Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1960 — Page 1

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Meriwether Urged for Post; Lost Close Council Race Last Election MORE JlfRICANS SLAUGHTERED

Group Urges Dale Brown fo Support Ex-Councilman Bv VVM. A. CHAMBERS The Indianapolis city council is expected to till a vacancy in its membership in a special session scheduled for 6:30 p. m. # Monday, June 20. Among the several persons recently mentioned for the post are Frank R. Beckwith, Rufus C. Kuykendall and Dr. Lucian B. Merivcfher. Dr. Meriwether is a former n ember of the city council, and it L reported that leaders of several civic groups are seeking the support of H Dale Brown for Dr Meriwether. Mr Brown, intrepid lllh Distict Republican leader rould not be reached at press time for a comment. However, substantial Negro citizens and foi’owers of Mr. Brown s.iy they will go all the way down “to the wire” boosting for Dr Meriwether. Dr. Meriwether has been active in Republican politics and local civic affairs more .han three decades. He was an unsuccessfii 1 candidate for election to the City Council last fall In the present situation Dr Meriwether has the support of the Eastside Better Business and Civic 1 eague, Inc., its enterprising president, Mrs. Mary P. McGuire and other civic leaders. Mr Beckwith and Mr. Kuykendall Loth are enterprising, alert and we 1 knowm attorneys. In other years both men have sought nomiration for the city council. Both have been unceasing cup-bearers ol the Republican Party. Both men enjoy a manner of state-wide and national if not intcnrational renown. Mr. Beckwith attracted national and some interr ational attention as a candidate lor the Republican presidential nomination in the recent Indiana primary election. He is president of the Yankee Doodle Civic Foundation, Inc. Mr Kuykendall has served ably as assistant co 1 poration counsel of the city of Indianapolis. At one time he was confirmed by the U S. Senate for a diplomatic post in t he Republic of Liberia and he J has served as assistant staff director of the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights The vacancy in the city council membership exists as a result of the death within the last fortnight of Harry B Alford. Republican member of the council. According to members of the council the law nquiies that the council mane a fConlinued on Page 3)

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Indianapolis, Indiana, June 18,1960

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Douglass Pool Needs Repairs, Easlsiders Urge Leaders and members of Eastside civic groups and churches are up in arms against conditions in Douglass Park, particularly around the Douglass Park swimming pool. Members of two or more civic groups and several churches of the area were vehement Thursday afternoon, in charging that conditions around the swimming pool are a public eyesore, and a menace to public health. Nearby the pool they say one encounters junk, beer carts, other debris and tall weeds. The militant civic spirited leader of the Eastside Better Business and Civic League, Inc., Mrs. Mary P. McGuire said conditions in the park are deplorable. “Further, they are a reflection upon both the administrations of the park board and the city government,'’ Mrs. McGuire declared. Other leaders of civic and church organizations in the community state that conditions in the park or around the swimming pool are next to the worst possible, and worsening. “The dirty pool basin should be painted immediately to insure cleaner water and make life guarding less hazardous. “Diving boards are dangerously (Continued on Page S)

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Grandmother Pulls Trigger, Kills Grandson She Reared

DETROIT (ANP1—Mrs. Sarah Phillips, a kindly, white-haired, 71-year-old grandmother who has led a law-abiding life, was provoked recently into pulling the trigger of a .liS-calibre revolver. When the smoke cleared away, her 17-year-old grandson whom she had raised from infancy was dead, “I'm no murderer,” she said in a quivering voice after being arraigned last week in Recorder’s Court on a second-degree murder charge. “I’ve been a good woman all my lile. I always go to church and I like children. I didn’t think I could hurt any child. “This is going to kill me, I’m

sure. But it’s all in the hands of God now, and I’m going to keep on praying.” The frail, exhausted woman is accused of the fatal shooting of her grandson, Kenneth Phillips, a high school senior. The youth died of a bullet wound above the left eye. Mrs. Phillips told police he had threatened her with a knife after she scolded him for striking his sister, Nona, 12. She said she got a .38-calibre pistol from her bedroom and fired it when Kenneth peeked around a corner of the living room and announced: “I’ll fix you. I’ve got a butcher knife.”

HERE THEY SWIM: School is our and the city's swimming pools and other recreational facilities are opening, and the 30-year-old swimming pool at Douglass Park is in a complete state of disrepair. The arm of an unidentified bystander (top) can be seen as he point outs some of the hundred's of cracks and broken windows that mar

Powell Wins Smashing Victory in N.Y. Primaries;HeadsStrongDemoMachine

NEW YORK (ANP) — Claims were being made here after last week's primaries in which political boss Carmine De Sapio lost his sting, that Adam Clay-’ ton Powell is now the county's

sonally launched a letter and street-

corner campaign.

Assemblywoman Bessie A. Buchanan, seeking a fourth term in the Legislature, topped the entire Harlem ticket, swamping her opponent, Richard P. Jones, for the 12th A. D.

Assembly race.

In the 14th A. D. Assembly race,

share of patronage with every other croup.” Powell declared on the heeis of the team’s overwhelming victory in sLv contests against insurgent forces by margins of 2-1 or better. WHILE MOST HARLEM D?mo-

* -s .. .... , crats credited Powell with winning strongest Democratic political p ersona i victory in the primary, leader. because he proved his support could

Candidates endorsed by a newly be decisive in an election when where Manhattan Borough Presi formed alliance between Powell and he was not on the ballot, Powell dent Hulan Jack switched his supManhattan Borough President Hu- said the victory was “whether the port back to incumbent Assembly1 in Jack won a smashing victory people of Harlem supported the ma n Jose Ramos Lopez over Ivan at tlue polls. team’s unity or not. This the people Michael only three weeks ago, Lopez Powell, too, was encouraged bv did overwhelmingly.” solidly defeated Michael, the outcome. He thneatened to back Heading the team’s victories was In thi? 11th A. D. Assembly race, a Fusion ticket in the 1961 elections the smashing victory of Municipal incumbent Assemblyman Lloyd E. if the Harlem Democratic voters Court Justice Amos E. Bowman and Dickens won handily in his bid for did not receive their equal share of Atty. Harrison S. Jackson for the jedesignation over Percy Sutton’s the county’s political patronage. Democratic nominations for two Central Democratic Club’s candi-

“We are now the most solid Municipal Court vacancies in the date.

Democratic vote in Manhattan 10th District, where Powell in the IN THfe ONLY contest for deleand we are due our equal final week of the primary had per- (Continued on eare 3)

Circuit Court

Upholds Durham

Jail Sentence Jacque Durham, former police-

man and colorful personality of the night-club circuit, lost another

round in the courts last week: On an appeal to Circuit Couirt,

'he court uphell a 90-day sentence 1 anded Durham in Municipal Court.

Durham, manager of the Ebony

Missile Room, 518 N. West was •onvicted by a jury of keeping a

dive at the West Street address. He posted bond pending an ap-

peal to the Indiana Supreme Court.

the outside of the Eastside pool, that hasn't seen a paint brush in years. (Bottom) Debris and htuge germ-harboring cracks are prevalent inside the pool. Inside the toilet and shower facilities are in dire need of cleaning, and broken, splintery benches line

the dressing rooms.

FISHING STORY WITH

A TRAGIC ENDING

TEXARKANA, Ark (ANP)—To Mrs. Virgie Birmingham, fishing means more than life itself—some-

one else’s life.

When her husband, Clyde, re fused to take her fishing last week, and then ang> ily broke her fishing pole, she stabbed him with, of all things, a fish knife. Clyde died enroute to a Shreveport, La. hospital.

WHITE FARMER TO HANG FOR MURDER

Guilty Plea Gets 'Pusher' 5-Year Prison Sentence Of the 30-odd known dope addicts and pushers rounded up last month in a* series of light-ning-like raids conducted by city police and federal agents, one of the eight wanted on government warrants charging them with illegal sale and posession of narcotics, was sentenced Wednesday to serve a ive-year prison term by Federal Judge William E. Steckler. Charles Martin, 30, 1227 N. Illinois, had pleaded guilty to the

charge

Federal narcotics agent Edward Cass, who for over five months 1>osed-as-a ’'junkie” and haunted the addict hangouts, told Judge Sleekier he had made “buys” from Martin on several occasions.

Martin, described oy local nar- , colics agents as one of the biggest ° th f r f?™ 15 ? ve ]: the thr ee-day peddlers in town, was the tighth p€r v ,od Wl11 be , lh ? forum f 0,1 f ml i i ° . ncnits rriminal law arm nrv\Kot^

News of Blood-Bath Leaks Past Government JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Actual casualty figures resulting from the renewed "blood-bath" of violence directed at the country's more than 10,000,000 natives, are being concealed by the government, newspapers here charged this week. The newspapers claimed that the apartheid government, headed by Prime Minister Vorwoerd, had not intended for the world to the devastating ruthlessness of last week's slaughter.

Golden City Post, an Afri-

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Lawyers to Meet In Birmingham

By MILTON BLEDSOE

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ANP) — One of the features of the conven-

tion of the Southwest Bar Associa- r tion here June 16-18 will be the M least 29 were killed and sit-in panel with these participants: ove r 50 wounded. The papers also

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used low flying dive-bombing ptanes, hovering helicopters, vicious dogs, tear gas and rapid-fire Stenguns against the protesting natives armed only with stones, spears

and sticks.

Although the government did announce last week that six persons had been killed in clashes with police, they tried to make it appear that the deaths were result of illegal acts of the Africans. Two liberal African papers with the courage to print the true facts.

charged in the Federal warrants to be sentenced The other seven are either free on bond or confined in the County Jail awaiting trial In other action Wednesday, a parolee from the Indiana State Reformatory. Robert C. Dcus, 32, 2923 N. Capitol, entered a guilty plea to a charge of unlawful dis-

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Arthur Shores of Birmingham; Robert A. Carter of NAAtP legal staff, New York; Herbert Reid of Howard LTniversity law school and Thomas Miller Jenkins, dean of law school of Florida A. and M

college, Tallahassee. Fla.

Lawyers and their wives from over an 11-state area will come here for the sessions. Presiding will be Atty. Leona Pouncey-Thurman, president, of Gansas City, who will entertain guests with a cocktail party the night before the confab opens in the President’s Suite of

the Gaston Motel.

A capacity crowd is expected to hear Judge William H. Hastie of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at the public meeting in the Masonic Temple auditorium. The former governor of the Virgin Islands was civilian aide to the Secretary ot War during World War IL Sessions will be held in the new $1,200,000 A. G. Gaston building and the.. Masonic JbuUdjng. Another top speaker will be Charles “Dawg” Anderson of the United Nations General assembly who will report on events there. Other events over the three-day riod will be ihe forums on civil rights, criminal law and probate

practice.

Host to the sessions is the Charles H. Houston Legal Study club which is headed by Ozell Billingsley Jr. Vice-president is Davis H.

Hood Jr.

Since officers hold two year terms there will be no election

this year.

said the natives were meeting in peaceful assemblages, and had met to discuss their grievances against the Bantu authorities, the govern-

ment authority for blacks. The unarmed natives had been

told joy leaders who called the meeting not to bring any weapons

at all

The planes dived so low, according to witnesses, that the speaker could not be heard. Soon after, the paper quoted native leaders as saying, government helicopters Landed in the clearing and hundreds of troops in full battle dress opened fire on the defenseless natives, as lorries loaded with police surronded the clearing. All in the assemblage threw' up their hands an shoute “We are not fighting,” it was reported. It was liours later before the injured were jp^rried to a native hospital some seven miles from the scene of the shooting. The government also announce that in another clash nine Africans w’ere killed and 12 wounded in the Flaggstaff district about 100 miles from Durban, last week. Natives reported however, that the death toll was 15 ad number ot wounded 24. As in Pondol, the instant police arrived with planes, helicopters, dogs and Sten-guns they began to now down natives. These were the first two serious racial incidents since the infamous “blood-baths” of March and April.

Indiana AME Conference to Hold Three Day Session June 22-24

The Rt Rev. Joseph Gomez, Rice, the presiding elder, and Rev. D.D. will be the presiding bishop W. T. Coleman of Evansville will at the Annual Indiana Conference deliver the opening sermon, of the African Methodist Episco- ALSO ON the program for the

pal Church.

day are greetings, organization,

During the afternoon session Miss Anna Stout will preside at the 'Sunday School, A.C.E. and Christian Education meetings. Dr. Rice will conduct

the devotion.

A Talent Program and Social Hour will highlight the Thursday evening session which convenes at 7:30. The morning session Friday will include addresses by several conference leaders. The devotion will be conducted by Rev. C, A. Liggins.

Sessions will be held at Bethel announcements, invitation to mem AME Church June 22-24. Rev bership and introductions. Wm. F Rice is the presiding elder At the afternoon session, to open and Rev. C. T. H. Watkins will be at 3:30, the stewards, ministers, the host pastor. evangelists and missionaries will The Southwestern District Con- exchange ideas pertaining to the ftxenice, Sunday School, A»iC.E. field of missions. The discussion League and Christian Education will be moderated by Miss Millie Conventions will convene at the Hoffman A musical program will

same time. be held at 5.

District and conference leaders At the 7 o’clock service, various Rev. W. E. Smith will direct the include M*s. Hazel Gomrr, 1st choirs and singing groups from devotion for the afternoon session, • ice president. W’omen’s Missionary churches throughout the confer- and Rev Hi T. Johnson will deSociety; Mrs. Minnie Bailey, once will conduct a “Cavalcade of liver the sermon. Fourth District Missionary Society Music.” Members of the committees are supervisor, and Mrs. Sadie Swani- Thursday the morning session as fellows: san, president of Indiana Confer- will open at 9, with Rev. C. A. FINANCE—Revs. J. S. Benn, ence Missionary Branch. Liggins as the moderator. Rev C. Lewis Carter and W. E Smith. Miss Anna P. Stout, superinten- T. H Watkins will address the and Mrs. Jeanette Cary and dent of Sunday Schools of the In- convenUon on “The Worship Serv- Churchel Swarn diana Conference; Rev. W. M. ice in the Christian Church.” Also EXAMINING—Revs Lewis Canv Weaver, director of Christian edu- on the program during the morning ter, C T. H. Watkins and C. A. cation; Churchel Swarn, lav presi- session are Rev. J. S. Benn, Rev. Liggins. dent, and Rev. C. T H. Watkins. A. L. Jelks, Rev Ford Gibson and RESOLUTIONS—Revs. T. E. the host oastor member of the Churchel Swarn. Devotions will be Porter and Daniel Mitchell General Board. ’ led by Rev. C E. Benson, Rev. REPORTS (for church papers) The opening session wdll be call- Erastus Humphrey, Rev, U. J. Revs. William Perry, C. E. Roberts ed to order by Rev. William F White and Rev. J. Peete. and T. E. Porter

Ex-Vanderbilt Professor Addresses Church Institute at Butler University

By CHARLES S. PRESTON

“I think the white moderate is

PRETORIA, South Africa (ANP) the biggest stumbling block in the

—Though he pleaded innocent to the chareo, Hendrick J. Graham, 23-year-old white farmer, was convicted and* sentenced to hang for beating his African maid to death According to Graham, someone else killed Maria Selokela, 40, after he had sexual relations with her. Her batte-ed and tihin’y-clad i body was found on Graham’s farm 1

way of solution of race relations

in the South.

“On the other hand, the best allies of the Southern Negro are the segregationists, who by their stupid actions caura the rest of the community to unite against them.” These incisive comments were made Wednesday by Dr. Everett

Tilson, who recently resigned from the faculty of Vanderbilt University Divinity School, storm-center of the sit-in controversy at Nashville, Tenn. THE VIRGINIA-BORN white minister addressed a nation-wide institute on “The Church in a Multiracial Society.” sponsored by the Christian Theological Seminary at Butler University.

Dr. Tilson reviewed the crisis at Vanderbilt stemming from the expulsion of James M. Lawson. Jr., Ne^ro divinity student who led hundreds of young people in orderly sit-in demonstrations for service at drugstores and dime stores. Lawson’s expulsion was ordered bv the board of trustees of the university, bypassing the Divinity School and thus creating an issue (Continued on Page 2)

If Khrushchev Heard, What Would Happen? MILWAUKEE (ANP) — A Negro who punched a white man who bumped him on the street . and did not say “excuse me” was sentenced last week to serve 30 days in the house of correction. Ralph M. Bland, 19, the defendant was arrested by a policeman who saw it. Bland’s punch landed on the white man’s cheek and did no serious damage. The white man was Alexander Iwanow, 49. His testimony was given through an interP'eter. He came to this country recently from Russia and speaks no English.

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