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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1923)
THE KLAN THREATENS TO RUN JOHN SON INTO THE RIVER discontinued. Representative Ben nett Is anxious to have whipping made lawful. "The convicts", urged the Representative, “are becoming sullen, stubborn and uncontrollable ■Ince whipping was outlawed In this Blate. All Negroes must be kept In constant fear of the lash and those who are confined as criminals, •ape dally." WHEELING, W. Va.. Aug M — The Ku Klui Kian In a mooting held at Brilliant a few days ago decided to "run Jack Johnson Into the river" It he comea to Mingo to bos in the main bout of the Mingo Athletic club on l-abor day. Mingo la but a short distance from Steubenville, Ohio, where the recent anti klan Hole occurred The district la a hotbed of klan Ism and threata following the meeting were openly made by several well known klans- men. The authorities at Mingo since learning of the klan‘a threat to “run Johnson Into the river” have quietly been making preparations to protect the negro on hla arrival in Mingo. BERKELEY NEWS (By Arthur LeBon) Friends of Mr. John Stanley, por ter of Ban Francisco district, will be shocked to learn of his death. Mr. Stanley died Saturday. August tilth, at ths Alameda County hospital after He leaves a a very brief Illness, widow of only eight months, He was assistant secretary of tbe P. P. B A Our friend Joe (Sleepy) Bowman purchased a beautiful home In Oak land last week. Very nice for a young batchelor. Well, one thing, be seems to be wide awake In tbe presence of Maybe he'll a certain young lady, tell us the secret soon. A ladles' auxiliary to the P. P. B. A. was organised al the Hostess House on Itb and Chester streets. August 14tb. Members are wives of Pullman porters. The P. P. B. A. met at tbe Com munlty House. August 1M1-2S-M, preparing for the grand session to be ASK RETURN OF CAT-O’-NINE TAILS ATLANTA, Ga. Aug Repre sonlatlve Bennett of Dodge County. who Introduced a bill tn the Georgia legislature, providing for the ra establishment of whipping in the Blate penitentiaries, appeared before the committee in behalf of the mean uro. The treatmeni of Negro convlcta in the prisons and convict camps had become so notorious that former Gov ernor Hardwick ordered whipping tz ■p F MIU »1. w K > A j 1 1 1 11 J u 1 ! —1 Ld 1 1 Ufcj THE ELKS PROPERTY The above bouse and lot. 100x120, on the southwest corner of Williams avenue and McMillen street, was re cently purchased by Rose City Lodge, I. B. P. O. E. of W.. No. 111. on which they plan soon to erect a three-story modern brick building. The lower floor will be used for stores and the two upper floors for lodge meetings and amusement halls. The trustees who made the deal are Micco Harjo, • » • • • • r chairman; Claude Allen, secretary; E. Richardson and A. B. Corneal. The financial officers of the lodge are E. D. Cannady. E.R., E. J. Minor, Bee. and W. D. Allen, Trees. On Sunday, September 18th, the Elks en route to the church to hold their 17th an nual Thanksgiving services, will aa- sembl In this plot and hold a brief program. The men whose pictures appear In the cut are E. D. Cannady and Micco Harjo. • • * * hold at Chicago. The election of del egates will start about September 10 H. L. Williams of the board of direc tors, as usual, brought In some very good points on how to go about the protest of certain grievances, among ths employes. Wo expect to see our chairman, A. H. Holman, repeat as delegate from Local No. IS. BATTLING SIKI WILL SAIL FOR U. ». SHORTLY PARIS, Aug. M.—Welcome or not. Battling Blkl la determined to visit the United States, where the brews and spirits are said to bo much more potent than’ oven the raw brandy of his favorite Montmartre bars. Slki’a plane this time have ao tar advanced that If ho talla to sail ho will lose quite a large fraction of the little money he has saved from hie earnings In the ring. His passage on the huge liner Berengarla has been engaged. PUSSYFOOT” ADDRESSES CAN NEGROES ADVOCATE bora on the Kings road, near bore, laat night, after they were awakened by a fuallade of shots. They any they ■aw alx automobiles loaded with white men drive away from the apot whore the body waa found, according to authorities. The automoblloe, with the mob. drove up to the quarters of negro log cuttera near the acene of the shoot ing, according to eye witnesses, and ordered them all to "lino up" and come ouL After doing thia, one of the white men selected Hart. Ho was carried a abort distance away and Ills body riddled with bullets. The sheriff today said Hart's em ployer, a white man, declared Hart was Innocent, as be waa quarters shortly after the time when someone la alleged to have "peeped through the girl'a window. The lives several miles from the log tore’ camp. No arrests have been made. AFRI CAPE TOWN, Aug. 11.— William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson concluded his tour of the wine-farming diatHct with great meetings at Cape Town. Ho addressed a crowded colored au dience one night and was received with bands, banners and choirs. He emphasised the boon that prohibition bad been to tbe colored race of Amer ica. encouraging, as It bad, thrift and regular working habits. A colored speaker named Baron was enthusiastically applauded when be said that if the colored people had their way, they would have prohibi tion In South Africa tomorrow. One day they would push the Europeans Into prohibition. At the final meet ing In Cape Town, the chairman stat ed that 8outh Africa was ready for prohibition. The Immediate object, J. W. Curry however, was to put the plan of local The above cut was made option into operation. With a little more pressure on members of Parlia Curry twenty years ago. Mr. Curry ment. he expected this would be | is one of the substantial citlxens of Portland. He Is In the employ of the done. Mr Johnson said that he bad never 8. P. A 8. line between Portland and bad a more orderly meeting in his Seaside In charge of a buffet car, life, and he now knew wbat a South having held this place for the past 10 years. While running to Seaside, African welcome meant. Mr. Curry conceived the Idea of ar ranging for his people there so they MOB LYNCHES WRONG MAN might have convenient places to JACKSONVILLE. Ha.. Aus 25 — camp while enjoying their vacations. Another colored man Is dead at the As a result three tents went up. and are known as "The Curry Teats”. hands of a Florida mob. Hla name waa Ben Hart. and offi These tents are located on a large cers, after findinc hla bullet-riddled lot with plenty of tall pines and other body In a ditch, near here, declared trees around, a hydrant other neces today there la no doubt but that be la sities and even comforts. They are Innocent of the charge that the mob within a few blocks of the beach and held against him—peeping through a have been occupied all summer. Mr. Curry plane to make preparations on window at a white girl. Hart's body waa found by neigh- a bigger scale for next summer. Saturday. KflKBUUKOUBUKKiBUKHaUUUKBDBKS&BflQKI A BUNCH OF FUN!!! CONCERT SUPREME Boxing, Potato Race, Fancy Drill, and a column of other up-to-date stunts BENEFIT ZION CHURCH MONDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 17 Admission 50c MRS. E. D. CANNADY, Sponsor Stag Auditorium • • •