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CITY TO ASK FOR 6,500 HOUSING UNITS
5,000 Tabbed For
Negroes
Low rent housing was the main
topic in Miami this week as applica
tion forms for low rent housing un
der the new federal housing act
were received.
J -T. Knight, executive director of
the Miami Housing Authority said
he expects the city to have its ap
plication back in Washington “as
quickly ag anybody else.”
The Miami authority is expected
to request funds in the next six
years to build about 6,500 housing
units, 5,000 of them for Negroes.
The Negro units will be part of
the city’s slum clearance program.
I expect there will be a meeting
in Atlanta or Washington within a
week or 10 days to explain applica
tion details,” Knight said.
Then, he said, the city will be in
position to request the housing au
thority to undertake the program.
The first application will be for a
temporary loan to appraise proper
ty to be acquired, purchase it and
draft plans. All this has to be done
before bids can be called on con
struction to determine the final
amount of the loan.
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Knight said about 1,000 units will
be built first to care for displaced
families in the slum area. Some of
these units will be outside the slum
district and some will be on vacant
property in the downtow-n Negro
area.
Building in this manner will allow
clearance and redevelopment of the
blighted district progressively.
F.H. A.
Aids 28-Unit Job At
2nd and 12th
Miami Negroes can’t get FHA
home financing but there seems to
be an abundance of said caplto)
available for apartment construe
tion.
The first FHA commitment in this
line was approved Monday when the
Ifolvln Investment company start
ed moving slum shacks off the SW
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Scab Labor Causes
Longshoreman Fight
The employing of non-union long
shoremen at the P & O Steamship
Co. docks last Friday caused a near
riot when union men battled it out
w-ith the scabs.
As a result William Wallace, 49-
year-old stevedore, was sentenced
Tuesday in City court to 15 days in
Jail and fined SIOO and costs for his
part in the melee.
Wallace was charged with assault
and battery by two other longshore
men, DeWitt Brewer, 120 NW 10th
st., and James Miller, 1335 NW First
pi., both of whom were slightly in
jured in the scuffle.
Wallace’s attorney, R. E. Had
gers, promptly filed a SI,OOO super
sedeas bond, as a preliminary step
Negro Cabbie Hero
Os Ind. Bus Accident
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug 10
An Indianapolis Negro taxi driver
today as one of the heroes of the
tragic Greyhound bus crash near
Bloomington early Wednesday in
which 19 perished.
Edgar Davis, 43, w’as sleeping
four seats from the rear of the bus
when it crashed into an abutment,
overturned and burst into flames.
Davis kicked out a back winow
and led eight persons to safety.
WILL FINANCE APARTMENT CONSTRUCTION
corner of NW 12th st. and 2nd ave
L. L. Brooks is agent for the 28-
unit project to be started Monday.
The new buildings will cost $91,-
000 under contract to the Southern
Construction co.
Previously owners have sought
private financial help in order to
charge a higher rental. FHA financ
ed projects cannot top the FHA rent
scale.
FHA’s decision to help finance
Negro housing in the crowded cen
in filing an appeal.
Three police squad cars were
summoned Friday when the sigh»
broke out as about 200 dock workers
began unloading a banana boat.
Miller and Brewer testified that
Wallace hit them both when they
failed to produced union cards. The
two men said had been, paying
5 cents out of each dollar they earn
ed to the union, but had not receiv
ed cards.
Testimony showed Wallace was
not an official of the local Interna
tional Longshoremen’s Association,
but took it upon himself to check
union cards after a foreman had
hired several union and non-union
stevedores to unload the ship.
Insurance Dividend
Forms Out Aug. 29 "
Application forms for dividends
Irom National Service Life Insur
ance will be available on August
29.
Offices will be set up to help
World War II veterans complete
forms. The average dividend paid
will be $175.
tral area follows a fight of nearly
two years. The Miami Slum Clear
ance committee as well as private
owners frequently asked federal aid
In getting rid of slum conditions.
“This is certainly the solution to
clearing up this slum area,” Brooks
said. “Many other owners aro eager
to put up modern buildings if FHA
will help.”
Brooks said FHA is studying oth
er sites and approval is expected
shortly.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
VOL. XXV, NO. 49
Your Congressman
Says..
By Congressman George Smothers
Recently the Unification of the
Armed Services Bill was finally
passed and substantially in accor
dance with the Hoover Commission
recommendations. Many people had
written to my office protesting that
the unification might result in dras
tic curtailment
-of the Navy and
its Air Force,
and the possible
elimination o f
the Marine
Corps.
When the Un
ification Bill
was before the
House several
days ago. Con
gressman Vinson
Chairman of the
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1 Killed, 1 Hurt In
Shooting
James Matthews, 33. died in Jack
son Memorial hospital Saturday
night a few minutes after he was
shot twice in a fight with another
unidentified Negro at NW 4th ave.
and 14th st.
A third bullet struck Emerson
Hunt, four-year-old bystander, in
one of his feet.
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Tempora Mutantur Et Nos Mutamur In Illis
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1949
County Rejeets New Golf Course Site
Favor Va. Beach
Dade county commission members
Tuesday turned thumbs down on a
CJ-acre tract near International air
port offered them for a Negro golf
course.
The offer to sell came from Wal
ter J. Dolan, a real estate dealer.
The land, suggested at an asking
price of $950 an acre, is located
along NW 72nd ave.
Objection to the site came, how
over, from commissioner Jesse F.
Yarborough. He called the land
“unsitable and too low.”
Other negotiations are underway
commissioner I. D. Mac Vicar told
the group for 62 acres on Virginia
Key. He termed the spot a logical
site for a golf course.”
By meeting's end the commission
ers had agreed that whatever site
is chosen, the golf links should be
Miamian Killed In Hallandale Crash
George Gordon, of 1224 NW 62nd
ter., was killed early Sunday when
the car he was driving collided with
a truck at Hallandale.
Hallandale Police Chiaf Hugh
Bush said Gordon apparently drove
his car from a side street into the
Grand Dragon Orders
Klan Unmasked
combined with beach facilities for
Negroes.
Bathing facilities for Negroes are
already located on the southeast
shore of the island.
Finding adequate golfing areas
for Negroes is a problem that was
pointed up last June when a suit
was filed against the Miami Springs
Country club charging discrimina
tion against Negro players.
Since then, authorities have set
aside one day a week for Negro
golfers and a circuit court judge has
ruled the city has the right to re
strict Negroes on other days.
path of the truck which was trav
elling- south on Dixie highway.
Four passengers In Gordon’s ve
hicle were sent to Providence hos
pital In Fort Lauderdale with un
determined injuries.
They are Mary Joyce, William
SIXTEEN PAGES
ATLANTA Klansmen in Geor
gia were ordered Monday to stop
wearing hoods or other masks in
public. The order came from Dr.
Samuel Green, grand dragon of the
Ku Klux Klan.
Green said his action was prompt
ed because “certain irresponsible
persons have used what appeared
to be Klan robes and masks to com
mit certain unlawful acts.”
The South has been plagued in
recent months with nlghtriders In
regalia similar to that worn by the
Klan. Numerous beatings and other
forms of intimidation have been
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Die* Trying To Save Negroes
Johnson, Edith Johnson and Chris
tina Thompson. Ths truck driver,
not identified by Invsetlaatoss, was
not held.
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Protest Putting
Cans On Curb
Paul Roberts of S4»O Charles ave.
led a delegation of Coconut Grove
Negroes to City Manager O- P.
Hart Wednesday to ask why Ne
groes can't receive the same type of
backyard garbage collection as do
Whites,
Roberts explained that Negro resi
dents must place garbage cans on
the curb in front of their houses for
Wednesday and Saturday collec
tions.
“Frequently the cans are knocked
over by children playing, damaged
by automobiles and sometimes stol
en,” Roberts said. “In large devel
opments it is unhealthy as well as
unsightly to see 20 or more garbage
cans lined up along the curb In one
place.”
City Manager Hart told the group
he would ask Public Service Direc
tor Ray A. Williams for an expla
nation of the practice of making
collections only from the curb in
Negro residential areas. In other
residential districts garbage cans are
emptied in backyards by waste di
vision workers and the content car
ried to trucks in large containers.
Waste Division Superintendent
Grady Phelps said the practice was
started because most houses in the
Negro district are too close togeth
er and that as many as four have
been built oil some lots.
“It is almost impossible for our
men to find their way into these
backyards,” Phelps said. "And when
they do. they always run Into
clotheslines on the way out. We
have had several men Injured in
this manner.”
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man was electrocuted try' -
three Negroes trapped'
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