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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA—SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1967
No. 42
Continuing his verbal lashing of Richard Gordon Hatcher, Negro candidate running for mayor in the Gary raca, seemingly uncompromising and alleged prejudiced Lake County Democratic Chairman John G. Krupa said this week that it was a "horrible blunder" for the Indiana Democratic Club to contribute to Mr. Hatcher's cam-
paign.
Citing the violation of "loyalty" rules of the State Democratic Central Committee by Mr. Krupa, Paul F. Cantwell, County Commisioner said that he has requested the ouster of Mr. Krupa as Lake County
chairman.
Meanwhile, Mr. Hatcher received financial aid from a Chicago, III., banquet and a fund-raising rally here sponsored by the Independent Political Action Club of Indianapolis. Mr. Krupa’s remarks came after the Indiana Democratic Club Sunday presented Mr. Hatcher with a $2,500 check at the Epicurean Club after Mr. Hatcher addressed a crowd at Greater Galilee Baptist Church at the invitation of the Political Action Club. Mr. Krupa, who is a member of the Democratic Club, wrote Turn to Page 15 Riots to be discussed by NAACP head The man who has been labeled the "master rights strateg i s t in the United States, "Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is expected to touch on the subject of riot prevention when he speaks here Friday, Oct. 20. Wilkins will deliver an address in behalf of the NAACP Life Membership Club at 6:30 p.m. in the Essex House Motel. Tickets may be purchased at the door or by phoning the NAACP office, 638-3573. Dr. George H. Rawls is president of the sponsoring club. Robert Williams is banquet chairman. Mr. Wilkins is also expected to discuss the gravity of t h e racial situation in this country and what s^t-off the 109 riots which occurred in the U.S. from April 1 through August 8. Perhaps the most important civil rights leaders in America today, through Mr. Wilkins’ leadership numerous cases have been won by the NAACP
in the courts.
Riverside area groups protest school project
w ^ 55-year-old Eastside man victim had argued in front of
The Riverside Concerned was arrested Friday night on , tavern Just before the
Parents and Interested Neigh- a preliminary charge of mur- snooting.
bors Association and the River- der in connection with the Brosius said there had been side Civic League are sponsor- de ath of an 18-year-old youth * ^fjt the tavern <not being a mass meeting Sunday, outside a tavern at E. 16th St. J? ich ? n ” f !S ° ct 22. i. pm - at Riverside and Roosevelt Avenue. doo?^ rushing for ing and^d^eniont. ^ ’ Hard * cfa°ir g was^dead" During the confusion at the
Members will continue their on-arrival at Marion County door, t h e homicide detective A w3r ^ n ^ char g lng ‘o n h ha^beeVbeaten Arts Festival” held in Douglass which occured Dec. 15, 1965 at protest of the erection of port- General Hospital. He had been related Cannon evidently has been filed against a 20-year- ^“^eface and hVad Park - the Cou P le ’ s residence at the able classrooms at School 44 shot once through the heart, stepped on the foot of a worn- old inmate of the state farm in Hipd d»vs later at In a letter written to Chief 28th Street address, because they will not relieve The accused slayer, Harrison an who was with the accused connection with the beating ren e rsll Hosoitkl ^ Veza, Atty. John Preston Ward Mrs. Lytle had entered a the overcrowded conditions Daniels, 668 E. 11th, fled the ala y e r. d e a th of a 68-year-old tavern u d n y , . noted that a legal and lawful plea of innocent by reason now existing thereby creating shooting scene and was arrest- According to the witnesses owner more than two months l he case ^ a ? ie .I 0 vn tCr 8 r °up dedicated to the concept of self-defense, claiming that unequal and inefficient educa- ed about one hour later in the the two men argued and Dan- ago. police arrested anotner 0 f black power held the art she had shot her husband as tion for the children of this 700 block of E. 15th Street, iels was seen taking the pistol Sammy Davis, currently serv- h? 811 ^ & ,!,wp festival. He expressed complete he "advanced on her during an community. just east of college. from his pocket and hiding it w a 90-day sentence for lar- ?vf r Kf' vX, sympathy with the group and argument over the keys to their A worthwhile program has Det. Sgt. William Brosius of behind his back. ce ny has been charged in the ofTort fn pnnrX said he waS “distressed that car.” been planned designed to fully the police homicide division, As the argument progressed, death of Charlie Bivens, 2409^ in . 61 oper- t j iere were numerous persons The prosecution pointed out, inform the public about the who is handling the murder in- The Recorder was told, Daniels Northwestern. ate wit ^ P°u ce - among that audience who were however, that the victim had a truth concerning this situation, vestigation, told The Recorder aimed the pistol and snapped Biven, owner of the Hacienda According to Detectives Joe there in their official capacities set of car keys in his pocket Rev. L. C. Hicks is minister that he had learned from wit- off one shot which struck the Tavern, 2409 Northwestern, was McCoy and Ronald Bates, the as members of the Internal when police arrived at cf Riverside Church. nesses that Daniels and the Turn to Page 15 found sprawled across the bed ' Turn to Page 15 Turn to Page 15 Turn to Page 15
The Indianapolis Commission on Human Rights Thursday unanimously passed a resolution urging Mayor Barton, Gov. Branigin and the executive director of the Indiana State Highway Department to take the necessary steps to "effect depression of the Northwest leg of Interstate 65. Present plans call for that section of the high-
way to be elevated.
With the resolution, the rights commission became the first government agency to come out in support of the position taken by the Northwest Action Council which for sometime has waged an all-out battle for changes in
the highway design.
“We make this recommenda- would an elevated route,” the tion in recognition of the rights commission resolution
primarily residential character read.
of the neighborhood involved, Griff Crump, executive direcand in support of the conten- tor of the Indianapolis rights tion of residents of that commission, said the resolution neighborhood as expressed by was passed after an extensive the Northwest Action Council study of the results of a millionthat a depressed route would be dollar engineering report which less destructive of neighborhood urged the rerouting of the invalues and less of an impedi- ner-loop in addition to a recment to city services such as comendation for a depressed police and fire protection than Turn to Page 15 Mrs. Romney to speak for Volunteers of America Mrs. George Romney, the at the national and local levels, wife of Governor of Michigan, The meeting is open to the will speak for the annual meet- public by dinner reservations ing of the Volunteers of Amer- made throuh the office of the ica Thursday, Nov. 9, at the Volunteers of America. Christian Theological Seminary. The service program of the Mrs. Paul A. Batties, vice-pre- Volunteers of America provides sident of The Indianapolis Re- help to hundreds of people from corder Charities and director of week to week of the most "disThe Recorder Women Sponsor, advantaged” segment of the is chairman of arrangements city’s population. Under the committee. leadership of the local executive MB. Romney is a charming director, Major Wiliam P. Altspeaker and participates in man, every effort is being made many vital community services Turn to Page 15 / - j ., • 7- .. v . 7 '■ Dr. Parker is unanimously elected 4th district head Dr. J. Allen Parker, pastor of sin, South Dakota and the Provhistoric Bethel AME Church, the ince of Canada. This honor come largest and oldest AME Church to Dr. Parker after being elected in the state' of Indiana, was delegate at the Indiana Annual unanimously elected leader of Conference that met in Gary the Fourth Episcopal District having received every vote. The delegation to the general con- general conference will be held ference at a meeting Friday, in Philadelphia, Pa., in Mhy of
Oct. 13, at Camp Baber located 1968.
in Cassopois, Mich. Dr. Parker comes to this sign - Voting delegates were present ification position of his church representing seven states and well-qualfield after a very strenthe province of Canada. The ous program of remodeling and general conference meets every building churches in the state four years where bishops and of Michigan. He also served as genedal officers are elected and vice-president of the board of laws are enacted to govern the education, a state officer of the largest Mfethodist body among NAACP, and grand chancelor Negroes. of the Knights of Pythians, Dr. Parker will be the chair- State of Michigan. As adminiman of the delegates who will strative head he left assets of a represent Indiana, Michigan, 111- quarter of a million dollars, inois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wiscon- Turn to Page 15 Community group seeks ways of stabilizing' integration
The Forest Manor Neighbor- cent Negro, hood Association, seeking me- Evaluating thods of preventing sections of neighborhood
the situation in schools, the re-
AT HATCHER BANQUET: The Recorder photographer captured a tew of the highlights at banquet held in honor of Richard G. Hatcher, Democratic candidate for mayor of Gary, which was held last Friday at the Sherman House Hotel in Chicago. In the photo (top left) some of the members of the delegation from Indianapolis attending the banquet take time out to pose for the photographer, (seated left to right) Grant Hawkins, a member of the Indianapolis Board of Public Works; Dr. Frank P. Lloyd, president of the Metropolitan Planning Commission; Mr. Stanley Porter, Mr. George P. Stewart II, managing editor of The Recorder; and Mr. Charles Holi-
field. Standing is Mr. Edward Pinkston, Mrs. Beverly Bryant and Mr. Mason Bryant, Mrs. Robbie Beckwith, Mrs. June Moss and Atty. John Moss. In the next photo (top right) Mrs. Henri Gibson, 11th District vice-chairman, smiles from between two unidentified Hatcher supporters. In the bottom photos (left) Dr. E. L. C. Grooms, president of the Northern Indiana Political Action Alliance, which sponsored the banquet, sits at the left of Dr. Benjamin Osborne, Center Township Trustee. In the next photo (bottom right) Richard G. Hatcher invites all the guests in attendance to "come back for the
victory celebration" after the Nov. 7 election.
Eastside shooting
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death of youth
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Murder warrant is filed was severely criticized this week Suerite Lytle, 858 W. 28th, had
against state farm inmate by . an - ac - tive . Indmn “ irol . is ~ o™* x »„
Atty. raps police patrol at Festival
their neighborhood from becom- porter stated that the non-white ing pretfominanly Negro, pass- population of Public Schools No. ed a resolution late last week 1 and 71 is offered for sale or calling for the "stabilization” to 45 percent in the last two
of its bi-racial communty. years.
The plan was announced after Agreeing to the commission’s a survey, conducted by the proposal that communities maingroup and issued by the Indiana tain a balance equal to the Civil Rights Commission, reveal- city’s ratio of Negroes (about ed that the non-white popula- 24 percent), the Forest Manor
tion of the area had increased group resolved:
by 27 percent since 1964, and " that the Forest Manor that some sections of the com- Neighborhood Association sup-
munity were more than 50 per- Turn to Page 15 Jury finds woman guilty in 1965 death of husband
Chief of Police Daniel T. Veza
After deliberating for four and one-half hours, a Criminal' Court Division 1 jury Friday found a 53 year-old near-North-side woman guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 1965 shooting death of her
husband, Jordan Lytle.
The accused slayer, Mrs. Mar-
attomey who 'charged tfhat c f second-degree murder. She police officers were needlessly had been free on bail since present at a recent “B lack shortly after the shooting,
the
MRS. MARGUERITE LYTLE . . . Faces Prison Term