Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 161, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1929 — Page 29

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JUDGE CHOSEN TO HEAR SUIT AGAINSTLESUE Attempted Impeachment of James A. Collins Is Basis of Case. Federal Judge Fred L. Wham. Eayt St. Louis. 111., today was designated to try the $50,000 damage suits of Otto Gresham, Chicago attorney, against Governor Harry G Leslie, and the suit of William Rogers, Indianapolis, against Senator James E. Watson and seven others. The suit against Leslie charges the Governor, as speaker of the house in 1927, refused to permit presentation of Gresham’s petition for impeachment of Criminal Judge James A. Collins and Superior Judge Linn D. Hay, charging them with complicity in alleged “framed” indictments against state highway commission members in order that they might be removed and so that Ed Jackson, then Governor, and D. C. Stevenson “might appoint a board subservient to them.” Gresham is attorney for Rogers In the second suit, which names as defendants Watson. M. Burt Thurman, Milton Clawson. Farl Klinck, George V. Coffin. Criminal Judge James A. Collins, Albert Ward and Russell Duncan. In this suit. Rogers alleges the defendants, through Klinck, attempted to force him to change his testimony before the Senator James A. Reed senate investigating committee as to Watson’s alleged Klan membership. He also charges the defendants Induced Klinck to forge Rogers’ signature to an affidavit, which he himself had refused to sign, denying his previous testimony. He sets out that attempts to have him indicted in federal court on the strength of the alleged forged affidavit failed.

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Project on East Side Is Opposed by Civic League Leaders. Objections to the board of works proposal to widen East New York i street, between Randolph and Tuxedo streets, were voiced today by a committee at the East New DELEGATES CHOSEN Indiana Sigma Delta Chi to Aid in Meeting. Hoosiers will play a prominent role at the fifteenth convention of Sigma Delta Chi, professional jour- , nalistic fraternity,* which opens Monday at the University of Missouri, Columbia. The session will close Wednesday. Eugene Pulliam of Lebanon one of the founders of Sigma Delta Chi at De Pauw university, April 17, 1909, will be a speaker the opening day. The Hoosier delegation includes: Russell Campbell, Indianapolis Alumni chapter delegate; James A. Stuart, managing editor of the Star, chairman of executive council; Edwin V. O'Neel of The Indianapolis Times, national secretary; Robert I. Boyer and Evan Walker. Butler university, delegates; J. Douglas Perry, journalism instructor at Butler; J. C. Baker, Purdue university; Buren H. McCormack, De Pauw university, delegate, and a representative of the Indiana university chapter. Merchant Files in Bankruptcy Warren L. Hunt. Muncie merchant, today filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in federal court, listing $8,471 liabilities and $544 ' assets.

York Street Civic league. Property owners resented an inference that they are obstructionists because the improvement was opposed. "We contend that the improvement would add to, rather than relieve, congestion. The project should start at East street and extend eastward to relieve the ‘bottle-neck condition,’ ” the report stated. Property owners also objected to assessments for a main thoroughfare. The committee, composed of Samuel Harrig, chairman, C. C. Livingstone and Robert Hall, declared property owners are wililng to stand a 25 per cent assessment but object to the 30 per cent, which the works board proposed. Theodore Dammeyer, works board president, indicated the board will take no Immediate steps to push the project.

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COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS PROBE Investigation of Buying by City Begins. The special committee of city council, probing alleged irregularities in the city administration, was

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to hold an organization meeting late today to decide on the manner of conducting the investigation. City Controller Sterling R. Holt, who refused to pay a $2,650 bill for Police Chief Claude M. Worley's new La Salle sedan, because council had not approved the requisition according to law, was to appear before the committee. Edward H. Knight, city attorney, will advise the council on legal matters. The committee was to consider the time for a complete discussion of the charges, means of financing

the quiz and procedure. Herman P. Lieber, chairman, said the session will be open to all counctlmen. Edward W. Harris and Earl Buchanan are the other committee members. The committee was named to investigate alleged irregularities in the city purchasing department and flood prevention condemnation cases’. Charles W. Jewett, former mayor and Republican campaign orator, is preparing a statement to the committee, covering allegations he made during the campaign.

DIES FROM INJURIES Auto Wreck Proves Fatal for William Howard. Injuries received an automobile collision at l -teenth and Meridian streets t n days ag* caused the death in city hospital Thursday night of William Howard, 55, of 3706 West Thirtieth street. Howard's auto and a car driven by

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Russell Thomas. 38. of 723 North Alabama street, crashed, pinning Howard beneath his machine. Surviving him are the widow, a son Eugene and a daughter Elizabeth. 60-Inch Pumpkin TfV t 'nited Pn str BOONVILLE. Ind.. Nov. 15.—The largest pumpkin grown in this section of the country is claimed by Lester Phillips, living near Boonville. It weighs 70'i pounds. It measures 65 Inches around.