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Volume XL. Number 18
Indianapolis, Indiana
Saturday, March 21, 1936
Chase Of “Two-time” Girl Ends In Auto Crash
SET STAGE FOR MASS DRIVE ON SCHOOL BOARD
Political, Civic, Other Groups Will Join East Siders In Demand for New School
MEET TUESDAY NIGHT
MAN, CHASING GIRL. KILLED AS GAR HITS RAIL
Rides Six Miles On Running Board Of Speeding Car; Killed Instantly
DRIVER HELD
Man Narrowly Escaping Injury As Crash Ends Wild Ride, Faces Serious Charge Grini tragedy uiiexiM»ctedly ended a v ild automobile ride early Mini day morning, dashing a jealouslover to a horrible death, and enndenming several others to experi euces that left u trail through the rity hospital and the enmity jail. Louis (Viet Cowherd. 44. KilH North Capitol avenue, was killed instantly as an automobile in whieh he was riding on the running hoard, at a speed of seventy-live miles an hour, plunged through guard cables at a curve along Sixteenth street in the park near Harding street, smashed Cowherd’s ls»dy against the cables nearly severing it, and scattered its occupants in all directions after turn-
ing over several times-
Addison Davis. .*5!). ;il.“> Fayette street, driver of the car miracously escaping injury, was arrested and jailed on a eharge of manslaughter. The other occupants of the car, Mamie Blackwell, sweetheart of Cowherd, who lived with j him as his common-law wife; Klin I Nelson. .North Senate avenue, j fed from the scene of the accident i hut were arrested by police later, j All were released on bond after a j
preliminary hearing Monday.
The fateful ride began when j
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ATTENTION TO FAY GIRL LEADS TO MAN’S SLAYING
Record-Breaking Delegation Expected to Back Demands For Equal Treatment
Can’t Take It”
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MISS JANIE CHAMBERS Who told police she stabbed her rweetheart with an ice pick when he appeared to be too friendly
with a white girl.
Turns Turtles And Sewers Into Cash
OAKLAND Calif., March 20.— Ask Jack Dempsey Washington Tyler, his occupation and he’ll say “scientific sewer cleaner and turtle trainer.” Don’t laugh for Jack’s novel idea is bringing him a neat income. Jack trains the turtles and they clean the sewers, an employe of the federal writers project learned. Tyler fastens a small blade, resembling that of a miniature snow plow, to the turtle and starts him through a clogged drain. A pinch of powdered flies awaits the turtle at a manhole or other opening. Sometimes they show up a bit the worse for encountering a sewer rat or newt. If two are th>ee are “overdue,” a little one named “Nellie” gets the call. “Nellie”never has failed to come through, pushing or dragging her charges.
May Retire
JEALOUS WOMAN STADS SWEETIE WITH ICE PICK Woman Says She Started Fight When Sweetie Refused to Evict White Girl
Cute 9 n Everything
GIVES SELF UP Summons Police After Fleeing Scene of Struggle in Which Man Was Stabbed
BISHOP M. W. CLAIR Resident bishop of tho Covington area nf the M. E. church, whose riii-ment mav bo effected at the
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Italy Has Right To Ethiopia” Says Butler University Official
FAVOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL “NO MAKESHIFT” Editor, The Recorder: I most certainly endorse your very fine and praiseworthy effort in th€ interest of the high school students of the East side. I agree with you in that the colored citizens of this city should not be content with a makeshift high school. I also want to congratulate you on the very fine editorial with reference to the number of murders committed in this County, and I want to congratulate The Recorder for taking an advanced step in this direction.
F. B. Ransom.
The Indianapolis Recorder: As a citizen of the Eastside, I have noted the number of children that have to be transported to the one high school for our race. I know that we need a school on this side very much and am willing to cooperate in any way that I can to further the cause. I think it is a splendid idea which should have been taken care of when Attucks was first found to fce inadequate to house the .group of children matriculating there. Mrs. Beatrice Brown, 1947 Alvord Street.
“Ethiopia rightfully belongs to the Italians”, Dr. Gino Ratti, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler university, passionately asserted to members and guests of the Men’s Fellowship of the Northwood Christian church, recently. This gives Italy a technical right to annex the African nation, he
said.
"England and France promised Ethiopia to Italy in 1914 to persuade her to aid the . allies in the world war,” he said. “Then, when
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Editor, The Indianapolis Recorder: I’m deeply interested in
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(Continued on Page 4) Judge Flays Police For Gambling Here
‘•‘Gambling must be stopped in Indianapolis, and it Is up to the police to put an end to It’-’ stated Judge Joseph R. Williams, of Superior Court, Room 2. Testimony to the effect that gambling flourished was brought out in a case In his court last week. “Policemen should be aggressive enough to find the source of manufacture of baseball pool tickets and atop it. If we are going to gamble, then tho state should legalize it. We are becoming a nation of gamblers,” Judge Williams commented. “The tragedy of gambling is that It takes money from the poor.”
SENATOR WEISS AIDS PASSAGE OF MILITIA BILL
Under the guidance of State Senator Weiss, Marion County, the proi>osed amendment to the state constitution providing for the admission of colored men to the state militia hurdled its last legislative barrier and now awaits approval of the state’s voters at the coming fall elections. The measure was originally introduced in the Assembly by its author, Henry J. Richardson, representative from Marion county, in 1933, and was passed. Again, as required by the state constitution it was passed in the 1935 Legislature, but failure to include a provision for submission of the measure to popular vote necessitated a third passage by a succeeding legislature. Senator Weiss, majority leader, in the upper chamber, a staunch supporter of the measure throughout, introduced and secured necessary support for the measure at the special session just dosed. No negative votes were recorded against the measure in the Senate and only a few straggling noes in the House. i
DIXIE SENATOR BLOCKS 1935 LYNCH PROBE
WASHINGTON, March 20. — The resolution of the Senate judiciary committee authorizing a Senate investigation of lynchings
war was over, both England ! year is being buried in the France forgot their promise, ! committee on audit and control by
double-crossed Italy, and gave her ! Senator James F. Byrnes of South
nothing worth having for her part ; in the conflict.” The dean denied that any nation has actual right to own land in Africa. “The nations that annexed Arrican colonies are all thieves.” he charged, "but if they are going to rule and take profit from that continent, then Italy deserves her ■hare.” Dr. Ratti. a native of Italy cited ’taly’s need for action to protect ■>or own borders. “I hope Italy conquers Ethiopia without further interference”, he *aid. “Her victory would be to the advantage of all other nations and a step toward world peace.” Tho speaker described Ethiopia as seething with revolt against Emperor Haile Selassie. “That is why the Italians l\ave met little opposition from the Abyssinians.” he explained. “The native of Ethiopia have lived in slave-like poverty for centuries and welcome the invasion of the Italians, who bring to them the advantages of modern civilization. “More than one-half of the population of Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, are slaves, and it is this condition that Italy seeks to eliminate.” The dean charged that Ethiopia’s main source of revenue is the slave trade. "The Abyssinians sell their own people—their own children,” he alleged. Dr. Ratti asserted that Emperor Selassie dares not arm his people to fight the Italians because of fear of revolt once they have guns.
Carolina, chairman of the commitlee, says the NAACP. Senator Byrnes is adamant in his refusal *o consider appropriating $7500 for Uiis investigation, and even refuses to call a meeting of the corn-
tee.
There is considerable speculation in Washington over Senator Byrnes’s action, because he is known to he the spokesman for the White House in the Senate. Whether he is acting because he
His attention to a white girl j is believed lo have caused the fatal stabbing of Jesse Bryant by ^lis brown-skinned sweatheart. Miss jannie Chambers Parly Wednesday morning in his home. Police, summoned by the young woman shortly after a violent struggle during which she admitted she stabbed her man. found Bryant lying on his back in the living-room of his home at 316 Arch street, his left hand tightly clutching an ice pick and a small wound in his chest. Deputy Coroner John W.vttenback pronounced him dead and ordered the body sent to the City morgue. Miss Chambers was arrested by I officers Russell and Noble, members of a radio squad who answered the emergency call. She is being held on a charge of mur-
der.
At the police station, Miss Chambers, 27, between hysterical sobs, told detectives she left her home at 829 Ogden street, early Tuesday afternoon to visit Bryant with whom she had been keeping company for some time. She found there a young white girl called Julia and a white man whose name she did not know. Aroused by the action of Bryant and the other woman, she said she attempted to strike the girl after Bryant refused to order her to leave. Prevented in her attempt to beat the other woman up. Miss Chambers said she left, but returned late that night when the argument was resumed. During the fight that developed, Bryant brandished a knife, she said, which site succeeded in taking from him. When he got an ice pick'from the kitchen, they grappled and during the struggle Bryant was slabbed, she related. Police believe the wounded man extracted the weapon from his chest before he died. Not knowing what fate the man suffered she fled to her home, she told her brother, she said. A passer-by, Richard - Johnson, 312
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Stirred to the point of active opposition to the announced plans of the Board of School Commissioners to relieve the congestion of students at Attucks high school by “makeshift” additions to that institution and School No. 26, citizens of other sections of the city have announced an intention to Join East siders in a move which seeks the construction of a colored hieh school on the East side. Numerous clubs, civic, political, and fraternal organizations, par-ent-teacher associations will send representatives to join the monster delegation that will present the matter to the Board at their regular meeting* next Tuesday. Leaders of the move have requested all interested persons to meet in front of the Business Library, Meridian and Ohio streets at 7:45 p. m. The School Board will meet at 8:00 o’clock. At least five hundred persons are expected to b« p^sent as members of the dele-
gation.
Many Taking Part Taking a prominent part in the move are: Dr. Benjamin A. Osborne, president, and members of the Monday Luncheon club: F. B. Ransom, Dr. L. B. Meriwether, G. N. T. Gray, Mrs. Mary Southern, Thomas King, Mrs. Rhoda Hanley and staff of the HiH community center; the Parent-Teacher associations of Schools Nos. 37, 56, -and 26; William Haddox, officers and members of the Federated Civic League, composed of a number of East side organizations; scores of East, North, and West side pastors and church members. Spokesmen for the joint delegation will point out the unfairness of the position in which the jimcrow school system places the children of colored taxpayers of the city and the extreme disadvantag. es under which these citizens ars forced to educate them. Plans contemplated by the < School City to remedy the serious overcrowding at Attucks by small additions to that school and an East side grade school are characterized as “makeshift”- and inadequate to meet the demands of increasing numbers of colored students for a high school education.
Need Stressed
The cultural value of the desired new school, the wholesome influence its establishment would exert on the East side community, the stimulus to a- healthy interscholastic rivalry it would afford as well as the more obvious ad-
NINA MAE McKINNEY (vantages to the students residing
Sails abroad today for theatrical conquest of the Old World. You re- i * n t * ie East side district, are i « . a. . ,, , , ,| among the points advanced in famember her as cute, dazzl.ng and everything else an “it” girl should vor of , ts erection . In refutation have. Maybe some critic will say she, like Ethel Waters, is a perfect of a claim that construction of the example of modern beauty. j proposed school at this time eould
„ not be financed by the. School
Hfen SHneh Fini*h ' City * !t is pointed out that to the
iricn VIU9U LJ'UVU I contemplated expenditure of ap-
Other With /Sazor i p roxlmatel y 1350.000 for additions | could be added $300,00 which rep-
Scottsboro Trial Set for April 17
NEW YORK, March 20. — The
Swift, long swipes of a razor,
postponed trial of Clarence Norris, used alternately by two men dur-
second of the Scottshoro defendants, has been set for April 17 in Decatur, Ala., according to notice received here yesterday by the office of Samuel S. Leibowitz, chief defense counsel. Norris was scheduled to have been tried in January immediately following the trial of Haywood Patterson, but when Patterson was found guilty and sentenced to 75 years in the penitentiary, Judge W. W. Callahan post-
poned the other trials.
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ARE YOU REGISTERED? If you have moved since the last
East North street, called the off i-(general election, you must file cers at the girl’s request. transfer papers before April 6.
Mob Lynches Facing Trial
ing an argument, sent both to the City hospital in serious conditions, early this week. Walter Bush, 32, 942 Lynn st., his ear severed and a deep wound in the throat may lose his life, surgeons said Thursday. Carl Scott, 45, 765 North Elder street, who is alleged to have slashed Bush, was cut seriously about the scalp by the latter, who retrieved the razor from Scott, after he (Bush) had been cut. Both are in the City hospital. Sports This Week (Se« Page 12) Tickets for the fourth annual Butler university relays are on sale at the office of The Indianapolis Recorder now; all are general admission; box seats can ^e arranged.
resents the cost of transportation of East side students to Attucks for the next ten years—a financial burden the state legislature has decided must be borne by the School City so long as it adheres to an unfair, jim-crow system of education. Further, a federal loan could be negotiated,, to complete the costs of bringing both colored high schools to equal standards with white ones.
John Henry Lewis retains his world’s light-heavyweight championship in bout with Jock MeAvoy.
CUSSETA. Ga„ March 20.—(AN P)—“Taken” by a mob from an armed sheriff and two deputies as they were bringing him from Macon to Columbus to stand trial for an alleged criminal assault on a white woman, Phillip Baker, 35, was found lynched near here early Saturday morning. The body of Baker, a former convict, was found on the bank of a swampland lake, near a tree. There was a rope about the neck
and the body was punctured with bullets. It was discovered by a fishing party: According to Sheriff J. T. Van Horn, an armed and masked mob of between 30 and 40 men stopped the car in which he and two deputies, M. R. Hollis and Hugh Allen, were carrying Baker to Columbus and dragged the Negro from the car. They drove off with their victim. This took place Friday night near Junction City.
Baker was arrested December 31 a day after he had completed a 12 month chaingang sentence for carrying a pistol. He was charged with attacking two white women and beating a Negro woman. He was kept in jail at Macon immediately after his arrest to prevent mob violence. His trial in Chattahoochee county superior court for criminally assaulting one of the white women was due to come up this week.
J. T. V. Hill Srs. retain their third consecutive state independent chamf-^nship beating the El Amigo Big Five.
Jesse Owens will make his first appearance in a track uniform at Butler university, Saturday night to defend relay titles.
Renaissance Big Five will play their rubber game with the fast-siepping Hilgemier Packers of this city in Franklin. See page Eight.
* AIR SHAKE AND A SQUARE ROLL Are what the colored citizens of Indianapoli* are demanding of the School Board. A new high school should be built on the East side. A poll of opinion by The Recorder shows that practically the entire city population favors this project. Now Is tho time to ACT. It will be your fault if the high school children are deprived much longer of their .rightflui and just claim to a fair and untrammelled opportunity for education, the equal to that afforded white students who attend Shortridge or Technical students. Leaders of every section of the city have organized a joint delegation to present their demands to the School Board, Tuesday night. They meet at Meridian and Ohio streets, 7:45 o’clock. Every student, every citizen, every race lover, every parent, and every taxpayer should be there. JOIN THAT DELEGATION!