Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 108, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1933 — Page 9

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Doomed! Victim of ‘lron Claw' Is Helpless; Policemen Prey of ‘Monster.’

BY WILLIAM H. M’GAUGHEY Time* SlafT Writer BEWARE! The “Iron Claw” is an ever-hovering peril that has thrown the police station into a turmoil for the last few days. Frenzied policemen, endeavoring to flee from the clutches of the relentless claw, find themselves powerless to escape it. At frequent intervals during the day or nights, screams of protest that ring out through the halls of headquarters announce the fact that the claw has seized another victim. Not a sinister hand that seeks to clutch at the lily-white throat of helpless heroines in the manner of movie serials, the “Iron Claw” rather is a handcuff device designed to aid policemen in making arrests. Though the "claw” has all the innocent appearance of a miniature pair of ice tongs, it has caused more commotion around headquarters than the combined activities of the T*%nk Hand and athletes foot, policemen admit. Y. Smith Stange, the inventor, is in Indianapolis selling the device to members of th° police force. Through years of practice he is adroit in manipulating the handcuff. mam DUE to the fact that Stange leaves several sample pairs around while he places orders, the police station has turned into a center of sore wrists. No cop is safe. If he pauses a moment to day-dream, one of his fellow-workers may slip up from behind with one of the samples and clamp the handcuff on for practice. As the “Iron Claw" slips on much easier than it comes off, many a policeman finds that he has a catch and then can not release his victim. “How do you get this darn thing off?' many cops ask. as they come sheepishly up to stange with their scowling victims. With a flip of the thumb and a turn of the wrist Stange operates the ratchet that loosens the grip in a second s time. He claims that after they have a little practice and some instructions, the police will be able to release their prisoners as quickly as they catch them. mam Y. SMITH STANGE was for eleven years the nemesis of criminals while on the detective force of the New York police department. While arresting three Negroes in Brooklyn fifteen years ago. he was attacked by their freinds and cut from ear to ear. he claims. When he left the hospital, the detective ran upon a device in the Museum of Natural HisUfcy in New York that had been used by the government of Borneo to throttle natives convicted of capital crimes. Made of wood, it worked like a tourniquet. With this idea in mind. Stange fashioned his “Iron Claw.” With it an arresting officer can exert a terrific grip. If the offender twists or tries to pull away, the claw automatically tightens, until the nerve at the point of pressure is numbed. Stange declares that his invention is more humane than a club or a blackjack, as it easily subdues the prisoner while not marking him. Police In twenty-eight states have adopted the “Iron Claw" in lieu of clubs. More than 200 men on the Indianapolis force have bought the device this week. NEW STATE PRINTING PRESS MAY LAY IDLE “Cog Is Slipped” As Outside Contract Is Revealed. Governor Paul V. McNutt's new $50,000 state administration printing plant slipped a cog today which may prevent its operation before next year. It was learned that the office or Attorney-General Philip Lutz Jr is sending a communication to Robert Mythen,clerk of the printing board, calling attention to the Haywood Printing Company, Lafayette, having a contract for much of the work contemplated with the new equipment. This contract expires Dec. 2. and the business of the new printing office will have to be limited almost exclusively to mimeographiag untfi that time, the Lutz letter is expected to point out. It is being prepared by Fred Weicking, assistant to Lutz. New equipment at the state printing plant includes huge power paper cutters, a press, equipment for matmaking, and cameras. BAPTISTS NAME HEAD Wanamager Pastor Elected Moderator at New Bethel Sessions. The Indianapolis Association of Baptist Churches, at the annual convention in the New Bethel church. Wednesday elected its pastor. the Rev. W F. Buckner of Wanamaker. moderator for the coming year. Mr. Buckner succeeds Bert King, a layman, of the Broadway Baptist church. The Rev. Reuben H. Lindstrom. pastor of the Southport church, was elected vice-moderator, and Mrs. T. B Rossetter. was reelected secretary. Dr. William Gear Spencer, president of Franklin college, addressed the convention. ZONE MEETING IS SET Optometrists Delegates to Be Guests of State Association. Delegates from state associations of Optometrists in the north central zone will meet in the Severin Sunday afternoon as guests of the Indiana Association. The states to be represented at the conference are Illinois. Indiana, Ohio. Kentucky and Michigan. Officers in charge are Dr. C. Earl Fisher of Sullivan, president of the Indiana association, and Dr. C. W. Worm of Ft. Wayne, secretary.

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MINE STRIKE GROWS; RUSH CODE PARLEY Failure to Sign Agreement May Result in New Disorders. TEN MEN ARE WOUNDED Deputies and Union Pickets Clash at Pennsylvania Pit: One May Die. Hu I nit' il Prrgg WASHINGTON, Sept 14— NRA today sought to speed up the longlagging soft coal code negotiations. A walkout of Pennsylvania miners in protest against code delay assumed serious proportions. President Roosevelt was ready to intervene if agreement is delayed much longer. Deputy Administrator K M. Simpson announced that he and Donald Richberg. NRA chief counsel, had completed their study of proposed revisions of the administrative section of the code and were ready to begin conferences with a committee of operators. Bituminous operators representing about 90 per cent of the industry agreed upon a code and arranged to present it within a few hours to the NRA. The operators code was to be studied by administration officials in an effort to reach an agreement that would be satisfactory to operators, labor representatives, and the NRA. Gerard Swope, head of the special arbtration board appointed by the President to adjust last month's Pennsylvania coal strike, sought to persuade miners not to join the new walkout, but his appeal apparently had little effect. While the coal situation grew increasingly ominous, the labor and industrial advisory board sought to check unrest in other fields by drafting a joint statement of policy. The statement is expected to be made public by the President. Ten Men Injured Hu United Pn g* UNIONTOWN. Pa., Sept. 14.—Ten men were wounded at Gates, neai here, today when strike breakers attempted to force their way into an H. C. Frick Coke Company mine. One of the wounded was Lloyd Cutwright. 23, of New Salem, a company deputy, who, according to reports received here from the isolated mine village, twelve miles away, was among a group of deputies attempting to escort strike breakers ipto the mine. Cutwright's condition *.vas serious. He was taken immediately to the operating room of Uniontown hospital, to which all the wounded were taken. The men were wounded when shots were exchanged between pickets and deputies as the latter attempted to escort strike breakers into the mine. The entire Fayette county coal field, center of the strike of last July and August, was reported heavily picketed, as miners, terming their walkout a “holiday,” attempted to shut down ?J1 workings to force operators to agree to a coal code and recognize the United Mine Workers of America. Strike Ranks Grow Hu I nitnl l‘r< .* PITTSBURGH, Sept. 14.—Pennsylvania's soft coal took matters into their own nands today as NRA executives in Washington appeared unable to persuade operators to approve a code for this last of the big basic industries. Miners who refused to work totaled 25,000 Wednesday. It was believed that when a ciieck of the field was completed today that number would be increased by at least 10.000. Union leaders frankly admitted that they "could not promise" how far the restless miners’ holiday would extend, if definite action were not taken in Washington immediately.

GUNMAN FIGHTS TO STAVE OFF TRIAL

Public Inflamed Against Bailey, Says Counsel. By Vniled Pret* OKLAHOMA CITY. Sept 14 Federal authorities today said that they would fight an expected last minute attempt by Harvey J. Bailey, notorious desperado, to evade trial here Monday for the $200,000 Urschel kidnaping. James Mathers. Bailey's attorney, said a demand for a change of venue would be made today or Friday. because officers have expressed personal hatred for Bailey and inflamed the people." Change of venue asked by the gunman would be to Tulsa or Muskogee. Mathers said. Bailey, accused as ringleader in the kidnaping of the oil millionaire. Charles F. Urschel, as-leader in the Memorial day break from the Kansas state prison, and in the Kansas City <Mo.> machine gun massacre of five men is scheduled to go on trial before Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught here Monday. FIVE AIRPLANES BURNED Loss $120,000 in Fire at Repair Plant in Glendale. Cal. By I nitfii l‘rrt* GLENDALE. Cal.. Sept. 14.—An airplane repair and salvage plant, located a short distance from the Grand Central air terminal, was swept by fire early today. Five airplanes and the plant were destroyed, with loss estimated at $120,000. The plant was owned by the Air Transport Company, Ltd. Fire companies from Glendale. Los Angeles and Burbank fought the Are,

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REICHSWEHR STILL FREE OF NAZI RULE

Splendidly Efficient Army Keeps Hitler at Ann s Length

What :s eoina on In Germany under Nazi rule, led bv Chancellor AdOif Hitler. Is told by George Britt from first-hand observation following his return from an extensive stay. This is the fourth in a series of articles. BY GEORGE BRITT, Times Special Writer THE office of General Baron von Hammerstein, chief of staff of the Reichswehr. actual head of the German army, is unique among higher officialdom of Berlin, in that it has not been visibly “gleichgeschaltet,” which is the standard phrase for “co-ordinated,” converted to the new regime, Hitlerized. The baron himself—a large, handsome man, with the suavity of ancestral dignities and a florid countenance suggesting nothing of the ascetic —explained carefully that we were having a friendly visit, not an interview, and proceeded to talk about the army’s not being political, and for that matter not being militaristic. Coming from a member of the extremely competent group which General von Schleicher has fashioned, and by whose strength the old constitutional regime had been upset a year ago, this talk about the army not being political was rather, good. However, amid politically rampant and overemphasized Germany today, the army really is non-partisan. It is merely national. It is not a larruping part of the Nazi machine. Its responsibility is to President von Hindenburg. not directly to the chancellor, and a consequent uncertainty as to just how far the Reichswehr can be controlled is a very interesting speculation for £he Nazis. Under the circumstances they are just as glad that they have their own army of brown shirts, six to ten times the member of the Reichswehr. which they positively can depend on.

If President von Hindenburg should die, matters would be different. Hitler would put in a president overnight, unopposed, and all bars on the army would be down. Would his choice be the Crown Prince or the Crown Prince’s second son. Prince Louis Ferdinand? Would it be Hitler himself, with Goering taking the chancellorship? Would it be Ritter von Epp, the dapper old army man and veteran Nazi who now holds the lid on Bavaria? At any rate, the army could be gleichgeschaltet, but not yet. o m m SO there is no “Heil Hitler" and no Fascist salute in the great old labyrinthine reichswehr ministerium in Koenigin Augusta Strasse, where Von Tirpitz once ruled the imperial party. General von Hammerstein works in a large old-fashioned sitting room of a place, furnished with easy chairs, sofas and tables instead of office desks. One wall was covered entirely with the mounted horns of deer. And dominating the room was a huge oil painting—not Hitler, but Von Moltke, the hero of Sedan. Here at last as in a hothouse survived the old Prussia, the class which produced Von Hindenburg himself. The atmosphere and the personalities alike were perfect models for an aristocratic officer corps. After the clattering zeal and fumbling of nouveau functionaries in other government offices, here was trustworthy competence, and there's no denying the charm of something so calmly first class. The officers of the army staff are on exhibit every afternoon in Koenigin Augustus Strasse as they come from work, and the sight of them recalls Berlin in its days of glory. Perfectly tailored in field gray with red stripes on the trousers, spurs at heel, sabre at belt, most of them wearing the iron cross and war ribbons, many withmonocles, they move with gracious poise among the street crowds of jostling Nazis. They stem directly from the kaiser's elite. They move with an urbane complacency and assurance, the last remnant of old great Germany, mam SUCH is the leadership of the Reichswehr, or armed professional army of Germany. It has 100,000 men, enlisted for twelve years each selected to a physical standard beyond all comparison ahead of the old army, drilled and educated to the highest professional fitness and versatility, well paid and officered by an elite corps of picked men. So I thought it a valuable morning just to see inside the Reichswehr headquarters, the nerve center of probably the finest army of its size in the world, to sense fne character and breeding of its leaders, to point a contrast with the bourgeoise who control the rest of Germany, even though General von Hammerstein said not a word that revealed a secret and nothing that was permitted to be quoted. In still another sense the Reichswehr remains un-gleichge-schalted. and that is on the Jewish question. The sweeping order for dismissal of all government employes and officers who had so much as one Jewish grandparent halted at the army and at the diplomatic corps. These branches of the service, it was felt, could not stand the loss in personnel. Marrying a rich Jewess was the conventional way to security for impecunious young officers and

Woman Plays Heroine Role in Sleeping Sickness War

(CoDvrieht. 1933. bv Science Servicel THE name of Dr. Margaret C. Smith has become familiar to you now as the heroine, perhaps. of the encephalitis epidemic in St. Louis. Her discovery of specialized particles. called inclusion bodies, in the tissues of encephalitis victims has given medical scientists proof that they really are fighting a disease caused by a virus. This knowledge will be an important weapon in the fight. But what of the woman who made the discovery? An only child from Carnegie, small Pennsylvania town near Pittsburgh, she seems to have all the usual human moods and interests. plus the one absorbing interest in her scientific work. If you saw her in her laboratory, peering for hours through her microscope at section after section of stained tissues from encephalitis victims, you might think she was a typical woman scientist. If. however, you met her in another atmosphere, she would seem like thousands of other young women you have known. She is the type who might have married and found happiness in making a

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General Baron von Hammerstein, head of the Reichswehr, Germany’s efficient standing army.

diplomats. From the days of Bismarck at least the practice was encouraged. And since the Reichswehr draws officers largely from old army families it obtained a special indulgence waiving the Jewish clause. Official figures as to the number of officers partly Jewish are, of course, not available, but the conversational figure for those of the rank of captain or higher is 40 per cent. a a a HITLER'S own uniformed army of around 900.000 men is altogether different from the reichswehr. Basically it rests on the storm troopers, the Sturm-Abteilung, called S-A men for short, more than 500,000 strong. They are the famous Brown Shirts, a private militia, without visible weapons, but splendidly drilled otherwise, partly supported by party funds, a good many on paid duty as auxiliary police. And no critic should overlook the fact that these S-A men are the young men of their time in Germany. They give the color to their day and generation. To be out of the S-A now leaves the young German as high and dry as for an American lad in 1918 to have been out of the A. E. F. Children in the future undoubtedly will swarm around their knees and demand, “Grandpa, tell us about when you were an S-A man.” After the S-A comes the S-S, the schutzstaffel. the Pretorian Guard and inner circle of Hitlerite troops, a black-uniformed outfit with the death's head for insignia, selected for superior height and strength, more than 100,000 of them. Finally there are the Stahlhelms, originally a legion of front line veterans, but now recruited with youngsters, at first not Nazi, but thoroughly gleichgeschaltet, about 250,000 of them. The largest army, most impressive massing of military force I ever saw was the review of 82,000 S-A men from Berlin and the Mark of Brandenburg at the kaiser's old drill ground of Tempelhof on Sunday, Aug. 6. a a a BEFORE 6 o'clock in the morning their feet were drumming on the paving stones all over Berlin. and by 9 o'clock they were drawn up in close ranks—no mean feat of military tactics—on a front

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home and raising babies. But the war atmosphere that hung over her college years—she was graduated from Mt. Holyoke in 1918 — doubtless spurred her, as it did thousands of her contemporaries, to seek a career of service outside the home.

The Reichr.wchr on parade (above) and (right) the recent Nazi review in Berlin.

more than half a mile long, more than a quarter of a mile deep. For two hours then they listened to inspiring music and were addressed over the excellent loudspeaker system by high-pressure rabble-rousing orators. Then at 11 they were reviewed by their organizer and chief, a superlative soldier, Ernst Roehm. Hardened by much drilling, well uniformed, equipped with rolling kitchens and other camp para-

Hoover Favored Repeal, Hotel Men Are Informed B>j United Pres* DEL MONTE, Cal., Sept. 14.—Herbert Hoover, champion of the “noble experiment" for years, privately favored repeal of the eighteenth amendment durihg the last year of his presidency, 400 delegates to the annual convention of tne American Hotel Association were told Wednesday night by Arthur Race of Boston.

In a report of his activity as chairman of the association's prohibition committee. Race declared: “Mr. Hoover called me to Washington and told me, in a private conversation, that he favored repeal of the eighteenth amendment as soon as possible. “He also told me of the magnitude of the bootleg industry and said it should be eliminated. “But he asked me not to make our conversation public.” No Word From Hoover Hu I nitrd Pregg PALO ALTO, Cal.. Sept. 14.—Paul Sexson, secretary to former President Herbert Hoover, said late Wednesday night he doubted if Mr. Hoover would “care to make a statement” on the assertion of Arthur Race of Boston that Mr. Hoover had favored repeal of national prohibition the last year he was President.

Some of them tqok up nursing, and some, like Dr. Smith, went into medicine. a a a AT the Johns Hopkins medical school she was one of that small but earnest group of women students superciliously referred to by their male colleagues as "hen medics.” Immediately after taking her degree in 1922. she was appointed to the staff of the pathology department at Hopkins, where she taught and also started her own scientific investigations. There, under the guidance of Professor William G. MacCallum, she received specialized training in recognizing and studying the signs of disease in the body tissues. This training, together with her own ability and capacity for hard work, led her to make the most striking discovery, so far, in this epidemic of encephalitis. The war-time premise of a dramatic career that may have lured her from her college to medical school apparently has waited until now to be fulfilled. Her years in Baltimore were occupied by the routine cf teaching and working. She attended the symphony concerts always popular with the Hopkins staff; she read volumi-

phernalia, with sanitary and first aid corps, bands that played the fighting spirit into their remotest finger-tip. red banners inscribed "Deutschland Erwache,” they needed only guns to be a powerful army. Not so good as the reichswehr, still they were good. The speaking at a Nazi meeting might be expected to vary with time and place, but on this particular Sunday it was at the very top of its class. It was inflammatory.

FACULTY TO BE HOSTS Students at I. U. Medical School to Be Given Reception. Members of the faculty of the Indiana University School of Medicine will hold a reception for the new students in the medical school auditorium at 8:15 Friday night, Dr. W. D. Gatch, dean, has announced. Governor Paul V. McNutt, former dean of the university law school, and Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president, will speak at the reception. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivah also will talk. Introduction of the probationary nurses will be made by Miss Cordelia Hoeflin and Dr. Burton D. Myers, dean of the medical school at Bloomington, will introduce the sophomore class. A dance will close the program.

nously on many subjects; she went to theaters and movies, just like ordinary women who are not spending their days working to solve scientific mysteries. Learning much about Germany from some of her associates, she studied German, learned to speak and read it. and finally spent a long summer vacation traveling about that country. “She could work like a Turk,” one of her Baltimore associates says. She always was engaged in some research. Hormones, those potent substances secreted by the body's glands, particularly ovarian hormones, interested her at that time. Then came the call to St. Louis. Dr. H. A. McCovdock of Washington university medical school needed an assistant in his pathology department. Having worked under Professor McCallum himself. Dr. McCordock wanted an assistant who had had the same training. Dr. Smith was selected. Her former associates in Baltimore are delighted with her latest achievement; but they are not surprised, for they always felt that she might strike something big in the course of her researches.

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Entered as Second-HiM Matter at Postoffice, Ittdanapoli*

It was violent. The Nazi orators go in for a throaty, bellowing, staccato, rapid-fire style. By the time they finished hammering in the formula of an awakened invincible Germany, the die-for-the-fatherland spirit, by the time they had damned the Jews for everything and promised everything to the pure-bred Germans, one could almost see a blue flame blanketing the multitude. a a a BUT the ritual of the occasion was the mast impressive of all, for it could be relied on to work infallibly, even though bands all might strike sour notes and orators might stutter. The bands, indeed, usually wotild do their part. This day they played over and over again the splendid old parade march of imperial Germany, and by the repetition, through surges and diminuendas, it built up much the same kind of lift as Havel’s "Bolero.” Then all sang Luther's hymn, "A Mighfv Fortress Is Our God," then the Nazi hymn, “Horst Wessel.” Did you ever hear 82.000 mpn singing together, solemnly and from the heart? It produces a most convincing cadence. Then they had a roll call of Nazi “martyrs,” comrades fallen in brawls with the Communists. At each name 82,000 voices answered "Here.” The Nazi dead were not dead, but eternally living. And then all repeated a confession of faith and pledge of allegiance to Adolf Hitler. Did you ever hear 82,000 men in unison repeating the Apostles’ Creed? The effect is both hysterical and hypnotic. The very impact of the vibrations upon one's spine would almost convert the prince of skeptics. As the shouts go up to heaven, as the marching feet beat the earth, as one's heart throbs with the pulse of 82,000 pledged to Adolf Hitler, it is difficult to escape the spell of ominous, sinister might.

Here, indeed, was Hitler’s dream come true, Germany awakened. And throughout the hot day certainly very few and only the mast stubborn in that brown army could have doubted that Germany again was invincible, that Germany needed only opportunity to claim her victory. Next—Nazidom works social changes.

FARMERS TO GET MORE FOR MILK Cent Increase Is Ordered in Chicago. By Uni led Pre*B CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—An increase in the price of milk from 10 to 11 cents a quart with the additional cent to be passed on to farmers, today needed only sanction of the department of agriculture to become effective in Chicago. The price increase was voted at a meeting Wednesday night of leading Chicago distributors and the Pure Milk Association, representing producers. It followed repeated demands of farmers that the basic price of $1.75 a hundred pounds, specified in the Chicago milk marketing act, be boosted to give them at least cost of production. Meanwhile, preparations were being made by farmers in several sections north and west of Chicago to insure uninterrupted delivery of milk through Kane and McHenry counties. where an embargo on dairy products was declared Wednesday. FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR ARTHUR NEWBY Philanthropist Is Lauded by the Rev. W. Wiant. Eulogizing Arthur C. Newby, philanthropist and pioneer in the automobile and bicycle manufacturing fields, the Rev. W. W. Wiant, pastor of the North M. E. church, said in the funeral address that Mr. Newby had modeled his life' on Christian virtues. The services were held Wednesday at the home, 4020 North Meridian street,' with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Newby devoted his time to aiding others and various institutions since his retirement from business fifteen years ago. He made large gifts to Butler university, Earlham college, the James Whitcomb Riley hospital for children, the Robert Long hospital, the Huesmann foundation, and other organizations. He was a pioneer in the manufacture of bicycles and chains and also was interested in the manufacture of National and Empire automobiles. He was one of the organizers of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, being an official of the corporation until 1527, when it was sold to E. V. Rickenbacker and associates.

SHOALS PLANT TO GIVE LOW ELECTRIC RATE Average of 2 Cents Kilowatt Hour Is Announced by TVA Chief. BOON FOR FARMERS Greatly Extended Use of Power Expected in Tennessee Basin. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. Sept. 14-Elec-tricity will be sold at an average rate of 2 cents a kilowatt hour to typical general consumers within the Tennessee river basin, under the first rate schedule announced here today by the Tennessee valley authority. These rates, comparable with the lowest in this country and Canada, comprise part of the long-sought government power "yardstick” against which may be measured the charges of private utilities. The rates, designed to be a major achievement of the Roosevelt new deal, also promise wider use of electric power in the Tennessee basin and consequent lightening of the load of labor upon urban and rural inhabitants there. Will Sell at Wholesale The Tennessee valley authority will sell power wholesale from its great Muscle Shoals plant at 7 mills a kilowatt hour, it announced today, suggesting at the same time the retail rates, over which it will also have jurisdiction. The 7 mills wholesale rate will not represent the result of a government subsidy, but instead was computed by David E. Lilienthal, TVA director in charge of power development, to make the Shoals 1 plant self-supporting and self-liqui- | dating. He intends to set aside, in addition to the statutory payments to Alabama and Tennessee of 5 per cent of the gross proceeds of power sales, another reserve. The total of these two will equal the average payments by private utilities. Director Lilienthal is determined that no one shall have the opportunity to attack his rates on the basis of government subsidies to TVA. Rates Drop Progressively The rates announced by TVA start at 3 cents a kilowatt hour and drop progressively as consumers use more power. The next rate is 2 cents a kilowatt hour, the next 1 cent, the next 4 mills. To just what blocks of power these lower rates apply",was not made clear in the statement, which avoided comparisons with private rates or the i charges made by other governmental bodies. TVA also intends to extend to rural consumers the same rate as that charged to domestic urban consumers, and this decision forecasts electification of large farm areas of the Tennessee valley basin not now served with power. A study indicates there are more than 200,000 farms within the region, not 5 per cent of them served with electricity from a central station. The Lilienthal announcement folj lowed weeks of study of the Muscle i Shoals plant, its cost, and replace! ; ment value, and many consultation : with rate experts in various par® of the country. V Boon to Farmers "The farm user, we propose,” the Lilienthal statement continued, i “should pay the same rate for enj ergy as the town and city householder. These schedules, both for j town and farm, carry with them a requirement that the customer use a reasonable amount per month as a minimum. “These minimum' requirements vary, both in urban and farm territory, with the size of the customer's meter. Farm users will have a larger minimum requirement wherever the greater distances between customers result in increased costs of service. “These wholesale rates have been computed on a conservative basis, to cover all the costs of furnishing service, including operation, maintenance, depreciation and taxes. In addition to these costs, we have made provision for interest and retirement, although such provision is not required by the Tennessee Valley Authority act.” HUNT HIT-RUN DRIVERS Police Seek Two in Auto Crashes Today and Wednesday. Hit-and-run drivers were responsible for two traffic accidents Wednesday and early today. No one was injured. An automobile belonging to Mrs. | Elizabeth Johnson, 5234 Washington j boulevard, parked in front of her home, was damaged when struck by a large car which was not stopped. Automobile of another hit-and-run driver damaged the car of Mrs. Pearl Tucker, 207 East Morris street, parked at 2010 North Meridian street. At the time, Mrs. Tucker and Mrs. Irma Kingsford j of the Meridian street address were seated in the car. INSTITUTE TO BE HELD Lynhurst Baptist Young People to Meet Sept. 17. Young people of the Lynhursl Baptist church will hold their second annual institute beginning Sunday. Sept. 17, at 2 and continue through the evening church service. Speakers on the program are Miss Aliena Grafton of Butler university, the Rev. George Kimsey of Memorial Baptist church, Miss Audra Swift, teacher at the Indiana School for Girls; the Rev. Cive McGuire. executive secretary of the Federated Baptist churches of Indianapolis. and the Rev. W. R. Jewell, director of Indiana Baptist < Christian education.