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PAGE 6 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1944
* *~ TREASURE ISLAND SAILORS "GO GIRL CRAZY" * *
latest fashion notes am
printed here for the benefit of Wave
seamen onl;y. The Bureau has au-
thorized the wearing of -seaman
stripes by non-rated Waves. You
may now adorn your left sleeves
with one, two or three white stripes
worn diagonally in the same posi-
tion as authorized for rating badges.
Specialty markings will be worn
just a!Jove the stripes. The striping
will be white on the navy blue uni-
form and navy blue on white and
grey clothing.
That about takes care of uni-
form changes except that, yes, we
will have garrison caps in gray
seersucker and in _blue -serge as
soon as they can be manufactured,
which can't be too soon.
HAVE YOU READ THE PA-
PERS LATELY? ... If you have
been neglecting your daily reading
of the newspaper, you are just on€
of many who seem to find too litt!E
time for the daily news. We are ali
interested in the progress of the
war and as each day brings . it
closer, the implications of the peace
that will follow.
A series of war-orientation lec-
tures will be held each Tuesday
night in the hospital class-room be-
ginning at 1800 and ending at 1900.
They will be accompanied by
movies and will be presented by
speakers who are authorities or
the subjects · covered. Their sol£
purpose is to bring you U:p to datE
on items of current interest. To b€
well-informed is the obligation of
every service person and it woulc
be hard to find a more interesting
way to spend one hour a week. Re-
member the time and place and bE
on hand for an interesting sixty
minutes. The movie for next week
lower left is the petite _and very lovely Annie Rooney .of Universal Pic-
is to be the "Battle of China." JAM-PACKED with beautiful women and bulging with talent, the USO tures. Island sailors will do·ubtless remember her as the show-stopping
Camp Show pr,oducti-on of "Girl Crazy" was presente,d to two full
WAVES GO TO A PARTY ... houses of delighted bluejackets at Treasure Island Theatre No. 1 on songstress with the George J,essel show of not so long ago. The pert
Hospital corpsmen wanting to pro- Friday, November 24. A musical comedy, the setting for_ the most part little "Mexican" dancer in the center is S·ue Remos, playing the part of
long Thanksgiving held a party the was in a mythical town in Ariz-ona dubbed Custerville. In the upper left a charmer from South of the border. The roguish across-the-continent
day after. November 24 the winning ph-oto, Ed Housley is about to be slapped by pretty Joan Barton, NBC taxi driver was Red Marshall, and spectators will be interested to know
singing star. Appearing through the courtesy of MGM were the Zieg-
that the fall he took in ,one of the early scenes was not in the script.
Doc-ette softball and volleybal 1 field Girls at upper right, who all but set the house ablaze with their The show was recently put together in Hollywood and is probably the
teams were honored by an all- sparkling dance interpretations. Chatting with Dick Baldwin at the first musical comedy to go overseas. ·
Wave affair that they are still talk-
ing about. The buffet supper in-
cluded cold cuts, . ice cream and Buy Bonds for the Future - Get a First Mortgage on Yosemite I
cookies spiced with unlimited con-
versation. The man of the ev-ening The following talk was made at a tastes like paint remover. The I that my dollar today has about to do something more than we are
was Ens. Jeffrey, hospital Welfare Treasure Island bond rally, Indus- other things we might want are forty cents in purchasing power; doing. There is the chance to pay
officer, who award·ed coveted trial Shops, November 18, by gone for the duration, except one well, call it fifty . cents. Wh~n we for the medical care, the doctors,
charms to members of the winning Charles W. Meighan, civilian em- or two which I will not mention. have won the war-and there is not the penicillin, the plasma, the
ball teams. The hospital class-room ployee of U. S. Navy, shipfitter, Anyway, they are free. a person within sound of my voice, planes without which my kid would
was really turned into a fun house max. grade. On an Army transport in Naga- I know, because I work with all of be buried with his buddies on Sai-
as· the girls wound up the evening Fellow-Workers:-As one of you saki, I saw ~en, women and chil- you-that doesn't want that more pan, or at least hobble the rest of
with games and prizes. To Dorothy who has fought our· way into de- dren pull alongside in lighters be- than anything else in the world his days on one leg . . . there is the
Jacobs goes the applause for as fense work often through miles .of fore daylight and coal our ship by and as quickly as possible. When chance to do as much for 499,000
chairman she turned in a wonderful red tape, filled out forms in dupli- handing bushel baskets of coal up that day comes, that 50-cent dollar other kids who are already casual-
job. cate, triplicate and aggregate, the ladder in a steady stream until will buy a good big fat dollar's ties. And there at the booth is the
FEWER WAVES STARTING stubbed our toes in union halls, hir- long after dark and they got paid worth again. That means it will greatest sure thing bet in the world.
DECEMBER . . . December first ing hall, fought our way into buses, for that about 20 cents a day in get you twice as much of whatever Wall Street-big money-cannot ,
will see enlisted procurment of street cars and on tired feet in our money. It is against that slave you want then that i~ will now. buy these bonds that we are of-
Waves being cut from the recent order to be permitted to do the best labor of totalitarian countries that That's why I, for one, believe it is fered ; that is a chance only for us
level of 4,0Q0 per month to 500 we could with the tools we had, paid this war is being fought, among selfish good sense to lend my fifty- little people. I think it's the best
monthly. When the quotas go into our taxes, had our jobs frozen and other things. It is to keep that from cent dollar to Uncle Sam · today- bet we ever had offered to us. What
effect, it is expected that the total our jobs hot, built a masterpiece America that we buy bonds. It is so and get back a dollar later that is do you say we go up to that bond
personnel of the Waves, 9,000 of- only to find the print was upside that there will be enough in your worth twice as much. If I can hold window and lay as big a bet as we
·ficers and 75,000 enlisted women, down, snatched what sleep we could pocket after you buy the necessities on to it, and so far I have been able can on a sure thing- a winner?
will be sufficient to cover current and jumped out of bed every time of life so that you and common to do just that, I'll get one hundred,
and future needs. a bell rang,- well, it's silly to talk dubs like me can put some away for of _those good jolly fat dollars thaf
WE HEAR . .. That LiJlian Bor-
about the patriotic need for us to bonds. will buy a lot of something later on MINE FORCE
ofsky said "yes" to Lt. (jg) C. W. buy bonds because if any of this My oldest son, knocked out of his for only seventy-five of the skinny • • •
Luis on November l4 and is home- bunch didn't want to get this war tank at Saipan last July, had had dollars that only buy fifty cents Lt. Commander D a v i d W. ~
ward bound for the Mendelssohn won more than anything else, we his leg held together with stainless worth now. I am buying a first Blakeslee passed the candy and
march . . . that LaVerne Offen is would have quit long ago. Just th~ steel needles and flat on his back mortgage on the productivity of cigars last week due to his recent
back with us after being. a "white- fact that you men and women are ever since; he was flown back home 130,000,000 of the best people on promotion. No sooner did he have
dress" bride in Topeka, Kan. . . . here is proof enough of the patri- a few days ago, and under most earth. I am buying a first mortgage the -extra gold on his sleeve than he
that Jean Howe, Ione Olsen of otic spirit of every last one of you. favorable conditions, will be hos- on Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, was off for a new station overseas.
Armed Guard have changed their So what I have to say about buy- pitalized for at least another year, the bridges we can see from our Ye Olde Mine Force basketball
return addresses to read "Mrs. ing an extra bond now is from the and will be crippled. He has never island,-on America. I am buying team, managed by Leon Downey,
Pace" and "Farmer," respectively. purely selfish standpoint: What is complained, either by letter or to security for the future. I am has gone down in glorious defeat ,--.
Seems like Armed Guard should set there in it for mt? For one thing, any of us. He is only nineteen years making a bet on the surest thing two times-one cause being t'1at
up a marriage Ucense bureau, what else is there left to buy? old now. Three of his tank crew are in the world. I am backing a there is a definite shortage of
'twould be so much quicker.
Most of us have stood so long in buried on Saipan. My 'other son is in winner. And every dollar that I put players. Compared to last year's
chow lines or tool room lines or the Navy. God knows I am not into bonds now when the dollar can- scores, this is definitely deflating.
HELP! some other kind of lines that we citing my boy as a special example not buy much will be worth a lot Anyone in the Mine Foree is eli-
cannot stand in a theatre line long for there are a half million like more later on and when taken out gible to play, so see Downey in the
Do you have any theatrical
talents? Sing? Dance? Play an enough to get in a show and if we him already, and more casualties of circulation ,will help to keep Mine Force office for details.
instrument? Magician? If you did, we would fall asleep and miss every day. costs down, more than anything The Pearl Harbor D_ay bond drive
do, Russ Kantor, Cox, in the all the fun, if any. So we cannot My point is a simple one: Most else we can do. has started. Our goal is a $100 bond
Armed Guard Center Welfare spend much on shows. The girls, of us like to make a bet now and I know everyone of us here purchase for each person in the
Office wants to see you. He's poor dears, all wear their pants then on a racehorse. We are not wanted to grab a gun and do some- Mine Force. War bonds represent
putting on those noon hour outside nowadays ·and all those quite human if we are not looking thing at the news in 1941 from money saved, not spent. The pur-
shows in the Recreation Lounge. frilly whatyoumaycallems are not for a sure thing. Down at that bond Pearl Harbor. I k~ow that, because chase of a bond as a Christmas
If you have the talent, you can to be had. Cigarettes? Just a booth we are beirtg offered the if you had not felt that way, you gift is a worth-while present, not
help. See him right away.· memory. Drinks? Nothing left but surest tb,ing in the world; a safe would not be here now: There at only to the recipient of the gift, but
Cuban rum or something that bet · on our own country. I figure the bond booth stands the chance to your country.