pF&LUME 14, NUMBER 4(P
I Short $3,50
f in Clarend(
r.y j^ie South Carolina NAACP (
P eiy. $3,600 'With which to cover i
: tacfc on racjal segregation in pi
IF^ton, president, disclosed this w.
Br," Simultaneously, Mr Hinron a
BP as much as passible, and as qui
r the sum. Ha said that about $:lj
B estimated costs of the Clarendqi
ill federal court May 28, exceed
K} the expenses of ten outstanding
fc^are presenting in testimony in ;
f ' new chapter in southern educati
Mr. Hinton said that Th,urgood,~
? Marshall, chief NAACP attorn- u
Pi ey, Wad notified him that. ten d
fc-y men would be brought to testify h
Kvfcn the case. Originally five per- jr
sons were reported as main wit- ^
Wt~ tresses in the case which has at.tracked
wide spread interest.. It
is the NAACP's first main effort
E/. to ban segregation in education.
< Mr. Hinton said: . ?
|j^ "We have about $1,800 toward .
K the cost of this case, hut, now, Hi I
HhrtlOt Cftougn. 1 atn appealing to ^
Bth? citizens of South Carolina to
" help ys raise $3,500 at once. All i
- *f Cnnth p-arrtHrtay- resources
fatyft been made available to the ~
L other aide, and they will spend r
^without limit to keep us from .
m . winning. We have only oursel-i
rely ot>?we the poorand L
IjSlQSj
I p Crtn oe scat to s
Mrs. A. W. Simkins, 2025 Mar- *
Street, Columbia, S. C. 1
K. Air, Hinton said that NAACP c
ftttoilrieys were leaving no stone| i
F" Arsenic Sent To
r?- 'Gov. Hummon' jj
ATLANTA?(CNS)? If Gov J1
. ernor Harman Talmadge, 38, j
K. . ton of the late Governor Gpne
W Talmadge, had eateiv the metal- .
C- Ue?arsenic, carefully enclosed il
in a letter addressed to him, he
would've "been dead by Monf"'
day night" as the sender- of the
letter wished.
, However, the poison was at
l once detectedand.turned oyer 1
fe to the U.. S. Postal inspectors.
r 'they hadonly one Tine: the let
fr ter, written in obscene
language, was postmarked'
f "College Station," which is a
H&T Harlem branch post oflfije. 1
1 Taltnadge. undisturbed hv the_
P polsop, merely remarked that j
he frequently gets threatening ; 1
lr-~- mall from "Harlem, Detroit,'!
HjL and Chicago," He blamed Ne
[ fro cranks iMttdMrth who op
ft -? pasc my luJStl pulilW 1
r . v. The arsenic was enough to
kill several ... r-eople, if they 1
* " swallowed H. ^
-ji . if $
iR/fr; ^President Salu
? Mr.*h'.-a'|l R%ayi*. Cr<ai
KZ 1 ;/ i? .ix i Pnhlwhorf
100 0l*L
hi Kor a,
| coutAp;%. . > I am au
this u' w challeni
right decisions. "Hie Negri
|L the observance of Negro I
protad of its fine achievemei
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>rdeca
if
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10 Of Costs
m Lawsuit
inference lacks aunroximatuosts
of its historic legal at
lblic schools, James M. Hin
?e"k.
sked that every citizen yjyp
ckly as possible, to complete
800 was on hand but that
n younty lawsuit, to be tried
?K OOft mnA +u:~ J--- A
yw,vvv, 1|1UUI U1 LII1S UUC HJ
r witnesses NAACI' 1 awyera
a case which bids to write- a
on.
n turned in the case, which was
elayed because Mr. Marshall,
ad to conduct an investigation
lto court martials of soldiers in
*e Korean conflict. Assisting
Lr. MarshalU are Robert L. Car?r
of the New York offide ol
le organization, and Harpld R,
oulware of Columbia.
fimui^ Hicks,
Cor respond* ty
Fa Ik* At A.LL
_ James I- Hicks, New York re
orter for the Afro-Americai
Newspapers;, and?recently?re
iircved from an assignment it
torea, to ohjB^acu^^"an<
ignment, and stating that h
>elieved the United Nation
vasn' winning in that theate
aecause It wasn't getfting ade
juate equipment; into vital area
n time.
The correspondent, who file
som? brilliant dispatches fron
.he?warfront, told-of arriving i
Taegu, in.. Central Korea, an
earning that the 24th Infantr
Regiment he was headed fc
vas mnes away in tne iron
ine. and that there was n
transportation available, ho\
le walked the distance on foe
md arrived without mishap, no\
ind then getting ;> tTft by shut
1'ng supply haulers.
Hicks, usiirvg a quiet maniu.
)f speaking, sprinkled with dr
vitr said he had intended sta>
ng about 15 minutes for hi
itory, hut arrived just 'a> ficrc
(isrhtrng?brotwr mt-h?-He--d^teke
hree days.
Returning to Taegu finally, h
'bund reports of his death in
ilane dii>a-ter had beep sent t
ucm 4 ? t ~ ~ ~ :?
.tit' wimuu oidliliiltt'I , Jt Wu
rVsrovc^cd that-" the dead cot
respondent Albert E. Hinton r
he Journal and Guide, who hai
taken a plane both men wer
scheduled to leave - Tokyo or
Tick*?bed?gotten?n?htt?rm TT
?arlier plane. Hint<<n'> plan
plummeted into Tokyo Ba.
CONTINUED ON PAGE
orming our people of the
11 of us to check and dis~
re we shall be successful
?e and that we shall con'e-mrrt
Civit Rigtrtir~flraTI
nod people will make the
) Press, celebrating this,
Newspaper Week, can he
its in journalism.
Harry S. Truman
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TNAACR TRAM IX TRLN
I\Te\v Jersey State Conferenc
trial of the famous Trenton
March 5 after Prosecutor Mr
after jury selection began.
Left to right are Reveren
ference; Clifford R. Moore
m liter* nt *he ( nnfprerwe ; HR
McKenzie and Horace Wils
NAACP; J. Mercer Burral
[ mitjtee. of the Conference
1 Pep frying To Regain Old Pep
1 SARj^QTA, , Eia.?(CNS1?IrL i
e Knockeu out 1, m
one minute and five "seconds ol
j! the second round. Pep lost his tit"
. le last September to clever San
s dy Saddler (now m Cuba) but
hopei to fight for it again this
dl Ju"e- ,
I l)r John
I Bit* Aril
>t ^7
I. ]'! K11 AM, 7v~r~"""~TTr: tt
,< ?!' Howard ('Diversity, propo.rj
? ? 1 States (loverr.meiit shun
y counter offensive ayainst Ku
s 1 n a \ er sermi>n . in ! 'i;!
e iina f olleye, lh\ .Johnsom
J would crusade for
g-KIooryri-a-iu?woli as,..jn South
_If democracy iV to meet tin
e|n;'jcracy must help in a posit
".the venrlrl'y milliiiiis: ulin ten-i
? the past, the HtAvard L'niver
4 The United States-.Government
has t>?e technical and intellects
tual resources to win out over
nj communism. The winning, howv.
ever. wilV no|t _be throifgh exft!
Iuildliuil, mn through a worlde
wide human rights program that
y will win and keep friends for
u.-i, Dr. Johnson said.
"Our. time for thinking Is very
? limited and the Hour Ts growing
? late?fm?ileuia'eraey.?^Dr;?Jnhnson
went on Saying that the
present conflict between the
United States and Russia could
? be j?c It led?peacefully.?Liui?How
ard University president proposed
that Protndofd?Harry?STruman
inform the . UN Of
our determination to occupy our
" TO TENN. jCONFERENCE
TWO S. C. MEN TO C.O~
-* ORANGEBURG ? Paul R.
Webber . professor erf economics,
* and H. W". Crawford, dean of the
School of Industrial Arts, both
of the faeuHy at S. C. State A
amd M College, have been invited
to nar.tieinate in th*? Car<u?r
Conference scheduled at Tenttessee
A and I college, in. Nashville,
Term., Mar. 21-23, it was reported
Wednesday.
Mr. Webber is to be consultant
in economics to agriculture
interest groups,' and Dean Qraw?
fopdi consultant to groups mtar>
ested in industrial education and
engineering. .
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IWA, SOUTH ARQUNAt SAT1
V'J" .S?~
^ *' , '" . " v*
TW SiX r\;^ p,;^rr
e of branches of the XAACP ma
Six cas*" which \v;i^ . ti>. 1 t red rm
irio Volpe was s uddenly stricken
' V*'
id Chafles E. Wat kins, treasurer
, defense counsel and chairman
avmond Pace Alexander, chief"
orp the t wo de fend ants whose1 cj
T. defense cour sol and <hairrn?i
id Dr TT. S Wij'^un^.?president o
: Ike Williams Ignoring Deadline > 1
li NEW ^RS-^CN^ ?Light li
I .T.T'J^l ^utkmv lke wwmmp" is ?
1 t match, as . been to** Ion; ^
* since the 1 ast one. BiSt tfc.e I
isn't heeding their advrce. He's
boxing Fitzie Pruden,'in a ten Jln
rounder March 10th at the Gar H,r
den. But it's a^non-title. The 1 ;rt
NBA boys don't like that! | mj
son Urg I
m
Red Fund
i >i**. 1 * ? ;t i \\ . ! . piv . v i i
a*<l hcVc SmTdny" r^ir*" H"tTrr -Hrrft ?*Id
lam'ich a SJ *?
s'sia II I < '! J l II' ! 11! iv !' ]. , J,'
< \ *;*iit nr ma at N*< h < im
his- rmtfti hillav, dollar
the1 < I ifit Mgf"! : ;;: '!< > ill
A t'rit'H-: - ? frrr
....1.1).. . . I ""
t- i iiii.innu'f (I. .communism. <I
ive.way io iiiiui'ovi* the i. ?t 4?I i t,
? been all to often exploited i!i;>r
sity. prow dent. said.
j rightful pT:;ce erf wufi,| lea.i? rship na
| by waiiinn a moral "eounter-of-.'b
ifensive which \\;ouUl be nnplcnt->
" 1 ' ' '11 ! o.-iu1:0 llli i lu.b,
itr.tl technical resources."
I The. Washington. I) C. i-d.r y,
' tor said the Russians would be
totally unable to crmtinue t.ieir \V
plans for Violent recoTutioh if ,\.
J this In7veimmenf actively em re
barker! upon :i progt,,in that' i.m-1?
vinced tin? world of our s;.n.ci'"
itv in practicing democracy Al
The billions for peace pro,i.e. ij) K'.
which would initially he pirmsh-) P
ed by the United States would
m all likelihnud. l:di-r l>, supple- fT| '
mented by other nations who {f 1
were Convinced .of the seiious- ?
ness of our purpose, the educa
tor >tated. ' T1
M inrr/i I> hK D11H1 7
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AV, HAK< H *4V 1951
f
leys and officers of the
pping strategy for the re
listrial and postponed unlit'
with appendicitis a day
of the N. J. NAACP Conbf.the
legal redress com defense
counsel for John
ise is being handled oy-tiu
n of the legislative com
f the?fkmferenre.
. / ? ?.?_
ate Justice.
7^
WASHINGTON ? Partieipat
g jn u memorial fo.
v late Supreme Court -Associ
e .Justice Frank Murphy. Thur
>od Marshall, specal counsel fo
XA AC P~ expressed the eon
cti'iu that "the. greatest eon
ibut: >n " of the jurist "were ir
-vvs. involving ;-he rights of min
.lv .croups who were victim
. ra tiii/ed hestdity and tn
j-o- 'nonconforming individ
I.-.;! out v."
ti>\ C'I'IIk! Case" tsT"
rtrfpj lien>:*c \ . .
up'or.u1 Cmir!
iii i i v/u^n v
Of Service To An
First Paper BeRan In
Minority Ri?hts;Ja<
As the Nf^rn prryy nftwerve7; rph
its 124th birthday it look* out i hn
upon ji wrrrtth torn irtrifp-OTirt frt
misunderstanding, yet full of fe
pr<>mis0 for a better tomorrow .iui
When John ftuss-wrurm first i^li
--puKli.shod KR RFROW '
JOURNA-L in New York City in frr
1R27, freedom for the Ne^ro from I
-111.i\ . X A . v, unun
te: .*.i. Florida, <*as'
the lives of two youni
ernes was heard by the Unit
s-.tes Sanreme Court on Fri
* a attorneys for the NA'ACF
ueb! .1 reversal of the Inwoj
in * ioi i^'.on otu the ground:
I,-. >y,?U'Hi of j-ui'y rclrvtiemi
ji,.i ir<|uatc t ine to prepart
< di.'f n-o; and that the . tria
rendu-ted in an atmosphere
i. or fit ajid violent e.
\- >1 acys " ar^uinK tTiv < as<
i llobei t I,. Carter of New
uk . NAACF* assist an'
eeial eounsei; and Franklin H
.IlianV-k of Berkeley, Calif., N
West Co ad reitimnal di
tor, formerly assistant speeiaJ
uiiM'l Other attorneys as
hated with the ease are Ale>
serm.in. Jr. of Winter Park
y Thurmond Marshall, NAAC
?U'l -dd i nun.-.el. and Jail
I'r^nherfJ and ^Trs. Constanet
"FfT Viot lev. assistant s peri a
in ;ei. all of New York
C O M I N G SOON!
ie New Lighthouse & Informe
es Its 121th Year
terican People
' 1827 As Voice For
iay A Great-Force
ySha! "Slavery"Ivlis" the issue a'
md. Today, 124 years later
nr. mistrust and confusion L
d as pressing In the fight U
minate this different bu
lually- reprehensible?borwlagi
>m the sceme of twentieth cen
CONTtNUKO ON PAGF I
sss Sta
*cm
(ER
or-Si
Mitchell Speaks j
Here April 22 j
N Kx congressman Arthur W.|J
Mitchell will* >peak in Columbia!
? :).r night?of April 22 for the-j?
Columbia Women's Council, the
leaders <>{ that organization suidj
Wcilnostiiiv
?. The site and time of the meet-j
. inn are to be announced inter. I
Mi\ Mitchell, now in retire- 1
rncnt in Virginia, is aLso-/c?:pcet-i |
_ i-.j iu sp< :ik in twouother South' .
Carol iri; t com muni tie> while on |
the special trip in the state. He) *
appeared several weeks- ago for J *
the Southern Regional Council. ]
Mr. Mitchell was the first of, ^
his race to serve in the U. S. '
congress as a Democrat. He rep* 1
. resented the First Cnogressiorial ?
District in Illinois, the office] *
held now by Rep. William Levi, i
Dawson ' . a
, , ' i
. Progressive
Warned Of
~ rrogressiVe DcmociaLs in 11
Irict were told this week that i
congressional district" meeting
March 10, allegedly sponsored 1
Citizens Clubs^of wTiich
~ ^ Th4>sttgBitlon^i>f rrojg^five
- -* lettsiltQ precij|C|MBitr vxHinty
and membership list
r crats and NAACP branch presic
James M. Hinton, state NAA- di
j CP president, who said?he had IU
agreed to address the March 29! U
meeting by telephone, but die.-, h
n't know then the, nature ni thelte
nieetung, told" The Lighthouse v
, from Augusta by phcme Thurso g;
a day inornmg that he would Lsue sj
l I the ..Mieial position of the NA- g:
. 'ACP and hnn-elf next Tuesday,
ahlieati--n. Mr. Hinton ad* th
: ' Tl'.r Ie:eicr>inp of the E
| P. >g:v.--ive Democrats and our P
J irgan /at ;<vn nave always stood th
I . hiuh~ iffiTt-Ftrotrtder- together. - ar
.\-1 uui'h of - iur progre-.< tfi h<
- uth Carnlm.., has be^n ^ie (U* -t
I i'a t re.-uit of that relationship , C
111 am :v>*. going to do Anything n
cj.\'.!ivi, .na.cn: .-tiggest, in any .
;; : lint fie two of us aren't
I v :a < : >.-'e and working To-"* ,
u
| go. r.? 1
Chancer 'are he wilt not- arp" .
rjpoyr on the pmgjv.m. Hut jf he
I
if T KEN TON JlIROf
WITH CAKE BY
j
t Four Neffroes In Jur
As Attorney QuiZz V?
I TRENTON ? Painstakingly or
examining each pro-pective ju- th
: ror. the defease and the prose- s?
, eution had agreed on only half
1 the jury after threy* and a half
r dab* nf careful selection in the~ ^
i re-tria] of the widely publicized th
' "'Trentoni Six" which opened I hi
here on March 5.
Charged with the murder of M
an agec} while man on the morn- th
ing of January 27, 1948. six ti(
y<mop Nopmn^ Horac> Wilson, ah
John MJcKen/.ic, Collis English, lie
Ralph Cooper, McKinley Forrest su
and James Thorpe, were convict- th
od and sentenced to death. A pr
new trial was ordered by the fe
Supreme Court of New Jersey. er
In the re trial, MeKenzie and cu
Wilson are being represented by *p
~ TTAACP attorneys Raymond Pace '
Alexander of Philadelphia, CHf- w
* ford R. Moore oX Trenton and 1?
' J. ' kjercer Burrell of Newark
T The i^mining four are being tv
3 represented by other counsel in- at
^'eluding Arthur Garfield Hayes oi
' George Pellettiebi airid Frank S. ef
* Kattenhach, ill "R
* I Efforts of the Civil Rights w
11 Congress to stage demonstrations n
te Tea
' - - " n:
iiai ^
arrl
' held
ftlf r
J
Howard IL
Final Nighl
POLISH KEFL'UEK TT "?""" ^
SAVES HAN'S LIFE .1 . de
BROOKLYN ?-(CNS)? Wii- ^
te
lam Talbert of Brooklyn owes lT>
lis life to the alert thinking of
Jr. Meyer Bieler, a Polish doc- I
rrasp of death under a subway
At Brooklyn Jewish Hospital,
ralbert was reported alive ony
because Dr. Bieler, on ad- I
nitting physician there, rush- I
dan ambulance to the subway I
vhere Talbert lay under a train
ind administered immediate
-Democrats |
Meeting k
Sixt. rnnrrnnftinriwi dia- die
h?*y had ;io par| inn l4SixtfeP
- tfengf ^Darltatfon, ^
a f rAm PrArrvoo aitio bf
lents. 011
dcs, it would be disastrous to in,
\e spomsors, as was demonstra- s&
d in Charleston last year when se
c .smashed quite dead an at -p,
mpt by a group there to set en
ip a separate T>emoonatic or- ,p(
snization, which hoped at ,the
ame time to sail under f^ro- t>
rcssive Democratic colors.
A second >peaker is listed cn ^
io program for March 29, Dr.
rogressive Democrats from 1
eir inception "in 1944. Dr. Ad- Ja
n.s h.,r| adhered to the Repub?rui
party, but was elected ?
ale president of the Negro ^
iti/ons Committee in 1942. , ijb
Hr. MeC ray's Point Of View |f|
Chairman McCray said tl^e S*
nipt" to splft up citizens in .2?
e district, in favor of "selfish
jA-r- *. <-gs&
Continued On Page 4 9
tS'SELECTED 1
-ATTORNEYS"-!
y Panel Excused |
mire On Racialism
i behalf of the HofAnSantc a.
e now trial oj>ened, were con- ja,.
rued as harmful by some ofj
ie defense counsel. The "CRC pr
previously withdrawn fr^m
17f
o loffal defnn.n nf ju i'MVA/T ^
en.
an
On Thursday (March 8) Mr.
Goore expressed the < opinion .
lat rejection of the GRC tac- ?
\s by defense counsel "had dis)used
the public mind in Tren- c
*1 of the harmful effledts of an
ch tactics"' He charged that ^
e. ORC demonstrations "im>sed
a handicap upon the de- (
ndarnts m that they tended to ]
eate prejudice against the actsed
men in the minds of pro- - J
'ecuv.fr jurors." -4r~
Four Negroes fan the panel fioan Pi
bricfr The "furors are being se- eel
>oted were excused, two be- of
gve In capital punishment and wl
7o~ for Other reaaona. Defense Tio
torheys queried all veniremen 1
i their racial atttiudea in an th<
Tort to 'a fnry fraa of on
as. Six Jurors, including three ev
omen, had been selected by hi
oon Thursday. tnv
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chers
EtigD PRESS CURED ~ r^;|
TaTiiTg no man, the Negro'
is strives to help every ~ 1
in the firm belief that mfl ']
hurt as long aa anyone ia~ .j
back" _ V " ?ssssaassgsggBssssBss^
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: Speaker
"Mordecai Johnson, parcsr
nt of HowardUniversity, will
liver the closing annual mes
ige Before some 5,000 school
achers. members < of the Pal*
etftc> State* Teachers A3soeia
, '
. .-11
[ $
I I ->' '- H
>n, which convenes here for a
'o day sacs ion Thursday., ?-*
Thf? keynote address will be .
ilivered tha opening Mijlijjby ^
SeaUjuuW-Jft =*ideat of
l?s Friday6 niaht. ^oth'^of
isLs in thi> coanti*y, repi
Z the National Education At- ; I
ri^tton. Dr. Hatch is executive
cret.Ty of, the Alabama State
fachciV .r ASso^tion, and ajn
nployee of the Alabama State
^partmcn1 of Eudcation.
The conv( rvtion opens at' 7:30
M. Thursday. At 3 P,M. Friy
another general session wilt
held in the auditorium. Group -
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PRESIDENT PARLER .
H'tings a^ jfrmviirt Pnilnfln ??*4 '
MenUniversity will be held
iday at 10 A.M. and lvP.M
J. C. Parler of Orangeburg,
incipal of Wilkinson t high
PiOglr T>Wsid(bftt" of _ the ontah-~
ttion, and oth?M offif iHlsrr~5gtq
ey expected a reocrd attend- * +.-~^
ce this year.
Other top officials include- ""
hn R. Bowen of Sumter, vice
esident; Walker 15. Solomon cf 1 i
dumbia, executive secretary. >
d James T. McCain of Sumter
d Mullms, treasurer^ ' &?jfl
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DROSS BURNED NEAR
DILLON CITY LIMITS
DILLON ? Neighbors aroused
widow near the city mffil of
*
approximately sue fed! high
rich had been fired before her
me. ._ _
[feifrvbors said the amblem of
> Ku Klux Klan bad been as* j
r~ ibciwwn Ssbd f IIUN
enlng by several men Wbe
A made K from tn&w luster
d cotton, held on by wire.
' '-j ??i?