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Woman Bound Over For
Manslaughter In Wilson Case
Mrs. Mae Smollin, 41, Miami
Beach, was bound over to the
Dade County Grand Jury on a
manslaughter charge by Justice
of Peace Kenneth Oka, following
a combined coroner’s inquest and
preliminary hearing, held in hr
court Tuesday morning into the
January 27 death of Miss May
belle Wilson, 227 NW 16th st.
Despite contradictory evidence
of investigating police, as to the
sobriety of Mrs. Smodllin at the
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CHERRY MILLS BOWYER AND MARTHA RAYE
The "Stars Shine for Douglas”
—All irtar benefit show head
lined by the incomparable Mar
tha Raye on Tuesday nite„ Feb
ruary 10 was an overwhelming
success. It is without a doubt the
biggest show of 1953.
The show was well covered by
radio and press. Pictures of the
show will appear in Ebony in the
near future. Station WFEC taped
the show for broadcast.
Hats off to show business and
all the wonderful stars who made
this an event never to be
ten. The house was sold out!
there wasn't even jtanUL-g zoor^
Many notab!fes"~were in atter
dance, among whom were th;
disc jockies from the various ra
dio stations—namely “Rocky” and
time of the accident, Judge Oka
who stated plainly that he was
convinced that the woman at the
ime, was under the influence of
ntoxicating beverages, said:
“Not withstanding the contra
dictory evidence in regard to her
sobriety, in my opinion she was
ot in possession of her faculties
t the time of the accident.”
Taken to the police station
-ter the accident, Mrs. Smollin
oluntarily took a drunkometer
“T‘J“ from WFEC and Mr. and
Mrs. Swing (The David Bon
dues) from WMBM.
This affair was sponsored by
the Douglas Primary PTA. Mrs.
Cherrye Ann Mills Bowyer is the
president and what a president.
She is the greatest.
The show was emceed by Jimmy
Reeves of “Salt Pork West Vir
ginia” fame and the fabulous
~P!« Harris was there in all his
The Club Alabam Show
iffnt West Palm Beach was ter-
MgS&jjr from beginning to end.
||fs to Mr. Meadows (Black
ly and Johnny Reese.
glas Primary PTA wishes
ress its gratitued to every
o helped to make this affair
id success. The total re
to date are $1,749.61.
test that resulted in a .180 read
ing. The borderline is .150.
Sgt. A1 Hakan testified that he
believed Mrs. Smollin was sober.
The drunkometer machine, he
said, was discovered to be inac
curate two days later because the
chemicals in it “had not been
changed in a year.”
Dr. Irvin Alberts, who was on
'he scene within minutes after
the accident and who ordered
Mrs. Smollin taken to the station
for the test as a matter of “rou
tine,” testified that in his opinion
she was suffering “emotional
hock.” He smelled no liquor, Dr.
Alberts said. *
Motorcycle officer Robert Moore
“didn't smell anything either.”
Moore was recalled by Gerstein
to read a sentence from hds re
port of the accident which con
tradicted his previous testimony.
The officer’s written repor J
contained information that Mrs
Elsie McCarthy, the Smollir
housekeeper, had warned Mrs
Smollin not to drive the borrow
ed auto a few minutes before the
accident.
In earlier tsetimony, Moore at
first couldn’t recall being told
that by Mrs. McCarthy. Later he
said that the housekeeper told
him that, but she had said the
warning had been delivered sev
eral days earlier.
Mrs. Smollin took the stand
briefly to tell tearfully how she
lad been ill and just wanted to
ake the car around the block
vhile her husband and the car’s
jwner, Saul A. Laurer of Pitts
burgh, were away fishing.
She said she had gotten up from
bed, had a “small” drink, had
eaten some chicken and wanted
o take the car out.
“I thought it drove like our car
. . . 1 started to back out . . . and
t was through the door.”
Black Tuesday For
Human Relations
Dade County Commission
Refuses To Act In Exclusion
Os Negroes From South
Pacific Performances
A delegation of Negro citizens
was present at the regular meet
ing of the Dade County Commis
sion at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Febru
ary 10. The delegation was given
an opportunity to present its case
concerning the segregation and
discrimination of Negro citizens
in several recent events staged
in the Dade County Auditorium.
The delegation representing a
cuoss section of our entire com
VOL. XXIX, NO. 22
FBI ARRESTS COP IN ENAS SLATING OF NEGRO
On a federal complaint charg
ing he violated the civil rights of
Emmett Jefferson, 31-year-old
Homestead man, when he shot
nd killed Jefferson last Christmas
''ay, FBI agents arrested police
nan Paul V. Minnick Wednes
lay.
According to Robert W. Wall,
’i- agent in charge of the Miami
"BI office:
“Following the slaying the FBI
•onducted a preliminary investi
tation to ascertain if a willful
deprivation of life had occured in
violation of the rights, privileges
and immunities secured to indi
viduals and protected by the 14th
amendment to the Constitution.”
Authorization from the U. S.
Justice Department, was issued
for filing the complaint against
Minnick, after a review of FBi
reports.
Minnick, who joined the Home
stead police force in November
was indicted by a federal grand
jury in Washington, D. C. last
week on another civil rights
charge.
A veteran of more than 10 years
in the Washington police depart
ment Minnick was accused in the
indictment of beating up a Negrc
prisoner in the District of Colum
bia jail about a year ago.
munity, requested the Dade
County Commission to adopt a
policy whereby any person or
persons leasing this public fa
cility would be required to agree
that no persons would be exclud
ed from attending the events be
cause of race, creed or color. This
request was made because all tax
payers and citizens are Joint
owners of every publicly owned
and tax supported facility. Also
to deny this appeal is a violation
of the trends of present think
ing as it pertains to human rights,
social justice, and Christian
ethics.
The leadership of this repre
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MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1953
DOBBS TO
DISCUSS
VOCATIONAL
PROGRAM ON
FORUM
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A modern, full-fledged voca
tional school for Negroes was a
much discussed issue during
most of last year, one that fin
ally led to some concrete action
Steps were made to bring such
school and program into being.
The school board purchased a
tract of land on which this voca
tional school is soon to be built.
Because of this new awakened
interest in vocational training, the
King of Clubs thought it fitting
to have a qualified speaker share
with us, through our forum, his
experiences and his views on the
over-all vocational program in
Dade County, and what it can
mean to us in increased job op
portunities. We hfed but to look
in our own community to find
our man in Prof. David H. Dobbs,
principal of Dorsey high school,
who will be the speaker on the
sixth program of the 1953 series.
He has chosen for his subject,
‘‘Vocational Training in Dade
County.”
Prof. Dobbs is well qualified
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NASSAU, Bahamas Mrs.
Austin Henry Grant, supervising
teacher of Dundas Civic Center,
Nassau, will serve as a National
Guard of Honor for the Fourth
Annual Debutantes Presentation
in New York City, Feb. 20. Mrs. I
Grant, chosen on the basis of her
contributions toward the life of
her community, has been assoc
iated with the school which trains
domestic help for hotels, board
ing houses, and private homes to
meet the requirements of this
PRICE: TEN CENTS
tourist resort, since 1938, becom
ing headmistress in 1946. Mrs
Grant, the first Bahamian ever to
be invited to the event, flew to
New York for the occasion.—-Sec
story on page 15.