Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1934 — 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 tru years buying from the light company rapidly Is becoming obsolete. He also pointed out that the price of 2' 2 cents a kilowatt hour bid in the separate proposal made by the light company to the park board s 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 ecorr* omically can distribute power, according to Mr. Moore. He said he douDted that it would be economical to use the government project unless 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 sotuhern 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 cast 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 streej 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. 10 TWINS IN ONE SCHOOL Five Pairs Add to Problems at Eastern Institution. By Unit'4 Prrss PLYMOUTH. Mass. Oct. 6 —The National Morton junior high school here has quite a problem on its hands. There are five sets of twins attending this year. OLD TOPPER EXHIBITED Stovepipe Headgear of Cleveland Era on Display, By t mil'4 Press EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. Mo.. Oct. 6— An old stovepipe hat of the era when drover Cleveland was running for President, is on display here. The hat. gray in color, is larger at the top than at the bottom.

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Johnny and Jimmy are twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Woods, New York City. Since he was twenty days old, Johnny has been trained to use his muscles and to go after what he wants. His brother was not trained until he was twenty-two months old. Personality differences are marked between the two. Johnny is fearless, ready to try anything at least once and willing to co-operate on some new test. Jimmy is hesitant and inclined to lie down and yell when he meets small hurts and defeats. The experiment was conducted by Dr. Myrtle McGraw at Babies hospital.

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. FIND ALBINO PHEASANTS lowa Farmer Discovers Rare Birds on His Farm. By United Press KINGLEY. la., Oct. 6.—Arthur Rasmussen, farmer near here, reported finding a brood of five albino pheasants, a great rarity as few white birds of this species ever are seen. PLAN 50-YEAR REUNION Somerville Mass., Residents Prepare for Celebration. By United Press SOMERVILLE. Mass., Oct. 6—A fifty-year reunion is to be held in October. Residents who have lived in Somerville for half a century or longer will be eligible to attend.

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One of the most plutocratic princes of the Orient is his father, but this little son of the Aga Khan worries not at all about wealth's baubles. The tiny dump truck which he holds by a string is quite enough to keep him contented. as he gazes inquiringly about at his parents’ chateau at Aix-les-Bains, France. Woman Tortured by Acid By United Press AKRON. 0.. Oct. A pair of torture bandits splashed acid on the arm of Mrs. Ida E. Gibson. 32. to “make her talk.” then escaped with sls from her home.

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Pictured (left, above) are the two youngsters. As you might readily guess, Johnny, the scientifically trained infant, is the more alert, hands in action ready for all comers. Jimmy is the quiet little fellow. Right, above, Johnny does a Tarzan act on some packing boxes. Right, below, Johnny moving a big chest around, or at least trying to (he’ll try anything once.) Left below, Johnny is after a banana tied to the ceiling light high over his small head, and he'll get it too, or break a leg trying. Photos are by Lena G. Towhsley, New York photographer of children.

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SAFETY PINS FOUND IN POLICEMEN’S GUNS Cleveland Bureau Makes Progress in Correcting Such Conditions. By United Press CLEVELAND, Oct. 6—When the Cleveland police department bureau of arms began teaching policemen to shoot two and a half years ago, rusty safety pins and lint were found in the barrels of officers’ revolvers, says a six-page booklet just published by the bureau superintendent. The booklet, "Straight Shooting Policemen,” of which Lieutenant Harley H. Moffett is author, said that among both patrolmen and higher officers there were such poor shots that they hit the ceiling, or the floor instead of the target. Some 36.000 lessons have been given since then, the booklet says. Lieutenant Moffet urges replacement of 750 antique revolvers now in service, standardization of sidearms, equipment of an outdoor range and a departmental rule which automatically drops a cadet if he can’t learn to shoot during his first year on the force. MAKES RASH PROMISE Attendance Officer Pledges Himself to Prevent Tardiness. By United Press PROVO. Utah. Oct. 6.—School attendance officer T. W. Dyches has given himself a tough job. He has tentatively promised that every school child in his district will be to school on time everyday during the school year. GOLD PAYS FOR PAPER Oregonian Buys Subscription With 26-Grain Nugget. By United Press BAKER, Ore.. Oct. 6—A twenty-five-grain gold nugget seas accepted as payment for a subscription to the Baker-Democrat-Herald. The nugget was sent by F. F. Gillet, miner, of Home, Ore.

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St. Catherine’s Dramatic Club will open its fall season of dances with a party tonight at the Knights of Columbus hall with music provided by the Indiana Vagabonds. Miss Mildred Phillips and John Gillespie are on the committee arranging the affair. Other members of the committee are the Misses Rose Mary Soland, Mary Roche, Catherine Houppert, Thelma Hall, Janet Flashkamp, Margaret Alerding, Phyllis Dichman, Catherine Gillespie and Tim O’Connor, Cliff Schuck, Ed Mertz, Leonard Moriarity, Albert Alhand, Ed Staub and Jm Stoner.

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 FRANCISCO, 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 anew 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 w r as appealing the council decision. But Mr. Green 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 L. won the initial skirmish of the second big controversy of the convention wnen 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 lor 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 labor's attitude toward Section 7-A of the recovery code. LETTERS WRITTEN 21 YEARS AGO DELIVERED Missives Found in Office of County Official, Now Dead. By United Press STEVENS POINT, Wis., Oct. 6. Two letters recently were delivered to their destinations twenty-one years after they were written. Written by former County Clerk Algie Bourn, now dead, they were found by painters behind a collection box in the county clerk’s office in the courthouse. William Gething, one of the addresses, has been dead seventeen years. The letter was delivered to his son Ed, who lives here. WARFARE IS DECLARED AGAINST RAT HORDE Los Angeics to Arm Health Board Inspectors With Shotguns. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6.—ln approved underworld fashion, rats in Los Angeles are to be given “the works” by hard-boiled inspectors armed with heavy shotguns. The police commission authorized arming of health department rodent inspectors with the 410-gauge guns and after a little practice the roundup of rodents will commence. Those disdaining poisoned banquets will be put on the spot.”

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Funeral services for Earl A. Williams, a buyer for Hibben, Hollweg & Cos., wholesale firm, will be held at 1 this afternoon at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Mr. Williams died Wednesday at Methodist hospital after a brief illness.

NEW DIRECTORY COMPILED FOR CITYELECTION 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. Flanary, 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 will 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 courtty 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. DOG HAS GOLD TEETH Dentist’s Canine Easily Identified, He Tells Police. By United Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Oct. 6. Police were asked to search for Dr. E. G. Lillis’ lo6t dog, told the animal could be identified by itss gold teeth. Dr. Lillis is a dentist.

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JAPAN FORCING U.S., BRITAIN INTO NAVY RAGE Death Knell of Treaties to Be Sounded Before November's End. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srripp'-Hnward Fnrflrn 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 short - ly to resume in London. Not only will Japan's decision precipitate a world situation fraught with danger to international relations, but it will constitute another

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epochal step taken by her to mako 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 pacifio 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 thia country a free hand. Race Almost Inevitable Already the United States plans 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. CINCINNATI PROFESSOR TO VISIT LEPER COLONY Doctor Will Test Climate Theory on Unfortunate Victims. By United Press CINCINNATI, Oct. 6.—A University of Cincinnati professor will spend several months in a Philippine leper colony during the coming year. To study the practical application of his theory of the effect of climate on disease, Dr. Clarence A. Mills, professor of experimental medicine in the school of medicine, will leave in October for the islands. His leave is being granted through provision of the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy. Much of the five months he will be abroad will be spent in the leper colony at Culion.