Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1956 — Page 1
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SGT. JOHN T. MORRIS . . . Shot In Shoulder
SGT. FRED WHISLER . . Shot In Mouth, Hand
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Tucker, Wickard Head Ind. Democratic Ticket
IVO HARDING . , . Accomplice
SAMUEL WOODSON . . . Shoots Cops
Daniels Opens Hotpoint Appliances Sale "With Bang The hottest and best home appliance news of many years for the housewives of this city is the tremendous and sensational “sidewalk” sale of major Hotpoint appliances now in progress at the A1 Daniels’ Hotpoint Appliances Store, 522 Indiana avenue, next door to The Recorder. Daniels, enterprising young businessman who has learned the art of satisfying customers’ needs at prices within their means, recently was awarded the coveted Hotpoint Electrical Appliance franchise, Paul Hume, district manager for the leading appliance firm, has
announced.
K. E. Green, the Indianapolis Marion County distributor, stated that Daniels had been given the franchise because careful investigation showed him to be honest In his dealings—a point insisted upon by Hotpoint officials — sincere, capable, and anxious to make a success in the appliance field. DANIELS, who has operated a new and used appliance store across the street from his new location for several years, sched-,
uled his opening for this week ers . electric ranges, and refrigera-
Two trigger-happy ex-con-victs, who staged a bloody evening of crime last Saturday which included the robbery of a drive-in theater, the disarming of a state trooper and the * - shooting of two city detectives. 11|1 were cooling off in jail under 11| $25,000 bonds this week as S I their victims recovered in Gen- * ^
eral Hospital.
Samuel W. Woodson. 33, 1302 I S. Pershing, and Ivo E. Harding, 124, 3736 W. 10th, were charged with robbery and assault and batj tery with intent to murder after i they were caught in a net spread ; by 350 policemen from West InI dianapolis to Haughville. Det. Sgts. Fred Whisler and John T. Morris, wounded as they attempted to auestion Woodson, were listed in “fair” condition Thursday. Det. Sgt. James Rogers, veteran of the homicide and robbery de-
RALPH TUCKEh Candidate For Governor
CLAUDE WICKARD Candidate For U. S. Senate
Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre of candidates chosen at the TuesHaute emerged the winner of the day’s convention, to face GOP can-
tail “cleared the case up” Sun- Democratic State Convention bal- didates scheduled to be chosen Friday morning when he drew con- lotting Tuesday for the guberna- day, June 29 at the same Coliseum
Bishop Allen to Open AME Meet The Rt. Rev. A. J. Allen, recently appointed bishop of the Fourth Episcopal District of the AME Church, will deliver the annual message at the General Budget Convocation to be held at Bethel AME Church Thursday, July 5. Ministers from the Mid-West and Canada will be present to inaugurate the revolutionary budget program adopted at the recent 35th session of the AME General Conference held in Miami, Fla. Delegates will represent churches in Michigan, Canada, Wisconsin, Minnesota Illinois. Iowa, and Indiana which comprise the Fourth District l The one-day convocation will | begin at 10 a.m. Rev. J. A. Dames is the host pastor.
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Cessions from the ex-cons after a long period of questioning which saw the top police brass question the men and give up when they
remained tight-lipped.
Rogers and his partner, Lt.
Spurgeon Davenport, remained in! tary of Agriculture,
the interrogation rooms and Hard- Tucker was victorious on the ing was the first to crack under ninth ballot after submerging the the skillful handling of Rogers, j outstanding contender. Matthew WOODSON, who had sent offi- E- Welsh. Vincennes by a vote of
cers on a “wild goose chase” of | 1>020 to 868.
a mythical “Willie Johnson” after j Wickard, of Camden, defeated
toriai nomination in one of the at the State Fairgrounds in the | most exciting and upsetting con- fall election, is as follows: tests in recent years. ! for sfk/vtor Chosen in a much quieter vein ^ \*7• i ^^ for the U. S. Senate post was' Claude R ' w,ckard of Camden.
Claude R. Wickard, former Secre-
FOR GOVERNOR
Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute.
FOR LIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR
Bartel Zandstra of Highland. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE Thomas L. Lemon, of Bloomington. FOR AUDITOR OF STATE
his capture, confronted with the B. Howard Caughran, Indianapolis, Sheriff Joe Brogdon of Anderson.
but has been handicapped because of lack of space to display the large shipment of major Hotpoint
appliances he received.
Therefore, to move these items and as a public introduction, he has inaugurated the gigantic money-saving sale this week-end. Ail major Hotpoint appliances, including automatic washers, dry-
tors will be offered in this sale. The carload of these household necessities will be sold from the sidewalk, still in their shipping crates and guaranteed in perfect condition through Saturday, June 30. See the full page ad spread on Page 7, this issue, for further
details.
Easy credit terms.
Fans Impressed By "Tiger" Trophy
Tucker’s victory, wholly unpredicted except by himself and a few friends, was attributed to the influence of labor and the unwillingness of delegates to “bossism” by the big-
wigs of the party.
The Indiana Democratic slate Girl, 2, Shocked By Lightning
The tremendous trophy presented Crispus Attucks high school in honor of its two straight state basketball championships is making the rounds of display windows as members of the Citizens Trophy committee continue to solicit money from Attucks supporters in an attempt to cover a deficit in the cost of the award. On display at the All-Star Game last Saturday night at Butler Fieldhouse, the huge award will be shown from a window at the L. Strauss Co., for two weeks. THE RECORDER, director of the project which brought about the construction of the exclusive trophy and presentation to the school, is screening requests from other business places seeking to display the trophy. • In the meantime, the Citizens Trophy Committee, in charge of the solicitation of funds, continued its appeal to Attucks backers and basketball lovers. Persons wishing to contribute are urged to send all contributions to The Recorder, 518 Indiana avenue. A scroll containing the name of every contributor will be presented to Dr. Russell A. Lane, principal of Attucks, and the list will be displayed along with the trophy at the school.
Carter Hill is chairman of the Trophy Committee and Marcus C. Stewart, Sr., Recorder Editor, is director. The Dal-Bay-On Bronzing Co., owned by Hill and Joe N. Mason, designed and .manufactured the trophy, said to be the largest nonmetallic trophy every built. It is made up of the basketball used in the final game of the 1956 State tournament and one of the shoes worn by each of the Tigers in this historic game. In addition to this trophy, 10 individual trophies, made up of the other shoe of each player were made and presented to the players as their personal awards.
signed statement of Harding, de- by a count of 1.362 to 377.
cided to try to make things easy for himself and unfolded a story-
book tale.
The evening started the men agreed, when Harding went to| Woodson’s home and attempted to borrow $10, which Woodson said he didn’t have They started for a drive in a car owned by Harding’s brother and Woodson said he needed some money, too, as they neared the Bell-Air Drive-In at Kentucky and Tibbs avenues. Woodson wheeled the car up to the theater ticket office, got out and threatened the cashier with a gun as Harding cleaned out the cash drawer. State Trooper Gerald D. Curts flagged the men down at Kentucky and Morris when he spotted them speeding. As the officer unfastened his safety belt, Woodson walked to the side of his car, .iammed a gun in the trooper’s face and ordered him to place his gun on the seat. Woodson | picked up the policeman’s gun and ordered him to drive on. He fired several shots at the police car, sending one bullet through the bark window. HARDING AND WOODSON Continued on Page 8
FOR STATE TREASURER Albert Steinwedel of Seymour. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL William II. Wolf of Greenfield. FOR SUPREME COURT JUDGE
5TH DISTRICT
Lloyd C. Wampler of Plymouth. FOR SUPREME COURT JUDGE ( onimued on I'aee X
Sentence Drugist For Selling Cocoine Tagged by federal agents as “one of the biggest suppliers of cocaine in the Mid-West,” George L. Blaine, operator of Blaine’s Pharmacy at 822 W. Michigan for several years, was sentenced to two years in prison by Judge William E. Steckler in Federal Court Fri-
day last week.
Noting that “the sale of narcotics had fertilized the field of crime here,” Judge Steckler ordered Blaine, 4854 Byram, to serve the sentence at the federal institution at
Terre Haute.
Blaine was arrested and indicted last spring after federal agents charged him with selling illegally two ounces of cocaine which U. S. Attorney Donald Talbert described as “enough to supply all Indianapolis cocaine users for a period of two or three months.” He changed his original “not guilty” plea to a guilty one several weeks ago.
File $115,000 Suit for Swimming Pool Jimcrow
N. Y. POLICE INSPECTOR NEW YORK — Deputy Inspector George H. Redding, a gang-busting cop who blazed the trail in Harlem during prohibition days has been promoted to the rank of inspector, one of the highest in the New York City Police Department. He is the first Negro officer to be given command Of an entire police division in the •city’s history.
Hear and Hurrv Radio Station WISH will broadcast their Disc Jockey program Saturday, June 30, directly from the Ai Daniels Hotpoint Appliance Store, 522 Indiana avenue, where the "sale of the years" of Hotpoint appliances will be in progress. When you hear the announcement 9 to 10 a.m., hurry down to Daniels 1 to take advantage of greatly reduced prices of this outstanding brand of appliances being sold in their crates "right from the sidewalk in front of the Daniel's store. There will be an entertainment program of exciting appeal accompanying the broadcast and sale. (See ad Page 7.)
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LYDIA KAY SHELBY
Little Lydia Kay Shelby got the shock of her life as she dozed in
A damage suit asking $115,000 for 33 Negro children barred from an Evansville, Ind., public swimming pool several weeks ago because of their race, was filed in the Southern District of Federal
Court here Tuesday.
NAACP Attorneys representing the children and their parents declare the Evansville authorities in charge of public !| swimming pool facilities of the city have violated the 14th Amendment of the Constitution and the United States Code that provides for equal protection and due process for all citizens without regard to
race, creed or color.
Judge Gale J. Holder set July 6 as date for a hearing on a tem-
an arm chair in the living room porary injunction restraining Ev-
~ ■ ansville city officials from continu-
ing the racial discrimination. Representing the plaintiffs for the NAACP are Attorneys Patrick E. Chavis, Jr., and, Willard B. Ransom of Indianapolis, and Sydney L. Berger,
Evansville.
The plaintiffs ask an end of racial discrimination in all five of the public pools in Evansville and cites recent U. S. Supreme Court decisions outlawing segregation in the use of municipal facilities. NAMED AS DEFENDANTS are Mayor Vance Hartke, and the City of Evansville; the superintendent of the Recreation Committee of Evansville; the Board of Park Com
of her home at 2319 Hovey Friday afternoon of last week. The two-year-old tot was having no dream when she suddenly bolted from her sleep and ran screaming for help from some of her sisters and brothers quietly sitting out a terrible electrical storm that swept the city and particu-larly-the Eastside that afternoon. Elysa Covington, a next door neighbor, gave first-aid and summoned an emergency squad. Responding to the report that a child had been struck by lightning, the officers reported encouragingly a
“narrow escape”
They reported the child was Continued on Page 1
missioners, the City Council, thebasis.
DELORES BRYANT . . . Drowns In Lake Two people, a 32-year-old woman and a two-year-old boy, drowned last Sunday as the boat in which the woman was riding capsized and the tot fell into a water-filled excavation near his home. DEAD ARE: JERRY DWIGHT SANDERS, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Sanders, 1742 S. Calvin. MRS. DELORES BRYANT, 32, 2223 Bellefontaine. The body of little Jerry Sanders was fished from four and one-half feet of water in a hole only 30 feet from the doorstep of his home Sunday afternoon by his grandfather, Claude Brown, 60. Brown and the child’s parents were searching the neighborhood after the toddler had wandered from his front porch where he was playing. The grandfather recovered the boy, still breathing, from the death trap and carried him to a spot under a nearby
tree.
Two General hospital doctors and a fire department emergency squad applied first aid with a resuscitator but were unable to revive the baby after 30 minutes and Deputy Coroner James Anderson pronounced him dead. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders said they were sitting on a side porch when their child wandered off. Mrs. Sanders had spanked the boy only the day before when he wandered near the uncovered hole against
her orders.
City Officials, headed by Mayor Phil Bayt, investigated the incident and ordered that barriers lighted with red lanterns be placed around the holes which were dug for water connections. Jerry was buried Wednesday afternoon in New Crown cemetery following services in the Stuart
Mortuary.
Survivors besides the parents and grandfather are two brothers, Larry and Edward, and two sisters, Beverly and Janice Sanders; grandmother, Mrs. Claude Brown, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sanders. MRS. BRYANT was drowned when the boat in which she was riding with three companions capsized on Lake Langenhaum, near Knox, Ind., Sunday afternoon. Her body was recovered Monday afternoon by state police, and the sheriff of Pulaski and Stark
Counties.
Accompanying the young wom-
clared the pool will continue to an on the boating trip were Walbe operated on an integrated: ter Shead, 31, 2435 Carrollton,
School Board and supervisor of
the swimming pools.
Chagrined at the continuance of pool segregation for a number of years, a delegation of the Interdenominational Civic Committee, composed of leading Negro ministers of the city, led a group of children to the Artes swimming pool, one of the four reserved exclusively for whites, June 11 where they attempted to register and
gain admission.
They were summarily denied the privilege by guards and attendants on duty at the time. Furthermore
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Revenue Foils
At Muncie Pool MUNCIE, Ind—The Tuhey swimming pool which was opened to residents on a non-segregated basis last week, climaxing a determined struggle by Negroes to outlaw Jim Crow, has experienced a sharp drop in revenue, officials
reported Wednesday.
This, they attributed to racial strife attending the effort to effect non-discrimination at the
public-owned facility.
Income at the pool, after a week of integration, officials reported was $668 as compared with $1,737 for the opening week a year ago. It is believed, however, that as the fear of racial conflict fades, the revenues will increase substantially over that of previous years. At any rate, officials have de-
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PERCY THOMPSON By JIM CUMMINGS A huge bltnd man, questioned last March after his common-law wife died from a fall down steps, was in jail this week on murder charges after a second common-law wife died of what he described as a "fall on the fire escape." Percy Thompson, 33, 604 N. Senate, Apt. 205, was ordered held in Marion County Jail without bond as detectives investigated the death Monday morning of Lillie Mae Williams, 32. The woman died of a fractured skull as she was being taken to General hospital in an ambulance. Police, called to the apartment building at North and Senate found Mrs. Williams lying across the bed in the filthy smelly apartment she shared with Thompson. PATROLMEN Oscar Donahue and Lon Watford, Jr., who received the run, said the woman was bleeding from the ears, nose and mouth. Her face, forehead and body were discolored from numerous cuts and bruisees, the officers reported- ’ Thompson was not in the apartment and police headquarters radioed his description to all cars, together with an order for him to be arrested on sight. Donahue and Watford, after questioning numerous occupants of the building, went to 535 W. Michigan, and found Thompson there. The big blind man was returned to his apartment where he told officers he had left his wife asleep in bed. “She was snoring when I left,” he said. THOMPSON told Donahue his wife fell on the steps Sunday night. He said she had been drinking heavily and he was taking her home when she fell. However, at police headquarters, he signed a statement in which he said she fell during a fight between them. Shelton Liv^v, 44-year-old custodian of th^ building, said Mrs. Williams had been in his apartment until late Sunday night and said she was unmarked when she
left.
James Moton, 37, who also lives in the building, said he led Thompson on a search for his mate Sunday ni£ht which ended shortly after midnight when they found her at 310 W. North. POLICE SAID an unidentified person told of overhearing part of the argument between Thompson and the woman and quoted Thompson as telling his mate, “I’ll get you, you .” The witness said Thompson also threatened to use the “same procedure” he used with his other wife who died. Sarah Young died March 14 at General Hospital from internal iniuries suffered when she “fell down a flight of stairs” at 535 W. Michigan, where she and Thompson were living together. Rumors that Thompson had pushed her down the stairs, resulted in an investigation which failed to turn up a single wit-
ness.
Thompson and Mrs. Williams had lived together for about five^. weeks. The blind man receives a pension from the state of Kentucky and reportedly visited Louisville monthly to pick up his check. Mrs. Williams, originally from Bessemer, Ala., came here with Thompson after her common-law husband, James Williams, alias James O’Neal, was jailed at Louisville for violation of the Dyer Act. The body was shipped to Bessemer Wednesday by the Willis Mortuary. Services and burial will be held there. Thompson lost one eye in an automobile accident in 1945 and lost the other four years later in a gun fight at a dance hall, detectives told The Recorder.