The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
LESLIE FACES
JOB Of Filling
MAJOR OFFICES
Big State Appointments
Await Decision of
Governor.
SEVERAL ARE OVERDUE
Terms of State Armory
Board Members Expired
March II.

When Governor Harry G. Leslie
returns to his Office Thursday he will
be confronted with a host of ap-
pointments or reappointmentS to
numerous boards and commissions
Some already are overdue, while
others terminate this month, April
May or June.
disappointment of Adjutant- Cen
eral William H. KerShner or ap-
pointment of his successor has been
pending since Jan. IL, when former
Governor Ed Jackson retired.
Terms of the entire membership
of the state armory board expired
March II.
The present membership holds in
all cases until successors are ap-
pointed. Members are Major-Gen-
eral Robert H. Tyndall, State SEN
ator Robert L. Moorhead, Clarence
C. Wysong, state insurance COM
missioner, Wilbur F. Smith and
Lewellyn A. Turnock, all of In
dianapolis. The latter was the
architect for the armories built I'M
der the CLOSED corporation" plan
now under investigation by the
state board of accounts.
ArmOry Program Involved
Armory building programs are
under the boards direction. The
Peoples State Bank OStrom Realty
and Construction Company armory
building program extended through
out the four-year term of the pres
ent board and terminated with a
senate investigation and the passing
of a law to continue the probe and
halt the building program.
George E. Hershman Dem0 i,
Crown Point, is up for reappoint-
ment or retirement on the state
highway commission April II. Les
lie, it is said, seeks to retire the pres
ent director, John D. (Czar) Will
liams, and the appointee undoubt-
edly will favor Williams replace
ment, if such action is not already
taken by that time.
Roy G. Eyer, South Bend, retir-
ing Democratic commissioner of st.
Joseph county, has been among
those mentioned for the place.
Drs. Amos j. Hostetler. La Grange,
and James A. Turner, South Bend,
both are up for reappointment on
the state board of health April IA
and %, respectively. Both are Re
publicans.
Conservation Post Open
Term of Everett L. Gardner
Dem), Monticello, on the state
conservation commission, expires
Here also a shake-up has been
predicted. Report has it that Les
lie ordered Director Richard Lieber
of the department to clean house"
and cut down the overhead costs,
particularly in the statehouse Of
fees.
It has also been reported that
of retirement.
Three members of the state edu-
cation board will be at the end of
their terms May l. They are Will
liam D. Moss, Marion; Lemuel A.
Pittenger, Selma, and Henry Boyer
Longden, Greencastle.
The $4,000 position of industrial
board member Edgar A. Perkins
(DemO, indianapolis, is up for re-
appointment by the Governor
May "a.
Charles N Thompson, Indianapo-
lis, will be up for reappointment on
the library and historical depart
ment, April 25.
Harvey Cartwright, Terre Haute
and William Johnson, VincenneS
are up for reappointment on the de-
partment of mines and mining board
May 6.
Appointment of a successor to Har-
vey Harmon (Dem) Princeton, and
reappointment of John w. McCardle
(Rep.) Indianapolis, to the $4,000 a
year jobs as public service commits
sioner already has been predicted
Their terms expire May 1.
1t is reported that McCardle viii
succeed Frank T. Singleton Rep.)
Martinsville, as commission chair
man and the latter may be asked by
Leslie to resign.