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PAGE2 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1945 ---------------------------------------
TELES G ''THE LONEWOLF" • • •
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Official Treasure Island publication distributed every 13aturday without cost to the s
officers, enlisted personnel, and employees of Treasure bland. All communications and
contributions should be directed ta The Editor, R ecreation and Entertainment Di- 0
vision,. 'l'reasure Island, San Francisco, California. Phone: EX brook 3931, Extension 69.
Self-Propelled Car Floats
COMMODORE R. W. CARY, USN
Commander U, S. Naval Training and Distribution Center Floating wharves in San Fran-
cisco Bay. That is what the Navy
CLYDE F. BABB, Sl c, USNR .has in the two new self-propelled
Editor
car floats now busily engaged in
Robert E. Johnson, Y3c - Rex N. Olsen, Y3c, Associate Editors loading cargo ships off the Marin
Carolyn N. Brown, Y2c, Waves Editor Robert H. Perez, BM2c, Sports County shores.
F rederick Drimmer, SK3c, Reporter The first of their kind, they are
the result of the Navy's program
(The Masthead uses Camp Newspaper Service Materia l)
for safe handling of explosives and
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F., CALIF., SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1945 other dangerous freight. By loading
in a safe anchorage directly from
EDITORIAL - the freight cars the danger hazard
in loading operations is reduced.
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tadu. • • Literally and figuratively,
Navy Hits Pay Di~
Navy has begun to hit pay dirt in
the Central Pacific. STATESIDE FOR THE first time in two years, "The Lonewolf" has
Easter is the most joyous day in the Church's calendar. As
For the first time since the docked at Treasure Island to await further orders. Standing beside
Christians we celebrate this· day in memory of Christ's resurrec- seizures of the Jap islands began, the stack, on which is painted the emblem of her lone patrol and esco~
tion. It is claimed by some that Easter is the name of an old the Naval Military Government has duties, are ( left to right) Henry E. Litchfield, CM,oM M of Kittery,
Maine, Ens. John F. Bianchi, Canaan, Conn., and the captain, Lt. (jg)
Saxon goddess. As a time of celebration Ea~ter goes back to found on Saipan and Tinian tracts Ray S. Metzger, Jr., of Toledo, 0. ·
of tilled and fertile land. And it has
great antiquity. It is not known exactly when it began. The
set out to utilize it, first to supply
earliest Easter hymns of which we have any record date back American sailors and troops in that Navy Mail Men Set
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to the fourth century. far distant outpost with fresh fruits ~~~~RQNTIER
and vegetables, and second to feed Up Post Office in Jap
Easter is more than a spring festival or flower show-the
the natives. -~eef;li~
resurrection of Jesus represents a belief in the supreme worth Most of the land-more than 25,- and Snipers' Front Yard
of personality. Loyalty, honor, beauty and goodness are more 000 acres- is devoted to sugar cane LOCAL DEFENSE
than mere words. which the Japs paid five cents a And the mail "flowed like wine."
pound to produce for their empire. Less than a week after Marine
, It is the purpose of Easter to bring to light those qualities A large variety of vegetables Serving in waters where even a invasion forces had established a
that are eternal. The concept of immortality is ageless. But it and fruits will grow on the islands, battleship looks small, was the task beachhead on a Western Pacific Is-
is at the empty tomb of Jesus that the world finds hope, and and there has been some success assigned to many commercial fish- land, the Navy mail men had letters
with corn. Among other products from home in the Marines' hands.
without that hope it would be most difficult to carry on with ing craft at the outbreak of World Six weeks after D-Day the post
found in cultivation are sorghum, War II. These courageous little
the burden of despair in the midst of chaos. Easter is God's soybeans, castor beans, coffee and office was handling more than 50,-
ships are being replaced by fighting
promise to man. Perhaps the world needed another Gethsemane cotton. vessels so sorely needed ip. 1942. 000 letters daily, selling stamps.
and Calvary-since hope is eternal in the breast of man-there * * * They "come home" now as quietly registering letters, insuring mail,
Navy "Joe"-A Custom? selling and cashing postal money
is sensed the dawn of a new life for the sons of men. For out as they left.
A cup of coffee on office hours, if orders. Regularly a mail-loaded
of the bitterness and agony of a world in travail there will come not drunk too leisurely and if drunk The Golden Gate looked "mighty jeep headed toward an airfield to
good" to one of these- a North
a new life. For out of the tomb of our sorrows the flower of for health reasons, is permissible meet a plane and returned with
hope blooms and emits its fragrance. for naval and civilian personnel, the Atlantic beam trawler, built for the parcels and letters for the island
Navy Department says. General Foods Boston Fish Fleet forces.
The Easter message, pulsating with love and radiant with Nothing irks the Navy topkicks in 1936. The occasion was the re- Scarcely had the little band of
hope, challenges man to great and fearless and adventurous more than saying "it's an old Navy turn of the trawler from two years men forming Navy 3252 Fleet Post
custom." Departmental personnel duty in the hottest combat waters Office, San Francisco, headed by
living. -Chaplain H. G. Gatlin. of the Pacific.
were notified thus: Christened the "Tide" and later Ens. J. J . Costello, arrived in the
"A brief interruption of work f.or theatre of operations when they
of an auto accident and is progress- coffee is permissible for healtt!, named the "Squall", she was com- were ordered to a landing craft
OPERATIONAL ing very well and will soon return though -not for tradition, especially missioned in 1942 in the Atlantic where huge stacks of mail were
for duty. Yard, Boston, Mass., and given a
during the cold weather and in the waiting to be processed.
TRAJ[NH~tG SCHOOL Facets of OTS Navy. YP number.
midst of difficulties with inade• As soon as the air strip on the
W. L. Brown, Y2c, of the Engi- quate heating systems. But there Serving as a patrol craft off the island was secure, the postal unit
neering Department received a tele- is no excuse for a general work Atlantic coast when the enemy sub- moved ashore and set up an office
phone call from the Wave Barracks stoppage nor f.or noisy social marine menace was at its peak, the less than 100 yards from the hill
to this effect: "Hello, this is the gatherings." YP was caught in a hurricane off caves of sniping Nipponese.
Wave Barracks.calling. We're both- Cape Hatteras. Life boats were lost
C. I. C. * * * and the ready boxes were ripped
· Lt. H. J . Hoffman leaves the ered with a bad case of fleas. Will Big Bank Assets at Guam from the deck. Passage from the Commander Riner was a member
C. I. C. Department to assume his you send something over to get rid The Navy Bank at Guam base, bridge, forward was impossible but of ROTC. Commissioned in June,
new duties as assistant to the First of them for us?" Brown replied, with total assets of $1,500,000, she weathered a storm that sank 1931, he served for two years as
Lieutenant, Lt. F . D. Langworthy. "Sorry, Madam, the best we can formally opened recently. many a larger ship. commander of the Oakland Division
... Lt. Robert Taylor has reported do to accommodate you is to send Owned by the naval government, Ordered to the South Pacific, the I of the Naval Reserve.
aboard as a new member of this you a few wolves- this is the En- the bank has capital funds of $100,- YP arrived in Noumea, New Cale-
department but we're sorry, girls, gineering Office" ... R. L. Lindquist, 000 and a special war emergency donia, in March of 1943. On patrol
he's not "The" Robert Taylor. . . RM2c, is now on leave and will be fund of $300,000. Its other assets and escort duty, she served in the
The stork was last reported flying married while at home. . . Miss include cash and government bonds Guadalcanal area and shuttled
toward the home of F . M. Boeck, Arlene Pearson, civilian, joined the and loans. cargo in the Solomon Island area.
RTlc, but due to inclement condi- Training Office last week, as did Perhaps the only bank in the Al ways travelling alone she earned
tions the boys weren't able to get a Wave J . L.' Price, S2c(Y), whose world housed in Quonset huts, its the nickname "The Lonewolf'' and
"fix" on the bird so we'll have to father, incidentally, is a colonel in savings accounts are open to both her crew claims she has spent more
guess at the date . . the U. S. Marine Corps. military personnel and natives. time among the Solomon Islands
Gunnery One per cent interest is paid on than any other Navy vessel.
A flight of crows will be' seen Charley Noble Means savings up to $5000. After rehabilitation at Auckland,
taking rendezvous in the gunnery New Device for Sea Survivors. New Zealand, in the later part of
department next month as the Galley Smokestack· A new device, designed to in- 1944 she went back to duty in the
"femmes" have just cleared the crease the chances for survival in Guadalcanal area until she was
life rafts of downed aviators, is
last hurdle before flashing their A British merchant service cap- ordered to San Francisco in Janu-
new Sp(G)3c ratings . . . The girls tain, Charles Noble, is said to be being installed by the assembly and ary of 1945.
repair department of the U. S.
all did a 4.0 job in their General responsible for the origin about Two of her original commission-
N:aval Air Station at Alameda.
Qualifications Tests, which meant 1850 of this nickname for the gal- ing crew are still aboard: Chief
burning the midnight oil. In fact ley smokestack. It seems that Cap- The device is the invention of Motor Machinist Mate Henry E.
Margaret Cook was seen fast asleep tain Noble discovered that the Chief Specialist (A) Mark L. R.en- Litchfield of Kittery, Maine and
under a hair dryer with a copy of stack of his ship's galley was made nert, former New York University Perry W. Fletcher, Soundman first Lt. Commander John D. Riner
the Bluejacket's Manual in her lap of copper, and ordered that it be swimming instructor. class of Newton Qenter, Mass. Called to active duty in October,
last week! Don't forget the cigars, kept bright. The ship's crew started It consists of 20 feet of one-inch The commanding officer of the 1940, Lt. Commander Riner was
girls.· . . Vi,rginia Lee Baker, referring to the stack as the "Char- webbing strap attached to the lif_e YP, Lt: (jg) Ray S. Metzger of stationed on Yerba Buena Island
Slc(Y), is down to three anemic ley Noble," and the practice spread raft at one end and fashioned into Toledo, 0 ., came aboard as execu- and instituted the first Nayy Guard
fingernails and at the rate · they throughout the British merchant a loop· at the loose end. Before tive officer in January of 1944 and on Treasure Island in 1941. He has
have been going lately we advise service. It later was taken up by abandoning a disabled plane on the was assigned captain in September. servedascommandingofficeraboard
her to wear either gloves or try the British and American navies. water or before inflating a life raft * * * two newly commissioned mine
gnawing on those of R. L. Brown. Other Navy terms with interest- dropped to him, a downed flier ,r+.,,._comrian5'~r •. Jo_hn D. -Riner - sweepers __ l)-!lc\. as g;:o.up cqmmander
Why? Well, she'll soon become the ing ·origins include "captain," and would place the loop over his hJlad ·began d1,1.ty this week as the new of mine sweepers in the 15th Naval
wife of Second Lt. Kenneth Mc- "lieutenant." and under his arm which will make commanding officer of Mine Force, District, Alaska.
Knight, U. S. A. A. F. Captain comes from "caput," the it more certain and much ·easier for Northern ,California Sector, West- Lt. Commander Riner makes his
Engineering head or chief, and "thane," a Saxon him to pull himself into the life ern Sea ·•Frontier. He came to home with his wife and son, John
R. W. Staton, MMlc, and Mrs. title of honor first conferred by rafts. Treasure Island from Norfolk, Va., D., Jr., at 316 St. James Drive, Pied-
Staton are celebrating the arrival King Athelstan. Rennert has been formally com- where-he had been serving as Op- mont, Calif. In civilian life he was
of a new baby boy and members of · The title "lieutenant" was first mended for his invention. erations 0fficer of a mine craft schedule supervisor of the Key
ship's company wish to congratu- used in the British Navy 350 years shake down group and Senior Op- System, was a member of the Oak-
late "Pop" and send their best to ago. It comes from the French- Man buying a new tire: "Leave erations Trainin'g Officer. land Junior Chamber of Commerce,
the Mrs . . . We understand that J. "in lieu of" (to replace the cap- the wrappings on. I might get a
A graduate of the University of the Athens Athletic Club and the
E. Masquelier, Flc, was the victim tain if he be. killed or disabled) . couple of miles out of them." ,/ California, Berkeley, Calif., Lt. Emeryville Industries Association.
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