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THE. An ADVOCATE In d e p e n d e n « VOL. XXIII—No.36. Peper D ev o ted I’QK I |,,\.\h , « > 1-' 1 <,» to tie« In t e r e * «# \ I 1 'IO> mf tie« P e o p le • M.W 1. U'-"> PRICE 5 CENTS GEORGIAN URGES REPEAL OF JIM CROW LAW DARROff SEEKS NORTHERN MEN AS JURORS KEEP THE BOXING SOME REACTIONS OF FRANK C. HOWELL IS GEORGIAN URGES PORTLAND HIGH GAME CLEAN CANDIDATE FOR JIM CROW LAWS SCHOOL STUDENTS JUDGESHIP BE REPEALED T o Every Mem ber of the Pullman Darrow Fights Prejudiced TO THE STUDY OF Now that the boxing game Fam ily: During the cu rren t m onth will you Singleton, (or many yrara Rr. W. W. Alexander Says Jurors; Second Panel of 125 an George is looked upon as one of the THE NEGRO y r of ihr ( o rb rl family, tu f join with every o th er employe of The Laws of South are Unjust Jurors Called, Few Accepta ferei! rtn a p lo paraylelic leading sports throughout tlrokc, W eiinctday, Pullman Company in making a d e PROF. K. SCHWARTZ- the world, it is time that it while visiting al Mr A g e e s llarber termined effort to prevent accidents Where Negroes are Con hie: Many admit Prejudice. shop. in cars, in yards, in repair shops and trauber, Chair of history at cerned; A Country that Fails Northern Men Sought by was kept clean and above in office*? If all o l us pledge o u r High School has reproach from every angle. to Protect Every Individual L. C. Adkins h a t filed auit for a selves to make this m onth a banner Lincoln Defense Council dcvorce from hit wife Blanch Olive. one of Safety, we can beat the Safety conducted some interesting by Law Will Become an Un Th're was a plan on foot | record that has put our C om iilS * in New York, April 23—The M rt h I). Cannady, a tto c ia le ed the Irad of the Industrial Safety studies in connection with to bring Jack Johnson, for safe Place to Live in. of T he Advocate, it attenduiK movement. the socalled “Negro Prob National Association for the itor W atc h yourself and watch your mer Worlds Champion, to the llahat In ternational Convention careless or thoughtless brother. Don't lem” through his senior clas Portland to box Tiny Her Birmingham, Ala., April Advancement of Colored at San Francisco, th it week let a slacker spoil the record. Think ses in history. We urged the man, local Heavyweight, but 22.—(By A. N. P.)—A strik People, 69 Fifth Avenue, to Safety, talk Safety and act Safety M rt Anna I.. C lark tto n, m o th er of Don't try to get aw ay with something Prof, to permit, us to pubish ingly bold stand was taken day reports the second trial C harlct Mr. George P. Moore made' Redd, died W ed n etd ay at the because you are skilled; a less expert some of them for the benefit by Dr. Will W. Alexander, County H otpital. M ra C larktton had now under way in Detroit, lx t n m |iiinr health for totne time. im itator may come to grief because short work of the Johnson! you ‘‘to ok a chance” and set a bad of our readers. They are so white Georgian, and one of with Clarence Darrow ;and T h e funeral te rv ic e t were co nd uct example. idea. Mr. Moore is known1 interesting to us from so by Rev. Runyon, p asto r of Bethel, the secretaries of the Feder his associates, the famous ed Let each one of us take this cam and recognized through-ont j against accident into our home* many angles, we thought to al Council of Churches, in an Michigan criminal lawyer, at the Finley Chapel Friday at 2:30 paign the United States as the Pad- ‘ and get our families interested, too address before young white Thomas F. Chawkc and also Joe I’helpt of 805 I t t S treet it re And it w on't do any harm to talk to pass them on. er, in boxing circles, of our j ill with Pneumonia. the neighbors about it. A good Saf This is the second install men and women, gathered Julian Perry in court defend ported terio - - - utly group. Mr. Moore, in an j ---------o — ... ety soldier is also a Safety missionary here from all sections of tjiis ing Dr. Ossian II. Sweet, Mr C h a t Maxwell w at in the city Please do your "bit” in this cam ment ot articles written by interview with the local pro-1 week purchasing tu p lict for hit paign to save life and prevent acci Lincoln High School tudents country and Canada , when Mrs. Sweet and 9 others (hit moters, warned and advised! Barbecue Hand which he it opening dent he spoke out fearlessly a- charged with murder be on the Pacific Highway, eleven mile! E F". Carry, President, T h e Pullman on their "reaction to the Ne against bringing a man o f 1 C om pany w ett of Salem kFr Maxwell hat gainst the “Jim Crow” law gro”, which will be published cause of the death of a man p u rch atcd a Ford Coupe to convey the Johnson type to Portland F ran k C. Howell, form er mem- ---------- o---------- of the Southland and de in the columns of this paper. \ t r \trv r» r c n n l n l p / i her of the Legislature and a lawyer during a riot outside Doctor him to and from hit h u tin e tt. H enry Gibson, veteran waiter left .M r . M o o r pointed out (lf p o r t |a n d , is a candidate for the rt J. W Latim er, G eorge O r r T hu rsd ay for H ayden la k e , Idaho Already we are hearing some manded its repeal in the Sweet’s home on September I .at M inter, that through his promise t o Republican nomination for Circuit M i it c t l.illie and M eitt- for the Summer. epartm ent No. 4, of the Mult name of justice to all parties interesting comments on the Governor Miller of New fudge, D ....... 9th last. j ner. Mr* Swain and daughter. Faye, v~ nom ah county Bench. e * n g r a t i - t r i - i l * I n v i - h r » « with several other* m o te rrd to San Mrs Millie R Trumbell, who has articles from our readers, in Mr. Howell has been a resident of concerned. separate trials nave Been Kr, nci,co Mondiy to ,„enj ,he iu- charge York, that he would use his of the local Child I-abnr P ortland since he was graduated from “The majority population, granted all of the defendants hai Convention, Bureau, left T h u rsd a y for a month* dicating a great interest. In influence to keep the game the Law D epartm ent of the Univers visit in the Fast. next week’s issue more will clean , as far as the colored ity of Missouri in 1909. H e was born the white in the South,” em and Dr. Sweet’s youngest, „ u ® v . 4, 1877, near the to w n of Ulman, phasized Dr. Alexander, has appear and so on until we’ve boys are concerned, the mix July b rot her, Henry is the ill/>t Ol'inent |f(k, has announced hi* candid- NOTICE Missouri, and was brought up on a published the entire number. thc eleven to be tried. At I ,hf ofUctoi Grand Secretary Regular meetings of the Port where he lived until he was desided how the minority, ed bouts are not only permit- farm, . . , of Elk», at the G rand i.odtec of that i twenty-one years old. attended the blacks, should travel, but laiwt Branch of the National As latest reports. despite the o rd er which meet» in Cleveland neat ed but are popular. And the rural school and H p e reparatory sociation for the advancement of w r i t e i T d i s c o v e r s school at Iberia. Missouri untit he it is unjust-for this majority calling of a special panel of A u g u r ____ _____ Colored People held every aeeond KNOWLEDGE LIMITED that through a similar prom- entered Knox College at Galesburg. to force Negroes to ride in 125 jurors, a complete jlir_\ |<(V I w A nderson preached la tt 1 Monday evening at First A. M E is to Governor Pinchot of Lllinoise. H e w orked his way thro had tiot V e t been obtained, ! sundav night at the F 'int P resby ter- : Zo.n Church, 417 W illiams Avenue and was prom inent in a th let such dangerous places as the 1 thought 1 knew almost Pennsylvania his influenc'd college ics, particularly football. 1 _ i __ _ j i._ a I i»n church, Vancouver, W n He I L E E A N D E R S O N . S e e ‘y. and i . the special panel had Ief| F rid ly ior Iiend O re g o n where everything there was to was promised to secure the Mr. Howell received his A. B. de front coaches of trains; it is J . A E W I N O , P rea. in 1909; came to P ortland during inconvenient and unfair for been exhausted, most of the ¡he Will deliver three sermon* n e x t: o know about a negro, but af appointment of a Negro on gree th at year and joined the law firm of Negroes not to have Pullman S T A Y O F F MAY 10th. Adv. jurors admitting prejudice sundi,v' May n 0____ ter we took up this subject the boxing Commission. W ilber & Spencer and is now a m e m of the firm of W ilber, Beckett, car and smoking car privile and being excused from scrv- j Jam es C. T r u it ha* been employed I discovered that there were Mr. Joe Waterman, Match ber Howell & O ppenheim er. In 1918 mg. Another panel of 125 ,« 1 "'Ur Col—Re ( k* a great many things which I maker of the Portland Com he w as elected to the O r e g o n State ges on Southern trains. The VOTE FOR Senate to fill an unexpired term. men is being called today. WILLIAMS AVENUE *Y’ did not know. The main mission, assured Mr. Moore In the sum m er of 1914. Mr. Howell Negro should have more 1 he Detroit rrcc 1 rcss re-, -------------------- thing which I discovered was that he would forget the returned to Galesburg. lllinoise, and freedom and greater oppor married Miss E dith Purviance, tunity in the matter of travel, ports: "Clarence Darrow, T h e Grade School Reserve» are that the negroes were not at Johnson idca. Mr. Water a there classmate at K nox College. T hey education, housing condi chief of counsel for the dc- j Mr» Moreland and Mi»» t e n Icy all as ignorant as I thought. man has been giving the col have one daughter. Mr. Howell has been urged to en tions and more justice in the fense, made it clear during attended the Ladies Aid of St J o h * 1 think that is a crime in the ored boys a square deal and ter the prim ary race for the judical , • • c C om m unity C hurch on the 21»t, at the questioning of a prospec- lhc home of Mr* j M Shaw Mi*s nom ination by a large n u m ber of fel courts.” way we white people treat promises to continue. low attorneys. H e is a m em ber of The courts of the South do tivc juror that he wanted the Dwiley *>« T* speaker for the af- the Negroes when they do Since Mr. Moore has been the Phi Delta T h e ta and Phi Delta ’ . . , L I i ternoon and Mrt. Moreland gave a case tried b y men who had ; splendid reading try to get an education. We so successful in his efforts Phi Fraternities, Masons, Elks, W . not find white men guilty of * l hc finance comm ittee i* asking W., Moose. M ultnom ah Club and crime upon the testimony of spent their lives North of the do not necessarily have to to keep the game el'an and O. that all worker* plan to make their Progressive Business M en’s Club. Negroes, he pointed out, and Masou-Dixou line and were final report on the 6th of May, at the be intimate friends with give our boys a chance, we Y W at 8:30 P M The comm ittee added that a “country which HOTEL NOTES free from race prejudice. them but we could encourage trust the boxers of the John nianagm cnt is most appreciative of does not protect every indi Darrow holds that the out the interest taken in the new building them in many ways. We Am son caliber will at least be B ert Wilkinson, form er headwaiter bv the friends vidual by law will ultimately come depends primarily on Mrs N orthrup. National F'icid Sec at the Portland, has re-engaged as ericans are supposed to be kept off the Coast. headw aiter at the W in th ro p H otel, become an unsafe country to retary. W . H. M of the Methodist the personnel of the jury; broad-minded, but I do not | Tacoma. W ashington. H e has asked hurch wi< one of the pleasant vici- He flayed through W E W IL L P R O T E C T YOU his old friend. Ike, captain a t the live in. that the factors arc entwin I tors think we are very much that at the building during the week j Portland, to join him, but Ike says out his talk so-called white ed in the race problem and Mrs N o rth ru p has known the secre way when it is something O ur universal Service Offers You ; he aint lost nothin in Tacoma. tary since the latter wa* Q ueen E s T h e Columbia Club on the bank supremacy over Negroes. he wants a jury sufficiently ther A Real Protection. that pertains to the negro. I Girl. j of the Columbia river, which has one openmiuded and int'lligcnt T h e Branch ha* been represented feel sorry for the Negro w - .. The M errykana Girls wish to thank .. . • , , , of the finest Golf courses in the state singer* at meetings during __ the t n % every kmd of Insurance. wi,| be open in a few days. T he ser- the public for the splendid support to grasp the psychological bv past week Mr*. Clifford McClain more so than I have ever including Fire Automobile, S urety . vices of two well known waiters are given their recent benefit intertain- at the W. H. M meeting of the mob complex fear which, he sang felt before. The Negroes are p Phone It was a success. k , i being sought by the Club m anagm ent. rnent. I.aurelwood Methodist C hurch Mrs. or write us and our repre- I ___ contends, is a part of the Jessie G rayson sang before the l ’res- not to blame because their sentative will be pleased to call. [— * * * • • • .............................. L. B. SANDBLAST b v tcn al at the 1st P resbyterianchurch. race-mind of the Negro, is black and then to the B R O W N E L L & SLOCUM Mrs. J F.dwords was the accompanist SENATOR STANFIELD’S FIVE YEARS FO Portland Attorney 10 yrs. skin o Insu rance Agency A group o( singers will appear at use to which we have put Mr*. I F. Mapps, w ho spent the 400 H e n ry Bldg. CONSTRUCTIVE ACHIEVEMENTS w inter in California, passed thru the the Mt Tabor P resbyterian church Republican Candidate for them in the south, as slaves. B rdw y 5868 on the 2nd of May. cilv thursday enroute to her home Vespers will he held at 5 p m. at UNITED STATES We Americans arc the ones H e r health is very much improved the First A M E. church D uring his term in the United S ta ALFRED E. CLARK to be blamed for the way SENATOR The Blue T rian gle Club is rehears- j tes Senate. Senator Stanfield has ing for the play to be presented d u r initiated and actively supported they act and the way which O o P ortland. Candidate for the T h e progressive Art Club is now constructive legislation affecting holding regular meetings. A social ing the opening week at the Y W Republican nom ination for U n it they feel toward us. They Chief Plank Plan* for the opening of the new O reg o n 's progress and development < vening was enjoyed recently at the ed S tates Senator. W e ex- \ and for the protection, relief and Modification Volstead have just as much pride as home o f Mrs. Itelard T h e usual building arc being made beneft of its people. Dmeeting was held W e d , with Mrs. peel to be in the building by June 1. . we do. therefore we should Act ; D ym ond and Mrs. Marshall Mr*. 1926 A United States Senator's ability T h e Crystal -C lub will compete K. Gray and Miss Danlev made in not look upon them as being Refrendum Prohibition to get results for his state depends, teresting talks. Mrs Carol was a with other eluhs of the Portland F e d inferior to us. for the most part, on his placement Laws. eration at the Banquet on Maythe 8th pleasant visitor. on im portant Senate Committees, See his biography and rr IS T HKSF. C O M M I T T E E S DIDN’T KNOW NEGRO S tatem ent on page 8 THAT LARGELY DO THE V oters' Pamphlet. LEG ISL A TIN G . T h e Most in Value HAD SENSE ENOUGH S L O G A N - W ine and Beer 1- Public Lands and Surveys-Chair- -TO FEEL INSULTS U n d r r G overnment Control; SECOND SWEET TRIAL BEGUN IN DETRIOT NEWS BRIEFS LOCAI, and FOREIGN “N O A C C I D E N T ” MONTH CAMPAIGN No Saloons. I was very much impress ed with the Negro problem, in fact, I think it is the most (P aid Adv. Sandblast for Senator C lu b ) The Beat in Ouality NEW SEASON’S WASH FABRICS A most comprehensive assortment of fine wash fabrics arc presented here in worthy qualities—in favored patterns—in the most fashionable colorings and every popular weave; We invite your immediate inspection, and particularly call attention to their moderate prices 200 Beautiful New Styles in SILK and RAYON COTTON MIXED CREPES AT $1.00 PER YARD The choicest of the new season’s styles in bright smart colorings that will make up into beautiful late Spring and Summer garments. First-quality Silk- and-Cotton Crepes, and Rayon-and-Cotton Crepes, from which you’ll be delighted to select. Attractively Different New ENGLISH PRINTS AT 50 CENTS PER YARD Strictly high-grade W a s h Fabrics, guaranteed to w ithstand re peated washings and to retain their attractiveness T h ese fine E n g lish P rints are shown here in dainty small-figured styles, especially adapted for children’s g arm en ts—also in medium and large designs for m isses’ and w o m en ’s dresses, etc. ¡light, medium and dark colors Subscribe for the A D V O C A T E ! Portland’s Store Q uality Ml » tomb (C ontinued on page four) --------- o -------- YOUR FO RTU NE FO R E T O L D Scud a dime and birth dale for con vincing trial reading Marcel Adel. P. O. Box 1595 Sta. C. L os Angeles. California. O rdinarily it would require 10 or 12 vears of service to secure such im p o rtan t comm ittee assignments. It has taken S enator Stanfield five years to attain them. VOTE FOR HIM H e is able, fearless, progressive H e stands— .... ........... .......... .......... F o r the Direct P rim ary system Against the return of the old corru pt convention system F o r constructive legislation and honest public service. T he P ortlan d News, speaking of the senatorial candidates, said: " I f wc were entirely business like in the conduct of our public affairs, in tent only upon getting the best man available for the money, therc is no doubt w hom wc would employ. " W e would employ a man of proved achievements, p r o v e d honesty, pr proved fearlessness and trustw orthiness. W e would em ploy a big man. "A nd th at man is Colonel Alfred E. Clark of P ortland.” Own l a n o O nboon j f b í it ■*».••> >iit* -tnan 2- F’inance— Most powerful Senate- -C om m ittee 3- Civil Service— N ext to Chairm an 4- Claims.N ext to Chairman 5- Post Offices and P ost Roads-3rd- -of 16. Cto. mm IP (P aid Adv. Clark for Senator Campaign C om m ittee) K eep P re s e n t P ow erful Com m ittee Positions S tates which re-elect their S enators and Representatives have a far greater influence in governm ental affairs and o bta n much larger ap propriations and o th er Federal aid than th ose states which send new m en to Congress. A NF.W S E N A T O R can do very little for his state in the United.. S tates Senate because he H A S T O S T A R T AT T H E F O O T O F T H E C O M M IT T EE S. W o rk s for All O regon and All of Its People As a m em ber of the powerful Finance Committee, Senator Stanfield has been a leading factor in securing <32,695,878 in Federal A ppro priations for the developm ent of O re g o n ’s resources and industries. In 192! and 1922, when the m arket for farm products was seriously depressed, he rendered valiant service to the farmer. Dairyman, Live stock Man and their financial supporters by his work for the E m erg ency T arriff Bill, the W a r F'inance C orporation Loan Bill and the Agricultural Credits Act, which saved the agricultural and livestock industries from bankruptcy. H is Grazing Bill will place the live stock industry upon a sound and perm anent basis. His O. & C. Land G rant Tax Reform Bill will reimburse 18 O reg o n counties to the ex tent of $4,907,000 and materially reduce taxes. His H om e Loan Bill, when enacted into law, will enable the Salaried Man, the W age E a rn e r and the working Man and W o m an of the citv to B U I I .D A N D O W N A H O M E under governm ent-supervis ed loans on the L on g-T erm , E asy -P ay m cn t and Low-Rate-of-interest Plan. S lo g a n . K E E P O R E G O N T O T H E F R O N T IN T H E S E N A T E by K E E P I N G P R E S E N T P O W E R F U L C O M M I T T E E P O S I T I O N S (P aid Adv. S tanfield-for-Senator Campaign, E. D. Cusick, Mgr.)