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THE DAILY BANNER “IT WAVES FOR ALL”

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NRY KREHL passed away THIS MORNING

TH TAKES SUPERINTEND. JJCT OF GREENCASTLE ORPHANS' HOME

AL SERVICE TUESDAY

Ww Highly Reap^cted Utim \jm1 Nhw Will Be Keenly Kelt In Community.

oiry R- Krrhl passed away at the ty hospital Monday morning at 7 -|i. His death followed an opion performed Saturday morning. Krehl was well known in nestle, where he had made his e lor the post twelve years. He Mrs. Krehl came to Greencastle Franklin Grove, near Chicago, he years ago to take charge of Greencastle Orphans home. They made their home here continuoushnre and had a wide circle of nds who will regret to learn of death. -th Mr. and Mrs. Krehl .had done itutional work prior to coming to city, and their work among the ty odd children at the home here always he a guiding influence on children, who were treated in a dly manner. Mr. Krehl took the e fatherly interest in these rhilthat he would have taken if they e his own and his death will be nly felt not only in the home hut the community at large. T e was a faithful member of the hodist Episcopal church .and was jve in all its departments. •ceased is survived by the widow, brothers, Fred J. Krehl, Franklin 111., and Charles Krehl, of ncer, Iowa; and one sister, Miss C. Krehl of Aurora, 111. e funeral services will be held the Gobin Memorial Methodist :h Tuesday afternoon at four ■k. The Rev. Albert E. Monger, or, will he in charge. The body be sent to Franklin Grove for jL

ATTERED RAINS BRING SOME RELIEF

NAM COUNTY SECTIONS REPORT HEAVY SHOWERS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

IK SPOTS REMAIN DRY

» And Other Crops Hard Hit Continued Drouth Of Paet Month.

GREENCASTLE. INDIANA. MONDAY. JUNE 4, 1934.

NO. 197

Asks NRA Probe

Representative W illiam t. Sirovich, of New York, who introduced a resolution in the House, demanding an investigation of the NRA, covering preparation, operation and effects of every code thus far adopted. A special House committee would also probe activities of all NRA officials.

SUES SCHOOL TOWNSHIP FOR $1.1211 DAMAGES

WALTER W. KEI.I.KR IS PLAINTIFF IN ACTION FILED SATURDAY

’tattered thunder showers Saturaftemoon and Sunday afternoon tffht relief to tome sections of i cunty farm lands but left oth-

vidly dry.

-reencastle felt the cooling O'sult h showers, temperatures dropptwenty degrees or more after each

the showers.

was reported rain misse 1 Maditownship Saturday afternoon but * ^ rain Sunday was unusually 'Y in that section. Showers missed i Putnam county both afternoons. '*• said. Eat-t Putnam, county also missed by the dowrnpours which A the central poition of the ■ty. c l *d which accompanied the ahow- ** s said to have caused no dumA high wind blew down a few hmbs and in some instances flat - sections of wheat fields but the

aage was believed minor-

arm» rs say the oats crop in Putcounty will be a total loss un * lac rn while it may make hay on * rR . All crops are far behin I norRTowth for this time of the yrar. windston.ni of cyclone, velocity i Pt Clinton township late Sunday I Ynoon taking roofs off burn, on v

CONTRACT W AS ( ANCELLED Alleges Jefferson Township Trustee Dismissed Him Without

Hearing

Walter W\ Keller, in a two-para-graph complaint, filed uit in circuit court Saturday acainst Jefferson School township, for .1,120 alleged due him because his contract as teacher was cancelled without cause for the school year 193.7-31. Keller alleges in his complaint, filed by attorinys Gillen & Lyon, that he taught in the Jefferson township schools for five successive years under annual contracts with the Jefferson township trustee prior to July 192K, and also taught during the school year lO'JH 29. He alleges the trustee refused to permit him to teach luring the year 1929-30 but that he did teach during the years 1921-32 and 1932-33. He further alleges that the trustee. Bertie C. Cox, refused to let him leach during the year 1933-34, giving him no opportunity to Ik> heard on the cancellation of his contract. Keller alleges that had he been permitted to teach he would .have earned $1,120 and that he had been damaged in tnis sum by failure and refusal of the trustee t > a. ign him to a school. It is said the suit is based on the teacher tenure law which provides a teacher cannot he removed without caure after having taught in one school for five surcceasive years.

PRES. OXNAM CRITICIZED BY ASSOCIATION

Farmers Transport Water ■.v-srr** ■•■**nr*jex*:* viwumks miii

PROFESSORS ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE CRITICISES OUSTING OF HUFFERD.

100-PAGE REPORT COMPILED

Dr. (hmam. Faculty And Students Iseue Statements After Report Is Made Ihihlic.

“Clue" Jackson, Cartoonist. Dies

WIDELY KNOWN FOR COMIC S I KIP V IP HIT “ROGER

MEW FAMILY”

IN'DIANAHH.IS, June 4 (UPl — Charts Bacm “Chic” Jackson, f>7. Hm.sier phil isopher and creator of the Roger !’■ m family comic strip, di d suddenly y terday of a heat at-

tack.

Jackson w.i -frlcken as he left his o^ice in the Star building and died a few minute, liter. Police and fire department fit t aid squad* were un-

able to revive him.

Funeral pervi. -.s will be conducted here tomorrow nftemcon and burial

at Die I leech Grove cemetery

vl a S;;; f “ cAlin,k ’ n and I ‘"jaek^n O^l'in Muncie on New! ^.trr n,, b ' eW d, ’ Wn trC< ‘ 3 ° n Ew, 1*7.1. He was educated in ! barn on the farm of Dm Looka- Mu.u ie schools and held bis Jrnt •«**t of Fincaatle, was stiuck by j ,u w;4 P n > ,er • , ' ,h tll,r ^ “ lllUjtr ' ! '"ing Sunday afternoon and bum- \ ^ fron * ' 1 1 ’ |

h' the gr.rund. A few farm imples in the bam also were burned. \nother bam northeast of Fillmore ^c Claude Phillips farm also was ,r k by lightning Sunday afternoon

burned to the ground.

The June bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, made public in Washington, D. C., Monday, contained sharp criticism of Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, president of DePauw university for the abrupt dismissal of Ralph Hufferd, chemistry professor until 1933 in the university. An association subcommittee on academic freedom and tenure recently completed a comprehensive investigation of DePauw conditions and made a report more than 10(1 page. 1 in length. A summary is published in the bulletin. On the subcommittee were Prof. William E. Britton, of the University of Illinois Law School, and Fred C. Koch, of the University of Chicago biochemistry department. Appended to the condensation of the report as published in the bulletin was this comment: "Since reading a copy of the foregoing report in proof, President Oxnam has insisted vigorously that it contains many important mis-state-ments and suppressions of fact, and has been requested the privilege of publishing in the bulletin a reply of considerable length. He was informed that his permission could not be granted, but was invited (May 7) to submit specific corrections of alleged misstatements of fact. No such corrections have been received (May

The report of Britton and Kock was approved for publication, the bulletin announces, by the committee on academic freedom and tenure, Carl Wittke, chairman. Conclusions reached in the re[>ort

are:

“1. That as to procedure. Prof. Hufferd’s dismissal is to be condemned without qualification. The evidence was not properly collected or used, and no hearing was accorded. Further, that the causes assigned for dismissal are not established by the evidence. Finally, that Professor Hufferd is thoroughly competent, has been loyal to DePauw university, and has been victimized because of his fearless stand for faculty control of academic questions. "2. That the general tenure situation at DeiPauw is very uncertain because of the power and disposition of President Oxnam and of the policy of annual appointments. While insecurity is not universally felt, it is the prevailing impression among the fac-

ulty.

"3. That the delegation of such wide powers to President Oxnam under the circumstances herein stated and the manner of their exert iso have been deeply detrimental to the interests of DePauw university.” The investigation wa.-, made, the report says, following three complaints of distressing conditions in as 'many years. A fourth complaint was withdrawn after retraction of a dismissal. ‘‘The investigating committee found that Professor Hufferd was a strong teacher, loyal to the university, respected and praised by his former students,” the report emphasizes. "He had been at DePauw sinre 1920, having risen steadily to full professorial rank with corresponding salary t increases.” Versions of a Hufferd-Oxnam clash in 1930 varied, the report points out. Hufferd in faculty meetings opposed conferring of an honorary degree. He said he explained his reasons to Oxnam and others in private. Oxnam

REPUBUCAN CONVENTION ON TUESDAY

I STATE MEETING TO RE HELD IN CADLE TABERNACLE AT INDIANAPOLIS

CONVENTIONS OPENS AT 10 A. M.

Bitter Struggle For Positions On State Ticket Indicated Aa Delegates Gather.

Farmers in Iowa, whose wells have gone dry in th unprocedente I drought, h:\e taken to it ran sporting wati i I'ro i the cities and towns for their live stock. ('• W- G'ul, farmer near Des Moines, la., is shown hi tin real of a t.’urk which is getting water fr< iii a fire hydrant in D M in< s On top of 'Im tank is his broth r, ( herb s Gaul, an his daughter, Caroline Gaul, is between hi r father and Ixto Cunningham, e . p'oye ..f the lbs Moines water department, who is turning the hydrant handle-

MASONIC NOTICE

^l*d meeting Temple Lodge No. * 'A. M. degree Monday, 7:30 ,n • F. C. degree. C. iF. Ma.hesj W. M. . E. E. Caldwell, Sec’y.

DR OXNAM GIVEN HONORARY DEGREE AT ROSEPOLYTECHNIC Dr- G. Bi ot ley Oxnam, president of DePauw University, delivered the commencorent ablrcss at Rose Polytechnic Institute ait Terre Haute on Saturday evening and was also given the honorary degree of Doctor of

Science by the Institute .

Post 58, American Legion will meet Tuesday night at 8 o'cloak- All

members be present.

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asserted Hufferd raised open objections at the meeting. ‘‘Several members of (lie faculty corroborate Prof' or Hufferd's version, and the re. rd of the me 'ting does not contradi t it,” says the sub-

committee.

It is revealed that Dean William Blanchard, who al.-o i., head of the chemistry departiv nt, differed, too, with his superior. Although Hufferd was reappointed June 10, 1930, with increased salary, he received a written reprimand fr m Oxnam, the bul-

letin says.

“Unless you can see your way clear to co-operata ami to become a constructive force in the institution, I shall not recommend your reappointment next year,” the letter warned. The committee reports the letter was handed to Bl inchard. “Blanchard showed great surprise, and sent Professor Hufferd a message to pay no

attention to it."

Hufferd was n tified of the granting of his request for sabbatical leave February 20, 19 d, the report sets out. Oxnam wr,o'.e Hufferd June 11, 1931, that the university trustees voted to terminate his services fol-

lowing the sabbatical leave.

■After a consultation with Oxnam, Hufferd said Oxnam promised to withdraw the dismissal and “wipe the slate clean.” Oxnam said he insisted, the subcommittee records, that Hufferd should admit truth of charges against him. Hufferd had an interview with Oxn.im in June, the report asserts, saying in a subsequent letter to Oxnam he regarded the incident closed and expressing willingness to

co-operate.

Hufferd rec ived a letter Jiuie 12, 1933, from Oxt im which said in part: The. trustee , "upon my recommendation, voted to discontinue you as a

member of th< faculty.”

The rep rt continues: “Professor Hufferd had been given no notice or heariny what ver. B"'.h the pre.-i-dent an 1 Dean Blanchard refused to furnish him with a specification of

charges.”

To the rumor that Hufferd was urging students in a related department to tak i particular subject at other school ihe subcommittee says the related department he ld wasummoned and a k‘‘d about the mat-

ter by Oxnaie

“This department head further stated to tin- committee that so far as ho know , Professor Hufferd never uj.go'1 physi- majors to take their physics elsewhere and that he did not so state to IV sklent Oxnam,” the report points out. “Professor Huffetds version is that He advised some chemistry majors to take rertain graduate work in physi ; at other institutions. “ . . . The general effect of Hufferd’s ili.'imiasal can bo appreciated only by considering the broader -ituation of which it is an item. From the time of I’r sident, Oxnam’.; induction in 1928 t" the heginnng of 1934 there have been 144 different persons | on the DePauw faculty. Of these, f>3 ‘have died, r igned, failed of reap- ! pointment or have been dismissed, j The committee found that 29 of the I (13 were in the professional grades | an-d that, be idea Professor Hufferd, i five of the 29 have hern dismissed, formally or in substance. “ . . . An unwritten understanding of permanency for successful teachers was supposed to exist. But all appointments were annual, and the art incorporating the university empowered a majority of the nine visitors ‘to declare the appointment to office of any of the faculty or instructors vacant’ without regard for even an annual contract. This alone affords grounds for uneasiness. “These gr unds have been greatly ttrengthened by several added fac-

DK. OXNAM MAKES STATEMENT A statement fr.in i hr si dint G. Bromley Oxnam says: “The reaction of our own faculty is sufficient reply to the report of the Aurjeiican Association of University Professors. It calls for no further answer fawn nie. Business men will understand the nature of this report when it is pointed out that an investigation of this kind is .similar to an in vestigation that a hu ines- agent of a labor uni.m would make of a business establishment. A committee of (two members, one of whom: did practically all the work, visited our campus- At j no time was the University given an ' opportunity to answer uireet testi- j mony- The Association has refu ed to publish a statement correcting factual errors in the report. And what is more important, it has refused to publish a presentation of facts deliber | ately suppressed. The teport in larg“ measure represent the view of a single individual who became exceedingly angry when he found it impossible to dictate policies for a university ithat is quite capable of din -ting

its own affairs ”

Veteran Members Of DTauw Faculty Endorse Dr. Oxnam

STUDENTS AND PRES. OXNAM ALSO ISSUE STATEMENTS IN ANSWER TO REPORT

various groups on the ■ biggest fight.

Action of

campus at DePauw university result of the report of t!,e. American Association of University Professors, came quickly Monday, following the publication of the report in Washington. Some of the action taken is containe ! in the following statements:

INDIANAPOLIS, June 4, fUP) — A bitter struggle for positions on the state ticket, overshadowing Senator Arthur R. Robinson’s fight for renomination, was indicated today as delegates gathered he e for the Republican state convention. Don B. Irwin Republican state chairman, will call the convention to -rder in Cadle tabernacle at 10 a. m.

tomorrow.

Norman A. Imrie, Culver, will bo chairman and sole speaker if his selection by the arrangements committee is aproved today by the state

committee.

Irene's selection eliminated Robinson from the convention speaking

program.

Only two other candidates, former Governor Harry G. Leslie and William (» Dennis, president of Earlham j collfqj.', have formally entered the raeo for senator, but it is believed tiny will lack the necessary votes to defeat Robinson. The nomination for secretary of state is expected to precijfftate the

Among the car*didates for that position are Mayor Roswell 0. Johnson, Gary; Fred Woodward, South B.'nd; Emmett O. Hall, Auburn; Bert I Morgan, Indinmuiolis; Everett Neal, Noble:'.vill»; James Slane, Lafayette; j J. R. McCain. Delphi, and Luther O.

We, the un ersigned—-whose work ^ raprr ’ ^P' Cp l ani K

is wholly in the field of teaching - 1 • Iose » >h R Crown I>oint is un ‘ are the oldest members of th- faculty fflr ""mination lieutenant

of DePauw University in years of ser- j <f overnor -

vice to the institution. Each has been Tho trnn of M ' nifford Townsend, with DePauw at least eighteen years; I,p mocrat, present lieutenant goverand the average of the group is twem- n ' ,r ’ has ' u ' n mori ’ tn nin hut ty-three years. We form u link be-. ,p ’'. Republicans contend he is holding tween the D»'Phuw of the past an I the 'legally. As a result a G. O.

t-rs. First, in 1930-1931, adoption of substantially the association’s standa, Is of tenure was discussed, rivommrnded by the university’s various divi.-ions and blocked by the president ‘because numerous changes might be occasioned by the financial

situation.

"Second, in February, 1931, President Oxnam set up a committee on faculty, the membership of which included two department heads elected . by the faculty. This committee was to advise the president on dismissals and other related matters. . . . The president discarded the committee practically without trial, and it was wiped out by administrative reorgan-

ization in 1933.

“Third, the trustees (which term intended to include the visitors) appear to have assumed an attitude of substantially complete subservience to the president. They me-t -rarely, and are then together for only sh >rt time:. In dismissal cases they act on the basis of evidence the president

submits.

"... Thu academic tenure at DePnuw has conic to mean annual ap pointment, dependent for renewal upon the action the president alone .after such investigation as he may

present; and be believe we know and understand condition now present in DePauw as well as any other group- j For the first time in our experience DePauw University has tv-n investigated by a conunittee representing the A- A. U. P.; an I a report ciiticiz- . ing the present administration has been 'made. Th- report of this rommit'.ee w-ill he rend by many who will |

P. 'aiviidate will he nominated and fight started to have his nam' placed on the ballot in the November elec-

tion.

Other unopposed candidates are Judge David A. Meyers, Greensburg, member of the supreme court; and I lir.er Sherwood, Bloomfield, for clerk of the supreme nd appellate courts. Several candidates are seeking

have no other basis upon which to 1, ther offices, the latest to announce form opinions nnd conclusions touch- : being David R JVntt, for state tress-

ing the issues in question and the ■ urer , character and policies of the pro ont

administration at I>ePauw.

For this reason we wish to record our conviction that this report to the A. A. U. P. does n-t represent n fair

Tne convention pr gram calls for nominations to he made in the following order: United States senator, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor f state, treasurer of

impartial account of the subjects state, cle-k of supreme and appellate

with which it is concern d In our opinion the rep or' d-c.s n"t. menUon essental an t relevant fact and cir- ^ cunietance-s; and by nrphasi.s upon other facts and < reumstances conclus-

ions are reached in the report, and in- j division.

courts, sujsrintendent of public instruction, one judge of supreme court seonnd d trirt, two judges of i.ppellato. court, first division, and two judrees of p, ell.ite court, second

fer-nces will is ravvn from reading this rt'port, which we do not believe to b- warranted by the situation actually present on tin - e.'impu.-- To cite just one instaiv L'r Oxnam, in this report, seems t Is- held responsible for the system of tenure in eperartion at DePauw, win r as the fact of the matter is that th exact system antelate; the cominp to DePauw of the

d- ide to conduct and. of course, upon i f ti„- teaching st iff, reasons deemed sufficient by him. j In view of the . lit'eism of President Expectation of indefinite retention ( - n 1Mm | 0 y Oxna r in ‘his report, we depends upon th-, individual teacher’s w j g j, to nffin,, 1L „ r confidence in him interpretation of the record briefly j p 0r . o n;l yy and i president of the

indicated above, coupled with consid- University. W 1 i"i lot - his fundamen- tain distan ‘cs from r-iihoola and oration of the presidents general j.,) educational pi nciples and ideals, churches may he .i.-ked i|i the plat-

policy. i Wo pledge him our continued loyalty- form.

"When President Oxnam came , w- fiimly belb v*. thwt with him as Olficers of the conveiftion besides DePauw he found the university d'-1 p ro| ,Hi cnt the U t nt-rests of De- Imrie will he Mrs. Murv h'leeth. Rush-

vided into twenty-six departments p anv w j|| be o n erved-

(Signed)

Planks on taxation and liquor are causing the gr-ateit trouble in drafting a temporary platform for the

party.

Tha state gro: income tax law is expected to he utt - k-'l and the convention pirliably will he asked to urge its revision Gov. Pawl V. McNutt also ix e\ported to he assailed Tit the platform on gr-und Hint ho set himself up a dictator by centralizing th— »tat- government in hit; hands. Y change in the state liquor laws to provide for rue sort of local option and to pr" ibit ales fvithin cer-

and the faculty exercising a normal measure of academic and administrative power by means of general fac-

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20 Years Ago IN GKEENCA8TLE

Mr and Mrs. John Cannon and daughter Mary Catherine aie visit.ng in Chicago. Dr. T. A- Sigler transacted business in Bloomington. Gilbert Knctzer was a visitor in Inddianapolis. Accor ing to figures of the board of review there are 374 automobiles in Ititnam county and these are valued at $88,075. Mrs. Brtcs Duncan was here from Cloveriiale.

K. W. Pence II. B Gough

R T Stephenson

F* P. Nichols W W. Carson L R Eckardt

Van Penman Thorp:on

F. C. Til len

Dad B. Shearer.

STUDENTS PASS RESOLUTION The following re olution was unanimously passed by the DePauw Univrr. ity Student Senate, May 3, 1934We, the irrenbiers of th'' DePauw

"ille, chief ushr"'; Harry) W. Thotnp-s-n, Versailles, se"r Jujy, and Ben Bartlett, Evansville, sergeant at

arms.

F Harold Van Ore an, Evansville, is Gated for election jx chairman of the resolution? 'ome |tee. Delegate. will hold district caucuses tonight in an > If 'rt to agree on t heir particular can. If lutes.

TRUSTEES FIX AUGUST :u FOR SCHOtlL RE-OPENING Township trustees at their meeting

with Roy E Jo-rs, county superin-

Studonts Committee, after a careful leodent, Monday, fixed Friday, Aug. investigation bit.) the facts of the dis- 31, as the date for the opening of missal of Profeesor Hufferd and Pro- si cools following the summer vacafessor Search, are ,>f he unanimoui ti n. A tentative date and place for opinion that the administration was the annual picnic of the'trustees and totally justifie 1 in its policies con- their families w-jis s-t for the last (Cca.inued on Page Two) Sunday in July at Allendale.