CHICAGO BANKER THE An IN TW O SECTIONS VOI. 27 — NO. 19 In d ep en d en t ADVOCATE Paper D evoted PORTLAND, OREGON to th e In terest* of th e P e o p le SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931 SECTION ONE PRICE FIVE CENTS ZION BISHOPS SON FREED OF MURDER CHARGE WOMAN’S LIE NEARLY COST MAN HIS LIFE n [AM R SINKING. REV. HILL HURRIES IP HIS BEDSIDE m u »til E TO BE FA TA L CHICAGO. Mar. 1».— (C N 8 )— Ed­ ward Kyles, son o f BUhop W Kyle* o f Winston Salem, N. C., was freed on s charge of murder here last week In connection with the killing o f James l.eonard last summer over a loan. Kyles, according to the tes­ timony, confronted the dead man's wife about a loan he Is said to have made to her husband. I eonard ap­ peared on the scene ami reprimanded Kyle« for arguing with his wife. Then a band-to hand struggle followed in which l^onard was seriously wound- mi with a knife. Bishop Kyles is of the A. hi. K. Zion connection. NEGHI) POPULATION OK FLOR II) V IM REAMER 102.341 WASHING, Mar. IP. (C N S )—The director of the census announces the population of Florida as returned by the UCIU census as 1,4(18,211, of which 1,036,206 are whites and 431,828 are Negroes. The white population in­ creased 387,052 or 82.2 per cent, and the Negro population 102,341, or 31.1 per cent. Of the Negro population 181,008 are 21 years of age and over, forming 28.0 per Cent o f the popula­ tion o f voting nge. RICHMOND NEGROES GET CAMP AND SOCIAL CENTER Krv. Daniel G. Hill, Jr., left Mon­ day for Baltimore, Md., to *ee hi* ulted father, who ia ill and reported to be falling faat. Kev. Illll, while back Kaat, will visit aeveral of the large cities. He plans to return home for Easter. IS BANKER BROKE? NEGRO WORKERS STRIKE NEW ORLEANS, La., Mar. UL CN A) Sis workers have l»«n shoe because they dared to strike against a wage cut which meant the worsen­ ing o f their already poor living con­ ditions. Five thousand longshoremen, more than half o f whom are Negroes, are on strike, mllttantly carrying on thv struggle against the treacherous policy o f the union officialdom. WASHINGTON. Mar. HL— (CN8> .—A* l<«al colored woman was buried in one o f the leading white ceme­ teries here last week. It all happened this way: Several years ago her father purchased a lot in the Con­ gressional Cemetery. For some time he was superintandent there. At his death and that of his wife, both were buried there. Then last week I -O s ­ ceola Howard, the daughter, died. The undertaker appeared at the cemetery to make arrangements for her burial and the white curetaki-r did not know what it waa all about. To him there wa* a mistake somewhere, but after looking up the old register it was found thut the dead woman's people own. d a lot there. The ceremony wa* held without any delay. CANI RIDE IN PIANE T0 APPRECIATE NEGRO SPIRITUALLES Paul Robeson in Dunbar News. Instead o f trying to get away from his folk background, the American Negro should find among bis own peo­ ple the basis of development for his own art*. Some members of my race want to forget how to sing spirituals. They prefer not to be reminded o f their an­ cestral folk-ways. They don’t like such a play as The Emperor Jones and they probably wouldn’t have liked my London Othello if they had seen him chased all over the stage by Iago. There is no good reason for this. There will not be a great American Negro composer until one appears who will turn bark to folk materials ami, indeed, to African rhythms. One o f the greatest Russian composers never went to a school, but developed his own music, which proceeded out of a similar psychology to that which created the spirituals. As for our modern American Negro musicians, they are copying the French modern school. But the French moderns are going to Africa for their inspiration. Dr. Ellsworth, department com­ mander o f Sergeant Joseph White WASHINGTON, Mar. 19.— (CNS> Camp, Spanish-American war vet*, Two Washington men were refused died in Portland Tuesday and will be passage in a local sightseeing plane buried today. here last week. The men, James La- ney and C. A. Yancey, had coupons from a local gasoline company which entitled them to a ride over the city When Is a Pole-kitty by the W ashington-Hoowr Airport NEW ORLEANS, La., Mar. 19.— Not a Polecat? Company. Upon presenting their cre­ (CN S) Hecoming suddenly ill last dentials, they were told they could Tuesday, Misa Laura I^wis, 48, fell not go up because they were colored. into an open furnace at her home, 431 Howard street, mid was seriously burned about the body. Mr. am) Mrs. Charles Stanton have ■' - 0 ■ - . — — a. RICHMOND, Ya.. Mar. 19.— (CNS A recreation center and a camp of 138 in res has been acquired for the cituens of this city, the Negro Wel­ fare Social Council announced last Thursday. ------. o WOMAN FALLS INTO FURNACE Phil Reynolds, 301 Koselawu ave­ recently purchased a beautiful nue, is reported indisponed this week. suite of living-room furniture. new r|>cated the exhortation 15 times, but the eat merely blinked as though an­ noyed. Miss Dorrho, who asserted she had owned the cat for several years, said she could establish her ownership in one attempt. “ Pinky, wink at the judge,” she said. Pinky winked first one eye and then the other. "It's your eat,” ruled the magis­ trate. Miss Itorrho wrapped Pinky in a red blanket and carried him from the courtroom. She explained later thnt he was a great mouser and some­ times an amateur at playing the piano. [ANGUISHING IN CELL CHICAGO, Mar. 16.— Is Jesse Binga broke? This question is going the rounds as the erstwhile president of the de­ funct bank which bore hi* name, who a year ago was regarded as on* of the richest colored men in the world, languishes in the county jail hospital. Last Thursday Binga was indicted by the grand jury on charges o f hav­ ing embexsled an amount said to have been between (250,000 and (350,000 of the hank's funds. He was taken to jail after deputy sheriffs had gained entrance to his home at 69th and So. Park Way by a ruse. Where have his reputedly vast real estate holdings gone? Academy several months ago, has been inducted into tha Phi Bet* Kappa honorary the University o f Chicago, where he ia a student, it was learned here last week. He is the son o f Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Weir o f 917 Eu­ clid street. Young Wleir passed the mental test to the academy, but fail­ ed in the physical examination be­ cause o f his eyes. CHAINED TOGETHER AND LOCKED IN IRON PRISON CEELS 60VERNER DINES WITH NEGRO CONSTITUENT KENANSV1LLE, N. C-, Mar. 11,— Eleven colored convicts, chained to­ gether like animals and locked in a narrow corrugated iron cell, were left by their guards to perish in flames which destroyed the main stockade of the Dublin county prison farm near here at an early hour Sunday morn­ ing, after 41 white prisoners had been led to safety. WHITE WITNESSES PROVE ‘ATTACK’ CHARGE FALSE NORFOLK, Va., Mar. 19.— (CNS) — William Harper, 22-year-old youth, who was doomed to die in the electric chair for the alleged criminal assault on Mrs. Dorothy Skaggs, white, of Portsmouth, Va., was freed here last Friday after the jury deliberated only 34 minutes. The attack ia alleged to have taken place on the night o f January 6, last. He was tried on January 28, and found guilty by a jury, fixing punish­ ment by death in the electric chair. The defense attorney made a motion for a new trial, which was granted on February 7. The new trial brought nine new white witnesses into the case and victory far Harper. It was upon their testimony that the Skaggs woman was not in the city, but in North Carolina, on the night of the attack, that saved the man. To date no chargea o f perjury have been instituted against the woman. ALBAN Y, N. V., Mar. 5— A din­ ner invitation from the governor of the state o f New York for Tuesday night was accepted by Assemblyman J. E. Stephens on Monday. The let­ ter inviting Stephens indicated that the governor desired to talk over cer­ tain bills and to discuss the needs of The halocause was one of the most the colored people o f the state. hideous tragedies which has ever oc­ curred in this section o f the state, and the guards and overseers are be­ ing held in custody by the eo«,r.*y au­ thorities pending a thorough investi­ Thousands Lost Savings gation which has been ordered by the Broken in health and spirit, harass­ governor. ed by the knowledge that the bank he Burned to Crisp created is no more, and tortured by The bodies o f the 11 men, the only the fact that the thousands o f people whose confidence in him caused them colored convicts in the camp, were ATLANTA, G*., Mar. 19.— During of Virginia Union University; R. B. the loss o f over a million dollars in found charred to a crisp several hours the month just ended 2500 students Eleazer. o f the Interracial Commis­ after the blaze had subsided, and the small, hard-won savings, now revile in leading white colleges heard per­ sion. and Claud Nelson, o f the Y. M. his name, the once proud master of solid door to the metal cell h id been sonally—and nearly all o f them ap­ C. A., represented this interest in a fortune faces the prospect o f the grey opened with an acetylene torch. The flames did not reach the victims, but plauded— the message o f interracial campaign o f Christian World Educa­ walls o f prison as a penalty. the sides and top o f the metal cell justice and co-operation delivered by tion in the principal colleges o f Vir­ Servants Unpaid? glowed red hot from the blaze, lit­ n number o f speakers, white and col­ ginia, speaking to scores o f classes erally roasting alive the 11 colored ored. Frank Wilson, P. M. C, A. stu­ and college assemblies on various as­ Even the fortune o f Mrs. Binga, convicta whom the guards are alleged dent secretary; Dr. Gordon Hancock, pects o f race relations. which she inherited from her brother, “ Mushmouth" Johnson, and which is to have admitted that they made no said to have founded Binga’s wealth, effort to save. :the Arata building, where he will be The fire started in the cook shed, a is now said to be sadly depleted. Ru­ happy to receive his patrons. mor has it that even the servants in rude wooden affair, and spread quick­ ly to tha other sections o f the stock­ the palatial home o f the banker have Last Sunday’s Oregonian carried a ade. Guards and trusties spread the not been paid for months. group picture o f a class in sociology alarm, and rushed into the large Five Others Involved? from Pacific College and in the group Mrs. J. E. Powell has moved from Binga's indictment was returned be­ wooden stockade, where the white was Allan Rutherford. The students prisoners are kept unfettered, and 262 Page street to 311 Cherry street. fore Chief Justice John P. McGoorty. were on an inspection tour o f the freed them. Two were seriously in­ Contrary to misinformed reports court o f domestic relations. jured in the stampede for the exit made public last week, five others Mrs. Earl Morrison has been ill for the past several days. were not indicted along with Bings, which ensued. Mr. and Mrs. E. Bowie o f Barton although true bills against them are were in the city last week on business. said to be in preparation. Mrs. Ida Schweich is having the They were pleasant callers at The Ad­ Hmgn is said to have withdrawn Pleanr Pay Your Suhicriplion exterior o f her home, 1037 Division vocate office. street, painted a pretty light gray. money from the bank for personal -------- --------- real estate transactions on notes sign­ Georgeia Dixon, who has been mak­ ed by those employes as security. The Editor o f The Advocate was ing a splendid showing in California, invited to hear Mrs. Christine A. was on Ralph Gruman’s card Tuesday Donaugh give a reading o f “ Green at the Auditorium. Dixon’s opponent Pastures” at the home o f Mrs. Her­ was Romeo LeMon o f San Diego. GARVEY SELLS O UT; bert Brown last Thursday. Dixon comes back here with a record WILL QUIT JAM AICA -------- --------- of having won all o f his bouts in Cal­ Charles Strain has as his house ifornia, one by knockout, and he is in guests Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Badger, better shape than he has been for a KINGSTON, Jamaica. B. W . I„ prominent business people of Gear­ year.” Mar. 19.— (C N A )— A t a mass m eet­ hart. Mrs. Badger is Mr. Strain’s sister. ing on February 15, held at Edelweis Part, Marcus Garvey, leader o f the Al Henderson, arrested following a Universal Negro Improvement Aaso- Recently in Circuit Judge Tucker’s raid on Northrup street, February 20, elation, made the declaration that he court Ed Nelson and Ruben Darde fined » (125 by District Judge „i„.t -..¡u ,. * .. . _ . ‘ was tinea iz o Dy intemled to sell out and leave the pled guilty to robbing Saicih Tanak ,, . .„ „ . . u „ t I , . , Woodley, March 12. He was charged country within six weeks. His desti­ and were sentenced to seven and three .u i• ___________ . . . , . _ with liquor possession. nation is London. Just before this years, respectively, in Oregon peniten­ announcement, Garvey had launched tiary. ----------o___ into another field for the purpose of The Oregon Statesman, published at obtaining millions more from the poor Among those reported ill are J. D. workers and farmers in this country. Emery, Mrs. Mary Olliver, A. Robin­ Salem, devoted considerable space to He became a real estate agent and son, Mrs. Duggan and little Miss a cut and writeup of Jess Lee Brooks, auctioneer. Evidently the toilers of Trueitt. The latter had her tonsils Negro spiritual singer, who is con- certizing in the Northwest, especially removed. Jamaica were not to be deceived by ' in the states o f Oregon and Washing­ this new adventurous scheme to sepa­ TV* Q u a l it y i _ _ . rate them from their meager earn­ Dr. DeNorval Unthank is now com­ ton. Recently he san in Albany, Eu­ *» a w u a Oy i I ings. !* ■ fortably located in his new office in gene and Salem. Colleges Hear Gospel O f Good Will LO CALS M ake Not She Me-ow But Cat’s Wink Wins NEW YORK. Mar. 18.— (C N S )— The destiny of Pinky, a blase alley cut, was determined Wednesday at a magistrate'» court. Pinky was brought into the court by Mrs. Catherine Borrho upon the complaint of John Bonner, colored, of 354 West 52nd street, who maintained thnt. the cut belonged to him. He said the cat’s name was Tom, and that it had disappeared two weeks ago. To establish his ownership, he offered to induce the cat to do n trick. Pinky, who had a red ribbon around his neck, was p'.nrcd on a table. Ilon- nor made a circle of his arms and shouted, “ Como, Tbm! Jump!” He WASHINGTON, Mar. 19.— (CN S) —Charles Edward Weir, graduate of a Washington high school and one of Representative Oscar DePriest’s can­ didates for the United States Naval BE YOURSELF COLORED WOMAN BURIED IN WHITE CEMETERY PRESENTED WITH PHI BETA KAPPA KEY RECENTLY Portland's Own Store Int’l Newsreel Whether th? white cat shown atop the pole In this picture of a Nsw York street got there one Jump ahead of a dog, or merely wanted to try for an endurancs record. It found that getting down wasn't so easy a ' getting up. A kind-hearted tele­ phone lineman broke his day’ i routine by effecting the reicue of ono white cat, very hungry. Your Shopping Headquarters ONLY NEGRO NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN STATE