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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 . . *. *-*- - ' "" * . Vy \ . : * ' ; : 2\ ' . >rdeca if J ,_;U ? ']% j^V3 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 i John: > ' _^ : ftr . ' . ? . ' ; i . - ~~7, c oi7u0 id* I r . . ... ' . * y.;.. ;' -'- -; ? >. * ?.~r? ?Crr^TT i , * ? ? ?? i i 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. . ' i . son To 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 T"?"" \ * Addn ; C "^"B I I 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 i v . _J, '.?, - r? "-r-i 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^ " ? , I' - ~~ . 1 "v . ia , ? . .L, ?~ ? 1 rTT" - 1 'S3 : 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 - ^? 'H W jlj^^^JH gjijy H ?*.* ' rt; ' rrgfc^i ? . *&*+<>-#: -2Wf* I H. ,"/ r"; ' -.,.?<.-<3 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 __Tj| 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?