Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1934 — Page 3
JUNE 7, 1934
COMPANY FILES EXCEPTIONS TO WATERREPORT Two Principal Points Made by Attorneys for Utility Firm. Attorneys for the Indianapolis Water Company yesterday filed in federal court 142 exceptions to the report by Special Master Albert Ward which recently set $20,282,000 as the company’s rate-making value and which recommended dismissal of the company’s injunction suit against the public service commission. The exceptions, the large number of which* was caused by the form of the Ward report, made two principal points. First, the company objects that the master aribtrarily employed varied and shifting bases for determining the value of physical properties and the amount of depreciation. Second, the company excepts to the finding that there has been no upward trend in costs since April 1, 1933, as of which date expert witnesses testified, and that there was nothing to indicate such a trend in the near future. The firm of Baker & Daniels, company attorneys, contended the courts long have taken cognizance of trends such as, they say, now exist because of governmental stimuli.
These points were raised in connection with specific figures sty, by the master on various company assets. The company excepts to the sl,849,160 set by Mr. Ward as land value, saying this should be no less than $3,007,000. On some parcels there were no exceptions. On others, the master’s value was as much as three times lower than that set out in the exceptions. In excepting to the Ward figure of $2,443,728 for operating revenue, the company set a figure of not more than $2,353,444, with a gross income of not more than $1,206,000 as contrasted with the Ward figure of $1,294,566. The gross income is most important in rate-making. The Ward figure of $1,171,535 for operating expenses was excepted to on the ground that it was too low and not properly reached. Exception to Mr. Ward’s finding of $1,564,241 for going value was taken on two points. First, that he had figured it on depreciated properties rather than on the reconstruction cost, new, and, second, that he had failed to include in the base for figuring going value the $2,411,100 of undistributed construction cost. The company accepted the Ward figure of $191,699 for machinery and supplies in figuring capital, but excepted to $200,000 for “other capital,” saying the figure should be SBOO,OOO. It set its water rights at not less than $1,000,000 in excepting to Mr. Ward’s figure of $358,605, and put its organization expenses at not less than $300,000 in exception to his $135,000. In excepting to Mr. Ward’s method es determining the value of physical properties, the company attorneys charged that he took the lowest figures three-fourths of the time, accepting company witnesses’ figures only when they were lowest, and not consistently accepting any one engineer as best qualified to testify. A similar objection was made in the matter of depreciation. LIONS NAME OFFICERS AT MARION SESSION Walter Shirley of Indianapolis Is Elected Treasurer. By United Press MARION, Ind., June 7. —W. W. French, Mishawaka, and Rufus J. Fix, Shelbyville, were governors of the northern and southern districts, respectively, of the Indiana Lions Clubs today following their election at the state convention. Walter Shirley, Indianapolis, was elected treasurer. A movement was started to obtain the election of Professor Robert Phillips of Purdue university as third vice-president of the Lion International at the national convention this summer. CAB DRIVER BOUND TO , FENCE,ROBBED OF $5 Taxi Also Stolen; Young Man Escapes Bonds After Struggle. Bound to a fence on the edge of town by three men who robbed him of his taxicab and $5, Harry A. Stapelkemper, 27, of 1306 Be ville avenue, worked himself free early today and reported the robbery to police. A lone bandit held up and robbed Elmer W. Roessner, 5225 North Pennsylvania street, of a $75 watch and $45 as he was putting his car into his garage last night. LAETARE MEDAL GIVEN MRS. BRADY IN ROME New York Woman Gets Notre Dame Award for Charity Work. By United Press VATICAN CITY, June 7.—Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady of New York was presented with the Laetare medal of Notre Dame university, South Bend, Jnd., yesterday in recognition of her charitable activities in Germany. The presentation was made at the American college by the Rev. George Sauvage on behalf of the president of Notre Dame, in the presence of a distinguished company of cardinals and church officials and members of the American colony. CONVICTED OF’SLANDER Man Tried in 1932 Declared 'Guilty by Judge Baker. Russell Dagger, 610 North Sherman drive, who was tried in January, 1932, on charges of slandering Miss Anna Mae Bauman, and then was allowed to go to a Florida Veterans’ hospital for specialized treatment, today was declared guilty by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker and sentenced to sixty days on the Indiana state farm and fined $1 and costs.
De Pauw Professor Classifies New Deal Recovery Agencies for Benefit of Readers of The Times
THE ROOSEVELT GOVERNMENT THE PRESIDENT NATIONAL EMERGENCY COUNCIL [fIMAMTIAI Ainl UNEMPLOYMENT I NATIONAL I I A RfOD AGRICULTURAL IMHI KTDIPC' FUNCTIONAL rINANUALAIUj relief I recovery apm. LApUK adjustment adm. iNUUbIKIt:O[ units S FEDERAL I NATIONAL f* OOD fL emergency [ADMINISTRATORI laboa. ADMINISTRATOR cl national' I I RELIEF APM.[ s BOARD J ■—j ' = PLANNING 1 piwifwral | , 1 i C , !fc==; _ck¥£V fTsggjH L°a°-)-lAP AA ■ r I CONSUMERS I NATIONAL I j BOARD ADM ■ Tl board .. F FED.FARAA , J WORK | BOARD | = BOARD " ' r~U L hi P.W. EMERGENCY A SC.ENCE MORTGAGE i „ AO /A GRAIN COUNTY - HOUSING ADVISORY “ CORP. fnnTirvhn' fl "FKl * STABILIZATION PRODUCTION . com. IT BOARD li ~ 1 I civil | | POLICY BOARD! j council control I k . L== WORK | j| || I D |FSB. SUBSISTENCE | U. S. A-‘-OAN L?P RVICB I I] = HOMESTEAD |}=== EMPLOYMENT M BANK bOAhP j | | EXECUTIVE I 0 I 1 I U - CORP. .. SERVICE I 1 officer I SECTIONS i c , U ; 1 Hssasftl ise-osbel ISBa [coton] _ [Matl [tH^BSSP 135J5551 i u II D'p'SjQNS - -—, resvirn i | l_tes”r[ legal KtE liaison iKiis] iiraw] s E=E I J I A I FED. DEPOSIT ■ 'p—-==3 GENERAL J SUGAR II -> COMMODITY FED. CO-ORD-liv INSURANCE B'V-P . ,‘v-11.3 . iJl CORP - |codes| gj] [52 [gg Ig gg] rmrnn 7 |U {RECONSTRUCTION' I I'll If j] j| li ~| Lsheep F (mintCROPS {fib. surplus - FINANCE ] DEPUTY I (DEPUTY I [DEPUTY I |DEPOTY I IDEEOTY I [dePuTyl IdIPUTyI [DEPUTY I R _____ I RELIEF CORP. I ADMR-I | ADMR.I | ADMR.I ADMR. ADMR. ADMR. ADMR. ADMR. MEAT PR DC. A £ CORP. II II || Hi ll I ll Im-wwtlws i [TOBACCOj J ' ' [iYml*Tr[ [aurwlfr- jiimfcLhl IwnilliuTYl |maR **| * CONTRACT i- 11 CONTROL *
Dalton J. Pilcher Lists Eelief Measures in Seven Groupings; National Emergency Council Explained. Editor’s Note—Because of the confusion in the public mind as to the functions of various federal agencies created by President Roosevelt. The Times has asked Professor Dalton J. Pilcher of De Pauw university to classify ths national boards as to their general purpose and intention. The chart shown above is intended as a reference guide in order to clarify the readers’ ideas of just what the Roosevelt administration is attempting to do. BY DALTON J. PILCHER Economics Professor, De Pauw University Fourteen months after the President assumed his duties, a group of accumulated recovery agencies may now be assembled in chart-form to suggest the principal departments of the present Roosevelt government. A division of the newly created agencies as indicated in the types of federal aid proposed to bring about industrial recovery consists of (1) financial aid, (2) unemployment relief, (3) national recovery administration, (4) national labor board, (5) agricultural adjustment administration, (6) industries, and (7) functional units.
The national emergency council (NEC) consists of the secretaries of interior, agriculture, commerce and labor; the administrators of agricultural adjustment, emergency federal relief, the chairman of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, the governor of the farjn credit administration, representatives of the consumers’ councils and an executive director. Co-Ordination Effected A closer co-operation between the government and the consumer has been effected by a staff agency, the bureau of economic education, and 3,000 county consumers’ councils. A consumers’ division, composed of a member of the AAA and NRA consumers’ division and a member of NEC has been set up. Os vast importance to the government is the NEC recent decision and plan to give direction to the several federal plans to modernize general housing conditions in the nation. Under financial aid is listed the farm credit administration, the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, the federal home loan bank board, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, Deposit Liquidation Corporation, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, export-import banks. Unemployment Relief Under the column unemployment relief I would list federal emergency relief administration, emergency conservation work, civil works administration (now defunct) and
TABLE TOP snO 95 GAS RANGES— 07 Installed! p • ,rrr> I Good Housekeeping J SI.OO Down Delivers! No Interest! Now is the Time to Buy your new Gas Range! Lovely ivory, green and black stippled porcelain; has the new style gassaving cooking top, two large service drawers; is similar to one pictured and is guaranteed as a cooker and baker. WMJSASeJSmJ 9 #mm mW w 133-135 WEST WASHINGTON STREET
civil works service for artists, scientists and clerical help. The units under the NRA are the national recovery administration, industrial • advisory board and the national compliance board. The national labor board with its regional labor board is the sole agency dealing with labor. It is the tremendous duty of these boards to avert the strike menace which has sprung up throughout the country recently. Aids to Farmer The farmer is aided by the agricultural adjustment act, consumers’ advisory board, grain stabilization council and the county production control. Federal industries are controlled by the public works administration, Public Work Emergency Housing Corporation, Federal Subsistence Homestead Corporation, Tennessee valley authority, electric home and farm authority, Credit Commodity Corporation, Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, and the federal alcohol control administration. The functional units are the national planning board, central statistical board, science advisory board, United States employment service, board of reciprocity treaties, Petroleum advisory board and the federal co-ordinator of transportation. The average man is worth only 1 cent an hour as a source of energy, according to a University of Minnesota professor.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Bath Water Plentiful; Utility Company Assures
Drought Has Not Endangered Aqua Pura Supply, Officials Say. Bathe, drink (water), and be merry, citizens of Indianapolis your supply of aqua pura is standing up nobly under the drought. Armed with formidable figures and charts and fortified with the knowledge that their plant never really has been taxed in recent droughts, officials of the Indianapolis Water Company gave this message to the sweltering public today. White river, badly shrunken as it looks to the lay eye now, still is gushing two and a half times as much water a day as the city used Friday, its peak in this drought. Indianapolis consumed 42,000,000 gallons Friday. This is 120 gallons a person. The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey gauges just above the water company’s Broad Ripple dam showed a stream flow of 104,000,000. In addition, sixty 400-feet deep auxiliary wells have an 18,000,000capacity. Friday, these wells supplied 11,000,000 gallons so that actually the river had to give only 31,000,000 of its 104,000,000 gallons stream flow. The lowest figure recorded for the stream flow is 59,400,000 gallons in August, 1932. The highest demand recorded is 55,670,000 in August, 1931. Company officials say they can’t prophesy what would happen if there were three completely rainless months this summer. They obviously are not worried, however. “We’ve never really been taxed in the last decade, which included the bad droughts of 1930 and 1931,” they point out, “and, the wells’ 18,000,000 gallons alone constitute half of an ordinarily hot day’s supply.” Company records show that people use most water between 6 and 7 hot nights, what with lawn sprinklings and after-office heat baths.
$200,000,000 READY FOR HOME OWNERS Fund Announced by Acting Reconditioning Head. A fund of $200,000,000 is available to home owners who need finances to recondition or modernize their homes, Robert L. Mason, acting state reconditioning supervisor, announced last night at a meeting of building and material supply dealers and architects. More than 16,000 loans aggregating more than $36,000,000 have been granted in Indiana, E. Kirk McKinney, state manager of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, reported. Improvements totaling $67,966 were authorized in Indiana during the last month. Approved repairs for June will total SIOO,OOO, according to estimates. MINERS’ POLE STUDIED Labor Secretary Receives Resolution for Illinois Lawmakers. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 7.—Labor Secretary Frances Perkins promised today to give “serious consideration” to a resolution adopted by the Illinois state legislature asking the federal government to conduct a poll of Illinois miners to determine their choice for representation in labor disputes.
Sc4 e X Cool . . . Smart & *27 Coat and Trousers Tailored-to-Order Porous as a screen door, yet they hold their bandbox appearance in the sultriest weather. Economical, because they require far less cleaning and pressing than the usual summer suit. Tailored to fit perfectly, they are the most comfortable summer suits you ever saw. ——~| —- Pure DeLuxe Irish Tropical Linen Worsted 2-Piece Suits 2-Piece Suits $18 50 s3l ■' —‘ KAHN TAILORING CO. 2nd Floor Kahn Building Meridian at Washington
CHURCH URGED TD FORESTALL ANOTHER WAR Annual Indiana Conference Held by Congregationalists. By United Press HAGERSTOWN, Ind., June 7. Responsibility of the church in forestalling another war, and the need for taking manufacture of arms from private industry were stressed by speakers at the annual Indiana conference of Congregational churches. Jon V. Sees, Huntington attorney, who was elected president of the conference at the business sessions yesterday, said that “removal of manufacture of primary war equipment from private industry to government hands would be a major step toward prevention of war. Dr. Albert W. Spalmer, president of the Chicago Theological seminary, urged development of human minds to see the disastrous effects of war. Other officers elected yesterday included the Rev. A. M. Thomas, Argos, secretary; Dr. Frederick S. Oakes, Whiting, conference preacher; and the Rev. F. Willard Lyon, Gary, director. f NEWSPAPER GUILD TO CHOOSE NEW OFFICES Heywood Broun Lines Up Group’s Conservative Vote. By United Press ST. PAUL, June 7.—News writers from throughout the nation today made practical application of their political knowledge in the American Newspaper Guild convention’s election of officers. The business session, which closes the formal meetings, opened at 9 a. m. Secret caucuses, vote trading and informal campaign ballyhoo preceded the day’s sessions at which it was to be decided whether Heywood Broun would relinquish the presidency or serve another term. With Broun was aligne’d the conservative vote. The opposition, which lost in a move for unionization, had decided only that it wanted a more liberal candidate. 16 BUTLER SENIORS TO SEEK HIGHEST AWARD Students Apply for Magna Cum Laude Honors at Fairview. Sixteen Butler university seniors have made application for graduation June 18 with magna cum laude honors. This is the highest academic honor which the institution confers at commencement time. The applicants, as announced by Dr. Ray C. Friesner, head of the faculty committee on graduation honors, are Mary Bohnstadt, Charlotte Cal, Charlene Offing, Josephine Davidson, Dorothy Dauner, Lynton Gearhart, Elbert Gilliom, Julia Henderson, Harold Kapp, Fletcher Rahke, Helen Riggins, Frances Shaw, Julius Thorman and Emmalou Thornbrough. All are residents of Indianapolis.
MORRISONS 1T 1. 20 W. Washington St. fITE, with color : Ensembles * l * and Junior, Misses’ and Women’s Sizes . Second Floor I. ; i ' I | j- ' j i| J fplfll Cotton Brocks /WfSX* ACETATE PIQUES! YuSl X CORDED TRICOLETTES! J§gf 'V M j x • /WM LINENS! PRINTS! f. |\ ! / DOTTED SWISS! EYELETS! A JLg| , VOILES! PIQUES! \ qq KJjK here are the loveliest wash v jiJIl dresses Jackets and one L. _.;||||| ' piece styles—-every one fresh ""SHi . C colors, navy with white, polka * V i 'NjtStL dots, Junior, misses’ and •*. *** Third Floor ‘
WINS AUTHOR AWARD
it
Martin O’Neill
The Vandaworker prize for excellence in creative writing was to be awarded today to Martin O’Neill in annual honors day exercises at Manual high school. A short story, “Odds Even,” won the prize for O’Neill in a school-wide competition. Second prize went to Kenneth Lee, who, like O'Neill, graduates this week, for a story, “Sour Dough.” Third prize went to Zelda Sack for a story, “Proshkees.’ All are in John H. Moffat’s English class. The prize is given by J. B. Vandaworker, local musician.
M'NUTT TO REQUEST EWING EXTRADITION Kentucky Refuses Suspects’ Release V/ithout Reward. Extradition papers for the return from Kentucky of Willard Ewing, alleged killer of two Indianapolis residents, will be issued today by Governor Paul V. McNutt. Ewing is held at Stanford, Ky., where officials have refused to release him to Indiana without payment of a reward. However, no Indiana record of a reward has been found. Ewing is accused of murdering David O. Boyles and his stepdaughter, Miss Zenith Burriss, about six years ago. COUNTY REUNION SET Parke Event to Be Held at Garfield on June 24. The 1934 Parke county reunion will be held Sunday, June 24, in Garfield park, with picnic dinner served at 12:30. Frank Strouse, Chicago, former Parke county resident, will be the principal speaker, and the Parke County Haymakers’ quartet will sing. T. H. Nelson is president of the group arranging the reunion. OPTOMETRISTS TO DINE Steak Dinner Scheduled for Tonight At Kernels’ Lake. Optometrists in Zone 7 of the Indiana Optometrists’ Association’s extension program will have a steak dinner at Kernels’ lake, 6n the Crawfordsville road, at 6:30 tonight. Dr. W. L. Van Osdol, State Life building, is ill charge.
PAGE 3
STATE VETERAN CASES WORST, HOUSEJEARS Odom Reveals Guardianship Situation to Probing Committee. By Times Special WASHINGTON, June 7.—Nowhere else in the United States were guardianships of insane World war veterans so mishandled as at Marion, Ind., the house investigating committee was told today. This opinion was given the committee by Edward A. Odom, chief counsel of the veterans administration in charge of guardianships. He told the committee that as a general rule the administration preferred to have banks handle the estates, as they found this better for the veterans than when personalguardians were appointed. The Grant Trust and Savings bank at Marion, however, lost thousands of dollars for the veterans* estates by purchase of “sour” securities from an affiliate, he said. The evidence before the committee today included relation of how bank directors bought $2,500 in bonds for one veteran in the Superior Body Corporation in which they were also officers. The bonds were then in default according to the testimony, and the trust officer objected to their purchase. The hearings will be continued. TEN INDICTMENTS ARE RETURNED; 18 NAMED Grand Jury Fails to Give Report in Election Fraud Probe. Eigleen persons were named in ten indictments returned by the grand jury in its report yesterday. Nine of the indicted persons are out on bond, while the others are held in the Marion county jail. One indictment was for first and second degree murder, against Len Walker for the murde* of Horace Webb, Feb. 11. Mr. Webb was killed with an ax. No report was given in the election fraud investigation, upon which the grand jury still is working. FOOD PRICES INCREASE 1.4 PER CENT IN CITY Retail Figures Up in May; Show Decrease in Chicago. By Times Special WASHINGTON, June 7.4 tetail food prices in Indianapoll increased 1.4 per cent from May 8 to May 22, while in Chicago they decreased a like amount, and in neighboring Springfield, 111., remained stationary, according to bureau of labor statistics released today. Only New Haven and St. Paul, with increases of 2.3 per cent, exceeded the Indianapolis rise. In the Air Weather conditions at 9. m.: East wind, seven miles an hour, variable; barometric pressure, 30.09 at sea level; temperature, 70; general conditions, high thin scattered clouds, smoky; ceding, unlimited; visibility, five miles.