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LYNCH TW ENTY O U S O U S THE- An VOL 27—NO. 22 ADVOCATE In d «p *n d «D t P aper D a v o ltd to PORTLAND. OREGON IN TW O SECTIONS (h a In te ra a ti o/ th e P e o p l* SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1931 SECTION ONE PRICE FIVE CENTS MAY INDICT WHITE WOMAN FOR ACCUSING MAN SAYS COMMUNISM CAN SOLVE RACE PROBLEM ASS N URGES PARKS SUCCEEDS D a i l y P a p e r s C r i t i c i s e H o w a r d u n i v . ,Y. PROSECUTION TROUBLE BREWS IN AT1Y IMPRESSED NEW YOKK. April S .-M r s . Doro thy Bkagg», the whit* woman who falaaly arcuMxl a Negro WilUain Harper, o f assault in Norfolk, Vir ginia, on whirh i-harge Harper waa firat sentenced to die and then ac quitted on eacond trial, may herself face indictment on a perjury charge, according to information reaching the National Aasoclation for the Advance ment o f C oW sd People. O liv e t Cljurcfj Dresses U p With nearly fifty shrubs artiatical- ly placed on the church grounds, Mt. Olivet Baptist «'hurdi. through its Fellowship Club, makes an eapscially inviting appearanra tins Faster. The newly decorated interior is worship ful, restful and beautiful. As a cli max o f numerous activities, Easter services will consist o f a Sunday School program at 9:80 a. m., en titled "There Is. No Death” ; a s Eas ter message by the pastor. Dr. Gaston, on “ Immortality and My Faith In It"; a one-hour service by the young peo ple at 7:80 p. m „ and Holy Commu nion at the regular evening hour. The Fellowship Club will present its new usher board, consisting o f at tractive matrons. They are: Mrs. Dennis Collins, Mrs. Leon Fisher, Mrs. M M Smith, Mrs. Kffie John son and Mrs. Edward Rutherford. The memorial flower table will car ry a floral tribute In honor o f Carra Henry Porter, deceased daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Porter. The Mount Olivet Visitor will make its initial ap pearance and splendid music will be furnished by the choirs o f the church. At the II o ’clock service, Miss Bar bara Hubbard will sing "Consider the Liliea.” TRUE TALES OF THE TELEPHONE CHICAGO, 111., April 8. Bishop II H. Parks, Oakland, Cal., senior bishop of the A. M. E. Church, was chosen on last Saturday to succeed the late Bishop A. J. Carey as presiding bish op of ths Fifth Episcopal District un til the next general conference at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1982. It seems that the concensus of opinion is that Bishop J. A- Gregg Kansas City, Mo., will bs the next bishop of this dis trict. FIRE HERO HONOR’D » BIG BIEL GOES PLAQUE PLACED DOWN 10 DEFEAT STATES DECLINE DEPARTMENTS WASHINGTON, April 8— (C N S )— ! The daily papers of the city have for several days given wide publicity to the fact that “ there’s trouble brewing on Howard Hill.” The Washington Post in a front page article on Sun day, March 29, gave an account o f internal strife in the Law School, which centered around a movement to oust James C. Waters, an instruc tor and the school’s librarian For several days the Poet ran ad ditional articles outlining dissensions in the severs1 departments of the uni versity; and the Washington Times, the Washington News and the Eve ning Star all joined in giving pub licity to different phases of the dal.” NEW YORK- April 8—“ A fter three and a half years’ study o f racial mi norities in Soviet Russia, I am con vinced that the program o f Commu nism is the only solution o f our racs problem in America,” said William Lorenzo Patterson, form er law part ner o f Assistant District Attorneys George E. Hall and Thomas B. Dyett, who returned to New York from Rus sia on the Deutachland Friday. Asked if he had renounced his American citizenship, Patterson smil ed said that he ia still an American subject, and that he had traveled home on an American passport. He is home for an indefinit* stay, ns said, and does not know when he will return to visit his Russian brida of 15 months, who remained with her parents in Moscow. Sailing from New York in the fall of 1927, he arrived in Moscow in time to witness the celebration o f the 10th anniversary o f the October revolu tion in Moscow. From there he went to Kharkov, where he made an ad dress at a similar celebration in the __________ Ukraine, a south Russian state, o f which Kharkov is ‘¿he c a p iU L ^ R ^ turning to Moscow, he began to study i c o n d i t i o n s , visiting libraries, CHICAGO, April 8— Wi<liam Hale NEW YORK. April 8— The ninth RICHMOND. Va., April 8.— (CN S) Thompson, master politician who annua> Honor Roll, showing states —Gilbert Hunt, Negro blacksmith served three terms as mayor o f Chi free from lynching in the year 1980, and one o f the outstanding heroes of cago, has been turned out of office has just been announced by the Com the tragic theatre fire o f 1811, has in favor o f Anton J. Cermak, former mission on Race Relations of the Fed been honored by a bronze tablet re Bohemian immigrant whose career eral Council of the Churches o f Christ cently placed on the outer wall of la-gen in the coal mines o f southern in America. The record shows that Monumental Church which now stands 1‘ruuiuUr* o f "The Birth of a Na Illinois. lynching* took plaoe in nine states as on the site o f the old Richmond Thea Cermak’s smashing victory at the compared with five states in 1929. tre which burned on December 2« of tion" fi>m petitioned the city council polls by a majority o f almost 192,000 The number o f victims was 21 during the above year. again on last Wednesday morning a rehearing to show the fit min Port was “ Big Bill’s first taste of defeat 1930 more than double the number The tablet, which is one of simple o f the previous year. O f the 21 per land lhe editor of The Advocate was during his spectacular career. Complete returns today fro mthe sons, one was whit* and 20 were Ne design but eloquent in its story, re summoned and spoke against the citas that it is “ in memory o f Gi'bert film, pointing out that it was not 2987 precincts ss compiled by the groes. Hunt, the colored man who, at the only historically untrue but that It police gsve Cermak 600,489 and risk of his own life, heroically saved Thompson 474,808. -lied hatred between the races. many lives at the burning of the Rich Followers o f the democratic presi Mrs. E. B. Colwell presented records mond theatre, December 26, 1811, on showing that the film had been barred dent o f the Cook county board haded the site of which this church stands.” I WASHINGTON, April 8.— (CN S) “ the end of a number of times previously. Upon Cermak’s victory as motion of Commissioner Barbur, sec Thomptonisro, waste, extravagance The memorial has been made p o s -,“ 1 *!* J H -Randolph, secretary onded by Commissioned Clyde, the and crime.” Civic leaders called the sible by the generosity o f a member ° . e Foreign On Thursday, April 9 at Lincoln republican incumbent’s defeat a “ tre petition wss unanimously denied. o f the congregation, and is placed on Mission Society; the Rev. A . W . high school auditorium, Menni For- mendous step toward good govern Brown- pastor o f the Sixth Street factories, Communist party meetings chammer delivered an address on the the front wall just to the left o f the ment and prosperity.” Baptist Church of Richmond, Vs., and and interviewing government o ffi main entrance o f the church. The election was a record-breaker question o f world peace. The speaker, the Rev. George Bullock, pastor of cials. in many respecta. Thompson's de who is a delegate to the League of the Third Baptist Church o f this city, “ A fter a critical comparison o f tha Nations, has done much to discourage feat was the most overwhelming in have returned here after a trip to Soviet system with the various international traffic in women and mayoralty history. Until yesterday Haiti, where they made a survey o f phases o f capitalism in other parts NEW YORK. April 8.— Dr. John he held the record for rolling up the girls. conditions in the black Republic. o f the world, I am convinced that A. Singleton, president of the Omaha Plur* “ tY- Cermak’s total vote The churchmen reported much when the N egro masses o f America progress is now being made in Haiti come to understand more cles^ly the branch of the National Association lar* er bY 16-° ° ° than for the Advancement o f Colored Peo- '•nd» 'id* for Senator James Hamilton and the country stiU remains a fertile ideology o f Communism they must pie, reports that showing of the L' wi* l“ » ‘ Thompson carried field for the work o f the Foreign accept it as the only genuine rslief NEW YORK, April 3.— Withdraw Mission Department o f the National from their present plight,” declared "Birth of a Nation” has been pro- ‘,n|y five w ,r d ‘ out o f M - Cermak lost no time in taking ad al o f an advertising circular contain- Baptist Church. hibiteil in that city. Patterson. vantage of his victory. No sooner ing the objectionable phrase “ nig- „ ________ “ Under capitalism they are doomed had he received news that he was ger m the woodpile,” has been •c- ac- According to the advance sale of to exploitation and oppression. The elected than he spoke over the radio, ATLA N TA, G a„ April 8.— F ifty “ This election marks the end of white ministerial students from vari complished by the National Associa- tickets, indications are that the Elks door to better things is closed to tha crime in Chicago,” he told the listen ous Southern theologica1 schools, in tion for the Advancement of Colored wil1 b* v’e the b‘ 8***t crowd o f the American worker t>y his wage scale. ers. “ 1 shall serve notice on the hood snnusl meeting here last wesk at People which called to ths attention swuon at their b*n next Wednesday In Russia, where private profit ia be- night Everybody will bs there to ing progressively abolished, there will lum and gangster that he'd better Emory University, featured race re o f E E Dielc’ inson . o f Essex, ald the Elks in their worthy effort to be no 'unit to the benefits the worker The W orkers' Hal', 191H Third pack up and get out or prepare for lations as one of their principal top onn ’ ’’* spnnslble 10 • protest from maintain their fins property at the may receive. When the N egro real- street, will open Sunday night, April a long stay under restraint. ics and voted without dissent to make • co ored man who had received the com er o f Williams avenue and Me- ixes the superiority o f that system he 12, with a program, and Fred Walker, “ Within a day or two I shall pre next year’s conference interracial. circular. Millen street. I is bound to accept its tenets.” young Communist lea gu e district or sent my new cabinet to the council— ganizer, recently acquitted of a crim a cabinet that will lead Chicago c-n EDITOR CHOSEN inal syndicalism charge, will speak. to development and prosperity.” The hall is the new headquarters of When news o f defeat reached »9 Beatrice Cannady, Editor o f The the Portland branches of the Interna- Thompson, he smiled and announced Advocate, has been appointed by Gov tional Labor Defense, Trade Union tomorrow he would be o ff on a cruise ernor Julius L. 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