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i ^ftannounotd On the j m they are withShe of threat* from BP*11* ' M^.s. & tHwkins Bjpphesnes, close toll ^rblina lih>, An& A.' H^who lives in the ^^BgL-a^ction .-JBoth _ Matters advising ^HBwididaci?s were ^BBire signtd **Ku 1 ^Blatters were. Kfwe'*'e m'n Batten* o i ths I: Strict No. 2. ^^Bgiven the fclan Sreoh luling of a SP lHCh.snee Monday ^KlmpSrial wizard j spoke. Hum^TOSkYJtR, Cok>.? America work towards inteIffitdttioi/ of .'dfeHHttkracial compon. family Stony being ^Emxiist witch ^Hnfc, execu-j ] hJOtnega Psi ^? Hpred in* an p -his audience Una ate not frShdjivfcip j ^ Sfa 1 '-? rT>ll#lk d '?-fv J^- -1 r; 'V? Jjjr'v-I 1 j | E \ AfT\n* ^ ? ii-H* ? ?nice and tn? I* w ?rsey, State (jonf rence of NAACP. the I City of 'Enjjlewoodj3p% Anally j canceled Its ban on Mrs. Mary M^Leoi Bsthune and Is making I ? . the facilities of its junior high < - school auditorium available for J IK an pddr ss bv the distinguished i] '-Flor-'a' educator. ... *ii Willinrr* J. Fitroatrtfk. prssi. , <fsnt <n the board of education, I, said tftis week that obj<?ctions to MH. Bethun 's appearanc?! . had b#en withdrawn aftsr she] wrote \ lettsr denying m: mW bership in "subversive" organiI zations. I Father, Daughter Perish In Blaze^ t| v CHAfcLEStON ? In the midst E 6t oonrimaiieonient-. axercises on. t^Janies Island last week, stark svi utiv in CTurwmtmttmy and took thelife of a father and his two year old daughter and two others to Ropter hosI pital suffering from hysteria.. Dead in a- fire which destroy. I ed their home on the Gramball Rjpr-Ferd Wert Harold _ Smalls, ' 29,1 and hik two year old dfughtfcr, I Shirley. Mrs. Mary Smalls, the wife and moth*:, ina her Sister Mrs. Qenevieve Lemon, neither of whom was at hdthO al the timp, were rushed to Roper Ho*1-?fMkal at Charleston In a hyslesih jfv.tal condition, treated and tils* ii, missed, Tttie victims had been 1 unable to escape tfil home. r' Countv Slrfhnrltiaa rna*nn tkai i f Mr. Smalls had Inadvertently W dropped off to sleep While smdTcr I ing in bed. The litili fttfl urn P alio believed sleeping at the P LADIESI LAIH^ L A DIE 8! I J turn and enter our Big VaML d^ftdBcholarsfip- contest Read p9j$fi advertisement on page two edition and write for dells. There'll be many prices and everybody is a winner Scores of t ladles Will enter this contest. Be [ the contestant from your home. town. Hurry! Just a short time I left to enter. ' fcce For School ux Klan Warns ..v. r ' - iton assailed fcegroes and other minority groups, the Fraternal 3ouncil of Chhrches In Christ, of fcmericfc, *hd saH that an Adolph Hitler was Irving tn do in Ger many, was to maintain white supremacy?-the program of the Both Hawkins and Webster are farmers. Mr. Webfcter alsb ? :unsfIf SrnfiJT^eountry store.- Let-?-1'ers to the pair w^re received Saturday, postmarked at Spar- 1 tanburg and in a plain envelope. J Each said in part:"If jrou ane sincerely interest-, ed in bur schools we believe that you will voluntarily withdraw your name from this race. ^ "Vast improvem nts hav? been nad^ in the colorid schools in 1 the past year, and we believe Wfj continue without-your offer. ; yeai "We tru't that you have the anc* ability to art upon this request. at" "Ku Kiux Klan" ?rai ~ ..... j ing. gration And Less w T ' ' ' - , G-o louitrie Declares , . 1 hosj Assailing present government-] C<at al attacks on the Communists in' umt thi* coui^:,1, Mr. Moultrie said, mai 'America is spending thousands D.n of dollars to compr ess Commun-j coui i9m and in the sam2 vein it is so 1 playing our own democracy; way :heap. Guilt by association is th^ 'Od by nvtriclr this suppression .vou' s guag.'j. for example, if I am ther *.en talking to a Communist by.^ a bystaivder, immediately it is K assumed that I am a Commun-I min st, and th'c bystandsr so accuses true ne. Why can't our democracy bv ^igti itrong enough so that this by- a M itan-der would assum. that I ly c OUld" convert the Communis "'!' Urges Race Relations Change cro.v Continuing, Mr. Moultrie, who iails from . Charleston, S. C., who *rent on: "if Arrferica is to main- S.ei a n its 'otitic 1 of leadership it must offer first-class citizenship a,,i r to . all of th -' citizens." H? saw nany changes'for good taking *nt0 place but urged, "Complacency fjg vill retard tha. birth of the wprld tl^r Cancer deaths ' H* Cut Fanulyvs Earning Power ^ N[EW TORK A new asDc:t of Cancer's cost is reveal ?d In *0 an estimate that deaths in n? year among fathers and hus- j* t bands results in the loss of ai- t^a1 a half billion dollars, ! The American Cancer Society ter points out that this figure ap- pja] plies to only part of the flnan- <3^ cial toll resulting from cancer tae] deaths of 215,000 Americans of all races annually. ~~ " l~ jy Dr. Louis I. Dublin. Metropo- J on litan Lif? Insurance vice-presldent, said, "As aresult of the trBl deaths from cancer of male heads of families in 1948 alone, their dependents lost a present p j and future support whose' total value Is estimated to be over yyy tipfl AAA AAA " S430.tJilu.uini. ? x ? T.? ? c on The American Cancer Society e<j points out that this figure in- <pc eludes only a part of the costs t0 , b! cancer. j . con *?? ? : ? Chi l> his xbv I t ble o:i ers I sidi I unt H ha? IT ? No BuBBBBBBB * *v/fe. dosttN Tr in the eminent Dr. lViltard E. h?i tjobllj, thafirm an ol Um Division dot of ; Educatldnal A dm institution tra and Ceihmunitg Development, cht Oeurie?Peabwfo College?#o? Teieficn, Naabvilla, Tenn. and Re formerly the superintendent of Pasadena (Cal.) public schools, j will be tho commencement speak- we er at Talladega College (Ala.). pn< June g. The baccalaureate tor mop wa on June 1 will be delivered by ly P -esident A. D. Beittel of Talla at deffa. CO ' l . ' I t - ' - J4 i . v .- . .:>? ??>* > ? ?A > mf+ ? ' . ' .* " ' 4. ?*' :V"' . A I M 1 isisi VOLUME 15, NUMBER ROV IN G ABOUT AR'LINA JOHN II. McCRAY, Editor The Lighthouse and Infornte. UR FIRST Mjosquito bite thi ': Watching Lamar Dawkin his crew of workmen wori on a patio at his place ii The bite? It was a whopper "ALKER'S Chapel Section o rg^town county; Leader ; are sad over the illness an< jitalization of G. S. Porchs Veterans Hospitad in Col >ia). They say he was the ke; 1 in both the Progr?e9siv vocrats arid NAACP in ^th ity. Funny how folk give yoi ittle support and such adiar to go and then turn aroun< praise you to K-eav^n whei ve worn yourself out fo n. t * * INGSTREE: Hit town a Tcv uV-S after a fatal auto-bij k "collision on the Lake Cit; iway Monday night, Dfead wa xs. Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins on )th?r person in the Jenkin: rriously injured. Amid thi vd which h?i gathered at th hospital was one "wOmai shsd tears unashamedly ns that shehad just seen th' an, who with her husbanc un into, town for a brief visi ttw truck atoashetf- hei Eternity. "You never sav but that th^oth^ tig INGSTREE, P. S.: Stoppe to hail the Lilllewoods bi se was dark And the Olds >ile wasn't home. Just as w led away a woman's voic ed our name in a passing ca turned and followed the ca where it had stopped dow street to inquire who wa hat could so recognize us t t hour. The voice replied: "I'j '. (W. J.) Robinson's da ugh Wb live next door to you at. I'm working here. Te dy and mama I might se ai this we'?k end." ?- > rARION: A nive audience wj hand Sunday afternoon ft riae ting on voting and r.gi: :ion, held In St. John AM lrch, pasjored by the ver i,. affable and tireless Dr. 1 j. Den4.. On the program wi W. Fordham of Eben-z* IE Church at Mullins, wY frsrsd that he was so thril over the address U. S. Judj. 'tired) J. Wati*;s Waring mild delegates at the general AM fertnce two w^eks aio i cago that he forgot to mol* oft on major other doings 1 membership. "I just talk* it Mj. Waring," he said, fc M >ARLINGTON: An old squa< of some t^Vo year standir ween the local and state lea* hiD of Proerssive Dsmocra : to-n reived now anri ho es agree it was all ov^r a mi ierstanding. Both Were wor on the sam? thing all aloi I wourld have no1, been at or 1i i they a* thi ouset tried together as they did Sunda w, on J uhe "8, hdth wiIt ia tH* )ig meeting, jointly sponsori Macedonia Baptist Chun e. Darlington, by w.he way, h an excellent job on regl (ion. W. J. Hunter is *1 lirman, pushed by such m Dave- Pugh and- ProI_Coupi v. Long. r MKEN: A report here on t ekend was that undertak 1 prominent Robert A. Broo s a hospital patient .serioti ill. Bob Brooks used to tea* S. C, State College. Prior NTINUED ON PAGE ElGI ? ~t? 1 w. he . 49 ^ ' r 7 fl r / -fl i I t s '< L P ? : As Ma P.] r NEW YORK ? An exp:rl:nc rxA \wwlMw.?T I > * ^ 1 ~ ^uiiiiLai uuscivc; u.iu I n CI 11 IS bsr of the New York Stat? 1 gi~11 lature told a press conference 11 last wvtk that the Negro Sou'h lacks political organization an i ir adiquate leadership, hut is me ting the challenge "with cour:.g !e and conviction." Criticizes NAACF At the same time, he sharplv IS" criticized th* National A^s<hmo>r.... . .. :ion ior ' c Advancement of C ols j, or d People for building up ; 1951 voting power "with no place E to go." ls Ass mblyma.i Elijah I,. Crump >r 12th A.I), JXrnrrat, wa report1Q ing on hi- (ight-stato southern survey during winch h. talk'. ci ,c with and to "Negro IK man rats I Under th.? au-pices of th n? wly xj form d Southsi-le Association u! n N gro Democrats, he visit d Vir ginin. North Carolina, South ("a. rblina, "Florida, Georgian Mi s ^ issippi, Alabama and Louisiana In his r port 1ft? made thes: 1 five gen ral observations on po litieal conditions n the area ho touvhed: . 1. The votng haht among N ?s grocs is growing in spite of con tinued a't nmt- by whits t< , curb it, but Negroes in the r t ; mote ar.Jas of /h. .South 4 or Showing defiance! j_; 2. Negroes in poll tax sta'e -'ar to paying the tax at great sqeri . flee in order to vdt .. States o pV' f-doral legislation eliminntinj k(j the t;ix will r.suTt TfY~a~~sTiarjTTiT . I crease in voting. 3. Although nianv groups an st , . urging Negroes to register an LS ? ? ?- ??~ ~ vote, tlx re* is an abs.-nce of co he ordination among them .lie ereu en,i4.ed the' NAAC'P with doing , ^*1 crartttfim*- job: ??4. Efforts to er at. a politica , structure have been weak ai> i y IJtil }) 'J IlUIf'U I II | the "ph'. noihenon" of N'ogr ks mass voting in th:1 South itsel lS" relatively new ^nrt -that th building of political machinery t t0 make it 'cflfctive twill take tim " an dcxperit nee. ?f : v . ... r "-V? ' r. y' . i .3Bjr .V v ^ gsT ^i , COLUMlilA, SOUTH~Ci - <M Wi -t YUM > H? '.' r '': ' .? ' "W-^-r g Progress 5. There is a ijiortage-of poll-' "tic-iil leadership but no -hortage of lead: hip material ?or "tour-' age to lead in '.his fear-riddeni section of tin- country." j Crge Conducting Clinics i r Crump recomnnrv'ed !r.d'. a; s.ries or political clinics b- con- "] duct d in tin South .11 \vh:' !i l.uv, rudim: an of political organiza-. lion and tin* :o. of leadership,, may be lcarw-1. 11: Iriiid-dth NA.-^CP for re-.-ent insti'ut ! 1 in Atlanta and urcol thn* r?tu_ i i i s I) - h 'Id, if possible. on a -tate- ' 'wide basis. ! Th - legislator expre-scd a p ? ' f r:mr, hfincvi-r, for pai'y. jpons.irc i climes. He asserted that the poiicio- ?>f the asso iation do not p roof TT lo rngagr in p: rtisai p<jli ies. r , . ? "I'arly-spensor; d clnic-, Crump declared, "can tench tlv. ory and, at the same tim? and without a br.nk, provide the a rena for applying tho e lessons i.hnot immediately. No bridge or transition from theory to prais tuv is needy.!." Finally. Crump stressed the importance of political organiza-" , tion and lead r-hip. Through organization, h . said, political . vleniands are formuiat d and expressed and it is to such .organization.. that Candida'..s for publie ofTii* come for support. 11 i- noted that In th South white g carv 'idates arc, to an iruo eas.rot i o itlio^ (11i t'oti'v fur N nro votes. t . i iv i ( rump's criticism of the NA-( - tioning by reporters. lie obsorv-' I- cd that in' fin official station nt a the association luid said tha' to ?ftt avmvcd candidate' --foe I the presidency?Democrat- and ' Republicans?are to be regarded it as unacceptable by Neftro-' s for o voting purposes. He said also If that 'heir sole test has he n their e stand on the -"limited isf-uc" of o civil rights, and he added: e "I cannot under-state the imC'ONTINIWI) ON I'AGF KtGM-T mm ^ . ~ -V * I INFORIV VitOIJN A. SATl iiUAV, MA South Carolina Funeral directors and Embalniurs Association which met at Anderson last week. Pictured, left to'; rifht. above are: Odell W. Ifumphri^s, assistant manager, Manigault's Funeral Hom^.Claude McCollum, manager, Fatt Says Would Same Race Man To Secretaryship CLF.VKLAND, O. ? .Should vnator Roh rt A. Tuft, CiOP jv -1 d pir^ut. he cle:'t ! :h" next pr s;dent of the Uiit'd States, he would "appoint a col?r i man as one of tha secre[ari s at the White House." Mr. Taft's plan of the ap[oidment vas made in a 1 tt r tn John (r. F;tij \ a Cleveland Vtorney, who is on of the s nator'.i back, rs in the race for OOl' nomination. ~~ v'^: kd^l BISHOP SHAW The HI. itev. J. B. Shaw ol Salisbury, N. <\ who Is one o bmr miniwUuTK olovaled lo llie bishopry* by the AMF, Zior church during its quadrennia conference in Brooklyn, N. Y this month. Bishop Shaw is re lated to Presiding cider and Mrs James W. Shaw of Columbia and is well known througjioul the denomination's southern dis trieis, ! ' ' V* ;TTT'". ' f I tOM IER Y~317 1952 ':' It t c * c t s * a < s 1 h <d 2 * ? 5 v 1 2 C 2 * 6 I |L ^v^sL ^rsAmih'> er and |^*n^1Dlr<tfl?|r, And & P WuIia^s/ mSIifCT, Williams Funeral Home and pub-' lie relations director for the ; association. Absent from the group when picture was taken-Kirkiand Leevy, manager Levy's Funeral-' Home. Others from Columbia on hind included. A. Wllsan Sim | kins, business man. John H. MeCray, . editor1. Lighthouse and Informer. Nathaniel Nesbifct, IVTns. A. r. Williams, Mrs. Kirkland Leevy and daughter, P.Iiss Alice Hiller. t John Fleming of Charleston, former 11. S. District Court crier, was also in attendance. Entertaining the convention were: C. Lee Davis, Fred W. Jarkson.Wilson Cureton. Mrs. Mary Brown, Walter Johnson, W. I. Peek, IVIiss Willa Mae Alexander, Edward R. Woolridgc, and William Jackson. Bennetts vitle NAACP Nears , Campaign Goal BENNETTSVILLE ? The i, B-nncttssvillo NAACP branch i reported this-w k that it need ed only 13 more members ti J tieach its quota for 1952, but officials sari they fclt that at the .. end of the present campaign, the quota would .be exceeded. ^The branch me.ts each Thin,! Sun ; da v. ; j j I Jonas T. Kennedy is president ' of th.- branch: Harold T. Black mnn vifn prr-sidimt; Mrs T.nrllp J T. Washington, ^eer.tary aiv.l Kev. S.* M. Miller, tivasurecr. I Chairmen oi standing, cum- .. j mi'tees arc: . . ' Membership, Mr^. D. P. Bris f, tow; Finance, H. E. Covington, . "Sr.: Conmiunity Coordination. _ i Mrs. Prudence McCollutn; Press 1 and Publicity, Harold T. Blarkman J Legal RrdTess, Dr. Q. -1 Adams; Education. Rev. S. M. . Miller; Entertainment, Miss V. , Emees^ Cooke;-Youth Work, Mrs. t W. J. Mk Math;'Veterans. Ernest . Robinson and Church Work, Rev. | A J Wright.. { / ' i ' i 3 . - -.i * _ ' ' j .1 PRICE TEN CENTS 13 Doctor Buzzard' |j Alarms Judge For J_ J ? 1 auspeiiueu nup 'Dr.~ Buzzard*; but christened Madison 4 Fell, ?6, graciousfy lowed brfore Riecorder John I. * lie3 here Tuesday for a suspend- iflH ;d sentence- of $15.50 or 15 days ^ in a charge of disorderly contact. Th" complaint said "Doc" Fussed her out when ah# tried o get back the $20 shfe claimed he paid him to make her hus- r lan-J come -back to her. " The ilepd^r "root man" denied, howler, that he was abusive. He - . --^j aid he had given her two dol- -j ars of the money and would J ?ave returned all of it. but u}ft } lidn't^ve it. Morrover, he argu;d, he had Ion1: what he promised. He made ;he husband come back home, >ut she just couldn't hold him." | Obviously unimpressed with mystic power, Judge Rica vantid to^know by what power J ould tfie*"*?)ioc'* help anybody. *8 inyway. At the request of hi-- ^ ittorwey, the mystic * man fished pit the court was ' ^ *wm ^ Jl vrsity, Columbia, and the bach south Carolina State Allege in Orangeburg, in 1937. The mas er of science degree was earnd at Ohio State University i* ' 947, and sir^ce that &me ha has j^en employed.as instructor an ^ ad of t)&e Division of Agricu wral Economics at Tuskegee In In September, 1949, Dr. Dowd> a on a fellowship from the Ge; ?ral Education BoaTd, which w.' <ubs:quently renewed, and be * gan wprk toward the Ph.D. dc greft at Ohio Stafa. with a maj jl in agricultural; economics an ' aB rural sociology with a minor i ' 5conn>ica. _ * i Prior to coming, to Tuskeg 7 Institute, .Dr. Dowdy was for i years a farm extension worker i " South Carolina. He also serv ' za monins in me u.s. Army an ; $nw service in Europe during ^ ^ ;.# WorM War II. He i? ? memb - of the Ainiiiuan Perm, Roon? ^ mic As ^iation, the Southern Economic Association, a 32 ji'?. ? *j une Mason and a Shriner. VlSlt CHARLESTON The Roosevelt McCrays ar* Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Lee vis ed in Charleston last Sunday. "