Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1960 — Page 1
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‘FIANCEE SLAYER’ SEEN IN CITY
Lolla DeniePxMurder Conspiracy
Says Charge Is A Scheme to Discredit Him
Adding to the confusion that has surrounded the operation of Local 120 of the Hod Carriers Union in recent months, the sacretary-treasurer of the local wot arrested Monday in connection with an alleged assossination plot against the union president. Jailed was Roland Lolla, who reportedly was instrumental in the ouster of several formerly powerful unibn officials for alleged misappropriation of the organization's funds. Charged with conspiracy to commit murder, Lolla was accused of approaching a man in the union hall an offer of $250 In cash and the promise of a steady job to shoot Samuel Collier, president of the local. “A plot,” Lolla asserted during an interview with a Recorder reporter Monday evening. ‘‘The whole scheme was cooked up by members of the other faction (he didn't name names) who are vying for control of the union,” the sec-retary-treasurer charged. He contended the move was calculated to prevent him from alttending a receivership hearing which was scheduled Monday in Boone County Circuit Court.
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POLICE USE GUNS, WHIPS
ON AFRICAN BOYCOTTERS
Young Southside Phyllis Waters, Attacks Teacher,
AS FAR TS could be learned, the original dissension in the local commenced around January of 1958 when an investigating committee spearheaded by Lolla reportedly uncovered numerous irregularities in the union’s books. As a result of the investigation, the records show, Charles Martin, who was secretary-treasurer at that time, was found guilty of misappropriation of funds bl a trial board and suspended from office by the union membership on Oct. 11, 1959 Martin then appealed his case to the executive board of the international body and he was upheld and ordered reinstated. However, Lolla petitioned for and was granted a temporary restraining order in Superior Court enjoining the international from interfering in the affairs of Local 120. Argyments for a permanent injunction were yet to be heard. Then, the union’s business agent, Henry Mills was tried and suspended on various charges including his alleged refusal to turn money he had collected over to the secre-tary-treasurer. Mills, too, appealed his suspension to the international, and although it had not been ruled on by the parent bodv a portion of the executive board met and orered the $190-a-week business agent reinstated, There is. The Recorder learned, considerable dougt among the rank and Ale as to whether or not the board’s action was within the scope of the organization’s constitution. - Also, it was learned, when the international informed Local 120 It wished Martin restored, the president, Collier, \\ho is also employed as a $120-a-week janitor in the union hall, allegedly decided to cooperate with his International’s order regardless of the court’s restraining order. HE REFUSED to sign checks for current expenses, for insurance payments, for per capita taxes to the International and even for payments to the government for social security and withholding taxes, members contended. The alleged assassination plot was revealed to police officials by John Batie, who, claiming he was afraid he might be done bodily harm, claimed to have been approached by Lolla to “get Sam.” Said Batie, around Jan. 15, while out of work he asked Lolla, who (Continued on Page 3)
Buy Dies After Bicycle Mishap
In Race for State Representative
Miss Phyllis W. Waters, 941 N, mittee of the Indiana Civil Rights California, prominent in educa- Commission for one year, ttonal and civic circles, has entered PLEDGING herself to work, as
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6 primary. serve on both the local executive A lifelong Republican, Miss committee of the Indianapolis and Waters is a native of Charleston, Grade Teachers Associations and W. Va., having come to Indiana- was the co-sponsor of the first Girl polls to teach in the Public School Scoup troop for Negro girls. System here 41 years ago The Her mot her, the late Evelyn daughter of the late Phil Waters, Waters taUght in indianaptewyer and clerk of the Supreme olis school for three years< Court of the State of West \ir- ^ij ss Waters was the first woman gima she is presently the official to become a member of the Senate psychometnst at Cnspus Attucks Av e n ue YMCA, having been High School. awarded membership by the as so-
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ig the flrst Negro elected as vice- work wUh boys thc lndIa ^lLl :
ing the first Negro
president of the Indiana; State community.
Teachers’ Association. She also she has given private financial served on the educational sub-corn- aid to individual orphans
PHYLLIS WATERS
Bias Not Confined to South; Indianapolis Has Its Share
Recent emphasis on lunch-count- i as well as anyone else.' er discrimination in the South as | “Then, Mrs. Henry came over to reported in the Northern press has [ the patron and told him, ‘You get
tended to give the Impression that all public accommodations above the Mason-Dixon Line are open to
all men alike.
Not so, say members of the Co-
Op Civic League.
Oscar E. Banks, president of the Haughville-centered organization, told The Recorder officers and members of his group recently met with discrimination in a Haughville tavern-.
DEXTER STOKES
The
funeral of a 10-year-old
Southside boy, who died of head injuries two days after being struck by a ear, w’as to be held Friday at 1 in South Calvary Baptist Church, with burial scheduled
in New Crown Cemetery.
The victom, Joseph (Jo Jo) Evans, 1031 S. Kenwood, and his 10-year-old companion, Dexter Stokes, 1008 S. Kenwood, were riding on one bicycle at Capitol
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“ON SATURDAY, April 2,” >Banks reported, ‘'three officers and a member of the league visited Hallie’s Restaurant and Bar, 2025 W. Michigan. Mrs. Henry (Hallie Henry, who, with her husband, is co-owner of the tavern) came over to our table after every? one in the place became quiet. “The first tning sne said was, ‘Beer is $1 a pint,’ not knowing what our order would be. We ordered two beers and two cokes and the bill came to $2,30.” With Banks were Lathen Hardy, first vice-president; Jesse Wilson, second vice-president, and Jesse Longs. <
“After some mumbling In the corner by Mrs. Henry,” Banks recounted, “a white patron came to our table and shook hands with two of the officers, stating, ‘You have a perfect right to come in here
your a-- to your table before I knock you down. You know bet-
ter.’ ”
According to league members, the Henrys operate the cafeteria at National Malleable Steel Castings Co. whecre more than half their patrons are Negro workers. THEY INDICATED a boycott may be launched against the plant cafeteria if the discriminatory prices at the tavern are continued The prices in the plant cafeteria are the same for both white and
Negro, htey added.
Contacted by a Recorder reporter Thursday morning, the own-
TURF CLUB FLIES CONFEDERATE FLAG
The management of the Turf Club has made its position unmistakably clear. Already adamant in its refusal to accord equal service to Negro patrons, the management reacted to a weekend picket at the establishment at 16th and Lafayette
Natives Routed From Homes, Forced to Work
JOHAN NESBURG — A horror-stricken world stood helplessly by this week as South African racism continued on its bloody way.
The white-supremacist government, completely ignoring a U. N. Security Council plea to end its segregation policy, launched a new campaign of intimidation. which saw the slaughter of a Neg rtf baby,, the savage beating of natives who stayed away from their jobs in protest to South Africa's apartheid (racial segregation), and reinstatement of the hated law which requires non-whites to carry identity passes at all times.
It was the pass system which touched off the current racial upheaval. Negroes demonstrated against the law on March 21 and won a temporary victory at the cost of some 80 African lives. But government officials announced
Road by unfurling a Confederate Wednesday that they would revive
flag.
Mrs. Mildred Thompson, owner of the club which has frequently awaiting a jury trial on charges of hired Negro musicians, is presently violating the state Public Accommodations statute.
criminated against Negroes or not. “You come out here if you want to talk to me,” he snapped, bang-
er refused to say whether he dis- ing down the receiver.
White Teacher, Students Jailed For Eating in Negro Restaurant
BOYS AND GIRLS 7-17 YEARS Earn $5.00 to $10.00 a week, selling The Recorder. We are especially interested in getting Carriers on the Southside, Barrington Area* and also the Area North of Fall Creek and West of Northwestern Avenue. ASK ABOUT OUR NEW BONUS SYSTEM. Call the CIRCULATION SECRETARY. MRS. CLARK TODAY at ME. 4-1545
JACKSONVILLE, III. (ANP) — A wave of indignation swept the campus of staid MacMurray College here Sunday, following the return of 10 sociology students and a professor. Dean Richard D. Nesmith, who had been arrested in Montgomery, Ala«, and fined for eating with Negroes in a Negro restaurant. The charge? “Disorderly conduct.” Nesmith, 31, was fined $100 while his wife, Barbara, 27, and the students drew fines of $50 and costs. On spring vacation, the group had been on a sociology field trip to get a firsthand look at the civil rights crisis in the Southland. TWO NEGRO MINISTERS arrested along with Nesmith and the students were Revs. S. S. Seay Sr. and R. B Dubose. Also taken into
custody were a white Boston University student, R. Edwin King; a Negro student, k James Richburg and two former students, recently expelled from Alabama State College for Negroes. Fined along with Mrs. Nesmith, were the following MacMurray students: David C. Gibson, 19, of Mobile, 111.; Thomas W Ramsberry, 22, of South Bend, Ind.; Bill Hatlestad, 20, of Detroit Lakes, Minn.; Charles Bradburn, 20, of Pittsville, 111.; Judity Erneling, 22. of Aurora, 111.; Sharon Maton, 22, of Pana, 111., Jeanne Walker, 21, of Dixon, 111.; Jacqueline Desvaux, 21, of Jacksonville, 111.; Jane Bergsten, 21, of Tonkawa, Okla., and Theil Baumann, 20, of Arlington, Va. Negro girl students at Alabama (Continued on Page 2'
LUNCH INTERRUPTED: White students from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, III., eat lunch (top) in a Negro restaurant in Montgomery, Ala., and (bottom) wind up in a police car under arrest for doing so. In all, 11 white students, their professor and his wife were among 20 arrested.
the law and crush the natives’ work boycott against the white su-
premacy rule.
Earlier this week, witnesses reported that hundreds of Africans were beaten in Capetown by police wielding sjamboks (whips made of (Continued on Page 3)
Object uf Hatiun-Wide Manhunt Fur 1958 Murder uf Bride-tu-Be
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EVELYN BARNETT . . Found in Garage
ROBERT LYLES . Sought in Slaying
Dixie Negroes Plan Boycott of Easter Sales
By THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS It was two months ago that the snowballing “s i t down” lunch counter protests were launched against the variety, dime department stores and similar establishments in Greensboro, N.C., and on the third month anniversary of that day, students from North Carolina A & T college again quietly swarmed over seats in the downtown dime stores while fellow students established picket lines around the stores. The protests had been halted on Feb. 20 to allow a bi-racial mayor’s advisory committee and store management to negotiate for the removal of the barriers to Negro service. However, the conferences were a washout w'hen two chain stores refused to integrate THE FAILURE of the mayor’s committee and store management to see eye to eye may have been dictated by the Utter's Wish to see the outcome of a possible test of lunch counter segregation by the Supreme Court. The test is in the offing because of a city court conviction of 43 students in Raleigh on “trespassing” charges. The convictions and fines are flrst to be appealed to the superior court, and should that fail, will be carried higher and higher until they reach the final seat of justice, the Supreme court. The appeals will attack the constitutionality of the state law which gives a merchant the right to serve any customer he wishes. Simultaneously with this move, is another which will have immediate effect and the results will be known within a couple of weeks—a proposal to boycott the big pre-Easter store sales. The proposal, coming from students in Tallahassee, Fla., urged: “Stay out of town until freedom (Continued on Page 31
Robert E. Lyles, subject of a nation-wide search for more than two years by local police and the FBI in connection with the February, 1958, slaying of his bride-to-be, was spotted in Indianapolis this week, according to a police bulletin. Lyles, who has eluded the nation's top law-enforcement agency over the two-year period, was reported seen driving a 1957 Lincoln south on State late Wednesday afternoon and was believed headed toward Barrington. A concentrated search of the Southside are, however, failed to turn up a trace of the murder suspect or his car, officers reported. UYLES has been hunted since the frozen body of his fiance, Evelyn Yvonne Barnett, 1158 Madeira, was discovered Feb. 4, 1958, hidden under a blanket in a gar ace ?t the rear of his home, 1918 Mll-
The corpse was found by Lyles’ mother, Mrs. Lennie Mae Lyles, when she went to empty some garbage. The coroner estimated the Barnett woman had been dead for about 2V6 days. At the General Hospital morgue doctors had to allow the body to lie out for more than 24 hours before it thawed enough for an autopsy to be performed. Police originally thought she had been bludgeoned to death, and then thought she had been stabbed before the post-mortem operation revealed she had been shot. A .32-caliber bullet had severed her jugular vein as it traversed through her neck. Mrs. Barnett was last seen alive the previous Sunday at a pre-wedding party in lockefield given by friends in honor of her coming marriage to Lyles. Although he didn't attend the party, Lyles called for his inteded wife about 3:30 that morning. The FBI warrant charging Lyles with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for the crime of murder was requested by local authorities after they learned the fugitive might be headed for California. He had, the officers said, recently turned in a change of address slip for his mail to be for(Continued on Page 2)
Naptown's Most Popular Tavern Waitress Contest Starts Apr. 16
Today's Nominating Blank Good For 10 Votes as Bonus
WHO’S THE MOST POPULAR TAVERN WAITRESS IN TOWN? . . . This is the question we expect to have answered by you, the general public . . . and especially those of you who patronize local TAVERNS. The Most Popular Tavern Waitress Contest starts officially in this newspaper the week of April 16. But in this issue you’ll find a nominating blank which is good for 10 votes to any waitress employed in a local tav-
'Sit-Down' Strike —In Reverse
COLUMBUS, Ga. (ANP)—Terming their behavior “ridiculous and foolish,” a city judge today sentenced three white soldiers to 30 days or $100 fine for trying to get service in a Negro grill. The GI's pleaded guilty to a technical charge of trespassing brought by a Negro grill operator who refused to serve the three soldiers from the North. Each paid his $100 fine Judge A. J. Land told them their action “could have been the match that could set aflame a race riot.” The soldiers said they were unfamiliar. with the South’s segregation customs and laws. They denied trying to create an incident..
ern. Winners will be announced during the first week in June following the close of National Tavern Month celebration all thru the month of May. There’ll be three prizes awarded the winners. First prize—$25 Savings Bond; 2nd prize—Portable Radio, and third prize—$10.00 in cash. Nothing to buy; just CLIP the Ballot out of your Recorder and fill m the contestant’s name, then bring or mail to The Indianapolis Recorder, 518
Indiana Ave. Better still, just leave them at your favorite tavern; The Ballots which have been left at the Taverns will be brought to The Recorder office and kept in a sealed container until the final deadline, when the official judges will tabulate the VOTES and announce the WINNAHS! Since this contest is being run in connection with National Tavern Month, we urge our readers to get an early start with their choice candidates, and remember, you CAN Vote for as many waitresses as you choose and as OFTEN as you like Let’s start the ball rolling NOW for those fine gals who serve you in style all thru the
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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER (1960) MOST POPULAR TAVERN WAITRESS CONTEST
NOMINATION BLANK — GOOD FOR 10 VOTES
(Please Print or Type Your Choice)
Name of Your Favoritress
S Name of Tavern = Mail or bring this BALLOT to the Waitress Contest Editor THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER, 518 Indiana Avenue
(SEE CONTEST RULES ON PAGE 2)
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