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PAGE2 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1944

ASTHEAD * * G IN CHARGE OF T. I. A.W.V.S. - - -

Official Treasure ~
* * Island publication distributed every Saturday without cost to the
officers, enlisted men, and employees of Treasure Island. All communications and
contributions should be directed to The Editor, Welfare and Recreation Department,
Treasure Island, San Francisco, California, Phone: EXbrook 8931, Extension 59. S·
COMMODORE R. W. CARY, USN
Commander U, S. Naval Training and Distribution Center
The bloody battle for conquest
LT. OOMMANDER R. S. KIMBELL, USNR over Axis powers is being waged
Director of Welfare and Recreation
relentlessly on a wider scale, for
ST.ANLEY SOLOMON, Y2c, USNR the incentive behind it is that the
Editor GI Joes are fighting for a bigger
CLYDE F. BABB, Slc, USNR, Associate Editor stake than in future Americanism.
Robert E. Johnson, Y8c, Managing Editor Rex N. Olsen, Y3c, Feature Editor
Carolyn N. Brown, Y2c, WAVES Editor George J. Schechter, Y3c, Staff Artist It Is gratifying to have the home-
fr.ont backing of people with wis-
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F., CALIF., SATURDAY, SEPT. 30, 1944 dom, foresight and integrity back-
ing every attack with wiser plan-
EDITORIAL- ning, assuring eve r y veteran
gr,eater benefits than ever before.
Historians can rightfully record
qoJ BIR✓.u (!)wi q. J. ollome this sagacious planning a "first",
for never before in hist,ory has plan-
ning for returning vets preceded
Let us take time out and look into the American home of demobilization - it always fol-
lowed.
1960. We find ex-Gunner's Mate Bob Baglia and ex-Ensign Jane It is the duty of Mr. and Mrs.
Brown greeting the dawn at 05 30 one mornin~. America to guard the sacred rights
of these men who are giving their
"Bob-Bob-Get out of that sack. What do you think this lives for such a worthy cause, and
is, sick bay? Hit the deck and show a little life. You're on mess it should be a "must" to prove
duty this week. See if you can't turn out something besides worthy of the noble sacrifices they
are making.
scrambled eggs and baked beans this morning. We have had it * * *
on the menu three times this week." "Supply" has been the secret
weapon of. the Allies. That is the
"Now listen, Janie-don't go pulling any rank around here. story behind the miracle of the
I was wearing stripes while you were still in the Camp Fire Girls. Allies' victorious armies in France
during the critical weeks in which
I've still got seniority on you even if you did outrank me. You
they lacked the use of a port. It
had better get hot on those kids and their police details. They should not be overlooked that some
wouldn't pass inspection in my old outfit. Why, when I was in of the credit for the miracle shoula
go to the little crafts known as
Pearl Harbor--" LSTs. The Landing Ship Tank,
with its awkward shape, is an
"Yes, I know, you used to have your 'boots' paint the head Allied '!secret weapon" of supply.
one week and scrape it off again the next, just for fun." This midget ship can do things no
craft of its size and capacity was
Bob, Jane, and all the little Baglias have finished the ordeal ever known to do before. It is both
of policing up themselves and the house before breakfast and are a deep and shallow-draft vessel; a
cargo carrier and lighter; a trans-
now sitting down to morning chow, as Bob asks: port that has its dock-the beach-
"Down the Joe and side arms, Janie-you know there is nothing waiting for it wherever it goes and
it can load or discharge its cargo Checking out-After each garment is -completed it is placed In a "bin"
like the Java we used to get back at the base at Treasure Island. on a beach. and carefully checked out to the rightful owner. Bottom photo shows
those in charge of the Treasure Island A.W.V.S., left to right-Mrs.
That stuff was really powerful. Why, when we used to run out * * * Dora Pearson, Mrs. Stanley Sinton (chairman), Mrs. Hilda Jacob, Miss
of gasoline for one of the station wagons, we would just brew Perhaps a revolutionary idea sur- Viola Balzarini and Mrs. Anna Goldschmidt.
faced itself in the person of Rear
up a tank of GI coffee and use it for a couple of days until we Admiral Earl W. Mills, assistant
got time to run over to the service station." chief of the Navy's Bureau of
Ships, when he stressed that the [F!~!!~~~!f !.!:!:!!:!~!:¥!!!]
"Hold on, Bob-you will have some of the kids trying out "true measure of naval strength of
some on those Gooney ideas of yours._ Hey, Hashmark, take it the future will be in horsepower,
rather than in tonnage." He added, Survives Four Ships the rest were rescued once more,
easy on the Red Lead. Just because your old man uses it to float "In 1945 the U.S. Navy, measured Introducing Charles E. Casper, this time by a French vessel.
his hash in is no sign you have to use it on your cereal. Goldbrick, in horsepower, which will be the one of the genial Boatswain's •
true measure of naval strength, Mates over at the Armed Guard 100 Per Cent Navy
stop dislocating Bessie's fingers. Just ask her for the sugar. She will
will be stronger than any combina- Center barracks. He has been in Introducing Mary Jane Smart,
give it to you. You don't have to use raider _tactics around here- tion in the world. The t o t a 1 the Navy s_ince February of 1942 Slc (Sp(S)) striker. Smart comes
save them for your little playmates." strength of our Navy, some 65,000,- and has earned a first class rate. to us from Norfolk, Va. Her. fa-
000 horsepower, will be greater His ship torpedoed out from ther is a Commander in the Navy
With no serious casualties, the meal is finished. Mama than all the power generated by under him four times, questioned Medical Corps, her brother a Naval
Boulder, Shasta, and Grand Coulee by the captain of a German sub, Flight Surgeon, and her cousin, Di-
Baglia gives her dear little Leatherheads a loving clout on the
dams and all other sourses of one of six survivors of his last rector of Athletics at the Fleet
ear as she sends them off for another happy day of play at the hydro-electric power in the U.S." ship---it all sounds like something School in Alameda. With such a
rifle range * * * out of a movie, but it actually hap- Navy background it is understand-
"Be not the first _by whom the pened to this Armed Guardsman. able how the girl should be one
Instead of the plain inefficient civilian way of doing things, new is tried nor the last to lay the The incident we shall concern hundred per cent Navy!
the new 'order will be a round of bulletins and details. There is old aside," says the adage of old; ourselves with happened some- She is the WA VE representative
and that seems precisely what the where in the North Atlantic when at the gymnasium and to her be-
no end to the· possibilities for a family where the two "top kicks" Navy will do in regards to demobili- the convoy of which Casper's ship longs the credit for the new wom-
have had hand-to-hand combat training. Someone is bound to be zation. was a member was en's recreation plan
on report or restricted every day. Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs re- attacked by a pack on Treasure Island.
iterated the fact that naval de- I of German sub- That she is right for
mobilization can only begin when marines. Within fif- the job is shown by
facture and which is now standard Japan Is defeated. The Navy is her past experience
T. I. Mourns Loss equipment on many types of com- establishing priority for release on teen minutes five and the way she has
Of Comdr. Flanders bat planes. a basis of length of service, service ships, C as p e r ' s successfully applied
among them, were
Commander George F. Martin, outside the ·continental United
(Continued from page 1) on the bottom. Dur- it to her new assign-
chief staff officer, Northern Cali- States, combat service and parent-
ing the five hours the crew was in ment.
As commander of mine forces he fornia Sector, Western Sea Fron- hood. However, it will watch the
the water, they were approached Smart attended William and
was directly responsible for many tier, with whom Commander Flan- partial demobilization of the Army
by three enemy subs and ques- Mary College for two years and
improvements in the repair, and ders was closely associated, said: after Germany's defeat and profit later received a degree from North-
development of mine sweeping "He was one of the kindliest men by their experience when a final tioned as to the names of the ships
that they had sunk, and what kind western University in music educa-
equipment and under his guidance I have ever known. He was always and precise blue print for naval
··1ar-ge numbers of officers were trying to do something for every- demobilization is drawn up-prob- of cargo they were carrying. How- tion. During the time she was in
ever; they obtained no information school and following her gradua-
trained in the details and tech- one. He was the most popular of- ably not until the defeat of Japan tion, her summers were spent as an
whatever except the name of one
nique of this highly specialized ficer we had here. He took a tre- Is at hand. · instructor in indoor and outdoor
duty. mendous interest in the Mine Force ship off a survivor's lifejacket.
His death came as a great shock and it is largely through his effort,s About dawn they were picked up S!)orts at summer camps. After
New Sea Names will completion of boot training at
* * * appear on
to fellow officers, not only those that this activity has been built up maps for the first time next month by an English destroyer already Hunter College in New York City,
damaged from ramming and sink-
connected with the local defense to its present state of efficiency." as a result of the Pacific war, ac- she was fortunate to receive as-
forces, but to those in other activi- Funeral services were held at cording to reports from the Na- ing a submarine the previous night, signment to the special school for
ties on Treasure Island, among 1400 Thursday, September 28 from tional Geographic Society. T h e but when she lost the one remain- the training of Specialist ( S)
whom he was known as an efficient the ·DelMonte Chapel, Hotel Del- geographical names w-ere born of ing screw, she was rendered help-
yet kindly officer. Monte in Monterey. Ushers were war necessary and Admiral Nimitz less. At midnight the ship was strikers.
Always of an· inventive turn of Captain Paul P. Blackbum, Cap- struck by two torpedoes, blowing it Still a "boot," since she has
produced one of them. "Armchair served as a WA VE for only three
mind, Commander Flanders had tain George C. Tasker, Commander strategists need no longer worry in half and pitching the survivors months, the Navy should well ex-
never lost his contacts with the G. L. Martin, Commander Martin about the name of the sea between into the icy water of the North
professional engineering world. E. Carleson, Lt. Rolland M. Myers Atlantic. · pect and receive much from Mary
the Philippines and the Marianas Jane Smart, and the WAVES on
With a colleague he was respon- and Lt .. K. S. Kindblaid. Following
Islands," the society said. "Admiral I After _spending "the lpngest six r. I. should feel especially fortun-
sible for development of a new cremation the ashes were buried at Nimitz named it the Philippine hours of my life" in the almost un-
ate to have her as their WAVE
type of rivet used in aircraft ma.nu- sea Friday.
Sea." believably cold water, Casper and specialist at the Gym.