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VOL. XXIV—No. 27.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY,MARCH 12, 1927.
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Mr. G. W. Williams of
Portland, Oregon
Montreal, Can., Formerly of
March 8 , 1927.
this city, spent Sunday LiA-e To the Editor:
Mrs. Hattie Smith 1 am enclosing a program For the first time in its Washington, D. C. March
“Arcadya” Canby, Ore. visiting
Washington, 1). C. March
and
Mr.
H Lewis, of of the meeting of the De­ history, colored representa­ 8 —President Coolidge has
February 6 , 1927 Milwaukie. W. Mr.
9—The TmtS ‘'white pri­
Williams p a r t m e n t of Superinten­ tives will attend the Older ordered a reduction of 18
Dear Mrs. Cannady :-
mary” law which prohibits
left
Monday
night
for home dence of the National Edu­ Girls Conference, which will months in the sentences of
Our family has been much piter having a delightful
Negroes from voting in a
vis­ cation Association recently convene at Corvallis, Ore., twenty former members of
pleased in reading about the it. He arrived here from Los
Democratic primary elec­
in Dallas, Texas.
Friday, Saturday and Sun­ the Twenty-fourth U. S. In­
friendly l o y a l t y s h o wn Angeles and San Diego, Cal., held
tion, was held unconstitu­
You
will
note
that
the
pro­
George
recently
bv
his
teach­
day,
March 11, 12, and 13th. fantry, who are the only re­
tional by the supreme court
where
he
had
spent
a
month
gram
is
represented
by
prom
A
delegation
consisting of maining prisoners now un­
er,
friends
and
school
mates
Monday, March 7.
visiting
with
friends.
inent
educators
from
all
Mesdames
John
F. Moreland der sentence as a result of
of
Fernwood.
I
cannot
help
The court held that the
parts
of
the
United
States.
E.
D.
Cannady,
the Misses the socalled Houston riot of
feeling
that
this
loyalty
law was a direct violation of
had the pleasure, also, Gwendolyn Hooker,
would not have been shown TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS \Ye
Nellie August 23, 1917. The order
the 14th amendment.
of
hearing
Dan.
Moody,
the
If
you
are
delinquent
and
one had he not been worthy
Allen and Geraldine Turner will be carried out under the
The case testing t h e
new
Governor
of
Texas,
fail
to
receive
your
paper,
of
it.
George,
by
his
faith­
left
Friday morning on a immediate direction of the
“white primary" law origin­
whose
name
is
being
fre­
you
will
know
1
that
it
has
fulness
to
his
work,
his
cour­
special
train with a large del­ Secretary of War, in whose
ated in El Paso, Texas. In
quently
mentioned
as
a
po­
been
discontinued
and
that
tesy
and
kindness
to
others
egation
of white girls and Department the case of the
that city, Dr. A. L. Nixon, Roland Hayes, world fa- and his self respect has won steps will be taketi to collect tential candidate for the women for
convicted infantrymen was
Corvallis.
colored doctor of repute and •nous tenor who will he the ¡the loyalty shown him. And for same. We regret to have Presidency.
properly reviewable, in the
The
Conference
is
spon­
good standing as a citizen, guest of Editor and Mrs. | believe that it is in such a to resort to this method, but On page 17 is an an- sored by the Oregon Council first
instance.
was a regularly enrolled E. D. Cannady at their home 'manner that your people will we simply cannot run a pap-
3rd
Reduction
in Sentence
of
Religious
Educaton.
Ap­
(Concluded
on
page
four)
member of the Democratic in Irvington during his stay ¡win in the end
er
on
promises
and
goodwill.
On
Dec.
9,
1922,
the first
pearing on the program are:
party and had paid his poll in Portland next week
of
the
sixtv-five
so-called
Friday evening, piano solo,
Manv white people may Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Neely
tax. He attempted on July
Miss
Nellie Allen; Saturday Houston rioters, members of
26, 1924, to vote at a gener­ POPULAR YOUNG
who
have
lived,
for
the
past
(Concluded
on
page
Three)
at
the
Fellowship Dinner,
al primary election at which
COUPLE WED
several
years
at
Bull
Run,
reading
by
Miss Gwendolyn (Concluded on page Three)
there were to be selected
WHITES
ENTREATED
have
moved
hack
to
the
city
candidates fo r precinct, < )N Monday evening Mar. TO RISE ABOVE RA and are now domiciled at the
(Continued on page four) ALICE RHINELANDER
county, district and state of­ 7th Miss Lucy Williams was CIAL & RELIGIOUS home of Mrs. Etta Sims, 824
GETS ADDITIONAL
fices and also for represen­ given, by her mother, Mrs.
.East
pine
street.
PREJUDICES
COUNSEL FEE
A
letter
bearing
date
of
tative in Congress and the S. Golden, in marriage to
February
7,
mailed
at
Mon­
Booker Kirk. The fami- Let Truth Destroy The Di- Mr. I-'red D. Thomas, who rovia, Liberia, Africa from
White Plains, N. Y., Mar.
(Concluded on page three) ly Mr. residence,
4(W Sherrett viding Prejudices Of Na­ has been ill, is reported to be Dr. and Mrs. D. A. Graham
9.—Supreme Court Justice
Avenue was the scene of the tionality, Says Colored greatly improved to the de­ was received at The Advo­
.Joseph Morschauser today
light of his friends. Mr. cate office Monday, March
wedding before a large unm-
Woman Journalist
Alice Jones Rhine­
Portland, Oregon granted
ber of gnests. Miss Ruth
Thomas who resides at 366 7th. Enclosed in the letter
lander
$1500
ditional
March 1, 1927 counsel fees to a d continue
Los
Angeles,
Cal.,
March
Shaver
Street,
is
one
of
the
to
Dear Mrs. Cannady:-
(Continued on page four) 7 -(!*( NB) by radio—"Lit- city’s leading caterers
was a program of the closing Last
fight
the
efforts
of
her
hus­
morning, feel­ band. Leonard Kip Rhine­
tie children have no race pre-
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, and commencement exercis- ing the Sunday
need
of
spiritual lander, to annul their mar­
j,u|ice_it is merely the log- *^r- and ^ rs- James Bruce es of the Monrovia College uplift, I attended a the
ical result of tradition_the are l^e Proud parents of a and Industrial T r a i n i n g Olivet Baptist Church Mt.
inevitable outcome of thoro 6 -pound baby girl who arriv- School, November 26 to 30. hear their wonderful choir. to riage.
ed Saturday, March 5, at 1926. The program was held I got what I went after and Sirs. Rhinelander had ask-
instruction to the effect that 673
Waxahachic, Texas, Mar.
Union Avenue, North. in the school auditorium and much more; and returned to (Continued on page four)
the Negro has never contrib­ Dr. Garrison
7—Thirty college professors
attending phy- appears to have been a most my home humbled an d
uted
anything
to
the
pro­
representing twenty of the
RACES OF AM E R I C A
The mother and baby successful one. The faculty thankful
gress of mankind" states sican.
principal universities a n d
for
a
glimpse
of
real
MUST ASSIMILATE
are
doing
finely.
consists of J. F. B. Coleman. Christian giving.
colleges of Texas, gathered NOTED CRIMINAL AT- Mrs. E. D. Cannady, Ore­
OR FIGHT
------o—
—
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3
,
D.,
S.
B.
A.
Campbell,
D.
here last month and spent a TORNEY SPEAKS gon's most noted Colored Mrs. E. D. Cannady, asso- n„ T. F. Howard, Dr. Luke At different times during
OUT AGAINST
newspaper woman, manager
day making plans to forward
editor of The Advocate Anthony, Mrs. Sarah Simp- the services three offerings DuBoise Tells Californians
of The Advocate, broadcast- ciate
LAWLESSNESS
the study of race relations in
is in receipt of a gift of ex- son, Mrs. Etta B. Graham were asked for—yes, four,
ling over the Daily Oregon- quisite
the college4-, of the state. A Officers Escort
handkerchiefs from and Dr. D. A. Graham. D. D. and all were responded to in Mayor Helps Finance Lec­
Clarence ian's powerful radio (RGW) a prominent
number of those present Darrow to His Home
the same enthusiastic way, ture On Behalf Of Church
club woman, president.
to its thousands of fans thro- (white) of Prineville,
have been conducting such
Ore-j Mrs. Graham asks The tho the congregation num­ Venice, Cal., Mar., 7-(PC-
courses and practically every Mobile, Ala., March 10— out the Pacific Northwest, gon whom Mrs. Cannady
perhaps, not over two
to tell her friends bered.
one reported that they were Clarence Darrow, famous during the recent second an- recently assisted in her Advocate
NB)-“Thc races of the Unit­
hundred
and forty.
she thinks of them con­ The first
among the most popular, criminal attorney, after hav­ Continued on page four club’s study of the Negro. that
ed
must live together
call
was
made
to
stantly and loves them in the the Sunday school, by the and «States
well attended, and effective ing delivered several talks
assimilate—or
old way even though Rev. J. J. Handsaker, in be­ was the message Dr. fight!”
courses that are givn. Others before white and one before PROGRESS IN RACE RE Mrs. H. C. Bell visited her same
W. E.
she docs not have time to half of the orphaned children B. DuBoise. in a stirring
who are not giving specific a colored audience here, was LATIONS OFF PRESS mother in Vancouver, Wn., write.
ad­
courses in race relations re­ escorted home by officers of
dress
delivered
to
a
repre­
before
leaving
for
San
Fran­
of
the
“Near
East",
pledges
port that they are dealing the law when it was learned Interracial Commission Is­ cisco, where she has gone to COLORED CHAUFFEUR were almost unamimously sentative audience of both
with the subject constantly
races recently at the Ocian
moh had threatened sues Annual Report—A visit among friends and rel- WEIGHS 570 POUNDS made.
in their other classes, partic­ to that run a him
Park Municipal Auditorium.
Copy
Free
To
Anyone
atives.
j
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A
later
appeal
made
to
the
out
of
town.
The
ularly in connection with the whites resented his remarks
------------------- Luther Edmonds of Cape
The lecture, financed by
regular
morning
congrega­
Rev.
J.
W.
Anderson,
Re-
May,
N.
J..
who
is
said
to
he
Mayor
Herman Nichol and
Atlanta,
Ga.,
March
13
(Continued on page four) against lynching and other The Annual report of the gional secretary of the Na-' the heaviest taxicab driver in tion. met with a response, as ¡other white
friends of the
quick and joyous as the earl­
of lawlessness.
tional
Baptist
Convention
the
world
ta
570.
recently
de­
KIN OF S. C. MOB VIC forms
Negro,
was
given
under the
Commission
on
Interracial
ier one. This also was for
1 he Darrows are rather
clined
a
job
in
Hollywood.
conducted
services
in
the
TIMS GOES FREE democratic.
auspices
of
the
First
Baptist
Cooperation
lias
just
been
is­
When t h e y
sued and, according to an­ LT n i t e d Brethren church ELKS HOLD LODGE OF (Concluded on page Four) Church of Venice. The pro­
were
enroute
south,
Mrs.
Relative Of Negroes Who Darrow was informed one nouncement from the Com­ (white) last Sunday night.
ceeds will be used in the
SORROW
Were Lynched, Will day by a dining car conduc­ mission’s headquarters here, His services seem to be in
building of their new church.
Dr. Anderson goes
Leave South
tor that the dining car was will be sent without charge demand.
NEGRO IMPROVEMENT
to
Brush
Washing­ The Norfolk, Ya., Elks
"lull of negroes”. Mrs. Dar­ to anyone requesting it. En- ton Friday. Prairie,
Columbia, S. C. Mar., 7— row
WINS
held
their
annual
lodge
of
March
18th.
He
remarked, “if (Continued on page four) '.states that he already has e- sorrow on last Sunday. YYm The last time we saw “lit­ ASSOCIATION
Failing to punish a single they simply
REPEAL
OF
ZONING
stand it. 1 reckon l
tle Charlie” Redd he was
member of the mob of white can" can
AUDINANCE
■ * : nough persons signed up for E. ( arter was the principal looking
and
passed
into
the
di­
at
a
“Peggy
Joyce
men that last October lynch­ ner where she ate and chat­
a special sleeper to Denver, eulogist. Dr. I-.. V. Kelly and form.”
Los Aneles, Mar. 7-(PCN-
ed three innocent colored ted with colored Bishops of
Colo.,
next
September.
Grand
Dt.
Ruler
spoke
for
B)-Organized
effort on the
The
white
employees
at
Americans, one woman, the th A. M. E. Zion church.
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the daughters. Several hun- The Portland are all peped part of 9 Negro
residential
law did the least that it Mr. Darrow handled the
Mrs. Lynch Brown came dred Kiks were in attend- up for their coming dance improvement organizations
could do, Thursday when famous Dr. Sweet case in
to Portland Tuesday even- ance.
and show on the 16th, in who comprised the member­
Sam Lowman, 55-year-old Detroit, Michigan for the N.
ing. March 8 . and spent the
which head-waiter Ike and ship of the Progressive Fed­
night as the guest of Mr. CLUB STUDIES
father of Demon and Bertha A. A. C. P. and has recently
of Improvement As­
LITERATURE captain Pearson, two of the eration
Lowman and uncle of Clar­ been retained by the same
and Mrs. J. D. Patton, 165
sociations
of California, rep­
old bald headed
ence Lowman, victims of the organization to handl a dam­
N. 12th Street. Mrs. Brown Friday evening the 4th, youngest
resenting
2600
colored prop­
men
at
the
hotel,
will
play
lynchers, was released from age suit against a railroad
spent Wednesday shopping I Mrs. Waldo Bogle was hos­ the star roles.
erty
owners
who
collec­
and in the evening returned tess to the Literary Research Booker Kirk who was tively $8,470,000 own
the state penitentiary.
company
for
discriminating
worth
of
to her home in Longview Chib at the Williams Ave., hitched up in double harness Los Angeles real estate re­
Will Leave South
igainst
a
Negro
passenger.
With bitter anguish deep
with Mr. Brown who motor­ Branch “Y”. The subject for ¡on Monday night, after a sulted in the recent repeal of
in his breast for the rank in­
ed down for her.
¡discussion was "my favorite short lay off. in back on the a city ordinance that would
justice that had been meted WYATT W. WILLIAMS
Miss
Margaret
Mosley
periodical." A very interest- hell stand at The Portland. have permitted the erection
out to hint and his people,
was a pleasant caller at The 'ng evening was spent. Mrs. Out of 10 hell hops at The of a factory on 37th Street
Attorney at Law
Lowman stated that he in­
Advocate office Wednesday. W. A- Reed* president of the Portland, only three are and Central Avenue, in the
tended leaving shortly for With Julius Silvcstonc,
THE
STORE
FOR
_____ 0 _____ club, presided over the meet-
married. One is a widower heart of the colored residen­
Philadelphia to live. He said Attorney and Counselor
EVERYBODY
Mr.
and
Mrs.
J.
D.
Patton
°
n
Friday
evening
the
and
rumor has it that anoth­ tial section.
he would never return to his
11th,
Mrs.
Clara
Bell
was
er
will
kick off in June. One Pointing out that if L. L.
of 165 North 12th street are hostess to the club at the
old home.
523-524 Lumbermens Bldg.
is
too
young
and the other Goodman (white) was per­
rejoicing over the recovery Branch “Y” and a very time­
Raid Home
Phones:
Br.
0635-Wa.
3920
I
five
are
just
waiting
for the mitted to build a factory for
of
their
Hudson
touring
car
Lowman w as arrested Portland,
■ Jg
ly
topic
discussed.
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