1944-12-08

Girls'-Women's Swimming Meet Basketball Teams Scheduled For To~aveBusyWeek December 27,29 The Hig-h School Girls' Leag-ue No. 1 have basketball games sched– uled for the coming week. Monday, Dec. 11, the Galloping Gals play Sacret Heart at 7 p. m. and the Bobby Sockers play the Shamrocks at 8:00 p. m. at Girls Polytechnic school gymnasium. Arleta's team and the Devil Demos meet at the same place for a game Thursday night at 7. League No. 2 has games scheduled also. The Teddy Wonders and Comets meet Wednesday, Dec. 13, and the team from the Civic Recreation Center will play the Southerners. Both games are to be played in the gym at Girls' Poly– technic school, the first at 7, the second at 8 p. m. Thursday's event will be the Thunderbolts vs. Torna– dos at Girls Polytechnic school at 8 p.m. With the city-wide table tennis tournament played Monday and Tuesday at the Montavilla Center in the limbo of past-events, those who follow the sports events under supervision of tlte Bureau of Parks and Public Recreation are looking forward to coming events. Next Monday, Dec. 11, begin the elimi– nation swims to determine entries for the city-wide tournament ctl,l– endared for Dec. 27, for girls, and Dec. 29 for boys. The Buckman school pool and the Civic Recrea– tion Center's plunge are being used for practice. Engineers v. Dental College Sunday \ PORTL.A.•ND INQUIRER LI'L ABNER GETS NEGRO CB'S SECOND CHANCE TOPS IN saving us with the ammo you are carrying." "Me, I just went on about my business of looking for a deeper foxhole," grinned Hall, who made nine trips to the lines in eight days. "LI'L ABNER" PERFORMANCE PELELIU, PALAU ISLANDS, Seaman First Class James Key (Delayed)-Two hundred Negro Nichols, 20, of 5047 So. Parkway, Chicago, has a souvenir of one trip Seabees, grimy and weary from 2 across the exposed airport. He was days of unloading ships under ene- carrying one end of a stretcher my fire, were lined up on the beach ,when a Japanese machine gun here. killed the Seabee on the front end. "I want volunteers for stretcher bearing on the ridge tonight," an officer was telling them. And 200 Negro Seabees stepped out as one. The incident is typical of the record chalked up by the Seabee battalion, that landed inunediately behind assault waves of Marines here and has been working night and day since. They unload ~hips, wrestle ammunition and heavy sup– plies to the beach dumps, carry ammunition to the front lines, and Nichols' canteen was pierced by 2 bullets. "Left me without water," he mourned at the dressing station where he delivered the wounded Marine by himself two hours later. Seaman First Class George E. Jenkins, of 350 East 53rd Street, Chicago, was carrying ammwtition across the airport when he saw a Marine fall, hit by a sniper, Sea– man Jenkins brought in the wound– ed man. Moving an inert victim several hundred yards by yourself is a difficult task. The City Women's Basketball league has g-ames listed for Tuest day and Thursday, Dec. 12 and 14, to be played at Grant High school gymnasium. Linnton Box and Wis– co clash Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. At This coming Sunday, Dec. 10, the Guyrinder Abner to you may bring back wounded. On occasion they have filled in as frontline troops, and for more than a week they have been going forward to drag- in wounded marines. Seaman First Glass Leo Mc– Dowell, of 588 East 53rd Street, Chicago, a neighbor of Jenkins, was another Seabee who had his 7-man football teams of the 29th U. S. Army Engineers and North Pacific Dental college will play at the field at 80th and Tiilamook sts., beginning at 10:30 a. m. . 8:30 p. m. the WAC team meets No gnashing of teeth over nuts with the Red Wonders. Thursday's this fall, Mrs. America, for OPA games are between Jantzen a:r\d tells us the nut crop is expected to Lind & Pomeroy, playing at 7:30, I be 15 per cent above last year, and and Benny's Fine Foods team and that's 47 per cent above the aver- Van Barracks at 8:30 p. m. 1 age. owers for POWERS -FURNITURE CO. S. W. THIRD and YAMHILL ST. / mean absolutely nothing. To a lot of people, "Li'l Abner" may not mean a thing. But to everybody who visited the Civic Auditorium These Seabees had seen no action last Friday the words "Li'l Abner" until Peleliu. Then' they joined the assault. They had more than 100 mean 143 pounds of simon pure 1 · casua ties in the first week,. many fighting guts. received during the landing- when When .this paper went to press Japanese artillery and mortar fire a week ago the name of this young was ripping the coral reef, others fig-hter was practically unkonwn. from mortar fire on the beaches To a few of his friends, most of I and among the supply dumps, and East Vanport, where he lives, am! still more from enemy fire at the a very few outsiders, he was just fro:nt. companion shot while carrying a stretcher. McDowell simply placed his buddy on the stretcher with the wounded Marine an~ dragged it to the first aid station-an ordeal lasting more than an hour. Mach. Mate 3rd Class Emory L. Jennings, of 586 Post Office St., Altus, Okla., heard there was a wounded man on the edge of the airport. Despite continuous sniper fire, he went and got him. Seaman Second Class Leroy Mo– ses heard a Jap in a foxhole yell– ing for help. Moses and two ~avy corpsmen went out. One pharma– cist's mate was shot by the screaming Jap who was in turn killed by Moses who then went down and helped in a wounded another "kid" with the desire to On the beach they had to handle put on a pair of gloves. That the heavy ammunition and vast chance came last Friday night at stores of other supplies to the vari– the Civic Auditorium when one of I ous dumps. Here they were also the principals in a prelim renigged endangered by mortars, by snipers, on a bout. "Li'l Abner" was pressed and, on occasion, by Jap machine into service against ring-wise and gunners who came to life behind tough little Eddie Weller, as clever the front lines. Once, they were a puncher as ever fought in a pre- even charged by three enemy tanks. lim. Eddie finally got the nod in When a mortar shell set fire to man. Seaman First Class Jimmy Shea– the bout but before he won, the a large ammunition dump, 50 Sea- rard, of 200 Ray Street, Anderson, crowd had sensed the rising of a ebes started moving the shells. S. C., also heard Japs yelling. new star in the fistic heavens. They had to be called off when the "Sounded as if they were call- "Li'l Abner" had hit Eddie every- exploding ammunition pinned down I ing muster," he said. "Then one where but under the bottom of his everyone on the entire beach. f l 'll 1 · h Jap called down: 'We see you eet a most at Wl c urmg t e first Wl;len ordered to carry ammuni- throwinng flares-we're coming.' three rounds. Then Eddie's experi- tion up to the front lines, volun- But they didn't." ence began to take the lead, but teers took so many cases forward L "I guess the boys have a right i'l Abner made such a showing that a Marine infantry officer told to be proud," said Lieutenant Com– that he gets another chance to meet them, "Knock it off. We just want E mander Beny. "They got into the ddie tonight. enough ammunition for the night. · habit of volunteering so much that This time we are looking for We don't need the entire dump." when we had to bury some long- some real fireworks, if the "kid" When a stretcher detail was dead Japs, two dozen Seabees has not let the praise he has re- needed to go down into a draw stepped out before I had time to ceived all week go to his head. If in front of a heavily fortified ridge tell them what they were volunteer– he forgets to duck, Eddie Weller to bring out wounded at midnight, ing for." will be right there to take advan- 16 Seabees volunteered. tage of it. But this tirpe Li'l Ab- The Negroes are enormously ner will have had experience, this proud of the record their unit has , will be his SECOND time in the made. Individual feats are gen– ring and he will have had all of a erously recounted by others. The week to train. The last time-or battalion is high in morale and ex– should I say the first time- his cellent in achievement. training consisted of a walk from Seaman First Class Edw. Scott, Vanport to East Vanport and not a 20, 313 Dickenson Street, Freemont, CLASSIFIED Stenographer-Typist, capable of taking dictation. Must have had experience in office routine. Phone or write Portland Inquir– er, 2736 N. E. Rodney Ave., City 12; WE 7220. fast walk at that. Ohio, was on the lines four times M<ale Help Wanted There will be four other bouts on as a stretcher bearer. The second Pin Setters- 12 Boys or youl)g men for Day or Night Shift. Top this Talent Show: night he was in a foxhole with a rates paid. No experience requir- Bout 2. Sailor Jack Huber vs. Marine officer when four Japanese eel. Phone or write Portland In- Dave Johnston, heavyweights who started moving in. When the Ma- quirer, 2736 N. E. Rodney Ave. WEbster 7220. tip the scales around the 200 pound rine fired, one Jap fell and played FEMALE HELP WANTED mark. Huber has won three in a dead for a time. Th~~ he at~empt- WOMAN-Mid,Ue-aged housekeep– row here, while Johnston has been ed to flank the pos1hon wh1le the 1· er wishes r oom, board and sala– in hard training for this scrap. Hu- other thre~ came on. Seaman Scott /1 l'y. Small home, no children, no ber is in the coast guard, Johnston got two of them, the Marine offi- laundry. Call Br. 1908 after 5 is a rigger at Swan Island. cer accounted for the others. 1 p. m. JOHN L. BACK Seaman First Class Lemon Jack- ---- ----------- Bout 3. A "Natural" developed son, 26, of 712 East Alabama St., - from the last card. John L. Sulli- Florence, Ala., was pinne<f down van fights Mike Terry, of Bagley in his foxhole near the front lines. Downs. The Irish boy from the He had ammunition to get forward Northwest Marine Works has a and he was irked. He deliberately real fight on his hands with the showed himself to draw Jap fire I young Negro who knovked out Don (this is the story of others-not Montgomery. Jackson). Bout 4. T~e likeable "Speedy" Then "I just shot up in a tree Cannon swings into action agai1l and there he was," said the Sea– with Buddy Hoffman, of Seattle, as bee. the opponent. Hoffman is no cli.ump Seaman First Class Henry Hall, as he holds a decision over Eddie of 2215-A Cass Avenue, St. Louis, Weller. Mo., thanks an unidentified Marine Bout 5. Two new ones to Port- for saving his life. A Jap was mov– land fight fans. Eddie Wharton, ing in on Hall and the Seabee's lithe young Negro, tangles with rifle jammed. A passing Marine Sailor "Babe" Spanola, of the na- knocked off the Jap, but shrugged vy. They are welterweights. 'I away the Negro's thanks with All bouts are six-rounders. 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