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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

SATURDAY, DEC. 15, 1934

Make luve For Orphans Home Funds

Things ure not as they ought to i be at the Marion County Colored Orphans Home, Krnest K. Marker.! president of the Board of County Commissioners, declared Monday ' in a talk to the Monday Luncheon club. He stated that lie knew the I institution was crowded and tha* j should a contagious disease break out untold toil ot lives might re-! suit. Most of the commissioner’s talk dealt with the possibility of the i Orphans Home receiving money j from a parcel of land in Oklahoma which was willed to the home a few years ago. He said that he i has been approached with an offer . for the land, but that he will not deal with any one until it is known there is oil deposit in the land. Discover. $1,300 In addition to the Oklahoma land, j he sai<l that there is $1,300 in a : local building and loan company j which was willed to the institution I about L’li years ago. but which until recently was known to belong to the Home. Dr. M. I). P.attiep, physician for the Home, declared that an emergency should be declared so that the $1,300, plus interest could be used for the orphans. He asserted that the moral situation at the Home is appalling. Delinquent boys are sent to the Home and no facilities exist to prevent them from coming in contact with younger youths. More Wards Needed Adequate facilities for taking care of sick orphans are practically non • xlstenL For the entire institution there is one isolation ward with four beds. The inadequacy was dramatically shown early this year, T)r. Hatties said, when one case of scarlet fever ‘jnraed tc\ 26 children in the Home. Early this week whooping cough was widespread in the Home. At its meeting Monday, the club will appoint a committee to investigate the possibilities of getting funds for the home.

SHE REIGNS AS OHIO STATE QUEEN

St. Phillips Talley Hits Labor Injustice Esplscopah J n National Church Confab

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Miss Mary Ellen Cox, charming daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Cox, 72S Pennsylvania avenue, Columbus, Ohio, was recently crow m d H( inecoming Queen of the Ohio state university in a coc test sponsored by the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Keautilul Catherine Claughton, who hails from Louisville, president of tin sity’s A. K. A. chapter, presented this smiling Delta Sigma pledge with a bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums at a homecoming

dance.

F \LL ON ICE PUTS WOMAN IN HOSPITAL

The toboggan nue which the weather man took this week land ed Mrs. Tmary Artist, 22, of 2027 Ludh.’v cvenue, in City hospital,

Church were surprised Sunday eve- i Monday, after she had slipped on

’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You’—Text SAVANNAH, Ca., Die. I.'i—Thf members of First Bryan Baptist

EVA BOWLES FIRED BY Y. W.

CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 13—(Special to The Recorder)—Miss Eva D. Bowles, executive secretary of (he West End Branch of the Young Women's Christian Ass’n w-as fired last week by the committee of management of the institution. The committee charged Miss Bowles with incompatibility. It w r as claimed that she showed “an utter lack of ability” to adjust herself to harmonious relationship with her staff the young women residents of the institution and the commit-

tee of management

During a stay here of less than a year, several members have ex I pressed dissatisfaction VL'ith Miss y Bowles' “dictorial attitude,” and 1

nfng when their iiastor, the Rev. L. M. Glenn, chose as his subject, •I'll be (Had When You’re Dead, You Rascal You.” His subject, the pastor said, was found in the 27th chapter of Job. the 23 verse, and 37th Psalm. Seventy-year-old Richard B. Harri on, star of the play, "The Green Pastures”, stated amusingly during the recent engagement of the play here that his understudy, Charles Winter Wood, often passes by his dressing room whistling, “I'll be Glad When You Dead. You Rascal

You.”

The future of one of the city’s • well-known churches hangs in the j balance. The fate of the Saint. | Phillips Episcopal church, Walnut i nd North West streets.appeared ] this week to he uncertain as members of the church pondered the full meaning of the positive state- , raent of the Right Rev. Joseph j Marshall Francis, white. Bishop ot | the Diocese of Indianapolis, that | after December 31. the salary of Father M. B. Mitchell will not be paid by the National Council of

tbe Episcopal clinch.

Intimation that tbe church might lose th(‘ financial assistance of the Council was given last year when white churches of the size of St Phillip’s church were refused the «l uncil’s usual assistance. "Able to Support Itself” Early this month Bishop Francis wrote to Vicar Marshall, saying, "1 have just received word from the secretary of the Domestic Missions department information that the appropriation for your salary will expire at the end of the year. I am convinced that the congregation of St. Phillips church is entirely

able to support itself.”

It has been reported that St. Phillip’s church would lose financial assistance, due among some reasons that many members of the vhurch have nic e cars, fine homec

iniiver- and are members of the business Theta and professional class of onr group

in the city. Not all members- of the church, however, *who are in substantial financial condition are j s loyal supporters of tbe church. The membership of the church

’lumbers around 200. Will Discuss Future

Concerning the announcement of the Bishop Francis, Vicar Mitchell last week issued a statement in the weekly publication of the < hurch iu which he said, “These are the facts; you members hay 30 days to prove your loye

Little Girl Gives Bit To Aid Good Fellows Spread Xmas Cheer

SPEAKS BOLDLY

Into The Recorder came this week a little girl with the kisses of nine summers on her cheeks. In one hand she field so tightly a Ifttle something that anyone would retsonably think that it was a pre--ious thing. And a mighty pre-

cious thing it was.

With a voice of kindness little Mary Ellen Bates, one of four children in her family, whose father barely makes enough “to get by,’’ gave to The Recorder’s Good Fellows Christmas Cheer Fund a shinng quarter which she had earned •oiling papers and .’iinning an er-

and for a neighbor

It is *his spirit, this willingness •• share with others that will cause Christmas cheer to abound In the ve’-v poor homes of the community. Further contributions to The Recorder’s Christmas Cheer Fund are being sought by many workers with Mary Ellen’s zeal to help

U’.’ita spread happiness.

Do Your Best Too

Just as Mary Ellen did her very i level best to do her part, let others come to the aid of scores who

Contributions The Recorder-Good Fellows Xmas Cheer club gratefully acknowledges receipt of the following contribu-

tions:

The Indianapolis Recorder $25.00 Cr. Guy L. Grant _ 1.00 George Sneed _ __ 1.00 Miss Elizabeth Douglas 1.00 Mrs. Parks _ __ __ __ . 1.00 Prof. T. C .Johnson __ 1.00 Or. Theodore Cable 1.00 Seth J. Thomas __ 1.00 Mrs. Laura Grant __ 1.00 Frank Beckwith 5.00 Lionel F. Artis - — 1.00 Katherine Hodge __ .25 Semper Paratus club Prof. Emory Jones E. S. Stone __ _ — Chief Michael F. Morrissey A Friend Julia Sanders Landers Sheriff "Buck” Sumner _ Robert Sloan — Me-Him-and-l club Eligabeth Wheatley Judge Smiley Chambers

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Mt. Zion Baptist Pastor Tells Churchmen More Christianity Is Needed

SAYS UNIONS UNFAIR

have sent letters asking that those B. Ralston tter situated lend a helping i Sarnie Westfall

hand so that they too may enjoy Christmas with a smile and a full

stomach.

Club members of f he city are asked to stop during their nmetin‘ , s and really ask one another isn’t it possible for the dub to do something for the hundred of eol-

Ciief Meirer Coal Co.

Clara Gill --

A Friend A Friend _ _ Pearl W'are __ Alice Rankin . __ __ Hannah Noone __ - - Vera Day

REV. M. A .TALLEY FIGHTAMljr LEADERS KILLS JOB CHANCES

!.n icy spot at Capitol avenue and

Wusliingtou Htre*t. She suffered, ,,, . , , ,,, , ^ f.-a,-lnrod ho'nps, it was atatwl ]' hrlst 1 "" 1 Hls

Tuesday, when she was taken

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Sunday at 12:30 P. M. a

ing will be held for all members ! of the St. Phillip’s church pflrish j to discuss the future of the church.

The St. Phillip’s church was organized in tbe borne of Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Henderson, April 15.

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F. B. Ransom Denies

He Gives Job Okey T

Hundreds of Baptists of the Boyd

Reports that lie is a member of 1001, under the direction of Father ; ^ a P t ' s, ( <)n y ent ' nn Krou r > Mt. a committee which has as its pur- Lewis Brown, white. It was the ] a,a11 baptist church to greet the

first colored church in the city to 1 ^ 1- IJ cni > Allen Boyd, Secretary oi

the National Baptist Publishing

SINCLAIR SUED FOR $1,010,008

Hopes of colored Democratic • 10 leaders for an • suitable share of •• 50 i tbe moi e desirable patronage plums • 50 being handed out by the recent 1,00 campaign winners have fallen into • 50 an abysmal depth,-, of improbability from which they show little signs

of ever being rescued.

Colored Ifeaders, jubilant and se-,

cure in the knowledge that their j a change should be made tlyht followers had proved the winnitfS would not discriminate against 1{hs

; block in the last election, let down Negro group.

' their nets with an inspired confi-

Three Biggest Denominations Of Race Represented At Conference

By E. C. ESTELL DAYTON, O., Dec. 13—One of the most thrilling events in the biennial session of the Federal Council of Churches of America held in Dayton, Ohio, last week was connected with the panel discus sion on the “Responsibility of the Church in the Present Economic Crisis, Urban and Rural.” The Rev. Marshall A. Talley of Indianapolis, was one of the participants in this panel discussion and well represented our group. In several instances his arguments in favor of justice and fair play to the Negro industrial and agricultural workers occasioned most harty applause by the large group of delegates numbering up ward of three hund»-eil people. Dr. Talley stated that “There are certain racial factors involved in this economic crisis which are effecting seriously the life of the Negro people in this country. No oth er group of Ameridan citizens is receiving suen a raw deal.” He declared that the present economic situation of the Negro and the unfairness with which he is being dealt presents the supreme test of the Christian religion in the West-

ern world.

Labor Leader Confesses By some clever and well put questions, he forces an important con-f-.ssion from one of the members of the discussion group who is also a mtmber of the American Federation of Labor, that his union in

principle was unchristian in its exclusion of Negro wofkers, and tha>r ’

| <ience that some of the big fish among political jobs would be toss- ' j ed their way.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13. I pUm During the last week, practically Sinclair, who recenHj was defeated i ot - ma j or appointments have in the race for governor ot t a lj- been announced, but no colored

Samuel Johnson Gets College Scholarship

pose the giving out of political appointments were denied in emphatic terms Wednesday by F. B.

Ransm.i.

So besieged has Mr. Ransom become with requests for jobs that he wants everybody to know that, “I have nothing to do with the appointment of people sc ekimr

jobs."

have a vested choir.

Wilberforce Wins Civil Suit Verdict

| Board; Miss Mae E Hunter, editor of the Hope magazine, and Miss Sadie Wilson, private secretary to

| Dr. Boyd.

Miss Hunter, who was the principal speaker on the program, spoke

13.—A Common in the interest of the magazine. She

fornia, today found himself defendant in a law suit for $1,010,000. Sni- < iair was named co-defendant with the magazine, The Nation, and its board of directors in a libel suit filed in superior eom-t here yesterday by Rev. W. A. Johnson. Bap-

tist minister.

have «resigned.

The Rev. A. W. Womack, pastor of the Phillips C.M.E. church, announced Wednesday that his church has given a scholarship to Samuel Johnson to study at Lane college, Jackson, Tenn.. for one

ar.

Mr. Jackson left Tuesday for the

XENIA, O.. r»er

Pleas Court juw returned

structed verdict for Wilberforce I i ace gave her the belief that, much

men were among them. Unless changes are made later in the program of the incoming Democratic administration, the ambitious colored politicians will find themselves i:. the same situation that existed (hiring the present regime.

Ourselves To Blame

Judge John W. Kern, mayor-elect,

It Seems Some Folks Can't Take the Stuff

The Rev. Johnson alleged Sin-!

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University, last Wednesday morn-j progress will come through the in-j day before elec- - ^ ^ ^ ^ po?itiQn not heret0 .

ing in the trial ot a suit filed by 'he c: tat.e of John A. McGrath of Columbus. Ohio, seeking*to recov-

telligent efforts of the women

race.

She cited an incident in the ca- sermon against

college. He is the son of Mrs. Fan-

ROOSEVELT ASSURES SCHOOL CHILDREN OF NEW BRICK BUILDING WARM SPRINGS, Ga.. Dec. 13.—(ANP)—Virtual assurance of a new brick building for an old wooden church they are using as a school house, was given to colored children of this town, pari time home of President Roosevelt last week. President Roosevelt, unable to attend an educational meeting here sent bis approval and promises of assistance. About $8,000 will be subscribed by the Roscnwald fund toward the construction of the building.

— er a judgement for $15,832 plus in- j veer of the noted abolitionist HarNEW YORK, Dec. 13.- -i ANP)—- : lefesf. atrain ;t the school. The suit ■ riel Tubman, who while attending Neal^ O’Hara, columnist, reports was the outgrowth of specifications a meeting designed U develop symfrom statistics in band that Ne- prepared by McGrath for the late j pathy for women to vote, heard a

He writes: Bishop J. H. Jones in the erection white man say that a woman A' the Shorter Hall in 1923. Both I caused the downfall of man in the

ofjtion every Negro minister in . . . . - member of his Amreles received $50 to preach a l0,e i 16 ” 1 ,)y anj mem Deo oi ms AnM qM ie pastor race, told a group of friends that

the reason lay with the colored

him.

nie Gill, 365 West Twenty-sixth groes cannot take it. street He is a graduate of At- '*A curious phenomenon of lepia

tucks biub school, and has been ac- is that the nation’s largest life in- Jones and McGrath are deceased Garden of Eve. Miss Tubman said,

which honored suranee company reports that s > and the administrator of the Me- 1 "" "" **

far in 1931 there has been no in- iGrath estate claimed the books dis

live at the church

him. Rev. Mr. Womack said tbe sending of Mr. Johnson represented the interest of his church in young

people of the cit v.

INTERRACIAL MASS MEETING The Indianapolis Youth Movej r.’ient will hold its first mass meet ; ing at four o’clock, December 30, j it the Y.M.U.A. Re present at ive.- ] from all churches, both white and j adored, will be pres.nt. Dr, E. T. ! Albertson, Secretary (f the Indiana | ’ouncil of Religious Education, will | ,e guest speaker. A musical r.roI ’ram has been arranged.

crease in deaths from alcoholism among its white policyholders, lint among its insured Negroes, the death rate lias doubled to date."

NEW DELTA HEAD

Wilberforce Prexy Offers Labor Problem Solution

Listen women, if one little woman can turn the world up-side-down, all of us women ought to be able

to turn it right-side-up.” PR. BOYD KEPT BUSY

While youthful Miss .Hunter took the spotlight at the evening meet- , ing, Dr. Boyd was busy all day

Thursday from the time he was NEW YORK, Dec. 12*. In re- Union Station by a mosponse to a telegram from the N. Arcade until Thursday night when A.A.G.R, urging that the mother h( ‘ entertained with refreshments and aunt of Glaude Neal be not niost of thos e who attended the

closed $15,8232 remained unpaid. Florida Women Safe Governor Wires Back

DAYTON, 0„ Dec. 13—(Special To The Recorder)—"There can be no intelligent attack upon the Negro’s economic problem unless •.hero Is a careful analysis of it and borough understanding of it," Dr. /J. R. Wright, Jr., president of Wilberforce University, told the cctlesiastical and lay delegates at i he Wednesday afternoon session of the biennial convention of tbe Federal Council of Churches at the

Riltniore hotel.

Dr. Wright spoke on “The Responsibility of the Christian Church for Economic Justice to the Negro" and in discussing the question he said, “What, may I ask then, is the -maladjustment which common to Negroes in America, and peculiar to them? If we ask the man in the street, he will likely tell us that the Negro’s problem J.j a problem of the Ignorance of the Negro, or a problem of hls crime or poverty, or anything In-

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1 rinded In a half dozen other myth-

ological factors.

All Negroes Not Criminal “However, it is not true that crime is common to Negroes for ee one would suggest that a!' Negroes are criminals; nor is crime peculiar to Negroes, for our statistics show there are more white criminals than Negro criminal in ur penitentiaries and jails. Simj ilarly, only a little thought will onvince us that the other things named are not common to Negroes or peculiar to Negroes. For example, there are more illiterate whites in America than Negroes, and the majority of Negroes are

not illiaterate.

"The Negro’s problem in Ameri- Helen Rhodes, vice-president; <u is to get the white man to look Miss Bernice Bow, recording secttpon him with a reasonable por-j re tary. Miss Mary E, AAalton, cortion of fair play, as he deos other Responding secretary; Miss Lucy [ Belle Dupee, treasurer, and Miss (Continued on Page Two) [ Letty Wickliffe, parliamentarian.

i<'turned to Marianna from Pensacola for trial in connection with he crime for which he was torlured and lynched on October 26, the following message was received Friday from Governor David Sholtz

t F’oride •

“Regarding your telegram of the Fifth States Attorney John H. Carter, Jr., Marianna advises me that f here are no charges against Annie Smith and Sallie Smith and accord ingly they have no intention ot bringing them back to Marianna He advises also that to avoid any possible danger .these women are being held in Pensacola temporarily, with their own consent having no other means of support.”

■ meeting at the church. At 11 o’clock he was the principal at Union Tabernacle baptist church speaker in* the Self Denial service which was sponsored by Mrs. R. D. Leonard. After this meeting he was in conference with the educatioiKil board of the Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. convention at the Mt. Paran Baptist church. Mrs. Malone Entertains Baptist ministers raking part on the program were Rev. J. D. Johnson, G. L. Lilliard, and J. I. Saun-

ders.

; Mrs. Anna Washington, who assisted the pastor. Rev. C. Henry Bell, in arranging the program, was the master of ceremonies.

denied he received any mom\\ j eat i ers themselves. Every man preach against the democratic can- whose name was proposed for a didate high position received the bitter III tile suit tiled by Johns™, the i opposition of other members of the

group, he said, m urging that col-

Nation magazine ami its alnol, ° (.red leaders get together, Judge editors, including Oswald Garrison K oru suggested that a meeting be

Villard, are joined. The minister charges that he suffered $10.00*1 actual damages and asks for $1,000,('00 punitive damages.

A. K. A. WORKER

ts. - . ..-m ^ Alert and active Mrs. Margaret Tucker Brown (above) was chosen this week by the local chapter of tbe Delta Sigma Theta sorority tr be its president. Mrs. Brown, hei sorors say, will give to her new duties the same unstinted enthusiasm which she gives in training little tots of the city how to dance artistically. Other newly elected officers are

THE RECORDER-GOOD FELLOWS XMAS CHEER CLUB 518 Indiana Avenue. I desire to become a member of your club and am enclosing my contribution of $ Name « Address (Make checks payable to The Indianapolis Recorder Xmas Cheer Fund. Acknowledge of your contribution will appear in a later issue of the Recorder).

belli and some agreement be reach- < d on applicants for positions to • Inch members of their race may b.‘ appointed. Democratic party leaders have admitted that as matters now .U.Md. colored leaders have fought each other to a standstill. Mrs. sue Knox, prominent figure in Marion county politics for a num'a r of years, has emphatically denied a recent report that she op-

Our representative further iportrayed a tragic picture of the sordid condition of the Negro farmers /»t the South, whose checks from the Federal government for farm reduction have been intercepted, who have been deprived of the privileges of the federal farm loans, who tire

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Right before Christmas is a bjad time to steal chickens, Mrs. Amelia' Taylor, 2121 Bellefontaine street, probably thinks. She reported to police the theft of fuor fat chickens. PRESIDENT HEARS YOUTH’S PROTEST; ‘GETS IT STRAIGHT’ WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Dec. 13—(ANP) The nation’s Chief Executive had just concluded telling his radio audiences that the world need not fear becausethere were not more Napoleons or conquerors, or something to that effect. To a little nine year old boy of Atlanta, the President’s assertion didn’t sound so good, so Napoleon Hall came all the way here to "get it straight” that Napoleon was very much alive. Mr. Roosevelt graciously told the maid to show the Atlanta “conqueror,” little Mr. Napoleon Hall, in, and there assuaged the little fellow's wounded feelings.

Get A Day Nursery, Is Cry 0( East Side Civic Groups

MISS ANNA STOUT, an active member in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, is doing her bit to help make the appearance of the Southernaires at Roberts Park M. E. church next Wednesday night a success.

ROSENWALD FUND

CHICAGO , Dec. 13.—(ANP) — j Forty thousand dollars was approj priated by trustees of the Julius | Rosenwald Fund last week for exploration into rural education in I an attempt to improve the small

country schools and to relate their League will meet and discuss the I work more closely to rural life. possibility of obtaining a place in

Likelihood of East Side residents having a day nursery appeared to be uncertain this week in an interview with Mr°. J. T. V. Hill,

12138 Valley ave;1 nue, a moving spirit in building sentiment for a nursery school on the

East Side.

Informed that an FERA news relaese from Washington stated that in the state of North'-Carolina are 15 FERA nursery schools for colored

children Mrs. Hill declared that local FERA officials have been contacted by the East Side Civic League and given assurance that if a suitable place could be provided the Fast Side would probably Lave a day nursery school.

League To Meet

Thursday night (today) the Civic

which a FERA nursery schoo* might be located. With the J. T V. Hill Community center com pletely used for adult classes and schools without space to offer, the problem of paying rent for a place faces Ea 0 t Siders whom, Mrs. HiF declared Wednesday, “are working diligently.” In each of the nursery schools in North Carolina there are tw*-lull-time (rained teachers and two part-tiaie workers. The government supplies individual cots, and food for children who belong to unemployed parents. Play is supervised, and the youngsters are taught games, and habits of orderliness. Led by the Mothers’ club and the East Side Civic League it is hoped by many who are interested In th** betterment of the East Side that these groups will be able to get and maintain a place for a FERA nursery school and that plans will be developed for a nursery school for the employed and the unemployed.