Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1928, Page 10

i £ 3 10 CITE HOOVER TALK Candidate, in 1925 Speech, Opposed Federal Regulation. By the Associated Press. Financial records introduced yesterday as evidence in the investigation of power utilities by the Federal Trade Commission presented a comprehensive picture of the activities of the Nation- al Electric Light Association, and wide- ly known names figured occasionally in testimony by representatives of that as- By of of Has Closed Gambling Houses and Saloons—Name Pro- MEXICO CITY, September 20.—A prohibitionist, base ball fan and friend /s Friendship With U. S.—Follows Calles’ Policies. nounced “Heel.” the Assoclated Press. the United States will be President Mexico if Emilio Portes Gil, who is { sociation. ¢ Distribution of a speech made by Her- | bert Hoover here on October 14, 1925, % was disclosed by George F. Oxley of New York, public relations director of Zthe N. E. L. A. He identified a check for $646 made to Harold Phelps Stokes, fand addressed to the Department of Commerce under date of October 28, 11925, as payment for 49,500 copies of ithe speech. Mr. Stokes was formerly secretary to Mr. Hoover. o Entitled, “Why the Public Interest Requires State Rather Than Federal Regulation of Electric Public Utilities,” {the address was made by Hoover while { Secretary of Commerce to the thirty- seventh annual convention of the Na- tional Association of Railroad and Util- {ities Commissioners. § W. A. White Paid $500. i “It was so good,” said Oxley, “that I ordered a large quantity to go out to our people.” Oxley named Mrs. John D. Sherman of Estes Park, Col, former president of ‘the General Federation of Women's IClubs, as’ having been paid $600 apiece for “several” articles on rural homes avhich were published as “news.” This was done through an advertising agency, he said, indicating that the ‘payments had been made monthly for @bout a year. Checks to this agency mvere put in evidence, and in addition wouchers for $50 and $16 to Mrs. Sher- an were presented. One of these had he notation “Jacking up the farm Somen's home equipment.” | Estimating expenditures for adver- Bising by the N. E. L. A. at about 868,000 for one year and $100,000 a ear “for the past several years,” Oxley stified that the amount given to per- sons for writing articles which appeared in news-columns had amounted to $8,- B00 “for the last year or so.” ¢ Earlier A. J. Marshall, secretary of | the N. E. L. A, identified a $300 check fo william Allen White, editor of the Fmporia (Kans.) Gazette, which he foid vas for speaking to the Atlantic ity convention of the association in May, 1926. The speech was found in focords of that convention already in|, . It dealt with utilities selling " to the public, and hailed the . E. L. A. members as leaders of the ation’s progress. Bruce Barton Also Paid. Checks for $5.000 and $338 made to| Rrice Barton, the writer, by the asso- @iation also were presented. The $5.000 nvment was said to be for envelope ivertising matter, while the latter was r expenses altendant upon his speak- g to the 1925 convention at Sanq Prancisco. * Tour checks totalling $3,282, made out George L. Hoxie of Los Angeles, were Pt in evidence by Robert E. Healy, eommission counszl. A voucher for $1,000 of this amount said it was for payment “to mutual friend,” and Oxley produced a recent telegram from Hoxle, Wwhich said the money had been paid to “James Mavor for information. respect- xlg affairs of Ontario Highway Com- ission” that had subsequently been embodied by Hoxie in a confidential re- port of the National Electric Light As- sociaf tion. * Commisisoner McCulloch recessed the fhquiry until tomorrow when Marcy B. Darnall of Florence, Ala., will take the stand. No intimation was given as to - what phase of utilities activities will be ¢overed by his testimony. Then the investigation will go over until Tuesday, when witnesses from , Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina will appear. Those under sub- poena include C. M. Kilian, Atlanta, sec-| retary, Southeastern Division, National Electric Light Association; J. S. Thomas, lirmmghxs!'n..utormer secretary of the formation. For Wednesday, September 26, the following are scheduled to be heard: J. A. Switzer, University of Ten- nessee, Nashville, secretary, Southern Appalachian Power Conference; Dr. Jo- soph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill, N. C. chairman executive committee, Southern Avpalachian Power Conference; Thorn- dike Saville, Chapel Hill, N. C., former easurcr, Southern Appalachian Power nference. Assemble Cars Abroad. American motor vehicle manufac- turers have the number of their foreign assembly plants 169 per nt since 1923, the Department of reports, - Plants located at tribution centers afford savings in ight, duty rates, labor and matérial. 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