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ELKS COMING TO CALI FINTA " ■ THE ADVOCATE An In dopandone Popor D o v o to d to Ih o Interests o/ the P o o p lo WALKER ESTATE MORE THAN A MILLION IN TWO SECTIONS V O L. 27, NO 40 P O R T L A N D , O REG O N , S A T U R D A Y , S E P T E M B E R 12, 1931 SECTION ONE P R IC E F I V E C E N T S HUGHES WRITES SC0TSB0R0 PLAY «III IB] 10 M I OlItHtft BEAUTIFUL VILLA ANO FAMILY JEWELRY GO 1 0 IIP WORKING M TO MRS. PERRY AND MME. A LELA'S GOD CHILD D EW EY SIN G S ATlTolan LANGSTON HU GH ES C O M P L E T E S PLA Y ON SC O T T SB O R O CASE T •SAYS POLITICS BEHIND CHOICE OP MEET SITE New York, Sept 4. — Langston! Hughes, well known American poet ! Janie» Dewey Washington is in town. and novelist, has just completed a play He i» now thrilling large crowds at <Hi the Scuttftboro case which will bt (he Paramount Theatre. Washington it a Portland man and produced hy the NT. Y. Suitcase Thea tre. a new dramatic group formed to many will recall hearing his golden give plays with a working class angle. voiced baritone in the Harry T. Mur Langston Hughes, who is one of the di ing!» < horal Society a good many years rectors of the theatre, is a member of ago He has the same fine voice only thr National C ommittee for the De it I-» more mellow and robust, and he is fense of Political Prisoners, which is still towering upward. bor Defense in the defense of the cooperating with the International La .... . . . ..... Philadelphia, Sept SJ-CN’S )—The Elks convention voted to hold their next annual session in Los Angeles in August, 1932. Strenuous opposition to the California city as a meeting place was easily overridden by Finley W il son's smoothly working machine. Those who opposed the plan claimed that the choice of Los Angeles was a part of the Wilson machine's plan to perpetuate the "Czar of Elkdom” in power. They pointed out that the dis tant Paciiic coast city was so far from most of the lodges that it would be impossible to send enough delegates to defeat Wilson. . i.»i„.r„ boy« rhe n y s.n.cs«, POPULAR YOUNO PORTLAND GIRL PASSES IN SEATTLE Villa t-r Wara, Irvington on Ihr lluiUon, erected anil furnished hy thr lair Mnw. I J \\ ilkrr at a coal «*( ovrr hall a million dollars, anil to which Mr» I’rtty, (o«tcf lUuglilrr ul the latr Mute A'l.rlia Walker irtl heir Imlunainili». I nil . Sept 'I With thr filing of thr will of thr lair Al-elia Walker, who as buried in \.w Vi»! nr»» ant loyalty, thr decedent's grrat n tr m i (or him, ami for thr »rrvicr hr Mi Kan »out lirrauar of In» long con- 29, explain* that tlm hrquest ia inailr lire I ion with thr company, In» faithful Little Knelt, Ark, ami Indianapolis, ami Attorney F B Kanaont, who hat •rrvrd a» manager of ihc company (or many yrar». I hr will, which waa filed in thr Mar ion C omity I’rohatc Court on Augii«t t ity on Saturday morning. Align»! 22, it wai diacovrrrd that her intrrrat in thr Mine ('. J Walker Manufacturing 1 heatre announces that "the aitn of the organization is to create a profi I cient group of actors who will travej ! with a minimum of equipment and a repertory of working class plays to he Seattle, Wn„ Sept 9— Miss Virginia given before Labor and other organi zations.” The directors of the theatre Avery, 17, daughter of Mrs. Howard are Langston Hughes, Paul Peters, Troutman, died Sunday night, Aug. Whittaker C lumber» and Jacob Rurck. 30. at Harbor View hospital of bronchi al trouble. Miss Avery was reared in I’ortland where she graduated in June from the Girl»' Polytechnic. She was NEGRO SU P E R IO R COURT a member of St. Philips Mission, Port JU D G E S H IP SOUGHT land. where funeral services were held. The deceased leaves to mourn their .Flmer C. Bartlett, well known mu Los Angeles, Sept. 9—The North loss a mother and stepfather, two sis sician who will direct the 200-v o ice west Voters and Civic League of thjs ters and three brothers. chorus Monday night at the Civic city, headed by Mrs. Eva Carter Buck W ATCH ES, N ECKLA CE ner. has begun a concerted effort for Auditorium. the appointment of a Negro to a Su STO LEN ON SUNDAY M ISS GRAYSON R E SIG N S perior court judgeship here. Members FROM H EN R Y HOBSON of the State assembly having large Ne According to inlormation received at gro constituencies are being thorough our office. Miss Jennie Dora Grayson ly canvassed to aid in the accomplish ment of the aim. At a recent meeting Klamath Falls, Sept. 9—The living has tendreed her resignation as execu the League had as its guest state as quarters of Henry Hobson, porter of tive secretary of the Y. W. C. A. semblyman Charles Lyons, who as Swanson's Barber Shop, loeatrd below Williams Ave. branch to take effect sured his audience that he would use the »bop at 625 Main street, were en upon the securing of someone else to Miss Mable Byrd will be the speak his influence and voice to see that an tered between 7:00 and 8:00 o'clock fill the position. Miss Grayson succeed er at the regular meeting of the Na appointment of a Negro to the judicial Sunday night, and three valuable ed Miss Helena Harper. tional Association for the Advance bench would be accomplished. watches, as well as a necklace belong ment of Colored People Sunday, to ing to Mrs. Hobson, were taken. morrow, Sept. 13 at Williams Avenue Mr. and Mrs. Hobson returned to Branch Y. W . C. A. at 3 P. M. Her their apartment about 8:00 o'clock in subject will he: “The Economic De- the evening, to find the room topsy litnnia of the Negro.” turvy, drawers pulled out of thr table Among pleasant callers at The Ad Miss Bvrd has had many contacts and dresser and contents strewed about vocate office last Saturday were Messrs both in America and abroad and has covers and mattress torn from the bed, Charles B Da\is and E. W. Hansen made a special study of economics. and everything in confusion. DR. UNTHANK IN ST A L L S of Chicago. They enjoy the distinc She has been granted a Fellowship id The robbers were evidently fright E X P E N S IV E E L E C T R IC A L tion of being the only two delegates study economics at the University of ened away by the Hobson's return, as M ACHINE chosen in a group of sixty from Rranch Chicago this year. a few drawers were pulled out but had 11 of the Letter Carriers Association not been rifled and the light was left comprising the city of Chicago, to at In order that he might be better en burning. Mrs. Hobson had hidden a tend the 28th biennial convention of abled to give better and more efficient AD VO CA TE E D IT O R large sum of money in the apartment Letter Carriers to be held in Oakland. service to his fast growing clientele. but this had not been found by the BRO A D CA STS Dr. De Norval Unthank has recently September 7 to 12. Mr. Davis has thieves. lieen in the service for 25 years and Mr had installed a Diathermy Therapy ma According to Hobson, the thieves Hanson for 34 years. The former is The editor of The Advocate was the chine. It can be successfully used in entered his apartment by cutting the a member of the board of directors jn guest Sunday afternoon of the editor the treatment of many physical disor screen door in the rear of the building, Branch II, which has a total member of The Oregonian. She broadcast at ders and the removal of tonsils. and taking liolts out of the door, re ship of 4500, 300 of whom are colored. 5:15 over KGW radio station. Her moving it from its*hinges. The delegates were chosen upon merit, subject was "America Declares a Mora both being very active in their organi torium." She was introduced by Mr. FOUND DEAD W ED N ESD A Y the real estate holdings of the Walker zation. A special train of right cars Hoyt, exec, news editor of The Oregon estate, including properties in New conveyed the delegation to the con ian. At the close of her address, she Sid Allen, porter on the S. P. to Sea York, Indianapolis, Illinois, Michigan vention. The route carried them was presented the pen drawing of her side was found dead early Wednesday and California, valued at a half million through thr Canadian Rockies down made hy the staff artist, Gerke, and morning by his family at their resi dence, 260 Page St. Dr. De Norval dollars, not including the site orou- the Pacific coast to Los Angeles, published in Sunday’s Oregonian. Mrs. Cannady has received numer Unthank and the coroner were sum pied and owned by the Mine. C. J. across the southern coast to Florida ous compliments from many sources marily summoned who pronounced the Walker Manufacturing Co., upon which and bark up the eastern coast home. upon her talk, several having stopped mand cad. Funeral services will be held was recently erected the new Walker her in the streets to mention it. Building, costing $1.000,000. With her Monday from the Miller & Tracv mor Watch for The Advocate's Anni- tuary. death, all of this property reverts to R O B B E R Y H O LD U P the estate. rersary Number I SEEKS SUPERIOR JUDGSHIP E TO HEAR MISS BYRD t o a n divided ci|U.illy between her d tughter, Mr*. Mar Walker Perry of had rendered her mother, the founder of thr company, in the development of the business. Kanaom Hold» Managenhip Mr». I’rry i» to auerrd her mother a»' prraidrnt of the company, and it i< provided that Mr Kanaom »hall coil tmur aa managrr of the company, with thr prm lrgr of naming hi« own auc- craaor in thr event of his miring. Thr will declared: "I make this provision, not for any lack of respect for my daughter, hut because of my implicit, confidence hi Mr. Kanaom, Ilia knowl edge of thr husinesa and his grrat love for my mother " Mrs. Walker owned in her own name thr valuable property loeatrd at I<».kf 110 West 136th Slrrrt, New York City, estimated to be worth $100,000, now leased and occupied hy thr City of New York aa the liarlrm Hralth Cen ter, and this was willed outright to thr Robinson Win daughter, Mrs. Perry. In addition, all of the jewelry owned by the late Mine C. J Walker, valued at $11.000. was willed to Mr». Perry, together with all of thr diamonds, household goods and furniahings at Mrs. Walker’s New York home, 80 F.dgrcomlie avenue, and at the Villa Lewaro, at Irvington-on-the thr Hudson, are left absolutely to Mrs. Perry, except for one set of diamond rairings and a solitaire diamond ring, which are to be given to A'l-elia Knnna Kanaom, her god child, a daughter of Managrr Kansotn. Daughter Oets All Jewelry Thr will makes thr provision that Mrs. Perry shall inherit all of the jew elrv for all times, and that upon her death thr jewelry shall go to her daugh ter, A'l.rlia Perry. A'l.rlia Walker held a life interest in WASHINGTON JAMES DEWEY Golden Voiced Baritone — in Knni'hnn & Marco’» Black-White Idea Now Playing at the PARAMOUNT T H EA TR E CHICAGOANS VISIT F O R M B E T H E L AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Presents Chorus of 200 Voices NEGRO SPIRITUALS Direction ELM ER C. B A R TLETT AUDITORIUM One Night Only — Monday, September 14 Quartets — Soloists — Negro Jubilees Novelties — Songs of the South Tickets now on sale at G ILL’S, 5th and Stark Streets Prices 50c — 75c — $1 All Seats Reserved INE Julie Smith, 6571 96th St. S. F.., re ported to police last Saturday that a man about 26 years, 140 pounds, wear ing a light gray suit and cap, neatly dressed, came to his house on Friday represnting himself to be a Federal officer, asked to search Smith's house. He was refused admission. He forced his way in and Smith grappled with him. He struck Smith with his gun knocked him down and took $175.00 from his pockets. While in Portland for a feyv days last week, Bobby Robinson was inter viewed at the El Medley, where he stopped, by an Adocate reporter. Mr. Robinson was en route to the Univers ity of Oregon at Eugene from Van couver, B. C., where he participated August 22, in the Canadian A. A. U. meet at Hastings Park. Bwhhy and Eddie Tolan were the only two colored athletes in the meet. Bobby took sec ond place in pole vault, 14 ft. The world's record is held by Lee Barnes of the University of Southern Cali fornia. Eddie Tolan made a new world's record in the 100 meter dash in 10:3 seconds. He also won the 200 meter dash. His nearest opponent was Frank Wykoff. HIEL RETURNED Rev. Daniel G. Hill, Jr., pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church, has been re turned for another year by Bishop H. B. Parks, who presided over the late annual conference held in Seattle on the 26th. This is Rev. Hill's fourth year as Bethel's pastor. KLAM ATH P O L IC E D R IV E ON N E G R O E S Klamath Falls, Sept. 29— For some unaccountable reason the colored population of Klamath Falls increased almost 100 per cent during the past several weeks. This attracted the attention of the police department with the result that Chief Merrill or dered all the dark population not en gaged in legitimate business to leave the city at once. During the past few days several score have departed for parts unknown. TW O W O U N D ED IN FIG H T Myrtle Green, 415 Hancock street, and Dora Tipton, alias Dora Duffy, 195 North 15th Street, both colored, were treated at police emergency hos pital Sunday for bruises and severe cuts following a fight at the Duffy home in which a knife or some other sharp instrument and a milk bottle were used. Mrs. Green had a bad cut on the right arm while Mrs. Duffy was treated for a bruised knee. The Green woman said she was struck in the back with a milk bottle. P IO N E E R C ITIZ E N D IE S Mrs. Etta Ritter, a pioneer resident of Portland, died at her home, 288 E. 1st St. N. on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Mrs. Ritter had been in ill health for a long time and the end was not wholly unex pected by her friends. She was a mem ber of the First A. M. E. Zion church. NEGRO M IN ST R E L SHOW AND GIGGLING C O N TE ST STAG ED ALABAMA MAN H U RT Milwaukie, Sejt. J.—Henry Samson, of Birmingham, Ala., colored transient, was hit by a gravel truck near Island Wednesday. He said he had relatives at Salem and was sent there when a subscription was taken to pay his transportation. ARE BROKEN Richland. Ore., Sept. 9—The Eagle valley grange staged a one act Negro comedy, a giggling contest, games and stunts at the grange hall Saturday night September 5. Watermelons were served. This was one of a series of matinee parties planned for the fall season. D O U B L -E A C T IN G ' ■ / ^ BAKING »POWDER Notice the Fine T exture...how Cakes Keep fresh SAME PRict ■ ^FOROVIR * YEA» 40 25 ounces for 254 ‘ M I L L I O N S OF P O U N D S U S E D B V OUR G O V E R N M E N T