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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
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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
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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. Mr. Oike was the
derfully, — but because any ments — much is added to
house-guest of Editor and
human being can play so the artistic beauty of the
Mrs. Cannady during the vi
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wonderfully.
Cecilia Hansen concert by the background
sit to the city in the Summer
has
definitely
made the “ wo he provides.
EVERYBODY
of a party of students from
The concert is the fifth e-
man
violinist”,
who excited
Japan on a friendship tour of
vent
on the Elwyn Artist se
interest
and
curiosity
simply
the Pacific coast, of which
as a "woman wonder” a ries and is under the man
Mr. Oike was a member.
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thing of the past. Of Miss agement of the Elwyn Con
Q ■ rxa Q
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