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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1927)
THE Advertise in THE ADVOCATE It Circulates In All The States And Foreign Countries ADVOCATE A n Isk d sp sn d fD l F s p e r D d v e tsd to th e I n te rs a ls In the interest of All THE ADVOCATE Is Published Only $2.50 Per Year Subscribe For Itl MARCUS GARVEY DEPORTED TO JAMAICA Voi. 24— Nr) it PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURD AY, DECEMBER 3, 1927 PRICE 5 CENTS -4 y a X-MAYOR EMPHASIZES NEED OF ORGANIZATION LEADER OE MILLIONS NAS E GARVEY *S SENTENCE BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR COMMUTTED A F T E R ASSOCIATE LONG EFFORT ON THE PART OF HIS FRIENDS Atlanta, li* , Nov 26—Marcus Gar vey. lead cr of thr Garvey Movement >»iiiftunc* referred to a* "the baek to Africa" |>ro)ecl v n turned over to immigration uffuiaU here Satur day for deportation a» an undesirable PICKENS SAYS COSTLY II (liy William Pickens) Florence Mill» is dead. Nobody can hurt her now We have »aid man- y good thing« about her, and not a : word too much. We read that Florence wa» buried m a $10,00(1 (ten thouiand dollar) coffin A little later we read that her estate left ii $.1.1,000 (thirty-three thousand dollar»), or thereabout. The»e thins» do not jibe Nobody with a $.1.1,000 relate «hould be buried 4 in a $10,000 coffin That i» »heer mad- j ne»». That wa* not the fault of F'lor- cnee Mill», however: *hc was dead: ORGANIZE. SAYS NONE ARE SUPERIOR LETTER PRAISES El "There is no such thing as a super- j ior race,” said Henry T. Hunt, ex- ! mayor of Cincinnati, former member \ of the U. S. Railway Labor Board, and present associate attorney for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, at their meeting last Wed nesday night at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 West 130th street. Frank R. Cross- Following is a copy of a letter , waith, special organizer, presided. written to a friend by one who at Mr Hunt came to tell the capacity tended the sessions of the Miniature audience of Brotherhood men that Pan-African Congress held here at the Interstate Commerce Commission the Public Library on November 18 had favorably taken under advisement and 19. As we have not permisiion | the brotherhood’s petition. He re for publishing same, we are going to emphasized the necessity of organiza withhold the names of the writer and tion. He declared the Negro to have (Cut and writeup courtesy The Oregon Daily Journal) Interesting corner ol exhibit arrang ed at Central Ubrary by Mrs. E. D. Canr-ady to show advance made by the person to whom the letter is ad the same potential and mental abili dressed: ties as the white man, and therefore colored folks of world. The central photo is of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois. cel ebrated Negro educatorT. “Well, the Pan-African Congress entitled to the same opportunitis. went over big Friday and Saturady A. Philip Randolph, general or CLUB ENTERTAINS There was a good attendance and ganizer, directed a verbal attack up the newspapers gave good publicity on the Pullman Company's act of in- The Joyinakers Club gave an en and are still continuing it, that is, pic timidting the members of the broth joyable entertainment at Hibernia tures of exhibits and editorials. erhood. Hall, 340 Russell St., Thursday night The meeting ended in a prayer “J. F. Mitchell, superintendent of called a Fashion Reaiew Down Petti meeting at 6:30 Sunday evening, al the Pennsylvania district of the Pull- coat I.ane. Artistic hand made posters though it was supposed to end Satur- man Company said Mr. Randolph, placed at strategic points drew a day night. : “compelled a number of brotherhood splendid attendance. This is one of N»w> has been received Inn» A fe w o f the lad ies fe lt w e o u g h t men to attend the banquet at Tabb's the few clubs in Portland that keeps to do something to honor Mrs. Net Grill some time ago, and forced them that Miss Mabel Byrd who formerly- it»«rlf alive by actually living. resided in this city and who accepted tie J. Asberry who came down from to sign petitions denouncing the a position as business and industrial (Reprinted from the Oregon Daily Tacoma to help; Mrs. Cannady's sis brotherhood. This action is being Journal of November 25, 1927) secretary of the Brooklyn, N. Y. Y , ter and Mrs. D. A. Graham of Mon repeated throughout the country by W C. A where she served with cre A comprehensive exhibit of Negro »Says Service True rovia, Liberia, and so we decided to the Pullman Company in an effort dit fur sometime, has resigned from achievements in literature, art and to control the key men in our organ- hold a reception Sunday afternoon. the Y work and has accepted a posi civilization is intact at Central library Then too, the sessions were so full zation. The Pullman Company knows Measure of Man tion with the Industrial Labor orgau- following the inter-racial meetings that many of the people did not have it is licked, and has become desper iatiou of the League of Nations, at November 18 nd 19, under direction time to study the exhibits fully. So we ate. Geneva, Switzerland. of Mrs. E. D. .Cannady. just^announced Saturday night that : Porters To Fight 18 Cent Increase War has been declared on the new Charts and maps leading to an un the exhibit would be open for in the Negro were pre spection Sunday afternoon and that wage conference, Mr. Randolph sta ELKS PLAN BIG SHOW derstanding pared by the art department of Grant we would have a reception for Mes ted, whereby the Pullman Company | high school, and are included in the dames Asberry, Graham and Cole will seek to secure the approval of AND CONTEST j exhibit. Books were loaned by the man. The program was all improvis the Pullman porters and maids of an ed just as it always is on such occa increase in wages of 18 cents a day. Rose City Lodge, number 111, I. B. library, J K. Gill Co., and Mrs. Can nady. African curios embodied in the sions. But it was one of the most increase is to show the world that P. O. E. of W. are to hold a four-day display were offered by Mrs. D. A. wonderful programs of the whole ; the (the Pullman Company) have ac show January 18 to 21st inclusive at . Graham. The exhibits were assem meeting. Every ^speaker just opened ceded to the wishes of the brother the Auditorium of the Labor Temple. bled by Mesdamcs J. J. Handsaker, his heart and showed what was in it. hood by giving them an increase and The big production will be a night Libert L. Booker, Henry Coleman, Mr. Cannady made the best speech I wakening the spirirt of the men, Mr. in our “Old Kentucky Home" and Jerry H. Turner, Cora Franklin, S. C. have ever heard. Mrs. Cannady en- | Randolph said. will be one of the outstanding pro Knodell and Orrin E. Stanley. Joyed it for she wept. And when Mr. ! It is reported at Brotherhood bead- duction» of the winter season. The meeting, which was called for Cannady remaAed, "I don’t know quarters that a telegram had been re The pick of our local talent will why Mrs. Cannady is crying", she ceived from the Chicago Defender take part and the large auditorium the purpose of interpreting the said it was out of gratitude to her announcing a change of policy and will be turned into a huge cotton field Fourth Pan-African Cckigrcss held in friends who had made the Congress attitude toward the brotherhood, in and plantation. An old time "Cake ; New York, was promoted by Mrs. its favor. possible. Walk" will be one of the features r Cannady, Northwest hostess to the j congress, and the fellowship for Bet ----------- 0 ----------- All three of the honor guests made with valuable prizes for the winners. wonderful talks. Dr. Booker said Another feature will be the Miss ter Inter-Racial Relations, of which that Saturday night when they got Popularity Contest wherein a score Mrs. J. J Mandsaker is chairman. A- home, Avia, their smallest girl who of pretty and popular maids will take tnong the honored guests were Mrs. had been studying the charts during part in a ticket selling catnpaign for Nettie J Asberry, president of color Marshall N. Dana, Editor of The the program said, “Why Daddy, I prizes. A Chevrolet Cabriolet auto ed women’s clubs of Washington; will also be given away during thr Mrs. Henry Coleman of Littig, Tex Oregon Daily Journal who delivered never knew there were so many Ne as, and Mrs. D. A Graham of Mon one of the main addrsses at the In groes before ’. “Yes", Dr. Booker celebrtion. CHLOE NERO rovia, Liberia, West Africa. terpretation of the Fourth Pan-Afri said, "there's a lot of us." “Gee, Dad -----------0----------- One of the resolutions passed at can Congress nd Inter-Racia Educa dy. I'm glad I am a Negro”, she said. WOULD YOU MARRY. Girl 18 THURS SERIES I said to Mrs. Cannady Sunday Worth $80,000; widow, 45, $25,000 the meeting requested the school tional Meeting held'here Nov. 18 and board to place books, magazines and 19. Mr. Dana declared that service to evening, “I didn't know this was go I’hotos and descriptions FREE, Clup newspapers dealing with Negro humanity is the measure of. one’s ing to turn into a religious meeting”. The premier concert on the "Cljloe Mrs. Warn, 86J4 S. Figuerca St., achievements, problems and current greatness. And she said, "doesn't this happen al E. Nero Thursday Series” with the ways when we all get together?” activities in the school libraries, that I.os Angeles, California —Adv. famed Metropolitan tenor, Riccardo —V pupils might arrive at a better un Acts 2:1-2. Martin, as featured artist, is schedul derstanding of the colored people. Everyone of the colored people ed for the beautiful Shrine room of who appeared on the program, did the new Masonic Temple on Thurs W YATT W. W ILLIAM S himself credit and his race credit. I day evening December 1. The an MRS. PA Y N ^PA SSE S think Edgar Williams did the most nouncement tliade last week from the dramatic thing I ever witnessed: He Nero Musical Bureau that twenty On November 24, Thanksgiving had a paper on the life of Col. Char world-famed artists had been engag- the soul of Mrs. Mattie Payne passed les Young. I noticed an army officer to appear in Portland each Thursday 523-524 Lumbermens Bldg. to its reward at the family reside ice, in uniform in the audience (and wan evening for the period of twenty 275 Wheeler Str. dered why he was there) and when weeks was received with much inter Mrs. Payne came to Portland from Mr Williams told of Col. Young's est in musical circles. The list of Rock Springs, Wyo., last June. She untimely death, he paused and sud brilliant names announced by Mrs. Phones: Br. 0635-Wa. 3920 was in poor health then which con denly taps rang out, echoed and re Nero reads like a roil ctli of musi Portland, Oregon tinued until her death. And while she echoed. through the hall. As the cal elite, and includes *«.ch famed ar was not able to be out, her husband sounds died slowly away, Mr. W il tists as Alina Peterson, soprano of did not suspect that she was as ill as liams said: “he answered the great the Chicago and Cincinnati Opera she was when he went out on his car Comander's call”. Then he went on Companies; May Peterson, prima for the dining car service and was and explained that the officer had donna soprano, formerly of the Ope shocked by the sad new» of her pas been a comrade of Col. Young, and ra Comiquc and Metropolitan Opera sing. Mrs. Payne leaves to mourn now a member of Portland police Company; Paul Althouse, tenor; Mc- their loss, a husband, I sham Payne force. ritz Rosenthal, world-famed pianiit; and an eleven year old grandchild, THE STORE FOR I'll send you a lot of clippings and Alberto Salvi, world'* greatest harp Audrey Wilson. The heartfelt sympa programs later. ist; Luelta Melius, coloratura sopra EVERYBODY $ to thy of their friends goes ont to the Dr. Coleman, pres of Reed College no; Maria Sundelius, charming Swed- bereaved family. captured the crowd Saturday night ish-American prima donna soprano ' 45.00 Funeral services were held Monday with his splndidly simple talk on the of the Metropolitan; Anna Case, *o- Nov. 28, at 10:30 a. m. at Finley’s Imperative Need of Inter-racial Co prano, beloved of all America; Cltar- “Where Young Men Buy” T m í Q uality S toa « Chapel, with commitment in Nose operation in Solving World Prob OT POBTIAMD O rm o n City Cemetery. (Concluded on page two> lems. LOCAL GIRL EMPLOYED BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS ■ lien, in* tne ro m m u iatin n oft lot five-year sentence in the federal prison f»r using the mail» to defraud in connection with thr "“Black Star Steamship l ine”. (iaivry wa» taken on an afternoon train to New Orient, I .a , where he will be placed on a ttramthip to be landed at hi» native home, Jamaica. Dr. J W. Anderton, Secretary of the National Baptist Convention it in New Orleans, La. Krv Anderson write* that hr hat visited Brook ha ven. llattic'burK and l.umberton, Mi»», ml Monroe, I.a. Me attended the South Mississippi Baptist State Convention and his old home town in Louisiana. Dr. Anderton wrote from Monroe, L a, enroule to Little Rock, Ark He alto vitited El pa to, Houston, San AnlBnio, Texas en route to New Orleans. -o- MR MAXWELL ERECTS MODERN HOME William Pickens Who Say» The For tune Spent On Florence Mills' Fu neral Might Have Been More Sen sibly Employed. Mr. Charles H. Maxwell of Salem, »he could jiot bury herself; she could Oregon was here for several days this week on business He is uow (Continued on page two) erectinf; a two «story stucco building — ...—o - ■ ■ in Hollywood, Salem, at a eost of $I2,(MKI The upper story of seven •un.iiis will be used as a residence by- his family and the lower floor will CHIDKEN GET NEW SCHOOLS house his business of barbecue meat and soft drinks. The structure will be irady for occupancy about the middle Charleston, S. C , Dec I- Seven of January. new buildiings provided seats for a thousand colored children, arc now REV. JONES SPEAKS TO in process of erection ill C harleston County, according to H. H. McCar- LARGE AUDIENCE ley, the county superintendent of Rev A. Daniel I’aync Jones, one of education. Lincoln School, McClell- the unincorporated Baptist Church anvillc, the largest of the seven, has with headquarters at Chicago, spoke been completed and will soon be oc Tuesday niRlit to a large ahd appre cupied This is a four room moder.i ciative audience at the Mt. Olivet structure, costing $4400, of which Baptist Church. He was accompanied $.1,000 was supplied by the county, $1000 by the Rosccnwall Lund, and by Rev. Clark of the same city. Rev. Jones left F'riday for Spo $000 by tile colored people of the dis kane, Wash , where on Sunday, lie trict. The later gave also the land will preach the dedicatory sermon in on which the building was erected. the new Baptist Church. He will re I'lie other buildings will be erected turn to Portland next wfcck and may through the same sort of cooperation be heard at one of the local churches between the county, the community, ami the Koscnwald F'und. on the second Sunday, Subscribe or the Advocate OFFICE PHONE BDWY 8967 RES. PHONE SELL. 1536 doctor E. L, Boofier DENTIST HOURS. 9 - 1 2 , 1 - 6 Sun. A Evening by Appointment Exhibit Shows W ork Done B y Colored Race Marcua Garvey . fo llo w ATTORNEY URGES PORTERS TO 502 - 3 PANAMA BUILDING N. E. Cor. Third and Alder A colored man was lynched in Kentucky Nov. 30th. He was charged wi*h killing a man. Attorney at Law W ith Julius Silvestone, Attorney and Counselor Bradford Clothes 25.00 Shop $ Portland’s Own Store Everybody Come to Merrykannah Club’s Xmas Dance, December 2 6 ,19 2 7 9
