Collins Refuses Jury Probe In Florida Case
In Tallahassee Gov LeRoy Collins rejected a Lake County grand jury probe into Walter Lee Irvin death sentence. Comptroller Ray Green also declined to testify citing no legal authority for such inquiry by a grand jury. Green noted the Pardon Board governs commutations, not the jury. In Sumner Mississippi a white man Elmer Kimbell was acquitted of slaying Clinton Melton, a black man, amid accusations of a lingering two-tier justice as prior white defendants faced similar outcomes.
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Tallahassee
Lake County
Grand Jury
Walter Lee Irvin
LeRoy Collins
Ray Green
State Pardon Board
A. P. Buie
Collins
Green
Buie
Pardon Board
Constitutional Pardon Board
Kimbell
NAACP Official to Speak in Miami After Tragic Tank Death
Gloster B. Current of the NAACP will address a meeting at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Miami, marking the community’s response to the death of a 3-year-old Bunche Park boy who fell into an open septic tank. The incident occurred Wednesday as the Reed family, including Mr. Reed, a Velda Dairies milkman, had been cleaning the tank before leaving it uncovered. Neighbors and relatives mourn the tragedy amid renewed safety concerns for local septic tanks.
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Buncher Park
Opa Locka
Chebaria Sa Fymir
Lucky
Reed
Fanny Flewyllen
Louis
Velda Dairies
Two Die After Rickenbacker Causeway Crash
Two Navy men died and three others injured when a car driven by James Jones attempted to pass on the right on the traffic jammed Rickenbacker Causeway. Carlton Edwards Jr. and Herbert A. Charles were killed. Marion Kennedy James Jones and Robert Georgian were injured. Jones was charged with manslaughter and held on bond.
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Rickenbacker Causeway
Carlton Edwards, Jr
Navy
Key West
Herbert A. Charles
17Th St
Sorwards
Marion H. Kennedy
James Jones
15Th St
Robert Georgian
Hnwards
West Palm Beach
Ones
Ministers Set Sunday as NAACP Day
Members of the Interdenominational Ministers Alliance plan a Sunday afternoon campaign from 2 to 5 PM. Division leaders and captains invited to participate in a house-to-house drive. call FR 4-8241 for membership materials.
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NAACP
Interdenominational Ministers Alliance
Young Williams Dies Suddenl y at 12 Year Old in Miami
George R. Williams Jr aged 12 of 1789 NW 61st Street died 11 45 am Tuesday March 13 in Jackson Memorial Hospital after severe stomach pains. An autopsy found fluid in the lungs and doctors cannot explain the death. Funeral services set for ll am Saturday at St James AME Church with Richardson Funeral Home in charge. He is survived by his mother Mrs Qodal Williams King father George R Williams Sr and sister Faye with grandmother Mrs L L Green, a longtime Miami resident.
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George R. Williams, Jr
61St St
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Jackson
St. James Ame
A. J. Reddick
Richardson Funeral Home
Young Williams
Qodal Williams King
George R. Williams
Faye
L. L. Green
Pioneer Miami
Supreme Court ruling stirs Florida election candidates
Florida politicians campaigning for November promised to sidestep the desegregation mandate. Governors and candidates claimed to shield lily white universities while pledging to press the court's decision. Ex-Governor Warren probed Hawkins past amid school seat battles as Lowry and Bryant intensified the rhetoric.
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Florida
United States Supreme Court
LeRoy Collins
Supreme
Fuller Warren
Virgil Hawkins
Sumpter Lowry
Farris Bryant
LeRoy
Fuller
Negvoes
Conditions At City Jail And Stockade Criticized
The report describes overcrowded male quarters and empty female spaces at the city jail, with sanitation lapses across divisions including Opa Locka and Coconut Grove. Stockade quarters are overcrowded with unsafe proximity of bunks. no rehabilitation program. escaped prisoners total sixty one in three months, sparking blame at Police Chief Headley and AACP-linked officials.
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Chamatake Farke
Miami
Liberty City
Perrinean Homestead
AACP
Opa Locka
Richmond Heights
Coconut Grove
Brown
Bddivision
Ojus
High
Walter Headley
J. A. Youell
Hearn
Local NAACP Drive Leaders Push Dade Campaign to March Close
Leaders shown at a report meeting for the Dade County NAACP Membership Drive drive on to victory. Co chairs Rev H M G McDonald Rev J N Byrd and Mrs Addie Sampson among those seated and standing include Luther Lee Mrs Marion Muldrow Mrs Margaret Carey John A McMinn Leo Armbrister Al Kinsey Mrs Bessie Bohler and others. Report meetings are held each Tuesday and Friday nights with the drive closing on March 25.
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Dade County
NAACP
H. M. G. McDonald
Luther Lee
Marion Muldrow
J.N. Byrd
Addie Sampson
Margaret Carey
John A. McMinn
Leo Armbrister
al Kinsey
Bessie Bohler
Fannie Jernigan
Richard H. Powell
Bernice Knight
James Blair
Ham Cutting Man Sian In Row Leads To Murder
A five pound ham vanished from landlady Gertrude French’s kitchen sparking a quarrel with Eddie Braswell, 38, at 1740 NW 66th St. French admitted stabbing Braswell in the chest with a butcher knife. he died before medical help arrived. French, 29, is held on suspicion of first degree murder. Funeral services set for Friday, March 16 at 2 pm at Range Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. J. W. Wilson officiating.
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Eddie Braswell
66Th St
Gertrude French
Braswell
Centenarian wed in Tulsa to a younger bride
Tulsa man Charley Steward, 101, married Beatrice Daniel at his home. He claimed birth Aug 15, 1855 in Helena Ark and said he had been married once before with 12 children. his first wife died 12 years ago.
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Tulsa
Okla
Charley Steward
Beatrice Daniel
Steward
Helena
Ark
Algo
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Mississippi
Sumner
Elmer Kimbell
Clinton Melton
Glendora
Miss
Roy Bryant
J. W. Milam
Emmett Till
Embell
Melton
Boy
Gloster B
Detroit
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
9Th St
3Rd Ave
Edward T. Graham
Supreme Court
Man Siain
Ib Ham
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