THREAT'N PICKENS THE ADVOCATE- 9 An VOL. 27— NO. IH IN T W O SECTIO NS In d *p «n d «D l P ap«r D tv o tv d PORTLAND, OREGON to ih * In fo r c a ta m í th « P o o p lo S A T U R D A Y , MARCH 14, 1931 SECTIO N O N E PRICE FIVE C E N TS SLAYS COP, JANITOR FREED BY GRAND JURY RICH WHITE WOMAN LEAVES $15,000 TO MAID DA MCI n r r i i o r o OEICK ORGANIZES MUNICIPAL I H I I L L [\ U U O l O OWNERSHIP LEAGUE BRANCH At the call of ita president, I. H. I'ayne, and secretary, Mr». Lillian I,ay, a meeting o f a branch o f the Municipal Ownership leagu e was R e o p e n F ig h t X o O u s t E .R . .^W ilso n M O D E FREES MURDERS ATTORNEYS OFFER SERVICES GRATIS WASHINGTON, O. C , March 10— After five week in the Tombs, charged with »laying a white man. who, aidad by a gang o f rowdies, attacked him on January 17, Stephan Staton, 26. found himself a free man laat W ed nesday when the Grand Jury refused to hand down a murder indictment ■gainst him. Yesterday Staton prepared to leave the city, after hearing of numerous death thrsata made by friends of the thugs whom he bested single-handed. He was charged with the death of John I>onnelly, 116. a former police man, M l West l.tad street. Donnelly was stabbed through the heart with an army bayonet on the end o f a gun when Staton -.'as at- u . ‘ked at (M m ) West 126th street, where he was employed as Janitor. Staton waa sweeping the hallway of the building where he was am- ployed when his broom accidentally knocked against the door o f the Pat rick 8. Dowd Democratic Association, which ia housed in the building. Twelve whites, who had just returned from the association's dance down town, began to abuse him. Fearing troubla, Staton retreated to the office of the superintendent, where he slept. When he locked the door the whites followed him and demanded entrance. They answered his refusal by smashing the glass, panels and the door. Meets Charge of Foes The janitor vigorously wielded a baseball bat until his club was brok en on one rowdy's head. The at tackers broke the rear windows and attempted entrance. Donnelly head ed the group. He was rewarded with a thrust In the heart. When Staton surrendered, the su perintendent, Ellis B. Frasier, 100 West 128th street, came to hia de fense. Frasier revealed that thugs had tried to intimidate him several time because of hie responsible posi tion in a "white neighborhood," and stated that threats had been made ugninst Staton after his arrest. Arrest Unwarranted. FORMER PORTLANDER in n | Y N P M FP ^ SUCCUMBS IN SOUTH L m u r a ju > m ‘ HEAD OPERATION PROVES FATAL AUTHORITY ON INTERNATIONAL AND INTERRACIAL RELATIONS Ks-Judge Richard Drirh, who ad dressed a meeting at the home of I II Payne. 1*4 Cherry street, Wednes day night on Municipal Ownership. held at the home o f the president, 194 « -terry, street. Wednesday evening. An interesting and informing meeting was reported by many who attended. The principal address waa delivered by ex-Judge Richard Deich, and oth ers who spoke were ex-Senator A. W. Orton and Attorney John Jeffriaa. This league is just one o f the many branches of the Municipal Ownerahip League, o f which Commissioner Clyde le the moving spirit. Mr. Payne an nounces that there will be additional meetings held monthly. — _ w_ GRAND BAIL FO I'R ORCHESTRAS TO PLAY AT N.A.A.C.P. DANCE IN HARLEM (By N. A. A. C. P. Press Com.) Dr. Norman P. Coleman, praaident of Reed College, Portland, has ac cepted tha invitation o f the local N. A. A. C. P. to share with the members and friends of the organisation, his observations and opinions with regard to race relatione in an address on “ Race R e l a t i o n a— at Home and Abroad." Dr. Coleman has traveled extensively, making epacial studies in this field, and ia recognised as one o f the moet brilliant thinkers and edu cators in America. He will speak at the regular meeting of the associa tion to be held at the Williame Avenue Y. W. C. A. next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The association has secured employ ment for the following persons: Miss Alice Wilson, in the employ o f the manager of a local department store; Charles (Chuck) Williams, in the rug department o f the same store, and E ffie Lee as special maid. Asuccaaaful protest against tha showing o f "The Birth o f a Nation" film was made by Virgil E. Keene, chairman executive board, and J. L. Caston, chairman publicity committee, in behalf of the association before the city council, and after Dr. Gas ton's argument, upon motion of Com missioner Clyde, the petition of the Triangle Film Co. to show it was da- nied. Reporta on all of the activitioa and a specially arranged musical program will make Sunday's maeting, in addi tion to Dr. Coleman's address, s nota ble event. C. E. Irey is president and Mrs. C. L. Ingersoll secretary o f the local branch. Dr. DeNorval Unthank is chairman of the Program Committee o f the Portland Branch. New York, Mar. 6— With prominent New Yorkers of both races as table holders and admissiona rapidly being ■old, the Annual Spring Dance at the Savoy ball room, o f the National As sociation for the Advancement of Col ored People promisee to be the out standing event o f the season. No less than four famous orches tras will furnish music for the affair, including Cab Calloway's Cotton Club orchestra, the Grand Central Red Cape orchestra under the direction o f Russ Wooding, and both o f the Savoy ball Charles S. Heftet, white attorney, room orchestiaa. 70 West Fortieth street, offered the defendant free legal service. His as PEN USED BY IIOOVKK sociate in the ease was William T. PRESENTED TO TEACHER Andrews, 200 West 136th street, spe Washington, March 2— The pen with cial counsel for the National Asao- which President Hoover last Wednes IN ALABAM A WHITE TEN ANT ciation for the Advancement of Col day signed the bill providing for a car FARMER KILLED FOR RESIST ored People. fare not exceeding 3 cents for school ING DEMANDS OF PLANTER rhildren in the District of Columbia AND IN MISS. FOR SHOOTING has been presented to James C. LANDLORD. George Sommers, o f Boston, Pull Wright, a teacher in the Cardoxa High man porter, accompanied the Chicago School, who is credited with originat DOTHAN, Ala., Mar. 10.— What Civic Opera Company to Portland ing the movement for reduced fare for seems to be a lynching occurred here Thursday. school children. this week. A white tenant farmer who refused to yield to certain work ing demands o f his boss was shot and killad Monday night by six masked men who had gona to hia home with the intention o f flogging him. CLARKSBURG, Miss., Mar. 8— George Spann, tenant farmar, who shot and severely wounded hia land lord, Charlea O’Neal, because o f forced labor, was killed Saturday by a mob which tracked him with bloodhounds --------- 0--------- RALEIGH, N. C.— (C N S )— He left never been to school a day in his life. Holman Crawford, who won a name his ship in Norfolk and walked to Ho was with the last Roosevelt big for himself as a golfer in Portland, Raleigh because somebody told him he game expedition as handy man and has had official recognition from the could get a Job in the cotton mills at what not. He is a sailor, black as the University o f Southern California, the Falls of Nouse. ace o f spades, dead broke, hungry, where ha ia majoring in medicine. He speaks 18 languages and 18 dia dirty and a long ways from his home Young Crawford haa been commission lerts, including Chiness and Gaelic, in Port au Prince. He is looking for ed to organixa a college g olf club. but can neither read nor write. He's a job. LYNCH MHITE MEN Speaks 13 Tongues Cant Ryell Name Prosecution Fails as Second W. G. Crawford died at hia home in Man is Freed in Connec Loe Angeles last Sunday night, ac tion With Crime That cording to information contained in Resulted in Deaths of a telegram to Elmer Flowers from hit wife, Mrs. Thelma Crawford-Flowers, Two Youths. who was summoned to her father's bedside laet week. Mr. Crawford was MARION, Ind., March 5.— All hope ill only a week following an operation o f getting a conviction in the lyneh- on his head for the removal o f car I ing o f two colored youths at the buncles. Blood poison and other com County Court House here last A u plications set in and ha succumbed. gust by a mob of several thousand Mr. and Mrs. Crawford formarly re white persons was given up when sided in Portland, having coma to the second of seven alleged partici Portland from Seattla. They ware pants in the crime, Charles Lennon, here four year* and Mr. Crawford was was acquitted by a jury here Satur employed aa steward o f tha Columbia day. Four other men are out on bond Country Club. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and of the St. and a seventh is fugitive on charges Phillips Episcopal Church of Portland. -irailar to that which Lennon was They moved to Los Angeles about acquitted. Court officials intimated eight months ago and purchassd a j that charges against those still facing lovely home so they could be near trial would be dismissed. Have Pictures o f Mob their youngest son, Holman, who is The victims o f the mob were A bra attending the University of Southern California. The deceased leaves to ham Smith, 19 years old, and Thomas mourn their loss a wife, Mrs. W. G. Shipp, 18. They were arrested as Crawford, and two sons, Willie and suspects in the killing of a white Holman, all o f Los Angeles, and a youth and an attack upon his girl daughter, Mrs. Thelma Flowers, of companion. They ware taken from Portland. Funeral services were con their cells, brutally beaten, hanged ducted Wednesday from the Angelus from a tree and a bonfire built under them. Pictures o f the mobbista gloat Parlors. ing over their prey were taken, but still the law was unable to fasten the guilt on anyone. TEACHERS GET BACK PAY RACES GET CLOSER TOGETHER Democrats Step Aside; DePriest Bill Passes NEGRO AND WHITE W ORKERS FIGHT FOR UNEMPLOY MENT RELIEF WASHINGTON, March 2— Liberal ism prevailed in the House at an eve NEW YORK, Mar. 12— (C N A )— ning session last Friday and two Democratic members from the South. Demonstrations staged all over the Representatives Thomas L. Blanton United States showed the increasing o f Texas and Ross A. Collins o f Mis militance o f the employed and unem sissippi, withdrew their objections ployed workers in their fight for un and allowed Representative Oscar employment insurance. In all these DePriest o f Illinois and Representa demonstrations Nego workers played tive Albert R. Hall of Indiana, Re a conspicuous part. In Houston, Berry, a Negro worker, publicans, to obtain unanimous con sent for the passage of a bill provid was the main speaker. It was the first ing back pay to ten directors in the time a Negro had ever spoken from public schools for Negroes o f the Dis the City Hall steps. trict of Columbia. Mr. DePriest explained that from 1906 to 1924 colored directors were paid one salary and the white direc tors another. "Under the law,” he said, "they are entitled to equal sal aries. This bill equalises the sal aries as they should have been dur ing that time. UpoR the hearings the District Committee made every in vestigation and reported the bill fa vorably. I am sure the gentleman (Mr. Collins) would not keep these people from their just pay." (See photo on page 4) Make Portland’s Own S to re Pittsburgh Appoints Committee« to Welcome N. A. A, C. P. in June PITTSBURGH, Mar. 10.— Furteen committees have been appointed here to prepare for the 22nd Annual Con- f rence o f the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, it was announced today. tirane Pay Your Subtcripiion Your Shopping Headquarters I » ■ J CHARGE WILSON AGREED BUT FAILED TO RESIGN RICHMOND, Va„ Mar. 12.— A se cret meeting between the opposing factions in the ranks of the I. B. P. O. E. which waa bald last week in this city in an attempt to mend the breach occasioned by the withdrawal o f the Virginia grand lodge o f Elks last year, proved futile, it waa learned this week, when the first stipulation put forward by the insurgents was the expulsion o f J. Finley Wilson as Grand Exalted Ruler o f the order. The secret sesiaon was attended by Perry W . Howard, grand legal ad viser, William C. Hueston, commis sioner o f education, and T. G. Batter, all of whom are representing Wilson in the case pending before tha U. 3. Circuit Court o f Appeals in which the insurgents are demanding the right to establish an order independent from the grand lodge. The insurgent group was represented at the confer ence by James T. Carter, Joseph R. Pollard and Dr. Leon A. Reid, against whom the grand lodge waa denied an injunction restraining them from op erating under the originsd charter granted by the state o f Virginia. MR 8ENERCIARY IN POOR HEALTH FROM WORRYING OVER BENEFACTOR'S U S Rich White Woman Leaves Negro Maid $15,000; Sedan Word has just been received by friends in Portland that Mrs. Johnny Meroney of El Paso, Texas, waa left 816,000 and a sedan and other per sonal effecta by her late employer, Mrs. Lucy Marr, in her wilL To each o f her sisters the deceased left $6. Mrs. Meroney ia a sister-in-law o f Mrs. L. H. Preston of Chicago, Dl. Mrs. Preston ia a sister o f the late Mrs. Leon Gregory and is known to many Portlanders, having spent a yaar here with her sister during her last illness. Mrs. Marr died in Loe An geles last September and her will waa drawn the previous May. Mrs. Ms- roney was quite ill at the time the provisions o f the will were made pub lic and stated that she no doubt would have to use the greater part of the bequest in trying to regain her health, which she declares was impaired by assuming too much of her employer's troubles. It is reported that the figh t was the abdication o f Wilson and a writ ten agreement from him promising not to run again for grand exalted ruler. BIRTH OF NATION PRO- DliCER CH’G’D ASSAULT r eld secretary vkorks for m m m M™ State Senate Passes LOS ANGELES, March 10.— Fern Setril. actress, charged David Wark Anti-Lynching Bill Griffith, famous film director, with assaulting hem, in a civil suit filed late today. I NEW YORK, Mar. 12— Threat* She asked 8601.000 damages, charg against tha life o f William Pickana, ing that the alleged assault occurred Field Secretary o f the W. A . A. C. P., in G riffith’s Hollywood apartment. were made over the telephone in Miss Setril set forth that she met Marian, Ind., where Mr. Pickens Griffith while visiting the United A r spoke and excoriated mob murderers, tists Studio in search o f employment. during the trial there o f the lynch Griffith, she charged, assured her that| ers o f two colored men. she was a "g irl o f unusual type of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bailey, hosts beauty" and that she had remarkable to Mr. Pickens during his stay, ware features that would film well. Miss Setril said that the date of also threatened. Although warned to this meeting with Griffith was Jan stay away from the court by reason uary 20, 1929, and that on June 25, o f the intense mob sentiment prevail 1930. he requested her to visit him in ing, Mr. Pickens attended several his apartment. The complaint declar sessions o f trial o f the lynchers. ed that Griffith promised to give Miss Setril the role o f Ann Rutledge in his film “ Abraham Lincoln." Under this promise, the girl stated, she went to G riffith’s apartment and was “ violently and forcibly attacked." As a result o f the alleged attack. Miss Setril said she was forced to undergo an operation, suffering tem porary and permanent diaability to the extent of $600,000 in addition to be ing compelled to spend more than $1000 for medical treatment. She re quested an additional $100,000 for ex emplary damages. Says Nina In Love W ith Rich Mexican PARIS, France, March 10.— Nina Mae McKinney, winsome film actrees, w'uu is touring the continent, ia re ported to be more than mildly inter ested in a young Mexican whose fath er is the Consul from Mexico to Co logne, Germany. The "rom ance" is said to have begun when he invited her to meet her father when she was in Berlin. At the Riveria, where Nina Mae now appears, she was questioned re garding the handsome young Mexican, but only smiled and said “ He's nice” in reply to queries about him. Mean while Nina Mae remains the wife of her boy-husband, Dong Daniels, danc er, o f Chicago. Miss McKinney, who suffered a run o f »ill-luck before leaving the United States, is now “ in the money," as she has signed a contract with tha UFA Pictures to screen a new talkie in A frica for $60,000 before her re turn to America. (Sea photo on page 2) ONLY NEGRO NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN STATE