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9 P»«« 4 PORTLAND INQUIRER PORTLAND INQUIRER Ralph H. Faulk, Editor Published Each Wednesday By YOUNG PEOPLE’S PAGE RICHARD WINSLOW, Editor on the Junior Dramatic Club of BIG DOINGS IN’ Bethel A. M. E. Church. NEAR FUTURE The “Order of the Sapiens” have — big plans in store for their friends! “E OLE DIRT” 27M N. E. Rodney Ave.—Phone WEbeier 7220—Portland, Oregon in the near future, so be on the Bobbie, you certainly are one VANPORT OFFICE: 2410 N. Cottonwood, Apt 505—WE 1534 BAGLEY DOWNS OFFICE: 145-F Wintler Dr., Vancouver, Wn. lookout for them. All of the “Sap cute li’l ole chick. Too bad you have One Year by Mail ______________________ _____________ |5.00 iens” must have their dues in this fourth period lunch instead of fifth Six Months by M ail___________________________ ______$2-50 month or suffer the consequences. • Personal, Club, Local and Church News must reach us Tuesday. Sorry to hear that you are sick, Preceding Publication Date. Sammy. Hurry up and get well, VACATIONED OVER WEEK ’cause the gang misses you. END IN SEATTLE Last weekend Mr. Sam Wilkin son and Mr. R. E. Winslow visited Toots (of Seattle) is one crazy, (little “Chi”). Your report but fine hen. (Hey lawdy mama). Life becomes complicated and a holy mess to most of us Seattle, er has to report that compared to mainly because of the numerous scales we use in which to | our fair city, which is really be- Glad to have you with us at 5th period lunch, “Baron” ole man. weigh __ our . . . opinions. The valuation , we place . on inconsequential £innin£ has to us 8'et beat on to twice some over, time> ___, c, . . . . . Seattle as and smaller th.ngs often prevent our seeing the bigger and I far as the soclal sWe BoeSi but Did you jodys dig the photo of more important things that are transpiring in our midst. Portland is still the better city. lovely “Lena Horne” on the cover reporter visited the “Black of Motion Picture Magazine? If She wears a part in her hair in the wrong place; he goes Your and Tan”, local night spot, along you didn’t be sure and see it, ’cause to a different church; she talks with this one or that one; with a few a others, chatted with its really a credit to our race and this one or that one thinks they are “cute”. Small and very members of the and “International to the female sex as a whole. minor thinks upon which to place valuation, yet. these small Sweethearts of Rhythm,” who were and inconsequential things are of moment. They assume an at Portland recently, as a few of That’s all for now’, kats and kit importance far beyond their real value when they prevent i y°u no doubt remember. They said tens—hasta la vista. the people of , a c community from uniting as a whole for the Portland that tbey again wil1 be before unable going to Play east, in GUILDS LAKE NEWS ____ common good of all. ... , they * would .. like to . very By J. W. Kennedy | although Rev. J. W. Kennedy who is now j These petty considerations snould be forgotten when such i much. They leave the coast in a issues as those facing US now come to the fore; i. e. the future few w e e k s t c * P l a y at the Regal j each in Guilds Lake, is ready to serve and everyone in any capacity of .... the Negro in Portland, his present status, the education 1 heatre, located on 47th and South in which he can be helpful. He is , i Park, in the “windy city”. The of the younger people, both in school and environment; jobs weather in Seattle was equal to the representative of the Portland after the war, taking part in your city, state and national that of Portland and everyone was Inquirer and will take any news government and the many angles that will arise on the Race swell to us so we natcherly had a that you wish published. It has been said that there is question. Now is the time to lay the foundation for a favor swell time. no place for Negroes to go here. able solution of those problems when they arise. It is up to you and me to make the DRAMATIC CLUB The Democratic Party has shown in the past just how REOPENS places to go. Yes, Guilds Lake SOON they think the Colored people should be treated, and regard- i Aunt Lula Gragg’s Jr. Dramatic needs a Grocery Store and Nursery less of the fact that they are trying to make you think that Club W’ill reopen or restart after a to care for the children here in the i lapse during the summer. Court. It is up to you, Mr. and they are going to be a friend of the Negro, actions show them brief Mrs. Gragg has some fine plays to Mrs. Guilds Lake. Think it over. otherwise. For instance, their actions at the Democratic Con start work on so if you’re a mem vention in refusing to seat colored delegations, the Negro not ber, please come to practices when Let us all go to the County permitted to vote in the Southern Democratic Primaries— they are called. Court House and REGISTER to (they would be doing the same thing here if they thought The Junior Dramatic Club, as Vote in the General Election in Yes, this can be done, they could get away with it) and right here in Portland a most of you remember, gave us a November it must be done to get what you. fine rendition of the popular Democratic nominee insulting Negroes in his speech for elec very “Lena Rivers,” which won and I really need. If you want a tion to a public office, another candidate saying if he was play high honors. reading your In car to carry you to Register, call elected he would run all the Japanese out of the country. If quirer for all Keep of the latest news AT 4733 and a car will come to he would run out all the Japanese whom they have “Glad get you. Please think these things Handed” for years and have permitted to do things and go high command in Washington. over, there are many things that you and I can do to improve con places that native-born Negroes could not do or go, then Former United States Army ditions out here in Guilds Court. what can you expect him or any of his kind to do for the chaPlal,i J- Benjamin Dove, of Negro in general. These are the things that should interest lnactive serviM (or hi3 heroic com After months of debate on the the voting public now and guide them in their choice of par- plaint against racial abuse and idfs subject, the Housing Authority of ties for Registration. crimination in southern Army Portland has agreed to start work at once on construction of gravel The conduct of the war comes in for its share of interest camPs Rev> Dove is now crusading sidewalks in several streets in the in our choice because the Democrats have seen to it that the 1 testing asainst in these conditions after pro- Guilds Lake district. They run tvt u . vain to the Commander- Negro has been “kept in his place even when he is shedding £n_chief from N. Yeon avenue to the Guilds his blood for his country. The incidents of colored soldiers Another glaring case was that of Lake school. Commissioner Wil being shot down in cold blood (Front Page) cannot be. for- the colored soldiers recently hang- liam A. Bowes has clamored for gotten when we make our choice of parties. The Democratic e(l in England by the United States weeks to get the work started. Party is guilty of gross injustices to the Negro, even murder Army when British law does not Household of Ruth Portland Inquirer Publishing Co. VALUES * * * * IS laid at its door m its avowed mtentionfof maintainmg“white by death Thfe ste \rom the supremacy,” nothing else matters as long as the colored man gentence of death for three colored is “kept in his place.” Are you willing to help remove these soldiers, court martialed for rape LEADERS PROTEST JIM CROW CENTERS FOR VETERANS NEW YORK, Sept. 29—Colored leaders from New York to Chicago have been sending,in the last few days bitter protests to Commander- in-Chief Roosevelt against the la test discrimination program pro posed by the United States Army. That order has not yet been offi cially proclaimed, but it will be put into practice like all the others before the order is made public, they believe. Reliable sources state that Ne gro overseas veterans scheduled for demobilization and rehabilita tion will henceforth be housed in such colored hotels as the Theresa in New York City and the Pershing Hotel in Chicago. The same sources state that white soldiers under similar orders will come home for recuperation from their wounds and battle fatigue or discharge to swank hotels at the nation’s fa mous watering places in Miami, Lake Placid, Santa Barbara, Cali fornia, and Hot Springs, Arkansas. The angry leaders have denounc ed this cruel injustice to colored doughboys and their race on two counts: The first of these relates to the unequal, segregated accommoda tions to be given wounded and worn out black service men. It is apparent that it is inconsiderate and inhumane for these men to return to such conditions after they have made the supreme sacrifice for their country. Secondly, for the United States Army to command here the two best colored hotels in New York and Chicago, is to do the congested civilian population a great injust ice. One must know the crying lack of decent hotel accommoda tions for colored people to realize what it means to take the Theresa and Pershing Hotels from them. This latest affront to Uncle Sam’s black fighters follows a long line of such outrages. It follows the long prison term sentences to the five soldiers who balked at dis crimination in a southern Army camp. Under pressure these sen tences have been reduced by the Golden West 844, G.U.O.F. Meetings 2nd and 4th Tuesday 2:30 p. m , 2504 Williams Ave., Mrs. Morrison, M. N. G. Mrs. in Caledonia, still rises to high Josephine Annabelle Harris, N. G. Sec. heaven. The woman was a harlot. The famous Fighting Fifteenth Excelsior Lodge No. 23 of New York, now the 369th Regi F. & A. M. ment, United States Infantry, one Meets every 2nd and 4th Monday at 8:00 p. m. of the crack new regiments in the 2604 Williams Avenue Army, has constantly been denied K. L. Culp, W. Master combat duty and has long been L. R. Blackburn, Secretary doing guard duty in Hawaii. The Phone TRinity 1857 same story of discrimination runs the entire gamut of the service for ENTERPRISE CHAPTER No. 6, O. E. S. colored fighters in the Army, Navy Meetings 1st Wednesday each and Air Forces. month 8:00 p. m. The Chicago Defender, as well 2504 N. Williams Ave. as all the other militant race or Mrs. Elise S. Reynolds, Secretary gans, some of whom are supporting the fourth term for the Comman- Billy Webb Lodge No. 1050 L B. P. O. E. of W. der-inChief, takes this trenchant 4th Wed. blast at this latest Army order. Meets every 8:30 2nd p. and m. The Defender says editorially in Av. (Russell St.) the issue of September 16, 1944: 2504 W. N. L. Williams Shine, Exalted Ruler "Next to General Eisenhower’s Edwin Phelps, Secretary spectacular advance thru France, the most amazing thing about the Enterprise Lodge No. 1 U. S. Army continues to be its F. & A. M. cockeyed inconsistent racial policy. Meets every 1st and 3rd Monday 8:00 p. m. “Newest of its one-step-forward, 2604 N. Williams Ave. two-steps-back tactics on the color W. H. Bowers, Master problem comes in its plans for re James L. Wasson, W. Secretary distribution of Negro veterans re Y. M. C. A. turning from the battlefronts. The 831 S. W. Sixth Avenue War Department has decreed a strictly Jim Crow setup in sending Y. W. C. A. ~~ veterans back to civilian life.” 834 S. W. Broadway CHRRCH DIRECTORY CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF THE LITTLE FLOWER Inter-racial 21 w. E. Broadway Rev. Jerome M. Schmitz, Chapl. Miss Doris Reynolds, Catechist SERVICES: Sunday, Mass and Sermon: 9 o’clock A. M. Wednesday, Novena Devotions: 8 o’clock P. M. MT. OLIVE!' BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. J. J. Clow N. E. First Ave. and Schuyler Portland, Ore. ORDER OF SERVICES: 9:45 a. m. Sunday School Mrs. Marie Smith, Supt 11:00 a. m. Morning Worship 6:30 p. m. B. Y. P. Felowshilp conducted by Lenworth Miner 8:00 p. m. Evening Worship BETHEL CHURCH, A. M. E. N. McMillen and Larrabee ______ Portland, Oregon______ ST. PHILIP’S CHURCH Episcopal Vicar L. O. Stone N. E. Knott and Rodney Portland, Oregon 7:45 a. m. Communion Service 10:00 a. m. Church School 11:00 a. m. Morning Prayer Thursday 9:00 a. m. Commun ion Service. COMMUNITY M. B. CHURCH Rev. H. C. Cheatham, Pastor 845 Cottonwood Street Vanport City, 17, Oregon AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION C HURCH Rev. J. P. Smith 2007 N. Williams Ave. Portland, Oregon PEOPLE’S COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH N. E. 74th and Glisan St. Rev. R. E. Donaldson, Minister SERVICES: Sunday School 10:30 a. m. Morning Worship 11 a. m. B. Y. P. U. Meeting 7:00 p. m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 1206 Hathaway Drive Burton Homes Vancouver, Wash. Rev. J. W. Brown, Pastor All Nations Church of God in Christ Elder James S. Lomax, Pastor. Multnomah and Williams Ave. ORDER OF SERVICES Tuesday and Thursday: Evan gelistic Services 7:45. Wednesday: Prayer Meeting at 7:46. Sunday: Sunday School 10:00, Morning Service 11:45, Y. P. W. W. 6:30. Evening Service 8:00. Williams Ave. Church of God in Christ Elder Claud L. Lampkin, Pastor 2504 N. Williams Ave. ORDER OF SERVICES Monday and Friday: Evange- listical Services 7:30. Wednes day: Bible Band 8:00. Sunday: Sunday School 10:00, Morning Service 11:30. Y. P. W. W. 6:30. Evening Services 7:45. COME ONE! COME ALL! Mrs. Lampkin, Reporter. UNITED CHURCH MINISTRY Force and Broad acres Vanport City Sunday School: 9:45 A.M. Worship: 11:00 A.M. Worship: 8:00 P.M. Inter-Denominational Services Rev. Leslie Denton, Minister CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST Rev. B. M. McSwain, Pastor. 1207 S. W. Front Ave. Portland, Oregon SERVICES: Morning Worship 12 noon. Evening Worship 8 p. m. Every Tuesday and Friday evening 8 p. m. Radio Broadcast every Sun day morning at 8 a. m. over KWJJ. HOUSE OF PRAYER 2205 S. E. 10th Ave. SERVICES 8:00 a. m. Radio Broadcast 10:30 a. m. Sunday School 12:00 Noon Morning Worship 6:3 Op. m. Young People’s Meet. 8:00 p. m. Evàngelistic Services Wednesday, Friday and Satur day, 8:00 p. m., Evening Wor ship.