Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1926 — Page 2

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WARD ANSWERS • ‘FAKING’ CHARGE IN SCHOOL CASE C. C. Shipp Offered Local Post, Says Ft. Wayne Superintendent. Answering charges that he “faked” an offer f”om the Indianapolis school city to become superintendent of schools here, Louis C. Ward, Ft. Wayne school superintendent ha's made public a statement telling about the offer. Ward came to Indianapolis and was offered the post to succeed E. U. Graff, incumbent. He told the Ft. Wayne board of the offer, but did not resign because he was given a salary increase. Poliitcal enemies circulated the story that Ward had faked the offer to gain the salary increase. Ward denied any “faking" in his statement and retold his version of the offer, which The Times learned last January, was made by Clarence C. Shipp, local manufacturer of heating and ventilating devices. Not on Hoard Ward, in the statement, admitted that the “power behind the throne” was a man who is not a memebr of the Indianapolis board, but a business man who had had interests in Ft. Wayne. East January, less than a month after the new majority faction, composed of Theodore F. Vonnegut, President Charles W. Kern and Mrs. Killian Sedwick, took office, the Times learned of the offer to Ward. I ie admitted to a Times reporter who interviewed him at his home that the

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offer was made by Shipp. Shipp is generally known as the controlling factor of the majority section of the board. Many disputes between the three members and the minority, Charles R. Yoke and Fred Bates Johnson, have arisen over selection of Shipp’s devices. The Shipp mechanisms are used practically exclusively in Ft. Wayne schools. “In November, last year, a ijrominent Indianapolis business man, who has had large interests in Ft. Wayne, as well, told me that pertain events were soon to transpire in his city which might be of interest to me,” Ward said. Called to City “A week afterward, he telephoned me to come to the capital for a conference. I met him in office and went with him to see a,man whom he designated as the most powerful man in the city at the time, and a man chosen by the committee in charge as their spokesman. "There is no question in my mind that the offer was made in good faith, that the committee was earnest in its desire to improve the Indianapolis schools, and that if I had so desired I should today be the superintendent of schools in that city,” he asserted. When the Times questioned school board members and Shipp about the matter, the charges were denied. REPLACE OLD SIGNALS New Bight Systems Speed Up Railway Traffic. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. Replacement of ,tlie old semaphore systems by light signals Is speeding up railroad traffic of the United States, according to the Signal section of the American Railway Association. Not only do the lights enable railroads to handle increased traffic but, also, they add to the safety of passengers and employes

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