Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 313, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1933 — Page 7

MAY 11, 1933

WATER RATES I SUIT DELAYED UNTIL MONDAY Recess Ordered to Permit State Lawyers to Study Company Evidence. Renewal of hearings on the Ir - dianapolis Water Company's fedcril court suit for higher rates Wednesday was short-lived, attorneys for the public service commission taking one look at the huge stack of evidence introduced, and then asking adjournment. The recess until Monday was ordered by Albert Ward, special master in chancery, after the bound volumes, a foot high, prepared by George W. Fuller, New York, water company consulting, engineer, had been submitted. Commission attorneys will study the exhibits before starting cross-examination. Fuller's valuation of the companv properties was submitted on three bases, the total ranging as high as $29,667,978. This figure was prepared on reproduction valuation based on an average of casts prevailing during a five-year period ending March 31. 1933. Values on Three Bases The second figure was $28,901,614, based on a three-year average, while the third figure, $27,647,132, was based on prices as of April 1, 1933. Depreciation estimates, considered 5n arriving at these valuations, ranged from $809,091 for current prices, to $908,000 on the five-year basis. The company in its suit seeks to enjoin enforcement of the commission’s December rate order setting a $22,500,000 valuation, with a 6 1 2 per cent return. All three valuations include water rights, $1,000,000; going value, $2,600,000; preliminary and development cost, $325,000, and real estate, $3,725,445, the figure given by George T. Whelden, realtor, in his testimony last week. Engineers Study Figures Buildings, fixtures and grounds range from $2,760,3.19, as of April 1, to $3,303,115 for the five-year period; intakes and supply mains from $690,184 to $793,181; purification system from $947,198 to $1,095,511: distribution system from $10,753,090 to $11,223,926, and undistributed construction costs from $3,636,536 to $3,977,926. Fuller said that in his computation he used figures submitted by local manufacturers and contractors, prices listed In trade journals and personal knowledge of such work. Hourly costs for common labor used, he said, were: Five-year average, 38.5 cents; three-year average, 37,5 cents, and present, 35 pents. The figures were being studied today by commission engineers in preparation for an attack in court Monday on valuation of various items in the appraisals. Aided by Staff of 20 Another set of figures is to be submitted later by Malcolm Pirnie, New York, another water company consulting engineer. Fuller, who testified he was aided by a staff of twenty, defined going | value as difference between the ! “bare bones” of the company, the equipment before it is placed in ! use, and the value several years later when the plant is operating efficiently. Under going value he listed the right to div.ert the entire flow of White river at Broad Ripple, $1,500,000; right to flood 1,100 acres, now j owned by the company, above the j dam, $40,000; lands and riparian rights on the river above Noblesv : lle, $6,130; and the right to flood land above Keystone avenue on Fall creek SIO,OOO. FUGITIVE 20 YEARS,' GIVES HIMSELF UP Promise to Dying Father Leads Negro to Surrender to Police. Twenty years of remorse and an unfulfilled promise to a dying father weighed so heavily on the conscience of Eddie Mathews, Negro, 49, of 811 West Tenth street, that he appeared at an Indiana avenue fire engine house and asked that police be called to take him in custody. Mathews told Sergeant John Haney and patrolmen Dalin Judd and Herbert. Reinking that he had been a fugitive for twenty years since he killed William Clay, Negro, Correle, Ga, Mathews said he promised his father he would confess. Police arrested him on vagrancy charges and communicated with Georgia authorities.

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ILLINOIS SALE TAX HELD VOID Supreme Court Decision Deprives State of Big Revenue. By United Pres* SPRINGFIELD, 111., May 11.—The Illinois court declared the recently enacted 3 per cent sales tax unconstitutional Wednesday and deprived the state administration of $60,000.000 anticipated income. The court ruled unanimously that the sales tax was class legislation, and lacked uniformity in its application. The Democratic administration enacted the sales tax law in hopes of raising sufficient revenue by it to finance unemployment relief, and possibly to ease the burden of other taxes. Governor Henry Horner, whose administration passed the bill, refused to comment until after carefuly studying the twenty-page ruling which was written by the entire court rather than by any one justice. The court’s opinion upheld an injunction by which Circuit Judge Jesse R. Brown ordered state officials not to enforce the law.

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pitai, as a tribute to members of the medical profession who have given service there. Dedication services also will be held for the new landscaping on the grounds of the hospital, which was planned and presented by the woman’s auxiliary of the Indianapolis Medical Society. The avenue of elms, from Fall Creek boulevard to the James Whitcomb Riley hospital for children which was planned by Mrs. David Ross, a member of the auxiliary is to be known as Memory Lane. Joseph Will Speak The program at the city hospital will include a procession of organizations interested in the work at the hospital. Taking part in this procession will be the American Legion drum corps and color guard, student and graduate nurses and internes from the hospital, Daughters of the , Union, city hospital auxiliary of

the Woman's Department Club, St. Margaret’s Guild, medical auxiliary to the Indianapolis Medical Society, Indianapolis Medical Society, exsuperintendents of the hospital and guests of honor. Dr. William N. Wishard will give a history of the hospital; Jackiel Joseph, president of the park board, will present the new landscaping to the woman's auxiliary, and Mrs. William S. Tomlin, president of the

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auxiliary, will make the speech of acceptance. Music will be furnished by the Indianapolis Newsboys’ band. Open house will be held at 1:30 Friday at St. Frances hospital. Dr. Herbert Call will speak at 2, and motion pictures will be shown under the direction of Bynum Legg, director of the educational facilities of the state board of health. A short play will be given by Mrs.

Mathew McMahon, and the musical program will be in charge of Mrs. James Anderson. Mothers whose babies were born at the hospital have been invited by Sister Superior Generosa to attend the services. Informal open house will be observed at the Methodist hospital and the Indiana university school of medicine and hospitals on Friday afternoon. 1 St. Vincent's hospital has ar-

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ranged open house for Sunday afternoon. The program will be in charge of the hospital guild. Robs Street Car Motorman William Griswell, 921 Highland avenue. Columbia avenue street car operator, was robbed of a money changer containing S8 and $2 in tokens by a Negro gunman who boarded the car at Twenty-fifth street and Martindale avenue.