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WOUD DEPORT NEGROES TH E An VOL M Ne. It In d ep en d en t IN TWO SECTIONS ADVOCATE Peper D e v o te d to PORTLAND. OREGON, Sat u n it y th e In te re st« mf th e P e o p le February 11, 1tl2 SECnON ONE r u e s nvB r a m ADVOCATE SPONSORS NEGRO HISTORY WEEK Digesting . . . . . T / )e (Y e v ^ s (B Y C L IF F O R D C. M I T C H E L L ) In c o n s is t e n t C r e d i t ! Pfcmlllee. of all racaa. aa wall aa cttlaa and town*. ara now suffering from tba naa too much credit llara- tofore, tha counrllora of various local rorporata governments have solved all their currant financial burdana through Incraaaad borrowings l.lka Indlrlduala they now find thalr In coma greatly eurtallad and ara unabla to anal tbalr obligations FRENCH MUNICIPALITY PROTEST “FRAME-UP” Modest Physician EKE Aduances Science PUN TO H IV E JAILED VAN VECTENS DESERT RADIO IT LIFE New York, Feb. 1»—Tired of the jazx life to be found In Harlem caba rets, where for so many years he and hla wife, a Russian actress, have fore- Van Vechten. writer and author of "Nigger Heaven" and Fanla Marlnof, hla wife, a Ruslan actress, have fore sworn "parties” and rtn and Harlem, according to a statement from Mrs. .Van Vechten. who last week said that -;**• ahe and her husband had become bored with night Hfe. Speaking of the whole period. Fan- In said: "I hare memories of hun dreds o f pnrtles In apartments, night clnba, speakoa, honky-tonks —in Har lem. tn Greenwich Village —aU over. I'm tired of It. It was jnst s phase In tha life of this generation. 1 never liked 1L It waa very hollow. For years prior to the writing of Nigger Heaven", a book which ex cited both favorable and unfavorable comment, Mr. Van Vechten waa a frequent visitor . to 10 Harlem night c iub" * * * lbe homes of a number of prominent Negroes In Harlem TALKS MAINJATÜRE DAILY PAPERS CONTRBUE INFORMATIVE EDITORIALS The Advocate officially opened tha observance of the seventh an nual Negro History Week, on Monday. Feb. 8th when promptly at 12 o ’clock. Beatrice Cannady Franklin, e d i t o r broadcast for fifteen minutes from radio station. KGW, Morning Orego- At thla time the speaker aa* swered the qnestolns, why a Negro WARHINOTON. D. CL. Fab. It—Tha attended school In Liverpool. England NAY YORK. N. T. . Feb. 12— Although history week observance Is necessary Oklahoma City Timas pays tribute to and along tba weat coast s>f Africa, the arguments before the Supreme a a a In what ways the program waa where ha followed hie father, a mis tha work of Dr. M . C Bnelson, Howard Court of Alabama In the ease of the Tba situation now ao general, to be pot over. sionary. nine 8cottaboro boys have been com abould taarh oar raca a (rant laaaon graduate, aa an assistant city physi On Tuesday. Feb. 9th, the again waa cian. Because of the efficient way In pleted, workers all over the world are Whan It rnmaa to securing. mabioc on the air for 6 minutes from station New York.. Feb. I t —A warning of continuing their protests against the I)r. R nelson. according to the Timas, which be handled public health work naa of. and llrln i on an Inconalatant KOIN, The Dally JonrnaL At this They know that although oradlt. nona can ascal us Maintaining "tucked away In a little office on la Bavannah. Dr. Snalson was recom opposition by Negroes of the nation frame-np. .............. - - * time she told of sucesaful local efforts thin rradlt however, la antlra ly dlf Rlllas Avenue, la doing an unexciting mended to tba British navy when n to plan to return Negroes from north the battery o f five lawyers hired be In teaching Negro History la tha pub ferant No cradlt can be permanently •arvtca to humanity, a job dedicated battleship stopped off Savannah look ern cities to southern farms, has been the International Labor Defense prov lic schools and read paragraphs from maintained without a rorraapondtnc to improving bla race, toward the end ing for n doctor to taka charge of a sent to President Hoover and to ed conclusively the complete lnno- a paper written by a white stndent of a career Jammed full of thrlllx and serious typhoid spldsmlc that had lenders in the Senate and House of cense of the boys, mere legal proof of ability to pay tba premium» »lotted showing her reaction to the stndy. Representative#, by the N. A. A. C. P Innerenae will not prevent a lynching broken out In Cuba. a a a axparlanca. On the same day evening at 9:80 The project! outlined iu a special In the electric chair nnleea this proof Tbla position afforded tbs doctor A safe rule, among financier», la A rasuma of (ha xtruggels and ach an opportunity of going to A frica So. Washington dispatch yesterday to the o ’clock Mr*. Franklin broadcast for la backed up by the voices of hun that credit for permanent Improve- ievements of tbla Negro physician Am erica around through the Straits New York Herald-Tribune by Mark 16 minutes over station KXL. Multno dreds of thousands of workers of all manta la wlaa, but that rradlt for may serve aa an Inspiration to others mah hotel, subject, “Negro Poetry." moating aipeaaea la not only unwlaa struggling for humanity In far off of Magellan to tba weat coast, and Sullivan. Is called a plan for the "de race*. back to tha United States. He also portation! of Negroes Into peonage." YOUNG WORKERS. LONDON ENG On Thursday morning, the manager but abowa a vary unhealthy atata of places. served as a doctor and scientist of In the N. A. A. C. P. letter. The plan LAND PROTEST of The Advocate, Jerome Franklin and affair» Applying tbla theory to our llr Snelaon lacked three years of the Canadian army on an expedition la called economically unsound be As before the Supreme Court hear Dr. DeNorval Unthank broadcast over personal affairs wa find that lhara la being born a slave. Ha attended tha station KEX. Mr. Franklin told o f a great need for readjusting our ataa public schools of Georgia: Atlanta Into tha Canadian Klondike, seeking cause even the Negroes and whites ing, demonstrations for the release of now on southern farms cannot earn gold be analysing the content o f ----- — ' ----------------- * ------ the Scottiboro boys are not limited the celebration of Negro history week, darda of living University; did work In Cambridge. mountain streams. a decent living; discriminatory and to the United States. During the days a s s urged radio listeners to read Negro Maas., tha University of Pennsylva heedleas of the lynching, mob vio Returning from this trip. he ad- of the Supreme Court hearing, for ex literature during the week, and then Soma may or off at the»» words of nia, Howard University; llellvua Hoa- ,jri_ H a X S IN IN N Y D ra a w v HDQHJ.8 lence and jim crowlsm from which ample. 2000 young workers of London led the Universities of Winnipeg Introduced Dr. Unthank who spoke for caution but to them I would suggest ipltal Medical College, New York. an,| O H M N V H a o n O d N V Id O IH J .3 marched from the shore of the Toronto, and waa sent to Lon- Negroes have escaped north. ten minutes on the subject, “The Ne that tbay alt down and prepare a smsv The plan suggested as an alterna Thames River to Hyde Park, where gro Physician''. etatament, in black and whits, show. HvUIrlberl. In Oermany; and the U- gon j 0 report to the governm ent Ae , volunteer during the World War tive to the La Follette relief bill they adopted a resolution of protest Ing every Hem of aipandltura that nlverelty of Bologna. France Special feature articles and editor* Derm* those years he received the be wae assigned to duty In Camp Lee, which the National Association for whlch was transmitted to the Amerl- U n R ^ ^ * t lI ° n e i^ r t m e r t eb will he 'squired luring tbs nest ihi*- la's appeared tn the local dallies on h u T n C S ^ " * J * * « « • Negro Achevementt. T onight Satur ty days and then compare that wltb degrees of A. B . A M . M D„ and Ph Va . In charge of moes hall sanitation the Advancement of Colored People - .n Ambassador In London. Is supporting, would provide federal D. Prior lo hla higher education he work. The w orker, municipality of D*Ivry A m e r e n minister to Ethiopu“ ^ - ' day. at 9:46 to 10:00 o ’clock Mrs. their Income for the same period funds for trains to take "Indigent Ne Sur Seine has sent the following pro- nress the m n r w i . i i .. s s s -i., Franklin will again be on the air. groes from New York. Detroit and If your eipendlturea eiceed the p<>» ’ "-L ? 0 ° ° T' ® ' M- MMer of Alabama ment for the prompt punishmem'm™ IHer *ubI«ct will be. “ The Negro Chicago back to the South from which alble. or probable. Income, then you “ The working class municipality of ed out to the t h ™ Abyss tan tan £ - Bring. His Gifts." and again on Sun they were lured through the 1 1 1 bal are living on an Inronalatenl credit - I*ry protest, energetically against licemen who struck Southard s o i £ day she will broadcast over KTBR, anced prosperity of a few years ago." the vicious Scottsboro decision. weeks ago when his " ' automobile l“ ard *ome and traveling the aura road to bank hit Weatherly Bldg. on. “ Negro History Commenting on this the Association's We protest against the savage lynch an Abyssinian woman. The depart- and Race Relations." ruptcy, unhapptneea and trouble, un letter to President Hoover and the law. In the name of the working mpnt has a)so leas you Immediately readjust your adrised Southard to Congressional leaders signed by Wal class o f D'lvry we demand the lm living standard» to conform with your ask the Abyssinian authorities to lift ter white, says: mediate freedom of the nine young the fine of 100 Mara Theresa Dollars, ability to produce "The National Association for the Negroes and death to lynchers. s s s which was imposed upon the police- Advancement o f Colored People, The Municipal Council of D’lvry man This argument, of course, la for tnen addition addition to a year's imprison »peaking in behalf of twelve million Sur Seine. those who are employed or who have ment. This action of the su te de- American Negro citixens and In be Thla Is an Indication of the sup a definite Income. The thousands who th . - n r k .r . m n.h.r par,ment followed an editorial pro- NEW YORK. Feb 12—The case of half of Intelligent and fair-minded clt- port given by are unemployed know from experi IÍ !? . h testation of the Amsterdam News of f u,nlr other ' races, .w », ence the truth of these statements Yuel Lee (Orphan Jonee) Negro far-1 liens , " o 1 , takes this means countries to help bring about the free- wew York , , dom of theae victim , of American t T u tU mer and laborer, who waa sentenced of * ,“ n* OD record most '■raPhatlc» l|!r and It la safe to predict that when class Justice. they ags'n join the ranks of the pro to die by the Court at Towson. Md . agxlnst any such proposal. clent to keep the men In prison for A group of well-known jurists, sclen- the rest of their lives and suggested ducers that they will set aside a def on an obviously framed murder charge tlata and writers In Germany have that Southard should be the first one Kansas City, Mo. Feb. 12— Workers inite proportion of their Income to will he appealed to tbs Supreme Court sent their protest against the frame- to request that the fine be lightened for the League of Struggle for Negro meat just such emergencies aa they of Maryland. up to the headquarters of the Inter since the punishment waa out of aU Rights and the International Labor The appeal will he based mainly on are now passing through • • s national Labor Defense. two contentions: that Negroes were INTERNATIONAL HOUSE proportion to their crime. The action Defense here are Investigating the In buslneaa. tha companies that are barred from the Jury that tried Lee. GUESTS AT OINNER of the Department of State suggests railroading to the electric chair o f now sufficiently capable of weather and that not a shred of evidence was that Justice will be more nearly ac James Holllna, 22-year-old Negro wor HARLEM CHURCH S C E N E .. Ing the storms are those who hava produced agalnet Lee during the en complished although the men still will ker of Sapulps, Okla.. charged with operated on a cloaely budgeted scala. O F H O U S E W I V E S M E E T be required to spend a year in Jail for rape. "W orld peace," la the topic for a tire trial. maintaining expenses nut c? Income, The extent to which the atmosphere Hollins waa arrested December 25. striking Mr. Southard, the Kentuck and setting aside a reaerve and sur 'community project of the claae in of racial haired dominated the court NEW YORK. Feb. 11—Salem M. E. ian who is minister to the Negro em tried In a special session of night English at Willamette University, of room at towaon while Lee was on plus fund. court that same night, and found Church. Seventh Ave. and 12th Street, pire. which George Cannady is a member trial. Is clearly shown In a letter re e s s guilty after a trial that lasted half Rev. F. A. Cullen, pastor, was the If It will not wora tu nuatneas af lie Is In charge of the project and he ceived by the International ltabor De an hour. scene of a mass meeting of Unit No. fairs. or In the administration of gov with his committee will make the out- fense from David l-evlnson, who to Investigators have discovered that 8 of the Harlem Housewives League ernmental department», certainly, liv lllna. The class will be divided Into gether with Bernard Adas, acted aa Hollins had been going with a girl for Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Mattie D. Hun ing on an Inconsistent credit will not groups with a chairman and a writer liee's attorney and who electrified the two years, but that when a white man ter. 145 W. 123rd Street president. In each tn develope a certain part of court by his determined fight to have work for prtvato Individuals. found the two together, he raised the Mrs. B. Roach presided and speakers 'the outline assigned to them. When Negroes on the jury. The fart that • • • cry of “rape” . were Mrs. A. K. Lewis, field staff rep The Advocate la In receipt of an !)ofora It la too late, analyse your completed the several parti will be Levinson addressed Negro witnesses MILLEDQEVILLE. On . Feb. 11— resentatlve of the Natloal C.M.A. Invitation to attend the Annual Meet Demonstrations o f Negro and personal affairs and correct the evil jollied together and discussed. In the letter states In part: 'John 8. Williams, white trusty In the stores. Mr». W. Amos, president of the ing of the National Urban League white workers In Kansas City have George writes that he had the plea of living on an Inconsistent credit. 'You called that nigger Mister'. state penitentiary here, was killed in Jamaica Housewives League, and A. held at the office of the League; protested the frame-np of Hotline and sure of witnessing Charles Wakefield "The above epitomises the Orphan a midnight escape which three white L. Holsey, president of the National Room 826, 1138 Broadway. New York have sent telegrams to Governor Mur an Jones case... prisoners made Monday. Williams was C.M.A. A determined effort la being City, on Wednesday afternoon. Feb ray of Oklahoma demanding the re E X P E R T S P E A K S B E F O R E . HA R Cadman direct* hi» composition, opretta. Golden Trail on Friday "Prejudice preceded the trial, was run over by an automobile which the made by Harlem women, through the ruary 10th, 1932. at three o ’clock. . . L E M B U SIN ES S MEN'S C L U B lease of the victim. A district con night of last week at Grand Theater In present throughout the trial, and con fugitives had seised and were using Hoaeewivea League to bring more Ne Report of 1931 accomplishments and ference Is planned for some time this Salem and the following evenings, hla tinued up to Its conclusion. to make good their escape. gro grocery business Into Negro own plans for 1932 will be presented and month, to be held In Oklahoma City NEW YORK. Feb 11—The Harlem piano concert. "The remark ‘ You called that nigger In such a way did the notorious ed and operated stores. the Audited Treasurer's Statement and to consider ways of means of Business Men’» Club heard Mr. F. J On Fehrary 9th. the International "Mister" waa made during a recess, John 8. Williams owner of the Infam for 1931 will be rendered. fighting this new frame-up. Nichols, an expert from the Mer household members were entertained after I had cross-examined some of ous "murder farm" operated In Jasper chants Service Bureau of the National at dinner by the Brotherhood of the the state's witnesses who happened County until ten years ago. come to Caah Register Company last Tueaday Jason l.es Church. Professor Vasa- to be Negroes. I said to this witness, hlg en(1 |t wag an,1(!e<j a{ the time night at their regular meeting at the kua, of Willamette University was the •Mister'—anil also to several oth ersof of williams trial that he had killed Now York Academy of Business, 417 \ principle speaker His subject was tha witnesses 'Mister or 'Mrs. Tho or eaas*d to be killed eleven Negro l^nox Avenue. He said, "bualnesa Is , “ Manchuria and Europe". The speaker waa one of the news- farm hamll) getting better; retail bualnesa Is show paper men and he aald to n e : Mr. official attention was focussed on Ing a decided Improvement". Mr I^evlnson, I admire the way In which williams operations In 1921 when Nichols waa brought to the meetln.v you have tried this case but I believe com plalnts were made that he was by Mr. A. L. Holsey. ipresldent of the you have made a fatal error. I xsked vtolattnir the laws against peonage, National CM.A. Btorea, who also In him what waa It and he replied vlth |( W(U( j,|g kablt to go Into court and the exprealon to which I have re pay fines or bonds for Negroes ar- troduced the speaker. The C.M.A. grocers also attended the mooting In ferred; telling me that he had no ested for trivial offenses. He would ticed a look of angry resentment on then take these men to his farm to a body, muklng It a joint meeting be the faces of all the Jury. The -v.me work out the debt to him. They HOWARD UNIVERSITY TO CELE- tween tho Business Men's Club and CHICAGO. Feb. 12—Climaxing the which were held simultaneously tn 85 prejudice would explain why Judge were k g p t ______ the grocer». on the ______ farm as slaves observance of exercises memorialising cities last Sunday, was the announce "All that Is needed to accelreate the Duncan had not 'considered Negroes ^ ken they became unruly they were BRATE SIXTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY ment by the committee In charge of pace of huslnoss today," Mr. Nichole when making selections for Jury ser- a|ajn PRESIDENT EXPRESSES APPREC- ' the Chicago celebration and which Next week, February 16 to 20 from vice declared, "la greater confidence on | After It was apparent that an ex- had sponsored the nation wide effort, tho part of people generally. Thla 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. dally, will he Open posure was to be made, Williams Is 1ATION OF ALUMNI COOPERATION that the event would be made an an country Is thoroughly sound. We have House week at all of Portland's tele reported to have caused several more nual one and that the first Sunday In had bumper crops. Wo have more phone buildings, according to an an COMMISSIONER CALLS CONFER of his peons to he killed. Their bod each February would be known as nouncement by I. D. Winslow, divi than half of the world's supply of ies were found In the Yellow River "Rosenwald Day.” WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb. 12—On gold. Never In years has there been sion manager for the Pacific Tele ENCE OF NATIONAL ADVISORY He wns convicted of murder and COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION The spontaneous and enthusiastic the disposition to work which Is found phone company. Preparations for the given a life sentence. Convicted with March 2, 1932 Howard University will OF NEGROES acceptance by the colored people of everywhere todny. People generally Open House have been under way for him, was Clyde* Manning, a Negro be sixty-five years old. The Univer (he country of the opportunity to hon are still Just aa keen to enjoy the lux week* and all of Portland's 1542 tele overseer, who waa used as a tool sity obtained her charter from the or the philanthropist whose works of Federal Government on March 2, 1967. WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb 11—The by Williams. uries of life as ever, and they have phone employes are ready to welcome beneficence had been closely bound The University this year will cele more money to spend than ever be hundreds of visitors to the various third conference of the National Ad- up with racial life, is said to have brate her birthday by dedicating three vlsory Committee on the Education fore. All of these combined, make building*. Everyono Is Invited. touched and pleased the members of new women's dormitories which have Open House visitors will be shown 0f Negroes will be held In Washington AM O N G T H E C O N V A L E S C E N T • for a very hopeful outlook for bull Immediate establish a definite mem been recently erected at a coat of everything thnt takes place "behind during the convention of the Deipart- orial day. ♦770,000. These dormitories were o- tho lines" In the various offices—how ment of Superintendence, National Mesdames J. Readua, Fannie Cosby, The memorials of tha day began pened for use at the beginning of the call* are handled, the switchboards Education Association, according to with a broadcast over a nationwide and apparatus needed to complete an announcement from the Office of Dolly Parle», J. D. Patton, Charity current school year and are said to be hook up of a program featuring "The Portland's 616,000 dally call* and the Education, U. S. Department of the Harris and Itaura Jones. Mrs. Jones among the best equipped dormitories Southernaires' 'who sang several of mam of Intricate equipment used to interior. The conference has been makes her home with Mrs. C. A. Jen for Negro youth In the United States. Mr. Rosenwald's favorite songs, fol One of the features of the Charter connect the city’s 95,000teletphones In called by Dr. William John Ccoper, kins on E. 13th St. N. lowed by an address by Dr. Channlng Day Celebration will be the Annual Portland's 121,000,000 telephone sys- Commissioner of Education, for Feb- H. Tobias, senior secretary of the Y, Diner In the University Dining Hall Mr». Jessie Bailey, who recently tem In the main building at Park rusry 28. V IS IT S R E L A T I V E S M. C. A. sponsored by the Washington Alum died In Portland and whose funeral and Oak streets visitors also will see , The National Advlaory Committee While specific program» differed In ni. Similar Charter Day Dinners are services were held at St. Mary's Ca the Intercity switchboards which con- on the Education of Negroes, which various communities, many followed Mrs. Maud Booker Is making an ex- held by Howard Alumni all over tha thedral. was for a number of years nnct local telephones with any of 22, is composed of some of tho leading tha same pattern as tha Chicago meet employed at Madeline Catholic School 600,000 elsewhere throughout t h e educators from various sections of the tensive tour south and east, In the United States. In a statement given* ing, having secured their biographical latter ahe will visit relatives. Mrs. out today by President Mordecal W. In Irvington. She was a beautiful, world, the now teletypewriter ex- United 8tates, was appointed In De- material and suggestions from the O A.H.P. Booker who Is the charming wife of Johnson this Charter Day Dinner Is change, the radio network apparatus, cemher, 1930, by Honorable Ray Ly- character and made many frlenda. same central source. Theae stressed Dr. Elbert L. Booker, plans to be ► .spoken of aa one of the most inspiring JULIUS ROSENWALD She leaves to mourn her loss, a sister the Information switchboards, etc. man Wilbur, Secretary of the Nnter- the various phases of racial life la 8peclal guides will explain Items of lor, upon the recommendation of the way two or three months before re- occasions connected with the Univer- Mrs. Mildred 8mlth of Market at. the work and Ufa of Julius Rosenwalk which hla particular Interest lay. Interest and answer all questions. I Commissioner of Education. turning home. alty life. E noua u a jjn aa ox axu AGED NEGRO GETS DEATH 1 L APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT NVESTIGATE 30-MINUTE TRIAL Of NEGRO BOY STUDENTS STUDY WORLD PEACE AS PART OF COURSE IS TELEPHONE COMPANY TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE WAS LOVABLE CHARACTER UNIVERSITY TO 85 C it ie s Honor OBSERVE BIRTH J. Rosenwald