Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 83, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1927 — Page 2

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proved later, wai to prevent the resolution from being pushed through. Fur-Lined Overshoes "They got out from under me, I’m not going to introduce anything,” Bartholomew suid, following the caucus. Another council member tried to console Bartholomew with the observation that “some of these fellows need fur-lined overshoes.” * Between the time the resolution was voted out of the committee and in again, Robert F. McNey, former exalted cyclops of the Ku-Klux JKlan, Negley’s political mentor and unregistered lobbyist during the last Indiana Legislature, circulated among council members. During the recess, McNey was seen in conference with Todd, whose motion to reconsider immediately following the recess, er ibled the resolution to be placed i. committee. Johnson May Take Place Before administration members obtained control of the situation, the rumor was circulated that Buser was to resign as city controller and that Police Chief Claude Johnson would be appointed in his place. Johnson, his brother; Police Major Louis Johnson; the chief’s secretary, John Ambuhl, and safety board members were in the council chamber and interested spectators throughout the session. Before the meeting, safety board members hurried into an anteroom, apparently for the purpose of holding a special meeting. O. D. Haskett, safety board president, and Chief Johnson, sat at Negley’s side during the meeting. Duvall and Buser, who had said that they would attend, were not in the council chamber. Administration factionists crowded the chamber, however, to 'end heart to opponents of the impeachment proceedings. Virgil Vandagriff: and Frans Cones, works board members; M. E. Foley, John E. Milnor and Mrs. J. D. Hess, park board members; John J. Collins, city purchasing agent, who is under indictment as are Duvall and Buser, also were present. City Clerk William A. Boyce, Jr., was not at the meeting. Negley announced that he was in Methodist Hospital suffering from an eye infection. Borne attorneys contend that Boyce succeeds to the Mayor’s chair in the event the city controller’s office, next in line, is also vacated, others that the council names one of its members mayor pro tern, until a special meeting can be called to elect anew executive. A two-thirds council vote is necessary to impeach. Commi.’-tee to which is referred the impeachment, resolution investigates the charges and if prosecution is decided upon a summons is issued for the defendants, to appear for trial in not less than ten days from the date of the summons. An amendment introduced at Monday night’s meeting and referred to committee seeks to change this and make it possible to receive the commit ieee’s report at the same meeting the resolution is introduced. After a finding of guilt the accused could be removed from office within threee days. When impeachment charges were filed late Monday afternoon in the county clerk’s office, Negley and McNey were in the office in con-

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Above: Mayor Duvall (left) and City Controller William C. Buser. Below: Councilman Otis E. Bartholomew (left), who introduced the resolution asking impeachment of Duvall and Buser. and Council President Claude E. Negley who referred the resolution to a special committee headed by himself.

Silent Mayor Duvall and City Controller William C. Buser made no answer today to the council impeachment charges against them. Asked for a statement as he was walking through city hall, Duvall quickened his pace and replied: “On what? Alvah Rucker's joke? No.” Buser also refused to comment on the impeachment attempt.

ference with Buser. When handed the thirty-four typewritten pages of charges, Negley glanced through them and discounted their seriousness.

THE CITY IN BRIEF

WEDNESDAY EVENTS Kiwanls Club luncheno, Claypool. Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Chamber of Commerce. Alpha Eta PI meeting. Llncjln. 7.30 P ’Purdue Alumni Association luncheon. Severln. ~ , Lions Club luncheon, Lincoln. American Athletic Union swimming m in t dl^i r ap^is ll Credn ar Men's 5 Association (iron, steel and builders group), meeting. Severln. 4 p. m Master Barbers Association meeting. Se purity Bakeries picnic. Riverside Park. Clarence Wilder, 30, 352 Lyons St., Indianapolis Power and Light Company employe, received serious burns and a badly injured back when he fell thirty feet after touching a high tension wire while trimming limbs in front of 1037 W. Thirty-seventh St. today. Wilder was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital. An Involuntary petition In bankruptcy has been filed by creditors of the Richmond Casket Company of Richmond, Ind., in Federal Court, listing outstanding debts of $37,291.48 and averring that it is insolvent. Creditors filing suit were Goth B. Freeman, Isaac S. Lanning and Richmond Electric Company. \ Universal Club members, heard Barton P. Pogue, school of expression head, Taylor University, at a luncheon today at the Columbia Club. Pogue spoke on “Fortunes in Friendship." John Hardy, club president, introduced Pogue. •" ■ • Seventy-five citizens of small towns bordering the Monon Railroad appeared before the public service commission at a 'hearing in the House of Representatives this morning to argue for better local, express and mail service. Among the communities represented were Bainbridge, Clovcrdale, Rossville, Stinesville and Ellettsville. Mrs. Nellie C. Jackson, 39, of 107 Concordia St., is nursing a badly sprained ankle and h)p today the result of a fall while crossing the street near her home late Monday.

Four IJegroes deserted an auto which they were riding late Monday night, after it crashed into a traffic signal at Sixteenth and Pennsylvania Sts. Police were told by witnesses that three men and one woman were in the auto.

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WATERWAY IS URGED Henry J. Allen Argues for St. Lawrence Project. By United Press UNIVERBITY, Va., Aug. 16.—Economic and engineering experts have cleared the way for the St. Lawrence waterway and “no local interest may stand against the pressure of 43,000,000 people whose benefit is so thoroughly obvious," former Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas told the University of Virginia Institute of Public Affairs today. The Kansas publicist delivered quoted authorities who said the Du-luth-to-Liverpool transportation on wheat alone would be cut 9 cents a bushel. The waterway will open new markets, make Great Lake ports ocean ports, foster new enterprises, and permit normal development of the national life, he said. ACCOUNTS SBOO SHORT Sheriff Who Committed Suicide Behind on Trust Funds. The State board of accounts announced today that a preliminary examination of the accounts of Sheriff' Robert Woods of Spencer County, who recently committed suicide, showed that he was approximately SBOO short. The shortage is thought to be mostly in trust funds under Wood’s supervision, but Lawrence Orr, chief examiner, said further examination would have to be made before a definite statement could be made.

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POVERTY STALK IN ANTHRACITE COAL REGIONS Business Conditions Worst Since Administration of Cleveland. BY ARTHUR N. SUVERKRUP United Prese Staff Correspondent ASHLAND, Pa., Aug. 16.—The anthracite coal industry is in the process of an economic readjustment and business conditions in this section are said by veteran business men and miners to be worse than at any time since the administration of Grover Cleveland. . • Miners declare that times are worse than they were during the longest strike on record—the strike which ended in February, 1926. During July the average wage earned by the miners in this section was $25, a week hardly enough to pay rent at the current rates in this section. Work Day Each Week The average of one day’s work per week is general in the mines and collieries of this section. Not only the Reading colleries, which are in a majority, but the Lehigh Valley and small independent operations as well, are working on that basis, if at all. Every one connected with the mines in any way today is suffering from financial difficulties. Mine operators have never directly given out a statement assigning a reason for the unprecedented conditions which exist today. It has been learned, however, from sources close to the operators that there is no mrirket for the anthracite product. One mine superintendent here told the United Press than "every ton of coal we mined last week is standing in coal cars in the yards.” Close Down Entirely He said that his mine is under orders to close down entirely within a few days. Another mine official in discussing the situation said: “Regardless of what may be said to the contrary substitutes used by consumers during the recent strike ruined a large part of the hard coal market.” This official, however, expressed the belief that a portion of the market now using substitutes would be won back to hard coal within a short time.

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STUDENTS MAKE TOUR Japanese Will Be Entertained A". Manila By United Pres* MANILA. —Local student organizations are preparing to welcome a delegation of Japanese students from Toa Dobun Shoin College of Shanghai who are making an educational tour of the Far East. The Japanese consulate received a message saying that the students would spend several days in Manila inspecting universities and academies before proceeding on their way to Java. OPPOSE WAGE BOOST Trolley Firm Wants Green Petition Dropped. Petition to dismiss the wage increase petition of James Green and other employes of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company was filed with the public service commission today by Superintendent James P. Tretton of the street car company. The Green petition was taken to the commission as a ’joard of arbitration. It asks 20 cents an hour increase in pay and better hours and working conditions. A former petition of Green resulted in a 3-cent increase in wages, which they company applied to all car men. The company asks dismissal of the present petition on the ground that Green and other petitioners signed new wage agreements, that no change in conditions have arisen since the former hearing, arid that the company by granting the other increase added SIOO,OOO to expenditures without increasing revenues. For some time the company has been operated at a loss. Turkey to Attend League Parley By United Press GENEVA, Aug. 16.—Turkey has notified the League of Nations secretariat that she will participate in the league’s transit conference here Sept. 23.

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RRAVEL TRUCK CRUSHES YOUTH Lee Copeland, 18, Seriously Hurt in Pit. Lee Copeland, 18, of Brooklyn, ( Ind., is in a critical condition in Robert Long Hospital today after being crushed between two trucks in a gravel pit five miles north of Shelbyville. Copeland, truck driver for the State Highway Commission, was trying to push a truck out of the pit when another true* backed up and pinned him beneath a front wheel. His chest was crushed and he suffered severe cuts and bruises on his face and body. Wilbert Allen, 30, of 732 Fulton St., was injured seriously late Monday night when his truck crashed into a street car at Thirty-Fourth St. and Northwestern Ave. The truck then skidded and struck an auto driven by A. W. Sharkey, 1001 W. Thirty-Fourth St. Allen was rendered unconscious and taken to city hospital, where he is held under charges of reckless driving and speeding. Mr. and Mrs. Sharkey and their children were bruised. James Hudson, 7, a pupil at the North Cross Hall private school, 3356 Central Ave., suffered cuts and bruises Monday night when he was struck by an auto driven by R. S. Kieth, 1614 Barth Ave., in front of the school. Five additional victims were added to the Monday night already lareg number of arrests made by Federal agents in Indianapolis in the past two weeks. They were James Carr, 1414 N. Dearborn St.; Eugene Hinton, 540 Massachusetts Ave.; Jack Morgan, 628 Owen Ave.; William Holland, negro. 1022 Northwestern Ave., and Pat Daley, 1134 Woodlawn Ave.

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WARNED TO GET JOBS Filipinos Urged to Not to Flock to Hawaii. By , United Press MANILA, Aug. 16.—The insular bureau of labor has received authoritative information from Honolulu saying that Filipino laborers ought not to come to the Hawaiian Island without previous ,arrengements for employment. The bureau is circulating a warning throughout the archipelago calling attention to the danger of arriving in Honolulu penniless and without employment. DELAY LEVY ACTION Special Council Meeting May Be Held Tonight. Council President Claude E. Negley was in doumt today at noon as to whether he would call a special council session for late today or tonight to name a cammittee to act on the city budget for next year, proposed by City Controller William C. Buser. Councilmen Boynton J. Moore and Walter R. Dorsett urged him to call the special session. The budget submitted by Buser calls for a $1.95 tax rate. The stormy session Monday night at which impeachment charges were brought against Mayor Duvall and City Controller William C. Buser caused the financial statement to be neglected. The increased levies were submitted to the councilmen by letter from Duvall upon recommendation of Buser. Onfe of the items proposed a 50-cent levy to obtain funds for payment of tax refunds for 1919, 1920 and 1921. The present rate is $1.04. If a special session is held the Duvall impeachment could not be acted on unless it was included in the meeting call.

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REED MAY BE , STB CHIEF Pennsylvania Senator Is Backed to Succeed Gary. Times tVashinnton Bureau. 1322 New York Avenue WASHINGTON, March 16. United States Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania may .succeed Judge Elbert H. Gary as bead of the United States Steel Co.prr®.tion. This report has been circulated in Washington for months. It has conje at frequent intervals although Senator Reed has insisted he knew nothing about it and the suggestion never had been made to him by persons in authority. He has not indicated whether he would accept if tht Job actually was offered. Senator Reed is now in Europe. Before entering the Senate Reed was one of the attorneys for the United States Steel Corporation and in 1917, he argued in the Supreme Court against the Government’s suit to dissolve the corporation for alleged violation of the Sherman anti-trust act. Reed has also represented the steel corporation in other litigation. HELPS REFORESTATION Charles W. Martin Cooperates WitM Conservation Department. ™ President Charles W. Martin of the Zinc Roofing Company. Greencastle, Ind., is cooperating with the State Conservation department in: reforestation of twenty-five acres * surrounding the Putnam County plant. It has been decided to plant evergreen trees on the Martin tract, acting State Forester Ralph Wilcox announced. Trees to be planted will be white pine, red pine, Norway spruce and Corsican pine. About 1,200 trees, planted six feet apart, will be required.

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