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THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1945 PAGE7

Come On In, The Water's Fine!
ACROSS DOWN
1- Printer's measures 1- Age
4-Disgrace 2- Human
9- Kernel 3- Screw-threads
12- Tap 4- Scrutinize
13- Severely strains 5-Detest
'-.../ 14-Consumed 6- Cutting tool
15-Enliven 7- Pronoun
17-Reason 8- Perfume
19- Unusual 9- Gasps
20- Topic 10--Possessive pronoun
21- Classify 11- Small mound
23- Deer meat 16- Creat.ed
26- Part 18- Egress -
27- Respond 20- Pester
28- Negative 21- Fruit of vine
29- Dolt 22- Resinous by-prQduct
30- Furze 23-Poetry
31- Gnawed -24- Edible bulb
32- Scrambled type 25- Famous
33- Expunge 27- Cook in oven
34- A,;tringent fruit 30--Total earnings (pl.)
35-Circums::ribe 31- Imperfection
37- Mix 33- E clat
a8- l-iindmost 34- Slap
39- Fissure 36- Heavy tread
40--Bridges 37- Edible roots
42- Gathering 30- Denomination
45- Weapon 40--Rested
46- Solar excess 41- Favoring
Courtesy Harle Publications, Inc. 48- Onean 42- Impair
49-Lid 4.3-Born
(Solution on page 5) 50- lGnds 44- Game fish
51- That woman 47- River in Italy
need for the handkerchief and
hunted in vain for it. First left, then Diving Is No White
right. Collar Job, Say
She noticed that the other guests
Worst Pun of the Week: were fascinated by her search_, and
Minister: "Do you take this T. I. Professionals
woman for butter or for wurst?" in confusion she said: "I'm sure I
had two when I came in." "Diving is a good racket if you're
Groom : "Oh, liver alone. I never careful," says Frank Noonan, " but
sausage nerve!" * * * it's no place for a man who is even
If little red riding hood lived today, a little inclined to be reckless."
* * * The modern girl would scorn'er By way of introduction, Frank is
A friend once wrote Mark Twain
a letter saying that he was in very She only had to meet one wolf, one of a pair of divers doing the
Not one on every corner.
bad health, and concluding: "Is * * * underwater work at the salt water
there anything worse than having stand-pipes over on the south side
toothache and earache· at the same One attractive gal war worker of Treasure Island.
He has been in the diving profes-
time?" to another: "I've got the post-war
The humorist wrote back: "Yes, world all figured out- when the sion for three years and has run
the gamut from building bridges to
rheumatism and St. Vitus dance." guy comes back to take my job,
'---' I'll marry him." building dry-docks to doing under- LIKE A MONSTER from the deep, the diver (top) emerges from the
* * * water salvage work.
A young lady suffering from a * * * When asked how he happened to e-0ld muddy waters of San Francisco bay. He is doing the underwater
work at the stand-pipes under construction on the south side of the
bad cold prepared to attend a Satan: "What are you laughing start diving for a living, he ex- island. Visible in the picture are the air line and wire for the telephone
formal dinner-dance and tucked a at?" plained, "Well, when the demand talker. Bottom is a view of both barges, with the diver about to reach
spare hankie in the bosom of her Junior Devil: "I just locked a for divers in Honolulu exceeded the deck of the smaller. Later the helmet will be removed and he will
relax with a cigaret before going back down.
gown. woman in a room with a thousand the supply I said I was willing to
In the midst of dinner she had hats and no mirror." take a chance, and the first thing
I knew there was the bottom of a OPrERATIONAL BMlc, and B. Williams, Cox, who
'-..,, dry dock in front of me and 70 feet have just completed a new ammuni-
The Wolf ·by Sansone_ of water above me." TR:AJNU~ G SC~OOL tion obstacle course, complete with
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Co,rrisht 1945 by Leo,md S.n&0~. dist,ibuttd bf c. .. , ......,.,., Semc• The other half of the diving duo all the obstructions and difficulties
which ammunition handlers experi-
is Pete Constanti, who was intro-
ence when aboard ship. The dummy
duced to his first helmet at Mare
passage ways, handling rooms,
Island Navy Yard .
... ~; ::::; . . magazines, ladders and hatches
"In the movies," says P ete, "the
The present total of Red Cros s were made from scrap and salvaged
tj:: hero either has his suit punctured contributions from m en and officers material, and once the men receive
by a swordfish or has his air line
I'' cut by the villain. In my case the of OTS now stands at $150. The actual experience over the dummy
'villain' was a ton of sand. I made drive will end March 31 and all course they have acquired a valu-
( hands are urged to turn in their able kind of life insurance for both
the mistake of digging a hole too
deep without supports, and in no ::ontributions to Lt. Collinson's of- themselves and their shipmates.
flee immediately, in order that Op- Author Please
time I was surrounded by all the
erational Training School will be in Two of our officers have just
sand in the ocean, it seemed. It
took quite a little maneuvering with the usual top-ranking position at completed two new instruction
the close of the drive.
the air jet to blast myself out of pamphlets, the first "First Lieuten-
that one." We Score Some Firsts ant's Duties" by Lt. Commander
The partners own their diving The newest battle film, "West- Hoefer, and "Handy Handbook for
barge, which is equipped with some ward in Bataan," arrived a t OTS Navigation," by Lt. Hanford. The
pretty fascinating gadgets. On its this week, the first activity to re- navigation pamphlet was illustrated
'.···. deck is the air ·compressor gear ceive it. CGM Miles H enry Stan- by A. Paulsen, Sp(X)lc, of our
r· . ...-: that supplies the diver with the dish met his brother last week for Visual Aids department.
precious oxygen. There, too, is the the first time in ten years as he re- Destroyer Waves
' underwater welding, burning, and turned from duty with the Marines Girls from our gunnery school hit
sawing equipment. on Guadalcanal. First in a bility was the jackpot when they made a re-
~ f~~ headed robot is the diving suit with his talents to Hollywood to serve first hand how things work on ship-
Slumping on the deck like a be- Lt. (jg) Tannenbaum who took cent visit to a destroyer and learned
its massive headpiece. The helmet as t echnical director of a new train- board.
and breastplate alone weigh 55 ing film.
pounds- add two 15-pound shoes Powder Experts A Chicago billboard advertising
"PARIS-SHMARIS! Who d'ya think you are-Charles plus the heavy fabric of the suit We use the term powder -experts a funeral parlor reads simply:
Boyer?" itself and you have a total of 125 to apply, not to a cosmetic firm; but "The Fifth Freedom - Freedom
pounds to carry around. to L. Strahan, BM2c ; J. Peters. from High Funeral Costs."
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