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BIST GRANT EXONERATED ____ THE- An V O L U M I N NO. *7 In d e p e n d e n t IN TWO SECTIONS ADVOCATE- Peper D ev o ted to th e In to ro e to mf th e P o o p lo P ORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY. APRI L 30, 1032 SECTION ONE PRICE PIVE CENTS — Digesting . . . . . Tße Qu’a UV CLIFFO RD C. M ITC H E LL SA LU TIN O MY BENEFACTOR W h i l o u progress I bar* rosd* In Ilia rialil of Nairn Journalism. I nara my atari to tba ailltor and pulillahar of Tha Adyorata. In Portland. Oragon T h li editor. Mra ItaatrUa II Frank Ho. haa racantly announced her da I'laratlni) In run for Ilia atata lagia latura, on tha regular republican tic ket. from the 6lh IMatrltl. and to thla and la aaeklng tha nomination liar achlevementa. and bar life would make an appropriate plot for a novel on real American life Horn and reared In tha euulh. Lltllg. Teiaa. amldat reelrlcted rondlliuna and an avaraa racial aentimeut. aha lalar ' .mi,- north deaplte tha laai liluga of her early anvlromant aha baa made a worthy place for haraalf. not parti cularly aa a Nagro. but aa an Amerl can rlilw n . a a a In tha public Ufa of her cboaen city aha ta highly eeteemed liy both racaa and II haa bean my pleaeure to watch her development, eepeclalty aa It has bean chronicled In tha white dally pa par a of Portland Aa a radio broad I mater mi lha eerloua aubjerta of life; a lecturer to tha htgherhool and uni versity rlaeaee of Oragon atudenia; aa a teacher and Inetrnctur In many Inter racial ctuba, and aa editor of tha only colored paper published In Ore gon. her aervlcea are conatantly In de mand a a a Mra Franklin is a member of tba Oragon Prison Association aud haa bean appointed on numeroum atata and city commissions She Is ona of lha few atircesaful colored women lawyers In tbs country, belug a art* duals of tha Northwestern Collage of law. s e e In addition to her numeroum public activities aba haa maintained one of tha nicest homes In Portland, and bar two sons. Oeert-s and lean, ere )uet reaching manhood The oldam. boy. Georg* ham been a star foot ball plav er and member of lha track team In both hla grammar and hlgh-school days, and even now la a popular freshman at the Willamette t'nlyer ally a s m There are not enough colored rotas In all of Oragon. and particular ly not In the 6th district, for Mra Cannady Franklin to wage her cam palgn on racial appeal and It la in teresting to note In her announcement that aha pledges her support to t he causa that will promote tba economic development of Oregon. that will better the conditions of mother* and children; and to conscientiously rep resent sll the people. s e e Fur sny person of color who, by hi* or her accomplishments, can win Ihe good will of the cltltens of their own community, regardless of race, this columnist la glad lo note their pro gress. and In the record of Mrs Can nady Franklin 1 consider It an honor to salute my benefactor, for It was her. over two years ago. who first brought “ Digesting the New s" to the attention of tha readlug public. OF NEW YORK. N Y „ April 2 * - A alay of execution to June 24 was granted last week for the seven ■¡Mttaboro boy* whose desth semem es were upheld by the Supreme Court of Alabama Petition for the stay was made by Irving Schwab, attorney for Ihe International Labor Defense, now In Montgomery. Ala. First steps In the appeal of the Scottshoro ruses to the U. S. Supreme Court were taken with the filing by ihe lawyers for the I. I,. D. of n writ of certiorari. The writ enumerates Ihe ground* on which a hearing be fore the hlghenl bench Is demanded, und Includes the farts that the hoys had no opportunity to prepare their case* or lo employ counsel; that Ihe trial wns conducted In an atmosphere of lynchlaw, that Negroes were Im properly excluded from the grand and petit Jury panels, and that the Srolts- boro court denied the defendants n change of venue, thru forcing them to face trial In Ihe presence of a hos tile and threatening mob. NEGRO AND WHITE WORKERS DE MAND VET'RANS BONDS W ASH ING TO N. D. C., April 2g— Re fusing to he bull-doied by he threat of Senator Crisp, chairman of theWaya and Means Committee, to call Ihe po lice. J. Ford, Negro, and J. H. Stem her. white, both leaders In the work ers Wi-Hervlcemen's League, look the floor of Congress on April 14 to de mand Ihe Immediate payment of com pensation to war veteraua and the a- bolltlnn of discrimination against Ne gro ex-servicemen. Ford and Hembar were accompa nied by about 200 Negro and while ex-soldlarx. GOV. CALLS HEALTH CONFAB VERBAL SNAPSHOTS SEGREGATION HIT A KNOCKOUT One of the latest political rumors afloat Is, that President Herbert Hoover will subordinate bis personal views on Prohibition and that the “ Noble Experiment” will give way to political "expedient/.'' In to-to, the President would not object to a "moist plank" in the platform to be built at the Republican National Con vention for the standard bearer of that party to stand on. The Demo crats claim that Hoover Is seeking to pull a nail out of the platform that their architects planned four years ago The convention of the Republi can party promises to be a dull af fair. The nomination of the present President Is assured. It won't even have to feed the elephant peanuts to keep him in good humor. Different with the Donkey and Miss Democrat, they have begun "kickin and a pawln" before they are led to the stall. But then, that Is one of the perquisite« of the party. Al Smith has declared war on the candidacy of Governor Roosevelt, and the Tammany Braves are whetting their tomahawks and practicing the war-cry. It might be that when the pow wow is over that the pipe of peace will be passed a- round If the big chiefs don't agree with It. then fare-the-well to democra tic hopes, aspirations and ambition*. »U NAA.C.P. Rejects Aid O f SALEM SCENE Of ¡NEW Greyhound Stage Line TWO-DAYMEEr MANY P ROMI NENT SOCIAL NEGRO ID RUN NAAGP BRANCH El FUNS 10 OPPOSE M Ì EI i INOEPENDENI F M FU1F0M P L A N « TO BE FIRST NEGRO C AN DIDATE FOR PRESI DENT HAS m athem atical m in d I-OS ANGELES. C alif. April 20 In all alnrerely aud dlapUylng a lot a well prepared and neatly printed ad- vertlstug literature, Rev It A Oar- rlson 14331« p; Bird street announced that he Intend* to run on an indepen dent in ket f,.r the president » o f the United States As the first Negro candidate for President, he states that he can hard ly hope for election but that with the proper support can make the Negro vote felt and secure recognition when the n. tty appointments following ele ctions are made. Ho stales that there are 16.000 ap polutmenta io be made following election with an outlay of $576.711, 929.23 In salaries annual)- Negroes should gel si least 1& per cent of these even If they only constituted 1 per cent of the population he declares He also aisle* that Negro appointee* have a right tu 10 of the 140 consu- late*. Slid as there are 13.660 posts assigned In Ihe 1st 2nd and 3rd class office* Ihe group should have 1000 of these Rev Uarrlaon stales that the only way to ever acquire these rights Is to draw sway from both parties and let both feel the loss of black votea. whether he or some Negro la gelling (heir support. Kev. Garrison was born al Topsail Sound, N. C. on May 9. 1865. Self edu- «led from Ihe elementary achool up he secured Ihe D ll. and M, A degrees from Richard Allen Institute al Fine Bluff. Ark CAN N0Ï DO BUSINESS WITH NAT! OFFICE CIVIL RIGHTS BIEL The local branch la carefully lay Ing plans to put through a Civil Ittghls Rill at the next aetsion of the Slate legislature. An advisory Com mlttea composed of parsons from vsr loua organisations, working with the le g a l Redress and legislation Com raittee of the Branch Is working out the plans, one of which I* to Inter rogate the various candidates run nlng for office to ascertain their views m order to recommend a list to Ihe group to vote for In Ihe May primary. Sunday, May 13. at the regular monthly meeting will be the mas* mast t e l to submit the ticket. The National Office advises all branches to get Into the political campaign both local and national, as the most logical way to demand recognition Kvery colored |>erson Is asked (o Join now. and help put over this program Mrs. C. L. Ingersol is the chairman of the Membership Committee The drive opened last Sunday and will close May 15. Rev W . R Lovell was elected delegate to the National Con- ventlon to be held lu Washington. D. C. next month. RESTRICTION CASE (Special to The Advocate) h i n t fon STATE LEGISLATURE TO RUSSIA ASKED 10 MAKE M U I CANDIDATE ACTIVE IN LABOR ORGANIZATIONS L A W IN FAMED RACE A ll roads will lead to the state cap- Itol building next Monday and Tues day when cltlsena from thla comma nlty and throughout the state will at N EW YORK, April. 28—One of the tend the first state-wide Conference solicitors for the Greyhound Bus on Child Health and Protection being Lines walked into the office of the called by Governor Meier. National Association for the Advance The conference speaker. Mr. Geo ment of Colored People, at 69 Fifth Avenue this week seeking business Aubrey Hasting*, arrived In the state for hla company and walked right out last Sunday from California where he conferred with Qov. Rolpb relative again —without any business. The solicitor wanted the N A. A. C. to their state conference which will He P. to charter Greyhound buses to send probably be held this summer Its New York delegates to the 23rd has been assigned to thla work by Annual Conference In Washington President Hoover. Governer Meier has issued official next mouth He was told flatly by Roy Wilkins, Assistant Secretary, Invitations to several hundred repre that the N. A. A. C, P. could not use sentative Oregonians urging them to Greyhound buses and could not re attend the conference and to have commend them to colored people be tbelr organisations represented. The cause the Greyhound Lines had estab conference Is opened to the general lished a reputation for segregating public and several hunderd persons are expected to attend. and Insulting colored passenger* A ll day Monday, beginning at 9:10 ----------- 0---------- A M „ will be given over to a study of facts that have been gathered dur- Ing recent weeks by some 40 com mittees of the conference on Oregon conditions affecting child welfare The public health section will meet N EW YORK. N. Y April 18—There with the medical service section at has been an Increase In mass protest 9:30 A M. lu the Senate Chambers since the lynch law verdict of the Ala Dr. Frederick D. Strieker, Dr. A. G bama Supreme Court on March 25. Bettman and Dr. R. B. Dillehunt will workers In many cities and even In be in charge foreign countries holding meetings The section on education will meet to denounce the death verdicts and In three separate rooms C. A. How to demand the release of the boys. ard, section chairman, is in charge Protest telegrams have poured In up aud will be assisted by a committee on the Alabama officials. of several helpers Sections C. D. E In the face of a decision by Gover and F. will meet in Room 315. sec nor Kolph of California, denying him tlons A and B In the Ways and Means a pardon. Tom Mooney, famous labor room and section G in Room 332 leader, who Is now completing his Miss Louise Cottrell will preside fifteenth year behind the bars at San at the section on the handicapped Quentin, has Issued a ringing state child meeting In the House of Repre ment calling for Intensified mas* pro sentatives. test as ihe only force that can free Several groups are holding lunch him and free the nine Scottaboro eons Monday aud Tuesday at noon boya. also victim* of a frame-up by Monday evening at 8:00 o'clock, the boss courts. public gathering will be held at the House of Representatives. Mr. Hast ings will address this meeting. Gov. ernor Meier Is also scheduled to ap pear to address the group. Recommendations for improving and correcting conditions w ill be presented Tuesday, section by sec tlon. before the entire conference which will meet as a body in the House of Representatives. Opportunity for discussion and an Lowell C. Page! Is a candidate on the republican ticket for the Oregon alysis of these reports will be given stale legislature. Me la a business to conference attendants as well man wants nothing better than a busi by delegates and committee mem ness government for the state. Of bers. Exhibits of various kinds w ill spedul Interest Is his announcement be shown on the first floor of the Capitol Building. A booth will be set up in the Capitol Rotunda aud every one attending will be urged to regts ter The Advocate hopes to be able to chronicle a representative attendance by colored citizens from Portland. GREEN PASTURES i n COMI NG Announcement that the famous "Oreen Pastures'' Is to play a week In Portland, commencing Monday ev ening. May 9. ha* created an unusual opportunity for the Negro house holder* who have more rooms than they actually need for preaonal uses, to extend a fine courtesy to the dis tinguished visiting members of the Company aa paying-guests. The artistic personnel of this great religious spectacle, all colored, and numbering upwards of 100. will ar rive In Portland on the Green Pas tures Special train Sunday* afternoon. May 8. Members of the caat will rentuln In town until Saturday. May 14, dur ing which time, home accomodations will have to be provided by volunteer members of the rare In the absence of a branch of the Urban League. Rev. J I). W ilton, Rev D. G. Hill ______ | Rev. W. R. Lovell and The Advocate N EW YORK, N. Y „ April 28—Three are engaged in an effort to help solve Negro workers are among the group ¡this housing problem and all are re- of 16 worker-delegates to t he Soviet j quested to aid them A ll who have rooms they wish to Union who sailed on the U. S Korops April 19th. The group is travel- let for the purpose are urgently re quested to write to J. A Curtis, Gen Ing under the auspices of the Friends Metropolitan of the Soviet Union, and will arrive eral Stage manager. In Moscow in time to take part In Ihe Theatre, Seattle. Washington. Imme great May Day demonstration In the diately staling the number of rooms a callable, character, price and how Red Spuare. The Negro workera are: Latamore far from heart of town. All are urged Dudley, of Detroit, n former Ford to write early so that the manager worker, who was wounded by police will have time to write back and If you do not In the demnnaratlon of jobless at (he mako reservations. Ford plant on March 7; Warren Ouy- write to Seattle, write The Advocate or phone and list your rooms ton. of Philadelphia, member of Ihe DO IT N O W ' G AR FIE LD 7523 International longshoremen's Asso ciation; and Carl Nelson, of Gary, In diana. a steel worker. The delegation Includes railway workers, machinists, nlners, and build ing workers. All of the workers were elected either by their local on ions or by group* of organised und unorganised workera. In a statement Issued to the delega tion before Its departure, Ihe dele Elmer E Pettingell, Portland at gates pledged themselves to make In torney, will seek the republican nom their two-months' slay a /'thorough ination for state representative from Investigation and to return with a Mulnomah Couny. (ruereport of all our observation* Since 1912 Pettingell has been prac while In the Soviet Union. "How ticing law In Portland. He has been the worker« and peasants of the Sov Identified with labor organisations al- iet Union have solved the problem* •o. of the racial and national groups op State development and ownership pressed and under the Cxarlst re of public utilities la favored by Pet gents, will be the subject of special tingell, who also favors legislation study. which will equalise tax on wealth. JUDGES ANNOUNCE NEW WORKERS ON PROGRAM L O W E L L C. PAGET concerning taxes, Mr. Paget says: "Some of our antiquated tax sta tutes must be revised to meet pre sent conditions. The proportion of tax burden that real estate now bears mtiBt be decreased.” Mr. Paget also believes that tha present state Income tax should be amended to coincide with the federal tax. This is a reasonable stand, since the duplicate of filing separate and distinct returns has been burdensome to many cltlxens. He says that he Is wholly against any Increase In state expenditures, a policy which seems to he well in keep ing with that of Governor Meier. It Is of paramount Importance, contends Mr. Paget, "that this country remain a nation of home-owners. Tto this end, 1 favor legislation tending to protteet the Interests of home-owners especially against hasty mortgage forecloaurera.” Mr. Pgget has been engaged lu the mortgage and loan business In Port land for a number of years. He was born and educated In Oregon. Is mar ried and has two children. W ASH ING TO N, April 28— Dantes Rellegarde, Haitian Minister to the United States, and Carter G. Wood son editor of the Journal of Negro History, author of numerous histori cal works and 12th Splngarn Medal ist, are among the latest additions to the formidable list of speakers who will address the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple assembled may 17 to 22 in Wash ington in 23rd Annual Conference. Bellegarde and Mr. Woodson will speak on Sunday Morning. May 22. at a sunrise service in honor of Fred erick Douglass, held at the home of Douglass at Anacoatla, near Washing ton. M. Bellegarde who represents the black republic of Haiti at Washington Is a diplomat of world wide renown. An address he made before the Lea gue of Nations advocating amity a- mong the nations of the western hem isphere was quoted throughout the world. Mr. Bellegarde has been In the forefront of the etruggle to end the U. S. financial-military domina tion of the Republic of Haiti and In this struggle has received the aid and cooperation of the N. A. A. C. P. BY W. J. WHE A T ON Callfornla Court of Appeals. Mon- day upheld a judgment of Carl S. Stutsman, judge of the Loa Angeles County Superior Court, providing a new method of defeating race restric tions In deeds. The ruling was in the case of Let- teau vs. Pauline Ellis In 1926, the colored widow bought the property at 793 East 42nd street, • • • Lo# Angeles, subject to a restriction Us folks in "these diggins” were which provided that the property should be forfeited to the plaintiffs. certainly elated to know that selfish If the property were occupied by Ne ness had been rebuked by the voters groes. Unable to find white tenants, of the First Congressional District of or white buyers, Mrs Ellis rented to Illinois and that Oscar Depriest had been renominated. That one place in colored people, and plaintiffs sued to the congress of the nation Is one val recover the property. Through her attorney, Afue Mc uable to risk the losing. What we want is others to keep Oscar com. Dowell, Mrs. Ellis refused to compro pany Illinois is a great state and mise the case, and contested on the Chicago Is a big city, certainly there new ground that although the restlrc- is room enough to carve out and plan tlon was lawful under the California for a candidate other than from the law. yet the restriction should not be First. That the voters of the state enforced, because to forfeit the pro place ability above race is obvious. perty, under the circumstances would It is shown in the election of Jourdain extremely harsh and inequitable, aa 1 to the counctlmanic chambers of Ev the property was no longer suitable anston. Ability counts and that Is for successful operation In compli ! wTiat the electorate demand. Press. ance with the restriction. | Howards appointment as Prosecutor Mrs. Ellis having won the case in lows, 1928, plaintiffs appealed. The case > for h the city of , DesMolnes, , . — . is . a- „ , 1 ." , . notner example of ability. Of course, »a s transferred from Los Angeles to ------ --- many of us have an exalted opinion San Francisco Court of Appeals of our own ability which Is not shared Attorney McDowell states that the by others. California is as full of decision does not destroy the restric that genus as a mongrel dog Is full tions on any lot other than the one o f fleas. lot concerned in the law-suit, and that relief from similar restrictions against other lots must be establish It is really pathetic to watch some ed In other law-suits. of the antics. How they doscramble The decision of the Court o f Ap to be first to endorse this and com peals establishes a point of law nev mend tha'. Their political foresight er before used in defeating a race re Is as dense as that of a man trying strictions on laud: and it is expected to see through a concrete wall. They that many white, as well as colored have no regard for racial feelings or people, will be glad to avail themsel racial w-elfare. Insults to t he Race ves of this new pronouncement of the mean little to them. Segregation and law. h u m i l i a t i o n of Negro Gold Star The N. A. A. C. P. sponsored the Mothers, on a pilgrimage of love defense. means less to them than tne dollar. Death bed appointments lull them to sleep and tbe eyes are closed to the crooning of a political lullaby. The Negro voter in California is as devoid of political representation in the coun cils of the party as a Rhtnocerous Is destitute of feathers. The reason is obvious; too great haste to declare their intentions. A number of young voters in the Bay area have formed an organization from which may e- rolve a panacea. It is named "The Fore Runners." The organization, Geneva. Alabama. April 28—A jury though but a few weeks in action, has in the circuit court here returned a enrolled over a thousand members. • a * verdict of not guilty in the case a- galust Bishop R. A. Grant of the A. The Republican National Commit M. E. church who was charged with tee has two Negro women who repre being the father of an illegitimate sent the South. Fortunately they are child born to Miss Ollie Glass, daugh possessed o f courage and fight with ter of one of the poorer preachers in the grit and determination so lacking the churchman's diocese. in the Negro men who misrepresent The acquittal ends a case that has the Negro. It is hard to tell Just what been fraught with unusual and dram the fate of Mrs. Williams, Oeorgla atic Incidents. Charges of paternity andMrs. Boose. Mississippi will be. were first directed against the pre- Mrs. Uooxe Is antagonistic to Presi late in October. 1930 at which time dent Hoover for his insistence in re he signed a document agreeing to commending the appointment of a pay the young mother $2.090 at stat Negro hater" as United States Mar ed Intervals. shall for that state. Mrs. Williams When Bishop Grant fell behind in Is under the ban became of her stand his payments, he was arrested as he for political recognition before the was conducting a conference last committee last December when Perry October. 1931. Trial of the case was Howard sat with the silence of a postponed a number of times and clam. Racial intolerance U not a came to Issue only last week. The mater of political partisanship but of Bishop had been at liberty on $1000 envlroment. Take for instance the ball. case of George Pritchard, Narth Caro lina. who objected to having his office next to that of Congressman De- Priest.. Pritchard heads the O. O. P. in that state and will be one of the principal supporters of our present Chief Executive. It behooves the Ne gro voter to support men and princi Beatrice Cannady-Franklin, editor ple instead of being influenced by of the Advocate and a candidate for blind partizanship. State representative form Multono- a a a mah county addressed the women's meeting of the Mt. Tabor Presbyter W e hope those who read this col ian Church Wednesday afternoon on unit will pardon us for using so much The Negro and Crime ". She was space with the political theme, but well received. Luncheon with the this is a time when we should take ladles preceded her talk. politics with seriousness, in a little Miss Barbara Hubbard sang a group while It will be too late aud we may of songs. Mrs. E. L. Jamison was an regret that we did not think. W e are additional guest. to select those who are to make our laws and govern us. W e should al low neither personal antipathy nor " FOR WHI T E MEN ON L Y " blind partizanship to sway us. Hon esty, efficiency and ability are the three cardinal attributes that should NO RTH L IT T L E ROCK, Ark Apr., govern our selections. COURTS FREE E ADVOCATE EDITOR TO SPEAK 28— There is a produce market at Second Magnolia streets here. At the edge of this market place la a toilet with two doors; one marked "M en" and the other "W om en” Eugene Morria, a Negro worker, entered the door marked "Men". When he turned to come out. he was confronted by the police office who struck him with a revolver, arressted him and placed him in the local Jail. Judge Montgomery fined Morris $10. •0 and costs. Now the sign on the toilet door reads, to those who can decipher the mixture of crude capital and small letters: "FO B W H IT E MEN O N LY.”
