Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1959 — Page 2
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NAACP Life
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NAACP HEAD IN CITY: Following his "Monster Meeting" address Sunday at the Senate Avenue YMCA, Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP relaxes and becomes acquainted with members of the Indianapolis branch. In the photo at left Wilkins is shown with Chandler Houston (presenting book), Mrs. Ollie Weeks and Dr. Ford Gibson, local president. Accepting congratulations on his justfinished address (center photo), he shakes hands with Mrs. Ray Puryear while Mrs. Beulah Wallace looks on.
At a special meeting for life members of the NAACP at the home of Atty. Henry J. Richardson (photo at right), Wilkins looks over life membership pledges with Miss Jennie Moton, John J. James, executive secretary of the Senate Avenue YMCA; Mrs. Wilma Simms, president of the Jack and Jill club; Virgil Cunningham and Atty. Richardson, chairman*of the life membership committee.
(Recorder photos by Jim Burres)
Tim Owsley (Continued rrom Pare 1)
Sodomy Attempt (Continued from Pare 1)
tember and gave iier a 30-day 50-50 guaran ee. Thats all you ever get with a $400-$500 car. “Then, last month, she brought the car back out here and wanted a new battery. I always give the customer the benefit of .he doubt, so I gave her the battery.” Sometime later, he said, she brought the car back and told him it had stopped running. A mechanic’s check revealed that all the valves were burned out.
“Although the guarattlee had long since run out,” the accused mafi said. “I told her I’d pay half the $50 repair bill if she’d pay the other ha!f. She still owed me $60 from the original and hadn’t made i a single one of the $3-a-week payi menfs. “When she found out I wasn’t going to foot the whole bill, she left the car parked in the alley alongside my lot. Still acting in good faith, I kept the police from towing it in and charging her>a I dollar-a-day storage charges.” He said he had no idea what she was ta’kin? about when the woman told him, “I’m going to get even I with you. I’m going to hurt your
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business.” “Then,” the indignant salesman exclaimed, “she cameup with this lidiculous charge. Why, I’ve been in business here 25 years, and I d be crazy to try a thing like that with a cus.omer. I’ve never been accused of anv.hing like that in my
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“EVEN IF I WANTED TO. you know how little privacy there is at a used car lot with salesmen and customers in and out all the time. I was never with her for a minute by myself and wouldn’t even know her if I’d see her. “When' she came in the second ime, I to T d her I’d just forget about the $60 she owed me. But I will not be blackmailed or doublecrossed by anybody.” He said homicide detectives agreed with him that he charges were outrageous, especially when she wouldn’t even come back to
identify him.
“If anybody doub s anything I’ve said, I’ll take a lie-detector test or anything else,” he asserted. “That
Affucks Parents
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gram for some of our students in summer school and in the present
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“Then, too, 1; would be a device for seeing to it that the ground does not simply stand unused and unsupervised, thereby remaining a nuisance to the conummity.” An alternate plan, termed “less desirable than the first but still better than no usage at all.” calls for arranging with the Park Board for the area to be used as a supervised play ground during the
summer.
In any case, it was said, the area ought to be graded, seeded
and properly protected
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the early 1900s. He may also be remembered for his comedy, “Twen y Minutes in Hell,” fea uring Sidney Kirkpatrick as his co-star. Tim subsequently became principal comedian with W. A. Mahara’s Minstres, comedian and amusements director of Col. R. T. Mot ’s summer stock company, costar of Madame Black Patti with '.he Blaekville Strollers and monologuist with Pantage’s Vaudeville Circuit. After a brief retiremen'. he was engaged by the New York Dramatic Agency in Los Angeles. He wrote and produced short acts. Later, he joined hands wi'h Henri Bowman forming the team Owsley and Bowman and touring the TOBA circuit which nlayed such theaters as the Lyric in Indianapolis, the Gus Sun in Detroit, the Woodland in Cleveland, the Sun in Columbus, O., and 63rd Street in Chicago. Returning o Indianapolis, he was engaged by Rolland Guyer as manger of the Crown Garden, first Negro theatre in the city. He later became owner of the business. During Mr. Owsley’s operation and ownership of the Crown Garden, the first colored becking office for bo h white and colored acts was formed. Known as Consolidated Looking Exchange, the firm had its home offices in Chicago, with Mr. Owsley as president untii he became manager of Southern Vaudeville Exchange owned by W. Cummings. Then came the T:0:B:A NalrfiFt Then came the T.O.B.A. circuit, rifted in Louisville at the Dr. imore theatre, with Milton Star of Nashville, Tcnn., as presi-
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Returning to active theatrical work in 1821. Owsley joined the famous Roscoe and Hockwald “Geo gia Ministrel” where he was billed as “Tim Owsley, talking comedian.” During this time, he
^ , became stage manager, direc or Delightful appetizer: eooked ian( i special materials writer, shrimp marinated in a tangy French i n 1923, he wro e his first sucdressing and served on small-size cessful overture, “Minstrel Days,”
from the .heatre, tie entered the postal service only to find that the bright lights were in his blood. Mr. Owsley accepted a managerial job with the Grand and Indiana theatres in Chicago and formed a partnership wi h Billy Pearson with whom he wrote and produced stock shows on the T.O.B.A. circuit. After several more successful closed in Phi’adelphia, he accepted the managership of the Gibson theatre there. Leaving Philadelphia, he became road manager for Barton and Pra t, leaving at the end of this engagement to join Charles Collier’s “Silas Green Show” as stage director and producer of musical comedy. In 1929, he wrote and produced “Lucky Days,” a story book of words and music. After several more succesful seasons, he retired entirely from show business, except to lend his talent and accumulated weal h of experience to Planner House and his Masonic lodge. Mr. Owsley was personally acquainted and shared billings v ith such old time greats as Bert Williams of Williams and Walker; Rosamond Johnson of Cole and Johnson, Bill “Bo-
enou&h to pay about a dollar a week or a minimum of $50 a year.” Most groups and individuals* spend tha much each year 'or tnings which last only a few hours, E Richardson went on “But in the •’ leng run, those things are not near-“ k ‘o important as our own status^” rnd the fu ure which will face ■ -a- children unless someone pays die cos*.” No ii'eci 1 invitation to join is, nr' cs;a y. he emphasized. “Just a:k ar.v life member for de ails rnd se J j,our checks payable to the Indianapo is branch NAACP.”I Roxie Gill Funeral services -or Miss Roxie Gill, 80, 629 W. 31st, were held March 4 in the Pa ton Funeral Home, with burial in Floral Perk. She died Feb. 28 in General hospital. A native of Rockport, Miss Gill had lived in Indianapolis since 1922.
jangles” Robinson, S. H. Dudley, a partner in the Vaudeville Booking Agency; Clarence Muse, Ed Henderson, Mantan Moreland, W. C. Handy, Dr. Charles. Parker, Chicken Reel Beamon, Herbert Marshall, Salem Tutt Whitney, Irvin Miller, Charles Gilpin, Frank Bcwler Brown, Blue Johnson, Arthur Maxwell, Johnny Woods, Manzie Campbell and Sam Davis, who played the role of Gabriel in “Green Pastures.” Among Owsley’s many talents was short story writing, having one article published by the Pittsburgh Magazine Company. For 10 years he was co’umnist under Tony Langs.on for the Chicago Defender, J. Gunn for the Pittsburgh Courier and Elwood Knox of the Indianapolis Freeman. He is survived by two sons, Arnold D. and James B. Owsley of California; two daughters, Mosdames Helen M. Porter and Melba Johnson, both of Indianapolis; two brothers. Hosley C. Owsley, Indianapolis, and James B. Owsley, Cleveland, two sisters, Mesdames Sonober Booker and Venus Bess, Indianapolis, and two grandchildren.
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