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PAGE 12 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, SEPT. 29, 1945 Hero of Corregldor Meets Brother Spare Time? Expanded

APL 24 May Provide Edu(ational Servi(e
TREASURE ISLAND
More Barra(ks Spa(e Can Take Care of It
PHYSICAL TRAINING
1
For Ship s Company Continued from Page 1
PROGRAM ABANDONED lus," and "Bookkeeping and Ac-
Continued from Page 1
counting."
Recreation Emphasized Owing to the war's end and the Applications for courses are
Because such craft often carry high priority given to demobiliza- directed to the educational serv-
tion activities, it has been de.emed
whole crews on rest leave, recrea- ices officer or to USAF! head-
impracticable to carry out the
tion facilities are complete in quarters, Madison, Wis., or its
proposed compulsory physical
every detail. In the recreation branches. You'll pay an initial fee
training program for Tadcen per-
room is a juke box that doesn't of $2.00 for the first course, but
sonnel.
require nickels. To feed it is a if you maintain satisfactory pro-
stock, of 5,000 records varying The plan required one hour of gress no fees are required for
from old favorites and classicals exercise and one of swimming per additional courses.
to hit paraders. If the crew or week for enlisted men, and three Besides the Institute's own of-
passengers feel the urge to or- hours of swimming and physical ferings, 85 colleges and universi-
ganize a band, practically all in- training for officers. ties offer through the Institute an
struments required are carried Commanding officers, officers in estimated 7,000 correspondence
aboard. charge, and .Tadcen department courses covering between 350 and
Along .entertainment lines, too, and division heads are hereafter 400 subjects of high school and
is the system of "RBO Units." authorized to -establish within college caliber. These cost you
The system consists of several their jurisdiction physical training one-half the,..cost of the course-
Fadio speakers located in main programs consistent with existing the government will pay the re-
compartments that offer a choice conditions. · maining half provided its contri-
MERRITTS REUNITED-Henry H. Merritt, TM2c, shown with his bution is not more than $20.
of two programs coming over the
brother Harry M. Merritt, CBM, at the Armed Guard Center here
master radio in the wardroom. following his release from a Jap prison where he was confined since Credit Through Navy
Movies Topside Naval Training S(hools May 6, 1942. Captured on Corregidor, Henry was released from .The Navy itself is not author-
prison camp in Northwest Tokio September 4 and left for the states ized to award high school or
On the open air top deck is lo- by plane four days later. This was the first meeting of the brothers
cated a 250-seat permanent movie Bldg. Will Be Ship's since May, 1941. college credits. However, it can
theatre. And nestled among the help you toward getting them
by sending a record of your serv-
water storage tanks and life rafts Servi(e Warehouse 3rd Fleet on Way Home ice studies, including military
is a dog house for the ship's mas- LIBERATED SAILOR Radio announced the departure training and duties to any school
cot, a small brown dachshund. The turmoil of the wrecking
In the recreation room also are crew has come and left huge GREETED BY BROTHER of the Third Fleet for Pearl Har- you select. Most high schools, col-
located a ping-pong table, sev- Building G, on the Terra Cotta bor, Monday, September 24. San leges, and universities will credit
circle, as the former headquar- STATIONED ON T. I.
Francisco and the folks at home you with some points toward a
eral reading tables, a piano, and waited impatiently for tlie ships degree or diploma.
library containing 2,500 books. ters of the disbanded Navy Train- Henry M. Merritt, TM2c, lib- - jammed with home-coming The plan for giving you this
Anotl).er feature of the Welfare ing Schools enters the construc- erated sailor from a Jap prison Pacific fighters-to steam through credit rests upon a series of evalu-
division is the photo developing tion stages of conversion to a camp, arrived at Mare Island the the Golden Gate. ations in scholastic term:;;, of the
equipment, including an enlarger. Ship's Service warehouse·. other day and was greeted by his different courses and experience
Sporting equipment, from pistols Something like 20 offices were brother, also in the Navy, whom of service personnel.
and shotguns to fishing gear, are removed from the center of the he hadn't seen in over four years. Speed Limit Rescended
available to passengers and crew. structure to provide storage space The brother, Harry M. Merritt, Under · these recommendations.
for unestimated tons of supplies. The thirty-five mile an hour if you are an enlisted man who
Li ke a Sma ll City The back part of the building, CBM, is stationed at the Armed speed limit for naval, marine and had recruit training you may be
In one compact unit, the ship Guard Center, Treasure Island. coast guard vehicles is now re-
which is now devoted to OTS of- granted as much as half a year's
contains almost everything you'd After spending 40 months in scended by SecNav and drivei:s high school credit for your work
fices• and a projection room, will
find in a small city. On its four be separated from the storehouse Jap prison camps in the Philip- are ordered to observe local speed in the .Navy.
decks are located a laundry, post by a fireproof bulkhead. pines and in Tokio, Merritt was regulations when outside federal To take advantage of this phase
office, small stores, ship's service, liberated on September 4. He was territory.
All but two telephones have of the educational program, apply
bakery, butcher shop, barbe_r imm_ediately hustled aboard a
been removed from the lower on USAF! form 47, which is dis-
shop, three mess halls, garbage deck, and most of the radiators plane and fl.own to the states. The 26-year-old Torpedoman is tributed from the local office in
disposal- unit, etc.
are disconnected. Henry lost 45 pounds under J ap- now in the Mare Island Naval the Administration Building,
Each of the several large living Scattered about the building are anese treatment. He now weighs Hospital recuperating from or- Room 169. Further details and
compartments contains as many several piles of used lumber, obvi- 135 pounds and is gaining steadi- deals suffered at the hands of the procedures may be obtained in a
lockers as bunks, pl-us several ously salvaged from wrecked par- ly. Nips. consultation with that office.
larger ones for stowing peacoats. titions. Explained G. A. Faulk, in
Every city-large or small- charge of the job and former
has one, and the APL 24 is no Navy Chief Carpenter's Mate of THE WOLF PACK WAITS IN FORCE
exception: on the main deck for- 27 years standing: "Building ma-
ward is located a comfortable terial is scarce, and almost all
· three-cell brig. lumber used in the new construc-
tion will have been salvaged from
wrecking operations."
Markinas on _Naval
Shore: _Establish inents LARGEST SUBMARINE
SAGAMI BAY, Japan (,SEA).
May Be Restored -The world's largest submarine,
Japan's· 5,500 ton I-400, capable ___,,
Before the war, many naval of carrying and launching planes,
establishments had roof markings is now moored alongside the sub
enabling ready identification from tender USS Prometheus. Used
the air. Pearl Harbor forced these principally to carry supplies to
markings to be painted over, but by-passed Jap garrisons, the I-400
now they may be restored, accord- and a smaller sister sub were
ing to a recent order by the Navy taken over . by a boarding party
Department. from the destroyer Blue.

RELEASE RATE OF NAVY PERSONNEL
By Ships' Editorial Association
The Navy plans to release 75,000 officers and 790,000 enlisted
personnel by the end of the year. The schedule for release of
personnel through Sept. 1, 1946, the date of the Navy's goal
for complete demobilization, provides for the -release of 3,000,-
000 officers and men. Transfers to the regular Navy may re-
duce this figure. The following is the planned Navy release
schedule by months:
End of Officers Officers E nlist ed Enlisted
Month Released Reinaining • R eleased Remaining •
1945
September 11,200 313,700 12 1,000 2,9 70,000
October . ·--······-······ 16,,100 298, 700 171,000 2,820,000
Novembtlr ................ 21.100 278,700 221,000 2,620,000
D ecember ···············-- 26.000 253,800 25 1,00@ 2,390,000
1946
January ···--··············· 25.900 229,000 257,300 2,153, 700
F ebruary .................. 25.9()() 204,200 257,300 1,9 17,400
March ...................... 25.9 00 179,400 257,300 1,681,100
.April ·····----------········· 2.5. 900 154.600 257,300 1,444,800
May ····-··········-········· 25.900 129,800 257 ,300 1,208,500
June ··--······················ 25,900 105,000 25 7,300 972,200
July ············-······•·····- 25,900 80,300 257,300 735,900
August ·············--·-····· 23,700 57,800 256,900 500,000
• Residua.I figures include estimated input.