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WAR, NAVY AND AGRICULTURE POSTS GIVING ROOSEVELT MOST TROUBLE IN NAMING CABINET President-Elect Still Is Hopeful of PersuadingCarter Glass to Be Treasury Chief; Farley Only Sure Bet. BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—President-Elect Roosevelt was reported today to be approaching the final makeup of his cabinet as a result of conferences with prospective members while passing through the capital en route from Miami to Hyde Park. Though subject to last-minute changes before he makes it public on March 2 or 3, the situation with respect

to the cabinet is said to be | as follows:

Secretary of State—Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, unless shifts resulting from other refusals necessitates his transfer to the treasury. Secretary Treasury—Senator Carter Glass of Virginia is inclined to refuse. He prefers the senate, and has not been convinced that he can not be of more service there than in an executive department. But Mr. Roosevelt still is hopeful of persuading the distinguished Virginian to enter his official family. Attorney - Generai Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, though reluctant to quit the senatorial field, is understood to have consented to take charge of the department of justice. Farley Is Sure Bet Postmaster - General National Chairman James A. Farley a sure bet. Labor Secretary—Miss Frances Perkins, industrial commissioner of New York and Roosevelt adviser, the most likely candidate, despite protests of the American Federation of Labor and her willingness to be left out in order to relieve Mr. Roosevelt of embarrassment. Interior Secretary—Senator Bronson Cutting i Rep., N. M.) still unwilling to quit the progressive bloc in the senate, but Mr. Roosevelt hopeful he can persuade the wealthy progressive to join fortunes with the “new deal." If Cuting refuses, some young western progressive, with exGovernor La Follette of Wisconsin frequently mentioned, is a possibility. Commerce Secretary—William H. Woodin of New York, Jesse I. Strauss of New York and Henry I. Harriman of Boston, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, are under consideration Harriman believed to have a good chance because appointment of either Woodin or Strauss, with Farley and Miss Perkins, would make the cabinet topheavy with New Yorkers. Trouble on Three Posts The posts giving Mr. Roosevelt most trouble are said to be war, navy and agriculture, especially the fist. Henry A. Wallace, Dos Moines editor, has been thought to be in the lead for the farm job, with Frank Murphy of Minneapolis and Henry Morgentliau Jr. of New York also mentioned. Morgenthau, however, is believed to be sure for assistant secretary of agriculture. Wallace's chances are thought to have decreased because of his recent declaration in favor of “controlled inflation” through cutting the gold content of the dollar and remonetization of silver. In conferences with other prospective cabinet members, the President-elect is said to have given assurance that he will not stand for any tampering with the currency. As this setup indicates that two southerners, three westerners and three New Yorkers may be in the cabinet, it generally is thought the war and navy posts will be allocated to New England, the southern Atlantic, seaboard—possibly Georgia—or the coast. FEARS NEW WORLD WAR Inevitable Unless Constructive Effort Is Made, Says Oxnam. Another world conflict, with all the horrors of unsettled economic conditions, will come in the near future unless we have constructive efforts to prevent it, predicts Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, De Pauw university president. “Any man who faces the world situation today knows well, unless we have constructive effort, we will have another World war.” Oxnam told members of Calvin W. Prather Masonic lodge Friday night at a Washington birthday dinner. "It will not be a continuous political conflict. The political situation will change to a class conflict because of economic pressure,” Oxnam asserted. RETURNED TO PRISON Counterfeiting Suspect Is Sent Back to State Reformatory. Following Investigation by federal authorities of alleged counterfeiting operations at 5612 West Washington street. Municipal Judge William H. Slicaffer today ordered Tony Phillips, 28. alleged gangster, returned to the Indiana reformatory at Pendleton as a parole violator. Police this week raided the house, seizing molds, a blast furnace and other alleged counterfeiting equipment, arresting Phillips and George Snyder, 39. alieged member of the Art Dampier gang. Snyder was reslated today on charges of burglary and grand larceny. NAB PAIR IN COAL YARD Loaded Auto Is Found Nearby, Police Say in Report. Two Negroes were arrested Friday night- and another man is sought today after police interrupted the theft of coal from the Merchants Coal Company, 936 East North street. Police were called by Ollie Masterson. railroad detective, who was holding Mose Gibson, 47, of 320 West Twenty-eighth street. Masterson to’d police he found 500 pounds of coal in an automobile parked nearby. Junle Harris, 34, of ’355! North Senate avenue, was caught by poVce as he attempted to escape from *4e coal yard.

DE PAUW WILL HONOR LEADERS Hornbrook to Be Principal Speaker at Feb. 22 Celebration. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 18.— De Pauw university will observe founders and benefactors day on Wednesday, Hornbrook of Indianapolis, a member of the board of trustees of Do Pauw, has been chosen for the special chapel service, which will be held during the morning. Hornbrook, a prominent actuary, is a graduate of De Pauw with the class of 1892. He has been secretary of the board of trustees at De Pauw since 1908. The De Pauw alumni council, of which Louis S. Binkley of Chicago is chairman, will hold its annual meeting in the afternoon. The council is made up of all class secretaries and alumni club secretaries. At this meeting nominations will be made for officers of the De Pauw Alumni Association. Present officers, whose terms expire in June, are Harvey B. Hartsock, Indianapolis, president; Miss Hazel Day Longden, Greencastle, vice-president, and H. E. Sutherlin, Indianapolis, treasurer. There also will be nominations lor an alumni member of the board of trustees, as the term of Kenneth C. Hogate of New York, managing editor of Lie Wall Street Journal, expires in June. Special committees on commencement, the centennial celebration and the world’s fair will make ‘•heir reports at this meeting. A luncheon has been arranged for members of the council at Longden hall, men's dormitory. BROTHER OF LUTZ FACES LIQUOR COUNT Attorney-General’s Kin Held on U. S. Charge. Bp 1 iiited Perhk EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 18.— George Lutz, 46, Boonville .brother of Attorney-General Philip Lutz Jr., was held under $2,500 bond today following arraignment before United States Commissioner Robert Enlow on charges of possessing liquor and manitaining a nuisance. He and Charles Collis, 34. also of Boonville, were arrested yesterday. Both pleaded not guilty.

CHURCH CLASS WILL GIVE MINSTREL SHOW More Than 30 Persons Will Take Part in Production Friday. Young women of the E. C. Boswell class of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church will present a minstrel show Friday night at the church with a cast of more than thirty persons. Miss Katherine Morris will be a

member of the cast which will present musical specialties and vaudeville acts,' under Edith Mae Sprague, and the Boswell pickininnies. ’ Chorus of forty voices will provide additional music. Other cast members will be Lillian Sehreibe, Nelle Lee Richardson, N o rma De 1 use, Helene Wilmans. Virginia

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Jobes. Naomi Tevebaugh. Marie Barton, Katherine McLandress, Laura Fisrus, Marian Fiscus, Mayme Williams. Ruth Speer, Mary Ann Tall, Elsa Beck, Donna Eberhard. Dorothy Lambert, Jean Gregg, Dorothy Smith, Frances Whitecraft, Dolly Lambert, Thelma Disz, Mariana Sturges, Margaret Alles and E. C. Boswell. VAN NUYS AID NAMED Miss Gertrude Murphy Will Be Senator's Stenographer. Appointment of M'ss Gertrude Murphy, 430 North Jeilerson avenue, as stenographer to Senator-Elect Frederick Van Nuys in Washington, was announced today at the mayor’s office. Miss Murphy has been a stenographer for Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan since he took office. Miss Barbara Eifert, Richelieu apartments, will succeeed Miss Murphy in the city hall post. Miss Eifert has been secretary of Van Nuys in his local law firm for several years. FLAMES LOSS $50,000 La Porte Plant Is Destroyed: N. Y. C. Traffic Is Held I p. Py United Prrrs LA PORTE. Ind., Feb. 18.—Fire destroyed the Leader Manufacturing Company factory here Friday night with a loss estimated at $50,000. Traffic on the New York Central Railroad wrfs held up an hour by hose laicf’across the track by firemen fighting the blaze.

SILENT SAM CRACKS; CONVICTS KILLER

Strain of Hours , Without a Word Spoken, Brings Confession

This Is the tenth of a series of stories based on information from the files of the United States bureau of investigation and other sources telling for the first time the bureau's agents’ part in famous mysteries. BY LOU WEDEMAR Times Staff Writer SPECIAL AGENT J-4, of the United States bureau of investigation. was in a disconsolate mood as he watched the tropic liner. Western World, warp Into her Hudson river pier in April, 1928. His assignment was one of the most difficult he had received in years. This was a case of murder on the high seas, often impossible to solve, because of the clannishness of sailors. They had their own customs, their own laws. The whole crew was guilty until proved innocent. The cable from Rio de Janeiro told little. "Bernard Suarez, 20, killed aboard liner Western World two days out of Rio,” the cable said. “Crew refuses to talk.” He went aboard the ship as soon as she docked, identifying himself to the customs men and immediately disappearing among the crew 7. Below decks he waited until the rush of unloading had abated, listening to the crew’s gossip in several languages—J-4 w'as a linguist—and trying to pick up some information that might be of value. He w'as satisfied, during those first hours in the liner's hold, that his identity remained unknown. Life is qrdinarily as safe aboard ship as on Broadway, but the fact remained that one murder had been committed there. Another was not impossible. The crew lived in a world apart from the passengers. When things had quieted down, but before the men began going on shore leave, he sought the chief engneer. Identifying himself, the agent was taken to his quarters. “What happened to this man Suarez?” J-4 asked. nun J-4 was known to his superiors for the succinctness ts his reports and to his friends for his lack of loquacity. But now, even though he was nicknamed “Silent Sam,” he had to do a little talking. “He was stabbed to death,” the engineer replied. “Where’s his body?” “Buried at sea.” “Any suspicion w'ho did it?” “Yes, but I can’t prove it.” This colloquy led into a description of the discovery of the crime. “Bernard was a utility man.” the engineer explained. “He did a little of everything—had the run of the ship. The only outstanding thing about him w’as that he was quite a lad for the ladies.” “There been any quarrels over women?” “No. Suarez was in the galley for a W'hile on the second w'atch on March 20. Then he W'ent out. Later one y men ran up and told me. ‘Suarez has been stabbed.’ ” “Where did you find him?” “In a passage leading toward the bow'.” “And nobody around?” “Nobody.” “Let me see the crew', one at a time.” Interrogation of them added nothing to the engineer’s state-

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City Man Critically Hurt in Fight; Three Arrested

Deputy sheriffs today are probing circumstances of a fight late Friday night in the Northwestern Milk Company plant, near Flackville, which resulted in injury of one man and arrest of three others. Patrick Kelly, 32, of 238 Richland avenue, is in a critical condition at city hospital of head wounds inflicted during a fight that followed an argument among six occupants of an auto which had stopped near the plant. Robert Lakin, 21. R. R. 17, Box 232, son of the owner of the Northwestern company, faces charges of drunkenness and vagrancy, and Robert Phillips, 23. of 3532 Northwestern avenue, a friend, is charged with vagrancy. Authorities said they learned that Lakin and Phillips rushed into a read in front of the plant when they heard screams of women. Kelly and Harry Stansberry, 246 Minkner street, occupants of the car, are alleged to have emerged from the vehicle, entering the plant with Lakin and Phillips. Here a fight occurred and Kelly was beaten on the head with an empty milk can.’f Stansberry was bruised. He was treated at city hos-

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JSr | PI SP jj. X FOR the most part the crew was | .• | know - . ~'~jt *- ~ **'£****/ -** refused to talk further, was the *? "* ■ '.,? - V ■£<■*■■■>&?' only exception. r ;*’s .. ' ' "f “Have I seen all the crew?’’ J-4 ~ - ” :*'>* "ii - -•rr*' ~ asked wearily late that night. ♦** S' ":_ '■•**; ■, '-' ' •“I think so,” the captain told • jZSZ* him. “Except, of course, the cook, 2"3i3Spt g^i, 1 ’A*®**-- -*. ■' - v . - "^‘vr Julio Bcldana. He came up on the L~" r ' ~ -.:r Pan America a week ago. The rest *‘~ ~" of the crew is intact.” w- „ <^•££'‘s3***-J-4 thought the matter over. 1 #*f" 2L-Jsifc-Solving crimes that had occurred < -' •■ -•- thousands of miles away wasn’t ?Jt- ... ~j~.. ... ~ '*"&■ easy, even though the scene re- t- - -k'„ * ~** mained United States territory and , ♦" ' " returned dutifully to the invest!- ' 'tKTgator. “I'd like to see the passageway,” * -* -*♦ ' J-4 suggested. - -x-->-<-:^JSL r . - ,■ ..— ng , - ~~> The dark, damp corridor told jftWjjk, 4 ,,, ■—...*■*!; 4fc - • ll, !* > ’- - him nothing. Tire blood-stains -** ” w *Willg,., . .. 4 *~*>' had been removed by the crew's .t-* vs ***o* ■-■•--■ ~ .. -358 diligent scrubbing. *-•■■' • '***-" - **■ ■ • "•• • „i,hii#*i'(mi*. “By the way, Captain. What *—

rnent except the injuries suffered by Suarez. He had been cut on the right hand, the face and in the body. He had died two days after the attack. a a FOR the most part the crew' was voluble, using many w'ords, in all varieties of Spanish, but saying nothing. One big dark-skinned man who murmured “I don’t know' anything” in English, and refused to talk further, was the only exception. “Have I seen all the crew?” J-4 asked wearily late that night. “I think so,” the captain told him. “Except, of course, the cook, Julio Beldana. He came up on the Pan America a W'eek ago. The rest of the crew' is intact.” J-4 thought the matter over. Solving crimes that had occurred thousands of miles aw'ay wasn’t easy, even though the scene remained United States territory and returned dutifully to the investigator. “Id like to see the passageway,” J-4 suggested. The dark, damp corridor told him nothing. The blood-stains had been removed by the crew’s diligent scrubbing. “By the way, Captain. What was the w'eapon used?” The Captain paused. “That’s the funny thing,” he said. “Apparently he was stabbed with a long-bladed knife, but we couldn't find any trace of it. Julio Beldana, the cook I was telling you about, didn’t miss any hardware from the galley. “We searched the crew' but couldn’t find a single knife. Probably went overboard.” J-4 had one rule that frequently helped him in his w'ork. When an unusually circumstance appeared in a case, he concentrated on that circumstance until it was explained fully. u n n IN the murder of Bernard Suarez he was troubled by a memory he could not quite place. There had been something wrong about some member of the crew. “Let me look them over again,” he requested. He studied each of them as they appeared. When one came into the cabin J-4 straightened sud-* denly. This w'as the man who hadn’t talked very much. “What’s your name?” he asked. “Sam,” replied the Spaniard. “Same as mine. Don’t talk much, do you?”

RAFT REFUSES ANY MORE GANG ROLES Scorns Bootlegger Role; Suspended by Studio. Bp T utted Press HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18.—George Raft was suspended by his studio Friday because he refused to play any more moving picture gangster roles. Raft told Paramount officials he considered the title role of “The Story of Temple Drake” was unsuited to him. Although Marlene Dietrich and Stuart Erwin succeeded in delaying production when they resisted assignments of pictures, R,aft was successful only in having himself placed off the pay roll. Emanuel Cohen, producton chief, shrugged his shoulders, and put Jack La Rue, young New York stage actor, in Raft’s part opposite Wynne Gibson. Raft issued a statement later contending the part was “a menace to his future career” and might prove unpopular with his fans. “The Story of Temple Drake,” adapted from William Faulkner’s novel, “Sanctuary,” called for Raft to play a bootlegger who shoots to kill. In his last picture, Raft was a speakeasy proprietor and before that he was a vise taxi driver.

pital. When deputy sheriffs arrived Kelly was found on the floor in a unconscious condition. Earlier in the evening, it was said, Stansberry went to the home of Miss Amey Winkler, 23, of 121 Koehne street, taking her to the Kelly home. Kelly, his wife, and a small baby got into Stansberry’s car with Miss Winkler and Miss Edna Robbins, of 129 East St. Joe street. While the six persons were riding Kelly is said to have argued with ! his wife, who was driving, about; being on the wrong road. In the ! argument, the three women fled from the car as it was halted in front of the milk company plant. Municipal Judge William H. I Sheaffer continued the cases until Feb. 28. CAR LOADINGS INCREASE Gain of YJ.128 Over Preceding Week Is Reported. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The American Railway Association reported today that car loadings for the week of Feb. 11 totaled 501,320 cars, an increase of 18,128 cars froc* the prece 'me week.

The Spaniard shook his head. “Well,” J-4 said softly, “neither do I. What do you know about the murder of Bernard Suarez?” “I don’t know anything,” replied the Spaniard. Further than that, he would not speak. J-4 left him, after taking the precaution of suggesting that Sam be kept aboard ship for a day or two, went ashore. He communicated with the police and a routine search for Beldana was instituted. Harlem detectives also offered him some interesting information Beldana and Suarez had been admirers of the same girl when the Western World was previously in New York. J-4 tried in vain to locate the girl. Early the next morning, however, he learned that Beldana had been taken off a coastal vessel by the marine police, who were holding him for questioning. tt a a THE agent interviewed him, but without result. No, he had not killed Suarez. No, he had not argued with him. Yes, he had seeij him aboard the ship.

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The Western World

He had quit his job because he was tired of sailing and wanted to get back to New York. No, he had no sweetheart in Harlem. And that was that. The Western World was due to sail the next day and Agent J-4 found himself without any evidence. As he mulled the case over he thought again and again of the silent Sam of the crew. “There’s something there!” said J-4. “I don’t trust these silent people.” Aboard the Western World again, he conferred with the captain. ' “In this respect at least,” said J-4, “I’ll match myself against any sailor.” “Don’t think you have a chance to make him talk,” said the captain. “He’s very close-mouthed. But you have my best wishes.” Sam was ushered into a cabin and J-4 joined him, locked the door and sat down. Neither man spoke. J-4 did not tell his companion why he was there. He just sat and looked at the silent seaman. They heard the sounds of loading. Cranes squeaked and clanked, windlasses whined, distance voices

$10,000,000 SAVING FORECAST BY M'NUTT Schools Crash Averted, He Tells Editors. Governor Paul V. McNutt gave the first public accounting of his stewardship to more than 800 Democratic editors and their guests at the annual midwinter banquet of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association in the Claypool Friday night. Outlining what has been accomplished and touching upon future plans, McNutt summed up the case by asserting that a $lO,000,000 reduction will have been made in the' cost of state government and the school system saved. “This is the testing time for representative government,” he said. “Through representative government we can meet every need of today.” Lieutenant Governor M. Clifford Townsend praised the reorganization plan of state government and urged that consideration of the tax program before criticism is launched. R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, praised the “matchless leadership of McNutt,” and thanked the editors for aiding the party.

Clauer Looms Choice to Patch Democratic Split

Seeking to halt friction between the city hall and courthouse factions of the Democratic party before the city primary, Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will meet next week to promote an agreeable candidates for city chairman. William Clauer, county treasurerelect, who takes office in 1934, appears to be the candidate who will receive indorsement of the leaders of both groups. The city reorganization meeting in the Claypool Feb. 25 will be the signal for harmony between the factions. Republicans are boasting they will bring forth a mayoralty candidate who will be supported by the rank and file and that no inner eruptions will break their line. Democratic leaders pointed out that the party can not be charged with dealing out jobs if Clauer is elected because It is some time before he takes over the county post. Younger Democrats still are pushing Henry O. Goett, city clerk, for the chairmanship. Dr. William J. Hendricks, who has been active in local Democratic activities for the last four years, also is mentioned as a candidate. Walter Shead, former newspaper man,

sounded as the crew made ready for sailing. The afternoon merged into evening. and still the two silent men sat facing each other. Noises gradually ceased, and the silence was louder than the noises had been. The slap-slap of the waves became nerve-Wracking, even to J-4. a tt a THE ship was moving restlessly with the rising tide at dusk when Sam the sailor spoke for the first time. “I don’t know anything,” he snarled. J-4 smiled. He stared into the sailor’s face, watching for signs of his breaking will. But Sam was more determined than J-4 had expected. He leaned back, made himself comfortable and returned the agent’s stare insolently, easily. The cabin grew hot, but neither man would admit he was uncomfortable. Each grew thirsty, but neither would admit it. The air grew stale, but J-4 and the sailor continued their duel. Eight bells struck, and Sam moved uneasily. Then he coughed, and glanced calculatingly toward the door. J-4 produced a revolver, and the sailor subsided. Neither dared to sleep. It was hours later when the sailor broke. All noise had ceased except the sound of their breathing and the break of timbers. a a tt “T DON'T know nothing!” he A shouted suddenly, leaping to his feet. “Kill me if you want to, but I don’t know nothing!” After his outburst he was silent again, but he was turned toward the door, as if suspecting other members of the crew were eavesdropping. He clutched at his collar, tried to swallow. J-4 smiled coolly and murmured: “So they call you Silent Sam? Why, sailor, that’s my name!” Sam glared at the agent with bloodshot eyes and then shrugged his shoulders. “You win,” he whispered. “Take me ashore and get me something to eat and I’ll talk. I don’t dare speak-here.” In a coffee pot the story came quickly. Sam, a boilerman now, once had gone to college and wasn't too well liked by the rest of the crew. Life is cheap sometimes at sea and he was afraid friends of the murderer would kill him. “Here’s what happened,” he said. “I was alone in the firemen’s mess about three bells that day, when in came Suarez. Beldana, the cook, came in a few minutes later. “He had a big knife from the kitchen in his hand. Suarez jumped up and said, “This is where I am waiting for you!” “Beldana slashed at him, cutting his hand. Suarez tried to hit Beldana and Beldana plunged the knife into his body. Suarez ran down the passageway and I cleaned up the mess.” J-4 laughed. “Fine, Silent Sam” he said. “You’ll make a good witness. By the way,” he added, grinning, “in Texas, where I come from, they’d call you Gossiping Gus!” Beldana was convicted of manslaughter a month later in federal court and sentenced to seven yer.rs in Atlanta penitentiary. Next: The great impersonator.

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Will M. Smith Senator-Elect Frederick Van Nuys has announced he will recommend Will M. Smith, Indianapolis, for the post of internal revenue collector to succeed Everett E. Neal. Smith, former chief deputy collector, has been in the insurance business fourteen years.

has announced his bid for the job. E. Kirk McKinney, present city chairman, will not seek re-election, and has indicated he will not commit himself on his possible mayoralty candidacy until after the city committee meeting.

THRIFT AND ITS INFLUENCES

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SENATE BACKS PERRY TWP, IN FIGHT House Expected to Indorse Move to Shift Taxes From Decatur. Renewed effort to secure favorable house action on the bill which is expected to place the $5,000,000 Indianapolis Power and Light Company power plant in Perry township will begin Monday. Senator E. Curtis White <Drm., Indianapolis*, resident of Decatur township, which now taxes the plant. Friday failed to halt passage of a similar bill in the senate. It passed, 29 to 18. with White paired against Senator John Bright Webb (Deni.. Indianapolis), a Perry township resident. Both refrained from voting, after speaking pro and con on the measure, depending on their place of residence. Other Marion county senators supported passage and Senators Mahoney, Smith and Weiss all joined in the debate on Webb's side. Would Increase Tax Burden of their argument was that the power and light company now profits from the lower tax rate in Decatur township and if its plant is transferred to Perry township it would cost the company between $40,000 and $50,000 more annually in tax payments. White pointed out that to add the plant valuation to the Perry township assessment would bring down the township rate and the company would not pay more. "The county board of review and the state tax conlmission set the plant assessment,” White explained. “Switching it from one township to another will not change that. The land on which this plant stands has been taxed in Decatur township for fifty years. The entire matter now is in the courts and should be settled there.” Politics Is Bar, Says Smith Senator Leo Z. Smith (Dom„ Indianapolis), contended that the matter can not be settled properly in the courts “due to politics.” Smith is a lawyer. He charged that it is not a PerryDecatur township fight, but “the power and light company against Perry township.” Senator Jacob Weiss (Dem„ Indianapolis), also supported this view and related the various valuations given the new plant by the company, depending on the purpose for which the valuation was to be used. “In selling stock to promote the plant the company valued it at $8,000,000,” Weiss declared. “Then for rate making with the public service commission the firm boosted this to $12,000,000, while the company appealed from a $5,000,000 tax value of the Marion county board of review and got it lowered to sl,150,000 by the state tax board. “Effort to defeat this bill is Just an Indianapolis Power and Light Company steal.” The bill provides for a survey and not direct transfer.

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