Advocate_1931-10-31

\ ·--._....-~ 1 n~- lnral firiifn ···················-----···1 i EDITOR1A£~ P Ap~----· THE ADVOCATE PubnaMd Every Saturday at n20 East Twenty-Sixth Street N., Portland, Ore. Telephont!: GArfield 7523 SOUTHERN BRUTALITY Some weeks ago a Negro maniac around Birmingham, Ala., restrained, j shot and killed two white young we· men. The third one whom he shot, recovered. Lately, w h i le r i d in g • through the streets of Birmingham, ~ Ed' l p bl" h she saw a colored man who doubtless BEATR1CE H. CANNADY· · · · •· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ' itor ani u ts er looked like the criminal who had shot c.,,,<ANCY FRANKLIN ............. ,,··········· ··Assistant illaMger and Compositor her. and she thus "identified" him. # WILLIAM PICKENS ...... , . ........ , .................... , . · Contrih,ting Editor Such an "indentification" only means, ROSALIE BIRD ........................................................Society Editor and Reporte1' if the Identifier is honest, that the ORVAL UNTHANK, M. D.........................................,_............... ~Ith Editor accusedfperso 1 ns rehsemblteaks clos~tlydthe L . person or w 10m e 1s en; 1 oes ..........................................................................................,. ove Editor not cannot in reason prove that he a Ivey ·································-··········--······----··--····...........Younger Set Editor is the person wanted. 'Only an expert REID RAlW'H c CLDYE AND CLIFFORD :MITCHELL. •. . . . Columni.sts check-up _of time and p_lace, a sifti1;1g • · - of the evidence of "alibis", a cool dis- Subscription Rates (Payable in Advance) : One Year, $2.50; ix Months, pas~ion9;~e an~)ysis of othe~ elements $150· Three Months $1.00 besides looks '.. can. determ1.ne wheth- . ' . th p ' Offi t Portl d Oregon er such "identified" person 1s the one l Second-Class Matter m e ost ce a • ' wanted. In brief, only an impartial .;., o- ••• 1 • •- • a-•-·- ,I'_. -BAPTISTS-– Mount Olivet 'Baptist Church East First and Schuyler Sts. Shiloh Baptist Church East 7th and Everett Sts. -EPISCOl'ALIAN- St. Phillips Mission Knott !Ind Rodney Sts. Blaine Coles, Lay Reader -HOUSE OF PRAYER- House of Prayer East 10th and Grant Sts Robert Sear.de, Pastor -METHODIST- Bethel A. M. E. Church Under the Act of 1912 and methodical court of law and evi– dence could determine whether this I colored young man was the guilty l party or not. \ Larrabee and ·McMillen Sts. WHERE TO BUY THE ADVOCATE The editor had the ho r of calling But in .Alabama, ·as soon as this 'glrl Rev. Daniel G. Hill Jr., Minister --- ,and Industrial News Bu au, El. Hof- "identified" this Negro, he was First A. M. E. Zioo Church I bl . h d th' doomed, whether innocent or not. 417 Williams Ave. er and Son, pu 18 ers, e ay 18 Under the pretext of "questioning" "Sailor" Bird, who suffered injuri· es in an auto accident is at home, and desires that his many friends come to see him. DIXIE BARBECUE 239 Williains Avenue Opposite Grandma Cookie Bakery Mrs. Mabel Henderson will sonn be presented in song recital by her in– structor, MMe. Stjerna. Mrs. Louise Caswell, Regional sec– retary of the Esperanto chapter, cal– led a meting of Esperantlsts Octob– er 28th at Central library to reo1:_ga– nize. George Cannady motored to Port– land Saturday evening to attend the Roland Hayes' concert and to pass the week-end at home. He returned to Willamette Univer!ty at Salem on Sunday night. W. C. Holliday of the Holliday and Holliday, tonsorial parlors was enge– ged to serve Roland Hayes in their profession during his stay in Port– land. at the offices of The anufacturer I At the Advocate office, 212 Macleay I week. We we recieved ~th the ut- him, the officers smuggled the broth- R w R L I M' · building lmost courtesy and conl'l . by the er of the girl into the J'ail and allowed ev. · · · ?vel' !mster Mrs. DeNorval Unthank has been • editors and managers. Af a visit • f him to shoot the prisoner in cold ••• -------- 0 -----••-l!• requested to take charge of a group Rutherford's Barber Shop, 340 Wil· · in which we learned so ,thing O blood, an act equal in its cowardice of childr f th · 1 k t Ith t f' ld f work ac mpllshed BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH J • en or e1r c ass wor a Iiams avenue, in Foster's Pool Hall. I e vas .1e O • • to the act of the maniac who had' ' the Willi A Y W S t The Elks building, 310 W~Uiams !~o~~o::e 1 ~P:~~~o~~~ka~~ i~:eJ: 1 ~! killed the other girls. Only the act BETHEL ALLEN C. E. LEAGUE urdays. S~swnt::'o 11 ~oubt a~c~~t tt~ of this white young maniac was far opportunity to render this needed avenue. I this office, we were con ted thro more cowardly because he ran less (Anna Morrison, Reporter service. Medley Hotel Restaurant, Interstate the plant. risk than the black criminal ran, and The Leagne and church choir, un- Avenue (in Medley Rote]). j We were very happy to tneet the knew that he was running far less der the direction of Prof. Elmer C. . . . youthful editor whose wr,tlngs we risk. There is nothing romantic in Bartlett and Rev. Daniel G. Hill, Jr., Fr1endsh1p Pool Hall, Sixth, near · greatly admire. And we 1:ope "l'he the shooting perhaps to death of this were t~e guests of lhe Clinton Kelly Bide). I Advocate will find its righfu! place black prisoner, who was behind the .:'iethod1st church last St:n.day even· Holliday, 126 North 1 among the many e_xch~gSl recleved iron bars of a prison: it is just ,plainlmg. A group of ~egro Spmtuals was 1 each week at their of1cr. savage brutality. s':ng by the ch01r.. A vocal solo. by · I It is said that when his sister "iden· Miss ;Dolores Burdille, acco~•pa1;11ed --------------- We are much pleased t note that tified" this Negro, the young white lby Miss Eleanor Gragg, piamste, in the September isue of "Town and fellow was "so excited" that he coulcl represented the League. . Country Life" a 64 pag magazine not control himself. But it was not The program ~ enJOY~d by a TO OUR HEARTS I published in London, En and, an in- excitement that made him unlawfully large a~d appreci-.tive audience of I teresting biographical sk ch of Wil· conceal and ·smuggle that gun into I both white and coloured. . . jliam Pickens together w a double jail: that was cold, calculating plan· Remember _the Leagu~ meets eveiy oland Hayes, the world famed ten- column cut of the noted writer, ora- ning, with criminal intent. He did Sunda! even.mg at 7 o clock. Every– ng for a Portland audience again tor and educator. ~onsi~·ab!y more I not need a gun t_o protect 1;1imel~ a- body 18 welcome. ·-·,,~-..v;. star which marked his seventh than a half page 1s dev ed to the gainst a Negro tmsoner confmed m a tou of America since he was herald- subject with special r erences to white man's jail with scores of armed I MT. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH ed. b7 English royalty. . Mr. Picken's autobiogra1) y, "Burst- white offi~ers all a~ound him. 'I'he His v~lce tiq us who heard him sev- ,ing Bonds". young white ~an did not go ;_irmed Musical programs will be given by eral t1mct1 WIQre his great fame ar- 1 1 for ~elf-protect10n; .he_ armed himself the choir every Stmday evening until rived, is wns \be sweeter. But he From down in Hempstlad Texas to kill. He ls a cnmmal and a mur- a minister has been called by the handlei 1t like tie finished artist that comes the following from o~e of the derer _at heart, even _if the Ne!l'l'o does church officials. he L I Advocate's devoted read1: not die, and even 1f there 1s uot a Repairs and improvements are be- continues to the same fine, 1 " • • jury of white men in Alabama who ing made on our s:hurch edifice by unspo , lovable -peraonage he was 1. still enJ?Y your P~ er. Those w!ll convict the white killer. competent workmen. before e ever croaaed the ocean. stones are fme; there I som~th:ing Strangely enough perhaps, a reward On his programs, be. litlll finds about. them,_- a charm- .cant Just of $3,300 posted for the apprehension considerable room for Ute "egro Sp!- ex•plam. It, is because they are from o! the maniac, may be shared by the SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH rituals w~ he sings like no one the Negro s pen. I think they are girl victim who "identified" him and Please pay your subscription to The Advocate so we can pay our creditors CONTINUES WITH FIRM else can s!hg the on the concert wonderful, aJI.d God has let me live her brother who shot him I Rev. G. G. G::udener,. Pastor stage today .to read Negro Ht.ernture! And to And yet these white · gentlemen The B. Y. P. U. of Shiloh gave _an Who, but· Roland Hayes could sing, think I h~ve a cousiri''w!Io is a won- talk as if they expect every Negro to interesting program Sund: ev;mnf "I heard of a city called heaven and derful editor! I wish a\! Negroes turn himself into a blood hound to under the direction of rs. ara i started to make it my home"? would read about theid o~n folk and help track down black killers of white Wllhams. . f 11 • learn what they are do! f lk hi! hit , d I f The progi.am was as o owe. I o , w e w e men pm me a s O o ning Selection Iflss Daisy Wright The above was tak~n from per- honor on the white killers of black R~!ding, . . .' . . Roy williams Mrs. Beatrice Reed who is still In the emJJ1oy of the Miller and Tracey, Morticians as Lady Attendant, ac– cording to information given out by Mr. Miller of the firm to The Advo– cate this week. CRISIS BECOMES OF AGE .sonal Jette~ to the editor of The,':, d· folk.-We object! Piano Solo, .. Miss Marie Nailing 1 .,......_ - -l.XfrC:t~a;[~tt:~>tl~~~e~a~ coi~ By William Pickens Paper, . . . Mr G. G. Gardener Owing to Mrs. Reed's recent mar– riage a report was current that she had resigned. The Advocate i_o~u.t~ tll " · ~---~ Solo, Mr. Leonai·d tif1¥1 11oi1,d eql.t · . .. · · · • • ,..?-t• ~ $ ' ~uucl&y ool convenes at ~-----------------·---·---·------..;...-- ' The Oldest Negro Business In Portland Is . . . . The Advocate Publishing C9· Published Every Saturday for the Past Twenty-Six Years I Publishers of "The Advocate"-A 16.Page Newspaper In Two Sections! BEATRICE H. CANNADY, Manager ········- ·-·-·-·-· FREEMAN BROTHERS TRANSFER ·office Ph_one: BRoadway 1885 430 HOYT STREET : : Portland, Oregon Residence Phone GArfield 8019-340 Tillamook Street Successors to E. 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WHETHER IT IS COOKING, BAKING, WASH!NG, CLEANING, SEWING, RADIO, LIGHTING OR HEAT· ING. ONEl PENNY GIVES YOU BIG VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY. SER,rJcE COMPANY tPEPCO) _E_L~CTR!C BUILDING- Broadway and Alder-PORTLAND, OREGON D1V1s1on Offices at Salem, Oregon City, Hillsboro, Gresham, St. Helena and l St. Johns, Oregon, and Vancouver, Was 1,ington ------------------ JN tar otr Borneo, that semt-sav- bond ot matrimony. A priest the~ age island In the Pacific halt-way approaches and presents each with between the Malay Peninsula a cigar and some betel nuts. What and the Philippines, the Dyak brand or cigars the natives prerer natives praNlse many strange cus- is unknown. You may be sure toms. Strangest or these, to West- however, that the best ts none to~ ern eyes, are the customs o! wooing good for this gala occasion, even and the ritual or the marriage cere- though It may not measure up to mony, one part or which is depicted the standards of economy and quaJ. above by an American artist. tty to which we are accuRtomed. To attract the attention of the A five cent cigar tree ftom spit girl or his heart, the Dya.k swain tipping Is what an Amerloon bride carries wood for her or helps her would undoubtedly Insist upon with some other tasks. When he under similar circumstances. feels that he has shown good will After the presentation or the suftlclent to Impress the lady, he cigars, the priest waves two makes a midnight call at her domi- chickens over their heads while clle. Waking her stealthily, he . uttering his Incantations and bless. offers her gifts of food. It she j lngs. Following this, the groom accepts them she has signified her / places the cigar !><>tween the lips· wllllngness to "mlddJc.alsle it" or the bride and a betel nut in the with him. A refl.l._sal ~f the gift hollow of her cheek and proclaims mNrns "no" for th (\,:wecldtng. ) her to be his wife. The blood ot' When the marriag,;..poremony be- the two chickens Is then sprlnkl~d gins the con~~~ on two heated , over the newly-weds as the cer.,. Iron bars - s/ olic o~ the iron , mony ends. _j \->.-- '1 ..E; \ ;