Show MGRAY MCRAY GIVES UP HIS GOVERNORSHIP INDIANA GOVERNOR IS FOUND GUILTY OF USING MAILS TO DEFRAUD Once Among Most Influential Men of Home State Goes to Prison son To Pay For Crime Committed Indianapolis Ind Warren Warren T. T McCray McCray McCray Mc- Mc Cray convicted in the federal court of using the mails to defraud has ha resigned ned as governor of Indiana The resignation became effective Wednesday Emmett F. F Branch lieutenant governor automatically became became became be be- came governor Warren T. T McCray the first man ever convicted while holding the office office office of of- fice of governor of Indiana was inaugurated inaugurated in in- January 1 I 1923 1023 having having- been elected on the Republican tick tick- et Previous to making the race for governor he had participated only slightly in politics Much of his time has been devoted to banking cattle raising and grain dealing His Hi business career was begun as bookkeeper in a country bank Then followed a close climb to fortune He was rated a wealthy man years beCore before before be be- fore Core he began casting his eyes toward the governorship Mr McCray made his home in Kentland a short distance from irom here where he was born on February 4 1865 I Ric i He went to work at the age of 15 after graduating from the public school He took up bookkeeping in ina a Kentland bank and later became president Six years Mr McCray worked with figures but on the day of his majority majority majority major major- ity he resigned and went into the grocery business He was successful and soon turned to the grain business As rapidly as the money was wa forthcoming forthcoming forth forth- coming from one grain elevator he invested it in another and soon had hada a chain over the northwestern part of the state At one time he was president of the National Grain Dealers' Dealers association an organization which he helped to establish Another er r time he served as president of the state board of agriculture While governor he proved a strong supporter of educators in the state and backed with all his bis power bills to improve school conditions conditions' in tn- tn diana With hs his second legislature Mr McCray succeeded in putting through most of his legislative program in including including in- in eluding a shift shUt in the cost of road building from irom a general property ta tax the change in the teachers' teachers licensing system with the res result lt that rural schools have better trained teachers and the passage of the budget bill providing funds for the development of 31 f state institutions institution McCray with hi his veto blocked several several sev sev- severa era eral bills attempted by the legisla ture Among them was a farmers' farmers cooperative marketing bill bilI He opposed opposed opposed op op- op- op posed the bill because it fixed no limIt limit lim urn it to the amount of debts a marketing might incur for the payment payment payment pay pay- ment of which the individual members members members mem mem- bers would have been liable |