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ADVOCATE
Independent
Peper Devoted
P O R T L A N D , OREGON,
30— N U M B E R •
to the
In terest*
of
the
Our Qoal
T H E
A D V O C A T E
In Every White Home
In T h e State Of
Oregon In
Nlnteen T h ir ty -Throe
People
PR ICE P IV E C E N T S
■ A T U R D A V . S A T U R D A V . N O V E M B E R I t , 1*33
AIRPLANE DISASTER DESTROYS NEGRO HOME
RACE HAS SOLUTION IN BUSINESS PROGRAM
Arnnu
SALVATION OF HACE LIES IN
B U L K OF «AGE BUSINESS --(Tips
lly K IU Hrld
DECLARED BY N01ED BISHOP IN DYNAMIC ADDRESS
S EE S P R O B A B L E U S E OF N E G R O
J U R O R S IN C R A W F O R O C A S E
llirin ln e h o m . A>a . N ov I T — Ikeclar-
Ine ilie l the solvatio n of the '• >
In Am erica lire Hi hie ow u hand s; end
Klchmond. Va
Virginia I* aware
tl.v until I hr Negro I.....
u l~>»
lhal the entire country will In- wat
r r lii th r c o m m e rcia l w orld hy twain ching when lleorge Crawford Negro
nine t « w ork einune them selves ee accused of, murdering two white wo
operators of business. I h r pooling end men. near Mlddlehurg early In 1931.
putting i“ work of "pottolet ssd I* brought hack from lloslon and pla
d im e s " w h irl! have h ith e rto goue In
lo u np ro ductive
ventures of d re d
com m ercial value Kt*hop II O. Shaw
of I h r A M K Zion church gave out
a « a m i n e that I h r N r g ro n iU it do
hie eh u rr In h rln e ln e ehonl a rh a n a «
« f riind ltln ne,
u n d rr I h r
proposed
"N e w U ro l"
In hie t r r e r addrree. the l»*ehop ill'
rla rrtl. " I h r e a frly and security of Ih r
A m e rica n Neerooe H r In i h r develop-
Ine end m a ln le ln ln e bueinrea and in
d u e lrlre of hie o w n ."
" W r ra n o | ir r » lr and con tro l dry
anode etorre. arocery elorre W e ran
do a r n r ra l n irrrh e n d le ln a bnelnree for
o iire rlv re and em ploy I h r e r rv lr r e of
o u r ow n people lu euporlnlebd
and
r a ir y on three h ii* ln «»»c *
I don't e r r that I h r N K A le mean
Ina V ry much to ue. w hile I have not
made a r u m p le !« e n rv ry ol how Ih l«
order has affected our people, I do
know that m any of ue w ho labor w llh
our hand* li«v e Im I our Jobs and ere
not b rin e ixetu I h r w e a r outlined un
i l r r I h r rode
" W e u r rd lo help o u re e lv e », w r ran
do II liy pi id I n a our pennlre and dime*
and our dollar* for enterprise* Dial
mean em p loym en t for o u r people
"The Jew le established lu a re rla ln
line of endeavor lie hae »|>erlallird in
m rrrh a n d le r T h e Italian hae likewise
developed hie la lr u le ;
I h r C h ln ra r.
and other ra re r ll doea aoem lo in «
that sll.ee w r are dolna the w ashing
and elss s ln a I I I Inu n drlre and clean
lua planle. we w ould
oraan ler and
co n tro l that hiielne»» W r are already
trained and especially
p n pared for
that w ork W e ro s ld give our people
decent pay and develop a line of In-
dependence that wtil be reapected by
c lllin * everyw h ere
'(lo in * to heaven I* a fine Ih ln a
to keep before up." the Illehop de
clared. "bu t II ehould ne ve r he forgot
ten lh al we muel live on earth W e
m u «t lake c h arg e; we muet lead, or
we w ill Iw led hy elranae yolree from
whom we m ay not gel the fallen! pro
tection O u r lieopte are hound to lean,
lo follow In I hoar direction* w here op
po rtu n lty and protection are offered
"W h a t we need 1 » men and women
wit
hrourage and de term ination to
*n vr u* from I h r peril w hich w e con
front I am w llh President Hooaevelt
In all of hla plan* Hut we mtial help
h im hy helping ourselve* and al*o to
w ork hi* plan* W h a te ve r you may
think of II. Ihere are m any of lho*e
high up who are vigorously oppoalna
the P resident's Idea of a "N e w Deal".
JORDAN'S CLEMENCY
PLEA BEING ADVANCED
ced on trial In the Louiidoun County
Circuit Court The (rial may be held
next month I-ending cttltens of Ible
Stale are determined lhal no one
■hall Justly arruae (he Virginia ail-
ihorlfle* of trying to railroad tin»
man lo the electric chair
Commonwealth's attorney John Hal
Iraher of l«oundoun. who participated
In the extradition proceedings In Hus
ton before Federal Judge James A
l ow ell lia* announced that Crawford
will he given "plenty of lime to gel
counsel anil otherwise prepare
hi*
defense."
A g i t a t o r s N o t W a n te d
ll Is believed that Commonwealth'*
Attorney Gallesher I* elvlnr serious
ronnldrratlon lo the latter plan
In
clusion of mrmher« of both race* on
the panel would areally lessen the
poHNlhllltle* of a rev-rsal by the Fed
eral court*, lu (he event of a convic
tion
The feeling la growing, loo, lhal
when a Negro Is tried for acrlme a-
gulnst a member
of the opiaislle
race, ll le only fair that (he grand
and petit juries include at least one
represntntlve of his own racial group
There are Negroes In many rommiinl-
lies who are fully capable.
Since the Issue of Negro Jury serv
ice was raised in ihe Scottshoro and
Crawford case«, court* In various
Southern Stales have taken steps lo
accord member* of Ihe weaker race
representation on Juries In Virginia
Judge Frederick W Coleman Imposed
a fill fine for contempt on a white
farmer who refused recently lo *1» on
a grand Jury with aNegroin Hanover
County Circuit Court
MEDLEY
D IE S
IN
VET
H O S PITA L
Salem. Oregon.
Nov.
17 James
I Sunny Jim I Medley, veteran of Ihe
World
War. a member of Capital
PO«L Amerlean la-glon. of Salem and
for a number of years connected wllh
a shoe shine parlor on Stale street,
passed
away after a shodl Illness.
Sunday afternoon In the veterans
hospital. Portland. Oregon. Medley was
taken lo Portland about three weeks
ago An operation was performed. It
was dlst'orered at that time (hat he
could nol survive
The deceased, a colored m an. was
a unlive of Texas and was In charge
of the equipment for Ihe local drum
corps for several years and went with
the outfit on many long trt|w
lie
was wllh Hie orgnnlr.nlInn during Its
recent frlp lo Chicago He Is survl
ved hv a mother and slslre, Mrs J
It Mills, both residing In Portland
Funeral services were held from
•he Clough Harrlck chapel Wednesday
afternoon, Nov 15th al 2 o'clock Mu
sic was provided hy the Clough liar
rick quartette The local punt of the
American Iwalon had charge during
gravenIde services and Rev. I,eo liny
Klnard, pastor or ihe First A M R
Zion church at Portland, read the ie
liter furneral service. Interment was
In Ihe l-egtnn circle. C ltrrlcw ceme
tery.
Mr Madley was horn In Hrenham
Texas, Feb. 22. 1888
enlisted at
Portland August 2. 1918. Served over
seas with Co. K Sir,ih Pioneer In
fantry and was discharged nt Camp
l s ‘ Wl*. Wash . August 9. 1919 He was
a member of Portland post No t ot
(lie American I-eglon and transferred
to Capital post No. 9 here In 192.1
Capital post conveyed Ihe family of
Ihe deceased from Portland to Salem
to nttonri the funorul.
"In Andrew («atzkon
in War'
th«* follow iiir
paragraph*
confirming a atal«*m«*ut mad«* by ma
ny of th«* conaclentloua obJ«M-tor« a-
u i o i i k th* worn«-n
th<* «*xjK»nu»lon
of which ♦•arn«*d us h o many t*n«*mie»—
It ia w«*U worth r«ii**aUng mo here it
U:
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O'"-
“ You want to know what wan the
molt awful thing? The diNilluMlon-
ment w i i the rnoMt awful thing the
going «iff Th«* war wasn't Th«» war
la what it haa to le* Old it surprise
you to find out that war is horrible*
To find out that the women are hor
rible
that was the surprising 'hlug
That they can smile and throw roses,
that they can glv«» up their men. their
children, the boy* they have put to
h«*d a thousand times and pulled th«j
covers over a thousand times, and
petted and brought up to he men
That was th«- surprise'
That t k t f
gave us up
that they seut us' The
WOMEN sent us No general could
have made us go if the women hadn t
allowed us to be stark«*«! on the trains,
if they had screamed that they would
never look at us ugnin tf we turned
into murderers
w r find
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I
Charles IteiHl. long time I’urtlamJ
hotel waller has caught un tu a Job
uu a dining car.
Joe Crane, formerly a cook on a
private car, la now ihe chef al the
Sportsmen Store at Washington and
Third avenue.
1 noticed In a weekly journal a let
ter howling for protection of Atnerl-
cans who go to Oeimany. fr«>m mo
lestation at the hands of the Nazis I
wonder if th«» abused Americans had
there travelling expenses paid by our
war howlers?
Wouldn't It be good
s«*ns«» to broadcast n message from
the Whit House that Americans who
travel in Germany do so St their own
risk’ Tell them that America will tot
semi troops of our hoys over there
to protect these adventurer«.
Re
member how Germany warn«»«! the
travelling Amerlean public that Ger
many would bomb the Uisltanta as
there was evidence that she carried
munitions of war? Some very fine A-
merlrans took passage In the Lusita
nia i»n«l never r«»ache«t the other side
and Amerlra promptly declared war
as was Intended. Americans —stay a-
way from Germany
boycott Hitler in
every poslhle way — the economic
boycott Is the heat kind of war pre
ventive*
U N E M P L O Y E D W I L L M A R C H ON
S TA TE LE G IS L A T U R E
Portland. Oregon. No 18— (Specl.il
(o The Advocate I — The Multnomah
County Federation of Unemployed,
composed of Central bodies »nil all
Ihe locals of Unemployed
Citizens'
Salem, freg on , Nov. 17 Plea* for
League. Civic Emergency Federation.
executive clemency for I neoanre Jor
Unemployed
Councils
and
Kenton
Un
dan. colored, who*« sentence lo him»,
employed League, has called a state
for the murder of a dining car Mew
wide conference to he held at Salem.
nrd In Klamath Pall* wan confirmed
10 A. M. Monday. November 27, ac
liy the supreme court Thursday Nov.
cording to Richard tsivelare. Vice-
nth. are being urged upon Governor
president of the Federation. The place
Jullu* L. Meier In llegram * from of
of meetlnw will be announced later
ficial* and member* of the Interna
The object of the conference le to
tional l-alior Defense league, accord
formulate a legislative program for re-
ing |o A. I’ , dispatches
It before the Special Rhsalon of the
Telegram* began flooding the gov
Hef of the unemployed, and to preuen!
ernor'* office Immediately after the
Slate Leglalature. The central laane
supreme court liunded down It* deep
of the proposed legislative program
Mon affirming Jordan* conviction in
are Unemployment
Tnanrance and
the lower court. While the court *
orkera' relief ordinance.
AH unem
opinion wan pending
thmiKand* of
ployed
and
workera'
organizations,
card* demanding lhal "Jordan Munt
both Negro nnd white, hare been ur
Not Hang ', were received.
Jordan, who haa been confined In S A Y S P A S T O R H U S P A N O S H O T
P O R TLA N D W OM AN A PPO IN TE D ged to elect delegate« and participate
In the conference. Each organization
(he Male penitontlary pending
the
1» entitled to from one to fire dele
■ippenl of hi* caae, will be returned
HER T H E N K IL L E D H IM S E L F
T O A R T F A C U L T Y IN N. V.
to Klnmnlh Kail* for ro-»entenco,
gate«.
providing the Governor doea nol
Washington.D C. Nov. 19— (A N P )—
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grnnl the clemency requested hy the Near death from three bullet wounds. ' Portland. Oregon,
~
* Nov.
'
17— Mrs. A L P H A S T O R E C O N O M Y P R O G R A M
International ilefenae league.
Mrs. Mary Urahant. wife of the Rev Carol Ixmlse Harrlaon. white, a grad
|Georg« Graham, told sheriff William uate of Lincoln high school. Reed col
St. Loul*. Mo.. Nor. 17— (A N P ) Not
Itumley That her husband shot her 1 lege and atudent at the Portland art
COLOREO Q U A R T E T
A T R I V E R S I D E C H U R C H times and then turned Ihe pistol on Institute, haa been appointed to the a penny more than 1« necessary, la
himself He died from a bullet In the art faculty of Cooper Union, Wew the slogan nf the Alpha Phi Alpha fra
Tw o bullets were removed York City, according to word receiv ternity In making plana for lt i con
llood Hirer, Oregon, Nov 15 -The brain
Harmony Rrnwnettea. a quartette ot fro mlhe body of Mr*. Oraham.
ed here. She will be In charge of a vention to be held Dec. 28-31, accord
ing to Araatt O. Lindsay, general con
Rhe and her huahand are alleged lo claaa In design
colored women were heard here at
after ahe returned
Riverside church at a Vesper service have quarrelled
In addition to her work at Cooper vention chairman. Emphasis will be
Sunday. Nov. II. at 4 p. m
Each late Sunday night from a Joyride wllh Union, Mra. Harrlaon. wife of Wallace placed upon closing bualneaz Initiat
Patience Seymour, Harrison, a painter, will depict life of ed at the 1*31 convention and the re
member of the aggregation haa had Joe Copeland.
experience and publicity of a high or daughter of Mrs Graham by another Harlem Negroes In murals following gional convanll(\ti held Ih t»32. Mid
der from the largest cities of the marriage, and Daa Murks The latter the atudy of the Negro In San Fran dle Western chapters have endorsed
Northwest and they sang well to a three are being held In Jail for Ques cisco, where ahe went after gradua the program of restraint and economy
tioning.
for this year's * inhering.
representative audience.
tion at Reed.
I
F
(ieogae Graham, nf Terrell. Texas,
spent several days In Ihe city this
week. He aald that he was Just look
Ina over this we*tern country of
New York. Nov. 17— A new federal
which be heard no much.
anti-lynchlng bill la being drafted by
the legal committee of the ..ational
Mrs M E Fullllove. president of Association for the Advancement ot
the Mite Missionary Society of (he Colored People. It was
announced
llelhel A M. K Church for the past here today. The bill will be Introdu
five years, has resigned In favor of ced in the next congress which con
Mrs K. King, wife of Ihe pastor of venes In January, 1934.
(he church
“ It is quite plain to every one that
the stales are unwilling or uri»ble to
Jim JaraeoTi, nf Tacoma, le here stop lynching” , reads the statement
for a viali with friends
"the officer* of the law either aid the
lynchers actively or else stand Idly
The Dinner held Thursday evening by and let the mao do Its work Gov
at Zion church hy Mrs Klnard and ernors order investigations which nev
co-workers was a success
er discover anything.
Grand Juries
find no evidence for Indictments. In
John Hill, of Pendelton. Oregon, who the two Tuscaloosa, Ala., lynching*
I* In the employ of an garage, was of August 12, and the Armwood lyn
ching In Princess Anne. * ' Oct. 18.
In the city Monday on business
we hare the plainest proof lha,
an
Mrs I.urlile Morgan Is reported to by the federal government is ne, oi-d
be III at her home on Commercial SI. if lynching Is to be stamped out.
"W e call upon every branch of the
She le under the doctor's care.
N A. A. C. P. and every organization
Mr* Sarah Jackson, of U tile Rock. ot colored people in every community
Arkansas passed a day In Portland lo test their congressmen and sena
this week while enroule to Vancou tor* first according to their willing
ness lo role for a federal anti-lynch
ver, B. C.
ing bill. No man who refuses to vote
Dad. as he Is heat known In many, for such a bill can be a true represen
an aged barbershop porter. I* til In tative of Negro voters, no matter what
Ihe Center hotel on N W Fifth ave else he stands for. We urge them to
nue He is penniless and friendless, it write or call In person upon their
congressmen before the November e-
I* reported.
lection and secure their pledges lo
Mrs Edmnndton. a member of the vot for such a bill.
A personal Investigation of the Arm-
Bethel church, was called to Seattle
Iasi week to atten the bedside of a wood lynching by U>uis L. Redding,
of
Wilmington. Deleware. member of
sick relative.
the N. A. A. C. P. legal commute re
Jim Mill* was fined »50 in police veals anew the necessity for this leg
court a few days ago on a charge of islation. This association Is intensify
ing a nation wide, relentless campaign
being a hit-and-run driver.
on lynchiug and additional details
will l e announced from time to time”
J7t Waldron ha* lost nut as porter
says Walter White, secretary of the
In Ihe Pacific Building barbershop.
N A. A. C. P.
Individuals everywhere are
urged
Marion Fullllove hea returned from
to write to President Roosevelt and
Salem and has gone hack to hi* for urge the federal government to stop
mer Job as entertainer In the Apex lvnchings.
Club.
Kvery time I look at a gold star
mother I think n f h«»r its ending h« f
I m > v to kill or he kill«*«!' And to«1ay we
hear mothers talking of preparing for
the next war* Why not require a vote
to In* taken as to whether we shall be
us«*d again to collect the bankers'
loans? On each v«»te to I h * written the
name and address of the voter. Thos«-
voting f«>r war shall tie sent to the
fr«»nt m the first draft I»et th«>se who
W A N T W AII do the fighting and rot
ting in the trenches.
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Kits Held is nmong those who are
sending rongratulntfcui* to Preshtent
Roosevelt nv«*r his Russian recogni
tion. The next thing to happt'n will t»«»
some cablegrams of distress to Russia
asking for Russia n wheat with which
t«» feed America's starving millions
Ills program of rutting down the sup
ply of foodstuffs so that the prices
«»f what is left mav mount higher Is
the most absurd thing ever suggest«»«!
when we think of th«» millions who
NOW haven't the price to buy so that * The colored democratic club of Ore
•hey may keep the wolf from the door gon now boasts a membership of over
Hint their «'hiblren's tHnlies covere«!. 150. according to Charles Adams, pre
Why not give the surplus that is be sident.
Ing bum♦*<! and otherwise destroyed,
Mrs Fred D Thomas, cateress. Is
to the hungry and cold Americans and
give the dole th$t is above the low- III and confined lo her home wllh a
cost to the wheat an«) pork and cot severe cold
ton sp«»culators who are gobbling up
the lncr«*ased prices?
George Cannadv came up Saturday
The Wall
street plan of cutting from Salem to attend the U of O and
down the supply so as lo fill th«» O S C football classic at Multnomah
pockets of th«» exploiters may sound Stadium George Is a half-back on the
good to the bank« rs hut I predict Willamette leant but on account of
right here ami now that within two his right ankle and knee being Injur
years, there will n«>t he enough v«»tcs ed. will not play In the next one or
among the starving Americans to re- two camhats in which his (earn will
el«*ct Roosevelt — and we know then» participate.
are not enough hankers and brokers
to re-elect him.
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T U S K E U E E IN S T IT U T E GETS
»10.000 B E Q U E S T
Local News Events
Tuskeaee. Alabama. Nov. 17— Tua-
kgee Institutete will receive »10.000
and
the Henry Street Settlement.
»60,000 under the terms of the will
of Mrs. Thereae Schlff, widow of Ja
cob H Schlff Mrs Schlff died Feb
ruary 26 at her home, 965 Fifth ave.
| The will, which hae Just been pro
bated left a fortune of more than
16.000.000. »605.000 of which was be
queathed to charity.
PORTERS RUB T H E IR
EYES
FAMILY UF FIVE
New York. Nov.— Seven soul* met
death in a flaming hell last Sabbath
afternoon at Red Bank. N. J . when
a New Jersey National Guard airplane
piloted by Lt George R. Johnson and
Sgt. Alfred W
Poole, both white,
went Into a sideslip and crashed into
ahouse occupied by a colored family.
The exploding
gasoline burned the
house down. Johnson and Poole were
cremated.
Trsped In the raging inferno were
Mrs. Margaret King. 28. and her two
daughters. June 7. and Patricia. 2;
also the children's aunt. Cora Raglan.
25. and a visitor. Edward Wilson of
Little Silver. N. J.
A ll were sitting peacefully around
the dining room table when hell de
C OLOR EO B A N D C O M IN G
scended from the heavens. The plane
crashed through the rear wall of the
Astoria. Oregon. Nov. 17— One of two storey home of the King family,
• he foremost colored bands in the tearing out the bathroom wolls, and
United States, now on tour of the then plunged through the flooring of
west, played for a dance here at the the second floor to the first floor and
Auditorium Thursday night. Jean Cal burst Into flames.
With gasoline
loway and her band of colored musi *prea over the plane and house, the
cians are known to a large radio au fire Ignited with lightening rapidity.
dience in the East where they broad Escape was impossible.
cast from station WOR and Its asso
The funeral pyre sunk Into the
ciate stations. They played at the pop basement as the fiery debris of house
ular Plantation Club in New York for and plane buried the victims beneath
sometime. This Is their first tour of lt. A ll were burned beyond recogni
the west. Jean Calloway is known as tion.
the female Cab Calloway and is a high
Three Lives Saved
class entertainer as well as director
Dolores Crsnt. 12 year old sister o f
of the orchestra She Is one of the Mrs. King, bad been sent to the store
very few women orchestra directors and was about twenty feet from the
She and her band played in the T ria house, on her way home, when the
non Ballroom in Seattle on Armistice accident happened. She turned and
night to one of the largest crowds ran to a neighbor's house.
Otis King, father o f the children,
that have ever attended a dance in
left the house shortly before the ac
that ballroom.
cident;
Mrs.
Margaret
Peterson,
grandmother of the King children, who
G E T S »500 F O R LOSS OF E Y E
owned the house, was away visiting.
Like the crack of doom, the crash
Raleigh. N C. N ot 17— < a » ' p » Last
year John C. Becton and George FTin- waa heard for miles, and several saw
ton. lodge brothers, quarrelled because the death plunge, including four or
a count of the ballots at the election five pilots who were In the air at the
of lodge officers, disclosed one more time. Neighbors said that the plane’s
ballot than there were members pre motor sounded defective, but this was
denied by Gill Robb Wilson, commis
sent.
Hinton knocked Becton down and sioner of Aviation for New Jersey, who
Becton lost the sight of his right eye said the other pilots testified that the
SAY S T O U G H COP M U R D E R E D
as a result. A jury in Wake county motor was in perfect condition and
Superior court Monday awarded Bec running at full speed when the acci
dent occurred.
N E G R O Y O U T H IN S O U T H
ton »500 for the injury to his eye.
Neighbor Tries To Rescue
I Heroic efforts were made by Ste
Jackson, Teun.. Nov. 18— (A N P t — O P P O R T U N I T Y L I T E R A R Y A W A R D
phen Connico. white, who lives at 24
Smolderiqg resentment filled
Negro
Cherry street back of the house that
citizens here Thursday following the
New York. Nov. 17 (A N P )— The Op was burned, to rescue the victims.
shooting to death Wednesday night of portunity Literary Contest will close Connico saw the plane drop Into the
Corinth Trotter. 25. by a white police January 15. 1934. according to an an house, and heard the explosion, after
man. Harvel Penn.
nouncement made Wednesday.
Last which he ran through the back door
Penn, alleged to be hard-boiled, re year the prize of »100 was won by Into the kitchen. " I saw some people
puted to draw and use his weapon Arna Bantempa. author of "God Sends struggling around the table in the
with the least provocation and to slap Sunday" and numerous poems.
dining room", he told the police, "but
Negroes Indiscriminately, was called
The prize was awarded at a dinner the door was blocked by flames. The
to the scene where Trotter had hall 1st was the guest of honor,
partition between the kitchen and din
an altercation and fight with a color at which Pearl S. Burk, ranious novel- ing room was partly down, and I tried
ed cafe owner. Trotter was drunk.
to wrench some more away to make
Penn and a partner came upon the
a hole.
serene, used a flashlight to spot Trot
"Just then another partition across
ter and, without giving him a chance,
the dining room gave way with a ter-
fired four bullets into his body.
, rifle crash, sending up such a mass of
W hile newspapers reported the in
flames and sparks that the heat drove
cident as a gun duel between Trot to*
me back and I had to give up.”
and Ihe officer, but Trotter neither
Mrs Patricia Knight,
white, who
Washington,
D.
C.
Nov.
17—
Some
fired, attempted to fire, or had any
'lives at 26 Cherry, said she heard the
thing
like
a
cat
out
of
a
bag
was
dis
chance to fire a shot. An unloaded
plane's engine sputter and then stop,
cerned here this week when it became saw the plane turn on Its left side and
weapon was found on him.
known that Dantes Bellegarde, Hai drop Into the house."
tian minister to the United States, re
"The explosion came right after it
BARANCO. L O U IS IA N A L E A D E R
signed hts post as a protest against hit the house” , she said. I ran Into
what
he
described
as
the
"setting
up
my back yard and saw little Patricia
D IE S A T H I S H O M E
of an American financial dictatorship King standing on a chair at the din
by executive agreement over Haiti."
ingroom window. She stood there rais
Recently. Washington and PoFl au-
Raton. Rouge. la»., Nov. 17— B. V. Prlnce were supposed to have come to ing her hands with her mouth wide
open, screaming, for a moment, theh
Harauco.
grandmaster of Louisiana terms through an executive agreement
the flames came up all around her, and
Odd Fellows am> president of the Peo in which the United States relinquish
I didn't see any more of her."
ple's Industrial Lite Insurance Com ed practically all supervision in Haiti
“ Crazy Flying” Rumored
pany. passed away at hla home here except that over finance, and propo
Further investigation Is reported to
early last Monday. Death came at the sed to take away the marines next
have disclosed that the men were
age of 62 after an Illness lasting ouly year. The executive agreemnt was “ stunt" flying, and were very close
six days.
haild as a forward step by some ob to the ground when the plane fell.
Funeral services were held at the servers. although It could be seen Four Investigations have been order
home Tuesday afternoon and later at that Washington had a keen eye on ed.
Besides Commissioner Wilson's
llelhel A. M. E, Church with the Rev. the protection of private investments Inquiry, Major Robert Copsey, com
Mr. J. W. Washington, officiating. In Haiti and proposed to continue to manding the Forty-fourth (aerial) Di
Burial was made In Magnolia ceme hold out Haiti's pocketbook in the in vision of the New Jersey National
tery.
terest of these Investments.
Guard.
appointed an Investigating
Mr. Raranco was born in Baton
Bellegarde's
resignation signifies board headed hy Captain Edwin
M
Rouge where he reared a fam ily of that there are Haitians who regard Dixon, who flew to the scene o f the
eight children and became one of the the new agreement with a wry expres accident. The Department of Com
moat responsible business leaders of sion on their fares.
merce sent inspectors to the scene,
the city. As leader of Odd Fellows In |
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and the local police authorities also
this «late, he waa the chief Influence B O L E Y , N E G R O T O W N H A S
conducted an Inquiry.
behind the erection of the Odd Fel I
2,200 I N H A B I T A N T S
Lt. "T u ck " Johnson, who was one
lows temple here. He was also deputy
of the heat aerial photographers, and
grand master ot the national body. In 1 Oklahoma City. Okla.. Nov. 17— Cl- 9gt. Poole took o ff from the Newark
politics he wan an active Republican tlxens from the all-Negro town
of Airport, headquarters of the air divi
and was associated, during the lat Roley. from Wewoka and Holdenvllle, sion of the
New Jersey National
ter’s lifetime, with the late Walter held a conference Tuesday morning Guard, at 1:30 p. m on § flight to Red
R. Cohen.
with John Carlcck, white, state chair Bank and return to teat a new type
Mr. Raranco’a
widow and eight man of the Public Works board, to nf army camera that had been Issued
children survive him. Of the three present proposals for fadersl aid for to the unit. They returned from the
boy*, one la a physician and one a Boley.
Red Rank Airport about 4:45 p. m
dentist In this city; the other 1» a I Boley. incorporated In 1905 haa a
They were flying over a cluster of
student. One qf the' glrla Is a teacher population ot 2.200 and an assessed houses about one-quarter mile from the
In thie city, one a student at Flak; valuation of »625.000.
airport when observers on ths ground
two are bookkeeper«, and ona la the
Boley wants a half million dollars saw that the pilot was In trouble, and
wife ot a dentist here.
aid from the government.
he apparently tried to turn b a d .
Los Angeles. California Nov. 17—
According to Charles Upton "Railroad
Clatter Editor", pullman porters were
rubbing their eyes last week and pin
ching themselves to see if they were
not in a trance when they were in
formed that they might be called up
on to make berths up In a train going
an hundred miles an hour, according
to the Union Pacific. Trains shaped
like streamlined airplanes will whiz
along the Union Pacific tracks, over
deserts and moutains at that unthink
able speed and connect Los Angeles
and Omaha in 30 hours for the con
venience of travelers.
BELLEGARBE, HAITIAN MINISTER
QUITS POST