4 THE. Advertiae ln THE ADVOCATE It Circulate« In All The State« And Foreign Countries An A D V O C A TE In d ep en d en t VOL. X X IV No.— 33. P ap er D e r o te d e to He« In te r e e te mf tie« P eo p le PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY. APRIL 23, 1927 In the iBtareat of AB THE ADVOCATE I« Published Only 12.50 Per Yew Subecribe For Iti PRICE 5 CENTS WOMAN CONFESSES TO ATROCIOUS CRIME BELLHOP HONORED BY LOS ANGELES SOCIETY té I ! ON STAGE TRI MAYOR, SENATOR AND M ILLION AIRE ENTER TAIN W ITH BOX PAR TIES AT PREMIER OF NEGRO DRAMA r a ffi ws W A R DEPARTM ENT TO INVESTIGATE CAMP T Y P I N O Don* promptly and neatly Call Walnut 3480 Stay off data of May 30th. Particu­ lar* later. Government Segregation Is On N. A i. A. C. P. List N. A. A. C. P. SUPPLIES Por Sale»Furnished House, Terme, 201 Ivy Street. Legal Advisers For Pardon­ ed Men Easily Secured New York, April IS.—The National Association for the Advancement of I Colored People, ha* just furnished the "first friends and adviser*“ for ; members of the 24th Infantry relcas- ed on parole from the disciplinary bat racks, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. One of the prisoners who desired to be released to New York, has for hi* "first friend" Robert W Dagnall. Di­ rector of Branches of the N A. A. C. P. For another of the men about to be released to Philadelphia, Lieut. Colonel W W Merrill wrote to the N A A. C. P. asking whether a first friend could be found in that city Isidore Martin, President of the Phil- adelphia ((ranch has volunteered for this service and the N A A. C. P has written I.ieut Colonel Merrill to this effect. "TEDDY" IS LAUDED APPEALS TO HIGH COURT (by Pacific Coast News iiureau) Sacramento, Calif , April 18—Geo. Watters, recently convicted on the testimony of his young daughter of having killed his wife and disposed „ o f the body, has appealed hit case to the state supreme court. Watters is one of five men now occupying death cells in the two Cal- ilornia state prisons, all of whom have carried their cases to the Su- prcine court and now await the out- __ of ____ .w ___ come their _w appeals Scott C. Stone, aged and crippled Lo» Angeles watchman, father of Jack Hoxic, the cowboy film atar, was scheduled to be hanged March 11th for the murder of two young white girls, but was saved from the gallows by Governor Young s grant mg esecutive clemency. The Coleridge Taylor Chorus of the Hooker T Washington Commun- itv Center, said to be the first Negro chorus of its kind ever organised in Ssn Francisco, made its initial bow to the publie in a program o f Negro Spirituals Mondav night in the Audi- torium of the W omen’s Cilv Club The rhorus has thirty well trained ! mixed voices. ■■ ■ o ..... - • Mr Ken Nakarawa. . . Japanese . poet and playwright, was the week-end j guest of Editor and Mrs E. D ( an- nadv at their home in Irvington. Washington D. C. April 18, 1927.— The final session o f the convention for amity between colored and white New York, April 15—The National races, under auspices of the national Association for the Advancement of interracial commission of the Bahais Colored People has received a letter of the United States and Canada, was from Hanford MacNidcr. Acting addressed Sunday at The Playhouse. Secretary of War, acknowledging re­ 1814 N street, by Rabbi Abram Simon ceipt of the N. A. A. C. P. telegram chairman of the Synagogue Council endorsing the protest of George W. of America, and Mountfort Mills, of Harris against the segregation of col­ the national Bahai assembly. The ored men in the Citizens' Military Rev. Albert R. Vail, of Chicago, pre­ Training Camp* and especially the sided barring of colored men in the New Rabbi Simon, who spoke on “The York Area Mr. MacNidcr reports Higher Unity,” said: that the protest has been referred to “The tenth anniversary of tbe be­ the Commanding General of the ginning of the world war leaves Second Corps Area and further ad­ > many of us in doubt as to whether vice will be forwarded to the N. A. the results achieved were worthy of A. C. P upon completion of the in­ , the colossal sacrifice made. A vestigation ' glance at the map of the world can not but create amazement and doub: and caution. I wonder if we have “ FIRST FRIEND” A CARD OP THANKS We wish to thank all of those who assistrd in making the St. Philips (iuild'. Fashion Show and ball iuch a wonderful success Mr*. Jane Kawlin*, president **" Gray, who w ti found guilty Notable Audience Of Social last George week by a jury on a statutory And Civic Personages Pay offense, involving his minor step- daughter, has been sentenced to five Honor To Anderson years in the State penitentiary. ■ ■ O' -— (by Pacific Coast News Hureau) Willie Williams, who is an inlcr- I.os Antielcs, April 12—Garland tsincr in a movie, pleaded guilty in Anderson * bellhop drama made its |.rdcr,| Court Monday to charges of appearance for the first time in I.os ,,.||,nK b ooic Anudes at the Majestic Theatre last Kddie Kose, proprietor of a club muht I bomas Wilkes, owner o f 1 was charged with the same offense the Orange Grove and Hollywood and was srntrnced to five months in Vine lliraters produced the play un­ jail der the clever direction of Ralph W. P. Finley i* to be tried for a ('loninger, a new comer in our midst like offense. and incidentally the rerrnlly arijuired Willie Williams i* to be sentenced husband of Vitina llankv. H m M M later. star Besides directinu the drama. Mrs. Tillie McGee, now of Santa (Concluded on page four) Barbara California, but formerly of I’ortland, ha* renewed her subscrip­ tion to The Advocate, with a $5 00 payment and says she cannot do with­ out The Advocate. N. U C. P. POST'SEDpiAL ROOSEVELT j j j ------- p j r 1 C -i U K - ED AS STAUNCH FRIEND of RACE T . - . intimate Impressions Of Rooseveltian Personality Recorded B y Servant ! EASIER OBSEVED I ! Zion A. M E. Church was bcauti- fully decorated for Easter. A great number of Easter lillies, ferns, palms, flowering pot plants and greeneries from the woods, forared a veritable flower garden on the stage This made a gorgeous setting for the pro­ gram rendered in the evening by ihe ehoir under the direction of Mrs. Katherine Gray. Resides the Can- tala sung by the choir, there was a trombone solo by Mr Bert Turner; an Faster greeting by Mrs. C. A. Jenkins; devotions by the pastor, Rev. John !■' Moreland, and several songs m which the congregation took part The whole meeting was delightful and enjoyed by all present. (Concluded on page four) --------- o--------- NEGRO TRACES ANCES TRY 235 YEARS Slur On Chicago Voter* An­ swered By Johnson New York, April 15.—The National Association for the Advencement of Colored People has replied to an edi­ torial slur cast upon Negroes in the recent Chicago election and a letter by James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the N. A. A. A. C. P. was publish­ ed in the New York Evening Post for Wednesday, April 13. The N. A. A. A. C P. letter was written in reply to a lengthy editorial in which the following paragraph occurs; “ The Negro majority of 55,000 votes, had it g6ne to Dever instead of to Thompson, would have turned the election. .T h e Negroes were brought to Chicago during the war, were welcomed by Thompson, were given the organized vice privileges and are bound to Thompson, body and soul. Chicago, like Indianapolis and other Northern cities, is learning what Negro control means and why the South has kept these voters from (Concluded on Page Four) l I • j t T . ^ , PROFESSORS AND STU- batly Lived In Rhode Island j DENTS VISIT N. A. A. C. brnce 1692 p. i n NEW YORK C New York. April 18—The assertion often made that Negroes cannot trace back their ancestry over a long period of time, is contradicted by a report recently sent to the National Asso­ ciation for the Advancement of Color­ ed People, showing that one colored family in Rhode Island can trace un­ broken ancestry for about 235 years to about 1692 The record has been recognized bv the courts of Rhode Island in a re­ cent-case involving inheritance and shows that Mrs. I.ucv A. Niles, whose ^ family name was Sambo, is descend­ ORED BY SHERIFF ed from Samuel and Eunice Samb > who lived in the late 1600's. The family name o f Sambo is the (by Pacific Coast New* Bureau) Oakland. Calif., Afrit 18-Speaking only one of record in the State of at the 14th annual Men's Day in the Rhode Island, according to the report North Oakland Baptist Church fiere. sent to the N. A. A. C. P. Sheriff Rurton Reck delivered tjie principal address at the morning AFRICAN AND W H ITE sen-ices. In his address he told of MEN ATTEN D DUTCH the eminently satisfactory services being rendered by Richard Early, the REFORM CHURCH recently appointed Negro drputv sheriff, who i< a member of the North CONFERENCE Oakland Baptist Church. New York, April 18.—A report of the Council of the Dutch Reformed BABY CONTEST IS Churches, at Cape Town, South Afri­ PROFITABLE ca, in which natives and Europeans met to confer on the Hertzog bills, New York, April 18—The National has been received by the National As­ Association for the Advancement of sociation for the Advancement of Col­ The report, published Colored People has received from ored People. William Pickens, its field Secretary in "The Friend", organ of the Society now on tour, a telegram saving that of Friends, states that 30 Bantu and a Babv Contest in Terre Haute. Indi- 50 F.uropean delegates attended Dav­ anna. had been very successful bring­ idson Jabavu, a native leader took a prominent part in the discussions. ing in more than $315. The Conference declared itself in favor of native land ownership and lease-farming; against the economic exploitation of the native; recognized the close inter-relation of the races; and approved the development of na­ tive councils and the giving of addi­ tional representation in Parliament. O '- New York, April 18.—Thirty pro­ fessors and 40 students from colleges and universities in nearby States visit­ ed the offices of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Col­ ored People, 60 Fifth Avenue, last week, on an informational tour con­ ducted by the Fellowshipof Recon­ ciliation, it was announced today. The colleges represented included in­ stitutions in New York. .Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Among them being Columbia University Trinity College, Uinversity of Pennsylvania and Lan­ caster College. At the N. A A. C. P. offices the visitors were addressed by Robert W . Bagnall, Director of Branches, and following the discussion a number of Southern students expressed them­ selves as seeing the race problem in a new light. SLAYS TO BE FREE TO LOVE M JP S E S Adultery Charge Placed A- gainst Porter Who Purchas­ ed Fatal Dose Of Poison (Concluded of f page four) Saif Lake City, April 18.— Profea­ sing ardent love for her Negro lover and freely admitting the desire to get ride of her family in order to be with him, Mrs. Ilia Peterson, white, con­ fessed before the district court here recently that she put the strychnine in the food served her family on the night of March 8th that resulted in the death of her baby boy, Kenneth, and her foster baby daughter. Mar­ garet Bateman. Only the fact that she put an overdose of the strych­ nine, purchased by Wyndon in Los Angeles, in the fatal meal prevented the rest of her family from suffering the same fate as that of the two babies. The bitter taste made them (Concluded on page four) NEGRO LABOR WINS Appeal For Extension Of Opportun­ ity Is Based On Proof Of Ability (Reorint—Christian Science Monitor) CHICAGO, April 9.—The attitude of white labor toward the Negro is broadening, as ia that of the employ­ er, T. Arnold Hill of New York, di­ rector of the department of industri­ al relations of the National Urban League, told a conference here on tbe study of the Negro in industry. As a result of a recent campaign in Boston to open up new opportun­ ities for the Negro, the Urban Lea­ gue there has added to its office staff to handle the surprisingly large in­ crease in applications for Negro help, Mr. Hill stated. This is significant of progress made where-ever the pub­ lic has a correct view of the situation, he said. Mr Hill did not think that racial antipathy was keeping the Negro from obtaining better employment but that it was tradition which pre­ vented giving him an opportunity at certain kinds of skilled labor and pro­ fessional work. However, the trend was changing and Negroes were more and more proving their ability to serve well in tasks of greater skill and responsibility. The appeal for increased opportunity in industry is being made on the basis o f ability and not on basts of citizenship. Perhaps Ohio has done more than any other state in granting oppor­ tunities for the Negro in iron and steel industries, he continued. M. M. Hennessey, personnel direc­ tor of the Argo Products Company. Argo. 111., manufacturers of corn starch products, told the conference that his experience with the Negro workers had been highly satisfactory. There must be an educational cam­ paign to find better openings for Ne­ gro employees, declared Ira Dea Reid, industrial secretary of the New York Urbane League. An effort should be made to place Negroes in apprentice schools, he said. New York, April 18— Picturing Iheixlore Roosevelt as one of the j staunchest friend the Negro race ever had, James E. Amos, colored valet, peraOMl attendant of the late Mrs B J. F'ullcr gave a very beau­ colonel, has given to the public in a tiful drama and pageant. "Christ in book titled "Theodore Roosevelt” an America", F'ridav, thr 15th at Bethel intimate portrait o f characteristic im­ A M F. Church In spite of the pressions of Rooseveltian personal­ fact that there have beni a large num­ ity quite different front those hereto­ ber of attractions recently Mrs Ful- fore recorded o f the "Teddy" or the O n nn A r R F 5 1 N F A J 2 N I F - lir 's r iit r r t a i n m r n t w a s a i le c i d r d s n c - “ T. R.” known to newspaper and oVxr r V «ss Mrs Fuller has hern a leader magazine readers of a generation just » GRO TOW N SOLD m church w*>rk at Bethel for many passed Relating incidents dealing with the F O R S200 0 0 0 I years and is planning to retire on ac- (by Pacific Coast News Bureau) personal Roosevelt and members of ^ ___1 I count of poor health Salt Lake City. April 18— Bal Dev his family which are not only revela­ Kaura, brilliant Hindu student at the (by Pacific . Coast - . , News » Bureau) i iu i Mr Charles Mumford, 1361 East tory o f the Rooseveltian nature but University o f Utah has recently been Aliena c - w o r t h , California. April * » — i ,m„| n Street, is in Good Samaritan explains the affection in which the granted an assistantship in chemistry One of the largest land deals record- „ ¡u , havin(< ben. returned there Colonel was held bv his servants. at Purdue University for the years cd in King County for many months |h(. M|h Mr Mumford is *uf Mr Amos tells of his entry into the 1927-28. President's I w m I w H shortly after was closed last week when two j icrinR from a rpUl„ c nf influents Born in Sringobindpur, Punjab. In­ Roosevelt's inauguration when he was thousand acre* of land on the west 0 dia, Kaura was educated in tbe public taken into service at the White House border of Tulare la k e a few miles schools of his native country. He and given a trial as an attendant and South west of here, was sold for came to the United States in 1922 and guardian of the younger Roosevelt $21X1,000 in 1925 graduated from the University children He became second butler Alleusworth ia a thriving, all^ col- | of Utah School of Mines with the and personal attendant on the presi­ ored little town on the Santa F’c R degree of bachelor of science in chem­ dent, and remained with him for some K. between F'resno and Lo* Augeles ical engineering. He received his time at Sagamore hill, uilrr thr M OW - It was established about twenty years M. S. degree in 1926. Besides being what nodescript title of "head man" ago bv Col. Allcnsworlh (deceased) a joint author with Dr. Walter D. He accompanied the president and retired colored army officer. Ajlens- Bonner of a number o f scientific pa­ later the ex-president, on many of wnrth has remained inactive until the pers in the Journal of the American his trips over the country. contin of cotton to California a few Chemical Society. Kaura has held a Acknowledgement is duly made bv polo Alto, Calif. April I8-(PCNB)- years ago. Since then thousands of School of Mines fellowship at the acre* of nearby land has been plant­ Witlnn the schorarly environment of Mr Amos of the collaboration of T. Crisis Report Says Georgia University for the past year. He ed to cotton and grapes, while in the the great Leland Standford Univers­ T Flynn in the selection of the most will take up his duties at Purdue Uni­ damp Tulare Lake bottoms enorm­ ity, a small group of community play­ appropriate memories of Roosevelt— 100 Years Behind versity in September. ers, colored residents of Palo Alto, “ without his assistance the book could Austin, Texas, April 11.— Eight ous crops of wheat are growm. San Mateo and other nearby com­ not have been written". Protestant denominations, and also New York. April 15— The May Mrs Marcella Johnson. 4928 W ood- Catholics and Jews, were represented Crisis publishes the third of the TEXAS PIONEER DIES COMMITTEE OF LAWYERS TO munities, recently presented a tour- stock Avenue \ at The Portland San­ act drama, “ The Dust of the Earth , j at the interracial conference of more studies furnished by the Garland fund CONFER WITH ATTORNEY GEN IN LOS ANGELES itarium recovering from a minor the first of a series of dramatic than fifty prominent Texas ministers of public school systems in Southern ERAL OTTINGER ON LEGAL AS­ operation. held here last week under the aus­ States with especial reference to the PECT OF GRATTAN LAW AS IT plays to be produced by their organ­ pices of the Commission on Inter­ '■ducation of Negro children. AFFECTS O R D E R - C O L O R E D ization, the "Peninsular Dramatic --------- o--------- Tnc (by Pacific Coast News Bureau) “ The Dust of the Fiarth" in ARM Y racial Cooperation, for a two day's present report, on North Carolina, ELKS ILLEGAL IN N. Y STATE Club". OFFICER BARS San Antonio, Texas, April 18-Sam- three scenes by Katherine Kava- study of race relations.^ At the con­ shows that State to be more advanced ucl Abrams, Sr., age 85_. a pioneer New York, N Y.— Acommittee of naugh, was presented at the commun­ clusion the group unanimously adopt­ in the educational opportunities it of­ colored resident of this city and fath­ SENATOR KING lawyers, all members of the order se­ ity House before an enthusastic audi ed and each member personally sign- fers colored children than any of the er of E. Richards Abrams, former lected from various parts of the cnce of teachers, students and prom­ (hy Pacific Coast News Bureau) ed a d.?c'arinR ' * b? ,heir other Southern States. leading man in the Oscar Micheaux country, conferred today writh Attor­ inent residents of the community. Salt Lake City, Utah, April 18th— I convicUon that a just and righteous Although North Carolina “is one colored film productions, recently ney-General Ottinger at Albany on In reviewing this initial presenta­ Branding the story that he had made solution of interracial problems is one the legal phase of a convention in tion the Palo Alto "Times" stated in an inflamitory speech to American of the outstanding obligations and hundred years ahead of Georgia", it died in Los Angeles, The deceased, New York City and the Grattan Law. part; "The drama itself is a difficult soldiers while on a transport going challenges of the times", and endors­ is not modern yet, as witness the ex- an octegenarian and head of the 4th generation, was a native of Arkan­ a law which place* Colored Elks out­ one to judge and appreciate as its to the Carribean, as "whilly untrue” ing and pledging their support to the sas and an early settler in Texas, (Concludcd on page four) side the law in this State. Coun­ type is seen ordinarily at the present Senator William H King o f Utah method of interracial cooperation in The second o f a series of silver sellor Thomas I., Higgins, exalted time onlv in the form of burlesque charged in a recent statement that reach such a solution. They also teas honoring .'Mrs E. D. Cannady, ruler of Brooklyn Lodge, is one of The result is that we might be tempt­ his exclusion from Haiti was accom­ urged "the religious and moral forces Northwest Hostess to the Pan-Afri­ the member* of this committee, ed to poke fun; but last night's pre­ plished directly bv Brig 0.?n John of the state to give the movemnt their can Congress to be held in New York which was just appointed bv J. Fin­ sentation was given with such a gen­ H Russell, commander of the Ameri­ most cordial cooperation", and re­ in August wus given Friday, April ley Wilson, gram! exalted ruler. uineness and seriousness of purpose, can occupation forces in the country, quested their several relA'ous bodies 15th at the home of Mr. and Mrs. They will return to New York and despite occasional rough spots that who instructed the chief of the Flav­ to provide for the consideration of Phil Reynold*. 391 Roselawn Avenue. there prepare briefs on their opinion any attempt at levity would be out ian gendarmes to carry out the ex­ _ this subject in all their important Mesdatnes Phil Reynolds. J. II. Tur­ as to whether the convention could i gatherings. clusion order. ner, Shirley McCanns, and Clara Bell be legally held here, and these briefs ff ^ a April the 17th the Peninsular Among the subjects brought to the were joint hostesses for the affair. will be taken up with the giand trus­ Dramatic Club, under the direction of attention of the group were the con­ The tea table was adorned with a tees who, upon the opinion* of the Mrs Rose Primus will give a one-act ditions of Negro health, education, t dainty pink and white cover, and com­ lawyers’ committee, will render the comedy at the Pcndragon Flayers justice in the courts, transportation, bined with the pink candles and sweet decision whether the next grand Monthly dinner meeting at the Cardi­ and religious opportunity, resulting in peas, made a very prettv setting for lodge session will be held in New nal Hotel. requests by the confeiencc that the . ... M the service. Mesdames Millie R. One of the players is Miss Nina Legislature make the necessary ap- York City. Trumbull Secretary of the Child La­ When New York City decided to Mac Halliday, a member of one of ! propriation for a school for delin­ bor Commission and Ella Smith, go in for the grand lodge session of the wealthiest colored families in the quent Negro girls, recently authoriz­ president of the Old Rose Club, pour- e d : that it empower the incoming 1927 a definate plan for.the removal community and the center of the re­ ; cd. and were assisted In serving bv prison commission to make much- of the late Gilchrist Stewart, who was cent controversarv engaged in bv the the Misses Geraldine and Geneva Many departments and interdepartments needed reforms in the penal system the Gratjan Law, was in the mind of “Time*", various Standford proles- Turner, Nellie Allen and Jane Bryan. contribute to the completeness of the of the state; and that it provide for the original heal of the New Grand sors and the public, pro and e o n over The Misses Turner and Jane Bryan banking service of the United States the care of Negro tuberculosis pa­ Lodge Convention law committee. the segregation of the Negro prop- assisted Mrs. Alice M. Handsaker in National. tients *s early as possible. Referring The Grattan Law, in effect, makes rrtv owners in the com uni tv. receiving at the door, with satisfaction to the decline of even the use of the Elk name a crime Mulliduv family owns one \)\ccc of The centralization of all activities under j More than an hundred guests call- lynching* in the late years, the group when so used by any other than property fallied at $2S.000. " 'r the one roof of the block-tong banking ) ed during the hours, 2 to 5:30 and expressed the hope that "this crime whites. The law, however, has lain room provides exceptional convenience in enioved an interesting program as against the laws of God and man dormant and never been invoked. (Concluded on page four) the transacting of all banking business. well as meeting one another and be- may soon be wholly eliminated” , and Nevertheless, if it was invoked, it , coming better acquainted. The prinic- pledged their fullest support to every And Savings depositors find encourage­ could work havoc among the mem­ I pie speaker was Mr. Ken Nakazawa. effort to this end. A continuation ment in their thrift by the addition of ber* of the I. B. I* O. E. of W. in W Y A T T W . W ILLIAM S lananese poet, author and playwright. committee of nine prominent minist­ liberal interest. • this State. Others who spoke were: Mr. Frank ers was appointed to cooperate with Stewart's death made a breach in Ladd, prominent among the younger the organized, interracial movement the committee that seemingly has not people; Mrs. G. L. Buland, Chairman Attorney at Law I in the state. been filled, for there was no attempt of the Legislative Department of the Among the speakers were Dr. M. ! to get the law removed at the session One of the Federation of Womens Clubs; Mrs. With Julius Silvcstone, W. Dogan, president of Wilev Col- ! of the New York Legislature just Northwest’s Millie R. Trumbull; Mrs. Lottie Han­ THE STORE FOR | lege, who spoke on the "Negro's con­ ended Rather, the committee has Greatest. JLsr.ks non.Field Worker of the W. C. T. tribution to His Own progress"; Rev.') depended upon the unmistakable 523-524 Lumbermens Bldg. | U.; Mrs. C, A. Jenkins, an officer of EVERYBODY T J n i i e d S k r ie s J. L. Lovell, of Houston, who talked friendliness of high officials of the First A. M. E. Zion Church and a on "Religious Life and Opportunities white Elks. I former member of the Board of Man­ Attorney and Counselor of the Negro” ; and Miss Mav Mathis, — -----