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Pfc. Dean’s Body
Returns From Korea
KILLED; IN ACTION Pic.
Robert Augustus Dean, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Dean of 233 NW
16th tdjrace. who wa9 killed in
actionvin Korea, shortly before
the end of hostilities. Dean’* body
was among a number of GFs'
whose remains arrived recently in
San Francisco, Cal., aboard the
USS General William M. Black.
Dean’s body will arrive in Mi
ami today (Saturday). Funs*al
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services, under the direction of
the M. S. Allen Funeral Home,
will be held on Monday morning
Sept. 28 at 10 o’clock at St. Peter’s
A. O. Church, with Canon Charles
F. Cooper, officiating.
There will be solemn vespers
for the dead on Sunday night
preceeding the funeral.
Dean is also survived by five
sisters, Misses Ruth, Savaletta
and Virginia Dean, Mesdames
Rosalee Dean Slade and Bes6ie
Gordon, one brother, Harold, Jr.,
four aunts, Mesdames Viola Dean
Warfield, Maud Dean Hunter,
Cleomie Wackers and Evelyn
Fuller Robinson, several other rel
atives and many friends.
J. L. Lewis, Afro President, Heads Nationaf Negro Insurance Association
SPAULDING
SPEAKS AT
PUBLIC MEETING
J. Leonard Lewis of the Afro
American Life Insurance Co. of
Jacksonville, was elected presi
dent of the National Negro Insur
ance Association at the final ses
sion of the thirty-third annual
convention of the association
which met in Miami this week.
Lewis succeeds J. G. Ish, Jr., of
the Supreme Liberty Life In
BODIES OF Gl’s
RETURNED
Bodies of two Miami soldiers
killed in Korea were returned
aboard the USS Mankato Victory
which arrived in San Francisco
Thursday.
They are Cpl. Willie J. Drake,
husband of Mrs. Josephine
Drake, 1646 NW Fifth ave., and
Pvt. Marvin L. Wiggins, son of
Luther F. Wiggins, 9335 NW 35th
court.
2 Youths To Die
For Raping Girl
ATLANTA Two 16-year
old youths have lost their appeal
from death sentences imposed for
raping a young White girL
The state parole board Wednes
day refused to commute the sen
tences given Herman Lee Miller
of Savannah and Willie Jackson
Jr. of Athens.
The youths, Inmates of the Ne
gro boys’ training school, were
away from the school at the time
searching for two escapees.
"There are no mitigating cir
cumstances pointing to innocence
to warrant a commutation of sen
tence,” the board held.
A new execution date must now
be set. Gov. Herman Talmadge
granted a 30-day reprieve last
month to permit the board to in
vestigate the case.
DORSEY TOPS
CARVER 12-6
Dorsey High came from behind
Thursday night at Dorsey Park
to push over two touchdowns ana
beat Carver High 12-6 in the
gridiron season opener for both
teams.
surance Co of Chicago, 111. More I
than 600 delegates from 18 states
attended the convention. The ses- i
sions were held at the spacious
Bayfront Park auditorium.
Other officers elected were:
First vice president, C. L.
Town, Va. Mutual Benefit; exec
utive section vice presidents, Ru- 1
dolph Moses, Keystone Life;
agency section, Dan B. Martin, N.
Carolina Mutual; technician sec
tion, H. N. Brown, Atlanta Life; \
medical section, Dr. H. L. Lang,
Atlanta Life; secretary, A. P.
HEALTH
OFFICIALS MAKE
SIX ARRESTS
County health officials Tuesday
made six arrests in the staff of
a crackdown against persons us
ing unapproved garbage contain
ers In the central district bounded
by NW Fifth st, 22nd si, the Fla.
East' Coast Railroad trades and
Sixth ave.
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Russel Broughman, director of
the bureau of sanitation for the
health department said 12 depart
ment workers went into the dis
trict a week ago and placed red
tags on such unapproved contain
ers as barrels and boxes, stating
they were condemned.
DRIVER DEFIES
DEATH; WALKS
AWAY
James Frazier, 30, of 6016 SW
66th Ter. was still alive after be
ing the driver of an automobile
which left the highway on S.
Bayshore Dr. early Tuesday while
going an estimated 60 miles an
hour, tore down a utility pole,
continued 50 feet into a signboard
and then came to a stop upside
down 175 feet from were it had
left the road.
Frazier was thrown clear of the
car, and was believed dead when
picked up. But he later showed
signs of life and was rushed to
Jackson Memorial Hospital,
where he was treated for minor
injuries. And before police got to
him, he had walked out of the
place and disappeared.
Police charged him with speed
ing, driving without a license and
failure to have a vehicle under
I control. . ‘
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I Bentley, Fireside Mutual; assis
tant secretary, W: A. Clements,
N. Carolina Mutual; treasurer, A.
M. Carter, Pilgrim Life; general
counsel, Herbert N Cain Jr., Prov
idence Home Industrial; actuary,
E. Bryan Davis, Superior Life;
statistician, J. W. Tyler, Chicago
Mutual; historian, G. Norman
Branche, Federal Life; chaplain,
Bishop R. A. Valentine, Victory
Mutual; sgt.-at-arms, L. M. Ar
gett, Afro.
OPENED MONDAY
The convention was called to
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VOL. XXX, NO. 3
‘Limpy’, ‘Wassie Blue’ To Get ’Chair
Fat Back May Get Life
It took a 12-man jury just 45
minutes Wednesday to find
George (Limpy) Anderson and
Percy (Wassle Blue) Armbrister
Tuilty of the murder of Road Pa
rolman Edward Fritz.
The jury found the pair guilty
of murder in the first degree and
Tave no recommendation for mer
cy. This verdict made the death
entence mandatory.
Judge George E. Holt heard the
seven-day testimony in the case
and postponed passing sentence
ntil next week.
Richard.(Fat Back) Floyd, who
changed bis plea to guilty Tues
day and threw himself on the
mercy of the court, will also be
sentenced at that time. The post
ponement will give defense at
torneys time to prepare motions
for a new trial.
Armbrister, who was fingered
by Floyd as the gunman in the
slaying, angrily denied he fired
the fatal shot and blamed Floyd
for the Shooting. Limpy never did
accuse either of the two, but he
insisted his hands were up when
Fritz was shot.
Throughout the trial the court*
room was crowded with specta
tors and each day hundreds of
order Monday morning. Section
al meetings were held at the Bay
front Park auditorium and the
executive sessions at the Mary
Elizabeth Hotel.
SPAULDING 6PEAKB
"The Tree of Life Insurance
And Its Fruits,” that was the
timely subject used by A. T.
Spaulding, vice president of the
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Co., in his most inspir
ing address delivered Monday
night at Behetl AME Church.
Negroes were turned away be
cause of the lack of space. The
case, which had gained natio lai
prominence, pushed all other
I news from the headlines.
I The state had contended
throughout the trial, and the
judge so instructed the jury in
his closing words, that when a
murder occurs as part of a holdup
| or in the flight immediately after
' wards, it does not matter who
fired the actual shot. All are
.equally guilty.
Joseph Eaton, assistant state
attorney, in a strong plea to the
jury for the death penalty said:
"We must face capital punish
ment because it Is the law of our
state. It is the law to save lives.
Armed robbery would be ram
pant were it not for the knowl
edge that capital punishment
may be the result.
“Sympathy is a quality in all
of us. It is natural. But in this
case let us direct our sympathy
to Eddie Fritz.
“He gave these men a break.
(Testimony was that Fritz’ gun
still was in its holster and he was
shot While raising his hands.)
They didn’t give him one.
“Eddie Fritz died upholding fho
The occasion was the first public
meeting held during the conven
ion.
Among other things, Spauld
ing said: “The tree of life insur
ance was founded in the Garden
of Eden—scientists have studied
it; poets have written about it,
artists have painted it, and man
generally has benefitted from it.
It*s the handiwork of God.”
Life Insurance continued Mr.
Spaulding, is brooder than na
tionality, it is a roduct of the
instinct of humanity it Is the
Tempore Mutanur Et Noe Mutamur In Kflle
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1953
GETS 20 YEARS
FOR ROBBERY
A 28-year-old man was sen
tenced in Criminal court to 20
years in state prison for a holdup
in which he hit his victim on the
head with a pistol and escaped
with $25.
| Judge Ben C. Willard sentenced
] Moses K. Murray, who already
had a long criminal record, after
a six-man jury deliberated three
hours before finding Murray
guilty of armed robbery. Murray
as charged with holding up the
Grober Market, 729 NW sth ave.
last January 25.
oath he took when he went to
work as a patrolman. You men,
too, taken an oath.
“The people of Florida now
1 want to know whether murder
will get its just reward, or
whether it will go unpunished."
2 Nabbed In Raid
Freeman McCray, 47, of 1952
NW Second ave. and Willie How
ard, 40, of 1020 NW First ct. were
arrested on illegal liquor charges
Thursday in raids by city, state
and federal agents.
They were charged with posses
ion of untaxed beer and whiskey
and possession of bolita tickets.
first business of the world.
The speaker closed by recitinf
the words to the immortal,
"America.” It was a great speech
highly informative and moat
timely for the occasion. -
Despite inclement weather, a
near capacity house was present
to witness the meeting. Greetings
in behalf of the County of Dade
were rendered by County Com
missioner Grant Stockdale who
represented Chairman I. D. Mac-
Vicar, Judge L. E. Thomas ex
pressed greetings in behalf of the
JOCKEY JACK JOWS
Radio Station WFEC’s newest "find” is Fabulous Jockey Jack
Gibson, Negro disc jockey, whose small talk and platter spinning are
rapidly making him a celebrity amongst the station’s listeners
(continued on page 4)
(Negro community and E. A. Fair
cloth, deputy state insurance com
missioner. representing Com
missioner J. Edwin Larson, offer
ed greetings in behalf of the state.
The speaker was introduced by
James H. Lewis, president of the
Afro American Life Insurance
Co. and J. G. Ish, Jr., president
of the Association, responded to
the speaker. Music was furnish
| ed bv the Booker T. Washington.
Dorsey and Carver High School
choruses. George W. Cox of the
I North Carolina * Mutual, was
PRICEt TEN CENTS
presented a trophy tor outstand
ing services with his company.
The Ven. John E. Culmer, presi
dent of the Wage Earners Co. of
Miami offered the benedictioo,
and D. A. Douglas, of the Atlan
ta Life Insurance Co., nerved as
master of ceremonies.
Tuesday morning the opening
general session was held at which
time, the president, J. G. Ish de
livered his annual message. A
| luncheon meeting at noon Tuas
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