Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1944 — Page 1
FDR. TRUMAN CLOSE DEMO RANKS
At Fort Huarhuoa, Arizona, tlie enlisted men have selected the two young ladies shown above as company “sweethearts”. They are, left to right, Miss Marguerite M’ain-
wright, of Brooklyn, N. Y„ and Mrss TJplma C. .Walker, of New York City. The selected of these “sweethearts” proved to be so popualr that the two are now being claimed by other units as their selections too.
War Tenopo Increased Negro Fliers Down 11 Nazi Planes in Italy
WITH THE U. S. ARMED FORCES IN ITALY. July 27. (AN P)—Flying as escort for ^Flying Fortresses that bom6ed a Nazi airdrome near Rome last week, a formation of Negro P-51 Mustang fighter pilots succeeded In driving off 100 Nazi fighter planes. The colored fighters were protecting the Flying Fortresses with other units of the army air force when the German planes attacked. They weie credited with downing 11 of the 66 planes the enemy lost. One of the young pilots that emerged victorious from his first real baptism of fire was Lt. Clarence D. Lester, 21, of Chicago. Lt. Lester exterminated three enencty planes during the furious 20minute battle. A, former Virginia State college football star. Lieutenant Lester won his wings at the Tuskegee Army Air field last December. While the reported American loss whs 19 planes, no special informhtion was given as to show many colored fliers were lost.
WINS BONUS FOR HELPFUL IDEA
CHICAGO POLICY KING KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
CLARENCE C. ROBINSON
Fatal Shot Answers Cry, 66 Stick’em Up
Political Stragety Race Leaders Lose In Fight for Wallace
W, WHITE CALLS 99INEGR0 PLANK
A SPLINTER'
ARMED YOUTH FATALLY SHOT TRYING HOLDUP
One youth was killed and another is being held in custody as result of an attempted hold-up of a “dead shot’' filling station attendant early Monday morning. William Lawrence Cildress, 20, 824 Meikle street, was shot fatally through the heart by James “Dad” Townsend, 59, Mooresville, Ind., night attendant at Bud’s.Service Station, 1201 Kentucky avenue, when his gun failed to fire after ordering Townsend to “stick ’em up.” Carl Clifford Rogers, 23, 917 Edgemont street, was arrested by detectives Wednesday and charged with being driver of the car used by Childress in the attempted robbery. Townsend, who shot and killed two hold-up men four years ago, told police he was servicing a bakery truck about 1:30 a. m., Monday when Childress asked to used the washroom. When he entered the station a. few .minutes later, the, (Continued on page 2, First sec.)
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1944 CHOICE OF PLANKS
ROOSEVELT’S CAREER Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32d President of the United States, born: Hyde Park. N.Y., Jan. 30. 1882. Married to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, a distant cousin, March 17, 1905. Elected New York State, Senator, 1910. Appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. 1913. Nominated for Vice-Presi-dent in 1920; defeated. Elected Governor of New York, 1928. Elected President of the United States, 1932; electoral vote, 472 to 59. Re-elected 1936; electoral vote, 523 to 8. Elected to third term, 1940, electoral vote, 449 to 82. Nomipated for fourth term, July 20. 1944.
REPUBLICAN -| ‘‘Thp payment of any poll tax ‘We unreservedly condemn the^f n °t he a condition of voting
In federal elections and we favor immediate submission of a -eonsfitutional amendment for its abolition. "We favor legislation against lynching and pledge our sincere efforts in behalf of its early en-
actment.
DEMOCRATIC
“We believe that racial and re-
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injection into American life of ap-^, peals to racial or religious preju|
dice.
"We pledge an immediate con gressional inquiry to ascertain the extent to which mistreatment, segregation. and discrimination against Negroes who are in our armed
forces are imparing morale an < 1 ^ pgious minorities have the right efficiency, and the adoption of coy! fo five, develop, and x'Ote equally
with all citizens and share the rights that are guaranteed by our Constitution. Congress should exert its full constitutional powers to protect those rights." I
rective legislation."
“We pledge the establishment by federal legislation of a permanent Fair Employment Practice commis-
sion.
AFL UNION'S FIGHT TO ENFORCE JIM CROW PRESENTS NOVEL CASE
SAN FRANCISCO. July 27.—An employer’s lawyer defending the validity of a closed-shop contract while a labor attorney supports the principle of union regulation is the paradox to which justices of the California Supreme Court are being treated. At stake is the right of the AFL Boilermaker's Union to segregate Negro workers totaly nearly 1000 in a “Jim Crow” auxiliary. On one side is the attorney for Marinship, big shipyard in Marin
v’ounty across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, supported by attorneys for the Boilermakers and the California Federation of Labor. On the other Is the attorney for the Negroes, who has a long record as a counsel for local affiliates of the CIO. Get Injunction Some months ago Negroes staged a short work stoppage to dramatize their demands for full union
Shown above is the general committee making arrangements for the national Shrine convention which meets here Aug. 13 to 16. Reading from left to right and the committees they head are: first row, seated: Noble Robert Chenault, chairman, committee on baggage; Noble Mack C. Downey. 332d. general secretary; Noble C. Watkins, 33d, general chairman; Noble Frank B. Stout, 33d, illustrious potentate; Noble James L. King, 32d chairman, housing; Noble James L. Moore, 33d, chairman of hall and place; Noble Albert Greer, 32d, chairman, entertainment committee. Second row, standing, reading from left to right, Daughters Bessie M. King, co-chairman of the program; Helen M, Owsley, advertisement; Willa Owsley, deputy, Deborah Court, No. 24; Fannie Sykes, decorating: Willa Hollins, refreshments; Susie D. Goodwin, co-chairmsn of advertising; Amelia Robinson, housing Standing in the third row, rear reading from left to right. Noble Forrest W. Littlejohn, 33d, legal adviser; Noble John H. Daniels. 32d, treasurer, Persian Temple, No. 46; Noble Bailey Coleman, 32d, illustrious recorder, Persian Temple No. 46; Noble Robert Thurman, 32d, chairman. souveniors and badges.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People today issued the following statement, signed by Walter White .secretary, regarding the section dealing with the Negro in the Democratic Plat-
form :
"To call the section on the Negro a plank is a misnomer. It is best characterized as a splinter. Badgered by professional bigots Northern political machines more
CHICAGO, July 27.—Democratic political leaders appear convinced that in Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri they have given to President Roosevelt a fourth term running mate who will con tribute to closing two serious schisms in the ranks of the Party which this national convention brought more visably
into the open.
The two breaches in Democratic harmony which the bitter fight over the Vice_Presidency both dramatized and widened before it ended in the
from tiie South and dictated to by irejection of Henry A. Wallace
interested in votes than principle, affects*
tlie Democratic mountain labored
and brought forth a mouse of eva- j L p ff° rt8 of tw o competing sion by merely asserting that rights an< f often conflicting blocs within guaranteed under the Constitution the party liberal and left-wing exist and that Congress "should l a bor on one side and conservative, exert its full constitutional powers •'ig-city machine politicians on the to protect those rights.” When the other to obtain more decisive Fourteenth Amendment was rati- f ' on t ro l °f its affairs, tied in 1868 it said better what the 2. The deepening and threatenDemocratic Platform of 1944 as- i n K revolt in the Solid South serts against the New Deal, expressed ‘‘The Platform says nohting re- most often in terms of the Negro garding the Fair Employment Prac- issue but opposed to the whole tice Committee, the poll tax, lynch- trend of the Roosevelt Adminis-
ing, mistreatment of Negroes in tration.
the armed services, discrimination ' Schisms Appeal . in employment or segregation. j Determination of the -Vice-Pres-“It is little comfort to know that i dency was the substance and symthe Democratic Convention did not ! bol ovei which these schisms were, I go further and yield to the South- | momentarily at least, rendered
! ern demand for a ‘‘white suprem- i more gaping.
i acy" plank, restoration of the two- i The decisive, 1031-to-105 secthirds rule, and repudiation of the I ond-ballot nomination of Senator
Supreme Court’s decision in the j *
Texas White Primary Case. ! (Continued on Page 3. Firat Sec.)
Supreme Sacrifice US Commends Heroic Acts of Blast Victims
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BANKS HAVE 20 MlLLiON IN BONDS WASHINGTON, D. C. (O—Negro banks and insurance companies ! have more than 20 million dollars i invested in war bonds. Atlanta Life Insurance company loads all insurance companies with $3,462,500 invested.
A suggestion which will save time and materials in the manufacI ture of an important drug has j brought to Clarence C. Robinson a
CHICAGO. 111., July 25.—McKis- 1 cash bonus and the high praise of
WILL M. COOK, COMPOSER, DIES IN NEW YORK
sack McHenry Jones, 39, youngest his employers, the Eli Lilly oom-
ot the fabulously wealthy “Jones i pany.
Brothers.” was killed instantly ear- j Out of 43 suggestions accepted
ly Friday morning when the auto- by the suggestion committee at ^ mobile in which he was riding the company plant. Robinson’s r 0 - ( passed"ias7“ week hi^the Harlem crashed into a parked car at 41st _ _ _. . u hospital here. Cook’s musical backstreet and Drexel boulevard. _ | (Continued on Page 2. First Se6.» ! Krouml inc iuded lessons from the Funeral services were held Tues-, == - . :rr= late Anton Dvorak and Josef Joa . 0hSr,h a; .h^R "°"j u LTorac B P a '^' Say Ku Klux Klan, ln Berlln ’ one of
tor,, officiating.
Jones was associated with his
NEW YORK. July 12. (ANPV Will Marion Cook, 75, famous composer formerly associated with Bert Williams and George Walker,
greatest violin teachers.
Jim Crow, Slave Treatment Break Morale of Negro Fliers At South Carolina Air Base
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27. (AN Pi—While names of those who are known to be missing in the great mystery blast that occurred here last week when stevedores were loading 7,000 tons of TNT nitroglycerine shells aboard ships for the war fronts were released Friday by the Navy, naxal citations for extreme courage in tne face of danger were announced. The citations were made by Capt. Merrill Kine, USFR, commandant of the naval magazine at Port Chicago and naval ammunition depot at Mare Island Navy Yard. ‘‘Negro personnel acquitted themselves with great credit during the explosion,” he said. “Under those conditions, regular members
brothers. Edward and George, in
German Bund Allies \ Cook became famous when he WASHINGTON T,.lv 27 f Anp^ ! wrote the music for Paul Laurence - - , vVASHJNGTX)N, July 27. (ANP) Dunbar . s “Clarindy,” the origin of
numerous business ventures that;—The Klu Klux Klan and the the cakewalk in 1898 The ghow included ownership and operation German-American bund are close- J was produced on the old Casino of the Jones Brothers Ben Frank- ' ly connected, witnesses declared as ; Roof here and had a cagt of * 40 lih store ,a chain of hotels and j.they piesent documents and pic- co i ore d performers with Ernest
"' .dairy store. i tures at the mass sedition trial /The brothers attracted national ! last week. President Roosevelt is Attention several years ago when of Jewish ancestry, some of the
sued by the federal government for more than a million dollars in back income taxes; It was charged their vast fortune was derived original-
ly from the policy lottery. ,Jones was prounounced dead up-
on arrival at the Provident hospftal where he and four other victljns were taken Immediately after
the crash.
witnesses claimed a mera ber of their composing unit. According to William Luedtke, i music for “In Dahomey” was former navo-nal secretary of the said to be his Rrestest contribu .
bund, the two groups had met in tion while with them
joint session at a bund camp in 0the ,. numbers that had conNew Jersey. He said he could rec- 1 siderable public faVor were c Abys . Ognize pictures of at least two 8inia » "Bandanna Land.” “The Klan leaders in photographs of the Casino Girls> - "Darkeytown,” and
meeting. The meeting, Luedtke “'p be Traitor ”
said was held at Camp Nordland, i Born in Washington, D. C., the
Harry Smith, advertising solicitor : N. J., in 1940. | son of Dr John H Cook p rofes . was driver of the car and suffered 1 The joint session, he declared, | sor G f j aw at Howard university lacerations about the face and was arranged by Edward James Cook was sent to the oberlin Conhead. His wife. Mrs. Awilda Smith, j Smythe and August Klapprett, both 8 ervatory of Music in Ohio at the South Parkway, and Mrs. Mar- defendants. Klapprett is a former i af?e 0 f 13 There he won a scholgaret Roles, also of 6124 South bund leader. I arship to’study the violin in BerParkway. are both confined to the j The defendants are being tried ]j n under Josef Joachim, one of hospital recovering from injuries. ! for their connection with an al- Germany’s greatest music teachers Lt. Monroe Dowling of Ft. Hua-; leged conspiracy to undermine the , After nine years in Berlin, he rechuca, Ariz.. was taken to Gard- j morale of the armed forces. 1 turned to this country to study ner General hospital. [briefly under Anton Dvorak in McKissack’s mother, Mrs. Har-; STRANGE FRUIT “CHILLED” |i895, when head of the National riette Jones, was at her summer | NEW YORK (C) — This week, Conservatory of Music here, home In Idlewild, Mich., when told Dutton Book Shop got a strange | Cook leaves a widow, Abbie ot her son’s death. His brother, ! order for their best seller “Strange Mitchell Cook, well known as an j Fruit,” by Lillian Smith. The re- acress, who played In many of her (Continued on page 2, First sec.) quest was for “Frozen Fruit.” ihusband’s early shows.
Hogan. Cook later teamed with the famous vaudeville team of Bert Williams and George Walker, as
(Editor’s Note: Because of persistent reports that the 553d Pursuit Squadron had been “railroaded’’ from Selfridge Field, Mich., to Walterboro Airbase, S. C.. for protesting segregation at the northern training field, the Associated Negro Press sent a reporter to Walterboro to obtain the facts in the case for the readers of this newspaper. What the correspondent, Ernest Johnson, chief of the ANP Washington Bureau, found is contained in three articles, the first of which follows.)
INDIANA DELEGATES to the | V. McNutt. Those with the MWC
Democratic national convention in Chicago recently greeted the state’s favorite son, whether he’s running for office or not, Paul
chief are, left to right, James McQueen, Clarence Thurston, and Robert Clark, alt of Indian-
apolis.
By ERNEST JOHNSON WALTERBOR AIRBASE. S. C.. July 27. (ANP)—Because morale of men at this airbase was reported low— Because a hero of the 99th Pursuit Squadron, back from overseas, had been dismissed from the service through court-martial, and at least two other men have been cou r t-m ar tlal ed— And because rumors of general unrest and discrimination had been reported, the Associated Negro Press undertook an on-the-spot investigation of the situation. The outfit involved is what formerly was the 553d Pursuit Squadron, which had been stationed at Selfridge Field, Mich., until May 7 when it was suddenly transferred to this South Carolina post, in the middle of Dixie and all it
REV. I. ALBERT MOORE At the instance of the Church Federation of Indianapolis and officials of Station WIRE, the Rev. I. Albert Moore, pastor of Jones Tabernacle A. M. E. Zion church, will broadcast his Sunday morning sermons from 11:30 to noon beginning August 1. The time has been donated by the station owners as a contribution to better racial relations in the
religious field.
(Continued on Page 2. First Sec.) ACEDETECTIVES GETMANWANTED FOR GA. MURDER
The end of the trail of a fugitive from justice was reached by Grover Neal, alias “Gentle” Cleveland Neal last week with his ar- ’ rest on a charge of having com- ' mitted a murder down in Georgia three and one-half years ago. At a hearing last Saturday in Criminal Court he was released in custody of Georgia officers to be returned for trial, having waived
: extradition.
, He was arrested at his home 1631 I Alvord street by Police Officer i Spurgeon Davenport on accurate information furnished by Detecj tives George Sneed and Plez Jones whose long, careful search led to j his apprehension. According to police, Neal admit-
CHICAGO. July 27. (ANP)—Uy ted the fatal shooting in January, Kelly, the last of the Kelly broth- 1941, of Henry Hendricks of ers, kings of the numbers game, | Gainesville. Ga., following an ar-
NUMBERS BARON VICTIM OF ‘TB’
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died of tuberculosis Sunday after a long illness. Funeral services were held Thursday morning in the Jackson funeral home with the Rev. James Cobb officiating. Kelly
was 50 years old.
The first brother, Ross, was killed by a fellow racketeer in the middle 30s and Walter Kelly another brother was shot and killed by gangsters in 1939. The three Kelly boys reigned over the 5-10 cent game with supreme authority awhile back when policy shops on Chicago’s South Side operated on an open scale. The Bureau of Internal Revenue in 1941, filed a claim against Ily Kelly for $420,869 for income taxes and penalties. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Suella Kelly, and a daughter,
Loretta.
gument over a woman which, Neal said, the slain man had threatened
him
INSURANCE MAN DIES
LOUISVILLE, July 27. (ANP)— H. E. Hall, founder and president of the Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance company, died at the Red Cross sanitorium Sunday morning after a series of intermittent illnesses and strokes. His death removes from Louisville and and the state an outstanding bus- ; iness man. Together with W. H. Wright, Hall founded Mammoth 25 years j company has grown to become one of the largest companies in the city, and It now extends into the j States of entucky, Ohio, and Indiana.