Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-12 | Page 2 | Scope of Utilities Probe Broadened

SCOPE OF UTILITIES PROBE BROADENED Thorough rho rough Inquiry Ordered by r It N Y I Senate Senater I r M If sk ANY N. N Y April 12 UP- UP The be state senate early today approved a authorizIng the broadest too if t an investigation Int Into the po po- activities ot of utilities comP corn com P pas s. s The action came soon after the federal trade commission made p lk In Washington a a. new new sheaf of between officials ot of the Associated Gas and rid Ei Electric company and members of the legis la the new Investigation will mean a th through ih inquiry into the utilities alt all Senator Thayer was the alleged waiter ilter of six of letters WASHINGTON April 12 The 4 The shadow ot of legislative favoritism to public utilities spread d tod y over tw two New states York and Kentucky Spread on the re records ot of the federal trade commission are Bre the names of 12 New York state legislators some of f whom whom- are pictured p inthe tha commis d data t u as favorably inclined toward legislation acceptable t to th the Associated Gas and Electric coni corn pany The records in the case ot of Ken Ken- lucky tucky concern purported office memoranda mem mem- oranda in 1928 from H. H D. D Fitch president ot of Tennessee Kentucky Light and Power company an associated ted subsidiary to S. S J J. J Magee Asso o. o elated vice president In the exchange ex ex- change Fitch said a r resolution lutton of the Kentucky legislature for a utIlities inquiry had been written for the hen ben slit elit ot of the utilities