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POWER ACT TO
FACE TEST IN
ALABAMA CASE
Suit Claims Commission
Had No Jurisdiction Over
Dam Cost Accounts.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, June I.—Around
the rotund person of Josiah T. New
comb, who boasted once that the
power industry was too large and
powerful to be controlled by the
federal government, may revolve
the third court test of the fedeial
power act.
The first test hinged on a question
of neckties. Clarion River Power
Company bought them at $3 apiece
as souvenirs for their guests when
they opened their Piney project,
then wrote them into their capital
accounts along with a lot of other
items the federal power commission
fcaid did not belong there.
When the commission moved to
save the public several million dol
lars by writing down the company’s
net investment cost, the company
went to court. But it lost.
The second came over the ques
tion of whether New River, Va.,
With its old ferry boats and .scows,
actually is navigable, or part of a
navigable system.
Alabama Company Suit
Appalachian Electric Power Com
pany tried to deny the power com
mission’s authority to regulate
them, and supervise their actions if
they build a power plant on New
river. They lost in the lower federal
court, and will appeal.
The third comes with suit filed
by Alabama Power Company in the
district supreme court here, alleging
that the federal power commission
has no jurisdiction over the cost
accounts of its Mitchell dam proj
ect, constructed under license from
the power commission.
Like the first case, this concerns
items w'hich may or may not be
included in the net investment cost,
the total which determines how
much the public shall pay—directly
in recapture costs, indirectly in
rates.
Helped Utility Wage War
The Alabama Power Company
says the cost of the dam was
J1b.64H.056. The federal power com
mission had its accountants go over
their books, held hearings, and
finally decided that the net invest
ment cost was $6,173,576.
Among other items which the
commission struck from the ac
counts of the company was one for
services of Josiah T. Newcomb, who,
for years, from a thickly-carpeted,
luxurious office in a Washington
office building, watched over and
protected the interests of various
power companies.
The Alabama Power Company
called Newcomb to its assistance
when regulations were first being
drawn for administration of the
power act. A sharp battle was be
ing waged in the quiet offices of the
commission as to Just how much
should be demanded of power com
panies in administering the new act.
Decision May Be Important
The power commission subse
quently ruled that it was not fair
to the public to make them pay for
services performed by the power
company representatives at that
time.
The amount claimed for New
comb’s services was a small part
of the total stricken from Alabama
Power Company accounts.
Decision on the other items, in
volving large amounts and impor
tant administrative principles, will
determine to a large extent the fu
ture effectiveness of the federal wa
ter power act.
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Sculptor Works on State Library Murals
Perched high above Senate avenue at Ohio street.
--'AA on a £Caffold °f the new Indiana state library and
■S, J historical building, Adolph Woltar. architectural sculp-
Wr**' tor, P ut t in S the finishing touches on a mural panel,
"The Pioneer." Seventeen other panels depicting epic
S fU; * figures of American history will adorn the new build
j mg when it is completed in August.
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COUNTY RAPS
GRAVEL FIRMS
•Holdup’ Is Hinted: Inferior
Material Provided for
Work, Is Charge.
Gravel companies attempting to
sell inferior grades of gravel on
county contracts were rebuked to
day, with county commissioners re
fusing full amount of one firm’s
claim ana withholding payment to
another.
Investigation by commissioners
has revealed two gravel companies
have supplied road materials far
short of contract specifications, the
board declared.
“We have found instances where
gravel, unfit for roads and unsal
able elsewhere, has been dumped on
the county,” Commissioner Ernest
K. Marker declared.
Property owners protested against
types of gravel being put on roads
in Perry township, commissioners
pointed out.
The board has reduced a claim of
the Indianapolis Sand and Gravel
Company from $1,330 to $1,200.
“We pay high prices for gravel
and demand that we get good mate
rial," commissioners stated.
12 TAXI MEN ARE HELD
Campaign Against Three Companies
Revealed in Court.
Campaign against three taxicab
companies was revealed today by
city licensing authorities who charge
failure to carry liability insurance
and city licenses and switching of
license tags.
As the first fruit of the drive, nine
drivers and three owners with one
company were before Municipal
Judge William H. Sheaffer today
and he issued an order that evi
dence must be offered Friday morn
ing that insurance policies and li
censes have been obtained.
Twelve more arrests of drivers in
the employ of two other companies
are planned.
GIRL, 5, HURT IN CRASH
Suffers Cut on Head; Driver of
Other Automobile Arrested.
Mary Louise Giles. 5, of 3630 Guil
ford avenue, incurred a cut on the
head today when an automobile
driven by her mother. Mrs. Naomi
Giles, collided at Michigan and
Delaware streets with a truck driven
by Robert Bryson, 35, Negro, 1055
West Twenty-fifth street.
Bryson was arrested on charges
of failure to stop at a preferential
, street and no driver's license.
Perched high above Senate avenue at Ohio street,
on a scaffold of the new Indiana state library and
historical building, Adolph Woltar. architectural sculp
tor, is putting the finishing touches on a mural panel.
"The Pioneer." Seventeen other panels depicting epic
figures of American history will adorn the new build
ing when it is completed in August.
69 TO GET DIPLOMAS
N. A. G. U. Degrees to Be Awarded
at Exercises Tonight.
Commencement exercises will be
held at 8 tonight in the school gym
nasium of the Normal college of the
American Gymnastic Union.
Sixty-nine students will receive
degrees and diplomas. Awards will
be made by Dr. Carl B. Sputh, dean
of the department of science and
hygiene, and George Vonnegut,
president of the board of trustees.
FATHER OF GIRL
SHOOTS YOUTH
Ex-Communist Politician
Wounds 22-Year-Old
Clerk Seriously.
B,i/ United Press
SPRINGFIELD, 111., June I.
Freeman Thompson, 50, former
Communist candidate for the
United States senate, shot Floyd
Jones four times late Wednesday at
the Sangamon county courthouse
which Abraham Lincoln made fa
mous.
“I’ll teach you to take liberties
with my daughter," shouted Thomp
son as he stalked into the office
of county overseer Nannie Fain,
drew a pistol and began firing at
Jones, 22-year-old clerk in the over
seer’s office.
Several women fainted as Jones,
despite his wounds, grappled with
Thompson and helped hold him un
til deputy sheriffs arrived. Jones
then collapsed and was said by phy
sicians today to be in a critical con
dition.
The youth lapsed into uncon
sciousness without commenting
upon Thompson's accusation. The
former Communist politician re
fused to explain it. Before becom
ing unconscious Jones did, however,
remark that Thompson had ap
peared at the overseer’s office ear
lier and had been refused relief
money.
Thompson was a candidate for
the senate in 1930. He conducted
his campaign from a jail cell at
Taylorville, 111., where he had been
sent on a charge of rioting in con
nection w r ith a mine war.
MINE CHIEFS CHOSEN
Alabama and Kentucky District
Presidents Arc Selected.
Bil United Press
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June I.
Appointment of William Mitch and
Sam Caddy, international represent-
I atives of the United Mine Workers
i of America, as presidents of Ala
j bama and Kentucky districts, re- |
j spectively, was announced here to- :
day.
The appointments were made in
! connection with an extension pro
| gram started by the union because
of the federal recovery bill. The
changes are effective this week.
Mitch and Caddy, upon their re
i turn here from Washington, said
; that a decided upturn in the coal
mining industry was evident in the
| east,
STAMP CLUB TO ELECT
J. L. Williams Nominated for
Presidency of Group.
Selections by the nominating com
mittee of the Indiana Stamp Club \
for election of officers to be held at I
j the Lockerbie Friday night are as I
follow:
President. J. L. Williams; vice- |
president, Floyd Shockley; secre- j
| tary, Mrs. C. O. Robinson; treas
urer, E. R. Ryan; corresponding sec
retary, Marion F. Clark, and execu
| tive committee members, Charles
Heagy. C. O. Warnock, Glenn M.
Padgett and William F. McNairy.
FINISH ROOSEVELT POOL
President May Take First Swim
Within Day or Two.
By United Press
WASHINGTON. June 1. The
new White House swimming pool
is finished and President Roosevelt
■is looking forward to taking his
first workout in it within a day
; or two.
The fifty-foot pcol was built at
a cost of about $15,000 from funds
collected by a number of news
papers.
Dog Buried in a Coffin
COLUMBUS, Ind., June I.—The
bones of a dog in a small coffin with
silver-plated handles and silk lining
were unearthed by workmen digging
building foundations here.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
CITY TO SEEK
$409,090 LOAN
Expansion of Sewage Dis
posal Plant Planned by
Sanitary Board.
With the approval of Mayor Regi
nald H. Sullivan, the city through
the sanitary board will ask a loan |
of $400,000 from the federal govern
ment to be used in expansion of the 1
municipal sewage disposal plant.
Maurice Tennant, board presi
dent, will go to Washington next
week in an effort to obtain the
money.
City officials assert that enlarge
ment of the plant is of pressing j
necessity, as it is operating now on j
a basis only 50 per cent efficient. I
Under such a condition, about J
half of the city’s sewage goes un
treated into -White river.
At present the plant can treatj
35,000,000 gallons of sludge daily j
and the peak is 70,000,000 gallons
daily.
Owners of land along the river!
are threatening damage suits j
against the city, alleging their
property is being lowered in value.!
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WORLD NEWS
Protection as Property Is
Enunciated by Meeting
at Vienna.
BY WEBB MILLER
I'nited Pres* Staff Correspondent
VIENNA. June I.—Principles of
vital importance to the world press,
striking another blow at monopolies
in official news or restrictions of
transmission of such news, were ap
proved unanimously today by the
legal group of the International
Chamber of Commerce.
The resolution will go before a
plenary session of the chamber,
representing thirty-nine nations,
Saturday. Adoption will be a for
mality.
The resolution enunciated the
principles that there should be pro
tection of news as property where
such protection is now non-existent,
and that there should be no prefer
ential rights in official news.
The resolution aims to bring news
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France, finally agreed, together with
the American and British industrial
properties committees, upon the
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full Geneva resolution, which will
be introduced jointly by the Brit
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Mario Ghiron, of the Italian in
dustrial property committee, had
raised various legalistic objections.
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Silk Stockings.
Penal farm term of ninety days
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penalty imposed today by Municipal
Judge William H. Sheaffer on Fred
McGarrahan. 57. of 413 Highland
avenue, for theft of six pairs of silk
hose Wednesday from a store in the
downtown district.
McGarrahan was arrested by po
lice on information given by a sales
woman. According to police, he has
served three years in prison on theft
charges.
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