Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1970 — Page 1
i
PATRON KILLED AT AFTER-HOURS CLUB
Minister charged with A & B after knifing incident
The Rev. Dr. A.S. McFarland, a 40-year-old spiritualist minister, was arrested last week on a preliminary charge of assault and battery with intent to kill after, police said he cut two men during a fight in front of the Chuck-A-Luck Tavern, 2949 N. Central. Police Identified the victims as Otis Boyd, 29, 1803 E. 36th, a popular male beautician, and Charles Groves, 25, 2535 N. Park, who is employed as a bouncer at the Chuck-A-Luck. Groves told police investigating the incident, that he was cut on the left hand as he tried to break up a fight between Dr. McFarland and Boyd. Witnesses told the investigating officers that McFarland TURN TO PAGE 6
Believe killers
Du Qj cl Help ol 15 |R C C 0 rO IT detective says
Su Liv City
Imii.m.
LK«-u h
%
75TH Yl
INDIANA’S || GREATEST
W EEKLY
Second C’lS'S Postage Paid at Indianapolis,
VANT ADS. 634 1545
Indiana. .»l& Indiana Avenue. Postal /.one 7
• FOUNDED 1895 •
INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA SATURDAY. JUNE 13. 1970
15 CENTS PER COPY
NO. 23
REV. DR. A.S. MCFARLAND
Presbyterians to raise $70 million for the poor
The 3.2 million-member United Presbyterian Church began this week preliminary work on a campaign to raise more than $70 million to be used in “depressed areas and among deprived people. M Immediate plans are to organize a major fund-raising drive. The campaign will be known as the Fund for the Self-De-velopment of People. It was authorized last month at the denomination's annual general assembly in Chicago. Originally, the plan called upon all boards, agencies, synods, presbyteries and local congregations of the denomination to start the campaign by turning over to the fund an estimated total of $3 million by Dec. 31. The money, according to the first plan, would come from an across-the-board 5 per cent cut In board and agency budgets. This measure was defeated in Chicago, largely on the recommendation of the denomination's General Coun-
Dope pushers warned to stay out of ghettos ATLANTIC CITY,—The recent convention here of members of the National Council of Police Societies issued a warning against narcotics pushers, declaring that they will be eliminated definitely eliminated from the ghettos.The organization with a' membership of 10,000 black policemen inculdes affiliates in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and other metropolitan cities of the east. The executive secretary of the organization, Henry Nelson, New York, observed that narcotics are the number one police problem in the ghettos. He warned, “. . let the pusher beware, he will be eliminated and will be done either by black police officers or by black men. ." Further, he declared, ", . if we are to truly care about our role in the community, if we are to take any stand, then TURN TO PAGE 6
cil, or policy-making arm between assemblies. Spokesmen for the council had predicted that presbyteries and congregations would be hardest hit. Then , in one of the dramatic moments of the assembly, the Rev. Dr. John Coventry Smith, chief executive of the church’s Mission and Relations, announced that he TURN TO PAGE 6 Black police say they’ll arrest white colleagues ATLANTIC CITY - Declaring they are “no longer coconspirators with the white authority,” members of the largest and oldest organization of black policemen in the United States decided here Friday will they arrest any police officer they see abusing black citizens. I n a series o f strongly worded resolutions, the National Council of Police Societies also called on President Nixon to lay down strict guidelines for police use of firearms, condemned their supervisors for laxity in the enforcement of narcotics laws in the black community and committed themselves to “change t h e racist behavior of white policemen since we cannot change their attitudes.” The society is the national association of a score of black police societies from across the country. “T h e black policeman knows the same heel on his brother's neck leaves a heelprint on his own neck,” said Howard Sheffey, chairman of the board and a New York police sergeant. Giving a practical example of what the new stance means, Sheffey assigned to Harlem, said “If I see a white policeman beating a prisoner, I'll place him under arrest for assault.” Disturbed by t h e recent shootings at Jackson, Miss., TURN TO PAGE 6
Off-Duty Police Officer Accused in Beating of Nine-year-old Youth
Welfare marchers freed on bond; controversy prevails
Appearing before Judge John Rochford, Municipal Court 9, on Wednesday, this week twenty-one persons were released on $500 bond each. They had been charged with interferring with the lawful use of a public building. The charges followed the appearance of a group of demonstrators, 20 women and the Rev. L. Ray Sells, minister of the Fletcher Place United Methodist Church in the offices of Dr. Benjamin Osborne, Center Tcarnship Trustee on Tuesday of this week. The demonstrators said they wanted additional welfare money to purchase summer clothing for their children. They said they left requests from more than 400 mothers with Dr. Osborne, who told them to file a request with the county welfare department. Commenting, categorically, on action of the demonstrators, Wayne Stanton, director of the county welfare department, observed,...the demonstrators should take their pleas for additional funds to the General Assembly and discuss their complaints with their individual caseworkers. Otherwise, he observed the Welfare Rights Organization that led the protestors is controlled by people who are “giving the poor false promises and false hope....” Further, he observed,...the actions and approaches of the protesters “is detrimental to their cause,...” Following the appearance of the protesters in the 9th floor office of Dr. Osborne in the City-County Building police gave them five minutes to leave. They ignored the time limit and were arrested at 11:30 a.m. Those arrested other than the Rev. Mr. Sells included: Ernie bunton, 32,2300 block
of Alabama. Louise Carter, 26, 2500 block of Carrollton. Janice Muench, 27, 300 block of East Wade. Barbara Cross, 36, 800 block of South Illinois. Mary Brewer, 23, 1000 block of Broadway. Lilly Bey, 30, 1000 block of Broadway. Alice Lewis, 37, 2300 block of Alabama. Pearlene Simmons, 27,3000 block of East Wade. Elizabeth Mosley, 20, 2100 block of N. New Jersey. Charleen Tuckett, 18, 2300 block of N. College. Nellie Scott, 28, 5100 block of East 32nd. Evelyn Pavey, 43, 3000 block of East Wade. Joan Bateman, 43, 1100 block of East Ohio. Juanita Alley, 50,1100 block of South Senate. Sandra Murray, 24, 1400 block of South Merldan. Relva Hughes, 33, lOOblock of North Broadway. Sarah Satterfield, 34, 2300 block of Perkins Court. Marjorie Williams, 31,3000 block of East Raymond. Bobbie McCullar, 24, 2300 block of Alabama. Betty Douglas, 23, 2300 block of Alabama. Preceding the arrest of the
Nixon aides vow wide integration in South
WASHINGTON - Despite the new political threat posed by George C. Wallace’s victory’ In Alabama, Nixon administration officials say they are determined to achieve more Integration in the South next fall than has been accomplished in any previous year. If the officials stick by their promise, there is some indication that the integration may come about within the limited procedures prescribed b y President Nixon last March. Wallace, the winner In Alabama's Democratic primary, Indicated this week that he would run for President in 1972. He accused Mr. Nixon o f failing to live up to a 1968 campaign promises that Wallace described as “pledges to stop busings and school closings and to re-establish freedom of choice.” Wallace cited campaign statements made in Char - lotte, N.C., In which Mr. Nixon said that busings of students for the purpose of desegregation was not in the best
interest of education. Mr. Nixon’s statement of policy last March was not regarded as a departure from those statements. He pledged elimination of segregation that is imposed by law but indicated that he would await further guidance from the courts before moving against de facto segregation, the problem for which busing has most frequently been prescribed. The administration's desegregayion policies have created a furor ever since Mr. Nixon took office, with those who favor integration charging that the White House has been catering to the segregationist vote in the South. But in recent weeks officials in the Department of Justice and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare have been taking a tough public stance on desegregation, both in filing lawsuits and enforcing the laws. An administration team recently toured the South enuniciating desegregation poli-
They told school officials that desegregation would be completed next falL Any district not in compliance with the law and not under court orTURN TO PAGE 6
Capt. Boston Daniels named Chief of Police
(SPECIAL) Captain Boston Daniels, a highly respected veteran Negro member of the Kansas City police department, has been named chief of that city's law enforcement body. He had the unanimous support of the members of the force, according to statement by Mayor Joseph McDowell. The Mayor also said he believed Kansas City was the nation's largest city with a Negro police chief. The city has a population of more than 175,000. (The Recorder received a nice ‘thank’ you letter form Capt. Daniels when his picture was run in connection with an article on Negros holding high rank in the Nation's police departments back in 1967.)
group of demonstrators, Stanton cited to them the likeliness of their being arrested. Further, he noted the correct procedure on requests followed by the public welfare department, referring each of them to his office if deficits in their budgets existed. Elsewhere Mr. Stanton ventured that only one-third of the persons arrested were welfare recipients. Robert and Jill Hatch, Boston, Mass., are credited with Organizing the demonstration of the protestors as reputed leaders of the Welfare Rights Organization. They avoided being arrested. Mr. Stanton ventured that 30 or 40 of the demonstrators were members
of WHO.
The Rev. Donald Schmidlin, Roman Catholic priest who posted bond for the 21 persons arrested called the action of the township trustee “appalling, regretable and even horrifying.” He spoke before a conference called by the United Presbyterian Synod at the Interchurch Cen-
TURN TO PAGE 6
CAAP director to head new urban programs
Youthful pair face charges of Jacobs’ case Roosevelt Day, age 24, 1100 block E. St. Clair and Michael A. Isaac, age 19, 200-block N. Jersey, last week-en}were arraigned on charges of murder by Judge D. William Cramer, Municipal Court,
Room 10.
They face charges of murder in the fatal shooting, Monday 22, of Miss Darla D. Jacobs, age 20, 2121 W. 56th St. Judge Cramer also ordered a similar charge against Jimmie J. Day, 2200-block N. Talbot, brother of Roosevelt Day, dropped. According to a witness, C arl D. Childress, age 30, 2000 block N. Alabama St. a car in which he was driving with Miss. Jacobs was stopped by the men at Talbot and 22nd St. But Jimmie Day did not
enter the car.
According to Childress he was forced by the two men to drive to a northside alley where he managed to escape, and he heard tow shots as he fled. The young woman was found wounded in the car. The Day brothers and Isaac all had been Involved in a fight on May 20, according to TURN TO PAGE 6
Police chief vows impartial investigation In a sworn statement filed with the Indianapolis Board of Public Safety, a white off-duty police officer has been accused of physically assaulting a nine-year-old boy-alledged-ly because the youth struck the officer's daughter who is near the same age. The youth, Lyle Hutchins, 324 Alton Dr., a city housing project on the Westside. suffered a bloodied nose, a cut lip and a black eyeinjuries which he said were inflicted by the police officer. Indianapolis Police Chief Winston Churchill told The Recorder on Thursday that he had been out of the city and was unaware of the circumstances surrounding the alleged attack. “But you can be sure that a thorough and Impartial investigation into the matter will be made immediately,” the police chief promised. He added that he could see no justification for a grown man, police officer or other wise, assaulting a nine-year-old boy. The youth’s mother, Mrs. TURN TO PAGE 6
The seventh and eighth homicides involving blacks to occur in a thre e-week period were recorded in police files last weekend when two men lost their lives—both the victims of gunshot wounds. In connection with one of the shootings police homicide detectives have launched a city-wide manhunt for two men who fatally wounded a patron in a near-Northside after-hours night spot during a robbery. Police identified the victims as Marlvin R. Harlan, 23, 645 W. 28th, who was gunned early Friday morning down with a blast from a 12.guage shotgun in an after hours club police at 2745 Northwestern, which said, is operated by Harley Patterson, 39, and William H. Fugua, 33, 1932 Central, found early Sunday morning lying on top of a pile of railroad ties in the 1000 block of East 25th Street with three gunshot wounds in his back. Harlan died Tuesday at Marlon Co. General Hospital. Det. Sgt. Earl Martin of the police homicide and robbery division, who is investigating the Harlan case told The Recorder on Thursday that he still did not give any “good suspects” in the rob-
bery-murder.
“Everytime I think I’ve got a good lead it peters out on me,” Sgt. Martin related.
“But, I’ve still got a couple of leads to check out and I hope we can make some arrests- In the very near future,” the crack detective noted. Harlan was fatally wounded when two men, both described as being between 25 and 30 years old and both armed with shotguns invaded the after hours liquor and gambling establishment and after taking $250 from the owner, order a number of persons standing around a felt-covered crap table to “put your hands on the table.” One of the men remained by the rear entrance while the other, the one that fired the fatal blast, took $200from Patterson and another $50 when he remarked, “Give it up, I know you’ve got some more money” before walkinto the next room where he accosted the men at the crap table. According towtinesses, the assailant, ordered the men from around the table but, evidently thinking one of them might have a gun, ordered TURN TO PAGE 6
The director of Community Action Against Poverty of Greater Indianapolis, Inc., Dr. John T. Liell, on resigning the post as of July 1, will become director of the office of metropolitan studies at the IU-PUI and executive director of the consortium on urban education in the city. According to Dr. Doris, director of the department of the sponsored programs at IU-PUI, the office of metropolitan studies will begin offering classes in urban problems this fall. These studies will lead eventually to bachelor and graduate degrees in urban studies.
The member institutions In the consortium include: Butler University, Franklin College, Indiana Central, Marian College, Christian Theological Seminary, Indiana Vocational Technical College, Indianapolis Public Schools, CAAP, Community Service Council of Metropolitan Indianapolis, Inc. and the Indianapolis Ur-
ban League. Among Dr. Llell's original duties as director will be the preparing of an evaluation and critique of the many studies made by the member agencies in order to identify the “most appropriate institutions to direct the projects in the area for which they are most suited,” Dr. Merritt observed. Dr. Liell holds the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees In sociology from Yale University. He has taught on the faculties of Yale, New York University, Paine and Indiana University. His direction of the CAAP program has been acclaimed in some areas by persons in all walks of life in the community.
Earl Brant, famed organist, killed in auto crash Wed.
The man who rose to fame with his Instrumental version of “Ebbtide” died Wednesday in an automobile accident in the New Mexico desert. A companion, Roosevelt Woods, 17, Los Angeles, also was killed. He was thrown from the car as It rolled over. Both died of injuries to the head and chest. Grant was driving a Rolls Royce. He was pinned inside the wreckage. Thr crash occurred 14 miles west of Lordsburg, N. M. near the Arizona border. Grant was well known in the Hoosler state. He was raised In El Paso. Tex., and had
resided in recent years in Los Angeles. He had just finished an engagement at the La. Fiesta nightclub in Juarez, Mex., just across the border from El Paso. According to news reports, Grant had a return ticket by air from Los Angeles to El Paso but decided at the last minute to drive back. The famed organist and singer was born in Idabel, Okla.^ and was the son of a Baptist minister. One of twelve children, he began playing the .piano and organ at the age of TURN TO PAGE 6
Mississippi governor upholds police in killing of 22 black
Bond urgps political actions to end ‘American Nazi era’
ATLANTA, GA. - “Black people must mobilize political action powerful enough to reach up and pull Richard Nixon down,” Georgia State Representative Julian Bond told a crowd of 10,000 persons, mostly black, who gathered on the campus of Morehouse Colege here to climax a fiveday, 110 mile “March Aganist Repression.” Bond echoed a theme set by Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; playwright LeRoi Jones; Sen. George McGovern
(D-SD); Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana; Albany attorney C. B. King, the first black candidate for Governor in Georgia’s history; SCLC’s Hosea Williams, and other speakers who addressed the throng gathered at the spot where two years earlier Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had been funeralized. “Today we are marching against repression and tomorrow we are going to be registering to vote against repression” Rev. Abernathy told TURN TO PAGE 6
7 Hack students in graduating class at Indiana Central Seven black students were among th e 289 students receiving degrees at the June commencement exercises of Indiana Central College. Receiving degrees were: Bachelor of A r t s June A. White, New York City; John W. Woodard, 1047 W. 37th; Bachelor of Science; Abbie D. Artis, 3546 N. Wallace, Anna Dlllion, 6557 S. Oakview; Stephanie E. Nicholas, 3812 Graceland; Leila P. Smith, 23 E. 36th; Aliena L. Tlpson, 2928 N. Park.
JACKSON, Miss.-Although It comes as no surprise, Mississippi Gov. John BeU Williams says that a state investigation showed the police acted in self - defence In killing two young blacks In a confrontation with students May 15 at Jackson State College. In a television report last week, the governor said that policemen were fired on by snipers before a fusillade of 200 to 300 rounds from rifles and shotguns riddled a girl's dormitory. The police fired only after encountering physical a ssaults, gunfire and verbal abuse, Mr. Williams said. Any blame should fall “on the peacebreakers, n o t on t h e peacekeepers,” he declared. He said that .32 caliber cartridges had been found at the
scene, none of them from police weapons. Students at the predominantly black school have denied police reports of campus sniping, and the governor’s report brought a swift reaction. “Just another do - nothing speech,” said Charles Evers, Mayor of Fayette, a black rights leader. “He has no feeling at all for black people.” The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, head of the Sout h e r n Christian Leadership Conference, said that Negro leaders would seek equal television time to “tell it like it is.” Mr. Abernathy speaking at a rally here shortly after the governor made his report, also announced that blacks would
boycott many white-owned stores in downtown Jackson to support demands for more Negro job opportunities. One demand -is that the city’s police and fire departments be 40 per cent black. Governor Williams said that his report was based on a complete and impartial InvesTURN TO PAGE 6 news tip? Smk MmtHilitf ncitVVtf/ WfTflwl»CQ vOVTlwl III ll^p wiwawcl, or know mom H»inf that might mol •n interesting newt story? Moil or phono your "NIWS TO" to Tho Rocordor. Sit Indiana Art., 634-1545.