Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1935 — Page 1
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Stork Deals Triplets To Muncie Woman
Quintuplets are royal flush win- r.uch a set rests upon Mrs. WUBers in anybody's world these liam Holland, mother of the first days, but triplets are still a com- triplets born in Muncie, Ind., in bination of aces very rarely beat- many years. Mrs. Franklin Rooseen. Enviable honors for drawing velt, wife of the President, has
been asked to name the three bouncinb baby girls born May 9. Mr. and Mrs. Holland live at 1101 E. Jackson street and have two other children.
Two of the triplets weighed five pounds each at birth and the other tipped the scales at six. Triplets occur once • in 8,000 tirths, medical records show.
Case; Retrial Is Ordered
SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 29— (Special to the Recorder)—A retrial will mark the second round Of the determined fight being waged by Charles H. Wills, Justice of Peace, to win a conviction against a white restaurant operator for an alleged violation of the civil rights bill. This became known today when Special Judge John W. Pfaff dismissed a jury in South Bend City court when it was unable to reach a '^verdict after many hours of deliberation.
A court room packed with colored and white spectators followed intently the brief course of the trial. Little time was consumed in the
another section of the counter, intimating that no colored persons were served there.. Mr. Wills says he objected and left the restaurant. Shortly afterwards he caused a
men at the time were remodeling the restaurant, endangering patrons who sat in front. This, he claimed, constituted no violation of civil rights covered by the statute.
Result a Surprise
Report of a hung jury cape as a
state statute which forbids discrim- j surprise and disappointment to ination on account of color. many persons who have followed The ‘prosecution was assisted by the case closely.
selection of the jury, all white, warrant for Tsarpalas’ arrest to be though the names of colored per- issued, charging violation of the}
sons were included in the venire.
Points to “Trick”
In clear even tones, Mr. Wills i
told how he had entered the res- Attorneys J. Chester Allen, Robert' Preparations fo rthe retrial were taurant operated by George Tsar- Grant and Ziford Carter. | begun immediately, Mr. Wills anpalas, seated himself and asked for The defendant sought vainly to nouncing that efforts to win a vera sandwich and some beer. He convince the jury that the change diet of guilty, which carries a Jail said a waiter brought him some of seats had been requested, not sentence of thirty days, would be water, requesting him to sit at from prejudice, but because work- pushed as vigorously as before.
VOL. XXXIX INDIANAPOLIS, IND
7c In State 10c Elsewhere
SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1935
Sentenced For Marrying White Woman
MICHIGAN CITY. Ind
31.— (Special)—For the iirst time in many generations, a couple has l>een convicted and sentenced for violation on an Indiana law that
May prohibits marriage of white and colored persons. Bryan Weaver. 10. was sentenced to serve one-to-ten years recently for marrying Mrs.
Marie Eckert, 2(5. white.
SLAYER FACES
ift
CHAIR
Public Angered 99 At ‘Whitewash’ ! Superior Court Judge May by the prosecutor, the effort quickSubmit Case To Special ] > subsided, however, when It was
Grand Jury Soon
BOYCOTT GROCER
Convicted Man Loses Appeal
HOLD WfICERT IN CONSPIRACY
SPEAKER
Man Convicted of Murder During Hold-up Loses Plea
For Executive Clency PRONOUNCED SANE
Ind.. June
Half of Life Spent In Penal ( _; AR y Institutions; Gov. Appoints a conspiracy among
Sanity Commission
1.—(AXP> — a number of
railroad detectives to eonvict innocent Negroes was uncovered here, ! and as a result, ten are under ar- ; rest. It was alleged that they charged their victims with thefts from box ears in the railroad yards of the (’alumet distrkt. They were
Olivet Griggs. 32 year old Gary man convicted of murder, will die in the electric chair June 14. Attempts of Roscoe L>. Guy, Gary,
to secure a tommutatiou of sen- protecting a box car theft ring,
fence by Governor Ibwil V. McNutt, was believed to have failed following a conference he had with the
governor last week.
Griggs was convicted of the murder of Bnla Oscran during a hold
up lust year.
Guy told the governor that Griggs Was of low mentality and had spout almost sixteen years of his life iu penal institutions in* Indiana and Illinois, his mother having died wher he was nine years old at his native home iu Johusouville,
Tenn.
TWO HUNDRED GRADUATEHO HEAR CARTER G. WOODSON AT EIGHTH ANNOAttKHMENGEMENT
TO OUR CREDIT
Vesper Program
The program arranged
for the
DR. CARTER WOODSON Famous -historian, lecturer, and statistician, who will make the commencement address at the Attacks exercises
(By LEE A. JOHNSON)
A new day will dawn June 4th in (lie lives of two hundred young hoys and girls whose future has hcen shaped by four years of scholastic preparation at Crispus At- 1 tucks high school of which Rus- | sell A. Lane is principal. The commencement exercises will 'be the eighth annual; the principal speaker of the evening will lie Dr. Car-
ter (i. Woodson; the exercises will! . , i take place at Cadle Tul»ernacle at Priests . . Mendelssohn. K:00 p. m. i 1 nvocation Bron. , .... i . (Boys Glee Club) I)r. Woodson, nuthoi-educatoi- j^ Urn j Ur j n g Zephyrs—Saar-Jensen. editor, has a we 1 founded back-, (Glrls G lee Club)
ground upon which enables him to j A(UIr( , ss _ Dr . farter G. Woodson.
Washington, D. C.
vesper services is:
Invocation—Bishop Wood, liifluuimatus—Rossini.
(Mixed ('horns)
Sermon—Bishop Wood. f
Solo—Harry Franklin Benediction—Bishop Wood.
The, program for the commencement exercises ih as follows: Processional: War March of the!
The following men are out on ( bond facing the charges: .1. E. Young, R. I*. Steen. J. C. Sheets. | and F. A. Harris. Chicago, employees of the Erie railroad; J. E. Jones and Harry Bowden. Ham niond, employees of the Monon railroad ; Frank Helin, Ned Russell, and James White. East Chicago, employees of the Elgin. Joliet, and Eastern. One more, whose identity is being concealed is to be ar-
rested. 'school children will lw> transported Charges of assault and battery to and from city schools free nrxl
with intent to kill were
REPORT PLANS FOR FREE RIDES
have command of knowledge and experience as a speaker on “A New Thought in the Education of the Negro”, the subject of his address. Hi> A. B. and M. A. degrees were earned at the University of Chicago hack in 11)07-08; four years later he earned his Ph. I), degree at
Ode To Ethiopia—Merrifleld. (Community Chorus) ORCHESTRA Presentation of Diplomas—Paul
C. Stetson.
(Supt. of Public Schools)
Awarding' Scholarships—Russell
Retaliate For Refusal To Tell Truth to Grand Jury Expense Drive Started
j Approximately 1100- colored
At the conclusion of the confer- against all of the men with the latence the governor told Mr. Guy. ter thiv*e facing charges of si< “A Jury of laymen and a jury of hordination of perjury, experts appointed by me found him An investigation by Judge Wil sane, and that is tin* only ues- liam J. Murray of Lake irimiual tion involved. court, and on the testimony of sev
schools in and about Washington. He was at one time principal of Douglass high in Huntington. W. Va.. and at Armstrong high, Wash-
phired V( ,. ir ,, f rt ( . os( of $3^000, the hoard inglon, D. (’. He was dean of Libof School Commissioners have an- eral Arts at Howard University and pounced. at West Virginia State College. He At their regular meeting Tuesday slant inueh time as a traveler in night, .the hoard adopted a' rejiort Europe, Asia and Egypt. Today lie of a eomrnittee apiioiiited this spring 1 edits the Journal of Negro history, to solve the problem created by a a publication which lie founded iu
Harvard University after which he! A L p rincipa i Urispus Attacks, studied at. the .Sorbonne in Paris. T aml R eV eilie—James Cork
His experiemes varied m nmny , p. , st n
fields starting a teacher in various '. . . , v .
Norman Merrifleld and Rubye
Harris will direct various choruses.
SOUTH BEND, Inc!., May 31.— (Special) — Public resentment at nnUkife of Ideal constituted authorities to make any gesture in the direction of justice hi the alleged atrocious shooting of a helpless colored boy by a police officer is rapidly reaching the proportions of a political tornado, a survey of the local situation shows today, f Economic boycott, threats of political reprisals, and manouevers to secure judicial redress are, pro- ! jectiles being massed for an attack j by an aroused public, enraged at the brazen refusal of the St. Joseph comity prosecuting attorney George Rulison to present the evidence of the alleged unwarranted shooting of 18-year-old Arthur Owens by Patrolman Fred Miller nearly two
to the Gra,ul jl,ry vvitli | indict** was treacable'To Ve blind
prejudice on the part of the prose
pointed out that under the Indiana statutues the approval of affidavits is discretionary with the prosecutor and in the event he fails to give such approval, the affidavit
becomes null and Void. May Use Otter Methods
Probability that the impasse created by the refusal of Mr. Rulison to jfollow what cltixpns call his "dear path of. dutxC Wilt removed* was seen in the announcement by Judge J. Elmer PCek, Superior court, under Authority granted him by a law enacted by the 1035 legislature, publication of which is expected momentarily, he . would present the charges against the p«- « lice officer to a special grand jury for action. Judge Peek also said he would see to it that colored people were represented on the jury. Leaders of the Citizens commit tee are considering as a last resort, an appeal to Attorney Gen-
eral Phillip Lutz.
Judge Charles H. Wills and Attorney J. Chester Allen, who have taken prominent parts in the organized effort to bring the offending officer to justice, declared that the failure of the grand jury to
JESSE OWENS Speed demon, whose feat of breaking three world’s records and equaling a fourth in one day has never before been equaled in modern times. Owens now leads a group of famous colored athletes whose performances have proved the calibre of their race in athletic competitions.
his approval. Reds Active
Great apprehension is being felt by both white and colored leaders of the community over the gravity of the situation which they say lias been aggravated by the activity of Communists. Numerous meetings which it is
i cutor.
Stage Boycott
Feeling among colored people of the city has reached a high pitch. Their keen resentment of the refusal of Benjamin Tyczyneski, the white manager and owner of a grocery store, who was an eye wit-
hclicved are designed to inflame liess testify to the facts has led
the colored population are being j staged by alleged ••Reds”, who are
The governor has taken no fulfil- eral of the victims was the basis |., vv p aMSf . ( j ), v t | u , | asr legislature 1 lt>1(5.
er action in the case
of the indictments.
NINETY-FIVE GRADUATE FROM ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL
requiring school officials to furnish J As an author he wrote the foltrausportatioii to school to colored lowing books, pamphlets, and mugchildren who live more than one|aziiie articles: (a few of his works)
GARY PRINCIPAL GIVEN HUGE TESTIMONIAL BANQUET AFTER TEN YEARS OF SERVICE
urging colored persons to demand
equality of justice.
to a boycott by the colored people who practically supiiort the store. It is located at 1604 Liston street, in the heart of a colored neighlwr-
At one meeting attended by near- The boycott has been organic iUO persons. Communist speak- an d directed by the Sanhedron ers are said to have asserted dur- l, ub They c |, aripe tht , sh ooting ocmg a scorching attack on white op- cure( j j n f on t; 0 f j^e store and the pression of colored workers, that f ore jg ner was standing In the door-
they (Communists i were ready to[ w ., r a f. j.j ie tj rae
600 Attend Benefit
shed their blood along side of Ne-l"' 1 ^ groes in their tight, for right and I
justice. On good authority it wa., 1 Money to carry on the prosecuh a rued the great majority of Mio tion of the case is being raised by
GARY. Ind.. June 1.—Ninety five Seniors of Roosevelt high s<4iool were presented their diplomas by Di. William A. Wirt, superintend ent of schools, in the tenth annual commencement exercises which were held in the Roosevelt audi-
tor iuu).
Ford Vessels To Move
mile from their own school, if their home is one-half mile nearer to a school for white children than
for colored.
Members of the committee were: Paul ('. Stetson, superintendent of schools: A. B. Good, business director. and W. A. Hacker, assistant!
‘The Education lV!or to 1861”.
of the Negro
GARY. Ind.. June 1—Ten years of service climaxed an appreciation
•*A Century of Negro Migration”, banquet here for Roosevelt high
It‘18.
"The History of the Negro Church”. "The Negro in Our History”. "Negro Orators and Their Ora-
Tons
Vessels of the Ford Motor Company fleet will move hundreds of I thousands of tons more raw materials and finished cars and parts during the forthixuning navigation
Kev. Frederick D. Jordan deliv-1 nonTicwl 1 ^^Dearborn Mic^od'"^ the baccalaureate sermon at 1 The entire fleet is now in commis-
sion for the season.
superintendent in charge of social tions”
service. | "Free Negro Owners
Advantage to Attucks in the U. S. in 1830”.
273 children in the elementary I “Free Negro Owners of Slaves
si-jhools and 783 children in the j in the U. S”.
high school were found who come i “The Mind of the Negro within Hie provisions of the law 1 fleeted in Letters Written and will lie furnished transporta- The Crisis, 1800-60”.
Sieves
i
as ReDu ring
tion.
ered
the First A.M.E. church before a pocked auditorium. The Roosevelt mixed chorus sang The Heavens Are Telling” and “Lend On. O King Eternal" whole Catherine Hughes, a member of file '35 class
sang “To Build Is Joy.”
Ushers for the exercises were luendiers of the honor group of the Junior class which included : Douglass Fletcher. Joyce Tatum, and Dorothy Davis assisted by faculty
members of East Pulaski.
The total cost of student transportation next year will he $35,500, the report says. This sum includes:
$1,800 for a clerk to keep records. I rntvvvtt?r F r FX f= CUti ,°?,_ *^ r EDDYVILLE, Ky. (Special) t 0 enter the school system next Permission to take a nap was the year: $5,000 now being' spent for request of James Smith, aged 30, the transportation of colored ehilbefore he was executed. dren, and $2,500 for the trnnsportSmlth calmly stretched out on his ation of white children. cell bunk and slept for about an Street cars and regular busses hour before he was electrocuted, (of the street railway company will l>e used exept in cases of Schools
No. 37 and No. 42 where special
busies will be provided.
Included in the appointment of 1900 teachers, principals, directors.
BRADY RITES FRIDAY Last rites for Mrs. Beatrice Brady will be held from Emmanuel Baptist
**•»... i „ii e/Owtior church Friday afternoon at l:nn n m. .* , 1 ; . . The first annual all citj scholar-, She a , her hl)me 1624 g heldon supervisors and social service
tic convocation exercises were held street after a month’s illness. Her workers by the Board of School and Travels of Bishop Wood
In Memorial auditorium at which husband, mother and two time class members from Roosevelt 8U g^ e ve wa8 a high took part. i church worker.
prominent
Her workers by the Board of
brothers Commissioners Monday were more
eastside , ,, ~~ _
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“African Myths". In 1926 he was selected Spingarn medalist and is generally known as a preserver of Negro records. Bishop Wood Speaker Bishop John Wesley Wood of the Afro-American Methodist church will be the vesper speaker Sunday, June 2 in the auditorium of Crispus Attucks high school at 4:00
p. ni.
Bishop Wood is a long time resident of Indianapolis and is well known in national and local fields
of religion.
Bishop Wood received his education at Lagrange Academy. Morris Brown college. Moolly Bible School, Livingstone College; he is author of “Lyrics' of Sunshing” and “Life
For
many years he was a teacher in the public schools of Mornetta County, Georgia.
school and its principal, H. T. Tatum at which time more than two hundred guests attended. The testimonial affair was held in the school
cafeteria.
The first part of the program was in the form of a history of the progress and development of Roosevelt high since it was founded here; the other half reviewed the work of the principal in Gary
and other fields.
The first principal of Roosevelt high, J. W. Stamiley who headed the school in 1925 when its enrollment was but 27 discussed the start
of Roosevelt. He is
Tolleston high.
J. L. Reddix, member of the faculty. spoke on “Roosevelt High Today” as the next speaker on the program closely followed by Miss Evelyn Baptiste who holds the distinction of being Roosevelt's first graduate. Her subject was “Roosevelt’s First Graduate.” A parent Views Roosevelt” was the topic of Atty. F. L. Anderson. Albert A. Edwards reviewed the services of Tatum as Principal of McDonogh high in New Orleans, La., and as a director of teacher training there
preceeding his work here.
Mrs. Thelma Marshall, social service worker, was loud in her praise of Tatums work in connection with juvenile cases and deal-
ings with social problems. Rev. Frank S. Delaney, pastor-Supt.. of the Stewart settlement house praised Tatum’s value to the community. W. P. Cottingham concluded the testimonials. Mrs. James A. Patterson, secretary. made a few brief remarks as did Dr. James Lraig, treasurer of the Gary Board of Education.
attending the meeting were heavily armed. No attempt was Auadfe
by police to interfere. ^
Bloody outbreaks between the
races are not unexpected. Shot With Anns Raised
Fourteen eye witnesses to the shooting of Owens April 9 by Miller are unanimous in their statements j that the officer shot the youth as I he stepped unresisting from an automobile with hands raised in obe-
Mrs. Ida D. Guy, of the faculty j dience to the officer's command to presided at the banquet. Music j halt. The officer said he suspectwas furnished by Walter L Mur-Jed the car of having been stolen, ray. faculty soloist and tenor of The first wave of public indigthe Coleridge-Taylor Cleft club and nation was smoothed with a promMiss Naomi Hay man. piano soloist, by Mayor George F. Freyermuth Mrs. Leota Senimes directed mass that a thorough investigation would
singing.
The banquet committee chairmen
now heading | j IK .] U( j fk yj rs An „i e g. Johnson, Mrs.
Anne Smith. James A. Rickman, Mrs. Inex B. Brewer, Mrs. Lilia Duncan, Miss Hope Dennis, Mrs. Ida Wood. Mrs. Kathleen Bingham. Mrs. Mabel Cox and Mrs. Alberta
Newsome.
Tatum joined the Gary schools in 1925 as principal of the former Virginia street school. In 1928 he became principal of the Pulaski school and in 1933 was promoted to the principalship of the all-Ne-gro Roosevelt high school. Seated at the Speakers’ table with Mr. and Mrs. Tatum were Circuit Judge T. Joseph Sullivan, Juvenile Referee Emmett N. White. Principal George Russell. Bouquets of flowers were presented to Mrs. Tatum and Mrs. Patterson.
be made and such action warranted by the facts developed would be
taken.
Say Prosecutor Is Prejudiced An affadavlt charging Officer Miller with voluntary and involuntary manslaughter was signed by Lafayette Owens, uncle of the boy slain, and presented to Prosecutor Rulison. Despite the fact it was known to him that there were fourteen eyewitnesses to the shooting. Mr. Rulison refused to approve the matter to the grand jury. Citizens reported a further offense to the dignity of their race when the prosecutor frequently refered to Owens’ companion as “darky". First reaction to the failure of the grand jury to return an indictment was made by leaders of the Citizens committee who sought to secure a mandamus to force action
popular subscription. A large amount was raised May 24 when more than 600 persons crowded the Sunset Inn to attend a iieneflt ball sponsored by the Colored Men's Democratic Club of St. Joseph
county.
The audience gate frequent signs of positive approval of the protest by vehement applause that punctuated speeches by Mrs. A. T Stanley, president of the Civic Improvement league and Judge Charles H. Wills. Otha. Lee Hill, chairmen of the arrangements coin* mittee announced that the meeting place had been donated by Mrs. Irene Boswell, propqletressi with music furnished by the ‘Paradise Night Owls”.
TWINS BORN TO CITY COUPLE
Twins, both girls were born to Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Edwards. 52G N.- West street, recently. Mrs. Edwards is the former Miss Martha Jackson, sister of Mrs. Lulu DunnHall of the Peoples Burial Company. The husband, Solomon is a teacher in Roosevelt high school, Gary, Indiana. Both are graduates of Butler University here, and are popular among the younger set. They have a son, Solomon B„ Jr.
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