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ADVOCATE THE ____ In TH E ADVOCATE I l Circulates In All The State« And Foreign Countries Voi. 24— No. 28 In the interest of All THE ADVOCATE Is Published Only $2.50 Per Year Subscribe Por Iti PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARH 31. 1928 PRICE 5 CENTS WE PICKENS ARRIVES HERE BY AIRPLANE SLAYMC IN FLORIDA BLAMED ON CARVEYITES NOTED AUTHOR M ) UCTURER M L S LOW ■ H E «I THREE WEIHES it |M By Kits Reid j The Advocate doe. no* necessarily (hare in Kits Reid's views, but wheth- tr we do or not. her opinions are u m , and logical and wall worth reading. It is your privilege as well as ours to disagree with Kits and she invites your opinion upon subjects she discusses from time to time in her column. COL YOUNG'S WIDOW AIDED BY CONGRESS KING K N ESIPI SAILS TO AID IN PROBE OF HIS DAUGHTER’S DEATH IN FLORIDA A bill has been introduced in Con gress by Representative Brand of Ohio, proposing to increase the pen sion being received by Mrs. Ada Young of Xenia, O., widow of Col. Charles F. Young, to $100 per month. The bill reads as follow»: Granting an increase of pension to Ada M Young. "God made us neighbors; let justice make us friends”. —Borah Seven Rulers Sought Unites States Negroes’ Co-operation Report Mail in Wh'ch Plan Is Revealed In Postal Inspector’s Possession JUDGE GEORGE SPEAKS IN PHILADELPHIA More Than One Hundred Summoned Before Grand Jury Mianmi, Fla., Mar. 26—A sensation Philadelphia, Pa., March 26—Judge case, which promised to be of inter Albert B. George, of the Municipal est to every colored American, has Court of Chicago, has been spending developed here from the slaying of the past week in this city. On Sun Princes* Laura Kofey, daughter of day last he was the principal speaker King Knesipi of the Gold Coast of at a mast meeting planned to con Africa. Followers of Marcus Garvey sider the race problems that have a- recently deported originator of the risen because of the large increase in "back to Africa” movement, whose the colored population during recent policies she opposed, are blamed for years. her death Judge George made a plea for in It has been disclosed, according dividual good behavior on the part of to state Attorney Hawthorne, that Negroes stating that “That Negroes the seven Kings of the Gold Coast re can overcome racial differences only pudiated Garvey and his plans and by individual effort." He urged that principles, principally because Garvey individual contacts be made to yield wanted to keep the Negroes to them returns in better understanding. The selves in his proposed colony there. problems brought about by increase The African Kings saw an opportun- in the colored population, said Judge George, must be met by an assump tion. by Negroes, of a share in the upbuilding of the entire city A mammoth crowd attended the meeting which was presided over by Magistrate Edward W. Henry, and at which the other speakers were J. Prentice Murphy, executive secretary of the Philadelphia Children’s Bu reau; Dr John P. Turner, president of the Citizens' Community Council, under whose auspices the meeting was held; Leonidas Allen, president of the Citizens’ Committee of Allied . ■ Organizations and the Rev. James E. Kirkland, pastor of the Union Bap tist church, where the meeting was held. G. Edward Dickerson, president of the John Mercer Langston Bar Association introduced Judeg George. Legal Courtesy Extended Judge George Judge George was an interesting Marcus Garvey Leader visitor at the sessions of the local court, and in company of Mr. G. Ed of Garvey Movement ' ward Dickerson, he visited Municipal ity for opening up a profitable trade Court, where Judge Walsh was pre with the United States. And Prin siding. He was introduced to Judge cess Laura was sent as their repre Walsh by Mr. Dickerson, and Judge sentative to warn colored Americans George then sat for some consider Akron, Ohio, Mar 28—Direct radio able time on the bench with Judge to beware of Garvey; also to prepare them for the proposed opening of communication between the industri- Walsh. | commerce between colored Ameri al city of Arkon and the newly opened cans and their race brothers in Africa. rubber fields of Liberia was establisb- Laura invaded Miama on her patri last Monday, with receipt of a mess- otic mission because it was consid age from Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., ered the stronghold of the Garvey now on an inspection trip to the rub group in the United States, and was ber plantations of the Firestone Tire shot to death in a church here two & Rubber Co., in Western Africa. weeks ago while conducting a vigor The message was sent from a sta Atlanta, G a. March 28—Many or ous anti-Garvey meeting. tion 4,600 miles distant to the local ganizations interested in Negro wel Claude Green, colored American, is station on the roof of the Firestone fare are cooperating with the United being held on a first degree murder plant. The transmitters of both sta States Public Health Service and the charge and James B Nemo, Jamai tions opertate on a wave length of various state municipal health boards can, on an accessory charge in con approximately 43.5 meters. in planning for the fourteenth annual nection with the death of the prin .Mr. Firestone, accompanied by Mrs. observance of National Negro Heal cess. These men and Maxwell Cook, Firestone, has been in Liberia since th Week. April 1—8, according to a said to have been sent here to train early January, preparing for last statement from the headquarters of Negroes for military duty in Liberia,, week's radio test In his first report the Interracial Commission in this were reported to be agents of Garvey. today he said that the Liberian gov dtjr. Cook however, lost his life on the ernment officials were cooperating in The program will begin with ser night that the Princess was slain the company’s effort to make Liberia mons and addresses from thousands when members of her faction suspect- an important rubber producing coun- of churches and pulpits on Sunday, ed that he was participating in the al- *ry . , April 1st. Monday will be home hy leged conspiracy. The Grand Jury i* He also reported that in the past giene day, Tuesday health messages investigating the case, and King Kne will be carried to as many organiza sipi has sent word that he is sailing tions of adults as possible, Friday for America to investigate the death will be devoted to such special cam i of his daughter. More than 100 Ne paigns as may be needed in each com groes have been summoned to ap munity, and Saturday will be observ- pear before Grand Jury The colored citizens of Miami are will be given to the reports and plans ed as general clean-up day. Sunday preparing to receive King Knesipi ' and the members of his court who are for follow-up work. ' expected to arrive here within a ~ ~ month. Isn’t the world in a queer sort of a criss-cross these days? Fall of vain strivings after all sorts of unnecess ary things. We no aooner get them than we go on a mad chase after something else. The rich are madly chasing to become richer, ami all the while they are crowding back the poor into a poorer more squalid pov erty I wonder what would happen if every one of us would make up »V our minds that we would try to be á & happy with just what we had so long as we got enough to eat—enough to wear and a reasonable amount of pleasure and leisure? I wonder what would happen if we would cut out alt the pastries and ex pensive things to eat that make out CoL C hmoäjlo V b u i of nine tenths of us., sad. »our dys peptic men and women I wonder if Be it enacted by the Senate and we couldn’t have just as nice a time House of Representatives of the if we cut out a lot of the expensive ■pleasures we undulge in because United State* of America in congress assembled, that the Secretary of the "everybody does it”. Think of Interior be, and he is hereby author (62.000 going into four operatic per ised and directed to place on the pen formances last week simply to give ourselves two or three hour» of plea sion roll, subject to the provisions sure. $62.000 would keep most of and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Ada M. Young, widow I the poverty stricken families in Port of Col. Charles Young, late of the land in comfort for a year. Most of United States Army, and pay her a us keep up the mad chase because we pension at the rate of $100 per month are afraid to trust ourselves with ourselves< More, more, MORE is ! in lieu of that she is now receiving. the ceaseless cry. And for what? An artificial existence—a mad worship of things. No wonder we need a war, it is the only thing that satisfies the I hysteria of the times. d? When we go to war, wc will forget j lhe black, shameful, foul smelling Dr. William Pickens Dr. William Pickens of New York City, Field Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who arrived by airplane from Oakland, Thursday morning to fill speaking engagements in Portland. Friday morning. Dr. Pickens addressed Lincoln High school students. At noon he spoke before the City Club at the Benson hotel and in the evening, he addressed a mass meeting at Williams Avenue Branch Y. W . C. A. At the City club with Dr. Pickens were Rev. John F. Moreland, Dr. Elbert Booker, Mr. Lee Arderson and Mrs. E. D. Cannady. Mrs. Cannady who is the Northwest Organizer of the N. A. A. C. P. was invited by the Secretary of the City club to introduce Dr. Pickens. The occasion was the regular luncheon meet of the club and was held in the Crystal room at the Hotel Benson. Dr. Pickens spoke briefly on the Negro problem to the delight of his hearers. Dr. Pickens will fill speaking engagements in Tacoma and Seattle before turning his/attention southward to Los Angeles where the 19th Annual session of the Association will be held in June. I S p rin g Is Here trail of oil on our national govern ment. All the way from Teapot Dome in Wyoming to Washington— up through the Senate Chamber over through the White House_ When we go to war, we will forget the Sacco Vanzetti murder W’e will forget the cruel, wicked persecution of the Pas- saic strikers. We will forget the dis- graceful, heartless treatment of the striking coal miners in the Mellon mines in Pennsylvania and the Rock- erfcller coal fields in Colorado. We will forget the despairing two million (Continued on page four) radford •■$¡£E¿SLr* Clothes $25.00 to Shop $45.00 “ M’Kere Young Men Buy" Centralized And Our Thought. Naturally Turn To "Clean-Up, Paint-Up" A GOOD MAN TO DO T H E JO B AND DO IT RIGHT IS Banking R. A. 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Schuyler managing edi- !t ,aid ,hat ,h* of P ” "- tor of the New York Messinger we ce,s L*“ r* was a bold ,tr ° ke ‘h* regret to hear has canceled his speak- part of Garr* i to Put a,‘ end “ » h*r ing date for Portland ! care" ’ ,*nd that '«t,ers have **«" placed tn the hands of the postal in Please come in and pa> your obli spector in which the plot is revealed. gations to The Advocate. T H E STORE FOR EVERYBODY ¡ 1 1 “On* of the Northwest's Great Banka" m IE CATES WITH AKRON OFRCE FROM LIBERIA BY 4,600 Ml. RADIO Store RES. PH O N E SELL. 1536 I if h jU A ^ Û fr . T m « Q uality S tomi -ra ri * year the field forces had laid out two 50,000 acre plantations, one on the Du River and the other 150 miles asat|£. t>A|y *u*A * 3 aqi uo qjnos two plantations represent a beginning in the cultivation of 1,000,000 acres, he said. The first trees will bear five years from the date of planting and some rubber now is being mae into tires from a small plantation pre viously cultivated. W YATT W. 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