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Naval Training OPERATIONAL
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* * * * -·--. ..: l Graduation-
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On February 24 diplomas were
Official Treasure Island publication distributed every Saturday without cost to the presented to 50 men of the Gun-
officers, e,nlisted personnel, and employees of Treasure Island. All communications a.nd
contr:ibutions should be directed to The Editor, Recreation a.nd Entertainment Di- s ner's Mate and Electric Hydraulic
vision, Treasure I sland, Sa.n Fran cisco, California. Phone: EXbrook 3931, Extension 69.
School, Class C-1. Top man was OTS Bond Allotment Drive
A Real Morale Service Lesli,e C. Schulz, who graduated The OTS Bond Allotment cam-
COMMODORE R. W. CARY, USN
Commander U. S. Na.val Training a.nd Distribution Center More than half a million personal with a final a".erage of 95 per cent. paign is in full swing. The first
cable messages have been sent to One student in the Gyro Compass department to report was the
CLYDE F. BABB, Slc, USNR and from overseas personnel of the School also graduated, having com-
Editor school office headed by Lt. G. D.
Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast pleted a four-month course. Wendell and are 100% subscribers.
Robert E . Johnson, YSc - Rex N. Olsen, YSc, Associate Editors Guard since the establishment a These graduates are the last The goal for Operational Training
Carolyn N. Brown, Y2c, Waves Editor Robert H. P erez, Cox, Sports year ago this month of the Navy's BuPers · assigned students to com- School is to exceed the 70 per cent
personal cable service. plete training at NTSchs. The participation. requested by the
Frederick Drimmer, SK3c, R epor ter
Known as EFM (Expeditionary schools now continue for local Navy. Lt. R. B. Fox has been a
(The Masthead uses Ca.mp Newspaper Service Material)
Force Message) and SCM (Send- needs, givmg pre-commissioning great help to the bond officer irl
er's Composition Message) Service, training, and refresher tr_aining to signing staff members for allot-
TREASURE ISLAND, S. F., CALIF., SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1945
this new communications service men from ships in commission. ments.
has enabled families in this country OTS G-olf
EDITORIAL- to reach by cable all overseas land- * * * E. N. Eckman, SMlc; Vincent
based personnel and some mobile The Record Calosi, Sp(A)2c; Bill V. Reed,
land-based units. The E·FM Service In December, 1942, came the Sp(A)lc; and T. Lyons, Sp(X)3c,
now includes 237 fixed text, any first students. Among th-em were a
Moiliu oJ All • • • three of which may be combined number of men transferred from feel they compose a v,ery excellent
golf team, so good in fact that they
into one sixty cent message. instruction at NTSch (Local De- would like to challenge the OTS
The Red Cross on the wings of charity traverses the entire Statistics ·show that men over- fense) , who comprised the first officers' golf team to a match. OTS
seas hav,e sent ten times as many graduating class in January 1943.
globe and gives .succor to those who have been stricken by officers who are golf addicts are
messages to the United States as During the past two years, the Lt. D. C. Schwartz, Lt. Commander
Calamity and disaster. This Mother of All follows in the path of civilians at home have sent over- schools have trained a I a r g e J. H. Hoefer, Lt. (jg) C. D. Brown,
catastrophes with the balm of mercy and benevolence. Born in the seas. number of men in various technfoal Lt. L. H. Kentfi,eld, Lt. R. A. Stock,
fi-elds. Over eight thousand have
* * * Lt. A. 0. Davidson, Lt. E. B.
moment of need, this great organization .has encircled the world been graduated. We are pleased to
"Red Cross Month" Rhoads, Lt. R. B: Fox, Ens. R. W.
and has given aid to millions in distress. The Red Cross has no The President of the United have had the opportunity thus to Hawkins and Lt. (jg) T. H ; Collin-
serve the needs of the fleet and
to
According
son.
sectional or color lines and knows no creed, partisanship nor States is designating March 1-31 give so many man the instruction Schwartz the officers '.'Captain"
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as "Red Cr-oss Month" f.or the 1945 11
nee
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national boundaries. Its motto is "Service." War Fund campaign to raise $200,- that- provides a stepping stone to strokes if their match is played.
their further advancement.
The primary purpose of the Red Cross originally was to care 000,000 to finance Red Cross activi- Facets ,of OTS
ties f.or another year. * * *
Lt. H. J. Hoffman, we are told,
for the sick, the wounded and prisoners of war. In late years, how- Treasure Island command invites Wedding Bells- has aspirations of becoming a choir
ever, this movement has shown a world-wide tendency in the personnel -of this base to make gen- Ship's Company has really been leader. He can't sing, he doesn't un-
erous contributions during the ringing those bells- Jerry S. Alper-
. alleviation of human suffering ·wherever found. derstand music but there are times
drive. stein, EM3c, projectionist in the when he makes a valid attempt to
The American Red Cross was founded in 1881 under the * * * Training Aids Department, married do so ... Lt. (jg) R. N. Kelley was
narrie American Association of the Red Cross and was incorpor- The Navy Needs ... Miss Celia Cutler in Los Angeles elected Mess Treasurer. . . Allyn
The Navy authorized the Nation- last week end. The Alpersteins will Britton, MoMMlc, and Walter
ated in 1905 as the American National Red Cross. The President be living in San Francisco as soon
al Inventors Council. to publish a Kearney, FC3c, were l!,dmitt-ed to
of the United States became its president and the War Depart- list of 25 naval needs. Some of as an apartment is available. the hospital. .. E . "A" Nicas, EM2c,
them: Billy E. Youngblood, S2c, went should have gone ... For styles see
ment its auditor.
A shockproof, non-parachute home to St. Joseph, Mo., and there Wilbur Hart, QM2c-and for color-
The American Red Cross is doing a stupendous job in being aerial delivery container, cheap on February 2 married Miss Millard ful suspenders se,e W. W. Schmies,
enough to b,e thrown away after Potteroff, culminating a high school Cox . .. N ._ S. Swift, Ylc; and Steve
mother to all of our men on all the battlefields of the world. This romance.
one drop. Saldana, Y2c, for powder blue
great mother goes to all the battlefronts, to enemy prison camps, A light to mark beaches, which * * * shorts. . . Lt. Command-er J. E.
to hospitals for our wounded and to lonely outposts. will work on light weight recharge- NTSch Artist - Page, head of the navigation de-
able batteries, be visible from 5,000 Kenneth Moore, Sp(X)2c (VA), partment is on emergency leave ...
A cheering word, a cup of American coffee, assistance m yards at sea. has been seen frequently at the T. I. The C.P.O. Club is planning to fur-
time of trouble, these things your Red Cross gifts _bring to our A method of welding light-gauge Hobby Shop since its opening, of- nish trophies to the various OTS
aluminum, "of particular impor- departments as prizes for shooting
comrades in distant lands. fering instruction and criticism, as
tance since aluminum lifeboats and matches. All departments had bet-
needed, several evenings a week.
Blood plasma to retain life in ; badly wounded boy; surgical rafts ar,e currently of riveted con- He has found time to continue his ter organize rifle and pistol clubs
dressings to bind his hurts, these go from the Red Cross to world struction dtie to lack of a satisfac- -creative art work as well as his because these trophies are . going
tory method of welding." Navy duties, and has gained recog- to be beautiful. .. Picture Margaret
battlefields. A chemical fire extinguisher, Cook, S2c ( G) threading one of the
nition recently by the art director
Keeping this great mother, the Red Cross, at his side is the which, when used around electrical of Gumps in San Francisco. His new panoramic projectors. . . C.
equipment, will rn;,t generate phos- pastels will be on display there on Workman, GMlc, returned to OTS
personal responsibility of each American. For the American gene or other poisonous gases. for a visit to let us know he is re-
June 1. Now they can be seen in
people are the Red Cross. A non-slipping shoe sole, "which the Recreation Center by request to ceiving a medical discharge.
will give good footing on an oily,
In giYing freely to the American Red Cross War Fund Drive Mrs. Horn, hostess. Moore was We're happy to see Lt. Deane
steel deck of a ship rolling as much graduated at the Minneapolis Langworthy's sudden interest in
we can have a part in the wonderful work carried on by this great as 17 degrees."
School of Art, where he won a war bonds .. . A visitor at OTS this
organization. * * * scholarship after the first year. He week was Lt. F. K. Cozens, who
War J-obs for Vets works with all mediums, prefers has just returned from 34 months
During 1944 the number of vet- pastels. He has spent five summers duty aboard a destroyer in the
THE ROAD BACK erans· placed in jobs by the United in Alaskan fishery jobs, augment- South Pacific. He is the son-in-law
States Empl-oyment Service more ing both artistic and monetary re- of our Commanding Officer, Com-
than doubled 1943's figure. For the serves. Post-war plans include mander H. E. Stone.
first 11 months: 728,400 vs. 317,600. residence in the Bay Area (with The beautiful 42 foot by 10 foot
Veterans of the present war are time to paint) and Alaska, both panel murals of a DD and an AP A
currently accounting for about 75 locales "paradise to the artist", painted by C. Dalldorf, Sp(X)2c,
per cent of the jobs. says Moore.
and H. Rossell, Sp (X) 3c, will soon
* * * * * * be seen in the new display room of
Hitler Under Fire Visitor- the art department.
Hitler was cut down to his own On Wednesday, we w-ere honored OTS Handball Court
size recently when two welders with a visit from Ens. Catherine The Welfare committee is build-
melted down a captured life-size Harty, recently transferred to duty ing two handball courts to be lo-
bronze bust of der Fuehrer before in San Francisco. It's good to have cated somewhere within the OTS
25,000 Brooklyn shipyard workers you nearby so you can check up on Area. The number of players at the
us occasionally, Ensign, and we
at a War Bond rally. The metal
hope you can do it often! Operational Training School has
will be used in the construction of increased to such an extent that
a U.S. ship. * * * this move is necessary. A total of
* * * Blood Bank-· 105 players have signed up to use
Lady "Liberty" and Moonlight NTSch continued its fine blood the courts, if installed.
Work has been completed to bank record that this activity has
double the floodlighting system on -established, and sent a number of Basketball
After making about as much
the Statue 'of Liberty in prepara- donors last week to add to the votes headway as a schooner with fish
tion for the ·day Germany or Japan for our T. I. Wave Yeoman Ander- net sails, OTS finally got the ball
surrenders. The new lighting is son as Purple Heart Queen.
rolling and put the last four out of
equivalent to 2,500 times full moon- five games on ice. The game they
light. * * *
Diving Visitor at lwo- lost was to the Port Chicago Club,
* * * Bonnie Wiley, of the Associated but.only after a hard-fought second
Qu,ote-worthy
Press, the first woman correspon- period in which they were unable
Fleet Admiral King: "Our ene- dent to cover a Pacific island in- to check the shooting of Cook. Back·
mies are harassed -on all fr.onts; vasion, reported in this week from in the line up after an absence of
we are taking advantage of every Iwo Jima as a nurse's aide on a four months is Demindinger. ''Ding-
opportunity to destroy their war hospital ship. Before leaving these er" had an ankle injury early in
making 'machinery' and their will shores, Miss Wiley visited our the season but from the score tabu-
to take freedom from the world. Underwater Welding School and• Iatiqn of his last three games he's
Nor do we now have to wait for was one of the few women to don making up for lost time. Turning
opportunities to "present themselves underwater diving dress and see the in their usual sharp game was Lt.
JSaq War Bopd Cartoon Service
-we are 'arranging' opportunities." bottom of our tank.
Watkins and "Carter" R~an.