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YES, HE HAS AN AXE TO GRIND: This is not on illusion. It i'i actually Shortridge footballer Elbert Cheatum waiting patiently for this delicious looking turkey to decide whether or not she wants to decorate someone's Thanksgiving table. What is more unusual is that the turkey is not really a turkey at all — but sharp and shapely Carolyn Brooks in disguise. Carolyn, a Shortridge senior, is credited as being one of our top teenage models.

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FATHER OF NEW ORLEANS STUDENT FRED IN REVENGE

Challenges Fly

In 3-Way Race Ghost of Justice Taney To Head NAACP

Rides High Over Dixie

By CHARLES S. PRESTON

This being a year of election disputes, the NAACP is in the swing with a hot scrap for the presidency of the local branch. A meeting at Trinity CME Church last week broke into one of the liveliest sessions in many a year, with challenges and de-

nunciations flying through

room thick and fast.

After a period of more than one hundred years the ghost of Justice Taney, who made singular history in the U. S. Supreme Court, still rides over the Southland. Yet in the light of wholesome world opinion the days of the fellow-travelers of his ghost

may be numbered.

One might conclude rightly that fellow-travelers of his ghost are clamoring in throes -of malignant prostration, if our nation contemplates maintaining the wholesome opinion of a neighborhood-world of so-called darker peoples. If one contemplates events or the situation over the last fortnight at New Orleans, the backdrops of the situation rest on political demagoguery. And it has been the greatest enemy of Constitutional equity or justice over the Southland in the history of the notion. Dixie politicians, during the life span of all people now living ever the nation, have maintained a clamour about "constitutional government" — yet os a whole truth the spirit and letter of the U. S. Constitution hove been circumscribed

or nullified in their clamours.

We submit that Article III, Sec. 2 of the U. S. Constitution says: "The judicial power (Supreme Court) shall extend to all cases in LAW and EQUITY, arising under the Constitution, the

laws of the United States

Over a period of more than one hundred years (New Orleans, today) people of the Southland subscribing to pre-Civil War traditions hove proposed that one segmentof the populace may be denied life or liberty or privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States — and contrary to the letter and spirit of the U. S. Constitution. Finally the tragedy at New Orleans or Little Rock and elsewhere over areas trarvsversed by the ghost of Justice Taney

should be equally as disturbing to the rest of the world, as! n;L. a T/>lle tragedies in Poland, Hungary, East Germany and other areas e S \J a CJ

of Europe have been to snug, jaundiced provincials of our area

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When the fallout had settled, three men were nominated to head the branch for the coming two-

year period. They are:

Rev. Andrew J. crown, pastor of Greater St. John Baptist

Church.

Earle Barnette, now the first vice-president of- the bamch. Miles H. Loyd, United Auto Workers labor leader and NAACP

board member.

The election will be held Thursday, Dec. 8, beginning at 7 p.nt., at Bethel AME Church,

414 W. Vermont.

Although this newspaper had predicted an election contest, last week’s meeting proceeded for more than an hour in the peaceful atmosphere of a summer’s day. Rev. H. L. Burton, the retiring president, made a strong appeal for unity and decorum as he de-

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Judy Waugh Named to IU Foundation

Judy Waugh, Shortridge graduate, was among 29 Indianapolis students who were recently named to the Indiana University Student Foundation. Judy lives at 340

Northern.

Foundation members are juniors or seniors recognized for their qualities of leadership and citizenship and for their interest in the work of the organization. They are chosen on the recommendation

of faculty and staff members, graduating seniors of the previous year, and present members of the

Foundation.

Students honored with Foundation membership are responsible lor acquainting the IU student body with the Foundation’s work. They also produce and direct the a n nil a 1 “Little 500” weekend which provides a number of scholarships for students who are working while attending the university.

A little bit of John Dillinger and “Honest • Abe” both were in an 11-year-old Southside youth ordered to JAD last week for stealing a bicycle. The lad, after stealing the 28-inch Flying Saucer, apparently realized that what he had done was wrong, so he went home, confessed to his grandmother, and suggested she’d better call the police. The police came, took the youth to the home of the bike’s owner, and ordered him to appear at JAD for what might be no more than a very strict

lecture on stealing.

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DEAR SANTA: So started the letter of o ^ 3-year-old Eastside girl who is asking The Recorder Cheer Fund to be Santa to her seven brothers and sisters. Whether or not

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QUEEN CAROLYN: Miss Carolyn Gaines, a Crispus Attucks High School senior, is shown surrounded by her court after last week's annual Christmas Parade sponsored by the Downtown Promotion Division of the Merchants Association. Miss Gaines

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was chosen through the sain of a wheel as "Queen of Light" and therefore reigned over the enjoyable festivities. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Gaines, 1133 Brook Lane. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)

White Member of CORE Group Tells of Interrogation by New Orleans Police

NEW ORLEANS (ANP)—“The police seemed eurprised that I was from Newcomb and an authentic Southern girl.” Margaret Leonard a white member of CORE, thus tells of hre interrogation by New Orleance police for sharing food at a Woolworth lunch counter with Negro demonstrators “I was pleased to be Southern and n a scholarship and not come odd-ball Yankee rabble-rouser. I’m sure they think I’m an oddball anyway,” she went on. “I went to Woolworth’s to the white lunch counter and '..ordered a ham sandwich, a piece of cake and a glass of milk. The waitress server me, I paid her, and sat there drinking water until Anna Mae Giles and Kermit Moran came behind me. Then I got up, picked up my raincoat from the chair opposite me, and Anna Mae and Kermit sat down and ate the food. “I went to the back (Negro) counter then and sat down next to Edward Myers Jr, who had ordered a piece of pie and milk. I asked a man behind the counter if he would serve me a piece of chocolate cake. He just pointed to the waitress but she never did take my order. The man' next to me pushed his pie in front of me and I just started eating > , “NOBODY SAID ANYTHING to me, but everybody was looking Also bells started ringing as soon as I left the white counter and

rang the whole time. Some man asked the waitress if the Negro had bought me the food. She said she didn’t know, but ihat she had served him, I was getting pretty tired of that aople pie. “I got up to leave. About halfway to the door, a woman took my arm and asked me to go with her. She took me to the front counter where Anna Mae and Kermit were still sitting, and told us she was a policewoman

“Several policemen talksd to me and one asked me if I was a Southern girl. I said yes, I was raised in Macon, Georgia, and in Atlanta.

“They led the three of us out of Woolworth’s past a lot of staring people, and put us in a car to go to the police station. When we got to the station I was questioned first The police were very nice to me, and I was very nice to them Continued on Page 7

White Man at Negro Church 'Happy' — Jumps from Balcony

MIAMI (ANP)—The singing oi a choir and congregation of 700 at the AME annual conference so overwhelmed a white man that he leaped from the balcony into the audience, hitting a 72-year-old woman and sending her to the hospital with serious injuries. The young while man is Emil Swiezey, 26, who acted queer at the Sunday school when he put his whole wallet containing $50 into the collection plate. One of the teachers, thinking he had made a mistake, gave it back to him, but he insisted that the whole $50 be kept to help forty

kids in need.

When the morning service began, with Bishop Lafayette Har-

ris of Atlanta in charge, Swiezey both were listed in fair condition.

was the only white person in the packed audience of Ebenezer Methodist Church. THE CHOIR of 50 voices sang the old hymns of Zion. The music moved the young white man to leap to his feet in the balcony like a fire had hit him. Then he jumped down into the audience hitting the aged Mrs. E. D. Reed of Reddick. Both were taken outside where first aid was administered before an ambulance took both to the hospital with Mrs. Reed on the cot and Swiezey on the ambulance

seat.

A police escort with flashing red lights and screaming sirens took them to the hospital where

.| NAACP to Help Find Work for Jobless Parent

NEW ORLEANS —The father of one of the four Negro youngsters attending previously all-white schools in this biastorn city was fired from his job last week after fourand-a-haif years of service. NAACP Field Secretary Clarence Laws has assured the unidentified parent that the NAACP will help him find another job. Mp Laws revealed that the parents of the four first-graders “are holding fast despite the violence ” Although the identity of the parents and children has not been revealed to date, their homes are under twenty-four hour police security guard. THE NAACP SPOKESMAN also said that the “teachers have been nice to the Negro girls who appear to be oblivious to what is happening.” All four children are only six years old. Mr. Laws praised police saying, “They have been working to their utmost to protect life and property. They are trying to do a job, even though they have been under terrific attack by the White Citizens Council and others.” The marauding mobs have recieved ample stimulation and encouragement from the White Citizens Council. A three-hour rally was held earlier last week at Municipal Auditorium where several thousand screaming, stomping, men, women and children applauded and cheered an array of segregationist speakers. Assistant District Attorney Leander H. Perez called Mayor DeLesseps S. Morrison a “little weasel, snakehead.” Mayor Morrison has backed the school board in keeping the schools open. Rep. John S. Garrett, chairman of the joint legislative committee on segregation, pledged that “legislators’ heads are not bowed.” He continued, saying “Judge Wright (James Skelly Wright, federal court jurist who ruled in favor of integration) has thrown away the law book and has come to the theory that might makes right.” Garrett added that if the public nermits the integration of four Negro girls today, “there may be Continued on Page 7

City Man, 3 from Seymour Die In 1-Car Crashes Four Negroes were killed in two separate one-car crashes last weekend as pre-holiday accidents began to take a mounting toll of lives. An Indianapolis man, Earl W. Barnett, 38, 404 W. Walnut was killed when a car in which he was a passenger rammed into two utility poles at Langsdale and Northwestern. The car was being driven by Emanuel Haynes, 46, 232V6 W New York, who is in Marion County General Hospital where his condition is described as extremely grave. Also in fairly good condition m the hospital as a result of the impact is Lee Barnett, 31, 710 N Illinois. Funeral services for the accident victim were held Nov. 23 in Jacobs Brothers Westside Chapel with burial in New CroWn Cemetery Born in Buffalo, Ky.j he had lived here 35 years. Surviving are the widow, Mrs -Willie Barnett; three sisters, Mrs Emma Marion, Mrs Gussie Johnson and Mrs. Ozella Allen and two brothers, Lee B and Youngest Barnett. In the other fatality three Seymour young men died instantly when a two-door coach driven about 90 miles an hour by Kenneth M Edmonds, 23, of 900 W Oak, swerved off the right side of the road, and hurtled 30 feet through the air over a ditch and struck a concrete bridge support. The force of the crash threw the windshield of the car across Freeman Field road, southwest of the Seymour city limits, and shoved the engine back into the front seat of the car Authorities said it took more than 30 minutes to pull the tangled bodies of Virgil Blewitt, 20, of 222 South Lynn and Herman “Pete” McDougal, 19, of 628 West Brown, also victims of the disastrous crash, from the wreckage Instantaneous and accidental death was declared for all three men who suffered multiple fractures, lacerations, torn limbs and internay injuries, when the car, which struck three feet below ground level making a ditch 25 feet across and 10 feet deep, went off the road THE AUTOMOBILE, owned by Wilmer Ross, 816 W. Brown, and driven withouT his permission, Was a total loss Damage was estimated to have been $500. The traffic mishap was discovered by Rufus Brock, 923 W. Laurel and Chester Shipley, 910 W. Brown, as they were riding toward Seymour on Freeman Road and noticed the top of the death car visible in the ditch J After stopping to investigate ^he wreckage, they drove to the Seymour City Police Station and reported the accident. Seymour police are presently trying to find out the identity of Continued on Page 7

Needy Mother of 7 Ends Plea With Please Help Me With Their Xmas

May your home and family be blessed with a bountiful happiness this Thanksgiving . . . “O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good: for His mercy endureth forever.” Psalms 107:1. We are reminded of this passage because of the letter we received today from a mother of seven children, whose Christmas looks bleak without the help given each year through The Recorder Christmas Cheer Fund. While attending the Thanksgiving services in our churches Thursday and offering our grati-

tude to Almighty God for having blessed us with a bountiful season, let us not forget the many needy families who will be without the necessities that go toward making the Christmas season an enjoyable one. You can do your share by becoming a “Cheer Giver” to The Recorder Christmas Cheer Fund. This mother of seven will also be giving thanks to God for being blessed w’ith a fine family and a hope for the future . . . but present conditions make it necessary for her to seek help for her children. She has 5 boys and 2 girls,

aged 15, 9 7. 4, 3 (boys); 17, «' months (girls). Her husband is the only one working and only makes $54 a week and pays $60 rent. She savs it’s a struggle to buy enough oil to keen warm, and they hardl have enough to buy food. She ends her plea with these sorrowfu’ words: “Please help me with thei Christmas . . . bnd we thank God for so many fine people.” Join the ranks of the “Chee Givers” by sending your contribu tions to The Recorder Christma Cheer Fund, 418 Indiana Ave, Indianapolis, Ind.

Pickets March On Westside A & P Store Picketers marched on a Westside supermarket early Wednesday evening in the climax to a battle of words involving Rev. Mozel Sanders, president of the newly organized Fair Share Organization. and representatives of the A & P food store chain. The pickets were set up in front of the A & P Supermarket located at the West 11th Street Shopping Center. Rev. Sanders said that talks between him and representatives of the A & P chain ended last week when they could not agree on the hiring of a Negro manager where Negroes supply almost 98% of the business. He added that the pickets would continue until a Negro -manager is hired.

Halt Sale of Domestic Life to White Firm, StockholdersUrged

LOUISVILLE—Stockholders in the Negro-owned and managed Domestic Life and Accident Insurance Company have been asked to act quickly to prevent the selling of the $7 million firm to the white-owned and managed Kentucky Central Life Insurance Comoany. Mrs. Mary E. Spradling, wife of the late W. W. Spradling, onetime president of the company, called on the stockholders to “save this company for our race” when they meet to voice approval or disapproval of the board’s action. The deal with Kentucky Central cannot go through without the vote and approval of stockholders holding over 50% of the shares. THE BOARD of directors voted to sell to the white firm on Oct. 26, despite bids from several Netto companies that reportedly offered as good or better prices oer share than was offered by Kentucky Central. One company reportedly hadofered $120 a share for the stock, vhich was $5 more per share than he Kentucky Central offered. On ■very 20 shares this is an extra 100. Mrs. Spradling, a member of he board of directors with 1743 shares of stock in the company, 1

was one of three directors who voted against selling the company to the white firm. “It seems a terrible tragedy to me,” she asserts, “that after all the years of sacrifice and struggle that have been put into building this company to a 7 million dollar institution, it should be sold out of our race for just a little over 2 1 / & million dollars. “If the company is to be sold,” she continued, “we must see to it that it will be at the best possible price and on the best possible proposition for n't stockholders and as Negroes. “The Domestic Life and Accident Insurance Company and the Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company (another Negroowned and managed Kentucky company) have been the only in stitutional source of mortgage loans to Negroes desiring to move into new neighborhoods,” she declared. “Where will such loans come from if Domestic is sold out of our race?” It was reported that the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, a $50 million firm, was not even permitted to make an offer for the control of Domestic. E. M. Martin, Continued on Page 7