Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1963 — Page 2
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2—The Indianapolis Recorder, Feb. 9, 1963
Indiana Figures in Noted Scientist's Background
Early Negro Continued from Page 1
Dudley, Jerry Terry, Abram Cott-
_ man, Thomas Wilkerson, Mathew
One of the 'world’s widely ac- ; achieved a more exciting goal in i Chavis, Robert Ward, Isaac Woods,
claimed scientists of our times, Dr. research with the soy bean. The Percy L. Julian, the grandson of dramatically beneficial effects upon a former slave was born in Mont- inflammatory arthritis of an adregomery, Ala., around the turn of j nal hormone caller cortisone had the century. ! been demonstrated in medical reHis early education in Alabama | search. It had been produced from Schools was so deficient he was ' animal bile acid, but at a cost of classed as a “sub-freshman” when hundreds of dollars a gram, he won admission to DePauw i p r Julian along about this time University, Greencastle, t Ind., in (was deriving something from his 1916. He was required to take 0 ji sterols called “compound S.” missing high school courses as This substance differed in molecuwell as a full college load during i ar structure from cortisone only his first two years. In addition j n the absence of one oxygen atom, he had to work at n\any odd jobs ^t the same time it could be proto pay his way. | duced for only $2 a gram; now Dr. Julian graduated from De- the gram cost is said to be below
Pauw in 1920, Phi Beta Kappa, 25 cents.
the highest ranking student in his ! Tod most of the world > s p ro . class. The struggle he went duction of the anti-arthritic drug through was not over. For real ig made by Dr Julian > s method or opoortunity his chosen held, d j scoverv> The process follows
chemistry, he pursued graduate dump j n g “Compound S” into settled in Vigo County in 1829, study after teaching in several a tank j n a broth contain-1 an d finally became the owner of schools and through fellowships j • a micro - organism, then more than 900 acres of land. Conwon on academic ability. bubbling air thru the mixture cerning Jeremiah Anderson it is
changing it into hydro-cortisone, I said he acquired eventually 730 which can be converted without acres of fine land m this area. But trouble into cortisone. I he started with only 40 acres. Dr. Julian became director of I Ihe Negro community mHamilthe soybean products , division ton County, known as Roberts of Glidden Company and later as- Settlement, it is said, was firet setsumed additional duties as re- tied in 1837 by John Roads, search head of the Durkee Famous , Micajah Waldron, Bryant Waldron,
j Harry Wmlam, 1 »oiphk»n Stephens, Charles, Jonathan and Hansel Roberts. These Negro settlers who
Edward (Jutland, Abram Woods, Benjamin Skipworth, Samuel Woods, John Smith, Jesse Woods, Philip Woods, Jacob Woods, Dosha Smothers, Coleman Scott, and
others.
The Negro community in Vigo County known as the Lost Creek Settlement, in the northern part of Lost Creek Township was settled by a group of about 100 people from North Carolina beginning about 1830. Pioneers in this settlement, We said to have included Moses Archer, Richard Roberts, Kincheri Roberts and Dixon Stewart. However, it is said that land office records reveal that Jeremiah Anderson came to Vigo
County in 1832.
OTHER SOURCES of information indicate that Dixon Stewart
He won' his master’s degree at Harvard University, began work toward a doctorate; taught again and made his way to the University of Vienna where he obtained
his doctorate in 1932.
Following his studies in Vienna he returned to Howard University,
Washington, D.C., where he had 1 Foods division of the company, | once taught to head the chemistry mana ger of its fine chemicals sec-
denartment. He left Howard in tj otK
1932 to become a member of the faculty of the chemistry department at his alma mater, DePauw University. He left De Pauw in 1936 and joined the staff of the tesearch Department of the Glid-
den Company in Chicago.
At the Glidaen Company in* the late 1930’s he won world-wide ac-
came to Jackson Township were energetic, peaceable, law-abiding
During the 18 years he worked ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ »*»»»-»»/«»». with the oil-derived sterols and t and h a rd-worki.ig people. Soon all other products, he developed a i were prosperous landholders. Tomanufacturing plant for pioduc-i day neal .}y onc thousand acres of tion of pure soy protein. This j and ar(J 0Vy . ned by their descenmade nossible the fiist mu ^ , P e dants i n the vicinity, tonnage isolation of any vegeta-i There are no accounts of Negro ble protein achieved by industry spttlers in Gont Countv at t he
claim by research upon refined oil ^ Qn which he had ' time^of ^hc^ovgani/.ation of the
Police Shoot Ex-Con Fleeing Northside Burglary Scene
DURING CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION: Federal Judge James B. Parsons of Chicago is shown speaking at Lincoln Memorial, Springfield, III., during Emanci-
pation Centennial commemoration ceremony. Judge Parsons is the first Negro named to the Federal Judiciary. He is a
U.S. District Court judge.
However in the “Quaker” from
from the soy bean His_fame Jn I worked M led in , way t0 —
rti "
‘ToantiUes from ^r. 0 " another chemist, die- 6^7 hy ( "r7.p'oF'nJir'o" famT:
this connection rests upon finding , . , . th rWupn or eany 1840 s a Quaker from a way to derive “sterols”—white I hls . e ^ tm . vl dd _ e ”-°, i Ohio, Aaron Betts settled m the
in 1953. Russell
refined soy bean oil.
The importance of his discovery lay in the fact, that sterols were the raw material from which could be produced the male and female hormones. The first is used in correcting deficiencies in males, and the latter ,in prevention of miscarriages in women. m PRIOR TO HIS discovery hormones were imported largely from Europe, and w r ere produced mostly from an animal sterol (cholesterol) obtained in limited quantities from the brains and spinal cords of cattle. His discoveries made the highly valuable compounds available in the U.S. at
reasonable prices.
county. He was accompanied from
covered that sterols for the pi o- j: es f rom >j or th South Garoduction of compound^S could be jj na vj r gj n j at Kentucky and Ten-
nessee. Some had settled in Ohio and elsewhere in this state before
going to Grant County.
derived from a wild plant of Mexico in greater abundance than
from soy beans.
Dr. Julian gave up his position at the Glidden Company and a salary near $50,000 a yea? to turn his attention to the new discoverv. He started Julian Laboratories in • Chicago in 1954. The
Major Project Continued trom Page 1
numbers on the program. Iti cnqperstion with
AlVfE Fotmders Day the ANFCA will nresent an Emancipation Centennial program with the Rt. Rev. Joseph W. Gomez of Detroit as speaker Sunday, February 24, at 4 p.m.
in Bethel AME Church.
Other Centennial programs slatr ed include “Church Day in Indiana,” March 17, a state-wide boservance of the Emancipation Cen-
The area in which they settled ’ tennial; three-day exposition at
in Grant County, known as “Weaver” is still inhabited by descendants of the original settlers. The original settlers included free born people, freed people
next year he founded Laboratories and others who had escaped from
Julian de Mexico, S A
Citv.
in Mexico
slavery.
AMONG THESE
(early) set-
State Fairgrounds in May, and two mobile exhibit units to tour the
state. May 1—Dec. 31.
THE AUTHORITY will have an exhibit in “A Century of Negro Progress” exhibition at McCor-
mick Place, Aug. and Sept.
Plans have been completed to
Three Held In Mmden Bound To Grand Jury Three persons, Arrested in contion with a rash of murders last weekend and early last week, have been bound over to the Marion County Grand Jury for further
action.
Preliminary charges of murder against Harvey Rowe, 3814 Prospect, and James M. Carter, 713 Indiana, were changed to outright murder upon their appearance in Municipal Court 5. Rowe, charged in the fatal stabj bing of Roman Noel, who also . lived at the Prospect street address, appeared before Judge John C. Christ Friday. Carter, arrested in the stabbing death of Lee Cole, 916 N. California, appeared MonA CANCER-STBJCKEN woman, who had bees heM on a preliminary murder charge, was free on $2,500 bond Thursday after the charge of murder was reduced to manslaughter. Mrs. Lillian Mae Harris, 1222 Carrol Ron, was bound over to the grand jury Friday upon appearing in the same court. She is charged with the shooting death of her 44-year-old husband, Leon
C. Harris.
The 49-year-old Rowe was apprehended at the Eastside home of his girlfriend following the Jan. 25 stabbing of Noel, which climaxed an argument over unpaid rent. Noel died shortly after the
stabbing.
Carter, 46, was arrested two days after Cole’s death after pdKce received aa anonymous tip revealing that he was the slayer. Canter, who reportedly admitted the slaying to detectives, had earlier told police lie found the "body Jan. 26 as he w as going to work.
The 56-year-old Cole was found ; the apartment,
crouched in the hallway of 718 Upon going' to the Carter apart-
Later in the l.MOs Dr. Julian mones and numerous other sterols. |- be p e ttifords around 1847. It is featuring city and state
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Together the t wo C0 ?JP a pi es [ tiers in Grant County were William A Raisin Landers of Mt. Zion Bapmanufactured from the Mexican .. Billy , clarki Robert SmMl> Rob- tist Church, state chairman
of the Audio-Visual Council of Church Women, is one of the leading solicitors in behalf of the American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority, Indiana division.
i They are. sold all over the world.! Vh^T^o familTes first came choral groups and jaxz greats.
Dr. Julian merged his companies i n ^ 0 s t a te from North Caroi with a big pharmaceutical firm jj na settling in Wayne County bej of Philadelphia in 1961 with a f ore taking up residence in Grant ! return to him of several million County. They were both free born I dollars. He continues as president N e gr ro families, in all traditions ] of both of his original companies, of the two f am jij e s. j but speaks of retiring ac- i n S pite of their record as am- ! ^ ve administration m a few years, bitious, energetic, law-abiding and
He plans to do research to his own liking, and observed, in this
connection, we have many new 1350 were confronted with being
things under study, and more ~
prospect.
Services of Dr. Emma Lou Thornbrough of Butler University have been secured to write a iOO-page book to be published on “The Negro in Indiana During the Last 100 Years.” Dr. Emory G. Davis, public relations director of the AME CWulch,
_ _ whose national office is in St.
prosperous landholders the pio-j Louis, will direct public relations
neer Negro settlers of Indiana in ! for the ANECA. '
SALES LEADER: Miss Thelma Pruitt is current leader in the ANECA decal sales program, which with the Century Club, represents the widespread grass roots participation in the Emancipation program. , •
A 28-year-old man with a record of 27 arrests including a term in the Indiana State Reformatory on a burglary conviction was shot by oolif-fe) early Thursday during a break-in' at the offices of two iNorcnside doctors. The burglary suspect, Lonnie E. Westfield, 2247 N. Capitol, was reported in fair condition at Marion County General Hospital. A policeman’s bullet struck him in the right arm and entered his right side as he fled a building at 2416 N. Capitol, occupied by Dr. Lehman Adams and Dr. Frank
Lloyd.
ACCORDING TO POLICE reports, four officers were dispatched to the building when a burglary alarm sounded around 5:30 a.m. The four policemen, including two Canine Corp patrolmen, were Stationed on the sides of the building when Westfield bolted from the front door with a crowbar in his hand. Westfield dropped the crowbar and ran toward a nearby wooded area. In an effort to halt the suspect, Patrolman Jerry Rasche fired a warning shot but Westfield continued to run. Rasche fired again striking Westfield and causing him to fail to the ground. Police reported that nothing was missing from the doctors’ offices and said that Westfield apparently entered by prying open a window. A ’59 station wagon, reportedly stolen, was , found parked at the rear of the building. Preliminary charges of burglary. auto banditry, and vehicle taking were placed against West-
field.
Westfield was convicted on a second degree burglary charge in 1958 and sentenced to two to five years at the reformatory. He was released on parole in May, 1961, and his sentence would have terminated in Sentember of this
year.
He had one more narcotics violation arrest while tho rest of his “pick ups” were -^.Astiy on charges of vehicle ta.'.ii';, burg-
lary and theft.
Indiana. He Lad bean stabbed in
the stomach.
Two other persons—John B. Lewis and Mrs. Kathrine Worthy, Carter’s common - law -wife —,
ment, Lewis said he saw Cole sitting on the floor bleeding from a stab wound in his stomach. He said Mrs. Worthy, who denied any knowledge of what hap-
charged with being accessories aft- i psned, was in the room. Lewis er Cole’s death, were released upon said he refused to help Carter and appearing in court Friday. | returned to his room. Lewis, who lived across from Mrs. Harris, 44, who reportedly Carter’s apartment—in which the has had a number of operations slaying allegedly took place, told for cancer, told police she . shot police that Carter came to his and killed her husband in* their
room Thursday night and asked that he help bim take Cole out of
home Jan. 28 hfter he had come home drunk and beat her. •*
'. w 1850 were confronted with being. IN THE LONG RUN, the Aum banned from the state. Herein, I thority will provide books, pan>-
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Article XII of the 1851 Constitution (in part) was as follows: Sec. 1. No Negro or mulatto shall come into or settle in the state after the adoption of this
Constitution.
However, or finally the Negro people have given generously of their brawn, blood and brains ir
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