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Hollywood Pin-Up Parade Ensign Finds Marine Sergeant ·ralks It Over With a Senator

Ship at Last -
Wrong One
A treasure hunt is okeh. But
then, you can overdo even a good
thing.
Take the case of · 20-year-old
Ens. Irving Ojala of Berkeley, who
set out to join his first ship, hunted
for two months over 20,000 miles of
Pacific, only to find her sitting a t
San Pedro- no longer his ship.
He had been detached and as-
signed to one in the Philippines.
Story of an Odyssey
Yesterday at Oak Knoll Hospital
where he is under observation, the
young Ensign told this story:
Ojala, commissioned from the-
ROTC at the University of Califor
nia, Jeff San Francisco in March tc
catch up with his ship at a Pacific
rendezvous. Missing the rendezvous.
he continued aboard the ship he wa:::
riding, which, after landing at the
New Hebrides, detoured to New
Caledonia, picking up troopr
through the Solomons and New DETACH ED from the Marine Guards on Treasure Island for temporary
Guinea, and landed them at Leyte duty at the U,nited Nations Conference is Marine Staff Sergeant J,oel
Taylor. He is shown above with Senator Tom Connally of Texas, _a
Ojala said he crossed from Leyte
United States, de.legate. Taylor, .who acts as an ·orderly to the Naval
to Sama r, and learned his ship had Advisory Board officers in the State Department of the conference, is a
put in there, and was on its way veteran of Guadalcanal, Tulagi and Guam.
back to the States, stopping at
Eniwetok.
Takes to Airplane Alarm Spreads Over Jap Suicide Plane
He picked up a ride on a Naval
Air Transport Service plane and Attaclts on fl. S. Sl,lps,- War End Delayed'!
FASHION MODEL-It would be obvious at a glance that Pat Clark landed at Kwajelein, only to find
could be a very successful fashion model, beca·use she knows what to his ship had left Eniwetok for the J apanese sui: ide plane attacks on have called the country's attention
wear and how to wear it. Then, too, she casts such a beautiful shadow States .. U. S. warships have brought this to this state of affairs and have
Actually, Pat was a New York model before she was spotted in a night country up against a situation so urged ship repair workers to stay
club by a talent scout from Warners. These talent scouts are really on Ar.riving at San Pedro, Ojala said
their toes, aren't they? he found his ship there, but wa:: -:ritical that, Manpower Chief Paul on the job.
told he had been detached- as- V. McNutt said today "the end of In his message to Congress Presi-
The Australians Have going to engage in a little chat with signed to a ship in the Philippines. the war may be seriously delay~~-" dent Truman disclosed that- Navy
a man over the wire. Moan and
Naval observers believed· success and Coast Guard casualties off
On reporting-to 12th Naval Dis -
A. Word For lt,- Wail is a jail. Tit for Tat is a hat. trict headquarters, he said he wai? of the suicide attacks off Okinawa I Okinawa up,t °i May 29 had reached
Lump of Lead is the head, we re- sent to Treasure Island Hospita: might for:e the Pacific high com- the unprecedented total of 4729
Say Correspondents peat. Dicky Dirt is a shirt. Mince for a medical examination and then mand to make changes in ship killed and 4640 wounded.
equipment and perhaps in tactical
Admiral Raymond A. Spruance,
Pies, the eyes. Cain and Abel is ~ was sent to Oak Knoll.
Our soldiers will probably come table. Mumbelty Pegs the legs. methods to meet a threat as serious commander of the Fifth Fleet, said
back from Australia loaded up I'm Afloat is a coat. Fiddle and Ardent Rooter as the German submarine offensive the Okinawa operation "has re-
with what is now commonly called Flute is a suit. Daisy Roots means in 1942. suited in the greatest naval cas-
Australian slang, though it is not the boots. Chalk Farm is an arm. The 1935 game between Dart- Meanwhile, there were indica- ualties encountered in any of our
Australian in ori\~in at all. We no- If your attention is called to the mouth and Princeton was played in tions that the whole strategy of the operations."
tice that the corresporidehts with Heap of Coke on your left Chalk a blinding snowstorm. A Dartmouth long and costly Okinawa campaign When it is considered that these
our troops down under are already Farm you are to note the bloke on man was on his way to a touch- is being reviewed in the hope of casualties were inflicted aboard
announcing that the Australians your left. Of course, it could be the down, with no Tiger player within profiting by past mistakes in future ship, it becomes apparent that
are saying the Americans are fair Right Chalk, too. Bottle and Stop- _ten feet of him, when from the side- and even more haza rdous cam- damage to the ships themselves
dinkum. This means okay, or all per means a copper. Oh, My Dear is lines a spectator, who had found paigns closer to the heart of Japan. has been more than severe.
right. beer and the Near and Far is the adequate means of keeping himsel:' McNutt referred specifically to And, as President Truman
bar. Gay and Frisky is whiskey. warm, suddenly scampered onto the lag in ship damage repair pointed out to Congress, in the
This slang is the rhyming slang
Elephant's Trunk is a drunk. Candy the field and made a perfect tackle. caused by failure of the hiring rate future there will be more damage
of the English underworld of a
Fudge is a judge. A good rhyming The touchdown was allowed, of in West Coast Gov~rnment yards and casualties rather than less.
hundred years or more ago. It is
the simplest of all slang, because linguist can invent terms as he goes course, and the doughty tackler to keep "pace with enemy attacks The size of the naval force off
the key to the whole business is a along and while it all sounds mean- was rewarded for his pains by be- on naval vessels in the Pacific." Okinawa may be roughly inferred
ingless jargon, some of the expres- ing bounced out of the Palmer Sta- President Truman and Secretary from a Treasury estimate that the
rhyme. It probably got to Australia
sions are amazingly pat.-D. R. dium on his ear. nf Navv James V. Forrestal also Navy has invested nearly $8,800,-
generations back through the
-~~-~~--~~-~~~~~~-~~-----~~~-------~~-~~-~~~-- 000,000 in that operation. This in-
ticket-of-leave men who were sent
there in the old days from England. cludes the $7,800,000,000 original
It struck the fancy of the Aus- cost of the ships used.
The fact remains that from now
tralians and at one time was as
on the Navy will have to risk more
generally employed as the pig latin
of young Americans of another day. and more of its ships as the war
moves· nearer Japan where the
"To what extent the rhyming
enemy has the bulk of his power
slang now prevails in Australia we
concentrated.
do not know, but probably it is
The closer the war moves to Ja-
limited to a comparatively few ex- pan, the more suicide planes the
pressions among certain classes.
enemy can throw at American
Many of the expressions have
ships. The Japanese will be able to
long slipped our mind but a few use obsolete craft, training planes
that have lodged in our lump of and the like, for offshore suicide
lead, that means head, we will try attacks.
to convey .to you. Unless and until some answer to
A twist and twirl, usually short-
suicide planes is found, comparable
ened to twist, is a girl. When a in effect to methods developed
man remarks that he had a bull against the U-boat, the Navy would
and cow with a tom tug, he means seem to be faced with three costly
he has had a row with a mugg. and time-killing necessities:
"I'm going to the Johnny Dob- 1- Installation of more anti-air-
ber's to get a misbehave" means an craft guns to increase the fire-
expedition to the barber for a power of ships already bristling
shave. Chirp and Chase is the face. with guns.
Barney Fair is the hair. I-Suppose 2-Unceasing air attacks on
is the nose. German Bands mean Japanese airfields · to kill off as '-
the hands. Gunga Din is the chin. many suicide planes on the ground
Thus if a guy tells you he is going C H I N A as possible and to keep the airfields
to hang a German Band on your neutralized.
Gunga Din you better take a 3- Speeding up the · repair of
Breeze. Lean and Linger a finger, damaged ships.
so if you are told to pipe the Simple No. 3 will be the most difficult
Simon on a Twist's Lean aµd Ling- MARIANAS 0, to carry out. It is 5000 miles from
er, you are being advised to ob- HILIPPINES ·'. Okinawa to Pearl Harbor, where
, SAIPAN
serve the diamond on a dame's ~ ~ GUAMi minor damage can be repaired. It
~
digit. ~ , .. is halfway around the world from
1
Plates of -Meat means the feet. the Brook~yn Navy Yard. ·
Fields of Wheat is a street. Mum- And so crowded have West Coast
ble and Moan is the phone. If we repair yards been lately, that soine
should tell you that w,e are going damaged ships -the aircraft car-
to have a Bowl of Chalk with a rier Franklin, for example-have
Pot and Pan· on the Mumble and had to travel an the way to Brook-
Moan, you would know that we a re lyn.