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^ *}v 3 $. f0 ]^r^ g^r ^^ QL^'V ^mw f- T '''* '* j \ The Lighthouse and Informer CHAftL&blTJN: Kaoe citizens' ^ Re keyed up as never before Hfanr the July 8 .Democratic pril&ary. the reaaon being that | ere. are tjtiree race candidates offering fotf&hree of the ten seats |. t|l?4t?i]^'haa in the House of ^ r Representative*: Rev. Frank k. Vea3, pasor of ^il It-oric Emanuel! . AMfe Church, Arthur Brown, | real estate agent and Herbert Fielding, an accountant. While all race members here say they will generally vote for this trio g they concede the edge In the r i'liotal ftumber of votes to Mr. r |R&icfcng, scion of the late Julius Bfr Fielding, who pioneered the ^ kneral directing business here. ^ TJnofficial estimate? place regis- ^ tered Negroes at more than ^|8,0OO in an overall total of some ^Mrg0.OOO or 28.000 persons. J * IE*" DILLON: We've finally solved ^ solved, the mystery of Wm.' ] seen every Saturday on the cor-' \ Ev ner of Main sreet here by the ^ | Jay Bee drug store. Rudv. as he! , [jtla called, hangs out there to col-j HBpct from his customers holding ( ?. insurance policies in the North, : BHB^fplina Mtortual Life Insurance < p^^iewspaperman if the1 . ^^Butylce. you. We pulled in aHii' 9 A * C*.i_ J... j n I ' * ?>*,?. *?* ouuudv u'Jiu Di u- i |h< Davis at the Jiofcel Gordon , up a free room sp^e and Dr. H. K. Gordon of Dillon: Bet- 2 W. K; Smith, president of the : businessmen's association here, WL told us he had a letter from a l V; minister seeking, information on kthe beach, attributing the1 let-. Rter to information we published K.the week before. By the way, ; Brail the establishments here arc tickled over that issue ... We , W an in 11/ uuj' iic;ym-w, liUii l|<Peanut) Doyle,. whose eyes ( Bftearly jumped out* \vhun lie Rooked around and spie.i as . . . TTWe baach Was overrun with m r Legionnaires Sunday, early arP rivals for the state convention R* of .jhe American Legion, which opened a Myrtle Beach, 14 miles JjMBK.?away, Sunday.?Especially viM&f brant were: Attorney Lincoln C. 1 '' Jenkins anil ILmton Jamos, bot h oi Columbia . . . We f und th reason our favorite cabin No. 7 ? at Smith's wasn't available was that E. C. Jone , Jr. and the IlEACH: C. B. Han-j Columbia would bej b ?th here' ?sis at 4he Caai no^f BEACH. Won r | r charminf/. mother! 41 sons v/flS uca;. ' yniJon? McKenzh!' ast . . . If you want* m in report homes, se the one W. W. &or getx>wtfk funeral] PtflJUn. It's l: Rev. Wm:^ Mercian has another painted job; He stin to a race bAweeh on Pmgn ?fh|% 1 v; \ i W W{ - Si Trii*w Figh o " Here's 4 Si Ck4 TV A Ad^l L J J i T ,1 /lLil 37 States I>enounc ^OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.itates attending the 43rd conve nitted the organization to an i: acial segrgeation when the see In addition, the delegates st rights program adopted by tt Conference held last May in V ?riends to go down the line wi which has the backing also of ?ro organizations. Urge A More Vis Resolutions adopted by tl need for "intelligent use of the elections to attain the goals ol ty of opportunity in education tice, and the general pursuit < aetion ^resolution further ncfei Elmo Roper poll which indicate )f Negro voters are influenced national issues. "This is a sacre to which the Association pledge up to for the good not only of t itself." - WJbfle re-affirming . the oolicy, the resolution said "the Political responsibility and oblip that segment of the population vancement this organization is This is a crucial election out "because-* there are those oil monev for tl ierived from government in fin recUng an outmoded and much In the fight against segre, ed "ufwn Negroes to stop supp ment such as theatres, concerts draw&l of financial support fr< regation is one of the most efl it." The NAACP 'pledged inte "campaign to eliminate segreg; merican life, including public t mndflt.irm nnrl psnn.-nnllv rmhlir* Other resolutions of the c ism. police brutality, loyalty p raent, social security; health, t services and veterans* ^affairs affairs; racial and religious ter The branches were warfie contribute to the National Negri supported only by the few Cor ly Communist dominated, and workers' to support the Com mi Marion Democrats Fo MULLINS?The Marian Coun- C ty Progressive Democrats organ- c ized a club in the Zion-Sinith- * baro Community last FrMay j nighty The theme of the pro-J gram was *First Cla-? Citizen-' ship." IOfficers elected were: M. W. ( Graves. Chairman; Clarence 1 Browns Read Cong JKfjtfHE f ^' ^kvWflgk s Rfev and Mrs! Charles ffy ] Ihany congratulatory letters a I>t. Brown's 26th yShr ?f stirt Ijria, and his 18th year as pas Brown 'was honored by fiener last month with thi Doctor 01 r. . "U L . ! / VTURDAY, JULY 5, 1952, ian I it F< ' *V immary 3 Meeting e Segregation -The 750 delegates from 3 ntion of NAACP, had com ntensified drive to wipe ou QIAO 4**] U Afw Air ^iinuvi nci r ouiivth v , ood pat on the 10-point civ le C^vTT Hig"hts Leadershi ifashington and asked thei Ith them on this doctihmr 18 nationally prominent Nt goroua Ballot le convention asserted th ballot in national and locr Lfull citizenship and equa , employment, hoUsinrr. .iu? >f happiness." The politic; T~fhe findings of a recer ni that at least 45 per cot by the NAACP position o d trust." the resolution sni itself "to continue to Ti\ he Negro but for democrat Association's non-part isa NAACP has an inescapab ration to our country and 1 of our country to whose a< dedicated." year, the resolution poiiP who under thegnise of s< he states, oy under the ma overynent ^copomy. .or, fu^ ** thhE cial gair b tat twcr' decades by rcsu abused'political philosophy nation, the Association cal orting segregated entertaii and sports eents. The witl >m the perpetuation of se fective m?ans of combattir msification this .roar of i ation from all phases of J ransportation, public accor education." onvention dealt with terro roprams, labor and emplo; welfare and housing: urnn ; international and coloni isions; and felicitations, d "not to affiliate with < 3 Labor Council, because it nmunist unions, is complet is simply bait tojret Nopi jnists indirectly." rm New Club ^ampbell, Vice Chairman; Fra: smith. ' Sect'y; Lawrence Grav treasurer ?n?t Clarence JohnCg .'hflplain. An effo'rt is being made to ( janizv every precinct in t bounty and much progress 1; seen made to date. ratulatory Mess; Brown of Columbia are ah _^a A>n - .. . it na xategrams mey receive tee ir\ the reli Rious and e< tor of Second Oalvary Ba fict College, w here he is i f Divinity' hon orary deprre } \ I ' ' 9 .?? ' : 1 . ^ -V li, INFORM! COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROL IN. Urges >r *Gt\ Porter Nabbed As Firebug Who Tells r Of Firing Brook'n J I ! NEW YORK (CNS) ? A S?7_! year oM Porter. Irving Ore.no, T~ ' confessed this week that he had: t l" the seinsational Brooklyn tene- j> ^ ment fire in which seven persons. 0 lost'lheir lives on June c ill 1 oir* ' ; i i- - J? J *i ? - - | io'.u., urenne saia ne aia u oeP I cau^e UI like excitement." p 1 j Ho also told police that he had p j been setting fires for years and ( '1.! 20 of them m the last two years. > ; It was at his latest touchofT j] I where he tarried too long Which 7 e j led to his arrest. I t 1 EKtective Weldon explain- e ]? 1 e*d it: "For ajome reason ?p 1 pected him and I couldn't shake v ,1 myself from that thought. Some- a it : thing told fne^he was* the man v p we were looking- for." Green j a n ! confessed in a few hours and was \ ,i 1 booked on charges of homicide s . and arson. \ Col. Julian Plans ! n Appeal From Big Federal Verdict is | t BJ NEW YORK (Global) ? Col.'1 s . Hubert F. Julian, the;inhnitabk.,,,1 J. and storied* BlaeV ,we^ ! w-eV -fottoWtttST^ [what 5ib* and h*? attorney called, IS4 . 1 | a tempdhrry setback in a pourt action broygfit againSt Julia^ by \ ' j twov men formerly a3socia*^d ! with him i?i n Yrr>ntnrf> tr? ' ' in War Surplus material | The. complainants, Jesse O.1 ^ Dedmon. Jr^ . and Lloyd Von ; Blaine, both of Washington, D. C., ' ! charged that they joine-J Julian " in March 1940, in a contract to C ,1_ purchase for resale* certain sur- 1 plus jeeps, then in Europe. Asi 1 ~ a result of the venture, they' ~ claim Julian realized huge sums1 of money .none of which has' been given *(j them. Acceding to Julian, and this }1* is not denic-i by the plaintiffs the original verdure flopped-; when the money ran out. How<\i r. the plantiff claim 'hat af- ^ ter the failur of the tirst plan. Julian con'inu-d to operate in ^ the surplus commodity fields- 1 an-.: ultimatcdly did buy and C 11 some-jeeps. They in-ist they i es, are en'it led to a share- of the OM money obtained therefrom. Col. ? onel Julian flatly denies that j any of his action in buying or J --- w?try* \.\ ui 111 u? iii- ?s he lap-c of the original deal hod ais anything at nH 4a -lo with the ] initial proposition I af?es m - T" rm?- ; n above reading1 some of the id on the recent celebration of; jucational circles of South Caroptist Church of Columbia. Dr. dean of the School of Theology, e. | I # iOXt BR Race * " ' < ii Ri ^ i Sli %/C I i^iinii J IC7 V><V/L11J U Since Fight OKLAHOMA CITY?Americ er and more united" country I rogram, President* Trumaa sal Vg t^-the ~HTrnuaI_convent losed here Sunday. The President assured the de rogram I sent to Congress in 1 rogram for the American peoplt When he addressed the1 ? JAACP convention in Wash-, coj ngton five years ago, Mr. ~ple Vuman recalled, "it looked as it hough the wartime gains in en* qual rights and equal- op- an< ortunities were about to be' bei /iped out in a wave of hatred of nd violence similar -to that -hich swept over the country SftJ ftor the first world war. I vas determined that this ] ihould not happen again.' I < or vas certain that the Presi- ?fx lent of the' United " State.s mist take the initiative in res ie\ eloping an affirmative er ivil rights program." th: Only two it. ms in His ten- la* ynnt program have been en- sai .et *d into law, the President m< loted. However, he predicted cn hat the day the entire program-^ <? ndondcW "mv?r?W> will lohby vontfci v;h?t all tlyy x>ut' a-fvd- w.hv i^-'Wa8?.!(? dodStl* o .iKv:: Thixtr h* 'Jfafcra minM w tt?krn< foipffa^d ^U*t .lffijfcMj he rhnny a< Tvunif*< |ha* hbvfTfce > ? n mode in th? iaat "five jtearsl th~ W the executive brkne^ and*,bv' un hi; , courts, by stat j^i nil local Jnl [ovornments, and1 by jmivate r?r- mi fanizati' n-. ] yo The advances which have! tic >o n made. Mr. Truman assert- za d, "Have taken place because| sti his program hn> been held highi th >cfore the America a people. The] ca NAACP C> Hi OF THE HATE NT^W YORK?A resurgence >ut the country in 1951, Min adei progress made towards the atta iety in recent years." was note ion for the Advancement of C< eport. "1951 The Year of the Oklahoma City today on the eve Annual NAACP Convention. "Benighted elements reported ... to a new instru- oc nent of terror?the hate CI )omb," the NAACP report itates, citinp bomb explosions in Birmingham. Dallas, A*anta, Nashville, and in Cab- g> "ornia and Florida. In Florida re .vhore th ? ere;.test number of ur bombii'i' rhcidenty occurred, cr this re?>rn of terror culmin- m itcd i i the Christmas 1 ijrht ?>f dast which ',? rovijl the tr home i : lfa.i,\ T. Mooiv in Si Mints, killing 1 lie Florida r NAACP leader a n <1 his <-i school-teacher wife. Oth?r f < i 11. s of violence.. \\ ie typifi- d by. the Cicero, Ilfino:.*, A \vhiV hoodlum* imd erst rained by t' rio's in July, whop a ban'! of li police and town officials drove P Mrr and" Mrs." Harvev F Clark. P Jr., and the.r children from a .< nmv npai tin nt they nought tj Sumter To Get Two n New Police Officers SUMTER ? Sumter'.^ fuM two, U' ( Ulbl'ed police officers in molern Havs aroo xpected to bo hir. sl fnl here soon, rity manager J. A.t Raffiold said Monday. Mr. RafField said the city's, c 1952-53 budget include*; provi-' sions for two and that the city. t( is now considcrng several appli- 8' cati&ns which have been submit- ^ ted for the positions. * ~~ .4%ii - . PRICE TEN CENTS T< > ghts' ry Better / Started ;a is a "stronger and betjecause of the civil rights rt in o fr 1 n jit o_wcic*xaaii?OA? ion otf the NAACP which 'legates that "the ten-point 948 is still my civil rights 5,'? iscience of the American peo-| i is a tremendous force whenj is aroused. It has been awak-j ?d by the civil rights program j d out c< untry is stronger andj Iter and more united because] rriman, Kefauver ad Greeting* [n "sincere .greetings" to the' lvention. W. Averill Harriman; pressed hi* "personal conv?c-j n on civil rights including the: >ponsifeHity of the federal gov-j nment for affirmative action] rough the enactment of lbgis-] ion of adequate and effective! action to ensure fair erqgloyj# nt practices, the Pcr^U0M ritv of <?ll'nltiMns atud^l ^"dchi|^d adv^u^^^S inority^itizen?-of America Jtt ur battle for equality and )\xtJ v fc. our people your'crganW i tion has rhad>e wonderful "ides. I hope and Jtffcst that e NAACP will continue to rrv on its very human work." 51951 YEAR : BOMBINGS of racial violence through operate attempt to hak the inment of a democratic sod by the National Associaolored People in its annua! Hate B6mb," released in of the opening of the 43nl eupy in 4h formerly lily-white lieaeo suburb and destrove*!. e Clark-' belonging-. .hacks for Discrimination Despite the discouraging resur. nce of violence, the NAACP ports ioniv noteworthy trinph in the fight against disimination during the year. Aong these were the acquittal four of the six men being re!< ' for murder in th 'Trenton x case: the federal indictmenttinned against seven ci*y ofTials of Cicero, 111. (re-ulting, in 'Cl2 m four convictions); the .ohtion of segregation, in the rmy in. Korea; and the connuing breakdown of segregaon in publicly financed instii'j ns . of higher learning ~in if- South. duration Focus Shifts Per imps-most?significant evrlopmcnt of the year, the AACP report -Tate-, was the icks against segregation fn putoc elementary and secondary noois thu- -biffing the emphas on the fight against Jim Crow uni th" graduate and professmal It vol- to the pra*.!e school vel. Suits were filed seeking an dnd ? segregation in Atlanta, Goria; Clarendon County, South iftl .A a t-V . . vnmingron, uoinware. uy tne Continued on Page Fight c i r I ^.-/ ;, * ' 1} jf. ' ^1 Vn^JSilF^; tB?B? jK- ^ ^ Mr ' W! .v.- ii' ' ^''- ' ,v* * isi^ k <><v?:' v I tyT (|n ' 1 4 ? " *' 1 A . IN A NUTBHELL No Civil Ri: VotesrWhi! OKLAHOMA CITY?Olos tion m the National Asaociat -fotored Peoid^Tiere Sunday, tion's executive secretary wai crats alike that repudiation "will bring down the wrath of ers." Repudiation of civil rights to cos Important among T. tese indel>ondent-, he declared and "more determined ' on this issue thanj m st in the Negro vote now near-j ing 2,000,000 strong in the South) and holding thepotential balance, of power in no less than 171 northern states with 281 v t.j-> in the electoral college. Isav this not 3s a"Jhreat," Mr. White continued, "only ax a simp] easily verifiable 'statement of^ fact. Tlie Negro vote ip Ohio,' Mrirav 7 a Iks it (AtX 4_ LA KB CITY ^ John Cray. editor <f The Lighthmiifj and Informer and state chair-j man of South Carolina Proyess?nre~DeTTKkTMs, "wffl he the main1 speaker at a mass meeting Sunday afternoon, July 6, which will j be held In the New-Zion Baptist Church on the Johnsonville' highway. The meeting is scheduled r to i begin at 4 p. m. Walter Scctt is] president of the liocal NAACP branch, which is sponsoring the rneeting. / ' ? i-f*. J: ~ z1'' i fcJMI - ,A<" TiflOKti '^aT/'N wij^l ?? -i. g. , , *Tfc< ' :V TV' wwtjkjn w> n w nW&m-- ^ M . R "*?<? *? > 4 ' Sfeviik-- ^ 6 ' -rfjf' > P laMfc ;' J& ' " I %C I V^r?^' Zm 2frft vli ? I^^HH 9 p. ^JR j|l| r*v v '^pl I ^M%w$W?Pw I " j* ? 1 v>'"'l Pf^Bpjgw^H I I mm I I I :: BUiPB Mm ^By.^y. ^ ^ d I BBBfilk I '1 . (J Declares ing the 43rd annual conven- 1 irm for.Aha Advancement of Walter White, the Associated Republicans and Demo- j of the eivil rjsrhts progrram -'A ' millions of independent votIllinois and California decicled^ the 194a presidental election." / V'W The NAACP leadfrr decried thfrj'^l quadrennial GOP pursuit of "thifv . J elusive will o* the wtap of ca|)h* Uinng the South." With few ex- 3| ceptt n-., such as the late WM6. a dell Willkie, "Republicans bgve been totally unable to uncffeYvtand that the only coalition this . reactionary South will enter is T^; one in which Republicans sur- t ' render completely the party's traditional position on the civil .*-1 rights, issue,'* Mr. White charged. \j T^d^fxtrcrnt^ WTto threaten to bolt the Democratic party if a hLt* strong civil rights plank is dopted next wesk at Chicagcyhe repeated the NAACP ijftttil'?wtion 'of 1948: "Let 'em jWjSkl _ Where can hey go? Nowhere OX political rraiivion, Ails ?? bout' time for NmUmm yotlffc boots whenever -a Dixiecrat screams ."bolt." Whatever else xouthern politicians may be Aey v arereollstic . about potttteal iput- o ^ renage and the lucrative tlirtrti which go with being the majoritjt party. Whatever h>yn>wg prliral realists" lifie Russell of Georgia, Kerr of Oklahoma; audi \ Lister Hill of Alabama are not CONTINUED ON PAQt I1' Xh - . 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