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M S [F EFFORT SAYS M E
CLEVELAND CITY HOSPITAL ADDS FIRST RACE
NEW YORK HAS NEGRO MEDICS
Colored Citisene
Il I «pitals
For
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Their
Scpenrte
Race
In
Kffort For Many Year*.
New York, Aug I— For the first
time, a Negro physician ah sheen
appointed to the staff o f the Clrve.
land City Hospital, according to a
letter just received by the Nations’
< 'in. c of ihe N a a t P from
t. a|le> W White, President o f the
Cleveland Branch of the Association
Dr. John If. McMotrtes, according
to Mr. White, on July 20th was ap
pointed to the Surgical Out.Patient
Stall of the hospital. thi§ action
coming as he result o f several year«
of agitation by colored citisrns of
.Cleveland both for such appoint-
mcn t and against the establishment
of a segregated hospital for N r.
groea The success thus far gained
in the Ohio city ia the second vic
tory towards admission to the staffs
of municipal hospitals in mrtrupoli.
'an areas .Some years an after ma
ny years of agitation and effort N e.
groe medical men and nurses were
appointed to the staff of Harlem
Hospital, one o f the New York hos
pitals- and have served with notable
S U C lC g B S
ENOS LIFE
New ork City, August 1, 1928 —
On« of the girls in the chorus of
Zngfeld's "Showboat" comitted sui
cide Sunda y ofternoon. She was
comely Mrs l ulu Williams, 22, 219
F.dgecombr avenue, who died by
inhaling gas at her home some time
between the hours of one and four
o'clock Acute despondency over the
possible loss of heij home and other
finincial worries is said to have been
the motive for her act. "I can't go
on like this", she wrote in one of
three suicide notes she left behind
Her n o 'n n , Mrs. Cassie Lcdbct.
ter, left her home about one o'clock
<>nd returned at four to find tjte
ap,VT..«nt, which is on the ground
floor, tilled with gas that was flow
ing ton. all the jet, in the kitchen
rat.g'. I sing on the floor was her
dauRlitei’i prostrate form.
J^h* ran streaming from the house
and sumtnond Patrolman William
Sumpter of the W est 13th street
station, and he came and shut off
the gas and raised the windows. Dr.
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Por Hand’s
Summer O u tin g
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$11 per week, furnished Tents with^
beds $ 8 .SO per week, Tents with one
bed $7 00 per week.
Swings Cro
quette grounds and horse shoe court
free.
Mrs. C. A. Jenkins will be de
lighted to show you the Cottage»
and Tents.
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One of the largest and most ef
fective organisation* in the country
i s t h e National Association o f C ol.
«red Women's Clubs It is effective
because colored women can sur
pass any other clement in the
ountry in the amount of use which
they can make a dollar serve. Thro
the colored woman the American
dollar reaches it, highest value in
work done.
«.These "clubs" of the colored w o.
man very seldom function merely
for the social pleasure of their mem
ber^: they generally aim at servi.
ces ot others,—working girls, or
phan children, students, and other
strugglers Men's Clubs often exist
merely to make it pleasant for their
members to smoke and drink 'and
gossip, but the women', organiza
tions have at least some additional
p Orposca.
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That the national organization of
i|hese rlubs needs a national head,
quarters can be conceded without
argument. It whould be a useless
waste of words to proceed on the
assumption that anybody needed to
be convinced of that.
There are some close relationships
between the N. A. C. W . C. and the
N. A. A. C. P. In the first place,
these women who work eo effective
ly in their own organizations, have
also supplied the most effective
workers for the national defense of
colored people. Also, the work of
the Nationay Association for
the
Advancement of Colored People has
a special bearing on the welfare of
colored women. The Association's
fight against degrading intermarri.
age laws, for example, has been made
for the purpose o f promoting inter,
racial marriage or for promoting
any marrage at all, but for the pur
pose of protecting colored women
against legal discriminations and
fiVin being made
legitimate and
public prey by the males of stronger
.gikiups. Such discriminations bear
down on the females of the weaker
group, and are mostly meant for
that purpose. Such laws offer im .
[munity to the rich and the powerful-
They never protect the weak.
It is to the eternal credit of col
ored men o f America that they are
(fppnscd to
such legal discrimina
tions. It shows that Negro men
,havc no fear o f the eompition of
.white men. It is queer anomaly
that white men, who are solely re
sponsible for practically all interra
cial mixture, are the one* "opposed”
to the liberty o f marriage,—while
colored men, who have "stayed In
their own back yard", are sincerely
opposed to artificial and discrimM
natory interference.
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Lee Brown of 282 N. 18th st. was
fined $50 Tuesday in the police court
for the possession of liquor.
New York, N. Y. Au«. 1— Re*,
i ponding to cordial invitation* exten
ded by the Cleveland Branch of the
N. A. A C. P., seconded hy the Cin.
I cianati, Columbus and Dayton Bran-
i ches, a* well as by Governor Vtc
[ Donahey o f Ohio, and by Mayor
I John D Marshall and City Manager
William R. Hopkins of Cleveland
the Twentieth Annual Conference of
the N A. A C. P will be held in
| June, 1829 in the Ohio city.
The
first largely attended of the annual
l meetings of the Association which
have come to be such important e-_
vents' in the life of the Negro, was
held in Clevelsnd in 1919 when the
Tenth Annual Conference met there
and it is the desire of the Cleveland
Branch to entertian the Conference
j every ten years. The Branches and
| Officials of Ohio and Cleveland have
assured «he N A A. C P. that eve.
. . . . . . . .
..
ry effort will be made to insure the
Twentieth Annual Conference being
even more successful than the nota
ble gatherings of recent years
GO OSENECK
M cDO NALD
BOLTS H O OVER T IC K E T
Dallas, Texas August 2,—W M
"Gooseneck Bill" MacDonald, who
was unstated by the Creagcr I fly
White
_____ _ Republican faction at the Kan-
sa* City Convention, has announced
that he and his friends will bolt the
.Hoover ticket in November Thlr
dry Democrats of Texas are bolting
tbc Smith ticket. "Gooseneck Bill"
admit, the colored defection is one
of revenge against the cowardly con
nivance of the G. O. P. in the Demo
cratic race persecution.
E xecutive
W o u ld
R e v o k e P ardon
(By William Pickens)
Nobody knows that the south is
surprised to hear that the governor
of South Carolina is endeavorng to
revoke the pardon o f Ben Bes, and
so "save the face” of that state. A
white woman had Ben Bess sent to
the penitentiary 13 years ago, for a
term of 30 years, on a charge of
"rape," although she had been liv
ing adultery with him under the con
sent of her husband, for years. R e.
cently this woman, thinking she was
about to die,
confessed the truth
and had Bes, pardoned.
Newspapers all over the world
used her contession as a fair exam
ple, indicating how innocent Ne_
grocs can’ be convicted on the word
of white people in the South.
) But—immediately the south was
aroused. South Carolina in particu
lar. It would never do to 1st the
world know that a white woman who
had sent a Negro to jail on a charge
of rape, later confessed that she had
simply been that Negro’s paramour,
with the consent of her husband,—
and that she and her husband had
decided to frame the Negro in re.
vengc for the Negro’s decision not
to support the two of them any long>-
cr, No, no; it would look to bad
for the "superiority" pretensions for
the white, to allow a thing like that
to come out.
And *0 the state "detectives” got
busy.
They no doubt threatened
to put this weak woman into the
penctentiary. Finally she "confess,
cti" again: that she only meant to
"forgive” Ben Bess for what he had
“ done” to her, not to say he was not
fg'uilty.
B
This poor woman,— we pity her
more than we do Bess. Perhaps the
governor and the civilization of
South Carolina ought to be pitied
even more.
So, the governor decides to revoke
a pardon,—an unhead of proerdure.
The awful case was so much com
mented on by the whole world that
South Carolina’s face must be saved,
even if this poor weak woman', soul
must be damned by another lie.
(Well we are not a bit surprised.
IRathcr have we been looking for
this. W e wonder how the truth ev.
er slipped by them in the first place. .
WIDE NEGRO ART CONTEST
Mr* I s s r s .-w ttr e f Dr. &. L. La.
of Atlantic City, N. J., formrly of
this city, spent four days in the city
New York City, N. Y A ugl— Rev
this week, en route home from Lot
A. G. Taylor, pastor of the American
Angeles where she has been visiting
Catholic Church, was the target for
her sister and friends. Mrs. Lucas
thugs last week, when it became
also visited at her old home in Mon
known that the minister had been
treal, Canada and met her brother,
delivering a seric, of sermons on the
Mr Medley whom she has not seen
evils of bootleg establishments in
for many years. Mr. Medley ser.
Harlem.
.f
ved in the W orld War "over there”
N’*w York, N. Y. Aug. 1,— A prize
I As he left bis basement church,
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and it was one of Mrs. Lucas great-
of $250 offered by an anonymous
the minister was set upon by four . . . .
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>st desires» to see him on this trip
patron, will be awarded the best en.
■men, among whom was Edward
'$he left Wedne-day night for Chi.
try at the second nation-wide exhi.
Nichols. Flghtin.q off bis assailants,
cago where she will spend a few days
bition of the art productions of A ,
'he minister made his way across the
with her sister and thence to Atlan
By Kits Reid
street where a police officer, Patrol
mencan Negroes, to be held at In-
tic City where she hopes to see Mr.
man Scott, was standing. Hearing
terantional House, 500 Riverside
W. D. Allen, her brother in law and
the minister's complaint, the police
his three children who are spend- 1 The Advocate does not necessarily Drive, New York, January 3 to 15,
man refused to aid him, stating that
ing a few day, at the Lucae home. share in Kits Reid's view*, bat whetb- 1929. This exhibition if s p o o red
proper complaint should be register
Mrs. Lucas is as charming a ever rr we do or not. ber opinions are by the Harmon Foundation in co_
ed at the police station.
and her friends here were most hap tane, and logical and well worth operation with the Commission on
reading. It is your privilege as well as
Later, officer Joseph Scott was
py to greet her. Mrs. J. R. Charles, ours to disagree with Kits and she the Church and Race Relations of
called into the case and upon inves-
ton of 931 Rodney Ave., showed Mrs invites your opinion upon subjects the Federal Council of Churches.
tigation disdbvered that tb
»bugs
.
. Lucas many courtesies with her car she discusses frota time to time in her The prize will be conferred upon
were annoying the R ev Taylor and an<, Mrf w
H Rutherford enter. column.
the artist who in the opinion of the
Mireatening h.s life Returning to u i „ ed , coterie o( friendi
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jury has entered the finest single
the church about nine that night,
¡n her honor
I saw no mention in our daily pa work of art. A similar prize pro
three of them assulted the minister
pers of the outcome of the sail of vided by the $ame donor was grant,
who fought them off, severely
Mme . Schwimmer against F r e d
ed last year to Sargent Johnson, a
wounding one. Scott rushed upon
Marvin' h e a d of an organization
the scene as soon as he heard the W riter Thinks Courtesy known as "the Key Men of Ameri sculptor of Berkeley, California.
i^m trt
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The work of the Negroes from all
noise and eallr# to them
to stop
ca". The suit was against the New
of the country is to be shown at the
They failed not to heed the warning
York Commercial and the aforesaid
Greatest N eed
and the policeman then L/ed, strik
superpatriot, Mr. M a r v i n at that exhibition, according to a statement
ing Nichols. Nichol, was taken to
time an e d i t o r i a l writer on that made by the Harmon Foundation
the Harlem hospital for treatment
newspaper.
He c a l l e d
Mm e . today.^
849 36th Street
and confined in the prison ward for
"The exhibit is confined this year
Schwimmer a German spy and a
further hearing.
Oakland, California.
¡Gcfcnmunist. and ¿hat gentle remark to persons who have entered their
Because he had taken several ver
July 31, 1928.
cost him $17,000.00 under a verdict productiong in the Award in Fine
bal shots at the immortality of H or. Mr. Robert S. Abbott
Arts of the Hannon Awards for
of the New York Supreme Court.
lem, tfsc openness o f speak-easies, Editor, Chicago Defender
Distinguished Achievement Among
number playing, and other promis. 3435 l ndiana Avenue
,KegTocs or those who have previ
Mr Marvin spent some time this
cuous gambling on the streets, the Chicago. Illinois,
past week advising the Portland ously received one o f these awards,”
lewd and vulgar language of the , ,
,
Chamber of Commerce a , to the e- aaid Mary Beattie Brady, the Direc.
younger folk of the town, rtie Rev. ‘ J ear
r' ^ ° ,t:
Taylor has received threatening let-
Under the heading, W H\ vils of immigration. N o t e (I f cer tor. "W e are giving opportunity
ters, but he declared his intention of DRUG STORES FAIL, on your j tain restrictions had been applied for extensive presentation by chang
preaching right on and if the law editorial page of your issue of July during the days of Mr. Marvin's an ing the date for final entry until a f.
didn't protect him, he would take 28th, it seems to me you omitted in cestors, he probably would not be ter the vacation peariod. All appli
hi, case down town to the mayor's word, one of the most essential re- called upon now to pay $17,000.00 cations and nominations of candidat.
quisites conductive to success in any b e c a u s e he does not like Mme es must be in the bands of Dr. Geo.
Schwimmer.) He c l a i m s to have E. Haynes, Secretory of the Com-
.We ll bet those state "detectives’* lin* ° / busines* » Person can have,
solved the problem of immigration mision, 105 Eazt 22nd Street, New
never got wind of the fact that the an“ tbat '* Courtesy. If that word
in a scientific way. He wants to York, N. Y. by September 10, 1928.
woman was about to confess, or she >vas kept constantly before our peo.
keep "America for the Americans."
‘'The entire group of the awards,
ple by an influential publication like
would never have got the chance.
Well, yes —sounds very lofty but— which cover seven fields of creative
A few years ago in Arkansas a ine Chicago Defender I believe there
the Indians tried to do that in the Work, has conceived by the late
Negro wa, about to be hung for would be far less failures among o«r
days of the Colohists wl<> in those
William E. Hannon through his
"raping" a white woman. But a few group.
days were rebels against their king.
days before the execution the wo
If you are a smoking man go in to , They “ fit, bled and died” because of interest in the economic develop».,
man (women are superior in consci. one of the United Cigars stores,
ment of the American Negro. A
the propaganda of the Indians a-
ence to men) repented and went to spend five cents, and then go in to
gainst the “alien forces". Later these gold medal with an bonorium of
the governor and told him that the
one of our cigars stores and spend (same rebels fought against the En $400 and a bronze medal with $100
whole charge of "rape” grew out of
$1 00 and see which one you would glish King’s redcoats because they will be iven in *»ch of the fields of
the fact that some white men ran
Should you did not want to be taxed against literature, music, me- arts, business
across her and this colored man in rather go into again.
happen
to
be
a
stranger,
this is the their wills. In those days they were including industry, science includ
the act of kissing each other, and
attitude
as
a
rule:
Customer
walk, plain rebels against the authority of ing invention, edqration and relig.
that she .had acquiesced in the
their native country. Now we build ¡ou, service. This is the third year
charge o f rape to save her own re- in— clerk looks at you—you ask for
putation,—and that she and the man what ou want—if they have got it monuments to these brave P A T R I of the series o f awards. Provisi<$n
had been living toether for 15 years they will wrap it up although in ma O T S who fought for “ freedom of for their continuance was made by
in d would have been married, if ny cases you have to ask them to ■conscience to worship God as. they Mr. Harmon prior to his death, ac
they had lived in a civilized state.
wrap it up— hand it to you or lay it pleased. And their descendants in cording to the plan which had been
The governor tried his best to on the counter—pick up our money these days of the twentieth Century worked out
bully her out of this confession, but rjng it up— if there is no change go about the country villifying ev
the woman had been wise in that coming you go one way and the clerk ery oher person. Fighting for free
W O R L D W A R V ETERAN S
case: she had gone and confessed to thf oth^n,—and thev really expect dom of conscience. W e are called
traitors, un-American, Communists,
other prominent white and colored you to come back.
There are many W orld W ar Vet
people first and took a delegation a_ |
rnTTBTFCV an«. * disloyal, and every other name that
long when she went «0 confess be-
*ust 8 «'»tie C O U R TESY goes a indicates antagonism against the erans in Portland who are members
gospel o f these tin gods of things of The American Legion. And why
fore the governor,—otherwise she i *on8 waYs ' n business,
might have been simply confined as \
Very truly yours,
not .when they are accorded all the
an insane, person,— until after the 1
U. G. COOKSEY,
rights and priviliges by the war de
(Continued on page three)
execution was over. EVen then the j
partment that is accorded other vet
governor refused to act, and the
erans? No greater appreciatioin for
friends o f civilization had to resort W A L T E R W H IT E BACK HOME
these privileges could be shown for
toa habeas corpus in a Federal court
the
opportunity and the service they
W YA TT W . W ILLIAM S
to save this innocent man's life.
were able to render to their country
New York, Aug. 1—Walter White
The present governor of South who has been on leave o f absence
than to become a member of the A-
Attorney at Law
Carolina found it impossible to pun.
merican Legion. Wm. Gilmer and
for a year, has resumed his duties
ish anybody for the beastly triple
several veterans are planing to get
as Assistant Secretary of the Nation,
With Julius Silvestone,
lynching of a woman and two boys
together at meetings in the near
at Association for the Advancement
at Aiken, 5. C., But the governor is
523-524 Lumbermens Bldg. future.
full o f righteousness when it comes of Colored People, it was announced
today
from
the
National
Office
of
to punishing poor, beaten, robl^-d
Attorney and Counselor
James Madley of Salem, a World
the Association, 69 Fifth Avenue,
and plundered Ben Bess.
,War veteran was in the city for
Phones: Br 0635—Sell. 6260
New York. Mr. White's leave of
several 4 *y* this week while enroute
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enab'e
Portland.
Oregon
t
0 Pendleton to attend the American
to accept the Fellowship award-
Legion Convention.
Given by
cd him by John simon Guggenheim
■Memorial Foundation "for creative
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¡•writing in France for one year.’
Nine months o f his leave was spent
and
Res. Phone Ea. 8983
Office Phone Br. 8967
Ne Plus Ultra Club No. 408
in France. For the past three months ]
Mr. White has been back in the Uni.
Court o f Calanthe
i ted States K»*bering data relating
to the economic and political life of
Monday Nite, Aug. 6
the Negro.
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