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The Rev. John Jacob Jarrett, Jr.,
will be ordained to the priesthood
Sunday by the Rt. Rev. Henry I.
Louttit, Bishop Coadjutor of the
Diocese of South Florida. The ordi
nation will take place at 10 a.m. at
St. Agnes Episcopal church.
REVENUE AGENTS SM
Ask Golf Course At
Virginia Beach
The Dade County commission re
ferred to Park Director I. D. Barnes
on Tuesday a resolution from the
town of Miami Springs requesting
the county to provide a Negro- golf
course at Virginia Beach.
Your Congressman Says. . .
Nature has been good to South
Florida, for not only do we have the
best in climate, but we are so geo
graphically located that we are the
natural and logical link between the
great continents of North and South
America. But na
ture cannot by
itself continue
to give us prom
inence in t h e
field of interna
tional travel and
commerce which
we have attain
ed in the last
few years. We
must be quick to
keep abreast of
the rapidly
changing conditions and times.
One of the principle methods of
channeling commerce throughout
South Florida area would be the
establishment of a free trade zone
or, as it is technically known, a
foreign trade zone. That is not a
new idea. As a matter of fact, as
far bfccir a »the early 1980’s former
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VOL. XXV, NO. 48
2 SUSPENDED FOR BEATING
TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 4 Sus
pension of the captain and a guard
of the Panama City convict camp
after prisoners complained of beat
ings with rubber hose was an
nounced today by Chairman Alfred
A. McKethan of the state road de
partment. '
SHERIFF TAKES MAN FROM MOB
NASHVILLE, Ga. A sheriff
told Monday of rescuing a Negro
from a lynchbent mob determined
to avenge the attempted rape of a
housewife.
Sheriff N. N. Hughes said the man
| the creation of such a zone in Miami.
Bill Pawley, ex-Ambassador to Peru
and Brazil, when he was president
of the Miami Junior Chamber of
Commerce, discussed the possibility
of a zone.
In past years foreign trade zones
have been restricted almost entirely
to shipping by boats. Now in recent
years a new form of commerce has
developed which is already beginn
ing to challenge trans-ocean ship
ment by surface vessels, and that is
transportation by air. So today fore
ign trade zones are being established
to handle air cargo in inland cities.
San Antonio, Texas, has applied for
such a zone and apparently will soon
start such an operation.
A foreign trade zone is an area de
signated by the federal government
into which goods can be brought
and stored without payment of duty.
It is only when and if the goods are
taken out of the zone limits and into
the United States for sale or use
that duty must be paid. While the
goods are within the boundaries of
the zone they may Be cleaned, grad
He said an investigation of affairs
at the camp is continuing.
“We don’t tolerate mistreatment
of prisoners in the custody of the
state road department,” McKethan
said. Nearly all Florida’s convict
work camps are under road depart
ment supervision.
was seized at his home Sunday
shortly after the reported attack on
the White woman.
The mob believed, said the sheriff,
Jhe Negro could tell them the Iden
tity and whereabouts of the man
By Congressman George Smathers
otherwise manipulated, without gov
ernment intervention or control.
The advantage to such a zone are
many. For example, It prevents an
American purchaser from having to
pay duty on shrinkage or evapora
tion.
It also gives the buyer the oppor
tunity to examine the goods before
he pays duty so that he can sort
the good from the bad and return
the unwanted articles without hav
ing first paid duty.
Insurance costs are lower during
the period of storage in the zone be
cause the insured only has to insure
the cost of the goods rather than
including customs duty and excise
tax in the value of the articles.
The area needed for such a zone
is relatively small in San An
tonio only three acres are to be
used. Surely w r e could make that
much land available at the Miami
International Airport. With many
other Floridians I share the opinion
that a foreign trade zone at that
airport would prove to be q, valu
able asset in bringing international
Tempora Mut&ntur Et Nos Mutamur In Illis
MIAMI FLORIDA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1949
He said the suspended captain Is
J. A. Hollis and the guard is Wil
liam Spivey.
McKethan said the investigation
started after prisoners at the camp
all Negroes, went on strike and re
fused to work one day last week.
sought In the attack and intended
to make him tell by force if neces
sary.
V
“ I told ’em,” said Hughes,
we had good Negroes here and bad
Negroes and we were going to ■♦©
that the good ones were protected.
”1 told ’em that they were going
to get themselves In more trouble
than they -would ever get out of.”
As the mobs increased in size and
temper, state tropers and county of
ficers rushed to the scene and set
up roadblocks, searching for weap
ons .
But tension eased before )dawn
and most of the troopers left the
scene.
Robeson Asks Un-American Audience
NEW YORK Paul Robeson
said Monday he wants to go before
the House un-American activities
committee to testify on lynching in
Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
Describing the House committee
as a “vicious instrument against the
Negro,” Robeson added: “As an
American I am interested in t h «
cor# of Fascism and Other forces ie
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SIXTEEN PAGES
Bandits Beat And
Rob Grocer
Two armed Negroes beat and rob
bed the White owner of a grocery
store Wednesday night.
Jacques Roher, 43. of 66 NE 50th
ter., operator of Jack's grocery at
192 NW 14th st. told police his as
sailants escaped with |250 after one
of them hit him with a pistol when
he was slow in obeying their com
mands. They also took a .38 caliber
pistol.
SH BOOTLEG RIHG
A large scale “moonshine’’ trans
porting ring was smashed by under
cover agents of the state beverage
department Sunday after a wild
chase along Okeechobee road 18
miles west of Miami.
Paul J. Nasrallah, regional su
pervisor, said two White men and
a Negro arrested after a short TO
SS mile an hour pursuit, will face
conspiracy charges as well as pos
session and transportation counts.
He identified the arrested men is
Charles Wilson Bolunt of 819 NW
45th st., Ben R. Ford, of 819 NW
6th st. and Henry Staten, 57 of Mi
ami Springs.
Louis O. Frost, area supervisor,
said the case was handled by the
state “flying squad” of beverage
agents.
Two automobiles allegedly trans
porting the “moonshine” was con
fiscated Frost said.
The two White men were armed,
but offered no resistence when over
taken in their 1949 Mercury sedan
by four "flying squad” cars, Frost
in Florida, Georgia and Alabama.”
Robeson was asked about the
statement by Jackie Robinson,
Dodger ball player, who criticized
him for saying American Negroes
would not fight againt Russia in
event of war.
“I have no quarrel with Jacki<>
Robinson,” Robeson said, “In fact
I am a great admirer of his, and
he ts'entltled to his own opinion as
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GEORGIA SHERIFQf
OTHERS INDICTED
7 Negroes Lashed
At Hooker
Rome, Ga. Twelve White men,
including the sheriff and three dep
uties of Dade county. Ga. were in
dicted Wednesday bv a federal grand
jury in connection with the masked
flogging of seven Negroes at Hooker
Ga.
Among the 70 witnesses called by
the grand jury in its two-day inves
tigation was Dr. Samuel Green of
Atlanta, grand dragon of the Ku
Klux Klan. Green testified twice,
once Tuesday and again Wednesday.
The jury charged the 12 White
said.
But the Negro stepped on the gas
pedal of his 1937 Dodge sedan and
fled. After a hectic two-mlle chase
by beverage agents at speeds up to
85 miles an hour, he was overtaken.
Fifty gallons of “shine” found in
the tw r o cars were poured out on the
roadside, agents said. The case was
said to be one of the first of its kind
broken here in several years. The
three men are free under bond.
Two other automobiles were seized
and four Negroes arrested when an
other section of the "flying squad”
destroyed a 1, 500-gallon still near
Goulds.
Marvin L Curry of Danla, and
Eddie Thompson, of Goulds, were
arrested at their homes as owners
of the vehicles, found at the atill,
Nasrallah said.
Harold Chayter of Gouldg and
Lonnie Hastings of Perrine, were
taken into custody when beverage
agents swooped down on the still
and axed it. All four Negroes wore
released under bond.
First Degree Charged
In Knife Slaying
A first degree murder warrant
was Issued Tuesday against Robert
Floyd, 45, of 54 NW 19th st., charg
tng him with killing George Sim
mons, 46, of the same address.
Simmons died Tuesday of stab
wounds. The warrant was issued by
iVjflfii Timttee Thomas 3, Ferauacm
men with “conspiring to injure, op
press and intimidate” the seven Ne
groes “by assaulting them.”
The indictment specifically charg
ed that Dade Sheriff John W. Lynch
and his three deputies “allowed the
Negroes to be punished without
trial and without due process of law
by releasing them to the mob.”
The jury in its indictment that in
vestigation showed that the gang
which took the Negroes from the
officers and flogged them were "dis
guised as Ku Klux Klansmen.”
The alleged lashings occurred
April 2. The seven Negroes charged
that Lynch and his deputies came
to the home of Mamie Clay, a Negro
woman and arrested them while
Parents Take Up Kids
Argument; 1 Killed
What started off as a minor
squabble between two children end
ed in tragedy Monday when the
fathers of both children became in
votved in the argument.
George Simmons, 46 of 164 NW
19th at., died in Jackson Memorial
hospital from three knife wounds.
Robert Floyd, 45 of the same ad
dress, is being held for investiga
tion.
Police said Simmons was cut w hen
he intervened in an argument be
tween his own child and a child of
Floyd’s.
Telephone Rates
Up 12 Pet.
The old adage that talk is cheap is
not true in Miami anymore.
The state railroad commission
Thursday authorised another 6 per
cent increase while officially sanct
ioning an earlier temporary € per
cent boost In telephone rates that
Miamians have paid since last Oc
tober.
Increased rates will apply both to
monthly rental charges, (except for
four-party service) and long dis
tance calls to points Id the stats.
Schedules of the ft*w rates are sot
avail# ble.
k Bilt M a fiat 6 percent, the two-
they were attending a party.
The Rome officers then turned
them over to a mob of “60 to 75”
masked men who were burning a
cross in front of the Clay house, the
Negroes said.
The masked men took them away
and lashed each Negro separately, it
was charged, then told them to “go
away and forget about this.”
The reason for the alleged flogg
ing was not brought out in the in
vestigation. but Lynch said he and
his deputies went to the Clay house
to investigate reports of a “wild
party” going on there.
The deputies were Identified as
N. Stokes McCauley, William H.
Hartline and John Bleckley.
United States District Judge Rob
ert L. Russell, brother of Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell, Georgia Democrat,
said the case will probably be tried
in district court here the third week
in November.
Keener and the officers had been
indicted previously and were free
under SI,OOO bonds. The officers were
accused of riot and failure to pre
vent violence, and Keener with as
sembly to riot.
Free Treatment At
Jackson Curbed
Patients with the means to pay
cannot expect free treatment at
Jackson Memorial hospital.
The hospital's policy was pointed
up Tuesday at a Dade county com
mission meeting.
Commissioner I. D. Mac Vicar said
there appears to be a mistaken im
pression that all Dade county resi
dents are entitled to free hospitali
sation because the institution has
been transferred from city to coun
ty ownership.
Only those persons approved by
county social service workers re
ceive free service or reduced charges
Mac Vicar said.
He pointed out that the commis
sion does not fix the amounts charg
ed. This is decided by social service
workers after investigation of a pa
tient's ability to pay.
party monthly charge of 13.15 (plus
taxes) in the Miami area, would go
up approximately 20 cents. The
913.50 a month business phone rate
would be boosted around li cents.
▲ Miami*to-Jack*onvllle long dis
tance call, now fl.ll (plus taxse) for
3 minutes, would go Up 7 centk.