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SOUTH SIDE WILL SHARE IN FUND TO END CITY’S SLUMS

Bureau Has Decided Not to Spend Full $5,000,000 in Negro Section. SITE TO BE SELECTED Plans for Project Will Be Rushed to Washington for Approval. Unless land values prove too prohibitive, an area on the south side of Indianapolis, one mile from Monument Circle, will be selected as the site for a slums clearance and housing enterprise for white persons. This was announced today by W. H Trimble, chairman of the Indianapolis Community housing committee, on rpceipi of news from Washington that the federal housing bureau has decided to divide between Negro and white residential sections the $5,000,000 intended for slums clearance. Original purpose of the housing bureau was to devote all of the money to Negro sections of Indianapolis, but it was decided that half of the money should be spent in behalf of whi\e wage earners. Nov. 7 Is Deadline With Nov. 7 fixed by the federal housing bureau as the deadline for the Indianapolis committee to offer a satisfactory proposition, Mr. Trimble said he believed the local committee would be able to do so and that in any pvent, an extension of the deadline might be obtained. The south side section definitely is decided upon, it was announced, unless there is a tendency of property owners to boost their prices. In that event, it was said, another section would be decided upon. Under the tentative federal proposal. the government is to lend the Indianapolis committee $4,460,000 at 4 per cent interest and the committee is to supplement that sum with $787,000 raised by local subscription. Take Blame in Delay Max Dunning, assistant director of the federal housing bureau, announced from Washington that he expected the Indianapolis committee to furnish the bureau this week with plans that can be approVed. Mr. Dunning asserted that is every probability that the Indianapolis committee will ‘make the grade. ” and declared that the Washington bureau is "at least 50 per cent to blame for delay.” $1,000,000 JEWELS TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION Jennie Dolly, One of Noted Sisters, Tires of Gems. Hu I iiiti'il I’n h* PARIS. Oct. 31.—Jenny Dolly of the famous Dolly sisters, will offer her jewels, once valued at $1,000,000. at auction Nov. 16. it was learned today. Miss Dolly is at a Paris nursing home recovering from injuries re-, ceived in a motor accident, but hopes soon to be abie to go to her chateau at Fontainbleau. "The Jewels no longer have any significance for her,” her secretary said when asked the reason for selling them. OIL FIRM SEEKS TO STOP TAX COLLECTION Injunction Asked Against City sls Levy on Gas Pumps. Hearing on a petition to enjoin city officials from collecting an annual sls license fee for each gasoline pump opened today before Circuit Judge Earl R Cox. Suit for the permanent injunction was filed in the name of the Stith Petroleum Company, on behalf of all filling station operators, attacking the power of the city to collect the tax, authorized by 1925 ordinance. No collections of the tax have been made since last year, when $24,509 was collected. MAIL TRUCK UPSET IN COLLISION WITH BUS Driver Suffers Injuries to Bark and Face in Crash. When the United States mail truck he was driv.ng overturned at New Jersey and St. Clair streets this morning, after collision with a Brightwood bus, Michael Dugan. 27. of 4012 Ruckle street, was taken to city hospital for treatment of back injuries and face cuts. The bus. driven south on New Jersey street, by Henry Jones. 49. of 1815 Bellefontaine street, contained several passengers, none of whom was hurt. Times Index Page Barnes on Inflation 9 Bridge 9 Broun 4 Classified ... 12 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 14 Curious World 13 Editorial • 4 Financial 11 Fishing * 14 Hickman—Theaters 9 Radio 7 Slat* News 7 Woman’s Page 61

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YOUTH ADMITS CRIME SERIES, POLICE CLAIM Bandit Suspect Nabbed in Hotel Holdup: Three Others Implicated. Frustration of an attempted holdup of the Williams hotel, Senate avenue and Washington street, this morning, and capture of the bandit, has led to solution of a number of recent robberies, police claim. Walking into the arms of a police squad as he stepped from the hotel elevator. William Saunders, 21, of 121 East Twenty-first street, was taken to police headquarters for questioning. Grilled by detectives, Saunders is said to -have implicated three other persons and confessed to taking part in six recent holdups. One of th§ accused men already was in custody on a vagrancy charge and the others, a man and a woman, were arrested on information given today by Saunders. Although vehemently denying Saunders’ story. Guy Marlette. 1716 North Meridian street, Methodist hospital employe, and Miss Julia Knox, 2122 West Minnesota street, were arrested and taken to headquarters. where they were to be questioned. Albert Birch, alias Underw’ood, 2002 North Capitol avenue, was arrested Sunday as a suspect in a holdup in which Saunders has admitted taking part. Saunders registered at the Williams at 1 this morning under the name of James Irwin, Columbus, 0., and left a call for 5 a. m. When awakened by phone, Saunders asked for ice waier. Fred Penn. Negro. 37. of 2356 Columbia avenue, delivered the ice water and was forced into a closet (Turn to Page Two)

FACTORY FIRE LOSS $75,000 Ermet Products Company Plant Is Destroyed by Flames. Fed by exploded gasoline and varnish tanks, flames completely destroyed the plant of the Ermet Products Company, at 2100 Caroline avenue, this morning and caused lass estimated at $75,000. Believed to 'ave started in the dryj.ng room r the plant, the fire spread rapidly over the frame building and soon was beyond control. A second alarm was turned in shortly after arrival of firemen. High tension wires near the plant were burned in two and linemen of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company were called to remove the lines from the way of the firemen. Considerable difficulty was encountered by the firemen in fighting the flames, because water lines had to be extended several hundred feet across the Big Four railroad tracks.

Four Declared Involved in Reformatory Thefts

PANIC AVERTED BY ACTORS' GAY BANTER DURING THEATER FIRE

By I nited I‘rcss SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Oct. 31.—A line of gay banter between two vaudeville performers that kept four hundred theater patrons laughing while a fire raged backstage, catalogued Duke Atterbury and Ken Gillum as heroes today. Police said their impromptu performance averted a panic. Atterbury and Gillum w-ere going through their act when smoke curled from the wings. The audience stirred. "Somebody s trying to crab our act by starting a fire.” laughed Atterbury. ' Why, so they are.” said Gillum. They maintained a rapid fire conversation that soon allayed the fears of spectators and set them back in their seats laughing. The orchestra played a final march and the audience filed through the exits just as fire apparatus arrived. Damage to the theater was estimated at $20,000. GRAF ZEP NEAR FRANCE Dirigible Reported 650 Miles From Coast on Return Trip. By l nitrd Press NEW YORK. Oct. 31—The Graf Zeppelin was reported approximately 650 miles off the coast of France today, by Mackav Radio. Position of the dirigible was given as 44.31 north and 11.52 west.

The Indianapolis Times Fair tonight and Wednesday with continued mild temperature.

Frolickers will cavort in the roped off space about the War Memorial tooting tin horns and scaring unsuspecting bystanders with their weird false faces. Beer will replace the conventional cider at the South Side Turner's, when jocund members of the ”So-U-Si” Club wall dip for apples in a tub of beer. Scaring aw'ay that old goblin, political rumor, six hundred employes of the Statehouse wall join in amicable funmaking for Pleas Greenlee, big little boss, officially known as executive secretary to the Governor, at the Claypool. The party will be "en maske.” nan DANCERS will share the merrymaking at the Indiana ballroom, where Percy Carson and his Edgwater Beach hotel orchestra wall play from 8:30 until 2 p. m. Ingeniously - costumed frolickers will vie for cash prizes for the most unique garb. Games and surprises further will enliven the party. Highland Golf and Country Club wall hold a masquerade party for children tonight, and Hoosier Athletic Club wil entertain with a party. Os all that celebrate this unique holiday few know that the original date was All Saints Day. It was believed by our elders that on this night ghosts and witches were wont to frolic and dance in macabre glee. The Druids, who wandered about the woods of Britain worshiping wild tree gods long before England had a Labor party or the dole, thought that on this night all the wicked souls that had died during the year and inhabited the bodies of animals, gathered around the lord of death for a big pow-wow. n st ALL the noise-making and strange costumes that have been handed down to us once were to keep the evil spirts from raiding the larder, bewitching the maids, and behaving in general as no moral spirit should. While we celebrate Halloween in this country with blaring music, hard cider sprees, and mischievous pranks, in Europe the country folk pipy games they have played for centuries and dance to folk tunes. Probably the same casualties wall occur - this year as always. Someone will get w'et falling into the apple tub, a child will get a Ucking for soaping the wrong window', and a gay fun-maker who has imbibed too well and not wisely wall winder into the wrong apartment. But bear with them—tomorrow the ghosts, the goblins, and imps will have shrunk back into their graves, to be no more for another year.

Natural Gas Supply to Last Years, Board Told

STATE HUSKERS CLASH Three Former Champions in Title Event at Bluffton. By f nited Press BLUFFTON. Ind.. Oct. 31.—Three former state champions wall compete here tomorrow in the annual state corn husking contest. Lawrence Pitzet. Fountain county, is the defending champion. Charles Etter, Benton county, champion in 1929, and Robert Kitchell, Wayne county, 1931 winner, will be among eleven county titleholders opposing Pitzer.

One df the two Indiana state rei formatory guards, under suspicion in the theft of pants and shirts from the reformatory factory, definitely has been linked to a plot with two prisoners and a truck driver, A. F. Miles, superintendent of the Pendleton institution, said today. Mr. Miles declined to name the guard, who with his suspected mate is under suspension pending further investigation, but said an unnamed Anderson truck driver has made a clean breast of his part. Meanwhile, Mr. Miles planned to question two prisoners who have been placed in solitary confinement. The prisoners, George Dillon, Delaware county, and Brice Michaels. Terre Haute, are alleged to have conspired with the two -guards and the truck driver to steal .several bundles of shirts and pants.

City's Fund Drive Workers Strive to Raise $245,964 More by Friday Night

'lndianapolis is faced with an emergency, but because of conditions. lacks the necessary drama to emphasize the seriousness of the situation.” This comment was made today by one of the captains of the city's "army of mercy”—the Community Fund—as the 3.000 workers sought to raise $245,964.21 by Friday night, day night. No report meeting *lll be held today. The next session to chart the

Tonight’s the Night! Ghosts ’n Goblins to Stalk Forth Again

BY TRISTRAM C OFFIN Times Staff Writer 'T'ONfGHT'S the night! Goblins, witches and ghosts will gallivant A about in their annual twelve hours of City celebraters have planned a big night to keep the voodoo ‘from the door.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1933

INSULL WINS FREEDOM IN GREEK COURT Judges Refuse Extradition to United States for Trial. By Lniteri Press ATHENS, Oct. 31.—Samuel Insull, exiled czar of America's mid-contin-ent utilities system, today won his fight against extradition to Chicago to face charges of having ruined and mismanged his one-time financial empire. The Greek court of appeals, apparently impressed by the arguments of a brilliant battery of defense lawyers, determined foday that Cook county indictments w'ere not sufficient to meet the terms of the extradition treaty, and ordered his release from custody. A large crow'd was present in the courtroom when the decision was announced, and greeted the verdict wdth loud applause. Praised by Court The court's decision was a tenpage document, which gave more praise than condemnation to the one-time multi-millionaire. The court recognized “Insull’s important contribution to the electrical industry,” and recorded its verdict that his acts were “not fraudulent, but brought about by the general financial collapse.” “I expected this verdict,” Insull said as he was receiving the crow’d's congratulations. "These Greek judges are ideal. I am more than satisfied. I shall stay here the remainder of my life, and regard Greece as my own country." Hopes for Comeback Then, indicating his plans for work, he added: "I hope that by some financial combinations. I may be able to reciprocate the hospitality of this small but great country.” Insull, who will be 73' next month" thus was left free to continue his efforts at a "come back.” He hopes, perhaps wdth the aid of Sir Basil Zaharoff, man of international mystery and of apparently unlimited millions, to exercise his organizing genius once more in the Balkans. Insull’s defense attorneys, Denis Lazarimos and Pericles Rhallis, had pictured Insull as a “venerable oldman, persecuted by stockholders, and a victim of his own generosity.”!

Expert Testimony Occupies Hearing on Petition at Statehouse. Expert testimony regarding the productiveness of the Indiana natural gas field sought to be tapped to the city by the Indiana Gas Service Corporation featured today's hearing before the public service commission. Declaring that the field will produce 20,000,000 cubic feet annually for the next fifteen years. A. Faison Dixon, nationally known geologist, testified for the petitioners. He w'as subjected to stiff crossexamination by the legal staff of the city, utility district, and the Citizens Gas Company, all opposing introduction of natural gas by the gas service corporation. Perry McCart, commission chairman. indicated yesterday that he believed the wrong type of petition had been submitted by the corporation. after John H. Maxon, Muncie, vice-president, said plans were to serve industrial consumers using at least 100,000 cubic feet monthly. W. H. Thompson, attorney for the city utility district, and Henry H. Hornbrook, representing the Citizens Gas Company, seized on Maxon’s admission to point out that granting of the petition would impair the value of the local gas company which the city seeks to acquire. If the petitioner seeks to serve all the public, the Citizens Gas Company would suffer from the competition and the public would lose its share of the public trust, Thompson said.

final days of the campaign *lll be held Wednesday noon. “There is not one man or woman in this city who would fail to do his or her share if they knew how serious the crisis is,” the drive leader added. The drive was to end Wednesday,' but workers voted to extend the campaign as a tribute to the leadership and hard work put forth byWalter C. Marmon, general chairman of the '.933-1934 campaign. The drive has been conducted successfully for fourteen years and

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Pleas Greenlee Halloween for Him

ROBERT DALTON, ATTORNEY, DEAD Prominent City Lawyer Is Taken at Hospital in Beech Grove. Confined at St. Francis hospital, Beech Grove, for four days following a heart attack Friday, Robert Dalton, 50, of 944 North La Salle street, prominent Indianapolis attorney. died today. Mr. Dalton was rushed to the hospital after he collapsed Friday in the law offices occupied by himself and William J. Fahey, at 224 HumeMansur building. He had suffered from heart trouble for years. For the last twenty-three years, Mr. Dalton had practiced law' here, and for the last ten years had been associated with Mr. Fahey. He took part in a number of wellknown cases, one of the oustanding being the Flume case, involving a state supreme court decision on the search and seizure law'. Born in Mahomoy Plain, Pa., Mr. Dalton w'as graduated from Valparaiso university. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Dale Dalton, one daughter, Margaret, and three brothers, Joseph, of Chicago, and William and Thomas, of Gerardsville. Pa. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

NEW OCTOBER HEAT RECORD SET HERE Temperatures of 78.6 at Noon Breaks Mark. New record for the highest temperature in Indianapolis on any Oct. 31 was established at noon today when the mercury reached 78.8 degrees. According to the local weather ‘bureau statistics, the previous high temperature was 76.8 in 19u0. Yesterday's average temperature was 68 degrees, 19 above normal, a figure which is expected to be exceeded today. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 59 10 a. m 72 7 a. m 58 11 a. m 77 8 a. m 64 12 (noon).. 79 9 a. m 69 1 p. m 79

Machine Gun Blockade Set Up on State Road 31

ESCAPED CONVICT IS NAMED SUSPECT IN CAFE HOLDUP HERE “John, you are stuck up. Give me $100!” This greeting w r as given to John Partlow’, owner of a lunchroom at 29 West Ohio street, early this morning by a young man who had ordered a glass of beer. Brandishing a revolver and ordering Partlow’ into the back room, the thief bound him with picture wire, took several hundred dollars from his person, looted the cash register of about SIOO and escaped by the rear entrance. Partlow' extricated himself, called police, and gave a description of the bandit, w'ho police say tallies with Joseph Burns, fugitive convict.

leaders declare that it is up to every citizen with a job in Indianapolis whether the present campaign succeeds or fails. Large gifts reported at yesterday’s meeting were: William H. Block Company. $12,000; H. P. Wasson & Cos., $10,000; Banner-Whitehill Company, $1,500; P. C. Reilly, $3,600; Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company. $3,000: Mrs. Caroline M. Fesler increased her $2,500 gift to $3,000; Link-Belt Company, $1,000; Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, SBOO.

BIITLER STUDENTS MASS TO PROTEST OUSTING OF DR. ATHEARN BY BOARD

PAsrai uses 10 OEUNSE OF ATHEARN "High-Handed Methods’ Are Unfair, Is Charge of Graduate Student. A defense of the administration of Dr. Walter Scott Athearn, dismissed president of Butler university, was given The Times today by the Rev. M. C. Schollenberger, minister of the Beech Grove Chistian church and graduate student in j the Butler college of religion. “I realize that I may be jeopardizing my chances of receiving my A. I M. degree for w'hich I am working ! now%” said Mr. Schollenberger. ‘ But I feel so strongly that Dr. Athearn | has done much good w'ork for the university that it is incumbent upon me to come to his defense at this time. “I feel that he was dismissed without a fair hearing—without the courtesy or decency that would be extended to an office boy or a domestic servant. Such high-handed methods are not fair to an outstanding educator like Dr. Athearn. "Dr. Athearn has raised the standards of the college to a higher degree than any previous president had succeeded in accomplishing. I know from personal experience that the work he has done in the college of religion has raised the standard indefinitely. ‘‘The fact that North Central Association of Colleges and other organizations looking to the raising of educatinal standards have acknowledged Dr. Athearn's regime speaks for itself. "Dr. Athearn believed in intramural athletics rather than overemphasis on money-making football teams and adhered to the athletic system which has been so successful in English colleges especially. He laid a greater stress on scholarship. His views did not coincide apparently with those of men who have burdened the university with such white elephants as the bowl and the fieldhouse and stressed athletics above all.”

MURDER TRIAL JURY HOLDS NEGRO'S FATE Death Penalty Demanded in Groeei Slaying. Life of James Banks, Negro, charged with the murder of Sam Ajamie, a grocer, w'as placed in the hands of a criminal court jury at neon today. It w'as the first time in a number of years that the death penalty had been asked from a Marion county jury, court attaches said. DON’T ADMIT MASKERS, POLICE CHIEF WARNS Morrissey Details Fifty-two Cops for Dufy Tonight. Police Chief Mike Morrissey warned citizens today against allowing masked persons in their houses tonight. He also asked that people beware of pickpockets operating tonight. Fifty-two policemen will be on special detail tonight in the downtown area.

Manned by twenty-five national guardsmen, armed with rifles and machine guns, the first of the planned state-wide highway blockades was put into effect on state Road 31 at the Tipton-Hamilton county line last night. The blockade, which is in two sections, a quarter of a mile apart, is marked with flares and signal lanterns by night. Captain Paul D. Harter of the national guard is in charge. Two shifts of twelve hours each will be stationed at the blockade. Men off duty will be quartered at the Tipton armory. Other blockades will be stationed on strategic highways, A1 Feeney, safety director announced. “Law-abiding citizens need have no fear of the blockades,” Mr. Feeney said. “We are after the big shots.” GOVERNMENT BOOSTS GOLD PRICE TO $32.12 Bullion Price L’p 16 Cents; Top London Market by 91 Cents. By l mtt and Pri ss WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—The government today raised its price on newly-mined American gold to $32.12 an ounce from the $31.96 level of yesterday. The price was an overnight advance of 16 cents an ounce. Today’s Washington price was 91 cents above trie world price set in London today. The London price was 130 shillings 7 pence, off 7’ 2 pence from yesterday. This w-as equivalent to $31.21 an our ' y L

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‘Politics’ That's Brand Laid on Butler System by Dr. Athearn.

In a letter acknowledging dismissal as president of Butler university, Dr. Walter Scott Athearn charged that the university is dominated by a "financial, political and noneducational administration centered in the dowmtow'n office of the university.” Dr. Athearn listed categorically more than thirty achievements at Butler during his incumbency as president. He contended that he was the victim of a "dual administration" and in his letter accepted dismissal, but refused to resign. The letter follow’s: Oct. 30. 1933. Mr. Hilton U. Brown Mr. Hugh Th. Miller Mr. Emsley W. Johnson, Gentlemen: At 5:30 p. m. Saturday, Oct. 28, you called at my home as a special committee of the board of directors of Butier university to notify me of

an action of the board which had just adjourned. The reso 1u t ion w'hich you placed in my hands read: "Resolved, That under the terms of the charter (see Sec. 13) the board hereby creates a vacancy in the office of the president of the college and appoints Messrs. Hilton U. Brow'n, Hugh Th. Miller and Ems-

ley W. Johnson as a committee to convey this information to Dr. Walter S. Athearn and the board now appoints Dean J. W. Putnam as acting president and instructs the committee to convey such messages to him. Your committee informed ine of the board's willingness that I submit my resignation if I preferred this method of eliminating myself from the service of the university to a straight dismissal, provided I resign not later than Monday morning, Oct. 30. In the brief discussion which followed this notification you declined to give reasons for the action of the board, and recognized that I had had no previous notice of the board's intentions and w r as not given a chance to be heard by the board in answer to w’hatever charges may have been the basis of the board's decision. You justified the board's action by quoting from the charter the clause which gives the board the right to hire and discharge employes at will. Before giving you my decision as to whethrr I choose i :signaticn to a straight dismissal, let me cite you to a few of the achievements of my administration during the past two years.

Financially Bankrupt When I came to Butler in the summer of 1931 it was generally recognized as, one of the most difficult administrative fields in America. The institution w r as financially bankrupt and academically discredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and other national standardizing agencies. I w'as given eighteen months in w'hich to make the improvements necessary to remove the institution from the tentative status which had been granted by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. During the last two years, under my guidance and direction, the following things have been achieved at Butler university: 1. The full approval of its aca(Turn to Page Two)

NATIONAL AND STATE BANK CALLS ISSUED Order Condition Reported as of Oct. 25. By Vnited Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—Currency Comptroller J. F. T. O'Connor today issued a national bank call for condition as of Oct. 25. The call was the first since July 2, when a call for national banks’ condition as of June 30 was issued. . L A call for the condition of state banks as of Oct. 25 was issued today, by the state department of banking. COAL CODE HEARING DUE 54 Anthracite Companies Submit Proposed NR A Plan. By L tiited Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Public hearings are expected to be set this week on a proposed code for the Pennsylvania anthracite industry submitted by fifty-four companies, employing 150.000 workers. Nelson Morris Weds Actress CHICAGO, Oct. 31.—The marriage of Nelson Morris, grandson of the founder of Morris & Cos., packers, and Mile. Blanche Bilboa. French actress, was announced today. I

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Juniors Gather at Campus Club to Take Vote on Dismissal. PUTNAM ACTING CHIEF President Refuses* to Quit Post. Chooses to Be Forced Out. Demanding reassurance on the educational status of Butler university, more than 200 students of the junior class met today at the Campus Club to voice disapproval of the summary dismissal yesterday of President Walter S. Athearn by (he university board of directors. The meeting was called by Fred Clifton, junior class president, and addressed by Dean J. W. Putnam, acting president, in an effor„ to quiet rumors that Butler might lose its standing in the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools because of Dr. Athearn's dismissal.

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"There have been repeated rumors that Butier might be declared ineligible and there is a strong feel--ng among the students that Dr. Athearn has been let out unfairly, Mr. Clifton told Dean Putnam. "For that reason, w'e want you to consider whatever resolution might be made by the class. - ’ ‘Nothing to Frar.‘ Is Claim "There is nothing to fear immediately on the matter of credits," Dean Putnam to’d the students. , ‘There is nothing to be done about Dr. Athearn s status. You and I don't know anything about what internal trouble may have been going on in the university, but I do not believe there is anything to fear immediately as to the North Central eligibility. "If there is to be a resolution of appreciation for Dr. Athearn's work, i thin.; that would be a nice thing.” A student in the rear of the crowd interrupted to ask Dean Putnam; ' Isn't it true that in 1930, the registration here dropped one-third because of Butler's ineligibility for the North Central?” Questions Are Fired Dgan Putnam explained that he did not beheve that the decrease in enrollment was due entirely to that factor and hinted that jealousy among other Indiana colleges as well as the depression was responsible. "Isn't, it true. Dean Putnam?’’ continued the student, "that there is a clause in the north central bylaw’s that provides when the board cf directors tries to dictate the policies cf a school, the school automatically is dropped?” Dean Putnam said he did not recall such a clause in the North Central by-laws.

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Praise Athearn’s Work At the close of the meeting, a resolu ion demanding an explanation from the board of trustees as to reasons back of the Athearn dismissal was turned down. Another resolution expressing appreciation of Dr. Ath-'arn’s work was adopted. Dr. Athearns dismissal came suddenly, but not entirely unheralded. For several months, it was learned on the campus, rumors have been current that friction existed between the university president and the board. Faced with the alternative of resigning or being dismissed with only two days’ notice. Dr. Athearn chose to accept dismissal. In a letter bitterly denouncing the action of the board of directors and adressed to that group, Dr. Athearn charged that the university is dominated by a ’ financial, political and non-educational group centered in the downtown office of the university.” ‘President in Name Only’ He charged that he was the victim of a "dual administration which makes me president in name only.” Following notice of Dr. Athearn’s dismissal, the board of directors immediately appointed Dean James W. Putnam to serve as acting president. “Dr. Putnam.” it was announced by Hilton U. Brown, president of the board of directors, “may continue as acting president throughout the rest of the academic year, as no permanent successor to Dr. Athearn has yet been considered.” In his letter to the board yesterday, Dr. Athearn reviewed his achievements as president of the university for two years, declined to resign and accepted his discharge “without a hearing” in the hope that “at some future time I may learn the reason for this unusual procedure.” Dr. Athearn revealed that he was employed on a year-to-year contract which does not expire until the end of the academic year. In a statement regarding the dismissal of Dr. Athearn, Mr. Johnson of the board of directors said: “The ooard of directors has accepted se/erance of relations with Dr. Athearn without bitterness, at <” irn to Page Three)