Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1948 — Page 12

12-The Indianapolis Recorder, June 26,1948

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KECOH 1 'KH FOTOCi SHAKES HAND OF PRESIDENT 4 TIMES . . Tiiom Ervin, ener^etiv Recorder caineria man, is the proud owner of a two-tone bow tie which was admned by President i riiman just before he spoke to a group of admirers last Thursday, during a 15-minute stopover in Indianapolis. . . Mr. Ervin, who has the distinction of having shook the ('hief Executive’s hand 4 tim^ also had the unique distinction of fotographing fthe president shaking hands with Miss Alice Donnigan, rep esentative of the National Negro Publishers Association. Miss Donnigan had traveled to the coast with the president as one of three Negro reporters aboard the train. Mr. E vin said he found the president in a jolly mood and evry cooperative in every way befo e and after his speech. # # * # * WHAT’S WRONG WITH INDIANA AVEN( O .... ? That’s the $<14 question being asked along the main stem these days. . . The old street that starts at a pawnship and ends at a hospital is in turmoil and rightfully so, since the local gendarmes are. running hog wild all up and down the stem and a man s home is his only safe retreat — OR IS IT? ! ? ! Mr. John Citizen after working all day is honestly afraid to give the st eet of lovely maidens a ‘peep’ after working all day and seeking a little rev cation or surcease from his labors — for if he dares to do so he is apt to find himself taking a Free Ride in the taxpayers “Black Maria” (patrol wagon) to the joint on S. Ala. with the iron bars. # * # # # ; A LARGE PERCENTAGE of our folks who live on this side of the tracks look foiward to spending a few quiet hours along the Avenoo during the evening. To tell you the honest truth, some of the places in which they live or habitate are not conducive to an early rest after a day of toil. . . But once they hit the stem they are subject to a ‘balling’ out from otfieers who resent his presence at some of the recreation spots along the street . . These persons have been visiting these places for years watching the baseball scores and conversing with friends — it's their only places of recreation. . . The> have no social clubs like the people who live on the other side of the tracks and consequently these spots are their only meeting places. . . Now that the local constabulary are driving them out of these establishments they have no place to go but back home. . . This they resent, and rightly so! ! ! If the places they visit are nuisances in the eyes, of the law why are they operating? ! .’ if it is unlawful to watch a ‘ticker’ brine in the baseball scores, why are there any ‘'tickers' Should Mr John Q. Citizen be responsible for this condition? ! ? Mos* su t ly not and it is just about time somebody got somebody told as > an individual's CIVIL LIBERTIES in Indianapolis, Indiana or xVmerie#. ! j ! j * * ***** WE DON’T KNOW on whose orders these officers are act ing, but if they come from higher up, then somebody and alotta (’bodies) mad' a terrible mistake at the last election. . . In all of. bur ye.iF' m thi^ man’s town we have never seen lyjything like it We are talking f om self experience. ... We had it happen to u> ’n a certain \venoo spot t’other nite. . . . Why the people were told to line p and leave the spot single file and stand a search at the door . It was the most insulting thing we have evei heard. . . It e people were violating any law by their pres ence they 'h.mld have bemi arrested (we included). If not they sh ed ’ not have been molested. Either a person is in the right b * is in the wrong. There is never no middle ground. . . idii the way we see it, SOME RESPONSIBLE <’IV If GEO IT uion'ii call on the mayor or chief of police and h* them know hat there is such a thine as an individual’s (TVTI LIBERTIES ^ guaram-.Ml under the EXITED STATES’ CONST PITT ION . . .LET> have some action, you LEADERS! ! ***** THE E. S. SEPREME EOERT ruled that freedom of speech in this country includes a man’s right to have his say over a louds eaker. . . Which means we ll have to stand all that loud imiv coming over one in the 500 block. The vote was 5 to 4. Justice Douglas delivered the majority opinion, basing it on the free-speech guarantee of the first amendment Said he: ‘ Loudspeakers are today indispensable instruments of effective public speech. The soiind truck has become an e-'cepEd method of political campaigning. It is the way people are reached.” We could stand less of that hollering on Sunday and other nites in the 500 block. But according to the high cou t we’ll have to take it. , ! ' * - * * * * * PLATGIRL HOETENSE BOWMAN left Naptown Sunday nite in a drawing room for N. Y. to attend the Louis — Walcott fite. . . C’YRES GRAHAM, Avenoo bizzman, also departed by train Monday nite. : . Gene Rhea of the Pyramid Club was due to go by plane Tuesday and bis bizz partner Opal Tandy who had planned to plane is believed to have driven a hardshootin’ Oadiiae to the Big Apple. . . George Graham. Horace Stone and the playboys Amos Hartwell and Hiwatha Gray left Monday by motor. . . . Previous bizzness committments kept Wesley 0. Jackson in Naptown. . . The boy has a trial this week for drivers for his forthcoming midget races. . . Our Friend Cecil Harris, the tavern owner fi brn Dayton wired us to catch a plane and join him in the big city, but no dice old man, we ain’t the moneyed kind. FEXERAL SER VICES for Roger Lyons, well known along the Avenoo. where he counted his friefids in hundreds, were held Saturday a. rn. from the Stuart Mortuary. Burial was in Flo al Park. Mr. Lyons a native of Gallatin. Tenn., died Wednesday in General Hospital. He was 62. He had lived here 40 years and had been employed at the Hotel Antlers for 25 years. lie was a member of several clubs and many friends turned out for the funeral. He is survived by his son, Roger Lyons Jr. and his Mepson, Lionel Prince, both of Indianapolis. ***** WE HOPE YOE HAVE NOTICED that your RECORDER is all dressed up this week. . . And why not? The boss has just added a new Ludlow (a type-casting machine) and an Elrod (a rule and border-casting machine). ' Add to this A NEW LINOTYPE machine and a new saw, stitcher, easting pot, new stones for the printers to make up the paper on and von have an idea as to what your bigger and better Recorder should look like. . . Add to this another Kluge automatic p'ess and you get an idea of the more than $50,000 spent in the last 0 months in order to give you a better paper. . . Drop in sometime and look at this new equipment. It is reallv something to see. ‘ JAMES PA\ NE of the CRD GLEB gave a surprise party for yours truly and Percy Mayfield the other nite. It was a g and little got together. ****** Charley Hatchet did the chores on the piano, and kept the gang hollering for imre. Others at the party in honor of the Saint were: James < Jayton, Herman Bradley and Jack Bond A

SUSPICIOUS of Alan Ladd’s activities in “Saigon” is Colonial detective Luther Adler, Paramount’s latest

Ladd-Veronica Lake adventure thriller arrives Sunday at the Avenue.

’The Razor's Edge' At Park Tuesday Local,. Tyrone Power, fans will,, ImiCs ,‘ Tlir Razoi’s Edge,” which have an opportunity fco welcome'] upKiis iTiiesilay at the Park thea back theiij film favorttf wlven, ’the’j ter. . i / popular* $tnr. t udrhb , service; , Starred With ; Power in th>*. with tlie > l}. ^T.GAlaS’iitei.Chiujkvs ^Twentieth ; (’etitury-Fox film arc his first post-war screen appear- dene Tierney. John Payne, Anne ance in the Darryl F. Zanuck pro- Laxter, ('lifton Webb and Herbert* ductiou. of XV. ? Somerset Maug Marshall.

JAMES STEWART finds the not-unexpected bitter cynism of Richard Conte still another obstacle in his stubborn

fight to free an innocent man in Twentieth Century-Fox’s “Call Northside 777,” which starts Sunday at the Walker.

"Call NortMde 777 At Walker Sunday

member of the company recognized him and wanted to bring him forward to introduce him to the cast, Joe quietly disappeared.

real good time was had by all. . . * ’ * * * * “THE GREAT “DESTY” who was supposed to be killed Friday night past, is very mutdi alive. I waul ii to he known that 1 am spending my vacation in New York with the many other fight fans.” ( signed) ( Juts 11. Smith ***** HERE 'TIN . . . RECORDS at 5c and IT at the MELODY! M ILLS. M55 \Y. 25th St. . . The establishment specializes in Be-Bop, Sweet, Swing and reeoids by Fitzgerald, Eole and Hawkins and many oilier tavorite ba'ndincu. The Melody Mills will deliver your records to any part of^the city. Just call \YA. 0557 and your orders to any part of the city. Just cell Remember, for a wide selection hr -»6pular records,’ be sure md call the Meiody Mills. „ . GLOBETROTTING GILBERT WAVMAN left by train Tuesday for the Big Apple. . . . W. (). 1 Jackson changed his mind and also left Tuesday for the fite rather than disappoint friends.

PISCATORIAL JAEXT . . Del and Bailey,- J. Ronredi Thompson, Mark Butties and Dor.JeV DJkfile fr SattTffay JFbr' t week’s vacation at N *w York Mills. Minnesota, where £lfey •xpect to set a new record as local fishermen in tin* wilds of northern Minn.

A modest, qiiielt visitor joftiod ' diicago crowds watching Director Henry Hathaway filming James Stewart, star of ‘Tall Northside 777and Richard Conte in scenes of the Twentieth f’ehtury-Fox picture which is scheduled for Sunday at the Walker theater. Few knew that the self-effacing visitor was Joe Majczek. young Chicago-

ian who was freed from prison] vyDNKY, Australia —- Frank after serving 13 years for a crime Johnson, jazz critic and editor of of which he was not guilty, .for i Tempo ma azine. has announced smiled appreciatively as he watch that lie will present Cootie Wit ed Conte depict him, and Stewart, liams. famous American trumpet the part of the Times reporte. (star, as headliner in a series of who helped free Joe. When a concerts here during December.

RAVENS COMPLETE LOS ANGELES — The Ravens famous radio and recording four some established another all time record here when they completed their third capacity business week at the Cricket Club on Washing ton Houlevard. It marked the ili a time in history that a -m am singing group has played more than If) days (the previous record t at a night spot. When they coin plete the run next Tuesday night (the 28th) they will have surpass ed the old mark by eight lays. GILLESPIE TOPS IN MUSIC FIELD NEW YORK — Dizzy Gillespie, king pin of the be-boppers, this week was ranked with the all time tazz greats by the most respected hand authority of the day—Willard Alexander. Alexander, who was first to spot the potentialities of both Benny Goodman and Count Basie, unequivocally tabs (lilies

THE FIT 15 OF THE YEAR SOW SHOWING . . ..Tlie Joe I ouijs vs. Jersey Joe Walcott fite pictijires are now showing from neon till midotte at your Avenue theater. Here’s your golden op port unity tV> see the first showing of the ‘fite of tiie year’ in a theater .that’s always cool. Come out and bring your friends. Also showing on the same bill is ‘j.-'aigon” with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in the starring i< les. The vehicle is known as ‘:he| Paris of th.* Orient,” It p;o videjs an apt setting for the intrigue iand desperate adventure with whigh tiie Picture is replete. Domr.-ated by the French ani their unkiue way of living, the city is said to offer all of the divertissement that has in a le the orig inal Paris famous.

pie as the One gr -at influence of modern music and predicts that he will equal if not surpass the heights reached by Goodman and Baste. Nor are Alexander’s opinion 3 mere guesswork or theories. He saw- such great possibilities in the triin(ipet personality that he supported his appraisal with cold cash to the tune of better than $10,000.

Australian Music Critic Will Present

Concerts

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YOUR ERST SIOESiM^THERTRE

SUN., MON., JUNE 27 - 28 — OPEN SUN. NOON Buster Crabbe — In Color LAST OF REDMEN John Wayne — M. Dietrich FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS

3 Days, Tuesday, June 29

9ETWIEN LOVE AND HATRED THERE IS A UNE AS SHARP 4* Ji^ AS A RAZOR'S EDGE* lib- T' T' I

in Darryl F. Zanuck t prodort.oo W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM S

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TYRONE POWER GENE HERNEY JOHN PAYNE . Anne BAXTER Clifton WEBB , Herbert MARSHALL

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Produced by DARRYL F. ZANUCK'

by EDMUND GOULD! NG Screen Play by LAMAtt TROTTI

SABU In Color ELEPHANT BOY"

SERIAL

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BEST THEATRE

NOW — Tin:.. FRI., SAT., JUNE 21 - 2G t'empLe HAGEN GIRL R mass° e N v d THINGS TO COME Extra Sat. Only “SON OF ZORRO”

4 Days Sunday, June 27

RICHARD CONTE• LEE J.COBB• HELEN WALKER

Bumstead Family At Their Funniest BLONDIE IN THE DOUGH

NEGRO NEWS

FIGHT PICTURES, BLOW-BY-BLOW LOUIS WALCOTT Now Showing

COOL AVENUE

THEATRE 412 Ind. Ave.

CONTINUOUS FROM NOON 'TO MIDNIGHT

COOL

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NOW — THU., FRI., SAT., JUNE 24 - 26 Henry Fonda “LET US LIVE” Geo. Raft ‘“SHE COULDN’T TAKE IT’

4 Days, Stm., Jane 27 — Cool Matinees HE’S UP TO HB#TS» , £XraT£MENTi!. WnTL * I THE SCREEN’S MOST ! EXCITING

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VERONICA

rb'P*"*? ,>,e0rn °*' DOUGLAS DICK

WALLY CASSELL

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Produced by P. J. WOLFSON Directed by LESLIE FENTON

LUTHER ADLER

MORRIS CARNOVSKY MIKHAIL RASUMNY

Barbara Britton “500-MI. RACE GUEST” FABULOUS SUZANNE

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