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THE. Advertise in THE ADVOCATE It Circulates In AH The States And Foreign Countries An In d e p e n d en t AD VO CATE Paper D e v o te d * to th e I n te r * « !* mf th e In the interest of AD THE ADVOCATE Is Published Only |2.50 Per Year Subscribe For Itl P e e p le NINE LYNCHED IN FIRST SIX MONTHS OF YEAR VOL. 24 No. XLIV PRICE 5 CENTS PORTLAND, ORKGON, SAUTRDAY, JULY 23- 1027 NEGRO FLOGGED; FORCED TO SELL PROPERTY TAKEN F R O M HOME BY GROUP OF MASK ED M B N STRAPPED TO TREE AND BEAT EN UNTIL UNSCON SCIOUS. l EE THE LYNCHING REC ORD FO RTHE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1927 PORTLANDERS HOME FROM GRAND PIEOT IN HAWAII-AMERICA JUMP u i n k OFFICERS INFER THAT CHIEF OF POLICE AND Leads With Ar- Ten delegtes and visitors INSPECTOR KNEW EVI 'BLACK AMERICAN AVI RETIRED OtblCER Oh Mississippi kansas Next In Line. SEATTLE’S NEGRO PO who attended DENCE WAS MANUFAC ATORS ENTER $35000 25TH U. S. INFANTRY IN WOUNDS m BOOK PULATION OUTGROWS of th e Portland, twenty-fourth annual HAWAIIAN AIR Tuskcgee, Insttitute, Ala COMEDY FILM Forced To Dispose Of Pro CHURCH ACCOMO session of the Masons of TU RED. FLIGHT July, 9, 1927- Washington and Jurisdic Chief Of Police And Other Pet ty Valued At $12,000 DATIONS Hollywood, Calif., July 20 Dear Sir: tion, have returned home White Police Officils Ex Sn Francisco Calif., July (PCNB) Among the 200 For Paltry Sum of $800. Four Colored Churches And with glowing reports of the pected To Be Indicted. 18—A move to write the colored film actors who l send you the following Birmingham, Ala., Jill 18 One Mission Inadequate 1’or meeting. of black Americans up make up the military back information concerning the C. Logan, a pioneer Los Ancles Calif.. July 19, names \\ liile drastic steps are being Seattle’s 0,000 Negroes in Jno. near the top of the new avia- ground of Warner Bros, lynchings for the first six Masonry says the session Los Ancles’ spectacular po- tion history taken to stamp out the a- America black-face war comedy pro- months of this year. I find was held in Tacoma, lice murder trial continues to is now making, which larniing wave of floggings Seattle, Wash. July 19— which is under way theduction, “Ham & Eggs according to t h e records W a r il., July 11. 12 and 13th unearth daily, remarkable e- through the announcement by bands of night riders in (PCNB) Because of the was compiled at Tuskegee Insti best in the history v¡deuce of corrupt practices of the Citizens Trans-Pacific At The Front”, is Oscar tute the states of Texas, Georgia fact that the colored popula of the the Grand in the Department of Morgan, retired 1st Serg’t Records and Alabama, evidence of tion of Seattle has increased The Grand Lodge. in the running of the Los Flight Committee of San that opened Angeles Police Department. Francisco, with Frank A. of the 25th U. S. Infantry. in the first and six Research one of the most brutal crim beyond the t>.0<)0 mark, mak with a public lodge months of at As a result of refuting his Flynn, secretary of the Na- Sgt. Morgan, born in Wis- ed here Wednesday in the ing inadequate the present which words reception . , . 1927, there were 9 lynchings. welcome first testimony before the tionall Aeronautical Associa consin, enlisted in .. the Army IT, • number . is • the same as case of Arthur Mitt, a pros church accomodations, Rev. were given by of Mayor . w .. T1l . 1CH V ; This Ten- at Mo me, 111. Apri 16, 1892. FI. Leo .eo Jolinstoijc, presiding netit of Tacoma and the city perous farmer. tion, as chairman that two During his ten years’ service the number for the first six (Concluded on page three) Elder «.f the A M E. Zion Commissioners. Fore:'» 'r ~ Sell Black Americn youths are with Company G and 11 months of the years 1925 and Owing to ill ------o— 1926; it is 4 more than the I lilt apperaed to testify ill Church- 1245 Main street, ness of the governor of the listed among the probable years with Company F. Mor number the investigation of the flog has launched a campaign for State, Hartley, he was un for the first six (entrants to the non-stop gan saw service in all the months of 5 1924. 6 less than gings by Jefferson County for the building of a new able to appear in person but $35,000 H a w a i i - America foreign campaigns in Cuba, home on Hast Madison St. sent a telegram of regrets authorities. Hitt told a piti flight. the Phillippines and Hawaii, (Continued on page three) he read at the reception. ful story of having been flog Four churches nd one mis to All Colored Air Mail Pilot retirng August 8- 1018. the official meetings WESTERN MINISTERS ged unmercifully and forced sion comprise the present of the Grand Backed by a local million lodge were held __ ______ w E. Martin. His screen career includes START WEEKLY to sell Ids land for a paltry Seattle church homes. aire, t Clarence Rev. Tohnstone was the at the Oddfellows Hall and MINISTER PEACEMAK- 3771 Latimer Place Oakland extra and supporting work JOURNAL sum. 41 $ |f pastor presided over by Grand in a great number if pictures of First A. M. F. Zion were ER HELD FOR ’ ‘ * " a colored youth who receiv In recounting the story Master Howard D. Brown best known of which are Los Angeles, Calif., July SHOOTING ed his first lesson in aviation the of the floggers’ assault Ilitt church in Portland before ho and the Grand Matron, Mrs. ‘Safetv with Harold 19—PCNB) Feeling that the from the late Lincoln Beach- Tlovd: First” said that he had been warn became P. E. of the district Belle Jackson for the East “The Freshman” : Negro ministerial group of Long Beach Lain., July 19 ey who lost his life during a ed not to tell of the incident ern Star. “Ben Hnr”. “Se-* Los Angeles district should (1 CNB) In an effort to be fiffrht at the World’s Fair in The election of officers re ol service to one of his mem- 191S will piIot a California Hawk” with Milton the Elks Reach have a journalistic mouth SUL sulted in the retention of all piece through which to make hers, Rev. \V . K. Hardy, pas- T > ujj^ monoplane recentlv TAYLOR IN TROUBLE the present officers with the Agreement public their views on matters i t f» tor ol the colored Baptist fouilt and given a trial test HERE AGAIN exception of the Secretary. Church affecting the religious, racial the sum- Tune 25th at Pav Farm Is- The officers arc as fol mons of answered Earl Taylor who was born JERSEY CITY. N. J. SE lows and civic interests of the Mrs. Sarah Robin land. : and reared in Portland, the LECTED AS PLACE Howard thousands whom they repre son of 1225 California Str.,! By Kits Reid D. Brown of Se- who in anticipating trouble Martin, a former air pilot, son of Henry Taylor- was ar FOR BUSINESS SES sent, Messrs. F. T. Hubbard has been flying planes of va- (C ontinued on pan** tw o) rested in San Francisco, ( al. SIONS A N D GRAND and J. G. Edmunds, editor with a delinquent roomer, re- The Advocate does not. necessarily (Continued on page two) several months ago, hand PARADE. WHILE ALL THE URBAN LEAGUE queried but'ihet^ and Associate editor, respec the minister to be share in K its Reid’s views, somely dressed in women’s FEATURES OF EN er we do or not. her opinions are tively. have brought forih present, became involved in sane, and logical and well w orth clothes charged with having TERTAINMENT A R E AWARDS SOCIAL SER the altercation as a peace-| reading. It is your privilege as well as the “Western Clarion”, a pulled a number of robberies TO BE CARRIED ON Curry’s Sunflower VICE TRAINING ours to disagree with K its and she neat 8-column folio, printed maker with the result that he I invites your opinion upon subjects etc. It is also said that Tay IN NEW YORK CITY. FELLOWSHIP she discusses from time to time in her on white news print, as the is now domiciled in the coun [ lor has served time iu W alla 14—An agreement , fNl $ column. C A M P latest entry to ranks of Pac ty jail where he is being held The National Urban Lea \\ ala penitentiary. "God made us neighbors; let justice ific Coast Negro journalism. Washington, D. C. July 14 tor investigation. gue through its Executive AT SE A SID E . O R EG O N The following aclount ap n agreement between Secretary, Eugene Kinckle 'The roomer, John Dainty, Now open with two newly built make us friends”—Borah Incidentally the “Clarion peared in The Oregonian of —A counsel representing th e is the fifth Negro weekly Jones, lias announced its 32, a colored veteran of July 12th: My column this week will published Lodge of I. B. P. O. Fellowship awards for the France’s famous Foreign Cottages. in Los Angeles "Earl Taylor, in his 20s, Grand be confined to quotation of W rite or Fhone E of W. and New York Elks 1927-28 school year. and the second edited bv t Legion, had failed to pay his * went to jail vestenlav in lieu was two significant paragraphs; into in Newark, Miss L. Genevieve Lomax rent and Mrs. Robinson had ; J. W. CURRY, Proprietor, one minister. It is published at of $1000 cash and $2(XX) sur N. J., entered from my friendly critic It provides was awarded the “Ella Sachs caused his arrest. Released i 3213 So. Central Avenue. ety bail, charged by Violet that the yesterday. quoting Mencken again and sessions of Plotz Fellowship” at the X. after spending three days in 107 N. 14th St., Portland. Ore. and the other from our own I). Craig, store detective for the Grand official Lodge the Y. School of Social Work jail. Diantv returned to the Phone BRoadway 1541 magazine. The Crisis. I want RETURNS TO OREGON Meier & Frank (Jo., with Elks parade shall be and held Miss Lomax is an honor Robinson home to get his be shop lifting. District Judge Jersey City and all entertain in graduate to ask the readers of The Fx-Governor Ben W. OI- I Inward Univer- longings and the argument Olson held Taylor to the ment for the delegates and sitv. Class of 1927. Advocate to withhold judg cott is here and in conversa having gra started. grand jury. ment of either until both are tion with the editor of The tors shall be held in New duated with Magna Cum Witnesses stated that Di- Department managers of visi read and then to make up Advocate, he stated that he York City; provided, howev- Laude. She is a native of the Meier and Frank store er-should their minds—their political - i t anty flourished a knife and h e injunction a- Bluefield, W. Va. said that for some time a gainst the t Elks minds-through their con- vvas com,nS back s to he 0re*on‘ in New York The J o i n t Fellowship that Rev. Hardy shot Dianty ‘God’s country” put it, ma nanswering 'Taylor’s de State be dissolved sidération of the failure of between to stay. The former Gover maintained by the New York five times, three of the lnil- scription ordered women’s a n d President nor has many friends among and the date for the School of Social Work and lets takin effect. I he wound- Portland’s Congress apparel sent C. < >. I). to fic now Coolidge to give us justice The Advocate readers who Lodge sssion, both so tile National Urban League, ed man was removed to the titious addresses about the Grand through the Dyer Anti-Lyn- will hail this news with de- city. While the clerk’s atten cial and business activities was awarded to Cecil D. Seaside hospital whehe his (Continued on page two) light. condition is reported critical. tion was diverted by making (Continued on page three) (Concluded on page two) entries of the ddresses given. Own Taylor was said to have sto len other articles and con The Willamette Building Waiting On the OwL “THAT LITTLE GAME” cealed them in a tan brief case which he always car & Loan Association ried. It was largely through Store (Strictly M utual) this brief case that Mrs. Craig caught him. Your Accounts Are Appreciated ----- 0---- THE STORE FOR Subscribe for The Advocate. 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