Lighthouse and informer. (Charleston, S.C.) 1941-1954, July 12, 1952, Image 2
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