Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1940 — Page 10

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FACTS' SOUGHT X' Marks To ON INDIANA AVE.

Safety Board Studies Two Resolutions in Crime | Investigation. A

The committee of Negro citizens investigating law violations in Irdiana Ave. taverns will meet tomor-| row night at the Flanuer House to

appomt a fact-finding sub-commit- | tee to aid with the investigation. The group also will discuss plans for presenting evidence on the vio-| lations to the Alcohol Beverages Commission at the commission meeting Monday Meanwhile, the Safety Board was considering two resolutions filed by |B separate groups in connection with! the Indiana Ave. investigation WN One group. describing itself as! ‘property owners, business and pro-| fessional men and women of Indi-| ana Ave,” declared that the Negro population of the avenue ‘are on the whole as quiet, orderly and lawabiding as anywhere else in Indian apolis.” “Excessive activity of the Imdianapolis police department in searchmeg citizens on the streets ani in legitimate business places has driven business from the avenue, and many

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continues, causing many law-abid-ing colored citizens to lose their jobs,” the petition stated. | The other group, the General States Baptist Convention, Ine. asked a general cleanup of crime conditions. Its resolution cr’ cized the City administration and the police department for what it described as ineffective action in dealing with crime conditions

ATLANTA, Ga, July 24 (U. P).) —Andrew Jackson Wynne descended from his perch on top the water tank at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary today, ending his 19-hour | protest strike against return to a | Georgia chain gang. wa tbat | Scheduled for release to state auKOKOMO MOTORIST KILLED |thorities today, the 20-year-old WABASH, Ind. July 24 (U. P.).— Wynne wanted to stay in the FedThomas H. Wikel, 67. Kokomo, was eral prison rather than go back to killed late yesterday when the au-|the chain gang, from which he estomobile in which he was riding caped in 1937 while serving a senoverturned near here. tence on armed robbery charges.

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Shouting the rebel yell, and waving a large machinist's hammer, Wynne had stood off guards from his perch 110 feet above the ground inside the prison walls Throughout the night, the prison’s big searchlights held him in their glare and guards were assembled in the courtyard 130 feet below the tank. Prisoners locked in the cell block could hear Wynne's yells and cries, as could the crowds assembled

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Foes of Past Embrace as Hostilities Melt in ‘Willkie | Loving Cup.

By NOBLE REED A new alignment of Republicans is being born in indiana out of the Wendell L. Willkie Presidential candidacy. | ii Men, who a year ago spoke en-| [tirely different political languages, were up at Elwood, Ind, yesterday | 'back-slapping erstwhile foes and {friends alike. | Also the pre-convention feudists who fought the nomination of Mr. | Willike were there trying to get back lon good terms with the smiling [bandwagon boys. | The occasion was a general con-| [ference of all candidates on the [state G. O. P. ticket and district; chairmen to prepare Indiana's part in the Willkie notification show at | Elwood Aug 17.

Factions Sign Truce

Party leaders from the northern Seni | part of the state reported thag for

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growing. In the photo above, each big “X,” formed hy |the first time in 12 years a truce

had been signed between warring factions in St. Joseph County. “I found perfect harmony among South Bend Republicans . . . a strange thing for the boys up there,” | declared Raymond E. Willis of An-| gola, the Republican Senatorial

19-Hour Protest Strike Atop Water Tank ii: o seer vio come ion

wood from Evansville, reporte about the same “kiss-and-make-up” walls where they had a view of the attitude in his feud-torn district. tank's top. Mr. Beeler was one of the original! The words of the guards who| five Willkie delegates from Indiana! periodically climbed up to a cat at the Philadelphia convention, “I had been aligned with a faction be seen talking earnestly to Wynne | in Vanderburg County that has not| whose responses seemed to be wild.| been in control and the regular orHe greeted the dawn today with! ganiaztion was fighting us at every shouts of “Wahoo.” | ditch,” he said. “But now the at-| In the early morning hours, he mosphere is getting a little different. stretched out and took a nap but) The regular organization is saying awoke instantly and flourished his Some dice things about us now. hammer when a guard approached | Bobbitt Foes Fade |

along the cat walk. : An attache of the prison said| State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt, |

Wynne seemed to be “tetched” ‘in Whose foes also have melted away the head. He had spent five hours In the Willkie loving cup, left] unprotected under Georgia's blister-| after the conference for Colorado Ing midsummer sun yesterday after- where he will confer with Mr, Willnoon, and persons in the streets Kie the remainder of the week on around the prison watching him plans for the nominee's acceptance through field glasses, saw that his speech. Accompanying the chair- | face and arms were beet red. man was Homer E. Capehart, gen-| The temperature in the sun yes- eral chairman of the celebration terday was 100 degrees. | program, and James Carr, a party | : | worker, |

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Republican Senatorial Nominee FLYING HORSESHOES Willis says he toured 33 counties Horseshoe is a Strenuous game if during the last two weeks and found vou forget to duck. Last night Har- “surprising Willkie enthusiasm old Duncan 16. Louisville Ky among workers in the low income stepped Into a court at 11th St. and Prackets. | Traub Ave. at the wrong time. A! Our campaign issue for the wage | horseshoe struck him in the head. farmers in Indiana this fall will be He was treated at the City Hos- ? pledge to help rehabilitate busi-| pital . y [ness and industry and by that The same thing happened to Create more and better jobs” he

Clifford Jackson, 22, of 1431 Mas- | Said. | sachusetts Ave. at 15th and Yandes| 2 2 a Sts. A physician “repaired” him.! A Hoosier flavor wolud be added NE Trees nn . | to mational Democratic politics if pe NED TO NUIT A the National Committee should elect HY A) NISPORT, Mass. July 24 ppank walker, the New York law(VU. P.).—Rumors that Joseph P. ver, to succeed Chairman James A. Kennedy would resign soon as U. S. Farley. Ambassador to Great Britain are Mr. Walker is a member of the “absolutely not true,” his wife said! notype Dame University board of today. | trustees and was a graduate of that institution, ; | “ = .u | Dismantling of the five-room suite headquarters of the McNutt-for-President organization was started this week, ending a year and a half of nation-wide campaigning. The headquarters, however, will be operated for a couple of weeks more, clearing up a maze of unfinished business. | The McNutt workers claim they | will be back at it again for the 1944 | campaign. { “ACTRESS TO WED HEIR | HOLLYWOOD, July 24 (U. P.).— | Kay Stewart, movie actress, and | Langdon William Proctor, an heir {to the Proctor & Gamble fortune, have announced their engagement, ' without setting a wedding date.! | Miss Stewart came to Hollywood {after attracting attention as cheer i leader at Northwestern University. 2 BEAUTIFUL ENLARGEMENTS With each 6 to 16 exposure odak roll developed a ‘ ¥ . 25¢

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