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ClIAlteiBflTOW. Ram* Cltmha
July 8 Democratic pri.
throe of the ten seats
Representative*: Rev. Frank R.
V5f^t fljfiku of ti^Jtoric Emanuel f
AME tekUrch,^. Arthur Brown,1 V
f?atate agent and Herbert
'eldipigf an accountant. "While
ill race member? here ssty they
generally vote for this trio g^a
rat, they concede the edge in the
TJelding, who pioneered the ^ J
Mineral directing business here.
Unofficial estimates place regis- j. .
^Bired Negroes at more than /
^?0,000 in an overall total of some
20.000 or 28.000 persons. *
% DILLON: We've finally solved
9<>lved the mystery of Wm. ne<
tRudy) l^ytch, "who "Has "been e|e
| seen every Saturday on the cor- j^y
L ner of Main sreet here by the,.^{c
y Bee drug store. Rudy, as he
Kif called, hangs out there to col-j jrjj,
/ lect from his customers holding 0f
^^ surance policies in the North, na
^^Hftinar Mutual Life Insurance
P-,: Up
^aig BEAjgy; ft'g-.goba it&i
iJP^jwber^n if the? j
y^fcejypu- We pulled in a. *
V>*M, Sunday and Bro-l,
agdvis ,at the Hotel Gordon
M*P $ *r*e room spav-o and[.
fejf'- ^1 'WiictJicp* hfc ulcstnt it4
j ' V, [ flii
^") Wstr n ! > '' Jfcr
W ? Wva- ma space of 3eLm; der
? ,nS who war^Ul hotel space:
???* Mat couldn't get ^ i
K. K. Gordon ?* Dillon: Bet- me
tife add another story to your, drs
-fine hotel ; . . Sunday morning,l reg
KT Smith, president oT the it."
businessmen's association here, Cf
r told u^^a^neUerfromame
Iormation on( mo
ag the let-J
/q published isrr
ly the way, nie]
its here are! vser
lue . . . We aflfj
lephew, Earl
whose eyes con
t~ ivh'n he 8Up
pied us.. . . jy
'errun with | W0]
ty, early ar-J
! convention|
Jgion, which
ich, 14 miles M
;>ecially vi- ty ]
y?JLincoln C.j l7ixr
e found njgj
cabin No. 7 gra]
vailable was
eat us to
>ia would be J Bi
ir what Joe.
s, both here'
-at threq in ?
who ucca. " I j|
js while we J |
nct'ufe^here I
McKcnzie |
' Bownm has another mai
Hmc, a white painted job. He D*.
Mr been boasting tyt vtfsai't ar Uiu
ML actually to a race bXweeh ^rc
^Bbttnaed on Pago Btgfat 't lia?l
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37 States l>enoui
Oklahoma city, okia.tes
attending the 43rd conv
tted the organization to an
ial acgrgcation when the sc
In iaddiiioh^he delegates f
Ihts program adopted by 1
nference held last May in
ends to go down the line \
ich has the backing also of
> organizations.
Urge A More V
Resolutions adopted by 1
>d for "intelligent use of th
ctions to attain the goals <
of opportunity in educatio
e, and the general pursuit
;ion resolution further not'
no Roper poll which indicai
Negro voters are influenced
^ional issues. "This is a sacr
which the Association pledf:
to for the good not only of
5lfS
While re-affirming the
icy, the resolution said "th<
itfcal responsibility and obli
.i. A H '
LI UggUUmi Ot rne population
icement this organization is
crucial election
: "because there are thoscl
tidela
ffl| an outmoded and much
Tn the fight against segrJ
"iipon Negroes to stop1 irapi
nt such as theatres, concert]
wtal of financial support fn
ation is one of the most e]
The KAACP'rpledged int
mpaign to eliminate segred
rican life, including public !
dation and especially public
Other resolutions of the <
i, police brutality, loyalty i
r*4- annlnl atfinr****' 11* J
uv| ouvioi dcvui ii(Y f ueaiui)
vices and veterans' affairs
lirs; racial and religious te
The branches were warn<
tribute to the National Nei?r
(ported only by the few Coi
Communist dominated, and
rker* to support the Comm
arion Democrats Fo
[ULLINS?The Marion Coun- 1
Progressive Democrats organ- ;
I a club in thr Zion-Smith- .
3 Community last Friday
it. The theme of the prom
was "First Cla<> Citizen-'
fTicers elected were: M. W.!
ves, Chairman; Clarence'
owns Read Cong
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SATURDAY, JULY 571962,
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umtnary
P Meeting
ice Segregation
?The 750 deleg&tes from .'11
ention of NAACP, had com
intensified drive to wipe out
ission ended liei e Sunday.?~
itood pat on the 10-point civi
ihe Civil Rights Leadership
Washington and asked thoii
rith them on this document
18 nationally prominent No
igorows Ballot
the convention asserted thf
e ballot in national anddnca
>f full citizenship and equal
n, employment, housing-. jusof
happiness." The politico
ed the findings of a recenl
ted that at least 45 per cenl
1 by the NAACP position or
ed trust," the resolution son
res itself "to contimie to liv<
the-Negro hut for democracy
Association's non-partisar
* NAACP has an inescapable
gation to our country " and t<
i of our country to whose ad
dedicated.'"
tartar, the resolution points
who under theguise of se
the states, Cflr under the mas
abused'political philosophy.'
igatfon, the Association callporting
segregated entertain
s and sports eents. The with
"om the perpetuation of seg
ffectnpe m&ans of combatting
ensiflcation this year of its
ration from all phases'of Atransportation,
public accorneducation."
:onvention dealt with terror
irograms, labor and emplin
welfare and housing; armed
; international and colonial
nsions; and felicitations.id
"not to affiliate with 01
o Labor Council, because it i<
mmunist onions, is completeis
simply bait to jjet Neprrc
unists indirectly.".
irm New Club
Campbell, Vice Chairman; Fran!
Smith. Sect'y; Lawrence Graves
Treasurer and Clarence John-or
Chaplain.
An effort is being made to or
ganizc every precinct in th<
County and much progress ha:
been made to date.
;ratulatory Messa
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Brown ctf Columbia are sho\
nd telegram a they received
ice ir\ the reli gious and edu
tor of Second Cblvary Bapt
Hct College , w here he is de
? Divinity- hon orary degree.
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Columbia, s6uth~cXrol S
Urges
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Porter Nabbed As j
Firebug Who Tells
Of Firing Brook'n
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INJ&W YUKK. (CNS) ? A 27-1
r year old Porter, Irving Gre.no, i
confessed this week that he had j
the seiasational Brooklyn tenement
fire in which seven persons
pitifully lost their lives oh June
' 18th. Gre^he said he did it be1
cause "I like excitement."
He also told police that he had
| been setting fires for years and(
"1 20 of them in the last two years, j
| It was at his latest touchofT
I where he tarried too long which
, j led to his arrest.
j_j Ah Detective Weldon explain.
I ed it: "For some reason I sus-|
. ' pected him and I couldn't shake.
] myself from that thought. Some-j
[ thing told me he was the man
). we were looking for." Green !
. confessed in a few hours and was|
j i booked on charges of homicide
j { and arson.
!Col. Julian Plans i
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^Appeal From Bisr
" Federal Verdict
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bH^bert F. Julian, the'inimitable:,
. Storied- Bla-pK ..EPKlft.
'[* tmdatfrteii wc^' following!
- what.Jifl# and -W? 'attorney called,
ft tempdSuy setback in a ppurt
f action brpjigftl against Julian* by;
two" men formerly associated
With him in a venture to deal'
r in War Surplus material
The* complainants, Jesse O.'
Dedmon. Jr4 and Lloyd Von
| Blaine, both of Washington, D. C.,
charged' that they joined Julian
" j in March 1949, in p. contract to
purchase for resale certain sur-(
plus jeeps, then in Europe. As
a result of the venture, they
" claim Julian realized huge sums
t of money ,none of which has
' been given to them.
Accrding to Julian, and this'
ivS not denied by the "plaintiffs,[
the original' venture flopped 1
when the money run out. How.
1 ever, the plant iff* claim *hat after
the failtir of the first plan. 1
Ni. lian continued to operate in
the surplus commodity fields
and ultimatedly did buy and
< sell some jeeps. They insist they
t. are entitled to a~shar?- of the
, money obtained therefrom. Colonel
Julian flatly denies that
any of his action in buying or
- selling subsequent to tlv col- <
- lapse of the original deal had
> anything at all *o ?:lo with the
initial proposition.
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vrn above reading some of the j
on the recent celebration of
cational circles of South Caroist
Church of Columbia. Dr.
an of the School of Theolopy,'
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OKLAHOMA CITY?Am<
ter and more trnited" country
program, President Truman i
ing to the 43rd annual cuim
closed here Sunday.
The President assured the
program I sent to Congress ir
program tor the American pec
When he addressed t h e i
NAACP convention in Washington
five years ago, Mr.
Truman recalled, "it looked as
though the wartime gains in
equal rights, and equal opportunities
were about to be
wiped out in a wave of hatred
and violence similar to thatj
which swept over the country
after the first world war. I
was determined thht this
should not happen again, II
was certain that the President
of the United States)
must take the initiative in
developing an affirmativej
civil rights program.*' |_
"" Only two it( ms in his 4.en-r
point program have bean en.:
into law, the President
yioted..* Howevefr he predictedi
that; the day the entire program-^
is adopted "poople; will bdgin tot
h n n ade in thV ifcat five
i)f the executive bnyick and^byj
the courts, by slatSfemi localj?
governments, and'by inuvate or*!
ganizations.
The advances which h a v e!
be n made. Mr. Truman asserted.
"Have taken place because
this program has been held high
before the American people. The
NAACP CALI
OF THE HAT
NEW YORK?A restrrgeni
out the country in 1951, Min ac
progress made towards the at
ciety in recent years," was no
tion for the Advancement of
report. 141951 The Year of tl
Oklahoma City today on the e^
Annual NAACP Convention. "Benighted
elements ren
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nui icu ... w u new instrument
of terror?the hate
bomb," the NAACP report
states, citing bomb explosions !
in Birmingham, Dallas, Atlanta,
Nashville, and in California
and Florida. In Florida
where the greatest numher of
bombii'ir incidents occurred,
this reign of terror culminated
in the Christmas right
blast which destroyed the
home el I fai ry T. Moore- in
Minis, killing the Florida
NAACP leader a n d _ his
school-teacher wife.
Otlwr forms of violence \\ re
typified by the Cicero, Illinois,
white hoodlums imderst rained by
riots in July, when a band of
police and town officials drove
Mr. and Mrs. Harvov F,. Clark.;
.Tr.; TfwT~Their children from a
new apartment they sought toj
Sumter To Get Two |
New Police Officers
SUMTKHT? Sumter'< fift twocolored
oollcr officers in Tho-T-*"
ern days aree xpected to be hif-'
ed here soon, city manager J. A.;
HafTiold said Monday.
Mr. Raffield said the city'si
1952-53 budget includes provi-i
sions for two and that the city
is now considerng several appli- 1
cations which have been submitted
for the positions.
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try Better
it Started
irica is a "stronger and be
f because of the civil righ
3aid in a telegram of gree
Mitlon (rf the NAA<Ji' whi(
delegates that "the ten-poi;
\ 1948 is still mv civil rich
pie."
conscience of the American pe
pie is a tremendous force wh
it is aroused. It has been awn
ened by the civil rights progra
and our country Is stronger ai
better and more united becau
of it."
Harriman, Kefauver
Send Greetings
In "sincere greetings" to t
convention. W. Averill Harrim
expressed his "personad conV
tion on civil rights including t
responsibility of the federal gc
ernmeirt for affirmative acti
through the enactment of . leg
1 at ion of adequate and effect}
sanction to ensure fair emplc
your battle for equality atrti jt
tice fc. our people your crgaj
zation has ma^e wopderf
strides. I hope and f|fct th
the NAACP will continue
carry on its very human wort
S1951YEAI
E BOMBING!
re of racial violence throng]
lesperate attempt to halt tl
tainment of a democratic a
ted by the National Assoei;
Colored People in its anrtu
he Hate Bomb," released i
;e of the opening of the 43i
occupy in '.he formerly lily-whi
Chicago suburjp and destroy
the Ciarks' belongings.
Setbacks for Discrimination
Despite the discouraging rest
g-nce of violence, the NAAC
reports <onic noteworthy t
umphs in the fight against d
crimination during the year. .
mong, these were the acquit!
of four of the six men being i
trio;! for murder in th 'Trent
Six case; the federal indictmer
returned against seven city of
cials of Cicero, 111. (resulting,
1952, in four convictions); t
abolition of segregation in t
Army in Korea; and the co
tinuing breakdown of segreg
tion i*n publicly financed ins
tu'i ns of higher learning
the South.
Education Focus Shifts
Perhaps the most signifies
NAAC'P report states, was t
launching of full-scale legal t
tacks against segregation ip pu
lie olemontary end seconds
school*-Urn- ^hiftn?g (ho emph
so* on the fight against .Ttm Crc
from th? graduate and profei
lonni irveis to tne grade schc
level. '
Suits wer?. tiled seeking an ei
to segregation in Atlanta, Gc
gia; Clarendon County,
Wilminglon, Dekwane. By t!
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(!jtion <ff the National Associatio
i Colored People here Sunday, 1
tion'a executive secretary warn
t(, crats alike that repudiation oi
?!! "will bring down the wrath of ]
ora " : ?
Repudiation of civil rights to cos! II
-pj Important among these inde-| H
ri_ pendents, he declared and "more
is- determine on this issue , than| Q1
m st ia the Negro vote now near-| e'
:al ing 2,000,000 strong in the South)tu
e" and holding thepotential balance | ^
onj of power in no less than 17i **
l*sj northern states with 281 vct?s.
In the electoral college. Isay this st
'n . not as a threat," Mr. Whiter^
he, continued, "only a* a simpl -.j01
easHy verifiable statement of j r<
'n-| fact. TT^e Negro vote i-n Ohio,' **
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jj*j LAKE CITY ? John 1*. We-?!
Cray, editor of The Lighthotli#| c<
'* r and Informs wr>d state- iliali-1 b
lb~ nwual^Smilh. Carolina Pregn?a- hri
^ ive Democrats, will be the main b<
speaker atmflteetihg
>w day afternoon, July 8, which will m
w~| be held in the New Zion Baptist ai
>o1 Church on the Johnsenville re
highway. w
| _3>e meeting ia scheduled to It
I begin at_4 p. m. Walter Scett ia P?
tb president of the' jbocal NAACP O
b0 branch, which U sponsoring the L
meeting. /
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cr tVlP IftrH annnnl <^nt>an.
o ?WUTVII'
n for tbt. Advancement of ,j?|
Walter White, the Associaed
Republicans and Demo- jffl
' the civil lfgrhts program
millions of independent votlinois
and California' decided
le 1946 presidental election."
The NAACP leadtr decried the ;
jadrennial GOP pursuit Of "the*
usive will o* the wisp of cap, m
iring the South." With few #*?' J
ipttcns, such as the late jS
all Willkie, "Republicans h^va v-.y
*en totally unable to uriAfc.
and that the only coalition the *
ttctionary South will enter is
"ie in which Republicans far*. JK
;nder completely the party's ( $
actional position on the civil VA2j
ghts issue,'* Mr. White charged. ^
To Dixiccrats who threaten .?*
3lt_ the. Bemocrfific party if a **
:rong civil rights plank is a- -a' .'y
Dpted next week at. Chicago, he
ipeated the NAACP admdUU
on of... 1046; *em?Weflkl?"f"
'here can hey go? Nowhere exipt
to political oblivipp,, It- im A
?uv vime iwr wunnern jjj^g^
ww ?o slop shivering in thai*
pots Whenever a glxiecrat *
>uthern politicians may be v
rereolistic about political paU
na*e and the lucrative rawitda
hich go with being the majUrv
party. Whatever hoppia*
Mical realists like Ruaaell of
aorgia. Kerr of Oklahoma* and
iater Hill of AJfcttnna are not J
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