Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1932 — Page 12

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LOW BID LOSES; SCHOOL BOSSES WON'T EXPLAIN 'Star Chamber’ Activities Are Privileged, Is Attitude of Board. Action taken by the Indianapolis School board at its ‘'star chamber" sessions preceding its formal meetings is privileged and not to be questioned, even though low bids on materials are rejected. This was revealed Tuesday night by President Russell Willson when a representative of a Cleveland lumber company, whose low bid was not accepted, was dismissed discourteously without explanation. Asa result, test suit to determine legality of rejecting a low bid in order to favor local bidders was seen as a possibility. The trouble arose when the board awarded the Manual Training lumber contract to four local firms whose total bid was S2OO higher than the $4,616 bid of the BrodheadGarrett Lumber Company of Cleveland. Settle Problems Secretly The award was made without discussion on recommendation of A. B Good, business director. The names of successful bidders were read from a sheet of paper which Good brought with him from the "star chamber” session, where the board settles all problems in secret before going through formality of a public session. Proceedings in the secret mectlgs had delayed start of the public meeting about forty-five minutes. The board is required by law to hold public meetings. When C. C. Hewitt, representative of the unsuccessful low bidder, asked if there was any question as to quality of his material, Willson angrily inquired: "Are you asking me a question or making a statement?” Catches Willson Up “I’m asking a question,” Hewitt replied 'evenly, "I w'ould like to know why our low' bid was ignored. We have furnished the lumber for two years. Is it because you wish to favor home firms or don’t you think our material is as good as the rest?” "We accepted the lowest and best bid." Willson parried. "Then our lumber is not as good as the rest, since it was the lowestpriced?” Hewitt asked. .“Don’t you put words in my j mouth,” Willson expostulated. "That business all has been settled.” Before Hewitt could reply further, : "Willson called for and received a i motion to adjourn. Firms receiving the lumber eon- j tracts were: Johnson Maas Company, $39; Indianapolis Lumber Company, $384.05; Brookside Lumber Company, $2,800.20, and Home j Lumber and Supply Company, $1,590.95. Award Coal Contracts Contracts for supplying coal to I city schools w r ere awarded to low bidders. The Indianapolis Coal Company and the Polar Ice and Fuel Company divided a contract for 15,000 tons of lU-inch Indiana screenings at $2.56 a ton. The Indianapolis Coal Company received contracts for 4,500 tons of West Virginia deep vein or Indiana equal coal at $3.61 a ton, with the alternative of accepting Brazil' block at $3.69 or Southern Creek West Virginia at $3.93, and a contract for 6,000 tons of Indiana lump at $2.99. The board adopted a resolution appropriating $15,000 to pay for seven lots at the southw-est corner of Pleasant Run golf course purchased recently for anew portable school.

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AUTO LICENSE 'DEAL' PROBERS SEE ’CONTRACT' Fifield Shows His ‘Copy/ Refutes Charges of Printing Graft. Members of the house of representatives committee probing the "gravely peculiar" circumstances surrounding the $82,400 auto license

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drivers printing contract, let in 1929 by Otto G. Fifield, then secretary of state, have seen a “copy" of the contract. Fifield who came here to tell what he knew about the manner In which the two payments of $40,000 and $42,400 were split up and drafts cashed, showed the committee a "copy” of the contract with Olhaver and Burkhart of Aurora, 111., the firm given the job. The original contract can not be found arid there had been some doubt expressed as to whether it ever had been in existence. Fifield told the committee he had not known a search for the original had been made. He said "he supposed" therg, were other copies. He explained his possession of the copy with the statement: “I am

proud of the automobile drivers’ license department which I inaugurated and I simply wanted a copy for my own records." The former state secretary denied knowledge of the splitting ~of the state payment checks into smaller sized drafts and cashing of these m various parts of the country. Lake Baikal, in Siberia, has been sounded to a depth of 5,306 feet.

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