Observer_1945-06-30

.. ' JUNE 30, 1945 The OBSERVER Automotive Service Quick. ReUable Service on all Makes .of Cars • Gas, Oil, Lubrication and Car Wash • Body and Fender Work a Specialty • Auto Painting • Motor Rebuilding N. Weidler St. at Williams Ave. BASEBALL Vanport Blacksox baseball club heat Astoria Navy Airport Sun– day, June 17. Scores were: Black– sox 8, Airport 5. Game was played at Astoria. Batteries for the Blacksox were Lo~khart, pitch, and Pepsicole, catch. For the Airport, Brew, pitch, and Whitton, catch. The Blacksox would like to book games with any strong club in this area and will travel up to 200 miles. Anyone wishing to book a game, write or wire Henry James, 2619 Cottonwood, Apt. 1492. • • • OCCUPATION ARMY S 10 PER CENT NEGRO ' (Continued from Page 4) Rhythm Round..Up (Continued from Pa.ge 3) Honey, don't be a fool. Tee Hee. Did you see that terrific jitter– bugging laid down by "Red" and the WAC Sunday p. m. Gosh it was frantic and Uncle Sam's gal showed a shape ala Dorothy La- mour and she ·was good and cute. She will be seeing you blasted wolves. Hey gang, did you know that Stanton Duke says you'll get by with Count Basie, Lucky Mil– linder and Sister Tharpe, Hamp- Figures obtained from the AG section, ETOUSA revealed that the increase of Negro troops in this theater roughly corresponded with the increase of all U. S. forces in Europe. Thus, on May 31, 1944, one week- before the invasion of Eu– rope, there were 126,877 Negro soldiers in the theater, divided as follows: Field forces, 21,156; USSTAF, 10,062; Com Z, 95,- 659. Negro units participated in the Normandy landings on Ju'he 6. These included the 320th Anti– aircraft Barrage Balloon Bn.,490th Port Bn., 494th Port Bn., 582nd CURTIS McCORD, Manager BOXING ton and other top name bands ten- Engineer Dump Truck Co., Auditorium, Friday, June 22nd. tatively slated for the Rose City 3683rd QM Truck Co. and a Roy Miller, "The Kansas City late this year. Bye now. number 9f others. ------------ Kid," 1944 Golden Glove Cham- ------------------------- MEDICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS pion of that city who came to SERVICE Portland by the way of Los· An- DIRECTORY geles, bobbed, weaved, punched DR. CARL R. VICKERS and danced to a 10-round de- DENTIST cision over Leo (The Lion) 1''71 N. E. WilUa.ms Oourt, Portl&nd Turner Friday night at the Audi- VErmont 4208 . M . 11 . f h I tonum. 1 er 1s one o t e c ass- ROBERT N. JOYNER. JR., M. D. I iest mddleweghts seen n Portland PhySician and Surgeon n many moons, wth hs cleverness, Offices: 1415 N. Willla.ms Ave. Portland, Oregon youth and stamna, he should go a VErmont 4404 or BEacon 3181 GOODMAN & LEVENSON Attorneys at Law 1002 Spalding Building Portland, Oregon ATwater 74114 WILLIAMS AVENUE U.S. 0. 6 N. Tillamook Street Portla.nd, Oregon TRinity 4615 long way in boxing. "The Lon" fought a cagey fight and finished strong. MRs. BEATRICE REED IJeensed Funeral Director at HOLMAN & LUTZ MORTUARY N. E. 14th & Sandy Turner announced in his dress– ing room before the fight that he plans to quit the ring. Friday 11ight was his last fight. Maybe he 1vill and maybe he wo~t, anvway Leo has been a great Portland fghter and has a host of admirers among I the boxing fans. Manuel James, I ¥32E!!!!i!!!Eii!l!iE!5!E!E!5i:!S!!:!iiSi==se===:==:~ South Paw fighter, lost a close de- cision to Johnny Gates in the 10- I round semi-windup. ~'Your Tho't in. Flowers" LIND & POMEROY flowers %71&-18-18 N. E. UNI01f A't'IL. 'As near ~. your Telephone' GArfield 1181 Lil' Abner bowed out in the third round of the scheduled 10- round opener, after having hit the I canvas twice in the second round from the right hand waliops of Leroy Kurst. • • • BASEBALL There are five Negro baseball teams in the Portland, Vancouver area. Members of various local leagues. They are the Portland Tigers, Vanport Blacksox, Bagley FOOD RATION STAMPS GOOD ' MAR. APR. AUG. RED STAMPS CLIP THIS CHART FOR FUTURE REFERENCE SEPT. in July ( uly i Page 7 Pictures Obtainable In the fatllre, any pictures ap– pearing In the Observer may be parcba.sed at oar office. at nom– lna.l CCI8t, 2017 N. WiUiams Ave. +·-·"-··-··-··-·-·-··-··-··---·+ I I t I I f l ! i I I I I i AC'fiON SPEAKS I '1. HAN I LOUDER 'f woRDS We could talk ourselves blue in the face about ~'s famous architectural fea– tures, but . . . until you go into everyday action in a ~ suit, you'll never really know what we mean by clothes freedom that's "tai– lored in." When you take that action, you'll, be a "3-G man" for life. s6S.oo I j Your Store J Crabbe .. Pallay I Broadway and Washington T +• •• .. ··----·----·--+ Downs, Hudson House and Van-========================~=~============~ MRS. BEATRICE REED Licensed Funeral Director Lady Attnulat Holman & Lutz Colonial Mortuary East 14th and Sandy Blvd. "So Much in Service ... So Little in Cost" couver Barracks. The Portland Tigers Tviil _jour– ney to Oakland, Calif., nexi week to meet the Oakland All Stars; both teams will return to Port– land for a double-header at the Beavers Park Sunday, July 1, then move to T 'acoma, Wash., for a game and return to the Beavers Park for another double-header Wednesday, July 4th. The Port– land Tigers are 111anaged by "Pan" Graves, famous Rocking Chair Catcher. • * • SOFI'BALL The Colored Merchants, ye ar's ~orthwest Champions and N.ational Tournament .Contenders, I are now being reorganized and will be ready for the last half of the softball league. 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