"ONCE ARIZONA. ALWAYS ARIZONA" BROADSIDE* XI * San Pedro, California, 16 September, 1933 * * HIT 6 NAVAL DISPENSARY SERVICE COMMUNICATION TESTS SHORT RANGIE NEARS

A Naval Dispensary has been es­ The Communication Division has Short Range Battle Practice is just tablished at San Pedro, California, inaugurated another efficiency race two weeks away. About the ship one with a clinic in Long Beach, Cali­ between the Radiomen and the Sig­ hears such as "Sure we can point and fornia, for the care of officer3, enlist­ nalmen. The last one they staged train a.nd load fast enough, but these ed men and their dependents of the pr::ived successful for the individuals guns won't shoot right." Such re­ U. S. Navy and Mar;ne Corps. as well as the division, bringing up marks have seemed to become a The San Pedro Dispensary is lo­ the ship's final standing to an en­ part of the Arizona legend, and it is cated in Room 208, Bank of San Pedro viable position. this legend that should be exploded. Building, Me3a and Seventh Streets, The At 'Eni will report the names Those guns will shoot. Telephone San Pedro 5420. Office of the men who make 100% on their This week has seen everyone prac­ hours are from 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 weekly test. You can bet on the horse tically living at their guns, getting P.M. daily, except Wednesday and of your choice. Last season they near­ settled down and in shape for that Saturday afternoons, Sundays and ly all ran well. time not so far distant when it is holidays. The results of t.he past week are as highly hoped some great big "E's" - --- Home calls will be made in San follows: -will ~hine forth in all their glory, pro­ Pedro, Wilmington, and Long Beach claiming hours of eye-strain and for patients who are too ill to visit Buttner, RM1c muscle strain which we hope have either clinic and to such an extent as Livingston. RM2c not been in vain. Remember-ther e's the limited number of medical officers Lynd, RM3c IRON MAN in the making. 2 Carr, Sea le and available transportation will per­ --00000- mit. Patients are requested to refrain 2 Wilkins, Sea2c from requesting visits of medical off­ The numeral before a man's name ARMY SOUND PICTURE TRUCK icers when they are able to visit one indicates the number of times that of the clinics. man has made 100% on the weekly The Navy took a bold step two Appointments for office examina­ test. years ago when they began imtalla­ tion:; and requests for home calls V.O. Test-None tion of sound movies on board prac­ shall be made to the Dispensary at The final R.O. and V.O. Tests for tically all Navy ships. Now the Army San Pedro where a hospital corpsman all ships will be given at Trona Field has decided not to be outdone and will be on duty at all times, or by 18 to 25 November, 1933. The Final they have motorized their sound telephoning during clinic hours to R.B and R.C. tests will be given on movies. Long Beach. Requests for home calls the morning of 3 November, 1933. Motorization of the Anny, about telephoned to Long Beach should be The final V.A. and V.B. tests will be which the service personnel has heard made before noon, in order that those given in the afternoon of 3•November, and read so much during the past calls can be made early in the after­ 1933. several years, has been extended to noon. the taking of sound training films for Dependents of the Navy and Marine Building, when such financial assis­ the use of the military establishment. Corps personnel requ:ring hospital tance is needed. A 1 ½ ton truck, with ample capa­ treatment will be attended in civilian Emergency calls only will be made city for a crew, cameras, and essen­ hospitials in San Pedro and Long after clinic hours as given above. tial picture taking equipment, is now Beach by naval medical officers and (Telephone San Pedro 5420). in operation by the signal corps. The will be required to make their own When financial aid for hospitaliza­ truck possesses every facility imag­ financial arrangements with the hos­ tion is neces: ary through the Navy inable, provision being made for the p:tals. Financ:al assistance should be Relief the matter should be brought shooting of a pictuTe with recording requested of the Navy Relief Society to the attention of the ship's Chap­ of sound and synchronization with the when needed. Apply to the Chaplain, lain, who w:11 supply the necessary picture when the nature of the sub­ Room 202, or to the Senior Medical request form signed by the Executive ject being filmed warrants this type Officer, Room 208, Bank of San Pedro Officer. of picture. Page Two AT 'EM ARIZONA . AT 'EM A RIZONA "Ride 'em, Cowboy" may be a good -r·-----·- ·- ·- ·--·--•;• cheer at a rodeo, but "step on it" ·is ~ ibine ~cr(1ices Ship's paper published weekly by the poor advice to the per son who takes i I U.S. S. ARIZONA a car out on a public thoroughfare which other people must use. ; Each Sunday at 1000. l Captain C. S. Kerrick ..Co mmanding It is interesting to note that out Comdr. A. D. Denney, Exec. Officer of 612,200 automobile accidents which resulted in 20,400 deaths and 750,000 , ' .I t .I- persons injured the greatest percent­ ' ST AFF age of accidents were attributed to . ' Lieut. G. L. Markle (ChC) Editor t I two causes, viz, (1) exceeding the E ns. C. B. Smith Asst. Editor speed limit, 1150,050 (or 24.51% ) (2) Be not diverted from your Asst. E ditor I I E nsign E. P. Lee did not have the right of way, 146,500 ! duty by any idle reflections the I Asst. Editor Ensign .J. M. Elliot (or 23.93"/, ). I silly wodd may make upon you, t The accidents attributed to "Ex­ I for theil· censures are not in i Contributors ceeding the speed limit" caused 7,200 j your power and should not be I J eff Breitenbach. GM l c deaths and 179,270 injuries. Those at­ I at all your concern. -Epictetus I C. D. Phillips, Sea.le tributed to "not having right of way" caused 2,480 deaths and 187,750 in­ ( The set·mon subject for t o- 1 THEY CALL US CIVILIZED ju1·ies. , morrow is "The Cantilever 1 Accidents atti-ibuted to the folllow­ i P rinciple." j The ancient Romans would call the ing causes "drove off roadway" and generation of to-day civilized-or at "failed to signal and improper signal­ I Specia l Music ! least we think so. But is this a true ling" ranked next highest in persons j All hands are cordially invited ,1 picture, if everything is considered'! killed and linjuTed. Cuttin,g in, on O to this ser vice. The Romans killed 4941 gladiators in wrong side of road, pa!3sing on curve 117 Roman holidays, but we, with all or hill, and pas3ing on wrong side I Catholic Church Party to the : our modern improvements, killed were other chief reasons listed for I U . S. S. Californ:a at 0930. I 29,000 in 365 days. T his is how the casualties. Most of these reasons in­ Gladiator Games of old Rome stack dicate carelessness or an ove1· anx­ •!• -•- •.-:>•·- OC"..> ,..-; ~~•.--1•- ·--,.:. up with the Automobile Game of 1932, ious desh•e to get somewhere in a S~ECIAL MUSIC FOR C8 U RCH according to .recent data published....by_ hurry. Ignora·nee-"Of the 1·uleiro:f-the a great Insurance Company. r ::ad is not a rea!lonable excuse any The Army and Navy Y.M.C.A. has In spite of all our traffic laws, rules more. sponsored the following named String and regulations we continue to in­ Of course there are always two Trio to furnish special music for the crease the annual casualties with the sides to every accident--but this does ChuTch Service tomorrow: automobile. not alter the situation much after the Helen Steele, violin; Louise Steele, Doe:s it mean anything to you to wTeck has occurred. piano; Harry Greenfeld, cello. learn that in the year 1932 there wel'e Suppose we do call ourselves civil­ ized. I wonder bow the above figures --ooOo<>-- 745,300 automobile accidents in the OLD IRONSIDES United States, which caused 29,000 would look to andent Romans whom deaths and 904,800 injuries? we think of as being ruthle.;sly cruel and even cold-blooded. A youni, C:1mbridge lnw •Ludcnt. Oliver The World shuddered at the news (To be continued next week) We ndell H olmes by nnme, read in the Clooton of the Titanic disaster, the Palm -ooOoo­ O:,.!Jy Advertiser one Sep lcml er dny, in 1830. Beach hurricane, the Knickerbocker nn editociul whioh told thnt t!'.e N :wnl Do:1rd N AUTICAL NOVELTIES Theatre collapse, the San Francisco hnd declared the U. S. Frig:it.e C ONSTITUTION and Long Beach earthquakes, the -ex­ un!leaworlhy nnd sug;ccated th:!t. s he be scrap­ The Un ited States during its early ped. plosion of the battleship Maine, the days had to pay tdbute to Tripoli. In hot indl:tnntion he hast ily wrote the Ohio Penitentiary the and the wreck­ Due to the successful operations of fo!Jowi ng 11-ne:, : ing of the Shenandoah and the Akron. our little fleet under Commodore Aye, tear her tatt.ered c·nsi'!n down ! In all of these the total death count Pt·eble and the dash and courage of l~uufJ ltas it 1va, ed on hittlt, was 3190. Compue this figure with And 1n.a1111 a.n e uo ha.-. danaed :.o 11ct Stephen Decatur, 'a satisfactory peace Tlwt ba,rncr in tile s k11 : t he 1982 auto death record which was Roncath it "'" " the battle sho.. t. was declared in 1805 which did away A·nd bttr$t the ctrn,t:>n'ts ro,,r :- 29,000, and try to justify the latter. 1'he mctu, r of the ocea?l air with t!ie annual tiibute. This war Shal! s·1rce11 the clou(i:J no m.orc. It can't be done. with Tripoli was the beginning of Fler decl~. once rtJd witlt ho ·oc.l blood Under the •hood of every automo­ the movement of t he civilized world J.Vh ere kn~!t tht vant1tii•:Jt.cd fe e bile is the power of anywhere from a lYhett winds u·c c hurrr,infJ o'er tl~c floocl t:> shake off the yoke of the Barbary A n:l tva:·e-1 we· e 1uh.i:e brlow . ' 1eore to a hundred horses-docile and No ,no. c s!&.a!..! feel the v ict,r's trcacl, p:rates. Or l,n. nv th e couqm:-:-c:t k~,ec ·- ame in the hands of some drivers, 1'/ic harpico of the •horc sha1l i,t ..c k .vild and dangerous to life, limb, and The Horse Latitudes are the re­ The eagle of the sea! )l'Operty in the hands of othe1·s. gions of light and varia ble winds on 0/t, better that he r slwttti-d 1'1tllr Sllould •in.~ btrncaU, tl,o wave: J ust as there are wild horses of t he the outer margin of the trade winds. flcr th.u.n ,ler8 1Jl1ook the mif1ht11 det.TJJ A_?•d there sllottld be h er (/Tave: plains and plateaus of the west, so, The Horse Latitudes are known also Nail to t'1.c mast her !toll/ flag, too, a1·e there wild horses of the high­ as the Calms of Caneer and of Cap- S et c crv tl,rcadl>arc cail, A 11d .aivc her to the ftod of xtorms. way north, south, east and west. 1·ieorn. The li11h~ni1111 "'"'' tl;e 11«·r.' AT 'EM ARIZONA Page Three

NEW VESSELS NAMED R ANDOM SHOTS The thirty-seven new authorized "Stroke" Chandler says if he gets "Shush!" cried "Pug" Hughes, as naval vessels have been named by the five more letters in one day, he'll be he fled from a group of females at Secretary of the Navy as follows: singing "Two Tickets to Georgia" the Silver Dollar, "I'm a fugitive Heavy Cruiser: Vincennes. next July, instead of one ticket. When from the Jane gang." Light Cruisers: Savannah, Nash­ will the wedding bells ring out, Mm·­ • • • ville, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia. Aircraft Carriers: Yorktown and ray? "Let's get our wives together to­ night and have a big evening." Enterprise. • • • Patrol Gunboats: Charleston and P. J . Kelley: "Do you know that "O.K., but where shall we leave Erie. Bardin beats his wife up every morn­ them?" Submarines: Pike and Shark. ing?" • • • Destroyers ( 1800 tons) : : Mono­ Turne1·, SK3c: '.'I don't believe it!" Vinceguerra has been making very regular liberties lately. Who is the ghan, Aylwin, Porter, Selfridge, Mc­ P. J.: "Absolutely! He gets up at Dougal, Winslow, Phelps, Clark, Mof­ six o'clock, and she doesn't get up new flame Bandy? • $ • fett, Balch. until seven." "Fuzzy" Kur), the Arizona's cheer Destl·oyers (1600 tons) : Mahan, • • • Cummings, Drayton, Lamson, Flusser, Ever see MacLaren, the peroxide leader and galley deck Coxswain says he must have some cooperation from Reid, Case, Coyningham, Cassin, blonde in the gedunk stand, make his S~aw, Tucker, Downes, Cushing, Per­ daily

AT 'EM SUPPORTERS IRON MAN POINTS FOOTBALL SQUAD

The Arizona boasts a football squad The following letter has been re­ The corrected standing to date of of 36 men on the eve of our first vessels in Unit '·A" in the Iron Man ceived from an anonymous friend in game of the seas:m. For end:; we have San Pedro. It is quoted here for the competition is as follows: Nixon, Porter, Nye, McCloskey, Na­ Ship Total Possible Pc. information of all hands. pier and Smith. The tackles include Points Points "We are writing you in regard to Oldham, Kanouse, Colvin, Frizzell, Lexington 56 70 .800 the coming football se.~son. We are Weaver, Gordon and Sperandio. The Tennessee 206 300 .686 lil'iving these humble suggestions for guards are a husky bunch with Ens. • 42 70 .600 the benefit of the good ole "At 'Em" Nevada McCrea, Elirin, Leiner, Hancock, Maryland 800 .533 team. 160 Merkt, Gelius, Keenan and Coker. In West Virginia 105 230 .456 "We know that there is something the pivot position we have Melville, California 92 300 .306 lacking in the support given to the Deuweke and Liles. Two quarter­ Pennsylvania G7 300 .223 team. There needs to be more "fight" backs, Furnari and Mathieson, are all Saratoga 14 70 .200 and the "will to win" in the team, set to snap out the signals. Cauthen, Texas 44 230 .191 which can be given only by the spirit Branch, R Jurke, Glea; on, Hunter, New York 55 300 .183 Sartain, Livingston, Benson a nd Tal­ of the ship's company. 38 300 .126 Arizona bot are all out for half-back. Haley, "A good rooting section which will 21 230 .091 Oklahoma Post and Woodford will all probably cooperate with the cheer leaders and Colorado 0 70 .000 see action in the full-back position. song leaders will add much to the Due to an error in computation the Ensign McCrea has been p utting success of the coming season. We standings published previously were his charges through their paces for sincerely hope that the Maryland incorrect. rooting section will not put the Ari- some time now with the able assist­ -zona~ tn the back grouud as it has --00()00-- ance of Ensigns "Fleck and Chamliera. formerly done. A little more "pep" A CALL FOR TENNIS No positive statement of just what from the band will help also. position the Arizona would occupy "We hope this letter will bring Recently there has come to light a when the season was over could be desire on the part of some Arizona quick action and not land in the waste obtained from any of the coaching men to play tennis. staff, but their general attitude would paper basket. seem to indicate that if we don't finish "Let's go At 'Em and come out on Since we have not included tennis in our sports program, it is not cer­ up on top of t he heap, the people who top." do are going to know they have been Sincerely tain how much real enthusiasm could reasonably be expected for the game. some place. "At 'Em Supporters" However, there is a way to find out The team will continue in t he Notre Thanks for your suggestions At shortly. If you are interested in the Dame system of play and her e are 'Em Supporters. We hope to see you game and would be willing to play in the lads who will start the ball rolling in that cheering section and we fully a ship's tournament, we suggest that t omorrow out there on Trona Fielrl: intend to give our pig skin toters the you make this fact known to R. L. Probable starting line-up:- backing up necessary to put over the Roper, C.Ph.M., at the Sick Bay dur­ Position Name Weight winning touchdown. ing the next week. Roper has agreed LE Nixon 190 --00000--­ to sponsor the movement for a tennis team on the Ariz:ma. The details for LT Frizze.11 230 FOOTBALL DOPE 205 a tournament will be worked out if LG McCrea and when enough candidates signify C Deuweke 190 Th~ fleet football campaign of 1933 their desire for the sport. RG Merkt 216 opened last Saturday on four fronts RT Kanouse 210 and when the dust of the battle had the long end of an 18-6 score. The RE Nye !Oil cleared away there were three clean Pennsylvania-Saratoga game ended QB Furnari 170 cut victories and a tie chalked up. The in a tie, 6-6, neither side being able to LH Hunter 190 Maryland gridders took over the boys push matters to a decision. FB Woodruff 180 from the Colorado by the tidy little Our own team opens their offensive RH Gleason 190 score of 21-0 and the West Virginia for the year tomorrow against the The average weight of the line from team trounced the New York aggre­ New York. The game will be played end to end is 204 pounds and they gation 24-0. T he California had a on Trona Field starting at 1400. Let's have quality as well as quantity. It little tougher competition when they have all hands out to back up the old will be plenty tough going for our played t he Nevada, but ended up on "At 'Em" team. opponents to gain any ground there.