Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1965 — Page 16

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Powell plans war on school segregation outside South

Will prosecute

WASHINGTON — Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (Dem.-N.Y.) chairman of the powerful U.S. House Education and Labor Committee last week asserted “one of the major bills” of his committee in the next session of Congress would be aimed at ending de facto segregation in the nation’s pub-

lic schools.

Branch Rickey, a great in sports, baseball, passes

Continued from Page 1 mother. Mrs. Evelyn Parker. THE SKELTON was found

on the lot last Saturday afternoon under a rotted innerspring mattress by six boys

chasing a rabbit. J _ THE DECLARATION of acClothing remnants found with y on wil j ^ directed seemingly the skelton were also being toward or against de facto segtested in the poUce laboratory re g a ti on in the North as recent in an attempt to link them with the South Powell indicatthe Parker girl. ed that his plans for hearings Geraldine Simpson, 17, 1110 wou id be aimed at producing a W. 33rd, told police a piece of nevv j aw w hich would stand as rotten cloth found near the a firm barrier to de {act0 seg . skelton may be part of the re g a ti 0 n In the Nortt as recent flowered blouse she had loaned civil rights laws stand against Miss Parker the day before she scboo i segregation in the South,

disappeared.

Positive identification could The controversial Mr. Powell have been possible if a laundry asserted . . de facto segregamark had been found, police tion in northern schools has the said, but laboratory tests did same odious impact on the black not reveal a laundry mark. community as de facto segregaFoul play was suspected when tion schools. Both mean black

the girl disappeared. children.”

"There’s nothing we can do

until the lab tests are completed,” a police spokesman

said.

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FURTHER HE declared . . I wired both the Attorney General, Nicholas Katzenbach and the Secretary of Health, education and Welfare, John W. Gardner . . . asking for'a clarification of their department’s official positions on this crit-

ical problem . .

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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Branch Rickey, one of the truly indomitable personalities who figured in the great American pasttime of baseball, died in the Boone County Memorial Hospital here last Thursday. He

was age 83 years.

He was born on a farm near Stockdale, Ohio where he received his elementary schooling. He worked his way through Ohio Wesleyan University and in later years he obtained a law degree at the University of

Michigan.

Mr. Rickey who crashed the color barrier In major league baseball also developed baseball dynasties with the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers. In later years he was the executive rice president and general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates Club. He was the originator of the farm club system as now operated by major league baseball

clubs.

He had been a farm boy, a school teacher, college athletic director, a college trustee, college board member, a baseball player, club manager, general manager club president, part owner and even president of a baseball league. During his command at Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers be conceived of crashing the color barrier in major league baseball. He sent Jackie Robinson, promising young baseball player and star athlete at UCLA to Montreal in the International League in 1946. Then he placed Robinson in the Brooklyn Dodgers’ squad the next season.

New job chances sought for minority groups by C. of C. Following a pilot survey made Indianapolis Dlv, General Mothere during the summer by Wil- ors Corp. Thomas W. Binford, liam Johnson, associate director D-A Lubricant Co. Inc. of the Foundation of Voluntary John Burkhart, The College Welfare, Belmont, Calif., • Life Insurance Co. of America, through efforts of the Chamber Harold H. Dice, Allison Divi-

of Commerce the Committee sion, GMC.

for Employment Opportunity Lawrence E. Drum, Interna-

has been organized to promote tional Harvester Co

equal job chances for minority Maurice R. Eastin, Esterline-

Angus Co. Inc. O. T. Fitzwater, Indianapolis Power and Light Co. Otto N. Frenzel, Merchants National Bank & Trust Co. James A. Gloin, L. S. Ayres

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BRANCH RICKEY

four of those years. Shortly after leaving the Cardinals he was engaged as president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Eventually he was revealed as the “master trader” but he had to weather several storms in which his acumen as a master mind of the baseball world was vindicated. In November 1950 on leaving the Dodgers he signed a five year contract as executive vicepresident and general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was reported to have sold his Dodgers’ stock for more than $1 million. He resigned as chairman in 1959 but his rebuilding program paid off in 1960. The Pirates won the National League pennant and went on to take the World Series from the New York Yankees.

groups.

Business organisations of all types throughout the city. In keeping with the program, will be asked to participate In e “vigorous program of employmen{opportunity especially benefitting members of minor-

ity groups.” H. Prentice Browning, presi- tors CoT

dent of the American Fletcher j. Kurt Mahrdt, The Indiana National Bank & Trust Co. National Bank of Indianapolis, heads a steering committee of Walter H. Pogenkopf, Wes-

28 leaders of local business and tern Electric Co.

industrial firms. Fred E. Parker, Chrysler

Among other observations Corp., Indianapolis plant.

Mr. Browning recently stated Eugene S. Pulliam, indian-

that the committee would en- apolis Newspapers Inc.

courage on the job training and jack Reich, Indianapolis

completion of school in aiding Water Co.

minority group members. Raymond W. Saxon, RCA According to Mr. Brown- Home Instrument Division.

ing a formal pledge will be submitted to local business and industrial leaders including (in part) as fol-

lows:

“. . . I reaffirm my company’s objectives in recruiting, hiring, training, and advancing the best qualified person for each job without regard to race, color, religion or national

origin

A. J. Stokely, Stokely-Van Camp Inc. A. Dean Swift, Sears, Roebuck and Co. Charles E. Wagner, BurnetBinford Lumber Co. Richard E. Whinrey, Link-

Belt Co.

James D. Wiesen, The Kro-

ger Co.

Ben F. Wilson, J. C. Penney

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nati Reds as a catcher in 1903 but was released on acount of his scruples against playing Sunday baseball. He returned the next year from Dallas to the St. Louis Browns by way of the Chicago White Sox. He was with the New York Yankees part of the season of 1907. Following other ventures anti recuperation from a siege of ill health he returned to baseball in 1913 as a scout for the St. Louis Browns. Later he became secretary of the club and then field manager. He had Burt Shotton manage the club on Sundays. He was vice president and general manager by 1917 when he was hired as president of the then povertystricken St. Louis Cardinals. Under terms of his contract he was the highest paid executive

in baseball.

AFTER SERVING a hitch in the Army as a Major in Chemical Warfare he returned to the Cardinals in 1918. He assumed the field management and started the major league "farm” idea (system). In 1920 Sam Breadon replaced Mr. Rickey as president, but Mr. Rickey continued his "farm idea” and at one time he controlled the players of two minor leagues and had interests in, or agreements with a number of others. When Mr. Rickey became associated with the Cardinals the club was more than $175,000 in debt and by spending only enough for railroad tickets at

Cardinals late in 1962 as a “consultant on player personnel.” He held that position for two years leaving after a shakeup of the club’s executives. The Rickey influence wrought revolutions in the great American pasttime that profoundly chang-

ed the game.

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Continued from Page 1 diet him. He was called as a witness against the other three but invoked the Fifth Amend-

ment.

The charges filed by the Justice Department still must be submitted to a federal grand jury. U.S. Attorney V. R. Jansen Jr. of Mobile, observed most of the trial. He said the state encountered problems that the Justice Department may not face on prosecuting the defendants probably next spring. The Deputy District Attorney, Virgis Ashworth who handled the prosecution, appealed to members of the jury' to put aside any racial prejudice they might have and to base their verdicts solely on the evidence. Ashworth declared “. . . Whether you like him and whether you like what he was doing here, or whether you

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times he developed players who a responsibility . . . brought the club National Lea- “This is your town . . . We gue pennants in 1926, 1928, have bitter pills to swallow, but 1931, 1934 and 1942, along to swallow them will be bewith World Series victories in cause we will do our duty . . .”

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