Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1928, Page 7

UTILITIES PROBERS TURNTO FLORIDA Information Bureau Officia”f Tells of Contributions From | Electric Light Group. ! Ry tha Associated Press. W. D. C. THURSDAY, MAY 10 IMR. AND MRS. JACOB SPERLING WILL OBSERVE GOLDEN WEDDING | | | Turning to the activities of utility in-| formation bureaus in the South, the Pedetal Trade Commission received | testimony today from H. E. Simpson of | Miami, assistant treasurer of the Flor- | ids Public Information Bureau, that the bureau had received $22500 since | July. 1927, from the National Electric Light Association to carry on its activities. _ Testilying in the commission's inquiry into public utility financing, Simpson said the bureau collected monthly con- tributions from its member companies | in the State. but said he was unable to give the total amount of the annual receipts and expenditures. He told the commission he also was treasurer of the southeastern division of | the National Electric Light Association and assistant treasurer of the Florida Power & Light Co. Assessments Collected. Explaining the contribution of the| National Electric Light Association to i his bureau. Simpson said the assaciation collects assessments from its member | 5 companies throughout the country and | then returns a portion, not vxeeeding | 50 per cent of the amount collecled, to | the 12 geographical divisions. | Robert E. Healy. chief counsel for the | commission, introduced from Simp-on files numerous vouchers issued in p: ments for entertainment at the South- | ern division convention at Miami in | April. $3.081 for Entertainment. Expenses of entertainment at the Tomorrow Mr. and Mis. Jacob Sper ling of 641 L street will have been mar ried 50 vears. and Sunday they will ob serve the golden wedding anniversary mn company with their children and an in- formal reception to friends from 2 to m. For 35 years Mr. and Mrs. Sperling | have lived in Washington. Both weie | born in Hungary, came to America in their vouth at different times and met | in New York. Mr. Sperling, who is 74 | cars old. arrived in this country at the | ge of 19, while Mrs. Sperling. who is | & 68, was four years younger when she | set foot on American soil. ‘The first 15 years of their married Life | for speeches In opposition to municipal | with their THE EVENING STAR. SHINGTON, * 7 | lic_services.” | Ities and cites that in Ohio alone, 651, | the Ohlo committee contained |CAVERNS IN SOUTH were spent in New York, and then they ame to Washington, where Mr. Sper- ling continued his carcer as a merchant He retired from active business about 15 years ago. All of the children of the couple are living and seven will br parents at the observani Sunday. the eighth being a resident of South Africa The children are Mrs. Pauline Saul of | South Africa. who visited her parents on their 49th anniversary here last | rs. M. Pasternak, Charles and erling and Mrs. Sureta Sures ashington; Mrs. Robert Golden | and Mrs. Newman Brown of New York and Mrs. J. Simonds of Baltimore. declared that the city desired to con- | of a Coast Guard cutter boat landed | the | to investigate a suspicious craft anchor- plyll"rs subsidize plant $311,000 an- nually.' The frontispiece of the book “Alad- dins of Industry” which attracted greater attention than any other exhibit introduced, read,” A text book especially compiled for use in schools and col- leges of Ohlo, comprising a survey of the development of several major pub- GRAND JURY GIVEN |FILES FOR covénflonsuw‘; sTEwART TESTIMONY‘LIHMHAM Governor of Kansas tc: Beek G. 0. P. Nomination. TOPEKA. Kans. May 10 (#.—Lieut. | Gov. D. A. N Chase of Pleasanton filed | his_declaration of candidacy for the Republican nomination late yesterday. marking the frst offi- | Rover Seeks 0il Man's Indictment on Statement Before Senate Committee. Bolimeyer sald that the Ohio com- mittee did not try to withdraw from schools text books found in the survey 1o be objectionable to public utilities, but that the “Alladins of Industry” were distributed instead. The text treats with Government regulation of Industry, customer ownership of secur- By the Assoceed Press Secking indictment of Robert W. Stewart. chairman of the board of the Standard Ol Co. of Indlana, District Attorney Rover today submitted to the Federal grand jury the transcript of the | | otl man's testimony before the Senate | | Teapot Dome committee on February | 2 and 3 and on April 24. | | When Stewart appeared first before | the committee he*said he had not | profited personally one cent through the Continental Trading Co. ofl Lib- many of the small papers printed it |erty bonds, and had no knowledge of | without stating the source. He said |the Continental Co. bonds. At his that information from the clip sheets | April appearance before the committee was reflected in theeditorial columns | the ofl man testifled that he had re- of the papers 0 in bonds from the Con- which were given him by 273 shares have been sold to 56.065 purchasers by 11 Ohio electric com- panies n recent years Under examination Ling said that not all of the clip sheets sent out by news exclusively. He asserted that the larger Ohlo newspapers always inserted a line on news matter from the com- mittee, which read, “This information came from the Ohio committee on pub- lic utility information,” but said that He insl: | his own knowledge that the bonds were bonds. They now have BELIEVED RUM CACHEi&T‘:"}:’:“:z’ over to the Sinclair Crude that you cut your food bi us. Oil Purchasing Co. | What the committee members consid- A | ered_discrepancies in his testimony on Coast Guard Finds Elaborate Sys-|the two occasions were certified to Rover | ; for such action as he deemed proper | tem in Inlet Near Charles- ‘Aflmr studying the transcript the dis- | ton, S. C. | trict attorney decided to present four ctions of the ofl man's testimony to | the grand jury | Stewart already is under indictment on a charge of having refused to answer | questions asked by the committee on | his first appearance, ‘m\d m; ;;"igclm!s" Charleston, S. C., has my: | sct tor May 2L. At his secon - Guard ofeiags, 7 e mystified Const |21 0% ahswered the questions. and | While cruis »w | while purging himself of contempt of | e O el he Sre% | the Senate that act did not afect the | | indictment ed there. At their approach three men| U the grand jury fin ran away, but one them was capturcd | returning a presentment L the later. The discovery of & 20-foot cave|oll man the district attorney expects with a 35-yard tunnel which connected | that the indictment will be handed There’s no magic about i operation of 50 of Wasl cleanest up-to-date ma down” this opportunity. few and far between. By the Associated Press Discovery of elaborate interconnecting | caves on the shores of an inlet near | Our Stores | ds grounds for | against the | WA:! Now Supply You With cial entry into the 1928 Kansas guber- natorial contest. Six others, three Republicans and three Democrats, have anpounced but not filed as gubernatorial candidates. | They are Clyde M. 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Build a house onit ficst !l FLOUR | with three other 30-foot caves with |down next week. automatic door communication followed. | < NENTIST WINS SUIT. convention totaled $7.081, or $3.000 in | sunerchip. excess of the registration fees, Simpson | Beside Bollmeyer the Ohio witnesses sald. Healy asked if the money did not | were: Benjamin E. Ling of Cleveland, come through the National Electric| former director of the committee, and Light Association from member com- | now assistant to the president of the panies, which contributed to the ex-|Cleveland Illuminating Co., and D. L. | fiscate a national resource to its own use. Comissioner McCullough informed | Representative Douglas that the matter | would be referred to the entire com- | mission. Always seeking the best in every line, we have added this SUPERIOR “all purpose Flour.” Made expressly for kitchen use. Every sack guaranteed to us by the makers—and guaranteed by us to you. Sold only in original sacks Coast Guard officials believe they un- ' earthed a plot of operators of rum row | to store large quantities of liquor that | could be shipped out under camouflage. | p;. penses from their funds, and the witness | Gaskiil of Greenville, Ohio, secretary- sald he supposed so. .| treasurer of the east central division Healy also asked about an expendi- | of the National Electric Light Associa- | ture of $100 for “orange peels” at the | tion, | m\-entlgr_ -r::d a "1)&plhse 2 lnsh’i;m | 15,000 Copies Distributed. trip participa! in by the delegates. » " 004 " Simpson said the expenditures had been | Bomever testified that 15,000 coples | made and that the delegates went on | jlaceq i Cleveland schools with the | Yy _endeavol $ ,sistnm superintendent of education, | entertainment was paid for indirectly who thought well of the booklet. The | by _consumers of public utility products. | pooLret, the witness said, was prepared R._J. Holly of Sanford, Fla., director | po v { by the committee and edited by Miss | :", ‘h'h.”‘%‘g“ Public ‘}“‘“r:'” B“""‘L | . Clare Ewalt of the Cleveland Normal fioflm:. ‘mmy"g(fn‘“‘h"r e Pet i | School, who received $50 for her serv- T T . e i abolitY | fces. He sald the booklets cost about p 3 . 205 cents each and that there was a ::ng“:""rd‘;}":ihfl“’;;mp"s reject the|great demand for them in the class- e e | Tooms of Ohio schools e sald ‘(’cl'l;o . :L:f;rs\g Bollmeyer lestified that the Ohio com- | lorida 2 - - | mittee was supported by assessments on in Mexico who would benefit by the | the ytility companies, and expense rec- | comstruction of the Boulder Dam|ords were Introduced in evidence to prompted an editorial he wrote against the project. Holly said there was no State utility | regulatory body in Florida and declared | that “we are not averse to such a body.” Asked by Healy if he felt sure the com; contributing to the buresu | would support him in that statement, Holly said he was sure they would. Trained in Speech-Making. Almost every employe in any Florida utllity company can make a speech about his own work, Holly said, adding that they were trained in this work by the ecompany. Folly said that a speakers’ bureau | was maintained and speeches were made by utility men and women before clubs and conventions. @ denjed that any effort had been | made to put utility text books in Flor- | ida or colleges. and added that the only connection he had had with educational institutions in utility work ‘was the assistance of professors in the University of Florida, Stetson Univer- #ity, at Deland, and Southern Univer- sity, at Lakeland, in arranging lectures on_public utilities. Publicity methods o1 the Ohio com- miitee on public utility information, patticularly the distribution of utility fext books among Ohio students, were revealed yesterday in the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation of utility lfin'nm:in. under the Walsh Senate reso- Ju . Fred J. Bollmeyer, director of the , faid that a text book en- | ‘Aladdins of Industry” has been pluedmthechmmothuhumohl and colleges throughout the State. A! report on the commitiee’s work which | wAs introduced into the testimony described this distribution as the “out- standing accomplishment of 1926." ] | | Activities of Commitiee. Testimony was introduced to show | that the commitiee had conducted a ' survey of the text books used in Ohio schools, had a $1.000,000 bond | lfiu:’ e Mpl!‘n 1925 (Glr‘nlh! Cleve- | jand mun! power t, secured publicity in 625 Ohio ngw , Or- ganized woman workers and arranged show that since its inception in 1921 the committee’s expenditures have to- taled $175,389. Outlines Purposes. Ling, who was the first director of the committee, testified that the com- mittee was formed for the purpose of “taking the public into the confidence of the utility companies,” as opposed | to the former “closed door™ policy. He said he was a member of the utility committee of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and that he was instru- | mental in securing passage of a resolu- tion by the committee opposing the | Swing-Johnson Boulder Dam bill. Un- | der examination Ling said that the | Ohio chamber engaged 8. 8. Wyer of | Columbus, formerly associated with the Smithsonian Institution, to write a re- | Ezn on Boulder Dam. He did not say | w much money Wyer was to receive for his services. Ling identified scores of documents as having been circulated by the Ohio committee in obtaining publicity. Many of the documents voiced opposition to | | municipal ownership. Gaskill testified that the East Cen- tral division of the National Electric| Light Association paid Ohio State Uni- | versity $5,000 a year for conducting an | - tal rural power line. He said that the division had paid H. H. Field, an_engineer, $9,000 to make & power | survey in Kentucky, West Virginia and | Ohio He described the co-operation of | his division with educational institu- | tions and said that his divisions had | organized the women in the member | companies to aid in disseminating in-| formation in behalf of the industry. | An unusual phase of the hearing was | the appearance of Representative Doug- | 1as, Democrat, Arizona, who asked Com- | missioner Edgar A. McCulloch and Rob- | ert E. Healy. chief counsel for the com- mussion, to investigate the activities of | the city of Los Angeles in behalf of the Swihg-Johnson Boulder Canyon Dam | bill. He charged that the city had spent | $400,000 for publicity and said the city was a corporation engaged In the busi- | ness of generating power and was about | to enter into interstate commerce, 1328 F Friday Only! ONE DAY Bollmeyer testified that the Ohio com- mittee spent $12,000 of a special fund to assist the State Federation of Wom- | en’s Clubs in conducting an essay con- test among studenis. Pamphlets en- | “The Key to Modern Home Mak- | 2" were sent to 62,000 persons inter- ested in the contest to give them ma- | Lake, as- | terial on which to write essays, he tes- | praag tifled. Bollmeyer said he could not remem- | ber conducting a fight against the Cleve- | land bond issue. Mr. Healy then had | him_identify a letter Bollmeyer wrote | R. R. McGregor, assistant director of | the Illinois committee on public utility | information, dated October 19, 1925, in | which he voiced opposition to the mu- | icnipal power plant. | In that connection an undated cir- | cular issued by the Ohio committee was introduced Into the testimony. The circular was headed “Cleveland muny light plant showed large deficit last year,” referring to 10924. “Cash ex- penditures exceeded receipts by more than $110,000," it continued. “Ta: W. C. Barr Awarded Verdict in Extraction Case. | Dr. William C. Barr, a dentist at 3050 N street, has won the suit for $10,~ | 000 damages brought against him by The mouth of the caves opens near | the water's edge. They are of concrete | and steel and their cost estimated at $5,000. COMPLETES PLANTING. |FEisabeth E. 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