The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-02

gram, according to a statement made.
by Book when he resigned from that
position.
Johnson then attacked the ma
jority faction on trip to Evansville,
which Kern, board president; Theo-
dore Vonnegut and Carl w. Eurton,
assistant superintendent of buildings
and grounds, are said to have made
Didn't you make trip to Evans
vile to look into the ventilating
systems there and also to see the
superintendent OF schools?" Johnson
asked.
Trip Admitted
Kern admitted making the trip
and said that he met the superin-
tendent there incidentally. He said
he did not make the trip primarily
to investigate the ventilating
systems.
Johnson asked If officials there did
mot say that the Shipp SYSTEM was
unsatisfactory.
They didn't express themselves, y.
l>4Sern declared.
| He later admitted that the superin-
tendent of buildings and grounds of
Evansville schools asserted the
system had been found unsatis-
factory.
The issue finally was referred to
the buildings and grounds commit
tee, which will report next Tues
day night.
johnson then asked the majority
faction IL members intended to put
all their friends in offices and posi-
tons in the school system. He said
Mrs. Julia Wynn, formerly matron
at Technical High School, had been
discharged on one days notice and
without pay.
Cant there be any exceptions to
your actions?" Johnson asked
Don't Care to Answer
81 don't know whether 1 care to
answer that" Vonnegut said, There
is no official report of her dismissal
yet"
Maybe not, but, she's fired" John
son said.
Mrs. Lillian Sedwick said: TITS
not as an inhuman case as The
Times made it,"
Cant we give The Times a week
| longer to try some Of these cases
on their front page" Kern remarked
cit does them good" Mrs. Sed-
wick said. "They seem to like the
sensational and the hilarious so we
might as we'll let them continue"
Johnson asked if there was some
motive behind the dismissals, es-
pecially that OF Mrs. Wynn.
Vonnegut and Mrs. Sedwick said
there was. and they would tell about
il later, when the time came
IF two of you know about it
then why don't you talk up?" John
son queried
They refused to speak further.
Johnson then asked about the re-
ported dismissal of w. A. Hacker
as school attendance director. 1t is
understood he will be replaced by
L. o Roger. 900 Eastern Ave.
That's just another Times story"
Mrs. Sedwick said.
mo Move to Fire Him"
Vonnegut said there was no
move to fire Hacker"
Vonnegut and Mrs. Sedwick said
that an article printed in The Times
last week, in connection with
Ships offer to Ward was not
true"
''The Times revamped that story
from rumor to get Ships angle be-
fore the public" vonnegut said.
1--WE don't give a continental what
The Times says. ;"
All majority faction members de-
clared that there was no truth to
the story that Ward had been offered
a place as Indianapolis superin-
tendent by the school board. The
Times article said that Ship had
made the offer, not the board mem
bers.
They told of being visited by
representative of the TT Wayne
board, who came to Indianapolis TO
find out about the situation.
II don't know what to think about
Ward" Vonnegut said.
Johnson asked if he thought Ward
framed" the story to obtain a sal
airy raise from the Eft. Wayne board.
Vonnegut refused to comment on
| this.