_____ THE
ADVOCATE
_______________ _______________________________ Alt Independent Paper Devoted to the
VOL. XXI.
Interests e/
the People '
NO »____________________________________________ PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1928
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1 LOUISIfiNfi COLOREO NEWSPAPER CITES KEASOHS FOR EXODUS
ASSOCIATION URGES MINISTERS TO HELP
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THS ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED
PEOPLE APPEALS TO THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY OF NATION
TO ASSIST IN FREEING MEMBERS OF 24TH INFANTRY
Petition to the Proaldent of th* United Slates Drafted and Aaked to Be
Signed by Both Racea Everywhere.—James Weldon
Johnoon Secretary of Organization
18 pec la I to The Advocate.)
that occasion that the men “are
New York. N. Y, October 3.
To the Christian Ministers of Am neither criminals nor murderers" and
deserve every effort we may pul
erica:
His years ago, In August, 1*17, a forth to aecure their release
The plan Is as follows:
terrible outbreak of rioting occurred
First, we are asking that you and
In Houston. Texas Thia riot occur-
red when the 34th United States In your church set aside Sunday, No
fantry. one of the four colored regl vember 11, as Houston Martyr's Day.
menta, with a splendid record, was On that Sunday we are asking every
sent to Houston prior to being sent Christian minister In the United
Io France to flgbt. These men. wear States to preach a sermon on this
ing the uniform of the United States great cause and make It a day of
government, were subjected to every prayer for their freedom.
possible Insult because they were
Second, we want to show to the
colored. Following a long series of President of the* United States and
Insults, threats and acta of violence, to others In authority that the de
a claah occurred when one of the mand for the release of the men Is
men protested against the brutaj a nation-wide one. For that purpose
handling of a colored women by a lo we have drafted a petition to the
cal whlta policeman A number of President, copy of which is pub
people were killed before the out lished herewith. We are asking your
church to follow this model and have
break was ended.
Following the riot a large number printed according to the Instructions
of ths colored soldiers were arrested as many of these petitions as you
and tried while feeling against them will need, have every member of your
yet ran high. Nineteen of them were church sign the petition, and then
sentenced to death and later execut mail at onto the signed petitions to
ed. thirteen of them without right of the N. A. A. C. P. «8 Firth*Avenue,
appeal to the War Department or to New York City. We will do at this
the President of the United Stales, office all the necessary clerical work,
their commaud*-r-ln-chlef. Hlxtyone arranging the petitions in uniform
others were sentenced to life Impris lots, and by states as well, doing all
onment. For more than six years the things which will make them
these mon who are guilty of no crime most Impressive when presented In
except that they tiered defend their person to President Coolidge.
Ilves sgalnst the attacks of a South
We have reason for believing that
ern white mob have been Imprisoned It are act unitedly and promptly we
In Leavenworth prison.
can effect the release of all the fif
In 1*31. the N. A. A. C. P. gathered ty four men from prison. We ought
and presented to the late President to have a million signatures—we
Harding a petition signed by SO,000 must have at the very least One
cltIsens requesting that he pardoa Hundred Thousand. We feel confi
those men As a result a number dent that we can rely on your full
were released on parole after receiv co-operation, for thia Is a cause In
ing reductions of sentences.
which every man and woman, of ev
On September 1, 1*33. during the ery race and creed, can work with a
Fourteenth Annual Conference of the will. The colored newspapers, lodges
N A A C P. which was being held and fraternal organisations, women's
al Kansas City. 65H delegates and clubs, civic bodies, and the 460
members made a pilgrimage to the branches of the N. A. A. C. P. are
l^avenworth Prison where they met Joining with the churches In this
with the fifty four martyra. giving great effort Will your church do Its
them words of cheer and encourage part? We know It will
ment. The warden of the prison,
Will you write us a word signifying
Wm. I. Illddle. In an extraordinary your willingness to Join In this great
trank statement, declared publicly on crusade for freedom?
Yours for freedom.
JAS WELDON JOHNSON,
Secretary The National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
800 Goodnough Building
People.
6th and Yamhill Streets
Local and For
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also conveniences for railroad men.
772 21st Street, S. Sellwood 1702.—
adv.
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Work, call Mrs. McLemore. Sellwood
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BREAK* ARM
Mrs. Sykes, who recently sustained
an Injury to her arm. is rapidly con
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RACE DECLARED IMPUDENT, OR throughout the United States, who WHITE STREET CAR CONDUCTOR LEAVES CAR TO CHASE ANO BEAT
caters to home needs, will observe
DERED TO TAKE BACK SEAT
COLORED WOMAN IN SHREVEPORT, LA,—WHITE AND
Ardmore, Okla.. Hept. 26.—“The su thia week. The press, pulpit schools,
COLORED MEN FAIL TO HELP WOMAN
premacy of the whlta race must be
respected” In Judge Walden's court.
Such became evident Wednesday af
ternoon when the proceedings In the
Van Noy trial were halted for a tew
minutes and the bailiff waa Instruct
ed to remove several Negroes who
were occupying seals with whites in
the rear of the rooax.
“You Negroes are too Impudent in
thia part of the country," the Judge
admonished. "You're not allowed to
sit with white folks anywhere in this
state, and you know it. Sit on the
back seats where yon belong.”
The women clapped frantically, and
the court proceeded. Buch is the
spirit In the State of Oklahoma as
the K. K. K. war looms.
women's societies, weiiare organisa
tions, etc., will participate in Its ob
Man Struck In Faca While Attempting to Reacua Colorad Giri From Whlta
servance.
SEES ROUND-UP
Mrs. Ada McGill, 4*1 Union Ave.,
spent Round-up week In Pendleton,
Oregon.
NOTED PREACHER TO WED
Invitations have been received In
Portland to the wedding of Reverend
Dr. J. Gordon McPherson (Black
Billy 8unday) and Miss Doily T. Tay
lor, Wednesday evening, the 10th, at
First Baptist church. New Orleans,
La. This makes the parson's third
marriage.
FALLS; SUSTAINS INJURY
Mrs. Eagle O. Brandon sustained
WEALTHY N. C. CITIZEN DEFIES
NOTICE TO COLORED RAILROAD
painful Injuries to her back when her
KU KLUX KLAN
WAITERS
Winston-Salem, N. C., Sept. 30.— foot slipped and she fell down the
Would like to locate Mr. Robert Defying the Ku Klux Klan, Charles
Key»*. in three weeks or later. Ans M. Kooten. one of the wealthiest col
wer In The Advocate.
ored men of the state, literally took
the bit in his mouth here last week
MRS. SMITH RETURNS
when he ordered building continued
Mrs Chris. Smith. 534 Columbia St.,
on his new borne.
has returned from Seaside, where she
Wooten was warned by the Klan
was associated In business with her
against building his home on prop
husband.
erty purchased from a white man.
threatening him wit ha note and a
ELKS BUY NATIONAL HOME
A resolution passed at the recent truck check. (The truck check was
Elks' convention at Chicago appropri intended to indicate that it was time
ated 320,000 for the first Installment to move.) The note read: "Take
upon the purchase of the Elks' Na warning; I stitch In time saves nine.”
stairway at her residence, 290 Lar
rabee street, Sunday. She is conva
lescing nicely.
GOES FI8HING
Mrs W. H. Myles, 290 Larrabee
street, is the proud fisher woman who
reports a catch of thirty good look
ing fish, Tuesday. Mrs. Myles likes
the sport and goes frequently to han
dle the lines that attract the finny
tribe.
OR. BUNDY ATTEMPTS SUTCIDE
Dr. LeRoy Bundy of East St Louis
tional Home, to be located at West
riot fame attempted u> commit sui
EQUAL
RIGHTS
LEAGUE
MAN
chester. Pa.. 24 miles from Philadel
cide last week at his home in Cleve
DEAD
phia. The site covers 104 acres on
land, O., by slashing his throat with
Boston.
Mass..
Sept.
30.
—
With
the
the historic Brandywine and will be
a
razor. It is reported from the hos
a home for aged Elks and their wives. large Twelfth Baptist church which pital where be is confined that Mr.
he had Just made clear of debt and
had paatored for 24 yc«rs filled to i Bundy will recover.
A CARO OF THANKS
I wish to thank friends and ac capacity limit and thousands standing
LABOR ROASTS KU KLUX KLAN
quaintances for their kindness to me in the rain outside, held back by po
“No workingman can conscientious
during the Illness and death of my lice reserves, sad and sincere honor
ly be a member of the American Fed
waa
given
the
memory
of
Rev.
M.
A.
beloved son. also the pastor of Zion
eration of Labor and also a member
Church. Rev. Magruder, and the as N. Shaw, M.D., today by the people of the Ku Klux Klan, is the summary
of
Eastern
Massachusetts
at
a
funeral
sisting ministers, and special thanks
of an opinion of the executive coun
to Rev. E. C. Dyer, for their serv service aa large and notable as Bos
cil's report read at the first day's
ton
has
known
for
a
citixen
of
color.
ices. May God bless you. one and all.
Never was sorrow and the sense of session of the A. F. of L. convention
MRS. JENNIE BUTTLER.
personal loss and of race loss deeper, here.
The council took a firm stand
Don't forget the place and time to never more willing testimony to kind-
against the klansmen wheu it charg
.
lines»,
nobility
of
soul,
readiness
to
hear Marcus Garvey, ths great race
ed them with efforts to promote re
leader.
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, use great medical, intellectual and ora
ligious intolerance, to supplant sane
torical
ability
for
individuals
and
for
Wednesday night, October 10th.—adv.
bls people collectively. William Mon administration with "mob govern
roe Trotter mourned with the family. ment". and spreading a campaign of
ELKS' AUTO CONTEST
terrorism through the country.
Roee City Lodge of Elks. Ford au
In part the report read: "The Ku
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tomobile contest will end on Thanks
Klux Klan is destructive of that free
FORTY YEARS
giving day. Buy your tickets early
Although J. W. Houser of thia city dom and devotion to the principles
and win the car. See It on display
and his cousin, W. L. Houser, of of liberty which we regard as first es
In the Golden West Hotel window.—
Charlotte, N. C„ have been within sential in democratic civilization."
adv.
a radius of a few hundred miles of
BREAKS INTO HOUSE
oach other, and although they have
Hear Marcus Garvey at Mount Oli
Portland. Ore.
For Legal Advioe, Bee
Farley Hunt, who has done time in
Main 643«
been here in the city at the same
vet Baptist church Wednesday night.
time, they met for the first time In the Oregon penitentiary, was arrest
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWtWO
October 10th.—adv.
forty years last Saturday morning ed Friday evening, charged with lar
ATTOBWBT AT LAW
when W. L. Houser ran in here on ceny from a dwelling house. At his
LOCAL MAN PASSES
SIS Abtagtoa Bldg-
B4wy. MIX
a
train. The Housers' fathers were trial Monday he was given 60 days.
Chris Buttler passed from this to
the Great Beyond September 23rd. brothers.
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street.
Funeral
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were
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held from Holman Parlors under the
Willamette Blvd., beet view prop went an operation for the removal of
Elk's Barber Shop.
direction
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Revs.
E.
J.
Magruder,
erty.
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New York City, October 3.
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The National Association for the the other white man knocked her
Advancement of Colored People, 69 down with hia fist. Then 1 went to
Fifth Avenue, New York, today made the girl and picked her up. When I
public extracts from an open letter straightened up, one of the men
published September 22 by the struck me In the face with his fist,
Shreveport Sun. a colored Louisiana but 1 told the girl to go on in the op
newspaper, citing the beating of col posite direction, which she did, thus
ored women by white men aa a cause escaping additional brutal treatment.
of the Negro exodus from that sec I knew I was in for trouble when 1
tion. The Shreveport Sun gives the attempted to lift the girl from the
following eye witness' stories:
ground, but I decided that the risk
"On Friday morning, September 7, was necessary. Nobody said any
between 7 and 8 o'clock, I was com thing in defense of this helpless girl
ing to town on the Highland car. At or me, although several persons were
one of the stopa in King's Highway, lookers-on. No arrests were made,
I heard the conductor ask, 'What did the girl simply was given a public
you say?’ On looking around I found thrashing on the public highway, and
that he was talking to a young col being ONLY a Negro, there was noth
ored woman, the only one on the car. ing to be said or done about it.’”.
He opened the door of the car, left
his car and chased her nearly a
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mfinth. Write Mrs. Frederick Hol
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“Several white men and a few col
this paper.—Adv.
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