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Advertise in TH E ADVOCATE It Circulates In AU The States And Foreign Countries THE An VOL. X X IV — No. 19 Independent P« ADVOCATE Ddealedeto Us« Intereeie m f the Peeple PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15. 1927 In the interest of All TH E ADVOCATE Is Published Only $2.50 Per Year Subscribe For It I PRICK 5 CENTS UNITED STATES LYNCHES THIRTY FOUR IN 192« MIXED SCHOOLS TO SOLVE RACE PROBLEM CONTACTS MADE IN HIGH SCHOOLS ARE LASTING SAYS EDUCATOR MISS MAXWELL RETURNS MT. OLIVET CHURCH WILL M IN K T F R F F IF ÌÌ — BE HEARD OVER RADIO mmM r L lllU AT EON HONORING DUNBAR'S BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY LYNCHING IN SOUTH GO M ERRILY ON AS CONGRESS FAILS TO PASS LAW Miss Myrtle Maxwell is at home with her parents in Los Angeles, Cal. Jan. 13- Salem, Oregon, taking a ( I'.y Edgar Williams) States Enjoy Their “ Rights” (P.C.N.B.) Does race equal much needed rest. She has Mt. Olivet Baptist church To Put To Death Victims law. He must uphold the ity, living for a time in pub been engaged in social ser under the conservative and Without Lawful Trial. Mrs. J. J. Handsaker, lic high school ami college, vice work in New Orleans. wise leadership of Rv. E. C. Constitution in its integrity. contact eventually persist be He can not pick out the (white) prominent in church Dyer and his splendid corps (Special) GIRL LEAVES HOME Fourteenth and Fifteenth and interracial circles will yond graduation, as the so New York, N. Y. Jan 14— of workers, is fast taking Rev. R. H. Thomas, a for entertain a group of white cial positions of those invol the leadership among chur mer pastor of the Mt. Olivet Amendments and insist up The National Association Luella Foster, 15 year old on their enforcement, while and colored ladies at lunch for the Advancement of Col ved are drawn closer toge ches in the community. Baptist church, left Monday flagrantly violating the 18th eon in her beautiful new bun ther through mutual inter daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ored People, 69 Fifth Aven Not very long ago, the ests and tastes? This was K. Foster, of 413 Tillamook church sponsored what is night for Sacramento, Calif, Amendment to appease his galow on East 31st and ue, has received word of a the subject of discussion be Street, left home on Monday known as “ Newspaper” day. where he goes to conduct a degraded appetite or to swell Woodward Avenue, Thurs lynching on December 31, tween the noted solons, rep- last and tip to the present It was a Sunday service set series of revival meetings in his evilly made fortune. The day afternoon, February 10. 1926, at Waldo, Florida, Noted among those to at representatives of the lead nothing has been heard of part in which representativ Northern California. Rev. conscience of the nation which brings the total for Thomas spent the Christmas tend the function will be a her. The police bulletin says ing institutions of learning, the year 1926 to 34, instead es from three daily papers holidays with Mrs. Thomas must be aroused upon the moral integrity of the law. composer who had her studio of 33 as reported. members of the Institute of she wore a pongee dress, and our own paper, The Ad and old friends here in Port tail shoes, striped hose, Massachusetts cannot point in a building where Paul, as International r e c iprocity* The lynching victim was vocate took part. Other ser good-will and warless future, brown coat, gray velvet hat vices equal for their impor land, and while here he and the finger of scorn at Geor a young man wrote poems George Buddington, wood- his wife were entertained at between trips on the elevator recently held at Riverside, with wide brim. chopper,w ho, it is reported, tance have been held from dinner in the following gia. nor the Negro at the he operated. Those who had contracted to chop white man. We all fall too California. time to time in order that the homes: Rev. and Mrs. G. G. Lola McCants, soprano, , have been invited are look Favors Mixed Schools this .Gardner, Rev. and Mrs. E. short of respect and rever ing forward to this rare ev wood for a white woman at sang a group of songs on the coHgregaUun which ence for the law. The Negro Charles L. Boynton, prin 7 "'"n ‘ h ‘ "Y ' c s ,,na> ,iave ai* C. Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. P. should give the nation a ent where they will listen to a specified price. When he New Year’s Eve program at ?hu« serve cipal of the Shanghai, China the had done the work she offer Pantagcs Theatre. She intelligent understanding of parjes an(j \lrs. I. Thomp- model lesson in obedience to reminiscences of Dunbar by ed him a smaller sum of mo held that such contacts rc- was well received. * ie ' ar,e.^ activities in their son s anta Claus was very the composer who will also ( Concluded on Page Four) community; in order that a d to the Thomases this (Concluded on Page Four) play some of th£ lines she ney. An argument ensued. The colored man was accu bett er understanding might I Christ tinas, and especially to wrote to fit the words of sed of "insulting” the white result from such services. Mrs. Thomas. When she a- MOTHER DIES IN S. C. some of his early poems. woman in the course of the Recently the church has woke Christmas morning, The remainder of the af had installed broadcasting she found in her sock a deed The sad intelligence came ternoon will be devoted to a argument and was lynched appartus and on Sunday, and title to a nice little cot to The Advocate office Tu general discussion of Dun bv a mob of white citizens. Jan. 30th beginning at 7:30 tage (6344) on X6th Street, esday that the mother of bar’s life and works. P. M. the entire service will Read The Advocate and Rev. Thomas has been Mrs. John F. Morland, Mrs. be broadcasted over KGW, pastoring in Southern Calif, Mary Headen, passed away, Subscribe for the Advocate get the news. Oregonian tower. The main HUNDREDS FACE T E R attraction will he the sing for the past seven years Tuesday morning, January where he built the great Cal 11th. Mrs. Moreland was RIBLE CONDITIONS; ing of Negro Spirituals by a vary Baptist Church of San at the bedside of her mother, HAVE NO FOOD choir of 30 voices under the Diego, costing around thirty having left here late in Dec NOR MONEY direction of Lola McCants. five thousand dollars, and is ember when her mother was All those who have heard one of the most beautiful reported seriously ill. Fitzgerald, Ga. Jan. 13— Churches, Schools And Citi zens Of City, State And the choir are looking for- church edifices in Southern (P.C.N.B.) Charged with Mrs. Headen was the wife Elsewhese Helping. “ planting” human hones in of Rev. S. W .” Haden and (Continued on Page two) California. his home near here ami then . leaves to mourn their loss, a burning the house down as Nashville, Ienn. Jan. 8,-— husband, two daughters and evidence that he had perish-j J ver 1 ,ncni ,crs ° f l*K' three sons. ed in the flames so that his. racearc homeless as A CORRECTION wife could collect a $7,500 a. rcs‘' k ° flic most devasta- insi.rai.ee policy, Harry K. f'00«1 "> t,U! of Last week in an article re Sligh, supposedly dead since. garding Claude Lamb, The iber River last September 27th, has H‘ Cumberland Advocate stated that Lamb ■ dep been arrésVed’ in Los Angel- ruthlessly sw ip in g through had purchased a Studebaker Nashville has spread over a es Calif., very much alive. car. defaulting in the pay All might have been wel l ,'' «Kr territory, leaving ...un- ments, had gone, it was tho’t witli the Sligh family had dated homes, and crippled to Seattle.. W e were called transit facilities in its wake. the "dead man" stayed dead, by a brother of Claude Lamb but Sligh swapped an indefi The loss suffered by the col who said we did nuc have the nite address in the Great Be ored people is estimated at report correct. W e promised yond for a v.crv material one SH X >.( XX). him that we would investi Breaks Record in the Los Angeles County gate further and publish the A record of 100 years was jail, when he insisted on correction this issue.. From wrjting a letter to a San broken when the river rose the police headquarters we fifty-six feet. With the flood Bernardino, Calif., attorney received the information refuges seeking shelter in and then appeared at the that the department held a every conceivable place of warrant for the arrest of one (Concluded Page 4, Col. 6) haven. The water, its rise Claude Lamb charged with ------- «------- unabated, continues to pour larceny by bailee. The infor Miss El Rae Maxwell who through the city streets, EROM W HENCE PROGRAM W IL L BE HEARD O- mation states that Lamb se is studying tlur violin in Los Angeles, California sends (Concluded on Page Two) VER KGW RADIO SUNDAY, FAN. 30. LISTEN IN ! cured the automobile from friends in Portland photo a local auto concern upon the graphs. She has lost none of representation that he had a luUr-iiut'K'ai lo.vn 1’«., \.Y. t>y K L in k | lier charm. Miss El Rac is a buyer for the car. That was daughter of Mr. and Mrs. more than six weeks ago. Charles H. Maxwell of Sa The police department says «-V " V y j S’ lem, Oregon. that Lamb made no account J T s r.^ j -y j e S j s ’ j s ? ing for the car, and has not been seen nor heard from It is with much pleasure ! plays like a man” but they since obtaining the car hence that the Portland concert- also say that no man has yet the warrant for his arrest. going public is looking for approximated the tone she ward to the second Portland draws from her instrument- appearance of Cecilia Han that it excells Heifetz in pu sen, beautiful Russian viol rity, variety and flexibility. Mrs. E. D. Cannady was inist, at the Auditorium on It is upon this basis she is the happy rcccipent of a box judged. Saturday, January 15th. from Mr. Moike Oike, Osa Miss Hansen has been cal Beautful, charming, with ka, Japan containing a1 a strikingly magnetic per led the greatest woman vio game known as “ Hagoita” j sonality Miss Hansen has linist of the age, but it is not which is played very much only as a woman violinist been set down with the great like our Tennis game; and a that she invites comparison. violinists of the world—a box of artistic calling cards She is a violinist who is as place she most richly deser with her name printed on great as the greatest— man ves. them. Mr. Oikc calls them Boris Zakharoff, Miss or woinn. No person is invi “ name” cards and says they ted to hear her play because Hansen’s husband and ac are the latest in social cards it is deemed miraculous that companist, will again pro being used by the women in a woman can play so won vide her piano accompani Japan. 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