Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1947 — Page 3

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\ NEW MOON DANCER—Geneve Dorn, leading dancer of “The New Moon," at Butler bowl nightly through Saturday, caught by Times Photographer John Spicklemire and the strobo flash in a moment of acrobatic action.

Segregation Poses Big Problem Here For School Committee

10-Year-Old Issue Pops Up at Meeting Called to Decide on New Members

\ By RICHARD LEWIS The Citizens School committee held a town meeting on the 14th floor of Hotel Lincoln yesterday to decide the qualifications of. seven persons to run the Indianapolis public schools in the next four years. Although the schools represent the biggest administrative unit in the county and the town's most significant investment in the future, only one-fourth of those invited showed up. Only one-of the three Indianapolis newspapers of general circulation was represented. It was the Citi zens School com- § mittee which j§ broke up the ku klux klan influence in Indianapolis school boards during the 1920s. 1930, the

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self to non-political education has never failed to elect any of its candidates. But yesterday, meeting un-! dér the bronze bust ‘of Abraham Lincoln, the members of the committee ran head-on into the big-| gest problem they have faced since they licked the klan. It was the segregation in part of Indianapolis ‘schoolchildren by color in the city’s grade and high schools. lg This issue has been brewing for: a decade or more. The committee | decided that settling such a question was not one of its functions. | John Niblack, superior court judge, presided at the meeting. He | wore his famous red tie and used : a table knife as a gavel. roup Paid Nothing His talk “wis plain and to the

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they're paid absolutely nothing.” Mr. Ransom said that was what The judge had a list of seven per-| ne referred to. sons who had agreed to take on the | Mrs. Cary D. Jacobs, Negro execujob for nothing, if elected. They! {jye committeewoman, said it was had ‘been picked from a field of 150| hard for her to understand why by a subcommittee headed by the ner son had to ride the bus to a late Carl wilde. ] | segregated school, why he couldn't Some. of them are Republicans. (axe advantage of special work in some Democrats and some—just| gone high schools. people. | “And 40,000 other Negroes in this “It wouldn't make any- difference sommunity feel the same way,” she to me if they were all Democrats| said. or all Republicans,” Judge Niblack| Thomas Sheerin, one of the said. “But in the interest of -the|nembersof Mr. Wilde's subcommitgeneral public, we havé to spit it ‘tee which had chosén the nominees, up.” | said: Pe List of Candidates “So far as I'm concerned indiHe named the candidates: J.|yjqually, I would rather children be Dwight Peterson, president of the|,,+ segregated. I would rather Cities Security Corp.; Mrs. LouiS| there be a continuing acquaintance W. Brick of Irvington, who was one|petween the children of all races. of prime movers in the fight to.givé| «1 wouldn't feel, however, that the East Side Howe high school; | ¢1ic movement was being served H. Nathan' Swaim, former state pn. canvassing the opinions of cansupreme court judge and former, jidates in advance. city controller; Leon C. Thompson, 2 Candidates Proposed a pattern maker who now is a part-| «whenever we elect a board to ner in Thompson Bros, Inc, ma- carry out specific policies, we tend chine and pattern shop; to. lose our usefulness to the comRaymond F. Brandes, a South Side | munity.” druggist, Emil V. Schaad who owns| ge iq ihe-question of a Negro the Advance Printing Co., and Carl candidate had been considered. : : since two candidates had been probe on the ballot in confirmation of ; : the school board post he now holds.| * wy, thought the timé was, perAfter Judge Niblack read the y aps, not -yet ready. We thought

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World Is Warned On Use of Atom

Einstein, Others Mark A-Bomb’s Birthday

WASHINGTON, July 16 (U, P.. —Two years ago today, on a remote section of the New Mexico desert, man set off his first atom | bomb. Today, in solemn commemaration of that event, Prof. Albert Einstein and other scientists who made the bomb possible sounded a warning’ that “human . security can never be assured until the world has been made safe for atomic energy.” “Although we knew from the beginning that the task would, be difficult, the lack of progress to date

. {has been discouraging,” they said in

a. statement issued by the Federation of American Scientists. ‘Some Accept Defeat’ “Some people, in fact, have ac{cepted defeat, and have actually {suggested that United Nations neigotiations be abandoned. We, on the lother hand, affirm our belief that {the common ‘interests which led [to the establishment of the UN are more compelling than ever. The past two years have illustrated the necessity of pursuing “every avenue toward one world,” the federation said. The problem lof atomic energy cannot be solved 'apart from.other issues with which lit is bound up, the scientists concluded.

The. federation reviewed prévious statements by Prof. Einstein and others emphasizing that the United States, ds the wealthiest of nations, “should make a great contribution, even at the cost of substantial sacrifice, to a program of world economic reconstruction un-

der the auspices of the United Na-'

|tions.” ; ‘Los Alamos to Be ‘Permanent Town

WASHINGTON, July 16 (U. PJ). {~Government officials conceded to-{day-—on the second birthday of the atom bomb—that atomic research is here to stay.

They announced a. multi-million dollar : civic improvement program {for the town of Los $lamos, N. M,, {chief assembly center for the. A- { bomb.

| The atomic energy commission {said the crude. huts and barracks ‘of the “mystery’ town” of 7000 soon will be repaced by modern apart‘ment buildings. * 5 New schools, stores and theaters {will sprifig up on the double-fenced {45,000-acre reservation which is the (principal center for the military ap- | plications of atomic energy. A new medical research center is in the

‘Labor Paper Defies Taft-Hartley Law

| Another Hoosier labor publication joined the ranks of those admittedly defying the Taft-Hartley law restrictions against publishing political news today.

| The ©. I. O. Unioh News, organ of ‘the state industrial council, printed a signed editorial by Secretary Walter Prishie “in studied defiance of the lawless Robert A. Taft law.”

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qualifications of each candidate, a woq have a measure of difficulty] ; motion was made to approve them.| ovine that candidate on the The editorial protested against Then Willard Ransom, Negro at- iat we have given you no ex- the “gag” provision, and urged torney and membér of the Citizens! tremisis. Mr. Ransont” | members to defeat the two IndiCommittee executive, raised the) The executive committee voted @na senators and 10 representatives

on the motion to approve the seven who voted to override President { candidates. The “ayes were over- Iruman’s veto of the new labor Asks Committee Attitude whelming. Mr. Ransom voted “ne.” | Ww. d Mr. Ransom asked why none of| whe town meeting was ended.’ ee Je cardia ates Seleted bY oun, | The citizens left the room and|1@nant Files Suit, : Wb here remained only the silent Demands Rent Lease

what the attitude of the committee yronze of Mr. Li and the candidates it chose would L Lincoln. | CHICAGO, July 16 (U. P.).—Jo-

be on racial segregation in the, WEDEMEYER OFF TO CHINA 'seph Toland demanded today that schools, : WASHINGTON, July 16 (U. P.). he be allowed to pay more rent. He charged - that - segregation is{ —Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, Mr. Toland filed a suit, the first unfair to Indianapolis Negroes who and four advisers left by plane to-!of its kind here, demanding that his comprise 13 per cent of the city’s day for the Orient where they will landlady give him "an 18-month population, 'make a survey of conditions in lease and a 15 per cent rent inJudge Niblack replied that the China and Korea for President crease, in accordance with the new candidates had been selected with- Truman. rent law. out consideration of their point of EC A w—— view on any particular subject. { : 1 " “We examined the entire field.” In Indianapolis : he said. “It's a hard job to bilance | it out. I think ‘we finally picked! out seven mighty fine citizens. BIRTHS ‘Fil Help Yow “As tq their stand on

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Bugsy's Girl Friend Fails In Suicide, Defies Gunmen

Swallows Tube of Sleeping Pills, Survives,

Says Gangsters ‘Can Come Ahead’ fo Nice

PARIS, July 16 (U. P.).—Red-haired Virginia Hill, who ‘attempted suicide rather than continue her flight from underworld killers, changed her mind today. She defiantly announced that, “they can. come ahead ~they’ll find me’ here.” Pr Miss Hill, ex-girl friend of the murdered Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel, is at the La Reserve hotel in Beaulieu, on the French Riviera. “I réad in the paper that two men have come over heré to shoot me,” she said. “They can come ahead— they'll find me here.” Miss Hill felt differently not so long ago. Police at Nice disclosed yesterday she swallowed a whole tube of sleeping tablets a week ago. She was saved only when servants

found her in a, serious condition and ‘rushed her to a private clinic. It was the second time that the shapely glamour girl had taken an overdose of sleeping tablets. The other time came immediately after she and Siegel quarrelled in

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Prowler Fires Twice and Misses

Las Vegas, Nev, Miss Hill, who usually seemed to have a plentiful supply of $1000 bills from an unknown source, later left for France. It was soon afterwards that Siegel—on June 20—was shot to death in her home in Beverly Hills, Ol The murder re-| About midnight last night Toby mains unsolved. + In a telephonic interview soday, 16. logked out We pack win Miss Hili said. +’ dow of the Cox family home, 3202 “I am not hiding. I am sick—|N. Euclid ave, and saw a prowler very sick. All on account of the!in the yard of; William Goodman, awful things people say. I am down [3201 N. Colorado ave, here just trying to get well.” He called his father, George K. She again complained of news|Cox, who grabbed a shotgun and stories about Siegel. | ran out doors, “He was one of the finest men I “Halt or I'll ever met. He had the greatest re-| called out. spect for me,” she said. In reply the prowler whirled and Referring to Siegel's death in her | fired two shots, then fled. Mr, Cox, house, she said: “Why shouldn't fie | who was not injured, told police he have a Rey? What's wrong with|could give no description of the that? It was a big house.” | man, !

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Til Divorce You To Bring You Here'

SEYMOUR, Conn, July 16 (U, P.) ~John Torowich said today he would divorce his Irish bride so she could come to the United States, Then he will marry her again. Mr. forowich married Agnes Gibe bons in Belfast while he was sta« tioned with the army in Ireland, {Because he married without army permission, she can't gain imme Ldiate entry, to this country, he wag told. However, Mr. Torowiech was ade

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