Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1934 Edition 02 — Page 3

OCT. 6, 1934

TVA POWER IS CONSIDERED BY CITY OFFICIALS Sullivan Displeased With Light Company Bid; May Make Own Electricity. Indianapolis has two clubs which, if need be, it can wield over the head of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company in its effort to obtain an equitable contract for city lighting to replace the one which will expire next spring. It is possible that the city may be able to buy its power from the United States government through the Tennessee Valley Authority, or, more likely, it can generate its own power at coal mines in southern Indiana, and have it transmitted to Indianapolis by city-owned transmission lines. While City Engineer A. H. Moore has not completed his final analysis of the proposed contract. Mayor Reginald H Sullivan already has expressed dissatisfaction with the power company s offer. The mayor points out that the city asked for bids on lighting for one, three, five and ten years. The only bid submitted by the light company was for ten years. The city bid was approximately at the same rate as the old contract, except for addition of $52,000 a year for ten years, after which the city would own street lighting fixtures and underground lines. Separate Contracts Held Separate contracts are held by the city and by the park board. The park board Just is concluding the ten-year payment to the company for the boulevard lighting system. Dissatisfaction with the present park board contract proposal was expressed by Jackiel W. Joseph, park board president, who pointed out that no less than 20 per cent of park board revenue has gone to pay its light bills. This condition Mr. Joseph termed outrageous, asserting that the equipment the park board has spent ten years buying from the light company rapidly is becoming obsolete. He also pointed out that the price of 2’i cents a kilowatt hour bid in the separate proposal made by the light company to the park board is similar to that paid by small domestic consumers for cookstove current. Mayor Sullivan, in basing his dissatisfaction on similar grounds, observed that the electrical sciences are at a stage of rapid development and that what might appear a reasonable contract today, three years from now might be unsatisfactory. Government Offer Studied "We will do nothing hastily,” said the mayor, “and we will give the fullest consideration to all the claims of Indianapolis Power and Light Company. However, we intend to investigate all possibilities thoroughly and make certain that Indianapolis acquires its light from the cheapest and most satisfactory source. ‘The possibility of getting the city's power from the Tennessee Valley Authority has been broached, and. before the power company submitted its bid, I had been in contact with government officials concerning that possibility,” he said. Indianapolis lies on the outer edge of the territory to which TVA economically can distribute power, according to Mr. Moore. He said he doubted that it would be economical to use the government project power urttess it could be acquired under a “surplus” contract. In other words, Indianapolis, under such an agreement, would pay merely for the power it received and its transmission. and would pay none of the fixed charges with which TVA plans to amortize the cost of its huge plant. The city engineer, on the other hand expressed little doubt as to the feasibility of the city's producing its own power at the site of southern Indiana coal mines. He pointed out that the power could be generated by the coal at the tipple and brought to the city by municipally owned transmission lines. This, he asserted, would be a cheaper method than shipping the coal to Indianapolis and generating the power locally. Compromise Is Expected Observers discounted the likelihood of any of these possibilities actually coming to pass and expressed the opinion that a more satisfactory bid eventually would be forthcoming from the power company. They explained that it would entail great cost to the city to install fixtures for its street lighting system, and expressed the further opinion that the power company could not afford to permit such a move by the municipality. because that would leave the present street lighting equipment a dead loss to the company, not to mention the loss in revenue for power consumed by the city. Furthermore, if Indianapolis were to produce its own power, in the natural course of'events it would attempt to sell its surplus to private consumers and thus come in direct competition with the power company. an eventuality, which, they said, was the last that any producer of electricity wishes to face. ‘ It probably will end.” they suggested. "like a horse trade, with the power company getting its share but no more; for the present city administration has some men who really can swap a nag ” Mr. Moore will submit a detailed analysis of the power company's bid to Mayor Sullivan Tuesday. MISSIONARY SOCIETY ENDS MEETING HERE Quick “Trip Around the World” Is Feature of Session. Mrs. Kezia Munson, a missionary on leave from India, spoke on Indian customs and folklore at the closing meeting of the Northwestern branch of the Womens Foreign Christian Missionary Society of the Methodist Epsicopal church, last night in the Broad Methodist Episcopal church Another feature of the night was a missionary "trip around the world” with more than a dozen missionaries. who wore the costumes of their adopted lands, speaking for one minute each. Mrs. Clifford H. Newham. La Grange. 111., presided. Mrs. R. L. Marquis wras elected during the day to her third term as president of the group.

Happy Westfield Celebrates Centennial With Gala Parade Depicting Its History

town’s oldest native resident, as he relates his school days ' v ' tv. to Charles Firestone. 5. alongside the antiquated bell of * ‘ ' i the old Union high school academy. £ ?■■■■ ;■ UfVinM VxntfoT* none Oro /IfiVOn in Kno C trrM i’ll sires

Here (upper) is shown the midway of Westfield as the town celebrates with ferris wheel, merry-go-round and pit-shows the one hundredth anniversary of the town, today and tomorrow. “Away back when—” begins John Baldwin, 84. the town's oldest native resident, as he relates his school days to Charles Firestone, 5. alongside the antiquated bell of the old Union high school academy. When better nans are driven in boards you'll first

have to see Miss Inez Troxell, Sheridan, who visited the town’s midway and walked off with a prize puppy and a cane in addition to a jaunty straw hat.

By Times Special WESTFIELD. Ind., Oct. 6. One hundred years paraded the streets of Westfield today. The years took over U. S. highway 31 and for a few moments tourist traffic was forced to detour or follow the parade as the town's centennial was developed with floats, the war-whoops of Indians, and the garb of backwoodsmen. Forming at the old Union high school building, the town's oldest structure, the parade included the old style phaeton of bygone days, the high-wheeled bicycle, and the country doctor clucking to “Old Betsy” to get along.

Democrats to Hear Kern at Huge Rally Tonight

Republicans Wind Up Busy Week of Campaigning and Conferences. With Republican candidates and orators ending their campaign efforts for this week at ten meet- ! mgs throughout the county last night, the Democrats prepared to finish their week tonight with i another group of meetings, to be I headlined by the appearance of Superior Judge John W. Kern, mayoralty candidate, at a Nineteenth ward rally. Judge Kern and Ira P. Haymaker, county recorder, will share speaking honors at this meeting, to be held at 729 North Holmes street. An attack on what he described as New Deal discrimination against the veteran by Gavin L. Payne, Twelfth district chairman, and criticism of the present city administration's fiscal policy by Walter B. Pritchard, mayoralty candidate, marked the Republican meetings. Mr. Payne spoke before a gathering of Marion county veterans at i the Claypool. where, earlier in the day. Don B. Irwin. Republican state chairman, had had a five-hour conference with his aids from various parts of the state. Mr. Pritchard addressed meetings at Twenty-fifth and Station streets and at 1542 North Senate avenue, reviewing his platform in each instance. Mr. Irwin described himself as well satisfied with the reports brought in by reporting committeemen and. at the same time, anj nounced a series of group discussions with members of his newly appointed advisory committee of eighty men and women. These eighty represent labor, agricultural. veteran. Negro, legislative, voung Republican, educational, business men. business and professional women's, patriotic and legal groups. Indianapolis is represented on the committee by Charles W. Kern. J. H. Drill. David Matthews, William Hutchinson. S. P. Meadows. Miss Anna Washington, Ben Cobum. Miss Louise Ford, Mrs. Edna Pauley,

Behind old methods of transportation and floats of girls in the severe garb of an orthodox Quaker community of long ago, was a rattling 1908 car and a decrepit 1912 flivver. Historical events of the town, including the underground railway, were depicted on floats. Farmers for miles around and residents of Indianapolis and Noblesville, lined the curbs and watched the parade or moved from drug store to restaurant to view the old photos of “Susie when she wore pigtails,” or of gourd dippers on display as antiques. ONE of the main exhibits of the centennial is the replica

Mrs. Ralph Kennington, Solon J. Carter, James M. Ogden, Sidney S. Miller, Ulysses S. Lesh, Miss Ella M. Groninger and Miss Merzie M. George. At the same time, the Republicans took the offensive on another front by putting into circulation petitions to nominate Will H. Adams, former supreme and appellate courts reporter, and Ralph K. Kane. Indianapolis attorney, for the state senate. This action was taken because of the question which has been raised as to the eligibility of John Bright Webb, senator from Marion and Johnson counties, and E. Curtis White, Marion county senator, because of their membership on the state agriculture board. The Republicans would have Mr. Adams take Mr. Webb's seat; Mr. Kane, Mr. White's. The Democrats are making no move to nominate candidates to succeed Senators Webb and White, whose terms hold over the election period. It is the contention of Walter C. Boetcher, Democratic county chairman, that only the Indiana senate can pass finally on the eligibility question and that he has no intention of anticipating senate action. School Group Lauded The work of the school commissioners elected five years ago by the citizens’ school committee was praised highly last night by Earl Buchanan, one of the committee's five candidates this year, at a meeting in the Dearborn hotel. Mr. Buchanan said that the outgoing commissioners had reduced th# budget more than $2,100,000 and. at the same time, had increased school services without any sacrifice of standards. Other citizens' committee candidates this year are Mrs. Mary D. Ridge. Carl Wilde, Alan W. Boyd and John F. White. Anderson Greets Minton Bv Time* Bprrinl ANDERSON. Ind., Oct. 6.—“lf we could afford to spend $23,400,000,000 to train and to arm the best manhood of our land in 1917 so that

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of a log house. Wax figures represent the members of the pioneer family. A clown fight, various rides on the town's midway, and the football game between Westfield and Kirklin were other features of the home-coming celebration and centennial today. Tomorrow', churches of the city will hold special services in honor of the home-coming. A concert by the Lions Club all-state band w ; ill be one of tne highlights of the afternoon. In the tree grove of the Union high school a community basket dinner and exercises for alumni of the old school will be held at noon tomorrow.

they might kill and be killed, why, in the name of humanity, can’t we afford to spend a few million dollars today so that men, women and children in America may live?” This question was hurled at Republican critics of the Roosevelt administration's relief and recovery program here last night by Sherman D. Minton, Democratic candidate for the United States senate, as he addressed three meetings—one of unemployed, one of veterans and one of the general public. A torchlight parade, in which 300 automobiles participated, preceded the public meeting. Wilson to Speak Monday night’s Democratic activities w’ill include the appearance of Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, candidate for superior court judge, and Sheriff Charles L. (Buck) Sumner as speakers at a Fourth Ward Young Democratic Club meeting in the home of Mrs. Isaac Born. 533 South Central court. Miss Julia Landers also will speak. Money Policy Flayed The charge that constant fear of monetary inflation is checking normal business expansion was made last night by Delbert O. Wilmeth, Twelfth district Republican candidate for congress, at a meeting at 1435 Northwestern avenue. Mr. Wilmeth declared for an early return to the gold standard. Women to Hear Kern Superior Judge John W. Kern, Democratic nominee for mayor, will be the principal speaker Monday night at a meeting of the Woman's Seventh Ward Democratic Club at the home of Miss Sara Henzie. Other speakers, all nominees living in the Seventh and Third wards, will be Smiley N. Chambers. Frank P. Baker, Clarence Weir, Herbert Bloemker. Ross Wallace and Mrs. Nanatte Dodd. All nominees are invited. Albert Losche and Mr Wallace will preside. Mrs. Badger Williamson is club president.

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Edgar Lewellyn, superintendent of Newcastle schools, will speak at the alumni celebration. Westfield has unlocked its doors to visitors. On every curb can be heard the calls by neighbors passing neighbors. School chums over the years are reunited on the streets, at the merry-go-round or in swinging seats of the carnival Ferris wheel. Westfield is having a good time celebrating its age and youth, too, and wants the world to come and help celebrate, even if the world only desires to stand at the town’s most popular spot—the drug store radio while the world series games are on.

Y. M. C. A. ROUNDUP •ROPES’ 67 MORE MEN Membership Campaign Now Totals 186 Tenderfeet. Sixty-seven men good and true were “roped in” by the Y. M. C. A. in its roundup membership campaign drive yesterday, it was announced today. A total of 186 tenderfeet have been dragged off to the ranches thus far in the drive. The standings new are; U-Bar ranch, 21; 101 ranch, 26; Rattlesnake Gully, 26; Lone Staff. 19; Bar X. 12; Packers Gully, 15; MontanaAlconda, 10; Texas, 11, and Gold Miners division, 11. BAND'S CAR IS ROBBED A1 Sky’s Orchestra Loses 5233 in Clothing. After reporting the loss of $233 worth of clothing and other articles stolen from a trailer parked in the rear of the Indiana theater early today. members of A1 Sky's musical orchestra left for Minrtesota to fulfill a contract. Police are searching for the culprits and the apparel.

SECOND CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA announces a FREE LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BY FRANK BELL, C. S. B. OF NEW YORK CITY Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. IN CADLE TABERNACLE OHIO AND NEW JERSEY STREETS MONDAY, OCTOBER BTH, 1934, AT 8 P. M. The Public Is Cordially Invited to Attend

BUILDING TRADE SCHISM SPLITS LABOR_PARLEY Council Decrees Restoration of Three Unions to A. F. of L. By United Press SAN FRANCISqO, Oct. 6—After smoldering for days in secret conferences, the acrimonious schism in the building trades department of the American Federation of Labor came out into the open today in hearings before the committee on adjustments at the annual convention of the organization. While many of the delegates were picnicking and the convention was taking the first of a two-day recess, the committee sought anew solution to the refusal of the present administration of the building trades to readmit three unions frankly anxious to elect new officers in the department. Almost belligerently, President William Green announced that the council had decreed that the ousted unions—the carpenters, the electricians and the bricklayers—be restored immediately to membership in the department which they left following a factional dispute several years ago. Convention Held Illegal The convention which the department held last week was illegal because the delegates of the three unions had not been admitted, the report said. Election of officers held by that convention also was illegal according to the same authority. A new vote must be taken, and a new' convention must be held at Washington, D. C., within forty-five days after the present federation convention comes to an end, unless the building trades group accepts the council’s verdict. Immediately after Mr. Green had finished * reading, Michael J. McDonough, elected president of the department last week for three years, announced he was appealing the council decision. But Mr. ftreen was equal to the situation, and he countered McDonough’s appeal by referring both the report and the protest to the committee on adjustment. But a floor fight seems inevitable, as the committee must report to the convention when the sessions resume on Monday. Industrial Unions Win Advocates of the extension unions under the wing of the A. F. of 1,. won the initial skirmish of the second big controversy of the convention when the first resolution to come from committee was accepted yesterday. It provided for organization of migratory agriculture workers into A. F. of L. units on the industrial type plan. But the proposal appeared emasculated when various sections of the plan were referred to several different committees “for consideration.” Labor Secretary Frances Perkins’ long-awaited address brought to the labor men assurances that the Roosevelt administration never has contemplated making arbitration compulsory in labor disputes and that President Roosevelt did not mean to have his plea for industrial peace interpreted as meaning compulsory arbitration. She promised that unemployment insurance and old age pensions would form part of the social security program now being formed by the New Dealers at Washington. The promise struck a responsive chord among the labor delegates, whose leadership has pledged to fight for both forms of security as well as for the thirty-hour work week. But particularly Madame Perkins urged on the convention patience in labors attitude toward Section 7-A of the recovery code.

MATHER TRIAL IS POSTPONED * ______ Suspect in $lO Murder of Pastor Gains Delay at Lebanon. The first degree murder trial of Theodore (Ted) Mathers, 19-year-old embalming student, for the $lO murder of the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders, former Wabash M. E. church pastor, will not start Monday, it was announced today by Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson. The trial was to have opened at Lebanon, to which the case was transferred from Marion county. Mr. Saunders was shot to death while riding in an automobile with Mathers and Masil Roe, on North Meridian stret, Feb. 2. Mrs. Neoma Saunders, widow of the slain minister, is alleged to have given Mathers $lO to hire a man to kill her husband and Mathers is alleged to have kept the money and committed the crime himself. Mrs. Saunders also has been indicted. No date has been set for the postponed trial, although it may be held in December.

EDUCATOR TO SPEAK

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Word pictures of the ideal teacher will be painted by Dr. Henry H. Crane, Scranton. Pa. at meetnig at 2 p. m., Oct. 19, under auspices of the Indiana State Teachers Association in Murat temple. Dr. P*red B. Smith of New York City also will speak. Cyril Pitts, Chicago tenor, will sing.

NEW DIRECTORY COMPILED FOR CITYJLECTION Determination of Voting Precincts Speeded by Ettinger Data. Almost instant determination of the voting precinct of each of Marion county's 235.000 voters is possible through publication of a tabulated directory, unique in Indiana election administration. The data, compiled by Charles P. Ettinger, chief deputy county clerk, and William P. Fianary, registration supervisor, is arranged so that when supplied with the correct residence address of voters, election workers can report speedily on the exact precinct in which the vote must be cast. The 117-page book contains more than 9.000 divisions of the voting population of Marion county, according to Mr. Ettinger. Three months were required for assembling the data in preparation for the publication of the book. Expense Delay Minimized Every street in Indianapolis has been studied and the odd and even building numbers separated to make possible the quick determination of precinct and ward locations. “Without such publication an enormous staff of election workers would be required to inform voters the location of their voting precincts,” Mr. Ettinger declared. “With the system we have adopted it w'ill be possible to supply this information with a minimum of expense and delay.” The directory embraces what Mr. Etttinger and Mr. Flanery consider the best registration practice of other states. Similar publications in other states were studied and improvements made, Mr. Ettinger said, before tabulation of the Marion county precincts was undertaken. Limited Edition Published A limited edition of the booklet has been published, and copies are not available for general distribution. A supply has been made available to party workers and officials. Transfers of registrations from one election precinct to another and new registrations will close at midnight Monday. The registration bureau in the Marion county courthouse will remain open until midnight Monday for the accommodation of prospectives voters, Mr. Ettinger said. At the close of business yesterday more than 19,000 registration transfers had been tabulated at the registration office. School Choir to Sing The Shortridge high school choir and orchestra will present a program from 3 to 4 tomorrow afternoon at vesper services in the Scottish Rite cathedral.

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JAPAN FORCING U. S, BRITAIN INTO NAVY RACE Death Knell of Treaties to Be Sounded Before November’s End. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srripps-Hos rd Forrl*n Editor. WASHINGTON. Oct 6.—The death knell of the naval limitation treaties of Washington and London probably will be sounded before November's leaves fall. Japan, the writer learns, plans formally to notify the United States and Great Britain of her withdraw-

al from those treaties, probably the last of October or at a propitious moment during the conversations shortly to resume in London. Not only will Japan's decision precipitate a world situation fraught with danger to international relations, but it Hill constitute another

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epochal step taken by her to make her position in the far east impregnable. Coupled with Japan’s withdrawal which Rear Admiral Yamamoto. now in the United States en route to London, is expected to announce Nippon will demand approximate naval equality with this country and Britain. This, the Japanese suggest, may be achieved by the United States and Great Britain scrapping their capital ship tonnage down to Japan's. This would mean a reduction, instead of an increase in armaments, Japan contends, and put all three powers on a defensive, rather than an offensive basis. Something Behind It All Japan will urge that while each nation should be permitted to maintain a navy strong enough to defend itself, it should not be strong enough to steam vast distances and attack others. While this sounds both pacific and altruistic, British and American critics observe, it would turn over fully half the world to Nippon. China, Eastern Siberia, the Philippines, the East Indies, India and Australasia would be at the mercy of the power which recently annexed Korea and seized Manchuria and Jehol. Abrogation of the Washington treaty by one power automatically releases the others. Under that treaty America undertook not to fortify the Philippines, Guam, the Aleutian Islands or any other territory or possessions west of Hawaii. Japanese withdrawal will give thi3 country a free hand. Race Almost Inevitable Already the United States plana to hold its 1935 naval maneuvers in Alaskan waters. For years the defense of the Pacific has been based on Panama and the triangle represented by Hawaii, San Diego and Pearl Harbor located in the Aleutians. A fortified naval and air base at Pearl Harbor may be one result of Japan’s action. Great Britain contends that she must be able to defend her interests in whatever clime they may be menaced, including India, Australia and Hongkong. An unwelcome naval race has become almost inevitable. To prevent it if possible, Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis will sail for London within the fortnight. HOUSING REQUIREMENTS EXPLAINED AT MEETING Construction League Sponsors Session; Jerry O'Neal Presides. The national housing act and its technical provisions were explained last night at an open forum held under auspices of the Construction League of Indianapolis in the Architects and Builders building. Information on successful methods of developing repair and modernization business was given by several members of the league. Jerry O'Neal, chairman of the subcommittee on publicity, presided and speakers included Carl M. Geupel, chairman of the league’s qualification committee, and J. Frank Cantwell, secretary.