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Improved life Jackets, CROSS-WORD
Life Preservers Help ACROSS DOWN
1-Infant 1-Legal profession
Repel Sea Hazards 5-Occident 2-Wing
.9- June bug 3-Conveyance
Ernie 'Finds' A new knapsack-type life jacket 12-Astringent 4-Dominion
Green Grass and and a modified version of the old 13-Filament 5-Coaxes
type Kapok jacket-type life pre- 14-Self 6--Attention
Pine Trees on 15-Small fruit 7-Father
server have been put into use by 17-Ocean 8-Rendezvous
Okinawa the United States Navy to insure 18-Wratlr" 9-Profane
greater safety to shipwrecked blue- 19-Value 10-Molding
21-Word enigma 11-Wander
11111 llllllllllllllll II 11111111111111111111111 II jackets. 25-Twitching 16- Plait
To the Kapok jacket-type pre-
BY ERNIE PYLE 26- Time to rise 20- Hint
server have been added two leg 28-Sustain 21-Band
It is with regret that we an- straps, making it possible for the 31-Epoch 22-In this place
nounce that next week will mark wearer to jump over the side of a 32-College heads 23-Snowslide
24-Excite
• the end of Er'nie Pyle's column. sinking ship or from a downed 34-Gorilla 27-Infatuated
35-Unite
His death was that of a great plan~ without the fear of suffering 37-Enactments 29-Honest
newspaper man, and will be felt a broken neck, choking or the 39-Assistance 30-Nuisance
deeply by his thousands of readers dang-er of the jac~et rising up over 41--0utstanding 33-Silent
36--Pluto
throughout the country. his head. 42-Feels 38-Dissembled
45-Elderly
The new knapsack-type life 46-Used in varnish 40- Packs of cards
OKINAWA (By Navy Radio)- jacket, designed by Lt. Commander 47- North Carolina city 42- Piece of pie
We camped one night on a little Lloyd A. Straits, is made so that 52-Tree 43-Knack
hillside that led up to a bluff over- it not only will enable the man to 53-Bird 44-Vessel
looking a small river. The bluff stay afloat but still enable him to Courtesy Harle Publications, Inc. 54-Nigh 48-Dined
dropped straight down for a long swim. In knapsack position, the 55-Neighborhood party 49-Spread hay
way. Up there on top of the bluff. swimmer is allowed freedom of (Solution on Page 5)~ 56-Hastened 50-Child's game
it was just like a little park. The motion without the hindrance of a 57-Border 51- Before
bluff was terraced, although it collar, as in the Kapok jacket-
wasn't farmed. The grass on it type, with the entire jacket fitting
was soft and green. And those below the shoulder line. SONJA CHEERS T. I. PATIENTS . ..
small, straight-limbed pine trees The new jacket designs have ~~~FRONTIER
were dotted all over it. been a major factor in the low $~~
Looking down from the bluff, the relative casualties suffered by
. river made a turn and across it naval personnel in war zone dis- and
was an old stone bridge. At the asters. LOCAL DEFENSE
end of the bridge was a village-
or what had been a village. work constantly.
It was now just a jumble of ashes If Western Sea Frontier person-
Practically No Snakes
and sagging thatched roofs from I've mentioned before about our nel happen to catch Lt. Gordon G.
our bombardment. In every direc- fear of snakes before we got here. Dunn looking wistfully out of the
tion little valleys led away from the window these warm, spring after-
All the booklets and literature
turn in the river. given us ahead of time about noons- well, it's not just an or-
It was as pretty and gentle a dinary case of spring fever.
Okinawa dwelt at length on snakes.
sight as you ever saw. It had the They told us there were three kinds For this is the season of the year
softness of antiquity about it and of poisonous adders, all three being that the Lieutenant, known in the
the miniature charm and daintiness fatal. The booklets warned us not sports world as "Slinger" Dunn,
that we see in Japanese prints. usually throws a discus just about
to wander off the main roads, not
And the sad, uncanny silence that to stop under the trees or snakes as far as any man in the world.
follows the bedlam of war. would drop on us (as if you could A strapping six-footer, formerly
Homelike Scenery fight a war without getting off the of Portland, Oregon, Lt. Dunn made
You could come from a dozen roads!) . In some of the troop brief- the Japs very unhappy, prior to
different parts of America and still ings, they had the Marines more 1936, when he brought $3,000 worth
find scenery on Okinawa that scared of snakes than Japs. of trophies back to the states . . .
looked like your country at home. Well, I've kept a close watch and all won at Japanese sponsor~d
Southern boys say the reddish made a lot of inquiries. And the track meets.
clay and the pine trees remind them result is that in the central part of In 1934, in a track meet at Eure-
of Georgia. Westerners see Cali- Okinawa where we've been there ka, Calif., he broke all existing rec- LIKE A FRESH BREEZE from a fiord in her native Norway, Sonja
fornia in the green rolling hills, are -just practically no snakes at ords for throwing the discus. Now Henie inspired cheer to patients at .the U. S. Naval Hospital on her
recent visit there. The lucky man shaking her hand in the above photo
partly wooded, partly patched with
all. listed as an exhibition record, he is H. V. Bailey, HA1c. The other patient in the picture is Ernest Flem-
little green fields. And the farmed Our troops have walked, poked, threw the discus 176 feet 6 inches ming, MoMM1c, who is just back from fourteen months in the South
plains look like our Midwest. sprawled and slept on nearly every . . . four and a half feet further Pacific,
Okinawa is one of the few places square yard of the ground. And in than the accepted world record.
I've been in this war where our my regiment, for one, they have As a guest of the respective gov- nounced that he intends to compete SAN FRANCISCO
troops don't gripe about what an· seen only two snakes. ernments, he toured the Orient with for the San Francisco Olympic Club
awful place it is. In fact, most of One was found dead. The other an athletic team and in 1935 and this track season. HOSPITALITY HOUSE
the boys say they would like 1936 he toured the Scandinavian The surface forces of this com-
was killed by a battalion surgeon,
Okinawa if it weren't at war with coiled into a gallon glass jar and countries. Competing in the 1936 mand have recently undergone sev- CLOSES FOR MEET
us and if the p,eople weren't so sent to the regimental command Olympic Games in Berlin, he won eral changes of command. Lt. Car-
dirty. post as a souvenir. It was a vicious second place in the discus throw. ter W. Kilborn has been relieved San Francisco Hospitality House
The countryside itself is neat and rattler, a type called habu. "Slinger" graduated from Stan- by Lt. Henry E. Staley; Lt. Thom- and dormitories in the Civic Center,
the little farms are well kept. So Those are the only snakes I've ford University, Palo Alto, Calif., as J . Gibbons relieved by Lt. (jg) San Francisco, which were oper-
far the Okinawa climate is superb heard of. There was a rumor that with the class of '36 and as a mem- Hartwell S. Moore; Lt. Commander ated for the benefit of naval and
and the vistas undeniably pretty .. in one battalion they have caught ber of athletic teams went on a Edward R. Hanford relieved by Lt.
The worst crosses to bear are the and made pets of a couple of world tour of track and field·meets. Douglas A. Noonan; and Lt. (jg) military personnel, have been closed
mosquitoes, fleas and the sight of snakes, but I don't believe it. H h e as compe t ed for several years Kenneth S. Nelms relieved by Lt. to servicemen and will be used for
the pathetic people. The local people say the island for the Olympic Club of San Fran- (jg) Stanley R. Maginnis. the United Nations Conference.
Most of the roads on Okinawa was very snaky up until the middle cisco. The communications office is go- The Hospitality House, serving
are narrow dirt trails for small thirties when they imported some Commissioned in the Naval Re- ing to miss. the ready smile and as the city's information center for
horse-drawn carts. Then there are mongooses which killed most of the serve in Portland in August of 1942 helping hand of one of the first service personnel since the early
several wider gravel roads. One snakes. But we haven't seen any he served in the 13th Naval District Wave officers to report to Com- days of the war, has been closed
th
th
man aptly described it as "an mongooses so we don't know wheth- a nd spent 18 mon s in e Aleutian munications on Treasure Island. Lt. to servicemen since April 5, when
excellent network of poor roads." er the story is true or not. Islands as a Staff Officer of the (jg) Jane Sorensen has been de- its facilities were required for the
Our heavy traffic, of course, has Commandant, 17th Naval District.
played hob with the roads. Already Correspondent J oru:i Lardner says He reported for duty on Treasure tached with a transfer to. duty in Conference.
they are tire-deep in dust and his only explanation · is that St. Island in January of this year. New York City. We expect towel- Personnel of Treasure Island will
troops on the road have mask-like Patrick cam·e through here once as Lt. and Mrs. Dunn and their two come aboard her relief, Lt. (jg) be advised when the dormitories
faces, caked with dust. a tourist and took all the snakes young sons make their home in San Barbara Lombard, the latter part and the Hospitality House will
Bulldozers and scrapers are at with him. Francisco and the "Slinger" has an- of this month. again be available.

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