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ou? INFORMER VOLUME 15, NUMBER 45 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1952 PRICE TEN CENTS m 1 - l -Jl i BTW leam I.eails Field Onlv To Lose Title In Penn Relay Although the fast mile relay! was 5:36.5. team of Booker T. Washington And if you think that wasn't; high school came some 30 yards; '.retty fast, tak; a gander at the aihead of the field i n the An- lime turned in over the same’ nual Penn Relays af Franklir | ‘.rack by the Lockbourne Air- i Field in Philadelphia, Pa. on the; Eas t.am with Jim Gathers, Week-end. an unpirece-lent^d Mai Whitfield (Olympic 800 hishap cost them the honor and mtetr champion), Ross Jones j (Canadian championjand an-i other running, who chalked up! 5:28-2, older and far more ex- 1 periencrd competitors. Charlestonian recognition ■ line, 440 yard sprint champ- BTW ha dsent J. C. Caro- ion, Samuel Addison, Billy Harris and Vaughnza Whit more into the contest. This 58th carnival was stymi-! ed to begin with by water-soak- ed field which gave way # und?r * IVtIUlU ft several contestants who went ‘Cf-wiL-p If sprawling in the mud. Oil lIVc 11 IVlUII The BTW team, with Caroline r CHARLESTON — Mrs. Emmie doing the lead quarter, had mis-, Luken Bro {ormerly Qf char . fortune hit it when one an^our Ieston nQW res{di in phj^e!- contestant elbowed the BTW flastfi so that he dropped the, phia, Pa., and pianist for the Kersha*w Royal Singers, recently baton, finable to fpid lt ln the won $220 00 Qn the .. strike It mud, he continued to run and at. Rich „ radio program . The money is to go to the sing- | ing group, the end of the first quarter led the field by six yards. He pass- which makes good will tours in neighboring cities ed by fake to Addison, who! stretche dth: lead to 10 yards a.j p enrlS yi van i ai N ew Jersey and the halfway mark. Harris did the g . ve? concerts t0 cheer tbe sick third quarter in 51.8 seconds an,;1 ; j n hospitals and. shutins, whose when Whitmore flashed across ^ is in much need of repa . irs I the finish line, the BTW team was 30 yards out front. ■ vv- , • But the baton was the cue to JUUgC IlHStl6 it all. So the title was awarded to the mext ito finish. Solars ^n^aKS At Point high school of Maryland, . n second fastest among the 136 .laCKSOTl lOlIGgC schools competing. BTWs time — — j JACKSON. Miss. — Among | the outstanding speakers of the Diamond Jubilee celebration at Jackson College on May 1 and COLUMBIA LINKS — Members of the Columbia chap ter of the Links, which was organized here April 19, are pictured above. They are: Seated, left to right, Mesdames: Everetta Rutherford, Vivian Jones, Juanita Johnson, Myrtle Manigault, Julia Delany, Pearl Mance, Dorothy Russell. Standing, left to right, Mesdames: Marian Paul, Min nie Johnson. Harriett Rogers^ Elise Jenkins, Vivian Mon- teith, Ada Cooper, Miss Harriett Cornwell, Mesdames Al ma Williams. Geneva Scott. Ruth DeLorme and Essie T. Chappelle. Mrs. Pryor Heads S. C. Insurance Lnderwriters ROVING ABOUT CAR’LIN A * * * BY JOHN H. McCRAY Editor, The Lighthouse HAVE A note from G. S. Por- eher of Georgetown, scribbled 1 just before they loaded him in a car for the Veterans Hospital at Columbia, where he is now a pat ient in Room 131, Ward 6. How I | about everybody writing him a i ! cheering word, though you are J not be able to visit him? He has j done a mighty fine for all of us ! down his way. * * * PRESIDENT O. R. Reuben ofj Morris College told us Monday) afternoon he’s still anxius to get that son he’s been dreaming of, | to go along with three fine lit- j tie girls. How about consulting; Attorney Harold R. Boulware of) Columbia, pre'xy? He had that problem once but solved it. BEAUTY AND SPRING and a pretty young Miss all sum up life on a college campus, as anyone can see from the photograph above of Miss Mary Kendrix, freshman student at Morris College, perhaps one of the reasons Morris College is growing more and more popular. Our pretty subject is the daughter of Mrs. Alice Ken drix of Rembert and wants a major in elementary educat ion, which means she really likes school work. Photogra pher E. C. Jones, Jr. pinned this note to his shot: “May be that’s all right with her but me — I’m a man and a photographer. Give me more subjects like this”. House Candidate Human Relations Commission For New Orleans City Is Requested Local Ministers’ Rev. Frank Veal OVER at Little Rock, although -n J he doesn’t know it yet, the fam-; UniOn LnflOrSe ;lly of H. B. Blackwell is laugh-; # # _ ing up their sleeves Seems be HlgglHS AS nlSltOp * Wm Charleston didn’t want a television set. He; Mrs. Virg-ijust wa sn’t for the new high fa- (Special Correspondent) CHARLESTON — Rev. Frank Spartanburg lu t in ’ thing, but they slipped out mee tine held Tuesday ' Ve * 1 pastor of Emanuel AMR mmtm J: Church hcre . is a candidate fo. Columbia by a tight 38-37 count! s its and watches and enjoys it j -° become the first woman pres- as much as they? Guess who! ident of the South Carolina In-! v Higgins, President of Allen Uni CHARLESTON - inia E. Prior of i r^l Z ! d - °. Ut A * h _^ hv! neS _ 0 J and g0 ; 0ne . anyW _ a J' ^17^1 April 29th, the Interdenomina tional Ministerial Alliance of * t , Columbia and vicinty unanim- T ^ ously endorsed Dr. Samuel R. sur ance Association, which held AT BISHOPVILLE Sunday we TTi rf efincj "P-rsPcirld lts 17th annual convention here met a young man whose bead • verg j» y j or t b e AME Bishopric. ! last week. Mr. Jones was unan- was battered one night last week Members of the Union stat?ed former , ast week inriousiy named first vice presi- by a couple of -he local gen were , endorsing Dr . Higgins) den - darmes, who beset him in his ^ the brotherly spirit ; Mjs. Pryor has been connect- yard and said he had ee ■ which he has s b own throughout | ed with the Spartanburg dist- ceeding the speed imi • ^ +he and boeause of tbe fact' rict of the North Carolina Mut- not trying-to e “ nny ' \ tV.at he has won the love and) ual Life Insurance Company for y° u are s 1 1 ,, "ji respect of the ministers of Col- J on your head was wn<». a '„-3. —' ‘ — - ’ vunlst ' I a a seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives from Charleston county, which gives Charleston three such race can didates, instead of two as report ed in The Lighthouse and In- May Broadcast Schedules For FXTF Stated NEW YORK—Th'- Mav broad cast schedule of th? United Ne- ^7ro College Fund’s Choir Series JjVvas 2, will be the Honorable Judge William H. Hastie. U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who will speak at 8:00 p. m. on the afternoon Of May 2. . t -'t’ A native of Knoxville. Tenn.., Judge Hastie received an A.B. NEW ORLEANS — This city still has an opportunity to be the first city of the South to set up ! a Commission on Human Rela tions as part of its municipal government. The need for such “a strong ' moral force in the lives of our ; peopk" was presented Wednes- der.’ Vvcn released, it was aT»-' doBTee cltv rrir*4 WLL.B. *.*»» and*S. «WnM» « ,he , " al "f »• <« ■«» Cholic Commit of to the choir of Knoxville College, of tbe LLD ’ (Honorary) degree! Knoxville, Tenn; Mav II, John- :from Hampton Institute in 1946. son C. Smith University Choir, He was admitted to the bar m Charlotte, North Carolina; May 1930 and P ractlced la w until 1933 1 , Lane College Choir, Jackson,! when he wa sappointed Assistant Solicitor, Department of Interi or, 1933-37. In 1937. he was sent to the Virgin Islands for two years as Judge of the District Court. Upon his return, he be- Of Howard Univer-) of Law until 1946; 0 f s ; x major reasons Dr. Witte Tenn; May 15, Atlanta-Morehouse Chorus, Atlanta, Ga. Continuing the thirteen week Special programming for the Fund’s Ninth Annual Appeal, which opened nationally on April came E^n short talks will be heard in School ; South. That Cmmlssion, backed by the city charter, would pre vent tension between races and other groups hy educa tional programs t publicize the injustices and misunderstand ings that cause trouble and working to do away ' with them. At the special council meet ing to consider the charter Dr. Witte spoke for Archbishop Jseph F. Rummel as well as for the Catholic Committee of the South and the CCS Commiss ion on Human Rights, its local subsidiary group: for the Na- the Urban league, the Anti- Defamation league, th*' A. P. of L. and CIO labor organiza- tions, and for other organiza tions. The petition of these groups to) ri3_ I the committee working on ‘he * IieSORV 1 charter had been turned down in March but Wednesday’s state ment by Dr. Witte was designed b e tt er methods of house plan - , j . . _ I rm vrtllr ViecKi w<lS YV4a<x- tigut-v*. . • . , i - -.nc LViUiiioi last nme years; she is pre£- for a ?ec ond. G^i^^nion went on record fav ident of the Spartanburg local J* LUCK it.. although then association. A native or spartan- --..v. < —•neenr of ^/Liss Lil- CONTIN1ED ON PAGE 5 ] - <. « * FKONt Spartanburg comes t ie 1 word that Julius E. Williams, Sr. arrived safely in San Fran- | cisco. Cal., where he is attending the General Conference of -he ) Methodist Church. Before leav- , ing South Carolina one guy was | saying to him that if he did not i make it safely by air, the guy Th 1 la<** t thing is houses. lute’s Demonstration House Display Is 99 “Human decency” was the first to correct “misunderstandings °n . ning ’ home-making and advant-i insuTance m ° ney ' the part of the charter commit- a ’ and uses 0 f labor saving’ fBuck) Buchanan of •W” j-..- . ...ill K.o TiiPC.i JU HJN D „ -u devices will be unveiled Tues-j a !. sures us that there’ll J—. 13 a* T.rVlOn tip f lOieUCC o , 8. The prposed Commission on day. May 13. at noon, when the £ • ^ {o]k on hand Sunday the "midway point of these pro- and for ‘wo years during this gave for including the propsed Human Relations would have a Home Demonstration Depart- ® P ^ pn wh . en w . e roll in to do srams by the oresidents of the time (1940-42), be was Civilian Cmmlssion in the new charter technical staff to make studies ment of Agriculture (Extension talking about getting all f atur' d colleges. Aide to tbe Secretary of War. that New Orleans is preparing and furnish facts necessary^ for Service) unwraps its model de '!“ DeoD i e registered and voting Speaking for Knoxville will be President Truman appointed f 0 ritself. "All men are at least educational program tor “tbe monstration house in the Jere- Looks like Florence is President James A. Colston; for Judge Hasti-e Governor of the equfal in (their human destiny easing of group frictions through naiah community of Wi.liams-; to lif Johnson C. Smith, Hardy Liston; Virgin Islands in 1946 where he and in human dignity," he told the removal of misunderstand- , burg county, located 23 miles - • now. Lane College, President C. A. retained this office for three the council. in gs. It would serve the mayor, Kirkendoll, and Rufus E. Cle-) years and has sines been Judge Citing the Truman administra- fhe clt y bureaus and even priv- ment for Atlanta University. of the Third District of the U. S.! tion’s Civil Rights program, he ate organizations that might need The Choir series is beginning Court of Appeal’s. He is a mem- said: “We no whave a chance to its third year over the American her of the Caribbean Commlss-, methodically and scientifically Broadcasting Company’s coast t° n > Phi Beta Kappa, and Oroe- j show the nation that we can and to coast network and is beard 8 a Ps* Phi fraternities. ) will set our own house in or- over more than 176 stations. The around people fre program York via EST. originates in WJZ, 10:30-11 New A. M. Dr. Bunche Endorses 1952 Cancer Frusade J. A. Roache, Veteran Printer, Laid To Rest After Death Here James Arthur Roach, veteran printer who for many years operated a printing shop on the , campus of Benedict College, was i laid to rest here last Sunday NEW YORK—Disease ; know , | (_April 20_), following sendees in no politics and: so ideology. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche .director of the Trustee Division of the United; Nations and Nobel Peace Prize winner for 1950, said in a state-) ment this week endorsing th e! 1952 American Cancer Society’s I Cancer Crusade fund drive. “We live in a dangerous' world,” he said, “but of all the; dangers confronting us, none is so 'ever-present and formidably a disease. In our perpetual battle against disease a major and in-j sidious enemy is cancer.” Urging generous contributions to the 1952 Cancer Crusade, the national goal of which is $16,- 000,000, Dr. Bunche asserted that the American Cancer Society through its highly effective pro gram of research, education and service, has saved countless lives edited and published for a whfle the late Southern Indi cator. He continued his inter est in this phase of printing through the years and other local editors found him al ways a cordial and congenial friend. operation Second Calvary Baptist Church of which he had been a faithful member for a number of years. Son of the late Richard H. and Ellen J. Roach of Dalzell, in Sumter county, MJ*. Roach had moved to Columbia when quite a young man. He attend ed Benedict College, where he also received his training in printing. He liked it so well he made it his life’s work, opening a shop on the campus which he operated until his turesque sight around Benedict’s death. ; campus and on the way to and Many young men and women Uom work with his faithful learned the trade under his in- poc ker spaniels, struction and many of these are Tbe eulogy was delivered by today following the trade in va- i Rev. Charles H Brown, paster its services. “The time is past when we can depend on spur-of-the moment reactions for remov ing human tensions,” said Dr. Witte. “There was a time corner was sufficient. Today, in some instances, he serves as when the policeman on the corner was sufficient. Todjay, in some instances, he serves as an irritant.” Explaining the makeup of the proposed Commission, the CCS chairman said: “We envision a group of fair-minded, high-pnn- cipled individuals representing general >s extended, Mi:s. Marian Paul, Home Qimon'-tration gent, announced Tuesday. District agent A. H. Ward will be guest speaker. Others sched- oring Dr. Higgins although there! arc others in the race. This writer believes that be yond the shadow of a doubt. The error in reporting but two candidates occured when at press time the story broke and there wasn’t time to fer ret down conflict*- —or'fne Rev. Mr. VssL The other candidates are Herbert Fielding ami J. Arthur Brown. Rev. Veal, who filed at 11:30 the final day, said it was not true as reported that he had de- President Higgins will be elect-; cided to forego the race because ed. The majority of the dele-| 0 f bis chuj-cj, duties, and that gates from South Carolina ai' he was i n the battle to the fin- supporting him wholeheartedly.; jgh President Higgins is a preach-* ^ reporter said, however, he er of the first magnitude, a bril-: was baffled to understand why liant orator and church and j the cand j dacy 0 f R. ev . Veal school administrator. He is well ^ wasn >j naadie factually clear by prepared intellectually and ano ther of the three candidates spiritually. He is a graduate of wjth whom he talked, to whom Howard University and one of be the few Negroes who is a grad uate of Union Theological Sem inary, New York City. He holds honorary degrees from Morris Brown, Wilbeforce, Allen Uni versity and Knoxville College. The church will not make a mis take in electing him to the high office of the episcopacy. said he remarked that Rev. Veal may have withdrawn. Information On Registration Listed Below Funeral Directors from Kingstree. | r Exercises begin at noon and a; mu v ,, oc _ invitation to to publicU«"tly >k .tort „ H iate editor, who s been back m J Belgium sinc° 1946. We miss ’err { | too. Guys like O^^ McKame g^tC Meet don’t come along everyaa\. In Anderson uled to appear on the P ro S rarn j MAACP UrgCS are Miss Jaunita Neely, State ^ Truman To Pick Registration board* at county ) courthouses of South Carolina will be open for issuance of cer tificates from May 5 through May 15, and June 2, 3 and 4. These two periods provide the last chance to register before Home Demonstration Agent, D. W. Watkins, Director of Exten- don, and J. B. Felton, State RaCG Member Ag nt for Negro Schools. primaries are held July 8 and on The 27th annual state conven- ^ \ tion of the South Carolina Fun-1 y I eral Directors and Embalmers! Howard, Saxon Roundups During Coming Week NEW YORK—Appointmen’ a Negro to fill a vacancy on the; ter, i Association wll be held at An-i dorson, May 13 and 14, A. P.; 0 f ; Wiliams, public relations direc-l reminded members here on | 11-member Interstate Commerce! Monday. Commission was I by the NAACP. urged Monday' Hie iaid that SCDEA presi-j dent R. H. Haile of Camden was Under the new law, no long er can citizens vote in primar ies by simply enrolling. They must have registration certi ficates, which entitles them to vote in all elections, primaries this summer and the Novem ber general election as well. In order to register, a citizen Mr. Roache b-came a member ’ ing under the direction of this ) Truman, NAACP Executive Sec-1 P are a : retary Walter White asked that shape up as being one of th such an appointment be made, best in the bisto ry of such con- informed citizens wuld be educational and adviso- a true cross-section of the citi zens of our community. Work- *--■ W Madden, principal of th Howard 'and Saxon elementary .. . . , , n ■ ■ u u ! crhools here said Monday that to replace John L. Rogers, who 1 ventions, of the deacon board of Second Commission would be an e , xecu -1 , hr SUTnm er roundup for How- recently resigned after 35 years Guest speaker is to be Taylor Calvary Church as a young man. tlve secretary and such technical ■ wil] bp h , sld Wednes _i 0 f service with the ICC, the C. D. Hayes of Memphis, Tenn.. His membership there continued asslstants as he m-y need. The - 1 on . government agency which has; past president of the National of his passing. He^- °f thrs combination g ^ i jurisdicti0n over interstate tram- Negro Funeral Directors, Inc., a p of two until four in the after- portation. .banker and insurance executive, noon. - The ICC, Mr. White charged,, The Anderson hosts are pre- | All children who are six years ; old, on or before November 1, ) 1952. will be eligible to ent?e/ ! school next fall. Parents are re quested to bring a birth certi ficate as no child will be regis- L. t’ered unless a birth certificate is the presented. Small oox vaccinations will be give:* if desired, by the City at the time had undergone an shortly before his passing and had resumed his work joking ry ’” with frWids just a few day* be fore the diemise. He was a pic- UN Position NEW YORK — Herbert Wright, youtii secretary of NAACP, and ten members of the. Association's New York Inter- rious parts o' the country. One) at Second Calvary. President J, among them is Mrs. “Bert” Mar-1 A. Bacoats of Benedict offered collegiate Coordinating Council, Health Department, shall, who operates Marshall- prayer and Rev. Milton E. Cox, met last week with Ambassador Parent.- will be given a form Ait?e printers at 911 Hampton pastor of Ladson Presbyterian Ernest A. Gross, chief of the U. te be filled out by the family in fhe pa*t and can save far. street. Church, read ‘foe scripture. The S. delegation ‘o vote'-to place doctor and dentist which is to more in the future if ‘each one Mr. Roach once ventured in- church’s choir furnished the mu-, the Tunisian issue on th® agenda be returned at the beginning of of Us will but help.” tc the newspaper business and sic. , of the U. N. Security Council, toe schoo.. year in September. “has stubbornly refused to at-. P ar * n g a luxurious program, tack Segregation in transporta- j said - _ tion, except under court order. Repeated efforts to get positive MASS MEETING HELD action from this agency have he In a telegram to President 'urging all member units to P rc ": mU st be able to meet one or two record attendance at what ^ b , e following requirements: 1. Present a tax receipt show ing that he or she owns, and has paid all due taxes on property assessed at $300 or more. The property may be located in a county different from that in which the citizen lives and plans to vote. 2. Be able to read and write “anjy section” pf the constitu tion the board might submit. “Any section” doesn’t mean the whole constitution. There are certain academic re quirements also. These require the applicant to be 21 years of age, or will also become by the time he plans to vote, to have, lived in the state two years, in his county one year and his voting precinct six months. The poll tax is no longer a factor in elections of South Car olina and certificates are good CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 been met with stony refusal to curb discrimination.” Citing the large number of Negroes who travel, the NAACP leader said “they are entitled to representation on the ICC to aid in the implementation of the recommendation of your Civil Rights Committee on elimina tion of segregation from public facilities.” HERE MONDAY NIGHT A mass meeting for Colum bia and Richland county citi zens will be held Mon. night, May 5, at Zion Baptist church, beginning at 8 p. m. It is being sponsored by the Citizens Committee of which Rev. J. P. Reeder is president and J. M. Hinton secretary.