Hearing on Rate Waking Probes Fixed Charges in Utility Merger
A public service commission hearing on the $70 million Insull utilities merger reveals that rates aim to cover fixed charges and dividends, with amortization and bond costs treated as fixed charges paid from customer revenues. Witnesses indicate potential rate increases if funds to pay common stock dividends are unavailable, though past 6 percent allowances on used and unused property have not required hikes.
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Daniel M. Kidney
Public Service Commission
L. B. Schiesz
Central Indiana Power Company
Glenn van Auken
Insull Counsel
Schiesz
van Auken
John W. McCardle
Commission
Calvin McIntosh
Preparations for Murder Trial in Mountain View
Five men face prosecution for the torch murder of Connie Franklin last March. Sheriff Sam Johnson dismissed survival rumors as a smoke screen to aid the defense. He reports charred bones, a belt buckle, and a stained cap found near St. James as evidence.
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United Press
Mountain View
Ark
Connie Franklin
Franklin
Sam Johnson
St. James
Insurance man killed near Kokomo in collision
George Babcock 42 of South Bend died when his coupe collided with a truck eight miles north of Kokomo. Frank Hogan 39 also of South Bend was a passenger. Hogan said the truck driven by C. F. Abishal of Wayne Michigan was parked on the highway.
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United Press
Kokom Ind
George Babcock
South Bend
Frank O. Hogan
Kokomo
Hogan
C. F. Abishal
Wayne, Mich
Seven Story Window Fall Fatal to City Banker
Gilbert B. Clippinger a 40 year old Dillon Read & Co. representative living at 3603 North Pennsylvania Street fell from an Eleventh story window of the Fletcher Savings and Trust building at 12 40 today. He was killed instantly. Witnesses saw the body pass lower windows and a mail carrier thought the fall began from the fourteenth floor. The body lay lifeless on the sub roof of the building. Police believe he fell while trying to repair a sticking window. Clippinger was son of Rev H M Clippinger and brother of N Foster Clippinger Fletcher Savings VP. Survived by widow Anna and two daughters. He was son in law of Judge Ira Ibach of Hammond.
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Fletcher Savings and Trust Company
Gilbert B. Clippinger
Pennsylvania Street
Dillon, Read & Co
Fletcher Savings and Trust Building
Clippinger
Dillon Read & Co
Charles W. Jewett
Mr. Clippinger
H. M. Clippinger
Greenwood
N. Foster Clippinger
Anna Clippinger
Ira Ibach
Hammond
Senate confirms Vare victory in Pennsylvania race
Waterman reports Vare won the Pennsylvania Senate seat by over 120000 legal votes. House debates a 160 million tax cut as Ware case moves toward a vote with Democrats wavering and farm bloc opposition cited.
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United Press
Washington
House
Senate
Ware
Farm Bloc
Wall Street
Privileges and Elections Committee
William S. Ware
Pennsylvania
Vare
William B. Wilson
Wilson
Senate Finance Panel Approves Mellon-Berenger Debt Pact
The Mellon Berenger French debt settlement agreement was approved by the senate finance committee today on a unanimous vote to report the bill to the senate. Chairman Smoot said the measure would advance to the senate after passage in the house.
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United Press
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Smoot
House
McManus Acquitted by Judge Order in Rothstein Case
New York December reports George A. McManus cleared of murder in the Arnold Rothstein case by an instructed verdict after the district attorney offered little evidence. The jury quickly found not guilty. Indicted remain Herman Biller and two John/Richard Does, with little chance of revival.
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United Press
New York
George McManus
Arnold Rothstein
Charles C. Nott Jr
McManus
State of
George A. McManus
Broadway
Herman Biller
John Doe
Richard Doe
Invalid Excuse Boots Moonshine Bootlegger in Bed
Odis Pereletti claimed four years in bed on doctors orders to dodge work but kept a jug of moonshine under the covers and served visitors. The ruse collapsed in court, and he was fined 100 dollars for illicit liquor activity.
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United Press
Vanston
Odis Pereletti
Pereletti
Unclear Time Table Fragment
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered times and numbers including 6a.m. 30 10 a m 41 7 a.m. 31 11a. m. 45 8 a. m. 32 12 noon 47 S9a.m.38 1p. m. 4.
Radio Theater Review Planned by The Times
The Indianapolis Times will publish a dramatic department review by Walter D. Hickman on Friday about radio programs as theater. Hickman will discuss The New York Civic Theatre projected on air and judge hundreds of entertainers as legitimate stars and concert artists over the last decade.
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Indianapolis Times
Walter D. Hickman
Times
the Times
Hickman
New York Civic Theatre
Indiana to begin sale of new license plates in December
William C. Schmidt, assistant automotive license commissioner, says at least six thousand Hoosiers favor certain numeric plates and have mailed checks for 1930 plates. Sales start December 16 with February 1, 1930 as deadline for 1929 tags. The department bought 800000 plate sets. 754847 issued in 1929, with a 50000-plus rise expected in 1930. Distribution points in Belmont State Bank Fountain Square State Bank Forty Second Street State Bank and the state house.
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Schmidt
Belmont State Bank
Fountain Square State Bank
Forty-Second Street State Bank
Statehouse
Search for two-masted schooner Mystery continues
Two masted schooner Mystery blown from harbor Friday remains missing. A sighting report led Tropical Radio Company to prompt coastal search with five men aboard. Coast guard vessels from Mobile and Biloxi were sent to verify the sighting.
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United Preas
New Orleans
Mystery
Tropical Radio Company
Coast Guard
Mobile
Biloxi
Radio marathon contest tests 91 entrants for charity
Ninety-one contestants began a marathon radio listening contest at 2 p m with Marion Taylor leading at No 68 and Roy Wilson No 91 finishing despite a broken hand. The event features hours of listening, dancing and betting as proceeds go to charity.
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Times-Lyric-Sylvania
Morpheus
Marion Taylor
Taylor
Lyric Theater
Elsie James
College Avenue
WFBM
Roy Wilson
West Michigan Street
Wilson
Rescue of All Hands From Gander Deal By Republic
United States liner Republic saved the captain and ten seamen from a derelict schooner in rough seas. Captain A M Moore reported all well at 5 30 am as weather worsened and speed reduced. Moore, a 25 year veteran born in Maine, previously served on the Leviathan.
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United Prese
York
United States
Republic
A. M. Moore
Moore
Captain Moore
Maine
Air mail pilot found dead after four day missing
Thomas P. Nelson's wrecked plane was located near Chagrin Falls after a blizzard search by thirty two pilots led by Colonel Lindbergh. Nelson lay strapped in the cockpit as authorities noted no fire, suggesting he went blind in the storm while seeking a landing site until fuel ran out.
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Lindy
United Press
Cleveland
Thomas P. Nelson
Chagrin Falls
Nelson
Joseph Vincent
Warren
Charles A. Lindbergh
National Air Transport Office
Chinese Soviet Break Near After Railway Pact Rejected
Manchuria rejected the preliminary Chinese Russian settlement on the Chinese Eastern Railway. It refused reinstatement of the Russian manager and assistant manager and declined to dismiss the Chinese road president. Moscow criticized Stimson’s Kellogg policy amid hopes a break in talks could loom.
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United Press
Manchuria
Moscow
Stimson
China
Russia
Gas blast devastates Munhill post office area
A midday explosion in Munhill Pittsburgh destroyed the two story post office and wrecked nearby buildings. Four people trapped inside were believed dead while ambulances and police rushed to Homestead hospital where ten street car passengers were reported injured. Crowds searched the rubble as debris spread through a half mile radius.
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United Press
Pittsburgh
Munhill
Weather Forecase Indicates Warm-Up After Thanksgiving Blizzard
Mercury on rise with US weather bureau thermometers at 38 degrees at 9 a m. Forecast calls for further rise this afternoon and Friday. Normal today for the first time since Thanksgiving blizzard. Temperatures tonight no lower than 25 degrees. Friday expected to be fair to partly cloudy.
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United States Weather Bureau
J. H
Armington
Democratic Chief Dies in New York Assembly Leader
Maurice Bloch longtime New York state assembly minority leader and key Democratic figure dies after heart attack complications in New York. Doctors report collapse and illness led to death.
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Maurice Bloch
New York
United Press
New York State
Saith
Rockefeller Sr Arrives South for Winter at Ormond Beach
John D. Rockefeller Sr arrived at his winter home in Ormond Beach Florida and planned a daily golf round to prepare for a match with General Adelbert Ames. The 90 year old oil magnate appeared in good health, posed for photos, and was greeted by locals calling him neighbor John. Report notes he ran out of dimes en route.
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Ormond Beach
Fila
John D. Rockefeller Sr
Adelbert Ames
General Ames
Rockefeller
John
Two Seaplanes Join Search For Missing Radio Operators
Two seaplanes and a Coast Guard flotilla comb Cape Ann near Rockport Massachusetts for Henry Erwin aged 20 from Oklahoma and William Gould aged 26 formerly of Virginia. Both men were attached to the naval compass station at Thatcher’s Island when they disappeared Wednesday night after leaving shore in a nineteen foot power dory.
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United Preas
Starlings Sighted in University Heights First Time
R J Dear born of 4100 Otterbein Avenue reports sighting about fifty starlings in University Heights. The flock, imported from Europe in 1896, marks a westward spread from New England where the birds are known as pests.
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University Heights
R. J. Dearborn
Otterbein Avenue
Europe
New England
Convicted of Perjury in Albany Baseball Pool Case
James Otto was sentenced to a year and a day in Atlanta pen by Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxe after his perjury conviction tied to testimony before the grand jury probing the Albany baseball pool, which he formerly headed.
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New York
James Otto
Atlanta
Alfred C. Coxe
Albany
Bust of Medill Ready for Hall of Fame in Illinois
A bronze bust of Joseph Medill founder of the Chicago Tribune is prepared to be sent to the University of Illinois Editors' hall of fame. It will stand beside busts of Elijah P. Lovejoy Victor Lawson and Henry W. Clendenin in Springfield spring security dates unclear.
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United Press Chicago
Joseph Medill
The
Chicago Tribune
University of Illinois
Elijah P. Lovejoy
Victor Lawson
Chicago Daily News
Henry W. Clendenin
Illinois State
Springhela
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Charles W. Spooner
Spooner & Merrill, Inc
Chicago
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Waterman
Vare- Wilson
Senate Today
Pensylvania
U. K
France
M'Manus
Rothstein
Radio Review
Lyric-Sylvania
Charles O’brien
North Alabama
Cecelia Brown
Oxford Street
William Reed
Creston Drive
Virginia
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Doc
Arthur Tudball
Bellefontaine Street
Tudball
Muncie
Mercury ON Rise
John D. SR
U. S
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