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VOL. XXXIII, NO. 20
Six Atlanta Ministers Arrested
RELEASED ON
BOND AFTER
RIDING UP
FRONT .
ATLANTA .Six Negro min
isters who defied the city’s tra
ditionally racially separate to u
seating pattern Wednesday were
arrested Thursday on orders c
Gov. Marvin Griffin. All were
released on bond.
The group of minirters, led by
the Rev. William B. Borders, pas
tor of Wheat Street Baptis.
Church, boarded a bus in down
town Atlanta and took front seats
All of the white passengers go
off except one and the bus wen'
about ix blocks nonstop before
the Negroes got off.
R:v. Borders was quoted as
saying:
Griffin said he had instructed
*the adjutant general, the officer
in charge of the Georgia National
Guard, “to alert his forces in a
standby r.tatus subject to call on
a moment’s notice.”
CONFERENCE CALLED
In an effort to coordinate and
spur the campaign for integrated
transportation in the South, a
conference has been called for
January 10 and 11 in Atlanta.
The emergency conference call
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Fed . Court to Hear Pupil
Assignment Test Case
Florida’s pupil assignment law,
enacted by the last legislature to
thwart integration in public
schools, will soon be put to a
test.
Federal Judge Emett Choate
Wednesday declined to hear the
case alone because constitution
ality questions are involved. A
Attends Conference '
Rev. A. Joseph Reddick, state
president of the NAACP and
pastor of St. James AME Church,
’eft Wednesday night to take
part in the Southern Negro Lead
ers Conference on transportation
and non-violent integration. The
wo-day meet is being held in
Atlanta, Ga. at the Ebenezer
Baptist Church, 407 Auburn Ave.
three-judge federal court must
sit in Miami to hear all phases
of the suit attacking the pupil
assignment law.
Federal law calls for three
judges en bane to pass on all
constitutional questions.
Choate’s ruling denied a mo
tion by Negro petitioners that he
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1957
JACKIE NIXES
(50,000
GIANT BID
New York Make no bones
Tbout it, Jackie Robinson is
through with baseball.
The ex-Brooklyn Dodger star
turned down a contract to play
with the New York Giants that
called for more than $50,000 and
‘other considerations.” The coo
perations aTe raid to be a place 4
in the Giant organization aftei
lis playin-g days.
Robbie 'aid his request for vol
untary retirement would be sent
,n no later than Tuesday.
“I only regret this offer waen’'
made to me a couple of years
ago,” raid Robinson toy way o.
thanking the Giants for their gen
erous offer. “I would have loved
to play for people like Horae
Stoneham and Chub Feeney.”
debinsen. whose top salary with
the Dodgers was $42,500, said h
thought “I convinced Feeney tha
I won’t be playing,” and added
“I don’t believe i cou a uj iu
Giants any good.”
“he told me to think it ove’
and give him the benefit of the
continued on page 16
proceed alone.
The suit was brought againsl
the Palm Beach school board by
the father of a 6-year-old boy,
William Holland, Jr. Holland
charges the pupil assignment law
was applied capriciously and arbi
trarily in barring William from
all-white Northlboro school.
Holand claimed the school board
had “carved” the attendance area
for the Negro Pleasant City
school out of the Northboro at
tendance area to continue segre
gation.
Foot Severed By Train
David Nelson, 4, of 7160 NW
14th place had his right foot sev
ered Wednesday by the wheels of
a freight train that runs behind
the apartment house where he
lives with his family.
Dead Bodies Pile Up
As County Balks
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Dr. H. A. Hadley, local dentist,
was elected president of the Dade
County Young Democratic As
sociation at the annual meeting
Jan. 7. Dr. Hadley succeeds Dr.
E. A. Ward who did not seek* an
office this year, (see story on page
2.)
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David was crawling under a
stopped 10-car Florida East
Coast train near NW 72nd sL
and 14th ave., when his foot
caught in the track. The train
then started moving.
Unclaimed bodies of Negroes
are beginning to pile up at the
affice of the Dade County medi
al examiner.
Cause of the excessive number
s the refusal of Negro under
alkcrs to dispose of the bodies at
iscrimlnatory prices.
The county pays white under
takers SIOO to bury each un
claimed white body but only $36
for Negro burials. The Negro un
lertakers organized and sought
equal pay for their services. So
'ar the county still balks, but a
new set of county commissioners
- re sworn in this week and
they might have a change of
aeart.
No matter what, the Negro
mdertskers claim they will let
the bodies pile sky his:h before
they accept the discriminatory
price rate.
Dr. Stanley Durlacher, county
medical examiner, told the com
mission Wednesday that the five
adults and seven infant bodies
are creating a problem for his
office. Some of the bodies have
been held since November.
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Dr. C. M. Jollivette has been
elected president of the Dade
County Academy of Medicine for
1957. The organization consists of
all doctors, dentists and pharma
cists in th? Greater Miami area.
The new pre ident is proprietor
of the Community Drug Store in
Liberty City.
Woman Charged
in Postal Theft
Bessie Almond, 29 of 2150 Ali
Baba Blvd., Opa Locka, was ar
rested by postal authorities
Wednesday and charged with
snatching S3OO from a post office
contract station in the Bunche
Park Pharmacy while the clerk’s
back was turned. She was held in
$2,500 bond.
NORTHWESTERN IMWn STIIOWTS TO iPPFAR OH TV
Three Northwestern students
were choren to appear on the Ter
Mack Original Amateur Hour
Sunday evening, Jan. 13, 7:30 ai
the Dinner Key Auditorium.
Stewart, Robert Thom a"'
and Jeff Nesbitt, will be seen or
WITV, channel 17, when they wil
continue to shew their skill by
playing “Birjler’s Holiday” by-
Leroy Anderson. Having been
trained by David Paschal, banc
director, these students were im
mediately chosen by Ted Mack
after having finished the numbei
“Friendly Rivals.”
Mrs. Ida Ratcliffe, principal,
and her staff ire proud of this
honor given these students.
All Northwestern and com
munity friends are invited to th«
Dinner Key Auditorium to see the
amateur hour which will last for
90 minutes.
The institution has expressed
its appreciation to Walker’s Food
Market, 6290 NW 15th ave., for
City Con
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MONTGOMERY, Ala
terrorists and segregati* «o g
nsrds streped tc a new >«j M
early Thur-day morrit. q
hey bombed four
two ministers’ homes. r Q
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City bus service,
grated under a Federal *
order, was halted by the C v
Commission “until further
tics” as a iafety measure.
Taxi'*?'): had a field day ar
thousands of workers were lef
stranded and had to ride with
friends, hitchhike or walk t
their jobs.
This sudden outbreak of vio
lence is perhaps the biggts
inee anti - integration elements
began their drive to block th
Supreme Court’s inte.Tation de
cision in May, 1954. Bus segre
gaticn ended under a Federa
Court order here Dec. 21.
One corner of the Bell Stree 1
Bsi.tirt Church was blown away
for 10 feet in each direction a
the rear of the building. The
choir loft behind the pulpit wa
wrecked and part of the ceiling
above the pulpit knocked loose.
Police said they were still in
vestigating a bombing of the Mt
Olive Church on the southwes'
edge of Montgomery.
Both the home and church of
the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy,
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having given these students glfis competing with other Dade
for displaying such talent while County students.
The home of P
Greets, a White miru.Pll
erves an all-Negro congregation
it the Trinity Lutheran Church,
vas another target of the bomb
ng attacks. The front door was
olown in and walls damaged.
Eleven unexploded sticks ol
dynamite wrapped around a met
al tube were found in front o!
Graetz’s home. Police defused
them.
The White minister also was
active in the Negro bus boycott
and has supporter the integration
campaign. Another bomb ex
ploded at his home several months
ago, but he was out of town and
no one was hurt then either.
A three-foot section of wall by
a door was. blown out of the
Hutchinscn Street Baptist Church
The pastor, the Rev. H. H. John
son is another integration leader.