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SECTION I.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SA T U R D A Y , JU LY 8. 1930 .
PRICE: FIVE CENTS
NEGRO BAPTITS HOLD CONVENTION HERE
ELAN STAGES DEMONSTRATION TO SCARE RACE
MANY DELEGATES TO
ATTEND SESSIONS
Ml. Olivet dim reti to He
II on I
IN FIRST SECTY m s
MASONS TO BUILD NINE SIX LYNCHED
MONTHS IT 1930
S E N S E A£ f D
MASONS MEET
to Wu»ll¡ll|(tOI|o
Oregon Clmrrlie*.
Announcement I* made by Dr. J.
I- Casluii, |>aalor, that the Ml Hamicr
Baptist Association made up of all the
Baptist Churches weal of the Cas­
cade a in Washington and Oregon, will
meet with Ml Ohvcl Baptist church,
I aal T irat and Schuyler atreela, here
July a to 13 inclusive. Seventy-five del­
egates and viailora are expected. The
Aaeocialinn will include the Sunday
School, Young People's and Women's
Horne and Foreign Missionary depart-
■iienta.
The program call» for an informal
meeting of the delegates Tueaday night
July a Wednesday morning the ses­
sion will be given over to the Young
People's work with Mrs. Uelle Henry
presiding A symposium on "The It
Y P. U." will lie one of the features
and a sermon delivered by the Rev.
S W Franklin, a pioneer minister of
the Northwest will be the other. The
Sunday School Convention, with Wc
W Caamon, in the chair, will con­
duct a symposium in the afternoon on
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“ Sliur|i IVnril Hoys”
Figure High FinaiHTH
Vi i 11 1 P 11 1 > 1 1 » M a rk e t
Here ia a lesson in high finance that
we poor dumb bells learn from the
sharp pencil boys promoting the new
private market corporation They are
trying to put over a market building
on F'ronl Street if they ran induce the
City Council to legislate our Yamhill
Street Markrt into the aforcaaid ‘'mil­
lion dollar" private market
F'irst of all these sharp pencil, high-
finance boya are going to pay the
city $13,000 a year for the farmer
stalls privilege Out of the $r .*.000 the
city pays out over one-fourth for sal­
— Please turn to page 4—
aries, which leaves us approximately
MOOO net
The promoters will rent a large
number of stoles for which they will
receive big money.
This we don't
begrudge them, as it is their privilege
£hcn they are going to rent 342 stalls
to the farmt-ra. That ¡a where you
and I come in
Aa consumer!, we
"pay the freight."
The farmers are to pay 33 rents to
II no per day for the stalli. At 33
By Kits Reid
cents a day this amounts to the enor­
mous sum of $36,30* 30 per year. At
the maximum of l i no per day, this
The Advocate does not neceaaarily
chare in Kits Reid's views, bat wheth- amounts to $I04.3!0. do per year. If
ir we do or not. her opinions are you strike an average between the 33
cane, and logical and wall worth ernta and It oo per day rate, the rent­
reading. It is roar privilege aa wall as
out a to disagree with Kits and -aha al fesr the farmers stalls reaches the
invites roar opinion upon subiects gigantic sum o( 170,40V 23 per year
, discusses front time to time in her This means that we will h u e to pay
sh e.
lumn.
colmi
two and three timet the price of veg-
rtablrs and farm produce than we are
Almut 33 of the younger set, includ now paying (Tf you don't approve of
mg dispermia, met at the home of Mr. this, bring all your friends to the City
und Mts. léonard Croce white, t03T llatl on Wednesday afternoon, July
Division Street, Monday evening and V, at 2 ini I’ M ) This rental can be
gate Mrs. J L. Cation one of the meet changed after two y e a rs-y o u can
pleasant surprise birthday parties of the guess the rest revision upward!
season.
Delicious refreshments were __________________ ________
«erved and Mrs. Cation was presented |
with a «gfjf pretty purse at a token of McCLOUD, CAL.,
their esteem in honor of her natal day
IS HOST TO
She was also the recipient of several
other personal gifts and beautiful cards
CONFERENCE
Arrow
After reading the Coolidgc effusions
on the front page of The Oregonian, I
marvel more than 1 did last week at
the waste of valuable space. Soothing-
syrup just plain soothing-syrup. Not
the g o o d old fashioned brand, ritber.
The kind that was warranted to bring
sleep to the crying baby and peace to
the wearied mother and father. This
Coolidge brand of toothing syrup will
have no such effect. Its purpose it to
transparent that I wonder it passed the
financial syndicate's chemists. First, it
says we must take it in large enough
doses to stop our howling about hard
times, and the first dose must he fol­
lowed by another dose which will so
liemintb the faculties that we shall have
faith in "our country, our people, our
civil and religious institutions." Then in
case we survive the opiate in the two
(loses, Nurse Coolidge gave us on Tues­
day and discontent twists our tummy all
up again in tile colic of distrust and
doubt, he gives us a larger dose on
Wednesday and pats us on the lack and
The District Conference of the Cas­
cade District o( the Oregon-W ashing-
ton conferences of the African Metho­
dist Episcopal /io n church convened
at McCloud, California. July 2 to A
with the Rt. Rev. J W. Martin, bis­
hop presiding Rev. T. Allen Harvey
ol Sacramento j s the presiding Elder
of the Conferences. Am ong the de­
partments of tlie church represented
on the program are the Sunday school,
Varick Christian Fmdeavor, the W o ­
man's Home and Foreign Missionary
Societies, the Y*S and Huds of Promise.
District officers include, Miss Charity
Harris /io n represrnative, Mrs. K.
Gray, Mrs. I.. M. Rird, Mrs. R. If.
Camp, Mrs C F. I.ovell and Mrs. M
fitter
Mrs. Beatrice Cannady was
elected to represent the Varick Soci­
ety with Miss J Mills alternate. The
last sessions of the Conference will
be held at F'irst A. M. E. Zion church
at Portland, F'riday, Saturday and Sun­
day,
(Colored Manonic Lodge
of Western State* Plan
Fine Modern Building
The 27lh Annual Communication of
the Most Worshipful United Grand
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of
Washington and Jurisdiction will con­
Winlock, Wash., July I.— Plans have
vene in Portland July 14 to 1A inclu­
been announced for the erection near
sive F'ntcrpritc Lodge of Masons of
Evaiine, north o f Winlock, by the
Portland have made elaborate plans for
Masonic lodges of the states o f Wash-
the entertainment of the delegates and
I ington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, of
gursts who wi|J be here to attend this
a home for the aged and infirm members
annual meet
Interesting programs
of their Rare, and others deserving of
cornplrtrly fill the two-days' session
j their care. Reported cost of the first
with a grand reception to be held unit of the home is placed at $33,(100.
Tuesday evening July 13 at the Filks
The proposed home ia to serve the
Temple. Phil Reynolds is the Dep­ needs o f the Northwestern states named
uty Grand Master; Joseph T. Simms, The site which was chosen includes a
Grand Master; Robert Bird, Grand no acre tract half a mile east of the
Treasurer; Fred U. Harris, Grand Sec- Evalinc store, on the south side o f the
retary; R H. Gray, Grand Lecturer Meier road. About five acres of the
and W. H. Wilson, C. of C. on F.C. tract have already been cleared
I.ate in April, Master J. C. Sims of
Yfkima, Trustee Wiliams of Seattle,
Trustee G. N. White, Portland, and
Lillian Evunli I*
Grand Secretary F. U. Harris Tacoma,
Acciaimeli at Najtle* inspected the property,
Naples. Italy, July 1—A. N P .)—
Mine. Lillian Flvanti, who has had con­
cert triumphs both in America and also
abroad, won the praise of critical Italian
l‘T",r ..... naU whfn ,he W r e d here ini Oscar DePrieat. Congreaaman from
' Rapprevrntarion.
Straordmaria."
I1KnoU who w„
in effigy ln
which she sang ,he title role of Open, Birmia|gham> A u „ . fcw
by
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the Ku Klux Klan
The City Audi-
Her operatic debut, which climax*» a
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tonum was refuted the local commit-
kjnf period of fttudjr under foreign mast
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ers. was commented upon by lead,-,, ««* of colormf m « , ^ H u o n n g Mr. De-
It,'*u. papers, one of which is a. U
|ow (
Pn“ * 1 Wcn,r* ,n
a t*
Mr
Prieat although warned by the Klan
"Last night, the Signor,na Lilliana
Evanti was warmly feasted by the pub
Ik and deservedly so, in the role of
“ Violetta" in "La Traviata." Her part,
in truth, gives full value to her voice,
which is well modulated and true to
pitch
She ga\e to the personage a
combination o f poetry and dramatk feel
ing, with a style full of grace and o f
Iwauty. She was greatly applauded at
the end of each act and at all of the
high points."
not *° •PP*ar « Birmingham.
th«
ha ia going to keep hia engagement
there.
MABLE BYRD
VISITS OLD HOME
Miss Mahle Byrd is expected to arrive
in Fortland early this month for a visit
with relatives and friends Miss Byrd,
whose hixnc is in Fortland, was the first
secretary of the Williams Ave. Y. Wr.
C. A. She later served as secretary of
a New York "Y " and since that time
has spent much of Iter time abroad. She
will be widely feted during her visit in
Fortland, as she has a host of friends
who are happy to have her home again.
MISS HURBARI)
IN RECITAL
Become« N. A. A. C. P.
“ Life Member”
Miss Barbara Hubbard was among
the pupils of Paul Hutchinson, presented
in recital last Monday evening at the
Sunnysidc Congrcgatioal Church, to an D O N T SPEN D Y O U R M O N E Y
appreciative audience. She sang "Only W H E R E Y O U C A N N O T W O R K I
a Rose” from the Boatman Lover, by
Friell, and was ably accompanied on the
FOR RENT—Two-story unfurnished
piano by Miss Helen Grant. Miss Hub­
bard, who possesses a rich soprano voice, house. S i a m . 7.18 Tillamook St. Phone
was beautiful received by the guests who Atwater 9840.—Ad.
gave her number much applause. A
large number o f her intimate friends
were present to hear her. Miss Hub­
bard was quite charming in a pretty
creation of green organdy. She is the
only Colored pupil studying with Mr.
Hutchinson. The recital of artist pupils
marked the close of the season. Miss
Hulibard plans to renew her work with
Mr. Hutchinson after vacation.
Make
Por Hand’s
Own
Rev. and Mrs, W. R. Lovell, Mrs.
The Advocate acknowledges with ap­
Mary Johnson, Louise Ballard, and Ida preciation complimentary tickets to the
l-ovell, spent Tuesday at the Johnson opening of Lotus Isle, F'alonia, Ore.,
W H E R E Y O U C A N N O T W O R K ! Ranch.
as the special guest of its manager, T.
H. F'slick, in the beautiful Peacock Ball
Room, last Saturday afternoon. Lotus
Hpend your Hummer vacation at . . .
Isle is really the "most ambitious amuse­
ment and recreation enterprise ever at
SUNFLOWER CAMP
tempted in Oregon, and it is hoped that
its popular promoter will not he dis­
J. W. Curry, Owner
HEA8IDE, OREGON
appointed in attaining the success he has
Itextfiil Swings Croquet— Horseshoe Throwing
predicted for it.
spf : n d
YOUR
M ONEY
and Fishing Within 100 Feet of Camp
Furnished Cottages and Furnished Tents
fo r Rent!
Mrs. Madelyn Flowers Will He There to Serve
You at Any Time Pay or Night That You Arrive
Dahlia Temple, No. 202, I B. P. O.
D. E. of W. has a A0 day dispensation
during which time it hopes to enroll a
number of new members. This popular
fraternal order is ruled over by Mrs.
Pauline Young,
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, July
KLAN SAYS EQUALITY
,— According to the records compiled
at Tuskegee Institute in the Depart-
Springfield, Mass, July I—That the
OF WORKERS “ BAD
ment of Records and Research ip the American Negro is able not alone to
first six months of 1130 there were maintain and defend but even to "im-
BUSINESS”
9 lynchingt. This number it 3 more prove" white civilization was the as-
that the number 4 for the first six sertion last night (W ednesday) of
months of 1929; 4 more that the num Colonel J. FI Spin gam, of New York,
Birmingham, Ala., July 3— (C N A )-
ber 3 for the first six months o f 192* addressing the opening mass meeting
Several thousand leaflets distributed
and is the same number as the 9 for of the National Asociation for the Ad-
by the masked parade o f 300 Ku Klux
the first six months of 1925. 192A and vancement of Colored People whose
Klanmen through the Negro section
1927. is 4 more tjian the number for the 21st Annual Conference just closed
o f this city last Thursday are unique
same period in 1924, A less that 1923. here.
confessions of the business interests
21 less than 192f and 27 less than 192!
'The white Sputh is forever talking , b^ck^” f~t'his
attempt at terror. The
All figures are for the first six months o f being the defender of a white civi-
leaflets, printed in red ink, with an
o f the years mentioned.
lization,” declared Colonel Spingarn,
A.F.L. union label on cardboard, read:
O f the persons lynched 1 was white "endangered by the threat of 'Negro
KU K L U X K LAN TO N E G R O E S!
and 8 were Negroes
The charges supremacy.’ "
But the last twenty
.."F oreg in and northern agitators are
were rape, 3; murder, J; bombing o f a years have shown that the Negro is
in Birmingham teaching social equali­
house,1; slaying landlord in altercation ,able to maintain and defend our white
ty among whites and blacks.
over debt, t ; Attempted rape, 1.
civilization— yes, even to improve it.
"Alabama laws guarantee the su­
The in which the lynchings oceured
Colonel Spingarn said in his address
premacy of the white race by prohibit­
are as follow s; Flordia, 1: Georgia, l ; l that the past twenty-one years during |*
ing mixed marriages.
Mississippi. 1; Oklahoma. 1; South which the Association has been active
"A vast majority of southern Ne­
“ are perhaps the most epoch-making
Carolina, 2; Texas, 3.
groes know that social equality d o c ­
period in the bistory of the Negro
trine is "bad business" and are advis­
race," and continued;
ing their friends to leave alone the
“ Individual Negroes throughout the
Communists and their like.
SOLDIER DISCHARGED course
of history have attained dis-
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. i “The agitator* should be sent back
tinction and msny held political of-1
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AFTER 15 YEARS’
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. ‘ to * • north, or to Russia. See that
t tec during the Reconstruction period
with the help of white bayonets. But • “ Alabama
SERVICE
ia the beat tu ta in the
j the last twenty years have seen the
Union for good Negroes, and one ot
Negro take his full place in a white
the worst states (or bad Negroes.
| civilization for the first time in his-
. “Think it over—A ct!"
Letter sent by an ex-soldier to Mr.
itory—in every field of activity.—and
Pickens, and which Mr. Pickens has
The Negro workers are openly told
win his victories by his own force and
sent on, in copy, to the Secretary of
the “ white race ia to be supreme.”
, by the methods devedoped by the
War:
They are threatened, "Alabama ia one
white civilization itself.
Tuscon. A riz, June IS. 1930. , „ „
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of the worst states for bad Negroes,”
Dr Wm Pickens -
How sha11 ,lus * reat work be fur_ and the remark about "social equality
Dear Sir: I am now sending you me theT d« * clop<'d5 U t Ne*ro radicali ¡doctrine ia bad busineaa" gives away
renson why I left the army after serving
w» h wh“ e rad,caJ*- bot lrt [more than is meant It is “ bad busi­
13 years.
them not dream o f handing over a |
ness," bad for the exploiting busineta
Just a few days before I was dis wholf racc *° * "* one fonn o f Pol,ti men and landlords of the South when
charged they gave me the blank and in cal or
doftna ”
Negro and white workers unite to
formed me that I would have to fill it
fight low wages, and lynch terror.
out before I could rc-enlist and I said I
Threaten Death for Equality
would quit before I would sign where gf^KS GIVE THEIR
The parade was conducted in auto-
fe w uld hair
'*or*‘ - Captain
A W 1 I A I P A R T Y mobiles and carried an effigy of Tom
c :
,my w,fJ r° T e rac
annual pa r ty
(ohns„n ComraUBj,t P, rty di5tmt or.
sign and for her to work for her and
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ginzer and Oscar D ePnest Negro re-
New York, June 27.—Dr. E. A. Ken­
l
^ ** 'J . r0° P .
Thf new Elks Temple on Williams
congressman. The Klansmen
dall, presidlnl of the Woodmen of the
I was also talking wuh some of the Avenut „„d McMillen streets was the i ^ ^ d through the Negro Section.
Union, one of the very large fraternal , h
,>C! ,Cr y.’„ *™V thtT. *° d m ,1.,hal
»erne of a ver* pretty dancing party of town Graymont, North Birmingham
orslers o f this country, with headquart­
4 k
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the Elk. Lodge gave Barmash and N^rthside. having started
ers at Hot Springs, Ark., has taken out to the hoanitaMhrv I ' l "l J* '
i,s *nnual Summer entertainment The from ,j,e center 0 ( town w jthin a block
a life membership in the National Asso to the hospital they ask whatever they Dlxje S|ro0er# orchestra of which Bert
of the Federal Building. It stopped at
m in lg cr. furn,she<! the mu.-
dation for the Advancement of Colored have to say m the presence o f mej, or T
Collegeville School, Jim Crow public
whoever „
the waning room. They fc for
0£CMion. The
People.
school for Negro children, and on the
also give employees the very best of
successful from every angle and is a school grounds burned the effigies at
quarters and enlisted men and their
erunne. o f the brilliant opening re- ffic stake.
families get what ever they can get and
ception and ball which the Elks and
C M. A. STORES
Over the ashes were erected signs:
there is a large number o f them that
have families and they won't let them Daughters will stage in the near fu­ “ Here lies the body o f Negro DePriest
BEAT THE TARIFF come in post because their wives won't ture.
— He belived in social equality” ; and
“ Here lies the. body o f white Tom
work for an officer for small wages.
Johnson— He b^Jived in social equality”
Now, if there is anything else you
The Saturday, following the parade,
New York City. July 1 (By N. N B. want to ask me, I will be glad to an­ SAYS INDIVIDUAL
the Negro and white workers of Bir­
L P. S ) —During the process of nego swer if I can.
Sincerely your«,
mingham answered this threat by mob­
tiations between a New York sugar
ATTITUDES CAN
ilizing in hundreds on Capital Park and
broker and the Harlem C. M. A. Stores,
(Signed)
Harvey M. Lee.
the tariff bill passed the house. In an
END RACE DISPUTE cheering speakers for the Communist
tinpation of a rise in price following the
Party and th? Trade Union Unity
President's signature, a good buy
League.
sugar was hastily consummated. The Negro Chairman at
Oberlin, Ohio, July 1.—That the wo­
very next day, as expected, the price
men attending the third general Inter-
Madison Square Meet
advanced, but the C. M. A. Stores were
Racial Conference o f Church Women at
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
protected
Oberlin College could themselves revo-
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d o n t
E
NEGRO IMPROVES
WHITE CIVILIZATION
. ERECT A NEW HOME
“ Black Be ll*”
TRIES TO BREAK DP
Store
- Your
Shopping
Headquarters
(
New York, July 1 (C N A )— A Negro
chairman, in the person of J. W. Ford,
presided over a mass meeting of more
than 13,000 workers in the huge Madison
Square Garden building of this city on
Friday night. The occasion was the o f­
ficial opening o f the Seventh National
Convention o f the Communist Party.
REV. T. ALLEN HARVEY
VISITS PORTLAND
Rev. T. Allen Harvey, presiding El­
der of the Oregon Washington and
California Conferences of the A. M
E. /io n church was a visitor in Port­
land Sunday, preaching twice at the
local Zion church. While in Portland
he was the house guest of Mrs. L. M
Bird, A8t Gantenhicn Avenue. Mon­
day he was the guest at dinner of Mr.
and Mrs. R, H, Camp. Rev. Harvey
left Tuesday for McCloud to attend
the District Conference.
Dr. A. L. Howarth, white, former dis­
trict superintendent of the Methodist
churches of Portland, has been chosen to
head nationally a $«,000,000 campaign in
M ialf of Negro educational institutions
of-tbe denomination.
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lutionire the world in its attitudes on
race problems, was the challenging state­
ment of Dr. Leslie Pinckney Hill, in the
closing address of the conference.
Dr Hill, who is principal of the Chey-
ney Training School for Teachers, near
Philadelphia, went on to show that the
attitude of white American women tour-
ists in Europe is responsible for grow-
ing discrimination shown to Negroes in
London, Paris and Rome, where form
erly they had real freedom of action, and
no amount of education, cultural train­
ing and experience or money can make
the American Negro really free in his
native country.
While recognizing the need o f group
study and action. Dr. Hill stated that it
is after all, the attitude of the individual
that settles the great social problems of
the world and he urged his hearers to
adopt this pledge, "Where I stand all
shall be right.”
BOYS ARRIVE AT
CAMP SAFELY
News Letter No. 2 ot Spirit Lake
Camp, tinder date o f July t, has been
received at our desk. It carries a list
of the boys in camp. Among the S3
boys are listed the names o f Philip
Moore and Clifford Flowers. They oc­
cupy Elk Praric Cabin. Ivan Cannady,
who is an old-timer, is a member of
Pine Creek Cabin household. Phillip
and Clifford went up Saturday, June 28.
OF “ THE ADVOCATE”
IS INVITED
New Y’ ork, July 3—Some of the Ne­
gro officers of the Tenth U. S. Cavalry
situated at F ort Huachua, in Arizona,
hav( extended, on behalf of the men of
the regiment an invitation to William
Pickens to come as soon as possible
for lectures to the Tenth Cavalry. It
is said that the men would join the N.
A.A.C.P. by the hundred, if Mr. Pic­
kens would coqie.
One member of the regiment writes:
“ You certainly did a lot o f good by
the visit you paid us in March. Peo­
ple outside forget the men in the army,
when rendering social service.
"N oby else could have expressed
the situation as you have done it. Since
you wrote the President, the men who
are re-enlisting this year for another
term, are not required to sign up that
their wives will be servants to the
white women "
Charles Hart is the name of a young
man from Independence, Oregon who
is a visitor in the city. Mr. Hart has
considerable literary ability as a writer
of short stories and poetry.
Some of hi* works have appeared in
the Oregon Daily Journal.
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