Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1936 — Page 2
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Home Opened Amid Pomp
'COLOBED DEMOS'
L0Cal InSingSival KTeE
(Top) Some of the participants who took part in the Bwimming carnival at Douglas park pool last Sunday are: left to right, Eva Newb©Ui Francetta Croes, and Lucille Holt, winners of the girls’ relay race; Mte* Holt placed second in the hoys’ 30-yard tree vtyle race, (Middle) left to right: Walter Ratcliff, Bunnie Pinkston, and Stanley Stevenson, all seniors of the 00-yard free style relay team; Stevenson was winner of the 30-yard free style senior event, while Johnaon placed second in the 30-yard hack stroke. (Lower) Left to right: Robert Riley, Junior Newbolt, Reginald Cross of the midget class racing and diving team; second row, left to right. Baby Smith, Junior Cross, Frank Johnson Junior Hughes, Raymond Glenn, all junior class winners; Raymond Glenn won the diving contest; back row, right to left; Henry Roach, William' Randolph, and Walter Ratcliff. The meet was sponsored by the Department of Recreation with Howard Clark in charge assisted <by other life guards at the pool; Dr. Theodore Cable was official starter. Miss Georgia Offutt, timer, ana George Gibson, keeper of records during the meet. A large Crowd witnessed the events. (By staff Photographer.)
WINTTUSKEGEE-TRAINED MEN
TUSKEGEF Ala., Aug. 20. — (AN**'—Tuc. T> ! r i' , em' > iii *»* Tuskegee Institute. Aipaonao H"".fngburg. director, is making a coun-try-wide search for TThskegee trained men in carpentry, brickmaaonry and other phases of industrial arts to be placed in profitable employment. “The demand for men trained at Tuakegee Institute has been eo great,” 'said the Personnel Director, “that it is becoming very difficult to find available teachers Who are competent and
qualified to fill the places for which there are constant requests.” Several members of the class of 1936 were placed before graduation. A large number of the May graduating class entered upon their new duties June 1; others will form their new connections on September 1. The personnel director at Tuskegee will be glad to open correspondence with any Tuskegee graduate who desires to form a desirable technical connection.
Meeting to unite and weld an invincible front as a part of the Roosevelt campaign, Omer S. Jackson, state chairman, conferred recently with sixteen persons in Democrat leadership as well as discussing new appointments to the Indiana Negro Democratic Central association. The following persons were present: Dr. J. J. Hoover, Teree Haute, association chairman; Mrs. Rhoda Hanley. Indianapolis, vice chairman; W. J. Rice, Crawfordsville, secretary; Mrs. D. E. Wood, Terre Littlejohn, Indianapolis, treasurer, Haute, assistant secretary; F. W. and Dr. J. C. Davis, Muncie; Dr. S. R. Blackwell, Gary, T. E. Graves, Michigan City; J. W. Greater. Anderson; E. L. Johnson, Jr., Indianapolis; O. Warren Harvey, Gary; Mrs. Lena Ramey, Anderson; W. H. Roundtree, Anderson; Theodore Smith, and M. A. Talley, Indianapolis.
FISHER BODY TOP AWARDS DO TO HOOSIERS
Highest honors in the statewide Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild apprentice class competition are being shared by Robert Kramer, 16 yeans old. of Plainsfield. and Law'rence R. Wilson, 17. of Kendallville. it was learned here today. Miniature traveling coaches constructed by these two triumphed over all other entries from the •State of Indiana, with the* result that each of the boys will receive $75 in cash for his efforts. Judging of the models has been in progress at the Detroit headquarters of the General Motors-spon-sored educational foundation since the close of the competition August 1. Announcement of the award winners was made in Detroit today by Guild President William A. Fisher. Besides - the cash awards going to the victors in the state, two trips to the sixth Guild convenion a Cleveland, August 26-29, inclusive, are (being offered the winners in the regional competition.
Twice Honored
BABY AMERICAN tECION POST DEDICATES BEAUTIFUL NEW HOME
E. church ami Criminal Court Probation officer, as commander of the new post received the dedicatory gavel. Other -speakers were. Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker, the Rev. F. F. Young, Commander Larkins, Dayton Ohio; Dr. S. A. I'u miss. s.,mi Col. Joseph Ward, .commander of the Y. M. C. A. post. Music was furnished by the Y. M. C. A. and Bruce Robinson post hands. A special tribute was paid to Gold Star Mothers, represented by Mrs. Anna Alien, whose three sons gave their lives for their country after serving a tciial of more than a half
century as soldiers.
The Harpole post, organized by the Rev. Mr. Skelkon a month ago has Smashed L#egion recto (is for the rapidity with which it has forged ahead. Representatives of the post wi31 attend the state Legion convention to fee held in Muncie four days beginning Aug. 22.
SHOOTS “FRIENDS" WHO WOULD LYNCH HIM
Wounds Three Mob Members Who Seek To Break In His Home During Tension At Anniston, Scene of Recent Trouble
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 19.— (ANP)—Brought here for safekeeping after he voluntarily surrendered to oflicers. Art Bush, a thin 40-year-old tenant farmer, Wednesday told hom he shot three members of a white mob, two of whom he previously considered his ‘friends”, in the latest outburst of interracial strife at Anniston, Ala., following an alleged attempt of a Negro to kidnap a
white baby.
\V. H. M. SOCIETY
ENTERTAINS
W. H. M. society of Scotts M E. church enlcrtained forfyonej uucsts at ;i r* o’clo< k luncheon last Sunday afternoon in tin- home of Mrs. Sarah Roberts. 2I3!» Columbia j avenue. Mrs. Virendta Adkins, president: Mattie Lee Smith, sec-
re ta ty.
Impressive ceremonies marked the dedication of the home of Indiana’s youngest American Legion organization, the Tillman Harpole Past, No. 249, Sunday afternoon with a large crowd braving an oppressive heat wave to attend. Several iiundioi Legiouaires, resplendent in the regulation Legion uniforms, followed by a motor caravan traversed in a colorful parade the long line of march that proceeded the afternoon’s formalities at the Harpole’s recently purchased home, 2926 Northwestern avenue. Participating in the parade and the dedicatory services were a num- | her of colored and white local post representatives. These were: the j .Vladden Nottingham post. the Bruce Robinson* post; the Garfield Park post; the Hilton V. Brown post; the Memorial post; the Beil Telephone post; the. Charles Young Post, and the Y. M. C. A. post. A continuous round of applause from spectators who witnessed the parade greeted the members of the Harpole post as they .oteppd in true military far'i I ion along the hot, dry streets. ; In the dedicatory address, Wil ' Ihur Bradshaw, judge Municip >! ; Court, reviewed the life of ti’ o j
late Lieut. Tillman Harpole, who j
was killed in the line of duty on i
the battle-fields of France during! AH the world loves a lover, ’tis the World War. The Rev. Robert | said, and all the world loves a E. Skelton, pastor of Barnes M. dog . . . yes. all the community
— loved Carlo, a little white collie dog owned by Mr?. Edith Doyle Brooks and her mother. Mrs. Gertrude Coleman, of 813 West Twen-
ty-seventh street.
Little Carle- was a faithful friend of the neighbors, \V*.ien anything when wrong. Carlo w-a,s expected to sound the alarm, and he did, to the great satisfaction of the neighbors. He seemed to sense when a caller bore ill-wili or goodwill. He was loved by the milkman, the postman, and the news-
hoy.
Carlo died Monday, August 17, after an illness of two days. He always enjoyed a trip to the market, where the purchase was placed in his mouth and he sanm tered home proudly just ahead ol his mistress.
ALL THE WORLD
LOVES A DOC
Meanwhile officer's and -tnywi^j white
were searching for another Negro ; ] ia( j wounded three mob members, would-be kidnaper Only last weekly ^ } -
known only as •Cecil as the.
MATCH EXPLODES
Mrs. Ada Thompson, operator at
farmer. He learned then he ’ th ‘ > X: " tr M <‘' Beauty shoppe, was
the victim of a mate}) explosion last week. She is imoroving.
SNOW-WHITE
F. B. RANSOM, has jaist received notice trom Congressman. Arthur W. Mitchell, of Illinois, that James A. Farley hatf appointed him to represent the National Committee among the colored people for the State of Indi- i ana. Mr. Ransom will have charge of all National Committee Activities in Indiana iso far as colored people are concerned. 'Stanley High, special advisor to the President, -has also mAtified Mr. Ransom that he has been A. Clayton Powell and Bishop named a member of the National Good Neighbor League under Rev. Wright. Mr. Ransom will represent Indiana and other (states West in this conference. He will leave early next week to meet with Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell, who is Western Director of the NSf tional Committee, and Mr. Farley.
MARRIED
Miss Emma Warner, Chicago, niece of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Warner, 404 1-2 W. Michigan street, was wed to David Miles, Jr., also of Chicago, August 19. Miss Warner has l»een the house guest of her aunt and uncle for the past week and plans to return to Chicago within a few days accompanied l>iy her husband. The newly weds wijl make their home in Chicago.
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at Anniston 150 armed guanMnen were present as another Negro, Roosevelt Collins, was tried and given the edath sentence for a rape charge as the purported victim's husband trifnl to shwl the prisoner in court. A few weeks previously another had been given i n,j n | a similar sentence an the same kind of charge, there were rumors of other “attacks,” and guardsmen had been called to quell assaults by armed whites on any Negroes
seen on the streets-.
The shooting in which Bush figured occurred Tuesday night at his home following the alleged kidnapping attempt. A mob of nincur mod white men. who took it upon themselves to hunt the abductor, appeared at the Bush home in the rural area near Anniston, and demanded entrance to search
the promise::.
Bush said he had been visited a -half hour before by another mob which wanted to search his place. He allowed a White man named Louis Hard to go through the home. Hard left in satisfaction and carried his group with him. After going hack to bed. Rush said he was aroused by members of the second mob “cussing and trying to kick the door • down." Iti the house with him were his wife, Mary, and their six children, aged from seven to fourteen. ' “I got up from bed and got my shotgun because I was scared and mad, too,” Bush declared. “Tjvey kept cussing and kicking at the door and I '.-’aid ‘Wait a minute, white folks, who is you?’ and one of them said, Tin the high sheriff from Leather wood.’ “I asked him to wait a minute but before I could say anything else they started shooting through my door. They shot first. I reckon they shot three times before I shot
any.
“I shot twice through a window with my shotgun and then went out the back door and made one more shot with my gun and two with my pistol after l got in the yard. Then I ran to the woods.” Panic-stricken, Bush remained 24 hours in a swamp near his home before surrendering to deputies at the home of R. B. Oates.
pet ted to die.
The wounded whit- were For hey Martin, iO, whose fan- was lutlf ''>lown away by a lj|>tg!un blast: and F’ai , Hicks, 24. - hot in I the hack, chest, imd'ahdom<-n. The
.1 A. I licks, hi'fjt jii-c of
Pat, received a- miner leg •' wound from a pistol hullo!. Tin- latter Hicks wa - al.-o tired at when he was one of the mob seeking Roosevelt Collins, now awaiting death in tIn- chair ai Kilby prison. Tin* two meji most 1 seriously wounder were those whom Rush thought were "friends” of hi-. He; refit tmI to admit the entire first] moll because of mistreatment of Negroes by whites when the sear.-h for Collins was taking place. Immediately after his arrest. Bush wa? brought to Birmingham to protect him from mob violence. Shortly after th'* three men were shot, a burn was burned near the i Bush home. It was l<-arn‘d later, however, that the hart! did no! belong to Bush hut to W. L. Owen, a white man who helped to reBush. Its c'itruing helped to re-
lieve racial tension.
After the disorders, a detachment of national guardsmen was sent to Anniston by Gov. Bibb Graves to prevent rioting. They i were so-n I homo after feeling seemed to have quiotc:! down. Thr-h lived about a mile from the home of Mr. and Mrs: Ullntan L. Williamson. According to the white we man, a tall Negro entered her bedroom Monday and was holding her two-months old baby in his arms when she saw Him. She says she hurled a hammer at the man who dropped the baby to the floor and fled. The infant was un-
injured.
WNkmi deputy sheriff'? arrived there, a mob had already formed. The members werf' asked to go peaceably to their home and they -agreed to do so. The woman’s husband and relatives were later disarmed by highway patrolmen. After “Cecil" was reported seen near the- Williamson home at the time of the attack, deputies began searching all homos' for the ab-
ditetor.
NAMES NINE CHI POLICE; FILES BRUTALITY SUIT
CHICAGO, Aug. 19—(ANP) — Nine white police, attached (to the 48th Street Police station in the heart of the Southside, were named defendants in a $25,000 brutality (suit filed for Orrie (Branch by Attorneys George A. Blakely and Sidney A. Jones, representing the Chicaigo branch of the NAA.CP. The officers from whom damages are sought include John Dawe, Peter Keeley, Michael Kelly, James Woulfe, Peter Mayer, Patrick Kelliker, Thomas 'Bellos, Frank M. Butcher and Harold E. Colander. This represents what is called “one of the most! shocking exhib-
its of police brutality ever brought to the attention of the association.” On March 11, according to Branch, he was held up by two gunmen. A squad car containing Dawe and Michael O’Connel came by and the bandits opened fire. Branch was shot twice in his right leg and Dawe was, wounded in the abdomen. Branch got a motorist to take him to the 48th street station where he reported the incident and was accompanied toy police to Provident hospital for first aid. While at Provident, another) squad car containing Woulfe, Co-
lander, and others drove up. They arrested Branch, took him to the hospital where Dawe lay and asked the wounded officer if he was one of the men who shot him. When the policeman identified Branch as his assailant, the officers' attacked the wounded man and fractured his jaw in two places, according to the complaint. He was carried back to the police station and charged with a breach of the peace which failed to hold up in court and ree-ul-ted in his freedom. Branch, 41 years old and married, was a WPA laborer up until the time of his injury.
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