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Entered at the Tost Office, Indianapolis, Indiana, as Second-CIasa Matter Under the Act of March 7, 1870
POSTAL ZONE NO. 7
NEW BRIDE: Mrs. Elmer W. Arnold was, before her marriage on April 6, Miss Claudean Dimmitt, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Dimmitt, 2034 Bellefontaine street.
The groom is the son of Mrs. John B. Gill, 2435 Shriver
avenue.
Candidate for Council
Pledges Civic Progress
Fifty-sixth  Year   Indianapolis..   Indiana,   April   21,   1951 Price 10c Everywhere Number   16 1
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(aWT Segrega t ion A i lied
On%llinois Solon ?s Plea
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New Hill Community
Center is "Planned"
Negro Will Be
Given Job "If
Union Okays It"
By JIM   CUMMINGS
Indianapolis Railways Inc.,
operator of the city's  public
transportation    service,    will
berships in the YMCA for under-   prol).lhiv bejrjn employing Ne-
privileged   boys,   and   buy   athletic    ' " .    ^ .._?-_.
•quipment   which   will   be   avail- rro people as trolley, street-
ible to them. car a^d  bus  operators soon.
The sponsors of the (fame, mem- h.  Wavne  Loer, director of the
.ers of the Old  Timers  Club, are company's employee relations, told
>ersons    who    have    been    active The   Recorder   this   week  that   all
.embers  of  the  YMCA   20  years but one of the necessary steps for
md   more.    White   athletes   of   20 such hiring had been taken
ears ago who played atyainst some He  said   the   only  thing  detain-
f   the   Old   Timers   will   play   in ing the democratic move was the
he  main  game of the evening. approval   of   the   union   governing
Tickets  are  now on  sale at the the company's emplovees. the Amal-
MCA,   the   Recorder.   .Jack   and gamated Association of Street Elec-
faek's   To-rgery,   131   N.   Illinois tric Raiiway and Motor Coach Em-
treet,    and    C'ark s    Prescription pioyees of America.
'harmacy, 2fi70 Northwestern ave- A meeting of the executive board
me- of the union  and officials  of the
company   was   scheduled   for   Fri-
Basketball Fans
Offered  Big Treat
By "Y" Old Timers
Members of the School No. 2fi
basketball team, city grade school
champions, will play the curtain-
raiser to the Old Timers' basketball game at the Senate Avenue
YMCA on Saturday night, April
28.
The entertainment of the evening will include music, singing
and novelty acts. Proceeds of the
game   will   be   used   to   pay   mem
Members of the Old Timers Club
day.
wdl be guests of Mike Dunn   radio Mr   Loer  Mid   he  would   submit
ommentator  for  Station  WXLW at   this   meeting   the   name   of   a
*n    Thursday   and   Friday,   April Negr0 who has been with the com.
\?     rT'       u        ' ii _                    . pany since 1929, but only recently
Mr.   Dunn   has   a Hotted   a   part t   th     opportunity   to   take   the
of   his program  to the delegation, *ecessary   examination   to   become
.o they may explain to the listen- an  operJtor
ing   public   then    work   on   behalf '
>f young people.
Park Board To
Meet On Plans;
Approval Seen
Candidate for
Council Scores
Traffic Muddle
Former Recorder
Carrier Wounded
In Korean War
to
The lonp; uphill fight by the
Recorder and Eastside citizens to relieve the hitrh Juvenile
Dr. Ralph E. Hanley. prominent       Born  here,  he  was educated  in
dentist campaigning for the Demo-   the public schools, graduated from
cratic nomination lor City Council-   Crispus  Attucks   high  school  and
man from the 2nd District has del-   received   his   B. S.   degree   from
inite    ideas    about    what    things   Indiana University and his D.D.S.
should    come    first    in    instituting   degree   from   the   Indiana   Univer-
improvements in Indianapolis dur-   sity   Dental   College.   He   entered
ing  the  next  four  years. the successful practice of his pro
fit    nominated   and   elected.   I   fession here in  1941.
shall  strive conscientiously to ad-       He   **   married   and   the   father
vance   the   best    interests   of   all   oi two children, and lives at  2f)2<>
the peolpe of this city."  Dr.  Han-   N-   Illinois   street.
lev declared in asking tor the bal- Memberships  Listed
lot   support   of  his   fellow-citizens.       He  is a  member of the   Metho-
There    are    serious    problems   dist    Church:    Alpha    Phi    Alpha   plans   for  thc   building   of   a   thor
confronting the police department   fraternity;   Scottish   Rite   Masons:  ovidily  modern  center in  replace-
which  demand  immediate solution.    Ft     Harrison    Lodge   of   the   Elks:   ment  0f the 0id j   t.  V.   Hill  Cen-
For   one   thing   1   would   propose   Indiana   Dt l al   Research   Society.  ter at   ig02 Columbia  avenue  art
of which  he is the  president;   Na-   being   considered,
tional   Dental   Association:   Indianapolis    Dental    Society;    Indiana
State     Dental     Society,    and    the
American   Dental   Association.
Speaking Monday night
"ln our excitement we have
failed to cope with present-day
problems; we have become rule
wise and traflic foolish," asserted
Frank R. Beckwith, Republican
candidate for City Councilman,
meeting of Beckwith-for-Council-
man workers held in the home of
Mrs. Ida L. Lyles, 2902 H. Illinois
street, Beckwith assailed the prac-
delinqiieney   rate   Of   the   tK.e  ot-   towing   in   the  automobiles
Eastside surged upward this  of taxpaying citizens in their .
week as plans for a new community     center     were     announced.
Citv officials *P94e it k"own th.-t
NAVY   SEAMAN   VISITS
that  the  force  be increased   by 25
per cent.
~The department it present is
dangerously undermanned, being
short by 105 policemen to bring
it   upto   authorized   strength/'
Turning to other matters in ihe   HOME IN CITY
city's problem  basket.  Dr.  Hanlev
stressed   the   urgent   need   for   a
vastly     Improved     sever     system
through   enlargem, nt   and
sion.
Free     swimming*     pools
The Board of Park Commissioners was scheduled to meet Thursday afternoon and the issue was
to receive preference over all other
businesc.
The   proposed   plan   calls   for   a
forts   to   make   use   of   their   own
streets. ;   ','.;
Continuing, he said, "Th" e "oe
p!e,  th«  acLoa.1  owners  of  the city r£ii&-v->
street,  are   lost  and   bewildered   in i
the    combination    of.   inci>nsis,ten   I
rules.    We  have  more  traffic  rules .
than   we   have   traffic.
"I propose that the City of In
dianaptdis should have a permanent
committee composed of taxi driv-
ert, truck drivers, individual motorists and pedestrians. This ronimh
tee, when constituted, should mee
regularly with traffic officers an,'
other ci-ty officials. We cannot expect so-called experts to blow in
here from other cities from time
to tinie, selling us advice, when
thev   are    not    familiar    with    the
WASHINGTON
Rep.     William     L.
(Dem. 111.), jrivinjr his most | aftercareful
dramatic address during- this
session of Congress, last week
inspired fellow members of
the U. S. House to vote down
a jimcrow provision m a pro-
posed TTniversaT Military
Training Bill.
Oongressm.m   l.awson,   one
of the only two Negro mem-,
Made High Grade
The man, John Warfield. 2018
Highland place, passed both the re-
required mental examination and
the physical. His grade on the
mental test was the higest recorded by an applicant in six moths.
Mr.   Loer   stated.
While   it   seemer   unlikely   that
the union would give the go sign
to the employment  of  Negroes as
operators,  it wasn't  positive.     The
issue has been up numerous times
; before, but the company and em-
Four     colored     women     were  ployee  organization  always  ended
among  the   19  sworn   in   as  emer-   ln a  stalemate.
gencv   police   officers   by    Mayor       ln   September.    1950.   the   corn-
Phillip   L.   Bayt on   Wednesday  a>   Pany. and   umon   &ot   together   on
the first contingent  to fill  serious   the   issue   but   nothing   was   done.
. a xto     ! shortages   in   the   police   depart- There was a lot ot    buck-passing"
(ANr—   ment an"   neither   side   took   a   definite
Dawson i     All of the women were selected   stand—publicly.
examination   as   to      _ Durln*  Wor'd  *ar  ^JST
Recorder,    and    many    civic-
New Members
Dawson Speech Added ,0 ^
Blackout for    Police A*
UMT Jimcrow
qualifications of high intelligence,
fitness, character, aptitude and dependability.
Tlie   four  were:
Mrs. Overa Catherine Ward,
828 Blake street. Apt. 17; Mrs.
Mary Katherine Turner. 2028
Blake street; Mrs. Thelma
Irene Williams, 602 W. 28th
sireet. and Mrs. Ella C. Coleman, 119 W. 19th street.
Vrs.   Ward   is   not   a   novice   in
minded individuals joined in
an effort to induce the Railways company to hire Negroes
as operators when there was
a shortage of manpower. Instead, the company chose tn
hire white women.
Negroes were hired only as janitors, car cleaners, greasers, gar.
pumpers.
However,    today    the    company
bers in Congress, posed these   police   department   work,    having  maintains ^   policy   of   upgrading
before      his      col- served   for   the   past   three   years   Negroes and does not discriminate
cinder block building with a large
Ernest H. Haynes. gunner's mate gym that can be used by the corn-
first    class.    U.    S     Navy,    arrived  munity  as  an  auditorium,  and   all
at   his   home.  224   W.   28th   street, the other facilities found in  mod-   \Wii\ community and its problems
1 Sunday  on   leave ern   recreation   plants      The   new
He saw service in recent months  structure   will   be   erected   on   the
more   jn   the  war  zone  aboard  the  USS  |0t adjacent to the one Hill's Cen-
Pfc Howard Oliver
playgrounds   and   effective   rabies Missouri.   He  has  been   reassigned ter  stands  on.
control   will   receive   concentrated to   a   naval   base   as   instructor  in
attention   from   the  council   it   Dr. charge   of   new   draftees.   He   will "Old   as   the   Hills"
Hanley  is  nominated   and  elected, itytructt   in   surveying,   which   he Hill's  Center   is   as   "old   as  the
he  insists learned while in the Navy Continued on  Page 2
Fireman Hero in Rescue of
Elderly Westside Couple
Coroner's Office
Closes Murder,
Suicide Case
The dual-slaying case of Mrs.
Aleatha Bruce and Leon King
was    officially    closed    this    Week
a lien  Coroner  Roy  K. Storms said
the deaths would be listed as nuir-
ler   and   suicide.
I.inj.,  a  40-year-old   housepaint-   last May 27.   He received his basic
■r, assertedly shot the divorcee training at Ft. Riley, Kans.. and
tr> d"ath March 2'.l in the home was home on a 15-day furlough in
where she was employed as a September. From home he went
maid, 42.50'NT. Illinois .Street, and to (.'amp Stolman. ■Calif., and
then committed suicide by t.as in shortly afterwards was sent over-
his own home, 400('i Cornelius ave.   seas.
Pfc. Howard Oliver, n former
Recorder carrier now serving with
the Army in Korea, has been
wounded   in   action.
The mother of the l't-vear-old
soldier, Mrs. Mary Oliver. 613 W.
Vermont street, was notified by
the   War   Pepartment   on   Monday.
It i.s reported that the youtlilui
infantryman, serving with the 2ml
Infantry Division was "sliyhtly
wounded" March 24 and is presently Undergoing' treatment in a
hospital.
Young   Oliver   joined   tho   Armv
questions
leagues :
'"How long, hou long, my <*i.,i
fer«*es and gentlemen from Ihe
South, will you divide us Ameri-
(•:•"« on account of color? Why
will this body jjo on record to
brand this section of citizens second class?"
When Representative Dawson
finished speech, even members from
ihe South applauded. Later, the
i. n^e voted 178 to 12<> to throw
mt the segregation section of the
proposal.
nirpdiieed     nv     Representative
l.arden of North Carolina, this provision would have given white inductees the privilege of saying
vheiher or not they preferred te
join an all-white unit. It is an idea
■ hat has been proposed several
times bv .Southerners.
"CJive Me the Test"
Here   is   what   Dawson   said   in
pari •
"(Jive me the test that yon would
Continued on Page 2
as   stenographer   in   the   Juvenile  *n   the   hiring. • according   to   Mr.
Loer. »
Loer told The Recorder that he
has talked with many of the community's Negro leaders since coming here.
"More recently," he said,
"I've talked with Starling W.
James, William D. Mackey and
William T. Ray several times."
James  is  president   of the  FAC;
Aid Division where she has earned
a    high    efficiency    rating.
Mrs. Coleman is the wife of
Bailey Coleman, a uniformed pa-
irolm.in
Receive   Pay   Increase
Appointments are effective May
1. The women will receive the
recently granted $25 increase in
salaries for police officers, making
i   year,   if   the J^^ a R^llblka" st"te ^
grant   is   approved   by   the   State
Tax   Commission   as  expected.
Leroy   J.   Keach.   president
the  Board  of Safetv
ve who works with various
organizations  in  an  effort  to  activate /FEPC   and   civil   rights,   and
o1   Ray is second vice-president of the
said all the NAACp. serving as chairman of
appointees between the ages ot the labor and indllstrv committee.
24 and 35 will be required to ap- Loer said that lf Warrieid is
ply for permanent duty through hired as an operator, "employment
the merit school which will be of Neg10es in this capacity "won't
held when a quota of 50 is reached. st0p there." He asserted that other
Four other colored women are operators will be hired as -we're
a heady veterans in the police very short of operators"
department. They are Mesdames However, he ventured that no
Thelma Graves. Thelma Sans- others would be hired until War-
Imry. Georgia Rogers and Sarah field finishes his three-week train-
Mize. • ing.
An elderly man and his wife
an invalid and a cripple, were
rescued in "the nick of time" by
the alertness and  heroic ad ion  of  <>thet firemen admmistered first aid
an invalid having only one leg. and
carried her to safetv outside where
a   fire  officer  lasl   Saturday   morning.
Over omc by the dense smoke
and deadly gas from a coal stove
that set their home al 421 vv
J7th street afire. Roger Emtinds.
79, and his wife. Mrs Alamanda
Edmunds, were hurried lo safety by
Fire Lt. Charles Commons of Fire
Station   No.   5.
Returning, the fire officer found
Mr. Edmunds slumped against an
oil stove, completely helpless and
almost unconscious. He also was
carried oul and restored by first
aid
guished   the   flames   that   had
raged greedily in the rear room
behind     the     kitchen,     swept
through the kitchen and were
licking    devastatinj.lv    at    the
bedroom where Mrs. Edmunds
lay when  the  arrived.
The  husband  said   he  had   risen,
•lhout. fi a.m.. started a fire in the
kitchen stove and  returned to the
Thanks  Fire  Fighters
"Thank God. we've saved!" the bedroom to give his wife a dose
aged man gasped as he threw his of medicine when he smelled
arms around his wife. "But for the   smoke. \
efficiency of the firemen in reach-       A   neighbor,   hearing  his  frantic-
Lieutenant     Commons,     groping   ing us  promptly,  we surely would  cries, turned in the alarm.
blindly through a cloud of impene-   have   been   goners."    he   told   the
liable  smoke  that  filled  the four-  fire  fighters.
room  house   lifted   Mrs.  Edmunds.       Firemen       quickly       extin-
Gary FEPC Commission
Without Working Fund
GARY — Enlightened
Insurance Men
Form Managers1
Council Here
A Managers' Council composed
of representatives of Negro insurance companies operating in the
city of Indianapolis was formed
at a meeting held in the local
offices of the Mammoth   Insurance
across   the    nation   are    w_S law students  interested  in  human '^..Mopday. evening
with   keen   interest   the   progress     lgbis.
of   Garv's    FEPC     Chairman    Eli "Education First"
Mandich   disclosed   last   wwk Although   the   recently   enacted   P3™ Mammoth Life and Accident
'           ,  ,        '.                    ir i ciiv   ordinancp   n.ovidp,   nendties   Company;  Victory Mutual  Life In-
lowing   :lnatFEPC   Stta?li    be «£   li   "Sicm "^ndlT^ld   --nee    Company    and    Supreme
boTs* new   LadqLarte,s0at   CU? the commission's vrst job would be   Ufe2L^ }el™?m?mJm-™™
Hall on Friday the  13th, in which educational,  and  would  entail  ex-
commissioners expressed the hope penses for printing and circulating
thev    would    have   good    luck    in placards.
securing     an     appropriation     of      The   FEPC   chairman   explained
S1..500   urgently   needed   to   carry tnat tnis was a necessary prelimi-
out effect ive I v FEPC activities for nary   because   of   the   widespread
the remainder of the year. nisunderstanding  among   manage-
Mandich     said     requests     have ment  and  businessmen   as  to  the
ntentions  of the  FEPC.
Women Indicted by Grand
Jury on Charges of Murder
Two   women   and   a   man   were '
indicted   on   murder   charges,   and escape   from   the   murder   charge | will be asked to get a  free chest
another   man   was   indicted   on   a when   the   grand   jury   returned   a ! X-ray during that time to protect
manslaughter  charge  by  the  Mac- -no  bill"  late  in   December     The  tneir   children   from   tuberculosis.
i.n County grand jury on Wednes- ,„_. heard  „,„ ^   .,. ^ *£»*«£. >£**£» *****
ine indicted persons were: include  detectives  assigned  to the : with someone who has  it, and  in-
Companies  represented  included
the Domestic Life & Accident Com-
suranee
berty
Officers of the Managers' Council   elected   were   as   follows:   W.
R.  Taylor,   president;   George   McCullough.   vice   president;   R.   L. j
Amos,      secretary - treasurer      and
Archie   A.   Ransom,   chairman   of .
public   relations.   The   next   meet-   LATE   MORTICIAN'S   BEREAVED   WIDOW
ing will  be held in the Mammoth
fection in children is generally
traced to some adult in their immediate surroundings.
J Chest X-ray units will be located
Christ Church. Monument.
Circle,   April   ">0   through   May   4.
MRS. ELIZABETH CHAMPION, ted  to  the  present  grand  jury tat™*, hp°UnlS JJJJ tJ^\l°t>Vm
48    809   Blake   street,   indicted   on March   at   request   of  the   victim's   Another T.nS will  be  moved   from
a   first   degree   murder  charge  for mother. Mrs. Grace Perry. She had
the fatal shooting of her husband, secured the aid of Opal L. Tandy,
Robert  Champion  62.  on   Feb.  22 Recorder   reporter,    in   gathering
following a  family row  which  she complete    evidence.    Tandy    was
said  developed  when her husband among those appearing before the
; case by the then head of the homi-
MRS. JEANETTE DUNN. 41. 649 .,0 ,.:„:_,. T f -, J ■
Locke street, Apt. 342. indicted on:Clde d,v,son' Lt' Fae Davis' ac"
a charge of manslaughter in con- cording to him. Also, the police of fi-;
nection with the fatal shooting of cial said, that "rand jury had failed
her husband, Robert Dunn, in even to consider a coroner's report
their apartment Nov.  18. The case> however< was re_submit.
^.ownshio   to. township   throughout
the county.
refused to leave a tavern.
PRESTON  NEELEY
North    street,    under
charge for the alleged robbing and
slugging of George Smith. 28, 602
N. Senate avenue, on Jan. 28. Smith
died  in  General  Hospital   10 days
later.
JAMES   TURNER,    42.   314   W.
16th   street,   indicted   on   a   man-
'_?._.  l   pjfoo   slaughter   charge   and   accused   of
J  the fatal shooting of Charles Gibbs.
present  grand  jury,
oe   310 w !     Police  were  seeking  Mrs.  Dunn
a    murder Thursday for rearrest under a capi
as. All the others were already in
jail.
Child Health
Days Project
Begins Apr. 30
-been received from universities
throughout the country for information about the workings and
progress of Gary's FEPC.
Many   of   the   letters,   he   noted
Were   from   lacultj   mciimers   anj
ffices Monday. April 23. lor Thomas E. J.  King-,  widely known  local business man 25. 1430 N. Missouri street, March
The council initiated  plans  for and mortician, were held at the Emmanuel Baptist Church 17  in  the  former's  home  follow-
■.r3f- '____?   set  a1cross  l.hat the observance of National Negro In-'on Monday. Shown above  (center)   is the bereaved widow. ^ a" a^«ment about Gibbs* girl  Days,   sponsored   by
aiuf wrc1nannoriotT7mpTyers  ^-ance    Week    an   annual    affair Mrs.  Nettfe Scott  Kj        &J   (ri   ^   paul  Scott,  brother-in^   ^r^r^nue*^ ' ^^   Tubercul°sis
ana   we   cannot   mice   employers  sponsored by sixty Negro insurance , ..   ,,      .   .      «»■•*?.•'■        /nnnADr,r«n   nnnitU   nv-   T>i-l1V/r ^nnver avenue,
o   hire   anybody,   much   less   un- companies    operating    throughout law  P*   tne  »**   iVjr-   Kll-ff   (RECORDER   PHOTO   BY   TOM |
•      Con!uiued on Page 2 the country. ERVIN.)
Mrs.
Was Freed Earlier
Dunn enjoyed  a  period  of
A  special  health  project  in  the
city    and    county,    Child    Health
the   Marion
Association,
will    be   held    April   30   through
May  11.
All    adults,   especially   parents,
CITIZEN ...
OF TOMORROW...
Entourage your RECORDER
salesman to render PROMPT
—EFFICIENT HOME DELIVERY SERVICE bv paying him promptly for the paper he delivers to your home.
REMEMBER HE IS IN BUSINESS and must pay for the
RECORDER which he delivers
to you. What YOU do will
have a tremendous influence
on the "Citizen of Tomorrow."
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warn