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Enterprise Now 1/oatlng Monument Courts Weigh Vets' THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, NOV. 10, 1945 PAGE 5

Reemployment Rights All Homecomers Hosp. Volunteers Bake
By Camp Newspaper Service To Start Back Cakes, Run Errands to
Does the Selective Service Act
give a veteran the right to rein- By June Keep Patients Happy!
statement in his old job, regard- (SEA).-By using battleships Herb Cook, Seabee, wasn't on'
less of the seniority rights of and cruisers in the "Magic Car- hand to celebrate ·his 23rd birth-·
non-veteran employes?
pet" transport fleet, the Navy day last week. Thousands of miles
This problem, now being
now hopes to have all except oc- of water separated him from his
thrashed out in the courts, is of cupation forces started home by Bay Area home, just as it had for
vast importance not only to ex- next June. This is two months the past 18 months. But this fact
servicemen but to all men and earlier than previously ann@unc.ed didn't discourage his mother from
women who work for a living.
goals. remembering him in a special
Veteran's J.ob Upheld way, so she baked seven birth-
The Selective Training and In the Pacific the following big day cakes, each inscribed "Happy
Service Act provides that a vet- units will soon operate as trans- Birthday to Herb Cook" and
eran shall be restored to his old ports: 6 large aircraft carriers, 4 donated them to those patients
job "or to a position of like se- light aircraft carriers, 6 battle- whose birthdays occurred on the
niority, status, and pay unless the ships, and 20 light cruisers. Join- same day, and they celebrated in
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unreasonable.'' 3 li~ht aircraft ~arners, _2 heavy are members of the Cookie Bri-
M/ Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Se- crmsers, and 4 light cruisers. gade. This earnest group of vol-
lective Service chief, has ruled These and other additions will unteers has become an integral
that this means that non-veterans boost the transport passenger ca- part of the Red Cross Recreation
WITH AN INCOMPARABLE RECORD OF SERVICE, the USS of greater seniority must be dis- pacity to 718,767 in the Pacific, program, having contributed its
Enterprise bec,omes a perpetual monument to the inspiring accom- charged to make way for veter- 471,042 in the Atlantic and 79,982 time every week since August,
plishments ,of the men who sailed with her across the war-torn Pa- ans, if no job otherwise exists in the India service. 1943, by corning to the hospital
cific. President Truman recently approved Secretary of the Navy for the returning serviceman. In
James Forrestal's l'equest to preserve the 'Big E' as a shrine. Under the new schedules all dis- to serve cakes and cookies to all
a test case in Brooklyn a United chargees are to be embarked the wards. Cakes are usually do-
States district judge upheld Gen. from Europe by the end of Janu- nated by local bakeries, but many
Hershey. He said: ary, from the India theater by cakes are purchased and a good
ENTERPRISE JOINS NAVY HALL OF FAME " ... This plaintiff. is entitled early April and from the Pacific number are especially made by
to come back to his work ... and areas by early June. the Brigade members.
ALONGSIDE OTHER HISTORIC SHIPS . . . is entitled to come back to gade, the other organized volun-
In addition to the Cookie Bri-
work in preference to anyone
else who might be working on teer groups under the jurisdiction
"Big E" Rescued] any of the days he applied for Brothers in Navy of the S. F. Red Cross Chapter
VICTORY MEDAL work, except a veteran in his own are the Motor Corps, the Gray
From Sera p Heap category." May Now Ladies, and the Arts and Skills
AWARDED WORLD another test case by Prof. Her- Sail Together Corps.
An opposite view was taken in
By Pres. Truman The Gray Ladies of the Hos-
WAR II VETERANS man A. Gray, who was accepted Th Na vy ha lift d ·ts war- pital and Recreation Corps extend
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Presidential approval has deem- as an arbitrator by an employer the Red Cross program in the
ed the USS Enterprise, gallant An Act of Congress, approved and a veteran. The Hershey rul- time restriction prohibiting mem- hospital, and render special serv-
bers of the same family from
veteran of the Pacific, worthy in July 6, 1945, authorizes and di- ing, now known as "super-senior- ices to patients away from homes
serving together aboard the same
taking a place alongside the Con- rects that a medal be awarded to ity," he said, might bring about and families. They visit the wards
"a serious economic and social ship or at the same station in an
stitution, Constellation, Hartford persons who shall have served on advance base area. in the afternoons, write letters,
and Olympia. active duty in the Armed Forces upheaval." Prof. Gray added: send telegrams, do shopping on
Mr. Truman has approved a of the United States or of the "The older workers carrying Recent instructions authorize the base as well as in San Fran-
Secretary of the Navy proposal to Government of the Philippine Is- family responsibilities which come Naval training centers to trans- cisco, d i st r i but e stationery,
with maturing years would find· fer recruits to ships of any fleet
preserve the famous USS Enter- lands during the present war. matches and flowers. These are
prise "as a visible symbol of The President of the United themselves displaced, despite their except submarines, in which their but a few of the many services
American valor and tenacity in States has approved the designa- long service in industry, by brothers are serving. There is no done by the charming grm1p of
younger men who, as a rule, have assurance, ·however, that they can
war, and of our will to fight all tion of this medal as World War Gray Ladies for the appreciative
enemies who assail us." II Victory Medal. only themselves to care for. Es- be together indefinitely. Transfer stay-ins.
Retired from active duty be- All persons who are now serv- tablished industrial organization will be made upon request of the One of the "extras" which they
cause modern planes cannot be ing have, or shall have served, would be disrupted and thrown recruit, if such transfer is com- have been doing lately is sewing
flown in combat from her flight and whose service shall have into confusion. The task of recon- patible with the needs of the on those very welcome discharge
deck, the "Big E" received more been honorable, in the Navy, Ma- version to a peacetime economy, service. No transfer will be made patches. That is one task ~ which
hits than any other ship of her rine Corps or Coast Guard, at any difficult at best, would be ham- until recruit training has been they hope they will be over-
kind during the war and was at time during the period beginning pered to a degree that might well completed. worked!
one time the only U. S. carrier December 7, 1941, and ending prove dangerous."
operating against the Japanese. with a future date to be an- Labor Groups Protest NO MARKET WHAT THEY MISSED
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal nounced later, are eligible, accord- Both the AFL and CIO stoutly WASIDNGTON (SEA). ZANESVILLE, Ohio (SEA).-
first announced at a press con- ing to Alnav 352, for the World opposed the super-seniority prin- Blondes have · lost a source of When unmarried women here
ference on August 27 that he ap- War II Victory ~edal. ciple on the grounds that it would ready cash. According to the were asked what they missed
proved of the idea of preserving This medal may be awarded be unfair to permit a veteran who Commerce Department, blonde most during the war, the answer
the Enterprise, saying the sug- posthumously and when so award- had worked for a company for hairs are no longer. being used in was nylons and men. Housewives
gestion was not original with him. ed shall be presented to the next one or two years to displace a the electrical gadget that tests felt differently. They wanted soap,
He said : surviving kin. , non-veteran who had worked for humidity. Fine wires, not bru- washing machines, electric sweep-
"We should like to have, if we the same company for 15 or 20 nettes or red heads, are now do- ers and someone to stay with the
could, a combination battleship, World War II Victory Medal is years. ing the job. baby.
not available at the present time.
submarine, destroyer, cruiser, es- Appropri!lte instructions for the And at least one employer
cort and aircraft carrier, then issuance of the medal will be group, a sub-committee of the
we'd have the symbolic ship for promulgated at a later date. Association of American Rail- loolt Out for Ille Camera, Please!
the Navy. But it's not possible to However, all personnel who are roads, said that the ruling is "of
have that kind of a ship. There- doubtful legality" and would have
fore I think it would be appro- eligible for this medal can wear the effect of upsetting the labor
the ribbon of the medal, to take
priate to have · the Enterprise, agreements and personnel prac-
which has been identified with the precedence next after the area tices which have been in effect in
campaign medals of this war.
war since its beginning and has the industry for many years.
fought successfully against the The controversy may ultimate-
Japanese, sometimes under very ly be decided in the U. S. Su-
unfavorable conditions and more VETS' BUREAU NEEDS preme Court.
lately under the shadow of vic- (SEA). - More than 120,000
tory." employees will be needed in the
The big carrier made the first Veterans' Administration by 1947 Huge Mine Sweep
U. S. attack on Jap territory at to supervise the administration
the Marshalls and Gilberts in of benefits and help streamline the Operation Underway.
February, 1942. She flew the flag organization for greater speed in
of Admiral Spruance in the Battle handling affairs of ex-servicemen. In Western Pacific
of Midway. After the Hornet was Most of these employees will be An estimated 115,000 mines
lost in the Battle of Santa Cruz veterans themselves specially still infest the waters of the
Islands, the Enterprise was the trained for the job. Western Pacific, endangering
only U. S. carrier in the Pacific;. peacetime shipping. The Mine-
Her squadrons shot down nearly craft Command, Pacific Fleet,
a thousand of the enemy's planes put my name to the docume:n,ts with 600 ships, has the tremen-
and sank seventy-four of his which would consign her to be dous task of sweeping clean the
ships. broken up for scrap." sea-lanes from the Marianas,
Mr. Forrestal, in his request to Details concerning the preser- China and India to the Japanese
President Truman for the Enter- vation of the carrier have not home ports such as Nagoya, IT'S DRILL TIME for these hospital corpsmen. The station photog-
prise's preservation said: "The been completed, and the place Kobe, Osaka and Tokyo. The rapher caught them out by the tennis courts as Wave specialist,
Gualco, put them thr,ough their paces. G·ua.lco, Stevens and Mulgrew,
men who have fought on her love where she will be berthed has not operation will take several
Maa's at hospital Wave quarters, shar,e the job "hupping" ti)em
this ship. It would grieve me to been decided. months. through three weekly half-hour drill periods.