Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1949 — Page 2

2—The Indianapolis Recorder, Jan. 1,1949

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h^mburcer anti drinking cofTee. When*she h'ad finished, they took seats at the now-vacant table. The manager approached. Rev. Johnson continued, and said: “I told you these tables were reserved!” Rights Law Defied As the argument proceeded, a member of the party asked the manager whei'ner lie :uiew of the Indiana Civil Rights Law. He allegedly replied: “That doesn’t make any difference. This is my place and I’ll run it the way I want to!” The group remained seated at the table, whereupon the manager carried out a threat to summon police against them. Two officers arrived, but declined to take pari in the controversy, Rev. Johnson said. By this time the manager had grown angrier, and reportedly said: “I was going to serve you behind a partition, but now I won’t serve you at all.” After some time the group moved from the table to a booth. Shortly thereafter the manager sent a waitress to take their orders, and finally they were served. Rev. Johnson concluded. NAACP officials said action will be taken on the matter at the local hoard meeting to be held Monday night. It was also learned that a mixed group of young peo pie, members of the Intercollegiate Club, Young Progressives of America and other groups, planned to visit the restaurant as a part of their anti-jimerow crusade.

MISS. EDUCATOR LEAVES FOR LIBERIA: Jacob L. Reddix, president of Jackson Cojlege, Jackson, Miss., shown abbve boards a plane for the Republic of Liberia. He has been commissioned to study developing rural education and teacher training, in Liberia by the Phelps-Stokes Fund.—(ANP Pho.)

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the year’s primaries and elections. Two candidates were nominated for reelection to the state legislature by the GOP, while only one was successful in the Democratic nomination contest for the representative fro^n Marion county. TheUJemocratic Viotory in the general election carried Forrest W. Littlejohn, attorney, into office as state representative. He is the only colored person elected to any office in Marion county during the year.

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CIVIL RIGHTS

THE SUCCESSFUL DEMOCRATIC PARTY, at its June convention, adopted a strong civil rights program calling for enactment of a state Fair Employment Practice act, putting teeth into the civil rights law and the elimination of all forms of segregation and discrimination in governmental affairs.

’ PRESIDENT TRUMAN’S visit to Indianapolis during his fall transcontinental campaign for election was effective in swinging the twb-to-onc majority of Negro voters to the Democrats.

HENRY WALLACE, in his bid for the presidency and the state and county candidates on* the Progressive slate, were given scant attention by colored voters although a number of colored candidates for state offices had been nominated by the party and Mr. Wallace held forth an alluring promise of a sweeping civil rights plan to eliminate second class citizenship. Wallace visited the city, accompanied by Paul Robeson early in the spring in a bid for liberal support.

the Democrat-controlled city council. Police stage two sweeping drives against bootleg cabs operating without licenses and estimated at 300. As the year closes, the record of facts shows far too few licensed cabs and a large number of boots still operating.

RACE RELATIONS ESQUIRE THEATER, 2961 N. Illinois, foremost local house presenting the best national and international films, changed its policy of discrimination against colored patrons test July under pressure of a court suit brought by the NAACP through Willard Ransom, attorney and state president of the association. Wilson Head, former member of Planner House staff was the complaining witness.

SISTER ANDREA, beloved superintendent of St. Vincent’s Hospital, a Catholic institution open to all without regard to color or race, was transferred to St. Louis in September. She was a foremost champion of equality of citizenship for all groups and an indomitable fighter for the underprivileged. She opened many doors of opportunity to colored people during her six-year stay here.

DIXIECRATS were chased out of Indiana by a court ruling on a suit filed by Dr. Ralph E, Hanley, Indianapolis dentist, alleging fraud in connection with the filing of petitions favoring inclusion of the Dixiecrat ticket on the presidential ballot.

THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR, headed by the militant crusader, Eugene Pulliam, in ap editorial Sunday, Sept. 26, took an unequivocal stand against segregation in the public school system. Calling for action which would undeniably improve race relations, The Star said: “Certainly the school commissioners have sense enough to know that there is no legal basis for segregation. ...... “A policy of segregated schools in Indianapolis was brought into existence during the Klan era, an era that still leaves a stain upon our reputation for fairnes sand justice. Previously mixed schools operated here without incident throughout the whole city.”

FRANK E. BEST, Indianapolis manufacturer and self-styled inventor planned a “Back to Africa” move, by which, with«the help of the Dixiecrats he. hoped to rid the country of its Negro citizens. Both major parties gave it the boot as colored citizens looked on amusedly. It was the year’s most comical flop.

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Staff Members of Juvenile Court Are Reappointed • Members of the staff of the Marion County Juveni’e court named or reappemted for the year of 1949 were announced <his week by Judre Joseph A. Hoffman. Referees re^opointed included Mer'er ■‘ incc. well known in local legal circles and a member of the highlv repu;cd circ’e. Harvard University Law School graduates. Proh ' f: on officers rervamed included the Rev. Charles Watkins, Vyorld War II. veteran: VTrs. Kathleen Sharpe and Mrs. Jane Stout. The Juvenile Court advisory council approved all these members and others of the staff of the court when they \\cre first named by Judge Hoffman.

CIVIC HIGHLGHTS Segregation and its concomitant, second-hand education, received staggering solar plexus wallops from colored groups seeking justice in the public school system. Led by the local branch of the NAACP, renresentatiVe Organizations charged the Indianapolis school commissioners head-on at several board meetings of the commissioners, demanding end of the degrading practice of segregation. When the board feebly evaded the issue, a court suit was threatened by Henry J. Richardson, Jr., attorney. Apparently fearful that ensuing publicity might prove unfavorable and damaging to the board’s prestige, friends of the commissioners effected a compromise whereby the filing of the suit will be delayed until the result of a survey by experts can be reported (sometime in 1949).

PROTESTING against the transfer of their children to overcrowded colored schools, parents of 40 children presented themselves with their youngsters at a white school in their neighborhood, School 43, at the opening of the fall semester, demanding admittance. They were refused.

SOCIAL SERVICE PLANNER HOUSE, the North Star in the nation’s constellation of social service agencies, observed its 50th anniversary December 2, with elaborate, colorful ceremonies. Cleo Blackburn is th able superintendent.

EDUCATION SCHOOL NO. 63, destroyed by fire several years-ago resumed activities in a new, modern building with dedicatory ceremonies at the opening of the school year in September.

SCHOOL 32, hitherto all white, admitted colored children on order of the school commissioners to relieve overcrowding in adjacent colored schools. < .

MISS HILDA REEDER, teacher retired in June.

in School No. 23 for #0 years.

ATTUCtfS NIGHT SCHOOL, headed by Irven Armstrong, recorded largest enrollftiefit in its history for semester, Feb. to June.

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tion with the park department. And the issue was the subject of both news and editorials in the daily press. Mr. Cowen will assume his new duties on January 1. A representative of the Indianapolis Recorder is informed that a member of the Elkhart park board observed that its members are very pleased in obtaining the services of Mr. Cowen. His salary exceeds that he received in the city of Indianapolis and the local park board has full knowledge of his attitudes and record in the city of Indianapolis, as the board obtained such information from The Indianapolis Recorder directly.

BUSINESS STUART MOVING AND TRANSFER COMPANY executes largest moving job of year in state, involving transfer of valuable art treasures, furnishings a and furniture from historic old English hotel, soon to be torn dowifl.'

KING & KING FUNfcRAL HOME, 1503 Columbia avenue, opened remodeled and exquisitely redecorated new establishment in May, making it the finest in the state.

JOE STUART opened new April.

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cities throughout the country. This year’s Founder’s Day banquet is centered around the panel forum on “The Kappa Celebrities Speak.” Widely known members expected to attend include Carl Roman Johnson, Kansas City, Mo., attorney and former Grand Polemarch; George F. David, II, past Grand Keeper of Exchequer and chairman of Economics Department Wilberfore State; J. Ernest Wilkins, Chicago attorney. Grand Polemarch and Laurel Wreath Holder; Vicr tor Hicks, Detroit, Past Grand Vide Polemarch and Jose'ph Craigen, Detroit attorney. Others include Joseph E. Snowdent, Chicago attorney; Lionel F. Artis, Laurel Wreath Holder and local federal housing project manager; Carl D. Hughes, North Central Provincial Polemarch and three Founders of the fraternity. These are Dr. Ezra D. Alexander, Indianapolis physician; Dr. Guy L. Grant, Indianapolis dentist, and Edward Irvin, Chicago. Robert Williams is Polemarch of the Indianapolis Alumni chapter and James Wadsworth, Jr., Polemarch of ftu Chapter.

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LAW ENFORCEMENT

ROBERT AUSTIN WATTS, 25-year-old Indianapolis ex-servicc man, was condemned to death in the electric chair by a Shelby co ty jury upon conviction for the sensational murder of an Indiana' housewife. His arrest, confession, and trial produced a wave of public hysteria that threatened dangerous repercussions. Serious racial conflict by mob violence, however, was averted by combined efforts of police, atjd Negro and white leaders of important groups. Watts

is scheduled to be executed February 2.

LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS have failed so far to apprehend the cold-blooded tnurderer of Andrew Sharpe, tavern operator and “hail fellow well met” about town. Sharpe’s murder stunfied the city because of its obvious viciousness. He was shot in the head while seated in his car on a Rmely drive just outside city limits durihg tho latter part of November.

Forty persons including operators of after-hours spots, were nabbed in May by state* excise and city police in the biggest gaming and liquor raid in recent years. . ' i

Indianapolis police damped down a tight lid on gambling in early December, closing all known places operated for gambling of any sort. The year passed Into history with the lid still. on. “It will stay on”, said Mayor AI Feeney.] #

CHIEF OF POLICE, EDWARD ROULS, assigned around-the-clock teams of police that rid the Eastside of much of the hoodlumism, banditry, roberies, holdups, and cutting scrapes that had made it notorious as one of thfe worst sections of the city.

DEATHS J. K. LILLY, chairman of the board of directors of the celebrated Eli Lilly & Company, philanthropist, civic leader, patron of the arts and lifelong friend and* benefactor of colored people, died February 11, at the age of 86. . His will provided for bequests of more than $20,000 to his Negro employes, in addition to many thousands given Negro causes during his lifetime,.

ELWOOD C. KNOX, for many years co-publisher with his illustrious father, George L. Knox, of the Indianapolis Freeman died March 25, at the age of 77 years. As general business manager he boosted circulation to a figure beyond that reached by any other Negro newspaper in the world at the turn of the jentufy. The moribund Freeman was absorbed by- The Indianapons Recorder during the hectic '20’s. . ^ ^ REV. ROBERT E.'SkELTON, former city pastor and ex-Army chaplain died May 30 at the age of 45. A dynamic leader, he was ceaselessly active in the Methodist church, in behalf of ex-service men and the American Legion, and in politics.

MISS CORENE ALLEN, teacher at School November 3 following a^ short illness. Age 40.

No. 87 was buried She had long been

a friend of the needy? an angel of mercy, a humanitarian and an in-

spired community leader.