The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-11
GOVERNOR MAY
FIRE ENEMIES
IN dues WAR
Sharpens AK for RepriSal
on JobholderS Who
Backed Peters.
8 HOLD STATE POSTS
Open fractional Break Due
If Mayr Appointee
Is Disciplined.
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY
Times staff Writer

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Governor Paul v. McNutt was re-
ported today to be sharpening his
political ak for reprisals on seven
members of the Democratic state
committee who failed to support him
in his fight with Chairman R. Earl
Peters.
Three are connected directly with
the state administration. They are
Charles Wall, Winchester, Tenth
district chairman, state bank ex-
aminer; Mrs. Josephine Williams,
Mooresville, Seventh district vice.
chairman, office manager in the
automobile license division, and Mrs.
Mary Arnold, Peru, Fifth district
ce-chairman.
The latter is a member of the
board in the state welfare depart
ment, an honorary position given
her by the Governor when she is
said to have sought permanent
job with pay.
Others Rated o. X.
The four others, listed by the ad-
ministration as anti-McNutt at the
state committee meeting Monday,
are Thomas Mcconnell, Fowler,
Second district chairman; William
P. Krau, Elkhart, Third district
chairman; Mrs. Florence Gardner,
Greencastle, Sixth district vice
chairman, and Mrs. Carl E. Wood,
2137 Talbot street, Twelfth district
vice-chairman.
Other committee members are
rated as O.. k. with the McNutt
forces, including eight women mem
bers who, before the meeting, were
being claimed by Mr.. Peters
hackers.
That the pay roll beheading may
begin shortly on those who failed to
rally to the Governors support, was
indicated when it was learned that
one of the women, Mrs. Setha Pow
ers, Boonville, who took the McNutt
side, may become cashier in the Ii
cense division next week.
Both Claim Victory
Although Chairman Peters issued
a statement Tuesday asserting
that harmony prevails" the battle
between his cohorts and the Nc
Mutt forces appeared in danger of
becoming more bitter than ever.
Both sides have been claiming a
complete victory in the subcommit-
tee plan of handling party funds.
Should Mrs. Williams be fired, an
open break probably will be inev-
table. She was an appointee of
Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr.,
but joined with Peters and McNutt
against Mayr and still kept her post.
In the current scrap, she is said to
have asserted the right to exercise
her judgment as member of the
state committee, without regard to
her statehouse position.
Peters May Be Ousted
This stand was assailed by Pleas
Greenlee, McNutt's patronage Sec
rotary and ardent Peters foe. Some
of the Governors forces contend
now that she should have been on
Mayr's side in the previous fight, al
though they welcomed her support
at the time.
As events are shaping themselves
it appears that Mr.. Peters may be
on the way out as chairman.
Mr.. Greenlee is credited by the
McNutt group with having obtained
seventeen committee signers to a
petition to require the chairman to
resign whenever he openly announces
his candidacy for the United States
senate.
Mr.. Peters followers retort that
he had seven instead of seventeen
McNutt Sides With Van Nuys
The subcommittee plan of col
lection and distribution of funds
will be determined Tuesday. Some
one raised the point that all mem
bers should be made sub-treaSurers
of the state committee under Treas
urer Amos Wood.
But Governor McNutt, who now
is said to be working in accord with
Senator Frederick Van Mugs, is not
going to let Mr.. Peters or Mr.. Wood
handle funds collected by the
Hoosier Democratic Club, it is as
serted.