UNDERTAKERS REFUSE TO BURT PM PEMEID VOL. XXXIII NO. 12 GUNMAN WHO SHOT WIFE SOUGHT BT POLICE Up to late Thursday police were still looking for James Glover, husband of Mrs. Addie Glover, of 1309 NW Third Avenue, who is alleged to have shot and critically wounded his wife during an al tercation at their apartment late Tuesday night. Mrs. Glover was rushed to the Jackson Memorial Hospital, suffering neck and chest wounds. Her condition up to late Thursday was still serious ac cording to hospital authorities. According to the Homicide Bureau of the Miami Police De partment, Glover and his wife were married on June 24 of this year. Shortly after their marriage many domestic difficulties arose between them. Later the problems became more serious. Mrs. Glover charged that her husband would not work and contributed little or nothing to the support of the two. Disgusted with her husband and conditions between them, Mrs. Glover, according to Police, packed his clothes in a bag late Tuesday night, and ordered him to get out of the apartment in. which they lived. A heated argu ment arose between the two, and during the argument Glover shot his wife twice. Glover fled fol lowing the shooting. SCHOOI GROUNDS FOR NAT AREAS A minor step was taken this week to help alleviate the play ground shortage in Liberty City. An arrangement between the School Board and the Miami City Commission called for school play grounds to be kept open after school hours. The city takes over supervis ion after school personnel leave. City Manager E. A. Evans will ask Negro policemen to volun teer to patrol the playgrounds on their off hours. ÜBERTT CITY FIRE UAVES M HOMEIESS Four adults and 10 children were left homeless early Wednes day morning when fire swept through their one-story frame house at 2026 NW 71st st. The building was leveled and officials set the loss at more than $5,000. Once started, the flames spreaded quickly and the occu pants had to escape through win dows of the flaming structure. ■S'* I• "U CL; *! M J Aft V s : * *** wJr Hlfv; mm. JH v SOPr -J! I m ml**** l JPI EL ” a 4r IB a-• way . E ‘lp A ■ ■ g •'* or* aSI ' ' v &-.«£■. L w ~~ = ' ■*' * ■ I,M v- w The Sigma Omicron Chapter of Alpha Chi Pi Omega Sorority presented a Head Dress Ball in the Harlem Square Ball Room Thursday night, Nov. 8. Lou Adams Orchestra furnished the music. The winner were: First prize, center, Tweedle Dee,” Mrs. Gladys Richardson; 2nd prize, left, “Guest House,” Mrs Nellie Brown; 3rd prize, “Horn of Plenty,” Miss Rose Marie Johnson. MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1956 Mrs. Mercy Darling lived in the house with her three grown daughters and their 10 children. Seven of the children were taken to the County Home in Kendall Wednesday night. The Dade County Chapter of the Red Cross came to Mrs. Dar ling’s rescue with financial assist ance, temporary shelter, clothing and food for the family. Bus Segregation Here Nears End HIGH COURT DECISION AIDS LOCAL SUIT Bus segregation in Miami and the state of Florida is on the way out. The U. S. Supreme Court de cision on Monday which upheld a U. S. District Court ruling out lawing bus segregation in Ala bama sounded the death knell. The decision in Alabama does not affect Florida laws, but only last month the Miami NAACP til ed a suit in Federal Court attack ing the constitutionality of city and state segregation laws. The suit, against the Miami Transit Co., the City of Miami, and individual Miami commis sioners, is due in court any day. Arguments to dismiss the suit are expected to be heard soon. Atty. G. E. Graves, counsel for the NAACP, said: “If the motion to dismiss is sustained, we will amend our suit, and then if we have to, we FINED SIS rot SITTING BISIDI NEGRO ARLINGTON, Va. A white librarian ■ * continued on pag£ 16 the case admittedly a test case because if he had won in County Court it would have fore closed a possible Supreme Court ruling. The state could not have appealed because the offense is a misdemeanor. Miss Bissell was arrested Nov. 1 when she sat down in a section of the Jefferson Junior High School Auditorium which had been reserved for Negroes. Jr 1 SeL. xHH| W' & H ■afcffißßSßraffir .3* mtfm. , — Wim • S’: V ■■■a m T uHB 5 m This group of young matrons comprising the Business and Pro fessional Women’s Club of the Murrell Branch YWCA, is watch ing attentively to the demonstra tion of Winslow Products as ex ecuted by Miss Frances Wallace, a representative. The demonstra tion was held at the home of Mrs. Dr. Matthew Whitehead To Speak Here Sunday SUSPENSION OF GROVELAND SHERIFF ASKED Gov. Leroy Collins has been asked to suspend Willis McCall, infamous Lake County sheriff of the Groveland case. McCall has been charged with pistol-whip ping a young white woman pri soner. The Greater Miami Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said the girl has been held incommunicado since Oct. 4 with out benefit of counsel. The girl was arrested on a morals charge involving a Negro enlisted man in the Air Force. Richard B. Royce, chairman, of the local ACLU chapter, in his telegram to Collins, said Sheriff McCall had committed “Indigni ties against the public welfare” by permitting the circulation of continued on page 4 Geraldine Roogs Ellis. 337 NW 7th st. Left to right, standing: Mrs Arthurine Strapp, Miss Wallace Mrs. Gwendolyn Clark. Miss Enid Curtis, Murrell Branch Adult pro gram director; Mrs. Geraldim R. Ellis, hostess. Seated: Mrs. Bernyce Macki, Miss Delores Hart, president of the B. and P. Club. In keeping with its annual policy at bringing to the people of Miami outstanding speakers who bring into shapp focus the problems and solutions of our people, Sigma Alpha Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., invites the public to join them in their National Achievement Week Observance on Sunday, Nov. 18 at Greater Bethel AME Church at 4 p.m. This year they are having as their main speaker, Dr. Matthew J. Whitehead, dean of the gradu ate division of the newly merged District of Columbia Teachers College at Washington, D. C. Aside from being an outstanding educator and a man of great in tegrity, Dr. Whitehead is also the director of the National Achieve ment Week program of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. This program will include se lections by the Southland Singers and solos by several of our lead ing soloists. PROTEST LOW NEGROES Negro undertakers and "ifie County Commissioners Irjbldtked in a rough battle over •orying the pauper dead. Five bodies, one adult and four stillborn infants are still unclaim ed in Dade County morgues. The Dade County Negro Funeral and Ambulance Association told the commissioners it would no long er bury indigent dead until its memoers received the same price for the services as their white counterparts. B. Solomon, president of the association, said they will pkk up only bodies which families have requested them to. The commission believes the Negro association should honor the sls -for - adult, $7.50-for children contract which has an other six months to go.' The Association members claim they have no contract with the County. Members will meet with the County commission on Tues day to iron out the situation. The Negroes want the SIOO for adults, $65 for children and $35 for infants set up by the County Commission in a letter addressed ‘To all licensed funeral direc tors”—but not sent to Negro funeral directors—in August. Bodies may be kept in morgue refrigerators from several months to indefinitely. The five have been there about two weeks. All local Negro funeral estab lishments have announced they will discontinue ambulance ser vice at the end of this month. Eastern Ambulance, the firm that makes most at the calls In the white sections, will proably set up stations in colored areas. 2 More Prisoners Break Legs ATLANTA—Two more convicts at the Rock Quarry State Prison near Buford broke their own legs Monday in a bitterness protest against the heavy work load at the prison. The prisoners were pushing wheelbarrows when they saw an opportunity to race behind some rocks, grab sledge hammers and smash their legs. These were the latest in a series of leg breakings dating back to July 31 when 41 convicts broke their legs in this same prison known as “Little Alcatraz.”