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PORTLAND, OREGON, S A T U R D A Y . S E K T K M B E K 20, mo
lu Two SrrtioiiH
PR IC E: F IV E CENTS
CHARGE RUSSIA WITH AMERICAN NEGRO UNREST
ASSOCIATON DRAFTS ANTI-LYNCHING MEASURE
MUK
IK . L o cal
W o m a n Dies A t Seventy Y rs.|
■urn m u s
THE HONORS
NEGRO HEALTH
The entire istur of the Journal of
New W ifi Sc|»t |i
1 he New the < >uliloor lif e for S«|>lcnil>cr, 1930
Yorker, a brightly
weekly. «*1 1 » it «Icvtilrtl lo the Ne^ro an«l tulicrcu
a mean dig tin« week at (he Km* dis Inftit
It is a very interesting as well
patches lo «he New York Time« which 1 as informing issue ami no doubt will
charge lhal Ku»»ia t» making Negroea lind many interested readers amoiiu
rMtlrM throughout the world
The the colored race
The Advocate is
X A.A.C.P relays «he following com* ■ indebted to I>r Dt Norval Unthank for
I
iiien« Iron) the New Yorker
a copy
The L ira) Riga dispatch {via Lon-
iloa) u lhal the Soviet u bu»y aiir-
r>i>K U|> unreel among the Negro in«»
ASKETCH
tee in Africa and America
It would
»eelti lhal America wa« doing well j Hy A lbert Ila r i, I ndc fendent t. OrtH‘>n
«lining her Negro m a n r i, withoui any
help (roll! Ihe S o v ie t“
I wunder if tire little liny
ADVOCATE EDITOR
SPEAKS IN WASHINGTON
Mrs Beatrice iaitn ady addressed
Minnehaha l »ranne Wednesday night
at Minnehaha. Washington
Her suh
>t t » %wa*
*1 * e
Negro, ah V ic t o r
ui
the ( J u e s t tW Worltl l'e tte "
More
than 210 person» were present anti
Rave her au ovation
Mesdames K.
I Jamison and Mise Kcynolds ac
companied Mrs C annady The ladies
of the (¡range presented the speaker
vs ith two large bouquet* of (ìladioli
ami Dahlia*
y. S, MARINE
MRS. f f l PASSES LONG SERVICEABLE I K IN '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
NUMEROUS ACTIVITIES IN H U A N D
i^LLS COWS TO
” PAY TIDIES
TO
I'nrttaiid’s outstanding oocial and
musical event of the year will he com
bined on October V when thr U. S.
.Marine Hand will offer two concerts
at Ihe Public Auditorium.
It is to he expected that Portland
will turn out in l i n n to hear this
world famous band
The U. S Mar
ine Hand stand» out today as the pre
mier musical organization of the en
tire world
And *ince President Je f
Who drive» the heifer» util tu grate
ferson's day it. has led the nation's
I lie ever heard God ill Ihe «urig
social functions.
Of wood bird»—«« lie goce «lung—
It was through the efforts of the
Tlie»c simple liflle hymn, of pr»i*c,
Portland
Fire Department, an o r
i l «ramier lut* he fell euch joy?
ganisation that has stood out promin
ently in the musical circles of Portland,
I Faich morning, n he patee» l>y
I Tine ili..oglu come» wand'ring back to that the L’nited Slates Marine Hand
engagement was completed for the
me :
! (I watch him where the two ruad» fork) Ko»e City
Hu» thi» I hi > »een («od» handiwork?
Advance tickets are now on sale at
I» m g III» i i n a g r in the tree?
every fire station in the city and by
And * ’ 1 go M l, ««.nd'rtng why.
every firrman
Sonic .lav, when I am free from doubt,
When Samson drive» hi« heifer« by,
I »hall irli him what I think
lltil, then, suppose, without a wink,
He tum« on me, and a»k» why
I never lake the hetifer« out?
DRAFTING
NEW ANTI-LYNCH
LAW
Colored Voter« Urged to Query Can
didate« for Senate and Congress
On Itsue
Berlin, Germany, Aug. 25, ’30.
New York, Sept. 1» — Eighteen
T o the E ditor:
lynchings thus far in the current year
Frederick Hogemeier is a German as compared with twelve for the en
farmer of a village near Madgeburg, tire year 1929, have brought about a
and Rev. John Schoff is a Baptist min determination in the N.A.A.C.P. to
ister of Goettingen. They, with three campaign anew for the enactment a
German women shared a third class federal anti-lynching law
Attorneys
compartment w ith three of us going from of the N.A.A.C.P. under the leader
Goslar to Berlin. One of the German ship of Arthur B. Spingarn, chair
.'•women had lived six years in America man of the National Legal Committee,
but for the last 20 years in Germany and
and Herbert K. Stockton who has
as she had scarcely had an opportunity
exhaustively studied the measure, are
to use her English in that time she was
already at work going over the bills
glad to employ it on us.
introduced in past sessions of Con
‘'Times are very hard in Germany,"
gress with a view to drafting a meas
she said. “Millions of people out of
ure with teeth in it
w ork: my son words in an automobile'
Besides the eighten lynchings offieci-
factory which ordinarily employs 7500
ally listd as such by the N.A.A.C.P,
men now only 2500. My husband's busi
there are reports of five others, the
ness is *o poor we can hardly pay our
taxes.” She did not know whether the details as yet unverified and the N.A.
war had anything to do with the hard A.C.P. is making every effort to ob
times or not. All she knows is that tain proof that they occurred. I f de
the money is all going out of the coun tails can be obtained, these additional
try for reparations and poor people have reported but as yet unverified lynch
to pay it in taxes. The Jews caused ings will be added to the year's total.
NEGROES COMMIT SUICIDE
LESS IHAN WHITES
the war for they wanted to make money.
She had never heard of Emil Ludwig
and his book, "July 14" and his theory
Mrs. ,-I mm . i liu dora P eek, w ho died al htr hom e in Portland, W ednesday, that Germany was partly to blame for
Sr f leathe r IT, ui i ;30 o'clock, a fter a n illness which lasted ten years.
the war. Germany was innocent, she
knew. With a tremendous sigh, which
News
of
the
death
of
Mrs.
Anna
[
of
the
race
through
clubs,
her
home
New York, Sept I*—That suicide in
was followed by a most infectious laugh,
the United States is almost entirely Fudora Peck on Wednesday afternoon j and church.
she said, "Just think, 20 years in Ger
September
17.
was
received
with
great
confined to white people, is the state
For a number of years she was a many and never an ice cream soda I”
Mrs.
ment made by Louis I. Dublin, statis sadness throughout the city.
social reporter for The Advocate and
The conversation then shifted to the
tician ol the Metropolitan Life Insur Peek was born in Fairfield, Iowa and even until a few days before her death farmer and the preacher ho had listened
died
on
her
7()th
birthday
anniversary
ance Company, writing in the Sep
would call over the phone and report unconiprehendedly to the English con
The deceased had
tember Harpers Magazine on "T o He of heart failure
social happenings and news items to versation. The preacher was on his way
T h r Portland Center of the Univer*1
been ill fo r‘about ten years and unable
or Not to B e?”
ihe editor.
to a church conference in East Prussia
According to information received in sity of Oregon announce* that one |
to walk for more than three years but
Mrs. Peek leaves to mourn their to reach which he must pass through the
hundred
and
thirty-five
course*
will
!
Cortland, the 21th Infantry is planning
she was never known to express one
loss a husband. W . R Peek; two hated Polish corridor, a strip of Polish
The
an ambitious schedule for thr regimental be offered this coming year
word of dissatisfaction or complaint
adopted daughters. Mrs. Nora Bird territory which was established after the
team for this fall Among teams they tail term opens on Monday, S c p ttn b tr
during her long illness. Her home radi
of Seattle and Mrs. Ida Pittm an o f , war and which cuts off East Prussia
vs ill tackle arc to lie found I liskrgee, 99. with clause* meeting in Lincoln
ated her constant cheerfulness and
Pittsburgh; a sister, Mrs. Nora Poin- from lhi res‘ o i Germany. His train
Mali. iiii .t Stall Teachers' College, Morris high tchoot anil the central library
made one feel that it was a privilege
dexter of Milwaukie; W isconsin; a doors » ould be locked as they passed
Crown University, Clark University, I luring thr pa*t year over 3,000 men I WO COLORED MEN
to he ill. Her happiness was due large
nephew, Jim m y Yancey o f Portland through. One chief subject of their con-
( h.itnioiig.i Panthers, Knoxville College and women were enrolled in the dif- I
ly to the fact that her devoted hus
AND WHITE ARRESTED
and two grandchildren. Missess Ger ference would be how to help the poor-
ct al.
ferent extension classes in Portland
band.
Mr
Peek,
spared
nothing
IN INVESTIGATION
many of whom are even now living on
aldine and Harriet Bird of Seattle
which he thought might give her help
potato peelings for their mid-day meal,
The body laid in state at the family
and happiness
which is their main one. Seventy-five
Soutli Bend, Ind. Sept. 15
tin e
FUNERAL NOTICES
It would take a hook to tell of Mrs. residence, 410 N. 21st from Wednes j jier cent of the busine** men are headed
white and two colored men were a r
day
until
Saturday.
Mrs.
Peek
had
Peek's various activities during her
for failure. He is pessimistic over the
rested for <|urstioiiing today as a cor
IT I K A iiiih Kndnra ; ag< TO year*: I k *
long residence in Portland.
Suffice made all plans for her funeral to the outkiok for peace "because of the Ver
oner's
jury
began
its
inquiry
into
the
loved wife of Warren K Perk . mother
She requested that ' sailles treaty which is not likely to be
it to say that she was the founder slightest detail
second murder of a young girl here
of Mrs Nora liird, of Seattle, Wash.,
and mother of St. Phillips Mission, thr her body not leave her home where j „ v j 5 f d « x „ p t b y f o r c e , aD<1 becau se-
within the last three weeks.
and Mr*. Ida Pittman of Pitt*hurg, Pa ;
church she so dearly loved and nursed she had been so happy for so many und„ lhc Young pU n _ iiving conditions
Still at a high pitch of resentment
sister of Mrs Nora Poindexter, Mil wan
as a mother nurses her young
She years until it was time to go to the arf bem* made tmpossibIe. with all the
Among thr pleasant callers at T h r
ker, Wi». Funeral service* will I k * held Advocate other this week was Henry over the slaying of 8-year-old Marvine never rested until the church was cem etery; she even selected and had I monev going out of the country."
Saturday, Septemlier Jlo, at 2 :oo P.M. Franklin of Kansas l il y , Mo Mr Appel in August, South Bend was housed in its own home on Rodney her burial dress made and she also
“My rye was only a third of a crop,”
at the, residence, 4It) N 21*t St. Inter Franklin is a brother of Sergeant A. stirred by excitement over the murder and Knott streets. F'or a number of requested that no one give flowers
said the farmer, "and I must sell some
of Alice Wotham, 17. whose throat
incut in Hose City Cemetery. Kindly
years she was engaged in designing except Mr. Peek.
of my cows to pay taxes. I am going
J. Franklin of Portland
was rut as she lay asleep Sunday
omit flower*
Funeral arrangement* in
and making ladies fashionable gowns
The funeral will be held this after to Berlin to try to find work to get
morning
in
a
room
with
a
younger
i
..in t• f Miller & Tracey, BR iMi'.H.
and when her work grew so large noon at 2 P.M. at the family residence, some ready money for the sake of my
brother and two sisters.
that she could not handle it alone, she 410 N. 21st Street. Archdeacon Cham daughter's children who will be thrown
ANNOUNCEMENT
Edward Smith, Colored was hues- |
Iv«Kate i* in receipt of a photo
gave employment to others who were hers will read the funeral rites and out on the streets unless money conies
tinned at once by d efectiv es. He was i
tin* wood carver, Alois l«ang,
gifted along the same line. She was Mrs. Mabel Henderson will sing. Pall from somewhere."
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Phelps of Bend, a neighbor of the W oltham family and |
i * the part nf (*hri*t in the
In view of the desperate condition of
a faithful member of the OJd Rose bearers arc George Kinney, Abe Cor
Ore.,
wishes
to
announce
the
engage
Play at ( Iherammrrgau, from
had been in the home a number of
Club and when she was able to go neal, G. V. Grayson, Eugene Minor, the working people, he was not particu
ndsaker, who mailed it at the ment of their daughter, Rorelia Hor- times.
about, she was always engaged in some George Perry and W. F\ Smith. In larly concerned over the prospect of
ce. The photograph bears Mr. tense, to Stanton 11. Duke of Portland.
The while man and the other Ne
kind of work for the general welfare terment will he in Rose City cemetery another war, he said, “you might as well
The wedding date ha* not Iteen set.
itograph.
gro were held as material witnesses.
die in battle as from starvation."
Alice was slain by a mail who crept
Tomorrow we meet leaders of both
through the window of the bedroom
Court Fine« Two
the radical ami conservative German
where she and an R-year-old brother
peace groups.
Colored Women On
G. FREEMAN BROTHERS TRANSFER
were sleeping on one lied and the
J. J. H ANDSAKF.R,
Liquor
Charge«
two sisters on another.
Associate Secretary, N ational Council
Office Phone: BKoadway 1H85
A razor-sharp blade was drawn
fo r Prevention o f l l ’ar
What started with the shooting of a
430 HOYT STREET :: Portland, Oregon
across her throat and her assailant
man, ended in Municipal Judge Stadters
leaped from the window and escaped
Court Wednesday afternoon, when three
Residence Phone GArfield 8019— 340 Tillamook Slreet
Colored persons were arraigned. Mrs
Mrs. Mamie Pickett and J. S. Patter-
Lulu Lawrence, landlady of a rooming
son, of 2lu Meade St., who were last
S u cre »nor 8 to E . Richardson Ran none Transfer
house at 329 E. Second St. N., where
Saturday night arrested on a charge of
the shooting occurred, was fined $!0 on
being drunk and disorderly, were fined
Miss Norma Keene, prominent in club,
a charge of I icing drunk, and possessing
$50 each in Municipal Court last Mon
liquor; Miss Billy Cartwright, of Kelso, church and social service circles in Port
day.
also was fined $10 on a disorderly and land for many years, was quietly married
drunk charge, and vagrancy against Ed Friday, Septemlier .Li, us Seattle, Wash.,
SUNFLOWER CAMP
to Mr. Belvin Williams. The marriage
Harris, were continued for sentence.
Mr. Lurry is very appreciative of
came as no surprise to her many friends
The
shooting
occurred
Tuesday
night
thr patronage given his camp at Sea
MARTIN’S BEAUTY SHOP
with a bullet from a .38 revolver strik as some time ago the news of the happy
side this summer, which was double
ing
Henry Strawder, 40, Colored, and couple's engagement leaked out. The
that nf last season. Much credit for
lodging in his back. He was treated at Advocate, along with Miss Keene's many
the success of the camp is due to thr
other friends, wishes her much success
the emergency hospital.
3 4 6 William« Avr.
charming personality of Miss Madelyn
and happiness.
According
to
the
story
learned
by
the
Flowers, hostess of the camp.
ROHRNA MARTIN IN THAROK
police, Mrs. Lawrence, Miss Cartwright,
After September 2, write or phone
Strawdter
and Harris had hcen drink said he had been shot by a stranger as
J W. Curry, t<>4 N. 17th St., Portland,
SII A M P o o l Ntî
KYKRR OW ARCHINO
ing and were preparing to leave the he answered a knock at the rooming-
PR ES S IN O
8 C A I .P T R E A T M E N T
Oregon, BRoadway 1541, (or reserva
MAKCKLLINOO
MANICURJNIÌ
house. Mrs. Lawrence started to put a house door. I.ater, he said he was con
& r.
t'O U RT K O IS AND PROMPT SERVICE
tions at .Sunflower Catnp
revolver in a drawer and as she did so, vinced the shooting was accidental.—
I TU« Q uality f
it was discharged. Strawdter at first Portland Daily Journal, Sept. 18.
24THINFANTRV PLANS BIG
PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES
N. A. A. C. P.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON PORT
LAND CENTER OPENS
JAIL THREE SLAVER SUSPECTS
VISITS
ADVOCATE OFFICE
M ake
Por Hand's
Own
Store
Your
Shopp mg
Headq uarters
PORTLAND GIRL WEDS IN SEATTLE
JOHNSON DEFEATS LENHART
Spokane, Wash., Sept 17 — Larry
Johnson, Chicago Negro light-heavy
weight. knocked out Fred Lenhart,
Spokane, in the third round of an
eight-round bout here last night, be
fore a capacity crowd.
Lenhart was saved by the bell at
the end of the second, and took a
nine count previous to the smash that
sent him to the canvass for the third
time of the evening in the third round.
His second tossed in a towel shortly
after he fell face-down for the last
time.
YOUNG DREW WINS PRIZE
Matthew Drew, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Drew, of 1769 Courtney Street,
was recently presented a bronze medal
which he won by finishing the recent
1930 Journal hike. Donald J. Sterling,
in making the presentation, said: “1 con
gratulate you upon your sportsmanship."
The Journal hike is an annual Labor
Day event, sponsored by the Portland
Daily Journal.
HELO FOR AUTO THEFT
Chance Isom, 18, who was arrested at
his home, 63th St. and 80th Ave. S.-E.,
a couple of weeks ago, is in the county
jail, a Federal prisoner, awaiting the
action of the Grand Jury. Young Isom
is charged with stealing the automobile
of C. C. Ralph, 1317 E. 22nd St., on
August tt and driving it, writh two other
boys (white) to Harve, Mont. Young
Isom's bail is $1500. The other boy s
are in custody at Seattle.
Eugene Rogers, 32, was sentenced to
60 days in jail recently charged with
carrying a concealed weapon.
FOR R E N T
Newly renovated 3 and 4 room
apartments, attractively furnished.
Strictly modern.
Ready for oc-
cupe.ncy September 20.
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