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       Tadcen Cops Class "A"        Velodty-Power Scho~I Opens Monday;                        THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25,  1945'    C  f
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       Softball  Title;  Turns  -,                                                            a  tank room  (an eleven-foot-deep   ew  avy  en  ers
                                    Students  Will  "Sh.oot"  Proiectiles                     tank was already on the site when  s,  d o· ' h
       Back  OTS  In  Two  Tilts                                                              the  school  was  built  around  it),  1   pee   ISC  arges
         Tadcen's class "A" baseball ex-: ;First  of  Type  in  Navy,   teen-year  veteran  of  the  naval  tool  shop,  crew's bunk room,  offi-  The Navy announced this week
                                                                 reserve  (his  permanent  rating  is  cer's and chief's bunk room, office
       ponents  won  the  Treasure  Island                       chief shipfitter), Ensign Dion first  and storage compartment.   that  six  new  separation  centers
       softball championship here by de- School  was  Erected ,~Y   met  up  with  VP  at  the· 'Jfost~ri  Practical  Side  Stressed   will  be set up  within  ten  days to
       feating  a  strong OTS  team twice                        Navy Yard in  1943;  At that time   'f,l:le  school  ready,  Ensign  Dion   speed  the  discharge  of  327,000
       last  Monday  and  Tuesday,  6-2  Ensign and Enlisted .. Man                                                        veterans  from  service  during  the
       and  2~0.                                                 a  chief with shipboard and repair  turned his  attention to recruiting   next  four  months~
                                                                 base  experience  behind  him; Dion  and  teaching  his  instructors.  All
                                      First  complete  school  of  its                                                       At  a  special  news  conference,
         Bob  Williams,  Tadcen  short-                          saw  the  possibilities  in  VP  and  rated  men  with  sea  experience,
       stop,  was  the  big  gun  in  the   type  authorized by the  Navy,  the   learned  its  history.   the  five  instructors  are  Daniel   called  by  Secretary  of  the  Nayy
       opener, getting a  home run, triple _ Treasure  Island  Velocity - Power                                            Forrestal,  it  also  was  reyealed
                              t  th  School will  begin teaching opera- Navy  ~ad  VP  Eight  Years
                                                                                              Iorillo,  MMS 2 c;  Harry  Frazier,  that the  Navy  and Marine Corps
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       an  d  d  bl  e  in   ree  rips  o   e                      A  development  of  the  Mine  Mlc;  William  Neel,  SFlc;  Leroy  draft quota for the month of Sep-
       plate.                       tions  Monday  in  newly  erected
                                    Building, No.  244,,.  neaz:, the  Fire  Safety  Appliance  Company,  of  Jackson,  SFlc,  and  Clarence  R.  tember  was  cut  from  22;000  to
         The_,  second  tilt  proved  a  close   Fighting  School.   0 :Ptttsburg,  velocity - power  had  Lake,  CMlc.    13,000.
       affair  with  the  winning  markers   Heretofore  taught on  a  limited  been in the hands of the Navy for   A  practical  man  himself,  En- Eighteen  by  September
        coming  in  the  third  and  fifth  in-                                               sign Dion will stress the practical
                                    scale  at  some  naval  establish- about eight years.  However,  high                    Vice  Admiral  Randall  Jacobs,
        nings. · Shirley  and  Wilson  tallied                                                side  of  VP  in  the  curriculum  of       ·
       for the victors.             .ments,  including this  base,  veloe- ranking  officers  in  BuShips  felt   the  school.  Coming  from  Pre-  chief  of  personnel,  said  veterans
                                                                                                                           now  are  being  discharged  in  five
                                    ity-power is the use of gunpowder  that,  for  one  reason  or  another,
         OTS  won  the  right  to play for   in productive  labor instead of  de- VP was not getting the chance to  Commissioning  Training  Center  separation  centers,  that  eleven
        the Island championship by going   struction.  Generating  immense  prove . itself  in  the  fleet.  For  orie  a nd  from  ships,  fifteen  men  each  would  be  in  operation  within  the
        through the class "B" division un-  forces,  with  pressure  as  great  thing,  damage ~ control  parties  day  will  enter   th e  school.  Men  next ten  days,  and  that the total
        defeated  and  then  turning  back   as  112,000 , 11;:>s,  to  the  square  with  training  only  in  the  theory  whose duties  include damage con- would  be  bo~sted, to  eighteen  by
        the T.I.  Hospital ten,  division "C"   inch,  velocity-power accomplishes  of  VP  were  afraid  to  handle  it.  trol' will  get  preference  in  enroll- September.
        champions.                  seeming  miracles  in  ship  repair.  Also,  since  VP  was  "restricted,"   ment  for  the  three-day  course.   The  eighteen  centers will  have
                                                              •
         Tadcen  walked  off  with  the
        tournament  by  knocking  over   Punches  Holes  in  Steel   the  e-xplanatory  -booklets  found·  Will  Dive  in  Tank   a  discharge  capacity  of  approxi-
                                      As  easily  as  a  stapler machine  their  way  into  the  publications
                                                                                                On  the  first  two days,  the  stu- mately  500,000  per  month,  but
        Armed Guard, pre-tourney favor-  clips  together  two  sheets  of  safe  on  ship  and · the  tools  re- dents will operate the VP tools in  Jacobs  pointed  out  that  it  was
        ites,  Pre-Commissioning,  Radio   paper,  velocity-power  can  affix  mained  below,  forgotten.   th~  classroom.  Most  versatile  of  not  kp~vm  how  soon  that  total
        Materiel,  and  then  cinching  the
  \..J                               with  steel  pins  a  patch  of  half-  A  convert  to  the  usefulness ,of  t:hes~  tools  is  th~ ' vp ·driver,  in  would be reached.
        pennant  by walloping  the former
                                     inch-thick  steel  plate  over  a  hole  VP,  Dion  came  to  the  notice  0f  effect a  ''gun" which;shoots bullet- Await  Pacific  Action
        for a  second time.
                                     in  a  ship's  side.        BuShips. He was sent to the New  shaped  spikes  to  pin  steel  plates   ,J·a-:cobs  said  the  maximum
         The class  "C"  chai;npionship de-
                                      Easily  as  you  snap, a  thread  York Navy Yard  to  teach VP  on  together or  blunt  sitigs  to  punch  monthly discharge rate would not
        veloped  into  a  three-way  fight   with  your  teeth,  velocity-power  the  then  limited  scale,  commis- holes  in  the steel.  Other VP. tools  be  determined until developments
        with  T.  I.  Hospital,_ Dispensary
                                     can  gnash  inch-in-diameter  steel  sio,ned and sent to the Mine Safety  are  the  rivet  expande·r  and  rivet  in . the Pacific  crystallized so that
        and  Receiving  Ship. _ The  latter   ca:bles  fouling  the  propeller  of  a  Appliance  Company plant for ad- remover,  both of whose  functiOns  the  Navy  could  determine  how
        was eliminated after losing to the
        Hospital teai:n,_· aJi_d the Dispensary   ship.          vanced  instruction  and  then  sent  are  being  incorporated  into  the  many  men·- w_ould  be  needed  for
                                      Velocity-power  can  punch  neat  to  Treasure  Island  to  establish  driver;  the  cable  cutter  and  lC  active duty.
        outfit.  Then  the . 'Hospital  base-
        baller~  proceed,ed  to  defeat  the   holes through half-inch-thick steel  the. s.chool.   press,  for  pipe  bonding,  and  the   The  total eligible for discharge
        Disp~~sary  f9r ,'lhetit1e:   plates ,  or  gouge_ a  rivet  from  its  Built  School  in  29  Days   wire  rope  press.   as  Of  August  15 was  327,000,  in-
                                     seat in inch-thick steel.     When  Ensign Dion and his act-  On the third day of instruction,  eluding  261,000  - enlisted  ~ en,
                                      In  spite  of  the  immense  power  ing  chief,   Walter  Halvorson,  the  students  will  put  on  a  ·full  •5,200 enlisted women, 40,000 male
                         ,,  .d..    they  exert,  the  velocity-power  SFlc, arrived at T .I.  four months  diving  suit  or  diving  helmet  or  officers, 500 Wave officers and·•20;-
        Arm e   d , GU(:] r ·        tools  can be wielded ,easily by one  ago  they  were  disappointed  to  face  mask  and  enter  the  35~foot  000  combat award holders.  Tibat
                         ,..         man.  They  weigh  as  little  as  an  learn that a skilled-labor shortage  by 17-foot tank.  Under water; the  total  must  1;:>_e  processed  through
        Beats Frontier Base  M-1  carbine  and  have  no  more  washoldingupconstructionofthe  men  will  apply  steel  patches  td  :the  separation centers within .1_20
                                     recoil.  Furthermore,  VP  can  be  school.  After  chaffing  at  delays  holes  in  a  simulated  ship's  hull;' :days  of  Augusl-•15. ,   ~-,-•, .
       . Softb<!II
                                     used  under  water,  to  a  depth  of  for four weeks,  Dion and Halvor- cut  cables  away  from  ship's  , .- "The  Navy's  disch_arge  PC!J!'lt
          V-J-Day might have ended most  150 feet.                                            screws  as  large  as  four  feet  in   t   ·11  b  I   d
        of t~e fighting around _Japan,  but                       son,  both  practical  men  with  ex-  d"   t   d   d    ·sys  em  w1   e  ower~  as soon_;-as
                                     Built  School  Himself       perience  in  every  skilled  trade  iame  er ;  expan   an   remove  milij:ary,  commitments  permiJ,"
        here  on  Treasure  Island  battles                                                                       G
        continued  more . fierce  than  ever   Head  of  the  Velocity-Power  from  carpentering,  plumbing  and  rivets and punch hol~s.  raduates  Jacobs  told  reporters.   r•--.t-·
        with  the  league favorites  coming   School  and  apostle  of  VP  is  En- steam-fitting  to  heavy  construe- will  be  classified  as  velocity-  The  staging · areas  from  which
        through after some stiff competi-  sign  John  R.  Dion,  who  was  se- tion,  requisitioned  material  and  power  men.   men in  the .Pac;ific _will be start,ed
       • tion.                       lected  by  the  Bureau  of  Ships  built the school themselves.                      homeward  are  located  at  Pearl
                                     and sent  to T.I.  with  orders  that   By laboring sixteen to eighteen   Two sailors lost their way. Said  Harbor,  Guam,  Saipan,  Leyte,
        American  League             were a  challenge. The orders were  hours a  day,  seven  days  a  week,  one :  "We  must be  in a  cemetery,  Hollandia, Manila and Manus and
          The  best game  of the week de-
        veloped  when  the  league-leading   to  establish  a  school  and  prove  the  ensign  and  petty  officer  fin- there's  a  gravestone."  The  other  possibly  later Tokio.
                                                                                                                             Jacobs - said  the  Navy  is  re-
                                     the  value  of  VP  to  the  Navy  by  ished the school  in 29  days, prob- lit a  match and replied:  "Yeah, he
        Armed  Guard  team  battled  the
        strong  Frontier  Base  for  eleven   getting  it  into  practical  use.  A  ably  a  record  in  building  opera- lived  to  the  ripe  old  age  of 128."  questing President Truman to re-
                                     mart  with  a  mission,  the  thirty- tions.  A  large,  two-story,  seven-  "What's  his  name?"   voke  the  portion  of the  executive
        innings  before  winning,  7-6.   A   year-old ensign  met the first  half  room  building,  47-feet  square,  is   "Some  guy  named  Miles  from  order  that now  prevents  the  vol-
        weird  tussle  between Tadcen and
        Pre - Commissioning  found  the   of  his  challenge  by  literally  a  monument  to  their  determina- Los  Angeles."   untary recruiting of men between
                                     building  the  school  with  his  own  tion  and  industry.  Furnished  al-  -  ----A--  -  --  18  and  38  for  naval  duty.  The
        former  on the long end  of an  8-6   hands.              most  completely  and  most  in-  Sarong- A  bright colored pota- present  legal  limitation  on  the
        win.  Armed  Guard  and  Tadcen
        will  play for the  second half lead   A  native  of Duluth  and  a  thir- geniously from salvage, the school  to sack- for tomatoes.   size of the Navy is 500,000.
        next Tuesday  on  Diamond  No.  1.
        Time:  1400.                 Powerful fiunpowtler  Tools for Damage Control to Be Studied Ill 1,  I,
        National  League
          The only game played ended in
        a  3-3  deadlock  between  Pre-Em-
        barkation and Operational  Train-
        ing Gunnery.
        International  League
          T. I.  Dispensary  continued  on
        their victory march,  this time de-
        feating the Destroyer Pool aggre-
        gation, 9-2. A wild scoring contest
        developed between the Post Office
        and , ·the  Medics.  The
        finally won out, 15-14.
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                                     VE;LOC,lliY-POWER  IN  THE  CLASSROOM-Under  watchful  eye  Clarence  Lake,  Daniel  lorillo  and• Harry  Frazier.  All  men  are  in-
                                     o.f  Walter' Halyorson  (in  white  cap),  senior  instructor,  Leroy  Jack- structors  in  new  school.  Right,  Ens.  John  R.  Dion,  head  of  scl;i_oo!,
                                     son  (center)  uses  velocity-power  driver  to  "shoot"  steel  pin  into  tends  air  line  as  instructor  Jackson,  in  diving  suit  and  carrying
                                     ,l'!~,l,f,jnqh-thick  s~eel  plate  in -.  sand  box.  In  foreground,  practicing  velocity-power  driver,  is  lowered  under  water  in  demonstration  o'f
                                     loading  projectiles in  dril(er barrels, are  (left to .right). Will.lam  Neel,  how students will  practice ·in school  tank.
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