Vol. IV No. 32 U. S. Naval Operating Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Saturday, 1 October 1949

BASE WIDE CLEAN-UP BASE TO HAVE "NEW" LARGE THRONG SEES WEEK BEGINS MONDAY GRILL - LUNCHEONETTE CONSTITUTION HERE

Guantanamo Prepares For Coming Modern Stateside Restaurant, A large crowd of perhaps 500 Visit Of CinClant Inspector General Delicatessen Is Planned or more was on hand at 1554 Tues- day afternoon when the Navy's In preparation for the coming famed Constitution readiness (R-60) landed Base wide operational A grill-luncheonette, fashioned here for a brief stay before continu- a n d administrative inspection, exactly like the one 'you have ing the flight which would eventu- Rear Admiral Phillips has directed patronized in the States is planned ally take it to Argentia. all commands to carry out a clean- for Guantanamo, by the Base The up week commencing Monday, 3 Ship's Service Department. mighty transport, which seats October and continuing through The initial groundwork was laid 92 was almost empty when the scheduled arrival of Rear Ad- this week for the remodeling of she landed at the McCalla Field air- miral R. F. Good, USN, CinCLant the present Fleet Restaurant into strip. Only one passenger and Inspector General and his inspec- an attractive dining spot open to slightly over 150 pounds of cargo tion party. all Americans on was aboard. Base shutterbugs were the Base, except present The Base commander calls on possibly when fleet units in large en masse. all hands to put particular empha- numbers are in. The remodeled The double decked aircraft was sis this week on cleaning up the restaurant will have facilities to opened to those present for ap- "one-hundred-and-one" little details handle picnic and delicatessen proximately an hour and at the which will enable them to present foods as well as table service. end of that time several hundred their work and their items of Completion of the remodeling had passed through it, marvelling responsibility to the inspecting is expected by 15 November. The at the size and interior of the party in the same highly competent restaurant will remain o p e n plane. The NOB High School manner in which their ability is throughout the remodeling period. students turned out en masse for daily demonstrated in carrying According to H. 0. Hard, Serv- the event and swarmed with out the mission of the Base-i.e. ice Department Manager of the enthusiasm over the great skybird. service to the fleet. He expressed Naval Station Ship's Service, many, No doubt for days to come, the his conviction that a concentra- many improvements are in line to Constitution will be the subject of tion of the attention of every be made. He said that the grill- many conversations all over the officer and man on this Base luncheonette will be completely Base. to his personal appearance, milita- changed inside. Indirect lighting ry bearing and courtesy, plus the will replace the present system and usual prompt, courteous and effi- a new color scheme, to give the SMALL REDUCTION OF cient rendering of services, to- restaurant the brightest atmos- gether with straight forward phere possible will be adopted. In CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES answers to questions, could not addition, a suitable name will also fail to impress members of the be chosen in keeping with the "new Less than 80 civilian employees inspecting party and thus' prove look". The name as yet has not of the Naval Operating Base will that the high esteem in which this been chosen, however, it is known have to be separated to meet are held the Base and it's personnel that "The Coral Reef" and "The ceiling of 1876 employees recently is well throughout the Navy Trade Winds" are under considera- established by CNO to become deserved. tion as possibilities. effective 31 October. RADM Good, the Atlantic Fleet Inspector General, who is also Notices were being sent this Commander, Service Force, U. S. BASE OPPOSES CHANGE week to approximately 30 em- Atlantic Fleet, is expected to IN RETIREMENT ACT ployees of NOB Public Works, 30 arrive on the Base 10 Oct~ber with employees of NSD, 12 employees of a large contingent of Service Force The Commander of the Naval the Naval Hospital, and six and TENTH Naval District Staff employees of the Naval Station Operating Base has requested the in order to Officers comprising his inspection Navy Department to oppose a bill come within the ceiling, party. The actual inspection is which includes Naval Dental Clinic introduced in Congress which pro- in addition scheduled Monday through Thurs- poses to limit coverage of the Civil to the above activities. day, October 10, 11, 12 and 13. Service Retirement Act at foreign Activities affected by the cut in From Guantanamo the inspection bases to U. S. citizen employees. civilian personal allowance had party will continue southward for Introduction of the bill should previously separated more than similar inspections of the Naval not occasion undue alarm among 550 employees by reductions in Operating Bases at Roosevelt native and alien employees of this force since 1 January 1949. Roads, P. R. and Trinidad, B. W. I. Base presently covered by the Thus far no notices of reductions Retirement Act, inasmuch as rela- in civilian personnel allowances (SEA)-Deep water inside a bar tively few of the bills introduced have been received by the Naval or shoal is termed a allow. are enacted into law. Air Station or the Marine Barracks. e Two THE INDIAN Saturday, 1 October 1949 PgPa a TwT FOUR YEARS AFTER HIROSHIMA

(Adapted from National Safety News) The techniques of mass slaugh- ter acheived their greatest develop- CHURCH SERVICE SUNDAY Editorial Office, NOB Administration Bldg., ment four years ago when two October 2, 1949 254 Sunday, Room 205 - Phone bombs killed about 110,000 Jap- Catholic Masses 0700-Naval Base Chapel Saturday, 1 October 1949 anese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 0900-Naval Base Chapel The unleashed power of the atom 1745-Naval Base Chapel U. S. NAVAL OPERATING BASE Bay, Cuba brought World War II to an end Daily Mass - 0630 Guantanamo Confessions before all Masses Rear Admiral W. K. Phillips, USN in one final convulsion of agony. Protestant Services Commander now at the beginning Editor We stand 0930-Sunday School at Schoolhouse Allen Collier, JOSN------1100-Naval Base Chapel P. H. Teeter, LCDR------Staff Advisor of the fifth year of what some are fin- Protestant Choir rehearsal each Thursday THE INDIAN is published weekly, calling the Atomic Era. And as at 1930 appropriated funds, printed on anced by we look at the record, we see some Chaplains at this Activity government equipment, for free distri- remarkable facts. bution on the U. S. Naval Operating Base, CDR R. W. FAULK, USN Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by order of the Since the first bomb exploded (Protestant) Commander. LCDR Carl A. Herold, USN Base over Hiroshima, 400,000 Americans. (Catholic) THE INDIAN is published in compliance have been killed, not by the new with the provisions of NAVEXOS-P-35 (Rev) 1945. products of genius, but by the old THE INDIAN is a member of the Ship's stupidities. Accidents-the banal, PROTESTANT Editorial Association and republication of needless, profitless, pre-war type credited material prohibited without per- CHAPEL CHOIR mission from SEA. of accidents have killed almost four THE INDIAN uses Armed Forces Press times as many people in post-war At a recent meeting of the Service Material, which may not be re- America as the atom bomb killed Protestant Chapel Choir, officers printed without permission of AFPS. All photographs used by THE INDIAN in Japan. We cannot even estimate for the coning year were elected. are official U. S. Navy pictures credited to the accidental death toll in the rest President of the Choir is Ted the NAS Photo Lab. unless indicated of the world, but if the world rate McKenney of Aviation Supply; otherwise. is anything like the American, Vice-president is Harry Skinner about, 600,000,000 human beings of the Fleet Camera Party and COLLEGE CREDIT MAY have been slaughtered during the Secfetary-Treasurer is Corinne BE EARNED IN NAVY four years of the Atomic Era. Murray of the Supply Depot. Plans But the other disaster-the dis- for enlarging the choir in anticipa- By Ship's Editorial Association tion of the coming Christmas pro- can earn one aster of accidents-is not a possi- Naval Personnel bility-it is a grim and bloody gram were made. or two years of college credit for success- fact. The millions who have died Membership in the choir is de- "in-service" purposes by termined . by one thing only-a tests, recognized in the world, the 400,000 who have fully completing dead desire to sing with a group. No the equivalent of died in the U. S., are no less by the Navy as because they died singly or in small previous musical training is neces- or two years of standard either one groups. , sary. The musical numbers are college study. those which can be easily learned. In the case of one series of The organized safety movement has won some victories-real and Two hours a week are spent in re- examinations, the "USAFI General hearsal-1930 to 2130 on Thursday Educational Development Tests, important ones. Every year brings to the support of accident preven- evenings-and with others who College Level", results may be like to sing, this is a very pleasant forwarded at the individual's re- tion new allies in the form of in- or uni- fluential groups and powerful way to spend an evening. quest to the civilian college Applicants who would like to versity for possible accreditation to media for public education. The reports of the statisticians show get more information about the that institution. In such case, only Choir may call Ted McKenney at one year's credit could be granted. that our victories have saved lives. But against the background of Aviation Supply, Dr. Childs at the Age Limit 21 Years Labor Board, or Chaplain Faulk. The second test, "Educational the whole picture of slowly grind- ing disaster, our victories seem Qualification Test 2CX" may be NAVY'S GIANT PLANE taken after successfully passing small and inadequate! the first year accreditation exami- If we are to win far greater SITE OF MOVIE PREVIEW nation. It also may be taken by per- victories-and we must win them- sons who have completed one year we must awaken this country to (SEA)-The Navy's giant air- of college. In either case, prospec- a few facts: craft CONSTITUTION served as tive examinees must be 21 years That accidents outrun every a preview theater for the showing of age or over. disease as destroyers of productive of the newly released film "Slat- Successful completion, however, life; tery's Hurricane" to some 50 press, of the 2CX test will gain only Navy That they kill half the grade- newsreel and movie representatives recognition for having the equiva- school children who die in this while flying 15,000 feet above New lent of two years' college for in- country; York, City. service purposes. That they are a ghastly blight "Slattery's Hurricane" brings to Exams at Centers endangering us most particularly the scree the story of the Navy's The college level GED tests may in our homes; hurricane hunters who fly into the be taken at any Army, Navy, Air That they are a major barrier tropical storms off the Florida Force or Marine Corps GED test- to industrial efficiency and good coast. Many of the scenes are shot ing center, the 2CX examination, industrial relations; at U. S. Navy Hurricane Weather . however, must be applied for in- And that they can be prevented Control headquarters at Naval Air dividually. A description of the by techniques already known. Station, Miami, Florida home of tests, minimum passing marks and There is no reason why 400,000 Patrol Squadron 23 (VP 23), the methods for applying for them are Americans should die from ac- Navy's main hurricane reconnais- contained in BuPers Cire. Ltr. cidents in the second four years sance unit. 122-49 (NDB, 15 August 1949). of the Atomic Era. But I say to The advantage of having suc- you in all earnestness, 400,000 (SE A) - More than 400,000 cessful completion of the tests in Americans will be killed in the checks and 100,000 bonds are placed V your service record is its possible next four years unless the organiz- in envelopes by BuSandA's Field bearing on future selection for ed safety movement intesifies its branch every month-entirely by billets or promotion. efforts all along the line. mechanical means. Saturday, 1 October 1949 THE INDIAN Page Three Saturday, 1 October 1949 THE INDIAN Page Three NEWS HIGHLIGHTS .CHUCKLES

FROM WASHINGTON By Armed Forces Press Service 1950 BASEBALL SEASON By Armed Forces Press Service Dental Technician: "I don't think that new dentist is doing MAY FIND ST. LOUIS Comtemplated A r m e d Forces changes as revealed by Secretary so well." BROWNS IN NEW HOME of Defense Louis A. Johnson in Nurse: "Why not?" D. T.: "Well, every time I go recent speeches: The Army will (Adapted from THE SPORTING NEWS) take over land transport; the Air by the dental clinic, I see him looking down in the mouth." Force, air transport; the Navy, * By Dan Daniel sea transport. Service lines among NEW YORK, N. Y.-The first chaplains will be practically elimi- It's just as hard to find a needle change in the membership of the nated. Non-segreation of races will in a girl's hands today as in a major leagues since 1903 when be equalized among haystack. the services. r * * New York replaced Baltimore in All services will have specifically the American league impends for prescribed missions. Job classifica- She was only a golfer's daugh- the 1950 season, when the St. Louis tions will be standardized to permit ter, so she went around in as lit- Browns are expected to be playing interchangeability of civilian and tle as possible. in another city backed by new military personnel. Common orien- capital. tation toward unification will be Visitor: "Why do they call this Despite the puncturing of pre- given cadets in Service Academies. town the Villa of Flowers?" vious rumors about the removal of Native: "Every summer it's the Browns and the failure of pro- Boundaries of Naval Districts full of blooming idiots." spective buyers to show evidence are being adjusted to coincide with * * * of having material resources, the Army and Air Force areas. The decrepit old car drove up to shift of the club elsewhere before the toll-bridge. next season is regarded as inevita- Prohibition of the use of oleo- "Fifty cents" shouted the gate- ble by a source that is familiar margarine in Army and Air Force man. with the situation and supports messes, dating from 1931, has been "Sold," replied the driver. the forecast with strong facts. removed, promising an annual *F * * Just where the franchise will saving of $10 million. The Navy Angler: "You've been watching be placed and what financial in- remains under the prohibition. me for three hours. Why don't terests will furnish the backing are you try fishing yourself?" not revealed. Baltimore and Mil- A training course has been esta- Onlooker: "Ain't got the Ra- waukee have been named. Balti- blished at the Great. Lakes Naval tience." more hasn't a suitable park, neither Training Center to teach Naval has Milwaukee. Montreal has also dental officers such subjects as First Sailor: Hey, what's the been mentioned. The Canadian me- military drill, fire-fighting, Naval idea of wearing my raincoat?" tropolis, with a population of history and handling of firearms. Second Sailor: "Well you 1,350,000, could support a major All Naval dental officers will even- wouldn't want your new dress league club. Buffalo is another tually take this or similiar courses. blues to get wet, would you?" suggested site. Conditions Favor California. Due to the unification of the "What's an economist?" However, it appears that the various Service "days" into a "Oh, he's a person who tells you Pacific Coast, after all may get single "Armed Forces Day", Navy what to do with your money after the franchise. Although there are personnel have been instructed you've done something else with technical difficulties, to overcome that participation in any "Navy it." they are not considered insurmount- Day" ceremonies sponsored by able. It is believed that certain civilian organizations must be in The induction-station doctor concessions can and will be made to a private capacity. was examining the new recruit. permit the American League club "Are you troubled by improper to enter Los Angeles. A suggested For the first time in Naval his- thoughts, young man?" arrangement would shift the Los tory, three women doctors have "Why no, Doc, as a matter ot Angeles club to Long Beach, with been assigned to Navy hospitals fact, I rather enjoy them. a schedule that would not conflict as interns. with the Angels, known under an- Wife: "Don't you think, dear, other name, or the Hollywood Stars only 195,000 paid up to the last that a man has more sense after at Gilmore, Field. home stand. Last year the Indians he is married?" Facts marshalled to back up the played to 2,620,627 in Cleveland, Husband: "Yes, but it's too late assertion that removal of the club eight times as many as the Browns then." is envitable are: drew in St. Louis. The Yankees (1) The Browns cannot continue have played to as many in four NEW SNORKEL SUB to play in St. Louis with every or five games, and Indians, Tigers 'PICKEREL' season showing a drop in home and Athletics to as many in six or ASSIGNED attendance, while the Cardinals, eight games as the Browns have TO PACIFIC FORCE on the other hand, create new gate drawn in a season. records each year. (5) Necessity of adjustment in (SEA) - The Navy's new (2) The club cannot continue the rent of Sportman's Park. It is "snorkel" submarine USS Pickerel disposing of star players each year believed that Fred Saigh, owner of (SS 524), commissioned earlier to replenish the treasury to keep the Cards, would not be averse to this year at Naval Shipyard, Ports- going and take a chance on players paying a higher rent on the park mouth, N. H., has departed that who have not made good with or even purchasing it if he was base on an 8,500-mile voyage to other clubs. assured of lone operation in St. Pearl Harbor where she will join (3) Salaries of the official per- Louis. Submarine Force, U. S. Pacific sonnel exceed $100,000, without Balanced against the assets are Fleet. taking into consideration pay for the obligations against the Browns The streamlined undersea craft the players, travelling expenses and the fact that St. Louis has bears the name of the first U. S. and upkeep. failed to show that it can support submarine (SS 177) lost in the (4) The team is unlikely to play two clubs, especially when one is Central Pacific area during World to more than 250,000 at home with a loser. War II. e Four THE INDIAN Saturday 1 October 1949 Pa g, THIRD SATURDAY IN MAY U. S. DEVELOPING DUTY-FREE MAILING IS 'ARMED FORCES DAY' A GUIDED MISSILE OF GIFTS EXTENDED TO PROTECT B - 36 By Ship's Editorial Association (SEA)-Extension has been au- The third Saturday in May has Washington (AFPS)-The Gov- thorized for military personnel been designated "Armed Forces erment is developing a guided outside continental U. S. to send Day." missile for use of the B-36 air- home gift parcels of not more than With President Truman's ap- plane in protecting itself against $50 value without payment of cus- proval, "Armed Forces Day" unifies jet fighters, it recently was an- toms. all "(lays" previously observed by nounced by Dr. Karl T. Compton, The duty-free privilege was due the Army, Navy and Air Force, chairman of the Defense Depart- to be terminated last 30 June. By according to an announcement by ment Research and Development Public Law 241, 81st Congress, the Secretary of Defense Louis John- Board. wartime authorization was renewed son. The various armed forces had permitting service personnel to Dr. Compton said his board is to addressees in observed Army Day on 6 April, on four send gift parcels Navy Day on 27 October and Air supervising research the U. S. customs-free. day on 18 September. classes of guided missiles, includ- extension will be in Force missile, which The newest Secretary of the Navy Francis ing an air-tozair effect until 1 July 1951. "may well become the P. Matthews had previously an- he said Until such time as regulations of formal principal artillery of air combat." nounced cancellation the speed are revised, naval and marine per- by the Navy of Navy He acknowledged that send from observance them an sonnel are allowed to first time this year in of jet fighters gives stations bona fide gifts of Day for the over the larger and overseas with the proposed unified advantage not more than $50 in value without keeping "But if the observance. slower bombers. payment of customs. Effective reg- first observed 27 bombers are armed with missiles the gift pur- Navy Day was against ulations provide that that month in which can be launched be made in or through October 1922. In considerable chases must legislative birth of the these fighters at authorized agencies of the armed 1775, the if the missiles auto- took place when Congress range, and forces or in accordance with regu- Navy steer themselves toward S resolved that three ships be fitted matically lations prescribed by major geo- dispatch" the attacking fighter and explode out with "all possible contact or graphical commands. ships loaded with a powerful warhead at The custom-free proviso also is for intercepting then again we and other supplies in close vicinity, applicable to personnel on naval "warlike stores counter meas- enemies." have an improved vessels who must make certain for our the bomber against It was for this that the birth date ure to protect declarations on their gift parcels the improved attack," Dr. Comp- of, President Theodore Roosevelt before ships are cleared by U. S. selected for the ton said. con- (27 Oct. 1858) was importance to customs officials. Packages Navy Day. Roose- "This is of great in excess of observance of long range taining merchandise labored energetically to us," he added, "since are subject to duty pay- velt had a very significant $50 value Navy on a war basis while bombers are ments. put the in our military arsenal." he was serving in 1897 as Under element A certifying officer in each com- Secretary of the Navy under Presi- mand will examine gift parcels to dent McKinley. NAVY CONSTRUCTS assure compliance with regulations. HUGE CENTRIFUGE Announcement of the custom- DID YOU KNOW - free parcel entry was made to New York (AFPS)-The naval personnel in Alnav 84 (NDB, The tomato was ruled a vege- world's largest human centrifuge 31 Aug. 1949). Detailed adminis- found in CNO " table by the Supreme Court. for testing the reactions of pilots trative data can be Botanically speaking, it's a fruit to conditions that will be common letter 47-734(NDB, 15 Aug.1947). (berry) along with beans and in 1,000-mile-an-hour aircraft of peas. the future is being constructed NAVY ENLISTMENTS, by the Navy. SHIPPING OVER NOW The elephant has holes in his Details of the new centrifuge head. The skull, massive enough recently were revealed here by FOR 4 OR 6 YEARS to support the trunk and tusks, Captain John R. Poppen, of the must be partially hollow to elim- Navy Equipment Laboratory in By Ship's Editorial Association inate top-heaviness. Philadelphia. Terms of enlistment and re- Captain Poppen said that the enlistment in the Regular Navy for a gondola so all personnel now are for four or ukulele is played centrifuge will whirl The Hawaiian that forces 40 times that six years. in the U. S. rapidly mostly of the gravitational pull of the The regulation, which went into earth can be exerted on a person effect 1 September, renews pre-war About 99 per cent of all living inside it. enlistment terms. It eliminates the things are smaller and weaker Television Cameras previously permitted three-year than man. Scientists will be able to ob- enlistments and re-enlistments serve every eye-flicker of a pilot which had been in effect since 1948. The deer is insulated. His hair tests by means of tele- Either the four or six year the undergoing is hollow, keeping out cold in vision cameras that will be at- periods may be selected by men and winter and heat in the summer. tached to the gondola and focused women at their option. First en- on its interior. listments by 17-year-olds, however, Very few fleas are found in the The gondola will be mounted can be effected for minority only. Arctic regions. But mosquitoes and at the end of a 50-foot arm and Physical standards meanwhile sandflies can be more numerous will be inside a tipping contriv- have been raised for enlistment in than in the Tropics. ance with a double-ring mount- the Regular Navy. The temporarily ing like the support of a ship's lowered physical requirements had Today's housewife works only compass. been in effect since 1947. one-fourth as hard as her mother; This will allow a man seated in at one-eighth as much as Grandma. the gondola to be somersaulted or (SEA)-Recent surveys taken tipped so that his body is parallel NTC San Diego and NTC Great Lithium is the lightest metal. to the floor while he is being swept Lakes show that 98.6 per cent of A cubic foot weighs only 33 around the large circle described all Navy recruits are under 21 pounds. by the moving arm. years of age. Saturday 1 October 1 0 THE INDIAN Pagre Five Saturday, 1 October 19-9 CIVILIAN CHATER LITTLE THEATER NOTES

By C. V. Linn Tickets for the Little Theater's Despite rain, seasickness, and l ' production "SUDS IN YOUR EYE" the other discomforts incident to go on sale Monday, October 3rd, the journey, that Jamaica trip was at both Ship Service Stores and wonderful-so say the lucky civi- the Marini Post exchange. The lians who made it . . By R. A. Barchenger, YNC play will be presented October 12th, Here's wishing M. H. Tauseh, 13th, and 14th. And Once again the date for the fleet you are quarterman Public Works, a quick advised to buy your tickets early recovery from that major opera- competetive examinations is draw- ing near and gradually closing in and avoid possible disappointment. tion he had last week in the Naval In last weeks Little Theater Hospital. He's now able to have on the competitors of NSD and, of course, Notes we listed principal charac- visitors . the other personnel of ters NOB. It is rumored appearing in the play. The At last those employees who that plenty size of of "midnight the cast and space limita- draw cost of living allowances can oil" is being used tions prevents description these days for studying, so here of breathe a sigh of relief. Congress NSD supporting roles and wishes you all "Good Luck" for the people has approved legislation which who play them. - Tuesday, and hope that they authorizes payment of allowances will All will be on hand opening night, through Fiscal 1950, and the month see a new rate on each man taking however, the examination. and it is felt Moliere him- to month reprieve which has been self would Of the 21 put the stamp of ap- given since July will no longer be successful candidates, proval on their proficiency out of a total of 23 competitors of which necessary . . long hours of rehearsal has George Murray, leadingman au- NSD, on the last examination 100% achieved. were authorized But come on out and tomotive mechanic, is off to Boston to be advanced to judge for yoursef. for leave after 18 months at the next higher rating, and NSD is looking forward to a repeat Welcome back to Dana Grover performance by the 21 competitors An Intra-Post and Earl Boyden. These NAS now preparing for Tuesday exams. volley ball and their families re- With this in mind, NSD has had league got supervisors and turned to sunny Gtmo. after spend- will continue to have Saturday under-way this morning training ing their leave in chilly Maine periods for all past week with mean chilly! A card personnel. The Officers and Chiefs - Head quarters (And we do have been assigned from Fred and Ethel Spence, who instructor Company and duties, each covering the duties of the Staff NCO's are also on leave up there, says it their one morning) . respective departments, and meeting in the was 35 degrees to date have particularly to be tough on civilian empha- initial match. It's going sized military requirements employees who wilfully or care- for all Pfc Rodriguez, men in the Navy. captain of the Hq. team, claimed lessly damage Government proper- Promotion ty. A recent memorandum gives three points from Sgt. Major will Congratulations are extended by Carcelli's Staff NCO squad. They notice that retirement deposits all hands of NSD to LCDR Jones, be charged with the damage. will play each team twice, and a LT Foster, LT Cookinham, and LT trophy will be awarded to the Cozy on their recent promotions. winning team. Individual prizes TEEN-AGE ROUNDUP will be given to the ten members Births at Naval of the enlisted championship team. News Briefs: The 7th and 8th Hospital: Dorrell News has reached your reporter grades having fun at Carolyn Ann Mossman, 24 that Privates Schulte, Kazak, and Bailey's 13th birthday party; the September to CS1 English have been presented with kids at school exchanging banter and Mrs. E. Moss- Private First Class warrant. Colo- about the Constitution; Bob Gable's man; Thomas nel J. R. Lanigan, presented Cpl. wonderful surprise birthday party Virgil White, 21 William Dunnam with a warrant for Ruth; Skiddy and CDR. Allen September to EC1 as Sergeant, Wednesday, 28 Sep- celebrating their 17th and (?) and Mrs. A. E. tember. Congratulations men on birthday together. White; Baby boy your promotions. Strictly rumored: Skiddy's get- 0 T ES Hesterley born 28 Belated congratulations to 1st. ting away from the harbor police Septem ber to Sgt. and Mrs. G. E. Avery who in his new boat . . . possibility of S/Sgt and Mrs. Hesterley. celebrated their 16th wedding a teen-age club . . Elsa Heimer CAPT Robbins returned from anniversary by taking a trip to coming back from school in Cuba; TAD in the U. S. Monday of this Kingston, Jamaica. (Kind of a sec- Mr. Ondrasik walking to school week with bright prospects for the ond honeymoon . . huh Top ? ? ?) every morning to keep in shape. hospital for fiscal 1950. More belated congratulations the boys eating their "Wheaties" LT C. H. Dutcher returned from go to TSgt. and Mrs. Albert Croker every morning preparing for leave Friday and seems happy on the birth of their third child on basketball; Kay Hollis entering to be back in the fold. Friday, 9 September at 1850. The a pie eating contest. LTJG Eunice Loyd, NC reported baby boy weighed eight pounds, V. I. P.'s: Class presidents: Jea- in for duty from Naval Hospital, nine and one half ounces, and has neen, Ed Pitts, George MacMichael, Charleston, S. C. Welcome aboard, been named, Ronald Dennis. and Roger Fitzgerald; Represen- Miss Loyd, we all hope you will Flash! ! ! "Baby Face", behind tatives to the Constitution Com- enjoy your tour of duty in Cuba. eight ball with fellow class- mittee: Charlie, Martin, Henry, Mr. Johnson, Finance Depart- mates . . . The intentional missing Bennett, Norman Huddy, and ment, was on the sick list for a of the school bus really doesn't Roger Fitzgerald. few days but is back on the job hold water anymore as an excuse Apologies to Walter Winchell again, practically as good as new. used by Pfc "Baby Face" Farmer "Note of thanks! I wish to show Wilder, FCC, USN upon com- for his absence from school. All my thanks and appreciation to all pletion of thirty years service has who have signed these excuses were gone on the retired list and leaves informed that "Baby Face" spends the kids who attended the surprise his party given for me and all the Guantanamo today. Wilder was time in the "pool room". We hear that Farmer's good times they've made possible presented a letter of commendation "Sea Pappy" during my visit to Cuba. Thanks from the MOIC for his long and Cpl. Joseph Loyd is at his wits end. again! Ruth." faithful service to the Navy. By PFC Ed. Kazmierski - Pave Six THE INDIAN Gtmo. Bay-29 Sep 49-2500 1'a~e Sii THE INDIAN Gtrno. Bay-29 Sep 49-2500 SPORtS QUIZ _F ._ By Armed Forces Press Service QUESTIONS 1. Who was the first pitcher in the major leagues to become a 20-game winner this year? NavSta Takes NAS By 7-3 2. Was Australia's quest to cop the Davis Cup from the U. S. this SIX FLYER ERRORS PAVE WAY FOR SLUGGER year and take it "down under" VICTORY; ART NEELY WHIFFS 14 BATTERS a success? 3. How many tickets would you By Allen Collier, Sports Editor say were purchased last year by The Naval Station Sluggers The Sluggers, determined to take Americans to witness sporting spotted the NAS Flyers a 1-0 this game and avoid being shut events? second inning lead but rode out out in the series, scored three in 4. Can you name the members from under it in the top of the the top of the fourth. Primm and of the 1941 championship Brook- fourth to go ahead and finally win Webster led off the inning with lyn Dodgers who are still playing the game, 7-3. successive singles, but White was with the team ? Some 500 fans watched as the caught looking at a third strike. 5. Do you know the nicknames Flyers failed to support Art Neely Buchma reached first on a fielders of these three collegiate football on the mound, by committing six choice but the tag at second was teams? UCLA, Colgate, Rice. errors. Neely struck out 14 batters not in time and all hands were AF O 'sBRpACA pST 'sumng "g and very neatly scattered the safe. A Flyers miscue sent Primm eleven safeties the Sluggers touch- safe scurrying across the plate and ed him for with the exception of on Stocklosa's sacrifice hit, Webster s000vicee ati ond trou go three in the top of the ninth. It who had advanced to third, on the thleo 1- e toq Atdo marked the third game in a row proceeding error scored to tie the aqy pau la S scito ofN th that the losing pitcher has chalked ball game up. Menear reached first up more strike outs than the win- on an error, Buchma going to ning pitcher. "Wonder Boy" Web- third. Neely then uncorked a wild S2lHASNV ster and fireballer "Jack" Mach- pitch and Menear scored the tie- tolff could only muster eight breaking run. Rosario struck out AFRS TO BROADCAST strikeouts between them, six being and the inning was over. credited to Machtolff. Another run was added in the WORLD SERIES GAMES "Jose" Martorana, Flyer back- seventh when Rosario reached stop, scored the first run of the first on an error with one man out. New York .,(AFPS)-American ball game in the top of the second Webb popped to Scott at first but servicemen stationed throughout inning when with two out he Bettwy singled, sending Rosario the world will be able to hear the reached first on an error, took to third. Another wild pitch was play-by-play description of the second on a wild pitch went to uncorked by Neely and Rosario 1949 World Series direct from the third on a passed ball charged to scored. Primm fanned and the playing field through the facilities Mossman, Slugger backstop and inning was over. of the New York and Los Angeles scored on Webster's second wild The top of the ninth saw Stocklo- shortwave stations of the Armed pitch of the inning. Neely then sa lead off with a single, Menear Forces Radio Service. singled and went down to second fanned but Rosario singled sending Throughout the season, Service when Mossman let the ball get Stocklosa to second. Webb kept personnel have been able to keep away from him on Scott's third the rally going with a long double up with the tight races for the strike, with the Flyer first base- which scored Stocklosa and sent pennants in both leagues, as the man beating the relay to first. Rosario to third. A passed ball, four New York short wave stations Gallagher reached first on a fielders charged to Graves who had relieved of AFRS have beamed the "Game choice as Rosario tossed to Miller Martorana two innings earlier of the Day" overseas. for the force on Scott at second scored Rosario and that was the Such prominent sportcasters as Mell Allen and to end the inning. scoring for the game. Bettwy Curt Gowdy des- The Sluggers tied the game up grounded cribing the Yankees' games, Red out and Neely caught Barber, in the top of the third inning Primm's hot line drive through Connie Desmond and Ernie when after two were out, successive the box and the inning was over. Harwell presenting the Brooklyn singles by Dick Menear, Carlos Machtolff struck out the side tilts, and Russ Hodges and Al Rosario and Al Miller sent Menear order in the last of the ninth, Helfer doing the Giants' contests, are featured across home plate with the tying in daily. run. Jim Bettwy ended the inning tame as oer and the n by grounding out, short to first. Sin ad the sreoin 60 NAVY ROCKETS TO Flyers Go AheadFia taligo th scrbk BE FIRED BY AIR FORCE Back roared the Flyers inth gave the Sluggers seven runs on bottom of the third. After Bar- eve s andlsxtNA teruns (SEA)-Sixty Navy-developed thelemy fanned, Berg walked, but Th Flesclctd hre un Aerobee rockets will be fired dur- LeightonLeghyo skied kid toane, Primmo eg rimin intatorshordbu bt on two hits and four Naval ing the next two years in a project left, forcing Berg to hold on at n errors. to investigate composition of the first. Webster walked Ernie Faile atmosphere at altitudes up to 75 putting Berg on second. A passed A telephone lineman was hauled miles above the earth. ball, charged to Joe Stocklosa, into court by an eavesdropping When all data from this upper- who relieved Mossman behind the housewife for using strong lan- atmosphere research program has plate in the second, sent Berg over guage./ He explained it to the been evaluated it will be used by to third and Faile down to second. judge. the Air Force in envolving the Johnny Werz then singled to send "Your Honor, my buddy work- design of guided missiles. It will Berg across with the tie-breaking ing above me accidentally dropped also be used to determine the re- run, with Ernie Faile legging it some hot lead down my shirt. So, lation between solar activity and all the way in for the third Flyer I said, 'Look, Frank that hot lead weather changes, and as basic at- tally which turned out to be their doesn't feel good. Please don't mospheric information to be used last of the night. drop any more.f ha in the guided missiles program.