The Miami times. [volume], March 09, 1957, Image 1

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CITY JUDGE BUCKS U. S. SUPREME COURT. . . .y S :
Boycott Students Get ,
60 Days; SSOO Finely,
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At a lovely breakfast meeting
on Saturday, March 2, Beta Tau
Zeta chapter of Zeta Phi Beta
Sorority presented Mrs. Edward
Bray non with a plaque naming
her “Woman of the Year.”
Mrs. Braynon is the wife of
Edward Braynon, proprietor of
Bnaypcn’s Grocery Store and is
the mother of four children, Ed
ward, who is a local dentist;
Eleanor, who is a pharmacist;
Harold, a college student and
Gloria, a teacher of languages at
Booker T. Washington High- Be
sides rearing four fine children,
Mrs. Braynon has found time to
be active in the .Parent-Teachers
No Clues In
Mystery Killing
Police have been unable to t
pome up with a due in the mux- j
der of Oscar C. Baker, 30, shot
down 9 o’clock Sunday night
while walking on NW Third ave.
near 12th st.
Baker, who lived at 218 NW
Bth st., is the son of Mrs. Portia
phxistian of 6SO NW 13th st.
Residents of the area (Where
Baker was killed told police they
Association and St. Paul AME
Church.
She co-chaired the Community
Chest drive with Mrs. L. E.
Thomas, worked with the Cancer
Society, Bed Cross. She is presi
dent of the C. A. Gibbi Club;
member of the Usher Board at
St. Paul’s and a member of the
Young Women’s Christian Assoc
iation, many social clubs and civic
clubs and the Zeta Amicae. The
• sorority feels that this woman
h:j> done immeasurable teervioe
in the community and has rear-,
ed a family of which all can be
proud. Mrs. E- E. Thomas is mak
ing the presentation.
: heard five shot,- ring out and saw
I the victim topple to the sidewalk.
Nobody saw who fired the shots.
It is believed that Baker might
have known his assilants. but had
I probably met them a short time
before the shooting.
At Jaokson Memorial Hospital
an hour later,' Baker haltingly
told Detectives Ernie Bush and
George Spell, “I’ll know ’em when
Tallahassee A
!n this city are
John Rudd qualified to become
a city judge.
In IT* ht of the U. S. Supreme
Court outlawing of egregated bus
seating. Judge Rudd Monday
h-ndd maximum fid-day jail
- ntences to two Negro and a
white university student who de
fied a city Iri v and sat together
on a local bus. '
Joe Spaga of St. Petersburg,
and Leonard Speed and Johnny
Hemdon of Tallahasiee were the
three students. Spagna is enrolled
at Florida State and the two Ne
irces at Florida A and M.
The students, represented by
Francisco Rodriguez of Tampa
attorney for the NAACP, ported
SI,OOO bond and were freed pend
ing their appeal to Leon Cireui
Court.
In spite of Rudd’s decision
hardly anyone think the boy
A'ill s;end a single day in jail.
Rodriguez contended the bu*
seating law, although it make
no mention of race or color
an attempt to continue segre
gated seating by “subterfuge.” He
served notice he will attack va
lidity of the law in both the state
md federal courts.
Jud.e Rudd, who found, the
vouths guilty last Wednesday and
“efused them a new trial Monday,
delivered a -stem lecture to Spag
■-a, Speed and Herndon dealirxg
vith community responsibility.
He said he imposed the stiff
penalty and refused to suspend
the jail term “because at thi: time
of great crises in the racial affairs
of the South these young men
took upon themselves to go off on
a spree that could have resulted
in great harm” when they ignor
ed a bus. driver’s seat assignment
Jan. 19 and sat side by side.
Dope Peddlers
Get 30 Years
Dope peddlers had a rough day
in federal court last Friday as
five drew a total of 30 years after
pleading guilty before Judge
Emutt C. Choate.
Oscar Howard, a second of
fender, drew 10 years, the heav
iest sentence. Five year sentences
were handed out to Frank Smith,
46; George Butler, 34; Ira Jones,
30; and Sam Rivers, 40.
George McCartney, 26, pleaded
guilty to possession of narcotics
and faces a two-year term. His
sentence iwas delayed pending a
check, of his record.
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I - ee ’em again . . . and I*ll take
care of ’em in my own way.”
Baker died at 2:24 a.m. Mon
day morning with three bullets
in his back.
Funeral services were held on
Wednesday in Beach.
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Segregationists Find Rough Going In Miami
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34th YEAR, NO. 28
CROSS-BURNERS
DR A W 120-DA Y TERMS
Miami served notice this week that this is no place
tor rabble-rousing trouble-makers to ply their trade
Evidence of this was given Wednesday when City
Judge Mitchell Goldman dished out 120-dav jail
entences to three men who attempted to burn a cross on
he lawn of a Negro who had
ou ht a home in a white neigh
rvorhood.
Fred B. Hockett, chief lieuten
ant of sick-minded segregationist
John Kasper, Frank Foster and
James McSwiney drew the sen
tences, while Hampton Shaver
wa: fined SIOO and given a sus
pended sentence because he turn
ed police informer.
Hockett was sent here by the
Seaboard White Citizens Council
to set up a local chapter but Mi
ami Whites proved to be less
rabid ‘regregationists than those of
Clinton, Tenn.
G. E. Graves, local NAACP at
torney, is credited with bringing
the tense situation to a head when
he influenced_ Shaver to infozpi
on his cahorts to authorities.
James T. Gordon, attorney for
the three men, had them released
on $1,200 appeal bond* and prom
ised to appeal the verdict.
In referring to the Feb. 23 at
tempted cross-burning Judge
Go’dman emphatically remarked:
“It is regrettable that the
charter only lets me go so far.
“You men had complete dis
regard .for feelings of others. Thi*
was an heinous offense.
“There is enough trouble in the
world new without things like this
going on.”
Assistant Police Chief James
Youell and several policemen
thwarted the cross-burning at-*
tempt engineered by Hockett jus*
as the men placed it in the yard
and sprayed it with lighter fluid
•The cros: was to have been
burned in the yard of the Frank
Le:ree home at 1455 NW 55th st
.vhere he and his family had
bought a home in a white neigh
borhood.
Kasper and Hockett will find
little peace in Miami. State At-
UttJe peace in Miami. State Atty.
Richard Gerstein subpoenaed
ed them for an hour and • half
on their local activities
Runs For
Lauderdale
Comission
fort LAUDERDALE Na
thaniel Wilkerson. 29, became the
nr t Negro candidate for the Fort
Lauderdale City Commission in
the h-story of the city when he
n ed on Tuesday.
a chauffeur, lives at
44 NW 20th nve. He is a Korean
war veteran, married and the
father of three children.
Wilkersc® paid his $25 appli
cation fee and announced that he
merely ought to give the Negro
:t zens representation on the
commission. He thinks the Ne-
c r oes have been getting a raw
and feels the local people
should get together and iron out
their problems.
The commission candidates said
Fort Lauderdale’s
15,000 Negroes will back him.
Thece are about 40,000 people m
foit Lauderdale.
The primary for the commission
e ec'ioni is April 9, with a runoff
being held among the tep 10
candidates for the five commission
ports.
Rep. Orr To Speak
March 15, 314 Northwestern
seniors will hear John B. Orr Jr.
a member of the House of Repre
sentatives during their Ring
Ceremony at 8:30 p.m. at the in
stitution.
Rep. Orr te adjudged one of the
most outstanding first-termers by
many newspapers and veteran
capitol correspondents.
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1957
Cleric Adds To'
Freedom’s Voice
In Fla. and N. C.
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REV. F. ARTHUR REED
A crusading New York minister
who led rallies in which more
than SI.QOO was raised tfor sup
port of the Tallaha see bus boy
cott campaign, will carry a mes
sage of Northern cooperation in
the fight for equality to Florida
and North Carolina.
The Rev. F. Arthur Reed.
Brooklyn’s youngest Baptist union
president, who as a boy from
Arkansas led his young compan
ions in movements for better race
relations in St. Louis, picked up
in New York after returning from
Wor'd War 11. Last year the SI.
John’s rastor’s Brooklyn Baptist
Evangelical Union erf 20 churches
was in the forefront in civil
rights efforts.
Rev. Reed’r. current itinerary
is as follows: March 9-22, Bethel
Baptist Church, 4JOO Lincoln
Boulevard, Richmond Heights,
Rev. L. R. Ross,'pastor; March
22-26, Jack onville, with Mr. and
Mrs. L. Bryant, 1420 Kings Road;
March 27, Inter Civic Council,
Tallahassee; March 31, Winston
Salem, N.C. Baptist Church, Rev.
W. O. Terry, pastor, 1511 Clark
ave.
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Mrs. ttiliie Pitts, president of the Modern Beauticians'
league No. 42 presents a check to Moses L. Perry, execu
tive secretary of Carver YMCA for the Development Pro
gram, as Mrs. Melonee Goodman, secretary of the Beau
ticians’ League looks on. A high rate of dividends from
helping in the molding of Christian character, productive
citizenship and strong bodies of our community’s young
sters will be realized when other organizations and groups
join the Beauticians’ League and make their contributions
to this worthwhile effort.
Ike Nominates Richardson
President Eisenhower has.
nominated Scovel Richardson, 47,
as judge of the United States
Cu toms Court
Richardson is at present chair- !
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nr>n of the Federal Board of Pa
role. He is a former dean of Lin
coln University law scjhool. He
replaces the late Judu* William
A. Ewall.