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P. C E L E B R A T IO N
Garvey Goes to Prison as His
WhitM Storm House on Lexington
Street After Colored Family
Moves In. Polioe Prevent
Further Disorders.
Baltimore. M il, Feb II
Four men.
all while, were filled $64$ each in
Western Police Court, and police are
seeking other« allrgril to have par
ticipatrd m a near riot Thursday which
drove a family front the 700 block
\Ve«t Lexington Street
Shout», arcouip nying a liarraue of
brick« from the «trert and a nearhy
roof, aroused residents in the neigh
borliood to the tune of rravliuiK r la ii
and t rie« of fear from mtidr the hou«e
Protest Arrival
Investigation developed that certain
resident«, protesting the arrival of a
family ol Negroes in the hlork. were
bombarding them and police were
•ummonrd.
Sergeant llrandt and Patrolman
Clarke, Miller, Lewiiuki anil Sliana
ban retponded
On their arrival they
found a crowd about the place, the
»trrrl« littered with buck* and other
missile* »till pattering from the roof
of an adjoining residence, a« two men
tore bricks from the chimney and ca»t
them on the roof of the hom e at 755
U n i Lexington Street.
Family Disappear*
The family moved into the house at
midnight Thurvday, and on Friday
and Saturday kept within door«. F ol
lowing the attack they disappeared and
today had not returned
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12,243 Negroes Entered U.
S. During 1924, Says Im
migration Report
(By N .A .A C .P . Presa Service)
New York, Feb. 6.— According to
thr annual rrport of the U. S. Com
mistioner of Immigration, lor the year
1914, I2.24J Negroes hsvs been it
milled to the I ’ nited State» in the past
year
Am ong these were 523 carpenters,
$07 clerk* and accountants, 4.1V dress-
maker*, HIS seamstresses, 809 farm la
borers. $9 engineers, 20 musicians and
lib teachers
Speaking before an audience at the
l.inrolii-Dougla* celebration under the
auspice* of the Portland Branch of
the National Association for the A d
vancement of Colored People, Mon
day evening. February 9th, Judge Guy
C If Corliss, a distinguished local
attorney, declared: "In honoring the
birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the na
tion honors itself, it is the highest and
deepest tribute w« pay him."
Lincoln's greatness did not lay in
intellectual attainment, the speaker
said
"M any in hit cabinet equalled
and even surpassed him in intellect:
his greatness was not ill varied experi
en ce and complexities of human af
fairs. Until his debate with Douglas,
Lincoln was practically unknown."
O. S Thomas, chairman of thr lilk*
nineteenth annual hall, to he held
Monday evening, February 2.lrd, at
Mtilark hall. Mr. Thomas has been ill
for several weeks, hut is successfully
conducting arrangements for thr hall
from hi* sick room ilill Thomas hope*
to lie able to take personal charge of
the hall at it* windup
Mr. Thomas
has always made great success of such
annual events, and this one is destined
to he greater and grander than those
ol his previous efforts.
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A Correction
In last week's isaue of The A dv o
cate a mistake was made in proof read
ing, under thr rut of Miss Margie
Danlry, Executive Secretary of W il
liams Avc. Hrailch Y „ which con
veyed the impression that Miss Danlry
was an rx-Sec., when it was intended
to read F^xec. Sec.
O f course we
realize intelligent readers make allow
ances for mistakes, hut oil the other
hand there is always to be found that
class who glory in misunderstanding
and misinterpreting thr least mistake,
is the reason we make this mention.
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Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore arc domiciled
at thr home of Mr. and Mrs. G. P.
Moore, 47$ K. 47th St., North.
It was not in law that he was great,
the speaker declared. "Many people
think Lincoln was a great lawyer. He
was not; he had little preparation as a
lawyer; he did not meet the great
members of the bar Paradoxically as
it may seem. Lincoln owes his great
ness to slavery and the crisis caused
by it during his lifetime and it was
the slave power that gave him the op
portunity."
“ The one big thing in Lincoln's life
was his absolute self-effacement when
lie had a duty to perform.” He related
incidents ot how Mr. Lincoln, more
than once, appointed his bitterest op
ponents to offires of trust and grave
responsibility.
U p o n one occasion
when his attention was called to the
disgraceful manner in which General
McClellan was treating him. the presi
dent of the United States, Lincoln re-
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T n « Q uality S t o n i
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The speaker declared Lincoln to be
the dearest h u b « all history and said
hr lived close to God and humanity.
"H e knew the great heart of the Amer
ican people as well as if he had made
it himself.
Lincoln was a spiritual
man; hr was too big to subscribe to
creeds. He was a mastrrful. an hum
ble. and a self-reliant man."
Judge Corlisa closed by saying Lin
coln was an enigma, that his life had
never been written and that he did not
tlvnk it could he written "G od make
th- American people worthy of Alira-
han Lincoln."
Hon. Marcus Garvey, Sentenced
to Serve Five Years in Atlanta
Federal Prison for Using the
Mails to Defraud.
vice-president of the Portland Branch,
and secretary of Williams Ave. Y W.
C. A . presided. Master Donald And
erson presided at the piano The meet
ing was well attended. Eleven new
members joined.
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The Tawawa Tennis and Social Club
will hold its social meet! <g at Mr W at
son's residenee. 916 Haight avenue,
Friday. February 20th. All members
and friends arc invited.
Mrs E. D Cannady, assistant secre
tary of thr Association, and neighlior of
the judge, introduced him to the audi
ence. Lee C. Anderson, secretary of the
N A.A.C.P.. spoke jin Frederick D oug
las, declaring him otic o f the greatest
orators in his day. and that his success
ful life was due to his faith in God.
Rev. J. W . Anderson, a Baptist mis
J A. Ewing, president of the Associa
tion briefly outlined the work accom sionary, will leave Monday for a visit
plished the past year by the National to La Grande. Sacramento, Salt Lake
Association and Miss Margie Danley, and Reno. Nevada.
day opened the campaign of the Phyllis
Wheatley Y. W. C. A. to raise a $600,-
000 building for a larger home for col
ored girls.
Mr. Rockefeller's pledge
depends upon raising the rest of the
fond.
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J. Leo. Stewart of La Grande. O re
gon. writes that everything in La
Grande is doing well, and that a big
revival is being conducted there. Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart are taking an active
part in the revival. He enclosed a check
for a year's renewal to The Advocate.
The Ladies of St. Philips sponsored
an enjoyable card party at the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Harris, 492
Rodney avc., Thursday night, the 5th.
Whist was played at several tables and
prizes were awarded to the ones re
ceiving the highest and lowest scores.
Refreshments were enjoyed and little
Miss Williams of Chicago charmed
with her dancing.
Ship Sails to Sea.” Some
Say That Movement Will
Not Die.
Following is a hit of interesting com
ment on the sentencing of Marcus
Garvey to the Federal prison at A t
lanta for five years, found guilty of
using the mails to defraud in connec
tion with his establishment o f the
"Black Star Line Steamship Com -
panY ':
The Pittsburgh Courier speaking of
Garvey's sentence, say» in other words;
"I told you so.” Continuing: “ The
Courier has said more than once that
Garvey had a plan which would not
work in this country or in Africa. It
is impracticable. That Garvey should
get into the clutches of the law is no
surprise. Any average Negro trying to
juggle as much money would have
fallen just as did Garvey.
"Garvey will serve that five years,
as much as he dislikes the idea. It
Mrs. Charles H. Maxwell came down will be found, in the end. that Garvey
Sunday noon and remained until Mon is just the ordinary conceited Negro
day afternoon when she returned to her with more nerve than brains, more
home in Salem. Or. While here she presumption than discretion."
was the guest o f Mrs. E. D. Cannady.
Speaking before a group of waiters
and cooks in Philadelphia, Pa., the
other day F. Toots, a former secre
tary of the L7. N. I. A., says Garvey
j has been crucified by his own people.
Continuing Toots declared:
The Associate Editor Delivers the Ser
"Marcus Garvey is flesh of our flesh,
mon; Mrs. Charles H. Maxwell sings bone o f our bone, smeared with the
At Centenary-W U b u r Methodist same tar brush and burned with the
Episcopal Church, East 9th and Pine same oil. The Negro race has cruci
streets. Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock fied Garvey. He has been sentenced to
an inter-racial program was rendered serve five years in the Atlanta prison
at which time Mrs. E. D. Cannady, and to pay $1000 fine. When his term
associate editor of The Advocate, de is over, he w ill be deported. The white
livered the sermon. She told of the man is a white man whether you meet
progress of the race in this country him in Mississippi. Heaven or Hell.
during the past more than half cen You send your children into white
tury. although handicapped, and plead people's homes to be made prostitutes,
ed for a better relationship between the thieves and gamblers.
races. Mrs. Cannady said she believed
"This is the truth. If our Negro
the inter-racial movement which is preachers were united the Race would
sweeping the country, is one of the be benefited. Every Sunday they give
very best agencies through which the you a coffin to carry under your arm.
races can meet on common ground and The preachers own more real estate
adjust their differences in a Christian than you do.”
way.
She told of the prejudices
The St. Luke Herald characterizes
against the race as practiced locally, Garvey's career as the most tragic in
urging better treatment o f her people. the Race's history and deplores his five
Mrs. Charles H. Maxwell of Salem. years’ incarceration The Herald con
Oregon, accompanied by Miss Nellie tinues: "W hatever his mistakes have
Franklin, a graduate of Washington been, he has outmatched his enemies.
High School, on the piano, sang two j What a gesture to the judge! You say
groups of Negro Spirituals w hich were | that Garvey has squandered over a
enjoyed immensely by the audience. ! million dollars of the Negroes' money
The meeting closed with a social hour i in a defunct steamship line? W hy
at which time refreshments were dis- ! Marcus Garvey answers that with
pensed and those present became bet- j whistles and foghorns on another
ter acquainted with one another. Noted steamer at a cost of $125,000.00.”
in the audience were Prof. J. W . Botts,
The Oakland (Calif.) Voice believes
editor of the Pullman Porter Messen
that in seeming defeat is victory. It
ger; E. W . Rutherford, proprietor of
says; "The Supreme Court in sustain
Rutherford Brothers; Mrs. Austin and
ing the conviction in the lower court
her niece. Miss Nellie Allen.
of Marcus Garvey and his sentence to
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(Continued on page 4)
8888. - ( A d v .)
INTER RACIAL DAY
OBSERVED AT
CENTENARY-WILBUR
Portland, Ore.
H E L L O BILL!
We are here because we are here
Goods
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plied: "I'll hold General McClellan's
horse for him if he will bring us the
victory.”
ACQUITTED IN RECENT M ANSLAUGHTER TRIAL
Miss Gene vl * Payne, accompanied by
As against thr 12.243 Negroes ad
her uncle, Joe Reed, of Spokane, cn
mitted to this country, only 1,449 aliens
route to Sail Diego, Cal., were the
and 9J naturalized citirens of Negro
house guests Sunday of Mrs. Geo Ran
race left the United States.
dall, 411 * a Union ave. N. Mrs. Jerome
Harris was hostess at a dinner in hon
or of the party Sunday afternoon at
her residence, 492 Rodney avc. ( overs
were laid for five.
For
op L. J. Coppin, Senior Bishop of the
A M E. church, who died last June,
has resumed the practice of medicine at
her home, 1913 Bainhridgr Street. Dr.
( oppin, who is a native o f South
Carolina, is a graduate of the W om an's
Medical College, Philadelphia, and was
a practicing physician in Baltimore be
fore she married Bishop Coppin. nearly
ten years ago
She is considered a
very capable physician.
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A verdict of not guilty was returned Wednesday night at 10:10 by a jury in Circuit Judge Tucker's Court, in
the case of Mrs. Zula Lowe, on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. The charge against Mrs. Low e grew out
of an automobile accident which took place on the 9th of October. 1924, at East 13th and Multnomah Streets, in
j which Mrs. Lowe and her car and John Purdin (w hite) and his car in which were tiding five other passengers,
collided. Mrs. Morud, one of three passengers in the front scat of Purdin's car. sustained injuries which later i
caused her death. Several other occupants of the Purdin car claim to have been severely injured. There were |
no other persons in Mrs. Lowe's car but herself at the time of the accident. This trial marked the second in this
case, the jury having disagreed in the first trial. It was contended at the time that Mrs. Lowe was driving her
car she was under the influence of intoxicating liquor and as a result drove her car negligently, thus causing the
Accident.
The last trial lasted three days, and four days the first time.
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