Advocate Register_1951-01-26

ADVOCATE EGISTE Volume 1 Portland, Oregon, Jan!-'ary 26, 1951 Number 9 JOHN BINNS CHIEF SPEAKER AT FIRST CITIZEN BANOUET .John Binns, a Tacoma attorney, and for a number of years a member of the Wash– ington State Board of Higher Education, will be the chief speaker at the Negro First Citizen banquet, at the Nortonia hotel __Tuesday, February 20, _honoring Mrs. E. W. Smith and Rale~gh Washing– ton. Last year Mr. Binns spoke at the sev– enth annual meeting of the Washington State Conference of NAACP Branches in ~ Tacoma. _ His subject of Civil Liberties was so impressive that the meeting stands out as one of the best of its kind in the state. _ He praised the editorial policy in the Advocate-Register as well as the prac– tical reporting. BILLY WEBB'S EXALTED RULER HONORED Dr. ]. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler of the I. B. P. 0. Elks of W., this week sent Commission to Chesley E. Cor– bett, Exalted Ruler of Billy Webb Lodge, 1050 designating C~rbett as Grand Organ– izer of the Order for the states of Oregon Washington, Idaho and Alaska. This is a signal honor and both to Cor– bett and also to Billy Webb and Portland. The Grand and Corbett have been friends f"or over 40 years and were associated in Elk work when Corbett lived in D. C. Congratulation "Exalted Ruler". You are on your way up. Keep up the good work. TRUMAN EXPECTED TO ORDER F. E. P. C. WASHINGTON-President Truman is expected to issue an executive order cre– ating and emergency Fair Employment Practices Commission shortly. Sources close to the president said this week that top government officials have ironed out all kinks in the document and it is on its way to the White House for review and signature. The Mid-Winter Conference of The Northwest States Association will meet at the Elks' Home, 662 Y2 Jackson St., Seat– tle, Washington, at 7:30 p. m. Saturday, February 17, 1951. All officers and meJilbers of the associa– tion and all Elks in good standing in their respective lodges and te,mples are eligible and invited to attend this meeting. Elks holding local, State or Grand Commis– sions are specially urged to attend. . We have invited some of the North– west's outstanding Elks to speak at our Mid-Winter Conference. Among those invited to speak at the suppeer session will be Dgt. Anna Morison of Dahlia Temple, No. 202, our Directoress of Edu– cation for the state of Oregon and Bro. Attorney Chas. M. Stokes of Puget Sound Lodge, No. 109, State Representative 37th District, Seattle, Washington. Registration will begin at 7:00 p. m. Business session will begin at 8:00 p. m. Supper Session from 10:00 p. m. until? . There will be a registration fee of One Dollar and Twenty-Five cents ($1.25). Everyone is required to pay this fee upon registration. This fee is to offset the ex– pense of entertaining the Mid - Winter Conference and to assure you a pleasant time. The entertainment committee headed by Exalted Ruler Oscar Johnson and Daughter Ruler, Geneva Ward, are mak– ing special arrangements to serve all reg– istered members in attendance a full course supper, hot and delicious with all the trimmings. If you plan to spend the night or week– end in Seattle and wish hotel or housing accommodations, please write at once to Dgt. District Deputy, Birdie Johnson, 505 Jackson Street, Seattle, Washington. We are planning a constructive and en– joyable meeting. Don't fail to be present and lend your bit toward success. Also at this meeting invitations will be acepted for a place to hold the Annual Meeting of the Association, to be held the last week-end in May, "1951. It was learned that the FEPC order has ----------------– been delayed because of a general re-or– ganization of Congress and especially the impending selection of a Senate Majority Committee. ROSCOE CONKLIN SIMMONS, NATIONALLY KNOWN ORATOR, COMING HERE Special to the Advocate Register: Tust :1s we go to p re<s we received word from Mr. Chesley E. Corbett, Exalted Ru– ler of Billy Webb lodge No. 1050, I.B.P. 0. Elks of WI ., that he had a wire from Grand Exalted Ruler, J. Finley \X'ilson, Washington, D. C., that satisfactory ar– rangements had been completed and that on February 11, at 2 p.m. the Honorable Roscoe Conklin Simmons, nephew of Booker T. Washington, founder and for– mer president of Tuskegee Institute, Tus– kegee, Ala., would speak to the public, under auspices of the Elks at The Benson High School Auditorium. This is indeed a rare treat as Mr. or Colonel Simmons, as he is known, is in great demand as a speaker all over the United States and when he is announced there is always packed houses. Mr. Simmons comes directly from Washington, D. C., to fulfill this speaking engagement; he will arrive here Saturday morning and that night he will have a press conference with the various report– ers; Saturday night he will attend the Past Officer's meeting and meet the brothers, Daughters and their friends at a place to be designated in the next issue. At the present time Col. Simmons is the contributing Editor of the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and the Wash– ington Eagle; he has been associated with Grand Exalted Ruler Wilson in the news– paper business for over 40 years and is the Grand Traveling Deputy of the I.B. P. O.E. of W. There will be no charge for admission. It's free. So be sure and come out-bring your friends and come early if you want a seat -State, County and City Officials will be invited as well as all Civic, religious and fraternal organizations and the public in general. Dr. D. N. Unthank will be Master of Ceremony. More details of this meeting will appear in our next issue in the mean time listen to announcements over KVAN in Vancouver, Sunday, Jan. 28, Feb. 4th at 9:30a.m. The Advocate-Register Present The NEGRO· FIRST CITIZEN BANQUET Honoring Mrs. E. W. Smith FIRST CITIZEN Raliegh Washington JR. FIRST CITIZEN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1951 7:30p.m. Nortonia Hotel, Paradise Room S. W. 11th and Stark St., Downtown For Reservations call ATwater 2551 $2.50 PER PLATE

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