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VALDES DEFEATS CHARLES IN
STUNNING FIGHT UPSET
Completely upsetting all pre
fight predictions, Nino Valdes, the
Cuban heavyweight champion,
entered the ring Tuesday night at
the Miami Beach Auditorium
more than a 4-1 underdog, but
never took a backward step and
never stopped throwing punches
and upset former heavyweigtg
champion Ezzard Charles in a
thrilling 10-pound main event in
a manner that still has the box
ing world talking. Many fans are
still trying to figure out the re%-
son for it was it because
Charles is virtually washed up,
or was it simply because Valdes
was just the better fighter?
What ever it was, it will cer
tainly keep the fight fans talk
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Dade County representatives of
United Negro College Fund Drive
assemble at luncheon at Lord
Calvert hotel for final report on
schedule $3,000 assignment for
the area. At the luncheon, seated
left to right: Rev. W. F. Ball, L.
L. Richardson, Jr., B. M. Hind-
Ean, Charles C. North, Mrs. Freda
‘ Holmes, Richard Moore, presi
dent Bethune Cookman College
and chairman of Florida State di
vision of the fund raising drive,
Dr. A. P. Lewis, D. A- Douglas,
Dr. I. P. Davis, W. C. Cogdell,
Rev. John E. Culmer and L. L.
Brooks, co-chairman of the Dade
County committee.
Below Brooks is shown present
ing check for SI,OOO to president
Moore to be added to amount al
ready raised by committee to ful
fill quota obligation.
—Photo by Johnson of Miami
ing about for a long, long time. j
In scoring one of boxing’s
greatest form reversals, Valdes
won from beginning to end to gain
a unanimous decision —a de
cision that had the over-capacity
crowd snouting with great ac
claim for the winner.
It was a bitter loss for Charles.
Ezzard was by passed by Rocky
Marciano, heavyweight champion
but was certain to get a crack at
the title and a million dollar gate
next spring. The only thing he
had to worry about was getting
knocked off by some one like Val
des.
The loss Tuesday night may not
be fatal, but it is going to make
things immensely more difficult.
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AVE. STORE
A man examined a gold-plated
pearl-handled .32 caliber revolv
er Tuesday afternoon in Lenny’s
Cash and Credit Store, 903 NW
2nd ave., and decided he wanted
it.
But instead of paying for it, he
stuck it in his pocket and pulled
out his own gun this one pre
sumbably loaded, Bernard Shar
ron, owner of the store, told po
lice.
Sharron said the man ordered
him into the back of the store.
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The owner said he managed to
knock the gun from the robber’s
hand, but the gunman picked it
up and hit Sharron on the head
with it before fleeing.
Sharron of 5421 SW Fifth st.,
was treated later for head cuts.
He told Policeman M. Williams
and W. E. Parks that the stolen
gun was worth $75. I
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Stowaway Swims Ashore
Captured By Police
Immigration authorities at Mi
ami revealed that Leonard Mar
tin, 26, stowaway from Nassau,
wanted to get into the United
States so desperately he jumped
overboard from the motor vessel
William Glenn in Government
Cut.
Martin had arrived aboard the
William Glenn last Thursday and
was detained for return to Nas
sau when his stowaway status
was discovered,
Samaritan Lodge Meets Here
The 16th Biennial Session of the
Independent Order of Good Sa
maritans and Daughters of Sa
maria was held at Bethel AME
Church, this city, August 10-13,
with Florida State Grand Lodge
No. 22 as host. Light of Miami
Lodge, Brother T. Bonivy, chief,
entertained.
The opening program was held
at the St. Agnes Youth and Adult
Center on Monday evening when
Judge L. E. Thomas very ably
welcomed the delegates. The Ed
ucational program wg» on Tues
day evening gt the same place.
Archdeacon J. E. Culmer of St.
Agnes and the Rev. E. T. Graham
of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, made
thought provoking addresses.
Temple Baptist church choir sang
on both occasions, and Atty. D. W.
Perkins responded.
The order consists
Grand Lodges, fcubordiiSP
Lodges, District Grand Lodges,
Encampment Councils. Degree De
partment and Juvenile.
The Samitan Lodge is over a
Last Os Trenton 6 Paroled
TRENTON, N.J. _ The New
Jersey parole board has granted'
parole to Ralph Cooper, the only
defendant left in the Trenton Six
murder case.
I “He jumped from the ship on
Tuesday as the Glenn was head
ing out of tne cut,” authorities said
‘and swam ashore.”
The immigration official added
the stowaway was found by Mi
ami and Miami Beach police hid
ing in shrubbery along MacArth
ur Causeway.
A warrant charging illegal en
try was taken out against Mar
tin and he is being held for de
portation.
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century old. It had its beginning
in New York City and 4ias done
much to alleviate the suffering of
its members during the years.
We have lodges in North Amer
ica, South America, Cuba, Baha
mas, Panama, Colon, and the Re
public of Liberia.
During recent years the order
has instituted an Educational De
partment to help the boys and
girls advance in knowledge. Ours
is to help the unfortunate to get
a better understanding in life.
One hundred delegates attend
ed the session.
Following is a list of the of
ficial staff: N. G. Sire, Dr. J. P.
Patterson, Florida; N.D.G, Sire,
Brother Charles Coleman, Florida;
N.V,G* Sire, Rio. Thomas An
derson, New Jersey; N.G. Sect.,
Bro, J. H. Dale, Washington, D. C.;
N. G. Treasurer, Bro. W. H. Fos
ter, N. J.; N.G. Prelate, Bro. H. H.
Burton, Virginia; N.G. Cond.,
Bro. Isaac Goff, N.y.; N.G. Ora
tor, Bro. Charles Holt, Conn.; N.
G. Marshall, Bro. P. O Rogers,
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1953
Under the grant, Cooper will
be paroled in November. He has
! been in jail since he first was ar- '
rested in 1948.
Cooper vas sentenced to 6 to
j 10 years in prison last February
j five years after the cruse. Just
before he was sentenced Cooper
told Judge Joseph E. C onion
his five companions were at the
i scene in 1948 when William Hog
ner, elderly shopkeeper, was
bludgeoned to death during a
holdup.
Four of the five have been
acquitted and the fifth died in
prison while awaiting a fourth
trial for murder.
The case drew national atten
tion in 1948. The Civil Rights
Congress, listed by the federal
government as subversive, came
into the case, calling it “lynch-
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Bahamas; N.G. Ins. Sent., Bro.
Percy Isaac, N.Y.; N.G. O. Sent.,
Bro. Joseph Hardy; P.N.G. Sire,
Bro. J. P. Hubbard, Virginia.
Associates: Dgt. Dora McCoy,
Georgia; Dgt. Mildred Tyler,
Mass.; Dgt. Florence Fry, Wash
ington, D. C.; Dgt. Grace B.
Braxton, Pa.; Dgt. Oneida Holder,
N.Y.; Dgt. Rosa Wilson, N. Y.;
Dgt. Florence Bunday, Penn.; Dgt.
Lorena Dean, Florida; Dgt. Wrepcy
Burney, N.J:; Dgt. Florence E.
i Hawkins, Ga.; Dgt. Olivia Rob
inson. Ga.; P. N. G. P. Dgt.. Anna
B. Dashields, Md.
Board of Directors: Dr. J. P.
Paterson, Bro. Charles Holt, J.
H. Dale, Jr., W. H. Foster, At
; torney D. W Perkins, Bro. D. S.
Clark, J. T. Green, Dgt. Mabel
Diggs, and Dgt. A. B. Hatcher.
National auditors: Bro. F. S.
Ferguson, Virginia; Dgt. Rosa
Robinson, Virginia.
The 17th biennial session will
meet in Nassau, Bahamas in
1955.
ing. Northern style.” Other groups
protested too and it became some
thing of a cause celebre.
At their first trial in 1948, the
six were sentenced to die in the
electric chair. The state Supreme
court ordered a new trial. The
second trial ended in a mistrial
when the prosecutor became ill.
At the third trial. Cooper and
Collis English were convicted and
James Thorpe, McKinley Forrest.
Horace Wilson and John Macv-
Kenzie were acquitted. The state
Supreme court again ordered a
new trial for Cooper and English
but English died in state prison
before a date was set.
Cooper appeared in a surprise
move before Conlon last Febru
ary and pleaded no defense. His
sentence was made retroactive to
the time of his arrest in 1948.
CHICAGO Some 300 police
j men early Tuesday drove an es
' timated 1,000 persons from a 26-
acre South Side housing project
which had admitted its-first Ne
gro tenant •
In breaking up the jeering as
sembly, police occasionally were
showered with bricks and bottles
which they said were thrown by
teenagers.
Five persons were injured,
none seriously, as roving
stoned autos of Negroes who
drove near the scene.
Twelve persons reportedly were
seized by police after one group
smashed windows of a neighbor
hood tavern which served Ne
groes.
The apartment of Donald How
ard, a mail carrier and the first
Negro resident of the Chicago
Housing Authority’s Trumbull
Park Homes project, was t h e
target of the crowd. Windows in
the apartment which Howard oc
cupied last week, were smashed.
Police cordoned off a t h r e c
block area around the Howard
home and permitted only resi
dents to enter.
The disturbance was the sec
ond at Trumbull Park homes in
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Mrs. Isabelle B. Ford, pioneer,
who died last Saturday, August 8.
Seestory on page 15.
less than 24 houYs. Police Monday
dispersed an estimated 1,000 per
sons who congregated near the
office of the project manager to
protest against Howa/d’s admit
tance to the project.
The project was built shortly
after the CHA was set up in 1938.
It was one of four wihich up to
now had only White residents.
A CHA spokesman said How
ard’s application for an apartment
had been on file several years
and was accepted in line with the
authority’s non-discrimnator.v
policy.
On July 12, 1951, Illinois Na
tional Guardsmen were called to
quell a riot in surburban Cicero
after a Negro family attempted
to move into an apartment build
ing. More than 5,000 persons mill
ed around the building during the
height of the mob scene in the
ull-White community. There were
some 25 persons injured and
around 125 arrested by police.
The building was destroped by
the mob. Subsequently, a score of
lawsuits were filed for damages
after the rioting. Some are stUl
pending.
The Negro family later moved
into another building in Chicago.