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The Recorder's Fifth Annual
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ALAN T. NOLAN
STARLING W. JAMES
BOB JEWELL
RAY CROWE
SYDNEY L. BERGER
ANDREW W. RAMSEY
WILLIAM D. MACKEY
ROBERT T. EDLIN
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JOHNNY BRIGHT
NINETEEN FIFTY-ONE bad year for decent people been gathering through burst in that evil time wish well to their fellow retreated; many who had now lapsed into silence. Yet even in this Time of was not altogether halted,
as elsewhere, who spoke up fe Justice. And there were those tributions to race relations in othe ball superlatively, for instance.
ally speaking, was a pretty • ;orm of hatred, which had ivious years, seemed to 1 versities on those who e storm’s fury, many nd of discrimination. |
Final Xmas Cheer Fund Reports Made
arch of humanity! hose, in Indiana] otherhood andi tstanding con-i y playing basket- j
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Because the going was somewhat harder, because 4t was rlliy • jevenul I ©ai
uphill work, The Recorder is all the prouder to announce our! fifth annual Race Relations Honor Roll. It is with especial pleasure that we salute 12 Hoosiers who, in our opinion, have | done noble deeds during 1951 to “Build Tomorrow in Indiana.” They are (some not pictured): • ALAN T. NOLAN, vice-president of the Indianapolis branch NAACP and chairman of its legal redress committee, i who brought new hope and encouragement by demonstrating j ! his conviction that the establishment of equality is the busi-! ness of all Americans, regardless of race; and who served
! loyally and unstintingly in the great crusade.
STARLING \V. JAMES of Indianapolis, public-spirited! ; astute and tireless leadership to the campaign for jobs for Negro citizens on an equal basis with all others, particularly in business places patronized by Negroes and in Indianapolis
Railways.
BOB JEWELL of Crispus Attacks, now’ of the University
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Number 1
YOUTH SUM; ATTUCKS
contributing through personal donations and support of Cheer Fund projects a total of $5007.68.
With a spirit of “Good W'ill Towards Men” and in recognition of the program of The Indianapolis Recorder Charities. Inc., a generous community responded to,
the 1951 Cheer Fund drive by 0 f Michigan, who while the center of the Tigers’ basketball
team established a record of clean, fair play that was recog-
nized by the conferring on him of the Trester Award—highAccording to the tabulation this es £^. 0 J^ 0 Ui^^®2: s * er athletics. . .. amount represents a 27 per cent RA\ CROWE, coach of the ( rispus Attucks oasketball increase over receipts in 1950. j team, w’ho in his first year took his boys to^the state finals. Three hundred family were giv- j nc jj rec ^.]y bringing about a vast improvement in community w n hich e provided‘a g ha r p 0 py Christmas attutudes in the state's Capitol city; and who taufrht sportsf or many children who might oth-: manship second to none in Indiana. ( unwise have been overlooked by SYDNEY L‘. BERGER, chairman of the legal redress comSanta Claus. mittee of the Evansville branch NAACP, who conducted a Much of the responsibility of the v jnr orous defense which obtained acquittal of Jerry Low’ery of S 0 » r to the Women 0 Sponsor Com-: Newburgh on a frame-up charge after Lowery had protested mittee. who accounted for over jimerow bus regulations; and wmo has been a staunch cham
$2,250.00 in contributions and at j pion of civil rights in Evansville.
the same time did much toward j ANDREW YV. RAMSEY, of The Recorder, who w ith utter making the community fearlessness and devotion to the general welfare, battled the Recorde^c'hadties ^nc- 11 P 1 many-headed monster of w’hite supremacy w’eek in and week Following is a break-down of re-'out ■" his column. “Voice from the Gallery”: respecting no reipts based on the latest tabu- person or institution, however strong and power!ul, which
lations: i sins against the light of human liberty.
Contributions $3,795.81 WILLIAM D. MACKEY, state representative from Marion Can Collections . •••„;• i->8.37; Q otm t v , w’ho without thought of self and against-overwhelm-y E"xpen e se P Z01A5 336.93 ing odds, introduced an “FEPC bill with teeth” into the Benefit show— ~ General Assembly and battled for it courageously and man
CHEER LEADER STABBED
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'Fair’Captain Fired by Guard
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Receipts Expense
Sl.051.25 334.68
fully.
716.57 ROBERT EDLIN of New Albany, World War 11 hero of
Total Receipts 1951 $5 007 68 single-handed capture ofJSOO Nazis and holder of the Dis-
Dr Guy l Grant, president. an<UAnguished Service Cross; who proposed to enlist Negroes in Mrs. Louise T. Battles, vice presi- 1 the National Guard under integrated conditions, not as a dent, lauded the public for its separate unit; and w r ho shortly therefatre found himself generous support of the Cheer oua ted as captain of his Guard Company. (Photo courtesy
F r Beckwith is Louisville Courier-Journal.)
the secr^tary^Attorney B Howard R JOHNNY BRIGHT of Fort Wayne and Drake University, Hooper, campaign director; Marcus all-time ground-gaining champion, of U. S. football, whose Continued on Page 5 i brutal slugging by an Oklahoma A. & M. player roused the
Omegas New Albany War Hero Sought to Enlist Negroes
t Efforts of a company commander to enlist Negroes in his National Guard unit at New Albany ended in a curt, cold rebuff last week because Indiana authorities practice j
Noted Music Teacher's Rites
Held Here Wed.
eward in 'Crazy Song' Leader Critical In Hospital
Florida
JESSE CANADAY
Wounded in “Knife Play’
consciences of millions of Americans against race prejudice * ...9 ,? . "j in sports, and led Northern colleges to reconsider their rela- 1 . . ^ j ** J* " Th* Re" tions with biased institutions. ,0 j l,eaa fl u ® rTers / ® e 'j JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS of the Indianapolis Times, who | = order wo$ ,ntormed Wedneswielded his typewriter against bigotry and intolerance in the!' 10 ,** J . . .... | : sports field, clearing the way for the city to give earnest sup- j flan ^ s ofTresident Truman s oft! port to its sectional basketball champions, the Crispus At-'repeated instructions that discrimi tucks Tigers. • ination and segregation be abolJUDGE G. H. HOELSCHER of the Wayne Circuit Court, i ished in the various branches of
s^Kr:'«r«Kss 1 ^=:;H5M.=s.'E iAnort,e,Ch,,,9e
owner who was convicted of denying equal accommodations capture of 800 Nazi soldiers singie-
Knife bottles between teen- ' agers who were "only playing" resulted in the instant death of an Eastside youth and the critical wounding of the At- ! tucks high school head cheer leader by a fellow-student.
'$15,000 Bandit'
Is Freed of
Jesse Canaday, 17, 911 N. Belmont street, known to thousands 1 of basketball fans as the inspired Attucks yell leader, was stabbed seriously during a tussle with a 16-year-old “friend,” Odie Tate, *1128 N. Sheffield, at the Cornell Restaurant. 2002 W. 11th street.
New Year’s night.
Although his condition was described as “Critical and grave” late
Bombing Omegas Pledge m Reward Si In Fla. Bombing
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EDWARD ‘BUDDY’ TAYLOR Stabbed to Death
Thursday afternoon, surgeons at
James Ccnner. 51, 1145 N. West General Hospital said he had a
| —---o -n capture oi ouu x\azi soiuiers single-] wond chancp tn <!iirvivp A Requiem Mass was said for! to two Negro young women, Miss Betty Jett and Miss Janet handed, said he offered his resig-1 street, who is acquiring a reputa- smvive. ^ a . .... . " " tion for amazing wizardry in stay- Killed in Restaurant
ing out of jail no matter what.
Mrs. Lillian Morris LeMon. recog- ! Mitchell. nation last week after it had been
d,“s “in V' 1 WIL y AM H.RBLLER. JR., of Richmond, forward-looking Church at 10 Wednesdav morning I y°. un ^ Wayne County Prosecutor, known as an adherent of
fair play; who forthrightly carried through the Tivoli Theater
by the Rev. Earl Connor, vicar of ot George’s Episcopal Church. Mrs. LeMon. who had been in failing health for the Ust few years, died in a local hospital last Sat-
urday.
Born in Chicago the daughter of the late William and Ada Morris, she had spent most of her life in Indianapolis, where she was educated in Shortrfdge high school and the Indianapolis College of Music and Fine Arts, now part of the Butler University Jordan College
of Music.
For many years Mrs. LeMon | Sweepstakes every Saturday nite. taught piano, and many locally I- • • An exciting game for adults.
case and won conviction of the proprietor for discriminating
against Negro patrons.
Win Cash In Movie Sweepstakes Every Sat. Nite At Avenue Theater
his effort to enlist four or five*’ colored men in Company K which he commanded as part of the 3rd Battalion. 152nd Infantry Regiment, of the Indiana Na-
tional Guard.
Narcotics Case Defendant Gets State Farm Term
was
MIAMI, Fla. — The grand conclave of the Omega Pst Phi fraternity, which met here Dec. 27-30, offered a $1,000 reward for information that will i lead to the arrest and convic1 tion of the person or persons responsible for the bombing murder of Harry T. Moore, Florida educator and, NAACP official, at Mims recently. The 1.000 delegates attending the 38th grand conclave of the fraternity. composed of 17,000 members, passed a resolution denounc- | ing the killing of Moore. It was i .urged in the name of democracy i that President Truman and other national officials spare no pains | and lose no time in apprehending
i the culprits.
1 The resolution as adopted posted $1,000 to be added to the growing fund for the apprehension and eonviction^of those responsible for (his barbarous crime. JudTe Denounces Bombing
Judge L. E. Thomas, speaking at the 40th Founders’ Day dinner, held
Something new has been added '.
at the Avenue It s Move >^00100 tO FoCC
prominent musicians are her prod- It’s new! . . . It’s different! * « . ■ • «... 1 A. 1A 4. _ \JL7 • M m A**** «rs 1 * r* A C? I X n «a t n m.
uct. Although she had substituted as a teacher in the public schools, she preferred private instruction, and. assisted by Mrs. Lucretia Lawson Love, a life-long friend, organized the Cosmopolitan School of Music and Fine Arts with a full faculty. The school was the first of its type to receive a char-
ter in Indiana.
Working tirelessly with all local musical groups, she was one of the organizers and early presidents of the Indiana State Association of Negro Musicians in addition to being a prominent figlife in the organization of the National Association of Negro Musi-
Murder Charge
. ^ . Edward “Buddy” Taylor, 17, i
freed in Municipal Court 1320 Martindale avenue, ydied on; One man was nabbed and senRoom 4, Dec. 28 on a charge of the floor of the Hardin House res- i tenced and two were sought by participating in a holdup-robbery, | ^ aui ' an ^ <which is not a tavern), ^police the past week on charges
after the victim failed to identify / ^
„ . r . . , ^ hlt " aS dnver ° f f 1 ! 6 f etaWa ^ car I heart Dec. 27 as a group of young-j Richard Allen< 2 2. 2026 Bellefon- at ~ ‘Dinner’Key - Auditorium General Cla.ms Ignorance Conner is at liberty under a sters looked on. ; taine, arrested as he attempted to | Tpacious^aud.toriumTn Robinson! ^f r 0 c 0 e out 8 of d his ton , F , rank Flsh ? r ’ 17 \ 1910 f Belle -i have filled ; a forged narcotics pre- recounting-the bombing of Moore’s t_ , charge growing out of his ton fontaine. slated on a charge of mur- scnption at Wall s Drugstore, 3201 home. Judge Thomas, the only
der after a prolonged police in- Central, avenue, Thursday of last N e g ro judge in the South, called vestigation, told detectives he week, was sentenced to 180 days upon the dinner guests to use stabbed the other youth in defense i on the State Farm and fined $100 every weapon within the law to of his life when Taylor kept jab- and costs by Judge Scott McDon- 1 aid America in driving the enemy bing him with a knife. aid in Municipal Court Room 4 0 f democracy from its shores. .. , .... , He said he was seated in a I cn Dec. 28. . | « E ven though I am a judge money in easily-passed bills from booth with several other boys Allen pleaded guilty to having ; a tavern employe returning from | w hen Taylor entered and demand-1 stolen and forged the prescription
Adjutant General
Hitchcock, commander of the I n -Jf ess ed sensational snatch of $15,diana Guard, told The Recorder qqq severa i weeks ago.
i Wednesday he did not know the 1 reason for Captain Edlin’s resig- | nation after 14 years’ service with the Guard—whether it was be-
Possessor ot a considerable police record, he told police who captured him he grabbed a bag
of
cause of failure to enlist Negroes | con ^ a ^ n \P^ the large ^ amount
or not. "
Winners receive CASH awards. ■ L.L.* In the operation of Movie Sweep-1 111 dlODDIIlQ wQSC
stakes, a race form is handed to Mrs Rosie Prit ~ 2 5, 604 N all adults who care to pick one Senate avenue, has been re-slated up at the theater. Everyone picks on a charge of murder following up his race form outside the thea- lhe death of her common-law buster. whether he intends to buy a j band, Ruskin Robinson, 65, in Genticket and see the regular show j era i Hospital on New Year’s Day. or not. It is not necessary to buy; The young woman, who had a ticket to the theater, nor does {been held in jail on a charge of
one have to enter the theater in order to collect his prize—he need rot be in the vicinity of the theater at the time the races are shown. Don’t miss this exciting new game this Saturday nite and every Saturday nite at the Avenue Theater. Remember. $25 is added to
cians, which she served as first the POT weekly until WON. You
woman president.
The Cosmopolitan Quartet, spon-
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may be the BIG WINNER
who
assault and battery with intent to
He made it clear, however, that under present policies of the National Guard headquarters in Washington^—a branch of the Depattment of the Army—integration of Negroes in white units of the Indiana National Guard is not permitted, and that enlistment of Negroes In the Indiana Guard is not now encouraged In any
a bank, and returned undetected j r d that one of the boys get up so
in Florida I shall carry on a relentless fight that no citizen
case.
to his job at Kingan’s.
I Inspecting his loot in the lock- j | er room, still unnoticed, he said ! he was staggered and became jit-; tery when he realized the large amount of money in his posses-
sion.
Stuffing the bundles of $5’s, 10’s and 20’s in his pockets, bosom, hat and every other likely place, he
he could be seated.
in the name of Dr. Gerald S. Low- f G f America shall be deprived Continued on Page 2 Continued on Page 2
Fisher said Taylor began pricking him under the table with the point of a switchblade and he drew his own knife, stood up and lunged at his tormencor.
kill, was accused of having stabbed! y.® ars a . go 1 when th ® T /f ; d ® ral auth _°:
her elderly mate Dec. 23 during a drunken brawl in their secondstory room at the Senate avenue
address.
She told ponce her husband threatened her after accusing her of intimacies with other men. Robinson’s body still lay in the
, rushed back into the street, intent
attempt was made ^ several | on leaving the city, when an offi-
cer who knew he possessed a crim-
rities took over National Guard units in the 48 states, to form separate Negro units, here in In-
diana * ! given the wrong description of the
Opposition on the part of Negro! man wanted,
citizens throughout the state was! Conner figured prominently in
The knife pierced Taylor's heart, the General Hospital ambulance
surgeon said.
Fisher fled to the nearby restau-
inal record halted and captured [ ran ^ 0 * h* s uncle, Robert Whit-
I'lof’k.
him. He sad safely passed nearly at 19th and Yandes. Whit50 other officers who had been lock took him to police headquar-
ters to surrender.
Funeral services for Taylor were
held Monday in the chapel of King
knows? Get set for the FUN when j morgue Thursday, no one having Indiana. This outfit has been serv- missal of Jaeque Durham, from MOVIE SWEEPSTAKES IS RUN. appeared to claim it for burial. Continued on Page 2 the police department last year.
so firm that only a small ambu-1 the hearing before the Board of J & King Funeral Home, lance unit was formed here in Safety that resulted in the dis- Ta * e Signs Confession
Young Tate, in a signed confes-
Conitnued on Page 2
TIGER TRAIL! ATTUCKS 64, SHERIDAN 42 ATTUCKS 92, OTTERBEIN 29 ATTUCKS 75,. WASHINGTON 49 ATTUCKS 74, RENSSELAER 36 ATTUCKS 66, BROAD RIPPLE 48 ATTUCKS 67, HOWE 45 S. BEND CENTRAL 62, ATTUCKS ATTUCKS 65, LAFAYETTE 61
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