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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1932)
T7*‘ ADVOCATE PAGE POUR SA TURDAY, SEI'TKM BEH It. I M I T H E SCOTTSllORO BOYS CONDEMNED TO DIE IN TH E ELECTRIC CHAIR 1IY ALABAMA SUPREM E Court. They will die unless the United S tates Suprem e Court reverses the decision. The International lathor IV fense Is m aking a national appeal for funds with which to handle the case and is calling upon every citizen to aid the worthy cause. The boys are generally believed to he the victim s of southern fram e up charges. (See Story on front page) J. Finley W ilson, who was reelect ed Grand Exalted Ruler by acclam a tion of the Order of the Elks of the W arld at Its annual national conven tion held recently in Atlantic City. N. J. Jam es E. Kelley was elected sec retary ; Edward W. Henry, terasu rer: "T H E GREEN' PASTURES", the gre atest of all plays of Negro life, began its 1.1127 perform ance here Monday a t the Colonial T heatre, when It open ed for a third season of coiilluuous perform ance E tcept for brief periods of vacation, th e cast has ronttnuoual y presented Mare Connelly's Biblical play t o large audiences all over the Unlled Stales Too Play has netted m illions of d oliare to the authors, the producers and the cast Over *00 of the perform anees were given In Newt York City W ith one exception, the cast, beaded by Richard II H arrison as the Istrd. Is Intact at the start of the third sea sou W esley Hill, who created the role of Gabriel, was killed liy an atti ottienile during the New York run Ills successor. Sam uel Itavls. died la s t w inter of heart disease. 1 toe Itoe tlreen Is now playing the part and Wm H ouston, com m issioner of education, all re-elected by acclam a tion. Abbie Johnson. Grand D aughter Ruler was reelected. C atto Lodge won prise for best dressed lodge and the Q uaker City M arching club for best m arching club. WILLIAM PICKENS, who w r i t e s front Paris. th at it m akes no difference to the Negro which one of the P residential candidates. Hoover or {{oosevelt. is elected so far as the N e gro citizen is concerned "If either one of thus fellows is w orse than the other, faith an' it must be both of 'em !“ (Top) LANGSTON HUGHES, noted Negro poet, now in the Soviet R ussia; (C enter). EDNA S:. VINCENT MILLAY. A m erica's forem ost womau |a>- et and author; (B ottom I CLAUDE McKAY. revolutionary Negro poet and author, who. w ith a great long list of prom inent w riters are working for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys who they believe to be guiltless. WALKER IRVINGTON - ON - HUDSON. N. Y. — (C N S)—Villa LeW ara. the *150.000 Georgian m ansion of 8-acre estate of the late Madam W alker, was opened Septem ber 4 as the national hom e of the Companions of the F orest of A- m erica and will be used as a home for aged and tired m others. T he organization purchased the property which was one of the show places of the exclusive section thro' its financial secretary. Mrs. Annie Poth, at a private sale last spring MANSION following the death of Madam W alk er's daughter. Mrs. A 'Lelia W alker- Kennedy. T he am ount paid for the property was $47.500 th e am ount of the indebtedness on the place a t that time. The m ansion has been rem odeled to m eet the needs of tts new role and the *25.000 organ which w as installed by Madam W alker, has been rennora- ted. Opening receptions w ere held on Septem ber 4 and 5 and Mrs. F rank lin D. Roosevelt was am ong those in vited to speak. » The P retty girl next to Daniel llaynea Is Miss Gwendolyn Hooker, of 1608 E. Halsey street, Portland, Oregon, prov ident of the Allen C hristian Endeavor Society of the Bethel African Metho dist Church Miss Hooker recently at tended the annual conference of her church held In the state of W ashing ton. She Is also an elocutionist of no m ean ability. IRVINGMILLH BLUE RYTMM BAND one of the finest aggregation* of m usicians th at ever graced the pub lic stage. They have rythm , and III)» ! A lexander’s Band never had anything on these boys. M At MCKINNEY NINA MAE MCKINNEY, who along with Jack O sterm an, H arry Carroll and Roy Sedley. Is scheduled to ap pear in t he revised version of "Fol lies B ergere”, which will go Into re h earsal soon. DR. HENRY ALLEN BOYD, son of the founder, who appeared before the N ational B aptist Convention re cently held In Houston. Texas and gave facts and figures of the nation's largest printing, publishing and re ligious m anufacturing institution. rM'sSÉÍ DUKE ELLINGTON, the "K ing of Jazz" and his fam ous m usical aggre gation who have m ade m usic history thraughout the country. East. W sst. N orth aud South CONGRESSMAN OSCAR ItoPRIEHT. of Chicago who *ay« h«* will not go in for the .Non-Port Inan racket hut in going to »tick by the («rand Old Party. T H E LATE MME. C. J. WALKER, the beautiful — t ETAIO OOA who erected the m agnificant "Villa" so th at her race m ight have a fine, luxurious home to point to and en joy. with pride. The Madam was a wizard in the beauty and hair culture line. H er only daughter, Mme. A'Lela FORMER PRESIDENT C A L V I N W alker- Kennedy died a year ago in COOLIDGE who says he will support New York. the Republican A dm inistration and \ the candidacy of President H erbert Hoover for reelection in th e present political cam paign which term inates on November 8. B V' B From Country's Highest Telephone You May Call the Rest of the World Atop Pike's Peak, Colo., 14,109 feet high, le the highest telephone on the North American continent. Since it le a etanderd Bell Syetem telephone, linked with the central ofTice at Colorado Springa a few mllea away, from it one m iy call 92 per cent of the world's telephones on thle end four other continents. Bottom picture shows Pike's Peek, taken from main atreet of Colorado Springa; at upper right is shelter house et sum m it: and In circle is the telephone In actual use. ^B DANIEL HAYNE5 i in "The Oren Pasturen" play Hymns Replace “Number, Please?"as Telephone Building Becomes Church Thle form er telephone building In Kaneaa City, Mo., bee been bought by the congregation of the Brookelde M ethodist Episcopal Church, South. Right: Rev. R. B. Klmhrell, pastor. The Jackson Exchange building At North Conway, N. II. a few lias un Interesting history. Several years ago, a church building which years ago. when Seventy-first street had outlived Its span of usefulness In Kansas City was widened as os a religious edifice was purchased Gregory Boulevard, an end to the by the Carroll County Telephone nxeliango building Impended, since Company and converted luto a tele It stood In the path of that widen phone central office. Now, In Kansas ing. But the building was moved City, Mo., an oppoalte transform s south out of the path of the street tlon has takon place. widening and enlarged by the tot» Tho congregation of the Brook- phone company. At tho tim e thle side Methodist Episcopal Church. was done, It was aatd to be the South, In K ansas City, baa pur largest telephone exchange build chased the telephone central ofllce ing th at ever had been moved In building known as the Jackson Ex this country without Interruption of change, from tho Houtliwestern Bell service. Telephone Company, and la r» A short time ago, It became nocoe- modeling the stru cture so that It aary to abandon the Jackson Ex may serve as Its church. change, when telephones serving Thus cables are to yield to hymns, th at section of the city were and where, until a abort time ago, changed from m anual to dial opera “Num ber please?" was heard mil tion It wax not feasible to con Ilona of times a year, the Rev. R II vert the building to the now type Klmhrell will now be hoard Instead, of operation, and ao dial telephone as he delivers his regular Sunday service In th at locality la now being morning serm on. The operating, provided In a new building con room, once lined with switchboards, structed especially for th at type of provides an adequate auditorium . operation.