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Newspaper
Miami Times
Location
Miami, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1952
Page
1
An 8-year-old girl testified she was assaulted while visiting an aunt. A Circuit court jury of 10 White men and two White women found the defendant guilty of assault with intent to rape. The verdict carried a maximum penalty of 20 years with a mercy recommendation. Judge J. Fritz Gordon scheduled sentencing for 10 a.m. Friday.
A circuit court filing in Junction halted a proposed million dollar Negro vocational school as White opposition, led by David Hawthorne of the Dade County Property Owners Association, claims the school board would pay an excessive price for an unsuitable site. The emergency tax payer suit echoes earlier objections by the Citizens Advisory Committee.
Hawthorne and followers resist a school board plan to pay 313200 for 26.9 acres at NW 10th Ave and HSt, appraised at 28860, arguing the board ignored a 5000-signature petition opposing the site. Fewer than 300 white families live within a half mile of the area.
An information charging Arthur Mann with breaking and entering with intent to assault has been filed by Michael Zarowny assistant county solicitor. The notice cites a possible life term. Details about two cashiers and a letter from a co owner are unclear in the fragment.
President Richard V. Moore announced Bethune-Cookman College will host the 48th summer commencement starting Sunday August 3. Bishop Edgar A. Love will deliver the baccalaureate address at 3 00 p m on August 3 with Dr William H Gray speaking at the commencement on August 9. The schedule includes senior consecration, recital, home with the president, senior chapel, class night, and the main commencement on August 9 at 10 a m.
At the Miami Beach auditorium the card highlighted two light heavyweights Jimmy Johnson and Johnny Sexton both of Miami with Johnson defeating Sexton. Main attraction saw Ralph Dupas of New Orleans beating Larry Mujica of Havana in a 10 round decision. Other bouts included Baby Williams over Art Davis and Hy Meltzer over Battleship Martinez. Promoter Dundee welcomed a large crowd of Negro attendees.
Whiteville North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader Thomas L Hamilton was jailed for four years as Imperial Wizard for flogging a Negro woman. Sixty two accomplices received one to two year sentences in a mass trial in Superior Court. The judge condemned the terror and noted the climate of fear across the tobacco region.
Eight members of the Gym Tennis Club of Nassau Bahamas will arrive in Miami today by Pan American Airways plane to compete in the Florida State Tennis tournament opening in Jacksonville on Monday August 4.
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