Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1933 — Page 1
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INDIANAPOLIS, INDU SATURDAY, OCT. 7, 1933 PHONE LI NCOLN 7222
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CITY COLORED CITIZENS, AFTER WEEKS OF CRITICAL STUDY, GIVE HOUSING PROJECT 0. K.
AIR PHOTO OF SLUM AREA SOON TO BE REBUILT
Two important apd influential Negro organizations have announced their endorsement of the proposed five million dollar housing project that is to replace what has been termed
the city’s worst slum area.
Realizing the need for quick action The Consumers Cooperative Unit, a tightly welded organization of more than a thousand members at a meeting at the U. N. I. A. hall Tuesday night adopted by an overwhelming vote a formal resolution endorsing the project and strongly urging that it be gotten under way as speedily as possible, “to fill a long felt need by way of permanent improvement and beautification to the City of Indianapolis, incerasing thereby the taxable wealth of the county and ultimately reducing the tax rate.” Dr. Benjamin A. Osborne, organizer and president of the Unit, has expressed himself confident that the parent organiization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association with thousands of members in the city and state will adopt later this week a similar resolution endorsing the project. Closely following the action of the Consumers Unit, the Indianapolis Council of the National Advisory Council for Negroes became the second outstanding Negro organization of the city to record its approval of the much discussed housing project. A resolution, declaring the body in favor of the plan and expressing confidence that immediate construction will give the greatly needed stimulus to the lagging building industry, was adopted unanimously at a call meeting Wednes-
day night. - Dr, Clareoce A. Toleg, is the countn , ^cbatrrrftm Tltomar tYWcter if
Gc^retary. ! ® 'Contr.ry^^-nr to «*• ,our per cent °*
-—’This corporation make profits. The maximum dividend
limited to 6%, four per
the Monday Luncheon club though ^* ^nd ^opfied to^mov-
lt has had the matter uuciet eoa-i cha ^ es • ina 101 ^ federation for several weeks, has tization.
not as yet voted its approval. Num-
erous almost dally meeting and con* | ferences with members of the slum clearance committee hf’ve failed i bring agreement on the work of <onstruction shall be Negro. The club leaders insist that, in order tc avoid in. this project a repetition of the Boulder Dam and other situations in which Negro labor has been excluded, guarantees be written in all contracts made by the clearance committee under the supervision of the federal govern-, ment that a specified percentage of the labor employed be colored. I Insistence on such provision, the j clearance committee members declare, will result in an impasse. : They have no way, they say, of
All sums received in excess of the six percent will, in the des cretion of the corporation, either be applied to a reduction of rents, or used in further expansion of the j rebuilt area. The government loan is to be retired within 33 years.
DR, M. BOUSFIELD TO SPEAK AT HEALTH MEETING
Monday Luncheon Club Gives O. K.
The Monday Luncheon Club following the lead of the Consumers Co-operative Unit, in a special meeting at noon Thursday adopted formal resolutions endorsing the proposed five million dollar housing project for Negroes by an overwhelming vote. A condition antecedent to the endorsement, providing that in the work of construction Negro labor be given an equal opportunity with other labor, was included in the resolutions.
Sgt. McMahon and Owens Plan Safety Meetings Sixty-two safety meetings will be Jiclrl in Indianapolis schools this month, according to the schedule ompleted by the bolice accident prevention bureau, yesterday.
GUY BLAINE; EXPELLED ELK HEAD ARRESTED FOLLOWING DRAWING OF GUN AT ELK MEETING
“To be or not to be”, is a pressing Elk question that appears to contain the possigility of a return trip of J. Finley Wilson, the "Little Napoleon”, of the fraternal world, to ndiana av-
enue.
Indiana Lodge Number 104, recently, host to the Grand Lodge session of the I. B. P. O. E. W., headed by the redoubtable J. Fnley, learned Monday night at a regular meeting held at the Hod Carriers' hall on Senate avenue, that it is mistaken in the supposition fiat the question of who was exalted ruler of the lodge had been satisfactorily settled. And
FLANNER HOUSE PREPARES FOR INCREASED ENROLLMENT AT OPENING OF CLASSES NEXT WEEK
sd on in the employment* day,; Vhe. ff r|^ .-4Seryi vocational ■-and field depart- v/orkfng hy'\he
Planner house tail activities, other than the regular routine of work
as carried
nursery, vocational- and field
ments, will open this week at the institution located at 802 North West street. The Laundry school will be optm Monday, Tuesday and Thursday fiom 8:30 to 12:00 o’clock noon. Women getting work through the Employment department are required to attend this school unless their ef-
ficiency is otherwise proved.
A Cooking class, Health lectures
a not unlikely settlement of that question will require the presence of the Elk in a local police court as result of the arrest Tuesday of Guy I . Blaie. deposed and expelled exalted ruler of the lodge, so the lodge
members claim.
Police Aid Summoned
Blaine was charged with carrying concealed deadly weapons and menacing the safety of the lodge members s t their Monday night meeting, at which he sought to be reinstated on a decision rendered by W. S. HWnry, h < al attorney and District deputy of Central Indiana for the Elk order. Members of the looge who filed a complant told police that Blaine entered the meeting unlawfully In company with Mr. Henry, who sought to compell the lodge to restore Blaine to his former position. Mr. Henry, members of the lodge admit, is the proper authority to whom an expelled member may make an appeal. The law requires, they say, that notics of appeal together with the c'alms of the appellant must be givthM | d«-e and that the decision of the District deputy must be made • “ " t - tnem before the restoration of membership to the expelled is
rightfully completed.
This they claim was not done and when Mr. Blaine, was asked to }£f~YSL ^Ttlnr'-meeMiirctfif.'' became so Vmpba is bis refusal tlfat he drew a revolver and threatens anyone who • ouM atetmpt to forpeably eject
him.
Above is a photo, taken from the Boundaries are indicated,by the for as low as costas $11 per month air, of the site of the proposed white line. The enclosed tract is for four rooms. $5,000,000 housing project that will bounded on the east by Toroett rp he cam p a jg n to raise promotion offer 2,000 men many of whom will street, on the south by Tenth and expense fumls is expected to get % under way e«.n. now that the coh the present structures and the con- Fourteenth street. Housing units ored people of the city have given struction of beautiful low-cost hous- will all be heated from a central their required approval to the projing units for Negro tenants. heating plant and offered for rent ect.
Important summarization of the
. , . , . , hwork for better health conditions menu with contractors. Its Stall- ’.Tdm^is'Ynd‘MaHon’'^t'inty ty. It is understood, would be at- w ,,l be on the program next week, tacked by union labor. during the annual meeting here OcMembers of the clearance com-r °ber 9-12 of the American Public mittee, headed by W. H. Trimble Health Association. Announcement
Barbers To Adopt Constitution, Oct. 10
in opposirion to thnidea that little or no Negro labor would be employed, gave individual assurances that every precaution reasonably necessary will be taken # to insure the maximum employment of Negro
labor.
Many other important Negro organizations with large memberships have announced the holding of meetings at an early date to consider the matter of giving public endorsement to the plan. Failure
came today from the Marion County Tuberculosis Association that arrangements have been tentatively made for two health meetings at
Members of the Colored Barbers’ Association Of Indiana have set October 10 as the date on which they will vote on the adoption of a Con-
stitution And By-laws.
The president, J. W. Johnson is urging every memger to ge present. Another partial report * of the Con-
Crispus Attucks High Schools, dur-j c jj( u ^j on committee discussed at thi-
ng which Dr. Midian Othello Bousield, of Chicago, president of the National Medical Association for Colored Physicians, and medical director of the Liberty Life Insurance Company, of Chicago, will be the speaker. Dr. Bousfield is a member of a special committee of the Na-
on the part of the city’s Negro citi- tional Tuberculosis Association for zens to endorse the plan within the th e control of tuberculosis among expiration of the next two weeks, Negroes. Dr. S. St. C. Guild, of New the expiration of the time limit set York, field secretary of the Commitby the government, will result in tee °n Tuberculosis Among Nee ther collapse of the project alto- groes, will also attend, gether or its transference to an- Important in the work to be done other area of the city in which here by the two members of the there will be no Negroes. national tuberculosis committee Approval ot me plan has been will be a review of the entire progiven by the Chamber of Com- gram of health education carried merce, various civic, business and on here last spring during observcther representative organizations, ance of National Negro Health The first section In which present Week and discussions with local anstructures will be torn down and ti-tuberculosis and other leaders of the new low cost units constructed details of plans for a similar observis the 30 area tract bounded by ance of National Negro Health Tenth and Torbett streets on the Week next year. Dr. Guild recentsouth. Fourteenth street on the ly has notified Mary A. Meyers, exnorth. Indiana avenue and Fall ecutive secretary of the Marion creek on the west, and Oregon County Tuberculosis Asosciation, street on the cask I that he expects soon to spend sevThe campaign to raise $780,000, era! days in Indianapolis studying the amount local citizens must sub- special measures which the local peribe in order to procure the $4,- tuberculosis association has adopt460,000 loan from the government ed to more effectively control tuto finance the project, will get un- berculosis among the colored popder way soon. ulation here. Statistics available Announcement is expected mo- from the National Tuberculosis Asmentarily of the appointment of a sociation show that great effort now local colored man as member of is being directed in many commuthe clearance committee. One Ne- nities toward education of the race gro will also be given a place on in methods of daily living to combat the board of directors of the hous- tuberculosis, since the death rate lug corporation that will control among colored in the nation is much the rebuilt area. ' i greater than that among whites.
regular weekly meeting at 2548 Northwestern avenue. last Tuesday. Three applications for membership wire receive,: A feature of the organization plan 1 receiving considerable attention is the formulation of practical plans tl at will insure prompt, certain payii ent of sick and death benefits to
irembers.
PLAN TO MAKE NEGRO PRODUCER GAINING FAVOR
SUDDEN DEATH CLAIMS TWO IN EARLY MORNING
Distant, but distinctive shadows of fast gathering war cloud are appearing on the Indianapolis economic front. True, the shadows are dark, but they'are none the less menacing. Shrew observers say that when the i.lists of uncertainty, doubt and a ratural fearfulness born of a long period of inaction are disappated in tiie sunshine of a fast awakening race conseousness, the Indianapolis Negro will stand revealed as a highly warrior well equipped to over-
Man Cuts Woman Many, Many Times
TAPS SOUNDED FOR REGULAR ARMY SOLDIER
Themournful farewell of taps was rounded Wednesday for -Sergeant Herbert Allen, member of Company A, Twenty-fifth United States inf.mtry, at New rown Hill cemetery
Dubious honors of being “murder reasons’s”, most badly cut woman arc painfully resting the shoulders of Anna Taylor, 34, 406 1-2 Muskingum
street.
Police found her and William Locked t, 43 at that number and sent her to the City hospital, where physicians engaged in the task of sewing a 7 inch cut on the left chest; a 5 inch cut on the left forearm; a 4 inch cut on the left arm; a 2 inch cut on the left side of the back; a 3 inch cut on the left side of the neck and a varied assortment of smaller cuts about the head, shoulders, face and
body.
The officers arrested Lockett whom they found waiting their arrival. He said he carried a threat to “cut youj ist as long as I can see you”, after ; the woman had struck him over the l ead several times with a smoking stand. The woman is held on a
j foilowin a military funeral held at j Barnes Methodist Episcopal church, I conducted by Rev. Rogert El mire | Skelton, chaplain of the United
will be given each Wednesday morning from 8:30 to 12:00 o’clock noon.
eg. jslub -.ot - wotoey week will meet each
Thursday afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00 o'clock. A course of training in meet ing individual service problems wib be offered. The 4-H club will meet Friday afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00 o'clock. Each Tuesday morning from 8:30 to 1:30 p. m., the Make-over
shop with its attendant sewing class' naive was released on bond prcviief will open. ! h.v Mary Rapia. He is scheduled fc! Planner house will have three ! Fr|f,ay after noon before Muni-
cipal court, Judge William E. Schaef-
u-.
Members <f the lodge expressed
each Monday afternoon from 2:00 to j t '’ errise,vets as ready to call uprm the 5:00 o’clock. The East Side club will! ' rand hxa,ted Ruler - Mr. Wilson, in
meet each Tuesday afternoon from j 2-00 to 5:00 o’clock and the Central!
Mav s, e ic Aid Of J. Finley Wilson Following h’s arrest Tuesdry on charges filed on behalf of the lodge.
thret
neighborhood centers where a home economics program will be carried) out. The Haughville club will meet
j come the unfavorable economic forc-
es that stand between him and the h-arge ot assault and batterv while promised land of a new prosperity "with intent to kill . is added to a under the banner of the NRA. similar charge against Lockett.
each death
Apoplexy and paralysis claimed a victim of sudden early this week. Frank Roax. 65, • died early Wednesday morning several hours after doctors from the City hospital do•!ared him to weak to he moved to
The defense weapons that arc being forged, the cause of considerable .rm’Zenient, is the swift Organization and development of the Consumers ('•'-operative unit, under the masterful leadership of Dr. Benjamin A. Osborne, one of Indiana’s most aggressive citizens. This organization, scarcely less than tw’o months old, has grown by leaps and bounds to a. membership of nearly twelve hundred. A Mass meting is held each Sunday at one of
Housewives League Head To Speak Here Sunday, October 13
Mrs. Fannie B. Beck,, National president of the Housewives league, will address a Mass meeting at the Walker casino, Friday October 13th, at 8:00 p. m. The iNational Housewives league is
States Veteran’s hospital and pastor • f the church. A detatchment from the Eleventh Infantry. U. S. A., statimed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, forming an military escort, gave the military honors. Sergeant McNeal, Company A r i’wenty-fifth United States infantry, accompanied the body of the dead soldier from Fort Benning, Georgia, where he died September 28, to Indianapolis. Surviving Sergeant Allen are: his mother, Mrs. Anna Allen; four! brothers, Walter Phocian, William ; and Eugene; five sisters, Misses! ( enevia and Irene Allen, Mrs. Eliza- j both Bell, Mrs. Lena Scruggs, all of Indianapolis and Mrs. Edith Lazier of
Texas.
-Sergeant Allen served twenty-one; ; years in the United States army. He served one enlistment each in the Ninth and Tertth calvary. For the j past eleven years he has been a member of the Twenty-fifth infantry: and his service in addition to the' World’s war included his sojourns in
Mexico and the Phillipines.
Community club will meet Wednesday atternoon from 1:00 to 5>00 o'clock. On the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month, the Mothers’ council will have their program of adult education. The hours are from 7:30 to 9:00 o’clock. The Planner House Night school featuring classes in sewingand cooking will be held on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings from 7 30 t 9:00 o’clock. The Big-Four Boy's dug will meet each Thursday afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00 o’clock. H. L. Herod is superintendent.
the event Blaine refused to acquisce in the action of the lodge that crginally deposed and expelled him fr-.m the order, several weeks ago for
alleged misconduct.
Prior to the abrupt adjournment of the meeting following the Blaine incident. a resolution was formally adopted declaring it the intention of the lodge at completion of a checki up to refund all money paid by persons w-ho registered for, but did not ie<eive delegates during the recent Fik convention. The good name of the Elk, memebrs declare must be restored in Indianapolis. Theodroe Hopkins is acting exalted ruler. John Campbell, secretary and Richard i Morrison, publicity chairman.
CHICAGO ANNUAL CONFERENCE MAKES RECORD AT 51ST SESSION
KENNEDY CHARGES DISMISSED
that institution. Mrs. Catherine An- the leading churches. Dr. Osborne
Charges of conduct unbecoming an officer were against Roy Ken nedy dismissed by the Board ot safety, Wednesday. The charges
derson, 913 Indiana avenue, at. whose home Roax lived and died, told police •‘he knew no relatives of the dead man. Dr. R. Wilson, deputy coroner, (rdered the 1-ody sent to the City morgue. The man died of a stroke of paralysis. Dr. Wilson said. Mrs. Anna West, 52, 939 Lynn St., was found dead at her home early Tuesday morning. Deputy coroner. John Salb, pronounced death due to apoplexy. The Jacobs Brother;- Funeral home have charge of the funeral Services.
and other dynamic speakers explain : the unit’s program. Scarcely are the speakers finished before they are swamped with demands for applications for memberships, j The moving spirit of the program, in the words of Dr. Osborne, “is an earnest effort to convince ourselves that the Indianapolis Negro can lift ! himself out of the mire of economic elsfdom to a point of economic staI bility by producing and marketing (Continued on Page Three)
National Negro we rp withdrawn by Vernon Ander-
league, and is doing SO n. who filed them.
c nnection therewith. Mrs. Peck is not
only
fluent
nr. auxiliary- of the
Business
v nderful work in connection with
the Business league’s “New Deal” and vvliat the Negro should do in i ppession.
program. ^ Mrs. Peck has the distinction of
having 40,000 housewives organized speaker, but has a dynamic perin Detroit, Michigan and because of sonality. She is the wife of Dr. Wilier great success in this connection liam H. Peck, pastor of Big Bethel she was made National president of: African Methodist Episcopal church, the league. Mrs. Pefk will not only Detroit, Michigan. lalk about the National Housewives; Everybody is invited and houseleague, but she will talk about the i wives are especially urged to attend Negro and the N. R. A.—just how; this meeting. There will be no adthe N. K. A., affects Negro business | mission charge.*
(By EMMA J. JONES)
CHICAGO, Oct. 2.—(Special to The ’Indianapolis Recorder)—The 117 years of indelible church history carry no more brilliant conference record than that recently written by-the fifty-first session of the Chicago Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church which closed its five-day meeting at Quin Chapel Sunday night with services at which 2,000 people packed the auditorium to capacity, leaving more that another thousand persons milling outside
unable to gain admission.
General satisfaction was evident with the reading of the financial reports which revealed receipts for the year of $9,796.75, a sum considerably in excess of disbursements. $367.25 was raised in dollar money. Other reports indicated the financial solidarity and healthy progress of the conference, despite the general economic stress due to the de-
Bishop A. L. Parks presided and was assisted by Bishop M. Davis of the Second Episcopal District,
Baltimore, Md.
A profusion of floral gifts and superlative felicitations marked the reading of the assignments by the clerk. Rev. Roberts whose wife, a recent bride was given a handsome silver service by the ladies of the
conference. Mrs. King, daughter of Bishop Parks, was presented a beautiful boquet of flowers and a purse. Presiding Elders Reappointeo Rev. A. J. Carey and Rev. Roberts were reelected as conference secretaries. The following reappointed as presiding elders: Rev. B. endorsement to Harold T. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, and Robert D. Kohn, national director of the housing division. Both organizations have forwarded copies of their resolutions of N. Taylor, Southwestern District: Rev. McGentes, Western District; and Rev. Thomas, Northern District. On the opening night, Wednesday. the church pastor, Rev. H. M. Collins and members were host to the conference at a reception at which the Bishop Davis presided, presenting Judge John Lupe, who extended the welcome on behalf of the city in the absence of Mayor Kelley. Other speakers were: Mrs. Bell, who spoke on the subject of 1 °>»' , ersh , D: Prof. C. W. Crews on behalf of the church; Rev. H.H. Carroll, on behalf of the city church ers; Mrs. L. Porter, Pres., the Evangelist Union; Mrs. M. Q. Ganior, r who read her report on the Council of Evangillsm; and Mrs. Emma Jones, evangilist. Miss Jennett
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