Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1933 — Page 12

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RETURN OF 8 PER CENT FAIR. WATER CLAIM Company Nears Close of Its Evidence in 1). S. Court Hearing. With testimony that an 8 per cent return on an adequate valuation is fair, the Indianapolis Water Company today neared close of its evidence in federal court, seeking higher water rates. Nicholas J. Hill. New York, consulting engineer and president of two eastern water companies, was on the witness stand during the morning session today. Fred C. Dickson. Indiana Trust Company president, followed Hill, testifying that not. less than 6 per cent return on utility bonds is necessary to attract capital. William L. Ransom, water company chief counsel, announced two more witnesses would testify for the company this afternoon, after which it would rest its case. Figures Are Cited Presentation of defense testimony upholding the fairness of the public service commission's December rate order, setting a $22,500,000 valuation, with 6'j per cent return, probably will be started late today or Friday by the commission and the city. Hill testified that on the basis of the present rates, total revenue for the present calendar year will not exceed $2,376,818, which, with operating expenses of $1,169,561 deducted, will leave $1,206,257 gross income applicable to return. This, he testified, would mean a return of no more than 8 per cent on a rate-making valuation of $15,078,210, or 7 per cent on $17,232,240. Water company witnesses have testified the company’s valuation is from $28,000,000 to $30,000,000. Defense attorneys pointed out that the income figure forecast by Hill would provide a return of 5 per cent on 24,100,000. Only F.armng 5 Per Cent. During Hill's testimony that an 8 per cent return is justified, George W. Hufsmith, deputy attorney general, asked: “Don't you know that the water company was the only utility in Indianapolis earning more than 5 per cent on public service commission valuation last year?” Hill responded that it is not fair to take what a utility is earning in times such as the present, as a fair measure of earnings in normal times. Freedom Asks Utility Rate Cut Freedom from alleged high rates charged by the Northern Indiana Power Company for electric service is asked in a petition filed with th public service commission today by residents of Freedom, Ind.

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Flex Will Be Host to Many Boys and Girls Saturday Palace Theater Manager Says to Times Carriers Come Over and See Laurel and Hardy in New Feature Comedy. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. INDIANAPOLIS TIMES boy and girl carriers have a real friend in Jac Flex, manager of Loewis Palace. He has invited the many Indianapolis Times carriers to be his guests Saturday morning at a special showing of Laurel and Hardy in “The Devil's Brother.” This is the latest full length feature picture that the two comedians have produced. The corpedians have the singing services of Dennis King, as the bandit king. The carriers will leave The Indianapolis Times office in time to be at the Palace by 9 o'clock Saturday morning. Every carrier must come to

The Times and march under police escort to the Palace. This Laurel and Hardy comedy opens its regular run at the Palace theater Friday.

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Flex in discussing “The Devil’s Brother,” tells me: “The picture is reported to be the most ambitious yet undertaken by the noted laugh pair of 'Pardon Us’ and ‘Pack Up Your Troubles,’ its cast including such outstanding names as Dennis King, the noted singer and stage star, and Thelma Todd, who has contributed to the humor of a long list of screen productions. “Also involved in the hilarious incidents of the latest Laurel and Hardy opus are James Finlayson, Lucille Brown, Arther Pierson, Henry Armetta, Matt McHugh, Lane Chandler, Nena Quartero, Wilfred Lucas James C. Morton and Carl Harbaugh. The screen adaptation of the comic opera was mads by Jeanie MacPherson and the picture was produced and directed by Hal Roach with Charles Rogers assisting. “The story of the two friends who turn bandits in retaliation for being robbed of their life savings just when they meant to retire is reported to be permeated with humor from its very opening reel to finish. For instance, Hardy is captured by a bandit gang and is sentenced to be hanged. Laurel is given the hangman's assignment. “Laurel and Hardy flirt with a couple of milkmaids. Laurel waves a red handkerchief. A bull gets the waving invitation and charges. “By mistake Laurel takes a drink containing a sleeping powder, and presently falls asleep on his feet. Since it is necessary for him to keep awake in order to perform the function of man-servant to Diavolo, the bandit chief, Hardy has a tough time saving him from being killed. “During a seemingly dull moment. Laurel becomes restless. He begins fumbling with his hands. He originates what is called the “kneesy, earsy. nosey game, and soon the entire household, including the soldiers. are fumbling all over themselves in order to master the simple process of mingling knees, ears and nose together. “Meanwhile Dennis King, the bandit king, flirts with Lady Pamela (Miss Todd) and steals her money. There is a hue and cry for the bandit's scalp. In an effort to save an innocent person from being accused of the theft, the comedians find themselves looked upon with suspicion. “And then they are captured by the soldiers, who also have the bandit chief under control. They are sentenced to be shot. The future looks glum. No hope in sight. Not a friend among a thousand people. “How they come through these complications and how they help effect a reconciliation between the young lovers, in addition to numerous other ticklish moments, serve to make "The Devil's Brother" one of the funniest of the Laurel and Hardy laugh epics.” a a *o Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Ex-Ladv” at the Indiana. "The Eagle and the Hawk” at the Circle: Benny Ross and Maxine Stone on the stage and “Diplomaniacs” on the screen at the Lyric, “Reunion in Vienna” at the Palace. “Be Mine Tonight” at the Ohio, “Adorable" at the Apollo, burlesque at the Mutual and Colonial; "The Big Cage” at the Rivoli, "Short Parade” and "Guilty or Not Guilty" at the Granada, 1 Topaze" and “Discarded Lovers” at the Mecca. "So This Is Africa" at the Belmont. “Our Betters” at the Talbot and vaudeville and movies at the New Family. DISTRIBUTE NEW SEED Community Garden Plots to Be Replanted; Damaged in Flood. Seed and plants for replanting several community garden plots damaged by recent high water, are being distributed by township trus- ; tees, it was announced today. Plots damaged included the Butler, American Aggregates and one i near the Perry Radium.

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GRILL HUSBAND ! IN BATH DEATH OF YOUNG WIFE - Y. W. C. A. Executive's Mystery Slaying at Home Is Unsolved. BY DAN BOWERMAN United Frets Staff Correspondent PALO ALTO, Cal., June I—David Lamson, young minor official of ; Stanford university, was a county j prisoner today while investigators j worked on the mystery of his wife's | violent death. What happened in their small, flower-bordered cottage a stone's throw from the Herbert Hoover mansion on the Stanford campus remained as shrouded in darkness as when the nude body of Mrs. Allene Lamson, attractive and intellectual young mother, was found, limp and cold, in their bathroom Tuesday. "I know she was murdered, but before God I didn’t do it,” the pale, distracted husband cried. “Things like this can’t happen.” Family friends were confident Mrs. Lamson had fainted and fallen in the bathtub, and that her skull had been crushed when her head struck a faucet with terrific impact. Pipe Is Analyzed Sheriff's officers collected bloodstained garments from three rooms of the stucco cottage and said nothing. A ten-inch piece of pipe they found in a back-yard bonfire was sent to a chemist for analysis. Officially Lamson, sales manager of the Stanford Press, was a voluntary guest in the county jail at San Jose. He had been there more than twenty-four hours without the formality of being booked. The confusions and contradictions !of unsolved mystery abounded In the case. Undersheriff Earl Hamilton, after an autopsy, declared no fall could j have been of sufficient force to have j crushed the skull as Mrs. Lamson’s was. There was no blood or hair on the tub faucets, he said. Explanations Are Logical

Lamson and his friends had logical explanations for every circumstance officers believed suspicious. A possibility that some prowler had entered the home and bludgeoned Mrs. Lamson to death existed, but was held a slight one. French doors open from a patio into the street. Lamson said it was kept closed, but was open when he found his wife’s body, the arms and head over a side of the bathtub and a growing pool of blood on the tiled floor. Neighbors said a prowler could have entered while Lamson, fn the i back yard, talked to friends. NothI ing in the house was disturbed or ; missing, however. Reports of a I “shabby stranger” loitering near the house were heard. The overalls in which Lamson had | been working in his yard were I stained with blood. So were his I pajamas, his slippers, his gloves, and two shirts. Tells of Entering House Mrs. Uford O. Brown, wife of a Stanford journalism professor, said she entered the home after the tragedy to find Lamson crouched beside the bathtub, the unclad body of his wife grasped in his arms. ‘He was holding her head, sobbing hysterically,” Mrs. Brown said. That would account for blood on the clothing Lamson wore. Mrs. Brown said the dead woman frequently wore her husband’s bathrob and slippers, which could account for the blood on them. Lamson found the body when he went to admit a realty agent to his home. He said he had picked up | nis pajamas in the front room, and | was putting them away when he i found his wife. That circumstance could explain the last of the bloody garments. Lamson had no idea how the piece of pipe got into the bonfire in his back yard, he told officers.

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‘‘Here Is Movie That Is Easy to Have Over" TogS HICKMAN (TIMES) Cert Lcemmle Presents |§ “BE MINE M TONIGHT” Musical Comedy Hit Extra—SPEEDWAY Picture* JjH Week Days All Seats 25c to fl P. M. jo H I o “THE S EAGLE : and THE HAWK” 1 FKEDRIC CART MARCH•GRANT CAROLE LOMBARD JACK OAKIE

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WFBM (1230) Indianapolis (Indianapolis Power and Light Company) —THURSDAY— P M. 5 30—Bohemians. 5.55—80 y Scout Talk. 6 00—Brown Countv Revelers. 6.15—D0-Re-M: 'CBS' 6:3o—Kate Smith (CBS' 6 45—Hot from Hollywood CBSI. 7 00—Wayfaring Men ‘CBS'. 7 15—A! Feeney sports talk. 7.3o—Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd (CBS'. 8:00—John Henrv 'CBS'. B:ls—Windy City Revue (CBS). 8 45—Columbia Symphony tCBSi. 9:ls—Phil Regan <CBSi. 9:30 —Ted Lewis orchestra* (CBS'. 10 00—Casa Loma orchestra CBS'. 10 30—Guv Lombardo orchestra fCBS>. 11 00—Tallvho Ciub orchestra. 11:30—Sign off. WKBF (1400) Indianapolis (Indianapolis Broadcasting. Inc.) THURSDAY P M. 4 00—Twilight Treasure Hour. 4:3o—Tea Time Tunes. 4 45—News flashes. s:oo—Musical menu s:ls—Cecil and Sallv. 5 30—Aunt Dessa and Uncle Connie. s:4s—Dinner melodies. 5:50 —To be announced. 6:oo—Knothole Gang. 6:ls—Harry Bason, 6:30 —Recordings. 6:4s—The Sportsiight. 7:oo—Devore Sisters. 7:ls—Don McGibinev. 7:3o—Connie's orchestra. B:oo—George and Rufus. B:ls—Revue. B:3o—Jimmv Anderson. 8:45 —Masters Music Room. 9:OO—WKBF Dramatic Players. 9:30 —Dennv Dutton's orchestra. 9.4s—Shorty Phillips orchestra. 10:00—Steinert Sextet. 10:15—Art Berry's orchestra. 10:30—Dennv Dutton's orchestra. 10:45 —Shorty Phillip's orchestra. 11:00—Morrev Brennan's orchestra. 11:30—Art Berry's orchestra. 11:45—Sign off. WLW (700) Cincinnati THURSDAY’ P. M 4.oo—Waldorf-Astoria dance orchestra (NBC I. 4:30 —Going to College. 4:4s—Lowell Thomas iNBCi. s:oo—Amos 'n' Andy (NBC). s:ls—Gene and Glenn. 5:30—80b Newhali. s:4s—Tov band. 6:oo—Rudy Vallee's orchestra (NBC). 6:3o—Rin-Tin-Tin Thriller (NBC). 6:4s—Chandu. the Magician. 7:oo—Death Valley Days (NBC). 7:3o—Riff Bros. 7:4s—Smilin’ Ed McConnell. B:oo—Dance orchestra with Jack Pearl iNBCi. 9:00 —Notes in Science. 9:3o—Hotel Pennsylvania dance orchestra (NBC). 10:00 —Theater of the Air. 10:30 —Palais D’Or orchestra (NBC). 11:00—Charlie Agnew's orchestra. 11:30—Buster Locke's dance orchestra. 12:00 Midnight—Moon River. A. M. 12:30—Charlie Agnew’s dance orchestra. 12:45 —Moonev Bros. 1:00—Sign off.

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Charles Carlile, tenor, will open his recital with a sentimental tune. "An Old. Old Man,” which is last becoming a na-tion-wide hit durine the broadcast Thursday from 5 to 5:15 p. m.. over the WABCColumbia chain. The story of a timid voune eastern woman, her husband, a westerner, and a snake, will be dramatized on the Death Valley Days prosram over WLW and an NBC-network at 7 a- m. Thursday. The premiere of anew weekly dramatic program. "Wayfaring Men," will be heard over WFBM and the Columbia network from 7 to 7:15 p. m„ Thursday.

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—5:15 P. M.— N’BC—The Goldbergs to WEAF NBC—Merle Thorpe to WJZ. —6 P. M.— KYW (1020'—Irwin's orchestra CBS —Evan Evans. Do Re Mi Rich's orchestra NBC—Rudv Vallee to WEAF WENR ■ 870i—Studio. WGN (720i—Cole's orchestra. NBC—Captain Diamond's Adventures to WJZ WLS 'B7o)—College Inn orchestra —6:15 P. M.— KYW (1020) —Congress or-' chestra. WBBM '77o'—Sports Review —6:30 P. M.— <YW ' 10201 —Business Event DBS—Kate Smith. NBC - Rin-Tin-Tin-Thriller to WJZ. —6:45 P. M CBS—Lyman's orchestra and Irving Kaufman WBBM (770) —Lombardo's or chestra. NBC—Floyd Gibbons. World Fair Reporter to WJZ. WLS (870'—Ted Weems' or—7 P. M.— KYW (1020)—Fisher's orchestra. CBS—Wayfaring Men. WBBM (770) Phil Harris revue. NBC— Show Boat” to WEAF. NBC—Death Valiev Days to WJZ. —7:15 P. M.— CBS—Piano team. WGN (720)—Cole's orchestra. —7:30 P. M KYW (1020i—Dixie Bovs. CBS- -Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd. Kostelanetz orchestra.

HIGH SPOTS OF THURSDAY NIGHT'S PROGRAM 6 00— NBC I WEAPi—Vallee's orchestra: guests. 6:4s—Columbia—"Hot from Hollywood"—Abe Lyman's orchestra. 7:OO—NBC (WJZ) Death Valley Days, drama. NBC (WEAF)—Show Boat. 7:3o—Columbia—Col. Stoopnagle and Budd. NBC (WJZi—Wayne King and his orchestra. 8:00—NBC (WEAF)—Jack Pearl. Columbia —John Henry—Black River Giant. B:ls—Columbia—Special World's Fair broadcast. 9:3o—Columbia—Ted Lewis and his orchestra.

John Henry’s sense of humor is due for a little exercise in the fortieth episode of John Henrv —Black River Giar.t —to be Broadcast, over W’FBM and the Columbia network from 8 to 8:15 p. m.. Thursday. Maude Rooney, latest operatic star to ioin CBS, will be heard as soloist with Howard Barlow and the Columbia symphony orchestra. Thursday, from 8:45 to 9:15 p. m., over WFBM and the Columbia network. A group of romantic songs by Phil Regan. young Columbia tenor, wil be heard over WFBM and t ie Columbia network to the accompaniment of Mark Warnow's orchestra Thursday from 9:15 to 9:30 p. m. AVALON A RESTAURANT Tomorrow's SpeciaI—SAUERRRATEN of Veal, with Dumplings, June Peas, Spring Salad. 9C_ Potatoes Breakfast from 6 to 10 A. M. Dinner from 5 to 8 P. M. 118 E. Washington St. C. rnmle. -Mgr. Next to Vonnpgut’s

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—THURSDAY——7:3O P. M ) WBBM >77o'—Jack Brooks N’BC—Wayne King s orchestra to WJZ —7:45 P. M KYW ( 1 0 2 0 1 American Weekly Drama WBBM '77ol—Edith Griffith, i —5 P. M .KYW (1020.-Globe Trotter CBS—John Henrv. Black River Giant." • NBC —Dance hour to WEAF NBC—Gladys Swarthout soprano. to WJZ —8:15 P. M CBS—Century of Progress | program. —8:30 p. M KYW <lo2o—Dreams of . Love: Brigode's orchestra. WBBM (770)—The Norsemen. NBC—Feature to WJZ. —8:45 P. M.— CBS—Barlow and Columbia vmphonv WBBM < Tot Guv Lombardo's orchestra. —9 P. M KDKA (980'—Pettis' orchestra. 1 KYW Ho2o' Fisher's orchestra. . NBC—James Melton and 1 string ensemble to WEAF NBC—Amos n' Andv to ■ WENR. WDAF. WSB i WSM WMAQ . —9:15 P. M.— CBS—Phil Regan, tenor, i WENR (8701 —Sports; orchestra , NBC—Robbin s orchestra to i WEAF i WGN (720i—Dream Ship. NBC—Painter of Songs to WJZ. WMAQ (670)—Dan and Sylvia. WSM (650)—White's Minstrels. I —9:30 P. M.— •KYW’ (1020)—Canton orchestra.

J. P. GOES BANKRUPT B;i Vnited Press KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. June 1. — ! Never before had a justice of peace! filed a petition of voluntary bank- ] ruptcy here, but John L. Mynatt broke that record the other day. I

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—9:30 P. M CBS—Ted Lewis and orches- ■ tra. NBC—Dennv s orchestra to WEAF. i NBC—String orchestra violinist. to WJZ WENR <B7o) Inside the Rackets. " WON '72o'—Wavne Kings : orchestra. —,9:59 P. M.— . WGN • 7201 —Cummin's or- , chestra. —l9 P. M i KYW GO2OI— Brigode's orchestra. CBS—Glen Gray s orchestra. ; WENR 'B7O) —College Inn orchesi ra. NBC—Dream Siger: Ellington's orchestra, to WEAF NBC—feestors orchestra to WJZ WSM (650) —Ole Bill. —10:10 P. M.— ' WGN (7201—Wayne King's orchestra. —10.15 P. M.— ' KYW 11020'—Riverview orchestra. —10:30 P. M.— I KYW ilo2oi—Fisher's orchestra ' CBS—Straight's orchestra . NBC Woodworth's orchestra to WEAF WGN (720(—Kemp's orchestra. -- NBC- Dancing in the Twin Cities to WJZ. i —ll P. M.— KYW 110201—Canton orchestra ' WENR iß7o>—Dance orchestras. —11:30 P. M.— • KYW (1020i —Sosnik s orchestra. —l2 Midnight—- • WBBM 1770i—Around the Town.

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THREE NAMED TO CITY BOARDS Two Appointed to Health Group: One on Plan Commission. Three appointments to fill vacancies on two city boards were made by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan Wednesday. Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler university, and Republican candidate for the mayoralty nomination in 1921. was named to succeed Obie Smith as a health board member. The appointment is for four years. Dr. Clarke Rogers, Democrat, will complete the unexpired term of Evans Wollen Jr., former president of the health board, recently appointed to the post of city controller after the resignation of William L. Elder. Mrs. Edna M. Christian, active for many years in social and educational work, was named to the city plan commission to fill the place of Mrs. Grace Julian Clark, Democrat. who resigned two months ago.

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