Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1948 — Page 4

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FPG Probe of Gas Charges

Panhandle Denies ‘Withholding’ Fuel

(Continued From Page One) ; business. want to sell gas. doesn’t have gas, Kemp's fault. © “We are regulated in our prices like every other line. When Tom Kemp says we are trying to by-

If Indianapolis that's Tom

“Ask Joe Daniels about it. He

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PARTLY CLOUDY AND

was in on all the discussions and he knows what happened.” | Mr. Daniels was in Washington, |

‘PD. C., today ‘and could not be

reached for comment. i Mr. Kemp's statement, issued at a press conference last night, intimated Panhandle has the gas to service Indianapolis, but is hold-| ing it back in order to break the! exclusive market Citizens has had in the county for a decade, Calls It -“Bunk’ “Bunk,” repeated Mr. Maguire. “We do not have the gas to sell Indianapolis now. The total capacity of our pipeliné is already

that. “We have FPC approval for !nstallation of additional pipe lines

year. These will increase our gas carrying capacity and then we! can furnish Indianapolis with the 106 million cubic feet a day. It will be furnished at the rates the FPC designates. “We would be glad to sell to Indianapolis if we had the ca-

pacity and for any purpose the|.

city might want. Indianapolis is the biggest city on our line next to Detroit and Cleveland and we're in the gas business. “We've been trying to Indianapolis for 18 years and Tom Romp dlwafy has had a n why he didn't want to buy- it. If Indianapolis doesn't have natural gas today, it's Tom

him I said so. Competition Charged “He is getting more than $1 minimum for 570 BTU gas and its no wonder he wants to keen our cheaper gas out as long as he can get away with it” Panhandle's rate, set by the FPC, to distributors for resale is 18%¢c per thousand cubic feet of 1000 BTU gas during summer months and 26¢c per thousand

Mr. Kemp yesterday accused 7 supply utility “with natural gas, but move by the pipeliné to Invade

peting supplier.

emp-said the pipeline had

sell to stopped. They sald there was no elections.

said the offer was in effect a|

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Clothe-A-Child Gets Appeal

TONIGHT AND TOMORROW Cool weatner will set in from Maine to Georgia and Tennessee for the coming 24 hours. (Note the cold and cool arrows on the right side of the fotocast which show the path of winds flowing over this area.) Tonight. it will be windy along the coast from Eastport, Me., to Block Island and the Weather Bureau has ordered small craft warnings displayed. By dawn the mercury will be in the 20s from Maine to New York State and over into

Ohio, Indiana, lllinois and lowe. : . a-Way Fight State Puts OK

Continue Search 3-¥ey Fett (Continued From Page One)

. = ’ . | | A For Miners Bodies. and a power in the party On Bank Sale

{during the 1948 primary. i

Body of One Man | This group is planning to swing | (Continued From Page One) 1 “la majority of regular organiza-| locations to the nbrth,

(Continued From Page One) |man Ifigles in a harmony move ¢ity,” Mr. White said. to put Mr. Brown in the chair-|

brothers of one of the trapped, men, insisted rescue teams halt! their attempts until | hope. their brother or his com-| alive iciates, meanwhile, e paions Tught bo saved 2 in and) i of a change in the teader-|G. H. Mueller, Charles Hafer, J attempt |ship and prepared an ambitious Posseat Davis, Walter Myers Shortly after all hope of find- Program.

Ing the men alive was abandoned,| On this Mr. Ingles said: “We Brehob and Fred Quebe.

shaft to administer last rites, The| have Hot bees able, Jn the tat w. riest went as close as he could Wo elections, to convinc - . bo the spot where the men were jority of the voting public that! 204 Leo Kriner. believed buried, {those principles for which we tons of rock about 9:30 yesterday ones that can best serve them.” morning, even as one of the mine No Rubber Stamp’ :

owners went down to tell them to| quit work. He then promised the appoint- ier 1e Notices Cracks ment of a committee to reshape ’ Sylvester . Harpenau said he |Party principles, pledging that the noticed cracks in the earth and Broup will be “no rubber stamp to | went into the miné fo war carry out my will but will be inmen who were working because dependent of my dictates —— he felt they were in danger. | He said this committee will He reached the men and in- “determine what's wrong with the sisted they leave right away. Harpenau and three others started out when a huge slab of slate

president.

assistant cashier, Howard Kehlbeck, auditor.

manager since its opening.

“whit we shall do to correct these side are listed as customers,

errors.”

ced three offers to supply gpolis-— with gas, all of ‘which had been turned down by the utility’s board of directors.

and earth came crash down Most of the regular organiza-| on top of the other four men, tion leaders declined to talk pubThe men who escaped said it was! /ely-about maneuvers to replace a “miracle” they were not buried | Chairman Ingles, but the groundin the initial cave-in or the ones|Work for it was admitted by sev-

Mr. Maquire denied advancing any of them. : One offer was to supply natural gas for use in underfiring coke ovens, Mr. Kemp said. The directors turned the offer down, Mr. Kemp sald, because the amount was not sufficient to warrant building the 25 miles of pipe line to transcontinental Panhandle’s line “near Zionsville. Mr. Kemp said Panhandle had also suggested supplying gas to Indianapolis at a higher price

FPC by forming an intermediary

company to lease the facilities of the utility.

Democrats Study Cigaret Tax Issue

which immediately followed, eral party workers who have been Rescue. work was delayed by identified - previously with the recurring cave-ins and it was/ Ingles regime. ' afternoon before federal mine in-! _ a Wu spectors would permit teams to'Air Force Questions look for the trapped miners. The i four survivors pitched in to work Survivors of Cr ash with volunteer workers and pro-| GREENVILLE, 8. C., Dec. 17 fessional rescue teams from Vin-|(UP)—Air Force investigators cennes. {today questioned three survivors’ Late last night, they sighted in the crash of a C-82 “Flying the legs of three of the victims. Box-UCar” near here yesterday to It was 4 a. m. today before they determine what caused the aceciwere able to extricate the one!dent, which killed four Air Force victim. Less than an hour later fliers, ’ 3 the cave-ins resumed and halted] The Army declined to identify rescue work. the seven men; all members of The mine is a small slope shaft the 75th Troop Carrier Squadron, ! bored into a hillside. The men 316th Troop Carrier Group, pendwere buried about 200 feet under- ing notification of relatives.

ground and a half-mile from the — e SPORT SHIRTS

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believe they would object to other tobacco taxes.” . He told the meeting .that the should they repeal the cigaret tax and impose an overall tobacco tax. :

Frank J. Murray, secretary of

- the Indiana Assessment Council,

pleaded for an edrly consideration by the General Assembly of the proposed reassessment pro-

; of dotiars ly are lost in tax reven in Indiana because the real es-

“COURtIERs" THTTIoNE

tate assessors do not know of!y

taxable prope

In one Indiana township, he said, where a reassessment was actually made in 1947, the number of improvements on the tax roll was nearly doubled. He argued that while the cost of reassessment would be nearly $4 million, the aggregate sum which might be realized in the state would range between $8 and $17 million. 2 Democrats, on the other hand, appeared - to be squirming under the saddle of pledges to repeal the lucrative cigaret tax at the same

time passing a bonus bill esti-|

mated to cost thé state approximately $150 million,

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The charter of the Madison 5551 and asking for a donor| manship and rebuild the whole Avenue Bank was granted Feb. appointment to take one or more ave-ins |Party machinery for the 1950/20, 1926. The bank opened for children to the stores and shop Gladys Adams, Whiteland, e I “ - (business May 15, 1926, at 1377 [for them. Donors use their own| C | Chairman Ingles and his asso-| Madison Ave. with the following money to buy clothes for the Employees of the Money

. 545 Children Aided ,| When the stores closed "last! wouis Ferry, Carl Peters, Chris night, 545 needy children had

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Heidenreich, J. Forrest Who experienced tHe thrill .of | Davis, Fred Quebe, Richard Hafer| taking i ) Mr. Hilgemeier | Stores M as chairman of the board, |? THe Times fund. To date, 2 { {Mr, Mueller as president, Mr, {donors have ¢lothed 103 children. The men were trapped beneath stand and our candidates are the | ovis as vice president and cash-| Limes shoppers took the others

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