Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-24
MRS. YOUNG REINsrATED AZ su.
PERfNTENDENT ~ PoR.
TioN OF BOARD.
ATTORNEYS FOR ousrED
MEMBERS PREPARING APPEAL
Election Made Possible by Refusal to
Permit Men ForeibIy Put OF Board
BY Mayor Harrison to vots-cIaim
Rssianations Wers Written Before
Men Were Appointed to Place.


attorney for the four ousted member!
| Of the board Of education whose dis.
qualification made possible the rein.
statement yesterday Of Ella Flags
Young as superintendent Of school,
conferred with his clients today will
reference to speedy action in tn.
courts. Mr.. Fyffe said he would ask the
states attorney to institute quo war.
ranto proceedings to restore his clients
to the board. He added that the actor
Of Mayor Busse in 1907 in ousting nvs
members Of the school board was de.
clared illegal by the courts and that the
present action would follow this prece.
dent.
Mayor Busse simply discharged the
members. while Mayor Harrison
aroused at the failure Of the board t.
re-elect Mrs. Young, accepted resisna
tions which had been in his hands
prior to the Young incident.
Fyne will contend that these resig.
nations. no matter how dated, were
az matter Of fact written before the
writer's had been appointed.
Mrs. Young Reinstatsd.
Ella Flagg Young was reelected su-
perintendent Of Chicago schools yester-
day. receiving 13 Of possible 81 votes
John ID. Shoop was reelected first as
sistant superintendent. -.--
Mrs. Young Is at Oak Hall, Tyron
N. c. She went there Saturday on 9
two weeks vacation.
Mrs. Young declined last night tC
answer kilograms or telephone call
from newspapers. Her secretary came
to the telephone and said:
Mrs. Young has no statement tc
make tonight"
Peter Rsinberg. president Of tn.
board. announcing thaA he spoke FOL
her; said Mrs. Young would accept the
position.
Mr.. Shoop was elected superintend.
ent by the board Dec. 10 and occupied
that position yesterday. He refused
to make statement regarding his
future activities. referring all ques-
TONERS to his attorney. E. r. Litzinger
who attended the board meeting.
Mr.. Litzinser said:
we contend that the action of the
board was illegal. We viii meet with
the ousted trustees Wednesday morn :
Ing to outline our plans"
The program undoing the action OF
tho board two weeks ago, which was
arranged Monday afternoon in the Of
fice OF Richard s. Folsom, counsel for
the board. was carried out in detail.
despite the protests OF the Shoop con
tingent.
Rsinberg 10 UnshakabIs.
Peter Reinberg, president. fortified
by Mr.. Folsom. who sat at his left hand
and gave instructions. and by Charles
F1tzmorr1s. the mayors secretary. who
was on the platform. refused to be
turned from the set program bv anv
question Of legality, parliamentary pro-
ceedings or board ethics.
OF the thirteen votes recorded for
Mrs. Young under the ruling Of the
president four were cast by the newly
appointed members. for whose seats
there Is to be a court contest. or the
seven who did not vote six maintained
that the proceedings were illegal, The
seventh. DR.. Peter c. Clemensen. said
he would remain neutral.
Mrs. Young's reelection was NOT ac-
complished without acrimonious debate
the passing of the lie by Mr.. Loeb to
Mr.. Sonsteby and the confusion of the
record by the efforts Of all parties to
carry out their own desires. The four
"ousted" members were championed by
Trustees Rothmann and Sonsteby. who
offered without success to show Mr..
Reiberg the law on procedure of de-
Lucrative bodies. Mr.. Sonsteby did yet
into the records the fact that the four
"oueted" members were nreaop< QUA ~,
each roll call demanded chance to