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L Leaders Urge President Truman
?- To Lead Democrati<M^2 Slate
i NEW YORK ? PieniAmt Harry S. Truman Monday was
urged by a group of nationally-known leaders to stand again
for election next fall. They based their plea upon his
championship of the cause of civil rights and his program
ft for defending the free world against Communism.
ft The Joint statement- was re- ^
K. * here by Elijah L. Crump, wUUn? to, For these rea"
N. Y. State assembly. Among T^re Z?u to. sland,
\ A . tTT again for election. The voters of
the prominent singers were Dr.
ft _ _ T , _r . our country should have the opB
Mary MJcLeod BWthune, Wash- _ .
ft ^ tit yT a 11 A* portunity to show their grati
ington, D. C., W. H. Aiken, At- _ , , *
, . _ ' , ou ! tude for the leadership you have
. lanta, G<a., Marshall Shephard,' . .. ?
? V. . given us through *hese past
Philadelphia, Dowdal H. Davis, N
Kansas City, Mo. and the fol-j i
Wt& lowing: 1 rwmww a ^
John H. McCray, Columbia, S.j I ? " THQM A S
BE|EvT c * *Bmory Jackson, Birming- j .* ^jftR?^
I 2r^W3T?PASSES AWAY j
$ % ~ - hast V H
*rey . f p.. Deioie. Johri J. Thomas who died Wed-:
|e'- New ^Kanail^an M. Capers, nesday of last week weTe held
J Cleveled; jP^atchell, St. Lo- Sunday afternoon from the Tri
uis, JMJo.; Dwtfc Grant, St. Louis, nity Baptist Church here, with
KSL ||j^ ^A, Scott, Atlanta, Go.;'the Rev. J. J. Ahney, pastor, ofKfffc
^OiivSrTill, Richmond, Va.; J- S.} Mr. Thomas had given the!
E Stewart, Durham, N. C.; Louis, community and the post office
p:.C, Blount, Detroit, Mich.; and H. department (railway) a long
^?Tyler,?Texas. 1?rficord?of?f a it h ^?wrvicc,?and
The full sstatement noted that; remained active until forced to
^?niitiew?today?is?confronted b^d by illness. Kp had
I Bfyith a series of critical prob- ?f the most effective NAACP
HEpMhs, world-wide and domestic bianch presidents this city has
In character, which affect all A-t ever had, ami was prominent in
ng it pointed out that in numerous other community acthe
main, Negro interest has erp- Cities.
^Hj^HHpdaed the question of civil, Hundreds of friends from va8
ft* vVbecause it has long ap-!^ous sections of the state were
jg CirI6-e payin* flT^1 tricoidd
not scotti
in ^.'challenge which pRl ^
^ tMjgftOBffyOUff Mtcea iron , ^ ?H V11
m/. who wot&$ suppress even the pi w IT* 11 '"
modest emancipation we have -E^*'I|1G0 S IVlIi0|* .
bj*n able to achieve .through the .
Hi-. * jjwnocratic processes of our form _ NEW YOR* <'CNS> - it
Hlw? government." ' ? an jnforrfter?? dope ad^^H^-|P!>The
statement went on to ' ' bim elf?to break the case
KB?hv.?rvi&w w*t hshame" the continu- 1 jc ,r)bsing blonde, 10 year
fetid preva^phce .of racial hatred ? oanno Barbara Scott, who
* an(* bigotry in the United States Uas ' 'SOOVor?d within 16 houritvd
itsfe Impact upon American r in a trunk on a
Rt prestige abroad, but added: Tnvirh- Conn, estate.
K^l vr? >fWcre that circumstance (of A- , ?doral narcotics agents had
'" * ! ?:wf> >c"{ ^ '?oking for the young wife's
rV~* xlWk v;*r*;' "7 body -for two weeks when the
w*uld be n? lesS apP;U1?d. an tip came from one who *aw the
M outraged, that some Americans ^ ^ _n ^ J ^
fl yil rtoetolwo m accordance ment pf fl(lshily narry
p-ZT-r. W,th fe?r'rl ? ?prinClp^ Rnbtrvon. a-tJ^"ro seaman,
y ?a ' . , t The informant, whom F.B.I.
^ ?" fTl win only say was a ma,, told
pWV.-more than any other Chief of how Robinson ha(J ' .
F3^ ?***? Mr. Truman has -poken afff.r ^ ir]
llfcvy , . and acted " with "greater consis- . . , f
Hhl|fN t.. eel with the others in the room
??; I tencv" agamst the conlmuance r<>m<>ve lh(, body. an(i MTeKd
r . S.??f thl9 axockory.y^.h..neer,t, half.oun(,e of ^ ag
/ vigor and determination. As a payrnent
result, the document continued,---....
S tfter^ Htt? town a grea'.ut awak-.
* ening among the American peo- *
pie to this injustice, and "pro ' ^
? -; gress has been made " It eon- . .
jjL eluded:
. -a ,rwe believe that *he mainten-'
* an.ee of the momentum which
you have given to the correction H
f^* -? r of^fhls national infamy depends:
rr*?* . tv. ? ../Ml 1 ro ctill
UpiWI gilC icouv? oimp yvu q*v 1 _B
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. * > CHARLESTON ? Mitchell
North, St, died her? last Sunday J I
r~. otter both legs had been arapu- 9
m' ' toted at Roper hospital follow.
in* an aeeldent under a freight I
train , . . _
OfR John P. PeVeamt |
an norm naa attempted to I
r ffiwl wader a slow moving train "
near the west end of 'TT street,
J. aw the weighing station. The
*!-, Sost^cra Railway train crashed MEN'S WEEK Committee e
. his legs no that amputation was leg*: Disowning the thdme "Th
^ neoeosary. H*s resulting shock in a Changing World" of the
and loss of blood prercated bis Men's Week, March 17-23 at f
Bpp "nrvtrai. 1 * I Orangefcnr'% nre: (left to i
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r AND J*aT\ INFORM
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olumbia, sotrra Carolina. saturSay^ march
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i Thurgood Marshall, Chief of
! NAACP counsel, Marlon A. |||
Wright, president of Southern OH
Regional Council, and A. G. 1- ^
vey, journalist.
The broadcast will be from
1 tape recordings of a recent |
Harvard Law School Forum, Hg
originally broadcast by radio*
station tvHbrf, Boston, Mass. I
South Carolina's Clarendon I
county school segregation case
will be discussed at length dp- UllP ' ^
ring the course of the broad- '
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At Anniversary 4
r\fmu. J rt 1 1 A 70 YEAR Ol.D blind
tit iTade bCilOOl lied as Mrs. Annie Smith
, street, was fatally injured
DENMARK - Former govern- jay afternoon when flames
or J. Strom Thurmond, speak- jng. spread to consume the I
Ing to more than 1,000 persons at ?'? --- *?he
fourth anniversary ofescrv- 4r?/}M UM A #
ance of the. Area Trade School UP&M ** OUS A t
here last week, lauded the work \Allen Nursery
, being (lono at the? institution,?Fomial opening 6! the All
and. expressed the wish that be- University Nursery School is
^forc_lpng the enrollment Ht the vutu.. an open hou
school will 1 exceed 1,000 stur- Sunday, March 16, from 4:00-5
dents. p ,m, The public is cordially
j -Mr. Thurmond, during the vited to visit the Nursery, whi
I course of his speech, urged his j js located in the Mai ice Teat
| audience to stick to American i-j 0r's Residence Haii and Laboi
deals and. spurn ihoso things | ory school On Tayloi street 1
, which attack these ideals.. ( j tween Ileidt and Oak streets.
Senator Kearse ar.d Rep. Brp'r>-|? .
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I>G\vk!h3 presided over the pro-1 At I* 1*0011 VI if (_
! gram. J. M. Che**^ superintend- J GREENVILLE ? John II.
1 cnt and business manager of the, Cray. editor of -The- Lighthoi
Area Trade Schools, introduced' and Inform r, and tatc cha
the speaker. R. R. Turner, state man of ProgiO-.sive Democrc,
director of Vocational Educat- will be the feature- >pva5ion
end President "Halliburton of ' re Sfmday iiftcrho'i'-. VTar
Vorhet s Junior College,, al-o ]ri, J p. m., during aSr.a-s m
spoke briefly. ; .rg ir. Bruton Temple church.
Following the program, Mr. \V. L Jones an-.; F-r f i
Thurmond and other gtiedsj -ponsoiing conrmito .aid '.
visited the c ampus. inspecting j meeting is called t ophu-e nu
'ho various shops. , classrooms [ cm pi. as > on \oting 'u cc-ar, a
and departments. ! .enlightenment on ml-thods a
j *oo'r>niquo- which may be use
CHICKS CHOP COP . ,. rrt
rDeAli To Speak
A city policeman Is nursing
a tcn-sstitch knee and leg slash GrC6l6yVllli6
inflicted by one of two women ' GREELEYVILLE ?- Rev.
he finally arrested. 1 Mohammed DcAli. news edi
The officer had moved in to of lhc I*??hthous.c and Inform
halt the two from slicing each a na^vo British Alrica w
* other with switchblades. Our- recently joint d the now papo
ing the swinging, one chopped staff, will deliver the main c
him. Neither of the chipping dross h?_r?. . Sunday attorn ><
ehi^kc unUni,,..,! March -KJ J JO HI til I?itin?rmt
, i??vu r?v 111111.11 Ul (I * ,J,V
soratch, however. versarv meeting of the loi
it Claflln Col- Green. Madison ftmiUi, William C. Evan:
ie College Man Counselor of Men George H. Greene, Chest <
? first annual Smith and Reverends Claries Smith ju
laflin College, haxn Gadsden. (Robert Uoagu-4-phuU
Julius
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woman, identi- above. Mrs. Smith died in Columbia Hos?[
Pilal Tuesday night. Police think she caught
about I:.JO Sun- -*\ 'ai~ from
her cloth- herself afire while making a fire in The coal
)uilding pictured stove in her room. ?(Photo by Elmore)
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| Newspapers Study Charleston Area
_eh South Carolina^?To Get New High
^Voting Technique [School Soon 1_
:00 What Negro South Carolina CARUESTON ? Construction
in- proposes to do this year to coun-*"bf a new high school hlrtlflgf In
ch ten Dixiecratic moves to defeat the North *tJharleston,4 or dim-let
h President Truman and civil?|four aroa, may b^^gQito^j
lo erican newspapers, who ccnfcr tion, under a 11>nr
iso rod with John H. MrCray edi- aid for areas srwtnfai by defense
it- tor of The Lighthouse and Infor- workers. Kecefttly, Charleston
4*, in or and state chairman of Pro- was designated a "critical deier
fira- ive Democrats, and Ja:>es fense" area by the government..'
~?h M. ITint'>n, -tnte NAACP The new buildipg is fo have
dent. '5 classrooms.. It ""wttt ^upple-:
Mr. I lick v mis-don here, and mont the present Bond-WilajjJ^.
b a few other places South is to ?lementary and high school
ho hom first* hand which way Ne- built four years age i> Ufljapl
>vo nicru s 4hey may employ. Ho had 69 student u m ?. .* st
n.l groo will vote and what tech- ' Today !t has mo.c Han 900.
ad said that general opinion i bout
d. tno country was "hat "South Iicil (llct Cft
Carolina lias the most effective. ]},>(.}*?!
''t nc* the mo.-1 h on opt and powcrful
leadership in the country ^CJIARLES "ON Alumni Club
nm.uig Negimbs." and that" this. "^~R~*n^rt ^dlldge presented the
jr s'ate )s expected to set the pace riv>ir of 40 voices of the coltor
the rest of the south from h-ge in recital at Central Baper
tlie Negro side. j Church last Wednesday,
ho On Sunday, editor Louis E. r,!Rbb
i s Burnjiam, of- "Freedom " a Amon* those appearing on the
ui mi.nth^eb.yv-pftpcr published in *,ros?1 'vere: Rov" A H" CIark'
)t \nw Vr.Vu r ?, . , , Rev. E. E. Rilov, dorm of Renem..
aw loiK ( i,y. accompanied bv _ ^ .
ni- Mr. Cbapiiu.il, visited the Light- 1,"'t C'oiU*?> Rov" J C T>unbarral
house and Int-'u me/editor and Einm( tt L Wroton pifRli?t
nr> po-.'ibk' Mans thi* ',nft
state might u<e this ycr. Mr.
IBurnham said ho had made the A A - a*..!!1 II
trip because several state co.i- H g P P ill M 1 ? P
ventions of Progressive De.no- wVllIlllV M
crats he had attended some
years ago still-. convinced Wan |A!I
that "Hrr^ ,r, " m^mmi
-he gglHSI tfgjjl
' -?r??^Wtanl wrte ORKENVlLLE ? All charges
aaglnst Cpl. Earl Warren of the
On Monday, ,-litor M. J. Whit- Donaldson Air Force Baseplate
a (i of. the Meekly Review at |*.f?n finally dropped, hir attorAugu-ta
vf :ted with the Light- , noy told a reporter JMs week,
house and Informer -ditor. The DonalcLs.>n hadr*ee? booked
C scvf. otters, by local pr.fieo ?fn charges of rcjuv?irt*i
'htT ' ^ \? ^o c* j stating arrest and driving whije
- year In the two ad- unde|. <be influence of an lnto*j
ning so as. , lcjmt A six-man police court
'Jury had found hlna^fuiltyan
IfloTe Than *,000 'the flrst Cllsmc in A six hour
Te'sfrd [n tr**! TueBd<iy nicht 4 ***
a i ji?* ! split on the second. v
HypMHl# Drive However, attorney John Bolt
. Culbecrtaon, who nptewiiM
_ __ (HEARLK3TQN-, ,n in .1 - -
Ibnm an Increasing num- Against him have bean drop*
Her of peraofiis hare been tested ' {*-<\ and the earn Is sow eloe>
f.?r rfvphllJit, The coiKentnited f _s * ' ramp*a|n
against .yphOta. '*inj Mr. Culbertsmv who oeprer
oopdntie anotfier two weeks, tented WSarten free of charge,
1C1 Churched, achoois. Ontern h?w 1?* "
- , - - - ? r??cu ????in?T. xne c?se, first on
'hr. 5*?. of stations the grounds that no Negroes were i
I.for trve blood testing pivgroms Inclu-ictf in the i?ncl. Recorder
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Blind Victim Setsrire
To Self Lighting Flame
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tragedies to visit Columbia format^ yeoirs.
As a result of third degree b'?n^nb'- * the ' ?*? hand*
arms and other parts of the body. Mrs. Anl#ie Smith, 70,
and blind, of 2318 Senate street, die<5*tbe i^lumbia hes- <
pttal Tuesday niffht. Funeral arranfltemant* ^ ***V*ri^l
loved ^illlrwera boin# tSSSi lit*
Funeral Home will conduct the burimL^ J
Progressives - . I
Pick Candidates
For 1952 Slate
NEW YORK?Vincent Belli- 1,1 * fisurtl the little frenec
nan, outstanding west coast pro-' ^ *""*** I
j gressive attorney end prominent EyoWitaWsias <aId tfcui
'defender of civil liberties, end victim. wlf> ^Njp
Mrs. Cberlotta Bess, of New ** belocust, she we bm- ^
! York, leading Negro publisher, b^d .fvl ? ':!* *
' were Friday unanimously nec- wfrvprty residents nm ^ ^
ommended by the CandMetee Mteweiaround ?:*>. fa&J
Committee ? the PtamntN I the guy, pieawnt but ,
party, candidates fog President1 "N*"1/ ohl*r KMWf
l and Vice President. respectively
'to carry fonwud the Peace ^ <* * "**? 0001,1 *>? *"B? 10
Omnp^tf the Progressive ****?" ?g?
Party in the MM election..- y"0* *f:
_ - _ nre wes roaring out through the
The Candidate Com 111" roof near the ohknney.
J stated that the candltfcdes o many neighbors* and
! Mir. Hallinan end Mrs. Bass as- lriftMjK stood around iiahrlm U
[sured American people of ail roUts*: down theiri^^^l
! political affiliations an "oppor- M ^ f<g? ^efilad body was
I tunlty to cusMhs^vot^forpeace and sped to
armaments race backed by both SoCKtl SCCllrity
??inT nnmlUt Jl
I^C wv> Mrs. T iCltfj^ 4^5^
g ?ilv pr?teentedfor
: Nalftmal OrnmitVwf pf the F*o- CONnNUTO oV TAG* |&G
?*Room For Eight
|l>r. Mordecai Johnson More Stutient||8iM I
(To Make "r (Columbia Hospital I
I Banquet ^ddrees tor eight mote ya??, |
CHARLESTON-Qr. Morde-(^omen wishing enter the I
cat W. Johnson, presldeht of Schol at the GoHgnhie - - rg
M II - .vard University, WasKfaigton, ^Pita* are evailsbie fir effgl- *
] D. e., will be the featured spr^ak-H,. persons. Superintendent
er here Mondtoy night, March 'J?mes ^ E>anielst said Tuesda
24, at a benquettwdered B3rthej^r ^^eat!ons be appardv
! Business Men's League and the]. t " time the next class J8
Advisory. Qommittee of the Di- GjJins on March 31, he gdd (
versified] Occupations, the Burke Applicants ^ t0 ^"yews of, jB
| high school. -.5. ?*' w,th * high *>?ool ed JD
h _ ' , , . ; -10n are eligible for admit** 9
Proce^s y,U b egiveTt U. i- p' into the Nursing SchcooL WH
scholarship iunu Iwndled ay the they ^ ? ,
Diversified OceupetioM pro-, s0 rcqmro(| ^ *">,al~ }
gretn, available to students de- studen4s Gvery entering ,-4
' siring to undertake technical n . ' '
ll!:"nln?- f0>? niwB- K S
TI ; (including free mcdieS 1
llrops CaseWT
I A I J* telephone or fn person to the Sfi
ed Soldier sas: sr.;
or by mailing the coupon print. J
, .form V Jester, however, denied1 ed on page fire of tMf edition. -
f a move to quash the Jury, stat- m
ing that he could determine no -jy| v-- . ; . ^
{ "screening" of prospective jur- ulqu |
ors tn the panel's drawing. SnOOts . Wlf? y '
tlie recorder iIm dented a j Ag Intruder 1
move fty counsel to "go into** L .
charges of raee discrimination CAMDEN ? James Newman, *1
In the fury's selection ,where- ; hearing a noise outside his win- *
j upon Mr. Culhertson entered a ' dow around S o'clock Sundflqr -w
protest and ndleatieu that the * morning,, raised the window and |
1 case might, be moved to a. | fired at what he thoigtit was an J
ni*ner ronrt intruder. ,
; Warren was ?rre?*ed by offi-l Going outside to investigate J
jcsrs Satuaday aftenoon io.Vow- further. be told Investigating j
Ling an- accident here? Witne??g dcerst Neemair discovered ?>.? 1
' dirrered as to his conduct at the ^?d shot his wife, Uri. Roan ~j
j time; while officers ttatjtied that Newman, whom police said #d
he refused to go along quietly, instantly from a bulla!'wound hi 1
other witnesses testified that the the Jorehdbd. *
soldier was a perfect gentleman Booked on a charge of
alt along, and had even request* dar, Ntenan, mpftqfsd by Bm 1
ed that peUce be called tto the May plant ?f duPont neat hmat
scene w^ien the aeeident occur-, was at wtoatt# to*fcyl?ra.Mewm">
*u outold. ?t tb?t k?4tl
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