Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1937 — Page 25

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By United Press WASHINGTON, April 30.—Federal regulation of natural-gas rates in interstate commerce, which has been proposed and postponed for the past three years, seems likely to be ordered by Congress this spring.

<The House Interstate Commerce Committee has reported a regulatory bill and has done so early enough in the session to make engctment possible.

‘The bill would give the Federal! Power Commission much the same

Jurisdiction over natural gas that

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it now exercises over interstate transactions in electric power. The commission is directed to determine the cost of property used in rendering service, to prescribe a system of accounts, to determine proper depreciation rates, and to fix rates for natural gas sold for resale to the public.

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states produce natural gas and that 35 states consume it. In 1934, 1,764,988,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas were sold for a total of $394,000,000. Of this sum $260,000,000 was in pay-

state commerce. Thus Federal authorities would obtain control over approximately, two-thirds of the natural-gas industry if the bill were enacted. Little opposition developed at committee hearings. A number of

large cities are actively interested in passage of the bill.

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RELIEF CLIENT OFF FOR CORONATION

By United Press DETROIT, April 30.—Mrs. Violet Crocker, welfare client, was en route to England today to attend the coronation of King George VI while chagrined welfare authorities threatened reprisals against her husband, Harry, a city employee. Dubious at first, welfare authorities had scoffed at the possibility the middle-aged, bespectacled woman could have undertaken the trip on her welfare budget. But today they learned the woman had en-

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trained for Montreal last night from Windsor, Ont. They began an. investigation and learned that Mrs. Crocker kept three boarders, had done ‘‘outside” work never reported to the Welfare Department and had received an unspecified sum from a sister, Mrs. Rose Foster, who lives in England and whom Mrs. Crocker hasn't seen for 26 years.

SPONSORS DANCE The junior class of Indiana Law School, evening division, is sponsor=ing a dance tomorrow night in the Knights of Columbus Hall, with Bob Greenen’s orchestra. The public is welcome.

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DOUGLAS M’ARTHUR WEDS IN NEW YORK

By United Press NEW YORK, April 30.— Gen. Douglas MacArthur, 57, field marshal of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and former chief of staff of the United States Army, married Jean Faircloth of Murfreesboro, Tenn., in a private ceremony today. - Gen. MacArthur and his bride will leave for the West Coast soon after-

ward, and will sail for Manila on May 10. The marriage was Gen. MacArthur's second. In 1922 he married Mrs. Walter Brooks, daughter of Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia. She obtained a divorce in Reno, in 1930, and now is the wife of Lionel Atwill, the actor.

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12 DIE IN MINE BLAST By United Press 0 . BRUSSELLS, April 30—Twelve miners were killed and nine injured in an explosion of fire damp today at Memberg, near Charleroi.

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