Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1939 — Page 2

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ORAL ARGUMENT 10 BE MADE IN

GAS LEASE SUIT

Baltzell to Hear Lawyers Tomorrow in Case Against City.

Oral arguments are to be heard by Federal Judge Baltzell tomorrow in the Chase National Bank's suit to attempt to make the City ascept a 26-year-old lease of Indianapolis Gas Co. properties to the forinet Citizens Gas Co, The suit, tried last March, eentends that when the City, thrcugh itz Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, thwok over the Citizens Gas Co. in 1935, it assumed the obligation to pav bondholders of the Indianapolis Cas Co. the neariv 3800000 a year renta) specified in the lease. The bank filed the suit on behalf of I. G. Co. bondholders, for whom it is trustee. A similar suit, tried jointly with the Chase bank suit, was filed by the Massachusetts Mutual ance Co. and two hondholders. Collusion Charged In briefs filed fast fendants, plaintiff bank and Indianapolis Gas Co. was charged. The collusion charge was based on the employment bv the Chase

week by debetween the the defendant

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firm headed by the late Newton D. Baker In the trial. 1t was testified that the I. G. Co. retained the firm to prepare an opinion of the validity of the lease the firm asked to be released from emplovinent by the I. G. Co, which granted this request, The following dav, the firm was retained by the Chase Rank to file the present suit in whieh the I. G. Co. iz named defendant.

The colusion charge. also brought ©

up at the trial, was part of a move to show that the I. G. Co. should be a plaintiff instead of a defendant. If it were realighed as a plaintiff, there wonld he no Federal Court jurisdiction and the suit would be dismissed beeause of both a plaintiff and a defendant residing in same state,

Lease Made in 1913

The lease in question was executed in 1913 when the I. G. Co ceased - to operate in competition with the Citizens Gas Co When the Citizens Gas Co. conveved all its property to the City, Sept. 9. 1933, it also tendered to the City an assighment of the lease, which the City refused to recognize, contending that the rental wax excezsite beecatice a lavge part of the property no longer was used or useful Since the City Eli, lease placed 1M eseror pending legal sete tlement of the dispuis. The sum in BSCrOW NOW ix conkiderably more than a million dollars If the caurt should hold the lease fnvalid. the City then woud seek| to negotiaie a hew lease at a much later rental, the saving possibly heing reflected in reduced gas raves

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WPA WAGE RATE RULING SEEN AS AID TO CRAFTS

Longer Hours Provided for Skilled Workers on | U. S. Jobs.

Abolition of the prevailing wage, rate for skilled labor on WPA proj=| ‘ects under the new relief program | ‘may work to the advantage of the, ‘building trades crafts, it was indi- | cate® today.

In the past, plumbers, Bricklayers and the other skilled eraftsmen were paid the prevailing union scale of * wages, the number of hours they W wo ked being reduced to limit their pay to a maximum of $85 a month. | Under the new relief law, signed by President Roosevelt last week, | the prevailing wage rate provision is abolished and skilled workers must, labor longer hours.

Kern Views New Retup

Charles W. Kern, Indiana Build- | ing Trades County president, said he had not seen a copy of the law | yet, but believes the union erafis|

probably would benefit because the | new rule would keep WPA's skilled craftsmen busy more of the time and give them less opportunity te compete with nonrelief skilled labor on private construction in their spare time. Meanwhile, Indiana's WPA works ers went back te work today after an enforeed four<day vacation. The | vacation was ordered to give ad-| ministrative officials time to re-| organize their departments under the new law, and te arrange to 16p | off 3000 from the present 76,000 pay roll in the state by July 10. | Mr. Kern said the new relief law ‘also will aid the building trades! |erafts through a provision limiting | WPA funds on any non-Federal

| building project to $52,000. Limits Building Cost

| This will make it impossible for

WPA to construct any buildings [with a total cost above 875000 or, at! the most, $100,000, according to S. C. Bryan, WPA deputy state ad-, ministrator. ' | “This means,” Mr. Kern said, “that more buildings will have to be leonstructed on a private basis or at least with PWA funds. Under PWA, the work is done by private contract, 4 giving jobs to non-relief skilled | workers.” | | He predicted that lengthening the {hours that the skilled craftsmen (must work on WPA jobs also would (have a tendency to induce sponsors {to swing from WPA to PWA ot pri[vate contracts, | “In the past, very few union building trades workers have been on | WPA,” he said. “On several oeeasfons we have complained that WPA hag been running a building trades

Trip Over Top of World El ed i

Times Photos, Clarence Gibson, 14 (top), and Fred Ockerhausen (bottom) were reported today in “satisfactory condition” at Riley Hospital, They were shot at Lawrence, Ind, Monday night by W. BE. Debolt, restaurant owner, who said he merely wanted to frighten them into not throwing firecrackers in front of his cafe.

Expects Job Shift | “The new rules probably will make | SEATTLE, July 5 (UP) Five men and a girl boarded the eruiser the WPA jobs a lot less attractive to Pandora today for a 24 000-mile trip through the Avetic and a try at he | the skilled workers, A lot of them

ing the Ars SOR : ¢ ; Who haye been. oh WPA since its he first persone to negotiate the Northwest Passage from: west te art, ahi on FERA before (hat.

[probably will get out and look for The only one of the six ever at sea hefare wax the Rev, Flint Kel- private jobs. leme, 45, Jeader of the expedition. The others were drawn inte the adven- | Thix will mean that, with a tare in the hope of making ax historic a journey as the Norwegian ex. | hottage of available skilled labor. | WPA building jobs will drag out plover, Roald Amundsen, did when he =ailsd the pasazee from east (6 sven lenger than they have in the west. Amundsen spent three vears from 1902 ta 1908 in making the only past. and sponsors will prefer to seek | sieeessfinl trip over the top of the continent from the Atlantic to the PWA aid on their buildings because

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I. to 14 her niece Clark, Bartlesville, Okla, radio op-| jobs in private industry in their |

Pacific. (of ite greater speed and better works |

i manghip.” Members of the Rev, Mr. Kel-| My Brvan agreed that the longer

i H EART lems’ erew were his daughter. | hours for WPA gkilled workers, Vivienne. a student at (he Univer. Probably will mean more jobs for ou - sity of Ok eo on } he Univer |eraftemen in private industry. |Sity © ahoma; the Rev, Cecil! phe ckilled workers on WPA will!

Brooks, Oklahoma City: Leo have less time to go out and get

erator; Ira Jones, engineer, and A. spare time, because they will have! Y. Owen, photographer, both of less spare time,” he said.:

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Oklahoma City, | Br. Bryan said he was uncertain The Northwest Passage Ig free of whether it would be necessary to | fice only six weeks of the year, from | reduce the administrative force Aug. 1 to Sept. 15. Porte of eall here under a new regulation limit- | and water passages oh the Pan-|ing administrative costs to approx-| dora’s route include Juneau, Nome imately 34 per cent of the total and Wainwright, Alaska; Jones Is-| spent, Jdands, Melville Sound, Prince Wales Channel, Pond’s Inlet, News foundiand, New York, Panama Canal, San Francisco and Seattle,

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NLRB TO GET RULING

Federal Judee Robert C. RBalizell was to rule late tetiay on a pei | tion of the National Labor Rela- | tiong Board to order the Chambers!

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