The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-29
SUIT FILED TO
BAR Nine OFF
SCHOOL TICKET
lniunctionS Asked Against
Candidates, Including
Citizens Slate.
ASK THURSDAY ACTION
'UnknoWnS' Are Plaintiffs;
Petitions Are Held to Be
insufficient.

Injunction suits to bar names of
nine candidates for school commits
sioners in the city election on next
Tuesday from the ballots were filed
In circuit court today by three
named, but unidentified, plaintiffs.
The nine suits carry as defendants
the names of the five candidates of
the citizens school committee, three
OF the present board, who are seek
ing reelection, and Mrs. Lillian B.
Moore.
The citizens committee candidates
named are Julian WetZel, Russell
Wilson, Mrs. Maude Miller, Sam
uel E. Garrison and Merle Sidener.
The three board members named
are Fred Kepner, Mrs. Lillian G..
Sedwick and Lewis E. Whiteman.
Call Petitions insufficient.
The complaints charge that the
petitions nominating the candidates
for election "are wholly insufficient
to constitute petitions for the nom
nation" Each petition carried the
names of 300 voters.
The allegations in the nine suits
are general in nature and do not
point to any specific reason for the
litigation except to aver that the
Signatures are not duly acknowl-
edged and that the petitions are in
effectual and do not authorize plac-
ing the candidates names on the
official ballots"
Non-attestation Charged
1t is understood that the court
fight will be based on the point
that the name of each petitioner
should have been atteSted by to a
notary public.
City Election Commissioners Will
liam A. BOyce Jr., Ira N. Holmes
and Russell j. Ryan were named CO.
defendants with the school board
candidates and City Controller Ster-
ling r. Holt
Request for a hearing on the suits
before Judge Harry o. Chamberlin
Thursday has been asked by Will
liam v. Rocker, attorney for The
plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs are Oscar H. Green
May Craig and Otto L. Coyle.
Green's suits are aimed at Wetzel,
Kepner and Williams; those of May
Craig name Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Sed-
wick and Mrs. Miller, while Garri-
son. Whiteman and Sidener are
named in Coyle's complaints.
Coyle is a former Cumberland
school principal and resides at 1922
Kenwood avenue. He said as far
as he knew there lis no political
significance in the suit filing" He
stated that friends had induced him
to become a plaintiff as a ''taxpay-
ing citizen"
Attorney Is Reticent
Rocker fatty refused to discuss
the suits or identify the plaintiffs.
Il couldn't discuss this situation,
except in court" he said.
Herman c. Wolff, chairman of the
citizens committee, said he was
amused" over the action.
Joseph Daniels, attorney for the
Citizens committee. started an i'm
mediate investigation of the plain
tiffS' identity and said I'VE will put
up real battle in court"
Charles w. Kern, school board
member who is a candidate for re-
election. but who was not named in
the suits, and c. c. Shipp Indian
apolis ventilating equipment manu-
facturer. were reported involved in
the filing of suits against the, can
didateS.
1t also was said Kern asked At
torney Howard Meyer, Marion
county Good Government Club
member. to file the. suits. but Meyer
refused.