Show T POWER PROBE Y I 50 MILLIONS SAYING SAVING SEEN BY SPONSORS Roosevelt Signs Resolution Directing Federal Rate Investigation PUBLICITY TO BE GIVEN Effect to Be Fa FaR Reaching Far R aching Say Inquiry Authors BY Bi Associated d Pr Press ss W WASHINGTON N April 14 dent Roosevelt today sIgned the thc Nor Nor- Rankin ris-Rankin r resolution directing a federal fed fed- eral power commission Investigation ot of electric rates Senator Norris R. R Neb and Representative Rep Rep- Rankin D D. D Miss auth auth au au- th rs ot of the Inquiry were present at atthe atthe the White House when Mr Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt affixed his signature The order provides for an investigation gation of electric rates charged to residential rural commercial and industrial in in- consumers consumers Its us effect will be reaching far Representative Rankin Rank told reporters In my opinion it will do more to bring justice to the consumers of electric energy than any other step yet taken with the exception o of the passage ot of the Muscle Shoals billI bill r I predict that the publicity it will give and the thc d discriminations and ex rates it w vill reveal will vill r result in a reduction in the costs ot of light and power to the ultimate consumers of this country of not less than 50 a year It may reach man many times that hat amount |