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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.
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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>
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c,
.
.
.
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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
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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
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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
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S.
W. Sixth Avenue
War Department has decreed a
strictly Jim Crow setup in sending
Y. W. C. A.
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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.