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POLICE TORTURE YOUTH TH E r ™ VOLUME 11 2ft— NUMBER An AD VO CATE In d c p a n d a n l IN T W O SE C T IO N S 21 Papar D ftv o tftd P o r t l a n d , oreoon , to th o S a t u r d a y , In le r ttU m arch mf th * P * o p l* PRICE FIVE CENTS S E C T IO N O N E 12, i»S2 SC0TTSB0R0 BOY TO FACE TRIAL AGAIN SOON ‘D ig e s tin g . . . j . . T h e ;\ V n \ s uV C lifford c G re e d and BRUTAL LYNCHING IS DESCRIBED °"'v« , ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Y f s O l d . Negro Granted Stay O f Execution MSUNT BE OUT Pow er — - AFTER 3 O'CLOCK C o p ’s ' H OWA ------------------------- RD UNIVERSITY BUDGET O n z-------- mitchkli . Naturally I hava follow«*«! aU lh « tin of that financial tlnUarl«. tn Waahlugtnn. affr« tinK on*» of our groatrat racial Institution« (Y m , Iwith tha Insurance company and the school ) From among the mass of statements. and counter statements, concerning the Insurance company. I ran across this little statement Watt " certainly raised hell with his two shares • • • If the conditions eilsted ouly In that one isolated case there would not he much cause for alarm hut t he con- • ii' n tlM fl I" »nlv tvpl.al «»f what one observes going on In all parts of the country, not only within financial Naahvllle. Tenn March 10 (A N I*) Institutions but in our schools, frat | The annual observance of Itosenwald er naia and yea yes. | even amongst some School l>ay throughout the Southern Htatea. wna held Friday and accord of our nawspapars and politicians Ing to a statement made by K L. to Hmlth. director ofSoythern Schools Thwrw arc laws which attempt curb tha greed of wealth whan It la »-------- obtained through an lllagal manner hut. apparently, there la nothing to restrain that greed for power that has wrecked more Individuals, more countries and more nations than all other forces combined. H u n c h Almost $700.000 S H I DAY IN SOUTH • • Merit, e i per fence • nor consistency. t»y th o s e w h o are ruthlessly clamoring to usurp tha ptwilkw and p rv c tlft of those who have met success through year» of toll and sipertence • • • This seems to be the age of the rhU eller' Instead of looking around, finding or creating opportunities to build up. the chlseller (and they are to )•«* found in group«) *;>!«•* an in dividual, concern, organliatlon. poli tical office, or whatnot, doddes to chlael in on the succeaaful. with the uaual result that •VgUVAuf nil la lost. a s s Not since the days of slavery ha« there been so maoy opportunities to accomplish worthwhile things as there are hxlay With our group los O A.NJ». ing their Jobs right and left and with J U LIU S R O S E N W A LD mtlllons unprovided for It 1« quite apparent that opportualttes for con under the auspices of the Hosen atructlve accomplishment are many wald Fund, reports of theae meetings and varied held In the more than five thousand The opportunity doe. not moan, **»«!•«••«• «1»»* « w r boforo In however. to toar down tho houao that \hr hlatory -of tno movoroout ha» someone else has built, merely be there been such widespread Interest cause possession of It cannot he In the event. Ihie to the fact that Mr Rosenwald gained, but It does mean to Improve the kO|N already built and to «• • •• k passed away recently the observance this year took the form of a memorial the Isolated spots and erect other service Cltlteiis of both races ss well houses. as officials Joined hands In making s e • Being the possessor of a certain a the event epochal and the thousand* exercise* moot of money nr other material of children attending the wealth does not necessarily Indicate were Informed as to the life and work of the great philanthrope! whose In that power should he vested In that madepoasiblr person It depends entirely on how tcrest In. humankind that wealth was acquired and the par ( t'ontlnued on page three) tlcular ability, knowledge or talent that the Individual has for admlnla terlng the acquired, nr desired, pow I er In a humane, wise and efficient manner. s e e Our race cannot afford to handicap ourselves by depredating our own ns sets but thla we will surely do unless and restrained Proposed For WITH VICTIMS PARTS Philadelphia. Pa..March 7— Step« In ------ • r Canter Of Negro Unlrerstty Kdura- one_ of the moat braxen frame up» of a Negro youth ever attempted by po Baltimore. Md March 7— Negroes tlon lice In America » « « revealed by a re In Sallsburg. on the eastern shore of port of Investigator« for the ILD and Maryland, where Matthew Williams Oklahoma City, Okla. March 1 0 - Utague of Struggle for Negro Klghta was dragged recently from a hospital Jess Hollins. 22 year old Negro share In the arreat of W illie Brown. 1« year cot. hanged and burned, ___________ are not al- N E W YORK. Mar. lo (A N I* i Warn- Ing t«*l»'grams to 35 Icitdlng U. 8 old. held In connection with the mur cropper, has been granted a stay of lowed on the streets after 9 P. M Senators were dispatched Friday by der of a «even year old » b ile girl. eleclrocutlon by Gov Alfalfa Bill Mur Meanwhile more than two months a f With the white preaa of Phllly trum ray. In his stay the Governor express ter the crime, the coroner's Jury ap National Association for the Ad* i rw*»in. th«t «*»»■•«» «»_ . ' r ~ ed hostility to Hollins, but practically lancement of Colored People, giving . h ® |h* B, conf*J admitted he waa yielding temporarily pointed to investigate, has returned no indictment, reported no Informa notice o f hitter Negro opposition to a*-d and should be Immediately tried, to the state-wide protest aroused by tion. and set no date for a hear'ng a budget rul by the Senate which even the Philadelphia Tribune.« Ne- the ILD He said that he had received Here is what an eye witness to the gro weekly, hastens to condemn him would hamstring the work of Howard The basis for the frame-up, accord more protests concerning Hollins than lynching has to say: university, leading Inalltutlon In the “ Th© lynching of Matthew Williams country for higher education o f Ne ing to the Investigation, was laid on any other case in the history of his when Assistant Superintendent of Po administration. Hollins was arrested in this town was the most brutal g ro «« lice I-e S'ranae said 'The police pos December 28. charged with rape, in It The budget prnpoaed In the Senate seen no uescrlptloo of the slayer. No Slick. Okla., removed to Sapulpa be sight human eyes coaid witness PH ILA D E LPH IA. March 10— Major le lower by 1400 00« than the lyprr. one Lta been able to give us a descrip cause of lynch threat, he was tried In has brought black gloom over the R. Wright. Sr., preumeui president o o i f lob the on© down hors whole state. Every prlatlon voted hy the Houae of Rep- tion or even a suspect We believe, a special session of night court the knows who It was that shot him ^ lllteDS 4 Southern bank, 1849 South rea ed a tive « and would give Howard howver. that the crime waa committ same day It took the court 10 minut while he was In the hands o f the po street, has accepted toe invitation of university only J47S.OOO as against ed by either a dark skinned white es to sentence him to death. lice * * * • Before they threw A. L. Holaey. secretary o f the Nation 'he previous budget of ll.S lo ooo man or a light skinned Negro Seven It is generally believed that Hollins ,he * a* ° * e r him they cut o ff his fin al Negro Business I-eague. to spon The original budget of 11.610.000 strands of hair found In the rhild's Rers and toe«, threw them on the sor tha birthday celebration of Dr. was recommended by the secretary hand were described as "long and is the victim of frameup. porches in the yards of the Negro Booker T. Washington, founder of the of life Interior, and approved by the straight." What hia grounds were for homes, shouting that they -©tiki League, on April 6. The celebration TO PR E S E N T CONCERT Presidents Rureau of the Rudget bellevelng the alayer to he a Negro "make nigger sandwiches ‘ ‘ out of will be held simultaneoiaaly In several The dlacrlmlnatory nature of the the police head did not explain. cities, and will be an occasion of a Among pupils to be heard in a v o ic e ! them.” Then they threw raa pro (steed cut for Howard la emphasl Newspapers Immediately began to and piano recital when Paul K. Hut him and while the human torch bora- general economic drive in support of sed hy the Association which point« rlammor for a victim. Police started Negro business. ^ hl® ed ,he* > »*»«> hoove around, drink out that other Department of the In terrortxlng the Negro section of town and the Paul K. Hutchlnsou choral ing and shouting. terlor Items In the budget were cut Over a thousand Negro and white un society on March 24. will he Miss ___ ______ ____ be Miss "They also _ _ warned the Negroes only an average of three per cent, as employed were herded In. lined up by Barmara Hubbard, soprano and Henry that they" would" burn homes «gainst 5* pr rent for Howard uni police, who grilled them mercileasly \Vorthn. basso. The recital which Mr down if they heard as their much much as a verslty for hours. Mass arrest» of unemployed Hutchinson say* will be free to the whisper out of them They told the Among 15 Senatora telegraphed to occurred dallr on open atreets In a public will be held at the Womens Negroes Negroes not the town not to to be be seen seen on on the town hy Ihe Asaoclatlon are Senators Wag desperate effort hy police to find a Club Building, 448 Taylor street at streets after 9 P. M. under penalty of ner. of N Y.. I ji Toilette, of Wisron vlc.ltn {explaining hi« »crest of young 8:15 P. M Another one of Mr. Hut- death. Even now. weeks after the «on. Borah of Idaho Hatfield of Weal Hrown, a detective declared: “ I was chlnaona pupils who hopes to be rea lynching. Negroes are not seen on Virginia. Hiram Johnson, of Callfor walking south when I saw this color dy to appear on a future recital, is the streets of the town after 9 P, M." nla.KIng of Montana. Walah of Mas ed boy coming north He did not look Ivan Oannady. a senior at Grant high Immediately after the lynching. Gov sachusetta. J Hamilton I»w !a o f 111 sn good. I called him. placed him In school. Ritchie and other officials promised Inota, Smoot of Idaho, Ilronson Cut an automobile, and took him to the "immediate action' against the lyn ting of New M etlro. Norris of Neb third division." Asked why the boy chers. who were unmasked and are Capper of Kansas Con tens of Mich did not "look so good." the man re admittedly known throughout the igan. Hulkloy of Ohio, and Fees of plied: " I don't know, he Just looked Noted In a class in home nurse- community. Ohio. suspicious and I played a hunch.' -----------0----------- tralnlng at the Portland Sanitarium The protest letter to the Senatora Brown waa given the third degree CRISIS EDITOR was signed by Walter White. Secre in jail, starved for nearly two days, last week were the follow ing colored matrons: Mrs Cecil Berry. Mrs. Oc- LECTURING A T New York March 7— T Arnold HIU tary of the N. A. A. C P beaten, tortured, grilled for hours on tavla Trueltt. Mrs. Madge Crane. Mrs A T L A N T A UNIV. Director of the Department of Indus All branches of the N A A. C. P . end. Police announced his “ confes Bertha Johnson and Mrs. Mable Hen trial Relations of the National Urban friend» of Howard university and of sion At the Conner's Inqest he main higher education for Negroes are ur tained he was Innocent. His hair la derson. The course covered a period Ten Addresses On Economic Situation League, asserts In a special release of little more than eight weeks. Now By Pr W. E. B. DuBols from the New York office that the ged to wire their Senators Immediate short and wooly. He la considered In Atlanta. Ga.. MarchlO— Dr W. E American Legion had gtven the Ur ly urging thrm to wage a bitter fight norent by his neighbors, who say he that they have completed the coarse on the Senate floor and In Commit and his mother were at the New as given at the sanitarium, these am B. DuBols. of New York. Editor of the ban League written assurance that no tee against thla ruthless hamstring Garden Theatre the afternoon the bltious and industrious ladles are go- CRISIS magazine. Is In the city to de- discrimination would be practiced a- Ing in for the course given by the Red liver at Atlanta University a series gainst Negroes in the "W ar Against Ing of Howard untveraty child was murdered. The boy live« In Cross organisation. And according to of ten lectures on "T h e Economic what ts known as the "band-box area" one of them In an interview with an Situation of the Negro". The series Depression Campaign" now being con ducted by that organization. He ex of Philadelphia, the poorest slum dis Advocate reporter, "w e w ill be ready will begin on Tuesday, the 8th. and pressed surprise and concern about SPE LM AN GIRI. OKTS SCHOLAR trict. where six and eight workers when the next war comes to serve In conclude on Friday, the 26th They j the reports of flagrant discrimination crowd In one room above sunless, the nurses' corps." SH IP AW AR D will also be opened to the public. [ published tn the Negro press. sewerless court yards. t* * H H CLASSED AS “ FRAME-UP” VICTIM CITIZENS BANK MIL SPONSOR BOOKER WASHINGSON CELE BRATION, APRIL 8IH THEY Will BE READY TO SERVE Atlanta. 0 « . March 7 - Miss F l o r nooe M Read, president of »pelman ' ollege. has Just been notified that >ne of her alumnae. Miss Ida Louise • liter, has been for the second time awarded a year's scholarship In Mt Holyoke College, where she Is now In school. The sward was made by the Racial Minority Scholarship Committee of the college, which administers a fund established there to provide nn nil nual scholarship for some Negro girl of outstanding promise TRIBUNE CRITIC Darrow T o Defend LAUDS LINCOLN W h i t e Lynchers fiu sin esb (V I an A id s Unem ploym ent ‘P la n POPULAR U N IV E R S IT Y SPONSORS D E B A T E S MRS SYKES EYE-WITNESS Tho llalial» uf Portland entertained ul a reception anil feast nn Thurnilay evening at the home of Mr nmt Mrs. Charles ltl»hop In Rose c ity |*»rk In honor of the marriage of Mrs. Clnlta Knowlea to Dr. Harry Taylor. The ceremony look place In California two week» ago ami the couple came on to Portland on Thursday of ln»t week They have been the recipient» of nil meroua «octal courtesies »Inca arriv ing her». Dr. Taylor come» from Lon- ■Ion. England. his home where he wan cloialy Identified with tha iiritinh i.a lH>r movement nint occupied the same platform with Itamsey McDonald and other outstanding labor leaders. Itls father was one of the founders of the m ovemenf In England After coming to America and flul»hlng from several lending American colleges, he entered the ministry and Is pastor of a prom inent Unitarian church In Pittsfield. New Hampshire whore ho and his bride will rnske their future homo. Tho couple left for Pittsfield T h W I day night. PORTLAND COLORED BOXER WEDS Mr. flny McQuillan popular fis tic star, and Miss Jean Merldllh were quietly married at the pursotinge on Thursday afternoon Rev. W. R. Lo vell performed the service. Mrs. Mc Quillan will bo at home 622 Union Avenue Indefinitely. ABDUCTION The Oregonian of Monday. March 7th carried the following lllumlnal Ing hit of news: A vision which tells Mrs. l.uln A Sykes, .1(11 Shaver street that the kidnapping of the l.lndhcrgh baby wna an Inside Job hinl come to her distinctly on two different ocraalonr Mrs Sykes told nn Oregonian report er yesterday Heeauae she has ronf drnce In such visions which have told her Ihe truth on other occasions Mrs Sykes has already sent two let lers hy sir mall to t'olonel and Mrs l.lndhcrgh. hoping that they will act upon the things which she says has been revealed to her. On Tuesday night before she heard the news of the liahys disappearance. Mrs Syke’s had a dream or a vision which made her and eye-witness of the kidnapping Although she (lid not see Ihe hahy, she observed Its empty crib, and detected three persons the Identity of whom she would not dl vulge as Involved In the disappear anre of the child. She had her second dresm on Friday nlghl when she lo cated the basket which seemed tn Chatanooga. Tenn., March 7—Geo. W. Chamlee. attorney for the ILD In the Scottsboro case, has been Inform ed In a conference with the solicitor of the Scottsboro. Ala., court that Roy Wright, youngest of the nine Negro boys framed for assault on two white girl hoboes, will be tried as soon as the Alabama Supreme Coart renders Its verdict on the death sentences of the other eight boys. No decision has yet been given by the supreme court on the appeal argu ed by Chamlee. Brodsky and Irving Schawb of the ILD, In Montgomery on January 21 and 22. Roy Wright was IS years old in April. 1931 when the "lenient" solicitor of the Scotta- boro court asked the Jury to give him life imprisonment instead of the death sentence given his 17 year old broth er and the other boys. Washington. D. C. March 10— A m lled team of girls and boys from Knoxville College. Tenn., met How nrd debating lesm In Andrew Rank- 1? Uttapel on the Howard eammia on rrlday March tl. In a no-declalon de bate on the subject, Resolved That Complete Independence Should He Granted The Philippine Islands. On Monday Lincoln University met Howard Ina dismission of Ihe rela live merits of socialism and capita! 'sm. and on Tuesday, Howard and New York University discussed the snme suhlort, with s debate on the suhjeet. Resolved: That Capitalism ns nn Krnnnmlr System Is Unsound In Principle, last Frldnv night against itiiigcrs Donate, am tfceee dab*tea were away from home. contain the child II was In a house In a sparsely settled neighborhood: "I trenmed of a big grey house on the way to a smaller house where the lishy Is You pass a place where they are digging elay dirt which has a 'arge. round rock la It and you have 'o walk over some planks to get by. she said, "Then you come to n little house surrounded by other small houses and they have been cutting trees tn that vicinity. Inside the little house wns Ihe basket which seemed to have Ihe hnby In It and a slnder man and woman were there I dldn.t see their fares. Mrs Sykes la a member of Ihe Be thel African Methodist Episcopal Church for which ahe does aome home mlaalonary work. Chicago, March 10— (A N P > — Such words as ’scholarly' and 'extremely ««-II written, are used by the critic of the Chicago l*a!Iy Tribune In a re view of the recently published bio graphy of Abraham Lincoln. SET MY PEO PLE FREE, written by William E Lilly, lawyer and writer. On the same day that the critic re viewed Mr L illy « book, she also re viewed L IN C O L N TH E U N K NO W N . biography written by Dale Carne gie. a white man. Of the Lilly bio graphy. the critic writes: Set My People Free.the first bio gruiphy of Lincoln ever written by « Negro.has tho stamp of unexpected and amazing dlsteresledneas This hook Is more scholarly than Lincoln, j Ihe Unknown, hut It lacks the dram- ; nllc, brilliant human treatment that ter.kes Dal- Carnegie« biography one of the moat Interesting of the short dynamic Interpretations of the great President. Lilly stops wlthl.lnrnlna election to Ihe presidency The authn- explains this In the following words: The his tory of the man now largely becomes Ihe history of the nation. The author deals rather exhtustlvely. consider ing the limitations of a short btogra- 1 I hy. witn .he political, economic, and social changes and Ideas that were then attrsetlng tho attention of the world. He 1« st variance with many ______ civ 11 war scholars In his dpnlal of the loyalty that «xlated In Ihe slave to-; Jack N. Barde. well known business and world conditions have evoked ward hia master. Though there ar-- nan. president and owner of the | appreciative comment from a wide cases of extraordinary cruelty on th part of tho slave owner, there are a' Barde Steel Company on Front street 1 source. Mr. Bardes connections and so Innumerable cases of deep kind Mr. Barde Is one of the prime movers Interests In a number of forward ness and affection of white masters In helping to relieve tha unemploy-, looking olvlc movements easily rank ment condition In Portland I hint as a first cltiien ofthe city and toward their slaves. His radio talks on unemployment state NOTED CRIMINAEOGIST REFUSED 10 WORK IN SCOTTSBORO CARE Chicago. III.. March 7—Clarence cr,imLnaL member of hst V A ' JA ' C' P boarfI of director», has agreed to defend Mrs. Granville Forteacue. Lieut. Thomas Massle, and two u. S. sailors who lynched a dark- skinned Hawaiian following an as- the assault with a group of other men. upon Mrs. Massle. according to A P dispatches of March 1st. Joseph Ka- hahawai. the Hawaiian was tried for the assault wiht a group of other men, and released on bond following a dis agreement of the Jury. Hawaiian» chsrge that he was Innocent, and that he was killed by tho navy clique as a result of the race prejudice Injected Into the Islands by white Americans. Datrow was asked three times by the ILD to defend the Scottsboro Ne gro bo..s. He refused last April be cause he said bar was too old. Later he was retained hy the N A A. C. P. for 12000. but withdrew when he dis covered that the boys and their par ents wanted to be defended by the I. L. D Despite the request of the hors. Darrow refused to co-operate with the staff of five lawyers retained by the I. L. D. At that time, Darrow who Is now defending lynchers In a rasa certain to raise the issue of oppres sion and violence against dark-sklnn- e(j race wag touted by the N. A. A. C. P. as a benefactor of the dark rr- ces. Since the Massle case, the con venUonal Southern procedure of rail- reading Negroes to death or life Im- prlsonment on flimsy evidence has been transplanted to Hawaii.