The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-27
List of IndorSerS Booming
State JuriSt for u. S. Job
Is Made Public.
DRIVE BEGUN AUG. IS
Many Lawyers Supporting
Indianian as Successor
to Anderson.
BY DANIEL NJ. KIDNEY.

The drive to give Judge Julius G.
Travis of the Indiana supreme court
the $4,000 berth on the federal
court of appeals in Chicago started
about Aug. Is, and has been gaining
momentum since that time, accord
ing to advices from Washington to-
day.
Travis most recent act of note,
until the announcement of his can
didacy for the judgeship here
Thursday, was in writing the deci-
sion declaring the city manager law
a dead letter last Tuesday.
He had been working on the
opinion, reversing the case in the
Marion county superior court and
declaring the city manager law I'M
constitutional, since final arguments
were heard Aug. Is.
Indiana senators had not included
Travis on the first list of aspirants
presented to President Hoover, but
his name since has been added, due
to recent heavy support it was stated
In Washington dispatches to The
Indianapolis 1lIueS.
First Letter Dated Aug. Is.
First letter to be sent the PreSi-
dent and the United States attor-
ney-generaIs office was reported to
be from Herbert Wilson, local at
torney, dated Aug. IS.
About this time Clinton F. Givan,
George v. (BoSs) Coffin henchman
and attorney, successfully attacking
the city manager law before the su-
preme court, also sent a letter to
Washington indorsing Travis, Givan
said Thursday. He also Endorsed
others not on the original list an
nounced as seeking the bench va
cancy resulting from resignation OF
Judge A. B. Anderson.
Other Endorsements received at
Washington and the dates are: At
torney M. L. Clawson, Coffin con-
fldant; Sept. 6, v. N. Jose, assistant
Marion county prosecutor in juve-
nile court, Aug. 26; w. d. Fitzpat-
rick, Aug. %; Russell T. MacFall,
former sewage disposal plant head,
here Sept. IA, and Bernard Stroy-
man, Sept. II.
Morris Strauss, editor Of the IN
diana Jewish Chronicle, wrote a let
ter of Endorsement Sept. 16.
Boosted in Michigan City
At Michigan City, where the
Travis decision threw out the city
manager government which has been
functioning for the last eight years,
the bar association adopted a reso-
luton approving Travis for the
Chicago judgeship Sept. f.
Previous to that time Michigan
CITY attorneys had been sending IN
individual Endorsements. They were
dated as follows: H. B. Tuthill, Aug.
%; T. G. Mullen and w. w. Pepple,
Aug. 2S; L. L. Osborn and T. F.
Miller, Aug. "a; R. E. Glasscott and
w. G. Williams, Aug. 81; and Lo-
renzo A. GlaSscott, Sept. 13.
The bar association resolution OF
approval was sent by Louis E.
Kunkel, prosecuting attorney at
Michigan City.
La Porte, the judges home town, Is
another active center in the CAM
paign. The bar association there
sent a resolution of Endorsement to
washington on Aug. 29.
La Porte IndOrses Travis
Other La Porte Endorsements came
from the following members Of the
bar: j. B. Dilworth Aug. %; M. j.
and H. w. SallwasSer, Aug. IS; I. E.
Levine, Aug. %; Frank E osborn,
Sept. 16: and F. R. Riddell Sept. 13.
Additional Travis indorsers, thus
far, include Judge w. B. Hile OF Elk
hart superior court, Aug. %; NJ. H
Bruce, Hammond. Sept. 16; j. M.
Larmore, Farmers Trust Company,
Anderson, Sept. Ia; Judge r. A. De-
vol of Clinton circuit court, Frank
fort, Sept. is; D. H. Ortmeyer,
Evansville, Aug. 20; Congressman a
J. Hickey, Ell F. Seebirt, D. NJ
Shively. S. ]. Crumpacker, all of
South Bend, week Of Aug. "a; M.
H. Broderick, Muncie. Sept. 1S;
walter. House and Miller, Muncie,
Sept. 9: E. g. Henning, Evansville,
Sept. Is: c. D. Greer. First National
Bank Of Lebanon, Aug. %. Unless
otherwise designated, all are lawyers.