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KILLING AT PENNINE CALLEMUSTIFIABLE
Common-Law Mate
Kills Jealous Woman
Extreme jealousy on the part of
a young woman over attention
paid by her common-law hus
band to another woman while the
wife was serving a term in jail,
led to the fatal shooting of the
wife by the husband according
to the Homicide Bureau of the
Miami police department.
Miss Reba Storr, 24, who was
living with Fred Douglas Clark,
35, at 825A NW First Court, was
shot and fatally wounded by
Clark during an altercation at
Clark’s heme about noon on Sun
day, according to police. Clark
was arrested on Monday and is
now being held in county jail
without bond pending a coroner’s
inquest and preliminary hearing.
Acording to police, Clark and
Miss Storr h:d been living' to
gether for about seven months.
Clark said during the altercation
they began to tussle over a gun
Parents Seek Judgment
In Local School Fight
Parents of Negro children seek
in/ desegregation of Dade County
schools are claiming that apy
remedy other than a federal coqrt
judgement would involve a mul
tiplicity of suits.
The claim was made in an
amendhpent to the original suit
ft ad by the Rev. Theodore Gib
s n and Dr. John O. Brown in
be hpif of their children.
Moreover, the suit says, other
GETS FIVt rUKS FOK 1951 SHYING
William C. (Red) Johnson, 32,
of Coconut Grove pleaded guilty
to manslaughter this week and
chew a' five-year prison term for
a murder be committed in No
vember, 1951.
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Johnson’s first trial in Febru
ary for first degree murder end
ed with a deadlocked jury. Atty.
Henry Arrington was the prose
* cuting attorney at the time.
Johnson entered the guilty plea
to manslaughter rather than face
* a second jury trial for first de
gree. The court accepted the plea
because two of the eye-witnesses
(o the slaying had been killed
which he had in his possession
while sitting on a bed. During the
tussel the gun went off and shot
Miss Storr..
Clark is s: id to have £Ut the
•body in the back seat of his car
and drove to NW 11th st. and 2nd
ive. Passerstoy spotted the bloody
corpse and called police. Official
redtape caused a long delay be
fore the car containing the body
was drived to Jackson Memorial
Hospital where Miss Storr was
announced dead on arrival.
She is survived by a daughter,
a grandmother Md «randfathe*-,
one brother, two sisters, two
aunts and other relatives. Her
body was released to the «Bain
Funeral Home of Coconut Grove,
where funeral services will be
held today (Saturday) at 4 p.m.
Burial will be conducted at* the
Coconut Grove cemetery. *
remedies would cause further
“irreparable injury and occasion
dam.ge, vexation and inconven
ience not only to the plaintiffs
but to the defendants as govern
mental agencies.”
Judge EmeU C. Choate gale
the Dade County school board 2o
days to answer the new com
plaint and amendment. No hear
ing date has been set.
Bond Vote Tuesday
Miami freeholders will go to
the polls Tuesday to vote in a
special bond election on an 8-
point capital improvement pro
gram. The eight proposals can be
voted on individually and “ will
cost about $25,000,000. The Miami
Times recommends a favorable
vote on these issues.
and a third essential witness is
missing.
Johnson’s victim was Joseph
McKenzie, 26, who he stabbed to
death. Johnson had been a fugi
tive until arrested during a visit
to his family last November
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Seated left to right: Grace Smith, anti-basileus Eunice
Liberty and Caretha Bawl. Standing is Sadie Johnson.
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Gamma Delta Sigma Chapter held its initial meeting
at the home of Mrs. Eunice Liberty. A fitting climax ip ft
restful yet busy summer was the of the
Aurora Club, which is the pledge clpb pf Sigma Gamma
Rho Sorority.
Prior to the regular business session, Mrs. Liberty,
anti basileus, presented three candidates to the «group.
After an impressive ceremony, conducted by the basileus,
Mrs. Allene V. Jones, the ladies, Miss Caretha Mrs.
Sadie Johnson and Mrs. Grace Smith, were received into
the Aurora Club. The pledges were served a delicious
repast before they retired, * /
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The remainder of the evening was spent in making
plans for the coming year. Much time was given to plan
ning for Founders’ Weeks Activities early in November.
The chapter plans several outstanding events for this new
Sigma year. Members attending the initial meeting werei
Sorors: Vera Austin, Mable Barlow, Naomi Carr, Naomi
Espy, Allene Jones, Eunice Liberty, Jane Lewis, Walton
Y. Robinson and Roberta Thompson.
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1956
HEAD-ON CRASH BILLS 8
LAKE WALES Six Negroes
and two v.-h : tc3 were killed Sun
day night in a head-on codision
hree miles west of here on State
Road 60.
A couple and three of their 12
children, and an unidentified
woman met death when the car
occupied by two white men
;werved suddenly across the high
way.
Dead were Lonnie Stevenson,
56, and his wife, Altha, 42. The
hree children were Erlene, 17,
Ruby Lee, 6, and B. J., 4. Lone
survivor was the young son of
the unidentified woman. He is
listed as critical.
A motorist driving behind the
Stevenson car reported the car
containing the white men was
travelling .“very fast.” He said
the Stevenson car was going be
tween 45 and 50 miles per hour.
Segregation Group Gets Charter Here
REPRESENTED
BY FORMER
GOVERNOR
A new national organization to
deal with the integration problem
was chartered in Miami this weeK
by Circuit Court Judge J. Fritz
Gordon on a petition of former
Gov. Fuller Warren.
Warren, representing the igroup
as its attorney, obtained Judge
Gordon’s approval to set up the
National Association for Protec
tion of White People and Fair
Treatment of Negroes.
Its main objectives, according
to Robert Lee Pavla of Fort
Lauderdale, president, are to put
through an amendment to the U
Miamian
Killed In
Plane Crash
Elijah Spencer, 21, of Goulds,
was killed in a plane crash at
Anchorage, Alaska, on August 21.
He was the son of Mrs. Lucy
Spencer, and was a graduate of
George Washington Carver High
School in 1952.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday at the Morning Star
Baptist Church, Princeton. Chap
lain Victor G. Dawe of the Home
stead Airbase will officiate.
Bethel Williams Funeral Home,
will be in charge.
S. Constitution which in effect
would give each state the right
to either integrate or segregate.
Political observers give the
rroDosed amendment little or no
chance of even getting out of the
talking stage,
Both Warren and Davis stress
ed that their group would use only
legal means to accomplish crn
tinued segregation for Florida
and other states and would not
employ the tactics of either the
Ku Klux Klan or the White Citi
zens Councils.
We will not create a distur
bance,” Davis said, “We have no
animosity toward Negroes. They
should have adequate schooling
schools of their own.” .
Re also Hddcd that the
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(ROBERT LEE MANUEL
will accept Negro memberships
and aid.
Other officers who comprise the
new group formed are R. Kay
Porter, of Perry, first vice presi
•*en*; M. G. Langford of Lake
Butler, second vice resident; Ray
m nd E. Ford of Fort Pierce, sec
retary, and R. V. Pinckney of Key
Biscayne, treasurer.
LOSES RACE FOR
ALA. COUNCIL
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PfRITCHARD, Ala. Rev.
Joshua Barney, 68, finished 16th
in a field of 19 for five council
seats in Tuesday’s local election.
Police reported there was no
trouble at the polls, but during
the campaiirn shot* were tired Ih-
WHITE DEPUTY
SHOOTS NEGRO
IN TRAP
A* Puling of Justifiable homicide
was * returned Thursday in the
controversial death of Robert Lee
Manuel, 21, of Perrine, who was
shot to death in a police trap on
Coral Reef Drive Friday night.
Words flew thick and fast at
the inquest between G. E. Graves,
attorney for Manuel’s family, and
Milton Ferrell, attorney for
Jruce Berry, the gunman, who is
n agent of the sheriffs Criminal
Jureau of Investigation.
Ferrell didn’t like the question
>r the tone of Graves’ voice when
he militant attorney asked Berry,
•Why did you shoot this man?”
,'errell claimed the question of
.ce had nothing to do with it.
The story goes that Berry was
assigned to go along with an at
..acave -oionue expectant mother
vho had complained that she had
bean* receiving repeated calls
at m a Negro demanding her to
n?*t him at a rendezvous &n
J«*l Reef Drive.
Berry testified that he lay in
.he back scat of the woman’s car
is ska drove to the spot. As she
itott ed Manuel is said to have
.est his car and come over and
tried to enter the woman’s car.
Berry said Manuel fled down the
road when he rose up from the
oack seat. Berry said he fired four
warning shots and asked Manuel
to surrender. When Manuel said
he also had a gun, Berry said he
went back to the car and got his
shot gun. Berry said Manuel
chargeu him on his second ap
proach and he shot him.
The trap for Manuel "Was well
set. Both ends of Coral Reef
Drive were blocked off from 8
to 9 p.m. and motorists coming
to or leaving Richmond Heights
had to go through Perrine.
a rial's mother, Mrs. Moselle
Manuel, said her son left her
h >use about 7:40 after bringing:
his infant son, Berhard, for her
to keep while he went for a hair
cut. Manuel was shot aibout ft
o'clock but did not reach the hos
pital until 9:24. He died at 9X&
with nine gunshot wounds in his
body.
Manuel was not a yard man as
has been stated, but worked for
the Pullman Furniture Co. on
Dixie Highway in South Miami.
He is also survived by a wife,
Mary Lee, and a sister, Annette.
Funeral services will be held Sat
urday afternoon at four o’clock
at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church in
Perrine. The Bethel ‘Williams
Funeral Home is in charge.
to Rev. Barney’s home and he
. received numerous telephone
threats unless he withdrew from
the race. He was the first Negro
ever to qualify for city office in
Prilehurd.