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Pag® S PORTLAND INQUIRER MAKING GOOD L n T Ä m “ ' ' lett Ger' Porgy and Bess to In .hat time ah. served Negro JJg „ „ Ajr f„r (he troops in Bristol, Salisbury and Bury St. Edmonds, England, be- National War Fund fore crossing the channel into France to operate a mobile cof fee and doughnut canteen for the Negro forces of the Cherbourg docks and those guarding the isolated ammunition and supply depots of Normandy. Following the American ad vance across the Rnine into Ger many, Miss Browne and Miss Divers started their cross-con tinent drive to Bonn where they were assigned to the U. S. Ad vanced Communication Zone Headquarters. Before returning to the United States, Miss Browns and Miss Divers were stationed for a short time in Nuremberg, Germany, where they continued their club- mobile services long after V-E Day. JOHN P. MORGAN SP(A) 1st Class BREMERTON. Wash.— Physical Instructor at Navy Yard, Brem erton, Washington, R /S P.S.N.Y., who has been conducting a Rec reational and Physical Fitness program in the 13th Naval Dis trict is formerly of Philadelphia. Pa. Morgan has had two Champion ship Baseball Teams and one Basketball Team to tour this di- lrict and hopes the day will soon come when he can return to the Eastern League again where he is well known and very popular with the fans. Photo by Margaret C. Robinson Buzz-Bomb Victim Visits Site of Former Factories Washington, D C.—n July 1944 when Colbert Court Hotel, Lon don, England, was destroyed dur ing a buzz-bomb raid, a victim of the bombardment was Ameri can Red Cross clubmobile captain Lois E. Browne, of 136 Douglass Street, Knoxville, Tenn. She suf fered scalp and arm injuries from the bomb impact and flying glass. A year later, when she drove her clubmobile from Paris, France, into Bonn, Germany, Miss Brown visited the site of the obliterated factories that had hatched these lethal eggs. Accompanying her on the con tinental drive into occupied ter ritory was Mary L. Divers of Handley, W. Va., who was for merly YWCA supervisor in Knox ville, Tenn. • M’^s Brown, on her return to national headquarters in Wash ington, told of her 30 months’ overseas’ eperience in the Euro pean Theater of Operations. She went to England as assistant pro gram director for the Red Cross Three Negro Red Cross Girls Bring Music and Fun New York N. Y.—According to an announcement this week, ‘‘Pa cific Sabbath” , the overseas story of the USO-CAMP SHOWS “Porgy and Bess”, has been tran scribed by a Negro cast for broad cast to millions of radio listeners in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico during the National War Fund campaign this Fall. Over 800 stations will carry the “Porgy and Bess” tran scription. The proram reveals how the cast which presented George Gershwin’s great American folk opera during their tour of New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, Guadalcanal, and other South Pa cific islands found themselves entwined in the spiritual lives of our men in military bases, out posts, and hospitals. “Some of the men said they came to see Porgy and Bess eight and ten times” , explains Dick Campbell, coordinator of Negro talent of USO Camp Shows who acts as program narrator. “But” , he continues, “they wanted some thing else too. Especially when the Sabbath came around they wanted something else. They wanted to hear the hymns of their faiths.” Members of the Porgy and Bess cast who helped unfold the program story are Miss Cather Septem ber 21. 1945 ine Van Buren, Miss Eloise Ug- gams, Miss Gladys Goode, and Mr. William Veasey. Other transcripions planned for the National War Fund campaign include "Artist To The Wound ed”, a program dramatizing an important USO activity in hos pitals. 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Russell St. by Toots Camarata, Hazel warbles Dollie Paries, W.M. “The Man I Love,” a Gershwin Lenora Gaskin, Secretary favorite which she featured in “Rhapsody in Blue” . Paris—Mrs Margaret G. Simms VARIETY STORE of Jacksonville, Fla., knows from BUY YOUR SCHOOL experience how tough life in an CLOTHES NOW army staging area can be—anc Williams Ave. at Knott St. that is one of the reasons she tries to make the American Rec Cross entertainment trio she leads a howling success. Now on a musical tour organ Williams Ave. & Knott St. of the crew, just arrived from the ized by the Red Cross entertain Fresh Vegetables Daily States. She wa^. the star in the ment department, Mrs. Simms, Detroit Civic Opera Company We Welcome Your Patronage Miss Constance Randall of 1315 A. E. MOSER production of “ Showboat” , and Hamlin Street, N. E., Washing supplies boogie-woogie or clas ton, D. C., and Miss Minto Cato sics as the GI’s prefer. She is “HAVE YOU DONATED TO of 545 West 146th Street, New a graduate of the Juillard School THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE York City, are making music for of Music, Columbia Teachers FUND?” thousands of troops waiting in College, and Howard University. redeployment areas or tucked The three musicians will cover away in forgotten corners of redeployment < areas first, Mrs. Europe, waiting and working. Simms said, and continue their Mrs. Simms, who makes her DO YOU HAVE A task of bringing busic to the home at 2025 Moncrief Road in troops wherever they are needed. Jacksonville, has returned to the ROOM or APARTMENT European Theater of Operations from a rotation leave in the HOUSE FOR SALE FOR RENT? States. In her earlier two years Leaving city, must sell my two of concert tours for American bedroom home at 524 N. E. Rose- troops in England and on the lawn St. Near store and trans Continent she sang in big clubs portation. Fireplace, hardwood Advertise in The and little ones, in hospitals and floors, basement, furnace, garage on beaches with the rain pour extra large. Come make offer for ing down and the mud knee- my equity. deep. She knows how valuable any break in the monotony is for a soldier’s morale, and keeps her shows lively and up to the min ute. On her return to the European theater in June, she teamed up with Miss Randall for a tour through England, Belgium, Ger many and France. Miss Randall, pianist and former club director Stanley's Clothes Shop of the Red Cross enlisted men’s 435 SW. Washington St. club in Taunton, England, is a graduate of Miner Teachers Col lege and Howard University. S O K E T H IX O N E W ! Miss Cato, the third member Just arrived- New Spring Full Drape Suits and Slacks PATRONIZE INQUIRER Golden W est 844, GUOF Meetings 2d & 4th Tuesday 2:30 116 N. E. Russell St. Prince Hall Temple, F. & A. M. Josephine Morrison, M. N. G., Mrs. Annabelle Harris, N.G. Sec. Excelsior Lodge No. 23 F. & A . M. Meets every 2d and 4th Monday at 8:00 p. m. Prince Hall Temple, F. & A. M. 116 N. E. Russell St. Boise Strain, W.M. L. R. Blackburn, Secretary Phone TRinity 1857 Billy W ebb Lodge 1050 L B. P. O . E. of W . Meets every 2nd and 4th Wed. 8:30 p. m. 2504 N. Williams, near Russell W. L. Shine, Exalted Ruler Oliver E. Smith, Secretary Enterprise Lodge No. 1 F. & A . M. Meets every 1st and 3rd Monday 8:00 p. m. Prince Hall Temple, F. & A. M. 116 N. E. Russell 9t. Charles Rawlins, W. M. James L. Wasson, Secretary MT. HOOD CHAPTER NO. 16 O. E. S. Meets every 2nd and 4th Thurs- Roberta Blackburn, W. M. Marie B. Smith, Secretary