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‘Slaughter Season’ Opens; Five Die So Far This Month

Week's Toll: Wile

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Slabbed to Death

SHE'S SO FINE: For the second consecutive year a Negro beauty has walked away with top honors in the Cannes Film Festival Beauty Contest — and it's easy to see why. This darkeyed and shapely beauty is a georgous representative of feminine pulchritude. Her name? Lajeune Hundley, 19-year-old model from Washington, D. C. Measurements? 34*22-34. Miss Hundley, 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 118 pounds, entered the contest as a result of winning the Miss American Beauty Contest last year held annually in New York and sponsored by the Ophelia DeVore School of Charm. Miss DeVore personally guided and coached her beauty queen for the Cannes Contest. Lajeune's hobbies include skating, horse back riding, golfing, singing and dramatics. A graduate of the Parker Gray High School in Washington, Miss Hundley's plans are to finish college and to become an actress.

Martin L. King

Goes to Trial

On Tax Charge MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ANP)— Dr. Martin Luther King went on trial here Wednesday over the protests of his battery of lawyers about a number of conditions surrounding the indictments and the circumstance of the trial itself. Special Judge James J. Carter ruled late last week against defense request for a change of venue, declaring King’s attorney’s had failed to prove he would not

'get a faair trial here.

SAYS DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED

Cay'ier also, ruled that defense attorneys failed in two and a half days of testimony and arguments to show that the indictments against the integration leader were improperly drawn or that there was any reason to dismiss them. The effect of his written decision was to order King to face trial Wednesday on two perjury indictments charging him with (Continued on rare S)

Huddle Lounge Waitress Cops Lead As Deadline for Votes Approaches

Contest Ends June 1

Votes Must Be in Wed. Winnahs Announced June 4 Maybelle Johnson of the Huddle Lounge jumped from 11th place to the No. 1 position in the Most Popular Tavern Waitresses Contest this week . . . with VOTING heavy for all top contestants as the POLL nears the deadline of June 1 . . . All Ballots must be in Recorder office by 2 p. m. Wednesday . . . Winnahs will be named in next week's Recorder . . Prizes awarded and crowning of the “Queen of Tavern Waitress’’ the following weenie Mattie Estell of the Nine-O-One tavern fell back to second place, after holding the lead since the contest started . . . Her co-worker at the same tavern drops to third place and Vessie Morrelli of the Tally-Ho tavern takes fourth position with Dorothy Madry of the Red Keg in fifth position and Hattie Hailey of the Blue Eagle tavern following close behind This could be anybody’s race with the first four contestants only a few hundred votes apart The biggest surprise of the contest is the fact that the top spots are way down in the running . . . which proves again that the most popular WAITRESS can be found in the smaller bistros. With just a few days left for VOTING . . . jeaders are urged to

cast their BALLOTS before Tuesday for the girl of their choice Remember, the DEADLINE for VOTING is Wednesday, June 1. Note: Only contestants with more than 200 votes are listed. Total Votes in Waintress Contest Week Ending Tuesday, May 24 MAYBELLE JOHNSON .... 4,290 (Huddle Lounge) MATTIE ESTELL 3398 (Nine-O-One Tavern) INEZ RICHARDSON 3350 (Nine-O-One Tavern) VESSIE MORRELLI .... 3170 (Tally-Ho Tavern) DOROTHY JEAN MADRY 2480

(Red Keg)

HATTIE HAILEY 1980 (Blue Eagle Tavern) BARBARA ROWLAND 1800 (Play Boys Bar BERNICE TEMPLE 1520 (Corner Bar) FRANCIS PERSON 1210 (Rainbow Tavern) DELORES WRIGHT 1080 (Rainbow Tavern) JOAN MARIE YOUNG . . . . 950 (Blvd. Tap Room) MILDRED LANGFORD .... 490 ' >2148 Club) LILLIAN MeCRAY 490 (Club Savoy) FRANCES SAYLES 320 (Pink Poodle) BESSIE HUNTER 290 (Place to Play) IMOGENE BENTLEY 230 (Place to Play

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B A L L O T

NATIONAL TAVERN MONTH MAY 1-31 Name of Waitress Tavern NOTE: Turn In You r Vote Ballot at Your Favorite Tavern or Bring to Popular Waitress Contest Editor, The ia£i«napolis Recorder, 518 Indiana Avenue. ^ GOOD FOR TEN VOTES if • You Vote Now! Ask Tour Friends To Vote for Your Favorite Waitreit • Vote At Often A| You Like •

B A L L O T

Republicans Name Two on Committee

Demonstrators Win Baptist Endorsements

Two prominent Negroes are among the 49-member Republican

Platform Advisory Committee K r • u a ^ i

named by State GOP Chairman, j Edwin W. Beaman, to draw up the

The sit-down demonstrations and non-violent activities of the

1960 state platform. They are Sen. Robert L. Brokenburr, Indianapolis, and Cornelius Richardson, Richmond. Richardson, active in politics’ over the state, is a member of the Indiana State Reformatory parole

board.

The advisory committee was to meet Friday, May 27, in the Rainbow Room of the Hotel Severin to plan statewide hearings and receive sub-committee assignments.

ARKANSAS EXECUTES FOUR NEGROES. ARREST ANOTHER TUCKER PRISON FARM, Ark. (ANP)—The last two of four Negro Americans accused of the 1956 robbery-slaying of an elderly white man were executed here Friday, •May 20). They were James, 21, and Willie Henry Byrd, 22 Two other youths, James Moore, 21, and Rogers Boone, 27, were executed last month lor their parts in the $11 killing. The victim was M. R. Hamm.

out the nation have been termed a spiritually inspired movement. The Civic Committee of the Baptist Ministers’ Alliance of Indianapolis took this position in resolutions publicized or a nnounced here. ; The resolutions in connotations suggest that over the world generally, repressed peoples or minorities are casting off the mantles of victims altogether of bias or bigotry and intolerance — while manifesting a new offensive if non-violent role. Members of the Civic Committee are pastors of local Baptist Churches representing likely or approximately 50,000 communicants of the Baptist Church. They note that they feel called upon to assert that the alliance does not condone actions of discrimination contrary to the spirit and letter of the fundamental laws of our land or tenets of Christianity in interracial relations—or elsewhere over the nation North

and South.

Again they suggest that the at(Coniinuea on Page 2)

AFTER THE BATTLE: Trainer Hiawatha Gray (left) puts wraps on Archie Moore after the Old Mongoose scored lOth-round TKO over Billy Besmanoff Wednesday at the Coliseum. Archie's "beat" expression proves only that photos can lie — actually he was chipper as a chipmunk, and went to a victory party later at the Pink Poodle. (Photo by Jim Burres) Archie's Overdrive Leaves Billy in Pit By CHARLES S. PRESTON

Although, officially, summer is still about three weeks away, the "summer slaughter season" is already in full swing as Indianapolis Negroes chalked up May's fourth eftd fifth homicides last week. Early Saturday morning a 24-year-old housewife allegedly shot and killed her 26-year-old estranged mate after he broke into their modest Northside home and repeatedly burned her body with a lighted cigarette. Early Monday morning a 39-year-old Westside woman identified her alleged assailant as she lay dying in General Hos-

pital.

In the Saturdav attack, Mrs. Cynthia Bigbee, 2604 Annette, told homicide detectives G. L. Cunningham and F. J. Swails that she had a restraining order against her husband, Harold, bht he had forced hi? way into her home and forced her to have relations with him, and then burned personal parts of her body with the cigarette Bigbee died shortly after arriving at General Hospital. He had been shot twice in the head, once in the left ankle A fifth bullet struck the dp of his nose. The young mother of six children said she bought the .22-caliger revolver about three weeks ago because she feared for her safety. Tearfully she sold the detectives her husband had forced his way into the house, undressed and put on his pajamas

Ala. Negro Sentenced to Die; High Court Asked to Intervene

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Supreme Court was asked last week to save the life of a young Ne£)-o sentenced to death by an Alabama court for alleged burglary with intent to “ravish.”

The condemned man,

white lawyer who tried to withdraw from the case at the trial, but was prohibited from doing so by the judge. After a brief Jrial Hamilton was convicted of burg-

Charles l a ry with intent to “ravish,” and

Clarence Hamilton, 25, of Ensley, sentenced to die in the state’s Ala., was arrested on the night e ip C t r ir chair The Sunreme Court of October 12, 1956, and originally llte fas' Tear af! charged with •nighttime burglary fi d th judgment and sentence

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white woman. He denied the Execution of the sentence was charge and insisted he was led stayed by order of U.S. Supreme into the house by the woman who Court Justice Hugo L. Black on spoke only semi-distinctly with a April 20, 1960, “pending disposibroken accent. tion of a petition for certiorari to

Hamilton was represented at his this Court.”

1957 trial by a court-appointed (Contiiiued on Page 3)

The Master refuted his selfappointed critics and followers of little faith Wednesday at the Coliseum by turning in a sweetly artistic job to unmantle game Billy Besmanoff in 1:32 of the 10th. Archie Moore is 43 (the gags about him being older are getting awfully square) and he weighed 206 before the fight, most of it in front. He not only beat his 27-year-old foe every way you figure it, but contrary to expectations he led the fighting. Billy was smart enough not to let him counter-punch, and so Arch must have taken three steps to Besmanoff’s two. But if you think Archie was winded, you should have been in his dressing-room afterward. He held forth for the assembled newsmen like some urbane commentator who had taken a slight bump under the right eye as he walked away from ringside. Trainer Hmwatha Gray and this writer were more winded than Archie. “DID YOU TIRE in the- late rounds?” said an inevitable questioner. “Do I seem like I’m tired?” the champ countered quietly, and there was no need to answer that one. But he went on to explain, entertaining the open-mouthed writers as if they were children gathered about his knee: “I have a secret way of breathing and improve as the fight goes on. “Now here is what jets and I have in common. If you'll notice a jet will go the first two or three hundred miles apparently under a strain. Then the motors come on again and she sails along much more smoothly. That’s the way I am Jn a fight.” Somebody suggested “overdrive” and Archie bought it. “What about him decking you

for that 4-count in the 2nd?” “That happened when I was changing gears,” Archie smiled back quickly. “My feet were at odd angles and he caught me.” THE PLANS OF Moore include a light-heavyweight title bout with Eric Schoeppner on July 26 and then—as he hopes and Manager “Doc” Kearns says is in the bag—the big one. Archie wouldn’t take a choice for the Ingemar Johansson-Floyd Patterson rematch, but he noted: “I’ve got the winner.” But sometime after that in the approaching years even Archie will have to shift gears to a career outside the ring. Those who won’t believe he has well-nigh miraculous staying power must then concede Archie’s great acti n g ability that should (Continued on Page 2>

Recorder Inquiry Initiates Probe of Slayer's Release Only on extremely rare oc« cations does a prosecutor ask the Grand Jury to set asida the ruling of a judge, hut Prosecutor Phil Bayt per sonally appeared before the Marion County Grand Jury Tuesday, and requested that Houston Morgan be indicted far first-degree murder in connection with the May 13 slaying of 19-year-old George Beasley. Thursday afternoon tha Grand Jury returned a firstdegree murder indict m e n t against Morgan, and the Sheriff was ordered fa arrest him on a first-degree murder charge. He is held without band. Morgan, originally held on a preliminary murder charge, was freed on bond the following Wednesday when Joseph Mazelin, sitting as judge pro tern in Municipal Court, reduced the charge to manslaughter and set bond at $3,000. Morgan shot and killed Beasley, witnesses reported, as the result of a long-standing feud which developed over the dead youth’s relations with his ex-wife, Mrs, Velma Morgan. Mrs. Morgan and another witness testified at the grand jury hearing that they heard Morgan threaten to kill Beasley last July. “I’ll get you it it’s the last thing I do,” Mrs. Morgan quoted her ex-husband as saying. Beasley was threatened, she said, after he ’ interfered when her ex-mate was beating her with a stick, and drew a knife when the enraged man turned the stick on hiln. David L. George, Beasley’s companion at the time of the shooting, said he heard Morgan say, “I came to kill you anyway.” The youth also related how Morgan chased Beasley and fired five shots at him as he fie# for his life. Morgan is said to have purchased the small-caliber gun from Sack’s Eagle Loan, 304 Indiana, about Continued on Page 8 Shrine In Drive To Develop Push For Business

“He went into the kitchen and drank four beers and then started calling me nasty names, and when I asked him to quiet down because the kids were asleep in the back room, he began slapping me around and accused me of cheating on him,” Mrs. Bigbee said in a signed statement. “When I denied dating anyone, he told me to shut up, and after drinking another beer, he forced me to have relations with him and attacked me with the cigarette,” she added. After a second attack with the cigarette, Mrs. Bigbee said she went into the back room to see if the children were covered up and “I don’t know what came over me. I went to the closet where I had hidden the gun, took it out and walked back into the room where Harold was. “I just pointed it at him and started pulling the trigger until (Continued on Page 8)

DETROIT, MICHIGAN:—T h * Economic factor must become of more concern to Negroes for achievement of the goals of freedom Shriners have been advised in a proclamation issued here by Booker T. Alexander, Imperial Potentate of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of tha

Mystic Shrine.

THE PROCLAMATION, which calls attention to the second annual observance of “A Salute to Negro Business” points out that i Shriners will observe this event during the week of June 12-18, 1960. The Imperial Potentate's message has been delivered to tha one hundred and fifty six Temples in as many cities. The organization’s membership and its auxiliary members are being urged to spend twenty dollars during tha week with Negro business organitions in their community. Additionally Nobles and Daughters are further requested to pledge for the future a minimum of five dollars weekly to be spent in Negro business institutions. The Proclamation also pointed Continued on Page 2

'Dollars for Freedom' Drive Here To Raise Funds for Southern Youth

A swelling tide of organization tills week indicated that the city will make a generous contribution to the “Dollars for Freedom” drive to help Southern youth who are fighting for freedom. The drive will be conducted next weekend, June 3-5. Solicitors wearing badges and prepared to give receipts will approach liberty-lov-ing Naptowners and ask for donations to pay for legal defense of the courageous young “sit-in-

ers.”

All funds raised will be turned in to the NAACP local branch and then forwarded to the national le-

The Recorder is supporting the drive and will publish the names of all persons, churches and other organizations who make contributions. The NAACP, at its meeting last week at Eastside Baptist Church, enthusiastically endorced the drive which is being sparked by the Allied Civic Council. This group is led by Rev. George Tate, president of the Progressive Civic League: Oscar E. Banks, president of the Co-op Civic League, and Albert E. Pope, president of the Home Protect-Us League. REV. TATE REPORTED this

gal department of which famed week he had met with a group of Thurgood Marshall is chief counsel. AME Zion ministers and they

agreed to cooperate. He urged that every church in the city take up a substantial offering for tha cause. The NAACP Youth Council, headed by Wallace Hollins, has thrown itself eagerly into the campaign and asked for about 50 solicitor’s books. Mr. Banks said others joining in the movement included Mrs. Mary P. McGuire, president of the Bastside Better Business and Civic League; Mrs. Elizabeth Ray, Future Outlook Civic Club, and Charles N. Jones Jr., Midtown Civic League. Other persons desiring books (Continued on Fago S)