants in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, where they can buy cheap electricity '.nd escape retaliatory tariffs. New York wants to bring light and warmth and labor saving to the farms and middle class homes—a boon now enjoyed in Ontario, where domestic consumers buy electrical energy from the state-owned power system for l'c to 4 cents per kilowatt hourr^ Many Hurdles Ahead But New York has many hurdles to clear before it can make its dream come true. The proposed St. Lawrence shipway, which farmers, manufacturers, and shippers of the Great Lakes region believe will provide cheaper freight rates for their products, is to be paid for by taxpayers. But the proposed state-owned St. Lawrence . hydro-electric plants, which New Yorkers believe will provide cheaper electricity, must be selfsupporting. They must be paid for by the consumers of electricity. The nub of the problem in the New York power program is the amount the state will have to invest in its hydro plants. The amount will be determined in a dicker between Washington and Albany. That problem has been settled in Canada. The Dominion government has agreed that the province of Ontario shall have the two hydroelectric plants on the Canadian side for a total cost of $105,000,000. New York Burden Heavier. For the same development on this side of the river, Uncle Same is asking New York to pay $150,000,000. On the basis of an investment, of $150,000,000, could New York furnish electrical energy at a rate low enough to halt the migration of industry to Canada, at a rate low enough to emulate Ontario in the electrification of farms and homes? The average capital cost per installed horse power of “primary power” in Ontario is $136, and Quebec sll4. This means that American industry would continue to go to Canada for cheaper power. And it probably would mean that farmers and housewives would continue to perform their chores by hand. With a capital cost of S2OB per horse power, what could state-owned plants do in the way of meeting competition of private power companies in New York? Private power corporations figure $l5O as the maximum capital cost per horse power when contemplating construction of a hydro-electric plant. Several private hydro plants are located within the area where New York state wants to market its St. Lawrence power. Cheap Power at Niagara The cheapest electrical power in the world is at Niagara Falls, less than 200 miles distant. The Niagara Falls Power Company built its plant on this side of the falls for a capital cost of less than SIOO per horse power. The competitive position of the proposed St. Lawrence hydro plants as against privately-owned steam generating plants can not be calculated in terms of capital costs. Capital costs are very low for steam plants, and the operating costs much higher. New York has some good arguments why it should not pay Uncle Sam’s “asking price” of $150,000,000, which figure, state department officials admit, was based o the theory that power should pay, as its share of the St. Lawrence development, “all the traffic will bear.” Estimated cost of developing the international rapids section of the St. Lawrence for both power and navigation purposes is $274,742,000. That figure' was based on construction costs prevailing in 1926. Construction Costs Drop Construction costs have declined approximately 25 per cent, so under present conditions the estimate should be revised down to approximately $206,000,000. The revised estimate would fix the cost of the entire works for navigation and power on the American side of the international rapids section at $103,000,000. In other words. New York is being asked to give a subsidy of $47,000,000 to help pay for construction of the ship canal in other sections. New York's dream of cheap electrification is at the mercy of the United States senate, which can, if it so desires, refuse to ratify the St. Lawrence treaty unless the cost of the hydro plants is lowered.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Frank Taylor. Sunshine Gardens, R R 4 Ford coupe, from 1100 South Meridian street. Sam Rose, 3260 Broadway. Hudson sedan, 42-982. from Kentucky 'avenue and Washington street. Michael B. Reddington. 414 West South street. Ford sport coupe. 53-298. from Blackford and Washington streets Edward P. Mooney. 4819 East VVashington street. Apt. 10, Desoto sedan. 121-261 from Pennsylvania and New York streets’

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Fred A. Jacobs, 4417 Central avenue. Buick sedan, found in front of 2123 Brookside avenue. Murna Backs, Cleveland. O. Plymouth coach, lound at Washington and Delaware street. Tony Murello, 541 East Merrill street, Chevrolet truck, lound at 600 block West Merrill street. West Side Chevrolet Company. 2419 West Washington street, Essex coach, M 1122. found at Twenty-fourth and Sangster street*. Put > a few drops of denatured alcohol on top of enamel after using, and it will prevent formation of enam%l “skin.”

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ROB POOR BOX; BLAME BOOZE Alleged Legger Raided After Thieves Confess. Information gained by police after two men admitted they stole a forty-pound poor box from St. John’s Catholic church led to a raid Monday night in which police arrested a man and wife and reported seizure of a small amount of alcohol. The man and wife are Paul Reddy, 38, of 425 West Merrill street, and Mrs. Netta Reddy, 23. Eugene Miller, 22, of 304 Arbor avenue, and Charles Sullivan, 21, of 503 Coffey street, alleged to have stolen the box, were held to the grand jury Monday afternoon by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron on grand larceny charges. Bond was set at SI,OOO each. They pleaded they were intoxicated as a result of liquor they obtained from the Reddys. Lieutenant Dan Cummings, who with patrolman Walter Baase and Orville Quinette raided the Reddy home at the West Merrill street address, said the front and side doors were secured with chains and bolts. Difficulty they experienced in effecting entrance caused a delay during which ten gallons of alcohol was poured out, the officers charge. The alcohol reported seized was contained in a glass on a table where two alleged patrons of the place are said to have been drinking. Earl Duncan, who formerly occupied the house at the Merrill street address, was given a six months’ penal farm term and a SSOO fine last week by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer on conviction of a blind tiger charge. FOUR-LEGGED FISH FOSSILS DISCOVERED Greenland Find Forms Important Link in Evolution. liy United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Fossils of four-legged fish—related to the tropical “lung fish”—reported found in Greenfield, form a most important link in the chain of evolutionary theories, accoording to officials of the American Museum of Natural History. The fish, whose fossils were reported found by the thousands by members of Dr. Lauge Koch’s expedition in Greenland, could walk on land and live in the sea. They are, according to legend and theory, among the first of the fish to leave the seas for expeditions inland, generations developing among them four-legged animals, or reptiles. They were, according to Dr. William Gregory, curator, the earliest and most primitive vertebrates living on land. LET BRIDGE CONTRACTS W ork on Five Projects Is Awarded by State Department. Five bridge contracts have been signed by the state highway department, it was announced today by Director John J. Brown. Vincennes Bridge Company received contracts for two bridges on state road 61, near Vincennes, for $16,056.35. Hill and Leary. Greenfield, were awarded a contract for one on road 32 east of Lebanon at $7,931.01 and R. McCalman, Inc., Danville, 111., contracts for two bridges on 28 near Williamsport for $11,642.21.

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EDGE TO SAIL FOR U. S. Ambassador to France to Aid Hoover in Campaign. By United Press PARIS, Sept. 20.—Ambassador Walter E. Edge will sail for the United States on the liner Leviathan Oct. 1 to aid President Hooer’s campaign for re-election. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Edge and Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania.

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FAMOUS ARTIST IS DEAD FROM SLEEPJ’OTION Once Denounced America as ‘Land of Rogues and Haven for Morons. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—James Stewart Carstairs, internationally famous artist, who described America as a “land of rogues and a haven for morons,” died Monday of an overdose of sleeping potion. Carstairs, who was 40, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy last April and since then had lost all his possessions, including the equipment he used in painting. An employe of the Hotel Blackstone, where he lived, found the artist unconscious in bed. He died in *an ambulance en route to a hospital. Police found two bottles that had contained a sleeping potion in the room, and learned that Carstairs recently had been a victim of insomnia. They concluded that his death was accidental. Carstairs specialized in landscape painting and traveled widely, mostly in the Orient. Once regarded as wealthy, he declared when he filed his bankruptcy petition that he had liabilities of $56,407, and assets on paper of 1537,500. Subsequently his painting and the antique furniture he collected were sold at public auction for about $7,000. It was during this sale that he denounced America and said he didn’t-care whether he ever painted again. “I shall not nauseate myself with bad food and live in mediocre squalor, in order to enter a profession that will bore me to death,” he said. “Unless I find congenial occupation I prefer to destroy myself.”

Contract Bridge

BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League THE hand described Saturday was one of the most interesting in the National Masters’ Contract Pair championship. In it we showed how careful and wellconsidered defense could defeat the three diamond contract by one trick. Today we will show how another declarer took advantage of a slight error in defense, and by brilliant play was able to make three diamonds.

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The Bidd g The bidding was as follows— South one heart, North two diamonds, South two hearts, Njrth three clubs, South three diamonds, with East and West always passing. The Play The declarer in this case was Howard Schenken, who, with David Burnstine, won the National Masters’ Contract Pair championship last year. East opened the jack of spades, which Schenken won in his own hand with the king. He led a small diamond, and when dummy played the king, West took the trick with the ace. West returned a heart, Schenken ruffing with a five of diamonds. The next lead was the jack of diamonds and West won with the queen.

A club lead by West at this point will defeat the contract, but in this particular case he elected to lead another heart. Schenken trumped with the six of diamonds and led the ten of diamonds, on which East discarded a small spade and South a small heart. He led the three of spades to dummy's ace and returned a small club, finessing the jack. East won with the queen, but was confronted with a very difficult lead to exit from his hand. If he led the ace or a small club, the declarer’s contract would be assured, so he played the ace of hearts, hoping the declarer would not enter the dummy again. Schenken ruffed with his last diamond and led the deuce of clubs. If East won with the ace. he would be obliged to concede the remaining tricks, so he played low and West won with the nine of clubs. West had only spades remaining, so he was forced to lead to dummy’s queen, and the king and jack of hearts took the last two tricks. If West had played the nine of clubs instead of the five to the first club trick, he still coulc 1 have defeated the contract. However, there is a limit to human skill, and probably no player in the game could have foreseen that play.

0. E. S. LEADER IS DEAD Mrs. Mattie Williams Newton Passes After Illness of Nine Months. Illness of nine months resulted in the death of Mrs. Mattie Williams Newton, 53, Monday in her home, 4714 East New York street. Born in Saudersville, Tenn., Mrs. Newton came to Indianapolis in 1899. Later she moved to Spencer where she lived ten years before returning to this city. She was former worthy matron of Spencer chapter, Order of Eastern Star, and was a member of Spencer M. E. church. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 Wednesday in Shirley Brothers’ central chapel, 946 North Illinois street. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.

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ECHO OF NORRIS FRAMEUP HEARD ON BANKBOARD Progressive Republicans Resent New Secretary Appointment. BY LYLE C. WILSON I’nltnl Presc Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—An echo of the regular Republican effort of 1930 to defeat Senator George W. Norris (Rep., Neb.) is sounding ominously today around the home loan bank board appointed by President Hoover. Progressive Republicans are aroused because the board has appointed as secretary William E. Murray of Illinois, to whom they assign considerable responsibility for the anti-Nor-ris drive of 1930. ’ Discharge of Murray is to be sought in exchange for unopposed confirmation of the board members. Chairman Franklin W. Fort and his colleagues are serving now on recess appointments. Progressive Republicans have been urged to agree to delay confirmation, unless Murray is discharged. In a short session confronted not only with enactment of the regular appropriation bills, but with proposals for further unemployment relief, new tax legislation and prohibition, a filibuster sufficient to prevent confirmation would not be difficult. In the 1930 Nebraska campaign, another “George W. Norris” entered the Republican primary. He was a grocer of Broken Bow, Neb. Hearings before the senate campaign committee showed that Robert Lucas, executive director of the Republican national committee, and other regular leaders had aided the candidacy of the obscure grocer against the progressive senator who bolted the Republican party in 1928 and again is supporting the Democratic national ticket.