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"Anc:horing" Parade Grounds On Verba Buena 1s!and 25 Years Ago
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We promised
your · sunburn lotion you would
have a chance to use it. This week-
end another ski trip to the Sonora "How did you stop your husband
Mountains will leave Treasure Is- from staying out nights?"
land with a busload of ski en- "When he came in late last
thusiasts. If you have half as much week, I called out 'Is that you,
fun as the last group you will have Jack?'"
a wonderful time, and we will be "Well?"
looking for your sunburn on Mon- "My husband's name is Bill."
day.
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Weekly Movies Sailor: "If I had known that
The weekly Monday night movies tunnel was so long, I would have
have been resumed and are being given you a kiss."
held each Monday night at 1800 in Girl: "Gracious, wasn't that
the upper deck lounge at Barracks you?"
275. Present series is "Why We
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Fight." Ensign (as they finished dinner):
Seattle Hospitality "Er, er-how about a little demi-
Interesting note for Waves going tasse now, my dear?"
to, or passing through Seattle on Chorus girl: "I knew it! You
leave is the opening of a club for weren't treating me like this for
women of the armed services at 214 nothing!"
APRIL, 1920-ln pre-Receiving Ship ·days, Verba ceremonies such as one pictured above. As many as University St. It h!l,S sleeping privi- * * *
Buena was a naval training station, for which pur- 13,000 men received training at one time on island leges, lounges, showers, food bar, We point with pride to the
pose part of her acreage was set aside -by President during World War 1. Earlier, Verba Buena was home etc. Remember the address if you purity of the white spaces between
McKinley. Large number of apprentices lived i·n tents of Tuchayune Indians, haunt -of forty-niners and (so
(note hill on right), on holidays took part in colorful they say) smugglers. should find yourself in Seattle with- our jokes.
out accommodations.
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CPO News Sailor's creed: "What I want to
coroner ordered. the body taken up, Island's Names
Indians, Smugglers, brought over the bay, and buried Yerba Buena was known as Sea m the Navy and newest honor is
. There are now 32 Wave CPO's I get most out of the Navy is me."
And Forty-Niners Onc:e in a pauper's cemetery. Bird Island until about 1836; when conferred by a Navy base in the
A second suicide was attempted a ship's captain placed goats on middle west which presents newly introduced them ... Hospital Waves
Haunted Verba Buena in the same grave, which remained it for sale to trading vessels. By rated CPO's with a certificate which are advertising for woolies . . .
open for a period of years. In this the year 1849, almost a thousand states they are now entitled to their Donner Pass party last week-
On Yerba Buena Island, where case, the would-be suicide drank of the sure-footed creatures were wear "the hat." end was a little on the frigid side.
sailors "shoot the breeze" today, too much whiskey and fell asleep. grazing on its slopes. More ,on Hats . .. Mary Hickey Thorne, Margaret
once the Red Man held pow-wows, Next morning he was discovered In 1850 an act was passed Speaking of hats, the new uni- Gnehm Crey and Jean Howe Pace
fished, and finally left his bones. by soldiers, disarmed, and brought naming it Yerba Buena, after the form memo says we may officially are leaving us with lifetime future
back to the city. aromatic little trailing vine which don overseas caps at 1200 on Sat- assignments .. . The Armed Guard
The island boasts a colorful,
pungent past, for its shores have Island "Owners" covers its slopes. In Spanish the urday. Ain't it a wonderful world? signal school endowed Jean with
been washed by every wave of ·From time to time, alleged name means "good herb." Latest O.verseas Totals $200 worth of War Bonds as a
. history that swept up on the Bay owners of Yerba Buena have Officially, at least, the island There are now 1500 Waves and farewell gift . . . Enough is enough
Area. presented themselves, basing their was known as Yerba Buena till 672 women Marines in Hawaii with for this week ... see you next Sat-
claims on unrecorded grants issued 1895, when the U. S. Geographic 114 Spars in both Hawaii and urday.
First dwellers on the island
by Spanish and Mexican governors Board rechristened it Goat Island. Alaska.
were the Tuchayune Indians.
of the region long ago. Later This sobriquet was too unsavory
Traces of their residence were claimants lived on the island, one for many Bay Area residents, who Exercise
reported by seamen who landed Complete details on the beginning I Cross-Word Answers
operating a stone quarry, but their repeatedly petitioned the board for
there in the opening year of the Softball League will be found else-
titles were never 'recognized by the a return to the Spanish name. In
gold rush, 1849. On the eastern 1931 it yielded to their entreaties. where in this issue and also infor-
shore they found remains of an mation on the tennis tournament
extensive village, with ruined which is to be held for rank, and
houses, cremating pits for the dead, !]-Ot so rank a_mateurs. This spring
and a vast collection of bones and Naval Training_ air has brought the ground hog out
shells. Schools of his hole and it is time you came
Later in the century, laborers out too. Let's get in the play and
get some famous California sun-
uncovered Indian skeletons, all The Skipper Returns
shine at the same time.
buried in sitting position, with Commander J. H. Falge was wel-
Just Between Us
knees doubled almost to the chin. comed back to NTSchs after spend-
This part of the column started
In 1933, other bones were exhumed ing nearly a week in the Treasure out as an experiment and it seems
during excavation for the building Island· hospital. We are all happy
to have grown into one of our most
of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay to see the skipper back at his desk,
Bridge. These were sent to the even though Lt. W. E . Blum has interesting problem children. . .
University of California. been doing a good job in his ab- Last week after the paper came out
we found that we had slipped some
B·uried Treasure sence.
male hospital corpsmen in by \l,C·
According to legend, in Greetings From Lt. Upson cident. . . It isn't altogether our
richly laden Spanish sloop went to The first news has been received fault and we lay some of the blame
pieces on the island coast during from our former Exec., now an old. on Elizabeth Grooman, just the
a storm. People said survivors of "sea-gain' salt." He claims that be- same three men thrown into the
the ship buried much of the cause the location of his practice
Wave column ·at random added a
precious cargo on Yerba Buena battle station is on the flying little seasoning to the brew . . .
and never came back to claim it. bridge, he is fast becoming weath- think we'll try it again some day.
In 1849 and 1850, with the_ gold MAN OF WAR-Verba .Buena's er-beaten and salty! He is Asst. . . . After following the Twelfth
fever at a high temperature, for a stolid old USS Dispatch, on which Navigation Officer and Aide to the Naval District Women's Basketball
fee San Francisco clairvoyants Navy men now study radio, was Executive Officer on his AP. He
USS Boston in her youth, a power- Tournament around for months we
told prospectors how they could ful slugger on Commodore Dewey's sends his regards to all NTSchs learned yesterday that the Com-
locate the buried treasure. When team at Battle of Manila Bay . .Pic- friends. mandant's Trophy went to Moffett
they reported back unsuccessful, ture, taken in 1899, shows hands Annual Leave Reports Field ... Now we can stop worry-
the unscrupulous clairvoyants in- manning yards on gala · centennial Max G. Blank, FC2c, has re- ing . . . Spring seems to have taken
o!__Washington's i~auguration.
formed them too much whiskey turned to his duties in the Fire its toll at RMS . . . Louise Herbison,
and blasphemy had broken the United States Government, which Control School after a 4.0 leave Isabelle Baxter and Naomi Franke
spell. in 1867 sent troops from the fort spent with his family in New York. now attach "Mrs." to their yeomen
Smugglers are said to have used on Alcatraz Island to occupy it. Jerry S. Alperstein, EM3c, pro- rates. . . Old friend is Specialist
the island to cache contraband. Navy Comes Aboard jectionist, and his wife have also Tucker from Cedar Falls. . . She
Good citizens sometimes surprised A · naval training · station for just returned from that metropolis reported here this week to take up ,.
men digging there at night. apprentices was established on where they visited families and be- duty as M.A.A. at the hospital quar-
Romantic Suicide Yerba Buena in 1898. During came acquainted with new "in- ters ... Not a few of us learned
Yerba Buena ihas had its World War One, there were at one laws." We.can't tell the local Cham- our left from our right foot under
romantic suicide, a noble Italian time 13,000 men under training on ber · of Commerce, but New York "Tucker's" able instruction .. . Can
refugee who hollowed his own the island. has been much warmer than San anyone tell us if Dorothy Bakits
grave near the island's highest Between the two world wars, six Francisco recently! The Alpersteins is in or out of the hospital. . . We
point. He had escaped from Naples or seven thousand 111en passed enjoyed the balmy w_eather in the don't know whether to be sympa-
when Garibaldi drove the king- through Y!)rba Buena Receiving East and in Los Angeles, where thetic or not . . . Gloria Jean Smith
from that city. Find¢g life hard in Ship annually, enroute to or from part of the leave was spent. has vanished from the Pass. Office
the New World, one night in the Pac.ific stations· and the fleet. The Golfers and is now at Livermore. . . Eliz-
late 50's he crossed to the island, California's first Arbor Day was The Rangefinder Operators have abeth Ellis and Ella Hanson both
dug the grave, and ·by' means of celeb~ated on the island on Novem- been swinging their stereo vision hoped for sunshine today. . . Eliz-
dirt piled on boards set upon a ber 27, 1886, with the poet Joaquin around on the golf range again and abeth will be married in Hollywood
trigger, contrived that earth would Miller as a leading spirit. He, other promised to relate a good story. to Lt. Carl Juleen, army naviga-
fall upon him when he fired his California dignitaries, and thous- Apparently. they couldn't make it tor ... Millie Kahler will go along GRETA CHRISTENSEN, former Chi-
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plstol. Thus he killed and buried ands of school children assembled fit for publication, and all· we can to see that the knot is properly cago model, prepares to wade right
himself. I on · Yerba Buena and held _a say for sure is_ that it was a rough tied . .. Ella and Rodney Scott have into a "speaking" role, her first, in
A few days later the grave was ceremony with music provided by game last Sunday. Sixty-four dol- a date at the Treasure Island RKO Radio's musical comedy, "Pan•
discovered and the poor suicide , an infantry band. Many trees were lar question is "How did Lt. Ep- Chapel with Emil Adam as at- / A~e~icana." The show features
Y Phillip Terry, Audrey Long, Robert
was not allowed-to rest in · it. -The planted. ' person break that club?"
1 tendant . . . she was the gal that Benchley and others.