Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1933 — Page 12

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WHITE WOMAN FOUND CAPTIVE IN NEGRO INN' Indiana Avenue Politician Is Hunted by Police for Quizzing. Piercing screams about 4:30 this morning brought two police squads to a three-story, eight-room Negro rooming house at 410 North Senate avenue, where they found a white woman in a padlocked room on the third floor. The woman, giving the name of Helen Williams, 32, told police she had been taken there by Fox Brown, Negro politician and alleged professional gambler. Cruising squads under Sergeants Claude Kinder and Fred Hague heard the screaming almost simultaneously and raided the house. When the Rev. Noble Childs, 54, Negro, 420 North Senate avenue, the owner, was unable to produce a key, the police ripped the door from its hinges and discovered the woman in a weakened and hysterical condition. Held at City Hospital She is held at city hospital for treatment and is under a high bond for vagrancy. Later this morning, Kinder and his squad sought Brown at his home, 2805 Northwestern avenue, and at his poolroom, 413 Indiana avenue, but missed him by a few minutes at both places. Brown and ten Negro men, two white men and two Negro women were arrested Saturday night in a gaming raid on the poolroom. Monday. Judge William H. Sheaffer fined Brown SIOO and costs on a charge of keeping a gaming house. The fourteen others were fined $lO and costs for visiting a gaming house and twelve of them were fined $lO and costs for gaming. Sheaffer said a prominent Indianapolis banker brought pressure to bear on him to suspend the fines and costs on one of the white men, but he refused. All fourteen still are in jail. Other “Pressure” Used Other pressure W'as used in Brown's behalf. Municipal court four attaches said the Rev. Vernon Anderson,, Negro, “had been busier than a cranberry merchant trying to ‘spring’ Brown.” The politician and alleged gambler was freed Tuesday on a SI,OOO appeal bond signed by Riley D. Coleman to city prison to obtain Brown’s release. Childs, who says he is pastor of the Joshua Baptist church and has been a minister seventeen years, is in jail on charges of vagrancy and failure to have a rooming house license. The “Joshua Baptist church” is the two front rooms of the house at 420 North Senate avenue, he explained to Captain Jesse McMurtry. The back rooms are the parsonage and the rooming house in which the woman was found is “kind of a charity proposition,,” Childs said. Dance Will Be Planned Theta chapter, Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, will meet at 8 tonight in the Antlers to plan a dance, to be given Saturday night at the Antlers. John Elsea is dance chairman.

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Thin is thf third of a rrl of Are xtorlrt on famous old Indianapolis down town streets. BY ARC II STEINEL Time* Staff Writer THE Capitols or the Tennesseans, the Pouges or the McCormicks, the Washingtonians or the Illini, the Corbaleys, Hardings or the Morrows- which are you? Just to mention Capitol avenue brings up the feud among those who always have held that its name should be as printed rudely in the original plat—Tennessee—and those who believe in its modern appellation. You can get an argument out of that as easily with old-timers as you can as to whether John McCormick or George Pogue was the first settler of Indianapolis, whether Abe Lincoln spoke on the Washington or the Illinois street side of the old Bates house, and whether it was the Corbaley youngster, Harding child, or Morrow babe that let out the first whimper in Indianapolis. Historians—word-of-mouth and printed kind —bear all sides in argument. If some day you should see several Capitol avenue motorists battling it out hammer and tongs, it may be great-grandchildren of pioneers who raced quarter-horses and sulkies along the same street years before and argued the merits of the street’s name. Cars and trucks race Capitol avenue now. Motorcar firms have moved out residences. Bucktown, the old Negro sector of toe city along Indiana avenue, has moved northward on the street and taken the finer homes. a a a BUT Capitol avenue remains Tennessee in the hearts of some who, in the days of the underground railway, would not have mustered up a bowl of gruel to aid the Union. Some way, some how, the street kept its southern tinge through the Civil war until 1894, when “hate for Mississippi”—later Senate avenue—resulted in a Negro councilman obtaining the change of the name of both streets to their present cognomens. Bound up in Capitol avenue’s life is the statehouse. It saw Lincoln’s body lie In state on its grounds. News came on April 15, 1865, of Lincoln's assassination. “It was the most exciting day Indianapolis ever had known. The town dropped in mourning garb, business was suspended and even the sun refused to shine,” says Dunn’s history of the city. Then, on a gloomy Sunday, Lincoln’s body was brought for a final review on the Statehouse lawn before going home to Springfield, 111. For eighteen hours city residents filed past his casket. Funerals were events then, as now, and the townboy of those days who still lives and did not hold tight to his father’s hand in passing by Lincoln’s casket checks a mental black mark against his parents for their negligence. a a a CAPITOL AVENUE was the last stand of a riot on May 2, 1876, when the Fourth ward and 14 CITY HOTELS ASK PHONE RATE SLASH Petition for Cut Is Filed With Public Service Commission. Petition for reduced local telephone rates was filed with the Public service commission Tuesday by fourteen Indianapolis hotels against the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. In their affidavit, the petitioners assert that rates for private rooms and switchboards are “excessive and unreasonable,” and that the rates now yield far mere han a “fair return" on the value of the property. The hotels signing the petition are the Denison, English, William, Sheffield Inn, Pennsylvania, Barton, Roosevelt, Graylynn. Riley, Washington. Eastgate, Puritan, Michigan and Plaza. MOTION PICTURES

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the Sixth ward (Irish Hilll) battled it out with wagon spokes and guns. It seems that the Republicans charged the Democrats with gerrymandering the city on the eve of election and organized a committee of safety to protest against alleged frauds. Negroes from the Fourth ward organized, 100 strong, and went down into the vale of alley bouquets and clubs in the Sixth ward to clean out the Democratic Irish. On South Illinois street the battlers pitched camp. Sons of Erin answered the call. It was a free-for-all. The Fourth ward retreated. Guns spoke. Brickbats crowned heads. In enemy country the Fourth ward backed up Illinois street and Capitol avenue. Call was sent for reinforcements, but before Bucktown could FEENEY SPEAKER AT MANUAL CEREMONY Recalls Days of School's Sports Leadership in State. A1 G. Feeney, state safety director, Tuesday night recalled the days when Manual high school won state sports championships, at the fifteenth annual Roines alumni dinner in the Washington. Feeney was an alumnus of 1909. There was discussion of the first ivy vine planted at the school, almost a quarter of a century ago, and the famous Shortridge-Manual football battle on the West Washington street bridge, which resulted in abandonment of interscholastic football. A tribute was paid by Feeney to Charles Emmerich, former principal, after whom the school was named. BANDIT ROBS PARKERS Couple on Side Road Threatened With Death; Gets S2O. While in a parked automobile in a road near state road 13, Alvin Dorr, 34, of 721 East Twenty-third street, and Miss Grace Shipley, 33, of 1842 Brookside avenue, were held up on Tuesday night by a well-dressed bandit. He threatened to kill them if they made an outcry and took S2O and a billfold, containing a driver’s license and other paDers, from Derr.

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mass for revenge, cooler heads stopped the battle. One death resulted from the riot, while scalp wounds, knotted eyes and bruises were as plentiful as polka-dots on the feminine garb of the day. a a a THE town’s first newspaper, the Gazette, boasted an alarm clock for an editor. He was George Smith. With Nathaniel Bolton, he started a weekly. Smith lived at Capitol avenue and Georgia street. He had a sonorous sneeze and neighbors often said they awoke in the morning to Smith’s sneeze in lieu of waiting for vagrant cocks to grow. Ink compounded from tar served for printing the paper and subscribers likened it to “a paper printed on a cider press with swamp mud for ink.” On the site now occupied by St. John’s Catholic church and its academy at Georgia street, a beer garden with bowers of fruit trees for shade held forth. Later the largest Catholic cathedral of the state was built on the side of St. John’s. One of the early buildings of the town that still stands is the old Board of Trade structure at the southeast corner of Maryland street and Capitol avenue. a a a Southeast corner of Capitol avenue and Washington street saw construction of the first Masonic temple in 1848. The building served until May, 1906, when fire razed it and the present structure at North and Illinois streets was built. Residents along Capitol avenue found dry cellars hard to have in the swampy days of the town. Seepage would ruin stores. On one occasion, Mrs. Hannah Mansur, daughter of David V. pulley, land office registrar, went into tthe cellar of her home at Capitol and Indiana avenues for a jar of peaches. The cellar wall

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caved in. She was buried to her neck. “Help! Help!” she screamed. “Send someone to dig me out— I’ve saved the peaches.” ’ Historians later note that Culley prized his peaches, for he built the first stone-walled cellar on Capitol avenue. The stage door of the old Metropolitan theater, later the Park theater, opened on Capitol avenue and it was there that the Beau Brummels of the 60s and 70s waited for the chorus heavyweights to doff tights for plumes and amble to the nearest beer garden. a a a ONE smitten Terre Haute orator of the Whig party, Georgs Cutter, was enamored with a Mrs. Drake. She played him for what the modern chorines would call a “John.” He came back for more, with flowers and candy. One night Mrs. Drake had a stage fall to do. She did it- It was so real that Cutter, in an upper logs, forgot himself and rushed to the stage to pick her up. The crowd guffawed. The story rounded the town. The guffaws grew until finally Mrs. Drake married her ardent suitor to stop the wits. Sitting beside a window in an old-style, high-gabled residence of forty-five years of battling the elements at 503 North Capitol avenue is an 86-year-old man to whom the city’s history and Capitol avenue is bound as tight as slave thongs. He is Thomas L. Sullivan, father of the present mayor, and first city executive under the present city charter in 1889. Born on the present site of the

interurban baggage sheds on Capitol avenue, Judge Sullivan, during his mayoralty years, was instrumental in taking the town out of the muddy era of unpaved streets. Much of its later growth and expansion dates from acts during his administration. a a a MUCH of Capitol avenue’s progress has passed the window in which he sits and reads. Owners of trotters no longer start their favorite mares or geldings against rivals and quarter-horses don’t dash now for $5 side bets. Sleighs no longer skim the street on slick Sunday morns. The site of St. Vincent’s hospital no longer is a beer garc-m called Fairbank, where bandmasters of the Sousa days and the “Washington Post March’ waved batons. Motor cars race one another between stop-lights now. Tires are changed, truck bodies traded, old junkers sold for scrap iron. A few locust trees, remnants of the days when the street was a forest, intermingle the odor from their blooms with the belching fumes of cil from cars and the overhead hum of planes as Capitol avenue moves on and on. Next—Pennsylvania street.

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