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U.S. Naval Training and Distribution Center

VOL. Ill - No. 34 TREASURE ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. · OCTOBER 7, 1944:

13,000 l reasure lslan~ Bluejac~ets Are Bloo~ Donors

Secretary Forrestal Armed Guard Heads

Proposes Policy To list With 3635 ·
Prevent Future Wars · Donations; RMS Second
"It may be cheaper to remain Over 13,000 donations have been
armed than to fight wars," said made within the past seventeen
Navy Secretary Forrestal as he months by service men and women
proposed prevention of future wars of Treasure Island at the Red Cross
by universal military training, Blood Donor Center in San Fran-
II1aintenance of a strong Navy, and cisco, 2415 Jones Street. Although
national knowledge of world prob- it has not been the policy of the
lems. At the same time he asserted Red Cross to solicit donors from the
that although the end of the Euro- members of the Armed Forces,
pean war is in sight, there remains these service men and women have
"a man-sized job disposing of. voluntarily and readily responded
the Japanese." Secretary Forrestal to the need for blood plasma.
added that when he spoke of "dis- Mechanics of group enrollment
posing of the Japanese" he meant have been worked out in detail, with
that American forces must "not the result that the program has
READY AND WILLING is Herman C. Baulne, S2c, who shares functioned smoothly and success-
stop until we have inflicted crush-
a joke with his pretty nurse, Mrs. Edith Marvin, at the San
ing defeat and have occupied Ja- Francisco Blood Donor Center. Men at right are Armed Guards- fully, providing the Center with a
pan." He asserted that "complete men giving the pint of blood which will be converted to life- standing number of appointment:s
surrender and occupation of Ger- giving plasma and later shipped to the fighting front. Men at each week. Large grey Navy
bottom are waiting their turn in the-outer waiting-room, where busses, which carry an average of
many must go doubly for Japan,
Gray Ladies serve them orange juice aud obtain necessary infor- 30 men, may be regularly seen at
because the menace of that ener-
mation as to their name, rate and station.
getic and war-like race, history has the entrance of the Red Cross
- Center at the corner of Jones and
shown, cannot be restrained by
written agreement." But he talked Chestnut.
primarily of more distant prob- Be a blood donor today First to take part in the blood
lems, and listed these suggestions Time Is precious when your donor plan were enlisted men from
"from the Navy point of view" : Blood may _mean a lifetime the Armed Guard, who began their
"Getting on the statute books of To one of ,our fighting men regular Monday afternoon appoint-
the country as speedily as possible Make an appointment now ments for 32 men on March 29,
a law for universal and compulsory And Save a Life today! 1943. Since then 3635 donations
military training of our youth." from officers and enlisted men of
the Armed Guard have been made
Retention of a strong Navy with
sea and air power serving as "an at the Red Cross Center. These
instrument for the maintenance of men, who travel in and near the
combat zones, know perhaps better
world peace rather than a stimulus than any other Treasure Island
to war." No leaves For Christmas Brought Together Transferred Navy Men. group the value of blood plasma.
A close and continuing study -of
national security based on con- Holidays Granted Navy By T. I. Red Cross Required To Prepare Records at the San Francisco
stant vigilance in world problems, The Red Cross office on the Is- Center show that Army, Navy, Ma-
rine and- Coast Guard service men
maintenance of scientific research Personnel Overseas land played sleuth last Saturday Change of Address Notice
and women supply thirty percent
on basic materials and care that The Twelfth Naval District head- when, with the efficient help of In a further effort to speed mail of the total enrollment.
"economy is not the sole criterion the San Francisco Red Cross motor
quarters urged today that Christ- delivery, the Navy Department has
of what we shall spend on our mas mailing overseas to Navy, Ma- corps, it located 'a mislaid family begun a change of address system, Armed Guard Leads
Army and Navy." He advocated rine Corps and Coast Guard and _reunited them with their long compulsory for every Navy man Armed Guard leads the Treasure
combination of some civic and edu- personnel continue actively and absent son. leaving the continental United Island activities with 3635 dona-
cational training with the purely warned against hoping the boys Five years is a long time to be States, which ultimately will apply tions. Radio Materiel School comes
military indoctrination of the Na- would be home by Christmas in away from home. It's even a longer to every transfer of Naval person- second with 2700 donations; Har-
tion's youth, but said these "should the event the war in Europe ends time to miss seeing your mother nel. bor Defense, third, with 2307 do-
be collateral to the basic purpose, then. and dad, especially when you're nations; Advance Naval Training
which is training for actual mili- shipping out again in a few hours. Heretofore, there was no system School, fourth, with 2116 donations,
The following st:ttement was is- for notifying an activity that a
tary service." sued: But until last Saturday, when and the brig, fifth, with 1178 dona-
"Possession of force by those who Should the war end in Europe the Red Cross took a hand, that's specific group' of men was enroute tions.
love peace does not lead to war," by Christmas, Navy men will still exactly the situation of Marine to it. What happened previously The following story proves how
Forrestal said. "On the contrary, James E . Venable. Here's a log of was that, if the individual failed to important the plasma was to one
be actively engaged in the Atlantic inform his correspondents of a Treasure Island sailor who was the
to our bitter cost we have found theatre transporting Army troops. Marine Venable's activities for the
that lack of armed force on the In the Pacific theatre, Navy forces day: c}lange in address, mail dispatched recipient of forty-nine transfusions.
part of those who would live peace- are constantly increasing and will At 12:30 he arrived at Red Cross t<;> him under the old address was Art Taylor, GM2c, has been in
fully makes their desire an empty continue to increase in the coming headquarters, asking for help in usually returned to the sender. the service for two and a half
and futile thing.'' finding his folks. He'd been at sea . Now, every sailor, Coast Guards- years, but first saw action · on
months. Witll many doubts that so long that letters were infrequent tnan and Marine leaving an activity Guadalcanal. His ship was at an-
men in Europe will be home for but he thought the home address within the United States is required chor there, and one day last year
Court Orders Ex-GI Christmas, there has been a ten- was in Vallejo. lo fill out a card providing his cor- they were unloading supplies. All
dency to slacken in mailing Christ- At 1:30 it was established by the respondents and magazine and day long the work went on and it
Restored to His Job mas packages in the hope that the T. I. Red Cross that Mr. Venable newspaper publishers with his new was quiet. That night Art was
The GI's right to return to his man will be home to receive it did not live at the Vallejo address. address. The last commanding of- standing on deck. There was mote
old job-if he wants to-has been himself. This feeling may bring dis- The Vallejo chapter reported that ficer as well as the prospective than one ship lying alongside and
bolstered by a recent court deci- appointment to many men, and it the family had moved to San Fran- c0mmanding officer of each man is they knew the activity went on
sion. is urged that all packages to Navy, cisco, but there was no phone listed. also informed of the new address. ashore. Art and his buddy, stand-
The General Cable Corporation, Marine and Coast Guard personnel The T. I. Red Cross called the San 'J:1lis system enables the prospec- ing on the deck of the ship, hoped
be mailed.
of Perth Amboy, N. J., was ordered Francisco chapter motor corps and tive commanding officer to hold that the quiet would last long
by the United States Circuit Court told them the difficulties. At 3 each man's mail pending his ar- enough for them to get the cargo
of Appeals for the Third District o'clock that afternoon, the inot9r rival and furnishes his old station unloaded. Then, in the distance
(Philadelphia) to reinstate a dis- Kay Kyser to Head corps had, traced the Venables, with an immediate forwarding ad- there came a sharp, reverberating
charged veteran as its medical found the father at Fort Mason, dress. rumble. Fire and smoke rose, and
director, aft.hough the -company Celebrity-Studded Show picked him up there and after _another ship, a sister ship, had
claimed he was an independent stopping back for Mrs. Venable, gotten it. Suddenly their own ship
contractor rather than an em- At Dedication Ceremonies brought them both over to the "Tighten Your Belts" went into complete blackout. In the
ployee. Island and their waiting son. The murky blackness, the ship swarmed
In ordering Dr. Albert E. Kay, Maestro Kay Kyser and his reunion took place in the Red Cross Jgpanese Are Told with activity. Art ran to his sta-
38, re-hired, the court ruled unani- orchestra will headline a glamor- office. tion at his gun, checke4 his men.
mously that the provisions of the ous revue of stage, screen and : SAN FRANCISCO (CNS)-The Everything was ready. . . There
re-employment amendment to the radio stars directly from the Tokyo radio in a broadcast picked was nothing to do but wait. Art
Selective Service Act apply not Nation's film capitol at Yerba DRIVERS WANTED up by U. S. Monitors, recently thought of the ship's cargo,
only to employees but also to "a Buena Island, Tuesday night, Octo- Women wanted to drive eighteen hundred tons of deadly
position in the employ of an em- ber 10, at 2000. buses, trucks and sedans. q~oted the president of the Jap TNT. Then-the concussion of an
ployer." Captain Elmer F . Helmcamp Private car experience re- Parliament as follows: explosion threw him to the deck.
Dr. Kay enlisted in the Army in arranged the appearance of Kay quired. Over $8.00 per day "The very existence of Japan is He scrambled to his feet, realizing
December, 1942, after he was clas- Kyser and his orchestra to play for while training. Call Treasure now at stake. We are ready to sac- they had to abandon ship immedi-
sified 1-A by his draft board and at- the dedication ceremonies of the Island Transportation Pool, rifice our most treasured posses- ately. The torpedo had made a di-
tained the rank of captain. He was newly erected Recreational Build- EX 3031, Extension 39. stons in order to smash the Anglo- rect hit on the number two hold on
discharged for physical defects. ing at Yerba Buena Island. Atnerican drive to crush Japan." (Continued on page 5)