The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
SC|ENTECH CLUB
MEMBERS URGE :.
DUvALL TO QUIT
Affairs of City in Hopeless
TangIe,' Says Resolution;
Vote Il to 2.

Members Of the Indianapolis
Scientech Club, meeting Monday at
the Chamber of Commerce, voted q
to to urge the board of directors
to consider adoption of resolution
Thursday night demanding the
resignation of Mayor John l.. Du-
vail and City Controller Mrs. Duvall.
Unless the board adopts the sug-
gestion the club will not go on rec
ord as favoring the official ousting.
"Let it be understood as the senti-
ment of members of the Scientech
Club that the directors, meeting on
Thursday, adopt this resolution or
one corresponding to it: That since
the affairs of the city of Indian
apolis are now in a hopeless tangle
and Mayor Duvall has been con-
victed in the Marion Criminal Court
the city is subject to ridicule
throughout the Nation, and is being
brought into disrepute, the imme-
date resignation of Mayor John L.
Duvall and Mrs. Duvall, as city con-
troller, or the same action through
legal steps, if necessary" the reso-
luton said.
Luten Addresses Members
The resolution was read and voted
on after members spent several
minutes discussing whether or not
a Times reporter in the meeting
should be permitted to remain. Ma
jority of the members in attendance
declared the CLUB should not try
to conceal what it is doing and rely
on some other group to take the
action, but let the public know.
through the press, what the attitude
Of the organization is"
Daniel B. Luten addressed mem-
bers of the club before vote was
taken on the matter and scored
The Times and other indianapolis
newspapers.
THE Indianapolis press is an I'M
mitigated liar" he said. He pro-
duced frcSt pages of The Times OF
oct 4, 1926, and another copy OF
Oct. 7. The first copy told of an
alleged exchange of money between
Governor Jackson and D. G. Ste
phenson, former Indiana Khan
dragon.
Calls Ads Bunk"
"That has dropped from several
thousands of dollars to $500 and
a horse" he said.
THE newspapers have printed one
lie after another throughout this
entire campaign"
Then from his brief case Luy-n
extracted the Scripps- Howard
newspapers full page advertise
ments in various magazines. He
distributed them to members with
the remark: "They are all bunk"
II haven't yet heard what Duvall
has DONE" Luten continued. II have
learned, though, that William Ar
mitage might be called a straight
crook, and doesn't mind brithng
some one. But apparently the jury
believed Armitage and not Duvall."
When Luten had finished one
member sitting in the rear of the
room, asked: Mr.. Luten, is that
defense of Duvall?"
Laughter drowned out Luten's an-
swer.
When the vote was taken, Luten
was one of the two members who
were against the resolution.
The following resolution was
adopted by the Board Of Trade gov
ernors: Resolved, That the board
of governors of the Indianapolis
Board of Trade regrets the present
status now prevalent in the office of
our chief executive and favors the
resignation Of Mayor John L. Du-
vail; and. be it further
Resolved, That we also deem it
timely and for our citys best in
terest that Mrs. John L. Duvall
sever her connections with the of
flee of city controller"