Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1927 — Page 1

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s76,ooftlN FORGED PAPER 1$ REVEALED IN DEFUNCT LA GRANGE NATIONAL BANK Receiver and Department of Justice Agents to Transmit Report to Washington for Action by Currency Chief., RINK WALB’S COMPANY IN TANGLE G. 0. P. State Chairman Denies His Concern Was Tided Over by Means of Overdrafts on Institution. By Times Special LA GRANGE, Ind., Dec. 13.—Forged paper totalling more than $76,000 has been found in the defunct National Bank of La Grange, by department of justice agents called here by J. F. Utt, temporary receiver, it was learned today. Reports of the department of justice agents and Utt, who came here as Federal bank examiner, will be transmitted to the comptroller of currency in Washington within a few days, it is understood. ' Probability that copies of the reports will be sent to Albert Ward, United States district attorney, for consideration of the Federal grand jury was considered very strong by* those familiar with the situation.

Valentine D. Weaver was president of the bank until June, 1927. Silas D. Weaver, brother of Valentine and former employe of the Walb Construction Company, is reported to have thrown his personal fortune, aggregating more than $25,000, into the breach to minimize the loss to depositors. Shaky for Some Time Closed by Utt on Oct. 24, 1927, the bank had been in precarious condition for some time. Matters came to a head in June, when one of the directors found that affairs were In bad shape and that some of the paper the bank was holding was not genuine. Called into a conference of directors, Valentine Weaver at first denied guilt and then admitted his shortcomings. From reliable sources it was learned that the directors demanded the immediate resignation of Weaver and Clyde A. Walb, Republican State chairman. Weaver is said to have told the assembled directors thf.t some of the money was used to take care of overdrafts of the Walb Construction Company. Walb denied knowledge of the statement of Weaver that his company’s paper had been tided over by forging names of others. He made the amount good at once. Holds State Money At that time the bank held $150,000 of money belonging to the state. This amount was reduced to $140,000 before the institution was closed in October. . ... Weaver had been president of the bank for four years. Years ago he had been county auditor and entered the bank when it was owned by Leon Rose, and had a capital of $5,000, with a surplus of $75,000. Walb started the La Grange County Trust Company, third financial institution in this city of 8,000 Inhabitants. When Rose changed the capital to SIOO,OOO, Walb sold his interests in the Trust Company and bought into the National Bank. Idolized by every man, woman and child in the community, Weaver, also superintendent of the Sunday School and treasurer for every benevolent and philanthropic organization here, worked in the bank from 6 in the morning until after 10 each night. No one else ever handled the note ledger in the bank. He never took a vacation. Loses in Hardware Firm The La Grange Hardware Company was founded by him and it Is believed his losses in that concern were more than $15,000 before it was placed in the hands of a receiver. v The Better Service Oil Company next attracted his attention. LaGrange got one of the finest filling stations in the country and remarkable advertising was gotten out, but the distribution of gas entailed a deficit of about 3 cents on the gallon and the loss was about $40,000. Working for a salary of $3,600 a year, Weaver made a donation of SI,OOO to the Methodist Hospital. He met the deficit at the church. If a band concert lost money, Weaver made good. He had a connection with every worth-while endeavor in the community. His brother Bilas would not per|nit him to discuss anything with •The Times correspondent, save the weather and the corn borer epidemic. 1 Bides His lime •There may come a time and perhaps a better place for Val to tell his story,” Silas said. And that ended the interview. Meanwhile, the La Grange Fixture Sales Company closed its plant. It made built-in kitchen cabinets. Three grocers closed their doors. Folks here met their taxes this year, but county officials shake their heeds about the taxes next spring. With the equity In the various to* mm m>yr

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in by Silas Weaver, the capital stock of the bank, and a 100 per cent assessment against stockholders, enough money will be realized to pay depositors 100 cents on the dollar. That will be paid if too much “frozen” farm paper is not found. “The curse of any bank and a temptation to every banker,” is the way one citizen summarized excessive amounts of State funds placed in banks through political influence. A run on the bank in October precipitated Federal action. Then Utt came on the scene and the bank’s doors were closed. Shortly thereafter, several department of justice men came and have been here since, working on books of the bank, interviewing residents and saying nothing. * Directors Also Guilty Under national banking laws, directors of a bank who have knowledge of wrongdoing are equally guilty with the actual offender. The Weavers . own four shares each in the Walb Construction Company, but did not buy any of the preferred stock, sale of which recently was stopped by the State Securities Commission.

G. O. P. SENATE WAR BREAKS OUT AGAIN

B WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—A fight over the Independent-Republican peace agreement broke in the Senate today, when the plan of giving the Independents choice committee assignments was submitted for action. After Senator Pat Harrison (Dem.), Mississippi, had twitted the

REED ‘JOGS’ SMITH Wires Senator, Asking Him When He Wants Trial. Bm United Press . WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The Senate primary investigating committee asked Senator-Elect Frank L. Smith, Republican, Illinois, in a telegram today, when he wanted to appear for "the fair trial” of his campaign expenditures case. The telegram was sent by Chairman James A. Reed because Smith left for home with the apparent intention of ignoring the committee, following action of the Senate in denying him the oath of office. ‘COMMONER’S’ KIN DIES Major Owen, Son-In-Law of Bryan, Victim of War Illness. Bu United Press MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 13.—Major Reginald Owen, son-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, died here last night. Death was caused by nephritis, contracted while he was in the trenches in France as a British officer. Mrs. Owen is active In Florida politics. CITY DROPS INSPECTORS ,*■■■ Eleven to Lose Jobs, Due to Halt In. Improvements for Cold. Eleven street and sewer Improvement inspectors will be dropped from the city pay roll Dec. 15, City Engineer A. H. Moore announced today. Improvements are halted for the winter and there is no further need of the inspectors. Canary Warns of Fire Bu United Press PORTLAND. Me., Dec. 13.—A pet canary, whose excited chirping j fomed occupants, was the hero of , fire at the home of Mrs. Benjfuqin F. Knowlton here.

Promotion Given to Maybom

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Times Business Manager to Toledo; Morrison to Succeed Him. William A. Maybom, for four years business manager of The Indianapolis Times, today was named to an executive position on the Toledo News-Bee, one of the larger Scripps-Howard newspapers, of which The Times is a member. Mr. Maybom became business manager of The Times one year after its purchase by the ScrippsHoward interests, and his promotion comes as a recognition of his work in charge of the business department of this newspaper. He will be succeeded as business manager of The Times by Frank G. Morrison, who comes from the Akron Times-Press, anothei Scripps-Howard paper. . Mr. Morrison has been advertising manager there for the last four years and was connected with that paper for eleven years. Mr. Morrison is married and has one son, Frank Jr., 7. Mr. Maybom, who has been active in affairs of the Rotary Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club and Chamber of Commerce, will leave Indianapolis after Christmas for a vacation in Florida before assuming his duties at Toledo, Jan. 15. The Times has experienced large gains during his period of control of business affairs of the paper.

Republicans for the agreement, Senator McMaster, Republican, South Dakota, in a dramatic speech, declared the Independents had been handed a “lemon." McMaster asked the Democrats to get together with the Independents and lower the tariff law. “This peace agreement doesn’t mean anything. As far as farm relief is concerned,” said McMaster. “The pledge of the Republican floor leader to help get a final vote doesn’t mean that there will be a final vote. No one can pledge the whole party to that. “Let’s get together with the Democrats and lower the high tariff rates. Hit them in their most vulnerable spot.” McMaster served notice that he intended to introduce a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that present tariff schedules should be reduced. Senator Caraway, Democrat, Arkansas, suggested that the Republicans take the question back to secret conferences instead of parading their difficulties in the floor of the SenateHarrison advised the independents not to be “misled” by the “sops” he said were given them in the nature of committee assignments.

LOOT SHOE STORE Burglars Take S7OO Worth of Apparel. Burglars obtained silk hose, shoes and house slippers worth more than S7OO from the Kinney Shoe Company, 24 N. Pennsylvania St., Monday night, George Dimel, manager, reported to police today. The thieves forced their way into a freight gangway at the side, twenty feet from the ground, Dimel said. One hundred dozen pairs of hose were taken, he said. Radio parts and a trombone valued at $275, were stolen from a William H. Block Company truck at Illinois and Court Sts-, Paul Ernst, driver, reported. Mrs. M. H. Oates, 1415 N. Pennsylvania St., reported jewelry and household goods worth SSO stolen from the home she closed up seven months ago after the death of her husband.

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LINDY STARTS MEXICO CITY NON-STOP HOP ‘We’ Leaves Muddy Bolling Field as Great Crowd Cheers Airman. CAREFUL IN TAKEOFF \ Hopes to Reach Southern Capital at Daylight Hour Wednesday. B *BOLLING re *IIELD, WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—C01. Charles A. Lindbergh took off on a flight today with Mexico City as his goal. He hoped off at 12:28 p. m. He jumped off from Bolling field in his “we,” the Spirit of St. Louis, which had carried him Yrom New York to Paris and to many centers of the States. He sailed slowly until about seven feet above the ground and then he shot up to about fifty feet. He took it slowly, not attempting his famous straight upshoot. He was out of sight within minutes. Three navy escort planes followed immediately behind him. They were followed In turn by a commerce department plane, and three army planes thrumming into the fog over the Potomac. Picks Straight Line Lindbergh expected to fly in a straight line to Galveston, thence over the mountains of the Mexican border to Mexico City, which he hoped to reach in daylight hours tomorrow. He faced headwinds and possible showers most* of the way, but despite this hoped for a speed of between 80 and 95 miles an hour. He planned to fly over no large expanse of water en route, but pointed out pridefully that the cushions of his plane could float if he fell crossing a river. He had no life preserver and carried no parachute. He had a week’s rations of hard bread, soup tablets and chocolates and two quarts of water. He carried a rifle to shoot game if forced down on the desert. Besides his flying kit over his regular suit he wore moccasins to shield him from the cold. Sets Off Nonchalantly * Lindbergh set off on his 2,000mile proposed non-stop fight with as much nonchalance as he had shown when he jumped for Paris from New York. Only about an hour and a half before taking off, he notified the War Department to advise the press of his impending flight. Meantime, he tuned up his motor and while army officers whispered that the field was terrible for such a heavy load as he carried, he had the machine dragged onto the field and started off. In taking off, he taxied down the field slowly, appearing to hesitate. He drove his plane squarely between the white flags which he had set up a short time before, and avoided the dangerous puddles which might have brought disaster at the start. Takes Off Carefully When his wheels left the ground it was not with the customary Lindbergh style. He was apparently taking no chances with heavy load and bad ground. A large crowd got word of Lindbergh’s plan to fly, despite the short notice given of his departure. Sightseers swarmed on the field and had to be hustled out of harm’s way by military police, as the escort planes tuned up ready to go. On Lindbergh’s general route were the cities of Lynchburg, Va.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Birmingham, Ala.; Vicksburg, Miss., and Galveston, Texas. He might not fly over any of these, however, If weather forced a change in his course, it was said. Thousands to Greet Lindy Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, Dec. 13.—Ten thousand persons will see Col. Charles A. Lindbergh arrive from the United States, the war office has announced. Grandstands will be erected at Vallbuena military field to handle the crowd. Special passes will be issued and only authorized persons will be allowed to witness the landing. A cordon of troops will surround the field* prohibiting the entrance of all others, the war office said. Squadrons of Mexican planes will escort the American flier to the landing field.

CQLDER AND MORE ' RAIN IS FORECAST

Cloudy and colder tonight and Wednesday, probably with rain, Is the prediction of Weather Man J. H. Armington. Temperatures likely will drop to freezing by Wednesday night, Armington said. Today’s 7 a. m. temperature of 63 degrees was 32 degreee? above ’

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Hooks Suicide Bu United Press WASHINGTON, De<; 13. When Louis Brody, fisherman, drew in his line from the Potomac River, he found on his hook Mrs. Minnie Columbus, who in despair had tried drowning. She will recover.

STIMSON GETS MANOBERTH Coolidge Selects Friend to Rule Philippines. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—President Coolidge today sent to the Senate the-nomination of Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of War, as Governor General of the Philippines. , Stimson, who visited Nicaragua as the President’s representative this year, is a personal friend of the President, but his nomination was received with surprise, in view of his announced disinclination to assume the responsibility He was also a personal friend of the late Gen. Leonard Wood, late governor-general of the islands. Stimson visited the islands on several occasions and is regarded as one of the best informed men on Philippine affairs in the country. LABOR BEHIND REEVES City Leaders Want Change on United States Vocational Board. Indiana labor organizations have requested Senators Watson and Robinson to recommend Perry W. Reeves, Indianapolis, aa successor to Harry L. Fidler, Indianapolis, on the Federal board for vocational education. Fidler's term expires in June. He has been serving a recess appointment. Fidler’s nomination has not reached the Senate. AIR MAIL BAG FILLING 1,000 Letters Await First Flight; Saturday Is Deadline. One thousand letters have been received for the initial flight of the Indianapolis air mail service Saturday. Deadline for first flight mail is 2 p. m. Saturday, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson announced. An hour later the first plane will leave Mars Hill, establishing daily flights between Chicago and Cincinnati, with this city as central stopping point. 3 CHICKENS; ARRESTED Men Must Explain How Fowls Got in Automobile. A trio of chickens (country style) landed a trio of men in city prison, where they will be held until they l Ml better stories as to how the fowls came to be in their car. William Goolsby, 33, of 714 Bates St., Wilbur Thatcher, 31, of 403 S. Holmes Ave., and William Thatcher, 33, of 436 S. Holmes Ave., were taken into custody late Monday night at Senate Ave. and Washington St. KILLS FAMILY OF SIX Oklahoma Fanner Hangs Self After Slaying Wife, Children. Bu United Press HENNESSEY, Okla., Dec. 13. Phillip Millis, 35, farmer, killed his family of six with an ax today and then hanged himself. Millis killed his wife and children as they lay in bed. The bodies were found by neighbors hours after the murders. * STATE READY FOR BUY Bids For Grocery, Laundry Supplies to Be Received Friday. Bids on three months laundry and grocery supplies for twenty State institutions will be received Friday by the State. Joint Purchasing Committee. Boys Buy Tag, Save Pup Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—When Trixie, a homeless poodle, was sentenced to execution for lack of a license, a group of small Italian boys formed a “defense committee,” collected enough for the license and saver her life.

normal. Although this is an unusually high mark for this time of year, it was not a record, as temperatures in the 70s have been recorded here In December, Armington said. The heavy rain which began falling at 6 a. m. today, brought twothirds of an inch rainfall by 9:30 *&. m.

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Trial of Governor and Two Other Officials by Senate Asked. BY DON* A. HIGGINS United Free* Staff Correspondent OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 13. The House of Representatives in a secret session early today voted six charges of Impeachment against Governor Henry S. Johnston. The action was taken in defiance of troops of the National Guard and of a temporary injunction issued yesterday in District Court. The House was in session from 2 until 6:30 a. m. It accepted the impeachment charges previously drawn up by an investigating committee under chairmanship of H. Tom Kight, one of the insurgent leaders. Impeachment charges also were voted against Chief Justice Fred Branson of the State Supreme Court, and Harry Cordell, president of the State board of agriculture. The charges now are ready for formal presentation to the Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment. Delay Contempt Action Belief that contempt action against the Legislators might be started in District Court, which had issued a temporary injunction forbidding the Legislature from receiving impeachment charges, was dispelled at least temporarily today when the court continued until Wednesday a hearing on making the violated injunction permanent. Governor Johnston was charged by his Legislature with general incompetency; with intimation of the commonwealth by his use of troops against the Legislature; with action harmful to the public good, and with misuse of public funds. The chief Justice was charged with corruption in connection with a decision handed down by the Supreme Court declaring all acts of the special legislative session void. Cordell was charged with “corrupt purposes” in office and with lncompetency. Senate Will Meet The Senate, spokesman for the Insurgent legislature said, would meet “somewhere in Oklahoma City” soon to receive the charges and arrange Johnston’s trial. The impeachment charges were voted by the House after as unusual a session as can be found in legislative records. Driven from the Statehouse Monday by National guardsmen called out specifically to “suppress and quell” the special session, the legislators met late at night on the eighth floor of a hotel, long known as the "unofficial Capitol” of Oklahoma. Until its announcement that impeachment charges was made, none outside the meeting room knew definitely that the session was in progress.

FARMER TRIED FOR TRIPLE POISONING

Bu United Press _ ~ BLAKELY, Ga., Dec. 13—Whether strychnine bought seven years ago was used to kill vermin which were

MAN DIESJIN DUTY Grandchildren Find Body in Watchman’s Shack. When Louis Irwin, 53. failed to return to his home, 1136 Brooks St., this morning from his duties as night watchman at the gravel pit, Twelfth St. and Fall Creek, his wife Gertrude, grew alarmed. She sent her grandchildren, Charles Gibson, 5, of 1136 Brooks St., and Nellie Jackson, 8, of 1129 Brooks St., to search for the grandfather. Entering the shack at the gravel pit they found Irwin dead in his chair. Police and coroner were called by Mrs. Irwin and the body removed to the morgue. CAPITOL AVE. SITE SOLD Former City Resident Disposes of Property for $9,000. Sale of property at 815 N. Capitol Ave. by a former Indianapolis resident, James L. Hill of Estacion Maricon, Guatemala, to Mrs. Berlie E. Lovett, formerly of Anderson, Ind., and now of St. Petersburg, Fla., for $9,000 cash, was announced today by Charles S. Maxwell of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company. fc*lrs. Lovett announced she would hold t;he property as an investment. NAME PIONEER HEADS Results of Election Announced; Thompson Is President. Results of election of the Society of Indiana Pioneers was announced today. Charles N. Thompson was reelected president; W. H. Insley, vice president; Miss Katherine Graydon, registrar; Mrs. Arthur V. Brown, secretary, and J. K. Lilly, Lee Bums and Amos W. Butler, board of governors. Almus G. Ruddell was elected treasurer.

CITY POLICE FORCE HIT BY DRASTIC SHAKEUP; RANKING OFFICERS ARE DEMOCRATS Slack Orders Sweeping Changes and Board Carries Them Out at Once; 22 Are Affected by Shifts. WORLEY IS RETAINED AS CHIEF Major Louis Johnson, Next Highest, Also Stays; All Done for Efficiency, Declaration of Mayor. Fourteen policemen were promoted and eight demoted by the board of safety today, upon orders of Mayor Slack, in a shake-up which made the ranking officers preponderantly Democratic. The mayor had declared he was ordering the shake-up in the interests of efficiency. Police Chief Claude M. Worley, although a Republican, retained his post. He has considerable influence over a faction of city council which has caused mayors trouble heretofore. Maj. Lewis Johnson, Democrat, highest officer next to the chief, also retained his post.

BRIDGE READY FORGARLINES College Ave. Span Will Be Opened Wednesday. College Ave. street cars will return to their old route and run over the College Ave. bridge over Fall Creek Wednesday for the first time in many months. Resurfacing of the bridge was completed Monday, but the weather delayed opening to vehicle, foot traffic and street cars until Wednesday. Broad Ripple and Forty-Sixth St. cars on the College Ave. line, which have been running out Central Ave. to Fairfield Ave. to College and northbound Union Traction interurbans will resume their regular College Ave. route. Busses which have transferred passengers from College Ave. and Twenty-Seventh to Fairfield Ave. will be abandoned tonight. The Broad Ripple and Forty-Sixth St. cars also will turn north in Pennsylvania St. from Washington St., instead of proceeding west to Illinois St., as they have been operated while following the route of the Central Ave. cars. Central Ave. cars will be operated to Meridian Heights and Thirty-Fourth St.

destroying turkeys on George H. Hayes' plantation, or to poison his two sons and daughter-in-law, became today the basis of argument in the planter’s trial on a murder charge. Frank Coleman, druggist, one of the prosecution’s chief witnesses yesterday, testified the 60-year-old farmer bought sixty grains of the poison in September, 1921. Solicitor General B. T. Castellow said he hoped to show the strychnine was used last summer to poison Amos and James Hayes and Amos’ 16-year-old wife from Detroit, Gladys. Hayes contended the strychnine was used for vermin.

ARREST TWO FOR DEATH Auto Driver, Motorman Released on Own Recognisance. Eunice Johnson, 30, Negro, 450 N. Senate Ave., driver of the automobile in which Eleanor Copeland, 21, Negro, 1408 Shepherd St., was injured fatally when It collided with a street car at Minerva and Michigan Sts., Nov. 27, and Luther Briggs, 30, of 1017 S. Harding St., motorman, were arrested on involuntary manslaughter charges today. Both were released on their own recognizance. FREE LENGEL ON BAIL Convicted Canton Police Chief Gets Court Review. Bu United Press CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 13.—Former Police Chief S. A. Lengel, convicted of the murder of Don Mellett, crusading editor of the Canton Daily News, was liberated under $25,000 bond today. Lengel ran from the Jail where he has been confined for weeks, into the arms of his wife and daughter, Daisy. Lengel’s release was ordered by Common Pleas Judge Edward Diehl, pending a review by the State Supreme Court, which has been asked by Stark County authorities to revoke an order of the Court of Appeals that Lengel be granted anew trial. y

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The safety board prepared the new slate in a long session with Worley at police headquarters Monday night, which was continued at city hall today.. When the slate was finished it was taken tc Slack. He approved it and it was made public. Promotions on Dec. 15 Promotions effective Dec. 15: Capt. Jerry E. Kinney, Democrat, to detective chief. Detective Lieut. Fred Simon, Democrat, to detective captain. Detective Sergt. Herman Rademacher, Democrat, to detective lieutenant. Police Lieut. Walter Claffey, Democrat, to captain. Lieut. Leonard For.iythe, Democrat, to captain. Second Grade Patrolman Roy Pope, Democrat, former aid to the late Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank, to lieutenant. Sergt. Edward Helm, Democrat, to lieutenant. Sergt. Patrick O’Connor, Democrat, to lieutenant. Sergt. Otto Pettit, Republican, to lieutenant. First Grade Patrolman Thomas Ruse, Republican, former chauffeur to the chief, to detective sergeant. Second Grade Patrolman Homer Dailey, Republican, to sergeant. Second Grade Patrolman Carl Sheets, Republican, to first grade patrolman. Second Grade Patrolman Lawrence McCarty, Democrat, to first grade patrolman. Dean Promoted Promotion effective Jan. 1: Sergt. Ralph Dean, Democrat, to lieutenant. Demotions, effective Dec. 15: Detective Chief Claude F. Johnson, former police chief, Republican, to detective sergeant. Capt. Walter White, Republican, to sergeant. Capt. George L. Stone, Republican, to detective sergeant. Lieut. William Fields, Democrat, to sergeant. Lieut. Arthur McGee, Republican, former Ku-Klux Klan leader and aid to John L. Duvall when mayor, to patrolman, second grade. Detective Sergeant Glenn Mangus Democrat, to patrolman, second grade. Detective Sergeant Frank Conway, Democrat, to patrolman, second grade. First Grade Patrolman Hershel Musgrove, Republican, to patrolman, second grade. No Fire Changes Now “The safety situation Is satisfactory as far as we hav<i gone,” said Slack. “There will be nothing done about the fire department Just now.” The mayor told Republican Safety Board Member Robert F. Miller to continue on the Job for the present. The demotions of Detective Chief Johnson and Lieut. Arthur McGee, were the most severe. Johnson since September has been forced down the ladder from police chief at $4,800 a year to $2,292.50 a year as sergeant. Kinney has been detective chief a number of times, his fortunes rising and falling with the political hues of various mayors and safety boards. He is recognized throughout the country as a high-grade detective. McGee Goes Down McGee, politically powerful In the Duvall administration as mayor’s secretary, drops from $2,492 a year to $2,026. Patrolman second grade Is the lowest rank In the police department. Salaries of the other officers affected In the shakeup are: Detective chief, $3,600; captain, $2,692, and first grade patrolman, $2,092. Politically the shake-up resulted in promotions of ten Democrats and four Republicans and demotion of five Republicans and three Democrats. Discrepancy between the number of promotions and demotions Is because a number of high offices were vacant.