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HE principal feature of the new Navy promotion plan embodies increases and decreases in the present percentage distribution of ranks. It wiU mean more Captains, Commanders and Lieutenant Commanders, as compared to the total number of naval officers, and fewer Lieutenants. The proposed percentages by rank, as compared to the current percentages, are: Captains — 6 percent proposed, 4 percent existing; Commanders —11 percent proposed, 8 percent existing; Lieutenant Commanders—16 percent proposed, 15 percent existing; Lieutenants—21 percent proposed, 30 percent existing; Junior Officers — 45 percent proposed, 42 percent existing.

This new plan means that the average age of Admirals and other senior officers will be much younger, and that attrition will occur primarily among Junior Officers. It is estimated that more than half of the officers seeking the rank of Lieutenant wUl fail to attain it, and wOl be required to resign from the Navy.

Details of the plan are not complete at this writing (December 21) but the plan is scheduled for submission to the Bureau of the Budget in the near future and then to Congress for enactment into law. The bill will concern promotion, retirement and rank distribution of naval officers.

Much favorable comment regarding the plan has been received by the Navy Department. Even though the plan contemplates the forced retirement of Admirals believed unfit for fvurther promotion, so that additional vacancies will be created throughout lower ranks, Admirals throughout the Navy have approved it. Admiral John H. Towers, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, said it is imperative that the Navy be permitted to advance outstanding officers to flag rank at an early age.

In pre-war days. Admiral Towers told newspapermen in Honolulu, the average officer was 57 or 58 years old before he could attain flag rank.

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jobs as carrier task force commander <» commander of a bombardment division of batdeships. Not only were they too old, but they did not have experience in aviation and did not know how to use their weapons. As a result, they were overcautious—a natural result of ignorance and old age.

"We have young admirals now, but they never would have reached their present rank except by drastic action.

There are men just behind them who proved in the war that they are capable of being admirals."

Specialist Duty This legislation will include provision for Specialist Duty Only officers in the line of the Navy. These SDO officers will be carried as extra numbers in grade, and will enjoy a status similar to that of officers on Engineering Duty Only. SDO officers w^ill include specialists in communications, intelligence, law, public information, photography and psychology.

Commission for enlisted men, and officer duties in line with their enlisted training, are contemplated. Thus, Quartermasters may become Assistant Navigators, Machinist's Mates may become engineering officers, and Gunner's Mates may become gunnery officers.

Congressional Committees By the time this is read, the Congressional batde over the proposed ArinyNavy merger will be getting started. In a preliminary skirmish. Republican members of the House are scrapping among themselves over the proposed merger of the Military and the Naval Affairs Committees. Under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the number of House committees would be reduced from 48 to 19, and there would be only one committee—the Armed Services Committee —serving the Army and the Navy. Representative W. Sterling Cole, New York, ranking Republican of the House {Continued on page 4)

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prepared by the Naval Analysis Division, USSBS. (Government Printing Office, $2.25) This is an indispensable book for the naval historian or for the man interested in military affairs. It will be of small interest to the average lay reader.

In brief, the book covers the whole Pacffic war from the basic planning of the Greater East Asia War to the final carrier strikes against the Home Islands.

Especially interesting and enlightening is die thorough analysis of the whole war, campaign by campaign, from the Japanese point of view. For the first time information obtained from the interrogation of Japanese officers and from translated documents is brought together in a cohesive and ordered form so that it is possible to foUow the changing Japanese naval planning, step by step, through the whole war. Many of the Top Secret Japanese plans, directives and dispatches are printed here.

A good rounded, three-dimensional view of the war is given. The information and evaluations contained in the chapters come from many divergent sources, both American and Japanese, that heretofore, have been either classified or available only to the painstaking researcher. In this book all of this material is boiled down and integrated into a logical form.

The text of the book is rather general in the discussion of overall planning and in the accounts of the various battles (blow by blow descriptions are not given.

Ex: "In the early hours of the morning, die Japanese Southern Force steamed into Suriago Straits and was destroyed—") In the appendixes following each chapter, however, much detailed information is given, such as composition of U. S. and Japanese forces with the names of the commanders, detailed losses for both sides, track charts of battles, graphs of combat losses, translations of Japanese reports on certain operations, and other pertinent information concerned with the details of names and numbers. The analysis of damage to the Japanese fleet is so thorough that often the exact number of hits on a vessel are listed.

The studies in this book are thorough and well-organized. Little is left unsaid (Continued on page 13)

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The Navy on Capitol Hill—By Fred Lardner Miscellaneous Cargo—By LeRoy

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MANAGING E D I T O R C. E. CONEY, '19

Published monthly on the twenty-fifth of the month preceding the date of issue, at twenty cents a copy. Annual subscription, S2.00; Canadian and foreign subscription, $ 3 0 0 . Published by the AJumni Association of the United States Naval Academy: Admiral C. P. Snyder, President; Haller Belt, Donald S. Walker, VicePresidents: C. E. Coney, Executive Director. Printed at Fleet McGinley, Inc., 109 Market Place, Baltimore ( 2 ) , Maryland. Editorial office. Alumni House, Annapolis, Maryland. Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Annapolis, Maryland. Copyright, 1947, by the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Inc.

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The Navy on Capitol Hill {Continued from page 2) Naval Affairs Committee, has written letters to all House Repubhcans urging them to oppose the merger of these committees.

Neither branch of Congress is obligated to abide by the provisions of the Reorganization Act. Representative Cole said he polled about fifty Republican members of Congress and found only four of them definitely in favor of the merger. However, RepubUcan leaders have warned that a single exception to the law would pave the way for other exceptions.

Representative Joseph W . Martin, RepubUcan of Massachusetts and next Speaker of the House, said: "I think the entire reorganization program should be put into effect. The House RepubUcan Steering Committee has expressed itself overwhelmingly in favor of it. If there are any deficiencies in the act, they will show up after we've had some experience with the law. Any needed changes can be made then."

Senator WaUace H. White, RepubUcan of Maine, Senate floor leader, and Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, chairman of the Senate Republican Steering Committee, voiced the same view.

From the viewpoint of Representative Cole and other Navy-minded members of Congress, there are many good arguments against unification of the Army and Navy committees. Cole said that President Truman wiU use the Congressional consolidation of these committees as an argument for the Army-Navy merger.

"But," he added, "Congressional committee consolidation should await idtimate legislative action on departmental consoUdation. To join the committees now would place the cart before the horse.

To cope adequately with the volume of work given a single committee, it would be necessary to form two large subcommittees, one for the Army and one for

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the Navy, placing us exacdy back in our present situation. The world picture is too uncertain for us to cope with our military machinery at this time."

Committee chairmen are powerful figures, and the chairman of the proposed House Armed Service Committee would be Representative Walter G. Andrews of New York, now the ranking RepubUcan on the MiUtary Affairs Committee.

Andrews is an ardent advocate of a merged Army and Navy.

In answer to criticism that he is trying to make sure of the Naval Affairs Committee chairmanship. Representative Cole said he would reUnquish Haim.«; ro that job if the House refuses to approve the merger of the MiUtary and Naval Affairs Committees.

in the miUtary occupation of Japan and southern Korea, the War Department said. The Pacific Command and the Alaskan Command are approximately the same as the former Pacific Ocean Areas, except as noted here, and the Alaskan Department, respectively. The Northwest Command will include U. S. bases and forces in the northeastern approaches to the United States. Tlie Atlantic Fleet and the European Command are substantially as at present. The Caribbean Command will include the U. S. Forces in the islands of the Caribbean and in the present Panama Canal Department.

Thus, another step not approved by Congress has been taken leading toward full merger of the Navy with the Army.

Editorial Opinion

Unified Command On December 17 the War Department (not the White House) announced that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had recommended and the President had approved a comprehensive system of unified miUtary commands "designed to place responsibility for the conduct of military operations of the land, naval and air forces in the several regions of military importance to the United States, each in the hands of one single commander."

These commanders at present are: Far East Commander—General Douglas MacArthur; Pacific Command—Admiral John H. Towers; Alaskan Command— Major General H. A. Craig; Northeast Command—Commander not yet named; Adantic Fleet—Admiral Marc A. Mitscher; Caribbean Command—^no change for the present; European Command— General Joseph T. McNarney.

The Far East Command consists of U. S. Forces in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, the Marianas, Bonins and Ryukyus. The civil and military government of Guam and the ex-Japanese Mandates are not changed. The Marianas evenmally will revert to the Pacific Command, the present arrangement being designed to give support to General MacArthur

W e will repeat, from time to tim^ opinions expressed by estabUshed commentators regarding the Army-Navy merger. Here is what David Lawrence, columnist, has to say: "There is no such thing as an overnight 'merger' of experience and training. To combine all land, sea and air forces into a single instrument suddenly and put them under one commander would be to reduce rather than increase efficiency. It would take years to develop a single armed service and command staff.

"The last war was not fought, as is commonly beUeved, by a system of "unified command' or by a single commander in chief in the field. Actually only in local theaters of operation was there a single commander and he usually had alongside of him representatives of every branch of the armed services, constimting a staff or committee.

"In the larger areas of operation, unified command was practiced only rarely and never in the same way. Gener^ Eisenhower, for example, did not have complete or constant command of the Air Forces or of aU the armies in Europe or of the Navy at any one time. Admiral {Continued on page 10)

A PRESIDENT and

BOARD 4 TRUSTEES AlllMM iSSOCIATIOI Admiral Charles Philip Snyder, '00, U S N (Ret) President Alnmni Association

The President and Board of Trustees announce the appointment of Captain C. E. Coney, U.SJSf. (Ret.), Class of 1919, as Ezecative Direaor of the Associadon for the year 1947. Captain Coney took over his duties on January 1.

The Association has made much progress since 1931, when it was incorporated under the able leadership of the late Captain W. H. Stayton, '81, who for so many years gave of his time and eflFort to its up-buUding. He deJerves a special place in the hearts of all Alumni. Many of his own ideas have been carried out, including the establishment of our publication SHIPMATE and the obtaining of one of the old Colonial homes of Annapolis as an Alumni House.

JANUARY,

1947

During this period, or since the death of Captain D. M. Garrison, '95, in 1927, the Association has had the services of a number of Secretaries whose devotion to our interests has possibly not been well recognized. At Captain Garrison's death, G. V. Stewart, '05, stepped in to gather up the threads as a labor of love until he was relieved by R. S. Robertson, Jr., '09. During Robertson's time, the Association was incorporated and better organized. A definite start was made toward becoming a going concern. Robertson was relieved by E. F. Cochran, '16, who started our magazine SHIPMATE and carried on until called to active duty. The Association was fortunate at this time to obtain the services of Mr. Harry R. England, '27. He has kept

things moving during the flourishing war years and has seen the fruition of plans for an Alumni House in Annapolis.

We are now in a period where retrenchment is necessary. The Board desires that the Association continue to progress and requests the interest, support and help of every Alumnus.

The Board believes our new Executive Direaor will devote his entire time unselfishly to the best interests of the Association and all Alumni. We ask each of you to assist and to help Captain Coney in any way you can in carrying out the high purposes of the Association as they are recited in the Certificate of Incorporation and published in every issue of the Register of Graduates.

PHIllPPllE ÂŁ i l ÂŤ ^ PORT By Comdr. Matthew Radom,

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on board our ONEshipnightwe athadthe movies a newsreel during which the film showed General Douglas MacArthur turning over the reins of government to President Osmena of the Uberated PhiUppines. The scene was taken on the steps of the government budding at Tacloban, P. I. In the movie, the budding looked immense, imposing and immaculate. Since we were anchored in an atoU at the time and the only buildings we had seen during the year had been Quonset huts nesded under coconut aees, this scene made us all anxious to visit Tacloban. For it was not only a historic place now but also, from this newsreel at least, a good looking possibility for a decent "liberty port." There are not many such Uberty ports in the Central Pacific.

EvenmaUy, our Task Group was ordered to Leyte Gulf and we anchored about ten miles off Tacloban in the immense body of water where the first landing in the liberation of the Philippines had occurred. At last, we had arrived off a real liberty port.

The official instructions for the port proclaimed that general visiting in Tacloban was not allowed. The facilities of the town were quite limited and food was scarce. Recreation areas for the Fleet had been set up on Samar Island much closer ro the Fleet anchorages. The "liberty

Levte Gulf in the distance.

parries" were to be sent to these special areas. However, persons having business in Tacloban with the naval authorities based ashore could visit the town during dayUgfit providing they had written permission from their commanding officers. I made the trip in one day because it was necessary for me to go ashore during our stay to conduct some ship's business.

Getting ashore to Tacloban from a ship anchored in Leyte Gulf is a major boating operation. I first had to take our ship's boat to the service force ship which acted as a fleet base headquarters out in the anchorage. Then, along with all Tacloban visitors, I was transferred via small boat to a subchaser. After a trip of slighdy over an hour, we arrived off Tacloban, again transferred to a small boat and finally the big moment arrived.

Here was the historic sloping beach where General MacArthur had waded ashore from an amphibious landing craft to proclaim those famous words, "I have returned." We didn't have to wade in for a boat pier was in operation. Not far away was the imposing looking government building I had seen in the newsreel. Then mud.

At first, I was quite disappointed as I had expected to see a fairly modern city.

I guess my expectations were based on

that imposing looking government building. Now, it was before me and although impressive in size and architecturally decorative, it was the only large building for miles. However, I was in a strange land, the day was young and I was going to have a lot of time to look around for the return trip to the fleet anchorage wasn't due to shove off xmtil later that afternoon.

It was fortunate for me that during the course of my business I ran across a friend who was starioned ashore. Aside from the pleasure of meering him I beamed when he told me that he had a jeep at his disposal. W e could combine business wirfi pleasure as he had to drive over to Tolosa.

It had rained that morning, the special kind of tropical rain tbat comes down in buckets. The roads were heavy vrith mud.

The sun was shining brighdy and the air was humid. Riding in a jeep was pleasant for we stirred up a breeze. But I could teU from the faces of the many pedestrians that walking in the mud and heat was no pleasure.

It was about a mile from the beadi to the town proper of Tacloban. Along the way were smaU nipa shacks, the typical dwelUng places of the country. For one who had visited the islands of the Caribbean and the Canal Zone they were a famiUar sight. The roofs of some of these Philippine shacks were made of palmetto, the sides generally of packing boxes or sheet metal, or a combination of these.

Some had small shaded porches. Others were constructed entirely of palmetto and bamboo. The day was Sunday and the townspeople were at home with their children. There was much pedestrian traffic on each side of the road. Army vehicles roared by squishing mud.

As we neared the town proper, the crowds of people got thicker, the smells stronger. A drainage system ran along each side of the road in deep gutters half full of slowly moving water. The signs on the buildings became very interesting.

Many of the substantial buildings, all of which were wood structures, were given over to army offices or warehouses. There were many barber shops, all doing a big business. FiUpinos apparendy love to keep their heads well groomed. Many beauty parlors with fancy names were evident. I was especially intrigued by one which called itself "The ReaUstic Beauty Shop."

Every nipa shack along the way had a stand in front of it either built into the house or set out in front much as the vegetable road stands in the States. AU displayed about the same wares. Fancy sUppers made of wood and highly decorated cloth, hand-painted or embroidered in a riot of colors, mosdy reds and greens. Botdes were set up in a row of some kind of brown or white looking liquid marked "Scotch, Rye, Gin, Brandy," etc. Emptied beer botdes served as pints while former ginger ale or wine botties were used for quart sizes. Corks are a scarce commodity so the tops were sealed with heavy paper. The labels were printed on white paper and were very simple and to the point. Some white liquids were labeled "Scotch." I didn't see any sales of these potent looking liquids being made. We heard later that there had been some poisoning caused by these home brewed products and I guess the word had gotten around among the possible imbibers. Sea shells made into strings of beads or bracelets were on sale. Straw hats in various sizes and shapes were displayed ranging from imitations of derby hats, through "Panamas" to the pointed parasol type worn by field workers in the Orient. W e stopped to price these.

The asking price was 8 to 10 pesos ($4 to $5 U.S.). The shop keepers made no effort to bargain. Most of the shops also had Japanese occupation paper currency for sale as souvenirs. I bought a smaU packet containing aU denominations from 1 centavo to 10 pesos. This was 7 pieces of currency. AU had the words "Tlie Japanese Government" printed in bold type across their faces. The peso notes had serial numbers on them but the centavo notes looked for aU the world like U.S. cigar store coupons. For this souvenir I paid 4 pesos ($2 U.S.). The young lady who made the sale asked me to remrn the paper clip. She said they were hard to get.

We parked the jeep and got out to mingle with the crowds. The town market was doing a thriving business as Sunday was apparently a big shopping day.

The sights and smeUs of the market were compeUing. There was raw fish in variJANUARY,

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ous sizes ranging from tiny minnows packed in a substance which looked like sawdust to smaU baby sharks about a foot and a half long. Sides of meat were being hacked into various sizes. It was the reddest looking meat I had ever seen, probably Carabao meat. Cakes and doughy looking twists were in jars to protect them from ants or other insects.

Strangely enough, I noticed an absence of flies and wondered if this was due to our use of D D T powder in the area.

There was a wide variety of smaU articles such as soap, needle and thread, ink, patent medicines, pomades, buttons and empty bottles. TTiere were large sacks of crude salt, some cereal grains which looked like crushed corn or grits.

I saw no rice which is scarce and sold largely on the black market. I was surprised to see smaU ears of sweet corn as I had never associated this food with the Orient. Ripe bananas, mangoes and pineapples were on sale. W e priced them.

The bananas sold for about a nickel each, the mangoes cost one peso while the pineapples brought in two pesos. The bananas were the favorite fruit so far as soldiers and sailors were concerned.

Tacloban in some respects is a boom town. Its normal pre-war population of 30,000 has been sweUed by the addition of military personnel furnishing services to the Army, Navy and War Shipping Administration. In addition, outlying camps are a source of visitors to town, particularly in motor traffic. All this has brought a lot of money. Although Jap currency has been declared worthless, the after effects of the spiral of inflation set off by the Nipponese printing presses hasn't subsided. American dollars are plentiful but goods, especiaUy food, are scarce. The prices reflect this condition.

Sunday dinner was advertised at some of the eating establishments on the main street of Tacloban. The menu appeared chalked on blackboards standing outside.

As we passed, my eye caught the notation "Chicken Dinner $10." The local cinema in one of the largest buildings in town advertised a movie with huge garish posters. Although I couldn't translate the title and subtitles, I gathered from the colorful posters that the story concerned

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life in a harem among the Morros in the Southern Philippines. There was an indication that beautiful maidens were carried off by ferocious horsemen. The price for viewing this spectacle in "silent" film was one peso for the gaUery and two for the good seats. That's fifty cents and a doUar in U.S. money respectively. In a small cafe, not very clean looking, was a sign "Experienced Night Club Hostesses Wanted." A circusy looking tent sheltered a "stupendous vodvil and magic trick show" which went on every evening at about double the cinema's prices. Another poster advertised prize fights with a fuU card varying from 80 pound boxers to 140 pound sluggers. This spectacle could be seen for 5 pesos gaUery and 10 pesos ringside. I mention these prices because they represent something tangible in measurement of material values to us. There is something unnamral connected with paying five dollars to see a prize fight and not having enough to eat because food isn't being produced. I hope for the sake of the FiUpino people that their natural productive abilities are brought into full play with a minimum of delay.

We stopped in at an American Red Cross Canteen and joined a line of men moving toward a counter where a cold cola drink and ice water were being dispensed in paper cups. There was also a large box of store cookies available. A smiling American girl in Red Cross uniform had a cheerful word for us aU as we passed along. The room was cool and a welcome oasis from the mud, the heat, the heavy traffic and the passing crowds.

The Beach at Tolosa Town. A wrecked We got back to our jeep and set out landing craft serves as a bathhouse. for Tolosa about 20 miles to the southward on the western shore of Leyte Gidf.

We passed many small barrios now served by a broad highway pounded flat by a countless stream of trucks and jeeps.

The sun's heat had now dried the mud and chalky dust began to fiU the air stirred up by the many wheels. The base at Tolosa was typical of any Quonset villages the world over. Only the foliage (or lack of it) changes the picture. While ( Continued on page 10)

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T ^ ' O S T of the White Plains' company •*-"-*• were at breakfast when the general alarm sounded at 6:55 on the morning of Oaober 25, 1944. Shordy before, they had been secured from their batde stations, which are manned prior to sunrise when the ship is at sea. N o one, however, had any indication of what was in store that day, as we steamed northeast of Leyte Gulf in the Central PhiUppines.

The first shells straddled the ship at 6:59 a.m, falUng with a suUen thump in a diagonal pattern close aboard. On the bridge it had just been learned that an enemy surface force was approaching from 17 miles astern. Among the crew, stiU unaware of what we were to face, discussions as to the source of attack arose freely. The sky was overcast, and QO airplanes were audible. "Those Japs wdl try anything," was one comment.

"Imagine attempting to hit these ships from high alrimdes through soUd clouds."

Another series of near misses with the same ominous thud interrupted. There was a pecuUar spark-like sputtering as the missUes descended to strike the water.

W e had been bombed before; this didn't, seem the same. Suddeidy word swept throughout the ship like wildfire: "The Japanese fleet is off our port quarter on the horizon!" The resultant sensation is difficult to describe. It produced the dry mouth that comes to players before the opening whisde of an important footbaU game, combined with the sickening qualm one carries in when caUed before the coUege dean. "Surely this is an air attack. The surface units must be our own." But no, there was the flash of guns on the horizon, the tearing whir of spinning projectUes and the muffled thud of heavy objects striking the water nearby.

Four minutes after seven, a salvo of either 14 or 16 inch sheUs landed in a very near miss, and from a psychic standpoint it might just as well have hit.

Simultaneously with a terrific blasr, the ship was thrown upward, quivering as in a convulsion; then it seemed to lope like a rabid wolf for a matter of several seconds. A horrible banging sounded from the after engine room, and aU but the weather decks were thrown into darkness. It appeared obvious to everyone that the Japs had found their mark To our amazement, however, the ship conrinued underway at its previous speed.

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Within four minutes the Ughts were on again. A power failure had resulted when the generator citcuit-breaker was jarred open by the concussion.

Down in the after engine room the black gang was waging a gaUant batde to keep up speed. Heavy steel floor plates had been thrown upward; lagging was falUng from the overhead, and the air ducts from the blowers had parted at the expansion joints, causing a serious diminution of oxygen to the burners and an alarming hiss which mimicked escaping steam. Blankets and pieces of canvas were quickly thrown around the leaking joints, and boimd down. The air intake, which had shown an appalling drop, had risen to the proper levd.

In the meantime the relendess shelling went on. Projectiles which continued to plummet alongside kept aU hands manning exposed stations drenched with sea water. Even those on the bridge, 60 feet above the surface, did not escape. Despite the best speed we could make, the enemy was dosing fast. It was now easy to discern the grotesque superstructure of Japanese men-o-war. Four batdeships, the Yamato, Nagato, Kongo and Haruna; seven cruisers of the Nachj, Mogami and Tone classes, and at least nine sleek, modern destroyers were in the pursuing force.

Unless help arrived soon we could see no hope. There would be Utde enough even so. The company of six escorr carriers with our screen of three destroyers and four destroyer escorts was no match for the enemy either in speed or firepower. It would be some time before the Japs might come within range of our five-inch gun, even if they elected to approach that dose. Their cruisers and batdeships could weU do their work out of our reach.

We could hardly anticipate viaory, but there was the satisfying possibility that we might trip them momentarily; perhaps slow them enough to be thrown off schedule. It was dear that the Japs were headed for our transports in Leyte Gulf, and had stumbled upon us unexpeaedly.

C LOWLY our own escort carrier, the ' - ' White Plains, which took die initial enemy salvos from its position in the rear of the formation, began to forge ahead. The entire outfit was proceeding

at fuU speed for the CVEs, which at best is hardly half of that crecUted to Japanese cruisers. "I'm going to put in new piston rings," the Chief Engineer had commented at our last anchorage. "Some day we might need a few extra knots." Today was that day, and eventually it was necessary for us to reduce speed to aUow our sister ships to keep up. W e realized then how irritating it must have been for the destroyers, which could have outdistanced the Japs had they not been detailed to protect us.

The bombardment continued incessandy. AU of our group were laying smoke screens, which seemed to bother the Japs to some extent, and we zigzagged furiously in the desperate manner of a hounded hare. Only a few minutes had passed, but it seemed as though we had been under fire aU day.

Yet we wondered why we were still afloat. There was no logical answer.

It was interesting to see the reacdoos of various men who were diere staring death in the face. Those who had duties to perform at the time were better off than others. Back aft, facing the enemy ships, which were still out of our gun's range, the strain was terrific on the fiveinch crew. Men at the anti-aircraft guns could only look on hdplessly. "T)c«i't worry boys," said one brave soul, "Well ckaw them within 40 millimeter range soon." Plane handlers hurriedly put the remaining aircraft into proper spots for launching, and ordnance men saw that they were charged with ammunition.

Down on the hangar deck, carpenters mates, machinists mates, cooks, stewards mates, and the variegated band whidi comprises the complement of a modem naval vessd were gathered, awaiting they knew not what. Many gazed blankly out of open hatches, watching the geysers thrown up by big shells which were intended to snuff out their Uves. Srane passed the time by casuaUy throwing loose bits of trash overboard. One 200pound man sat holding his hands over his ears Uke a frightened child. Everyone was scared. Not to have been so would be indicative of insanity. Yet few gave evidence of it. The majority who had no immediate assignments lay on the dedc and drowsed as an athlete before a major contest.

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ORtM Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, U.SJST., former superintendent of the Naval Academy, has estabUshed a Chapel organ trast fund which, it is hoped, wiU piompdy grow to such proportions that it will be possible to contract for the early instaUation of a new custom built organ in the Naval Academy Chapel.

Specifications for the proposed organ are the result of almost three years of concentrated study by a committee appointed

by Chaplain Thomas and approved by Admiral BeardaU early in 1944. Serving on this committee were the late Mr. Richard Whitelegg, internationaUy recognized tonal expert, Lt. Comdr.

Homer H. Blanchard, U.SJSJ.R., and Professor Donald C. GiUey, Chapel organist and choir director, who acted in the capacity of chairman. This committee's one purpose has been to design an organ that wiU meet aU the requirements peculiar to the Naval Academy Chapel.

While it wdl not be the nation's largest organ, it wUl be almost four times as large as the present instrument and wiU possess a flexibility and a rich variety of tonal combinations that wiU be unique in the history of American organ building and in every sense a credit to the "Qthedral of the Navy."

During the war graduates and friends of the Naval Academy inquired concerning the possibiUty of placing memorials in the Academy Chapel. Because there have been, and stiU are, certain necessary restrictions on the acceptance of gifts and memorials, the proposed new organ will provide a welcome opportunity to those who are interested in enhancing the beauty of the Chapel service.

The net cost of the new organ will be approximately $70,000, but its value, even in terms of money, will be considerably greater in that aU the present grill and case work and many of the old pipes will be retained.

The fund, as it now stands, contains $17,000 transferred from a surplus in the

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Interior of Southeast window of the Chapel

Chapel Fund created by the voluntary contributions of those who have worshipped in the Chapel particularly during the war years, lliat leaves a balance of approximately $50,000 to be raised by gifts and memorials from individuals, classes, and organizations interested in the Chapel.

The present organ, built by the Hutchins-Votey Company, was dedicated in the spring of 1908. When the addition to the Chapel was made in 1940, the same organ was moved from its original location and placed in the nearest window niches on either side of the chancel.

The instrument was given a general cleaning and refurbishing at that time and a new console was added. In 1942 a smaU antiphonal organ was added in the rear gaUery in order to help with the choir processional and congregational singing.

While the present organ was an excellent instrument for its day and for the original Chapel, there are many sound reasons for installing a new organ at this time. First of all, the mechanical defects that have developed in an organ as old as the present instrument are a constant threat of trouble in the Chapel services.

The mechanism of an organ is extremely complicated and it is only namral that after thirty-five years it is subject to frequent operational failures. In the second place, tone needs to be provided within the chancel, to give adequate accompaniment for the choir. The choir sits in the chancel behind the two present organ lofts and the tone has to travel out into the space under the dome and then back to the choir, thus forcing the organist to play entirely too loudly when he accompanies the choir during its singing of anthems and chants in the services. In the third place, the old organ is much too small for the enlarged Chapel. Since only

very smaU tonal additions were made when the present long nave was added, the organ is inadequate to give full support to congregational singing. A budding as large as the Chapel needs an instrument of commensurate size to adequately project the service, and the present instrument is too smaU to do this in artistic fashion. FinaUy, a much wider variety of color is needed to supply the proper background for the weddings and funerals conducted in the Chapel. The same holds true for organ recitals. In recent years there has been an increasing demand for such recitals by the Chapel organist. When the new organ is installed, we shaU have a concert instrument of such quality and magnificent proportions that it wiU be proper to invite world famous organists for occasional recitals.

The MoUer Organ Company of Hagerstown, the largest organ company in the world, has been selected to build and instaU the organ. They are thoroughly familiar with the Chapel and its present organ, as they moved the original organ to its present location and added the smaU antiphonal organ. It is of interest that they also built the West Point Chapel organ, said to be the second largest church organ in the world and the third largest organ of any kind in the United States.

The committee appointed by Admiral Fitch to administer the organ fund and to assume responsibility for the purchase and installation of the new instrument consists of Captain J. R. Wallace, US.N., Administrative Aide; Captain J. R. Perry (CEC), U.S.N., Public Works Officer, and Chaplain E. P. Wuebbens, with Mr. J. H. H. Poole, civil engineer, and Professor Donald C. GiUey, Chapel organist, as technical advisers.

It takes time to build a good organ, and in order to make sure that this one

wiU be as perfect as organ craftsmanship can make it, no attempt wiU be made to instaU the new Chapel organ before the summer of 1948. In order to do even that, however, it wdl be necessary to sign the conaact within the next few months.

Correspondence by those interested in promoting the success of this project is invited. It should be addressed to the Chapel Organ Committee, attention Chaplain, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.

The Nairj- on Capitol Hill {Continued from page 4) Nimitz never had command of the Air Forces in the Pacific.

"Those persons who teU the public that what is needed now is the same sort of "unity of command" as existed in the war, are talking of a generaUssimo who never emerged in the American picture at aU. It was only in Nazi Germany, which lost the war, that a commander of land, sea and air forces operated.

"It was the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff which successfuUy commanded American miUtarj', naval and air forces as the delegated agent of the President.

"Great Britain, mindful of the experiences of the past and looking toward the future, has not set up a single commander in chief. It has set up a plan whereby each service—^land, sea and air— is independent but aU three report to the Prime Minister through a joint chiefs of staff.

"The British also have set up an advisory council consisting of the military men and the diplomatic officers of the government who make foreign polic)'. A simdar councd has been suggested by the United States Navy leaders for this country."

Naval Tactics Almost any Army officer can sound off publicly in favor of Navy merger with the Army without antagonizing President Truman. But not even Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, U. S. N., can publicly oppose a merger. So Admiral Nimitz is forced to approach the matter obliquely.

This the Admiral did admirably in a speech before the Philosophical Societjof Texas on December 7. The speech concerned the influence of seapower on histor}' and commerce.

"Sheer weight kept Spain dominant on the seas for almost 100 years," Admiral Nimitz said. "In 1588 her king, PhUip II, gambled away an empire in his decision to invade England and thereby put an end to the British encroachments upon his domain. A fleet of 130 ships, manned by 7,000 sadors and crammed with 17,000 soldiers, comprised the Spanish Armada.

To oppose it, the British had 90 ships, plus a sort of mosquito fleet which was never brought to action, and the 'knowhow,' personified in Sir Francis Drake.

"The Armada was organized along the same lines as an army, and it was under the command of a general, the Duke of Medina-Sidonia, a verj' brave man by aU accounts, but incUned to maneuver his ships like infantry and cavak)'. Drake, out-gunned and out-numbered, used the sea as his aUy while Medina fought the sea. The British ships kept to windward of the Spaniards at extreme range. The marksmanship of the Spanish cannoneers, unaccustomed as they were to the heaving sea as a gun platform, was poor, and the British, who had trained sadors manning their guns, profited gready by this gunnery advantage."

Of the two world wars. Admiral Nimitz said, in part: "So it was that those nations who have traditionally failed to understand seapower again lost another gamble for world control."

And listen to this: "War is one contest that is undesirable to play on the home grounds. Without a Navy there would be no use for an army vmless the United States elects to fight any fumre war on its own soU." He takes care of the Air Forces in this manner: "And, until aircraft can economicaUy carry whole divisions and land them at wiU despite terrain, weather and artiUerj—and maintain an unbroken line of supply in overwhelming quantity of replacements and munitions — seapower expressed in ships can alone keep war from American soil and carry it to the enemy's

territor)'. That is not to overlook the faa that a part of airpower, a highly specialized part of airpower, has become an essential part of seapower. Carrier-based aviation is stiU the only means of providing a mobile, tactical air force at distances far removed from prepared air bases."

The Navy has acquired, besides the Army, anotber legislative antagonist— those Americans in or serving the United Nations Organization who are accepting without much question — as though to question were to antagonize—^plans for world-wide disarmament. Of aU the world's armed forces, the U. S. Navy would be the hardest hit, by far, in any disarmamenr program. Speaking of disarmament. Admiral Nimitz said: "Limitation of armament, once hopefuUy adopted as a deterrenr of war, failed completely. Can we hope for better results in the future? . . . . For the interim, at least, the United States must maintain an adequate, efficient estabUshment to insure its own defense."

The Admiral and his ghost (presumably someone in Na\'y press rdations wrote the speech) should be permitted to present that speech before Congress.

P h i l i p p i n e Liberty Port {Continued from page 1) my friend went off on his business, I ventured down towards the beach. There I found a Uvely scene. Apparendy most of the citizens of Tolosa town were out for a day on the beach. The youngsters were cavorting in and out of the water unencumbered by clothes. Those who were more modest didnt bother with bathing suits either. They just walked into the water with their dothes on, splashed about, and then came out and dried in the hot sun.

After our business was completed at Tolosa, we headed for Dulag about 10 miles beyond on the beach to have a look at the landing spots where our amphibious troops had come ashore. As we neared that point, signs of the naval bombardment which preceded the landings began to show up. All about, the trees were blasted and the countryside ploughed up with craters. An Army camp occupied one sector nearby. The scene was strangely quiet as soldiers dozed under mosquito netting or swam about lazily.

It was time to get back to Tadoban to make our boat connection. As we rode along, we passed groups of Filipinos young and old out for a Sunday stroll.

They were dressed in freshly laundered clotbes, mosdy white or light blue, starched almost to the glistening point.

As we waved at them, the children

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shouted back greetings, the young girls giggled behind their hands and older people answered our greetings with sincerity and understanding.

As we approached Tadoban, my friend took a road to the left explaining that he had to visit the American cemetery. "One of our men is buried there," he said, "I'm going to try to get a photo of his grave to send to his family."

The cemetery was near the town of Palo about two miles from Tacloban. A very large Spanish type mission budding dominated the area. Not far away was the American cemetery. It had been laid out between two gende slopes.

The graves registration office was very hdpful. However, we were unable to obtain the desired photo as the cemetery authorities were receiving the remains of Americans who had faUen in battle on land and ships of the amphibious forces from various beachheads and battle areas nearby. Thus, the Americans who died at Ormoc, Samar, Dulag and the beaches which were stormed at those places were generaUy buried on the spot. Every means was used to preser\'e identification. Now, these bodies were being brought to Palo for final interment.

The rows of white crosses with an occasional Star of David gleamed white in the afternoon sun. We stood in respectful silence watching Fdipino laborers prepare graves for the last remains of those who had given their lives for the Uberation of the PhiUppines. There was an austere beauty in the scene; dignified and heroic.

The graves registration officer pointed out some graves off to one side of the cemetery surrounded by a white picket fence. They were marked by single stakes. "Those are Japanese dead. W e try to identify them whenever possible so that we wiU have a record for any fumre use which our government may need." I doubt if the vaunted Yamashita who had last been reported on Luzon or his compatriots in Japan could understand such an attimde on the part of an enemy. They would undoubtedly brand it as another

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I arrived back on board just about sunset, tired and dirty. It was a luxurious feeling to get under a shower and soap down, then climb into fresh khakis. As I ate my hot dinner and later attended a movie on the topside, I couldn't help but contrast what I saw around me on board ship with the primitive conditions I had seen ashore. It had been a wise move to restrict general shore-going in Tacloban in its present condition. Given some time and assistance by sympathetic Americans, Tacloban wiU one day resume its normal existence.

Tripping the Juggernaut {Continued from page 8) thoughts come to mind at STRANGE such a time. Few imagined that they would die, but almost aU wondered about the experience of having to abandon ship. One of us resented the thought that the dady letters he had written his wife might never be mailed. Some of them contained- bright, shiny dimes for his baby boy. Practically everyone thought of home.

"Launch aircraft!" Each of us felt like cheering as these aerial knights roared off the flight deck to join the battle. Every pilot was now on his own, but still furnishing the only big punch boasted by the CVEs. As nine of the White Plains' airplanes had been launched on missions

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two hours prior to the attack, our representatives in the battle now raging were pitifuUy few in number, but magnificent in their determination to turn back the enemy. Five fighters were launched at this time, followed by four torpedo bombers, loaded as they were for other work later in the day. Anything that would explode was carried along. Two of this group did not return.

Our striking force which was sent out before the attack had been landed on the beach. Pilots from other units who had flown over the surface engagement had advised them not to attempt a return, for there was no possibility of any escort carrier remaining afloat to provide a landing.

We were considered a doomed lot. But our pilots, were anxious to help all they could, and loading their airplanes with everything they could gather on the beach, they swarmed out over the enemy ships. One of our aircraft was seen to explode in mid-air. "He was foUowing me down," said a torpedo bomber pilot who planted a 500-pounder squarely on a Jap battleship of the Nagato class. "And everything which was going by me seemed to hit him. That was plenty, too."

Approximately half an hour after the opening of the engagement, clouds dosed in, and our unit became hidden in a tropical squaU. The sheUing diminished, but our suspense mounted, for everyone realized that the Japs would move up.

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come sanctuary kept us from clashing head-on with three enemy cruisers which had gone forward to blast us as we emerged. The rain continued to faU for approximatdy 20 minutes, completing the curtain, which, though temporary, was sincerely appreciated.

As the douds deared, we saw what we had expected and dreaded. The Japs had come up, and were dosing fast.

"They are going to seU the destroyers in a torpedo attack to save us." Despite our straits, we aU hated to hear this. AU during the year we had been at sea, we were accompanied by the gaUant Utde "cans." They woidd come to us for fuel oil, and we liked to send over ice cream for their crews. They always seemed so appreciative, and we were grateful to them for their protectioiL Many times they had beaten off enemy submarines which had us in their periscopes. More than once, they had rescued our fliers who crashed at sea. It was pathetic to see them turn and head straight for the Jap armada, zig-zagging fiercely with aU guns blazing.

On they went, seemingly right into the muzzles of the Japs. One destroyer was already damaged, and had expended aU her torpedoes, but she charged along with the rest, scoring hits on a Jap cruiser at 6000 yards with her 5 inch guns. Then as they released their torpedoes, they turned back into their own smoke, with the enemy stiU blasting away. It seemed inconceivable that any would escape, but not a one failed to return.

EARLY an hour had elapsed since N the batde began. How much longer could we hold out? At this point the rumor spread that help was ahead, over the horizon off the port bow. "At last," was the thought of everyone, but hope turned to bitter disappointment shordy thereafter when three destroyers appeared in the distance, mrned, and disappeared.

"The Gambler Bay has been disabled! " This dread aimouncement spread from the starboard quarter lookouts along the catwalk. A sudden flash had appeared from the paU of her smoke screen, and she mrned reeUng to charge Uke a bUnded animal in wide circles. Soon she lost way, and lay stiU in the water as the Japs moved up to within 2000 yards, blasting hot metal through her riddled sides. She died in the privacy of her own smudge.

N o sooner had this occurred than the enemy again directed his fuU attention to the remaining five CVEs, now lumbering away Uke a smaU herd of exhausted, frightened elephants. The mad orgy of shelUng seemed to increase in tempo, with enemy projectiles sending up varicolored plumes of smoke and water to assist their range-finders. One of our seamen remarked: "The Japs are fighting us in technicolor."

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flooded," came the report, but she stiU managed to make good headway. Everyone knew what it meant to drop back.

If only help would arrive! How welcome would have been the sight of any armored assistance!

At this time the destroyers and destroyer escorts had gathered astern of the carriers to more effeaivdy screen us from the enemy. Most of them had already fired ever)- avadable torpedo. AU had been damaged to some extent; some seriously. They at once began taking terrific punishment, but were fighting back with everjthing that would shoot. We could see Japanese salvos dosing on one destroyer, moving toward it a hundred yards at a time. Then the Utde ship shuddered under the impact of a hit as the enemy found his range. Despite this, however, she continued ahead with good speed, although she was down by the bow so much that her anchors threw a continuous spray of water over the deck.

Another destroyer, with an engine disabled, suffered several hits in quick succession, and began losing speed, dropping back with her gims stiU blazing. She was soon surrounded by Japs. StiU another destroyer faltered, shook with a violent explosion, and setded in the water, her entire superstructure gone. It was agonizing to see them faU behind, crippled and helpless, and not be able to render any assistance.

W e had lost a carrier escort, the Gambier Bay, the destroyers Johnston and Hoel, and the destroyer escort Samuel B. Roberts. None of us had escaped damage, and there was stUl no hope.

For some reason, the enemy batdeships had dropped back, apparendy content to conserve ammunition and let their cruisers and destroyers move in and finish the unequal fight. But as these drew doser, the escorr carriers began an assault with our lone five-inch guns astern. Crews which had gloomily watched the adversary assail us from beyond our range, sprang into action as if reUeved of an insufferable buxden. The ship shuddered with each blast, and these were coming with encouraging frequency. Six miles away, hits began to appear on the nearest Jap cruiser. Two,

four, five and six times, smoke and flames boiled from the enemy's deck and superstructure as our gurmers met with success, and cheers went up from our heanened crew. On two occasions die upheaval of Japanese debris seemed particularly violenr. This enemy vessd began losing speed, and its firing feU off decidedly.

"Land ahead! " N o one seemed to care that it was Samar Island, at that time infested with Japanese troops. Somehow the sight of it afforded everyone reUef. FF our port quarter, six miles away, O three cruisers were pulling up abreast of us. "The final assault," could be the only admission, but our five-inch continued to hammer away furiously.

Then came the sinister wake of torpedoes, a contribution of the cruisers. AU missed Why the enemy broke off the surface engagement at this point may always remain a mystery. As suddeidy as the firing began, it ended. Limping away to die north, the Japs disappeared from view, as what was left of the CVEs scurried over the southern horizon. But the batde was not over, although for an hour our group proceeded peacefully.

As a parting salvo at our unhappy adversary, we launched two torpedo bombers, aU we had available at the time Joining up with five others from two sister CVE groups 30 and 80 miles to the south, these soon made contacc The formation of seven Avengers started in on a run immediatdy, but the other five turned back for a better position. Coming through a convenient doud at top speed, the White Plains pUots leveUed off in a fusiUade of gunfire and planted a torpedo squardy under the Jap's bridge to stop another cruiser flying the Rising Sun. Both of our representatives returned unscathed.

"Enemy aircraft approaching." This was not alarming compared with the two and one-half hour surface engagement which had just ended. Over they came, sleek grey Zekes, a red disc glaring men.icingly from each wing. Out ahead, they seemed to be breaking up into pairs, and as two turned and passed us at approximately 2000 feet, our anti-aircraft batteries, having waited aU morning for something within range, sent up everything they could lay hands on. We knew the Japs were going back to turn and head in.

"The Saint Lo is under attack!" Off our port beam, this vessd was maneuvering franticaUy under an almost soUd umbreUa of anti-aircraft bursts. But somehow this demon-giuded death missile seemed to drop through untouched, descending in a gUde aimed at die after flight deck elevator. On he came, imtil he disintegrated on the stern of the flat-top in a terrific flash. Almost simultaneously, bright tongues of flame shot out of the

hangar deck. Apparendy his bomb had gone through. Soon the entire fantad was blazing. With flames leaping higher by the second, the fire was obviously out of control.

"Suicide attack!" blared the loudspeaker. One of the pair dosing on us from astern was hit by gunfire from another CVE, and traded a smoking spiral into the water off our port quarter. The other came steadfasdy on, remindful of the circus performer who slides down a taut wire hanging by his teeth. As the airaaft neared jhe stern, our vessel was put into a hard left turn. Either the airplane was disabled by the hail of fire, the pilot was dead, or this fanatic so<aUed "Son of Heaven" betrayed his trust by succumbing to the human fraUty of closing his eyes before the crash, for his aircraft swerved off the port quarter barely above the corner of the flight deck, with antiaircraft stiU tearing chunks from his hurtUng coffin. Suddeidy aU was obscured by a briUiant detonation, and as an earspUtting roar resounded over the flight Jeck, an avalanche of scrap descended in its wake. A last-minute hit had set off the "robot-bomb," as the Jap suicide pilots were jokingly caUed. So devastating was the explosion that none of the many pieces landing aboard was more than a few pounds in weight. The pilot was demoUshed as completely as his aircraft. A smaU section of jaw bone with three teeth StiU in their sockets was foimd on the bridge, some 300 feet forward of the explosion, and 25 feet above it. N o part of his body was discovered which woidd weigh much more than an ounce. A piece of skuU an inch or so in diameter here, a short portion of bare rib there, and in other places bits of skin or a part of scalp were found and thrown overboard with the airplane's remnants. of the unit had not fared so OTHERS weU. The Kitkun Bay caught a suicide Zeke in her port catwalk which produced a number of severe burns among her personnel. The Kalinin Bay

received a direct hit, the bomb apparendy exploding with the airplane on the after part of the flight deck, while the aircraft's forward assembly skidded up toward the bow, spewing burning gasoline in all directions. The Fanshaw Bay was straddled by two devil-divers who aimed badly and plunged into the sea directly alongside as they nosed straight down to terminate their descent and, incidentaUy, their sojourn on Earth.

"The Saint Lo is abandoning ship," came the cry. She was now burning like tinder, and we could see our unfortunate comrades clambering down lines and falling into the sea. Our remaining destroyer and destroyer escorts dropped back to pick up survivors, leaving the formation without a screen. Suddenly there was a blinding flash, foUowed by tremendous reverberations. This sequence was repeated a minute later. Her flight deck seemed to peel back, and a large area acmaUy was hurled into the air. The gallant vessel was settiing to her grave.

The jubilance we had felt incident to frustrating the enemy surface unit was now clouded by sorrow, and the knowledge that we had no reason to assume that our miraculous deliverance was permanent proved additionaUy sobering.

Word came that our disconsolate adversaries were stiU being harried by aircraft as they moved away to the north.

Our big carriers were now within flying distance of the Japs.

For us, the afternoon was quiet. We were able to recover our surviving aircrafr, and fly patrols as scheduled. The evening, however, was destined to be different. At 7:47 p.m., an enemy vessel, thought to be a submarine, was reported foUowing us at eight mdes. Without our destroyer escort, our only alternative was to increase speed, which we did, but the enemy kept his distance. Half an hour later, replacement destroyers sent over from another unit joined us as a most welcome addition. They immediately investigated the trailing enemy vessel, and reported a Japanese submarine. The dis-

tant sound of depth charges foretold the enemy's fate.

As was expected, nevertheless, the submarine had disclosed our position to Japanese aircraft based ashore, and at 9:49 p.m., we were again caUed to batde stations with two enemy airplanes reported 15 miles astern. In closing on us, they encountered anti-aircraft fire from the destroyers, which effectively stopped them. One was shot down in flames and the other shorn of his ambition to proceed farther.

We were secured from batde stations at 11:10 p.m., and went to bed wondering what could happen next.

The foUowing morning dawned clear and cool. We were now on our way to an island base for repairs. We watched our sister ships bury their dead at sea. Instinctively, everyone seemed to be breathing deeply. The clean salt air was refreshing in our lungs. It was good to be alive, especiaUy with the realization that our Utde group had tripped the Japanese Juggernaut.

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tember 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945. It gives a day by day account of aU batdes and major actions, and a detailed biography of every ship in every combatant Navy. It teUs where and when each ship fought . . . and where, when and how the ships that were lost met their end.

The chronology of events in the war at sea is a book in itself—over 50,000 words recording every sea batde and action as weU as invasion. This chronolog)' has its own separate index by batdes, ship names, location, and names of commanders.

Representative ships of each type and dass in each Nav)' are graphicaUy pictured in photographs and profile drawings. There are almost a thousand photographs and hundreds of line drawings.

Not only battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, mine vessels, patrol vessels and auxiUaries are given this exhaustive treatment, but also landing craft and special craft of aU types. There are detaUed descriptions of Japanese amphibious craft and the midget submarines of Germany, Japan, Italy and Great Britain.

Here is a book which no naval scholar or historian could afford to be without.

And many a naval officer wiU want to add it to his professional Ubrarj'.

by Rear Admiral Ellis AL Zacharias, USN (Ret.). (G. P. Putnam's Sons, $3.75 )

SECRET MISSIONS

SECRET MISSIONS is a highly interesting and controversial book that is bound to be the subject of much discussion in Navy cirdes. Subtided, "The Story of an InteUigence Officer," it is a detailed account of the naval intelUgence career of Admiral Zacharias. The author teUs his story in very entertaining and lively style, and there is no question but that it is the first authentic account of the inner workings of the Office of Naval InteUigence. For this reason alone it is sure to find many readers.

The basic fault of SECRET MISSIONS is its decided prejudice. Admiral Zacharias makes no bones over the fact that he beUeves the history of ONI to be one of incompetence and negligence. This theme runs from cover to cover, and more than once appears as a personal attack upon various officers. Unfortunately, this is not the book's only weakness. The author does not hesitate to pat himself on the back at frequent intervals—so much so, in fact, that the reader is given the impression that without the services of Zacharias ONI would have coUapsed entirely.

The logical consequences of such a onesided discussion of the history of naval intelligence for the past twenty-five years is a growing doubt by the reader as to hour much of SECRET MISSIONS is fact, 14

and how much is the resulr of real or imagined wrongs done the author.

Many of the arguments and theories that are presented as receiving opposition during the author's career are shown to be justified by later world events. For instance. Admiral Zacharias teUs why he knew that the Japanese were going to invade Manchuria six months before they did. SimUarly, he speaks of his prediction of a sneak Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor to inaugurate hostUities with this countr}'. The discriminating reader cannot help but wonder how many of the author's predictions were not borne out by the light of later events. Here, also, may be a due as to why ONI does not exacdy come off with top honors in SECRET MISSIONS. Regardless of its many weaknesses, SECRET MISSIONS is stiU one of the best works of non-fiction to come off the press in many a month. Disregarding the personal views of the author concerning much of ONI's aUeged faults, the book contains a wealth of interesting and informative data on a hitherto weU-guarded field of naval interest. Admiral Zacharias makes one point which wiU find him many supporters—the work of naval InteUigence requires trained personnel who are speciaUsts, and not part-time InteUigence officers. In this connection it is interesting to note that the Navy has requested Congress to enact legislation which wiU establish a Special Duty Corps comprised of personnel who wdl have fuU-time duties as inteUigence officers, public information officers, and other specialized assignments throughout their career.

T H E D I M VIEW by Basil Heatter. (Farrar and Straus, S2.50) Lieutenant James Masters, USNR, hero of THE DIM VIEW, is a man of so many accomplishments that Paul Bunyan stands in danger of losing his claim as America's legendary superman. Briefly, Masters lists among his accomplishments the foUowing: (a) being the toughest, fightin'est, bravest PT skipper in the Pacific, who after two years of hell on the half shell chooses to go back to the forward area rather than return to the States; (b) has to beat off females with a stick, including the girl who does the ape act at Panama's Club Lido, members of the Navy Nurse Corps, and Australian giris (the author slipped up here); (c) straightens out psychiatrists who are suffering mental mrmoil; (d) shows up Naval Academy graduates to be publicit>'seeking nincompoops.

writing to come out of World War II The apparent paradox is explained by :nt fact that the hero's exploits can :r brushed aside and chalked up to incx perience on the part of the author (:. > is his first novel) without detracting one whit from the merits of the remainde of the book.

Heatter has managed to recapture i soul-sickening heU that is war, no through portraying scenes of camag bathing his characters in pathos, or hay ing them act as babbling idiots, but b | sketching with incredible simpleness and accuracy the thoughts and emotions of one man who leaves the forward area for Australia and goes back again.

The poignant love story that ser\es to make the book real and understandable for those who have never had to go away to war, is Heatter at his best. Here he exploits to the fuUest his opportunity to reveal the soul of a man caught in the maddening grip of legaUzed murder. The love scenes between Jim and Nora, some of the hospital sketches, and Jim's reaction to the almost-forgotten sound of gunfire on his way back to the forward area are the highlights of the book. In contrast much of the action and dialogue between Jim and other men sounds sttangely forced and artificial This is particularly noticeable in the conversations between him and the young Jewish medical oflScer who is a psychiatrist. The batde scenes could better have been omitted entirdy —they add nothing to the story and are in rude contrast to the deUcate shading of the better chapters.

THE DIM VIEW may become submerged beneath a mass of World War II stories. The author is young and unknown. But it is a pretty safe bet that it wiU be re-discovered at a later date, perhaps when the author has become recognized as a writer of considerable talent. In the meantime, here is one vote for the best work of fiction to come out of the war.

STRANGE AND FANTASTIC STORIES, ed-

ited by Joseph A. Margolies. (Whittlesey House, $3.75)

There have been other coUections of ghost stories in recent years, but few that combined cold horror, paralyzing terror and erie menace so successfuUy as in the 750 pages of STRANGE AND FANTASTIC STORIES. Mr. Margolies has brewed a potion that contains not only the best elements of mystery and terror but, in addition, exceptional literary qualit)'. The residt is a balanced and unusually large antholog)' that wiU give even Ordinarily, there would be no need for hardened veterans of supernatural tales further discussion of any such book But a fresh set of spinal chiUs. Fifty unusual THE DIM VIEW is no ordinary book. stories told by as many distinguished auOn die contrary, there is good reason to thors comprise this latest addition to die believe that it contains some of the finest ranks of outstanding ghost stories.

ShipHisk.

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This means that there are approximately 25,000 potential members of the Association. Ilie cost of circularizing each member when matters of interest arise is prohibitive, as can be readily seen. The official journal of our organization is SHIPMATE in which is published from time to time much material which vitaUy concerns the Association and its membership. It is for this reason that a subscription to SHIPMATE should be a must for each member. At present, however, the subscription list of our magazine is only 9,000.

• When the current President of the Association was elected to office, he received only 189 votes. When you consider that there are potentiaUy 25,000 members of this Association, how well does that speak for the interest of our Alumni? The ballot was published in SHIPMATE as is re

quired by the By-Laws.

If all members are to actively participate in the affairs of your own Association and are to be kept fully informed on matters in which you as a member of this Association are concerned, you must have your own copy of SHIPMATE sent directly to you each month. If you are not receiving a personal copy of SHIPMATE,. enter your subscription now. And since this word is published only in this magazine, please give it the widest possible circulation among the non-subscribing Alumni with whom you may come in contact.

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Alumni News Something Old . . . At th^ U. S. Naval Academy Museum —By Captain

H. A. Baldridge,

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BOARD President

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OF

T R U S T E E S F L E E T ADM. C . W . N I M I T Z , '05

Trustee

V. A D M . R . W I L L S O N , '06

A D M . C . P . SNYDER, '00

R. A D M . BRYSON BRUCE, '07

Vice Presidents

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Trustees

M R . HALLER B E L T , '08 M R . DONALD S . W A L K E R , '24

V. ADM. R . JACOBS, '07 CDR. C . M C K . L Y N C H , '07

Ex-Gov. L. C. STARK, '08 CAPT. M . D . GILMORE, '11

TRUSTEES R. A D M . T H O M A S J. S E N N , '91

M R . GEORGE B . J U N K I N , '13 CDR. C . C . VICKREY, '15

ADM. D . F . SELLERS, '94 A D M . W . H . STANDLET, '95

CAPT. V. F . BLAKESLEE, '20

A D M . A . J. H E P B U R N , '97

CAPT. W . R . SMEDBERG, '26

CAPT. E . J. SADLER, '99

CAPT. T . J. HAMILTON, '27

R. A D M . SINCLAIR G A N N O N , '00

Mp. LAWRENCE R . B E C H T , '34

V. A D M . W I L S O N BROWN, '02

CDR. ARTHUR E . TARANTINO,

R. A D M . H . E . K I M M E L , '04 M R . HUBERT B U R N H A M ,

'05

'35, USMS J. A. SAXTEN, '38, USMC

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SOMETHING NEW...

partner (in the shipbuilding business) with Robert Smith, from John Paul's native Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, and whose brother, James, sponsored his membership in the Masonic Lodge there. ? J

At the U. S. Naval Academy Museum CAPTAIN H .

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President Truman Presents Historic Flag from Arsew When the President visited the U. S. Naval Academy Museum in November, he promised to send the curator a historic flag to add to the Museum's collection of world-famous battle flags, banners and pennants.

Early in December, the flag was delivered and is now on display. Mr. Truman received the flag when he was United States Senator from Missouri from one of his former constituents, Lieutenant Commander James K. Vardaman, Jr., USNR, then the executive officer of the U. S. Naval Operating Base, Oran, Algeria {later his Presidential naval aide).

The memorandum that accompanied v, the flag is self-explanatory: Thanksgiving Day November, 1942 "The flag which will be delivered to you with this note was carried ashore by U. S. Naval Amphibious forces at Arzew, Algeria, on the early morning of November 8, 1942 (D-Day) and was hoisted over the French naval air station immediately upon landing and was flown there for the succeeding five days, when I had it removed and stowed as a souvenir for you. So far as I know, this is the first flag that was officially raised by American naval forces on Algerian soil."

The flag itself, measuring 4Vi by 8Vi feet, is slightly faded, but is otherwise in good condition. It was placed on display along with an enlarged photograph of the President, inscribed as follows: "To the Superintendent, his staflf and the Midshipmen of the U. S. Naval Academy, my very best wishes and kindest regards, Harry S. Truman."

Clock Used on Flight Of "Truculent Turtle" Most modern of the Museum's acquisitions is the navigating watch used aboard the U. S. Navy's plane, "Truculent Turtle", during its record-breaking flight from Australia to Ohio, early last fall. Packed in two handsome wooden boxes, felt lined, the chronometer was made available to the Museum by Captain E. W. Parish, Jr., U.S.N., of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. The clock's face is about three inches across and the case is made of an aluminum alloy.

The inner box, which protected it from vibra-

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tion, contains the following inscription on a silver plate: Navigating Watch—N 9422—1943.

Used for Navigadon By the Plane "TRUCULENT TURTLE" From Perth, Western Australia, to Columbus, Ohio.

29 September 1946—1 October 1946.

Great Circle Distance 11,236 Miles Elapsed Time 55 hours, 17 minutes.

Along with the watch lies a map, showing the course of the "Turtle" on its long flight via the Marshall Islands, the Hawaiian Islands and San Francisco. The map gives weather fronts, winds and other data along the path of the plane.

Miniature of Joseph Hewes, Sponsor of John Paul Jones Few people know that our most famous naval hero of Revolutionary days. Commodore John Paul Jones, was sponsored by a North Carolinian, Joseph Hewes. Hewes, a native of Edenton, North Carolina, and a member of the First and Second Continental Congresses, as well as the First Marine Committee, fought hard to obtain a lieutenant's commission for Jones against strenuous opposition from New England Congressmen, who thought their constituents should be entitled to all the first naval commissions.

In December, the Museum purchased from Mrs. G. J. McRee, of Richmond, Va., a descendant of Hewes, a beautiful miniature portrait of Hewes, painted by Charles Willson Peale. The miniature is encased in a gold frame surmounted with fifty'seven almandine garnets.

As far as can be learned this is the only portrait ever painted of Hewes, because it is the only one which has been published in various historical books and papers concerning North Carolina in the Revolution. A check of the matter, made with Charles Coleman Sellers, authority on the work of Charles Willson Peale, confirmed that Peale began a miniature of "Mr. Hughes (sic) delegate for Car'lina" on March 18, 1776, and was paid for the finished painting on April 14.

Thus, another chapter in the life and career of John Paul Jones is vitalized, although much historical research remains to be done concerning Hewes' interest in Jones. It was in Edenton, N. C , the record shows, that the original John Paul showed up as John Paul Jones, following a mysterious disappearance of nearly a year and a half. Hewes was a

Radio Broadcasts Naval Academy

From Via Mutual

Fan mail originating in all parts of the nation indicate that the Naval Academy's own weekly network program has many enthusiastic listeners. Originating inthe band room of Bancroft Hall, the program is carried on the coast-to-coast network of the Mutual Broadcasting System. It goes on the air every Tuesday, 12:30 to 1 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, and consists of twenty-five minutes of specially selected band music and a five minute talk by an officer or civilian stationed at the Academy.

Those who have taken part thus fat, and their topics, are: Captain E. John Long, USNR, "John Paul Jones"; Commander Roy S. Davenport, USN, "The Submarine Service"; Commander Charles R. Burke, USNR, "Official visit to English Naval Academies"; Captain William S. Estabrook, USN, "Preparations For Army-Navy Game"; Mr. Richard E. Heise, "Civilians at the Naval Academy"; Captain Wallis F. Petersen, USN, "Enlisted Personnel at the Academy".

The Museum is making a series of transcriptions of each of the broadcasts for the historical record and later the scripts will be prepared in mimeographed form.

Early in December, the Museum was pleased to receive, from Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway, Jr., USN, the new Superintendent of the Naval Academy, a copy of his radio interview on the Richard Harkness Program, NBC network, 11:15 to 11:30 p.m., November 29, 1946.

Admiral Hollaway appeared with Dr. James D. MacConnell, civilian advisor to the Navy's Training Activity in the Bureau of Naval Personnel. They discussed aspects of the "Holloway Plan," a new program for the training of naval reserve officers.

Original "Scrapbook" Fighting Squadron

of Six

Another valued addition to the source of records of World War II already in the possession of the Museum is an original scrapbook of the activities of the Fighting Squadron Six, U.S.S. ENTERPRISE, from December 7, 1941 to June 20, 1942. Presented by its compiler and former leader of "Fighting Six", Commander J. S. Gray, Jr., Aide to the Superintendent, U. S. Naval Academy, it relates in condensed and exciting form some highlights of the earliest fighting in the Pacific War. In addition, the log is enlivened by menus, mimeographed notices, cartoons and newspaper clippings relating to the activities of the "Big E" and her fighting planes and men.

The "Big E" was at sea, Pearl Harbor Day, not far from Hawaii, but she did not sight, nor were any contacts made with, the Jap task force and planes that attacked Oahu The report shows, however, that "Fighting Six" lost several planes from our own anti-aircraft fire when they attempted to land in Hawaii after the attack.

There was little rest for the squadron dut-

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Spindrift

By Lee Shores

'T'HANK the youngsters for this one. One of the fairhaired '49ers was introduced by his wife to a blind drag ten minutes prior to evening meal formation. He had just enough time to hastily say hello before formation rang. After the introductions he left the girl with instructions to meet him at Carvel Hall a half hour before the hop.

After chow he whipped out the bow tie and headed for Carvel Hall and his drag. The lobby was deserted except for a glamorous squab sporting an upswept hairdo. The youngster seated himself next to the slick dish and waited for his own drag to make her appearance. He waited, and waited, and waited—but no drag. As commencement—of evening— -entertainment — minus five-minutes rolled around, the 3/c had become no end alarmed.

Finally he leaned over to the fidgeting glamour girl seated next to him, asked her pardon, but •did " . . . she know a Miss . . . ?"

He promptly dissolved into nothingness when he was frigidly informed that, "Yes." •She knew the lady in question. As a matter •of fact, she was that particular lady.

While on the subjea of drags and evening •entertainments, Lee just dug up a beaut.

Seems a second classman decided to spend the •evening visiting his drag at the house where the two of them could talk over the latest books, history of ancient Greece, and other related subjects. On this particular evening a <oncert was being given in the yard, so the 2/c anticipated no difficulty in staging his liberty maneuvers. Once out at the house the middle and his drag decided that perhaps the concert "was the best bet after all.

When the decision was finally made, the concert had already commenced, and now there were complications. The 2/c was all too aware of what is entailed by arriving late at evening •entertainment. He attempted to discourage his lady fair, but she was adamant. So, off to the concert.

The lad and his lady managed to evade any prying OD eyes during the entire journey to Mahan Hall. Fortunately the place was dark when they arrived and they managed to slip in the back row of the Hall undetected. After finally settling down they became aware of the faa that not only was there no musical instrument on the stage, but before them, on the movie screen, Humphrey Bogart was in the process of rubbing out a few Broadway yeggs.

Without giving it a second thought, the 2/c decided that perhaps they were witnessing a preview of next week's movie prior to the start of the concert. He labored under this delusion for about a half hour, when he happened to look around. It was then that the realization hit him that, other than his drag, there were no other girls in the Hall. Something was rotten on the Severn. He leaned over and whispered to the man next to him. "Hey,

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Mac, what time does the concert start?"

The answer was not long in forthcoming.

"Hell that started forty-five minutes ago—in Dahlgren Hall." A passerby in front of Mahan Hall swears that he spotted two jet propelled meteorites streak out of Mahan headed toward Dahlgren. Again the second class, and his drag slipped into the Hall, only this time they also slipped into the arms of a waiting sword carrier.

No frap comes any easier than that coralled by one of our pretty boy lieutenants. Not long ago a civilian worker walked into the two striper's office and stated, "Hey, some midshipman told me to bring this here form W to the batt office. Is this where it goes?" It went there all right, and so did "some" midshipman, to sign a pap two feet long.

The pap subject is always good for a few chuckles. Here are some of the choicer gems.

A first classman recendy committed the heinous crime of leaving the confidential locker open. This would have been bad enough at any time, but coming at the tale end of fall term it proved to be particularly disastrous. It seems that as usual, the patriarchs of the Executive department waited until the last day to inspect rooms, and eight of the boys trooped through the unfortunate A-man's hole within two hours.

All eight of them spotted the open locker, and all eight of them fried the lad. Nothing like a hike to the main office every half hour.

Here's an "I piddle diddle" turned in on a youngster. "As midshipman in charge of a group of approximately 40 men, this man gave the command, 'Groucho March'. At this command, the men in his unit proceeded to bend about 65 degrees from the waist and walk in a manner made famous by Groucho Marx. The appearance of the unit was unmilitary."

Lee had to go back a couple of years to get this one, but our Crabtown informant swears it's the truth. A plebe was fried for having his section out of shape. His statement contained the following excerpt: "I was placed on the conduct report for allowing my section to be out of shape. The last man in the section was hit by a laundry truck. As a result, my section was thrown into grave confusion."

This is the sort of thing that makes the men of '48-A a nation apart. A first batt 1/c had his appendix removed a few weeks ago. While still under the anesthesia he was returned to the ward. Three nurses were swabbing his brow when he finally came too. Opening one bleary eye he parted his lips and with obvious effort attempted to speak. A nurse bent low to hear his hushed whisper. "Do you want anything?" she asked. . "My steam book," he groaned, "has my wife brought my steam book over yet?"

With Christmas leave still a fond memory, Lee is aware of another leave story. This one took place last summer, but it makes good reading material.

A first classman boarded his train in Baltimore and immediately established a beachhead in the club car. After about twenty minutes of landing operations, he made a strategic withdrawal and made his way back to his coach. The train was weaving almost as much as he was, and it was only with a great deal of effort that he was able to find his seat. He settled down, but in a matter of minutes felt a tormenting thirst. Again he made his way to the club car. However, before going this time he deposited his cap, suitcase, and wallet on the seat so that in the event of stormy weather he would have some means of identifying his seat.

After an hour or rwo he came crawling through the train hardly conscious of anything, save the fact that somewhere along the line all his earthly belongings were waiting.

And under those earthly belongings was his seat. This time, searching for that seat was a pained effort. There were rwo of everything.

He might have been pretty well ploughed, but he was still sober enough to realize that he was about to step out on the coal tender, without having come across his wallet, cap, or suitcase.

He had journeyed the entire length of the car, but those items just weren't there. Disaster usually has a sobering effect on most people.

It did in this case. Jerkily he made his way to the conductor. The conversation which ensued was something like the following: "Thersh thieves on this train. I lef my wallet an' my hat an' my shuitcashe on this car an' now they're all gone. I deman' akshun."

"Are you sure it was this car Sir?" "Of coursh I'm shur. I lef them on car 32.

This ish car 32, isnt it?"

"Oh, no Sir. I'm very sorry, but car 32 was unhooked a half hour ago. It's on its way to Vermont now."

Upon arriving in St. Louis, the first person off the train was noted to be sporting a two day growth of beard, a dirty collar, no cap, and wearing a two day growth of beard with his midshipman's uniform.

All's well that ends well. Fortunately his luggage and wallet reached him while he was still in St. Louis . . . on the 27th day of leave.

The system whereby Nav papers are corrected by the profs and then sent back to the hall for distribution by the section leaders is fraught with interesting possibilities. Witness the following.

The paper of a particular nav slash was sent back to Bancroft by the prof, to the section leader. The section leader, who was to remrn the paper to the slash, noted with dismay that again the slash's work far outshone the rest of the section's. Not only had he finished twice as much as any other man in the section, but his paper was saturated with check marks, denoting 4.0 work.

The section leader hit upon a brilliant plan.

It was a simple matter to dig out a red pencil and across the red checks on the slash's paper, inscribe another check running in the opposite direction. One check plus one check equal one 'x'. For good measure the section leader scribbled a "Work slower" on the man's paper, and then proceeded to deliver the papers.

All of the other men in the section were

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and they are very hospitable. I go out very little b u t I try never to fail when I am invited by them.

What's the Dope Marine and Naval Orders from December 1900

M. C H A R L T O N , ( R . Adm., U S N ^^^^ ^" ^'^L^N^^' (Capt., r e tALEX . ) , has purchased a house at 1030 S. 32nd

' ' W " U S N - r e t ) , has rerurned to inactive duty and gives his address as Ingham Hill Road, Old Saybrook, Conn.

1901 T H O M A S R. K U R T Z , (Com' ' ^ ' mo., U S N - r e t ) , gives his address as R. F. D . 1, Bethel, Conn.

1904 Howard, Herbert S., (R. Adm., USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

190*5 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^- D O R T C H , (Capt., I 7\J*J USN-deceased). Ensign and Mrs. William T. Fuller, son-in-law and daughter of Mrs. I. F. Dortch, announce the birth of a son, William Thompson, Jr., on 3 December at Memphis, Tenn.

St., Omaha, Neb., where he and Mrs. Charlton plan to reside.

Olson. Allan G., (Cdr., USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

1 9 0 0 S T E W A R T A. M A N A H A N , I / U / (Commo., U S N - r e t ) , gives his new address as 2205 California St., N . W . , Washington, D . C. l O i n T H O M A S A. N I C H O L S O N , I 7 IU (Cdr., U S N R ) . W e extend our sympathy to Comdr. Nicholson, whose wife died on 10 August, 1946.

LYAL A. D A V I D S O N , (V. Adm., U S N ) , and Mrs. Davidson announce the engagement of their daughter. Miss Judith Ament Davidson, to Maj. Anthony Walker, USMC.

1 On/L The monthly luncheon of WashH U G H W H I T T A K E R gives his ' ' * ' 0 ington, D . C , members of t h e 1 Q 1 1 ' ' ' ' address as c / o T h e Gulf Refining Class of 1906 is now held at the Army and Navy Club on the second Thursday of t h e Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. month at 12:30.

FREDERICK L. RIEFKOHL, (Capt., HOLLIS M. COOLEY, (Capt., U S N - r e t ) , U S N ) , gives his address as 124 W . Piccadilly announced t h e engagement of his daughter. Street, Winchester, Virginia.

Miss Virginia Welbourn Cooley, to Lt. Richard E. Bowe, U S N , '44.

R I C H A R D C. FIELD, (Capt., U S N - R e t . ) , WILLIAM L. C A L H O U N , ( V . Adm., From under the bushel, William van CortUSN), gives his address as 6 0 6 Arballo land Brandt belatedly hauls his light and inDrive, Parkmerced, San Francisco, Calif. forms me of his grandchildren. Lt. Comdr.

W m . Van C. Brandt, Jr., U. S. Navy, whose 1907 ^ ^ ^ P ^ T. H A N S O N , (Capt., wife is the daughter of Captain and Mrs. t\Ji U S N ) , who was retired early in Charles J. Cater, is the father of John Ran1946 for physical disability, has leased the dolph Brandt, 11/^ years old and of Michael home at # 3 Ford Court, Charleston 1, S. C , William Brandt, a very recent arrival. Mrs. where h e and Mrs. Hanson will make their Virginia Brandt Dempsey is the mother of a home. son named Stuart. So a triple congratulation B R Y S O N BRUCE, ( R . Adm., U S N ) to Old Grand Dad Brandt! Bill Brandt also writes from his home 350 Bala Avenue, Cyn- informed m e that Harry Hill had been to wyd, Pa.: "A movement has been started to Philadelphia and had made a very interesting arrange for the celebration of the 40th Anni- talk to the local alumni association. Among versary of the graduation of the class of 1907 classmates present were Wells Comstock, Billy this year probably in late May at Annapolis. Hicks, Mose Brown, Urey Conway, and Paul It is requested that each member of the class Mayfield, and, of course, Brandt. George A. plan now to attend and send his address with Hinckley, son of Captain and Mrs. Robert M. any suggestions to the Class Secretary, V. Hinckley, was recently married to Margaret Admiral J. H . Hoover, T h e General Board, E. Greulich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Navy Department, Washington, D . C. Y o u G. Greulich of Osage road, Virginia Manor, will be informed as plans are perfected, if we Pittsburgh. George is Pittsburgh District have your address. Also watch this space in manager for a large manufacturer of trailer S H I P M A T E . Please pass the word around t o trucks, the Highway Trailer Co. H e was those who may not see this notice." a lieutenant in the naval reserve in the final fighting in the western Pacific. T h e pictures 1908 ^ U F U S K I N G , (Capt., U S N - of Mrs. George Hinckley in the papers show ' ' *'0 r e t ) , was returned to inactive her to be a young woman of great beauty.

1919

^'^^^^ S. MERRILL, (R.

' ' ' â&#x20AC;˘^ Adm., U S N ) , was presented the Distinguished Service Medal on 4 December for outstanding leadership during the Solomon Islands naval operations.

-I P I q ERIC F. ZEMKE, (Capt., USN' ' ' ^ r e t ) , was placed o n inactive duty and is n o w living at 1162 E. Third Street, Long Beach, California.

Austin, Charles L., (Capt., SC, USN), Supply Offi. cer in Command, Naval Supply Corps School, Naval Supply Depot, Bayonne, N. J. Blandy, William H. P.. (V. Adm., USN). Commander, 8th Fleet.

Doyle, Walter E., (Capt., USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

1 9 1 4 W I L L I A M V. F O X has been ' ' ' " promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral, SC, U S N .

1915 Granat, William, (Capt., USN). President of the Special Board on Naval Ordnance, Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Dept.

1916 Earnhardt, Ed-win S., (Capt., USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Leslie, Maxwell F.. (Capt., USN). Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Miami, Fla. Scott, James A., (Capt., USN-ret). Examination byNaval Retiring Board and orders to home.

1917 Cooley, Thomas R., (R. Adm., USN). Naval Base, Newport, R. I. Price, Allen I., (Capt., USN). Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Ward, Clarence O., (Capt., USNR). San Fran.

Cisco Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, Calif.

1918 "^^UGHN BAILEY, (Capt., I 7 IO U S N - r e t ) , gives his new address as Huntington Hotel, 1300 East Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, Calif.

1919 ^ ^ * ^ ^ < ^ ^ C. DYER, (R. Adm., ' ' U S N ) , has taken over as Commander, Cruiser Division Ten, c / o Fleet Post Office, N e w York, N . Y .

Ferguson, William H., (Capt., USN). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Kiernan. James E. J., (Capt., USN). Examinanon

by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Mays, William H., (Capt., USN). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

1920

'^^''LLIAM W . FIFE, (Cdr., ^^ U S N - r e t ) , gives his address as P. O. Box 325, Palo Alto, Calif., and writes, "So far that P. O. box is about all we can claim as a home. W e ' v e been shopping around a few days for a house, but prices are outrageously high and t h e market otherwise discouraging.

Swanson, Clarence F., (Capt., USN). Examination

by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

l O O l FRANCIS X . McINERNEY. ' ' ^ ' (Capt., U S N ) , has taken over a& deputy commander a n d chief of staff of the duty in 1945 and since that time has turned Your correspondent is looking forward to Western Sea Frontier. to a n old hobby for an occupationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that of another party at the home of Amy and Dwight J O H N J. CURLEY, J R . , (Capt., U S N ) . teaching French, Spanish and Italian. H e was Chandler. In a few days they will be at home gives his address as N . O. B. Okinawa, Navy appointed Lecturer in Romance Languages at in honor of their daughter Betty and her new # 3 2 5 6 , c / o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco.

Tufts College, and is enjoying his second year husband, Colonel James R. Hester, USMC. Calif. as a college professor.

T h e Chandlers have a large, attractive house Davis. William S. G., (Capt., USN). Director of

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Naval Reserves, Staff, Commandant, 1st Naval District, Boston, Mass.

Snackenberg, John A., (Capt., USN). Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance for Ordnance Establishments, Navy Dept.

Tallman, Donald R., (Capt., USN). Naval Operations. Navy Department.

1 0 0 0 H A R O L D C. G R I E R gives his I iLL address as P. O. Box 1006, W i l mington 99, Del. CLARENCE L. C. A T K E S O N , (Capt., U S N ) . Mr. Timothy B. Atkeson, son of Capt. and Mrs. Atkeson, has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship.

4QQ0 CLAUDE H . B E N N E T T , JR., I '•^^ (Capt., U S N ) , gives his address as P. O. Box 269, Bryn Mawr, Penna.

D O N A L D J. H A W T H O R N E gives his address as 87 Mayo Avenue, Greenwich, Conn.

Holdemess, George A., (Capt., USN). Nearest Naval Distria for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Keith, Harry H., (Capt., USN). Naval Operations.

Navy Department.

1 9 9 4 STEPHEN G. B A R C H E T , (Capt. " '•^T U S N ) , and Mrs. Barchet are the grandparents of Elizabeth Martin Schabacher, daughter of Ensign and Mrs. Robert Schabacher, born on 6 December at Newport.

The Class of 1924, U.S.N.A., has held a series of monthly luncheons at the Commissioned Officers' Mess at the Naval G u n Factory, Washington, D . C , during the summer and fall of 1946, which have been attended by nearly all of the Class w h o are stationed in or who have visited the Washington area.

The luncheons are held at 1230 the 24th of each month. In the event that the 24th falls on a Saturday or holiday, the luncheon is held the preceding Friday, whereas, if the 24th falls on Sunday, the luncheon is held on the Monday following. At each meeting the Class President, Captain Clexton, makes such announcements and conducts such Class business as is appropriate. Following the luncheon a member of the Class gives a five-minute summary of the duty in which he is engaged. These short talks have proved highly interesting and valuable. All members of the Class are urged to attend whenever possible and are requested to inform all Classmates w h o may have occasion to visit the Washington area. T h e meeting for 24 December will not be held in view of the holiday season. T h e next scheduled luncheon is Friday, 2 4 January.

Those who have attended recent luncheons include: Rear Adm. H . B. Miller, U S N ; Commo.

J. Ricketts, ( S C ) , U S N ; Capts., U S N , J. H .

Garvin, F. W . MacDonald, J. R. Topper, E. A. Seay, H . W . Goodall, A. B. Vosseler, W . H .

Duval, N . W . Ellis, W . J. Longfellow, A. V. Magley, E. W . Clexton, R. S. Hatcher, R. R. Waller, C. G. Rucker, R. Golthwaite, C. E. Eckstrom, W . D . W i l k i n , S. Teller, T. J. Shultz, W . N . Mansfield, J. W . Smith, H . C. Doan, G. R. Harrwig, G. E. Peterson, P . V. Mercer, J. M. Worthington, B. L. Austin, H .

P. Smith, H. L. Collins, W . B. Bailey, A. L. Calvert, R. A. Campbell, M. A. Gouin, E. R. McLean, G. W . Stott, T. H . Templeton, L. A. Bachman, J. N . Opie, A. B. Dickie, R. Rose, C. W . Oexle, W . V. Deutermann, T. H . Dyer, S. E. Latimer, W . Beakley, E. C. Watts, N .

PhiUips, E. E. Yeomans, C. C. W o o d , W . F. Peterson, W . M. Cole, W . G. Fisher, J. B. Hogle, R. F. J. Johnson, Jr., D . F. McLean, E. W . Shanklin, R. E. Wilson, F. J. Bell, R.

JANUARY,

1947

The Monterey Peninsula Country Club in the

Del Monte Forest, California Thefulfillment of a dream Club. T h e p r o p e r t y faces t h e Pacific O c e a n , a l o n g t h e Seventeen Mile Drive, and runs back into the Del M o n t e Forest. T h e clubh o u s e , d e s i g n e d by Clare n c e T a n t a u , is b e a u t i f u l a n d c o m m o d i o u s . T h e golf c o u r s e is p e r h a p s t h e m o s t p o p u l a r of the famous courses on the Peninsula.

General James Harbord s u g g e s t e d t h e idea. H e t o l d the Chairman of the Del Monte Properties Company t h a t it -would b e a -wonderful t h i n g for officers in t h e service t o b e a b l e t o l o o k forward to a place where t h e y c o u l d g o a n d live in a healthful, all-year-round c l i m a t e , a n d enjoy t h e -way o f life t h a t t h e y a p p r e c i a t e m o s t , a t a r e a s o n a b l e cost.

T h e r e are e x c e l l e n t tennis c o u r t s , a b e a u t i f u l swimming pool, and along the w a t e r f r o n t a n d t h e fairways are i n n u m e r a b l e h o m e s of m e m b e r s . T h e project w a s so successful t h a t t h e r e are m o r e civilian m e m b e r s t h a n r e t i r e d officers. T h e r e are a p p r o x i m a t e l y f o u r hund r e d active m e m b e r s t o d a y .

H e said t h a t t h e M o n t e r e y P e n i n s u l a -was kno-vifn by a v e r y g r e a t m a n y A r m y Officers b e c a u s e of t h e Army P o s t t h e r e , a n d t h a t it w a s loved by everyone w h o k n e w it, a n d h e t h o u g h t t h e P e n i n s u l a w a s t h e p r o p e r p l a c e for s u c h a development. T h e General pointed out t h a t all officers in t h e A r m y a n d N a v y face definite r e t i r e m e n t a t a c e r t a i n a g e a n d t h a t t h e w i s e o n e s p r e p a r e for t h a t p e r i o d w h i l e t h e y a r e still in active service.

T h e r e are m a n y b e a u t i f u l b u i l d i n g sites available. T h e Club is a p r o p r i e t a r y c l u b .

T h e average p r i c e of a h o m e site a n d m e m b e r s h i p is $ 1 2 0 0 a n d t h e dues are $5 a m o n t h p l u s federal tax. T e r m s as d e s i r e d , w i t h 5% i n t e r e s t o n deferred p a y m e n t s .

T h e r e are a few a t t r a c t i v e h o m e s available.

T h e o u t g o w t h of t h e G e n e r a l ' s s u g g e s tion was the Monterey Peninsula Country

For further information address

DEL MONTE PROPERTIES COMPANY, DEL MONTE, CALIFORNIA or

MONTEREY PENINSULA COUNTRY CLUB, DEL MONTE, CALIFORNIA L. Swart, W . E. Verge, B. O. Matthews, G. N .

Robillard, W . A. Hickey; Capts., ( S C ) , G. R. Brydon, J. H . Austin; Cols., ( U S M C ) , G. Becker, W . C. Purple; Capts., ( C E C ) , R. P. Carlson, W . B. Short; Col. Malin Craig, USA; Mr. J. E. Sullivan, ( B u A e r ) ; Mr. W . P. Cochran, (State D e p t . ) ; Mr. P . H . D u n n , Mr. C. J. Nesser, Mr. W . B. Bullis.

Sawyer, Merle A,, (Capt., USN). Reserve Training Officer and Assistant Chief of Staff, Atlantic Fleet.

Perkins, Albert N., (Capt. USN). Chief of Staff and Aide,, Staff, Commander, Fleet, Air West Coast.

Warburton, Audley L., (R. Adm. USN). Staff, Commandant, 9th Naval District, Great Lakes, Illinois as Director of Welfare, Discipline and Physical Fitness.

Slaven, Franklin W., (Capt. USN). Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Mare Island, Vallejo, California.

1925

H E N R Y CROMMELIN, (Capt., U S N ) , is chief of staff to Rear

Adm. Frank E. Beatty, commanding Atlantic destroyers.

Beard, Donald C , (Capt., USN). Commanding Officer, USS CAMBRIA, APA 36.

Dawson, Kenneth V., (Capt., USN). 12th Naval District, San Francisco, Calif., for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Newton, Wallace S., (Capt., USN). Bureau of Ships, Navy Department, for duty in connection with Standards and Specifications — additional duty.

Singer, Watson T., (Capt., USN). Administrative Officer, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Pearl Harbor, T. H. Standley, William H., Jr., (Capt,, USN). Chief Staff Officer, Fleet Training Group, and Underway Training Unit, San Diego, Calif.

Taylor, James D., Ill, (Capt., USN). Examination

by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Tucker, Dundas P., (Capt., USN). Office of Naval Research, Navy Department.

Williams, Frederick P., (Capt., USN). Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, Atlantic Fleet.

1926

H E N R Y T. D I E T R I C H , (Capt.,.

U S N ) , gives his duty address as

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Room 2951, D. C. N . O. (Air), Op 50, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. Ashton, Robert K., (Cdr., U S N R ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Clay, Mark W., (Capt., U S N ) . Staff Supply Officer.

Service Squadroa 3 .

Corbin, Clifford T., (Cape, U S N ) . 5th Naral District, Norfolk, Va., for duty in coimection with General Court MartiaL Glick, John A., (Capt., U S N ) . Inspector of Naval Material, 1st Naval District, Boston, Mass.

Leslie, Maxwell F., (Capt., U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Miami, Fla. Parish, Herman O., (Capt, U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Port Director Officer, Naval Base, Norfolk, Va., and additional duty on Staff, Commandant, Naval Base, Norfolk, Va. Corbin, Clifford T., (Capt U S N ) . Assistant Director of Naval Reserve, Staff, Commandant, 5th Naval District, N e w Orleans, La. Miller, William, Jr., (Capt U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS SiciLy, CVE 118.

IQOy CARL W . FLESHER gives his • • ^1 new address as 317 John St., RoseUe. N . J. RICHARD D. ZERN, (Capt., U S N ) , writes, "T have been Officer-in-Charge of the Navy Unit, Armed Forces Radio Service, for about a year now. It is quite interesting and also a rather unusual job for a sea-going Navy man."

ROBERT V. HULL, (Capt., USN), is serving in the USS RENvnxB, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Diego, Calif.

Hammond, Wellington A , (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS SKAGrr, AKA 105.

Headi, George L., (Capt. U S N ) . Operations Officer, Fleet Training Group and Underway Training Unit, San Diego, Calif.

Quackenbush, Robert S., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief of Staff and Aide. Task Force 68.

Zemmer, Harold M., (Capt, U S N ) . Operations and Training Officer, Staff, Commander, Battleships-Cruisers, Pacific

AQQQ CHARLES H. K E N D A L L , ITZO (Capt, USN), gives his new address as U. S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N.J. Nichols, Frank M.. (Cdr., U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Naval Air Facility, Roosevelt Roads, Pnerto Rico.

1QOO ARTHUR S. HILL, ( C a p t , • /-^/ USN) writes from Naval Air Station, Johnston Island; "Letters of condolence and commiseration from anguished friends and relatives indicate that SHIPMATE has printed a notice alluding to my unfortunate state of "poor' health, predicting imminent retiremenr for physical disability, and suggesting impending shuffling off of this mortal coil.

"Nothing could be further from the truth.

I am the one captain, USN, I know who has not now, and has never had a material thing wrong with him physically. I challenge all comers in my rank to a mile swim, a gogglefishing contest, or nine innings at first base in the local league. Somewhat eccentric, it is possible that I may be mentally off the beam, but physically undone? Not for a long time!"

SHIPMATE extends apologies to Captain Hill for a statement so completely erroneous. Congramladons on being the healthiest guy in the Navy—and admitting it.

Cone, Henry S., (Capt, S C U S N ) . Supply Officer, Naval Training Coiter, Great Lakes, DL Duval, Joseph B., Jr., (Capt, U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Service Force, Pacific Fleet Hutchins, Edward F., (Capt, U S N ) . Inspector-Instructor of Naval Reserves at Baltimore, Md^

4QO/\ WILLLAM N . WYLIE, (Capt I 7J U USN ) , and Mrs. Wylie announce the birth of a daughter at the Naval Hospital, Annapolis, on 8 December. Captain Wylie is on duty with the Allied Control Commission, starioned at Budapest, Hungary JAMES A. WOODRUFF, JR., (Cdr.^ USN), gives his new address as 465 Sa Grand Ave., Pasadena 2, Calif.

Konigsberg, Albert, (Capt, S C U S N ) . Supply Oftcer, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. McQain, Warren H., (Capt, U S N ) . Commandiu Officer, USS MERRIMACK, AO 37.

Sheeley, William R., (Cdr.. U S N R ) . Officer ia Charge, Naval School, (Naval Justice).

1931 Fitch, Robert A., (Cdr.. U S N R ) . Navigation Officer, USS S A I N T P A U L , C A 7 3 .

Gardiner, Josef M., (Cdr., U S N ) . Naval Opeations. Navy Department Jones, Ashton B., Jr., (Cdr., U S N ) . Buiean fjk Ordnance, Navy Department Parsons. William K., (Cdr., U S N ) . rnmmnn^JBOfficer, USS LEARY, D D 8 7 9 .

Williams. George K., (Cdr.. U S N ) . Conimaodim Officer. USS GEORGE K . M A C K E N Z I E , D D 836.

1Q^9 ROBERT H. KERR, (Cdr, • ' ^ ^ U S N ) , has resigned from the Navy and is working for the Soutl)em California Gas Company. His address is 4954 Escalon Avenue, Los Angeles, 43, California, and he would like to see or hear from friends who may visit Los Angeles.

HARRY O. CAPERTON gives his addiess as 315 South Court House Road, Arlington, Va. Dale. Roland H., (Cdr., U S N ) . Naval Air Eicility, Honolulu, T. H. Young. Robert C , (Cdr., U S N ) . Fleet T i u o i ^ Group, Guanianamo Bay. Cuba.

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1 QO O ROBERT A. VOGELER gives his I70 J address as Vienna XVllI, Max Emanuel Str. 15, Austria.

Jackson, Ed-jrard F., (Cdr., U S N ) . Surface Operations'Officer, Staff, Commander. Marianas.

Kuehl, Howard F., (Cdr., SC, U S N ) . Aviation Supply Annex, Naval Supply Depot, Oakland, Calif.

Powell. Isthmian L., (Cdr., U S N ) . Executive Officer USS BAYFIELD, APA 3 3 .

1 Q ^ 4 ^^CHARD E. BLY, (Cdr. U S N ) , I /J T writes, "After the last three years' tour as Navigator of the USS MISSISSIPPI, I returned to Aviation and am at present located in Akron as B. A. R. Fran and two daughters, 9 and 6, are living here now all settled in a purchased home at 639 Roslyn Avenue. I would like to extend an open invitation for any N . A. Alumni who happen to pass through Akron to look us up, spend the night, etc. We will promise a good, old-fashioned bull session."

EUGENE CARTER RIDER, (Cdr., USN), and Mrs. Dorothy MacMurray Montross were married on 26 December in Annapolis.

Collins, William M., Jr., (Cdr., U S N ) . Navigator, USS KEARSARGE, C V 3 3 .

1935 Boyle, Peter F., (Cdr.. U S N ) . Navigator, USS R A N D O L P H . CV 15.

Hird, Louis R., (Cdr., U S N ) . Bureau of Naval PMSonnel, Navy Department, for temporary duty pending further assignment.

dollars to fill the gaps in the monthly budget. is currently stationed at Balboa."

"From sitting at the tail end of the table JAMES G. EGAN, (Lt. Cdr., USN), gives lO^A JOSEPH H. BARKER, JR., at the Association Trustees meetings in the his address as 839 Convention Street, Baton I TOO (Cdr., CEC, USN), gives his new past six months, I know that the publication Rouge, La. address as 4002 Berry Avenue, Drexel Hill, of SHIPMATE has been a real struggle since Pa. John L., (Lt. Cdr., U S N ) . Examination the end of the war. Decreased advertising, in- Bishop,

by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Orr, Elbs B., (Cdr., U S N ) . Commanding Officer, creased printing costs and lack of wartime Howatt, John P., (Lt. Cdr., U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS JEFFERS, D M S 27.

USS REMORA, S S 4 8 7 . stories are some of the problems. So 4.0 Bull men lay on the usual brush and give our maga1 0 ^ 7 J°™^ ^ WALSH, JR., (Lr. zine a boost." »' O / Col., USMC), and Lt. Marie B. "WHAT DO" Reppa, (NC) USNR, were married on 15 O'Neill, Robert A., (Cdr., U S N ) . Naval OperaAbout Your Life Insurance Estate? tions, Navy Dept.

August in Arlington, Va. Pickett, Ben B., (Cdr., U S N ) . Commanding Offi" W H A T D O : " ( I ) t o obtain full a d FRED WEXEL, (Cdr., USN), and Mrs. cer, USS WrNSLOW, AG 127. vantage of the recent additional beneWexel announce the birth of their second fits and changes in your National ServRAFAEL C. BENITEZ, (Lt. daughter, Marie Elaine, on 25 September in I P O O ice Life Insurance. ' ' * * ' Cdr., USN), gives his new adSouth Orange, N . J. " W H A T D O : " ( 2 ) t o derive t h e maxidress as 22 Old Glebe Road, Unit D, Apt. mum savings in converting your N a Arentsen, Edward S., (Cdr., U S N ) . Staff, Com- 303, Arlington, Va. tional Service Life Insurance with t h e mander, San Diego Group, 19th Fleet, San Diego, Calif.

Baer, Donald G., (Cdr., U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS S E A C A T , SS 3 9 9 .

1938

^^^^^^ ^ BLANDIN, (Cdr.,

' ^ ^ SC, USN) gives his new address as Box 10, Navy 943, Naval Air Base, Agana, Guam, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

RAYMOND F. DUBOIS, (Cdr., U S N ) , and Mrs. Aimabelk Helmkamp Walling were married in San Francisco recently.

CECIL R. WELTE, (Cdr., USN), gives his address as 103 Madison Streer, N.W., Washington 11, D. C. ROBERT C. FLETCHER, (Cdr., U S N ) , and Miss Freda F. Pickering were married on 20 September in Long Beach, Calif.

JOHN SAXTEN, (Lt. Col., USMC), writes: "A recent letter from the new Executive Direaor of our Alumni Association points out the dire need of articles for SHIPMATE. I am passing his plea on to you with the hope that some of the better Bull artists in the dass will apply their talents to the typewriter and send the results to SHIPMATE for publication. This magazine offers the opporrunity to spread your mental wanderings before a large receptive audience as well as to bring in a few extra

JANUARY, 1947

JACK C YOUNG, (Lt. Cdr., USN), gives his address as 4807 43rd Place, N.W., Washington 16, D. C. Latimer, Clement T., (Lt. Cdr., U S N ) . U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Reaves, Henry G., Jr., (Lt. Cdr., U S N ) . Submarine Base, N e w London, Conn., for duty on Staff of the Submarine school.

Rudden, Thomas J., Jr., (Lt. Cdr., U S N ) . Executive Officer, USS GURKE, D D 7 8 3 .

Sharpe, John A., Jr., (Lt. Cdr., U S N ) . Underway Training Unit, San Diego. Calif., for duty as Communication Training Officer.

Welch, Francis M., (Lt. Cdr., U S N ) . Staff, Chief, Naval Air Training, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. Weschler, Thomas R., (Lt. Cdr., U S N ) . Gunnery Officer, USS M A C O N , CA 132.

1940

'^^^^N A. SCHOEN, (Lt.

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PHILIP F. EC3CERT, (Lt. Cdr., U S N ) , writes, "My new address is: Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, N . H. I am going ashore after nearly five years of submarine service, during which time I made 10 war patrols in the submarines ARGONAUT, NAUTILUS and SEA ROBIN. I took command of the sub GAR fifteen days before the war ended, decommissioned her, and returned to my former job as Exec and Navigator of the SEA ROBIN which

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Lt. Comdrs. F . A. Andrews, R- W . Axey, P B Armstrong, W . A. Arthur, J. M . Ashley, Jr., W . R. Barnett, J . J. Bradley, H . M . Bruiser. G. F. Britner, G. Brown, R . H . Buck, H . P . McNeal, W . Morgan Montgomery, A. C MuUen, J. B. Osborn, E. M. Rosenberg, C. B. Shaw, W . E. Sims, M . O . Slater, P . B . Smith, P. S. Smith, R. B . Stahl, L. J. Stecher, A. J. Tervo, F. Tofalo, T . Turner, H . J. W a r d , i.L W . Woods, W . H . Young, R. S. Eastman, L. Erb, J. A. Fairchild, H . E. Fry, A. G. H a m ilton, Jr.; Lt. F. C. D u n h a m , Jr., Capts. S. H .

Hetcher, USMC; J. E. Glick, USMC. Several members of t h e class from other duty stations attended. These were: Lt. Comdr. R. B. ChUders, CEC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N . Y.; Mr. W . S. Davis, Bureau of Ordnance, Washington, D .

C ; Lt. Comdr. L B. Green, N A S , Banana River, Fla.; Maj. H . A. Harwood, USMC, Military Staff, Security Council, United Nations Organization, and Lt. Comdr. >L G. Lee, N I S , Receiving Station, Washington, D . C. N O K : There were exactly 42 members of the Class of '42 present.

J O H N A. LINDBECK, (Lt. Cdr., U S N ) , writes, "I a m relieving m y Naval Academy roommate, Lt. Comdr. Bob Mundhenk, as First Lieutenant on this new heavy, the USS T O L E D O . ( C A 1 3 3 ) . Bob will be leaving t h e service this m o n t h with his new, though temporary, address as West Point, Ga." W n j J A M C. DOZIER, J R . , ( L t Cdr., U S N ) , and Miss Jean M o n o n Murdoch of Sydney, Australia, were married on 11 September. Lt. Comdr. Dozier writes, " T h e B E SUGO, to which I am now attached as Executive Officer, is scheduled for an overhavd at Hunter's Point, San Francisco, commencing

3 February, and t h e Mrs. and I extend notite of a n open door a n d welcome mat at the disposal of all friends."

Balis. Theodore L . (Lt. Cdr., USN). Aide and Fl^ Lieutenant, Staff, Commander, Cruiser Division 13 Carter, Robert R., (Lc Cdr., USN). Instructor, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Dovle, Judson C , (Lt. Cdr., USN). Instiuctn, Fleet Training Group. Giianranamo Bay, Cuh«.

MacKown, Alfred B., (Lt. Cdr., USN). Eieaitne Officer. USS WrrEK, DD 848.

Rickabaugh, John M., (Lt- Cdr., USN). Ommaail. ing Officer, Fleet Air Service Squadron 13.

Robb. Bruce, (Lt. Cdr., USN). Acceptance of Resignation from U. S. Navy.

1 Q 4 ^ H E R B E R T H . W A R D , m , (LL, I / I J U S N ) , and wife Kitty annoaixe the birth of a daughter. Marguerite Starr, on 6 September. H e r b is o n duty as Eiec of ti^ USS T A R N E S ,

( D D 8 3 4 ) , presently at San

Diego, a n d writes that W A C O WALKER and F R A N K N E L S O N are Execs of two of the other cans i n t h e same division.

G E O R G E S. G O O D S P E E D , JR., gives his address as Governor's Lane, Greenfield Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, and writes that he resigned from t h e Navy o n 14 November aod is now studying at t h e University of Connecticut Law School in Hartford.

W I L L I A M H . M c C A U G H E Y , ( I x , USN), wishes to make a belated announcement of the birth of a second son, Malcolm Scott, as of S February i n Newport, R. I. At present Lt. McCaughey is attached to the USS AMBERJACK at N e w London, Conn.

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nOAA R I C H A R D E. BOWE, (Lt, ' / T ^ U S N ) , and Miss Virginia Wdbourn Cooley became engaged recently.

H A R O L D N . H \ ' A L , (Lt- (jg) USN), and Mrs. Hval announce t h e birth erf a son.

JosUn, Royal K., (Lt. Cdr., USN). Executive Officer USS HAROLD J. E H I S O N , DD 864.

Lincoln, Narfiaa R., Jr., (Lt. Cdr., USN). Staff, Commaader. Carrier Division 3, as Assistant Operations Officer.

Milliken, Jam:3 S., (Lt. Cdr., USN). Acceptance of ResignatioT from the U. S. Navy.

SmaUwood, Roy C , Jr., (Lt. Cdr., USN). Sdi Naval District, New Orleans, La., for duty in cotmection with Naval Reserve as Inspector-Instructor at New Orleans, La. Tilton, Eugene B., (Lt. Cdr., USN). Acceptance of Resignation from the U. S. Navy.

Vau^ian, Henry L , (Lt- Cdr., USN). U. S. Naval Academy, Alumni Association.

1941

JOHN

last CaU

SAMUEL BRAGG B R E W E R , ' 1 7 , (Capt. U S N ) .

Died on 10 December at the Naval Hospital in Long Beach, California.

JOHN LOCKWOOD BURNSIDE. JR., ' 2 6 , (Capt.

U S N ) . Died on 9 O a o b e r , 1946, in the U .

S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md.

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EDWARD H A L E

(Lt.

HARDY,

'43,

(Lt. USN).

F R E D E R I C K E A H L K R A E M E R , ' 2 2 , (Ens. USN-

CLAUDE WILLARD ADAMS, JR., 4 3 (Lieut.

USN).

Missing to Reported dead after having been in a plane crash in the vicinity of Mindoro Island, P . I. on 2 8 July, 1946.

1941 Jamison, James P., (Lt. Cdr., USN). Assistant to the C^rations Officer, Staff, Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet.

Mauldin, Vinor S., (Lt. Cdr., USN). Commanding Officer. USS FOGG, DE 57Rodman, William B., IV, (Lt. Cdr.. USN). AntiAircraft Officer, Fleet Training Group, Guanianamo Bay, Cut^.

GEORGE MCFETRIDGE,

SAXFORD

Died in plane crash 4 September, 1946.

ret) . Died o n 14 February in Brooklyn. N. Y.

BRUCE MORTON M C K A L S O N . '42, ( L L Cdr. U S N ) . Missing to determined dead. Plane crash 10 September in the vidnity of Saipan.

JOHN

CAMPBELL,

'93,

(V.

Adm.

EDWIN MURPHY.

' 2 2 , ( C a p t USN).

Died on 10 December in U . S. Naval Hospital in Quantico. Va., from injuries received in a n automobile accident.

FRANCIS W O R T H S C \ N L A N D ,

0 9 , (Comma

I / " i t Cdi., U S N ) , gives his new adU S N - r e t ) . Died of a heart attack on 11 DeU S N ) . Died of a heart attack on 16 Ocrodress as Fighting Squadron 15 A , N A S , Alacember in Medina, Washington. bet in San Diego, Calif. meda, Calif.

ERIC E. HOPLEY, (Lt. Cdr., U S N ) , and FRAISTK M C D O W E L L LEA\aTT D A V I S . ' 4 2 , (Lt Mrs. Hopley announce t h e birth of a son, Cdr. U S N ) . Died on 10 September when MYRON BOTO SUTTON, ' 4 4 , ( L t U S N ) . Died Richard Lawrence, on 30 November in Washhis plane crashed in a spin and burned on 17 September in a plane crash in the ington, D . C . Eric has just reported for duty while making a dive attack on slick.

Mediterranean Area. aboard the SEA ROBIN in Panama where Shirley and Dick hope t o join h i m soon.

Members of the U. S. Naval Academy, Class RoscoE FRANKLIN DILLEN. '04, (Capt. USN- J A M E S H A R V E Y T O M B , ' 9 9 , (Capt. USN-ret). r e t ) . Died of a heart attack on 2 3 July, of 1942, now on duty in Annapolis celebrated Died on 2 3 September in the U. S. Naval 1946 in Flora, Indiana. the fifth anniversary of their graduation at a Hospital, Brooklyn, N . Y. cocktail party and dinner at the N o r t h Severn Officers' Mess on Thursday, 19 December.

J O H N J O S E P H D O U G H E R T Y . ' 4 6 , (Lt. U S N ) .

Those members of the class present, who Missing to reported dead. Plane crashed, PAUL CHESTER T R E A D W E L L . "23. (Cdr. USNare stationed in the Severn River Naval Com30 July, while on a search flight, Central r e t ) . Died on 8 December at his home in mand, were: Mindoro Island, Philippines Miami Beach, Fla

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I received that paper. I decided to see my prof about it. He looked at the paper and he couldn't understand it either. It seems that all those answers that were marked wrong were actually right.

David Jerome, on 19 December. Lt. Hval is stationed at the Naval Mine Warfare School, Yorktown, Virginia.

WILLLAM T. W(X)TTON, (Lt., U S N ) , and Mrs. Wootton announce the birth of a daughter, Leslie Roberts, on IS November in Washington, D. C. BUI is at present on duty with the Mediterranean Fleet aboard the new oiiiser, HUNTINGTON. 1QAK. SHERMAN W. BLANDIN, (Lt. I # T O (jg), U S N ) , and Mrs. Blandin announce the birth of a son, James Sherman, on 23 November at the Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, 111.

194A WILLIAM T. FULLER, (Ens., I 'TO USN), and Mrs. Fuller aimounce the birth of a son, William Thompson, Jr., on 3 December at Memphis, Tenn.

ROBERT SCHABACHER, (Ens., U S N ) , and Mrs. Schabacher announce the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Martin, on 6 December at Newport.

CLYDE B. HANNAH, (Ens., U S N ) , and Miss Barbara Hayman were married on 8 December in the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis.

Something Old— Something New {Continued from page 16)

LOCAL

ASSOCIATIONS

AKRON

present and future.

The Akron group had their second meeting Those present were: Capt. F. D. Karns '95, since the war on the 5th of December.

Rear Adm. Sinclair Gatmon '00, C. A. RusAmong those present was Lt. Comdr. New- sell '06, Vice Adm. Jules James '08, P. L. ton Mansfield, USN-ret., who graduated in Holland '08, Capt. M. D. Gilmore '11, '95. He kept us entertained with tales way Clayton Demarest '19, E. R. Anderson back when Halsey was in knee pants.

'20, Capt. J. C. Lester '22, J. T. WaldJohn J. Blandin, "10; Guy Winkjer, '23 hauser '23, J. R. Downs '24, J. B. Poore Adolph Bednar, '24; Arthur K. Blough, '24 '25, W. B. Bristor '27, D. J. Fitzgerald '27, Frank J. Thomas, '25; Comdr. R. E. Bly, '34 Lt. Col. F. G. Wagner '30, F. A. Weiss '30, C. C. Kirby, '34.

W. A. Schoen '40, R. P. Norton '44, K. E. Though we are a small group and some Anderson '46, J. L. Power, O. B. Wight, R. come as far as sixty miles to attend, we do B. Copinger, M. W. Mills, E. F. O'Malley, enjoy the evening.

J. G. Butke, J. H. Downs, R. C. McNeish, F. F. Hoffeditz, Dr. J. H. F. Dunning.

BOSTON The Boston Association held its "first Wednesday in each month", luncheon meeting at the Boston City Club, 14 Somerset Street, at 12:15, 4 December. Members and guests present were as follows: Comdr. A. H. Ashton, USNR; Capt. J. A. Glick, USN; Comdr. A. Ray Staudt, USNR; Capt. H. E. Cook, USN-ret.; Capt. C. H. J. Keppler, USN-ret.; Capt. H. R. KeUer, USNR; R. R. Robertson; J. F. Morgan; G. C. King; Lt. (jg) C. R. Rohweder, USN-ret.; Stanley Pullen; Capt. W. E. Haycock, USNR; Capt. J. H. Dickins, USN-ret.

The meeting dates are easy to remember and the place is conveniendy located—there is plenty of room and cordial welcome awaits all alumni and their guests.

ing those hectic early war days, and the crowning blow was the "loss of Christmas". The Enterprise, on a westward patrol, crossed the CHICAGO On 30 November, the Chicago group were International Date Line at noon, December 24 hosts to the West Pointers at the Naval and presto, it was the 26th of December!

The log takes the squadron through the Armory to listen to the broadcast of the Armyfirst "hit and run" raids on the Marshalls, as Navy football game. Wives and guests, both Army and Navy, were also present—in all, well as the Battle of Midway. about 150 joined for cocktails, lunch and the thrilling redtal of the game.

It turned out to be quite an afternoon— a huge success. The food was good. The old Spindrift yells, cheers and songs—back and forth— Navy to Army and Army to Navy—resounded {Continued from page 17) through the armory. Everybody had a good informed of the plot, thus no one was sur- time and was happy about the whole thing— prised at the howl of anguish which emanated the Pointers because they won, the Navy befrom the slash's room when the papers had cause of the grand and outstanding performbeen distributed. "I can't understand it, I know ance of the Navy team.

President Les Baker and his committee did I did these maneuvering probs right, etc., etc." followed by more wails and gnashing of a fine job of planning and preparation. Here's teeth. The boys in his section reveled in the hoping for next year. thought that the victim was at last tasting humble pudding after his many throat cut- MARYLAND ting orgies.

The regular dinner meeting of the Maryland Branch for December was held at the That evening, however, the shoe was on the other foot. Let the slash tell the story Hotel Stafford on 17 December, 1946. Movies in his own words, as he did to his thoroughly of the Georgia Tech and Army football games abashed classmates. "Well, when I saw that were shown, and Bob McNeish, of the Acadpaper with all those 'x's' I was pretty desperate. emy football coaching staff, very kindly came You know that I, ah, well, I am a star in nav, from Annapolis to give us a running comand frankly I was pretty dumbfounded when mentary and later discussion of Navy football,

JANUARY,

1947

"To make a long story short, the prof apologized for being careless and then he changed my mark from the 3.4 that 1 had originally received to a 3.8."

He who laughs last. . .

SAN FRANCISCO Our regular monthly stag dinner meering was held on January 8th at the Commissioned Officers' Club, U. S. Naval Station, Treasure Island, with an attendance of 105, including 15 members of 1921 and 9 of 1931. Haller Belt presided.

As the enthusiastic, record-breaking attendance, which came to see the pictures of the great Army and Navy football game of 1946, exceeded the capacity of the dining room, the the overflow of about 20 was accommodated in the main dining room of the club. On deck were our faithful old grads who come to our monthly meetings regularly from San Francisco, from across the Bay, and from down the Peninsula. Included were "Johnny" Graham, '98, in whom the football heart beats strong and warm; R. Adm. A. F. Huntington, SC, '98; R. Adm. Hugo Osterhaus, '00, who played on the Navy football team in his day; R. Adm. W. H. Shea, NA '00 and CG '02, who also played on the Navy footbaU team, and Commodore Milton S. Davis, '03. Also among those on hand was Percy Northcroft, '09, who made a record long-distance place kick which won the Army-Navy Game at Franklin Field in 1908.

Among the guests present we were glad to welcome some 35 West Point grads, with popular, friendly Gen. Grote Hutcheson, USMA '84, as the oldest grad.

Thanks to Clyde King, 1922, and his indomitable and indefatigable vim and vigor, Tom Hamilton sent us the technicolor films of the Army-Navy Game. Johnny Matthews, 1931, did a superb job with a running commentary as the pictures were displayed. It reflected much smdy and hard work on his part, and was done very smoothly.

Some of the guests present were, as follows: Col. Brett, USMA '30; Col. Lawton Buder, MA '27; Jos. V. Costello, Col. A. F. Dannemiller. Brig. Gen. Gar Davidson, MA '27.

Col. H. H. Cjalliett, Georgetown Law '12; James A. Hall, Temple Univ. '37; Paul H. Hershey, W. D. Horner, M.D., M. N. Hosmer.

Grote Hutcheson, MA '84; Redmond F.

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Kernan, MA '27; Earl F. Knoob, MA '17; R. G. Koser, California '28; W. H. Loyd, NA '35.

Joe F. Lyon, R. H. MacGillivray, John Manners, W. Patrick McDonald, San Frandsco News; Mike McHugh.

Jim Moore, West Virginia '25; Harless Moser, WiUiam C. Pillsbury, Col. John H. Pitzer, MA '23; Phipps L. Rasmussen, Lt. Comdr., SC, USNR, St Mary's '34.

Marshall Ricksen, California '30; Empey A. Robertson, Yale '08; A. J. Schultz, Lt. Comdr., Univ. of Detroit '39; Col. E. H. Shulz, MA '95; G. P. SmaUman, Capt., SC, USN, Ret Tom Smith, E. S. Walling, Herbert D. Walter, Stanford '00.

A partial list of members present is as follows. Regretably, attendance cards were not received from those who dined in the main dining room.

John S. Graham, '98; A. F. Huntington, '98; Hugo Osterhaus, '00; W. H. Shea, NA '00 and CG '02; Milton S. Davis, '03.

J. H. Lofland, '04; C. S. McDowell, "04; Roland Riggs, '04; A. B. Court, '05; H. E. Kays, '05.

E. R. Shipp, '05; E. D. Washburn, Jr., '06; James L. Hall, '07; Jim HoweU, '07; Archer M. R. AUen, '08.

Haller Belt, '08; Ernest F. Buck, '08; Leo L. lindley, '09; Percy W. Northcroft, '09; C. G. McCord, '11.

John Falge, '12; Neil H. Geisenhoff, '13; H. W. PiUsbury, '13; Charles D. Swain, '14; A. C. Geisenhoff, '16.

Ned Marbourg, '17; T. D. Ross, '17; E. M. Senn, '17; F. K. Fischler, '18; P. M. Thornton, '18.

A. S. Pitre, '19; John R. Redman, '19; E. R. Winckler, '19; C. J. Ballreich, "20; F. W. Beard, '20.

R. S. Morse, '20; D. E. Carlson, '21; C. V. Conlan, '21; E. Kirby-Smith, Jr., '21; Geo. D. Lyon, '21.

F. A. MacGurn, '21; A. L. Main, '21; G. C. Miller, '21; Thomas G. Murrell, '21; W. F. Ramsey, '21.

J. C. Reisinger, '21; N. O. Schwein, '21; Frank R. Talbot, '21; C J. Cater, '22; George Neely, '22.

P. D. Parcells, '22; H. F. Pullen, '22; Quarton, '22; Al Toney, '22; E. R. Duncan, '23.

Philip D. Lohmaim, '23; W. R. Thayer, '23; F. R. Bunker, '24; Jessup, "24; T. F. Fowler, '25.

Marshall Smith, '27; E. P. Burton, '28; C. R. Smith, "28; W. D. Thomas, '28; C. T. Vensen, '28.

P. L. deVos, '30; W. H. Stewart, '30; Bingham, '31; G. J. Gundlfinger, '31; Edward P. Trenholme, '31.

L N. Tripi, '31; F. U. Weir, '31; Sinclair B. Wright, '31; M. A. Fawcett, '32; A. D. Macrae, '32.

Sammy Bradbard, '34; W. M. Dickey, '34; WiUiam H. Worden, '39; R. A. Malteh, '40.

Our San Frandsco stag dinner meetings are held monthly at the Commissioned Officers' Qub, Treasure Island, on the first Wednesday of every month. All alumni of the Naval Academy and their friends are cordially invited to attend.

SEATTLE The Seatde branch of the Naval Academy Alumni held meetings on 4 November and on 2 December at the BOQ of the U. S. Naval Station. In addition arrangements were

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made to listen to the Army-Navy game on 30 November, at which time members of the United States Military Academy Alumni, with their wives, were also present There is continued interest in the local assodation.

List of those present at meeting held 2 December 1946: E. G. Konrad '32, C. C. Hornby '28, F. A. Strohecker '24, W. R. Carter '22, N. S. Haines '30, D. R. Lee '13, A. R. Early '14, Joseph Baer '07, E. F. Ferguson '31, Robert R. Fox, Jr., '22, Ken Borgen '24, B. B. Cassels '22, King Ridgway '22, M. Durski '27, M. Smellow '23, R. I. F. Fravel '27, Gordon Rowe '18, P. W. Mourer, Jr., '26, Frank Hoye "31, Doug Gray '31, E. L. Bush '41, H. R. Leonard '14, W. A. WHey '96, P. D. Duke '33, J. B. Danhoff '27, H. B. Berry '10, Lewis L. Stedman '15.

Mr. F. A. Strohecker, president, presided.

After an enjoyable dinner the meering was called to order.

It was announced that the first matter of business was the election of officers and trustees. Ballots that had been prepared by the nominating committee were passed and the president appointed an election committee to collect the ballots, tabulate them and report the results. During tabulation of the ballots colored motion pictures of the Army-Navy football game were shown. Admiral George R. Fort, who had been present at the game, gave a report on it prior to the showing of the pictures.

On motion duly made and seconded the secretary was instructed to write Captain Tommy Hamilton thanking him for having made these pictures available for this meeting.

The president asked for introduction of any guests present and Frank Bigelow, class of '22, now a resident of Los Angeles, California, was introduced.

The election committee then reported that it had tabulated the ballots and that the following were elected: Frank A. Strohecker, President; B. B. Cassels, Vice-president; Lewis L. Stetlman, Secretary-Treasurer.

The following named trustees were elected: A. W. Akers, Eric Barr, H. A. Berry, B. B. Cassels, D. L. Lee, H. R. Leonard, Lewis L. Stedman, Frank A. Strohecker.

The treasurer then reported that the bank balance amounted to approximately $54; that he had bought celluloid buttons for $50.05 and that B. B. Cassels should be reimbursed the cost of postcards that he had used to notify the members of meetings. The treasurer was direrted to pay these bills.

The chair then announecd that dues in the sum of $2 were due and payable and that those present should make payment of the same at the rime they paid for their dinner.

There being no further business the meering adjourned.

WASHINGTON The Washington Chapter of the Naval Academy Assodation held its November mondily meering at the Roger Smith Hotd, 18th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W ' at 12:30 p.m., 21 November 1946â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the riiird Thursday of the month. The speaker, the Honorable John Danaher, former Senator from Connecticut, and present member of the Republican National Committee, was intro-

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The next luncheon will be hdd on 19 December, at which time Senator Josh Lee, former Senator from Oklahoma and present member of the Civil Aeronautics Board, will speÂŤk on "Commerdal Aviation and the World Today." Senator Lee is a very excellent speaker and has a great deal of interesting materiaL All Naval officers in the area are invited to attend these luncheons which are hdd on the third Thursday of every month. The December meeting will be Thursday, 19 December 1946; the January meering, Thursday, 16 January 1947. The luncheons are of one hour and ten minutes' duration, starring prompdy at 12:30 and terminaring prompdy at 1:40, except in cases where the membership desires to have the speaker conrinue. In cases of this type, those members who have conferences, etc., are allowed to leave without embarrassment This provides an excellent opportunity for all Naval officers in the area to get out and parridpate in other activities, listen to an interesting talk while taking the ordinary rime out for lunch and meeting not only thdr dassmates but other friends.

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