Lighthouse and informer. (Charleston, S.C.) 1941-1954, May 31, 1952, Image 2
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of
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r'ithrom,
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the
Both
sing
were
"Ku
night wftejfe imp "rial wizard
rhom^gKJH?ll*.on spoke. Ham?
Country Needs Int<
i 'Red' Assailing, A
L r^V^R, Colo. ? America
J ?ra*ion of all its racial compori
ing
f ' W"'^ gf% m-% '
Conf rence of l^AACP. the
City ofr Englewood has finally |
- canceled its ban on Mrs. Mary
I MdLeod Bsthune and is making I
^. the facilities of its junior high
^school 'auditorium available -for .
an addbss by the distinguished
Flor'-'T educator.
Willow .T. Fitrpatrick. presi.1
<fsnt ? the board of education,
f said this week that objections
? tp Mrt;. Bethun's appearance1
| ; had b<&en withdrawn after she!
fc* wrote a letter denying membership
in "subv-rsive" organizations.
f Father, Daughter |
__Perish In Blaze
zx* ' T 1 3 F
On James Island
jT T CHARLESTON ? In the midst
* of commencement exercises on
James Island last week, stark
tragedy struck in the commtlnity
and took thelife of a father and
% ws two year old daughter and
' sent two others to Roper hosIjjr
pite* suffering from hysteria..
Dead-irr a fire-whrch destroy ed
their home on the Gramball
Ford were Harold Smalls, 29, '
7 and his two year old daughter,
' Shirley. Mrs. Mary Smalls, the
wife and mother. *na her sister
L Mrs. Genevieve Lemon, neither
ii ?< h&m was at home at the
Stime, were rushed to Roper hosf^ital
at Charleston in a hysterl*
cal condition, treated and dis:
misatd. The victims had been
unable to escape the home.
^ County authorities reason thetMr.
Smalls had inadvertently
^ dropped off to sleep while smdkI
ing in bed. The little girl wot
" also believed sleeping at the
yfc. time. ' ^
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LADIES! LADIES LADIES!
? < , Hurry and nntar nnr JBlgjyacaion-Scholarship
contest. Read
AMP advertisement on page two
Jpjthis edition and write for details.
There'll be m*hy prises and
everybody is a wlnnaf. Scores of
ladies grill enter- this contest. Be
r the contestant from your homer
town. Hurry I Just a short time
left to enter. .
lace For School
t-'T . ; '
ux Klan Warns
ilton assailed Negroes and
minority groups, tha Frj
Council of Churches In- Ch
America, and said that all i
Hitler was trying to do ii
many, was to maintain
supremacy?the program
kl'an.
Both I^awkins and M
are farmers. Mr. Wbste
rans a small country ston
ters tp the pair w^re r:
Saturday, postmarked at
tanburg and in a plain en'
Each said in part:
"If you ai<>? sine:rely in
ed in bur schools wo beli?\
you will voluntarily wit
your name from this race.
"Vast improvem nts hav
made in the color-.d sohc
the past year, and w? 1
,w? v r: ( ontinue withou
offer.
"Wc tru-t th:i*. u ha1
ability -trr 4his t
"Ku Klux K
sgration And L<
loultrie Dcclai
Assailing present gov ri
al attacks on the Commur
thi> count . . Mr. Moultri
"America is spending tho
of dollars to compr s? Coi
ism and in the sam? veil
playing our own dem
cheap. Guilt by association
rod by which this suppi
is guag.vi. Foi> example, it
s en talking to a Commur
a bystander, immediately
assumed that I am a Loi
ist, and th'.' bystander so c
mr. Why can't our democr
strong enough so that th
stander would assum. t
.'OUld?convert the Commi
Urges Race Relations Ch:
Continuing, Mr. Mouitrh
hails from Charlgxton,
went jonLd-'H-ri.ca._is_Aa
'.a-n its /ositici of leader;
must offer first-class citiz
to all of th1-* citizens." H
many changes -for good
place hut urged # "CompI
will retard the birth of the
teg ration; < aOs- only b;
Cancer tfeaths
VUL JL' (U1U1J O
Earning rower
NEW rQHK ? A new
of Cancer's cost is revee
an estlmat? that deaths
year among fathers and
bands results in the los>
a half billion dollars.
The American Cane r J
points out that this flgu
plies to only part of the
cial toll resulting from
deaths of 215,000 Amenc
all rac s annually.
Dr. I^-nuis I- Dublin. M<
litan Lif-> Insurance vice
"A^ ar1 suit
deaths from cancer of
heads of families in 1948
fhclr~Thrp-ndent?. lost a ]
and future support wlios
value is estimated to b<
tiir. nnn nnn >
The American Cancer .
points out that this figi
eludes only & part of th
of cancer.
The eminent Dr. \Vil
twhiii, chairman of the I
of Educational Admins
and Community Develc
Ueorje ~ WaBoflf CoTTSjj
Teiehers, Nashville, Ten
formerly the superintend
Pasadena (Cal.) public i
will be tho commencement
er at Talladega College
June 2. The baccakntreate
on June 1 will he delive
P esldent A. D. Beittel of
defa.
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other
iternal
irUt of MJ
\dolph J
-l Gerftwhite
of the
Webster ,~
r ?l\? -VOLUME 15, NUMBE1
?. Let- :
ceived
X ROVING
teres!-1 A B O U 1
| CAR' LIN/
b?cn! By JOHN II. McCRAY, Fditoi
>ols in J The lighthouse and Inform)
o?li.eve i
, our' OUR FIRST Mosquito bite tb
i year: Watching Lamar Dawkir
i and his crew of workmen woi
y-> the: w .
J at _ x>n a pa'.io at his place i
-quont. ^?? r??j-? ?
Orang1 -burg eariv Monday iv i
.IU11 " ~
inc. The bite? It was a whoppe
* *
*SS " WALKER'S Chapel Section i
G_org_town county; L.ade
" : e are sad over the illness ar
hospitalization of O. -K. Porch
rmicnt-,-(<at Veterans Jfospita'1 in Co
lists in"T\imbia). They say he was the ki
_ s.ai 1. man in both the Progressn
usands Democrats and NAACP in *tl
nniun- county. Funny how folk give yc
l it is so little support and such adiai
ocracy way to go and then turn arour
is the and praise you. to Ilea v. n wht
-wssion you've worn yourself out f<
I am them.
list by * *
it is KINGSTREE: Hit town a f.
nmua. minut-.s after a fiatal auto-b
iccuses truck collision on the Lak? Cil
acy. b highway Monday night. Dead w;
is by- a Mrs. Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins 01
iiat I ly oth?r person in the Jenkir
inls" / t-a-i-, s rionsiy injured. Amid tit
inge crowd which had gathered at tl
?, who hell.y hospital was one woina
S. C. w^? sh-d tears unasham-dl;
maitir ^ ems that shehad just seen., tl
ship it victim, who with her. husban
unship a,ji run in'? town for a brief vis
[o aaw before t/ic truck smashed he
taking int0 Eternity. "You'-never
agency on^ ^ut that, 4.h?,other one wi
wprld lWr ealso." They were an irtse
y into- parable pair,"
KINGSTREE, P. S.: Stopp
by to hail th? Lilliewoods b
house was dark and the Old
mobile wasn't home. Just as \
pulled away a woman's voi
! called our nam'?.in a passing c*
osDC-t j turned and followed the e
il d in ?G whtre y-,ac| stopped dov
in * 1* j th'-' str.et to inquir?' who w
I hus-| so recognize us
a'"j that hour. The voice r . plied: "I'
Rev. (W. J.) Robinson's ?daug
Society ter wi. ;jVe next door to yo
re ap- p]ant. I'm working her?. T<
nnan-| ^a^dy and mama I might >
cancer them this wj?k en>j/.
nns of *
MARION: A nice audi.nee w
etropo- on hand Sunday afternoon I
-presl- me tint; on voting ?nc* r.g
of the' Nation, held in St. John A\
male church, pastorcd by the vc
alone, ,ahi^t affable and tireless Dr.
pres:nt ^F-._Cr. Bentr On the program w
e total Rev. S. W. Fordham of Eben z
- over, /YjvtE Church at Mullins, w
confessed that he was so thn
Society I ccj over the address U. S. Jud
ire in-[ (petirtd) J. Wa'.i':s Wnring~7nn
c co<ts to .^/legates at the general AN
, conference two W'eks a;j
Chicago that he forgot to ma
I report on major other doings
his membership. "I just talk
abut M.r. Waring," he said.
*
DARLINGTON. An old squ;
ble of some two year standi
ostween the local and state Jea
eWhip nf Pro^rssive D:mocr,
has been resolved now and be
sides agree it was all ov' r a m
I 1 understanding. Both were woi
ing on the sam*? thing all alo
| 'Yrtd~w6uTd"~have no* heerf at <y
nad they a*, th- ouset tried
I get together as they did Sund
W Now, on June 8, both will lour
a big meeting, jointly spdhsoi
in Macedonia Baptist* Chui
lard E. h^rp Darlington, by the way, 1
>ivision don1-' an excellent job on leg
dilation tration. , W. J. Hunter U 4
>pmem, j chairman, pushed by such n
fC fnrr as Dave Pugh OTirt Prof. Coup
n. and Rev. Long. ,
lent ?f i 6 ;
j
ichools, AIKEN: A report here on
speak- weekend was that undertai
(Ala.), and prominent Robert A. Broc
sermon SjvSfT ti hospital p&ti'nt .serioi
red by ly ill. Bob Brooks used to tea
' Talla at S. C, State College. Prior
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ar NEW YORK -.An < \p id nc
in ed political observe, a.id room
as b.r of the Now York Stat 1 u:
al laturc '.old a press conterer.e
m last w:l k that the Negro Sou*'
lacks p'Mitc. al orjtaii;/. <._> , i.
ul ad quato leadership.- hut on t
2 iriU the ehallenn "V.'i'r.
e a.id ' eni.v.et am."
( ritici/cs \.\A( !'
At the sntve , ?}-. di:i: p.
entli-iz <1 t X.V > n;,i A. .a
or
* 1< >! for !Adv.!', o I (
or (1 I-' o p! e tor d.!; .
IE ,,_,
.-l.hal vot.nc pi.u i . t:. p.;e
ry
, to n<>.
Ass 'obiyti:.. . He Km 1. < I'UOi]
eP-l-th A ;T. 1)7.",""at".; 77 ToTT.Tr1
ho n- "n wtil"
j, si;: vey dm inc. wo. h
' with and fo .V ?1') Trw-rrrfj
Under th au ;> e ..I th n< A",
r. ..... -i c. ..?! .\ . ? -
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jn N ii:?i [li'iniM rat>, h< vhnt d Vn
^(, jljNorth (.'arohti... S.<w1 h t
?0 iV*>1 iim, "Florida, C c??: t* . M, L?j
issipp.. Alabama and l.u.>-un.
In hi--, r port ho mado ' h s
(i vo <_> t <; :i 11') crv it a ; i <>::
,K lit icfl 1 fn'V (t Mil,.- 11 t ! I
ng lu> 'onvhod
1 Too \'Ot :i-{ haht nun'P.:', N
a4S Kin s i- itro'A'iniT, m :;p:tv ??l
tinned ;rt in"i nr?"i;i i ! i - t
js_ cm I) it.' hut Noproi : |:i tile :
*k dioto at*'as of South "
shovvmq defiant
' to
fcts " ~~ n,c,'rm- -m-Tviu *tTT 't*t
t() paying tlu- tux at in at a t
_lino in <inlet v ia st ,,
t* y.
lcj_ ' f-doral lrt'.i..!".d a hi ( l.riiinati:
r,,J tll tax will r u!t , i , hop a
ch'crcas<" 'n v?thig.
13M| '* Al'.hou^it. uum. -tfu-mn- -m
s , uruiruf Ncmrnos to topi hu?rrr
, i vot "-, tlv rv is an nInee of ii
he
1 ordination amonit tinm lh < .
U " <*'" NAACl' 'I"
rT' , erodit;d>l job.
| 4. Klforts to ( f .it ;i | "| ; i
vtruf'.urj have been we.ik a
poorly planned. Hut h noted th
c r the "ph nonu'ivm" of No'
|
mass vfi'i,ny in -th S''jith 11.??
! relatively n \v ind that tl
lC" j huildtnu of polit 10M marl .nery
tn | niiikc i' IT ( live will t.:1 ' tm
*TJ ;in di xperil nee.
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COLUMBIA, SOUTH t\
Progre
;* >. Thrro i.? a short "!' ) oli
tii .'i; Iraiir: .-hip iji;t no hortarfe
i >!' ifad . inn m;it< i .... < :
a a <4 to ji :?<i in. ' 1 : -: a Lit n
;i mv;; :i f?i i:i < ountvy
I rtji' ( <>iul-,rlinn Clinics \
< 'r'.n'np :'** ?i:u:r. r'. rd !1 '
: n . (- | n'. A trinms n < ; i.;i't
<i .:. " l S uth ; ' '
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tint; ttrrt Itit* -*w - "{
" lt,:iv iit; '.i ai f;< II. ! .U'!
NA.V V - n < ::! .5 *
;,..d" ,: _. ?i ?!:;/ <it ,
' < :> it !i -i. it" i?i.?i*. ?'ii ;i t.itia
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Tn .!?<; ? \j ? <-<i ! ;
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Iv - | on or el i 1 m.*
l'nanp . io. I;, i - ' i "an 1 "h t h"
(try and, at tho sotn.o '.ini and
\\*iI i a ! ; . k mov.el' t
,i. '
i 11>: apmvmy thi. . a - ? :
. an daaUdy \\> 1 i ; 1
* I ::.n from ' .? .a . 1..
1' . . i\ id the
, .1:at .i:. <<i jud::.. o. .mm /ait.iii?
.> .h.p.- _ Xun.aooi
'0 at;./.' < in. )i ni l! it :. al
? ni;iri : aii' fo: m1 ak.t <1 a .<I o\
i : ? il an ! ;1 4 t" Ik'h i a"'";.:lt
l,i t,.)Va- i (>i:a *f..: uj p. : t 11
. Kilt-"-.; I h a' ill til Smith white*
i'a* ;r!" '.' a! ' . I" .iii ;n ; a. :i?
ei t o. a;>11 ,il, 11(fi t !: y I > a
N .1(1 \ (l! i .
' -T ( :'.iiii|i'n (i.'i'.in <>! tin* N A T
' ' Al '1' . ana- itt ttT^Tmi?on^T'i|ll '' '
i t 11: : In" rijKirt r ;. 11 <r. rrv.
'I- o.I t d;.' i n an olTi<"in 1 -1 at mo nt
the a .x-'i at a. i had >u-4 HnP to
\ah~TP a \ . ~<i?r . M' 1' e t.
1 he pi >1(1 11 v I > nun : at' and
> Hopublioans ar to lie it.,mdod
at a-v. iinnoooptahl 11 hy Noyio s fur
t<> vot.iu; pui pos Ho aid a! a)
f that '.heir solo t >t has ho n their
to sta ;-*!' (>n til "limited i' no" of
to orvd rights, and h added:
,t' "I rftliMo4 uml i-?-t:ilc th im(
ONTIM I l> ON r.\(;i: I K.Il l
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INFORM
AKOLINA. SATURDAY, MAY
?j&Jp I
, *' 2
AT CONVENTION?Several I
A jltmUa *
cr Columbians attended the *
27th annual converttlorv of*tl?e South
Carolina Funeral directors
and Fmbalnaers Association
whirlj <uufct at Anderson
lust week.
Pictured, left to right, a- j
hov'e arc: Odeil W. Humphri-s, j
assist in( manager, Manigault's j
I uneral Honn^ Claude Me- j
< olluni. ;^WSnt manager,
I aft Says Would >
Name Race Man
'I1- H 1 *
Hi cx'iTt'iarvsni!)
A A.
C'LKVKI.AND. O. ? Should
S< H. A. 'IVft. < .QP
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*' ; ! >'f the U :it d
S* !v .i:(i ! ni a col<.;
t!V:::.:s uiic of th s?vr. !
: . ihv White House./*
M:. 'i' ;!:." ; . Mv
? -r ( r tJ :** . * v?" ret *; .! :<: !<
v. i : 0:1 o! the
' r>::'k V the .v. . f .| ( ,< >J?
>:;:.! t; I 1 <.! K \ 1
The |{t. dev. J. It. Shaw of
Salisbury. N. <\ who is one <?f
4uut?j>i i n i?.i cfs elevated to the
bishopry ' by the AMK Zion
(burch during its quadrennial
conference in Itrooklyf*, N. Y.
this month. Itishop Shaw is re1.C...I
I,. I>; ,11~ on.l * 1 < <
in u %<r iv.^iiuiiK imri .iiiii ^ii^.
.1 lines W. Shaw of Columbia,
and is well known throughout
the denomination's southern districts.
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A, P. WliLuri*, manager, Wll*?oi
Hants Funeral Home and pub* g<
He relations director fOT the t>
association. Absent from ilie
group when picture was tak- at
en Kirk land Leevy, manager
l/'l'.v's Funeral Home.
Others from Columbia on
hind included, A. Wilson Simkihs,
business man, John H.
MeCray, eAitor Lighthouse
and Informer, Nathaniel N'esbill.
A. P. Williams,
Mrs. Kirkland Leevy and
daughter. ?Iiss Alice Hiller.
John Fleming of Charleston,
former l:.? S. District Court
crier, was also in attendance."
entertaining the convention
were: C. Lee Davis, Fred W.
Jackson,Wilson Ciireton. Mrs.
Mary Drown, Walter Johnson, W.
I. Peek, Miss Willa Mae I
Alexander, F.dward K. Wool- I
ridge, and William Jackson.
!>t iineltsville
SAACP Nears J
['ampaign Goal
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BKNNETTSVII.l.E -- T h c ^
ILn e-H.-sville NAAC1' branch
ipoit.d 4 iis w k that it need i
i ?hiI\- lit 111<>i'o members tt s*
reach its mtutu for lt)a2. but oflii
I lis : i ! ? 1'licv' f t' f bit nl thr
nri of the pr sent campaign, the
quota would he fh?d Tlh#?r
braiii h" hiT* t> each Third Sun g,
ijav. ' B
VC?' ,
Jnr,>: T. K nm'vly- is pre id n' i*
uf 111. branch; Harold T. Blark- ,
man. vice president; Mrs. Lucih e'
T. Washington, ecr tr.ry aiv'
lif\- s M Miller, tr asui t r. 11
?<-'lunt mch of?stand ing?com?y
mi'tees arc: ' S
Mcmlv'iNiiin Afr 1) P Rrie
tow; Kin.iiu , 11. K. Covington, s
Sr.: Community Coordination. ^
MT" Pi id in i' Mxt-'riihim; Prur.r. ~
and Publirit>, Harold ,T. Blackman:
Legal R ?.!res-, Dr. Q. ^
Adams; Education. Rev. S. M. ^
Mil lor; Entertainment, Miss V. "
Enters? Cooke; Youth Work, Mrs.
W. J. MvMath; Veterans. Ernest
Robinson and Church Work, R?v.' ^
A. J Wright. [e
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PRICE TEN CljTNTS i
Doefc*
Sarins Judge For J|
suspended tine
1>r. Buzzard', but christened ?
Cadi son Pell, 58, graciously
awed b'fore Recorder John I.
ic? here Tuesday for a suspend\
sentence of $15.50 or 15 days
\ a charge of disorderly conTh'".
complaint said "Doc" .J
her out whsn she tried
get back the $20 shr? claimed
le paid him to make her huaanJ
corhj back to her. The '
end1 r "root man" denied, how/er,
that he was abusive. "He
lid he had given her two dolrs
of the money and would
ive returned all of it, but ujst
dn't have it.
Moreover, he argu;d, he had
my: what he promised. He made
le husband come back home,
it she just couldn't hold him.'*
Obviously imijnpressed with
ItK ~ rftystic?power, Judge Ride ?-3
ant:d to know by what power
>uld- the "Doc" help anybody.
lyway. At the request of his . 7 p
torn.y, the mystic * man fished
it what he told the court was
dragon's tpQth, which he said " j|9
as is secret, which could very
ell start a rush of root busess
around hr:re if the word ^
is around. ('Actually, police
i !, the thing looked more like ,
tooth from p human being).
>QWfJy Awarded
)octorate
ie ,at the Ohio State Uaiver&k'"
Cojuinljif#. Qhie.
Dr. Dewdy received hi* sec- . j
uiary education at A1^ryi tkxi
wmmm \
DR. ODOM
. . . ir ??r ; i /
rsity. Columbia, and the bach
lor of science degiira fronT ?
outh ..Carolina State College in
rangeburg, in 1937. Th? mat
r of science degree was earn
d at Ohio State University i\
)47, and sipce that time he has
->;n employed as instructor an
t ad of the Division of Agricu
iral Economics at Tu^kegee In M
:itu*te.
In September, 1949, Dr. Dowdj
on a fellowship from the Ge
ral Education Board, which w
rrfrrr-qnrntly-rencwed?frnd?bu
an work toward the Ph.D. dc
roc at Ohio State with a mai
i agricultural economics an
ural sociology with a minor ? '.'-'m
ronmics.. 4
Prior to coming to Tuskeg ">, -||
rMitute, Dr. Dowdy was for i ( ';J8
aET a farm 'extension worker <? yW
ou'h Carolina. He also serv_n .
8 months in the U.S. Army an '
aw service in Europe durn.j
Vorld War II. He is a memb
f the American Farm Econn
)ic Association, the Southe: T-"
Iconomic Association, a 32 <i.
rre Meson ?ud a Shriner., . ^
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VISIT CHARLESTON
The Roosevelt MicCrays
Jr. and Mrs. Johnnie Lee vis ;
d in Charleston last Sunday. .' ?$
-v. " iJi