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WINS RIGHTS FOR RACE
Montgomery, Ala -When the Sou
them Kid vs ay's crick Inin, the Cres-
Los Angeles. Cal., March 6.—A
rent Limited, touthbounil (rum New
sweeping
victory which is believed by
York to New Orient*, reached here
many to be one of thr most decisive
Monday night, February 16, it wa* re
triumphs for the Negro race since thr
vealed that a lone bandit had held up
| I ''mancipation proclamation, matrrial-
passengers lounging in the observa
,rrd here last Monday w-hrn a ruling
tion car just after the train had left
i was handed down compelling Los An-
Ncwnan. G a, about 7:20 p. m. and 1 grlrs playground and recreational of
robbed four of them of $2**6 25 in cash ficial* to admit Negroes to thr city’s
jnd a radroad ticket to Los Aniirlr*. | bathhouse* and swimming pools.
i .,lil
| The decision, coming a* the result
T he robber wa* prevented from rn- of an intensive Iwo-yrar fight launched
terttiK the dining car, just ahead of by Mrs Fthcl 1‘rioleau, a prominent
the observation bv the quick wit and Los Angeles woman and widow of thr
shrewd action of the Sexto Pull late Maj. t. W Prioleau, Attorneys
man porter. M Pierce, who happen F C. Jennings and Hugh McBcth of
ed to <er what waa happening and the West Side Property Ownrrs' As
crawled on knee* and hands to lock sociation, was handed down by Hon.
the forward door of the observation Walter S. Gates of the Superior Court
car The steward of the dining car heir The case had hern continued 25
lud more than $1,000 in his cash ac times before thr final deciding verdict
count. and it ia believed that the
Wage Long. Hard Fight
prompt work of Pierce, the porter,
Mrs Prioleau took action against
saved the money from the robbbrr's the playground commissioners of the
Hi wap
■tv of Los Angeles alter beT two chil
dren had been denied aecra* to the
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swimming pool The Wesf Side Prop -
rrty Owners’ Association alao joinrd
in the battle against discrimination.
Attorneys Jennings and McBeth con
HAITI'S NEW MINISTER W EL tributing their services to thr cause
In making his ruling Judge Gates
COMED BY PRES. HOOVER
declared that the Negroes of Los An
WashinHton, March $—(CNS) — geles are entitled to all the rights of
Dantes Itclli-Kardr presented his let other human brings, not becauar
ters of credence to President Hoover some statute or law said that they
last Monday at Minister of Haiti and
are entitled thereto, but by reason of
expressed gratitude for the part taken
their very existence xs citizens of their
by President Hoover in aiding Haiti community, f f is decision contended
through the m v cs tiH a tio n of the For
that Mrs. Prioleau wa* right in her
tes mission for governmental reforms
contention that her children should
and the assignment of an American
not have lirrn segregated and that
minister in place of a Marine officer
thr position of the park cotnmiasion-
as II iKh Commissioner
Mr Belle-
er* who claimed that they would pro
garde is the first of the newly elected
vide separate accommodations waa un
government.
fair and illegal.
"If it it desired to provide sepa
rate bathing facilities for Negroes,”
ADVERTISING POSTER the judge indicated, "it would be
proper and necessary to authorue
ATTRACTIVE
them through law and within the lim
its of the constitution. There ia no
A largr. attractive poster featur such present authority and such facil
ing the appearance in Portland of the ities are therefore without the sanction
Chicago Civic Opera Company on of law.” he declared.
March 12. 13 and M. has been issued
through the courtesy of the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph Company
Copies of the poster are bring distrih-
tiled throughout the state, where they
will hr displayed in offices and win
George For Federal Bench
dows of business firms.
1 Washingtu)!, March 6.—CongTSSS-
I man Oscar Dc Priest, following the
1 passage of a bill in thr Uited States
700 Mississippi Farmers
Senate creating two nrw federal judge-
Meet At Utica Institute ships in the northern district of Illi
nois, has intimated his desire of seek
Jackson, Mis*.—(CNS) — Nearly ing one of the posts for Judge Albert
200 colored farmers attended the 26th George of Chicago, who was recently
annual conference of Negro farmers appointed a member of the State
at Utica Institute last week.
Board of Pardons, George was former
ly a member of the bench of the local
municipal court, hut was defeated in
November for re-election.
S. W . C o r . 4 t h a n d
DANTES BELGARDE ARRIVES U S
FORMER MUNI IUDGE CHOSEN
Bradford
Clothes $25.00 to
Shop
$45.00
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"Where Young Men Buy”
Several students from Pacific Col
lege spent the week-end in Portland.
Some of them were guests of Allan
Rutherford.
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Texarkana, Ark., March 6.—Tired
of waiting for action on the part of
the United States employment serv
ice here, to which he had applied for
a job, Fcnnie Hoston wrote President
Hoover for a job and got it.
Hoston was one of many applicants
to the local branch and after waiting
several weeks wrote to the president
of the United States. The letter was
referred to the Department of Labor
and thence to thr government employ
ment service, and now Hoston ia at
work improving city parks at one dol
lar a day. "If you want action you
have to apply to the head man," de
dared Hoston, when he went on his
new job Friday morning.
SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER PAYS
T R U E TO fORMER PORTIANDR
A letter to The Advocate from Mrs.
A. V Ballard of Norfolk, Va. con
tained the following clipping from a
Norfolk colored new^iaprr We are
reprinting it for the benefit of Mr
Ballard’s many Portland and North
west friends:
Thousand Pei Cent Increase in High
School Enrollment, 300 Per Cent
BILL OVER RTPÜBLICAN VOTE
New York, March 5.—By a vote of
34 to 1, the one opposing vote being
that of a Republican, the Democrats
of the Indiana House of Representa
tives pasted a state anti-lynching bill,
following speeches and conferences
there by William Pickens, field sec
retary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
An interesting political situation if
created in that state, reports Mr. Pick
ens, by reason of the fact that the
House is Democratic and the State
LOCAL GROUPS
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To Feature Observance
of Event this Year
"Esteemed Citiien Passes Away Here
"The funeral of Armstead Ballard,
whose late residence was at 442 E.
Butte street, occurred at St. John's A.
M E church, F'riday, February 6, at
2 p. in The Rev. L. L. Berry was in
charge of the services and delivered
the sermon. A solo was beautifully
rendered by Lawrence Harrison. The
Rev. G. W. Watkins, pastor of Bank
Street Baptist church, read the scrip
ture and offered prayer.
"The deceased was a native of
Suffolk. Va.. many friends from there
attending the funeral Mr. Ballard had
taken an active interest in business
and fraternal organistions wherever
he resided. He was a charter member
of Rose City lodge of Els, Portland,
Ore . where he made his home at one
time and also a member of Pihloma-
thcan lodge No. 712 of G. U. O. of
Odd Fellows, in Albany, N. Y. He was
a member of Class No. 1, St. John’s
A. M. E. Church, Samuel Tucker,
leader.
"The pallbearers were Cecil Johnson,
Frank Tucker, Charles Ferebee, At
torney Robert C. Stith. Attorney Jo
seph Hall and William W. Jackson.
“The deceased leaves a widow. Mrs.
Annie Bagnall Ballard; a sister. Mrs.
Caroline Smith, who resides in Suf
folk; a brother-in-law. T. E. Bagnall,
and a host of friends.
"Interment was in West Point cem
etery. A number of floral tributes at
tested to the esteem in which the
deceased was held.”
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Washington, D. C-, March 5.—One
of the main objects of the forthcoming
annual observance of National Negro
Health Week from April 5-12. inclu
sive, will be the outlining and promo
tion of a year-round health program.
The announcement, which was
made by DrliughS-Commings, sur
geon general of the United States
Public Health Service, which ia co
operating with the various agencies in
promoting the observance, stated that
the need of a year-round program for
the conservation and preservation of
health was very obvious and is one of
the aims of the National Negro Health
Week conference, of which Dr. George
W. Bowie* is chairman and Dr. Al
gernon U. Jackson, Washington, D.
C., is director.
Every city, town, village hamlet
and community is being urged to or
ganize health week committees. As
pointed out in the proclamation, de
signating the date of National Negro
Health W’eek. the first step is to or
ganize with sub-committees, such as
committees on supplies and materials,
publicity, speakers, clinics and pro
gram.
To facilitate the work of the various
local organizations a standard health
week program has been devised by the
national body and other literature
which will be of much help printed by
thr United States Public Health Serv
ice that can be secured at a nominal
cost either from the United States
Public Health Service, or the head
quarters of the conference at Wash
ington, D. C.
Much stress is being laid upon the
importance of local committees seek
ing and securing the cooperation of
state, county and city health depart
ments and of local newspapers, fra
ternal organizations, churches and
schools. With all of these agencies
working together it ia believed that
the work will be more effective.
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Senate Republican. The Democratic
House having passed the anti-lynching
bill, it remains to be seen what the
Republican Senate does with it.
“I spoke to several Democratic
clubs in different parts of the state,”
reports Mr. Pickens, "and they wired
their Democratic representatives. Five
days after my Indianapolis address and
four days after conferences with Dem
ocrats of the House, the bill passed,
34 to I, the one being Republican. Now
thr Republicans must show their (tuff
in the Senate.”
in Property Values Reported at In
ter-racial Meeting.
Birmingham. Ala., March 6.—An
increase of 339 per cent in the value
of Negro public school property in
Alabama in the last ten years and of
1000 per cent in colored high school
enrollment in the state sioce 1917
were among the encouraging educa
tional gains reported at the recent
meeting in this city of the State Com
mittee on Inter-racial Co-opcratioo.
It was shown that the number of
Rosenwald school buildings, teach
ers' homes and vocational shops has
grown from 197 in 1921 to 399 in
1930, an increase of 103 per cent. The
average annual salaries of colored
teachers increased 107 per cent in the
11 years ending with 1929, and the
length of the school year increased in
the same period 26.5 per cent. Enroll
ment in the elementary grades in
creased 19.3 per cent, while the num
ber of teachers showed a gain of 54
per cent.
Prof. A. H. Parker, principal of the
Birmingham colored high school, made
an interesting report on the work of
that institution. A full four-year high
school with industrial features; this
institution is housed in a building cost
ing $438,959. Started in 1900 with 18
students and one teacher, it now has
2732 students and 74 teachers.
BETEEN RACES
T HANGOVER OF
RECONSTRUCTION DAYS
Savannah, Ga., March 5.—Much
concern is being manifested in the re
cent curfew law, which is now being
enforced, that all Negroes must be off
the streets here by 1 o’clock a the
morning.
The law was inaugurated as one
of the steps taken by the police to
curb holdups and robberies. Negro
citizens are contending that the crimes
are not committed by members of the
group any more than by other nation
alities and therefore can see no reason
why the law should apply only to Ne
groes.
According to the ordinance, any
Form Association for Prevention of
Negro found oo the streets after 1
Lynching and Join South-Wid.
o'clock and unable to offer "satisfac
Anti-Lynching League —- Eleven
tory explanation” to the police, will
States Represented.
be taken to the station bouse for in
Louisville, K.I.. March 6.—Sixty-
vestigation.
seven prominent Kentucky women
The passage of this law recalled the
gathered here yesterday on call of the
situation that existed here just after
Commission on Inter-racial Co-opera
the close of the war when Negroes
tion, constituted themselves the Ken
were not permitted to congregate in
tucky Association of Women for the
numbers on the streets on account of
Prevention of Lynching, issued a vig
the fear at that time that a race riot
orous statement in condemnation of
would result. During that hectic pe
mob violence, and affiliated themselves
riod respectable citizens and taxpay
with the South-wide Anti-lynching
ers were arrested by prejudiced police
Association of Southern Women.
on any pretext and many of the lead
ing business men were subjected to in
dignities at the hands of the police.
TO OUR PATRONS
That the present law will bring about
It is absolutely imperative that vou
the same situation is the belief of many
Washington,
D.
C-,
March
5—Pre
come or send in and pay up your in-)
of the citizens of both races.
debtedness to us. As we have so often sident Hoover has signed the Depart
ment
of
th
e
Interior
appropriation
i *—*or«, most of ous business is
•' x ca«h basis. We cannot give you bill, including an item of $1.560,000
good service and a good paper unless for Howard University. An addi
we have money to pay our bills. If tional sum of $200,000 for physical
you pay us we can pay, if you do not, improvements t o grounds is car
we cannot. Some of our patrons have ried in the first deficiency bill, making
rcounts more than two years' past a total current appropriation of $1.700.-
000, or a total of $3.009,000 during the
due, others months’ and this is meant
for those who do not pay, only. It last two years.
Memphis, Tenn.—Because he re
This year's appropriation provides
goes without the saying that some pay
$400.000 toward the construction of a fused to sit in the rear of a street
library to cost $800.000 and completing car, Moses Young must pay a fine of
Native African Actor
a fund for the construction of an edu $5 for violating the jim crow law. The
police stated that Young sat in the
Objects to Segregation cational classroom building.
“white section" of the car and refused
to move to the rear despite the fact
Chicago, Feb. 18 — Mut ia Omoola, j
New York, Feb.
the native African, who is playing the
. . . 25.—(CNS)—The that there were plenty of seats avail
part of the gun-carrier in the new ,uc- | a !,™,ored cast idea ha, stepped from able in the “colored section.”
cess. Trader Horn.” refused to play th* >'**' » *•* »^reen and there is
In passing sentence upon Young,
hi, part until hi. young lady friend was “J bf an »H-col<*ed production called Judge Fitzhugh said: “There is no
seated without being segregated. The “U,x,e ,£> Harlem' Jack,e YoUn*’ excuse for your conduct. You were
opening performance was held up un now singer and dancer at the Hot too impudent and insulting, and I am
til the official compromised by putting Feet Club, on Houston street, has going to fine you $5 as a lesson.”
her in a projecting booth which satis- been cast for the lead.
lied the native actor and his girl com
panion and all was well.
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