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Page 6 Three More Negro GIs Returned Home Under R-Day Plan PORTLAND INQUIRER America’s Favorite Pin-up Vocalist Uncle Phud's Experiment DOING GREAT JOB! By Bob Burns MIAMI, Floriad—Returned to this country under the recently announced Army redeployment plan, three Negro GI’s last week cleared Air Transport Com mand’s Miami Army Air Base on the last lap of their home ward journey. They were Corporal Joe N. Jones, 35, 916 NW 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Floriada; Pri vate Robert Norman White, 26, RFD 2, Box 76B, Tallahassee, Florida, and Private Robert Mot ley, 31, 3332 Chestnut Street,! Prattsville, Alabama, and were flown here from their overseas | bases in ocean-spanning ATC planes. A veteran of 26 months’ com - 1 bat duty with the Quartermaster Corps in Italy, Corporal Jones wears the European Theater rib- j bon with five battle stars. He is the husband of Mrs. Claudas M. Jones of Fort Lauderdale. Private White, who served 15 months with the 366th Infantry Regiment in Italy, plans to go | into defense work upon release) from service. He is the son of Mrs. Ida Mae White, 360 West Oake Street, Chicago, Illinois. A former power plant employ ee, Private Motley was on duty with the Army Engineer Corps in the China-Burma-India theat er for 22 months. He is the hus band of Mrs. Clara May Motley, Pratville. For centuries people have been repeating proverbs just as though they invented them so the thought s t r u c k my , I, . Uncle Phud I ^ .. boulder h e could find on the mountain trail Hannibal G. Parsons is the popular old Uncle Phud cut him down I editor of the only Negro newspaper, a white oak saplin’ went to work j Th e Brooklyn Tribune, published in on that boulder and prized it j Brooklyn, N. Y . He is doing a great at fostering inter-racial goodwill loose. Down she rolled faster and! job in the borough of churches. | faster, right down Main street land right through the front of the SOMETIMES Van Buren bank. “I’ve had this car for years A crowd gathered in front of the bank by the time Uncle Phud and have never had a wreck." “You mean you’ve had this came down off the mountain wreck for years and never had a but he pushed his way right car.” through the hole the boulder had made. He put on his specs and burned NEW Cl FAVORITE up all his matches gettin’ differ ent views of that stone and then E xclusive to T ed Y ates Publication» he came out of the bank, looked B E T T Y M A Y S , sen sa tio n a l sin g in g sta r w ith T a b S m ith — th e w orld's at the crowd and said: g rea test a lto sa x p la y e r— a n d H is O rch e stra w h ich also fe a tu r e s t r a n k “Boys, it’s goldarned right. Not H u m p h r ie s th e “ ace” tr u m p e t star. T h e m u sica l a g g reg a tio n w h ich teas r e c e n tly a ' so lid ' sm a sh success at H a r le m ’s A p o llo T h e a tr e in N ew Y o rk a smidgeon. ‘A rolling stone gath ( j t y has b ee n a cc la im e d “th e g rea test little * j u m p ’ b a n d ." N ow e n r o u te to ers no moss." (.a lifo r n ia , p la y in g a series o f o n e -n ig h te rs, th e b a n d has e v o k e d m u c h Now you can call it moss or long p ra ise f r o m p r o m o te r s b o o k in g th is a ttra c tio n . T ab S m ith a n d H is O r - ch estra has b ee n b o o k e d fo r an e n g a g e m e n t e x tr a o r d in a r y at th e S ilvei green or happy cabbage or just S lip p e r n ig h t c lu b in S a n D ieg o , C a lifo rn ia . plain money. Most of us here on the home front are gathering more it today than ever before. Silver Star Awarded local Coast Guardsman Two Negroes Graduate of Some of us, I hate to think pay On Veteran LST As Service Officers little mind to that old sayin’ and To Mother Oi Heroic will just keep bein’ rollin’ stones, ABOARD A COAST GUARD Two Negroes were included but the smarter workers will Artilleryman LST at a PACIFIC BASE (Spe- among twenty-two veterans fof keep up their Payroll Savings cial)—Serving aboard a Coast I this war wh<> donned caps and plans, some will increase their al CAMP FANNIN, Texas—The Guard-Manned LST which has gowns Monday, March 12, for lotments, and I hope that many Silver Star has been presented become a legend in Pacific war- graduation exercises afe ak services s( rollin’ stones who read this little to Mrs. Parthenia Foreman, Gen fare is Coast Guardsman George officers under a program gràffi spon eral Delivery, Kennard, Texas, I. Smith, RM3c of 2313 East Den sored by the Disabled American piece will get some friend to ex Fxcluth* IPS Phot• for her son, Private First Class Veterans and the Veterans Ad plain how easy it is to get into the ny Way, Seattle, Wash. J E A N P A R K S , the enchanting thrift habit the Payroll Savings Robert L. S. Foreman, who was girl bandleader who is slated to According to a report by Jo- ministration. way. killed in action in Luxembourg make her debut with an all-girl or Negro members of the class Joseph Bolton, Boatswain’s Mate chestra, is the new favorite of the last November after he had vol first class, a Coast Guard Com ere First Lt. George L. Hoi- G l ’s. At this early date Miss P arks unteered to re-establish artil and, of St. Paul, Minn., for- bat Correspondent, this LST has E YOU WILL HAVE TO BE has been forced to hire two secre lery communications lines cut participated in the invasion of|»Tier^y the 92nd Infantry Di- REGISTERED TO VOTE IN taries to answer her soldier-sailor- by the enemy. Bougainville, Green Island, the vision, who spent three and a THE SPECIAL ELECTION marine mail. They write in, of course, for autographed photos of The posthumous award was Bismarck Archipelago, Saipan, half years in the Army and saw their new pin-up doll. presented to Mrs. Foreman by Guam, Tinian, the Philippines, service on two foreign fronts, IN JUNE. Major Dale E. Kennedy on be Iwo Jima and Okinawa. W ithiand Tech. Sgt. Charles R. Milton, half of the War Department, in the exception of Anelm P. of Atlanta, Ga., who spent twen a brief ceremony held at Camp Sampson, Chief Carpenters Mate ty-seven months in the South Fannin, Texas. the original crew of this LST is Pacific. Text of the official citation While in training the men re no longer aboard. follows: Smith and his crewmates ceived a training allowance from “For gallantry in action . . . laughingly refer to themselves the Veterans Administration of Private First Class Foreman was as the “new” crew. They are vet $92 per month plus $11.50 for a acting as lineman and telephone erans of the Philipinnes, Iwo wife and $5.75 for each minor operator on an outpost when Jima and Okinawa and are cur child. During placement training an enemy artillery barrage was rently waiting at their base for each of the trainees will receive layed down and wire communi assignment to a new mission. a supplemental salary from the cation blown out. Private First The toughest opposition they Disabled American Veterans of Class Foreman voluntarily went have yet met was at Okinawa, $25 per month which will grad out to re-establish communica when the Japs made a determin ually be increased as their work tion. After checking the wire for ed attempt to annihilate the at becomes more effective. a distance of half a mile, he tacking force. found the broken wire on a road which was under enemy obser vation and artillery fire. Dis DON’T L E T THE regarding his personel safety, Negro Medics Process he began to repair the lines and CORSE OF DRINK d riv e y o u r loved o n e s to while doing so, he was fatally US Mail in Scotland a n e a rly g r a v e o r spoil wounded by shell fire. The de y o u r c h a n c e s to r M oney, H a p p in e s s , “ a n d S u ccess. W r ite to th e m an 724th MEDICAL SANITARY H t e a ■ lth votion to duty demonstrated by COMPANY, SCOTLAND — Be- S n . 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