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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. SATURDAY, JAN. 20. 1934
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2 - YEAR - OLD CHILD NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH UNDER WHEELS OF TRAIN THAT KILLS MOTHER
ATTACK ORPHANS’ HOME GETS YEAR'S FIRST 2-21 TERM
‘BUTCHER’ WOMAN FOUND GUILTY OF BOTTOMS MURDER BEGINS 2TO21 YEAR SENTENCE
Henry Fleming Gets State House Job
Henry Fleming, widely known j democratic politician, took office j Monday as superintendent of flit 1 mailing division of the Automobile License department at the State! House. Two women employes, Mrs. j I Claia (loens and Jessie Hill are said to have been dismissed to!
make way for Fleming.
Secrecy surrounds the failure, up
MONDAY LUNCHEON CLUB SEEKS AID OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN ‘BETTER ORPHANS HOME' DRIVE
10 Years for Robbery
A plea of guilty to charges of robbery and petit larceny before Judge Haker in Criminal court brought a sentence of ten years in the Indiana state reformatory to LeCerne Dickerson, 25, 22 < J 1 /2 In-
diana avenue last weea.
Picking up the father, Sylvanus
CAN ST THOU NOT SEE ?
With never a 4:race of feminine emotion to soften the to now ; ot McNutt leaders to place Charges that the overcrowding of inmates of the Col-
Ritter, alleged “butcher woman” from the ‘'Bottoms”, re- Indispensable "to the 01 partCs 11 ^ J !^, nile ( :? urt officials in sending
ceived with apparently genuine unconcern the two to twenty- cess during the last election. [ children there, are contained in a petition that the Monday one years sentence in the Indiana* Woman’s prison by Judge Further efforts on the part of the Luncheon club will send to the Marion County Commission-
Baker in Criminal court last Friday, following the finding of ^"“I, er at thdr ncxt - me - eti ?lg--
a verdict of guilty of manslaughter by a jury.
Charged with having stabbed Lee
Reed, 34, to death with a butcher ^"vfc 1 /■’’/■kcmr' knife at their home, 729 Darnell vJ » HiKI l LUr r JLp
stfeet, back in November last year, Mrs. Ritter told the jury when she
POT—SCALDED
dissatisfied with their handling of patronage was seen in the appointment of Mrs. Marion Grubbs, wufe of the bold Grubbs, Standard Oil
DIES SUDDENLY
company employe, as typist ami
Dispatch of the charges were withheld because of the sudden death of Thomas Kills, one of the
commissioners this week.
Sneakers at the meeting held in
took the witn^s stand in her swift. , mm ta| , |e K ,. rious Lm, com. departnisnt under Clarence
brief trial, that she had no recollec-
tion of having stabbed the man J hjv e homf . ^
*ith whom she lived as his wife, (1 . ty _ IIe wnM taken to llu . ritv hos .
Jackson.
Influencp of Slums Shown
Frank Owens, 44, 401 North West
— , ,, ■ street, died at bis home Tuesday of! the Coffee Pot Monday charges that Hot coffee in a pot that he pulled clerk the office of the State .. rtf , urnor| j a u| H Mrs. itachei; two-thirds of the 150 children in,
Owens was at his bedside. Ihe institution were there on <>rders of the judge of the juvenile; DOCTORS TO IMMUNIZE ; court. Such a promiscuous mixing!
f'HII URFN of orphans and children whosecon J duct has made them subject tt> the!
Dr. it. P.. McArtbur, presi.tc'.t of | jurisdiction of the court should not |
il.r Aesculapian Medical society nn- he tolerated, they said,
r ounces to tlm general public thai j Frank Beckwith was made cbair-
I'lal by his father, Andrew
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NEW COLORED HOSPITAL MOVE
H e Negro physicians of Marion man t of an investigating committee county, are prepared to immunize that' will attempt to collect data
PLT V Ef fl | U'tt rhitrilf n i "t ween six n.onihv nfitl^in "ffuj'iport of the charge. ' Other Uk I V wIlSJLkl 1» *1 I ten years of age to protect; members are: F. B. Ransom, Rev,
them from Diptheria and Small- Henry Herod, \V. A. Brown. : pu\. Those unable to pay will be! Conditions at the home were
In a moving narrative pock- • —; marked with profanity, she painted; „ „ . . , I the'story of her association with ® C olored Women Appointed Reed, in drab colors of vioJence, Clerks by County Treasurer [ liabttnal blinking, frequent qttar«4 .. - rels and bickerings, and miserable, j William R. Clatter, who became |
wretched living conditions. treasurer of Marion county, Janu- 1 Though the offense she was a ry 1. has added to the clerical Th( . community Hospital
charged with was among the lust staff of his office five colored worn n in a preparatory move to j Heated free at their docto C s of-j termed unsanitary by the grand of a record number to be commit- en. vo m< -thing about the unfortunate f !oe - . ^ jury recently in a year end report, ted last year, Mrs. Ritter was the The appointments are called Mtuation surrounding the adequate' This effort is approved and joint- The club is considering plans to first of those indicted last year to ••temporary", with the possibility t-aining of Colored physicians and ly in keeping with the action of the raise funds for the construction of be brought to trial. More than that some may become permanent , ur ses filed articles of incorporation Hoard Health. additional dormitories. twentjt other Negroes await trial later. Those appointed are: Misses Tuesday with Frank ilayr, junior, j ;
on chafces of murder, in connec- Alia Mae Mathews, Klizaiieth Mb- secretary «f state, ffon witrfMhe killing of other Ne- chell, Katherine L. Davis, Sylvia nuildings us'-d by the association groes. Practically all of these have MqCann and Sara Meriwether, Vrre at present located at 2n(', p.ouhop&s of capturing the coveted two Mrs. Estella Russell, an apointee i.nard place. r*ire< tors named are: to fourteen, or the two to twenty- of Mr. Claurer’s predecessor, Timo- Rev. M. W. Clair, Junior,, president:
Prominent Candidates in Senate Race Make Poor Showing With Colored Voters of State
one years sentence.
thy Sexton, was retained.
Mrs. Marine Hatties, vieepresident; Lionel F. Artis, secretary and Mar-
ins Stewart, treasurer.
Funds tor the construction of .new I nildings will be raised through subscription and membership fees
(By Staff Correspondent)
hie size.
, The one big democratic aspirant
Selection of party candidates to . . ... . „ enter the finals in the autumn racoinow openly making the race is It. 4or the United States senatorship Earl Peters, former state chairman, will be of more than ordinary irii-|. an d the man generally accredited
Prejudice has been so strong in j portance to voters in the spring Vv .. th the n^kjng of Paul V. McNutt Indiana, leaders say, that the prop-' primary. ; present governor. Those who (• v training of nurses anci internes I malct* elaim^i of lipincr in tllG i as been seriously retarded. ! With the policies of the national ^V. savTthe governor will supAssociation officials are beingyurg- administration as a controlling lar> -: r ^ t .. ’ thp nrimarv for
tor, interest in candidates for the a candidate m the p y
c<l to make application for a federal loan for construction of the pro-
p ,se«l now hospital.
NEW CO-OPERATIVE OVERRIDES OPPOSITION OF FARM GROUP IN EFFORT TO INCORPORATE Despite stiff opposition from representatives of larpe groups of Indiana farmers, The Consumers Co-operative Unit became a corporation last week when its application was approved by Frank Mayr, Jr., Secretary of State.
Vehement protests of the farmers, were directed to the secretary of j
state in an effort to defeat the &ttttlOn I^mplOlfeS
granting of the charter. Spokes- 1 men for the agriculture interests, raided the objection that the em-,
bryomic Negro enterprise w-as u The Union Station Employes Re- the support of several labor organconsumer as well as a producer co-:jj e f association at their monthly ization for him.
operative and therefore in viola- tll pf.*jng i as t week reelected Frank I The race for democratic nomina-|wise acres declare there is yet tion of the state constitution and Taylor, president and Milton D. \ tion for county treasurer was en- rnuch water to pass under the
CANDIDATES
senate will center around their the sole purpose of defeating his agreement of disagreement with now Political foe. Friends the national program. I of Mr Peters say this will he no At this moment, two men are ; oas y job, pointing to numeious e\iprominently mentioned as likely (lences of h,s populauty thiougi
One republican and one democrat announced their candidacies for important offices in Marion
county this week.
ir! i i * Seth Ward, republican, has enIt/leCt umcers tered the race for judge of super- ! iot court room L. His friends claim
winners. One, a republican, and
the other u democrat.
In the calculations of many. Senator Arthur Robinson will again be selected for another term in the nation’s congress. His fight for the veterans and his hold challenge of the wisdom of certain Roosevelt measures no doubt have garnered some support. Still, the political
a established practice that envi- Cruze , secretary, for their fourth tered by Frank E. McKinney, as sioned co-operatives in agriculture . ( . onsecut . VR tenn Robert D. Gil- 1 distant cashier of the Peoples Slate only among the farming group. j i; . am was re elected treasurer for 1-ank, who comes from a family that Has Wide Scope his ninth term. Ernest Dix is vice- has been active in demoratic poliThouah classed as an organiza | president. : tk:s for s everal generations,
tion “not for pecuniary profit, th£ , Report of the treasurer showed
newly incorporated co-operative in- a balance of $576 at the close of FALL INJURIES FATAL
U nds to buy, .sell, manufacture j i a st year. During the life of the’
bridge before accurate predictions
can be made in his case. Political Shortcomings
The average Negro voter, who likes to see tangible evidences of a public office holder’s interest in him in the form of appointments to desirable positions, can be accurately described as luke warm toward Senator Robinson’s aspirations for xeelection. Using the yardstick of
the state.
Peters’ Apathy By the same token as in the case of Senator Robinson, Mr. Peters will have to do an about face if he expects to capture the all important vote of colored citizens in those centers where he will probably hold the balance of power. Leading Negro democrats of the staet are unanimous in the statement th.at Mr. Peters made no recommendations of Negroes for state positions while state chairman. Various county chairmen, they say are in some measure resjlbnsihle, but the greater responsible must he brone by Mr. Peters.
MISS DOLORES BLAINE
Not the least among the scintellating stars of the last edition of Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds is Miss Blaine, ravishing coquette of the type that just can’t make her eyes behave. Friends say she’s casting longing eyes in the direction of the city of Angles. Probably looking for the softest spot to land on. If she runs true to form, you’ll be seeing her in pic-
tures. Every one can see that.
So far, he has evinced a studied carefulness not to reveal his attitude toward colored people generally. Attempts to learn his stand on certain questions that vitally affect the future if the Negro have proved
GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE
Shelby Gibson, 2132 Temple avenue, was given a suspended sentence on a charge of reckless driving Tuesday by Judge William Schaffer in Municipal court. Frank R. Beckwith, attorney for Gibson, told the court that his client, because of a passing bus, was forced to the left side of the ‘street into
collision with one driven by Hay- i Jones
largely because of his elusiveness, J den Hibbett at 25th and Sangster, Male chorus, tutule. j avenue. Polin
goods and other salable materials, ^ organization, more than $1300 had r>an Young, 34, r>45 Agnes street, to own*farm tanas and raise agri- been paid to members as sick bene- died in the rity hospital, Saturday cultural products for sale, and to fits. Dues are twjnty-five cents a font injuries received in a uo-foot operate wholesale and retail stores, vveek. $10 is paid members for ill- fall fr m a crane on which he was
The basic object, as stated in the ness. ’ doing repair work, Wednesday aft- appointments to government posiarticles of incorporation, is to pro- The conduct of the association < .noon at the c. & j. foundry, tions, Mr. Robinson’s statue in the vide employment for its members h as fi een highly commended by of- twenty Fifth and Yandes streets, eyes of many colored voters of his und enable them to be self-support- ficqals of the railroad companies. 1 v here he was employed. state dwindles to almost negliga-
ing.
Legal matters for the Unit were handled by Henry J. Richardson local attorney ana member of the Indiana General Assembly. ' ■
Board of Directors
Members of the board of direc-
tors are: Dr. Benjamin A. Osborne, NEW YORK. Jan. 15.—(Special) jtlie basement of whose, home two the name of “Morley", and said she chairman, John Baker, A. S. John- The chemical laboratory of medi- detectives had found the child at represented the Home Relief buson Mrs.'Violet T. Lewis, Thomas .. . . science was used today to es- first opposed the claims of Mrs. reau which was helping to observe Dexter, L. M. Sweeney and Mrs. tablish the identity of a 25-day old Luciano to the child with assertions “baby day” in New York. Mrs. F. Leora Chavers. baby, with the result that a colored that it had been born to her only H. LaGuardia, wife of the mayor J Within the three months since man and a white woman described two days before without the aid of was contributing new outfits for find the one who stole that lovely
the movement was started by Dr. as his wife are being held on charg-1 a doctor. j needy children, the mother said she baby! 1 only had $5 and paid $4 Osborne, the membership has grown es of kidnapping. Ponce, uououng tine story, took J was told. for the baby. It looked so hungry.” to more than five thousand, who Blood lasts proved the identity both couples to latmratory where On that pretext Mrs. Luciano, Mrs. Stackhouse said she was are pledged to purchase interest in of the child found in the home of the blood tests were made. While "hose husband has been out of horn in Maryland and was married the cooperative from one to a ten Brooklyn couple as the daughter of in the laboratory, police said Mrs. work for two years permitted the - to Stackhouse here in 1930. She dollar limit. Mr. and Mrs. EM ward Luciano, im- Stackhouse broke down und con- stranger to take her baby with the said that she had a son. eighteen
Plans are being completed for poverished lower East Side cou-J fessed that the child was not hers,' understanding that it would be re- years ago but did not know where! would sell me the child.” j saw this baby, didn’t you?” went tho raising of $5,000 with which to ’e. The infant, Patricia, had been ifiat she had purchased the baby turned within an hour. the boy was now. Since that time Mrs. Stackhouse said her bus-i the captain. “Does it look anypurrhase farm lands, Dr. Osborne the object of a wide search for for $4 from a woman, named Jack- Mrs. Stackhouse, in pleading not it had become impossible for her j |, a ml should be released “because ! thing like you?” “No,” Stackhouse says; thereafter, a loan of more than a week, by federal son, who, Mrs. Luciano said told guilty, admitted that because she and her husband once tried to adopt i he didn’t know nothing about it | insisted nevertheless, that he had $250,000 w ill be sought from Ihe agents and the police of five state?. ciur.o said, came to her house under was unable to have children her- to bear a child, she said, and she and could help find the woman who read in the news papers nothing federal government. Headquarters Mrs. Marguerite Stackhouse, the her she was a welfare worker. self and had an insatiable desire a baby, hut were rebuffed because ! sold the baby to me” about the kidnapping of the Luciaare located at 309 Walker building, white wife of Angus Stackhouse, in This welfare w r orker, Mrs. Lu- ( to be a mother, she therefore de-iOf the difference in tueir races. j At the lineup earlier in the day no child.
cided to purchase one. (' “My husband was so pleased | Acting Captain Daniel Curtayne When questioned, she said, “I when he came home from work and asked Stackhouse—a tall, slender did not steal the baby, 1 love chil- found that I had a baby,” related man of thirty-seven who said he di’en. I knew nothing of any kid- the brown-eyed, angular-featured was born in Detroit—whether he naping. Oh, God, if I could only woman, whose dark hair w'as cov- had looked at the baby. Stackhouse
ered with a beret, “met the Mrs. said he had, after returning home Jackson in Prospect Park and hap- Tuesday evening from a CWA job
pened to tell her that 1 wmuld like ! in Orange County,
to he a mother, but could not. She I “Do you think they give birth told me that she had a younger to babies in Brooklyn with shoes unmarried sister who was about to on?” Captain Curtayne demanded, become a mother and that she “No,” replied Stackhouse. “You
Deep stab woynds in the head of a little baby girl found shivering and half-frozen wandering about the streets in the wee hours of the morning have led investigators of the Marion county coroner to doubt that the death of the child’s mother under the wheels of a freight trian—a fate the child miracuously escaped—was purely accidental. The two year old child, Mary Elizabeth Harris, was found 1 a. m. Monday fumbling at the door of a house in the 1600 block on Alvord street with severe cuts, bruises and wounds about the head. Though suffering from prolonged exposure to the biting cold, and half-dazed from the severe beating she seemed to have had, police were able to learn from the child’s story told at the City hospital where she was taken for treatment the identity of her parents, the location of her home and hints of tragedy that had befallen
her mother.
Harris, at ther home, 1938 Yandes street, police began a search for Mrs. Allie Harris, the mother, who the little girl said was “over on the railroad”. Her badly mangled baby, with several parts completely severed, was found along the right-of-way of the Monon railroad at Seventeenth street at 6 a. m. Investigators admit the possibility that the woman was walking along the tracks with the child on the outside when the train struck them. The stab wounds in the head of the child, made by a sharp instrument such as an ice pick, are hardly such as would be suffered in contact with a train, they say. Whether similar wounds were 'inflicted upon the body of the mother has not yet been determined. According to the father, Mrs. Harris and the child left home early Sunday evening to attend a moving picture show. He stayed at home, he said looking after their three other young children, and was unaware of the tragedy until notified
by the police.
Dr. A. J. King, deputy coroner who was called, has not yef completed his report. The child, Mary Elizabeth is being cared for at the C olored Orphans home. EMneral services have not yet
been arranged.
Others survivors of Mrs. Harris are: three' children, William, age S, and twins, Dorothy and Doris, ages 6.; a sister, Mrs. Eliza Johnson and a brother, James Barnett. She was born in Canesville, Ky., 41 years ago and came with her la mily, in 1922. ^, t N.R.A. CHIEF TO CONSIDER CODE FOR DOMESTICS WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—(CNSY “Women with hired help are the hardest slave-drivers in the world and incredibly stingy” said Edward C. Rybicki of New York City, di rector of the agency sponsoring a code of fair competition for domes-
tic sesrvants.
“There are exceptions, but I am speaking of the average. We get scores of letters every month in which servants complain, because they are expected to work 16 hours a day for small pay and perhaps for no pay at all. “Although women have been treating household help outrageously for years there was nothing servants could do about it,” he continued. “A man wall let his help organize, but not a woman. Now I think there ought to be a chance for them to get a break,” said Mr.
Rybicki.
Hugh S. Johnson, National administrator of the NRA, has received a code for domestic workers from EMward C. Rybicki, director of the City Free Employment Agency, and Joseph T. Fagan, president of the Household Club, Inc., of New York. It provides a forty eight hour, six-day week and a minimum salary of $30 a month for “sleep-ih” house hold employees. The term “sleep-in”, the code explained .means a domestic who lives in the home of the employer and is furnished three meals a day at the latter’s expense, while a “sleepout” employee is one who lives elsewhere and is not fed by the employer. The lowest wage is paid to “inexperienced workers,” who receive $30 a month, according to the code,- while “couples-combinatiob” receive the highest minimum sala ry of $110. a month. Wage Scale The code as received in Washington contained the following wage scale which if made effective will provide for 5,000,000 additional part-time jobs—a worthwhile effort for the N.R.A. On and after the effected date of this code and to and until the expiration date, the minimum wages of domestic workers covered hereby shall be at the following monthly rate: Minimum Monthly Wage “SLEEP-IN” Cook’s first - $80.00 Cook’s second 60.00 Butler’s first 75.00 Butler’s second 60.00 Chambermaid’s 60.00 Parlormaid’s 50.00 Chambermaid Waitress 60.00
KEY. J. L. WHITE IS
“Y”SPEAKER
Rev. J. L. White, pastor of Jones Tiihernacle, African Methodist Episcopal church, will discuss the topic ‘ Can Christianity Solve Our Economic Problems”, at the Monster meeting at the Y. M. C. A., next
Sunday at 3:30 p. m.
Women will . be admitted. Will IJill will inttroduce the speaker. Music will he furnished by the Tabernacle choir and the
directed by Roscoe
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