Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 121, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1927 — Page 2

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CITY MANAGER GROUP SHUNS DUVALLMIX-UP Leaders to Keep Hands Off Until New Form Goes in Effect in 1930. STILL TALK OF OUSTER Democrats Investigate Law to Ascertain If They Can Take Action. City Manager League leaders will keep “hands off the city hall mess’! until 1930, Executive Chairman John Esterline indicated today. The league directors have been urged to take some steps leading to ousting of Mayor Duvall, convicted of violating the corrupt practices act. Esterline said the committee believed the manager form, which was adopted for Indianapoils in May, could not become effective until 1930, as provided by a law passed by the last Legislature. The Simms amendment to the city manager law provides the businesslike type of municipal government shall not become effective until expiration of the terms of incumbents. Says He Won’t Resign “We thought the law applied to all city officials as well as the mayor and we could not remove them before their term expires,” Esterline declared. Appointment of Mrs. Duvall, the mayor’s wife, as city controller, led politicians to believe Duvall would resign. He declared he intended to continue. The city controller becomes mayor in event of the resignation, death or ousting of the mayor. Leading Democrats have conferred on the possibility of filing suit to test the legality of Duvall’s holding office after the Criminal Court jury’s verdict provided the mayor shall be disqualified for holding office for four years from Nov. 2, 1925. Question Legality Several attorneys questioned the legality of Duvall’s holding the post after the motion for anew trial Oct.

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Tunney to Quit at 35; Aims High for Life Job , * 2 Diplomatic Post, Senator or Governor’s Berth Not Beyond His Ambition, Champion Hints. BY ALLENE SUMNER I _ | LEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 28.—Some day, James Joseph Tunney, f c,iuuip„on neavyweight fighter of the world, wants to doff his white cotton ring shorts for the satin knee breeches worn at the court of St. James. This does not mean that the heavyweight champion of the world has a wild hankering to be presented at court. Rather, he hopes to do a little presenting himself in the role of United States ambassador to the court of Britain. Gene Tunney, the Adonis, Beau Brummel, Lord Che3terfleld, Euripides, Shakespeare and Whom Have You of the prize ring, would exchange his right to the title for which most of the masculine world would sell its soul, for a "more dignified and lasting title,” such as ambassador, statesman, Senator, famed archaeologist, or a name meaning financial wizardry.

Unbruised and unscratched from his fight with Jack Dempsey, Tunney, resting in a millionaire’s palatial estate in this city, left his book long enough to tell what it really means to him to be world’s heavyweight champion; what he plans with his title, and what he hopes for. Boxing Not Life Work “Boxing never can be my life work or profession,” says Tunney. “It’s just a good job—a business into which circumstances drew me. I am not a prize fighter from real inclination; things just broke that way. “I was offered a million-dollar job —a Job for which I never really planned or prepared. But if I can hold the job, wouldn’t I or any one be foolish to turn down an opportunity to put one on one’s feet and leave one in a position to put through almost any life program?" There, in a nutshell, you have it! Gene Tunney will “earn his pile” and then begin to do the job he really wants to do. One gathers that both “boxing" I

8, pending a Supreme Court decision, and are searching law books to ascertain whether future city bond issues would be legal. Filing of quo warranto proceedings to force the mayor to show by what right he holds the office has been considered. FRANCE PARDONS DOTY American Deserter From Foreign Legion Released From Prison. Bu United Press PARIS, Sept. 28.—Bennett J. Doty of Memphis, Tenn., has been pardoned after serving thirteen months of an eight-year sentence imposed for desertion from the French Foreign Legion when in ■Syria. The announcement was made in fi Jetter from Minister of War Painleye to Charles Campbell, lawyer representing Doty’s family. He had been in priTori at Lyons.

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and his title are distasteful, if anything, to Gene Tunney, wizard of boxers; that he is merely counting time until his “pile’’ is ready and he can be the powjr he wants to be. Gene kicked his bedroomslippered feet a bit impatiently when pressed for an exact description of his future life. "Something gentlemanly, scholarly, and powerful,” he said. “Some sphere where money counts for real constructive work.” Will Quit at 35 "I will box until I am 35,” he says. “I will leave before I am defeated. Nobody will have beaten me in that time. By that time I w'U be ready for a job of my own i lection—not one which is the outcome of circumstances." One gathers that whatever that job is, Gene Tunney, world heavyweight champion, expects to be just as important out of the ring as in. A senatorship, a governorship, an ambassadorship, even the presidency fall within the scope of his ambitions.

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SAFETY BOARD ACTS TO KEEP SERVICE Fire Commissioners Explain Rules and Say ‘We Will Stick to Post.’ Civil service In the police and fire department will be retained by the board of safety, Frederick W. Connell, president, said today. Although Mayor Duvall has not named any one to fill the two vacancies on tie police civil service board, he coni rmed Connell’s statement. The safety board, which had considered appointment of seven firemen, subject to civil service rules, on recommendation of Fire Chief Jesse Hutsell, announced the list would be taken from the civil service eligibility list after visiting Duvall. Glenn B. Ralston and Andrew J. Allen, first civil service commissioners, explained the rules of the commisdon to the new board and announced they would “stick to their posts” and cooperate with the board. Duvall said police civil service regulations, adopted by the mayor’s cabinet Sept. 16, 1926, probably will be modified at the next cabinet meeting. Duvall said it is probable the civil service examinations will be retained for new officers, but the reduction and promotion of officers will be left to Police Chief Claude M. Worley and the board of safety. Cuts Insurance Rates John F. White, Federation of Civic Clubs president, and Emerson W. Chaille, realtor, resigned from the police commission in protest of the mayor’s ousting of Police Chief Claude F. Johnson and other superior officers without consulting the commission. It was pointed out the fire civil service has aided in cutting insurance rates. Ira Haymaker, Democratic board member, said he believed the power of shifting superior police officers should rest with the chief, who is responsible for the department's morale. "The board was not familiar with the civil service regulations, and since conferring with Ralston and Allen we expect to cooperate in every way possible,” said Robert Miller, board member. Duvall said he expected to name successors to White and Chaille in a few days. ”1 want to get a couple of good men for that commission," Duvall said. SCARES AWAY BURGLAR Mrs. Mlnta Sheppard, 1032 N. Rural St., routed a burglar from her home with a revolver shot at 1 a. m. today. kwakened by someone trying to unlock the door between the kitchen and dining room, Mrs. Sheppard told police, she waited until she was sure it was a burglar and fired one shot through the door. The burglar fled.

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SCHOOL STRIKE ENTERS ON THIRD DAY AT GARY Students Making Color Protest Now Exceed 800. Bu United Press GARY, Ind., Sept. 28.—For the third consecutive day, more than 800 white students at Emerson High School here walked out on strike today in protest against admission of twenty-four Negro students. The third walk-out occurred following a mass meeting this morning at which the strikers reiterated their demand that the Negroes be transferred to other schools and also demanded that all absences because of the strike be stricken from the records. School officials, meanwhile, stood by their position that the Negro students could not be transferred because of congested conditions in the city’s schools. While they took no steps to force return of the strikers, they made it clear that work missed through absence caused by the strike would have to be made up. As the strikers appeared to be backed by their parents in their demand for an “all-white” school, the situation seemed hopelessly deadlocked.

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CASH REGISTER LOOTED Burglars Take Advantage of Jewish Holiday to Enter Store. Burglars took advantage of a Jewish holiday and entered the store operated by Mrs. Isaac Morris, 858 S. Meridian St., closed Tuesday while she celebrated Rosh Hoshanah. She told police sls was taken from the cash register. A burglar entered the home Tuesday afternoon while Henry Swickeimer, 1329 S. Pershing Ave., was away and took sl3 in cash and jewelry valued at S6O.

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RHODES TEST f! FOR HOOSIERS ! TOBEJEC.IO Scholarship Examination Will Be Held at Indiana University. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 28. —The Indiana Rhodes scholar to Oxford College, England, will be chosen at a personal examination on Dec. 10, according to Dr. R. H. Coon, secretary of the State Rhodes scholarship committee. Approximately thirty men are expected to compete for the appointment this year. The scholarship carries with it a stipend of approximately $2,000 a year for three years at the college. It is open to all male students of Indiana who have completed their sophomore year at some recognized degree-granting college or university, who are between the ages of 19 and 25, unmarried, and have been residents of the United States for at least five years. Oct. 22 is the late date on which applications may be filed with the State committee. Selection is based on literary and scholastic ability and attainments; qualities of manhood, character, public spirit and leadership, and physical vigor as shown by interest in outdoor sports or in other ways. E. R. Boiler. Purdue University, was the Rhodes scholai from Indiana two years ago. and Philip Rice, Indiana University, was the representative from Indiana the year before that. Last year no selection was made. President Frank Aydelofte, Swarthmore College, is American secretary to the Rhodes trustees. He is a former faculty member of Indiana University and is from Sullivan, Ind. He is a graduate of I. U. and is a Rhodes scholar. Institutions of higher learning in the State are permitted to chose candidates according to their enrollment, ranging from not more than two candidates with an institution with 500 students up to a maximum of five candidates for institutions with more than 2(000 students enrolled.

Urges Manager Form Bu Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Sept. 28.—Addressing the Ministerial Association of this city, Mayor Lawrence A. Handley urged “that Richmond keep in the forefront of progress by adopting the city manager form of municipal government.”