Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1953 — Page 1
Top Talent To Perform At Recorder Midnight Charity Show, Sat
RAY FOSTER talented singer The surest het for a rollicking good time to start off the j Christmas season is the mammoth Midnight Charity Show j at the Walker theater December 19. from midnight to 3 a. m. I This is the sixth annual Xmas show' sponsored by The Recorder Charities to raise
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STEP WHARTON suddenly stricken ill funds to help provide good cheer for the needy at Christmastime. J. St. Clair Gibson, master promoter who has built these affairs into a community tradition, has secured the assistance of a large group of talented artists of all varieties to entertain patrons.
FLO GARVIN pianist extraordinary The list includes 15 bands variety acts, many bands, numerous combos, scores of singing groups and individual ; entertainers, radio, and night club perform ers ranking among the best in the city. AMONG THE TOP STARS will be: Jon I internationally celebrated former star with Kath-
QUINCY AYLES popular vocalist erine Dunham Dancers, and now a dance instructor and performer, heads the list again this year. His brilliant dancing feats have kept him swamped with demands for performances, which he seldom accepts, for personal reason Step Wharton, pianist extraordinary and TV star; Little Peeo, blues stylist; Buddy Parker’s combo; Flo Garvin, piano specialty and
ROGER JONES top trumpet player TV star; Lola Barbee, singing sensation; Bill (Mr. Show Bizz) Cox, | vocalist supreme; Rubber Leggs Williams, noted comic; Five Beats, sensational singing group; Bob Womack’s combo; Toots Holy, comedian cupreme; Ophelia Hoy, blues specialty; Sidney and Clifton Taylor, young TV artists; i Skinney Alexander, specialty dancer. Dorothy Simmons, singing thrush; Percy Williams and Wil-
LITTLE PECO blues stylist, TV star liam Sherlock, blues singers; Jane White, sweet singer; McCarley Spaulding, tap dancer and vocalist. Bob Leper, singer; Three Chimes; Harvey French’s Czars of Rhythm; Tillie’s Lounge Combo; Dolores Porter, song stylist; Les Taylor’s Combo; Percy Williams, singer; Delvetos Quartet; Barbara Ann Calloway, singer, The Monarchs Continued on Fuge 3
JON LEI—celebrated here for his marvelous dancing skill.
FREE Um IN CIVIL RI6HTS CASE Negroes Switch Back to Jim Crow Schools n <
Negroes
Negroes Seeking
Equal Rights
Want JC Schools
ATTENTION, PLEASE
This newspaper recognizes the importance of Christmas Eve as an integral part of the • Christmas Day celebration, and, since it falls on Thursday our regular press day. The Recorder will be published a day
earlier, Dec. 23.
Regular deadlines for correspondents, news contributors, and culumnists are moved forward a day and all articles should reach us accordingly.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Many of the Negro families listed j as plaintiffs in the celebrated separate school case involv-1 ing Virginia Negroes now in the hands of the US Supreme Court are not now in favor of integration, the Richmond Times-Dispatch said Satur-
day.
The newspaper said this I amazing fact developed as re-1
suit of a survey made by two The charity benefit telethon diof its reporters who ques- reeled by Rev. O. B. Johnson, pas-i tioned IP of the 69 Negro ‘'V' Greater Zion Baptiist Churcb _ ... . i i will present a brilliant array of families in Prince Udward! S i n gj n g g r0U ps of national fame 1 county. over Station WFBM-TV Sunday, Only five of the 19 questioned Dec 2°'for two hours beginning
declared themselves completely in at •
58th Year Price 10 Cents
Indianapolis, Indiana, Dec. 19, 1953
Number 51
Noted Groups On Sll(*S to EtllGr' Pf'lVCltG
Telethon Show
School Head Stands Pat On Attucks-Tech Games
By CHARLES S. PRESTON
Attucks beat Tech 43-38 Wed- stand of Dr. Shibler. some newsnesday night before probably the men smiled knowingly and assert-
Man Escaping Bandit Drowns
A man trying to get away fromj Wallace R. Elloitt. long active in a strong arm bandit who had Masonic affairs, has been elected robbed him of his 40 cents “bank- worshipful master of the Central
Masons To Seat Basketball Star, New Officers Denied Entrance
Sues Ind. School
favor of the abolition of separate , The list incIude s Hallie Bryant, j ar g est single-game crowd in Indi- ed that the two schools will not roll” and was attempting to take! Lodge. No. 1 F. & A. M.. Prince
schools for Negroes and Whites, former Attucks high school basket- ana hieh school historv and indi
Beats Charge Of
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Discrimination The co-owner of Weiss’ Delicatessen who was charged with violation of Indiana's i civil rights statute in his re- | fusal to serve Patrolmen John Bailey and Hardister Buck- : ner October 10, was freed of | the charges Wednesday even- • ing by a jury that found him
j “not guilty.”
J Lee Levengood. 39, 317 N. f Illinois, was freed by Judge ; Patrick J. Barton in Munici- : pal Court III when an allmale jury which included a ( Negro returned its verdict ‘ af ter two hours deliberation.
Bailey and Buckner charged
(that Levengood refused to serve (them when they entered the eat- ; ing place at 23 E. Market street
| because they are Negroes. Bailey. 113 West 21st. a veteran
of 10 years on the police force, and rookie Puckner. 631 West 30th, both traffic policement in the downtown area, went to the res'taurant just off Monument Circle
said definitely they perferred a con- rv?.’ /, . . u sin “ ers ’ play again next ye tinuance of Virginia’s policy of Philadelphia; Moonhght Travellers, j hard-fought
............ ana high school history and indi- schedule another game. his overcoat early Saturday morn- Hall Affiliation for the coming year.; BOON\ ILLE, Ind. John October 10 to eat lunch. The newsmen said six families h^ 11 star, now with Indiana Univer- cat j ons were that the schools will “Nobody will say it publicly, ing, died in the canal. Mr Elliott and other officers David Bl*imm, 20-vear-old “A counterman filled our order.” 1.?,’ ... , fai P. ous .,'\ a . r< i Singers,: pi ay a g ain next year but you trust me,” one of them James Sherron, 24-year-old vie- e i ected wi ii h e installed at the basketball star of Boonvillc Bailey told the court. vr. , . ... I? „ d j c - i contest was declared, implying there has been tim of the bandit, drowned after i od ge hall, 351 Indiana avenue hiob school r >r three vears “J eveneood yelled from the end maintaining separate school facili- ^ T ou i i sv . 1 1 “ e; ~ v . e . r Singers, marred by the absence of Tech’s a behind-tho-scenes decision on falling into the cold water which De c. 23 jointly with new officers T • ‘ f / A ‘ !of the counter opposite the end ties. The eight other families “took J s , asnvl i Ie . and the Echoes oi Lden,, Dave Huff who had b een threat- the part of unnamed persons. was the dead end of an alley Sher- of Southern Cross lodge. Will H.i vn ° iHsmuuea stilt against^ which we were being served stands in the middle.” Reporters (jary ’ lnd - ened by hoodlums, but the eve- This scribe then joined the gam-; ron was desperately seeking to get p ort er. veteran Masonic leader and nearby Oakland City College and instructed the counter man Alf Goodykontz and Bill Mcillwain Local talent includes the Sacred ning with its vast throng went off bling element to the extent of out of. The youthful man, running attorney, presided at the elections! l a st week for refusing to filling our order that the food had said. Four Quartet; Live Wire harmoniz- smoothlv like any Hoosier basket- making a wager that they WILL hard, failed to make the turn along Dec. 3. .Omit him T ermnsp of hk col to 8° out ” “I can’t account for it” said ers and the Ruth Beck Jubilee j ball night. play again. We pinned our small the canal bank and plunged down! r „ ntra , in i»7ai ( ' m11 • , • i i “WE DON’T SERVE NEGROES
Dr. J. M. Tinsley. Richmond, pres- Singers. Ray Crowe’s third-ranked Tigers stake on the sportsmanship of in-!the steep slope, ident of the Virginia Conference The colorful show will be opened lo oked like a million dollars in; dianapolis and the key importance j j e sse Milton Mays
of National Association for thg Ad- by Lt. Governor Harold Handley vancement of Colored People and will present other well known branches said. % S personalities including Judge Park“I AM OITITF ^iTRPRmm at Chicago, president of the Parki. r SU RPRISED at er House Sausage company, results of the survey, he assert- Rev j ohnson will be ass i sted a s ■T u _• i- w master of cermonies by Robert aation 0r ^.r! h f.nH e i gl H n ^ g tH' ^ /h" R °g ers - Mrs - Edna Johnson and gation up ”9^* |, hls ^ * he Mrs. Claudine Rice, regular radio first time I have heard anything announcer for the Greater Zion
broadcast over Radio Station WISH
the first half and five cents after in the city picture the intermission. Tech reversed tucks competition.
like this.
“In the beginning it was stated that 100 per cent of the Negro people in that section were for abolition of segregation in public-
schools.
“Our attorneys took the case because of this feeling among our
people.
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Bishop Clair, Jr., Is Y Monster Speaker
the process, starting colder than i the zero weather and then coming on like Gangbusters. For a while it seemed there might be a repeat of the At-tucks-Tech sectional game of 1952, which the Greenclads won after spotting the Crowement a fat lead, but the current Tigers steadied and stayed in front to the end. It was a good test of the team, which lost the range but didn’t lose it head. That’s one of the
Attucks officials said they desire to continue the games, and that they would contact Tech about it immediately. Next year’s schedules are be-
ing made up now.
The Recorder was unable to reach Tech officials Thursday. Dr. Russell A. Lane, Attucks principal, released official Butler Fieldhouse attendance figures which showed the gate to be 8,074 paid, rather than the larger figure
announced earlier.
The spectators consisted of
Tech-At- | Illinois, was arrested in connection
with the man’s death and
30, 830 N. i n Indiana.
Central lodge, organized in 1874 | saic ] this week, he has
has become one of the strongest
IN HERE,’’ Bailey quoted Leven-
was
charged with preliminary robbery as two alleged eye-witnesses reportedly identified him as the man
toughest chores in basketball.
Charley Maas’s boys also were j 5,223 adults, 2^832 students, and
Bishop Mathew W. Clair, Jr., sad shooters in the final period. 19 children. At least 200 newsmen,
have seen some of the peo- prominent Mdthodist Church lead- Tech s rally was fed largely by officials etc came in on passes
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the Richmond dentist said. gram will be presentation of the 8*merally tight rein on the con-
SPOTTSWOOD ROBINSON III, Y’s annual Racial Amity Award test -
Richmond attorney who argued sponsored by the Emblem Club to DR- HERMAN L. SHIBLER, suthe Prince Edward case before the Dr. Howard Baumgartel, executive Perintendent of school, indicated Supreme Court last week, declined secretary of the Indianapolis emphatically after the game that
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ice with a backward-
Iraping one-hander from the keyhole, and Winford O’Neal hit a whistling hook. O’Neal counted again and little did anyone dream
. that he was through scoring for the teams should play again next the night.
year. “Normal athletic relations Fielders were added by Bill should be carried on between these Mason and Willie Merriweather,
two big city schools.” he said. tall forward who was making his,_, . . In fact. Dr. Shibler, observed first appearance as a Tiger start- ^Christmas,
that “the present trouble might er , as the Crowemen raced to a not have arisen if Tech and 15.6 first-period advantage. Attucks had been playing ail -The Attucks defense was along.” baffling Tech and the Tigers The superintendent revealed were taking turns shooting that he received “about a dozen” from the pivot, running their telegrams at his home Sunday, lead at one point to 28-15. in addition to many postcards and j The Greenclads got wise clogged
changed his mind, and will good as saying, when he and Buck-
Other newlv elected officers for! »ot ^' 0 to the college even if i ner questioned him as to his rea19?4 include: 5 | he >*11 be emitted. f ° r “*»« food >»<l ‘ 0 «® Frank Gibson, S. W.; Jimmie Ad- Brimm. a June graduate Bailey said he told Levengood ki ns » *L; M. J. Craig, treasurer; Boonville high school, that he had eaten in the place
peared in Municipal Court IV Mon- 3e r - S. D., L. P. Hughes, J. D., and a court ordei directing groes in my place,” the veteran day. Osa Woodall, S. S.; Thomas Har- the college officials to ad- policeman testified Levengood statLeroy Gibson, 31, 405 West 10th J an - S.; Walter Ward, chaplain; ]]jm. ed - , , _ and another man who asked that Nelson Johnson, tyler and M M. i 1 Bailey and Bucker arrested Lev-
Hie n a me Ke witlihGld for oorsonsl momfocr of tho bosid of' Attorney for the populdr 3th - .en^ooci on the spot.
reasonsTtold ’police they saw the directors. lete, K. W. Weyerbacker. said | Buckner, in his testimony, corentire incident. Alvin Reno will be installed as Brimm was refused solely on ac- roborated his fellow policeman’s
They said they were walking worshipful master of Southern count of his color. story.
Continued nn Page 7 Continued on '"age 7 This, the lawyer declares, in in Levengood. who came to Indian- ! violation of a 1949 Indiana statute apohs only two years ago from
which included private colleges. his home in La\ elle. Mo., told the Dr. James E. Cox, the college court that he had refused service president, contends the law does t° ^e officers because of Bailey’s not apply to private colleges. conduct in the place on previous
“To ask a court to direct admis- occasions,
sion to a private college is just like , Re c h ai J ed that Bailey ordered asking it to direct admission to epiployes around and made private organizations like the Ma- “grabs and passes at the Negro
T „ . . ... . Isons, Elks or a country club," he bus girls. Last calls were issued this week x caiH We have no prejudice and will for contributors to The Recorder tak ? a personal investigation^ of, Thp co n e g e president said there serve any Negro—except Bailey,”
Last Call For Givers To Help Merry Xmas
Christmas Cheer fund the beacon eachyou will find. e^e pcesi^ en^sai | Levengood told the court.
that will beam joy and happiness into many homes of needy families and the lives of innocent chil-
telephone calls. All asked for can- up the center and when Attucks’ cellation of last night’s game. radar went dead it looked like a However, the school head con- different game. Merriweather
l^children^n destitute circum”l to force entry into private colleges WHILE ADMITTING he had
lies ana me lives oi innocent enn- stances, asking for a little help to in Indiana, but they have not beenj never seen Buckner before. Levensidering the great demand for as-^^f^ 11 lllnesS that kept him statute,” as he has done in this his witnesses but that they had sistance and me much-too-inade- ‘ case. declined on the grounds that their quate supply presently on hand. Numbers of children huddled in Dr. Cox, when iniormed of the jobs had been threatened by the Although a bit despondent, they the home of well meaning friends filing of the suit last week denied management. Of the 18 employes are not discouraged for they have but who themselves are unable to the young Negro had been denied at the eating place, 15 are Negroes.
Keith Bulen. deputy prosecutor.
abiding faith the more fortunate do more than provide the barest admission because of his race.
among us will respond to the ap-; needs to keep bodies and souls of] He declared it has long been handled the case for the state, peals to help the less fortunate. the children together. accepted as a legal principle that Attorney Henry J. Richardson, STEP INTO THE OFFICE and MOST OF the long list of people ’ no one has a right to register in representing the national legal di-
tinued. he “persuaded some of the fouled out. hurting the Tigers in you. Mr. and Mrs. More Fortunate,; you WO uld contact are little dif- a private college,
people to change their vie\Vs.” the height department. With king- ] will be shown stacks of letters con“I asked them ‘Where would sized 'Oscar Ammer turning in a‘taining touching appeals and vividyou stop running?,’” he said. “If rugged performance, Tech began ly protraying the desperate cirwe let hoodlum elements break to take its share of rebounds. The ; cumstances of of a family hearth ] ca n. up Attucks and Tech, next it might Greenclads kept a-coming until lacking in the blessings of many be Manual or Shortridge. Then Bob Taylor’s free throw Vith 1:31 of the necessities of a comfortable
would come football, and soon it remaining brought them to 41-38.
vision of the NAACP, and Patrick
ferent from you. They mean well, Brimm. - he sam, was the first Chavis, local NAACP attorney, asare law abiding and try to live Negro to apply for admission to nsted the P rosecutlon -
would be the end of high school Two charity tosses by Harold athletics.” Crenshaw put the game on ice for
DESPITE THIS FORTHRIGHT the Tigers.
as decently and respectably as they the college in the 65 years of its I ATTORNEY RICHARDSON di-
existence. rected sharp criticism at Judge