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MARTHA JEAN STEINBERG
“Miss WDIA” held the spot
light among the sepia vacation
ists at the famed Miami spots this
week, when beauteous Jacqueline
Holmes of Lake Village, Arkan
sas arrived at the fashionable
Lord Calvert Hotel for a week of
festivities, as the winner of a
Mid-South wide beauty and pop
ularity contest.
Miss iHolmes was the winner
over 200 other aspiring Southern
sepia beauties last June in a con
test to select “Miss 1070,” who
would serve as queen of 50,000
watt radio station WDIA, the na
tion’s largest broadcasting outlet
beaming its programs primarily
to Negro listeners.
She was the unanimous choice
of the judges, who based their
decision on her physical attrac
tiveness, personality, and intelli
gence. Miss Holmes, a teacher in
the Arkansas public school sys
tem, is a graduate of Arkansas
A and M and N College.
Accompanied by a popular
WDIA woman’s program an
nouncer, Mrs. Martha Jean Stein
berg of Memphis, Miss Holmes
will spend a week as the special
guest of the Lord Calvert Hotel.
Miss Holmes is a successor to
the “queen of Station WDIA” spot
which was won for the first time
by Miss Lois Jean Dedeaux, a
senior of Jackson College of Jack
son, Miss, and a native of Pass
Christian, Miss.
“Miss 1070” will “reign” as
WDIA queen for a year and will
be the glamor representative of a
broadcasting unit which numbers
its listeners in the milliions.
She will be on the present trip
for a period of 11 days.
JACQUELINE HOLMES
Cannon
Gets Year £
Richard Cannon, popular night
elub singer, was sentenced to a
year in prison Tuesday by Judge
Ben C. Willard of Criminal
Court.
Cannon, 36, had been given a
suspended sentence by Willard in
October, 1954, when he was ar
rested for living with a White
voman in his Brownsville apart
ment. When the case came to
court he was charged with pos
sessing obscene pictures.
He was arresftd on May 12 with
Mrs. Lillian Uricho, wealthy 45-
year-old white widow, in her
heme at 10939 NE Bayshore Dr.,
one c * Miami’s swankiest neeigh-
Showdown Near On Beach Segregation
DAYTONA BEACH A mili
tant group of Negroes in this fa
mous resort city has forced a
showdown on the exclusion of
Negroes in use of the ocean beach.
The group formed a swimming
party two weeks ago and used the
beach that had been heretofore
opened only to members of
the White race. The group ignor
ed a White officer who ordered
them from the beach.
The officer then returned with
a high city official who told the
group that he could not order
them from the public beach, but
S. CAROLINA, VIRGINIA TOLD TO START INTEGRATION
VOL. XXX, NO. 47
Laborers Strike Halts
Apartment Building
MASTER SINGERS
RETURN TO AIR
The Miami Master Singers will
resume their regular Sunday
morning broadcasts over station
WGBS at 7:20 am. Sunday, July
24.
The group has been taking a
much needed vacation. The pian
ist, Rev. Ira McCall, spent a part
of his vacation at the national
youth congress of the Chjrch of
God in Christ in Minneapolis,
Minn. He also visited Chicago and
Birmingham, Ala.
borhoods. Both were charged with
illegally living together.
She was fined SSOO and given
a suspended sentence by Judge
Ray H. Pearson in Court of
Crimes. He suspended the sen
tence on her promise to leave.
Cannon pleaded guilty to the
charge, paid a SSOO fine and was
given • a six-months suspended
sentence, but then was brought
before Willard for violating his
probation on the previous sus
pension.
he was pleading with them be
cause the city would lose tourist
business from Whites from Geor
gia, Alabama and Tennessee who
might not care to swim at the
same beach with Negroes.
This week the city set up an
interracial committee to see what
could be done about opening the
beach to Negroes. The commis
sion named a three-man group
to select members of the com
mittee which will be maae up of
an equal number of White and
Negro citizens. •
The commission acted after
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1955
Work was halted this week on
a $2,000,000 apartment building
on Biscayne Blvd. when 35
laborers walked off the job and
threw up a picket line.
The 40 other White union
craftsmen refused to cross the
line and work came to a stand
still on the Parkleigh House.
Hirener Shipman, Negro, and
Charles Valois, White, business
agents for Local 1040, AFL Con
struction Laborers Union, said
the picket line was established
because Everett P. Miles, build
ing superintendent, refused to
pay the $!.35-an-hour establish
ed wage for laborers and time and
a half for overtime.
The agents claimed Miles said
the workers are not worth any
more than $1.30 they are now Joe
ing paid. Miles feels thart the
picketing is illegal.
In addition to the wage issue,
Valois said the picket line was
set up in an attempt to help
organize the laborers. He said
about five of the 35 laborers in
volved are members of the union.
125 Negroes petitioned for a
public statement on city policy
regarding use of the beach by
persons not of the White race.
Mayor Francis Morrison said
a “responsible group of peti
tioners” agreed to withhold their
demand until the interracial com
mittee can act.
These citizens, Morrison said,
“will not attempt the actual use
of the beach pending and pro
viding the appointment” of the
committee.
The act authorizing the com-
Race Agents
Star In
'Shine Raid
ATLANTA Two Negro un
dercover agents have played *
•naicr part in the biggest single
raiding operation against moon
shine in Georgia’s history. The
two North Carolina agents were
leaned to Georgia Revenue Com
•’vssioner T. V. Williams and
started their secret investiga
tions two and a half months ago
while posing as produce peddlers.
They were put on Georgia’s .'av
roll as investigators.
When the dragnet for the boot
leggers was sprung in a predawn
roundup Sunday, state, federal,
city and county officers snared
more than 150 persons, half of
them women. Pending additional
arrests will swell the total of
250. officials said.
Williams, who led the raids
personally, said while most of
those arrested are “hip pocket”
bootleggers, many of them are
“big boys who deal in wholesale
quantities.”
Supervised by a federal man.
the .agents purchased moonshine
and observed illegal liquor op
erations while selling fruit 6 and
vegetables in Atlanta’s Negro
sections.
mittee says it shall “forthwith
proceed to investigate, determine
and recommend for the advice
and adoption of this commission
any and all policies, regulations
at ardinances for the purpose of
effecting harmonious interracial
'relations in the city.”
The committee will be nomi
nated by Henry Coleman, presi
dent of Commercial Bank and a
Chamber of Commerce leader;
Horace Riegle, attorney and
Chamber of Commerce board
member; and Dr. John T. Stock
ing, Negro physician.
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Rer. and Mrs. Peter J. John
son of 1510 NW 154th st., North
Miami Beach, announce the en
gagement of their daughter,
Dorothy Elizabeth to Lt. Fred
Douglas Williams, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Williams of 2401
Mason st., Alexandria, La.
The bride-elect is a graduate
of DorsejbHigh School and a for
mer student of Spelman College.
While at Dorsey she was active
in the DCT, Allied Youth, Stu
dent Council, Patrol Force and
Speech Club. In her senior year
she became the first attendant to
Miss Dorsey High. Dorothy is
now serving a tour of duty in the
Women’s Army Corps at William
of
South UdcrfV.ar.
Friday to dTr-plasXto
end pub'JfGtcSoc. *egregati>crb*f
throe *-A gS/ Judges gave ah la*
dcr.r.ittatfije to “make the %<M*\
weary l^fgemeatfc"
The procedure took tfmw
in RichaNfnA Va. Monday whtw
a three-nada* >. federal court qp~
dered u £ s >iesc p <rfstekrof
Prince f
schools but TRfell ii Ini i
county when to start
The court said it“ wouldn’t be
practicable, because of the ad
justment and rearrangement re
quired for the purpose," to place
the schools on a non-discrimina
tory basis by September.
Beaumont Army Hospital, El
Paso, Texas.
The members of the Beaumont
WAC Detachment are honoring
her with a nuptial shower.
Lt. Williams is a graduate of
St. James High School in Alex
andria. La. where he served as
president for both the National
Honor Society and Student Coun
cil. Upon graduation he took the
honor of being valedictorian of
his class. He is now a regular
army finance officer assigned to
the 90th Antiaircraft Artillery
Battalion, Battery B, Ft. Bliss,
Texas.
No data is sat for tha wadding.
This had bean tha time for
start of desegregation asked tag
counsel for the Negro parents and
pupils who brought tha Prince
Edward school suit
Despite an appeal by an at-
Itoraey tor tha National Aaeocia-
I tion for Advancement of Colored
People that a timetable for inte
gration be established, the court
declined to do so m the South
Carolina case
The defendants "are hereby
restrained and enjoined from re
fusing on account of race to ad
mit to any school under their
supervision any child qualified to
! mier such school from and after
j uch Ume as they havt made the
teceasary arrangements for ad
mission of children in such schools
on a non-discriminatory bails
with all deliberate speed." the de
cree said.
The decree, which followed
closely a proposal made from the
oench by senior Judge John J.
Parker of Charlotte, NC., set no
specific time for the Clarendon
officials to complete the integra
tion process
Attorneys for both sides, Thur*
good Marshall representing the
plaintiffs and the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People, and Robert M.
/i eg. representing. Clarendon
school officials, indicated they
satisfied with the ruling.
The decision specifically in
volves only with the schools in
the Summerton district of Clar
endon county where last term
2.559 Negroes attended three
schools and there were 299 pupils
ir. the one White school.
I Marshall raised the abjection
during the hearing that no step
by-step plan for integration was
proposed by the court decree. He
thought something should be
started right away, but he did
not press the issue.
Jaycees
Petition At
Churches
A small but highly enthusiastic
group of public spirited citizens
were in attendance at the mass
meeting. July 18, sponsored by
the Northwest Miami Junior
Chamber of Commerce. The ma
jority volunteered to circulate pe
titions asking the city commis
sion to construct a well equipped
playground and swimming pool
in the Liberty City area.
The Jaycees will send repre
sentatives to all churches In the
Liberty City area on Sunday, July
24, making it possible for all Lib
erty city church-goers to sign
the petition.