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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.
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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 <was convicted Thursday
of violating a Virginia segregation
law by sitting beside a Negro at
a public political meeting here.
Miss Faith Bissell, 43, was
fined sls by Judge Paul D. Brown
oif Arlington County Court. Her
attorney, Edmund D. Campbell,
appealed to the Circuit Court
which convenes Dec. 17.
Campbell said he did not argue
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will take it directly to the U. S.
Supreme Court.”
The NAACP attorney said he
expected the case to be expedited
without much delay because civil
rights take preference over
other cases.
The Miami Transit Co. has
contended that it is operating
within the state and local laws
which prohibit mixing of races
on buses.
MONTGOMERY VOTES TO
END BUS BYCOTT
Montgomery Nearly 10,000
Negroes who had taken an active
part in the effective bus boycott
here since last December voted
Wednesday night to end their
mass resistance.
The vote climaxed 345 days
of determined, but orderly pro
test over segregation on buses.
Their leader, the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr., told the cheer
ing throng that the decision should
reach the Montgomerg courts
in several days. He urged calm
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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.
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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
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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.”