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M H A in u WALKER DES THE An VOL. 27 Indépendant IN TWO SECTIONS No. 39 ADVOCATE Paper D evo ted to th « In fo rcete of th e P «o p l* PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1931 SECTION ONE PRICE FIVE CENTS NOTED SURGEON WILLS $50,000 TO MAL?. DR. I L L REMEMBERS WELFARE ' 1 INDICT SUNSHINE SAMMY first to o per aie on heart E lu \A illiiin iM N .u York, A uguat 26 Krne»l M or rison. who achieved fam e an "S u n shine Sam m y" In the “Our lia n a " photoplay comedies, niton-,! a plea of "N ot G uilty" on .Monday when haled before Judge F reach! In G eneral Sea- alona, on a cliargv of crim inal aaaault upon Ulan- he Van 1‘u tten , young cir- cua girl. The dapper youna actor denied the girl'a alleaation th a t he had twice rn a a a e d In acta w ith her which reaulted in h er preanacy. The form er acreen favorite, now a headliner on U w w ’r vaudevile circuit, ia alleged to have lured Miaa Van P utten to the a p artm en t a t 335 Fdgc com he avenue, w here he llvea will« hia fa th er, and to have made advanrea to her The alrl aaya ahe waa at that time Id yeara of age. Morriaon ia 18 year« old. Morriaon waa arraigned in Height* Court on Auguat 6 before M agiatrate Hurke, and held in $2,500 bail for the G rand Ju ry , which ha* indicted hint on a charge of crim inal aaaault. ( Ed .'* Note: “ Sunahine Sam m y” la | hw»wn to m any |*< -rtiandara w k- will regret hi* tr o u ts . While in I’ortjand lie atoppi-d at the home of Mra. It. J. Puller i POCKETS PICKED Y o.biuialou Morii». Japaneae, r, ili colored n u li late T ue.day »bile nateli \\ aaltington Street, w e jo»tlrd by a mg tb r lire at thè California llag and Metal \varchou«c, bc tubi polire carly todav. and lookcd aiouiul tu acr a col ored man about J0. rullìiing rapidi) away M orita aaid he frlt at once in In, rrar trouaera pocket (or h it » a l ici lini it waa gnor T he Ja p a n n e ran aftrr thè man Imt waa lutatile to cali li Inni. I Ile » alici cniitaiitrd f i ) I jilt- D r. D im llitlf o f Ilia S I 0 0 .0 0 0 . Chicago, Auguat 26. Dr. Daniel II William*, nationally known Colored aurgeon, who died A uguat 4, left more than h alf o f hia $100,00 to the N. A A. C. I*, in hi* will, which haa been filed for probate before Oacar S. Cha pin, aaaiatant to P robate Judge Horner The A»aociation received an o u t right bequeat of $800 and h alf the In come from a tru at fund in which the reiidual eatate waa placr-d. The other half goea to Dr. William*' niece and houackeeper, Ada lilanche Z aratt. O ther charitable bequeat* included |M M M ch to Mi-burry Medical Col lege at N ashville, and to Howard Uni- veraity in W aahington for scholar- hipa; $2000 to a Y. W. C. A In Waah ington and n like am ount to St. Eliza beth'a Huapital in Chicago Dr. William* waa the flrat to auc- ceaafully oiterate on the hum an heart. Ilia • aaaing u mourned by lha a n u ra country, ‘’BLACK EAGLE" GETS LICENSE New Y'ork, Auguat 26.— H erbert Julian , late av iato r uf the Kingdom >>f E thiopia, and known throughout the world a* the "Black K aglc," ha* been g ran ted a pilot*' licenae by the D epartm ent o f Commerce. Picture* of Mr. Julian m aking a perfect parnahute landing are now be ing ahown at the Rialto T h eatre in thia city.) ITt'orge I )«•»«■> \\ iihliiiiffton l'op» Siuic Hill In L. A. G IR L GKTS «0 DAYS M yrtle l'itlO nirg.white, alia* Kow- latid. a dancer, a rr e te d in company with tw o colored trien with atolrn good* in t tie ir p o ta ra ,ion at 1171 l,t »Irret north, »a* forunl guilty on a vagranev charge Tucaday in municipal court She » a , sentenced to serve fio dava in jail. lara Angelea, A uguat 26.— George Dewey W aahington. internationally- known baritone, ia headliner at Loew’a S ta te T h eatre thia week. W ashing ton i* very popular throughout thia section. (M r. Dewey W ashington is a fo r m er Portland, m an.) Leading 1 hinkers and Writers Agree With Advocat's Stand on Amos-Andy Program San Francisco, August 2.1, 1931 T o T he E ditor: Your erlitorial. anrnt, 'Amo* 'n Andy appearing in the issue o l August 18 , i, so pertinent that we believe it should be called to the attention of every thinking as well as the non-thinking Negro. T he late l)r Booker T. W ashington com m enting on the artistry ot Bert William*, late comedian, *aid, " It i* one thing to he laughed at and an other to lie laughoil with.” It doe* arrm as if the m ajority of our "lead ers" seek to place us in the position to hr laiiglu-d at ratlirr than to tic laughed with. W r rant and foam al insignificant m atters when it is so patent th at seri ous things confront u*. O ur dignity is so easily ruffled and our race pride is so readily resented when we fancy a slight through some caricature, that we are placed in the poaitinn of file »mall hoy who i* made the butt of ridicule because of his sensitiveness. W hen ever there is slack in the in terest ot any project, and public in ter est is decreasing, resuscitation i* made through the advertisem ent of Negro objection. T here a rr so many w righty p ro b lem* confronting the Negro that the ineptness of such m inor m atters is obvious The time consumed in brin g ing such m atters before the race could be used to better advantage. I.et us say: How much better it would lie to use the space in an endeavor to am eli orate the economic condition and seek to hrtteV racial conditions industrially and financially. Then there is tile in- justiee of racial segregation and politi cal ostracism , and adi. ever so many other things more necessary to racial progress that the elimination of 'Amos 'n Andy’. Tile sense of humor has been the saving grace of the Negro. The ability to laugh at his own ludicrousness has sm oothed much of the road. He shares this in common with some other races who have used it as a medium of g et ting somewhere. Take the Jew : W e have seen an audience, mainly com posed of persons of that race, go into ecstacy over the perform ance of David W arfield and Fannie Brice. Ntgroes crowd the theatres whenever Miller and I.yle are hilled. Bert Williams was our idol; then it is inconceivable that we should tak r um brage at the delineation of other* If there are de feet* as m irrored, and the blemishes are so apparent that we m ust take umbrage, let us seek to rem edy the defects and eradicate the blemishes; breaking the m irror will not suffice. W ith the hope that T he Advocate will continue the sane course in racial m atters, which it has at all times a s sumed, and that the fallacy of con tinual whining may be forcibly brot to the attention of the race. W e are Yours sincerely, VV J. W heaton. NEGRO MINISTERS BAR DE PRIEST STRAINED RACE RETAIN CITED i OPEN HALL LOR MEETI G (By N AA CP P ress Service) Mobile, Ala , A uguat 26— Despite the oppoaition of the Lions and the Kiwanis rluba and several groups of N egroes, C ongressm an Oacar D ePrieat a|>oke Friday night under the auapices of the Mobile Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. to a good sized audience a t the Pure H eart of Mary auditorium . The Catholic hall waa opened to Mr, D ePrieat by F a th e r John A lbert, a fte r two Colored ehurehea had w ithdraw n th eir perm ission to allow him to talk in th eir auditorium *. The two said th a t they w ere afra id of the reaction of white people Jo D eP rieat’» presence and speech. Altho p ressu re waa brot ta hear on F a th e r A lbert, he rem ained steadfast. Denounce* Communism in Talk M r.DcPriest denounced Communism in his speech, declaring the Commun- ( (Continued on Page 4) E OF BIACKSTONE TALKS FROM CEIL IN PRISON Jackson, Mich, A ugust 26— David Thomas Rlackstone, rinvicted on Aug. 13 along with two white men. for the m urder o f four young people on a lonely road on the o u tsk irts of Y'psi- lanti, August I t , struck back a t his accusing accomplices from his eel) in M arquette p enitentiary, recently. Sm ith and Oliver testified a t the tria l, the la tte r being quoted in the press. It was Oliver's sto ry of the crim es th at caused the Chicago De fender to make an investigation, and Rlackstone to assail his accomplices. Illackstone stanchly denied the story a* told by Oliver. He said he cannot im agine how Oliver expects anyone to believe th a t two w hite men would stand idly by and w atch him a ttack a young w hite g irl, and the assertion th a t he attacked h er again a fte r she was dead, he said, is preposterous. “ If it had been m e," Rlackstone is quoted ns having said, "I certainly w ouldn't adm it w atching such a sight. Though guilty o f the crime of m urder, I could hardly feel th a t it would bring more contem pt fo r me than to have my people know I w itnessed such an outrageous assault upon the young womanhood o f my race w ithout even voicing nn objection.” Slaps Bell-boy Guest B i s h o p S ays D arrow Fool Pays With His Life W ashington, A ugust 26.— (C N S)— I W. Frank N orm an, w hite, Tennesean, and form er A saistant U. S. A ttorney G eneral, paid with hia life for slap ping and th reaten in g Joseph Diggs, 31 years old, in fro n t of the white fashionable W ardm an Park Hotel in thia city. D iggs, who was employed as bellman a t the hoelt, had refused N orm an’s chauffeur the rig h t to park in a restricted zone in the re a r of the hotel a few days before. N orm an became incensed and struck Diggs. N orm an returned to the hotel and ia said to have threatened the bellman. R esenting the prior assault, Diggs opened fire upon the white man I and shot him twice, while Norman begged fo r hi» life. A fter shooting, Digg* surrendered to the authorities. He ia being held to aw ait the action New Y'ork, A ugust 26— T hirty-three of the G rand Ju ry on a charge of members of the B ritish House of P a r m urder. liam ent, am ong them the distinguished Ellen W ilkinson, have signed a s ta te ment urging retria ls of the eight lads sent» need to death a t Scottsboro, ac cording to a recent announcem ent. The document signed by these m em bers of parliam ent, was sent to the A m erican em bassy in London on July 29, according to a letter received from Negro Democrat* In John P. F letcher, secretary of the Drie fo r Huge Sum Jo in t Council to Prom ote U nderstand ing Between W hite and Colored Peo ple in G reat B ritain. W ashington, D. C., A ugust 26— (By The sig n atu res were collected by J. A N 'P)— D eclaring th a t Negroes could F. H orrabin, mem ber o f parliam ent, expect nothing from the Republican p arty in the future, the N ational Dem and his activity in the case w as under ocratic N egro V oters’ League, w ith taken a t the request o f Mrs. Haden Dr. F. O. Willis ton as president, and G uest, who is one o f the active w ork Jam es H Howard, jo u rn alist, as sec ers in the jo in t council. The s ta te retary , has launched a cam paign for ment signed by the 33 m em bers of parliam ent reads: half a million members. “We, the undersigned, B ritish m em "W e have not asked the Democratic N ational Comm ittee fo r one cent,' bers of parliam ent, all desirous of said Dr W illiston, "but we »'ill cgll w orking fo r b etter relations between upon the N egro D emocrats throughout the w hite and black races, wish to join in the appeal now being made for the nation fo r financial support." a retria l of th e eight N egroes sen tenced to death a t Scottsboro, Ala. "W e desire to make no comment on the case, except to rem ark th a t the violence of feeling m anifested a t the first tria l would appear to make a more careful hearing of the evidence em inently desirable.” PLEA 10 SAVE EIGHT ORCE RETRIAL OF scons» case SON OF HOWARD U. OTAN HELD FOR-THEFT Of RADIOS NEGRO TRIO ASSULT VAGRANT IS TURNED OVER TO KELLY MILLER. Jr.. COUNTY AUTHORITIES MARRIES IN RUSSIA FOR PROSECUTION W ashington, A ugust 26(C N S )— Dr. K lam ath Falls, Oregon, A ugust 26. —Joe Wilson of Missouri, w as severe ly beaten by a trio of Colored men in the S. P. yards Tuesday m orning, according to report* tiled a t police b u reau . Wilson, a w hite m an, and the trio, had ju st arrived in K lam ath Falls from the north, when the fight occurred. According to the arre stin g officer, the colored men seemed to have a long standing grievance ag ain st W il son. W hen they were arrested , they w ere beating Wilson w ith rocks, h it ting, kicking and pum m eling him. The trio, Jess Jackson, Jam es Owen and Robert Parks, w ere turned over to the county and prosecuted on two charges- assault and b attery . EVERYBOYD’S GOING TO THE House Dress and Pajama Dance jliven al ELKS’ HALL 313 William* Avenu«' MONDAY NIGHT :: AUGUST 31 Wilson's Ja/.z Orohe»tru — llottcat Munir in Town! Atlininnion 50 Cents Kelly Miller, J r., son of Dr. Kelly Miller, professor at Howard U niver sity, was m arried recently to Miss Edna Fitzhugh. of this city, in Mos cow, Russia, w here the couple and several friends are passing some tim e while on a continental to u r of Europe. D r Miller, who is a g rad u ate of the Howard Medical School, is practicing in N. Y\ City. The bride is a sister- in-law of the late Dr. N orm an, who was fo r years pastor of th e M etro politan B aptist Church of W ashing ton, D.C. AFRICA!. GIRL WINS WAR ESSAY PRIZE 'HOOEY' AVERS DIVINE Al N.J. PARTY LEADER IN NEW YORK'S SOCIAL CIRCLES NOTED LOR BENEFACTIONS OAOGHTER OF LATE E. C. I. WALKER Long Branch, N. J., A ugust 26.— A'Lelia Walker, president of the C. J. W alker Co., m anufacturers of cos metics, died on Sunday, a fte r an ill ness lasting but five hours. Miss W alker attended a birthday- p arty Sunday in honor o f Miss May- Fain, at Long Branch. The p arty began about 9:00 P.M. Miss W alker, who suffered from high blood p res sure, had been advised as to her e a t ing, and the care of her system , which rules she had taken lightly. The dinner was very elaborate — wines were served, though not much. Miss Walker, apparently, was in good spirits till m idnight, when she com plained of feeling nervous and left with Miss W hite, and Mr. Stallings, for the Patton C ottage a t 88 Lippin- cott Ave., where all three w ere sta y ing. Miss W alker retired im medi ately. It was not about 12:30. Miss White slept in the room w ith her. At 4:00 A.M., she awoke and called to Miss White, saying, "M am ie, I can not see; get me some ice.” She said nothing more a fte r th a t. Miss W hite got her to the bath room immediately. She suffered terribly. Dr. Julius C. Mekelvie was called a t 4:10 A.M. The moment he examined her eyes, he said she was dying and th a t she had prob ably suffered a stroke from too elabo rate a dinner. During the final mom ents, Miss W alker attem pted to say som ething but her th ro at and tongue seemed u n able to move. She died w ithout re gaining consciousness a t 5:03 A. M., in the presence of Miss W hite and Dr. McKelvie. The certificate gives the official cause of death as cerebral hemm orrhage. The daughter, Mrs. Mae W alker Robinson Perry, at Indianapolis, was notified. Mrs. P erry is vice president of the company and the only one who knows the secret form ula of the New Y'ork, A ugust 26.— A little A frican girl, R uth Lam ula, of Taylor S tre e t N ative School, D urban, in Lon don, won the first prize in the class ^ fo r childre nunder 14 in an essay co n -, te st arranged this sum m er by the CoininitttHi to Aftyluni A f trr Durban League o f N ations Union— A ttrm p t to k i l l Hi* Wife. a fte r the children of the d istric t had seen the film, "The W orld W ar . . and A fter." C hattanooga, A ugust 26.—Stephen Roddy. Klan atto rn ey of the N ational D r PRIEST “ HECKLERS” IN CHICAGO FREED A ssociation fo r the Advancement of Colored People, w ent violently insane Chicago, A ugust 26.— Two white a few days ag, and tried to m urder girls who were sentenced to work out his wife w ith an axe. He has been $100 fines for disorderly conduct a fter taken to an asylum in Missouri by his disturbing a m eeting of the N. A. for father. A. of C. P., here, w here C ongress This leaves the N. A. A. C. P. not man O scar D ePriest and Wm. Pickens w ere the principal speakers, were only w ithout clients in the Scottsboro freed last week when they promised case, but w ithout any attorney to su p to quit the Y'oung Communists league. port th eir pretense of “defending” the A third girl w as freed when Judge Scottsboro victim*. OiWy a few days ago, A labam a boss Joseph B. David decided she had vio papers reported the w ithdraw al from lated no law. Boston, A ugust 26— "M r. Clarence D arrow is a fool; he adm its it him self,” declared Bishop R obert Jones, ®f New Orleans, in a bitter, sarcastic attack on the recent criticism s Mr. D arrow has made concerning Negro clergym en, in his biennial sermon to th e K nights of Pythias, a t the Union Congregational Church, here. W axing eloquent as he denounced the attitu d e of the distinguished crim inal lawyer, Bishop Jones grew b itte r as he referred to D arrow as an ago- nostic. “Darrow does not know N egro religion as the Negro knows it him self; only the Negro can tell the re ligion th at lifted him from bondage to his present statu s,” declared the quiet spoken cultured prelate. “The religion of the Anglo Saxon as practiced today is all wrong. In one breath he preaches the teachings of Jesus— love thy neighbor as th y self—and in the next breath, he denies you the use of his churches and acts as thought it is a sin to give you the right hand o f fellow ship. God does not w ant th a t kind o f religion!” he thundered. Bishop Jones declared th a t he did not believe there w as any man super ior to him and th a t he is glad the young Negro is beginning to throw off his superiority complex. Communists came in fo r a scoring, as did the begging class o f Negroes. The em inent divine urged the Negro not to accept money as his god, with millions hungry and out o f work. “There will be a revolution in this country some day, based on th e equal ity of w ealth,” he said. UN VERSITY PROFESSORS SONS STEAL RADIOS: HEED W ashington, D. C„ A ugust 26.— Dwight O. W. Holmes, Jr., son of Dean Dwight O. W. Holmes of the Howard U niversity, and Clyde Ford, were held f o r the action o f the Grand Ju ry recently a fte r a h earin g in court before Judge Ralph Given, on charges of receiving stolen goods and of grand larceny. Bond was set a t $500, due to the fa c t th a t boys had never been arrested before. W alker factory. Miss W alker w as 46 years old. She was born a t V icksburg, Miss. S u r viving relatives are two grandchildren —W alker Gordon Jackson, J r ., the son of Mrs. P erry ’s first husband. Dr. Jackson, and A 'L elia Mae P erry, the d aughter of Mrs. P e rry ’s present hus band. I. L. V. Prepares (Vew’ Appeal for 9 Youths As ‘Roddy Goes Violently Insane the case of Beddow o f F o rt, Beddow and Ray. Beddow had been employed by the N. A. A. C. P. leaders, but following the failu re of these leaders to shake the fa ith of a single one of the nine boys in the International Labor D efense and its policy of mas* defense in support o f its court fight, Beddow decided to w ithdraw . Stephen Roddy is th e atto rn ey who helped the Scottsboro boss court in railroading eight of the nine boys to the shadow of the electric chair. He has been denounced by all nine of the boys as “a tra ito r to our cause.” The boys reported to th eir parent* th a t Roddy had tried to g et them to plead guilty to the fram e-up charge of “rap in g ” two professional white prostitutes.