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UTILITY EXPERT 10 AID CITY IN WATER SURVEY
Dickerman to Confer With Municipal Group Monday, Following Loan to Indianapolis By U. S. Trade Commission.
ESTATE SETS PRICE AT $22,825,000
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Executors Confirm Figure Given by McNear; Federal Consultant Was Help to Local Board in Electric Rate Case.
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Judson E. Dickerman, Federal Trade Commission utility expert, will come here Monday to begin a survey of the Indianapolis Water Co. for the City to determine its value, Word that the City's request to borrow Mr. Dickerman’s |services had been granted by the Government was received Prime Minister Mackenzie King accompanies the King and Queen down the gangplank, {by Mayor Sullivan at noon from Rep. Louis Ludlow, who ' x m— negotiated the matter for the City.
» ® » » * » ] i ——— a a ———— —— . ——— s— | | . ve " Meanwhile, executors of the C. H. Geist estate definitely | Roval Laugh? NEXT 90 DAYS Bill A d V1SCS U S ENTERS set their price at $22,825,000. 3 | Yi | " " | Their decision was reached at a conference in Chicago | | |
Emilie Imp of Quins | Crop Control | ‘with C. W., McNear, investment broker representing the | ) HELD WAR KEY . HARLAN CRISIS Earlier, Mr. McNear had informed the City he was GEORGE DECLARES Does Her Curtsey | Ot |.a wvers | ‘unable to name a definite price because of Federal inherie | Upside Down, | | ’ ‘tance tax problems, but that he was confident an offer of —— If Strife’s Averted Now, It
: pe TALLAHASSEE. Fla. May Perkins Names Mediator as $22,825,000 net by the City would be “considered favorably” i Gonpa y ¥ 17 (U. P)—A bill to plow ‘ by the estate. Monarch, First Reigning Briton to Set Foot in May Mean Long Peace, | li. uiery third lawyer in Troops Get ‘Shoot to |™¥ "© le local ntioineve. Fred. Bate . Florida and relieve ihe com ale Mr. McNear phoned his local attorney, Fred Bates New World, Jumps as Flash Bulbs Ex- Experts Believe. Kill" Order. | Johnson, of the decision and said he was reporting it in a plode; Wife Thinks First of Children.
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His Majesty, in the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, reviews his Guard of Honor.
ALLANDER, Ontario, May 17 (U. P..—Emilie, mischievous member of the Dionne quin- | tuplets, had the entire nursery | staff in a diplomatic dither today through her insistence that a royal curtsey must take the form of a head stand. Her sisters—Yvonne, Annette, Cecile and Marre—are letter perfect in the gestures of homage they will pay to King George and Queen Elizabeth at their audience on May 22. At the practice session they made gracerul curtseys in the best ~ | court manner, but Emilie stood on her head. The trouble is, Nurses Molly O'Shaughnessy and Louise Corriveau admitted ruefully today, that
gestion in that profession was | Holdre 4-legisinbive Contos letter being sent to the Mayor today. Mr. Dickerman is described as one of the ablest utility
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS today. Times Foreign Editor Rep. George WASHINGTON, May 17.—Unless| Introduced it. SuvoRated HARLAN, Ky., May 17 (U. P). — engineers in the country. plowings 3 yes! AR (National Guardsmen patroling Har | —
war breaks out in the next 90 days, similar to those used in crop inside opinion here and in London, control.” Paris and Warsaw is that there The bill was referred to the wiil be no general conflict for a| House Committee on Live-
stock. long time to come—perhaps years. Here are the chief reasons ad-
Scofield. who | (Another Story, Page Six) “two ———— —=| A native of Boston, he was [len County coal mines had “shoot- graduated from the Massae Tosti” Ordets ony ‘because. of «2000 DISCIPLES chusetts Institute of Techs (implied union threat to remove the | Ee A militia’s “intimidation.” nology in the class of 1895, "| The order was announced by Brig. | THRONG CHURCH Since that time he has been |Gen. Ellerbe Carter, in command of
in nearly every state in the the 810 guardsmen, and followed an
1. The big danger spot is Danzig. R : union as a consultant on utile
But Danzig, in fact, is already Nazi. appeal by officials of the United problems.
| War would net Herr Hitler little or | | { i i ity nothing he cannot gain by nego- | HURT IN FALLS Mine Workers of America to Presi- Dr. Poling Moved by Scene The FTC loaned him to Indians
By WEBB MILLER
United Press Staff Cerrespondent QUEBEC, May 17.—A British sovereign trod Canadian soil today for the first time since the Dominion of the Maple Leaf came under the swav of the Union Jack almost two! canturies ago. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, bound on a long |
| tiation, as suggested by the Polish dent Roosevelt for withdrawal of the et. Sen. Setwl | Foreign Minister. That is, unless troops which have protected mines As Overflow Crowd [Apo Several Yeas A A le | his purpose is to destroy Poland operating on a nonunion basis since Attends Conclave. Baad ls SROERSE as = witiase {00 case resulted in
| and
seizure of Danzig Sunday.
they made the mistake of laughing when Emilie first performed the stunt, They fear that Emilie, the marked individualist of the
| therefore, would be the signal that
2. Forcible
Herr Hitler has begun his final step
| to dominate Europe.
That would
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Union officials warned the President in a telegram that union miners and citizens near Creech’s
A noted theologian was moved visibly today as a throng of 2000
[the City in that the: decision to seek his services lagain in the water company negoe | tiations.
Mine at Twila, Ky. were threatening “to remove the intimidation of soldiers and machine guns who are Enon | blockading highways.” They feared Two workmen were injured today “rioting and bloodshed” if troops re-
five girls, will perform her upsidedown curtsey to get a royal laugh. The quintuplets will be presented to Their Majesties in the music room of the Ontario Legis- | lature building with only the royal | couple, two ladies-in-waiting, Papa and Mama Dionne and the coup in the Mediterranean is betwo nurses in attendance. lieved past. France's Mareth line _—, —the Maginot line of Tunisia—is
now regarded as invulnerable HOOSIER IS NABBED against any force Italy is likely to IN ‘CHILD STEALING’
hurl against it. The Anglo-French Navy has a 2-to-1 superiority over Father Arrested Upstate With Stepdaughter.
and arduous trip through Empress of Australia at 8:35 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). PEACE EFFORTS Several hours after the din of wel- | somewhat, the King said at a Gov-| gp | precipitate a general European war, ernment luncheon held in the Russian Mutual Aid Pact ‘which the Fuehrer is said to be se- | ancient Frontenac Chateau: | leretly as anxious to avoid as is| “Mr, Prime Minister: I am deeply] |pndicated: Plan Free to| the Queen and myself on behalf of! Palestine State.
| Prime Minister Chamberlain. falls, one escaping |
filled the Central Christian Church
for the morning session of the Indi-
ana Churches of Christ centennial| Recently Mr. Dickerman has been convention. {devoting most of his time to the
Every seat was occupied in the| Tennessee Valley Authority, which
Sago liiy or oe Ning | Main He V2e CORNY. also borrowed him from the FTC rch, e of the five largest in|3~% ’ dh Ghusethe. on 8 | Rep. Ludlow told Mayor Sullivan
bruises and a soaking after falling | from a bridge into White River, ! Request Referred the city. Others crowded the chapel | the other suffering serious injuries yp, washington the White House and leaned over the balcony railings.| that the Federal Trade Commission in a 25-foot fall from a house revealed that President Roosevelt| “This I will count as one of the had agreed to loan Mr. Dickerman Robert Cole, 31, of 1019 Broadway. aq referred the miners’ appeal to|great experiences of my life,” were to the City for as long as he Is fell 25 feet while he was working on {es justice Department. the first words of Dr. Daniel A. heeded, and that the expert had a duplex at 1231 Broadway, the| mite House Secretary Stephen T. Poling of Philadelphia, the principal agreed to work here for the same home of Mrs. Laura Graham. Early said Mr. Roosevelt felt that speaker. salary he receives from the come As Mr. Cole was being taken to, “pederal Government had no| Dr. Poling is president of the Mission. During his leave of abCity Hospital, the ambulance, driven |, qe. to act on such an appeal un-|World’s Christian Endeavor Union, sence. he will not be paid by the uy ae Na ICH fresh, cplided iif: Hess asked by State Government of-|pastor of the Philadelphia Baptisy| commission. ollarieliuparet Another ambulance continued the | ACIalS. Temple; SRO of We LClistiun Indi oe ls oy Di ote im d Greek coalition. trip ; ul Secretaty ot Soo PerRing ue Flefald nd s aor of the Temple B ol) a Be oe Se 4, Spain is now thought to be . . a {dered John L. Connor of the = | University faculty. | rr Hy : | definitely out of any Rome-Berlin | Neith a Cy ana reSh | partment of Labor conciliation serv-| Taking as his theme the query or{ofien oh Work heres Lies eles line-up, so far as actual fighting is | tere. ‘were injured in the crash. | 168 to come here and try to assist|the Disciples, “Carest Thou Not?" tric rate cas as most interesting | A hr > olin a settlement, when Jesus was unmoved by a storm (and I consider it one of my oute on the Sea of Galilee, Dr. Poling standing jobs of consultation. said: | “InitI was able toshow that costs
concerned. France could take : i a " SOUTH BEND, May 17 (U. P.).— Spanish Morocco without great dif=| pr oon in ie from (hs fol oned | In Frankfort, Governor Chandler ficulty, in case of need. with native | SC 09 1h IES ITU VES Were | said he would be glad to do what he “Life is a search. Some people Were made excessive through net (Continued on Page Two) work powar production which could —— be consolidated and put into a sine
troops. The Nazi fleet has returned Seto. {could to bring union miners and opgl
Consulted on TVA
Crashes With Auto.
: | Canada and to the United IDEN hn : | States, disembarked from the coming ceremonies had died down | moved by your words of welcome the Canadian people.
3. The moment for an Italian
Calls Moment Historic BY United Press
I recognize that this moment is Great Britain's campaign for an
historic. It is the first time that a LA Gi ; ; " ia : antiaggression front spread bevond British King has crossed the At- 88 }
lantic. I stand today on the soil Europe's boundaries today with
of North America. Here, in the past strong threats of trouble in the Near two centuries, through loss and |East. through gain, the British Common-| Three developments marked negowealth of nations has been largely |tiations between the rival Britishmolded into its present form. led and German-led blocs: “This is also the first visit of the| 1. Britain’s Cabinet apparently Sovereign to one of his oversea do- approved a new note to Soviet Rusminions. It is fitting that it should sia making concessions in the genbe to the senior Dominion of the eral direction of a limited mutual Crown. I am particularly pleased aid pact intended to bring the Sov- | that, on the day of my atrival in|iets into the united front. Canada I should have the pleasure 2. The Scandinavian countries — pynn Landis, 32, is in jail charged
of meeting, not only my ministers, Norway, Sweden and Finland—po- ; : " but all the members of my Privy litely rejected Germany's offer of With child SHEBINE Shor Se arove
the Italian, and Egypt, Suez and the eastern Mediterranean area are considered safe—thanks to Turkey and the British-French-
04 4 cyt YOU y ‘ ‘ ‘ to the North Sea after maneuvers, Srighton Barrington, 2) of 290°% | aerators together at a conference Council for Canada. nonaggression pacts on the grounds Into a police trap today following a off portugal. All these factors com- oriilds y a yg - a ¥ ie St | table if he were asked to do so. “You, in Canada, have already that they were neutrals and good three-day manhunt over northern pine to relieve the anxiety bn ing : A o : x id “This can’t go on forever,” he fulfilled part of the Biblical prom- | friends of the Reich and therefore Indiana. His stepdaughter, Claudire Gibraltar. Tidge, OS J ba ance WANE Stand=)caid, referring to the crisis at Har
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Assassination, production, Mr. Dickerman's years
of experience also include close cone [nection with water supply. He was manager of the municipal (Continued on Page Two)
e plant. “I feel that my own close connec tion with the water supply business gives me some insight into the probs lems which the City will face in taking over the plants.’
Familiar With Problems
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on Suspect Declares.
WASHINGTON, May 17 (U. P.) -
Ernie Pyle At the Fairs
Naturally Ernie Pyle, the relentless traveler who goes places and sees things for readers of The Times has to visit both World Fairs. So he has decided to see them in rapid succession. First he is inspecting the San Francisco Fair.
ise and obtained Dominion from sea | did not believe such pacts necessary. | Kubiak, 11, was returned to her| 5 If war comes, Franco-British a Sorel etvean. oe feet of 1an. “They should have met at the to sea. You are now engaged in ful- [Denmark was scheduled to accept mother. : : strategy would be to concentrate on |, oF an h Ter ou Ret Se oe conference table before the situation filling the latter part of that prom- a similar offer. Roi and his wife ave Seen Italy snd knock her out as quickly Te hott ore TE {ot out of hand.” ise in consolidatin overnment | y : separated since January. Last Sun- as possible. Sig. Mussolini is awar | a AX Ve} . ’ { from the river to ne hh of the! Palestine Worries Britain ‘day, Claudine was forced into an of this, hence he can scarcely ph Woreers A oped him ub Pini wo Wherever Necessary earth from the St. Lawrence to the! 3. Palestine again became the auto recognized as owned by Landis being dragged into a profitless war AR oy th ait nh 4 is e) Gen. Carter said the ‘“shoot-to-Arctic snows. sore spot of the British Empire as as she was playing near her home. over Danzig. ad At Otty Hosnital it was reported | Kill” order applied “whenever neces- Bent Flash Bulbs Startle Ki Jews called a general strike for to- Monday morning, Mrs. Landis re-| puch French Confident his injuries consisted of three slight|Sarv.” He declined to explain sh Bulbs Startle King morrow in protest against the Brit- ceived a letter giving instructions ‘ . EE TE Ny Daca. 1further. “The Queen and I are looking for- ish “white paper” published tonight, for contacting her husband and| 6. Not since the crisis has optim- Sesip 1 Ee | “I don't care to enlarge on it | ward, with anticipation too great for outlining a projected solution of the threatening that “if anyone tries to ism been so high as now among the TWO DETROIT PLANTS CLOSED at all,” he said. expression, to seeing all we possibly | Arab-Jewish conflict in the Holy stop us from getting her you know French and British general staffs| DETROIT, May 17 (U. P).—wo| The soldiers began their third] can of this great country. Particu- (Land. In addition to seeking to what will happen to her” pre- especially the French. Admitting| automotive plants were closed inday of duty at the mines this|A White House policeman today | larly do we welcome the opportunity placate the Arabs as an important sumably referring to the girl. that the first few weeks might be Detroit today by disputes between morning with tension still high, | Arrested a young man who atof greeting the men and women who |Stategic move in the Near Fast, the Landis denied he intended to difficult, they seem more than con-|the management and the United! Two more mines opened today, tempted to scale the White House ‘are its strength and stay and of British were reported in Paris to|carry out the threat and said that |fident that ultimate victory would Automobile Workers union affili- making 23 open in the county out | fence on West Executive Avenue. seeing something of the younger be attempting to line up all of the he merely wanted to get his wife | be theirs. ated with the O. I. O. They were the of a total of 42. The two were the Ihe suspect, who said he was generation so soon to become the|Moslem states as a part of the anti- away from her family and start life| 7. Sig. Mussolini is said to be in- Hudson Motor Car Co. and the Kentucky Cardinal Coal Corp., Car- | Frank Joseph Twers, 22, of Philaguardians of its future.” ‘aggression front. ‘anew. (Continued on Page Three) Brown-McLaren Parts Co. (Continued on Page Three) |delphia, told the officer that he During a reception in the Quebec | Plan Free Palestine State = Er Fr —— - :Pprrodrrzj in - en - v ———— wanted to “assassinate the PresiLegislative Building, the King | The Bri " "it Th ¢ * dent because he had Abt been $0 nervously tapped his white-gloved | he British “white paper” an- C d B f R D l { / S Ni A to the poor people.” e was held | fingers on the hilt of his saber and [nounced plans for estalbishment of orne ee ow e ays * » avy ppropria ions for mental observation. jumped every time photographers in n Jheeendent State in Palestine, | W. T. Grimes, the officer, said the the windows set off flash bulbs. united by treaty with Great Britain | . young man had a cobblestone and a ueen Elizabeth smiled through- for 10 years after order has been A d Pl R lt S l B h d M t Bi ll |pocketknife in his pockets. Mr. on the ceremonies and allowed restored between Arabs and Jews. | n aces ooseve qua re Y € in ea a G nothing to distract her from listen- e projected British solution of ASHINGTON, May 17 (U. | § g
| Grimes turned the suspect over to | Detective Elmer Lewis of the] ing closely to speeches and words | the Holy Land problem—bitterly op- ‘18 ; : of welcome. {posed by Jews—provided for an in- P).—The United States | i i
| affront to the American cow be | Metropolitan Police. Twers told poy ot avenged by a resolution which |jice that he came here yesterday on Cheers of “long live the King’ Crease in immigration of Jews to rang out from thousands of throats |Palestine for a period of five years.
as their majesties, rulers of peo- |The rate of increase would be to an ples, who speak 250 tongues, ar- average of 15,000 annually if the rived at this famous port of early ¢tonomic absorptive capacity of the
North American history. country permits.
: , : Thereafter, there would be no King George trod soil sacred to ; as % | Britons on this side, the first occa- further Jewish imigration unless!
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In many ways, the Near East is] almost as important to success of |
fleet is aground on the corned beef shoals today because Presi dent Roosevelt has ordered 48 - 000 pounds of Argentine canned
meat—about one day’s supply for |
the sailors. It would cost $11040 to buy American-packed corned beef. Argentine packers will sell it here
for a net of $4320 to the Government. Besides, Mr. Roosevelt explained, the Argentine corned beef is ine finitely superior to the American products. For some unknown reason, he said last week, American cows do not make as good canned corned beef as foreign cows. This week President Roosevelt —l0 paraphrase a standard Fourth of July oration—yields to no man in his defense of the American cow. He said as much yesterday in a press conference reply to cattle country protests against his estimate of cow in
“he ergy whan
. The American Cow . , . defended by a President.
in many a day has blown in from | conference that the War Departthe plains to lift the White House roof. It may cause as much po- | litieal trouble as the tinned beef | of President McKinley's Adminis | tration which was fed to Spanish-
| American war volunteers deadly effect.
with How the Army will take it is a
It developed sth press
ment has been buying for soldiers American corned beef which the President deemed not good enough for sailors. Cattiemen
and Congressmen
from cattle states are protesting |
| and they are angry.
Congressional New Dealers are among those demanding that the
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meat for the fighting forces.
Today the Senate Appropriations Committee in effect voted against Navy purchases of Argentine beef by sustaining in the
| would forbid purchase of foreign » bus from Philadelphia.
| Navy Appropriation Bill a provi
sion which would prohibit the pur« chase of foreign foods. The dispute over beef had delayed come mittee action on Navy funds. There is real political fire on the horizon and Mr. Roosevelt sought at his press conference to change his story considerably but without retreating at all on
| his decision to feed sailors occa« sionally from Argentine tins.
Reading from a report which may have been overlooked when he said last week that American cows do not produce as good canned beef as foreign cows, Mr. Roosevelt said that it is all in the choice of meat. Choice American beef is marketed fresh and Argentina lacks markets for all her choice beef, s0 some is canned. Only the lower grades of American canned.
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“The man said he had been out lof work and that President Roose- | velt was to blame,” Mr. Grimes said. |“He said he arrived here at 3 o'clock yesterday on a bus from Philadelphia and that it was his intention to break a White House window {with the stone and assassinate the | president. He said that Mr. Roose|velt was not ‘good to poor people’ {and that what this country needed [was a dictator.” Twers said he was of German | descent.
JOHN ROOSEVELTS AWAIT BABY IN JULY
WASHINGTON, May 17 (U. P). The President and Mrs. Roosevelt |are expecting their 10th grandchild | in July. | Mrs, Roosevelt revealed today that
Then he is taking an overnight plane to New York to look in on Grover Whalen's little show. The first ot his six articles on the San Francisco Fair starts in The Times today. The New York Fair articles follow immediately. Those of Ernie's readers who intend to visit one or both fairs will want to read his reports. And those who won't be able to visit either of them will want to do the next best thing—see the fairs through Ernie's observant ayes and his reliable typewriter. You can find his first
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