Perverts Seized in Bar Raids
The Miami Herald
by James Miller
Squads of 44 sheriff’s deputies -ordered by Sheriff Thomas J. Kelly to show perverts they **can’t set up housekeeping in Dade county”-early today were raiding 11 bars suspected of being homosexual hangouts. The raids were timed to catch the maximum number of customers in the bars shortly after midnight. chargers picked up were to be with vagrancy and detained for a venereal disease check, Kelly said.
The surprise VD move came after the sheriff said he had been told by the Dade county health department that five cases of primary syphilis have resulted in recent months “from contacts with homosexuals.” Kelly said the raids had been planned carefully for the past two weeks. Accurately drawn floor plans of the bars were passed out to each four-man squad. The first five taken in were released after they were questioned and their names and addresse were taken. Deputy Gerald Butler, in briefing the deputies before roundup, warned against the use of “any unnecessary rough stuff.” Kelly seconded that motion, and asserted “they are protected by laws, and the constitution is still in effect in Dade county. “We do not want perverts to set up housekeeping in Dade county.
We want them to know we’d like them to leave,” he said. A health department doctor was on hand at the jail booking office to check all those brought in. A psychiatrist was also on hand to interview suspected homosexuals, Kelly said. Bars listed by Kelly to be visited were: The Good Hotel bar, 4301 Collins ave., Miami Beach; Stockade bar, 5731 NW Second ave.; Echo club, Ocean dr. and 15th st., Miami Beach; El Morocco, 641 SW 12th ave.; Sambo bar, 249 NE First st.; Circus bar, 401 Ocean dr., Miami Beach; Charles Hotel bar, 1475 Collins ave., Miami ave.; DeMarco bar, 701 S. Miami ave.; Alibi bar, 601. S. Miami ave.; Shanticleer bar, 626 S. Miami ave., and Leon and Eddie’s, Biscayne blvd. and Ninth st.
All the bars were in either Miami or Miami Beach. None was in the unincorporated area of Dade county. “If any foreign people from fringe upon our integrity, if they must take upon such acts of “Only by complete liberation complete the victory people, we will Asia and the The Red territory; its not be tolerated, placed under He declared simultaneously Formosa, by for the “conclusion U.S. Shrugs “WE WILL declared. “Any treaties government and the entrenched in Taiwan whatever.” In Washington, as part of Red Nationalists.
The State out that Secretary week that tionalists beat has been under Korean war outbreak Chou charged States, unable China, “have liberation of Says U.S. The Geneva for the forces of But “United in this defeat. and aiding Chiang carry out with ment and coastal areas.” The United the Chinese war.” Red China, steady perseverance the progress of Peiping radio Mao Tse-tung, broadcast added Urging the powers-India, Burma, of the Southeast United States, “It is not organized mainly undermining question of the nations McGuire”the ever hoped E CHINA.