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Governor Promises Support To Any Recodification Move Introduced.

LIQUOR INQUIRY NEARS

Committee to Be Named This Week to Study Possible Changes.

Governor Townsend today promised to support any action of the

1939 Legislature for recodification

and clarification of the State's election laws, repeated his pledge, to appoint a committee to study changes in the liquor control system and made plans to confer with the State Board of Accounts on changes in procedure for that department.

In his first press conference since the Nov. 8 election, the Governor laughingly declared: "I think Indiana was the beacon light of democracy north of the Mason-Dixon line. A look at other Northern states shows that Republicans were particularly successful in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and others.” The Governor also said that he knew of no contemplated moves to reorganize the Democratic State Committee, or to change State department heads. Reorganization is held automatically every two years, and the Governor said he couldn’t see from a practical point of view why an organization. would want to make changes in between.

Denies Police Merger

He also denied there was any contemplated move to combine the State Excise and State Police forces —an action which could be carried out on Executive order. Explaining that he was for anything “which would primarly guarantee an honest election,” the Governor declared: “Members of the State Election Board suggested to me some time ago that the election laws were not particularly faulty, but that there was such a long string of them and they had been amended so many times, that it was almost impossible for two lawyers to sit down and agree on what the law was. "Fred Gause, Republican State Election Board member, said we probably should have a recodification of our election laws. "I am of the opinion that it would be quite a service if this session of the Legislature took some steps in that direction.

"An honest election is the key-

- stone on which the democratic system rests.” Up to Legislature

The Governor said he did not plan to appoint any recodification committee himself, but would prefer to leave that matter up to the Legislature which convenes Jan. 5. Pointing out that it was too short a time before this session to prepare recodification, he said the Legislature could either appoint a commission when it convened, which would report before the 60-day session was completed, or name a commission to report for the 1941 Legislature. Declaring that he would appoint a five-member, bipartisan committee to study changes in the liquor law yet this week, the Governor said he would make only the following two recommendations: 1. That a system be retained which would prohibit big liquor interests in the country from controlling the setup. 2. That no system be established which would eat up an unusually large amount of revenue to operate.

Points to Revenue

As further explanation of his first point, the Governor said he was particularly anxious that the State avoid establishing any system such as was in operation during pre(Continued on Page Five)

BROTHER BELIEVES

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 6 (U. P).—~The Duke of Kent, en route to Oslo to attend the funeral of his aunt, Queen Maud, told the newspaper National Tidende that he believed his brother, the Duke of Windsor, would return to England to live. He did not elaborate.

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Shopping Days Till Christmas

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ITALY WAS RUMORED IN CONTROL OF MUSSOLINI LOOKING Back to Christmas 16 Years Ago—Italy was rumored in control of Mussolini. . , , Three inventors were demonstrating novel "talking movie” almost simultaneously.... Announcement that electric light current instead of batteries might be used soon for their receiving sets added to holiday cheer of radio fans. . : . Administration

The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Light rain or snow tonight; tomorrow cloudy, with little change in temperature; lowest tonight about 35.

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 231

Rush Is On for Jobs at New Plant . . . .

F.D.R. STUDIES FOREIGN POLICY

‘No New Deal Retreat,’ He Says in Speech; Garner Boom Launched.

(Roosevelt Text, Pages 14 and 15; Editorial, Page 18)

from a Southern holiday and plunged immediately into new conferences on international affairs.

vacation in Georgia reviewed the foreign situation with U. S. Ambassadors to Rome and Berlin, re-

Hugh R. Germany, William Phillips,

conferred with Mr. the White House. The review of the international situation took precedence on Mr. Roosevelt’s calendar as he returned to the Capital confident the nation is “going places” and ready W¥ prime the New Deal to carry on before a

'new and more hostile Congress.

Guffey Angers Anti-New Dealers

Addressing University of North Carolina students at Chapel Hill, en route to Washington, the President showed the New Deal ready .to go onward.

that better days were

not by one-man

capitalistic system.

tion policy before the Jan. 3 meeting of a new Congress elected last month in the first political reverse suffered by the New Deal. As he returns, the New -Deal-Democratic Party is echoing with somewhat

demand of Senator Guffey (D. Pa.)

term.

leaders of the anti-New gressional bloc, |

Garner’s ‘Friends Start ‘Draft’ Drive

DETROIT, Tex. Dec. 6 (U. P.).— Friends of Vice [Président Garner rally today to “draft” Presidential candidate for 1940.

They were led |by Roy Miller of Corpus Christi, A life-long friend,

Deal Con-

Jand by Tom de Berry, member of

the Texas Board of Control and another friend of long standing. Others who went to school with Mr. Garner in this northeast Texas community 50 years ago, helped ar-

and took on the nature of a “home-

be here by 2 p. m.

sanctioned . the movement. He remade no statement. overall-clad farmers and the townsmen who were his boyhood comi were unconcerned. One said:

he hasn’t said no, either.”

A a — DEMOCRATIC REPLIES

AWAITED BY COURT

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By ited Press

Members of [the Supreme Court delay by attorneys candidates in the on in filing replies to briefs. from Republican candidates decision on whether

said today thai for | Democrati November elect

is holding up a recount of the votes in seven counties will be held.

However, members of the Court

said that the reply briefs of Senator VanNuys and other Democratic candidates may be filed today and that a decision s week still is a possibility. The Demo

the recount, and the briefs pending now concern whether the temporary writs should be made permanent, 4 : ; : . FIRE AT GRANITE CO.

35( E. New York St., today de-

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today returned

The President, who during his

sumed diplomatic conferences today. Hugh R. Wilson, Ambassador to Germany, William Phillips, Ambassador to Italy, Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles and William C. Bullitt, Ambassador to France, conferred with Mr. Roosevelt at

onward. He assured the nation that better days were coming through democratic processes—and not by one-man regimentation. Again he pledged support to the

Mr. Roosevelt is confronted now with final decisions on Administra-

Applicants line up for 350 jobs at Stewart-Warner Corp.’s new refrigerator plant.

Rain or Snow Is Forecast For Tonight

TEMPERATURES

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35 35 36 38

Light rain or snow was forecast for tonight by the Weather Bureau, with cloudy skies and little change in temperature: for tomorrow.

The lowest temperature forecast for tonight was about

FRENCH-GERMAN ACCORD SIGNED

EUROPE PARIS—Traditional enemies sign peace pledge. ROME—Students demonstrate for French colonies. LONDON—Eden reported returning to Cabinet. MEMEL—Nazis predict landslide in election Sunday. BERLIN — French demonstrations against Italy criticized. HENDAYE—Franco to bomb 200 villages. THE AMERICAS AT SEA—Hull and aids warned task at Lima will not be easy. HAVANA—U. S. may loan Cuba 50 million for defense.

THE FAR EAST

TOKYO—Japan sends stern note to Russia.

SHANGHAI—Chinese rally at

Changssha.

angry discussions ‘of the week-end that the President’ seek a third “It is asinine statements like that of Senator Guffey that tend to help

Republicans to victory,” said Senator Wheeler (D. Mont.), one of the

him as a

range the convention which drew political leaders from over the State

n Detroit was swelled to twice its normal 1500 population last night as the vanguard arrived and sponsors predicted that 5000 would m ‘Mr. Garner neither attended nor

mained at his Uvalde home and But the

“Wal, he hasnit said yes—but then

atic candidates obtained temporary writs: prohibiting].

PARIS, Dec. 6 (U.P.) —The Foreign Ministers of Germany and France today signed a cream-colored sheet of sheepskin parchment pledging the two historic enemies to meet at a conference table” instead of resorting to war for settlement of their disputes. - The document—signed by Nazi Fereign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet on the spot where the Briand-Kellogg antiwar treaty was initialed a decade ago— may profundly affect future European relations. But only future developments will demonstrate

document or a political gecture like the Kellogg Pact. Its formal purpose is to pledge both nations to outlaw war as an instrument in settling disputes. It bearns no time limit. Hence the two powers agree to recognize their present common frontier along the Rhine after generations of sporadic warfare and to negotiate all future troubles, avoiding resort to force unless all efforts toward compromise fail. ; The ceremony of signing the document was on a brilliant stage in the Clock Salon of the Quai d'Orsay, (Continued on Page Five)

23 NEW SUITS FILED AGAINST LEAD FIRM

Twenty-three more suits, asking a total of $143,000 damages, were filed in Superior Court today against the American Lead Corp. , The suits were brought by ipdividuals living in the vicinity of the corporation’s factory in the 1600 block on E. 21st.St. The suits claim damages for illness which the plaintiffs. ‘charge was: caused by lead fumes from the factory. More than 40 similar suits have been filed against the corporation by other residents in that neighborhood during the last three months. Corporation officials declined to comment on the actions.

BULLETIN (Earlier Details on Page 26)

NEW ALBANY, Ind, Dec. 6 (U.P.)~Two examiners of the State Board of Accounts, Claude Gladden of Scottsburg and J. E. Crandall of New Albany, today pleaded not guilty when arraigned in Floyd Circuit Court on an dictments charging them with - concealing defalcations in the County Treasurer's office. - Both were released on ‘bonds totaling $4000 each. No date

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1938

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UPTURN BRINGS REALTY SALES

Two Factory Deals Made, 14 Homes Purchased,

- Store Lease Signed.

The upturn of Indianapolis business was given added impetus today with completion of plans for the operation of two large industrial plants, the sale of 14 North Side

houses and the scheduled opening of a new retail store. More than 350 men are beginning work in the Stewart-Warner Corp.’s new refrigerator manufacturing unit being moved here from Chicago. The corporation eventually expects to employ 2000 men at its recently purchased Plant 2 of the Marmon Industrial District. This 21-acre. unit, containing 550,000 square feet of floor space, is at 1000 York St. It is said to be one of the largest local industrial properties. - On Jan, 2 the Conservador refrigerator division of Fairbanks, Morse & Co. will become a unit of the Philco Radio and Television Corp. The lease at 2060 Northwestern Ave. has been acquired by the

| Philco organization, which will con-

tinue operation for the present. The refrigerator plant was moved here from Chicago in January, 1936. Meanwhile, Klein & Kuhn, Inc, announced leasing of the ground floor of 11 N. Meridian St. to the Maud Muller Candy Co. The new store will be managed by Mrs. Thelma Cain, H. J. Jeffrey, company president, stated, and will be opened Dec. 10. The main offices and kitchen of the firm are in Dayton. William L. Bridges, chairman of the North Side Realtors, anhounced the sale of 14 houses, three lots and a home building contract, totaling $117,250.

INDIANA YOUTH HELD IN MARSHAL'S KILLING

Ohio Officer Slain After 73Cent Robbery.

CLYDE, O., Dec. 6 (U. P.).—A 19-year-old Indiana youth who has a brother and sister who are Bible students in Chicago, admitted today that he shot and killed the Clyde town marshal when he chased him after a 73-cent gasoline-station rob-

bery. The youth told police he was Rex Bush, of Mentone, Ind., They said he would be charged with first-de-gree murder later today in the death of Marshal Neil Fowler.

Bush earlier had said he was from

Chicago and had given another name. He said he was the son of Mrs. Elsie Bush, a widow. He has two brothers and two sisters, he said— Jack, 23, a student in Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind.; Lova, 21, and Philip, 17, studying Bible in Chicago, and Eunice, 14, at home.

Chilled Bodies Numb Minds of Pupils Who Prefer School Because It's Warm

HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Clothe-A-Child campaign, just opened, is the way more fortunate persons can help. The Times has set up headquarters at 206

W. Maryland St. with a staff on duty from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Here are the ways you can

Donor’s List, Page Five) TO a percentage of Indianapolis schoolchil-

dren too large to ignore, school is secondarily a place to learn, and is primarily a place to get warm.

When classes are dismissed they wrap all the clothes they can call their own around them, and leave the warm school buildings for homes that are often below healthy temperatures. If on the way to or from school they get wet, then they stay wet until the clothes dry on them. If they catch a cold, they probably keep it all winter and are lucky if they have enough resistance left to ward off more serious illness. What they learn during their winter, academic months is most likely to be that some children have warm homes and they don’t; that some children have warm clothes and they

don’t.

clothing, Dr. Charles Myers, superintendent,

estimates.

The three go pretty much together; where

you find one you are likely to find the other

two, he said. In any case, one is a complement

of the other and makes the children more vulnerable to the others, he said.

JUNIOR C.OF C. SPONSORS CITY MANAGER BILL

Enabling Act Would Give Cities Right to Choose Form of Rule.

STUDIED THREE YEARS

Vote Proposed if Law Is Passed by 1939 Legislature.

A bill to enable all Indiana cities to choose between the present Mayor-Council form of government and the City Manager plan, will be sponsored in the 1939 Legislature by the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, its officers announced today. Yesterday Mayor-elect Reginald H. Sullivan reaffirmed that he would support a practicable city manager movement if it is initiated by civic leaders. Junior Chamber officials said they are drafting the bill to take care of technicalities which resulted in the State Supreme Court's declaring unconstitutional a similar measure passed by the Legislature in 1921 and amended in 1927, On June 21, 1927, Indianapolis voted overwhelmingly to accept the City Manager plan but the court ruled, in effect, that the legislative act was unconstitutional because of the way it prescribed establishment of the system. ’ The opinion pointed out, however, that it was not the intention of the Court to deprive citizens of the

form of government. Yes—No Vote Possible E. J. Green, Junior Chamber president, said the bill would set up rigid qualifications for the selection of a manager, provide. for a more ade-

quate merit system and insure the political independence of city employees. If the bill is passed, he said, the cities would have the right to vote “yes” or “no” on the City Manager plan if a sufficient number of voters petitioned that it be placed on the election ballot. The number . of petitioners required would be prescribed in the bill : Mr. Green said the Chamber also is considering the inclusion of a provision for proportional representation voting in the measure. The organization's officers sald they would seek to have the City Manager plan placed on the ballot at the next-election here, providing a satisfactory law is passed.

Procedure Challenged

The 1921 law, ‘declared unconstitutional, provided that before the voters of a city could ballot on the change to the City Manager plan, a petition had to be filed with the City Clerk bearing signatures of 20 per cent of the voters at the previous municipal election. The clerk than was to certify the petition to the City Council. The Supreme Court, in its opinjon handed down in the fall of 1929, said, in part: : “At no place in the act is judicial machinery set up which determines a mode of procedure necessary for the Clerk of the City to follow. . . . The complaint challenges the action of the Clerk of the City in certifying to the legislative body of the City that the petition has been signed by a sufficient number of qualified electors (the petition for the special election), for the reason that the work necessary for such Clerk of the City to perform in determining such 19,000 electors (12 per cent of the Indianapolis voters) were qualified or not is an impossible requirement.”

Analyzed for Three Years The decision of the Chamber to sponsor a bill followed a threeyear study by the City Manager Committee, which will meet Thursday for assignments in drawing up the bill. Members are John Rocap, chairman; Elmon Williams, Fred Shick, Gerald Redding, Harold Bredell, Harry Ice, Fletcher Hub-

An average of 10 children a day are treated at City Hospital for diseases that arise directly from bad food, bad housing and inadequate

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school is secis primarily a participate: sonally, call quarters.

* the rest.

superintendent,

find the other ing gifts.

children more to $12.

For these children, most of them, schools are ;

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so many. million dollars worth of heated

‘waiting rooms. Their bodies, fighting cold, have

little enough to give the brain for study

And so,

Entered as Second-Class

‘at Postofice, Indianagplis, Ind.

Mother Love

Baby Abandoned Because It Needed Care, Girl Says.

State of their right to choose their|,

WRITTEN into the police record today was the story of 19-year-old unmarried mother who, though she loved her baby “more than anything else in the world,” nevertheless abandoned it on an Indianapolis doorstep Saturday so it could have the medical attention she knew it needed. Arrested last night at her Tipton home, she was under care for nervous shock today in City Hospital. Police charged her with child neglect. When the girl discovered she was to become a mother, she told police, she confided only in a 20-year-old girl friend and the father, a Tipton youth. He drove the two girls to within five miles of Indianapolis Oct. 4. She and the other girl, who financed the confinement here with savings from her job in a candy factory, police said, walked the five miles into Indianapolis and rented a North Side apartment. On Nov. 16, she said, she had her baby in a local hospital. On Dec. 4, she said, they heard some women talking about adopting a baby, and conceived the idea of leaving the child as a foundling.

I KNEW the baby needed hospital attention and I knew I had no money to finance it,” she told police. “I love the baby more than anything in the world, but I thought it would be best. I knew that sooner or later someone would find out, but I was desperate.” The girls discovered they had only a quarter above bus fare to Tipton. So they got into a taxi with the baby and told the driver to take them as far north as 25 cents would pay for. That was the 1600 block of N. Delaware St. There, she said, she placed the baby on the porch of the home of John . Barton, rang the doorbell, knocked on the window and fled. The two girls walked back to the Traction Terminal and then took a bus to Tipton, she said. The other girl is charged with contributing to delinquency and they are to be arraigned in Juvenile Court.

20 DIE, 38 HURT

IN MINE CRASH

Cable Snaps, Sending Train Plunging Down Shaft in Nova Scotia.

SYDNEY MINES, N. S., Dec. 6 (U. P.) —A mine train carrying between 250 and 300 men broke loose today, plunged a mile down steeply inclined tracks and smashed to pieces deep in the diggings of the Princess Colliery, which extends out under Sydney Harbor. Five hours after the accident, it was established that at least 20 miners had been killed. Rescue crews, still digging into the wreckage, feared they would find additional bodies. Thirty-eight injured had been taken to hospitals and some of them were in serious condition. The train was composed of 26 small, box-like cars with high sides. Each carried from 10 to 15 men entering the workings on the day shift. The train was controlled from the surface by a cable, which was paid out to let the train roll slowly down steep, corkscrew passages that led to the bottom of the workings, three miles from the entrance. The cable parted when the train was less than half way down. Faster and faster the cars careened through the narrow passage, bumped crazily around the turns. Men climbed over the high sides of the cars and jumped. Some were crushed to death against the walls of. the mine. Some fell under the wheels. Some escaped. . Most of them stayed in the train, however. It finally jumped the tracks and piled up against the mine wall in a heap of splintered wood

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Action Unlikely on New Request, Is Report.

$608,846 IS ASKED

Work Must Start by Jan. 1 to Get Federal Aid.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer ; WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The original $421,596 PWA grant to the City for elevation of the Indianapolis Union Railway (Belt) tracks on the South Side has been rescinded, it was learned here today. Fajlure of the Belt and the Pennsylvania Railroad, which also uses the Belt tracks at the point of proposed elevation, to co-operate in the project apparently will prevent a new grant from being included in the present PWA program, authorities said. Under PWA rules grants are to go only to projects that can get under way by Jan. 1, 1939, and be complete by June 30, 1940. is According to officials at PWA headquarters here, the order rescinding the Indianapolis grant was dated Dec, 1. But a new application for a grant, increased by $187,250, has been received from the Chicago regional office, they said. Under the new setup the total PWA grant: would be $608,846 and the total project cost $1,352,991. The previous project total estimate was $936,879. Since Howard A. Gray, assistant PWA administrator, has been informed of the failure of the city to obtain co-operation of the railroads in the track elevation project, it is considered unlikely that any action will be taken now on the new application, it was explained.

GAS & COKE UTILITY SESSION DELAYED

Trustees of the Indianapolis Gas & Coke Utility were to continue today their annual meeting which was supposed to have started yesterday but did not. By statute, the trustees are required to meet the first Monday in December, which was yesterday. When a quorum failed to show up, the meeting was declared “recessed.” It was to be resumed in Mayor Boetcher’s office at 2 p. m. today. Albert Rabb, attorney for the board, said that the statute which sets the date of the meeting also provides for recesses in event the board does not finish its business. The trustees are expected to nominate a successor to A. M. Glossbrenner, trustee who died recently. The nomination will be sent to Mayor Boetcher, who will make the appointment.

9 DIE DRIVING HERE TO BUY YULE GIFTS

Three Others Hurt in Crash Near Oaklandon.

Two Anderson men were dead today and a third was in a serious condition at St. Vincent's Hospital, their Christmas plans ended by an

atito accident on State Road 67 west of Oaklandon last night. Two other occupants of the car, which was bound for Indianapolis, suffered internal injuries, State Police said. The driver of the second car involved was slightly hurt. The dead are: Charles J. Doyle Jr., 30, of 2803 E. Lynn St., Anderson. Leland F. Rudrow, 39, of 3629 Main St., Anderson, The injured are: Harold Wyatt, 41, Anderson, chest injuries, in serious condition at St. Vincent's. Hunter Bowman, 52, Anderson, internal injuries and injured shoulder. Raymond Lennen, 48, Lapel, internal injuries. George W. Thompson, McCordsville, driver of the other car, head lacerations. “According to State Police, the Anderson group, all employees of the Delco-Remy plant there, was. en route to Indianapolis to buy gifts for a Christmas party at the plant. The car, driven by Mrs. Hortense Bowman, skidded on mud on the edge of the pavement, State Police said, and shot across the pavement into the path of Mr. Thompson's

Die on Way to Hospital The Bowman car went into a ditch, throwing Mr. Doyle from the car, police said. He and Mr. Rudrow died en route to City Hospital. Mr. Doyle was said to be an inspection foreman at the Delco(Continued on Page Four)

REMC GRANTED $55,000

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (U. P).— ‘The Rural Electrification Administration today allocated $8,611,000 for

for ‘a step toward vileged children

PWA RESCINDS $421,596 GRANT "FOR ELEVATIO!

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City Presses Fight;

Council Passes Two: | Ordinances.

ROADS BLAMED |

Failure to Co-Operate May Block u. S. Funds.

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' The $421,596 PWA grant for South Side track elevation has beea rescinded, and failure of the rails. - roads to co-operate likely will pres vent a new grant, from being ine cluded in the present PWA pros gram, it was learned at Wasghings ton today. ; : oe Meanwhile, City Council kept up its fight for the project by passing a ordinances ordering the sale of bonds for $318,000 and appropriating the proceeds to finance the City’s share of the project. Officials said passage of both ordinances clears the way for the City to initiate legal action against. the Indianapolis (Belt) Railway, since it gives evidence that the City’ could finance its share of the project. ; Ye As it was learned that the orig= inal grant had been rescinded im Washington, Floyd Mattice, Cors' poration Counsel, declared he be< lieved the grant was “lost.” _ Boetcher Is Optimistic ie “In my opinion, we have lost that grant,” he said. “It would be ime possible for the City to begin con= struction on elevation before Jan 1, 1939, when unused Federal grants expire.” Mr. Matiice has been hands ling legal aspects of the project. Under the PWA, grants are to g¢ only to projects that can get unde way by Jan. 1 and be completed ‘June 30, 1940. : gin Mayor Boetcher, after being ‘13 formed of Mr. Mattice’s statementy said he “hadn’t heard anythihig to the effect that the grant has been

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ect through.” Louis C. Brandt, Works Bt president, and Henry B. Steeg, City engineer, also were optimistic, * Increased Grant Asked Cie

The original grant of $421,596 was the Government's contribution toward the $1,000,000 project, rep= resenting 45 per cent of the total cost. ; Of the remaining 55 per cent, the railroad was to pay 50 per cent, the City 34 per cent and the County 18 per cent. ’ 3 The original grant was made § under the City’s\plan which called § for elevation of tne Belt tracks at | Madison Ave., East and Singleton Sts., disregarding elevation of cut-im switches of the Pennsylvania Railroad at these points. ; When the railroads announce they would be unable to proceed with the plan, and that elevation of the Belt tracks would require vation of the cut-in switches at an increase in cost, the City applied for an extension on the origina grant, which brought the total pros posed grant to $608,846 and the to estimated cost to $1,352,991.

Suit Is Prepared

This increase was to pay for the City share of the cost of raising the elevation of the Pennsylvania switches. 2 The City’s declaration that would sue the Belt for specific per= formance in equity was made on the basis of a contract between the Belt and the City made in 1925, which the City claims the Sell agreed to elevation in piecem and that the proposed elevation : part of that stipulated in the con=" tract. oi ; Mr. Mattice said the case has | been in preparation for two weeks. It has not been filed to date. ©

Council Fails to Act On Utility Proposal

The question of the possibility © purchase by the City of the In= dianapolis Water Co. will remain & problem for the next City C to solve. The outgoing Council last n in its next to final meeting b retiring, instructed President. ward B. Raub to reply to a ( made on the question of purchas by the Indiana Federation of Coms munity Civic Clubs. The Federation had reque more definite information taking a stand on the purchase the water company. gh

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