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VJI Br I tj ^"S^EENTH YEAR, EDITI< $ ^ROWING I ABOUT mCA'LINA |;',. By Jhohn H. McCray, Editor ifr;-. The Lighthouse and Informer y ' LAKE CITY: We were almost i K/ cihurchnapped here Sunday afternoon. We missed the New :;?;?Zion Baptist Churcfi out towards Johnsonville where we were to tpeak, having not gotten accurate directions from L. M. Green who later said he thought we knew where to turn .We pulled up at a stone-built church and Seeing the folk there despite the rain, prepared to gc in, some ten minutes late. About ten min lite later. SpwnrH RnUnr Bt' . was glad to see us and said ho was happy he'd beable to hear i us again, told us that the meet! ing we were to speak at wasn't Kf this church. What wae*'this! p church? I was Bcthe! AME, on Kj*'.. stone structure just like New Zion. And its pastor is Rev. J. & A. DeLaine, formerly of Summarton and Clarendon county, 'i Remember him? He started the! l?. Clarndon suit. However, Mr. Baker agreed to ride with us to sV.. New Zion. some three miles furHbl ther. and down a muddy na-ty that we come back and s-peak to. Kfo. his members after the New Zion y program. LAKE CITY: Ike Roone won't t';. be principal at Lake City high fjchool this coming term. Why & gpWlierefores they say here come &rbm a difference between him 4i|nd some of the citizens . . . And y&r you look at the ridiculous Jk, v. colored elementary schools in this rural environs, you can unH? derstand whyschool officials are |? so nappy over tne states new 7 development and equalization1 R/ plan, and colored residents are Kf working on now through tneir HL j P-TA organization. ^ MONCKS CORNER: LautWed-l L.," n,esday, our old friend and first: principal, R. A. Ready, after -toany years of faithful work, pvJdropped dead of a heart ailment E? on the school grounds here he K: loved so well and helped to deK, velop. Mr. Ready, until the death P | Of his devoted m ther several K? 'years ago, lived in Lincolnville,' the state's only all-colored govK erned community. He was prirEt cipal i )f th e old Lincolnville jpF graded school, which met in the Bl Town Hall, to which wc toddled K as o third and fourth grader. He Hp, was a fine man and one all the boys, respected, if not feared, for he would "cane your hand" gy if you arrived late, fought or # talked. He was the town's braing - est man and included music a^taong his other indulgences.- It P^^ywas natural, I guess, that my at- anrt fnthnr Vvnth want P^jjr ing and praying that their oldP. y est son would some day be some, body, sent me to him for a few piano lessons. Maybe wo got " / four or five, or maybe it was K, only two or three, but we learned the scale and he teamed me fire, each time we met in later years for being his unfinished inu ic HL? 8tudenf. . . Richard Ready was Mgrand guy: Wc liked each |T other dearly. One year he sh'ock^, ed everybody here by inviting B J ipjf tn iloliuni hii inn i v irnvit HMpdress. Constantly, in recent fT^^ears. he warned me against working too hard. "Y u're doing a fine job", he said. "one we jLof iron, John Henry," he'd ^ay M^?Jfh his characteristic"lift of the' H|i^ebrow and one finger pointKMng, "you'd better listen to me. don't want to lose you." Main HHP?*eason for his death, they say ^hfcre: "Ho just worked himself (!QI,UM*RIA: While having t j^hreakfast the^ other morning, I Ik ?jarTesTo h "She's the former Mrs. Ctelzcr hf the Five Mile area. I knew the late Kev. Mr. Gelzer PNfTy well, but didn't know he M?;. Had passed. In fact, I didn't know that?George, a- navy veteran and J jokiritOr Of Queen's Tea Rnom fcfti Kennedy street, Charleston,! Had married the very charming k Continued on Page Eight " ? >N NUMBER 3 < Prob Of NAALP Si Tortured 1 Charges that city police hadi viciously whipped a Columbia i resident until?ho?"confessed" were flowing over the city late Tuesday an dangry NAACP ofnl o ? rt i rl n ih iciid a ^1 umimiui y 1I1VC2>-| tigation Indicated that the victim, Joe Bethel of the 2100 block of Marion street, had been first jailed on a suspicion of housebreaking, held two weeks and finally charged with attempted rape of two white women here. Bethel was brought before! City Recorder John I. Rice Wed-1 nesday - on the rape-attempt jrharges and booked over to gen-! eral sessions court. He denied the charge and held that the, "confessions" produced by city police had been beaten out" of him. The NAACP'said Bethel's case was brought to its attention by iseveral persons who were in jail, either at the time some of beating took place or " had seen, the badly beft"Pen man. Relatives later brought.a formal report to the organizatiSnT an official said, stating that a sister or another female relative had been finally, permitted to talk, with him early this week aad had seen a badly beaten, bloodshod eve and had been told <jf other injuries to other parts -of his body. R. A. Ready Of . Moncks Corner Passes Away MONCKS CORNER ? Rich-t aid A. Ready, principal of the Berkeley County ' Training, School here for more than 201 years, dropped dead on the T * ' 0 f ' school grounds he developed on last Wednesday. Mr-?Hrad.v h.ul ruim1?trmr?rrr prineipal from Lincolnville in the early twenties and began ex-' panding the r>ne building '<f the local school plant, and despite poor health, whs busily engaged' in preparing for the consolidation of schools in the district as death claimed him. Several weeks before, he hnd suffered, another in a series of heart attacks which had plagu-J ed him in recent years. He had gone t the school grounds with .a local consolidation?eon unit too representing the school board j and had just walked inside thje! gale when hP'Ten mortally ill. 1 FufieTar services weir held in-i Bethel AME Church at Summer-1 ville, where he had been organ-j ist for some 30 years, and inter- j ment was made beside the grave of his late mother in a Summer-j ville cemetery. A bachelor, no immediate relatives are believed to have sur-' vived him. L. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 195 es~Ci A?*<i lys Bethel [n Arrest (Several attorneys practicii here who occasionally freque the cliy jail, were reported t NAACP to have learned of tl c^se and agreed that Bethel ht been abused. One said "It is damned shame',, referrina to tl Bethel case). At press time an NAACP i: vestigation into the full case w underway, but it appeared th the chargej against the man those of attempted rape?hi caught all interested in the ca by surprise. The. originally r ported charge, though unofficii was housebreaking or attemp ed housebreaking. NAACP said it would lat release the names of involvi police officers and complete d tails of its investigation. It sa "It has been held repeatedly 1 that confessions extorted fro the highest court of our lar persons suspected of offenses a illegal. From time to time v have had reports of such exto tions in our area, and of illeg inhuman and uncivilized trea ment of citizens at the hands < police (authorities. It appears the Bethel case that somebo*: abu.->ed his physically, and h rights to a fair and imparti trial. NAACP intends to get ev CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGH Ira W. Claiborne Passes State Bar CHARLESTON ? Ira W. Cla borne, son of Mr. and Mrs. A thur J. Claiborne, 4 Percy stro< passed the South-Carolinn B; examination recently. Mr. Claiborne i< a graduate Talladega College and Howa ( University. He attended Ave: I Institute. He is a member of tl Omega Psi fraternity and Plymouth Congregational Chun He was wounded in Italy who heserved with the Armv m 19I Mrs. Claiborne, his wife, is t ' former Miss Rachel Hubbard Orangeburg. AN EDITORIAL Complaints Aj Luring the week two gainst the Columbia Pol i have been called to the ji Lighthouse and Informer have before us only one i dents, being unable to co of the department as thi. think that both omrht to by City Council or a non-] committee, or the Richlan jury, and if substantiated. ties ou^ht 1<> bn?ruprUnan from the force in one instil ?rtrf -^ohry outlined for f in the other. The first is a charge of of a man said to have bei formal charge for some t housebreaking charge. A< ?Tnformat ion which has""Gee some of it verified by rolat and by morejpf.. it.reported sons by persons who hav* leased trom the cit y jaTTT terropatinK officers have : man (still in jail Tuesday one eye is bloodshot, his parts of, his body badly force him to sipn a confes himself in one rrr more hr cidents. * i * 1 * v. , t.? . ^ INFORM 2, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROL ity Ja %/ isud 1 Kills Woman For Laughing When ' . ' . I He Checks On Her CHARLESTON ? Mrs. Viola ig Johnson, 43, of Six Mile secnt tion in North Charleston, was >y shot to death here during the week by Moses Douglas, who id old arresting officers he be? came infuriated when the woie man laughed at him. Douglas told police who are n- charging, him with murder bs that when he asked the woat man how she passed away her j ?j time while he was out driving a truck, he didn't like her ex- | sc plan at ion, and told her so. e The woman, Douglas said, laughed at him and ran outside into the yard. The man told officers that or he took his pistol and* fired 3d one shot, which /struck irer in the head. She died instantid ly. Douglas, officers said, then ^ went to the Iteard-Laney Truck Co. where he is employre . . ed and asked company officiv 1 als to call the police. r? State SS and BTL of Convention Held a* ^ Benedict Here e[1 Some 1,000 persons represent- ' - inq 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. ii- The Baptist School of Methods, r- directed by Rev. J. D. Rucker of ?t, Rock Hill, will offer courses in ar Sunday School and HI4!) methods and administration, church of membership, mi-si nary activird ties, church music. Scouting, rury ral church work, Vacation Bible ho School, etc In addition, devotional mossb. ages will be brought daily by rP various ministers and laymen. 14. Re\ W. P. Diggs of Rock Hill he will direct these. The introiucof Tory sermon will be delivered ( ONTIM Kl> ON PACK KK.IIT gainst Police Departm complainants a- For tin sj ice Department s?uix<ll t hat tl ittent ion o!" Tin the i luirmo . and while we kind ??f depar bde of the inei- >toop> to mh ntnet an nlVieial ,M,> ,l>;itnu n * is written. w? and it not _i I be 1 n vest j;I ' ' ' partisan eitizen> t>wr t h? y d county cram. 'main some p tin- yrtti 11 \ |i;u to i-oiirt .ton uded. !<u u*eudi-ti m?r a Mojo < I inee. and a clear fire will," |, utnre rvferooeo h^eTT for himself from virions beatine ho miirht the en hold withowl \u. js jailed wo weeks on i ally happens. :'cordinp" to t!.. out the manri n relayed To iT.s. war~~ TTht .-dweit ives ?d tho ma?> pvhilp were V Lto reliable per- ^ '''hlitur. man i since been re- and deny the one or mnr?. Trr^- -4-his kind lof / \ t loo i ? it . 111 '| <v < i W1JMM1 OUT, ai afternoon) that involved face, and otbei ashamed ^rf H bruised, all to unworthy of 1 ision implicating wearinpr the 1 >u Rebreaking in- ^ js niopnl CONTINUED ki X0V ER INA ii B< ;?! a ii $300,000 Plant Vie The $300,000 ultra-mode brand?nrw?plant?of the?6k Samaritan-Wavcrly Hospital v unwrapped here Wednesday nij (July 9) and some 500 pera< dropped in for a Icok-see 1 tween the hours of 7 and 9. The three-storied structu which began as adream aim a decade ago, will eventua house 75 beds and provide terne training service for you doctors. It will also offer m< * : l: A : - - luuuciii lttcuiucs i o r nur trainees, as well as its patibr Officials said an earlier pi to begin use of the new pli Thursday of this week has be postponed until certain equ ment for the kitchen in the ba ment of the plant has been i into working order. Immedia Iv thereafter, the new home u be able to handle about one-h of its bed-load, gradually creasing this tj the maximum The new building is located Pine and Hampton streets, the site of the older frame bui ing. The original planned lo< fc Did You Know? That the Civil Rights progr; advocated by President Trum and by other Americans is c which was rprr?mmnn<4?rl Ktr Special Committee appointed the President, which incluc several white pers ns of n< and standing from the Di .South. and which made an < haustive study into eonditii ano attitude- before draft this program? That not one the person- on the commitee 1 urged a modification of this p gram That there are approximat 10 times as. many white So Carolinians holding college grees as Negroes, the numb being 97,00<Y and 11,000 whib population rati i- about ">? Ill or two t ' three? eat ike o! discussion, let us ; le man is actually guilty t l.ouyh he may not he, \VI tment ot police have we whi 'h illegal. inhuman and vi i i ... . < '" >'imi id j/ri a con Iessi inllenvciI seriously. a com cars, w ? ha\ i' scon t imc a oop Nt'LTo -fici used hauled f runted with some statt mc 1" havesivilei! "of his?o\ ml actually some stateme rWT fo siyiY In order fo~sa furt In* v punishment. Thouj n repuiliat ? It he "cont'essio TPl herhai-v"c. If. as occasio tlvciV is an effort to bri cr in whu'li the 'Vonfessio ,?TTrrr same nk'iT " who "for iciotis rnbTier. strap and.fi: ir dirty work. It is time th i,a .. . i. o> " imi in .1 I'l.H l' UKl' I Ollimi) police officers oupht to leniselvos and fool thomsoh (bo honor and saorod trust indpro of the law., to whip any prisoner in ft ON PAOK 1 1 i t$tZ PRICE TEN CENT: mating 1 l\eir GS W 9 iwed Here rn, tion of the new plant wa.> 01 >od Darahamvillc Ruatl. in the piox vas lmity of the C. A. Johnson higl {ht school, but trustees, yielding t )ns popular requests, decided finall; be- to construct the new plant on it old site, and the new buildinj re > is located closer to Hamptoi ost street, between the sidewall Uy and the older home. in- The final opening of the weu ing appointed facility is the fulfill )re ment of h dream and visi-r se- which ha> required several year, its. of hard work and efforts. Ai an original drive for $100,000, head cd by Mrs. A. W. Simkins, net tod about $96,000, but before th sen balance was raised, the cost 0 ipso eclu'Ptncnt and building materia raised considerably by the cos ^ of building, and revision up wards of the planned ho^pita .j was necessary. jn. Subsequent campaigns hav added t ? the $96.00 raised am it is understood that additions money has come from a federa fund, the county of Richland am a* foundation specializing in thi ca- kind of public service. , .?.v. ' ;'-s McCray Speaks Al ?; 100th Year Of am a" Storm Rranch >ne a CLEARWATER ? John F b>' McCray, editor of The Light house and Informer of Colum ote bia and state chairman of Soutl ?ep Carolina Progressive Democrats ?x- is scheduled to address the mor ans than 1,500 person-- expected a ing the Storm Rranch Raptist^hur [ eh here Sunday nfterno ?n, Jul ins 13th. r0* The occasion will be the oh servance of the 100th year of tb ely church, said hv officers to be th nth second oldest Negro Baptij de- church in America. Another i ers also located, in what is generall i known as iror-e Creek here, i to the ldest Negro Baptist ehurct having Iki'n used by free-bom ? durma the years of slavery. Th Storm Branch church, it- histoi Kin says, was founded by white when slaves overflowed the pa lerv in the mV?rb\ old Whit Baptist church, used l>\ the ^ master- for worshipping Rev A L. Peterson of Colun 11' bia. pastor of the church, sai l,t' the editor will -peak at 2 p. m climaxing an .all day pr^grai 11 which is t" be witnessed by hur op. die-is traveling here from man i( parts' of the -tale by auto an bus. as special guests of Storr Pi :iri"h p in Mrs. Henrietta? VP Butler Passes; Funeral Is Held nn M"rs. Henrietta Butler, wife < the late Rev John Butler flic at her late residonec, 1616 Greg ??street,?Sunday,?June??fo si- 1 wing a brief illness. u L. Funeral services were held tV f- Rowing Thursday at Seeon Calvary Baptist Church, whei -ho had hel. i member'ship sine ia, the family moved to Columbi be in 1921. Rev. Charles II Browi ,ps assisted by Reverends J. P. Not and M. Sharp, conducted the fir al rites interment was made i in the Palmetto Cemetery, lis : Daughter of the late Emm CONTINIF.O ON PAC.F, !S I ? * ? I SUMTERITES APPRECIATE Attorney William B. Jarnc win that seat on City Council cipal primary held in May, bu his fellow citizens admire h prise testimonial for him h NAA(^P branch meeting until At left, Rev. J. C. Quarl on apporvingly as Rev. J. H? flabbergasted attorney a Silv an inscription from &umterit< fair was Dr. E. C. Jones, chaii bership committee for a nun i unable to be present, also dn h?rs :i Invplv < ?!/< <" r> f 1__ \lwo South Cart o| ?Posts On Jurisd ei _ . n SUMTER ? Mrs. Robert K. <ui k Gordon of Dillon, and Mrs. J. W. V Curry of Florence were named ( .! to secretarial offices of the Cen-, < . tral Jurisdiction's Roman's So- c Jciety of Christian Service, which c s held its ninth annual meeting ? i here Tuesday through Thursday. Mrs. Gordon was elected sec-j^ - rotary of foreign missions work| C e and Mrs. Curry, secretary to CSR s f and LCA work. F 1 Mrs. G. W. Carter of Louisi1 ana was named president; Mrs. ^ ~ S. D. Bankston of Florida, vice li president; Mis, William Henry d of Delaware, recording secretary i e and Mrs. G. M. Phelps Of North U d Carolina, treasurer. Mrs. Fetta il Holland of Tennessee, Miss Grace a il, Arnold of Atlanta, Ga. and Mrs. tl d M. M. Drake of Tennessee, in i is order, were elected secretaries of r Home, Promotional and Mission- 1 ary Educational activities. il ( The WSGS is meeting in Em-, v u manuel Methodist' Church here, * pastored by C. F. Ferguson, the F first session starting at 2 P. M. Tuesday. That night, some 250 \ officers and delegates were feted \ i%/? - iTimisiex : Bank Pi v i- An audience of ministers which; i e overflowed the chapel of the' \ e, Johnson funeral home last Sat-| <1 ;t urday gave a unanimous vote of t s confidence to the president andjC y directors of the Victory savings: e s bank in a motion that was made t i, by the Rev. E. E. Riley of Bene- c is diet college and seconded by~"DV. < c S K. Higgin-, president of Allen \ - University. [ There was also a unanimous t \- vote to form the group into a ? c committee to work now and in I ir the future with the bank offi-J s cials, undertaking at once the i v task of urging the depositors to fj allow the temporary use of ten t per cent of their deposits as of c May 31 to help restore the full \ j. program of the bank and thus i v insure for all depositors the ad- z d ditional forty per cent of their t funds now viutKholH . * J | --- " " ......v-.x. v v? I Uui?inctitution. 1 It was "emphasized in the meet-! i JAACRSets Rights Convention Of Roth CHICAGO, July ? Demands I lor an unoquiv cal plank on civil < 1 ights were -ct before the plat- ] form committee of the RepubM- \ " can National Convention here! i this week by Walter White, ex. jL_gcAAtiyo siTrctarv of the NAACPJ 1 ^ As the Republican* squared a-, 1 L Umii- cuxivcuUaa -on- -July-Zr Mr ' ^ White, shaking on behalf of *e the NAAC'P and twenty other 1 ? NTfyrn or^.^pty^tiops that recent-j a <y listed platform demands in aj leaflet entitled "What the Negroj7] Wants in 1952," proposed that 1 ** th civil rights plank begin withj l n n guarantee that Americana of, i every race, creed and color, en? joy the equality called for by the ' United States Constitution. ' < i mm* - \ ? V , ..., H I. : ./--I; . 3^1 j * IHe ? I I B I IMBHMMMHMi -... ;d campaign s of Sumter (center) didn't he was after in the munit that he knows how much im and his efforts, a surighlighted the last local August. es, branch president, looks jrbert Nelson presents the , er Loving Cup Which bear ?. Key man behind the afrman of the branch's memiber of years. Mrs. James, &w a prize from her nighrving drink set. .y\' ?(E. C. Jones, Jr. Photo) ylinians Get >?j'.?p9 Iictional Body a a reception given by Mrs. . 7. Curry, treasurer of the South ?' ^arolinb Conference. There, lelegsates and members had a hance to get acquainted and hat. Brief talks were made by everal of the WBCS leaders. Wednesday morning Bishop J. r. E. Bow en administered Holy Communion to some 210 perons. He was assisted by Rev. 'p^puson, and District Superinmdent L DeQuincey Newman, in address by M?s. W. H. Ratiff of the South Central Jurisiction was the biggest item re. naining en the morning ptroram. Following a luncheon, held in late bobard memW the meethememory of Mrs. H. Hargis, ng listened to the president's nessage, and then to the high* . ight talk of the afternoon by lira. M. E. Tilly of Atlanta, the veil known member of the Prindent's Committee on Civil Lights. Election of officers followed, vith . business remaining for ' Wednesday night ar?i Thursday. s Back M . - <J [Ingram ng that the bank can be saved vit n this little help from the lei 'V tors along with their de^ exfc&.ation to continue their , th'^financial as well as moral iv.';vOrt. The ministers pledged o bring the attention of their ongregations the importance of signing the simple f.-greements vith the bank at once, and to re>ort on their efforts in full at he end of two weeks. The full iinuunt?of $?00,00Q- must be >ledged by depositors, it was ;aid, with about half of it already signed in. Dr. H. D. Monteith, president >f the bank, who had been ues:ribed by Dr. J. P. Reeder, a di ct iui , ?? ti mini ui xiouesiy, integrity, and sticklability," gave" i full and interesting outline of he present jjjatus of he instituion relating how the public can 10 an indispensable job in saving t to serve Columbia. i Demands Before l Major Parties -Mr. White then set before the convention requests that these points be included in the national platform: change in the Senate rules to prevent filibusters; federal fair employment prac with full ?> tion and anti-lynching laws; abo-?_ lition ol the poll tax and leala^ Jatkm outlawing , interference with the right of Negro citizens to register and vote in primary pr general elections. ine N 1 Leader also asked the party to pledge to establish a permanent federal commission on _c'iv rights. Warning that Negre voteee coteis would not be eatia6e4 CONTINUED ON PAOI EIGHT