Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1936 — Page 8

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

Saturday, July 4. 1936

HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE AID GIVEN BY N. Y. A. Ipdiana Has 510 Students Working On Program 2 For Educational Aid ALL COLORED COLLEGES COOPERATE WASHINGTON. I). C. — More tgan colored high school and eollefce students are receiving substantial aid in continuing their studies from the National Youth Administration' it was revealed in a report presented to the Administration's National Advisory Committee by Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethnne recently. The state of Indiana is represented by 462 Negro high school students. 48 college students, and 6 advanced graduate students. Practically every Negro college In t.be country is participating in the college aid program, which covers such activities as research work., assisting in libraries and laboratories, and conducting recreational programs in the communities. High school pupils are given financial assistance in return for performing such tasks as binding text hooks, making studies of sanitation and health, tutoring, and repairing School furniture. In addition to the student-aid program, the NYA also has a workprojects program for out-of-school youth. This Includes the establishment of community centers, community farms- and community libraries; the construction of swimming pools and parks throughout the South where such facilities had not previously been available to colored people, the development of supervised playground and recreational activities, and the operation of toy. “libraries” for the use of children whose parents cannot afford to give them playthings. The total number of Negro youths employed on these projects has not yet been determined. ^One of the most unusual of these projects is .that undertaken In Taylor. Texas, a city with a Urge Negro population. A prelimi nary survey there revealed that the colored men. women, and chilIren in Taylor lost an average of 18 days from work or school last year as a result of illness—mala ria. dysentery, typhoid, and tuberculosi* tieing the chief causes. The citv dump was found to be the UTincipoI health menace: the colored pnhlic school, badly in need of cleaning and reooir, was a close mnner-np: and the fact that Negroes living in the city had no pnbfc? recreational facilities—-exv rrpt. perhaps, the dump, where many of the children played—further complicated the situation. As a result of this survey, the p ’uses underlying these conditions pre now being remedies by NYA ivorkers. drawn for the most part f rom Bishop and Prairie View Holleges. The dnmp already has ••ecu cleaned up and fenced off.

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the school has been thoroughly renovated, and a well-equipped playground is now in the making. In Chicago, four community centers have been set up and are being operated by the administration. These centers are being used as (enters of youth activities, and out of them are growing many permanent boys’ and girls' clubs. Special forums are being conducted on health. Negro youth problems, and Negro history. In Marion County, Ind.. 314 colored boys and girls are employed on a recreation project. The girls have completed training in sewing, handicraft work, social recreation, music, dramatics,' and art appreciation. and the boys are working to l>eautify Holliday Park by clearing out dead timber and underhrnah,. grading land to provide for baseball diamond and football gridirons, developing natural and relocating shrubbery. All are being given training in vocational guidance, safety, and personal hygiene. In Knoxville. Tenn., 26 boys and 30 girls are at work on a project providing supervised recreational activities for 2.oOO colored youths i: and about the city. In Memphis310 boys are engaged in coiistmct- : iig a recreational center for themselves. Nashville's Agricultural ind Industrial School is being re■aired and beautified by loo boys nd .'to girls, who are constructing ennis courts, planting flowers and 'rees, and landscaping the campus grounds. In Baton Rouge. La., community activity projects have Iteen estab 'ished for the employment of lw>th white and colored youth. The pro gram of activities includes the "ormation of a labor squad amonp ‘he young boys who are not com vetent to lead in recreational or Rural work, reopening of the Sylvania F. Williams Community 'enter which had been closed for thref years, and Ihe operation ot

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Missouri Physician ST. LOUIS. July 1.—(ANP) — Dr. W. A. Arthur, pnysician. who rosides on Lix avenue, in Kinloch park, St. Louis county, was appointed by the St. Louis County court last Friday to give home treatment to indigent members of the race in Kinloch, Robertson, and Bridgeton, townships adjacent to St. Louis. By employing Dr. Arthur, the court hopes to relieve the congestion at the County hospital. His duties will consist of caring for as many conflement cases as possible and calling at the home of sick indigent persons. Dr. Arthur is to work under the supervision and direction of the superintendent of the St. Louis County hospital. He was employed at the recommendation of Dr. E L. Sheahan, superintendent of the County hospital, and it Is understood Dr. Arthur will receive a lucrative salary for his services. Dr. Arthur also hara charge of the U. S. sub-postoffice in Kinloch Park. a new community center in nearby Algiers. ' In Meridian. Miss., a group of high school graduates is working under a Negro probation officer checking on the school attendance of Juvenile delinquents. There is also a training school for domestic servants, giving instruction in the proper preparation of meals, serving tables, house-cleaning, and etiquette. In Savannah, Ga., colored girls prepare lunches for needy school children. In Norfolk. Va.. colored boys have been employed to improve Berraud Park, and girls serve hot lunches to undernournished children in school cafeteria*. In Newark, N. Y.. the NYA has established a toy “library* manned •y colored l>oyg and girls ranging n age from 16 to 2o. Used toys are collected, reconditioned, then distributed to youngsters in the ame way as liooks are loaned by t library. The work develops hand kills in those who rebuild the roken toys and- at the same time, provides recreational opportunities the very young who do* not otherwise receive the benefit of the •nMi. program. The Youth Administration is su“t vised by a system of national, state, and local advisory commit ees. Negroes are represented on he committees in Alabama, Arkan--as. Florida. Georgia. Indiana, Kansas. Kentucky. Louisiana. Missouri, New Jersey- North Carolina, Ohio. Virginia. South Carolina, West Virginia. Pennsylvania, New York City. New York State. California. Illinois, and Tennessee. In Texas there is a special committee composed entirely of Negroes.

Congressman Names Annapolis Alternates ST. LOUIS. July 1.—((By R. C. Fisher for ANP)—Four boys of our aminations for the applicants, race, in St. Louis were appointed

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and designated as alternates to the United States Military and Naval Academies by Representative Thomas C. Hennings o* the Eleventh Congressional District, as a result of some of his activities during the 74th Congress which closed a few days ago. The academy appointments or Annapolis are, James Allen, 23, of 1911 Franklin avenue, Vashon high school graduate, who had advance work at a military school in Bloomington, 111., and Raymond Holly, of Vashon high, who died since his appointment. The appointees for West Point Military school are, "William S. White, 20. of 36G6 Windsor place, star tenni# player' • and former president of the Vashon Tennis Club, who was graduated from the school in 1935, and Jasper E. Williams, 25, of 4184 West Belle place, who received his education at the University of Iowa. It was upon the urgent request of some of our race leaders in Congressman Hennings district, which has a large population of our folk, that the appointments were made. Hennings made the places available to every boy, residing in the Eleventh District, placing them on a competitive basis and conducting Civil Service ex-

Instruct Teachers

ATLANTA, July 1.—(ANP)—Dr. Ambrose I. Suhrie, professor of teachers’ college and normal school education in New York university and an expert in the instruction of profesional teachers, will be a guest professor at Atlanta university summer school, according to John P. Whittaker, director of the school. Dr. Suhrie will remain here all this week, conducting daily examinations for high school principals and teachej*s. He will also address the faculty and student body and will be available for conferences with students during his visit.

Killed For Alleged Insult To Girl

WAYNESBORO. Miss., July 1 — (ANP)—Flozelle Davis, a hired hand on the farm managed by Mike Touchstone, white, was shot and killed last Wednesday by Touch stone, after making alleged “improper rem-arks’’ to the lalter’ps 17-year-old daughter. Davis denied the oharge to her father, but when confronted by the girl, whose story was corroborated by her brother and sister, attempted to flee. Touchstone shot him. after which he reported the slaying to the sheriff’s office. The verdict of the coroner’s Jury was “justifiable homicide.”

UNIVERSITY REFUSES CHICAGO. July 1. — (ANP) — The University of Chicago, through its representative. W. V. M'orgenstern, this week replied to Hyde Park property owners who sought eviction of Oriental and Negro tenants *rom U. of C. roominghouses of the district, especially the Maryland avenue house, on the campus. Morgenstern declared they have a definite obligation to their students and would not evict them a- general complaint.

JOT LOUIS "NOT FRAMED (Continued on Page 8) about it until Joe Gibbons told me about it at a dance given this spring. It seemed a lot of money to pay him, even if it was only $300, just to get him not to molest me, but T left it to them.” The charming Mrs. Louis also asserted this weeking With Gibbons was the first since her marriage to Joe. "He told me he wanted to see me." Marva declared, “hut I told him I couldn’t talk because every one was watching me. He said I had broken his heart, that he was in love with me and didn’t want to hurt me, but wanted to see me about something. I kept asking him what it wa-s. I said I was in love with Joe Louis, that. T was married and couldn’t call him or see him at all.” Three Letters Marva said she had received three letters from Gibbons since February, one of which she gave to Julian Black and the other two she destroyed, adding she told Joe about it. She admitted also she had not told Joe about the $300 payment but was “sure Julian must have told him about it at the time.” She had been in Gibbons’ company more than a half dozen times before her mariage to Louis, she declared, asserting her real boy friend since grammar school days was Bobby Robinson whom ^he had seen only once sinop mar riage. “Joe Gibbons got out that marriage license without me having a thing to do with ‘t, just to convince me he was in love with me,” she said. Replying to Gibbons’ claim that his mother spent $1,000 furnishing an apartment in New York for his marriage with Marva, Mrs. Louis said. “He didn’t furnish any fla* for me. How could he? He’s a cab driver. Nobody believes his mother did. either.” Dissension in Camp Reports that there may have been dissension in the Louis training camp at Lakewood, N. J., were also investigated, as were charges that the fighter was improperly trained. “Individuals close to the train ing camp used Jop’s prestige for "heir own social contacts and cap•♦alized upon the Louis name and fame.” Mr. Bruseaux asserted cryptically. Sports writers and experts present at camp agreed that something was wrong and that Joe was not trained for a 15-round battle. He exerted himself for not more than four rounds and gave the excuse to experts that they were “trying to build up the^gate for the fight." Mr. Bruseaux’s investigations of ♦he training camp angle are what led him to the conclusion that ff Joe ever wants to become champion. he must change part of his Q nvironment, especially certain of ‘hose closely associated with him. Roxborough Stands High Joe Louis is deeply attached to Roxborough. who has always been kind to the Brown Bomber and has given him fatherly advice at all times. But Roxborough has been having troubles of his own which prevent him from accepting Joe’s management. Several months ago, during a suit by Mrs. Roxiborough for sepa-

COMMUNISTS FOR FORD, PEACE, ADOPT PLANKS (Continued on Page 8) of all oppressed races and nation-' alities. Earl Browder and the Communist Party are the inheritors of Frederick Douglass and John Brown. We Communists, Negro and white together, will carry out what they dreamed of. The Republican Party has always posed as the friend of the Negro people. They even sent a Negro Congressman to Washington. But Mr. DePriest was part and parcel of the corrupt machine which brutally suppresses the Negroes in Chicago. The Republicans have not fought against segregation, against discrimination on jobs and relief. “I appeal to the white workers, Communists and non-Commu-nists, to remember that the Negro people must not he left to fight alone. The responsibility lies with the white workers to help free their brothers in a black skin. Unless the Negro people are freed there can be no freedom for the white workers. Both must fight shoulder to shoulder against their common enemy, Wall Street, which waxes fat on their misery and suffering. Both must defeat the sinister forces of reaction who plan to enslave not only the Negro workers. but the white workers as well. Let us unite and defeat the monster of reaction. Let us go forward to freedom and equality for ihe Negro people in a free, happy and prosperous America. agement even were it so desired ard agreeable to all concerned. Meanwhile Joe and Marva, who are due in Chicago this week, continue to appear the same happy pair and hope that rumors will be forgotten as Joe settles down to fight his way back to the top of the fistic ladder. rate maintenance, Joe got on the witness stand in Detroit and said in open court that Julian Black was his sole manager. This prA vented any attempt, real or fancied. to collect oi, K.ixborough’s interest in the fighter which would have a heavy cash value. As a result there seems little likelihood of Roxborough stepping in at present to assume the whole responsibility of the Louis man-

Life Imprisonment For Coal Murderer (Continued from Page 1) ed to have been the fatal one. and two others, according to testlmon? given by the coroner. Confession Figures A .32 calibre pistol, held to be the one used in the slaying was presented by Hie state as evidence. It was shown that five attempts had been made to fire the gun and three had been successful. This would gibe with the coroner’s statement concerning three wounds as well ns substantiate the state in its charge Jhat the shooting was deliberate. A confession giv en by Hopey to Sergeant Archer Ball, of the detective bureau, shortly after his arrest was also used as a damning blow in behalf

of the state. The prosecution sought in addition to establish the IKiint reported by Officers Timmerman and Wilson that there waa uo sign of a struggle iu the Hopey home. Asks Co-operation of State In one speech to the jury John Kendall, prosecutor of Hendricks county, working with Fred Steiger of Marion county, asked that tney “not be prejudiced; that Negro citizens have the .same right to justice as whites. It is up to the white citizens not only of Hendrick county but of the whole state to come to the rescue of the color ed people in assunug them the same protection as any given any other citizen.”. Girl mate witness Appearing for the state as witness Hopey s step-daughter, Eva Smith, 26-year-old Glove Factory worker, added to the case built by the prosecution. Her story from the stand is quoted as follows; I heard a scuffle In the kitchen and got up to se what had happened to my mother. 1 met him (Hopey) and he commanded me at pistol point to go back and sit down. I started to run out of the door; at this point my mother ran iu between us. “He snapped the gun twice but it did not go off. The third time lie fired into my mother's breast. 1 ran from the door and he fired one shot at me when I ran through the door and another shot as I ran across the street.” Hammers Defense The state hammered mercilessly the defense’s story and strove for conviction in the first degree of murder. Prosecutor Fred Steiger, of Marion county, addressed the jury of farmers drawn in one day of panelling charged them to their duty of returning a verdict carrying tne extreme penalty. “This is definitely” he said, “an opportunity to combat the damnable act that has been committed— that of murder. This man was pictured to you as a decent citizen. Would a decent citizen murder a wife who had for five years worked to support him? I ask that this man pay the price with his life for that brutal murder. We are attempting to protect the colored citizens iu Marion county as well as all the others.” One embrance eloquent in its silence was given the convicted man by his mother when sentence had been pronounced. Character witnesses introduced by the defense included Rev. Henderson, Gene Burnett and Mr. Lindsey, firemen, and Mr. Floyd, an Indiana avenue business man.

Awarded M. S. J). Degree

DR. PERCY A. FITZGERALD Dr. Percy A. Fitzgerald, who in 1631 was appointed as a member of the dental faculty at Howard university, has just been awarded the degree of M. S. D. (Master of Sceince in Dentistry) by Northestern university. This is the second M. S. D. degree to be warded by Northwestern to a Negro, the first having been given to Dr. Russell A. Dixon, dean of the College of Dentristry at Howarfl. Dr. Fitzgerald is an alumnus of Northwestern, having received the degree D. D. S. iu 1924, after which time he w'as engaged in the private practice of dentistry in Chicago for seven years. Dr. Fitzgerald accepted an in« vitation by the International Association of Dental Research to give a report on his thesis, “A Comparison of the Physical Properties of High. Medium, and Low Fusing Dental Porcelain” at its annual meeting which was held in Louisville, Kentucky, in March. This is a fitting recognition of Dr. Fitzgerald’s ability as demonstrated through his marked efficiency shown in his work both as a student and at Howard. He expects to return to- Howard in the fall to resume his duties as assistant professor of crown and bridge and acting head

Zeta Phi Betas Attend Conference (Continueo rrom Page 6)

Wept For Hubby In Defeat

MARVA TROTTER-LOUIS Wife of the defeated Brown Bomber, who || : wept for him by the ringside as Max Schmel- p ing delivered resounding right-hand blows to Joe’s head. Harlem women blame Joe’s marriage for his defeat, forgetting that Max % Schmeling is married, and so is Champion James J. Braddock. (Photo by Smith—Calvin Service.)

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improm^ u program w^as indeed carried out by Soror Lue Swarz. basileus of the local chapter. The conference closed with a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anderson, of Lindbergh Drive. The sessions were held at the Poro through the courtesy of Mrs. Annie Malone, who is an honorary member of Zeta Phi Beta. Visiting sorors for the conference were: Ozela B. Hall, Zeta Zeta; Florence E. Buford, Omega; Flora J. Bates, Iota Zeta; Nellie B. Rogers, Omega; Georgia Redd, Omega; Ima H. Black, Omega Indianapolis; Martha Mitchess Parks, Zeta Zeta; Ethyl Helena Smith, Zeta Zeta; Grace T. Alves, Alpha Alpha; Wilhelmtna Lewis, Alpha Alpha; Carolyn J. Cain. Iota Zeta, regional director, Indianapolis; Attorney Violett Anderson, grand basileus, eZta eZta, Chicago; Miss Graces. Omega, Lois Stith, Iota Zeta, Indianapolis; Attorney Mary Lou Ash, Zeta Zeta, and Attorney Barbara Watts Goodall, Zeta Zeta, Chicago. HOUSEWIVES . . LOOK! «©>

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attended the National Democratic convention in Philadelphia. MOVED Miss Odessa Singleton has moved to 1042 North West street. GUEST OF MRS. LEMON Miss Thelma MacDonald, of Lafayette. was the guest of Mrs. Lillian M. LeMon. when she attended the Executive board of the Indiana State association of Negro musicians. She left Monday for Kansas City, where she attended the National Baptist convention. REPRESENTATIVES Miss Willa Johnson, contralto, and Miss-^Essie Williams, pianist, members of the Cosmopolitan Music Study club, were representatives on the program of the State Baptist B. Y. P. U. and Sunday school convention in Richmond. Indiana.

25th St. Baptist TWENTY - FIFTH STREET — Rev. J. B. Carter, minister. Sunday school. 9:30 a. m.; morning worship. 11:15, Rev. David Valentine, national evangelist from Northern Michigan will speak. Special music will be furnished. Morning soloist. Mrs. Bessie Simmons. 8 p. m., Rev. Valentine will deliver the sermon.

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