Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Fchar F Shedding Light | 7? tor a r Growing Race VOLUME 15. NUMBER 8 r I s.c. K- * MTPtXIECRA TS~WN f Negroes F 1 Selves Du - CV N A A AD ur la iinHvr' nt FORCES M0S1 JBf ^ * ; CHA RLESTON? (Spec ial) _ Wm. McG. Morrison, Jr.. traili primary, bounce ahead and d< i v. lace for the office of mayor 1 Any resident will tell you I most will blame it also on a i R ranks. Ffve days before the impc I would give you a nickle for M [ turned, most of them on the I As decided by ofrte 'Wallace P-: "Supporter, they .ran something R like this: The night of July 20 the two candidates met in public debate fe on Marion Square. There, *Mor k; rison, who hgd been expected tc K. evade the meotinp, p/TT^ VI Br.\ aiiH put some ^dafriagihg ques K; tions befoic fhe slate senator. Tho next morning '(Saturday) Bj* l*h9 News and Gourier-^-a Morrison backerrr eeme out with ff-nm Ttfrtfrrnnn, RtoBynt,, .11 will > 1 t'r"?^asS E. B. 3 u-roughg, "a Muirlsan hacker. who dcdaic'd that Negroes weren't going t0 be coerced into voting togteher. |r in the meantime, Morrison backers had printed literature for white \homes attacking a BjP the Rev. R. 1. Lemon, also a r Morrison supporter, Hip lit. 11. r ture being some Negroes backing Wallace had had printed. At the bottom, the Morrison forces said: i "To The White People oi Kl Charleston?Let's give the Nek' gro People a break in Charl-esML tun. Let's lead the parade. - Let's P- invite them to r^nt living quart m- 'ers in our ndw apartments. Lct'Br' open our Restaurants and Movie Kc. Houses to them. * Let's invite pi. tbom to our homes- and ^chnrrlT L? I-et's vote a straight Wolln " 'r"-B*"" Ket. uall Your Friends. Win With Kv: Wallace.^ R - , On Sunday, July* 211. Negro ? Wallace -backers had distributed -at their ohuhfhos, ljtnd<bi!b which advertised a political rally fc- . Mondhy night, JuTv 23, iii Morric r Brown AMiE Church, at which f-' John. Wesley Dobb^ of Atlanta Was the ma n speaker, r . \ - Monday, morning, the Mor.ison forces had printed and distributed below Calhoun street. t;ic fe-: dominauWy wh'to- section, copies *r of the h.aVidbill, at the bolt m ' EC - wlr. h was curried thL affidavit: _ ?.. - * State of Simflt/C .rolnii . SF^County ~td' Charleston Fr, Personally appeared before me jfc:.' Reveren^ B. P. Sumnter and Dr. P E. B. Bummgivs. Who being duty swdrn, say and depose that on v Sunday, July 22, 1951, inrrmediately following morning scrvirc j'*.;. at. Old Bethcj Methodist Church ahd Mt. IZion AME Church sev5 eral peopk? standing outside the | churches distributed to the res F Jtetnve congregations the attachjf ' ^ htfhdbill The deponent???wt. ther say an^ depose that one ol these Sills was handed to him. . BwoVn to before me thi's~22Tid pe'- day of July, 1951. . w- (S) I'lr. K. H. tturroughs " (S) Rev. B. F. Sumpter E' Charles J. Baker, Jr. I} Notary Public for S. C. P>' Dr. Burroughs is a member of Old Bethel and Rev. Sumpter is F-,v. pastor of Mt. Zron, being moved there from Newberry. wi^r~ Former N/fcACP Heads v . Labeled, firm Mbrrison men *5? were- thr. - But1 roughs, Reverends ' whom has served as president of - ym NAACP talanch. Btxrlroughs Iff and Lemon here, and Sumpter while at Nrt?b?fi-y. apparently irked most of . *>'A ^ ^^ < - . . M ' '>,; Meth ** _ A: ... . . . . WHEN: ight Among ring Election ADS JOINED r FOLK FOHfiHT ?Why did incumbent mayo in& him in the first 1)emocm ti efeat state Senator O. T. Wal lere July 24? "It wan the -face issue,'*?an ninority division within Negr rtant second primary, nobod orrison's chances. Then, event fegro. the Negro leadership was not tl I weight and influence of the tr: within the Negro group; rat hi > that the information they took < ? the other side was being used 1 .. stir up white voters, again i Walla e, and more important! >- againnt Negroes. ; ~ Much Together On the other hand, sjteyir i shj|keh off a bad case of oftN. . ganization. dtiring last i-year , state races; Negroes had perfe - ted their fineaf mnity?for pollt :;^hn-,^>ng this gim r greys last year: f>r W W r counrty FiagrosSiv'e Democrat chairman, ^rs. Mable Green, m ted organizatior^al leader; Re Frank IrSal. Dastor Emanuel A !\, E Church; Rev. B. J. Glover, / ME pastor; Rev. E. A. L. Lam] kin. YMCA .pypi ii-tive?sL't'i'ctar Pinvkney B. Ezekiel. contracto M-"-"'"?E. Fields". women Continued on Pape cipht Has tie Up Named For Top-CourtWith tile pro?nle-n: rad elect*c only a year a IX. already pniitiii ans are talking of making Judt William H. Hastle n U. S. S. prenic- Court Justice, Writing , the September -edit'ornvf~TK Worlc| ma.ca/ine. Wriru.u Gar; ner explains in his feature stor "Is lie Headed for flu7 U. S. Si jlHI JUDGE HAS TIF. preme Court why he thinks thi move will be made^ Pointing out that Negro voter began throwing their weight ? round in 1932, Gardner declare that Tn the next election - the . Will hold hfllanefl of ?OW? in 15 key ntates. Knowing a . this, plus the Jact that? the haven't, ""y y?nm ised legislation of the *48. ele< M Continued on Pair* eight L, A ? 7 ^ BWKn nc COLUMBIA, odists \ rJohnson To Skip Commission Job I Being Rumored I I Unconfirmed rutnors. following j \ a ministerial attack last week on j his appointment to the State Education Finance Commission, i ~ swept Columbia early this week J ;'s'. that C. A. Johnson, ? former & supervisor of Columbia Negro IB schools, might resign from his ... untaken office of assistant to < chairman E. R. Crow of the Com- ; p mission. ?? [dRcliablc, but unquotable sour- |j cos, -ad "Mr. Johnson feels very |j d hurt, over trie reaction his ^P"|I o pointment received, and that if|l the people don't want him , to 1 serve, lie wjll not do so.," Another source disclosed j 1 s that a woman, who had been ; 1 scheduled to act as his secre- fl " I tary in the new office, had told !| .e l^jfrieiids she wouldn't resign lier || ^. present position since she un- 1 ' derstood "Mr." Johnson isn't , going to take the ,job."t* 'A third report was that the ap: [v pointment had come to the vet? man edurilbu- as a surprise, .that he hadn't been consulted beforehand. and gained his first knowlecige of it from newspaper reports. Ho\y.Cver, others comment-sj?d. that such, an action was un^"iTikelv n-.nsirW.mfl thn nnmplntu ^ ne-s-as to time. ^ch?dulfi9 in the ^ te'idenuminational Ministers Un*r ion this week for the stand they IC tnnlf TVip tini^.n (inf fKn f -"v ?.WIU V..i. CllJpointment \va- made without dev? ference to possible Negro tiling ipg and was such that it would " -not succeed. >- ; . ^ Move To Halt No? I Bias Fight Beaten Tn -Court Ruling "i WILMINGTON, Del. ? The? suit to abolish segregation 111 the ( public elementary and secondary schools of Delaware remains on the calendar of the- federal s three judge court "here, follr/w- 7. sng denial of a motion by the " State'.- Attorney General I i dis-K jmi 5 the cum-. The suit. ihTITTuTou'T" : - i ;/( lib. l- suno 'l tea, he j /> j "i" N AACI'. which succeeded! vt-;<r :n?r?rori1rm.T"rtrn.v.n lb. > ;. I1 *iir! i?.rs again.t Negro -:| the University <>f Delaware. ' A Xhv (O.MIC" a-t" For you kiddies! A brand t-j new comic strip! - I'uusy and y, j V_ i^uppy ! On page Three! ]| ANDERSON S | FOR SCHOOL ffl 'l'1 '??untie n d I'm -vim 'i ' 9] mprovemonj urogram adapted 31 by !!u b-n.1 slatuiv t s y'ar is' I'""'- <i it-lit t . est..Mwh equal , .r I j -. I'i k ! Tar-111 ? s fur f H(. t -,v, i c S1 i;:.?11j>s. State Superintendent of Education .Jesse T. Andor >n. oM tne ('n! umbia I. a his Cub _i.lDLi: ..Monday. . In an extemporaneous address, j tile department iiead sa.d tii.it aj survey )>v la, ?null cated tluil ,131 million dollars! -.was nocu r.ary tie budd .id equale arid equal facilities in the state, I or Some 56 millions more than is I - probable nrfwTrmder TbCTuTT ict "1 of state planning. (Some sources 1 have bold that some of the 75 J millions expected under t'.ie now | I sales "jimerow" school tax will be diverted for administrative expenses irn idehtal with it, and for additional items not yet reporter to ^taxpayers). 18 However, Mr. Anderson said. the overall effort is tg build and to 's maintajn equal schools for the i- two races * If state funds fall by :s the waysiac, he* said, it was the y hope of officials that local efforts I u would make up delie'ternies;? < 11 R'e indicated that the number i y of tn oniintw mnnlrl -I i- l>e substantially reduced by a i > consolidation program, and that ' frperation of school buses would i : . -4 ' V ' V. idkll1 VrtiH Back Corporal James II. Malum- 1 w of Fort Jackson, is working on a large representative?jHrtttfe fof an infantryman in combat > ui for post licailquartorg on aw- i* |iSnmr^<^rmu^>lajor^( .cnrral .-rn-..i ~ 11-~ Q.v-1- i ui run juihHiu iinii uir out m- t ^.4 lantfy DivTston. The complel- [ h, e(l canvases, composed of two 1 tio pieces of canvas spliced toRct j tr her, will be over seven fee* | Fort Jackson Corpor; Many Awards. Doing All s:x painting b.v Corpora' [ w faiw^ H. Ma lone of Fort J-aek-' bn on, entered in the* Third Ai.trfs j k.rl Contest have been chosen tuAV' ie forwarded to Wa^hirRt, n f r f| he All-Armv Art-CVntes! Judged by ,-VJant . art ' n a contest held at F rt M I>' ' ron. (In., Julv 7. 'he re,ad's t-ernlly ?ft hoi,tie* .1" T' : ( l inv I f id' pP; ! 1 Talonc ha i wr n '1: ' ; ; \ irt C.d -d A; ; Impressed v th 'In- soldier'-. ' 1 bilcnt. Ma |ur (iccri :| M l! r ! ( I'tlillv l ul 'iri irvrn i I.'nrf Tack so n and Ihc Kfli !nr.Tulr\ tKr-v'Nttrtt, riven !>mi an asJi; anient mr a- iar:;e pirtifidq it post headquarters. ^ The : . sfr:Vir-vo r: ~ . ' . d< \ ai re " I "* AYS FUNDS 5 LACKff'C: r * ' . .1 1 i! -i*:.r. ?L- X? ?? LOVELY nrid? u,is former Miss Lula Ethel Weii* laughter of Mr. arffl MSrs. I.oon^B *rd Weir, of Anderson, wd * former Anderson ^ehoof mitm, ivho was married to ITenty B. nfl Williams of Greenville, ; cominerriul artist, June It. afl II G \ m B 1 PBB DAY, AUGUST 4, 1951 : rig ?r~ '' ^Bhl ''^2^ If tile ;ui<l nine feet hi?h Third Army Headquarters at nl M' l'hrrsim, t.a.. has .ui " iuced th.\t all six jnitures en 'rfft >n Tftr* Third .Ynny .\tf _nj ic Fov Jackmn W:i t potest J tve been chosen for cempeti- j 11 in the All-Army Art Con st in Washington. als r/iio Has Won ; Special Port rail eon foot wide and nine foot ih. A vorsatiio nrtist, Malone ! m Uvhniquos vary ng mi oij and watcroolnr paintt > pond! a:vl ink drawing, iv ^rlf-fought. i.r- f rst re-' ' > * ' re.-njfndr n' .11 1948 when n a* p >-h ; contest spon'iv the Atlanta Crime Pre-: A - 'ouition The next' : ?'Mv.l fp:.?e in^ ?: ?;?a ' . ?; v nm : n t' M \:iti>?!?a: Ar;: ,f n .r. rd > Put ..a , p:i~, ; * 'ii I't'tdly mr-tt;ned -tn~ ^pt'? M ^"rYivos a it It {-he 3431 1 1 serviee '.nit at (ort < orporaj Malone has ,mi?' i-A.te nsi\ e 1 r! <\ork on 1 re ' Pinal taeilitie: Me re. "fi ' '*nrned time the St ti la iv e ( r/rr**r it M\ rS. C . u I; . re tie did ' oral in I hi- reereatioti hall 1 : * ' ' 1 "V .'inn in the mess '!! ii"1 1:1 the general's ((liar !|'! . 'iiii. 1 i t >UV I ' 1 Ha ' n an 1 T :y j M.?:;Vt:.'.'V,yv "t; ' in ' lass in. 1 at'd :ti, firm y,r.?<.{P a-AA A -rvctl-rve- of All ant,:, fJa > " '' si ) , nf Mr and Mr- . pa Mij. ne who now liv crt; 1. Austell, Ga I '! . ! V.C - ... , , > n,.r nt ..,Mf All. ... ... anl.?\s Hooker T. \h School, \froni 'whioh ho H> 11)40 a or! nf Mortise College, whicl^ie att'end ;ht O] Citizens AsketCTo Sign Cards Asking Special Election Thousands nf Columbians be;an receiving letters and postal aids Wednesday, requesting hem to indicate whether or not hey favor a $2,363,560 city improvement program, recommended by the City Planning Commission and approved by city loun;il. The cards, if the citizen approve> ihe program. are to be iigncd. along with the address of ihe signec, and dropped in the nail. No postage is necessary as l~hrs- is fumi-ilied nn?the sclf-ariIressed postal ;ards. A carq does not represent a vote on the issue. It merely requests council to hold an elect "mi (mi me proposal, wnicn IS to be scheduled later in event '51 percent of the" freeholders favor the program. -* The improvement prograrh, -omething the city ha-n't worke,j on m 10 years despite its having increased in population by' 37 percent, covers such items as the new MillWood-Gcrvais"' Traffic Way. a beautiful addition to i.u > iy. l'ir ttci?facilities tor >ant;.:y garbage disposal, the police Icpaftment and the city jarl, city buildings, parks and recreational facilities," drainage and $tr$e^ ufving ?Lc??event?thia prugum 13 defeated,- thin the city would to 1 lie impiovenient program Dr. Hill Speaker [For Allen U's [Closing Exercises I Dr. D. G, Hill, dean of the j chapel at Howard University i: | Washington will he the com j moncement speaker for the A1 : .('ii Sumtnrr School graduatei Thursday n.g ht. August' 9. ' io i-'l'.ik, "in the Allen University auditorium. I)r rlii; was horn in Annapohs. Md. and ts the son of a minster of the loc al AM.K .annual i.e ^ludictt- sr* Lincoln L";. \c. >.;y llJIt tj. hO^J ?.if Theo Dx. tne University. < f Oregon Pa.S'hoo] f)f Rel;gi..n. and 'oj.; !. s T:v ID. at I1 |T School of Trenjnsrv. Denver. Colo. Or. !!i!: wavs a Sec .nd Licuteni "Wrrrhi War II in tho'inTan-" 1l'v IV- o re! us n ' . civilian life "a V".-..i:r.e probation onieer. Con- f * r'f Domestic RelatM'nV of Mu ' '-rn-ma Q'.rit .. On .;..n? was vase \c >rkcr -and supervisor. State Ko'ief Administration, Ook'r.r ]. Cai-fornia. 193fi-40. and l"u | 2:3 years experience in ' work in Ml -souri. Coir on . Oregon and Cal fornia ; he ' ?hTVg 49. lie was a ?-???- ?4 :?' U ' rf?n -f the Oakland VMCA. a " b< r cf M;,v?r's Defense _ i L- i"itio-n CnMoi-.itfrpb-. - i ' Po-ko!o\ Cal.. 1942s : < .--i-hairnYr?> of the Pace Rr' ibons Cotnmiftpo. Denver Coun f Churx lu 1!)J t' US:?arrrt 5: man. 7Vn<rv FFPC Com >' mpp. itms. Hr [fi'l is rp-ource londor for i ' > "f ! ' "iirivrnd's rTivT ^ riv rips among sftidpnt groups. Ttrd r f^r aonl icatlon"of sociaT *'ork terhniquPS in pastoral protho chair of dean at Howarft Uui^ ver?ity, hp is associate professor of practical theology in the School of Religion at Howard. |H^. " 'A il *V' V * -Of. ' "> .' ' ' '.- i^*'. ' . ;-VrV u jin RitthftH Hah DIollUp DUV NAACP's Members of the South Cai week, went on record, throuj end jimcrowed public school) Notification of the dehorn ja letter to James M. Hinton, I Bishop J. W^.E. Bowen of A Coast Area of the church, w "You have my full and w jdeavor of the NAACP in the ! op Bowen wrote. "I have kep [movement1', tha prelate said. "Mv attitude , he wrote, "ha i been, and is, that this whole si1 uation of -egrogation, such a-s w suffer particularly in the Soutl a rid "in many instances in a the parts of our Country, is both ur reasonable an^ non-Christian a together. -"It is the basis oif many evil too numerou- to mention, but f rnong them the evil of keepin one group underneath the he< i of another group simply on' a< count "of. the division of neopli -by?racer" will be eliminaitei whether this is in public school or in other areas of life, whe men will come to recogni$$ mi a-? such, and give full' credit ' the contributions that people cj - tnaMj t<> uib t'unure 01 the la* without regard to the plan = =ivhaiy -Utmo ghoir ancc%to Bowen weqt on, "which wtil a Uminate .. differences amom men, differences that men crc ? ate, differences, thatare creat r ?ed "to exalt one man and t debase another". He ^ledge< t the support of his office to hel "eliminate the artificial barri 1 eijj that men have erected on , : Augusta I Having C AUGUSTA. Ga.? (Special) ' Georgia'- hate sheet, The Augi ta Courier, is still in a rage ov L iTii' ay?A i'iyiiL?i c ,?:i vert tl 42r?d national NAACP meetii list month. In its-July 23 issue, the fuu page Roy V. Harris weekly, a rails Mayor Hartsfield of AtlaTH the At lanta Journal and the-A ' lanta CVi-tntution. for what 1 BISHOP NICHOL AME Chui Stand Of .1 NEW YORK ? Taking the "i revocable stand that enforce raelaj segregation is immoral ar ^ -. JBpr'^ _ 1 M. TjiiTW Lps~ -H 'IH 51 WM . i J.I . Ll"**e>ga?y?+mml^K^DnW^ " ^ ., * * ? r' "'' i ? -j 3. { :. . " " ination's position , yrtut givcnTTn , NAACP state pdesident, from tlanta, bishop over the Atlantic hich embraces South' Carolina, holehearted support in this enState of South Carolina", Bisht my deep interest in this great - !* gainst another." v.'rfjl e "May God bless your move- ?r 1 ment'r, the prelate concluded. The Methodist Church in | South Carolina, thusly, joins ^ forces with the African Metho- < dlst Episcopal Church and tiie Sliate Baptist Convention, both ^ - * % s- of whom have previously thrown l" their full support behind the le ^ gal action to eliminate segrega- \ ^ tion in public schools, Bishop Frank Madison Reid of the AME , . d church issued a denunci.Uion. of * jimcrowism several weeks ako ' and told the NAACP his 1 ID,000 n or more merriber5 wpyld support -4^ ;n the action. The State; Baptist ^ Convention, in May, resolved icM ism, but segregation in all j^rms. *?] Wam NichhU ? The Palmetto State Teachers S Association denounced segrega v. P tion in its annual meeting here - last March, and several other or. e Iganizations have done likewise." Sate Sheet ase Of Fits ? said was~a "howTTng sUccess^' for is- NAACP. the alleged high point er. being?the daftemg" erf white WO- i1| ^ rr 'n :mtl colored'mert And white . ^ :1,i? men and colored women, at a soridi function during the sessio& i "* (In an editorial, Harris refers to ^ ifl flic colored men as "N.Ogio ""Si bucks" but white men are juat ic ; Continued ?n. Page eight .S SAYS: L 1. lii: I r-jch has rnJ.r;ftP/-l prr>pnin]. tujce d over state Schools in South Carid olinn. Bishop D. Ward Nichols ; this week informer! the NAACP. _ M R 1 -Writing ais-chairman of the AMIK Conlnectional Commission ^ ]on General Public Relations and I SociaT IVn'f'ii.n Pi hup ' 'in a letter to.Walter ed up the rejeclk^H Frank tvrfaduM| I . Carolina B state otticiH HI? was a | yrraie scbj :