Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1964 — Page 2
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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER
NOVEMBER 28, 1964
New Oak Hill Civic Association stresses neighborhood uplift
No new trial for Beckwithunless new evidence uncovered
OMEGAS HONOR TWO: Phi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity honored two outstanding members during their annual Founders Day Banquet Nov. 20 at Arlington Motor Inn. Honored were Thomas Sleet (third from left), "Q-rnega Man of the Year," and Andrew Ramsey (third
from right), "Citizen of the Year." Others in photo are Cary D Jacobs, national grand basileus; Harry Pettnes, Clifford Wilson and Milo C. Murray Ramsey is president of the Indiana branches of the NAACP (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)
Omegas cite Ramsey, Sleet at Founders Day Banquet
In accordance with the program of the national organization, Zeta Phi Chapter of Omega Psi Plti Fraternity observed its annual National Achievement Week Nov. 8-15. This year marks the .‘i'Jth consecutive year that such an observance has been a part of the fraternity’s national program. Theme for this year’s program was “Civil Rights, 11854—The Beacon of Ordered Liberty.*’ Purpose of Achievement Week is to focus attention on outstanding achievements.
Citizen Forum
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block clubs. As outlets of the parent organization, block clubs function as “watch dogs" in individual neighborhoods urging compliance to the Forum's 10 points. During the four months the Citizens Forum has been in operation. many dormant neighborhood civic clubs have been revived and over 40 block clubs throughout the city have been
Highlighting the local chapter's observance was the annual Founder's Day Banquet held Saturday. Nov. Ill) at the Arlington Motor Inn. Two Omega “brothers" were presented plaque citing them as “Omega Man of the Year" and “Citizen of tlie Year." Recipient ot the “Citizen of the Year" award was Andrew W. Ramsey, state NAACP president, local teacher and Recorder columnist. The “Omega Man of the Year' award went to Thomas P. Sleet, chapter basileus. tormed NF.XT GENERAL SESSION of the organization will be Wednesday. Dec. 9. 7:30 p m., at the Fall Creek Parkway YMCA As usual, Mrs. Coney is urging the general public to attend. Conducting the meeting will be the Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs of which Mrs. Douglass is president. The program will stress the importance of women's clubs in the formation of block clubs and the disciplining of children in public places The I.ink Belt Glee Club will sing.
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Court- convicts Inkeeper for refusing Group FORT WAYNE—An innkeeper was convicted last wek under Indiana’s civil-rights law of refusing to serve four Negroes who stopped at his restaurant for a meal The case involved a charge of violation of the equal accommodations section of the state civil rights legislation. Rolland Call, manager and host of the American Heritage Inn on C.S. 34-30 east of Fort Wayne, was fined $25.00 and costs upon conviction. The total was $88.10. The complaint was brought by Lawrence Burwell, Lima, Ohio, in behalf of himself and three other Negroes who stopped at the inn February 25. The trial was before Judge W (). Hughes of Allen Circuit Court. Call waived his right to a jury trial and testified that he had merely said to the four Negroes; “I can't serve you." All four Lima men testified that Call said he could not serve them because they were Negroes and it was against eompany policy. On cross-ex-amination, Call said he “might" have made a reference to company policy.
JACKSON, Miss. (ANP) — The accused murderer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers will not be brought to trial for a third time unless new evidence is uncovered. This is the decision of William L. Waller, district attorney, who prosecuted Byron De La Beckwith in the two trials which resulted in hung juries. Evers, leader of the NAACP in Mississippi, was shot down outside his home shortly after midnight on June 13, 19G3. Beckwith was arrested a few days later by the FBI after inspection of a high-powered i ifie found in a clump of bushes directly opposite of the spot where Evers was shot. Waller said that the outcome of the two previous trials led him to the conclusion that another trial would not be held unless there was additional evidence. Although the state presented evidence that Beckwith owned the fatal rifle and his fingerprints were on it, Beckwith’s attorneys produced witnesses who stated they saw the defendant 90 miles away at the time the shooting took place. Beckwith testified that the rifle had been stolen from a closet in his home or from his car shortly before the shooting. Meanwhile. Beckwith is still free under a $10,000 bond granted by Judge Leon F. Hendrick after the second trial.
Beckwith had been in jail for nearly 10 months. Since then he has gone back to his old job of selling liquid fertilizer in Greenwood. He lives in a trailer on the edge of the city with his wife and 17-year-old son. The ramshackle home in which he lived has been bought by the Federal government in a land acquisition deal for a new Federal building. Beckwith, a hot segregationist, has reportedly been seen on the streets chatting with police and a group of white men who are usually near the scene of any racial trouble. He was among a group of whites who gathered nightly at a newly integrated theater. Beckwith used a flashlight to shine in the faces of whites when they came out of the theater. During that period, at least two Negro theater-goers were beaten and the building was damaged. Beckwith, who possibly will never again be tried for the murder of Evers, is a gun collector and an expert marksman. His son, who sat at his side during the second trial, was indicted recently on grand larceny charges. It was charged that young Beckwith and some other youths had stolen a pig to have a barbecue.
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Continued from Fage 1 House Press Secretary George K. Reedy refused to comment. Reaction against the nation’s chief law enforcement officer came from all over the world, including Communist sources. The New York Times was especially disturbed and suggested that he he allowed to retire at the end of the year. The Chicago Sun-Times said: "Most Americans have come to have a high regard for Hoover. Many were shocked when the director assailed Dr. King in intemperate language. He’d be better advised to take critisims in its stride and let his record speak for itself." j King himself said Hoover ‘seemed to have “faltered under , the awesome burdens, eomplexijtios and responsibilities of his J office.” He added that he could i not conceive of Hoover making | such a statement without be- , ing under “extreme pressure." King, however, did not re- | treat from some criticisms of }the handling of civil rights cas- • es in the South. He stated: i “I have sincerely questioned 1 the effectiveness of the FBI in •racial incidents. particularly j where bombings and brutalities J against Negroes are at issue. | but 1 have never attributed j this merely to the presence of j southerners in the FBI This Is part of the broader question of federal involvement in the protection of Negroes in the .South and the seeming inahili1 ty to gain convictions in even the most henious crimes perpetuated against civil rights
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brutalities against Negroes, j Neither has a single arrest ^ been made in connection with i the tragic murder of four children in Birmingham nor in the J case of three murdered civil I rights workers in Mississippi. ■ “Moreover, all FBI agents inevitably work with local law »enforcement officers in car thefts, bank robberies and oth- | cr interstate Violations. That •makes it difficult for them to t function effectively in cases 1 where the rights and safety of t Negro citizens are being threatened by these same law en-
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tions and individuals have joined in the cry for Hoover's resignation. Bishop James K. Matthews of the Methodist Church, said in a message to President Johnson: “This outburst would appear to justify his (Hoover’s) retirement at age 70, with recognition of his many years of service to our country.” John J. de Pemberton, executive director, American Civil Liberties Unions, said Hoover’s remarks concerning Dr. King were “terribly unfor-
tunate.”
Aaron Henry, Mississippi NAACP leader, said FBI agents in southern cities were not usually in sympathy with civil
rights.
In perhaps the most ill-timed statement of the year, Joseph K. Ponder, chief of the Atlanta FBI office, told a gathering that he hoped the “civil rights hassle" would not lose the support which the FBI has built up with the public in the South. “Congress put us in that business," he pointed out. adding that “we can’t please either side" in the civil rights area. Illinois FEPC Continued from Page 1 ary when the FEPC ruled it discriminatory. Examiner Robert Bryant had concluded that the tests were unfair to the culturally disadvantaged." Pipes added that Motorola had no intention of hiring Myart, now a security guard for the Air Force at O’llaro International Airport. Myart filed his complaint with the FEPC on July ?9. 1963. The executive director of tlie commission refused to comment on the ruling, saying it spoke lor itself and that the com mission "cannot involve itself in disputes with persons whom it may have to deal with in future
eases."
A STATEMENT issued by the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association called the verdict “unfair to Illinois employers and employees." and "a real threat to sound employment practices in Illinois.” "In effect the decision mean> that political appointees, frequently without first-hand knowledge of business practices, can tell employers w hom to hire and not to hire, even though the question of discrimination is not involved,” the association said. The association said it will , support Motorola’s intentions in ! court to overrule the decision.
A new community civic organization has emerged on the east side of Indianapolis, tagged as a non-profit, non-political, non-religious group working only for a better community in every aspect of daily living, through educational, recreational and financial programs The Oak Hill Civic Association was first formed some six months ago to answer the needs of a growing new community of property owners. The purpose and objectives being: promote the general welfare of this immediate community, in the areas of health, education, safety, recreation, civic responsibility and any other situation meriting community action. The association proposes to: promote a spirit of neighborliness. maintain high property values, encourage the spirit of community pride, seek proper recognition and services of our civic officials on all levels of government. Tlie boundaries of this organization are Martindale to Keystone east. 25 th to 30th north. *■ The association, after a few meetings and evaluating the many potentials of the organization with so many varied professions and talented people residing in the area, began long range plans into the future of the community. Through the thinking and the cooperation of many in the area, many goals have been proposed. As a result, wiflh many committees working and meeting weekly, much has been accomplished. Stop signs were erected to better protect all in tli area with the cooperation of the Traffic Engineering Department. Sanitation collection has been improved by improved alleys. with the efforts of the Social Welfare Committee working with the Sanitation and Street Department of the city. A register and vote early drive was a tremendous success in the last national election by block captains that made calls to all to register and to vote early. Two miniature votirig machines were moved from house to house to acquaint every one on how to use the voting machine on election day. A' Douglas Park Improvement Committee is working with the Department of Public Parks, the Mayor and tly? City Council for badly needed improvements now. also, through the newspapers for all that use these facilities to support this need. A community Credit Union is in the planning stages, also, an insurance plan to set up funds to assure all who need assistance for a full college education in the community, that the necessary money will be avail-
able.
Many baskets will be filled to help those who have so little to enjoy a happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas, through the donations of the community and many friends outside the community. A Teenage Civic Club is being formed, a preventive delinquent plan, to involve all ages in a better community life, stressing neighborliness and community pride, through recreational and educational programs. The Oak Hill Civic Association takes pride in their own community newspaper, a monthly edition free to all residents living in the area, to better inlorm all. about their friends and neighbors, birthdays, anniversaries and other special occasions. The paper prints many other features of interest to all the community; this newspaper is staffed by the people in the community with teenage reporters from Attacks. Tech, and Shortridge High Schools and with a limited mount of advertisement This is. indeed, a commun (tv organization to watch in tin months and years ahead he cause of its progressive involvement in ((immunity life, and good. sound. old fashioned neighbor! i ness.
$35,000 GRANT: United Negro College Fund President Dr Fred Patterson right) receives a check for a S35,000 educational grant from the Standard Oil (Indiana) Foundation Presenting the check is John H Lind, executive secretary of the foundation The grant is the latest in a senes of educational contributions annually over the past 20 years, amounting to nearly $250,000 (See story below)
Racial myths Continued from Page 1 sensitiveness of the South, never mentioned the deeds of the trusted slaves, who, defying death harbored the women folk and children of their masters who were at war. Alexander brought out the fact that lb Negro soldiers and tour sailors in the Civil War received the Congressional Medal of Honor. He also pointed out that some 30,000 Negroes fought under Gen George Washington during the American Revolutionarv War. Alexander also charged that few current history books mention tin* fact that during Reconstruction 22 Negroes served in the US. Congress, two of them being senators from Mississippi.
Jackson freed of sodomy charge after 2nd trial GREENFIELD — The second trial of an Indianapolis man accused of sodomy resulted in bis acquittal last week by a Hancock Circuit Court Jury. Freed Thursday was 24-year-old James Tilford Jackson who testified during the trial the allegations against him were part of a "frame lip.’" He was accused of attacking a 10-year-old girl in Indianapolis in September. 1961. Jackson's first trial here Sept. 15 ended with a hung jury when panel menbers returned a guilty verdict but couldn't decide which of three sentences
to mete out
Phe had a choice of a tine of $100 to $1,000 o) a 2-to-1 1 yeai prison term, or both
Episcopal Diocese call for repeal of marriage law GARY — A resolution condemning the marriage laws in •Indiana prohibiting interracial marriage was adopted recently by the Diocese of Northern Indiana of the Episcopal Church at South Bend. Introduced by St Augustine's Church of this city, whose rector is Rev R. E. Hood, the resolution demands such laws be repealed by the Indiana Legislature at its next session. The resolution declared that such laws violated the Episcopal Church’s teaching regarding •he Sacrament of Holy Matrimony iti that the church is forbidden by the present laws to make all its sacraments avail able to all regardless of race or
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Rev Hood, who was elected to the governing group of the diocese. Bishop and Council, pointed out that Indiana in one ot two remaining states in the North with such laws Brokenburr denies retirement rumor Ally Robert Lee Brokenburr wants the general public to know that he has no plans whatsoever to red ire from hC general law practice The attorney issued a state ment this work denying the ei i onenus impression ' held by many that his days as a hamster were about to end 1 am retiring Horn public life only I am not retiring from the practice of law 1 am continuing the practice of law." he said. Btokenhurr's retirement” allects primarily only his seal as a State- Senator which he gavcup alter serving five successive
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