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2—The Indianapolis Recorder, Jan. 9,1960
DEATH CAME -QUICKLY: Mrs. Marjorie L. Terry lost control of her cor last Saturday, she. her husband Baxter, ^ and her two children skidded to sudden death in the path of a South Bend-bound bus at 73rd and Meridian. Visible in the tangled wreckage are the remains of a sled which the children had just gotten for Christmas. None of the passengers or the driver of the bus was injured. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres) ,
$5,000 Goal Set By Attacks Citizens Committee of 100
590 Attend
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machine shop of the International Harvester Co. Mrs. Terry moved here from her native Paducah five years ago. Their two-year-old daughter was born here. The older girl is survived by her father Jesse Spiyey of Now York City. Mr. Terry’s survivors include two brothers, Felix and James Terry, and a sister, Mrs, Martha Moore, all of Robinson County. Mrs Terry is survived by four brothers, Edward Bell, Chicago, and Harold, Richard, and Hugh Bell,, all of Indianapolis.
Crash Foils
“Crispus Attacks high schooljis co-chairman,
graduates have realized commend- Mrs. .Jessie Jacobs is chairman able goals in all fields of signiticant oi the Gold Division and Dr. Rosendeavor,” people attending a r?- coe Polin is co-chairman. F. E. cent meeting of the Citizens Com- DeFrantz is chairman of the Special mittee of 100-Scholarship Fund Gilts Division and Neal Harris is
Drive were told. j co-chairman. This idep was exnressed by Dr.
Roscoe PoHh, Alexander M. Moore
and other speakers.
Dr Polin. a nationally known musician is president of the Alumni Association of Attucks, while Mr. Moore, also an Attucks alumnus, is the principal of the school. Mr. Moore observed. "Attucks students are first class people and deserve the best education that can
be provided for them.”
F. E. DeFrantz, Sr. is general (hairman of the Citizens Committee
of 100. Neal Harris is
Lynching
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or any deputy acting under color of law conspired with individuals to injure or kill Mack Charles Parker then there would be not only a violation of Section 242 Title 18 but also would be a violation of the general conspiracy
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That statute, Judge Mize said
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overlooked another $10,000 in the safe in their (hurry, Pontius said,
The jnen bound Pontius’ hands
and feet and lashed him to a grocery stock cart before leaving. Pontius was able to drag the cart to a telephone and free himself enough to telephone police moments after the holdup men left the store. . State Police were alerted and a trooper headed west on U.S. 20 spotted the car answering the broadcast description and followed it to a four-way intersection at U.S. 20 and U.S. 35. The suspects’ car stopped and the trooper halted behind it and got out of his patrol car carrying a shotgun loaded with rifle pellets. As he approached the suspects’ car, it started forward and still uncertain if the car contained the holdup men, he fired his shotgun low, the pellets striking the trunk and rear bumper. Then he ran back to his patrol car and resumed the chase. A few hundred yards down the suspects car ran a roadblock and was fired upon again. ■ The fleeing auto ran a second roadblock at U.S. 20 and Ind. 520, where a trooper had parked his car across the westbound lanes of U.S. 20. When the suspects’ car speeded past, the trooper joined the chase. The troopers pursued the car at speeds up to 100 miles an hour. At a turn in U.S. 20 the suspects* auto suddenly spun out of control and* rolled onto its right side in
a ditch.
The suspects crawled out of the upset auto, police said, and Shuey began to run. Trooper Edward Burke leaped from his ear and fired at Shuey as he was trying to scale a wood? en fence. The blast fractured Shuey’s right elbow and the other two suspects surrendered. At the State Police Post, Pontius identified Sledge as one of the holdup men. He later identified Shuey in the hospital.
Officers said all three of the men have police records. Sledge has served sentences in Michigan Prison at Jackson and in North Da-
kota, they said. Mitchell has served terms in Colorado and Pennsylvania. Both men were jailed for
armed robbery.
Narcotics Case Delayed, Woman Free On Bond
A woman who was arresldd last September at Wier Cook Municipal Airport carrying $1,200 worth of heroin, was arraigned in Federal »~ourt this week and had her case continued at the request of her papuer attorney, Vi.gil L. Beeler. The attorney of Mrs. Hilda B. Coleman, 27, 423 Harvard, said he had not had time to- familiarize himself with the case. Mrs. Coleman will face a mandatory fiveyear sentence and a possible maximum of 25 years in prison if she is convicted on the narcotics charges outlined in the two-count indict-
ment.
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ArifcR i HE TRAGIC CRASH: This mass metal, scarcely recognizable as a car, was
mained of the automobile which carried a family of four to their deaths on rain-slick U. S. 31 (N. Meridian) at 73rd. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Terry, Katherine Spivey, 9, and Darlene Terry, 2, died instantly when their car skidded into the path of a bus. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)
Sees North
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Rights Council Asks Ike to Intercede for Civil Rights
By ALICE A. DUNNIGAN WASHINGTON (ANP)—Upon his return to the United States from a 22,000 mile good will tour abroad, President Eisenhower was urged by the American Council on Human Rights to intercede for civil rights in his own country. The Council’s telegram which greeted the Chief Executive commended him for the success of his world peace mission. “Now that you have observed first-hand the great forces at v/ork for freedom and equality throughout the world, we entreat you to give immediate attention to the importunate domestic problems existing within this great democracy of ours and to make a decisive assessment of the role you, as President, can and must play,” the
telegram read.
“The nationwide tensions resulting from the struggle for human and Civil rights can be greatly ameliorated by the passag strong, well-defined, workable
is-
to
en-
rights legislation and by the suance of executive orders counteract rebellion against
forcement of this legislation.’
“So we urge you to use the full extent of your influence to eliminate from the American scene, the repugnant, intolerable discriminations which Negroes and other minority groups have suf?
iered for generations.”
The telegram closed with a wish that peace and hope would be with the President and his loved ones,*
with the prayer that the
Almighty One would guide and strengthen him during the com-
ing years. -
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It was signed by Emma Manning Carter, president of ACHR and Aretha B. McKinley, director. The American Council on Human Right? represents 50,000 college women throughout the United States. It is’an organization composed of a group of college and
graduate sororities.
Tve Just Begun to Fight/ Faubus Says on Integration
Poplarville Whites 'Wrenched By Guilt' in Parker Lynchng
BOBBY BLAND SIGNS NEW “DUKE” CONTRACT
NEW YORK—The white populq-1 tion of Poplarville, Miss,, is “wrenched ' by conflict between J dread and guilt” over the lynching | of Mack Parker, a magazine edi- j
tor declared recently.
Writing in the current issue of |
Minister
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Look Magazine, Georgia-born edi- the Christian ministry in 1951, he
tor George Leonard Jr. said he! immediately enrolled at found during a recent visit to Pop- University’s School
larville that people were, “trying | where he earned the Bachelor of
desperately to force the ugly mat- Divinity degree,
ter from their conscious minds. Pastor at Trinity church for five “The people of Poplarville were ! and a half years, he is presently
obviously trying to fool themselves, i leading his congregation in erecting Some of the less educated already | a new church edftlce at 23rd and
had wovep a web of fantasy to j Martindale. Uunder his leadership protect them from their own feel-, the ehurrh membership has increas-
ings,” Leonard wrote. e d greatly.
He said he was told by one man „ . . , ..
1 Ihe young minister is active in
state, Malin said the School desegregation struggle in the South has entered a new and more hopeful
stage.
He attributed this principally to the Influence of “young white business men who have taken a new lease on life, and for regional and industrial rea-
sons believe the public schools j PHILADELPHIA (ANP) — Bob- , X toZ n Zte e e rZ^ »y “Blue" Bland, op hit-makr in, I960. The businesses of these “New or Don Robey’s Duke label, signed 1 South” men are more massive than A -jth the company a new long-term i those of the old-time Southern „ntract in Philly this week. Dave
l business men, fie declared, and they ' ,
| nec( j two things: lark ’ salos Promotion manager i 1. Skilled labor. 'or the Duke-Peacock and Back j 2. Consumers, “including Negro , '’eat set up, made a flying trip j consumers.” E£St to get Bobby’s signature on
White religious groups such as
. _ Baptists and Methodists also are „ u . r i exerting an influence, he said, ot Religion, i “j$ 0 th the business men and U’c
religious people arc on .the side
of youth.”
ASSERTING THAT LYNCHING has largely given way to subtler forms of oppression in the South. Mr. Malin said the Civil rights conflict is “bringing both South and North to find strains on their legal
LITTLE ROCK (ANP)—Gov. Orval Faubus said here last week that he doubted there would be any increase in the number of integrated schools in the state dur-
sales
the Duke-Peacock
leat set up, made a flying East to get Bobby’s signature ! the new contract that will raise the popular slar’s earning up into
ihe top bracket.
Bobby who is now riding high on
that “most people” in Poplarville think that the Parker ease was “a frame-up by the NAACP” and that “there wasn’t no rape and there wasn’t no lynching.” The Parker case made international headlines last April when Parker was dragged from his jail cell by a band of masked men two f*ays before he was to go on trial for raping a pregnant white woman. Nine davs late”, his bullet-rid-rien body was recovered from the
Pearl River.
Leonard said in Look that he was told by a Southern newspaperman that the local attitude Supporting the lynching was far more general when the story broke than most of the local leaders are now willing to admit.
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Phi Beta Sigmas Urged to Pool Resources in Fiqht for Rights
WASHINGTON (ANP) — The Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity was urged to pool its resources in the fight for rights. The request came from Mrs. Aretha B. McKinley, director of the American Council
on Human Rights.
In the welcome address to the delegates to the 45th Annual Conclave held in Washington this week, the ACHR director reminded them of the importance of working for the economic freedom of our people. One of the most important issues facing our people is the right to work under the same conditions and at the same rate of pay as anyone else. The right of equal employment practices is “inextricably interwoven with the right to live in decent housing, the right to be educated, the right to register and vote without discrimination and segregation ...” she said.
URGES ACTION FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
“During your coming deliberations,” said Mrs. McKinley, “may you give profound throught to what personal action you may perform to help decide whether your American brother and sister shall gain complete freedom during the next decade or whether through your inaction he shall remain partfree, part-slave for the next century. May God, also, implement your vision of a world of peace, freedom and justice with a unitedness of spirit and determination and a pooling of your efforts and
many civic, religious and fraternal groups. He is secretary and director of Christian education in his annual conference, secretary of the Indianapolis Interdenominational Ministers Alliance and a member cf Mer.dian’ Masonic Lodge No. 33. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the NAACP and the Fall Creek YMCA. Married to the former Norma Jean Cravens., he has one daughter,
Denise Marie.
Nine school districts integrated during 1959. “But,” Faubus added, “more and more people are becoming opposed to integrated schools. This has a tendency to convince segregationists that they
are right.”
He added that many persons who were on the borderline have now become convinced that racial segregation is the best thing. “The biggest question,” he said, “is whether we are going to
processes. “What has been thought of as a simple problem of an east’y distinguishable gro-’p has spilled over into a general crisis.” The greatest need in the South, he said, is for white lawvers to defend Negroes in civil rights cases. In the North, it is for open occupancy housing.
his cu/rent hit “I’ll Take Care Of is wnecner we are going to surYou, just finished a successful ren ? er 10 the federal government engagement at the North-West ; or ke ®P ?, n fi g htin K enforced in-
Club ijn Philadelphia jfdong with i tegration.
Junior Parker another Duke star i “I’m like John Paul Jones,” he
: added. “I’ve just begun to fight.”
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A panel discussion on “Juvenile Delinquency” will be conducted at 4 on Jan. 10 at Phillips Temple CME Church, 1220 N. West. Interested persons are vrged to come out and take part ficer for the juvenile court; Ed^vard Bell, social worker; Ira Carr, state parole officer, and Mrs. Clara iohnson of the Police Deparments juvenile bureau.
week to replace Lee R. Gilbert ! as principal of Froebel School. A reassignment of duties resulted in new jobs for four members of the Gary school system. The changes were recommended by school superintendent Alden H. Blankenship and approved unanimously by the board of school I trustees at their meeting lust
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Arthur Board Retires from Chevrolet
financial resources to defend and 1 minister.
A r thur Board, the second Negro employee at Chevrolet Division ox General Motors, and the first Negro employee to retire at Chevrolet, was awarded a gold retirement recognition card o*n Dec. 31 expressing the company’s appreciation for his 26 , 2 years of faithful service. Mr. Board, who lives at 834 W. ?8th with his wife, Mrs. Helen Board, and two children, worked in the maintenance department at Chevrolet and was a former employee at Stutz Motor Car Company. He was absent from his job a total of only 21 days during his employment by the company due to an illness and death 1 nthe fami-1
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Chevrolet now employs Negroes in every capacity of work, including machinists, crane operators,
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Mr. Board is a member of Bethel A ME Church, where he is a local
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White Mon Charged With Murder In Death of Negro Babysitter
SAN AUGUSTINE, Tex. — Following the death of Bobby Jean Ligon, 15, New Year’s Day, veiled ugly rumors of rape have hovered over this East Texas town near the Louisiana border. Bobby Jean was mangled by an automobile shortly after midnight, Dec. 31. The car was driven by Hugh Sparks, white, 37, a prominent insurance broker or aeent. She stayed in Sparks’ home on New Year’s Eve serving as a baby sitter with two of his children. He drove her home shortly afterwards and the sad ugly story climaxes the incident. According to reports, tests were made to determine if the young fair-complexioned Negro baby sitter had been raped. But the findings have not been revealed to the pub-
lic.
However, Elbert Nichols disclosed that Sparks had been charged with murdering the Ligon girl by running her down with his automobile. The girl was buried Monday in a country cemetery north of this town. Sheriff Nichols said, “The people here are very sorry it happened. It is very bad.”
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