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li,_ •.• The Girl Back Home .. ,I Commander Miller ''lal,u/ous Jollnny' Comes Home
Retires After
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37 Years Service
Commander Grover A. Miller,
USN (Ret) is leaving Treasure
Island after two and one half years
of duty here. He has watched the
growth of the island from a rela-
tively small activity to one of the
largest training stations on the
Pacific coast.
His naval career makes an inter-
esting story. He enlisted in 1906 as
an apprentice seaman_ and later
earned a quartermaster's rating. A
year after enlistment he was fo-r-
tunate to make a round-the-world
trip on the USS Kearsage, at that
time one of the· Navy's first-line
battleships-. It was during the first
Wo·rld War that he became Ensign
Miller and succeeding promotions
earned him the right to retire as a ·
lieutenant commander in 1939 after
32 years service.
If World War II had not made it
necessary to recall experienced
Navy men, Commande·r Miller
might still be enjoying that re-
tirement, but after a rest of only
one year and 15 days he was re-
called to duty in the Twelfth Naval
District.
His duty on Treasure Island be-
gan in 1942 as officer in charge of
Receiving Barracks. A later trans- ON FIRST LAP HOME is Staff Sergeant J-ohn R. Williams ,of San
fer found him attached to Training Francisco a,nd his Marine buddy, Corporal Gilbert H. Smart of Marion;
Center as Coordinator of Services Ill. They recently arriv,ed on Treasure l·sland completing their first lap
home after reaching the U. S. mainland .. Both men served as overseas
and later as executive officer under
orderlies to Major Generol Long and have completed more than 21
Admiral Hugo Osterhaus and Com- month~ in Pacific battle z,ones. (See story ).
modore R. W . Cary. He retires as
Assistant for Operations for Tadcen.
San Francisco's "fabulous Sergeant Williams will soon be
Highspots of all the time spent waiter," the man who was driven to 48 and he is a little indefinite about
FROM THE LAND OF SHINING MOUNTAINS comes wistf.ul Miss in the Navy were listed by Com- work in a limousine and who pos- his future plans. He wants to get
Leona Reichelt, a sophomore at the University of Montana at Missoula. mander Miller as two trips around sessed as many tailor-made suits as back to San Francisco and see his
Her interest in Treasure Island is confined to ,one sailor-Clark Hilton, the world, service on six different any other man in town is back from friends and the spots he used to
Y3c, of the RMS Personnel -office. Both lived in Fort Benton, in the types of naval craft, duty in two 21½ months overseas. His name is know and he has plans for more·
same state, before Leona went away to school and Clark was called to
war. Vital statistics -on Miss Reichelt: Blue eyes, brown hair, 19 years wars, the opportunity to see· his son John R. (J ohnny) Williams, 47, philanthropic work if he is dis-
of age. commissioned a Navy officer and a Marine staff sergeant. charged, but right now "Fabulous
ring-side seat to watch the expan- "Fabulous Johnny" worked as a Johnny" is just plain glad to be
not evaluate it, so we leave you to sion of the American :fieet into the waiter for a number of San Fran- back in the United States.
figure out the mathematics of the largest Navy in the world. cisco places, including L e f t y
statement. He believes in a large Navy after O'Doul's. When asked about the
More Waves the war and he says, "Enlisted report of his limousine days he "The Navy Reporter"
men eat, sleep and live far better said: "About that limousine, I only
Unattached, eligible ladies, please
note. The Navy still wants Waves, than when I joined the Navy in kept that for the use of the poor
1906." Broadcasts News, Views
20,000 . in fact. The hospital corps and needy. When I went in the
needs 10,000 of that quota. If you FoUowing his retirement Com- Army back in 1941 I gave away For Men Overseas
Now that you are safely three know someone who is interested in mander and Mrs. Miller intend to about 50 suits, I guess. I got out of
years old and the noise of the cele- joining the Navy, here is your make their home in Atherton, the Army in 1942 and in June of Featuring an enlisted man desig-
bration has died away, it is a good chance to be influential. Join now Calif., where they have lived since the same year I g,ot into the Marine nated by SecNav as the Enlisted
time to say thank you to the dance and evade the draft! 1939. Corps because I wanted to see more Ma.n's Representative in Washing-
committee and to those who had a
Just Between Us action and more places." ton, t he Bureau of Personnel has
hand in making the whole affair a Johnny got his wish. Overseas he recently inaugurated a weekly
Birthday bits ... Congratulations cartoons for his mess-hall collec-
success. The congratulations be- to the mess cook who put on the tion ... Now that we have begun served for some time as a cook- series of radio programs entitled
long to you, too, for putting on a wine glasses for the Wave birthday a brand new third year, he thinks orderly to Marine Major -General "The Navy Reporter."
military review which "knocked These broadcasts feature news,
their eyes out." (No reference to dinner! .. . It was a good try, old the old ones are outdated . . . E . C. Long. He still tells about the
men in Pre-Embarkation.) man, even if it didn't work . . . Eavesdropping at the review . . . fried chicken he prepared for Gen- information, answers to specific
Most disappointed were incredulous T. I. Commanding Officers when eral Vandegrift and a flock of other questions, and inte·rviews with prin-
Wacs Have New Boss sailors who waited for shore patrol asked by the, Commodore if any generals. In fact the co,mmandant cipal naval · officials. Subjects cov-
Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby has to pick up hatless Waves last Mon- would like to accompany him on of the whole Marine Corps told him ered are of broad interest to both
retired to her home in Houston, day night ... Sorry fellers, it was his inspection, stepped forward as that it was the best fried chicken enlisted men overseas and those
Tex., to enjoy her family, her legal . . . Will someone please take a man . . . all present and ac- he had been able to get this side of about to embark for such duty.
books, her collection of Georgian "Chief Wave" Goddie some new counted for! Virginia. Broadcast stations, times and
silver and a private life. During frequencies of- the several programs
her three years as boss lady of the broadcast weekly from short wave
Women's Army Corps, she has seen Ne/Iller llle Nor Saws Get Dull At Ille RMS Carpenter Sllop stations in -San Francisco are as
their ranks grow to the present follows:
100,000 mark and has personally
(Times given are Pacific War
taken a look at the four co·rners of
the world in which they now serve. Time)
Up from the ranks came 43-year- Alaska-Aleutians-China - 1545-
1600, KROJ, 17,700 kc. Each Tues-
old Colonel Westray Battle Boyce,
day. 2215-2230, KROJ, 9,897 kc.
who joined the Wacs two years ago,
Each Tuesday.
served as a supply sergeant, moved
up to staff directo•r for the North Southwest Pacific - Philippines-
African theater, came home to 1815-1830, KROJ, 17,760 kc. Each
serve on predec-esso·r Hobby's staff, Tuesday. 0245-0300, KGEI, 9,550
and a few days ago• became first kc. Each Wednesday.
lady of the corps, to relieve Oveta Souttiwest Pacific-Pacific Ocean
Culp Hobby and don the colonel's Area- 0245-0300, KWIX, 9,855 kc.
eagles. 6,105 kc. Each Wednesday.
Philippines-China - 2115-2130,
What, N-o Point System?
Sorry girls, but the Navy· Office KWID, 11,870 kc. Eac_h Tuesday.
of Public Information was asked
this week if the Navy planned a
discharge point system for Waves. Sat. Evening Post Offers
The answer was a flat, unqualified $ I 00 for War Anecdotes
"no." If you are forty-two you may
stand a chance under the over-age For acceptable true anecdotes of
r.etirement provision; if not, that's this war, the Saturday E vening
all. Post is offering $100. A sample of
Increase in Food Allowance the type material desired appears
Did you know that the monthly in the current issue.
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increased $13.50 per month? The humorous or serious, and should be
Bureau has it figured out that with from experience of the author or
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