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ADVOCATE THE. Advertise in TH E ADVOCATE It Circulates In A ll T he States And Foreign Countries > t o til« In the interest of AH TH E ADVOCATE Is Published Only $2.50 Per Year Subscribe Por Iti ike PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 2 8, 1927 VOL. X X IV — No. 38 PRICE 5 CENTS WOMEN ASK FEDERAL LAW AGAINST LYNCHING ATLANTA BUILDS MONUMENT TO WASHINGTON tt a J u II» lil i» i OK Y UL Moth L it PROPERTY White And Coloiad Maat logclh ci To Citizens Honor Uraat Amanean Aiiucator. *Uy C. on i. C.) Atiauta, On., May ¿ 3 — Uatoia an audience ut 1U.UUU people, in which bum t a c o wria represented, Atlanta Iwiiay Uuuuicd Uutu Uscii and Ur. Hooker 1. Washington by the unveil- inn ol a heroic bioiu c uioiiuiuciit to the g u a i educator on the ground* ol the Uookci 1. Washington High behoof. High tubule w n paid to Ur. Washington by both white and color ed ipcakci», Ur Plato Uuihant of Linory Uni ver ally and Ur. J. W. t Uowen ol Claminoli I heologna! bem- maiy drlivcung the principal addica- •ca. In presenting the mohuincnt to the city, I'rol C hai Ir» L Harper, i'tinci- pal ol W a »hing ton High School, •poke of the monument from the atandpuint of ait. a* a project in in terracial cooperation, a* a tribute to the life and principle* ol Honker T . Wa»hmton, and a* an in»piraliou to (Concluded on l'age Four) HONUKtU IIN W1HDAY Mr. Ldgar Williams, of 250 Mcaiir Street, president of the Hsotbcihood of Mt Olivet Baptist Church, was given the surprise of his life-when he returned to his home Wednesday night after having attended a rehear sal at Mt Olivet Church. When ha arrived at his home he was greeted by a large group of friends who had assembled during his absence to wish him a happy Birthday. T he surprise party was arranged by his three dau ghters, Misses Dorthulu, Geraldine and Bernice. A number of presents were presented Mr. Williams who was fully an hour recovering from the shock of the surprise The Olivet quartet sang a number of songs; ice cream, cake and punch were dispensed and every one had a fine time. A number of the guests uttered words of praise for the unselfish ser vice Mr Williams renders the church (Concluded on page two) Little Kock, A rk, May IS— (A N P ) —Uccauie he dared to write a true account of the horrible lynching of Carter, which took place here recent ly in the thadow of the large*! Negro church in thi* city, Theodore Holme*. Little Kock correspondent of the Associated Negro P ros, was run out of the city by whites immediately following (he publishing of the sto ry by vartuot members of the ANP. Holmes was advised by friends of both rare* to leave town after open threats had been made aainst him by those who "wanted only to know his address." These threats declared, it ia reported, that the treatment ac corded Carter would be mild in com parison to that which would be meted nnt to Holmes if he remained within the confine* of Arkansas. FINE PROGRAM Before the seal issue of The Ad vocate ia out, Memorial Day, May JOth will have coma and gone. Great preparations art in progreaa at we go to presa by people every where to pay fitting tribute to the memory of the aoldiers and sailora who yielded up their live« in the de fense of this great country. This, not Standing in bold relief in a class only for the heroes who died for the of 86 men. Dr. Elbert Booker, only Union in the Civil war but also for , colored member of his clast will re those who gave up their livea in the ceive his diploma from the North Spanish American War, the Indian and Mexican wan and the world i Pacific Dental College at the exer- war. On this day the graves of these departed soldiers will he bedecked with flowers of many kinds and can nons will fire salutes, parades of war veterans will march along the 1 “ reels o f many eitiea and towns; I flags will wave and women and chil- : dren will join In paying homage to 1 cor dead heroes. And not only will the heroes of war be honored but he- I roe* o f peace and those of the battles ! in private life will be fittingly remem- 1 bered. And this it as it should be PORTLAND TO HAVE A COLORED DENTIST On Friday evening, May 20, the Mount Olivet Baptist Church jubilee Chorus appeared in a return engage ment at the Public Audtorium. The program which consisted of spiritu als, plantation melodies and jubilee songs, while on (be order of the first concert, was altogether new and a little differently arranged. Many who heard both concerts said the last one was superior in several ways to the first one. There were beside the cho rus of 35 mixed voices, a male and a mixed quartet. Mrs. Mable Cooper, For rent. Nicely furnished front soprano; Dr E. L. Booker, Mr. G. room to couple. Phone East 7755. M. Payne and Rev E. C. Dyer were soloists. One of the happy features of the program waa the aolo with ha tjo accompaniment by Mr. G. M. Payne; another, the tenor aolo by Dr. Book er, “O l My Lord's So High" special According to information received ly arranged by Shirley McCanns for by Mrs. K U. Cannady, Oregon hos this concert The noted tenor, Roland tess to the Pan African Congress, no Hayes hummed the son for Shirley t>ne ha* authority to appoint a hostess MiCanns, during his last visit to the SALIEN T STATEM ENTS TAK EN Dr' Elbert E' Booker to the Congress except the Circle city as he remembered his late mo- FROM TH E ADDRESS D E LIV- TCut* courtesy The Daily Journal) ERED BY NO TED RELIGIOUS c'*** *btcb will be held at White for Peace and Foreign Relation* (Concluded on page four) TEACH ER OF PASADENA, CAL., Temple Tuesday evening. May 31. the organisation sponsoring the Con ---------0--------- W H O WAS ONE OF TH E OUT- Dr. Booker whose home was for- gress and only one individual from MISSOURI HAS A LYNCHING each state is appointed for that hon FIGURES IN THE merly in Seattle, graduated from the or The Commitle acknowledged j Braggadocio. M o._ May 23,—WiU ^ ‘ j * with great pleasure the splendid sup | Sherod, a Negro, waa lynched here LIGIOUS EDUCATORS W HICH ¡ ' “ ' “ '¡J h' gh 5Ch0° ' CLOSED HERE SEVERAL lr° m *"*re h* WCnt t0 Howar<1 Unl' port given by Oregon and especially j last night after an alleged criminal versity in Washington, D. C. from W EEKS AGO was interested in the "interesting’- < attack on a widow with two children. _ which institution he received the de manner in which Oregon is helping Sherod was strung up by tks hands Prof. M. A. Honline Spoke On Mon gree of Bachelor of Science in 1917. The letter received by Mrs. Can to a temporary scaffold in the town day Night, Subject: Science And Re Mr. Booker then married Miss nady requested her to send names square and hit body pierced, with ligion. Maud Lane of a prominent Baltimore of individuals and organizations she bulleta THIS IS THE T H IR D AND F I family. However he did not give up would like to have invited to attend NAL IN STALLM EN T OF PROP. his ambition and even after thei? RESTAU RANT CLOSED the Congress and stated that a most two little girls came to bless their HONLINE*S ADDRESS. interesting group of women were co Holliday and Smith who have suc operating all over the qs>untry "M y first shock was received when cessfully operated a restaurant in (Concluded on page four) make the Congress a grand success. the Golden West Hotel for a year 1 read of ancient civilizations dating or more closed up on last Sunday for 5000 years B. C. when my St. James’ ^ “ The, influence* of material btolo- the reason that their lease had ex version o f the Bible gives the date of| gy, behavioristic psychology and na- turalistic philosophy are symptoms pired and could not be renewed The the birth of man as 4004 B. C. place has been taken back by Gong Shock No. 2 was received when 1 af religious growth and not decay. 1 a chinaman, the original lesee and is started studying astronomy. It was prefer the inquisitive individual to bem operated by Gong and W. D very simple when I used to think of the kind whot is too lazy to think— Allen. Holliday has ----------- gone back to the twinkle, twinkle little star, how I who lives in a rented mind and pay; —- , ---- dining car while Smith has formed a wonder what you are’ etc., but when for his brains on the installment partnership with Baldwin who con plan. ducts a restaurant at 346 Williams iqoaq 1 j “ It has not been long since they Avenue. III A i s ) taught that the earth was flat. Ma --------- o--------- •vii , * gellan found out it was round. Then Please pav yiur subscription to the a d ì i - l the conflict over the relative position Advocate. We have to pay our bills. u fw sii of the earth. And the third conflict •nad over the law of gravitation. i- j V "Then the conflict over the date of SO CIETY HALL n s b n ; ^creation of man. One scientist who »!qo* — For Rent— had worked the date out definitely, rq w says that man was created on Friday ¡ M lC lB Parties. Dances, A n d Entertain October 23rd at 9 A. M., 4004 B. C. Ila H ment* O f All Kind* Dean Brown of Yale says subsequent (n a Is developments would indicate that ap 514 1-2 W IL L IA M S AVE ples were ripe at that season of the j year. Another says that man wasn't R. S. STONE. Manager Prof. M. A. Honline crated on a Friday morning; that it I learned that there were stars so was on a Wednesday evening, and far away that it would take 200,000 istead of it being at 9 A. M., it was yean for their light, travelling at a at 7 P. M. October 28, 4004 B. C. ■ ale of 186,000 miles per second, to "They simply used science as they reach the earth, then it wasn't such knew it. The average high school boy a simple proposition. At Harvard today knows more about science than University scientists studying the the ancient Hebrew. stars have discovered that there are 'There was a time when everybody stars beyond the milky way' that it believed that love was located in the would take a million years for their heart. Ther is a physiological and a light to reach the earth, travelling at psychological heart. You do not love a tremndous rate of speed. with the physioloical heart. You love “ Shock No. J came when I learned that it had taken six million years for certain geological formations. N. I HOSTESS TALK CONCLUDED HE'S HEAD BOOSTER FOR ELKS Portland’s Own ja p a n es eg e T T fortune Income Bearing Mr. E. W . Agee Mr. E. W. Agee who is serving as Boosting Committe because he is in chairman of the local order of F.lks’ reality a splendid booster for any thing or business which is worth Boosting Committee is also a popu while engaged in by members of his lar business man and church worker. race. Mr. Agee has a family and owns Mr. Agee conducts what is known as a lovely home on Union Avenue. He The F.lks Sanitary Barbershop on N. is a member of the National Associa Sixth strret and has a splendid clien tion for the Advancement of Colored tele. Feople and of Mount Olivet Baptist Mr. Agee was chosen to head the Church. N O RTH W E ST ORGANIZER OF TH E N A T IO N A L ASSOCIATION FOR T H E ADVANCEM EN T OK COLORED PE O PLE DRAFTS RE SOLUTIONS M AKING LYN CH ING A FED ER AL CRIME WHITE MAN GETS FIVE TEARS L DAY AND SI .000 RNE FOR ASSAULT ON 19-TEAR OLD COLORED GIRL E l l RUN OUT ili a . iv /U i n MONUMENT l O i NB.UKO k. K l i U k U UN PUB- 1 Store TH E STORE FOR EVERYBODY Q uality trout M ILLIO N AIR E BEQUEATHS A LARGE FORTU NE TO HIS GARDENER 4 Flats, East First near Broadway; Los Angeles, Cal May 27— (PCNB) — By the will of Herman O. Vogel, ranges. Lot 50 by 100, Price $11,500. who died last Fall in Austria, admit- j ted to probate Dec. 13, 1926, the mil- j SEE AGENT fionaire made numerous substantial bequests to friends, relatives and for terma. — personal employees, including a sum 302 W ilcox Building. Broadway 6741. of $25,000 to his Japanese gardener, Tom Ishiwat*. The estate is apprais- (Adv.) sed at $2,046,24570. oak floors; fire place each flat; gas Presents T o S ute Convention Ot Womens Clubs (W hite) A t Bend, Oregon. Resolutions Pass Thurs day, Last Day O f Session. 4 The Resolutions which were draft ELEVEN JURORS W AN TED TO ed by the Associate editor o f The IMPOSE TEN YEAR SENTENCE Advocate, Mrs. E. D. Cannady for the National Association For the | IT HAS BEEN REPORTED Advancement of Colored People, of First Trial Last March, Jury Failed which she is Northwest Organizer T o Reach Decision. and representative, art as follows: "W H EREAS, Soma twelve to fif Louisville, Ky., May 14— Charles teen millions of American citizens, Falonc, the white man who went on entitled everywhere in the country by trial in the criminal court here last the express provisions of the Consti Monday, charged with raping Miss' tution to every right that any citizen Alberto Howard, a 19 year old color has, are in practice denied the primal ed girl, was found guilty and fined right of human beings,—those rights $1,000 and given five years in the which in the Declaration of Indepen County jail at hard labor. dence are called "inalienable”; and The jury was out only an hour. Whereas, Since 1889 three thous It is said that eleven of the jurors and! five hundred and twenty-three contended for ten years but finally a- (3523) persons, including sixty-four greed with th one juror on the fine women, are known to have been and jail sentence. lynched and burned at the stake in The prosecuting atfirney w a s the United States, (and it cannot be doubted that many more were killed (Concluded on page four) by mobs of which no record exists) in 1921, sixty-four were lynched, of whom four were burned at the stake, and m 1926, thirty-eight were lynch COLORED REFUGEES RETU RN ed; and ING T O TH E IR FARMS IN W H EREAS, Less than one-fifth of D E V ASTATED AREA the colored men done to death by TRY FARMING IN MUD Resume Cotton Planting In Stricken Districts As Flood Water* Recede. Memphis, Tenn , May 25— (PCNB) —With the flood waters receding in the devastated region north of Mem phis, colored farmers have started the first step rehabilitating the stricked section and are planting what cotton seed is available in the mud without implements or live stock similiar to methods adopted with fair success in 1922 when a Louisiana levee broke opposite Natchez, Miss. PORTLAND MAY LOSE L Y. W. MEET The National Convention of the Y. W. C. A. which was to have held its annual session in Portland next Summer may not come owing to the fact that none of the first class hotels here would agree to accomodate the colored delegates, it is said. Local officials of the Y. W . C. A. hopeful of workin out some plan whereby the Convention can be held here without embarassment to the colored delegates. lynching mobs were even accused of the usual crime” against white wo manhood, (In New York County, which is only a part of New York City, in the year 1917, there were 37 persons indicted for rape in the first degree; that is, in just a part of New York City 9 more persons were in dicted for rape in the first degree than there were Negroes lynched on the charge of rape throughout thp entire United States in a five-year period. Not one of the 37 persons in dicted was a Negro. The Congression al Commission on Immigration made a study of crime in the United States in 1921; it investigated 2262 cases in New York Court o f General Sessions, and found that the percentage of rape was lower for the Negro than for either the foreign or native born whites. The actual figures were: The foreign-bom whites, 1.8; native-born whites, .8; and for Negroes, .5); and W H EREAS, For the most part these lynchings are witnessd by men, women and children (an average mob numbers 500), of *1 ages, the effect of which is highly demoralizing, es- (Conclrded on page four) W Y A T T W . W ILLIAM S Attorney at Law with the psychological heart and I don’t know where that is. “ Time was when everyody believ ed that intelligence was located in the kidneys and ancient Greeks be lieved that anger was located in the spleen. Remove his spleen and a man cannot get angry. Nobody believes that now. W e know a man can get With Julius Silvestone, 523-524 Lumbermens Bldg. Attorney and Counselor Phones: Br. 0635-Wa. 3920 Portland, Oregon (Concluded on page four) ANNOUNCEMENT! POPULARITY CONTEST — Given By— ROSE CITY LODGE NO. 111,1. B. P. O. E. of W. 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