Decontrol Bill Threatens Florida Renters, Warns Speaker
The Spectator criticizes a 64 to 22 House vote to end rent controls, warning thousands of tenants face unreasonably high rents and possible displacement. The piece urges Dade County residents and others to pressure Senator R. B. Gautier to oppose the measure, noting Governor Warren’s veto stance as a potential safeguard.
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Sprigle’s Series On Negroes In South Published as Book
Ray Sprigle’s in depth reports on the condition of Negroes in the South are issued in a book titled In the Land of Jim Crow. Published by Simon and Schuster in New York the 216 page volume retails at 250 dollars and captures Sprigle’s sympathetic Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporting from last summer.
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Ray Sprigle
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Pittsburgh Post- Gazette
Vast majority supports legalized gambling next week
The columnist notes the focus on rent de control and plans to argue for legalized gambling in a future column. The BTW Alumni Association will meet on Tuesday May 24 at 8 p.m. at the school, inviting all graduates especially the class of 1939.
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BTW Alumni Association
Booker T. Washington Alumni Plan June Union Day
The Booker T. Washington High School Alumni announce the Annual Re union Day on Wednesday June 15 marking the Class of 1939’s ten year reunion. Activities start day and night with the Re Union Ball at Rockland Palace also on June 15. Further announcements will follow.
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Booker T. Washington High School
BTW
Rockland Palace
White journalist's undercover journey in the Deep South
Sprigle, a former Pulitzer Prize winner, recounts a month traveling through the South disguised as a Negro. He describes living in "good Negro" role and staying in his place, with his companion aware of his white identity. Readership of both white and Black weeklies may welcome the complete volume.
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Dixie
Sprigle
Bahama Islands Divorce Notice in Supreme Court
The Bahama Islands Supreme Court Divorce and Matrimonial Side issues notice in case 1948 No 109 between Anna Naomi Allen and Charles Otis Allen. It states the respondent Charles Otis Allen of Miami Florida is served by advertisement and must appear within two months at the Nassau registry to defend. otherwise the court will proceed. Attorney T Augustus Toote, Nassau, Bahamas, is named.
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Miami
State of Florida
United States of America
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Supreme Court
Nassau
New Providence
Sheriff, Deputies Indicted By Georgia For Flogging
TRENTON Ga ANP a sheriff three deputies and a local citizen were indicted for assault and battery in a case where hooded men said to be Ku Klux Klan members flogged seven Negro prisoners. The grand jury charged Sheriff J W Lynch Deputies W M Hartline N Stokes McCaulley John Bleckley and Robert Keener with assault and battery and failure to suppress mob violence. The incident occurred April 2 after the sheriff arrested seven Negroes and handed them to the hooded men who carried out the beating.
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W. M. Hartline
N. Stokes McCaulley
John Bleckley
Robert Keener
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