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UNCIO Is Se(ond OflERAT~ ONAL Hot Stuff No More - l ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ • ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ •
I, .. The Girl Back Home .. ·~
International Gathering TiA~lt~,UN 1G SCHOOL Busanda Says So • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Does your chow taste different
For San FrandS(o lately?
Perhaps, that is due to the ab-
UNCIO is not the first event to
sence of black pepper, and here is
bring distinguished foreign visitors the explanation for its absence:
Sports
to the San Francisco Bay area. The United States supply of
Back in 1938 and 1939 America Notice tennis enthusiasts! Plans black pepper is critically low and
was still at peace. Even Japanese are afoot to organize an OTS of- there are no imports of this pro-
ficers' tennis team. All interested
big-wigs were scurrying about duct at the present time. To ex-
sign up with Lt. Fasick at the Phy-
town and being very polite and sical Training Office this week. A tend its supply over as long a
gracious. period as possible, it is necessary ~
lively time is promised in the ap-
Visito·rs from all over the world proaching tennis tournament . . . C. for the Navy to reduce its present
were crowding Bay Area hotels L. Smith, Cox, doesn't do things by rate of usage, states Memoranda
then, as now, and every day thous- halves. After scoring two hits in 1308-0 issued by the Bureau of
ands of people would travel to the OTS vs. Dispensary baseball Supplies and Accounts.
Treasure Island, the man-made site game, he came sliding in safe on All activities will take such
of the Golden Gate International home base, breaking his ankle on action as is necessary to reduce the
Exposition. The foreign guests soon the play- tough luck, but that's the use and waste of black pepper. No
would find their way to the various spirit that won 11-4. We'll all miss hardships should result as many
pavilions and buildings rr{aintained hirri, especially Coach Coates, activities have, in the past, con-
by other nations- those in South Sp (A) 3c, as he was one of the sumed pepper at low rates which
America, across the Pacific and in mainstays of the team. Good luck are higher than normal civilian
Europe. to a champ! ... Notes on Volley usage.
Many of the delegates to UNCIO Ball- Poor, poor Yeoman! . .. Poor,
undoubtedly were visitors to Treas- poor Van Nostrand, Sp(G)3c, she Arrangements were made by J.
ure Island then. They wouldn't broke her little finger in a game . .. J. O'Neill, Y2c, and a staff of
know the old place now, for, as Wednesday, the OTS Officers' team worthy assistants. In the hubbub,
triumphed over Pre. Com. 9-6. Lt. knives and forks were left behind,
everyone knows, the U. S. Navy
has transformed this island into W. R. Watkins did a great job of but with ingenuity worthy of the
one of the busiest naval bases in pitching for OTS and Capt. C. L. greatest Navy in the world, D. Mit-
La Barge of Pre. Com. hit a hot chell, GMlc, led the way and soon
the country. Where once a lady
line drive to the right short stop, all hands were whittling their
from Kansas bought some silver
but was stopped by Lt. D. C. spoons out of the available timber
jewelry at the Mexican exhibit,
Uncle Sam's sailors are reading in Swartz, who made a sensational and the potato salad was duly ex-
the library, making long-distance catch to make the last out. Great pedited.
game men! Fireside singing, led by K. C. Per-
calls to home or playing the piano Fun Time . kins, Ylc, and his trusty guitar,
in the new Welfare and Recreation "Cross Gol9en Gate Bridge, take improved the taste of the already
building which occupies the same the highway along the coast to the wonderful wieners and the hearts
site as the Latin American Court tunnel and then look for a sign to of the residents for miles around
did during the exposition. Other
the left." Those were the directions were gladdened. Numbers were
countries represented at the court given for the picnic and wiener drawn, gifts were distributed, and
were El Salvador, Panama, Guate- roast held by the Yeomen, Store- a number of people, among them
mala, Peru, Colombia, Chile, and keepers and Specialist G's, Sunday, Lt. Rhoads, Ed Heiser, Ylc, and
Ecuador. SHE'S SOMEBODY'S STENO-Lucky is the man who has pretty Paul-
May 20. About 50 persons followed Madonna Schleiger, Y3c, found
Two other Latin American coun- those directions and at Stinson themselves · recipients of the hon- ine Saathoff of New Ulm, Minn., for a secretary. But still luckier is the
tries, Argentina and Brazil, main- Beach had a really wonderful day. ored Pink Elephant. A truly won- sail,or to whom she is engaged. He is Harry W. Beyer, S1c, Armed Guard
Center. They were engaged seven months ago and can't make up their
tained exhibits and pavilions in the A riotous softball game was the derful time was had by all and the minds whether or not to wait until after the war. We wonder if they've
area now occupied by Marine bar- main event; the only trouble being grateful appreciation of the guests heard the maxim, "He who hesitates is 1-ost."
racks, the Treasure Island post of- that along the line somewhere the is hereby extended to the hard
fice and the Radio Materiel school scorekeeper lost track of the teams working committee. Sand, onions, Definitions of the week: Here's what the little dog said
European nations operating activi- and so we say that Operational I Redheads and all, it was a tired but I N~ght club--an ashtray with after he had walked -through the
ties in the same area were France, Training School defeated Opera- happy group_ that returned to the music. tobacco patch: "Does Your Cigar-
Italy and Norway. tional Training School 6 to 3. island late that evening. Mosquito-a flying blood bank. ette Tasfe Different Lately?"
And the heat is being turned on
Japan at Treasure Island, meaning
that where the Japanese pavilion SAN FRANCISCO --- WHERE THE NATIONS GATHER
was is, now the steam plant for the
island. In the same area, where now
are the laundry, the new swimming
pools and the Waves' and hospital
corpsmen barracks, Hawaii and
Australia maintained their exhibits.
The Czechs were making history
then, as now, and their exhibit in
International Hall was o.f especial
interest to lovers of democracy.
Denmark and the Netherlands, two
other nations which the Germans
over-ran, housed their activities in
the same hall. Portugal and Swe-
den were there, also. International
Hall _ is now a gigantic gymnasium
where American sailors keep in
shape to help right the wrongs per-
petrated on the little nations, as
well as the big.
Where now stands the Treasure
Island supply building, New Zea-
land, Australia and French Indo-
China were hosts to thousands
Voice of the U.S.S.R.-V. M. Molo-
every day. His Majesty's Spokesman An-
And where once world's fair fov, Soviet Foreign Commissar. thony Eden, _British Foreign Sec'ty.
visitors saw "Vacationland" and
travel exhibits, sailors now buy
soap and ice cream, razor blades
and magazines. On the wall are
two mottoes. One reads: "Eternal
vigilance is the price of Liberty,"
the other, "Peace of the highest
good comes as the ):J.andmaiden of
righteousness."

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AT SAN FRANCISCO delegates of 46 nations - all of them
grimly cognizant of what war means-have gathered ·to build a
just and lasting peace. A line of servicemen and women stood
beneath the United Nations flags on the stage of the San Fran-
NO China Speaks-T.V. Soong, Foreign cisco opera house to keynote the opening of the conference as For the U.S.A.-Edward J. Stetti-
i nister and Chinese Delegate. Edward J. Stettinius spoke. nius, U. S. Secretary of State.