Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1927 — Page 1

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STATE MEDIC CHIEF BLASTS WHISKY BAN Indiana Law Branded Unjust, Insult to Profession, by Dr. F. W. Cregor. HIT AS HEALTH MENACE Bar on Use of Ether Would Be as Reasonable, Says Indianapolis Man. Indiana’s absolute ban upon the use of whisky as medicine was denounced as “unjust, unnecessary, contrary to public policy, a violation of a basic principle, and a direct insult to the medical profession,’’ by the president of the Indiana State Medical Association today. Dr. Prank W. Cregor of Indianapolis, head of the association in annual session at the city hospital, addressing more than 1,000 Indiana physicians, did not mince words in condemning what he called a “dangerous situation.” Federal laws permit the use of whisky for medicinal purposes, but the Wright “bone dry" law in Indi-. ana positively forbids its use under any circumstances. Embarrassing to Doctors

“Due to those who would yield principle to political expediency, the medical profession of Indiana finds itself in an embarrassing situation as regards the prohibition law of the State,” Dr. Creg~ said. “It Is a dangerous situativ.,i when a law body will enact laws which say that a physician shall not’Employ any remedey when according to his ability and judgment he considers it best for his patient. “The law-making body may as well say that the physician may not employ ether as an anesthetic or morphine as a narcotic as to say that he may not employ whisky or champagne when his judgment dictates its use. Can Trust Physicians “It is not sufficient to say that much distress and havoc have been wrought by spirituous liquors. To take such position is wholly beside the question. For the fact remains that the physician who would object to stringent regulation would be in as ridiculous a position as the legislator who would say, •you shall not do so.’ “The medical profession," con* tinued Dr. Cregor, “has aided and abetted the government in the regulation of narcotics and may be depended upon to aid and abet the regulation of spirituous liquors, but must resent the mandate that ‘you shall pot’ as being unjust, unnecessary, and contrary to public policy, a violation of a basic principle, and a direct insult to our honored profession. “Let the regulation be as stringent as the most enthusiastic would demand, but leave the honored medical profession free to employ every agency at its command in performance of its great public obligation.” May Pass Resolution It was regarded probable that Dr. Cregor’s sentiments would be incorporated in a resolution for adoption by the State meeting of doctors. In his address, Dr. Cregor likewise made a plea for more physicians In rural communities and sounded a warning against too much specialization. “Although there are 350 more members of the association than there were two years ago, there is a loss of about 100 in the total number of physicians in the State,” he said. Medical teaching, he asserted, has become so highly specialized as to discourage students. “The growing tendency to specialization without the opportunity to attain professional perspective, which can come only by exper- nee, is to be deplored,” Dr. Crega declared/ Recent troubles arising in the State board of health brought the comment that officers of the Indiana State Medical Association “had made no small effort to smooth out these dissensions until we feel that we are to congratulate the people that apparent peace has been established.”

Public Is Protected Speaking of the amendment to the medical practices act passed by the 1927 Legislature over the vigorous opposition of chiropractors, the association president said: “The first great purpor * this law is to protect the public against incompetent or fraudulent individuals who would exploit it. To this end the State has set up machinery thereby it can determine the fitness of any person seeking the privilege 0f treating the sick. “In the future, all persons who would engage in the solemn occupation of treating the sick first must satisfy the State that they are qualified In their knowledge of the human body and the diseases which affect it.” Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 64 10 a. m 68 7 a. m 64 11 a. m..\... 67 8 a. m 65 12 (noon) ... 64 9 a. m 65 1 p. m 64 Hiller Office Supply Cos. Ma. 0612. We deliver the goods—promptly. ' —Adv.

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Swedish Prince Is \Just One of Folks;’ Here Under Times Auspices Oct. 12

When the retinue headed by His Royal Highness, Prince William of Sweden, second son of King Gustav V, comes to Indianapolis Oct. 12 under auspices of The Indianapolis Times, the camping fund of the Campfire Girls and the Girl Scouts will be increased through profits of a lecture to be given by the prince. * Butlers, valets, secretaries, diplomats and official what-nots will be missing when Sweden’s accomplished son arrives. His party fs limited to five persons, all necessary to make his speaking tour a success. For this prince is perfectly at home in an upper berth. William renounced official court life and all its gew-gaws to follow a scientific career of exploration and writing. He is acknowledged one of the foremost big game hunters of the world, a writer of travel, exmoration and fiction, a poet of considerable attainment, a noted dramatic critic and well-known connoisseur of European art galleries. Standing 8 feet 4 in his stocking feet, this "Roosevelt of Sweden” doesn’t care much about so-

CITY BUILDING CHIEFTO QUIT Westover to Take Better Post in Chicago. Building Commissioner Bert J. Westover plans to submit his resignation to the board of safety Tuesday so he can “accept a better position.” Westover, in the department more than nine years, expects to accept a berth as building code offlcial of the National Lumber

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erick W. Connell said. Tellas Lee, plan examining engineer, ar.d W. A. Ck.bon, assistant commissioner, both in the department • since the first of the Duvall administration, have been mentioned in connection with the vacancy.

HOOSIER FOUND DEAD Body of Glen Sockrlder, Portland Under Bridge at Buffalo, N. Y. Bu Timea Special PORTLAND, Ind., Sept. 29.—Authorities of Buffalo, N. Y., are investigating the death there of Glen Sockrlder, 25, of Portland, whose body was found beneath a railroad bridge. An effort is being made to determine whether Sockrlder fell from a train by accident or was robbed and thrown off. Sockrlder, an employe of the J. A. Long Produce Company of this city, was accompanying a carload of poultry to the Buffalo market, having left here Monday night.

RIMS FOB CO-ED Lawyer-Husband Asks Jury Acquit Wife. By United Preaa COURTROOM, GEORGETOWN, Texas, Sept. 29.—Otis Rogers made an impassioned plea to the Jury to find his wife, Rebecca Bradley Rogers not guilty when Her trial on a charge of arson reopened here today. The case was expected to go to the 'jury •this afternoon. “If It were possible to assess on me any penalty so that she would not suffer, I would gladly assume it,” pleaded the young husband, who is also chief defense attorney. “I believe that little girl to the extent that I would rather have my tongue torn out by the roots and my body thrown into the streets, than to have her suffer.” Mrs. Rogers, former Texas University honor student, powdered her nose as her husband ended his passionate appeal.

Smocks Not In It With Shapely Legs, 200of ’Em Bu United Press OAZEL PARK, Mich., Sept. 29.—Two hundred shapely limbs, bdldly exposed from instep to kneecap, scored a moral victory over ankle length smocks here last night. • The limbs belonging to school ma’ams who have been ordered by the board of education to wear smocks in the classroom the ground that the young idea should not be distracted by tapering expanses of silk stockings. The teaeheds appeared at a school reception minus the smocks. The judges were members of the Parent-Teacher Association. Having stopped, looked and listened they asked “What of it?" Mrs. Lottie Thibos, president of the board and believed responsible for the smock edict, avoided the subject of raiment in her address, but John Dower, a member who supported the proposal, gave his eyes a chance and admitted “Maybe I made a mistake in voting for that resolution." Frank J. Koukol, the only member to disapprove the order, announced his intention of writing a book to be entitled “How to Preserve the Eyes of School Board Members.” Sam Durbin and A- L. Carlson, sponsors of the smock resolution, were “unavoidably absent.” Unless repealed, the smock order goes into effect Monday morning. 6

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MOTOR GOMNJURED Doctor Will Face Reckless Driving Charge. Motorpoliceman Norman Schoen was In city hospital today for an X-ray examination of injuries received when his motorcycle and the auto of Dr. T. N. Siersdorfer, 2558 Winthrop Ave., collided at Fall Creek Blvd. and Guilford Ave. Schoen charged that Siersdorfer cut the comer and stmek the motorcycle. The doctor faces a reckless driving charge. Schoen recently was transferred from a south side district when several hundred residents petitioned his removal.

BANDITS GET $32,000 Five Masked Men Hold Up Forest Gardens (HU) Roadhouse. Bv Unitjd Preaa CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—Five masked men broke into fesitvlties at Forest Gardens, a roadhouse near Chicago, early today and robbed the cash register and forty patrons of jewels estimated by the victims at $32,000. The bandits lined the diners and dancers against the wall v\d searched them. The cash reg l, sr and a slot machine yielded $ TO and SSOO in cash and $30,000 in „jwels were reported by guests to have been stolen from them. ‘KIDDED’r RUNS AWAY Technical High Freshman Flees From Razzing, Says Stepfather. Because his fellow students at Technical High School, which he just entered last month, kidded him about his size and age, Marion Barckers, 16, has run away from home, his stepfather, C. B. Mayhew, 3055 N. Gale St., reported to police today.

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ciety, but will don his best dinner togs when necessity demands. He is one of Sweden’s best known after dinner speakers. / Some wag facetiously remarked of him: “He speaks Swedish almost as well as he does English.” “Hunting Big Game in Pygmy Land” will be the subject of his lecture at the Armory Oct. 12, for the benefit of the Campfire Girl and the Girl Scouts. His remarks, illustrated with 6,000 feet of fascinating film, are based on experiences while aead of an expedition into untraveled Africa for tht Swedish National Art Museum. More than a month was spent by the party gathering scientific data concerning the lla-Twa pygmies. The expedition also brought, back specimens of the gorilla, lion, kobi-topi, wuterbuck and other better known animals. ' Tickets will be placed on sale at several downtown locations next Monday. Keep Wednesday evening, Oct. 12, open for this event.

DENIES DEATH DUETOPOISON Only Small Quantity Found in Body of Pastor’s Wife. By United Preaa ENID, Okla., Sept. 29.—Insufficient poison was found in the body of Mary Jane Bailey to cause death, Dr. W. H. Bailey, Oklahoma City pathologist, reported today as hearing was about to be resumed on charges that Mary Atkinson, a nurse, poisoned the girl. The report was made to Dan Mitchell, county attorney. Original results of Dr. Bailey’s examination were the basis of the murder charges placed against Miss Atkinson. Preliminary hearing testimony on Wednesday substantiated authorities’ charge that the nurse was infatuated with the Rev. Charles Bailey, Episcopalian rector, in whose household she had been living. The minister’s wife and daughter died suddenly of an unexplained illness and three other members of the family were taken sick simultaneously. Stuart Bailey, the rector’s son, Wednesday testified to seeing his father kiss MLa Atkinson and .laid they embraced each other the morning Mrs. Bailey died. Four love letters which the nurse was said to ha”e written the pastor and which were found in the girl’s room by the sheriff, were read in court today. They abounded with affection and told of an attempt at suicide. ROYAL HEIR EXPECTED First Child of Leopold and Astrid to Arrive Next Month. By United Preaa BRUSSELS, Sept. 39.—Birth of the first child of Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid, heirs to the Belgian throne, is expected next month. • If the child is a boy he will be called Prince Albert, Comte de Hainaut. Princess Astrid’s health was reported today as excellent.

JURY REPORT NEAR County Official May Be Indicted Friday. Another partial report of the Marion County grand jury, in which may carry the name of a city official, is expected to be returned in Criminal Court Friday. The jury re c ently has probed the operations of the Electric Oil Well Rejuvenator Company, of which Virgil Vandagrifft, board of works president, is trustee. Although it is reported an indictment has been a result of the investigation, prosecuting attorneys would not comment. The Jury will continue its investigation of the failure of the J. F. Wild & Cos. State Bank and alleged political corruption next week. BLAST LOSS $200,000 Gasoline Truck Explodes in Filling Station; Flames Spread. Bu United Pres* CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 29.—Damage estimated at $200,000 was caused here today by explosioi) of a gasoline tank truck at a filling station on a busy street intersection. A 'blazing stream of gasoline flooded nearby streets, burning down the filling station, destroying an adjoining building containing $60,000 worth of new automobiles and forty used cars and damaging a third structure. SPEAID ON HUGE SCALE

Half Billion Left in Europe by American Tourists. Bu United Press WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 29. American tourists’ expenditures in Europe this year will total more than $500,000,000, Dr. Julius Klein, Commerce Department foreign trade expert, told the Chamber of Commerce here today. This factor of the “invisible trade balance” will aid greatly in European business, which is showing convincing evidence of recovery, Klein said.

QUIZ SEVEN ON SHOUTS NEAR DEATH SCENE Two Voices Calling Signals Heard at Place Where Doctor Was Slain. * WITNESS STILL HIDING Lawyer Refuses to Produce Poultry Man; May File Murder Charge. By United Preaa HAMMONTON, N. J.. Sept. 29 Seven persons who wera working in a cranberry bog near the scene of the murder of Dr. Lilliendahl, aged physician, were summoned for questioning today by Frank J. Harrold, chief of county detectives. The workers were understood to have heard two voices, apparently some distance apart, calling “YooHoo” to each other about the time of the killing. Mrs. Anna Cavileer said she heal’d the calls three or four times, but was not certain whether the voices were masculine or feminine. Beach Still Missing Search for the missing Willis Beach, wanted fpr “aiding and abetting” in Dr. Lilliendahl’s death, continued without results today. Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl, the widow, under $25,000 bond as a material witness, was under guard at her home. The investigation took a surprising turn when several newspapermen, assigned to the case, were subpoenaed to appear this afternoon before the Atlantic County grand jury at Mays Landing. None of the authorities would discuss the reason for summoning reporters, but it was assumed they would be asked about statements obtained in interviews with Edison Hedges, counsel for Beach, the Vineland poultry man. Won’t Produce Client Hedges has refused to produce Beach except on a court order, claiming that he advised his client to go into hiding because officials had subjected him to “indignities.” Frank Harrold, chief county detective, reiterated today his contention that the mystery soon would be solved. Dr. Lilliendahl was shot while motoring with his wife near here a fortnight ago. Her story that two Negroes committed the crime has been questioned. State prosecutors still were undecided whether they would swear out a murder warrant against Beach or what action if any they would take against Hedges. Hedges took full responsibility for the disappearance of Beach. Jury Not to Act Prosecutor Louis Re petto and Assistant Prosecutor S. Cameron Hinkle conferred for three hours over the case. The grand Jury meets today, out the case will not be presented to it, Repetto said. "There still is one little missing link,” he explained. A report that Beach had been seen in a Baltimore hotel was being investigated by detectives. Baltimore is the home town of Mrs. Lilliendahl and she has relatives living there. Two clerks of the hotel said a man answering Beach's description bought all newspapers from, the stands, clipped stories of the murder case, and left the lobby hurriedly, after stuffing them in his pocket CAL TO PHONE~CALLES Open Long-Distance Connections Between Two Capitals. By United Preaa WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—President Coolldge will talk over the telephone with President Calles of Mexico at a ceremony here this afternoon opening long-distance connections between the capitals of the two nations. The Army band here will play the Mexican national anthem so It may be heard in Mexico City and a band there will answer with the Star-* Spangled Banner. NO JOB; KILLS HIMSELF Paul J. Hoff Found Shot Through , Heart in Room. Leaving a note declaring that he could not find work and had nothing to live for, Paul -T. Hoff, 32, of Auburn, Ind., tl. it himself through the heart in his room at 717 Sanders St. today. The note asked that his father, C. W. Hoff, of Auburn be notified. KILLS MATE OVER~‘SIN’

Wife Slashes Husband’s Throat Because Wed by Justice of Peace. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 29. Believing that she had sinned when she was married by a justice of the peace and not by a minister, Mrs. Pauline Vrankovich, a bride of five days, slashed her husband’s throat with a razor'early today and then attempted to take her own life. Reports Theft of S2OO Watch Garvin M. Brown, 4520 Park Ave., reported to police theft from his home of a watch valued at S2OO.

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BAR LEADER URGES FACTS BE BARED IN CASE OF SHUMAKER

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W. A. Pickens Sept. 28, 1927, HON. iRTHUR GILLIOM, “Dear Sir: I commend you for your zealous efforts to uphold the dignity of the courts and to enforce a proper respect for them. Corrupt governors and corrupt mayors may oome and go, but so long as the judiciary has our confidence and respect we shall feel that evil doers will be punished. “We rightfully boast that ours is a government of laws and not of men and that therefore our rights are fixed and not subject to the whims of the powerful. # “If the time ever shall come when the courts are led in their decisions by any influence other than that of pure reason, interpreting and applying the law, we shall have a government of men and shall not know from one day to another what our rights are. “ ‘Where there is no vision the people perish’. It is fortunate that one who can see the dangers of some present-day tendencies .low fills your great office. * • • * "The people of Indiana have faith that you will go to thi very bottom of the conduct of every onii connected vuth the new phase of the Shumaker case, it is especially important that all the acts of our Senators, Watson and Robinson, in this connection, be laid bare to the public. “The newspaper reports and comments have cast an odium upon them that they, are entitled to have removed. I am slow to believe that they have sought to influence the Supreme Court by holding up before its judges the political consequences of their adts. Our senators are lawyers and they must know that a decision controlled by political exigencies is more corrupt and much more dangerous than one controlled by money bribery. It destroys free government. “It appears from Senator Watson’s letter that Senator Robinson asked him to try to keep Shumaker from being sent to jail and that Senator Watson wrote a number of letters throughout Indiana which he ‘hoped would be helpful’. “The Supreme Court, the bar, and the public should be Informed as to what was written and what was said and what was done.

• • • "The stability of our government and the people's faith in it wifi be shaken sadly when it appears that our highest court can be controlled by political fear or favor. Is that time approaching? Here is the head of a great moral force, so called, who thinks so. “Doubtless many of his followers think likevftse. It is a fair inference from Senator Watson’s letter that he and Senator Robinson vtere willing to try it. If they did in fact try to influence the Supreme Court In this devious way, they deserve severe punishment. “There lately has been so much corruption in public office that the name of Indiana is smirched even beyond the seas. “It is to be hoped that an investigation such as you are capable of conducting and will conduct in this matter will leave nothing hidden. "Inasmuch as The Indianapolis Times has led In exposing much evil in high places, I am making this an open letter and giving a copy to that paper. "I cordially wish you, well. “WM. A. PICKENS.”

Bosco, Battling Baboon, Lays Out 200-Pound Cop Bu United Press c-=-aOODBRIDGE, N. J., Sept. 29.—From behind menagerie bars, [\v/l Battling Bosco, fifteen-pound baboon, today protested the de- | I clsion In the his bout with Motorcycle Foliceman Ben Parsons, weight 200 pounds, height, 6 feet. Bosco claims he knocked out the patrolman with one punch of his wiry arm and was robbed of victory when the patrolman Beized a bushel basket and smothered further attacks. Members of the Woodbridge fire department supported Bosco’s contention, claiming that Parsons was out on his feet longer than ten seconds. Bosco, who his lived/ at the home of John Ddbermiller for the past year, escaped Wednesday and slipped into the cellar of* the home of Mrs. Allen Leisen. When Policeman Parsons arrived, Bosco backed away, but finally made a tactical error by backing under the stairs. Parson leaned over- to catch the baboon and then came the wallop, sirack in the face. “I thought I was hit with a club,” Parsons said later.

Watson and Robinson Action Seen as ‘Devious Effort’ to Sway Court. That every act of Senator James E. Watson and Senator Arthur Robinson in connection with the Shumaker case must be laid bare to the public was the suggestion made today by William A. Pickens, former president of the State Bar Association, in an open letter to AttorneyGeneral Gilliom. The letter of Mr. Pickens was based upon the letters exchanged by Dr. E. S. Shumaker, head of the Anti-Saloon League, and Senator Watson. It is upon those letters that At-torney-General Gilliom promptly filed a motion in the Supreme Court asking for a heavier sentence for the dry leader than the sixty-day term imposed upon him. Mr. Pickens served as president of the state Bar Association last year, retiring only in July. In 1911 he served as president of the Indianapolis Bar Association and was corporation counsel of Indianapolis, from 1911 to 1918. • The letter of Mr. Pickens commends Gilliom for his zealous efforts to uphold the dignity of courts, and then emphasizes the Watson letters. It is essential, writes this former head of the Bar Association, that the Supreme Court, the bar and the public know exactly how many letters were written by Senator Watson and what they contained which the Senator believed would be ht.jjiul in keeping Shumaker out of jail. Mr. Pickens declares that it is a fair inference from the letters that the two Senators were willing to try to control the Supreme Court through political fear or favor and that if it is shown that they did try in “devious ways” they should be punished severely. AUERBACK HEADS FIGHT AGAiNST TUBERCULOSIS Elect State Association Leader Conference Chief. Murray A. Auerback, (executive secretary of the Indianapolis Tuberculosis Association, was elected president of the Mississippi Valley Conference Wednesday at a convention in St. Louis. Dr. E. M. Amos, Indianapolis and Dr. G. C. Johnson, Evansville, were elected to the board of directors. The Mississippi Conference is composed of Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, South Dakota and Chicago, The next/convention will hie held in Des Moines, lowa, September, 1928.

RULING AWAITED ON HAAG DEATH SUSPECTS t Illinois Governor Is Expected to Grant Extradition Papers. Judson L. Stark, chief deputy county prosecutor, today awaited word from Governor Leh Smalt of Illinois, as to whether Inti ana’s request for the return of Lawrence Ghere and Arthur McClelland to Marion County to face trial for the alleged murder of Wilkinson Haag; Indianapolis druggist, v#ll be honored. At the close of the hearing for the men’s extradition Wednesday, DeWitt Biilman, head of the legislative bureau, indicated the papers would be granted. TWO BANDITS GET $46 clinch Wagon Proprietor Invites Pair to "HWp Selves.” Bandits staged two hold-ups early today. Glenn Stein, 1906 Sugar Grove Ave., said he opened the cash register and said “Help yourself” when two men, one with a gun, held him up in a lunch wagon at 132 W. Eleventh St., at 5 a. m. They took $24. Shortly after midnight, two men got gasoline at the Great Western Oil Company filling station at Blackford and Washington Sts., and robbed Harvey Betz, attendant, of $22. ,

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CIVIC CLUBS DEMAND END OF DUVAUISM Removal of Mayor and Wife Is Urged by Service Organization. KIWANIANS GET PLEA Action to Await Return of Officers From State Convention. BULLETIN The Indianapolis Real Estate Board at luncheon today adopted a resolution demanding resignations of Mayor and Mrs. Duvall. Movements to crystallize the public demand that Mayor John L. Duvall get out of city hall and appoint a citizen in whom there Is general confidence as city controller to succeed to his office, were under way today in two strong civic clubs of Indianapolis. The action is prefaced upon Duvall’s conviction upon a charge of violation of the corrupt practices act and his subsequent appointment of Mrs. Duvall city controller. The controller automatically succeeds the mayor in the event the mayor leaves office before his term expires. The Service Club, at a closed meeting Monday, instructed its officers and executive committee to prepare and publish a resolution setting forth the club’s belief that the time has come to take some action to rescue the city government of Indianapolis from collapse. At its meeting today, the club’s committee adopted the following resolution, according to Philip C. Lewis, president. “The Service C ! ub of Indianapolis fully recognizes the disgraceful, dep’orable, and humiliating state to which the city government has sunk. It has with difficulty held its peace rather than interfere with or make more difficult the orderly processes of legal prosecution. Praise for Jury "The club has nothing but highest praise for the fearless manner in which the Marion County grand jury has brought our local political situation into the open. We strongly commend the prosecution and the members of the Jury in the trial of Mayor Duvall. “But the time for action has come. The courts have condemned and found guilty, but the root of the evil remains in full and arrogant power. “The Service Club of Indianapolis therefore unanimously and earnestly urges every legal means for removal of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Duvall without delay, and if this fails, it deman is the resignation of Mrs. John L. Duvall as city controller, the appointment of a man as city controller whose ability and standing iu the community are beyond reproach, and the resignation of John L. Duvall as mayor.

“The club pledges Its full support to the working out of such program and calls on officers and directors of every civic organization in the city for similar action.” Klwanis Action Urged Action upon a motion of Dwight S. Ritter, former city purchasing agent, that Klwanis Club directors consider a resolution demanding the resignation of Mayor John L. Duvall "in the name of civic decency,” today awaited return of Klwanis officials from the State convention at Lafayette. A special meeting of directors will be called, it Is believed. Ritter made the motion at the club luncheon Wednesday, saying: “It is the policy and duty of the Kiwanis Club to interest itself in any good, non-political movement,” I believe it is a non-political matter to clean any stain from our city’s name. I believe the Kiwanis Club should adopt a resolution asking the mayor and city controller to resign and I move that we ask the board of directors to meet and discuss such action.” 'Lawyers Talk Over Case Meanwhile, lawyers continued to discuss means of ousting Duvall, but no definite action was agreed upon. Marion County prosecutors said grand jurors had discussed the situation, but there was no truth in a printed report that the Jury considered starting action. Special Prosecutor John W. Holtzpian said that, in view of the failure of city council to act, a law under which a citizen might file a suit in Circuit Court to impeach Duvall would be operative. A report was current that the mayor intends to resign before the date for his sentence, Oct. 8. It was rumored that he had talked with seyeral citizens about taking the controllership. Councilmen Active Majority faction city council members were mysteriously active around city hall today. They declared they were going to do nothing “while the matter is in the court’s hands, but the council will name the next mayor.” These councilmen hold the opinion that the debarment of the mayor from office for four years from Nov. 2, 1925, imposed by the Criminal Court Jury, renders him ineligible to make appointments. They contend Mrs. Duvall is not legally city controller.