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September 7, 1945 PORTLAND INQUIRER Page 4 PORTLAND INQUIRER Published Each Friday Ey Ralph H. Faulk, owner and publisher Portland Inquirer Publishing Co. 2736 N. E. Rodney Ave.— Tel. WEbsler 7220— Porlland, Ore. One Year by Mail___________________________ $5.00 Six Months by Mail-------------------------------------- $2.50 N A T IO N A L A D V E R TISIN G R E P R E S E N T A T IV E In tr s t a t e U n ite d N e w s p a p e r s , Inc., 545 F i f t h A v e n u e , N e w Y o r k C ity a n d C h ic a g o , 111. T e l e p h o n e : M u r r a y H ill 2-5452 Personal, Club, Local and Church News must reach us Tuesday preceding publication date. Record of Negro Achievement in War Against the Japs WASHINGTON, D. C. — Ever since December 8, 1941, when Pvt. Robert H. Brooks became the first member of the Armored Force, and probably the Ameri can Army, to lose his life at Fort Stotsenburg in the Philippines, Negro soldiers have contributed blood, sweat and tears to the cause of freedom in the Pacific. Ever since April, 1942, when swarthy Negro Engineers stream ed ashore from landing craft to whip out steel carpets on New Guinea for the reception of planes of the 19th Bombardment Group, Negro soldiers have assisted ma terially in avenging the infamy of Pearl Harbor, perpetrated by the Japanese less than four months earlier. The 24th Regiment was the first All-Negro combat unit to face the Nipponese when it landed in the New Georgia islands two days before the Battle of the Coral Sea, May 4-7, 1942. Men of this organization have been sin gled out by the Inspector General of the Army for their exception ally meritorious conduct in rout ing the enemy from Saipan in the Marianas. On December 1, 1942, Negro soldiers were included in the first to arrive at edo in Indi'a to con- contingent of American troops struct the famed edo (now Stil- well) Road, tilizing a handful of bulldozers and a fleet of dilapidat ed British lorries, the Negro En gineers had pushed the road 15 miles ito the Patkais by January 1, 1943. As early as January 23, 1943, ten Negro units, ranging from Engineer to Chemical warfare Service units, had been commend ed by General MacArthur for their “courage, spirit and devo tion to duty” in expelling the enemy from Papua, New Guinea. For extraordinary heroism dis- payed at Pordoch Harbor, New Guinea, on March 8, 1943, Private George Watson, of Birmingham, Alabama, received the Disting uished Service Cross posthum ously. Since that time the number of decorated soldiers of color has become legion. In April, 1944, the 93rd Infantry Division had its first taste of ac tion at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville Island in the Solo mons. By the end of that month, the 93rd had secured the Saua River and a portion of the land east of the Torokina River. The Division next went to the Trea sury Island Group, thence to Morotai Island in the Dutch East Indies and more recently to the Philippines. When the mighty B-29 Super fortresses first took off from China to hammer Japan proper, they taxied off of superb landing fields constructed by Negro En gineers from General Joseph W. Stilwell’s China - Burma - India theater. In the words of Major General Kenneth B. Wolfe, “They came with a battery of concrete mixers and put on the damndest exhibition of instantaneous con crete laying you ever saw. Beauti ful concrete, no mud pies.” Besides the 24th Infantry and 93rd Division, six other Negro combat units have been an nounced as being in the Pacific. The yare, with present stations: 207th Coast Artillery (AA), New Guinea; 369th Coast Artillery (AA), Okinawa; 742nd Antiair craft Artillery, Saipan; 320th Antiaircraft Barrage Balloon Bat talion and the 372nd Infantry, both in Hawaii. Roughly 200,000 Negro soldiers are scattered throughout the Pa cific and Far East from Noumea, New Caledonia to Calcutta, India; from Kunming, China to Attu Is land in the Aleutian chain. Sub stantial numbers are deployed in the Alaskan Department, Pacific theater, and the China and India- Burma theaters of operations. They are serving in such highly technical organizations as the 101st Chemical Processing Com pany at Manila in the Philippines and the 689th Signal Air Warning (Radar) Company in the Sulu Archipelago. Three months after the com plete capitulation of the Ger mans, Negro troops, fresh from the European and Mediterranean theaters of operations, began ar riving in the Philippines, and many more were awaiting ship ping orders. As of July, 1945, more than 550 all-Negro organi zations were assigned to stations in the Middle, South, and Western Pacific areas. WANTED A young Negro violinist and pianist who spcializes in the fine classical music. They are to be presented in an Inter-Racial recital. Please write Miss Pearl Drew or Mrs. Dorothy Gray at 7979 N. Courtney Ave.. Porlland 3. Oregon. Mail Your Subscription Today PATRONIZE OUR A D V E R T I S E R S NANCE'S B A R - B - Q 31 N. E. CHERRY CT. Good Meals Served All Hours Home Cooking Our Specialty DINNERS — BARBECUE SANDWICHES EAst 9044 David Nance, Prop. % SUCCESS And great beauty of life’s won der; There’ll be a different story, For the clouds will all be under. V Your time will al be taken up, In moulding life for neighbours; You’ll have no chance to. figure up, The worth of all you’r labours. VI ’Tis joy to know you’ve helped in life, While through it’s sands you’re walking; There’s footprins left that leads to light, You haven’t been, just talking. I Some folks complain both night and day, And fret about conditions; This life they view in sad dismay, There’s nothing quite sufficient. II They’ve ne’er beheld with keenly sight, True life the way God planned it; They think success and fortune’s right, When someone kindly hands it. III Now opportunity knocks to all, If they perchance might listen; You’ll hear it’s gentle stately call, “HAVE YOU DONATED TO With sight it does not glisten. THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE IV When once you’ve seen the glory, FUND?” WILLIAMS AVE. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST Elder Claud L. Lampkin, Pastor 2504 N. Williams Ave. ORDER OF SERVICES: Monday and Friday: Evange- listical Services 7:30. Wednesday Bible Band 8:00. Sunday, Sunday School 10, Morning Service at 11:30. Y. P. W. W., 6:30. Evening Services :45. Come One! Come All! Mrs. Lampkin, Reporter. UNITED CHURCH MINISTRY Force and Broadacres Vanport City Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. Worship, 11 a. m. Worship, 8 p. m. Inter-Denominational Services. Rev. Leslie Denton, Minister. AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Rev. J. F. Smith 2007 N. Williams Ave. Portland, Oregon CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST CHURCH DIRECTORY CHURCH OF GOD 2518 N. Williams and Russell Rev. O. F. Brown, Pastor. Sunday School, 10 a. m. Morning Worship, 11 a. m. Evening Worship, 8 p. m. BETHEL CHURCH. A. M. E. N. McMillen and Larrabee Portland, Oregon ST. JAMES BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. B. M. McSwain, Pastor. Rev. J. S. Ferguson, Pastor 120 S. W. Front Ave. 120 N. E. Russell St. Portland, Oregon. SERVICES: New Masonic Hall. Morning Worship, 12 noon. Morning services 11:30 a. m.; Evening Worship at 8. Evening services at 8 o’clock. Every Tuesday and Friday Come thou with us and we will avening 8. do thee good. Radio Broadcast every Sunday morning at 8 oo’colck over Sta tion KWJJ. REV. B. T. CAREY Vanport Community Church The Benevolence Church 2405 N. Cottonwood Ga. 4092 HOUSE OF PRAYYER 2205 S. E. 10th Ave. SERVICES (Episcopal) 8 a. m. Radio Broadcast. Vicar L. O. Stone Vanport City. Ore.. Apt. 1559 10:30 a. m., Sunday School. N. E. Knott and Rodney 12 noon, Morning Worship. Portland, Oregon 6:30 p.m., Young Peoples Meet. ALL NATIONS CHURCH OF 7:45 a. m., Communion Service 8 p. m., Evangelistic Services. GOD IN CHRIST 10 a. m. Church School Wednesday, Friday and Satur Elder James S. Lomax, Pastor 11 a. m., Morning Prayer Multnomah and Wililams Ave. day, 8 p. m., Evening worship. Thursday 9 a. m. Communion ORDER OF SERVICES: Service. Tuesday and Thursday: Evan The Church of God in Christ gelistic Services 7:45. Wednesday: Prayer Meeting at t Working with All Nations Sunday: Sunday School 10:00, Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. 7:45. Morning Service 11:45, Y. P. W. Regular Services, 11 a. m. W. 6:30. Evening Service 8:00. Time is Our Business YPWW Services, 5 p. m. Evangelist Services, 7:30 p. m. Licensed Watchmakers PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY Prayer Meeting every Friday BAPTIST CHURCH ! night at 309 N. E. Hancock St. Expert Repairing N. E. 74th and Glisan St. Week-day Services every Tues Rev. R. E. Donaldson, Minister 5 to 10 day service day and Thursday, 7:30 p. m. SERVICES: Elder C. L. SIMMS, Pastor. Sunday School 10:30 a. m. 420 S. W. Washington BE 6441 Morning Worship 11 a. m. CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF THE B. Y. P. U. Meeting 7 p. m. ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH The Time Shop LITTLE FLOWER Inter-racial 21 N. E. Broadway Rev. Jerome M. Schmitz, Chapl. Miss Doris Reynolds, Catechist SERVICES: Sunday, Mass and Sermon: 9 o’clock a. m. Wednesday, Novena Devotions: 8 o’clock p. m. - OREGON FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION 1412 N. Williams Avenue _______________________________________________________________________ *