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POLICE BEUEtE

ICon* from Paoe 1—P'lr*t Soctlon) bors hearing: a commotion frightened, the attackers away. According to detectives, the men leaped from windows, and one was believed to have suffered a sprained ankle. Later, police were told, a man with a swollen ankle, made a statement in a tavern on Northwestern avenue that he had killed a man and had overlooked some money In the robbery. Officers learned that DeOraffenrecd had been in the Weidenhoft home as an employe of a housecleaning contractor, Roger Carey. 2702 Boulevard place, who had withheld the suspected man’s name from a list requested by police for fear of hurting his business. Police said DeOraffenreed had a long record on assuit and battery charges with intent to kill with convictions in other states and a federal narcotics charge.

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(Cont. from Page 1. rlret Sec.) traved their husbands to the enemy. The capture of flying bomb sites brought reports from Frenchmen who lived in the neighborhood that the he mi s killed many German soldiers who launched them. Men had to be conscripted to operate the launching ramps because of the extreme danger of the assignment. Bombs often exploded as 1 hey were being launched. Sunday. I met Harry Cooper, trumpet-player from Kansas City who had just been released from an internment camp after four years of imprisonment. He formerly played with famous bands here and hack in the States. Arthur Briggs, another trumpetplayer. was also just released. Briggs directed the band in the internment camp and was camp bugler. When the Americans got close to Paris, the Germans opened the gates, releasing all of the prisoners. then fired into the camp killing several who had been left because of lack of transportation. Cooper is married and has a son. Among the thousands of returning prisoners are many American musicians.

Continued from Page l. First Sec.) ing accommodations regardless of race or color. It w'as pointed out that the tiny Negro population of Bloomington could not possibly house all of the colored students and that the university would house none. Thereupon it was firmly and impartially reasoned that “the only fair, just and permanent solution to the problem at Indiana university is a complete integration of the Negro- students into the dormitory life of the campus." Consequently, a telegram w'as sent to Governor Sfchrlcker covering the findings of the executive committee. When measures w f ere taken by the governor toward a solution to the problem, Wells, president of the institution, stated that many white students . had been denied admittance because of the lack of adequate living quarters and that there w T as no race issue involved. Members of the NAACP executive committee who initiated the action which brought about the reverse in the policy of interracial housing on the campus at Indiana university included: Mrs. Priscilla Dean Lewis, president; Dr. R. B. McArthur, chairman; Dr. Lucian B. Meriwether of the City Council; Starling James of the Federated clubs,- Andrew Ramsey of the Interracial Council; Charles V. Turner of the Cement Finishers Union; Dr. O. Calhoun of Phillips Temple, and Drs. I. Albert Moore and J. A. Alexander of the InterDenominational Ministers’ Alliance.

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FRED HURD

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he had been employed as Linotype operator for 20 years, he considered it his duty and privilege to contribute his all in support of the war effort, by remaining at all cost on his job, which was helping to print vital news that keeps the community aware of the war’s and Nation’s progress. .One of the outstanding residents of Franklin, Hord stood for all that is fine in life, and held the respect of both white and colored. As chairman of the King Street USO, he was instrumental in gaining for this city the fine new build ing located on West King street. Having served as both trustee and treasurer of the Second Baptist church. Hord at one time had been grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias lodge in Indi-

ana.

Born at Noblesville. Born February 15. 1876, in Noblesville. Mr. Hord became an orphan before he was 10 years of age. and he attained success the hard way. His mother died when he was three years of age and his father succumbed six years later. Only one of several children of John and Jane Dempsey Hord to reach maturity, he entered the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home in Knightsto-wn at the age of nine, and it was there he learned the printing trade — back in the days when type was

set by hand.

Following graduation from the institution he returned to Nobles- j ville and for 30 years was employ- ) ed as a printer and Linotyper for j The Noblesville Daily Ledger. | For a short period Hord went to Indianapolis to work for George L. Knox on the old Indianapolis ■ : Freeman. However, he was there ! but six years before returning to !

Noblesville.

MISS ANNE*GRAY of Pittsburgh is the “Sweetheart" of the month at Fort Huachuca. As the sister of CpI. Frederick Gray of the

333rd Ordnance Battalion, she was -elected by that unit. Miss Gray is a student of Duquesne’s School cf Music, Pittsburgh.

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MUNCIE, Ind.. Sept. 7—Wanted ; in Montgomery. Ala;; to face chargj es of rape, burglary, grand larjeeny. and robbery with intent to | ravish, Worley James Hart. 40, was returned to that city late Fri- ! day afternoon by officers of the Montgomery police department. Hart was also wanted as a suspect for the murder of Ester Drew, 19. white, the wife of an army captain at Montgomery on last ; June 15th. Police explained that ! the woman’s body was found in a ditch near that city, stabbed and mutilated. Alabama police want to question Hart concerning this case. Fingerprints linking his name with a number of possible crimes, f FBI agents also desire to question Hart regarding the murder of a

woman in Washington. D. C.

Arrested by Chief of Detectives Don Sipe and Officers Robert Stephens and William Dragoo on Aug. 20, for choking and robbing Miss Maxine Jones. 20. of 809 East Seymour street. Hart had been held in jail here since Aug. 20. Police stated that they found Miss Jones’s purse on Hart’s person at

the time of the arrest.

Upon searching Hart at police headquarters, officers found a billfold containing social security papers and other identifications, the J property of Jack Cobb of Montgomery. Ala. Cobb and his wife, I white, were allegedly beaten and I robed by a Negro at Montgomery, j In addition to the burglary, grand larceny, and robbery charges ,two charges of rape are pending against | him. Records revealed that he ! had previously served time in an ! Alabama penal institution for j ape

| lion, and home missions.

The program for this session was I made at the executive beard meeting held during the recent session of the Sunday school congress in Houston, Texas. The convention • membership comes from the forty-

eight states in the Union, the

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MEMPHIS. Sept. 17. IANP1 America, the Republic of Panama.

'With a religious setting that was ,j le Dcminion of Canada. South To Franklin in 1924. flattering and with a city welcome an( j Coast Africa.

He went to Franklin in 1924 K ave to p< ?, pu !f' ! Officials serving aside from Dr. to accept employment on The Star. ' ti°' n here in the "Bluff City, the p r j ncCi are: Rev. C. D. Pettaway, He was married August 9. 1896. metropolis of Tennessee, the Na- first vice-president, Little Rock, to Miss Stella Vaughn of Nobles- tional Baptist Convention of Amer-; A| ^ c . p ev . s. A. Pleasants. Jr., ville. * ca °P ene d its sixty-fourth Annual- secon d vice-president. Houston, He is survived by the widow. Session here on Wednesday nwi' 11 ': Texas; Rev. A. \V. Jackson, assisMrs. Stella May Hord; four sons. Sept. 6. in the First Baptist ant secretary, nosenburg, Texas; Earl Hord of The Pittsburgh Cou- church. Beale avenue. known j^ ev Goins Daniels, assistant rier, Pfc. Clifford Hord. who is throughout the nation as the Beale se( . re tary, Georgetown, S. C.; Rev* stationed at Robbins Field, Macon, I ^ reet Baptist church. Woullard .assistant seciv!a.; John Hord. at home, and Noel jThe entertaining pastor is the Re*, itary, Hattiesburg, Miss.; Rev. E. Hord of Kokomo. Ten grandchil- G. A. Long, I). D. A reception. up-|C. Dyer, assistant secretary. Little dren. and one great-grandchild also holding the reputation of Memphis, Rock. Ark.; Rev. W. M. Grimble, survive. is extended to the hundreds who corresponding secretary- AlexanGrandchildren include Edgar are in the eity-to take part in the i dria. La.; Rev. A. L. Roach, field Hord, Stella Mae Hord. Mrs. Von- sessions of the parent body, the secretary, Indianapolis, la Burwell. Betty Jean Hord. Earl Women’s auxiliary, the Laymen’s There are a number of hoard, in Hord. Jr., and Marve Joe Hord, all league and the Junior convention, the Convention with a chairman, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Dawn Hord and The sessions are being preside! corresponding set”.clary and otner Wilma Jean Hord. both of Frank over by the Rev. C. _ L. Prince, officials, such as the home mission, lin; Freddy Lee Hord and Gloria D. D.. the president, from Galves- foreign mission. Women’s auxiliary Ann Hord. both of Kokomo. The ton. Texas; while the Women’s educational. B. Y. P. U.. railroad, great-granddaughter is Marcia Hord auxiliary is being directed by Mrs. benevolent, publishing and the

CHURCH GIVES $1000 TO TEXAS SCHOOL FUND Members of Indianapolis churches, in an interdenominational ef- I fort, contributed approximately $1,000 for the rebuilding of the j buildings of the St. Paul Industrial ; and Training school at Malokoff, j Texas, destroyed by a tornado in |

December, 1943.

The contributions of the church- j es were reported at a mass meet- I ing at the Mt. Paran Baptist church last Sunday, the actual sum raised being reported as $924.15. Mrs. Alice W. Smothers, principal of the school, which has made an Important contribution to the i nation's .food supply during the war, expressei thanks for the generosity of the religious groups of this city. Officials of the school, hacked Ly school authorities of Texas, are asking a rebuilding fund of $200,000 evenly divided between the races. Texas makes only a limited appropriation to private Negro schools she said. Mrs. Smothers will be guest speaker at the Moody Bible Institute. Oct. 25, at the invitation of its head. Dr. H. A~ Ironside, who has made a persona] contribution to the rebuilding fund for the school. He lies long been an interested student in Negro problems. Later, Mrs. Smothers will undertake a campaign in Detroit,

before going Eas*.

Churches making contributions

were as follows:

Metropolitan Baptist. First Baptist (North Indianapolis). Mt. Carmel Baptist. New Bethel Baptist, Pilgrim Baptist, Simpron Method 1st, Antioch Baptist, Jones Tabernacle A. M. E. Zion, Fouth Calvary Baptist, Shiloh Baptist New Era Baptist. Macedonia Rapt'st, North j3i.de Baptist, First Baptist (West Indianapolis). St. Paul Baptist. Mt. 1 Helm Baptist, Mt. Olive Baptist. Eastern Star* ftaptist. Fust Baptist (Irvington), Be'ttei A. M. E.. Bethlehem Baptist. St Jam% Methodist, Twenty-fifth Stree* BapfisA. New Baptist. Witherspoon Presbyterian, Second Christian. Good Samaritan Baptist, Mr. Paran Baptist. Mt. Paran Bapt.sv Emanuel Baptist. Mt. Moriah Baptist. Church of Christ, Holiness Church, Indiana Baptist, Women’s Convention.

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M. A. B. Fuller, president. The Laymen’s league convention is

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(Cont. from Page 1, Section 1) croachment of Negro home-owners

will not he tolerated.

t ^ Not all of the residents of this evangelical boards, all of which ^ a .'. 01 1 * ie ( i en i a I right will make reports, according to the ^ any _ ( , ltlzen to Purchase homes program, at stated times during k- Finch. 1175 West the a^ssion. p L e , s l deI l t - of the ^orth

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tenced from the Delaware Circuit their chief executive. Mrs. Hattie, . — „ T1 Court for forgery. Last spring Williams of Alexandria. La. eational board, supports the Geor- IV d , 4 r f“ po . t ^I, an " Dr - R ;. B -1 Hart was acquitted by a Delaware These groups will remain in ses- gia Baptist College at Macon; the ’ tnur ’ N A At P representative^, j County jury of raping Corrino sion until Sunday night. Sept. U>. Lynchburg Theological 'Seminary ‘ 01 ^nization aware of | Hart, no relation to Worley Jame- The official program has announced in Virginia; the Florida Normal L nt „ a Pumber * es1 ' Hart. the general theme of the eonven- and Industrial Institutp a) St. Au- nrs . <t 1 , sec ’tion. had been tion as “Christian Faith and Con- gustine; the Guadalupe College at f . oimt U Aug. 3. at School No. 41. (

structive Social Action." Seguin, Texas and the Mary Allen 01 . e fPecific purpose of pre-

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w#% _. During the week every board. College in Crockett. Texas, while ' oati ng. if possible any serious j ns before the sixty-fourth annual j n Houston. Texas, with an Y 0 U N r r D/r//v7f which is an arm of the convention, the Foreign Mission Board sun- ra(1 ai • outbreak in the event col- session of the National Baptist enrollment of Sunday schools B [ / v W** $ and which carries out the work of ports more than twenty missiona- persons moved into the dis- Convention of America in session g tate an( j District Conventions. Od- __ _ _ _ _ | f the conventioai during the interim, l ies in Africa, Bermuda. Nassau. n< ’b ’V Jth a membership of 500. here at the Beale street church oanized Classes. B. Y. P. U.. Min11 p lip MwM f will make a report to the parent i Liberia and Panama. e 8a , le 1S hoping to keep down Henry Allen Boyd submitted the j s « e rial and other deoarlments \t nc H ECU »Y\S14; body. The objectives of the con- • . • , roub ^ b ! lt ( > f the opinion that annual report of the National Ban- Jhe conclusion oV .he 4 port, which vention, as announced by Dr. >F YOUR orgamza-eian aemanos ^ b e time being^ other colored Hst Publishing Board of the Na- j s a p art G f t h,. convention-’s work.

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Tha : persons should not increase ten- tional Baptist Convention of Amer- ; t w .. unanimously adopted sion by purchasing homes in the i ca for the fiscal year ending July U unanimously adopteq.

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section and attempting to move in. ; 3^ 1944.

The so-called restricted neigh- He was presented to the eonven- /'ur Soir’icr, wnerever hr may h« horhood is an average one com- tion l.v the Rev. G. B. Taylor. D.D.. would like a copy or THE INDIAN posed of workers of the middle- ot - xashville. the chairman. Secre- APOLI8 RLOORDER. Do you* class and their families and of (ary Boyd gave in his report a de- mtv and Kenri m various national origins. Many of tailed account of the challenges I — the families are said to he recent j accepted. the accomplishments _ B „ emigres from the South. Real es- chalked up, and the scope of husi- 8 I tl

state operators said they sold sites neS c, carried on for the past fiscal

in the district to colored buyers year TAXES 3 MI«4UTES

because they were willing and 'able ' jus report showed that the bml-1

to pay higher prices than the ness of the publishing house was minutes while active bleach ingredient whites. Several other colored fam- , approximatelv one-half million del- i b 7?l eath - Lightilies who have purchased homes ] ars f or the year, and that its cir- ness. Helps' J/ry Sp ‘urfa.e pfmK are expected to move in next week, culation of religious helps, tracts, i loosen blackheads, fade freckles. Fine

one realtor said.

When informed of the incident. Chief of Police Cli.fford Beeker dispatched a number of squad cars to the area with instruction to prevent trouble. “No citizen will he molested in the exercise of his constitutional rights, and no one’s property will he damaged or destroyed unlawfully anywhere in Indianapolis," Chief Beeker an-

nounced.

Requests for adequate protec-, tion for the Negro home-owners in the district were presented by representatives of the NAACP to Mayor Robert H. Tyndall and Gov. ernor Henry F. Schricker. Finch expressed the opinion that a serious outbreak would he prevented if leaders and members of both races acted sensibly and calmly in an intelligent effort to reach a peaceful solution.

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white folk wonder if they have real courage or the military ability and skill for real war while Ne-. groes know, that they, like Negro troops in previous wars.P'can take it.” and will end up with flying colors. The progress of those men in this tlieater of action will no doubt go far to determine the rate of military advancement for servi ice men both at home and abroad. Two years of intensive training with Uncle Sam’s best weapons and modern equipment were a pre- | E lude for their present duties. Al- j — ready the division has suffered one ~ casualty, when a captain was killed E while leading a reconnoissance E : patrol. E General Clark aside from ad- = dressing the men awarded two soldiers the combat infantry badge. They are S/Sgt. Paul Wilson of Youngstown, Ohio, and Sgt. Nolan

Reed of St. I/)uis.

“Full Emancipation of the American Negro” National Association for the Advancement

of Colored People REGULAR MEETINGS

Second and Fourth Friday Nights—8:30 to 9:30 o’clock

Senate Avenue Y. M. C. A.—Room C

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

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First and Third Mondays—12 to 1 o’clock MASS MEETING—SUNDAY SEPT. 17th

Second Christian Church, Cor. Camp and Ninth Sts.

PRISCILLA DEAN LEWIS, President—WA. 2963 MADELINE MILLER, Secretary—TA. 6809

DR. R. B; McARTHUR, Chairman, Executive Committee

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