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THIS WEEK'S
NAVY © ©
~ T ASTHEAD

Admiral King, in a speech to
the House Military Affairs Com-
mittee, spoke· plain facts this
VOL. IV - No. 42 TREASURE ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. SATURDAY, NOV. 24, 1945
week. Endorsing the peacetime
training bill for youths of 18, the
Admiral said, ''Demobilization has "SNAPE Of THINGS :10 COME?''
~ so weakened its (the Navy) struc- Navy Garb to Museum in Spring - Maybe!
ture that it could not fight a
Sailor at T. I. Makes "New" Uniform
major battle right now." Instead
of a "going" concern the Navy
has "disintegrated," he continued.
True there are still ships and Bluejackets in Job Done With
men, but the combat teams are
broken up. A trained reserve was Favor of Change 300 Pieces of
proposed by the ranking Fleet
" Admiral as the only sensible so- 1 In Tradition Discarded Blues
lution to peacetime security.
Judging from an avalanche of With 300 scraps of "dress-blue"
* * * letters to The Masthead these material and a Yank magazine
Hurrying to committees and in- past few weeks, the discharge sketch for a pattern, Urol Tift,
vestigations were many high- question holds no monopoly on SSMT2c, a night-shift tailor in
T. I. sailors' minds. Also a lead-
ranking officers this week as the Bldg. 221's Tailor Shop, fash-
ing topic in Navy "breeze" ses-
Pearl Harbor Report ground on ioned what may well be the new
~ and the Army-Navy merger was sions is the approaching uniform Navy uniform-to-be.
contested in warm debate. Not change. A twenty-four hour construe-
all the Admirals were busy an- Bluejackets facing a few years . . . ,
swering questions, however. Some of Naval service are vitally in- I tion Job, Tift s uniform consists
of conventional trousers with four
had issued new blueprints for terested in what the future holds
fleet operations. Number one job for them in the way of G. I. hab- pockets, Eisenhower-type jacket,
was to carry out .U. S. policy in erdashery. They want the "whys, gray shirt with an officer's tie
the Pacific and feed occupation whens and wherefores" on the and an overseas cap.
troops in Japan. Not far down the uniform question. On the two jacket lapels are
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list of work to be done was the Well, the bones of John Paul two fouled anchors. A USN em-
disposal of surplus government Jones may jump a little in his blem is worn on the cap. Rating
property abroad and the closing grave, but come spring 1945 A.D., badges, hash marks and cam-
of unnecessary naval installations U. S. Navymen may well be paign bars may be worn in the
in Pacific areas. wearing a 1945 A.D. uniform.
current manner.
* * * Pancake Hats Out According to Tift, the inspira-
Aviation radi,o technicians and Pancake hats; short jumpers, tion came from a Yank magazine
long collars, tight sleeves and article on the proposed Navy uni-
" radio technicians have a new !t J 'v_.A>•~ pocketless pants have been, since form change. A sketch included
name and will have new ratings-
maybe as a Christmas offering. antiquity; a sailor's zoot-suit. with the article showed a uniform
They are to be known as A via ti on But after years of being kidded which was one of the many styles
Electronic Technicians and Elec- about their kid-sized uniforms proposed.
tronic Technicians. Their new and nasty references fo penguins, The task of stitching together
badges are under consideration. the uproar recently reached th e 300 odd bits of blue material took
Duties and qualifications are un- hallowed sanctorums of naval 24 hours.
changed. th
~ powers- at-be. Tift comes from St. Petersburg,
* * * The Pelican, a Navy newspaper Fla., where he went to Gibbs
V-12 personnel now in training at the U. S. Naval Repair Base in High. He enlisted in the Navy 27
as officer candidates may request New Orleans, came forth early months ago. With five years ex-
transfer to other duty in enlisted this year with a bold demand for perience at his trade, Urol plans
ratings. Although they are in-
the discard of the current uniform to attend the University of New
eligible for benefits of the G.I. Bill
and suggested what the new one York to major in tailoring, once
or for mustering out pay if all HERE'S WHERE THE MASTHEAD BEATS "ESQUIRE'S" TIME. should look like. discharged. His ambition is a
their service has been in a V-12 The above sharp character is Ur,ol Tift, SSMT2c, a night-shift tailor
-, in Bldg. 221. It seems Ur,ol heard so much about the proposed uniform Yank magazine grabbed the
program, a transfer to other duty change he decided t,o do something about it. With 300 scraps of "dress
for at least 90 days makes these blue" material, he sewed away f.or 24 hours, using a Yank magazine idea and asked Navymen what
benefits available to them. sketch as a pattern. And here's no kidding: In those six (6) spacious they thought of the idea. Seven
pockets, Urol can carry a handkerchief, pocketbook, watch, date- thousand replies poured in. The
* * * book, comb, change and cigar•ettes. Without even a strain! (See story) great majority were in favor of a
Would y·ou like to know what
time the sun will rise on Novem- PC-788 Catches Snag; change. Ten per cent, some of
ber 25, 1986? If this will affect Make Requests for them women, nixed a un.ifor:rµ
your plans for that date you need switch.
r' "Loose Strands" Turn Furlough Travel
a volume recently issued by the The gist of answers from sail-
U. S. Naval Observatory. It con- Out to Be 90-Ft. Cable! A recent reviswn of Twelfth I ors went something like•' this: a
tains tables for sunrise, sunset Naval District regulations gov- mature guy feels foolish dressed
and twilight for any day in the "Just a few loose strands of erning transportation by rail, up like Donald' Duck~" ·
wire" was the verdict of the
twentieth century. It may be ob- specifies that all . naval personnel However the · fair sex came
divers who examined the bottom
tained from the Superintendent of requiring rail transportation for through with a contrary idea.
of the PC-788, after she hit a
Documents, Government Printing any reason except emergency
snag off the Berkeley Pier the Said one group of feminine dis-
Office, Washington, D. C., for 75c. !eave, make proper request from
~ other day. senters: "We know from experi-
But those "few strands" turned the Military Travel Bureau. This ence that sailors are not exactly
* * * out to be some 90 feet of 4-inch request should be placed with the . . . .
The Navy ann,ounced this we~k I car cable wrapped like a ball of Travel Bureau at least five days I dis~nterested m girls and their re-
that almost 75 per cent of its yarn around the ship's port in advance of scheduled train de- act10ns, and honest, fellows, those
dischargees have indicated a de- shaft! parture time. uniforms you wear today give
sire to keep their government "The patrol craft was on sound Due to extremely crowded I you a headstart on all the other
insurance. More than $35,000,000,- drill in the Bay, when we felt a travel. conditions ~nly requests I guys in the services. We think
000 of this insurance has been I strong vibration from the fouled made m advance will be honored they are perfect. They're differ-
purchased by Navy personnel dur- shaft," explained Ensign A. C. with railroad reservations. ent, but we prefer them, so please
ing the war. Bailey, acting-Executive officer. don't change them. 'I'hink of your
"Then we heard the cable wire "MASTHEAD FICTION" feminine public."
* * * slapping the ship's bottom with IN NEXT WEEK'S PAPER Suggestions Numerous
Persons who loaned their binoc- every turn of the screws. A new and entirely different
ulars to the Navy during the "The water was relatively shal- feature will be added to The Suggestions and ideas about The "Old Salt" wears an 1870
emergency were back star-gazing low where we were operating, so Masthead next week. how the new uniform should be uniform, a "little" different from
this week. The Navy had "ac- we must have hit a loop in the Beginning December 1, and have been numerous and varied. Tift's garb!
,,-., cepted" 8,000 binoculars and wire. I hope the P . G. and E. running every Saturday there- Here's the most popular one:
many of the glasses had been doesnt' accuse us of stealing their after, this publication will pre- Replace the short jumper with tailor shop of his own in Cleve-
eagle eyes for Armed Guardsmen cable!" sent to its readers "MAST- a natty battle jacket, blue in land, Ohio.
and small patrol craft watches. At the present time both crew HEAD FICTION." color, and with roomy breast Said Tift after a test-wearing:
Over half of the loans have been and civilians are hard at work in pockets ... It closes in front with "I';ve worn regulation blues for
The stories will be original,
returned so far. All glasses are YFD 46, busily scraping and 27 months. My new uniform beats
and written exclusively by the a zipper.
checked and reconditioned before painting the PC's hull and un- staff for Tr,easure Island per- the old in convenience, comfort
being sent back to peacetime raveling some of the bulky elec- sonnel. I A handkerchief can be carried and appearance. And what's more,
looking. tric cable. · Continued on Page Eight - I have pockets!"
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