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PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1925
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OUSTED ALDERMAN WINS ELECTION CONTEST
COLORED ALDERMAN Thomas E. Smith, Once A Mrs. Edwards Plays Before
VIN DICATED
Fugitive, Built Up Flour
Club Women
ishing Middletown
Mr*. Jessie Ewing-Edward* accepted
George Harris, Editor New
Business
an
invitation and appeared before the
York News, Is Declared
laities of the Missionary Society of Lin
(Preston News Service)
Properly Elected As
Methodist
Episcopal
church
Middleton, C on n , Jan. 2 3 —Thomas coln
Alderman
(white) at the home of Mr» Homer G.
Attorney Sue» City lor Beck Pay at
1250 Per Month for Sia Month».
(P r o to n News Service)
New York t ity. Jan. ¿2
The A p
pellate Diviaion decided last work that
George W. Haiti», colored, w ai legal
ly circled a nietither ol the Hoard of
Aldermen (rum the Twenty first Alder-
manic District on Nov. M, 1921, and
that John W . Smith wa» unlawfully
«rated in Harris' place from July 6,
192.1, until the end of the term on Dec
II, M l
K Smith, an aged man horn a slave in
Virginia, who escaped to the Union
lines and joined the Federal (orces in
the Civil war, died here Monday, the
owner of a four-story brick block on
Main street
His estate will total
about $50,000
M' Smith opened a small antique
and second-hand »hop
He developed
the business, became well to do and
won the respect of the community He
was an active Prohibition worker and
lias been nominated for office on the
State ticket.
He was also an active worker in the
Salvation Army, and attended the jubi
lee celebration of that organisation in
Fngtand several years ago. serving as
a delegate from thi* country.
"Tin» in a vindication for Harris,"
«aid hi» attorney, Ahraham llrrk»tone
"H e had »creed a» alderman before,
but received a black rye politically
when tine Hoard of Aldermen unsealed
and that Smith should have 47 more
him after hr had served part of hit
than tin- 5.776 credited to him bv the
term.
Now hr may run for office
hoard This made the final tally 5.935
again. W e will at once seek to recover
for Harris, against 5.823 for Smith, a
hack pay at $250 a month from the
majority of 112 for Harris.
city "
The court held that there wa« no
Harri», who i» a Republican and who
ha«is for Smith's charge that a con
own» and edit* the New York New»,
spiracy existed to mark ballots with
received 5,984 vote» again»! 5,906 vote»
marks other than cross marks for the
for Smith, a l)r hick rat, on the face of
purpose of identifying them It «wept
the return» ill the 1921 general election.
aside his contention that «neb ballots
Harri» received a certificate of rlrction
should lie considered void.
and took hi» »eat, but in January. 1922,
Justice Dowling is a Democrat, as
at the first inerting of the new Hoard
are tw o others of the five judge« who
of Aldermen held several bearing», re-
decided the ease.
canvakting the ballots and declaring
that Smith had been elected by a plur-
ity of 40 vote» The board thru adopted
resolution» unseating Harris and »eat- j
ing Smith.
t ounce! for Harris then obtained a
writ of certiorari, oil which the A p
pellate Division reviewed 'the action
of the Hoard of Aldermen.
Justice
Victor J Dowling, who wrote the
opinion, all the other judges concur
ring, drvotrd himself chiefly to an
aualysi» of 389 ballots which the Hoard
of Aldermen'» committee had declared
void
Justice Howling found that Harris
•liould be credited with ¿05 votes more
than the total of 5,730 allotted to him |
by the Hoard of Aldermen's canvass.
DR. JOHNSON NAMED
San Carlo Grand Opera Co. A R K A N S A S CASE IS
MUSOLIT CLUB HEAD
to Appear at Auditorium
ENDED
in Festival of Music
(Preston News Service)
Last Elaine Riot Prisoners
Washington, Jan. 23.— Dr. Hayden
Those patrons of musical and theatri
Freed Scipio Jones Wires
Johnson, member of the board of edu cal attractions in this part of the coun
N. A A C. P.
cation, last Monday night was unani try are eagerly anticipating the return
Legion Post Organized
(Preston News Service)
Raleigh, N. C , Jan. 22.— A charter
granting the organization of a colored
American Legion post in Raleigh has
been granted local ex-service men and
at a meeting Sunday night the Charles
I’ routy. 5416 37th Avenue Wednesday T. Norwood Po»t 157 was organized
and Lieut. Lawrence A. O xley unani
afternoon at 2 30 o'clock
Mr». Ed
mously elected post commander. Dr.
wards gave a brief talk on Race music
and among other things told of the Rufus S. Vats was elected post adju
tant of the post. An immediate drive
pride the Race took in its music,
will he made for 200 members by
especially the spirituals and declared
March I.
them to be the only distinctive Amer
irau music. She gave a brief resume of
the lives of several Race composers, Mrs. Gregory Convalescing
Mrs. I .eon Gregory who underwent
including S. Coleridge Taylor and C.
C. White, and explained and played an operation three weeks ago at the St.
several of their composition» on the Vincent Hospital is reported con
piano. Mrs Edwards wax warmly re valescing rapidly. She is still in the
ceived and the ladies are loud in their hospital.
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praise of her work At the close of the
program a social hour was held in ; Syracuse Lodge, K. of P., entertained
which the ladies personally met and at their recent meeting the member*
thanked Mrs. Edwards for her share of the Court o f Calanthe. The meet
of the program. Dr. I’ routy, pastor of ing was held at the Stag Club and re
the ehurch. gave a hook review using freshments were dispensed A fine time
for the purpose "Adventures in Broth is reported.
mously elected president of the Muso- engagement of the San Ca.lo Grand
lit club, 1327 R street northwest, suc Opera Company in this city when the
ceeding C. Sumner Wormley, who de Elwyn Concert Bureau will present
clined renoinination. Capt. R. C. Clay these singers here for four perform
ton, warrant officer. Howard Uni ances, beginning Thursday, January
versity R. O. T. C., made a brief ad 29th.
dress.
With names like Alice Gentle, Anne
Other officers elected were Dr. W il Roselle. Josephine Lucchese, Bianca
liam J. Howard, first vice-president; Saroya, Stella de Mette, Mary Kent,
Norman Murray, second vice-president, Manuel Salazar. Gaetano Tommasini,
and J. C. Burris, secretary-treasurer. Demetrio Onofrei, Mario Basiola,
C. Sumner Wormley and Augustus W. Mario Valle, Pietro de Biasi. Natale
Gray were elected to the board of • Cervi, Francesco Curci and Maestro
governors.
Fulgenzio Guerrieri, supported hy the
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notably fine choral ensemble and sym
Chicagoans Move Here
Mrs. James Williams of Chicago, 111.,
accompanied by her daughter, arrived
here Tuesday to join her husband and
together they will take up their resi
dence at 328 Schuyler St. Mr. and
erhood" by Dorothy Giles.
Mrs. Williams come well recommended
For rent—5-room house and garage. and Portlanders are welcoming them
Mri. Wm. Farrell'» hand is slowly Broadway 6213. Stanley & Minor.— to the city.
improving front injuries sustained
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Stay off February 23, Elks' BalL—
some time ago when broken glass
Stay off date March 17th— Mer
worked it« way up her thumb.
maids Club.—Adv.
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Tacky Party Enjoyed
JAPANESE STAR TO SING HERE
Wanauma Chapter No. 2V. O. E S.
gave a Tacky party at the Stag Club
Monday night the 19th ¡list. Dancing
was the diversion. All who attended
reported a nice time.
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Ground H og dinner. Tuesday, Feb
ruary 3 at Zion A. M. E. Church for
the benefit of the church. Young roast
pork and young pig chitterlings with
glorified s w e e t potatoes. Dinner serv
ed from 5 until 9 P. M. Price 50c.
Miss Danley Speaks in Salem
Miss Margie Danley. executive sec
retary, Williams Avenue Y W C A , wa*
a week-end house guest of the Max
wells in Salem, Ore. During her stay
she was entertained by the Gearheart
group of the High School Reserves ,
and shared honors with Mrs. Chas. I
National Secretary, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Note: There cannot be too much
said in recommending Mr. Warren on
behalf of our racial group. Mr. Warren
has always stood by us in all question
pertaining to our betterment for the
past twenty years as chairman of the
Committee of Resolutions in the Na
tional Conventions.
He appointed
Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, of
Georgia, as National Committeeman,
in the last convention, held in Cleve
land. O hio; he appointed three other
National Committeemen, Hon. Perry
Howard, of Miss., Mrs. Williams, of
Ga., National Committee woman, Mrs.
Boone of Mount Bier. Miss., as Na
tional Committee woman.— W . L. S.
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IN T E R N A T IO N A L
M IL L S, 1465, Norristown, Pa.— Adv.
To Hold Chair of English
Maria Ivogun, the internationally
famous prima donna, w h o s e art.
youth and beauty have vanquished the
publics of Europe and America, will
make her second appearance in Port
land tonight at the Auditorium as the
fifth event on the Elwyn Artist Scries
An unusually interesting program
has hern arranged for her Portland
concert.
Mr. Max Jaffc will be the
accompanist.
m a in t a in s
Aria from Schauspieldir, aria: "Hatti.
Haiti" from Don Giovanni, Mozart;
Da Untcn Im Thaïe. Meine Liebe ist
grun, Hralims; O Mutter du, H off-
nung, Grieg; Gavotte from Manon,
Massenet; Liebetfreud (by request),
Krcislcr-Scidler-W inklcr; The Russian
Nightingale, Robert of Lincoln. W ern
er Jostcn; The Times of Parting.
Henry Hadley; Red, Red Rose, Cot-
tenet; G'Schichten aus dent W icner-
wald. Joh. Strauss.
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Prof. J W . Beverley. Jr., of M ont
gomery. Air., has accepted the chair of
English at Prairie View College.
Prairie View, Texas, recently made
vacant by the death of his illustrious
father. Prof. John W . Beverley, Sr.
Prof. Beverley, it is said, will con
tinue to teach his father's methods,
living the deceased's text hook. Mrs.
Beverley, (nee M orrow) and their tw o i
children, left Tuesday from I.ittig.
Texas, where they had been visiting
Mrs Beverley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. :
George M dr row, for Prairie View, to 1
join her husband. They will reside on
the campus. Prof. Beverley formerly
taught in Austin, Texas, where the
couple have recently built a lovely
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New York City, Jan. 14.—The Na
tional Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, 69 Fifth Avenue, to
day announced receipt of a telegram
from Scipio A. Jones, of Little Rock,
stating that the last of the prisoners
jailed in connection with the Arkansas
riots of 1919, had been released.
This marks the end of a six-year
fight brought to a successful conclusion
by the N. A. A. C. P., in the course
of which twelve colored farmers of
Arkansas were saved from the deaih
penalty and 67 prisoners, who had been
sentenced to life and long-term im
prisonment have been freed.
The famous "Arkansas Case” was
undertaken by the N. A. A. C. P. in
October. 1919, immediately upon re
ceipt of news in New York that a riot
was in progress. While the riot was
still going on Walter White, assistant
secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., ar
rived on the scene and gathered facts
showing the condition of peonage pre
vailing in Arkansas, out o f which the
trouble sprang. The N. A. A. C. P.
published Mr. White's findings to the
country, meeting the propaganda put
forth by Arkansas whites about a plot
by colored people to “ massacre whites.”
Mr. White reported that colored men
were being hunted and 250 shot down
like wild beasts, in the Arkansas cane
brakes, because they had organized to
employ a lawyer in an endeavor to
obtain settlements and statements of
account from their landlords under the
share-cropping system.
In farcical and summary trials, dur
ing which torture was employed to
make colored men testify against each
other, twelve colored farmers were
sentenced to death and 67 to life and
long terms in jail.
The N, A. A. C. P. at once undertook
to liberate these men and thus stride
a blow at the peonage svatem in
Arkansas. U. S. Rrscion. the white
lawyer whom -he peons had hoped to
employ, a former U. S. attorney; to
gether with Scipio A. Jones, with the
cooperation of Moorfield Storey, presi
dent of the N. A. A C. P., carried the
cases through the courts and before
the governor of Arkansas, to victory.
The cases of six of the men sentenced
to death passed through four state and
federal courts, the men having been
twice sentenced to death and dates for
their execution set five times when the
U. S. Supreme Court in January of
1923 reversed their conviction. The
other six me.-' under sentence of death
were twice tried and sentenced and
twice had their convictions reversed by
the Arkansas Supreme Court. Dates
for retrial of these men were set on
four occasions but despite the readi
ness of the N. A. A. C. P. attorneys,
the state o f Arkansas each time an
nounced itself unready and asked for
adjournment.
Under the Arkansas
law, the failure of the state to act,
automatically entitled the men to dis
charge. A motion to dismiss them
filed by the N. A. A. C. P. was granted.
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Coolidge Appointment
Endorsed
The following copy of telegram sent
President Coolidge was received at
The Advocate office W ednesday and
we publish for the benefit of Advocate
readers. Rev. Sledge is well known to
many Portlanders, having resided here
at one time:
Jan 9, 1923.
Hon. Calvin Coolidge, The President.
The White House. Washington, D. C.
The National Republican Conference
of America goes on record endorsing
Honorable Chas. B. Warren, of D e
troit. Michigan, as a member of your
cabinet as attorney-general. This or
ganization is composed of the leading
men and women of this country.
(Signed) W . L. Sledge,
Maxwell at a dinner of 12 given by
Mi>« Marian Wvman. secretary. Salem
YW CA.
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Daily Fashion Hint
phony orchestra, local opera-lovers can
depend upon hearing their favorite
operas sung by the best procurable tal
ent in this country and Europe.
The repertoire especially selected for
Portland is as follows: Thursday even
ing, January 29th, “ La Tosca” ; Fri
day evening, "Andrea Chenier"; Sat
urday matinee, "Madame Butterfly”
and Saturday night, "II Trovatore.”
The prices for the operas will be
popular and advance inquiries for seats
for all performances indicate packed
houses for the engagement.
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More Than $15,000 Spent in Six-Year
Fight for Victory Againat
Peonage Conditions
M ONDAY, JAN U AR Y 26. 1926, 8 P. M.
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