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PORTLAND. OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER ¿4, 1 c>25
ZION AFRICAN METHODISTS IN CONFER
CLARENCE DARROW EMPLOYED BY N.A.A.C.P.
C L A R E N C E DAKKOW FAMOUS
CRIM IN AL LAW YER RKTAINKL)
BY N. A. A C. F
ST LOUIS COURT AFFIRMS
StiGRKGATION DECISION
hasf : d o n c a s f : n o w
IN SUPREME c o u r t
CO LO RED PEOPLE CAVE
$8.000 P 0 R LINCOLN TOMB
LOCAL and FOREIGN
NEWS BRIEFS
EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING
OREGON FED ERATIO N OP
NEGRO WOMENS CLUBS
Springfield, IIL, O rt. 15—An inter-
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eating fart w»> revealed today in the
Wednesday and Thuriday Oct., 28-29
New York. N Y October 16— — report of Col C K Miller, director
A CARD PARTY
Mt Olivet Baptist Church Ea»t
lla»ing it» decision upon the Wash of flu department of public work*
Firtt and Schuyler Street»
ington rate now on appeal in the IJ and building« which «tated that Col
One of the most enjoyable card .
S. Supreme Court bv the N A A ored soldier) contributed over $ 8,1810
The It were aPreited (or refitt
PORTLAN D . OREGON
C I’ , a Si Louia court ha* affirmed toward* the fund collected to build parties of the season was given last '
ing a mob
the right of white property owner» to I the tomb which houses thr remain« Saturday evening, at 700 First Street, I
from 8 to 12
Mrs. N. Ramsey and
—PROGRAM —
agree among them«elve> not tu «jll
fames Donatd were the hosts. Light
Nrw York. Ort 16 The National property to Negroes and to enforce i of thr Great Emancipator
Thr large»! amount contributed by j refreshments weed served, and a real
\etocialinn fnrthr Ad* «nee incut of «tt. li an agrcrnient in the court»
Wednesday 10:00 a m meeting of
any one organization, except thr »late pleasant ,vtm ng $*a- «pent by those
t ..lured People.
Fifth AvrnlH'. to
An injunction ha* hern i»«ued pro
Executive Board, 11:00 a m. Inspir
The gie»t were: Mr and ational Talk by Chaplin, Mrs Fulli-
dav announced that th celebrated law hibiting Mr and Mr* George W Molt • of lilinoi«e, came from the 72nd re- present
yer. t larence I »arrow, who w»< chief and other colored people from ocru- ; gimrnt, D S Army t olorrd troop* Mr* It Strain, ID and Mrs R F- love
j «tatiourd at thr time at New Orlean» Signiond, Mr ana Mr* F. Love, Mr
i.niii.il in the Tennessee evolution pymg property »old to thr Holt*
Opening of Federation meeting by
and Mr*
M cC aicv, Mr and Mr*. president. Mrs Filla Smith . after noon
rave, ha* been retained to head the
In the ruurrr n( the drri»ion. the
Morgan, Mr. Tcif»n*lcr, Mrs Jones, session. Memorial Services for Mrs.
defence of Dr <> II Sweet and It' St Loui* court complement» the N
E L W Y N ’S FIRST CONCERT
of California and Mr* Alice Williams 1 Marguret Muray Washington and
other Negroes ehargrd with murder 1 A V C P counsel “ for the able man
GOES OVER BIG
for defending l»r Sweet'» home from lier in which they (the brief«) were
Mrs Emma I.ancaster
Mr Andrew jickson 1508 Ashby
a mob in Detroit.
pri-paird, and tile mdu«lry and «kill
Wednesdan
F’ vening, Educational
Maria Kurenko, talrnted Ku«»ian
Avenue.
Oakland,
Calif.,
father
of
Arrangement» were Concluded With which necr*»arily w it expended in Colorature
night. Presidents Annual Address and
»opraua. Moscow Opera,
Mrs.
A
1»
U
R
iif,
wa*
seriously
in-
j
Mr I »arrow yeaturday and he left their preparation "
a musical treat.
fairly thrilled her audience at the Au
Chicago at oner to go to Detroit and
Final decision m thi*. a» in other ditorium, opening thr splendid Filwyn lured. October 6t* by falling from a
Thursday _ Morning,
Executive
j
Key
Route
train
Fie
is
home
agan
p r r p a n t h r i a * r f o r e a r ly trial
A»
*u< h ca«r* throughout thr country, *rrir* thi* *ra»on
She wa* ably a* (from the hospital and is doing fine Board meeting and report of Clubs
,eialed with Mr l»ar r"W will be will depend upon thr outcome of thr *i»trd bv Vicente Ballr»ter,Maritone.
Afternoon, Art display..
Tea will
\rthur (.arfirld Have«, of New York, ia«r appealed from the Court of Ap who equally »hared honor» with her
he served by Art department. Mrs.
of council lor the American t ivil peal* .if the Diktrict of Columbia to
Tile whole program wa* excellent | Mr and Mr*. Alic Webb, of Los- Waters, of Carvolis, presiding.
I i ) h riv» Union
the U S. Supreme Court, in which
tnor e than ever the »¡tiger» were Angeles. C alif, w $re guests at Break- j Evening Young Peoples night prin-
The «tail of counril rrtamed for eminent lawyer* retained by the N. and
fast at the hom e-of Mr Dan Sykes, jcipal address by Mrs Nettie J Asbery,
compelled to respond to encore*
the ea»e, who wil work under the A A C P will appear to argue, pro
Mr Myron lacobsen was thr «plen- I4l(i-67lh Street (firl^lcy, California, StatePresident of the Washington
It-adcr«htp of Mr I »arrow include* a bably tin« November
dnl accompanist
So wrll did thr and were later shop n <gourtc«iv» at the . F toleration of Colored Womens Clubs
well known white Detroit attornrji
audirnre like hi« composition, "Yon home ot Mr and Mrs. A. D. I.eBon, subject. "Opportunity."
together with the Colored council
Every body is welcome at all the
Drought Me Lovely Flowers" that after which they 1*11 for home.
who have been a»«ociated with the ROLAND HAYES. FAMOUS
meetings
Kurenko had to king it over again
TENOR.
IN
VIENNA
ca\c from the beginning
Mr.
and
Mrs.
C.
0
Coffey,
pioneers
Mrs Ella Smith, president,
At thr close of which she turned and
In making the announcement of Mr
of Portland, after 2* years in thi» city
Mrs Josephine Duke. *«cre*ary
congratulated Mr Jacobsen
Vienna.
Oct
8.—
Roland
Have*.
I »arrow * a»«oeiation with the ta«c
o
Kurrnko was pretty, pleasing and have sold their home at |89 West
a* chief council, lame» Weldon John- American Negro tenor, tonight gave a good naturrd and abovr all could sing F'arragot Street ind left Friday for
GO TO CHURCH DAY
yon. Secretary of the National A»»o- concert here that wa* a sensational She *ang her«rlf into the heart* of Red Bluff Califoriia to reside
ciation for the Advancement of C ol-j «nice«» Hr *ang number» from Rer- Portland music lover* who came un
ord People »aid:
"The Detroit case thoven. Schubert and Rrahm», but
Sunday! October 25, is go to church
BROKRN JAW
thr «rats were nearly all filled.
day
involve« the third most dangerous ! earned hi» grratr«t applau»r with an til
Both she and Mallr«trr were genrou*
a»»ortmcnt
of
Negro
«piritual*.
the
pha«r of segregation
I he N A A.
For the convinence of all. Mt Oli
audirnre >n«i»ting on a repetition of with thi n < ii.ore*
' J R Mills, an officer of the Zion A vet Dabtist Church is having an all
C P. ha« (ought and won a victory each
Several
huge
bouquet*
o
f
rxquisetr
M
E
(
hurch
and
a
member
of
the
in thr United State» Supreme Court,
day service
The ladies are request
flower* were presented Kurenko
F.lks. is in Good 'Samaritan hospital ed to bring their baskets of dinner
m thr matter of »egregation by or Many member* ol tin- Vienna Amer
suffering with a broken jaw bone, the an£ . c,,mc Prepaired to stay all day
dinance or law
We »hall very »oon ican colony t attended, including the
results of an accident while at work
argue in the Supreme Court thr que»- United Slate* Mmi*trr and Mr*
The following pr ogram will be
SYM PHONY ORCHESTRA IS
in the foundry last Monday
rendered •
liolt of «egregation by private agree Washburn
ELW
YN
ATTRACTION
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ment among white pmiirrtv owner*
Sunday School — 9:30 a m . Preach
Mrs Ima Morgan Minor wa« mar ing — 11:00 a m, bv Rev John F
Stay off date December 14. particu
We are now facing in Detroit, segre
ried a tew day* ajp. to Mr J Starke«, Moreland, Jr, pastor of Kyles Chap-
lar! later. — Adv.
gation by mob violence
brother of the late GrorRe Starkev
''If in the Detroit .a»r thr Negro
c' A M E. Zion Church. Seattle, Wn
The couple left
once for Chicago,
1 « Hot upheld in the right to defend
the Brotherhood will have charge
George Fdward < annadv left Fri
thr home of the ffmoin.
hi» home again«! eviction by a riot-
.o f the afternoon service, and have pre
oil« mob. no decent Negro home any das uiorning st 8 oTluek for Seattle
paired
an excelent program in connec
where m the United Stair* will b< Io attend tlir lunior Leaders Confer
Mrs Robert lari-on, w ho ha« hern tion with a sermon by Rev M I
ence
to
he
heil
a!
the
Scatl
Ir
Y
M
«. . utr
In thr Detroit . a«r where
M«iting with relati\< « in Atlanta. Ga . llarklev D D . L. L. B
the Colored people arr bring tried < \ ( | • * | \; m 4 25th
The II Y P. U have a treat in store
for a month or mjpre .returned home
Witt
anioiiK
of
thr
local
Y
M
on the charge of murder in (hr (ir«t
la«t week and repel s a pleasant visit tor you at 6:30 p m
t
V
to
Icatlrr
«hip
tc*t«
and
hr
d> Urcc. Lie.au«. they dul exercise thr
Preaching at 8:00 by Rev. T \tlrti
lirm of defending thrfr home. th<- C oca wifh thr leulcr* f«rp* fron»
Man y. D D., of Sacsementa. Calif
MURDERER
CONVICTED
rortland«
Thrrr
will
bt
dtloiatr*
\atioiial A»»oc .at.on ha« «reured the
F.very body is welcome.
h. *t legal talent linn the UmtedSta- fron» all thr Nortl»Wf*trrn Statu* and
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t'auada
Thr bov* will br thr KUot«
Oliver Jones, who killed his wife
tr« afford«
AN IM PO R TAN T SUPREME
with a hatchet seteral months ago in
"'I hr N A A t . P will «pare no of thr Seattle V'. M ( A whilr thrrc
COURT CASE
Longview. Wn . was convicted Mon-
Thcy tnolorrd ovrr in thr l*ortland
effort and, a« for a« rc*ouree* go.
dav of murder in the second jlrgree
will »pare no money
The amount Y \V ( A bi«N
Washington, October 16th ______
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of work thr A«»ociation ran do on
The legal qualifications of children
Mrs F.mma Lancaster, wife of A
tin* ra»e, the ra«r now pending in thc
Mrs 1 con (areKory i* rrportrd
I Lancaster, died Saturday, Oct. 17. of former slaves to inherit property
Snprrme Court and other ca«r«. will quite ill at hrr home on Mallory Avc
following a long il'ness
Furnal ser left by their parents was argued in the
depend on the financial «upport the Her *istrf, Mri, I. II
l ’rr*t»m of
vices w ere held 'I hursdav, Oct.22 at L mted States Supreme Court one dav
( olorrd people of the rotintr y will Chicago, III., is expected to arrive at
The case came up on ap-
-•00 p^ ni. from the Friends Church last w-eek.
give
hrr brdMdr one dav this week
It was held
Fast ,15th and .Main Streets.
Intern neal from Oklahoma
'"I he N A. A I P want* money to
6v
the
Oklahoma
court, that children
ment in Mt. Scott cemetery.
fight three ra*c»
The*e two »egre
*>
f
former
slaves
could
not
be recog
I.OS
ANGKLKS
MOB
ROCKS
Mrs. Lancaster is one of Portlands
gation ra»C«, together with the vital
COM >RF.I> I'l <>PI » S H< )\lF.S
oldest and highly respected citizens nized as having the legal rights to in
ly important I'raa* disfranchisment
She was active in chnrrh and rltib herit property of their parents unless
t a«e. w hich ha* now al*o reached the j
work and her sen ices in the commun their parents lived together as man
W in d o w s m homes Owned by pro-
Jacques Gershkovitch
Supreme t .mrt, obligate the N A A
and wife at the time of emancipation
The Gershkovitch Symphony O r ity will be greatly missed
t P in th.
«iitnof approximately tdr nf thr Rare havr him hmkrn Slid
The decision was bas
She leaves to morn her loss, a hus or afterwrard.
JAH nsi
Will the l olorrd people owner* have been ordered to move chestra, Jacques Gershkovitch con
ed on the grounds thatpersons in sla-
of the country fiirm«h the ammuni bv groups of whites, in the South ductor, opens thr Portland season of band and a host of friends
\er.v were incapable of contracting
tion for this fight upon which one Slatison ami Hooper avenue districts «vmphonv inu*ic on Monday night.
This conFert i* pre-
of their mn«t fundamental right* de recently and both exrilment and bit | October 2t>th
Mrs. Aneta Marks, one of the most marriage, and to give their children
«rntud bv the F.lwyn Concert Bttrrau briliant minds amoung the Colored born in slavery a legitimacy status it
pend*’
We want contribution« of ter feeling have been caused.
In the west Jefferson section, suit ■is the «econd event on the F.lwvn people of \ er noma, Oregon, passed was necessary for them to continue
ft-oin $100 to .me dollar
Send if
Mr Gershkovitch i* through Portland mondav enroute to to live together as man and wife after
cheek to | I Spingarn, Trca«urer of has hern brought lo forre out all non i \rli«t Series
! very popular and held in high esteem Weeds. Calif , to put her two lovely emancipation, when they were to de
the N A A C P . 69 l ift», Avenue. whites west of West Avenpe
termine for themselves their material
New \ ork City."
The authorities have been notified, las a conductor bv all patrons of music little children in «chool
relations
Appearing as solist is
and in all ease« of threat* and disturb in tin* city.
I hr < olorrd I’mtestnt Episcopal ance. Ihr owners have declared their Felix Salniond, eminent English 'Cel CHILI CON CARNE
cluirrhrs t»f Washington rrruntlv pur- intention to protect themselves and to list Mr Salniond has had remarkable
A COM EDY
success in thi* country, appearing in
c ha*rd property. Containing fifteen hold their property.
served
loliccrt in all thr principal citic« and as
room«, which will «erve a* a home for
“
A
Church
Bazaar at Mulberr y
SATURDAY and SUNDAY
Stay off November 26th. Court of soli*t with the leading symphony or-
widows and aged and indigent mrm-
Corners”
Ichcstra«.
The
program
for
the
even
and
bi rs f»f the rhur'rh
Calanthe.—adv.
ing is exceptionally and exceedingly
—
by the—
BAKED HAM
well balanced—one that will be of
Juniors of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church
interest and enjoyable to all
every day
Miss FI Rac Maxwell one of the
With Potato Salad, Saturdays
Wednesday, November 11th 1925.
charming daughters of Mr and Mrs,
4
And Sundays
Charles II Maxwell of Salem. O rr
Adults 25 cents — Children 15 cents:
is enjoying a visit to her many friends
here in the city.
Darrow Will Defend Dr. Sweet And
Ten Otliei Colored People Charged
With Murder
'-Announcement
RICHARDSON’S
Muggins—"Say what you will about
j Stephen Steamroller, he is the one
man who never forgrts his campaign
, promises - -Huggins—"yes, when they
arr broken, he patches them up and
uses them over again.
Wc arc pleased to announce the arrival
of our
CHRISTMAS GREETING CARDS
CONFECTIONERY
Broadway and Everett Streets
r
We have on display at our office the most
exquisite and complete line of Christmas
Greeting Cards ever shown in Portland.
LOUIS PLAIN TOE
— AND—
Last in Oxfords and high
at
STAG AUDITORIUM
,^81 1-2 Hast M o rriso n
W e will he glad to call at your homes and
show them at your convenience. Just call us
at Broadway 5X07 and make an appointment.
“ Procrastination is a Thief of Time”
THE FAMOUS ST.
Second Annual Carnival
Hallowe’en Dance
Come and make your selection while the
line is complete and the variety good.
Stacy Adams
Flats
Shoes will be on SALE for
one week from Oct. 25 to
October 31st.
—for—
9.85
.Rose City Lodge No. 1 1 1
—regular—
October 29-30-31
13.50
THREE NIGHTS OF FUN AND FROLIC
THE ADVOCATE PUBLISHING CO.
312 Macleay Building, Portland, Oregon.
PRIZES AW ARD ED THE BEST. AND MOST
COMICALLY MASKED LAD Y AND GENTLEMEN
'S H O E
D E N FOR M EN
MORRISOn HEAR BROADWAY
Given By The Boosters Club Of Rose City Lodge
»4
AFRICAN M ETH ODIST ZION
CONFERENCE IN SESSION
AT PORTLAND
ARROW TIPS
(By Kit» Reid)
"Then the spirit mournful, crushed.
1 Forth into the dark night rushed;
O'er the garish streets he went
T o a church well lit.—'twas Lent.
Clad in white midst candle light.
Priests said prayers, quite unawares;
At length the Bishop preached with
zeal
Concerning this, our Common weal
And begged young men the sword to
wield
For love of Christ and ne'er to yield
My Master’s sw ooned”
Fifty Eighth Session of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Connection
Now in Session
Conference brings prominent minis
ters from East and middle Western
States to Portland
The fifty-eighth Session of the A f
rican Methodist Episcopal Zion con
nection is being held at First A M E.
IZion church. 417 Williams Avenue,
with the Rt Rev. Bishop J. W Mar
The above verse seems apropos to tin. A M . D. I), presiding.
The conference opened Wednesday
the following incident which happened
Organization
at the Episcopal Convention just clos morning at 10 o'clock
|
of
the conference, calling and correct-
ed at New Orleans According to an
j
ing
the
roll,
report
of
committee
on
Associated Press dispatch published
in the Oregonian Oct 21st, "vast I credentials and seating of I.ay-dele
numbers of Christians, both of out gates, report of committe on rules and
own and other Communions; are in the annual sermon, comprised the first
serious distress, perplexity and doubt meeting.
Wednesday afternoon, the Episco
as to their Christian duty in relation
to the problem of war " And then pal address was delivered by Bishop
these Apostles of Christ appointed a Mar tin, Wednesday evening was dc-
committee of five Bishops to Study ! voted to the formal welcoming of the
¡conference.
This service was con
the question!
ducted by Rev H Leo Johnson, pas-
j tor of Zion church.
Several prom
What a travesty' What a confession inent citizens participated on the pro-
of weakness! What a denial of Christ! ! gram, including Mayor George E.
These to whom we should look for Baker
eadership confess that they art bewil
Three services were held on Thur s-
dered and doubtful as to their “duty 'dav.
At 10:00 a. m. a School of
as Christians in relation to the prob
lem of war.” I* it aay wonder that the
Church, as an institution, is losing
ground and that the people no longer j
respect its leadership’
I am reminded of a story told me
years ago when I first came West, by
an old preacher who had been a mis- i
»ionary amongst the Indians He had
expended much time and energy try
ing J o convert an old Indian Chief to
his Christian doctrine but with no sue- I
cess. He finally acknowledged total
failure when the old chief said to him: '
"No. no. 1 no believe in your God. |
\Y hen the white man go into fight
you pray to the great father to help ■
you kill . He no good father if he help
vou kill Indian, he pray to devil to j
help kill because devil like to kill.”
The old chief was right, and after
2,000 years of preaching the gospel of j
the Prince of Peace, the House of Bi
shops has appointed *- committee o f 1
rive to study the question.—is it a
t hristian duty to kill your fcllowman? 1
It is to be regretted that so few peo
ple heard the speeches of Mr. Wilfred
W cllock the Englishman who has been
in Portland this week. Mr Wellock is
a Pacifist and has earned the right to ,
voice his convictions on the world si- j
tuation today During the war, he w as ]
a conscientious objector and the Eng Bishop J. W. Martin, A. M„ D. D.
lish government promptly put him in who is presiding over the 68th Annu
prison,—just as the United States did al Conference of Zion Methodists here
in this country for those who would
not be traitors to their convictions Prophets and a sermon by one of the
that no Nation or government can visiting ministers were the features.
compel any man to kill another man.
The afternoon session was largely
Mr. Wellock warned us here in Amer given over to the Presiding Elder's
ica that we must have little faith in reports and report« from various com
the usual advertised assertions of the mittees and Lay-delegates.
At night
big powers that disarmament was al a sermon and reports of committee«
most a certainty in the near future. on Sunday Schools were heard.
He pointed out the inconsistency of
F'ridav afternoon the ministers went
their claim« as against the huge pre into prriate executive session
At
parations for war; the war being wa this session commutes on Fiducation
ged by the French against the native and Missions made their reports
tribes in Morocco; the denial of home
In the evening, Mr s. O. C. Martin,
rule to India bv Great Britian: the bru wife of the Bishop, presided over a
tality of the foreign nations maintain meeting of the womens Home and
ing their extra territoriality “ grip" in Foreign Missionary 'Society.
A pub
China (this includes our Democratic lic offering for the cause of Missions
America) and finally he proclaimed completed the evening’s session.
the l.ucarno treaty just concluded, as
Saturday morning reports from
simply another step nearer the next Conference Workers. Missionaries,
war. And when one analyzes the text Temperance Workers and devotion*
of the treaty, what else can it be but were held and Conference Claims
an opiate that drugs the minds of the were reported.
people into a condition of fancied se
The program for Sunday (tomor
curity. England, F'rance and Germany row) is as follows:
9:30 a. m. Con
united in a pact so that the grip of ference Love F'east. 10:45 a. m. Ser
F'rance and England on the conces mon, bv Bishop J YV Martin; 3:00
sions and cheap labor of the F'ast can p m. Sermon ami 8:00 p. m Sermon
not be shaken loose. Germany, forced and reading of appointments and
to be their ally so that she coud not Refreshments.
join Russia They know that in case
A party of well known churchmen
India, and China and the other Na motored from Oakland here to attend
tions of the East unite against the ag the conference. Thev came with Bish
gressions of the Western world, that op and Mrs. I Y\ Martin in the Mar
Russia will join forces with the East. tin’s big Duick Sedan Tho-e in the
There is unrest all through the East party: Dr. J. J. Byers, Zion church at
ern World, and todaCs papers tell u- San Francisco.: Dr R l-o*ell. of Zion
that Franc* is "subduing revolts in church at Vallejo,; Rev. I. M. McCoy,
Syria" What business has France in of Zion church at Palo Alto: Rev D.
Syria’ And the American government D. Mattox, church at San Jose, and
is taking its cue from Great Britian Rev. Mien Harvey of Sacramento,
and our President “delays calling a who on last Sunday was elevated to
conference for disarmament."
the position of Presiding Filder of the
What are our churches doing in California conference. The appoint
the crisis’ Well, as remarked in the ment came at the conclusion of the
first paragraph, one “ House of Bish conference held in Oakland. October
ops" has appointed a committee of 14 - 18, and wa« a very pleasant sur-
five to "study the question." It will nrise to Dr. Harvey.
probably report at tbe close of the
Other dignitaries in attendance here
next war after they have “ begged are. Re* I M Draper, San Mateo;
tvoung men the swords to wield For Rev. E V Clark, former Presiding
love of Christ—and ne’er to yield.”
Elder but now pastor at Yladerea, Cal.
Are not all the people« wf the earth Rev. J E Moreland and wife of Seat
children of one loving father?
tle; Rev. Vernon Rose, Redding, Cal.;
Re* N. Felder of McC loud, Cal ; Rev
R H. (¡amp, wife and daughter of
H ARRY W IL L S TO MEET
Walla Walla, Wn., and Mrs Anderson
FLO YD JOHNSON
and daughter are also deleg.>tes from
Redding, Cal
New Y’ork, Oct. 13— (A. IV) — Arti
Presiding Elder T. Allen Harvey,
cles for a 12-round no-decision fight B D , ably presented a paper and led
on Monday, October 26, at the Ne in a discussion, during tin session
wark armory, Newark, N. j , between dealing with the present statu« of thr
Harry Wills, heavyweight challenger, country, spiritually, politically, econo
and Floyd Johnson of Iowa were sign mically, socially and otherwise. Pres.
ed, according to an announcement by ( oolidge s Omaha address was endor
Wills' manager, Paddv Mullins.
sed, the work of the N A. A. C P
Babe ( ii I nan of the National Sports and the Dyer Anti-lynching bill were
men s C Itib of Newark, w hich will pro discussed, including foreign debts,
mote the contest, confirmed the an and Mitchell's courtmartlal
nouncement He said the bout would
Other interesting features of the
mark the final appearence of Wills in ( onference will be reported in next
the ring prior to his anticipated cham issue of The Advocate
pionship match with Jack Dempsey
Visiting infhisterS will supply a*
next summer.
many local pulpit* Sunday,tomorrow.
He explained that Johnson had been
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chosen as a foe for the pugilist be-
Mrs. Matilda Bradley underwent a
i cause of his return to winning form
operation fo» the removal of
m recent fights on the Pacific coast minor
her tunsils Thursday She is doing
I hi« comeback by Johnson after his finely.
knockout defeat two years ago at the
hands of less Willard had justified his
I hr worst sort of jam for little
selection as an opponent for Demp
¡srv s challenger, in the opinion of boys is traffic jam. and you have no
business letting them get into it un
( ulnan.
til thev arr sixteen.
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