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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
.
W r i t Æ mebyour prob7emSkey
Private First Class Foreman is
in keeping with the highest cause of the lack of United P. o. Box 8«lf H ^ o S lz s , California
States Army postal personnel in
military traditions.”
this sector, a group of men of | CLEANING AND PRESSING
this medical unit are processing
EXPERT SERVICE
and
assorting
incoming
and
out-i
San itary D eLuxe Practical J L
j going U.S. mail.
Associated Cleaners
In addition to their chief as-|
2653 N. Williams
B E A U T I F U L N O N - IN F L A M M A B L E HANDLE
signment as medical-aid techni
E A S IL Y C L E A N E D —by u m c r ia t a i h i a « ,
I IH u n be sp read a p a r t fa r - - - - - j
cians these men have acquired
T T — ( 2 S j S £ 3 \ "la- datane
much skill in processing approx
lì 1 1 lïïïïl
t«» *r plica
eoa* « digftar.
Acme Linoleum Co.
imately 7,000 bags of mail of an
“ Y o u r L in o le u m S t o r e ”
average of 50 pounds each in
Cor.
S. W. 6th and Pine
48 hours. The mail is loaded on
W ill iM t a IlfM Im a. You w ill to proud d o r n
—- B R o a d w a y 6 3 0 0 —
ta own ana. Comb and A llfr o r only y J . j O p o i l p i l d
mail trains and ships which
Send Money Order or Chech (No Cedi) » C O D Poitel C hirp Is titre
P L A T E GLASS M IR R O R S
S A N I C O M CO,»S W. 40th S L New Y o c * U ,N .Y . transports it to towns and cities
W IN D O W S H A D E S
V EN E TIA N
B LIN D S
througout the British Isles.
END MI S E R Y !
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