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SIXTEENTH YEAR, EDlj^Q] r ITOVTNG I ABOUT I; C A 'LIN A f; By John H. McCray, Editor ' ; The Lighthouse and Informer Kr^'s LAKE CITY: We were almost Kj; fchurchnapped here Sunday af ML teinoon. We missed__tln??New-i? Zion Baptist Church out towards Jofeitsonville where we were to \ . P speak, having not gotten accur-! ate directions from L. M. Green; who later said he thought we' knew where to turn .We pulled r up at a stone-built church and ^ seeing the folk there despite the rain, prepared to go in, some f. ten minutes late. About ten minute later, Seward Balder, who. was glad to see us and said he Hfc was happy he'd beable to hear ? us again, told us that the meet-1 E* ing.we were to,speak at wasn't Bfc ?t this church What wm thi*g^UTch? I was Bethel AME, on1 jp, stone Structure just like New Zion. And its pastor is Rev. J. " A. DeLaine, formerly of Sumn merton and Clarendon county. Remember him? He started thcClamdon suit. However, Mr. Baker agreed "to ride?with us to k_, y New Zion. some three miles furHjk. ther. and down a muddy nasty that we come back and speak to/ his members after the New Zion program.' [ fci', LAKE CITY: Ike Boone won't gpf be principal at Lake City high school this coming term. Why -.wherefores they say here come( x ftom a difference between him ^ som'x of the citizens . . . And | HHJBpc* jnyu iwujv ^ 01 tuc: i rj iv u iuuo Ri. colOied elementary schools in i this rural environs, you can un- * p Eiders t and why-school officials are * Kirl*0 happy oveF the state's new s fT development and equalization * H?:. plant and colored residents ?ro l K~ worlclng^ on now through their e HL / P-TA organization. ^ e MONCKS CORNER: La?t Wed-! 6 ~/l iqesrfay, our old friend and first _ .principal, R. A. Ready, after j ' ^many years of faithful work, dropped dead of a heart ailment R. Ou the school grounds here he loved' so well and helped to de-11 [v. : velop. Mr. Ready, until the death I of his devoted mother several IBF'^1Z>'' | years ago, lived in Lincolnville, K the state's only all-colored gov-r 1 jr ."' erned community. He was principal iof th e old Lincolnville Hp graded school, which met in the Town Hall, to which we toddled I* ? ? onrl fAiirth amHor HP 5 E^- was a fine man and one all the LyV ~ hoys respected, if not feared, HEra to* he would "cane your hand" Rvlf you arrived late, fought or talked. He was the town's braino?t man and-included-music" a rjfahong his other indulgence*. It Sjfcjfrvvas natural, I guess, that my Kmother and father, both wantB I liH und praying that their-QlcU? V est s?n would some day be some body, sent me to him for a few . piano fessons" Maybe we got , four or five, or maybe ?t was II. .'only two or three, but we learncd the scale and he teamed rre each time we met in later years lor being his unfinished mu ic I MvftUdent . . . Kicnara nearly was j fta , grand guy. We liked each B other dearly. One yeaV-he shock- s #;?d everybody here by inviting 1 1^7 liae to deliver his commencement BF 'address. Constantly, in recent i Bf^^drs. he warned me against t ^Bffi * ^ynrkinc too hard ' Y n i l rln?f ing a fine job", he ^aid, "one we 1 Hfc need done, but you're not made r ^Bfcgof iron, Julm?Henry,' be d -nyi Bwith his characteristic lift of the i Bayebrow and one finger point- c Ping, "you'd better listen to me. B'^^dfeason for his death,-they say 1 l^^h?re: "Ho just worked himself ( ^^^HIcOLUMIBIA: A while having, j || breakfast the other morning, I i Ij^fnet Mrs. George * Breat h of ^ Charleston. She's the former Mrs. 6p G-elzer of the Five Mile area. I I H| khew the late Rev. Mr. Gelzer \ WiS?Vary well, tnrt didn't know hcii Rw had passed. In fact, 1 didn't know r that?George, a- navy veteran and, c BflbvatOr Of Queen's Tea Room \ |Mr_Ken/vedy street, Charleston,, maa married the very charming f tinned on Page Eight v L / M NUMBER 4 : ? Prob< or NAA4JF 8a' rortured Ii Charges that city police had dciously whipped a Columbia j he resident until he "confessed" ( th vere flowing over the city late N. Pnpcdnv an Hansrv TslAAP.P nf- ra Icials said a preliminary inves- be Igation indicated that the vie- da im, joe Bethel Of the 2100 block B< if Marion street, had been first ailed on a suspicion of house- vc >reaking, held two weeks and ut lnally charged with attempted th ape of two white women here, th Bethel was brought before' ca Elity Recorder John I. Rice Wed-1 bj lesday on the rape-attempt pc harges and booked over to gen-i w ;ral sessions court. He denied C(j he charge and held that the 'confessions" produced by city r( jolice had been beaten >>ut of pC urn. i ta The NAACP said Bethel's case "j vas brought to its attention by tl everal persons who were in th ail, either at the time some of pC (eating took place or had seen j]] he> badly beaten man. Relatives ha ater brought a formal report to tic he organization, an official said, jn; tating that a sister or another m< emale relative had been final- po v permitted to- 4alk wrttr'him'L th arly this week and had seen at badly beatpn, bloodshod eye and rij ad been told of other injuries to tri illter parte of his body. ; ^3 El. A. Ready Of Ii doncks Corner P Jassps Away b MONCKS CORNER ? Rich-j th ird A. Ready, principal of the Berkeley County Training, c> >ehool here for more than 20 ('ears, dropped dead on the T ,U HNABflH^HIHHHHHH ' i chool grounds ho developed on ( ast Wednesday. Mr. Ready had come here as, principal from Lincolnville in ' he early twenties and began ex- ( rinding the "ni building?T TlUr j ocal school plant, and despite ^ >oor health, was busily engaged j n preparing for the consulidat" on of schools in the district as ' loath claimed him. j 1 Severa 1 weeks before, hg, had. ... uiTeredT another in a series of ( xeart attacks which had plagu-j j d him in recent years. He had [one to the school grounds with r local consolidation committee" i representing the school board I t md had iust walked, in idc the} t ?nte when he fell mortally ill. 1 Funeral services were held in bethel AME Church at Summer-j bile, where he had been organ-j ' ?*r-^5TTTTTu ou yeui h, anu inter- i * nent was made beside the grave' < >f his late mother in a Summer- j /ille cemetery. 1 I A bachelor, no Immediate rbl-' itives are believed to have sur. ' dved him. ( 4 I 1 I ijy ^AND /T riJHUA J.JULY 12, 1952, iS Li AlM "I I ys Bethef n A rrpst LJm. JML -M. V^'IO' ' 'Several attorneys practicing ;re who occasionally frequent e city jail, were reported by AACP to have learned of the ,se and agreed that Bethel had en abused One said "It is aunned shame',, referring to the ethel case). At press time an NAACP instigation into the full case was iderway, but it appeared that e charges against the man? ose of attempted rape?had ught all interested in the case t surprise. The originally re irted charge, though unofficial, as housebreaking or attemptl housebreaking, NAACP said it would later lease the names of involved dice officers and complete doiIs of its investigation. It said t has been held repeatedly by lat confessions extorted from c highest court of our land rsons suspected of offenses are icgal. From time to time we ive had reports of such cxtor>ns in our area, and of illegal human and uncivilized treatent of citizens at the hands of lice authorities it C UVU1U1 L09V lliui >u.->ed his physically, and hi* *hts to a fair and impurtial ial. NAACP intends to get eveONTINCED ON PAGE EIGHT ra W. Claiborne asses State Bar CHARLESTON ? Ira W. Clairne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arur J. Claiborne, A Percy street, issod the South Carolina Bar camination recently. Mr. Claiborne r? a graduate of alladega College and Howard niversity. He attended Avery istitute. He is a member of the mega Psi fraternity and of Ivmouth Congregational Church. !e was wounded in Italy where I'scrved with the Army m t44. "TjJrs. Claiborne, hr> WiTr, is the rrmer Miss Rachel'Hubbard of T cuiguuiu g. \N EDITORIAL Complaints Ag; 1 During the week two e< gainst the Columbia Polio have been called to the att Lighthouse and Informer, have before us only one sic rleyts, being unable to oont >f the department as this think that both ought to h jy City Council or a non-pa committee, or the Richland urv, and if substantiated, t ies ought to be reprimand from the forre in mu' in^L^m lit policy outlined ,for fut n the other, >f a man said to have been 'ormal charge for some t\v housebreaking charge. Aon "n Format ion which has been tome of it verified by relativ ions by persons who have leased from the city jail, or borroiratimr off kern harp. so nan (still in jail Tuesday a :>ne eye is bloodshot, his f parts of his body badly b force him to sipn a eonfessi limself in one or more hou ddents. ? t ft INFORM "COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROL tv Ja > iscdfe Kills Woman For Laughing When I He Cheeks On Her CHARLESTON ? Mrs. Viola Johnson, 43, of Six Mile section in North Charleston, was shot to death here during the week by Moses:iDouglas, who old arresting officers he he came lnTuriated when the wo man laughed at him. Douglas told police who are charging him with murder that when he asked the woman how she passed away her time while he was out driving a truck, he didn't like her explanation, and told her so. The woman, Douglas said, laughed at him and ran out-' side into the yard. The man told officers that he took his pistol and fired one shot, which /struck her in the head. She died instantly. Douglas, officers said, then _ went to" the Beard-Lancy Truck Co. where he is employed and asked company officials to call the police. State SS and BTli Convention Held "Benedict Here Some 1,000 persons represent- ' ing the Baptist Sunday Schools and Training Unions of South Carolina are expected here for the state convention of the two groups, scheduled at Benedict College, July 16-18 The Baptist School of Methods, directed by Rev. J. D. Rmker of Rock Hill, will offer courses in Sunday School and BTU methods and administration, church membership, mirsj nary aetivi ties, church music, Scouting. rurril church work^Vacation Bible School, etc In addition, devotional n?o?.<?> ages will be brought daily by various ministers and laymen. Rev. W. V. Diggs of Rock Hill will direct these. The introductory se rmon will in- delivered (O.NTIM 111) ON PACK KICHT ainst Police Departm >mplainants a- For the si c Department -time thai t) cation of Tin the- charges, and while we kind ot depar . .. stoops to sue le ot t he men 1 i oils t 1'ea t inell net an otlicini is written we a lid it not t ! >o invest ij,rat ed 'inn" rt isan ? it izete- ' b <' * ' in y ronnty proud v,,iiii .. h?- guilty pat l<? iinirt ,ihii ed. suspended he alloyed iro, and a olotir? xrftt^ J ">V ivfere.i.-, },,,p !, ,.n' ,or him.-elf ti'orn ir * '" Ih- nii,4,.'t h,. 11,1,1 ,1,1 i,;. js ? n weeks nj: n ally happens, ni d i np 11' 11 i' Qui?t In'?nia nn relayed to us, wa> ??l?trtiiuMi '0s of tlie man whil,. wore. v s-? reliable?per? ?vv ieI<iimr rn.ni since boon re- and deny the to or morc in- Jills?kind !nf tu;^ __ t_.. , - , ~,r,Tn~-. i?'?f WlfUMl oui. il fternoon) that involved ace and other ashamed of tl iruised, all to unworthy of on Implicating wearing the 1 Rebreaking in- [f js illegal (ONTINUFH V"' tow ER INA il Be ;Vi ;?n $500^000 Plant i The $300,000 ultrarTnodern, brand, new plant o? the Gooc Samaritan-Waverly Hospital was unwrapped here Wednesday night (July 9) and some 500 persons dropped in for a look-see between the hours of 7 and 9. The- three-storied structure, which began as adream almosl a decade ago, will eventually house 75 beds and provide interne training service for young doctors. It will also offer more modern facilities for nursetrainees, as well as its patients. Officials said an earlier plan to begin use of the new planl Thursday of this week has been postponed until certain equipment for the kitchen in the basement of the plant has been pu1 into working, order.- Immediate ly thereafter, the new home will be able to handle about one-hall of- its bed-load, gradually increasing this t > the maximum. The new'building is located at Pine and Hampton streets, or the site of the older frame building. The original planned loca Did \ ou Know? That tiie Civil Rights progrr.n: advocated by President Truniar and by other "Americans is on< which was recommended by t Special Committee appointed b> the President, which includec several white pers ns of note and standing - from the Deep South, and which made an ex haustive study into condition: and attitude- before drafting thk- program? That riot one > ttie persons on the commilce hni urged a modification of thi< pro gram That there are approximately 10 ti'nies as many white Soutl Carolinians holding college de gives as Negroes, the number being 97.000 and 11,000 whih i! population rati i- about f?7 t< 1.5 or two t three"* ent ike ol disc Ussioli, Ift lis as lc man is actually guilty o thoiiyh lie may not Ik*. Whai tnmnl of police have ue whicl h illegal, inhuman anil viei t ill < >r<lcr to yet a x'ont t'ssio" lallenyed seriously. a ronvir ears. w? ha\ c seen t imc an * ?!S|?' I !1' ,lii .J - I'll hail loil F7T I ront I'd u it h snmc statement to 11 a \ i siynod "of his. u\\n ml acttially some statement ceil 'o sir n" hi order to sa\ e I'n't her i'iini.shm.u4.it...-d lioH^-h n repudiate the "cifnfession" ... l l > n i necnalyre. I!, as orrasiontbeiv is an effort to l>riiij.( rfi1 in u hicli the "confession" . the siinic men who fi>r a a ions rubber, strap arid fiststthe -e-mtr* ir ilivty .work. It js_ Lime-th+d "hcThivTour is outla wed ami nd in a plaro like Columbia police officers oujjrht to b? lemselves and feel .themselvejthe honor and sacred trust of aadpre of the law. to whip any prisoner in this ON PACK t o PRICE TEN CENTS Tiling * m mr i\eu* WH7 wed Here , tion Of the new plant wa- On I Barnhamville Road, in the proxi imity of the C. A. Johnson high i RChO"1. Hi 11.y i.<Hp- ?tc i popular requests, decided finally to construct the new plant on its ; old site, and the new building is located closer to Hamptor street, between the sidewalk , and the older home. The final opening of the weh; appointed facility is the fulfill?' ment of fc dream and visi'-n, which has required several years of hard work and efforts. An original drive for $100,000, head, ed by Mrs. A. W. Simkins, net' tod about $96,000. but before the ttroe eAci A 4 equipment and building material ,, raised considerably by the cosl of building, and revision upwards of the planned hospital , was necessary. Subsequent^ campaigns Have added t.> the $96,00 raised and it is understood that additional money has come from a federal [ - fund, the county of Richland and a foundation specializing in thn * kind of public service. i \ i McCray Speaks At 100th Year Of ' Storm Rranch 1 CLEARWATER ? John II McCray, editor of The Light * house and Informer of Colunv bin and state chairman of South > Carolina Progressive. Democrats - is scheduled to address the mort 5 than 1,500 per-on- expected a'l * the St Tin Branch Raptist chur f ch here Sunday afterno n. Jul} ; 13th The occasion will he the oh servant e of the 100th year of th< / church, said hv officers to he tht i second oldest Negro Raptis - church in America. Another i: s also located in what is generally known as Horse Creek here, i: ) the hlest Negro Baptist church ' having been used by free-born rtt.riim ih.. of <lnvr>rv TVii Storm Branch church, it- histor ian says, was founded by white when slaves jverllowed the lerv in the nearby old White Baptist church, used bv thei master- for worshipping Rev A T., Peterson of Col u in hia, pastor of the church, sail 1 the editor will peak at 2 p. m 1 climaxing an ail day pr gran which is l> be witnessed by bun ) die's traveling here from man; part*; of the *tate by auto anc bus, as special miosis of Storn Branch Mrs. Henrietta Butler Passes; Funeral Is Held NTrs. Henrietta Butler, wife o t-ftr? laic Rev. John Butfer diet <it her late residence, lfilfi Gregi street, Sunday, June 22, fol i wing a brief illness. Funeral sereins were hf>bi th f 1 loyyiag- Xhw d a r-^TT^Secon i Calvary Baptist Church, whcp ' " he" had heTI a membership sine . the family moved to Columbi m 1921. Rev. Charles 11 Brow i assisted hv Reverends J P. Non . i nnd'M. Sharp, conducted the An al rites interment was made it i in the Palmetto Cemetery. :! Daughter of the late Em mi CONTINUED ON PAC.F !S t I \ . . V# "j rik. 1 *? . . V '" I I SUMTEHITES APPRECIAT Attorney William B. Jan win that seat on City Counc cipal primary held in May, b his fellow citizens admire 1 prise testimonial for him NAA(^P branch meeting unt At left, Rev. J. C. Qu&i on apporvingly as Rev. J. I flabbergasted attorney a Sil an inscription from Sumteri fair was Dr. E. C. Jones, cha bership committee for a nui unable to be present, also d bors, a lonely cold and hot t !i : ~ " L l 111/1 ll I M. U 11 Posts On Jurist T 1 ' *N .. i SUMTER. ? Mrs. Robert K.jf : Gordon of Dillon, and Mrs. J. W. Curry of Florence were named . j to secretarial offices of the Cen. tral Jurisdiction's Woman's Society of Christian Service, which held its ninth annual meeting t here Tuesday through Thursday. Mrs. Gordon was elected secretary of foreign missions work t and Mrs. Curry, secretary to CSR ' and LCA work. Mrs. G. W. Carter of Louisi-j ana was named president; Mrs., ' S. D. Bankston of Florida, vice ' president; Mrs. William Henry of Delaware, recording secretary! ?' i r* *? t>u -.1 v. : iiiiu ivu.d. vjr. iu. rucip!) ui nuum l Carolina, treasurer. Mrs. Fetta I Holland of Tennessee. Miss Grace 1. Arnold of Atlanta, Ga. and Mrs. I M. M. Drake of Tennessee, in1 i order, were elected secretaries of Home, Promotional and Missionary Educational activities. j The WSCS is meeting in Emmanuel Methodist Church here,' pastored y/y C< F. Ferguson, the| first session starting at 2 P. M. Tuesday. That night, some 250 officers and delegates were feted Minislei Bank P 7 An audience of ministers which ? overflowed the chapel of the: ? Johnson funeral home lasr. Sat-I t urday gave a unanimous vote of i 5 confidence to the president and: i. directors of the Victory savingsj 3; hank in a motion that was made , by the Rev. E. E. Riley of Bene-1 3 diet college and seconded by DrJ ? S. R. Higgin>, president of Allen - University. s Ttierc was also a unanimous - vote to form the group into a ; committee to work now and in r the future with the bank officials, undertaking at once the . task of urging the depositor^ to j allow the temporary use of ten per cent of their deposits as of May 31 to help restore the full program of the bank and thus v- insure for all depositors the ad1 ditionid forty per cent of their 1 funds now withheld to protect the institution. It .y 1-1 uni(ihii 1 1 ' ill [Hi meet NAACP Sets Right i ^nnirnnf inn v inivniiiuii V71 UUL ClU('A4Ht Jtf y TSemands i lor i: 11 unoquiv ca! plank on civil j ughts wore >ct before the platj form committee of the Republlton?National?Convention here ' this week by Walter White, exE evutivo secretary of the NAACP. As the Republicans squared av. av for the official opening of ?: tlidc convhrr+TrvfT bh July 7~ Mr. White., spaaking on behalf ot e the NAACP and twenty other 0 Negro organizations that recentn ly listed platform demands in a leaflet entitled "What the Negro ' Wants in 1952," proposed that * the rivit rights plank begm with 1 a guarantee that Americans of every race, creed and color, "enC jov the equality called for by the United States Constitution. ? i . j;, /t;' '? I * - I uh'lV r Vfc'if'jffiai^BI ? ??^1 I ' B ED CAMPAIGN Blof Slimier (co nter)didn't I he was after in the miudut that he knows how much lim and his efforts, if surhighlighted the last . local II August. -~1 rles, branch president, looks lerbert Nelson presents the ver Loving Cap which bear tes. Keyman behind the afirman of the branch's memmber of years. Mrs. James, rew a prize from her nighserving drink det. ?(E. C. Jones, Jr. Photo) oliniana Get?? r dictional Body . ,n a reception given by Mrs. , W. Curry, treasurer of the South Carolinfe Conference. There, delegates and members had a chance to get acquainted and chat. Brief talks were made by several of the WJ3CS leaden, Wednesday morning Bishop J. W. E. Bowen administered Holy Communion to some 210 persons. He was assisted by Rev. Ferguson, and District Superintendent L DeQuincey Newman. An address by Mrs. W. H. Rat- u,_ - j liff of the South Central Juris- r. diction was the biggest item re. maining on the morning program. , Following a luncheon, held in a late bobard member, the meetthememory of Mrs. D. H. Hargia, ing listened to the president's message, and then to file highlight. talk, df the afternoon by _ -j | Mrs. ML E. Tilly of Atlanta, the well known member of the F^Wident's Committee on Civil Right* /Election of officers followed, with . business remaining for 1 Wednesday night and Thursday. rs Hack ? h Ingram in^. that the bank can be saved Wim this little help from the de;V!tors along with their detej&jk ation to continue their , Oth financial as well as moral su.vort. The ministers pledged to bring the attention of their congregations the importance of signing the simple agreements with the bank at once, and to report on their efforts in full at the end of two weeks The fuh ? amount of $700,000 must be pledged by depositors, it was said, with about half of it already signed in. Dr. H. D. Monteith, president of the bank, who had been described by Dr. J. P. Reeder, a director, as "a man of honesty, in, tegnty, and stickhbility," gave a full and interesting outline of the present status of he institution relating how the public can do an jndifippn<mhlr job in mrlng : it to serve Columbia. is Demands Before ~~ h Major Parties Mr. White then set before the convention requests that theso points be included in the national platform: change in the Ren. ate rules to prevent filibusters; federal fair employment pracI f ipflQ fntfitlotiAn MriiU full * v?v ?V(,1-4U V1U11 rv IMft AUil cil" tion and anti-lynching laws; abo 5 lition. of the poll tax and legislating on^lpwing , lnSn?fm?ili'S with the right of Negro citizens ' to register and vote in primary ^or, general elections. The NAACP > ' leader also asked the party to pledge to establish a permanent .federal commission on civil | right*. . .' I Warning that Negro voteta ! voters would not be satMMA CONTINUED ON PAOI KIQR L??