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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1931)
T i'llK ILLUSTRATED FEA TUR E SECTION— July 18. 1931 To Test a Feller’* Friendshif The Bootlegger Who Ruled 1 Portsmouth, Virginia Make a touch Smoke hi* pipe P o n t lat! at hi* joke*. Shave with hi* razor. Borrow hi* car. Flirt with hi* wife Tlirow rock* in the water While he fishes lor trout. And if he remain* serene Never offend him attain For he k a friend— Or Cuck-koo 'Tom Bouiidtr«*«* lla<l tin* Bi<*«;«*Ht H ouh «* in Tow n and $100,000 in tin* Itanlv K;irn<*(l liv Sidlin'» Liijiior uliicli Hr ‘ lA*«:f»rd VrroHM llit* Virninia-N orlli < ¿irnliiia Stale l i ne U lte at INi**lit in Anton. Then Som e thing ^ ent Wrong. I happened to he one of his P “ Did You Know This? private chauffeurs at that time, although he employed about 25 men. most of them Tom Huumltree was a l>ÌR He was a liOotleKicer in Fortum ou th. police officers. man of high esteem among Virginia, in the year of 1925. the ofays of that city. His word was law among all C LA S SIFIE D ADS racketeers and underworld l i / n u r y m i n t HI M U our Tr**i He was W| |Vl;f| nei » g - ai.i Md | m 4 i , m ***** men of both races. nvm M £ M aiM M I «■ • ***• a great gambler, in fact, he M l o n AL ran and owned three first rnrttut* win fu«m uu any class gambling clubs. But V in pite of all hia dealings ¡with sin he was kindhearted. 1 have seen white men aiul | » t » > lU R J t T M AtlU . MAKE EE« NET > <r F » i c r ic »* , e u in m r s t a o women of all classes come to Fa t > • flee A s m i ie*ti H s t e i U t e Eys |. -M* I) Ni«*«de a ? N V him for help and advice. One week later Tom received a tummona to court on a charge L I K MAN f i r Kft< RKT One night in January Tom and I of bribery. I happened to be one of hia private chauffeurs. B y B IG B O Y A S Lritch. .rilin g to the Wash- InKton i dally i N e »». *ive* the follow ing information Ella* B.udinot wa* elected Presi dent on November 4 17*2 The term of offlL- » a * three year*. Copy of a proclamation signed bv President Boudinot. dated June 24 1783. and of the •.sovereignty and Independence of tlie United Slates the Seventh" year can be found in the archives at Washington John Hancock was elected a* sec ond President 'served one yeari and Nathaniel Oorhain «.is elected Presi dent on June 15. 1786 In 1787 a constitution was adopted providing a four-yeir term for President and Vice President, a different method of election and for two legislative b idles. In 1789 George Washington was Inaugurated first President "under the New Constitution ' and for many years was so de'ig rated though be ing really the fourth to hold the o f fice. -----— O— - Community and Group Organs T h - Pathfinder under the head ing. ‘ Long Live the Rural Press," sets forth its value to the community it serves. All that It sava mav well apply to the better and more pro gressive of the weeklies 'and now at least one semi-weekly ) which servo our group The Path nder says: K U t o N R S M ARIHNlD •"The repainting of a neighbor's I «that la the name everyone called < iiM n istiiu s I A NO E t l o t l M lars So Tom let him have It. A f red barn, the Thursday postponed | him by. although hr * u M) years l)« W eal 11 Till N e « V e ti T om ’* men were run ter Christmas he tame buck again. meeting of the Tuesday Afternoon of age> were altt ng in the parlor of time he said that hi* wife was | Ladies Sodality and the glad tidings ning whiskey seven rills worse and Uie doctor had ordered that * i«’1*'’» townsman Is recuperat- | liu Imtne. which was then locatrd on a f a v o r it i hrr to be taken to a hospital. He told m* from his recent illness—what Ffllngham Street, mdtrn wc lieart! nights a week, so you I Tom that ..... .. . . . lmnortant event* th e s e a r e in the Th«* A rim ira N public have their the city would not give important events these are In ... . . . a.. —i . life of the average small American «Miirmir knocki|ig loudly at Uie front •'favorite«." Whether person or pro* can judge what the him . 11 .> money lor * j* TllW , community! The cities can have duri, the*r ftvoritm enjoy uhuaua I door ¡lim e he got one hundred dollars. their picked over news and society P* p u lar ty. Fot Inatanre. II«b e police were making - ’1 < hii went to m * t who It s ia be One week later Tom received a stupidities but the rural press con- Kuth'a popularity in tbe re»uft of to court on a charge of tlnues to flourish on local chromc- rauir it was very late Hr staid at hi* home run hitting an«l rolorftil $350 for giving Tom summons br.bery He was trlrd within the Lne* of genuine Interest the door so long that I became a - personality. ('onaUure Bennett's and got a sentence of ten years . ■ ‘2 * * * , Hv L bafVi protection and $150 • week fame result« fr«»iw her beauty, ber larined and al*o went to the door t - ___ *2.___ ,. . . I bone of the naUon. so ts the rural ability to art nn«l wfnr eloth«*« ef- i ^ ¡L "“ » ‘ thing ,1“ t he not 1,0 jiress a guiding light in American When I finally arrived at Tom's aide a day for whiskey. Officer Poore hid been the cause of I Jou. nalism . Indeed, it is today more ferti\r|y. Bobby Ji»nr«, the gttlfrr, 1 saw at a gSanre that Uie men he the trouble The first money th a t; c; a beacon than ever occupi«- n prr miment position be- "It is true that the great city dailies <*auM*of hit tmrannv «kill anil pleas, wa.n talking to acre policemen 1 the highest uttornry in the state of P oire had gotten from him wav given to Uie Catholic preacher, also and the naUonal magazines are now li »r per«on«lity. And no it go«*«, on took one look at them and Uien Virginia to plead tor him tlie nest one hundred dollars. Bo procurable at the corner drug store nml on. Sl.Jo*« pit's (¿munte Aspirin ducked hack Into the room lie an* worth nearly one hundred when the five of them testified that or elsewhere in any representative is now tbe lm gr*t rriling pure •«- When loin returned to th- parlor thousand dollur* m cash alone and . k , nurnev was for tetherv after lev- 1 »mall American community, but that jurin in tlw world for 10c because I asked him what they wanted He about fifty thousand In Jewelry and . h . n. . . , h does not m-an that the local press it i« n« genuine ami ji , pure as said that they were begging to r . real estate and securities | r i g brio “ t w T s U u T a t t S ? ^ t h e y J“ * «• *£■. fnon. y ran buy. Thousands now rea money That seemed strange to me lize that it is neither sensible nor He wa* at* fret tall, brown *ktn. lo , rnd to Richmond to get a T h a t ^ w h y ¿ T f l n d ^ v 'm i r police biggin* for mangy, but i ml weighed 175 pound* and was a third bel ore he was convicted neressttiy to pay more than lOr fop questionnaires many* rural residents tlioughl It was nut 11 ,V bii.dne.ui, m > 1 twelve tablet« of genuine pure as- *tx,rt I The trial went from court to court | subscribing to as many as seven to anon dismissed It. pirin. I fiat month alone more than There was one motorcyelc officer utld finally to the Supreme Court In 10 state, countv and local publica one million pro pi« laid down on At one o'clock the boys, as they w h o » name *a * Poore. Poore had Richmond. tions The modern countryman may druggists’ emint* r« more than one and marasmes for wire callrd by Tom, came In from been discharged from police duty Tom told how Poore had come to take city pipe millmn «lime* for one million boxes North Carolina. They had "200 gal since the trial of Tom He and five ),im for money He spent thousands general news, agricultural advice and • f M Joseph's(irmnnr 1‘ure Aspirin. other reading, but he still depends lon* of whiskey in two Ford ears. Catholic priest* framed Tom. ,,f dollars trying to beat the case, Alw ayi ask for "St.Joseph’s", it it was very cold that night and It Poore went to T im s .1 me a week bllt this time he rouldn t. They on home periodicals lor local news. meet« e\« r> government standard. “The town cr community with an wa* rattling and hailing It wa* a before Christmas and told him hi* gave him ten years In Atlanta Pen Independent and fearless local or bad winter night After they became wife wa* sick and hungry He said n , trial was Uie biggest ever seen gan need not worry about being dic iim. they all took a drink After he didn't make enough In the poi m Virginia, tated to and havtng 1U opinions the drink*. Tom got down lo busi- ire force to aupport and feed her. | formed for it by outsider* often new with the boys. Hr asked them He asked Tom fo Irnd him fifty dol- THE END. swayed by selfish interests." how they made out In their trip to North Carolina Alter the boys had told of their trip, they all* Including Tom, went l to deliver the liquor, snd, being his i private chauflriir I had to go also Tlie first .slop was at the Jail In Portsmouth Ten gallon* were left there to srlL Tlie next stop was at a white m ain store Ht* name was Charles Fuiiit One hundred gallons | were left thrrr The remaining ninety gallon* wer- delivered to var ious places around the city. I Now here 1* th- police's big ruck - ! eh Out of very gallon sold by Tqpi. I they charged him 50 cents on the gallon and fifty dollars a trip for j police protection, besides all the j Sprr.id lhi« rntfrant. white whiskey they would get free. Tom s men were running whiskey | Idrarh liffhllf on yoar fare , seven night* a week, so you can I and nrck at nifht | Judge what the police were making . . then watch how Q(JI< K Three hundred fifty dollars for glv- I.V pimple■ and other akln tng Tom protection, and $150 n day blemiihe« vanish , for whLski.v. . and how a* thouch by Tom rot *o hiph In the city that magic your completion be- ^RW d!dn t bother him. nor one come» shade, a n d sh.de»! J?™ «nythlng that they did. Everything ran aceordlng to I.K iH T K K anil ItK IO IITE R . the way Tom wanted It for about W .vln* Skin Whlten.r ano two years. Then things began to PAU L LAURENCE DUNBAR Ointment I. Iha name of thll happen against Tom. 1872-1906 wonderful bleach that Qlvea you First, they tried to get hts home, DAYTON, O - Paul Iaiurence Dun- clear, light, lovely okln. Price which Is one of the best ever built only ?5o at drug atoroa or by In that city for a colored man. Sec b u r f a m e d rv , n f wa* born here June 27 fifty-nine year* mall poetpald from Tha Boyd ond. he began to grt warnings from ago. Three weeks 1 Mnfg. Co., Dlrmlng the K. K. K. Third, lie had more ago tlie l a t e The Dunbar Home on Summit Street,»htih the Dead Poet'* Mother StiU * ham, Ala. Preserves as a Shrine. money and Jewelry than any white J poet's mother sat man In Uiat city. Fourth, the In her small two- over station W SM K She hated slavery enough to run Everybody In whites didn't like It because they 1 story frame dwell away and find freedom. Dayton knows Mrs Matilda Dunbar were almost ruled by him. Fifth. I ing at 319 North Visitors r-ho make the mistake of they couldn't get any Jury to con Summit street, Some say she Is 75 snd others say vict him Sixth, the law wa* afraid ' mentioning alavery never fall to snd listened to a she is near 100 of him because he knew so much a- | She ha* more visitor* of both hear Mrs Dunbar protest in a moat radio broadcast bout them. Srrrnth. he could get Mother Danbar of Paul * poems races than anvbodv else In the city. emphatic manner. ; Paul Laim'ticr Dunbar's .Ma U ra n i Son's Forms llroadrast on llis 5*)th Birthday. June 27 Lovely Light Skin
