| Lago Employees Receive Extra Million

PUBLISHED BY THE LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO, LTD. JANUARY 17, 1946

The refinory Christmas de- corations that add to the holiday spirit here have hard Lago Employees Receive Extra Million work behind them. Shown at left is one of the toughest jobs, putting the 10-feet And a Half Fls. in Thrift Plan Accounts lighted star on the tip-top of the Cat Plant, 22 stories up and with no place around to hang a block and tackle. An additional contribution of nearly a Empleadonan di Lago Ta Ricibi Holding the gin-pole is cor- million and a half guilders was granted poral Sabino Ferres of the Millén y Mei Florin Riba Labor Department; others by the Lago Oil & Transport Company on the job (some not visible) Cuentanan di Thrift Plan were laborers Anastac! and the Esso Transportation Company Guerra, Rafael Mendoza, December 24, to all employees in the Pedro Mujica, Luiz Teixeira, Dia 24 di December, Lago Oil & Trans- and Luis Navarro, and clec- Thrift Plans and Provident Fund. This tricians Tony Federle and port Company y Esso Transportation Vandyke Jacobs. is in addition to the amounts contributed regularly by the companies to each par- Company a duna un contribucidn adicio- ticipant’s thrift account, and is the nal di casi milén y mei florin na tur em- largest extra contribution made since pleadonan cu ta den Thrift Plannan y Provident the plan began. Fund. Esaki ta ademas di e sumanan cu e companianan Over 6,000 employees benefitted by ta contribui regularmente the distribution of extra credits, includ- na cuenta di thrift di cada empleado, y esaki ta ing both refinery and marine personnel e contribucién extra in the Thrift Plans and Marine Provident di mas grandi desde cu e plan ta existi. Adornonan di Pascu den Mas di 6,000 empleado tabatin bene- refineria cu ta aumenta at- Fund. Each participant's account is ficio di créditonan extra, mosfera di e dianan di fiesta credited with a fixed sum, plus a percen- cu ta inclui aki ta resultadonan di trabao personal di refineria y marina cu ta par- duro, Na banda robez nos ta tage of the total amount he contributed mira un di e trabaonan di ticipa den Thrift Plannan y Marine Pro- to the plans over the past year. mas trabahosa, esta pa pone vident Fund. e strea ilumina di 10 pia ri- While these extra contributions are Cuenta di cada participante ba top di Cat Plant, 22 piso ta worde aumenta cu un suma halto y sin ningun lugar cu not guaranteed in the provisions of the fiho, mas nan por pone un catrol pa plans, they have been made every year un percentahe di e suma total di loque ¢1 por hisa e strea facilmente. a contribui na e plan durante Esun cu ta tene e palo ta in varying amounts for the past eight. e anja cu Sabino Ferres di Labor De- a pasa. partment; otronan cu a traha The majority of the employees Aunque e contribucionnan ey riba (algun no a sali riba benefitted are in the Lago Thrift aki no ta e portret) ta Anastacio garantiza den condicionnan di e plannan, Guerra, Rafael Mendoza, Foundation, where 5,073 will receive Pedro Mujica, Luiz Teixeira toch cada anja na a tuma lugé cu suma- y the extra credits. For this group (88 Luis Navarro. Encarga cu nan variable durante iluminaci6n di e strea tabata per cent of those eligible) the addi- e ocho anjanan. Tony Federle - Vandyke Jacobs. tional contribution amounts to a credit of Fls 25 to each of their E mayoria di empleadonan cu tin bene- accounts, plus 60 per cent of their ficio ta esnan cu ta den Lago Thrift Caribbean Commission These Ideas own contributions to the Plan be- Foundation, pues ey tur 5,073 partici- Sees Plant in Aruba Trip tween November 1, 1945 and October pantenan lo haya crédito extra. Pa e PAID 31, 1946. grupo aki (88 por cientodi esnan eligibel The Thrift Plans pa tuma parti aden) e contribucién adi- Members of the Caribbean Commis- and Provident Fund In November C.Y.I. enable employees who participate cional ta monta na un crédito di Fls. 25 sion visited the refinery last month in Awards to | save riba cuenta di cada un, mas 60 por ciento the course of an inspection trip to Aruba. money regularly, not only for self- support di loque nan mes a contribui na e Plan \ The group met in Curacao December 15, Juan Maduro, Fls. 15.00, install airline in later years, but (in the Thrift manifold Plans) entre November 1, 1945 pa October 31, and included Aruba in its side-trips to at northwest corner of Cir- as a cash reserve that can be bor- rowed from 1946. see the Netherlands West Indies. culating Pumphouse at No. 8 Rerun still. at low interest in times of emergency. The Commission is an advisory body Manohar Lall and Thomas Eastwood, A participant allots a percentage with members from the Netherlands, Fls. 15.00 each, install rear view mirrors of his wages to the plans, and Thrift Plannan y Provident Fund ta a on three-wheel scooters. the companies add a certain percentage duna empleadonan cu ta participa opor-

—— United States, Great Britain, and Francis Guevara, Fls. 15.00, install a of his contribution. Not only do the plans tunidad pa spaar placa regularmente, no ee France, the chief powers with interests provide in the Caribbean. Their stated purpose is bulletin board in the Storehouse office. a means of saving regularly, but solamente pa sostene nan mes despues Mariano Garrido, the employees’ savings di tempo, to promote cooperation between these Fls. 50.00, additional are increased pero tambe (den Thrift Plan- support substantially powers for the improvement of social for pedestal of bulldozer cylin- by the amounts added by nan) como un reserva, di cual por fia na der. the Company. and economic welfare in the area. ora di emergencia, pagando un interes Their program includes a customs Andrew Vanterpool, Fls. 15.00, install Employees who are not yet taking masha abao. Un participante ta contri- handles on garbage advantage of the Thrift bui un percentahe union which would abolish or fix very cans. Plan’s oppor- di su sueldo na e plan, low import duties; the establishment of Hendrik Chin, Fls. 35.00, install feed tunities can get full details about it at y e companianan ta pone acerca un cierto meter the Personnel industries in the islands; and studying in No. 12 Aviation debutanizer Department. percentahe di su contribucién. No sola- social conditions in the West Indies. overhead line to feed drum of the H.O.S. mente e plannan ta duna oportunidad pa & S. Plant. Their immediate aim will be to increase Spaar regularmente, pero tambe loque Hacinto Windward Islands Group the population’s earnings through fishe- Ras, Fils. 15.00, improved empleadonan ta spaar ta aumenta sub- method of ries, tourist business, trade, and home inserting thermometers in Starts New Publication stancialmente cu e sumanan cu Compania industry. cork. ta pone acerca. Hermanos Euson, Fls. 15.00, relocate Empleadonan cu ainda no ta tuma A few days before Christmas the first gauge board of tank No. 205. ventaha di oportunidadnan di Thrift Professors Visit Apprentices issue of "The Voice of the Windward Alexander Gumbs, Fls. 20.00, install Plan por haya detayanan completo na Islands’ made its appearance. It is 2% gal. fire extinguishers on wooden Personnel Department. Early this month Professors I. D. the new bi-monthly publication of the buildings at Colorado Point. Dresden of Delft and P. J. Goudrian of Netherlands Windward Islands Welfare James Seymour, Fls. 25.00, install 1” Hilversum visited the refinery as part of Association, which was founded here in bypass with valve around 4” steam inlet a survey they are making of the Curacao June, 1944 to promote the welfare of blockvalves to Nos. 1 & 2 stabilizer Territory’s economic status. The plan, Saba, St. Eustatius reboilers, and St. Marten. backed by Netherlands and Curacao The first issue of the paper contains Edgar Leysner, Fls. 15.00, install 114” government and by business interests, is introductions to the society by Leon Bell valve in airline to electric whistle at to find means of furthering the economic of Electrical, and to the paper by editor No. 11 Crude still. welfare of the territory. While here the E.M. Bell, sports and social news, and Michael Alexis, Fls. 20.00, protection professors took a particular interest in reports from committees. These include of A & B foam lines between Gasoline the apprentice training program, since a building committee that is planning a and Utility Docks. they regard gducational advances as an clubhouse and a ladies’ unit that has Miss Nydia Ecury, Fls. 25.00, run important part of Aruba’s growth. a started a nursing class organized by "Children’s Page” in the Aruba Esso Lilian News. van den Arend and instructed by Mrs. Kingbeil. Ernest Tulloch, commendation, extend fire sprinkler system Aruba-U.S. Telephone Service to new additions to In an election of new officers for the Starts Storehouse building. with Xmas Greetings ———— eee association January 8, Leopold Illidge, one of the founders, was named presi- Telephone calls to New dent. Claudius York, Los the Company’s New York office. Elis of Electrical is the Angeles, or any other point new vice-president, in the United The service proved a boon Charles Wilson of States to many with long-distance connections Lagoites who the Dining Hall is secretary, and Milton took opportunity to tele- "Best in Show" prize on the Amateur Night are now possible by wireless-telephone Peters of the Boiler Shop was elected phone their families in the United States Program at the Lago Club December 21 went to service. The facilities, which had treasurer. Ex-president Hillman long during the Christmas holidays. Many re- was Terry de Souza, for her song "If You Were the been delayed by wartime shortages elected legal advisor. Only Girl’. She is shown receiving a wristwatch of ported good connections, though atmos- essential equipment, were inaugurated from Leonard Bruce, secretary of the Lago Club a pheric conditions sometimes interfered, few days before Christmas. Lt. Governor Committee. The second prize, a pen and pencil set, Rates to the New York area were ap- went to Kelvin Joseph for his iniitation of a lady L. C. Kwartsz held Gordon Ollivierre of Utilities, who the first conversa- proximately Fls. Preparing for bed. Henry Forte (King of Calypso) 5 per minute, which was saw the Olympics in Barranquilla, was tion, followed by Inspector of Taxes regarded was third with a clock for his two calypsos. A as a reasonable charge. back in Aruba for a few A. Schutte. During the afternoon days last week. special prize of a photo album was presented to of the The new service is expected to be of first day’s operation General With vacation lasting into February, he Frank Moll for his muscle control act. M. Peters Manager great assistance to both business J. J. Horigan spoke inte- went back to Colombia to spend a couple took the prize for boys, and B. Geerman went with W. J. Haley in rests and away with the girls’ prize. Genial Joe Arrias was private individuals. of weeks in the mountains. the popular master of ceremonies.

ARUBA ESSO NEWS JANUARY 17, 1947

"C.Y.1” Plan Expanded Aru sGssoNews |... ‘Departmental Reporters To Include Supervisors (Dots Indicate that reporter has turned In a tip for this Issue) Simon Coronel. PUBLISHED AT ARUBA, N.W.I. BY THE Hospital The "Coin Your Ideas” plan, long a Bipat Chand Storehouse LAGO OIL & TRANSPORT CO., LTD. Sattaur Bacchus Instrument source of profit to clear-thinking em- Gordon Ollivierre Electrical ployees with good ideas, was broadened The next issue of the ARUBA ESSO NEWS will be distributed Luclano Wever Labor Simon Geerman Drydock January 2 to make supervisors eligible Friday, February 7. All copy must reach the editor in Bernard Marquis Marine Office the Personnel building by Friday noon, January 31. Iphil Jones Receiving & Shipping for awards. Telephone 523. Erskine Anderson Acid & Edeleanu While supervisors’ jobs include Sam Viapree Te OVE: the use Fernando Da Silva Pressure Stills of their experience and skill to improve Bertie Viapree Printed by The Curacao Courant, Curacao, N.W.I. C.T.R. & Field Shops operations, it Hugo de Vries T.S.D. Office has been recognized that

Pedro Odor Accounting each one’s responsibilities are limited Mrs. Ivy Butts Powerhouse 1 & 2 Jacinto de Kort Laboratories 1 & 2 according to his position. The extension Henry Nassy Laboratory 3 of the plan will now make it possible to Employee-Management Safety Harold Wathey Lago Police Mrs. M. A. Mongroe Esso & Lago Clubs reward this group of employees for ac- Elsa Mackintosh Dining Halls (3) Efforts Have Results & Credit Elric Crichlow Catalytic cepted suggestions that are noi directly Alvin Texeira Gas & Poly Plants in line with their duties. Calvin Hassell M. & C. Office Federico Ponson Masons & Insulators Edward Larmonie Carpenter & Paint

Edgar Connor Machine Shop Marlo Harms Blacksmith, Boiler & Tin Long Service Awards Cade Abraham Pipe Jan Oduber Welding Sa John Francisco Colony Commissary December, Jose La Cruz Plant Commissary 1946 | Vanisha Vanterpool Laundry NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL Ricardo Van Blarcum Colony Service Office PNCORPORATED. Claude Bolah Coiony Shops Hubert Ecury Garage 20-Year Buttons | Harold James Personnel | AWARD Edney Huckleman Sports q To Samuel Rajroop Special John Whitney Elias Lopez | Gas Plant Marine Wharves

Lago Oil & Transport Company, Limited ARUBA. NW. PICTURE CREDI'1S: Falcon Society and Methodist pageant, page 8, and IN RECQGNITION OF ITS OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT Lago Club presentation, page 1, by Samuel Rajroop. Photographs on pages

IN REDUCING THE FREQU Y OF DISABLING INJURIES 4-5-6 taken from "Ships of the Esso Fleet in World War II’’.

GROUP A, MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT PETROLEUM SECTION. SAFETY CONTEST Trucks moving at one mile an hour aren't usually cen- sidered dangerous. If hit by one moving that slowl; you would receive no more than a little bump. It all depends, though, on how you happen to be bumped. If standing in front of the truck you would probably not even fall down. But if your foot were under a wheel, or even squeezed between the side of a tire credit where credit is due and the ground, it would be serious. A Paint Department employee recently learned this, to his Employees’ efforts in working safely and reducing accidents sorrow. He jumped off the side of a truck just an instant had recognition recently with the announcement of awards betore it stopped moving, and as he did his foot swung back in the National Safety Council’s contest for July 1, 1945 to and was cramped between the wheel and the ground — not June 30, 1946. The certificate above was awarded to the run over, just squeezed. Result: four broken bones and 70 refinery “in recognition of its outstanding achievement days of being disabled. And the truck was moving less than a in reducing the frequency of disabling injuries’. It resulted mile an hour! from a nearly one-third improvement in the frequency rate, % oN | as well as a 52 per cent improvement in the severity rate. In over-all safety performance Lago’s employees were WAIT TILL VEHICLES STOP BEFORE GETTING OFF Nicolaas Rasmijn Venancio Wernet seventh out of 16 in a related-size group of refineries, with M. & C. Marine Wharves this refinery out-ranking domestic refineries of S.O. (N.J.) in safe working. (This was a striking improvement over Good safety records can bring a sense of satisfaction and last year’s standing of fourteenth out of 16.) achievement to all employees; any reduction or prevention of NEW ARRIVALS At the same time awards announced in the Marine Section injuries is to the good. But fine records bring no pleasure to Safety Contest brought top honors and framed certificates to the one employee who may be hurt. The suffering, absence two Aruba groups: the Esso Transportation Company (Lake from his family, and possible loss of earnings that result A daughter, Johanna Teresa, to Mr. and Mrs. Fleet) took first place in the Tankers Division, and Lago took Leonardo Boekhoudt, December 10. from most accidents are his chief concern. A son, Rudolph Achylus, to Mr. and Mrs. Cyrille first place in the Stevedoring Division. Plans are being made Employees and Management together have cooperated to Richardson, December 10. A daughter, Jermin Ruby, to Mr. and Mrs. to display these plaques conveniently for the interest of those make Lago a safer place to work. It will continue to take the Stephen Blaize, December 11. who earned them. In each case their safety records were out- A daughter, Jean Eileen, to Mr. and Mrs, Isaac extra care of every employee to keep it so. Moses, December 11. standingly better than the average of the groups they were A son, Eusebio Lucio, to Mr. and Mrs. Ergo Beaumont, December 13. competing with. A daughter, Ma Bernadette, to Mr. and Mrs. Algun dia promé cu Pascu coneccién di telefoon entre Charles Hodge, December 13. A son, Miguel Jose, to Mr. and Mrs. Mateo Aruba y New York a worde inaugura ora Gezaghebber Lacle, December 13 Esfuerzonan di empleadonan pa traha cu seguridad y pa Kwartsz a tene e promé conversacién, sigui pa Ontvanger A son, Psythic Palmber, to Mr. and Mrs. Power Daniel, December 14. mengua accidente a worde reconoci recientemente cu anuncio A. Schutte. E mesun merda Gerente General J. J. Horigan A son, Gordon Emanuel, to Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Logan, December 14. di certificadonan gana den e competitie di National Safety a papia cu W. J. Haley na oficina di Compania na New York. A son, Lenist Lenoid, to Mr. and Mrs. John Moses, December 15 Council” cu a dura dia 1 di Juli, 1945 te Juni 30, 1946. Ta posibel pa haya coneccion cu tur parti di Merca y ta costa A son, Frank Willard, to Mr. and Mrs. Darrell E Frecuencia di accidentenan a mengua na un tercera parte di mas o menos Els. 5 pa minuut entre Aruba y New York, loque Jackson, December 19 son, Dominico, to Mr. and Mrs. Pablo Kock, A loque e tabata y gravedad di e accidentenan a mengua 52 por ta un prijs rasonabel. 20, oel Robert, to Mr. and Mrs. Bertram ciento di loque e tabata. Aki riba nos por mira e certificado E servicio nobo lo ta un gran ayudo, tanto ta pa interesnan Schoonmaker, December 20 cu a worde duna na refineria di Aruba. di negocio como pa interes individual. A son, Tommy, to Mr. and Mrs, Vicente Arends, December 21. Na e mes tempo Marine Section Safety Contest a presenta A daughter, Aurora P: to Mr. and Mrs. Edelmiro Schwengle, De dos certificado na dos grupo di Aruba: Lake Fleet a sali di A daugther, Grasita Mr. and Mrs. promé den Tankers Division y den Stevedoring Division Lago George Thomas, December A daughter, Margarita Filomena, to Mr. an?

a sali di promé. Proficiat! Mrs. Alexander Leon, December * A daughter, Linda Joan, to Mr. and Mrs. Regi- nald McLean, December 2 A daughter, Marjorie Gale, to Mr. and Mrs Robert Grossman, December 24 A son, Roger Thomas, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur December 23 Menutt, Mr. and Mrs A daughter, Canva Norma, to Ningun hende no ta considera un truck cu ta corre un Hicks, December 26 milla pa ora peligroso algo peligroso. Si un truck corriendo A son, Donald Livingston, to Mr. and Mrs. Vin- cent Horne, December 27. Joseph Thomas, asina poco-poco dal un hende ta solamente un sla chikito e A son, Joseph, to Mr. and Mrs. December 27. ta hiba. A daughter, Princess Leonora, to Mr. and Mrs Ta depende, sinambargo, di ki moda bo ricibi e Hutchinson Prime, Decem sla. Si bo Jaughter, Elaine M to Mr, and M

ta para dilanti di e truck, quizas ni cai bo no ta cai. Pero Albert Jef December 27. A son, ¢ n, to Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus John si bo pia ta bao di e wial of si e worde primi mei-mei di December 27 daughter, Uris Desiree, to Mr. and Mr suela y ec tire, anto si ta algo serio. Thorne, December 27 Un empleado di Paint Department a haya sa esey. El a bula A daughter, Filomena Guillermina Inocencia, to Mr. and Mrs. Constantion Alders, December 28. for di un truck un momento promé cu el a para y ora e homber A son, Irmin Leonard, to Mr, and Mrs. Theophile Manuel, December 28 a bula su pia a bai p’atras y el a pega entre suela y e tire—e A son, Felix Roberto, to Mr. and Mrs. Denius tire no a pasa riba su pia, solamente primi e pia tabata. Resul- Kruythoff, December 29. A daughter, Ingrid Gloria Marion, to Mr. and tado: cuater weso kibra y 70 dia perdi for di trabao. Y e Mrs. Vernon Mondinho, December 31 daughter, Helen Isidora, to Mr. and Mrs truck no tabata corre ni un milla pa ora! A Isaias Jecember ge Colville, to Mr. and Mrs. Maurcie und M A\n- WARDA TE ORA UN AUTO PARA ind Mrs. Por- PROME BO SALI AFOR ag 5 no, to Mr. and Mrs. Domi- nico 1 A daught Henriette, to Mr. and Mrs. Bon recordnan di seguridad ta duna un cierto satisfaccién Max Van B e, January 1 A son, Jacinto Donati, na tur empleadonan, pasobra reduccién o prevencidn di acci- January 5. son, Donald Lawrence, to Mr. and Mrs. dentes ta pa empleadonan mes bon. Pero bon record no ta Anthony A Perrotte, January 6. A daughter, Elaine Leonaro, to Mr. and Mrs duna ningun placer a esun empleado cu a hiba desgracia. E Huck Varlack 7 sufrimento, ausencia for di su famia y podiser pérdida di A son, Ri s, to Mr. and Mrs. Frans Koolman, nuary 7. S placa cu ta resulta di mayoria di accidentenan ta loque mas ta A son Earl, to Mr. and Mrs. Hugo de Vrie: danuary 7. preocupé. daughter, Cheryl Ann, to Mr and Mrs. Albert A January 7. Directiva a cobpera pa haci Lago un lugar Herdman, Empleadonan y A daughter, Elsa Seferi to Mr. and Mrs mas sigur pa traha. Cuidao especial di cada empleado ta Daniel Angela, January 8. ‘A daughter, Geraldine Marie, to Mr. and Mrs_. necesario pa sigui mantené como tal. Aage Jensen, January 9.

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This year, as it has for a number of years past, the holiday season started with a Christmas party at the Lago Marine Club in honor of Government employees. Nearly 300 guests enjoyed the food, drink, and good fellowship common to these parties. New features of the evening included a souvenir program dedicated to Lt. Governor L. C. Kwartsz and listing names of all the guests, professional entertainment, and a contest yielding a prize to the guest who secured the most autographs on his program.

A quartet sang carols and novelty numbers. Left to right are Carter Miller, William Weber, Charles Overstreet, and Leonard McReynolds.

Above, group singing was a most popular feature. (The enthusiastic singer in the foreground is L. A.Valk, whose son was accompanying on the accordion.)

Below, a group of immigration men exchange program signatures with George | Hemstreet.

————— Jan Valk and his accordion provided some of the best entertainment. (In other years his father, L. A. Valk, has done the same thing, only with a concertina.)

seen @ crew, perhaps the hardest-working men on the island during the week before Christmas, had good cause to relax during the party. Linscheer’s Orchestra takes time out from music-making to enjoy one of the solo musical numbers.

Charles William produced popular South American rhythms with his guitar.

This group Includes one of the newest Military Policemen (second from left) and also one of the oldest—Jan Oorthuis, fourth from left, who Is now with The Customs group, above, includes Policarpo Jandroep, (in the uniform) the Lago Pollce but started out with the M.P.'s In 1928. His son-in-law, who drives the Lt. Governor's car. Jan de r, third from left, won the autographed program contest.

Below are some of those most concerned with organizing the party. Left to right are G. B. Brook, G. P. Hemstreet, J. Abadie, J. F. X. Auer, W. Booi, Antonio de Barros of the Dining Hail staff makes ready some of the A. L. Eves, E. G. Armstrong, and R. P. Fraser. Members of the committee refreshments. not In the ploture are J. Wervers and M. K. Hamilton.

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JANUARY 17, 1947

Gg that go down to the sea in skips

The records of 135 ocean tankers of the Standard Oil Company (N.J.) and the Panama Transport Company during World War II are a vital part of the history of the Allied war effort. These ships delivered over 665,000,000 barrels of oil to the war fronts in every theater of operation; above decks they carried important loads of airplanes, PT boats, landing craft, tanks, and trucks. Also, says President Eugene Holman in a tribute, they carried heroes, and skill, and courage beyond the call of duty.

The stories of their adventures, successes, and disasters were recently compiled in a book that is dedicated to the men who served aboard. the tankers, those who gave their lives and those who survived and carried on. The names of many of these ships have been by-words in Aruba for 20 years. Because Lago could not have fulfilled its obligations in the war without them—nor even existed—some of their stories are told here. Th material, in condensed form, is from ’Ships of the Esso Fleet in World War II’,

The Ship that Wouldn't Sink

Not long after the submarine attack the bulkheads. You can’t really picture away and pulled them through the large extinguished. After temporary repairs. on Aruba in February, 1942, many what it was like...... the submarine was holes as stuffing... There were vegetab there, the ship limped up to Mobile for departments in the refinery received firing shells as fast as a clock ticks, ac- floating around part of the commis- permanent repairs. Five months after instructions from the Storehouse to re- curately and with no let-up. Every few sary stores hurled out of the ship the attack the ship was again on the New order certain supplies that they had minutes someone was getting hurt or kil- through the huge hole made by the tor- York—Aruba run. originally ordered months before. Some- led”, Later, after the order came to aban- pedo. We picked up scores of parsnips how word got around that these supplies don ship, Chief McTaggart and his and carrots; two they were ideal for plugging The first Liberty ship honoring a had been Aruba-bound on the Esso Boli- assistants stayed below for a time to put smaller holes...... ” member of the Esso fleet personnel lost var, and that "something had happened the engine in as good order as possible by enemy action was the SS Hawkins to the ship”, though what had happened for future operation if salvage was pos- (Remember how scarce parsnips Fudéske, named for the chief mate of the never became generally known. A great sible. Up forward, Capt. James Stewart and carrots were at the Commissary Bolivar. Four men received Presidential deal had happened to the Bolivar, and to had been killed. Chief Mate Fudske had in the middle of 1942?) citations and Distinguished Service its staunch crew: started to lower the only lifeboat that Medals: could On March 1, 1942 the Esso Bolivar, be launched; it had been riddled By noon all survivors had been picked Chief Mate Fudske: ”...... realizing, in with with a load of fresh water, commissary shrapnel holes, and sank to the gun- up by Navy craft and were taken to his dying condition, that the safety of stores and general cargo, left Newport wales, supported only by the buoyancy Guantanamo. And by 9 o’clock next mor- the men depended on getting their boat News, Virginia bound for Aruba without of the air tanks. Before the ropes could ning 14 of the Bolivar’s crew, 25 Naval away from the side of the ship, his last eonvoy. At 2:30 a.m. March 8, when the be released, a shell exploded against the personnel, and a Navy tug were back to words were ’Never mind me, fellows. Try ship was 30 miles southeast of the U.S. ship’s side directly over the boat, and try to save the tanker, which was still to get the boat away’.” Naval Base at Guantanamo, Cuba, the Mate Fudske and Messman Daley were burning and had a 20 degree list. Chief Eng. McTaggart: ”...... heroism killed. Two first shell from a submarine’s deck gun battered lifeboats and three While a pumpman expertly gravitated and especially meritorious service under rafts: narrowly missed her bow. Shells began eventually got away, and a number the ballast to different levels until the unusual hazards ...... extraordinary cou- exploding on deck as the sub found the of men were floating in lifejackets. ship floated level, McTaggart went to rage and disregard of danger in the range. An SOS call was sent and acknow- For nearly two hours the submarine work on his engines. The result was call- protection of his vessel...... ey ledged just before a burst of shrapnel shelled the burning tanker without sink- ed "McTaggart’s miracle’ by a crew Fireman Arthur Lauman: put the radio out of commission. A shell ing it (and occasionally sprayed the sur- member who gave this description: ''The fires above and below decks, he remained started a fire in the galley, at the same rounding waters with a machine gun). naval officers were getting ready to tow at his post in the fireroom ...... when or- time breaking the fuel oil line to the Just before daybreak a torpedo ripped the ship and the tug was just tightening dered to report to his boat station he was galley range. The oil spread the fire over into the ship, which listed badly but the hawser when the chief engineer re- found calmly clearing debris in order to the stern until the gun crew had to aban- stayed afloat. The sub then disappeared. ported to the bridge that he was ready continue operations ...... helped another don the gun mounted there. The steering As the lifeboat containing Fudske and to start the main engine. When the men seaman fight off sharks attacking a gear was shot away, lifeboats were Daley picked up floating survivors, the on the tug were told to cast off and the wounded member of the gun crew...... 8 damaged or demolished, and the ship added weight started to sink it, so the Esso Bolivar started to move under her Able Seaman C. Richardson: ” -al- was completely out of control. bodies were lowered into the sea. After own power, I never saw so many surpris- though injured himself, he got two badly The deck was burning fiercely. It in- daybreak the men worked to plug the ed people. The tug barely cast off in time wounded Navy armed guard men into cluded cylinders of acetylene shattered shrapnel holes in the airtanks of the and was almost towed by the ship. Her the water, placed one on his back and by shellfire; the escaping, burning gas nearly submerged boats. As McTaggart men had to cut the hawser.” had the other grasp him around the neck set fire to a cargo of liferafts consigned reported: "We took the air-tanks out one The ship arrived at Guantanamo that Seives defended himself and his compa- to Aruba. ’’Besides’, reported Chief by one and plugged the holes after let- night, still burning, and it was three more nions against sharks, which pulled the Engineer McTaggart, we had over 300 ting the water out. Some of the men were days, with shifts working around the man off his back -but he succeeded in gallons of paint off the engineroom and wearing complete lifesaving suits with clock, before the last fire in the getting the second wounded man and this caught fire from the intense heat of heavy rubber boots; we cut the boots refrigerating room’s cork insulation was himself into a lifeboat...... u

A torpedo ripped up the deck of the Esso Aruba when it exploded inside the ship.

_ Aruba’s "Name-ship” Sets Record

The most familiar ocean tanker in San Nicolas. harbor, the Esso Aruba, was torpedoed and nearly had its back broken. It was out of service for six months while repairs were made, yet it piled up what is probably the record for the Esso fleet: the enormous total of 11,060,473 barrels of vitally important oil, in 116 cargoes, between September 3, 1939 and V-J Day.

The Esso Aruba sailed from Guiria, Venezuela Aug, 15, 1942, with 104,170 barrels of diesel oil destined for New York; at Trinidad it joined a north-bownd convoy. Captain Frank Pharr’s story: ‘The night of August 27 the weather was clear with a nearly full moon...... at 11 p.m. escort vessels began dropping depth charges one or two miles off, and

heavy gunfire and tracer bullets were visible in the vicinity...... at 12:30 a.m. the gunfire subsided and an escort flashed the signal ‘Submarine disposed of’. At 12:40 a.m. the San Fabian, in the next column, was torpedoed. Three minutes later the Rotterdam was the next victim, with a huge fire flaring up. Almost simultaneously the Esso Aruba was struck...... the torpedo entered No, 6 tank and blew up inside the ship. The deck over the tank was blown 20 feet into the A 16-year-old messboy, quartered abowt 30 feet from the point where the torpedo struck, slept through the explosion and general alarm and finally had to be dragged from his bunk...... The vessel sagged in the middle and was nearly broken in two. Two tanks were entirely open to the sea, and water flowed into these to replace the oil lost; this prevented the ship from capsizing. Only one man had been injured, when he was bounced out of a cot where he was sleeping on

dec inend The Esso Aruba reached Guantanamo, Cuba under its own power; the comman- dant of the naval base feared contamination of the harbor, but permitted the ship to be beached in the bay, as she was in danger of breaking in two if she remained outside. Over 60,000 barrels of oil were salvaged. Then, after temporary repairs, she was sent to drydock at Galveston. She re-entered service February 13, 1943.

ARUBA ESSO NEWS JANUARY 17, 1947

Taking it From All Sides

The J. A. Mowinckel "took it on the hull” from both German and U.S. explo- sives during a U-boat attack in July, 1942 that cost the lives of two of her crew and laid up the ship for eight months. She was in a south-bound convoy off Cape Hatteras, carrying food and 6,000 tons of drinking water for Aruba, when she was torpedoed, the second of three ships hit in rapid succession. (Navy De- partment records, checked since the end of the war ainst German record: 3, proved that the attacking submarine was destroyed by escort planes and ships). Captain Harold Griffith's account: "A

survey showed that we had been hit about eight feet below the waterline, the explosion tearing a 20 by 20 foot hole Rete the steering engine room, the galley, the messrooms, and the after gun plat- form were wrecked. There was a six-inch hole in the after bulkhead of the engineroom, and it began filling up. A mattress was stuffed in the hole and braced there with planks, but the water kept coming in...... We headed for the beach. We had covered about 20 miles when a second explosion occurred...... ”

Unknown to the masters of the J. A. Mowinckel and to another torpedoed ship that was trying to reach shore, or to the Na escort that accompanied them, a U.S. mine field lay between the The F. W. ABRAMS left Aruba June 2, 1942 bound crippled ships and the shore. It was get- for New York. The picture above, taken June 11, A Ride in a U-Boat ting dark at the time of the second ex- shows the end of the voyage. Proceeding without off Cape Hatteras, the ship plosion, and the captain decided to aban- escort nine miles To two seamen of the M. F. Elliot, tor- to give up. Then: "All of a sudden a big received a torpedo in the starboard bow. Though re- don the vessel, after anchoring it in the duced to siow speed, she didn’t seem to be sinking pedoed 150 miles northwest of Trinidad, black shape loomed up — the submarine. hope of later salvage. so the captain started to head for the nearest port. went the extraordinary experience of We cried for help and after about five and Next day the captain and a number of Thirty minutes later another torpedo struck, being rescued by a Nazi submarine, held minutes they sighted us ...... two seamen bow. After 20 volunteers returned to the ship. A tug the tanker started to settle by the minutes came a third explosion, more violent than for three hours, then set adrift in a small in the bow threw us a heaving line and assisting in the salvage operations struck the preceding two, and the ABRAMS began to boat from which they were rescued five pulled us to the sub ...... the commander a mine and sank immediately. After the sink rapidly. The crew abandoned ship with days later for the second time. spoke perfect English. We asked him to area had been swept for mines, the only one man injured. The stern stayed afloat for The Etliot, which was torpedoed June take us to the rafts and he agreed two days, but heavy seas battered the ship until Mowinckel was: towed to Hatteras Inlet 3, 1942, sank in six minutes — six ...... When we could see the rafts 300 she disappeared. and beached, for temporary repairs. (For minutes in which to decide that the ves- yards away a flare went off overhead several days the ship's officers had to live -.....we were shoved down the hatch of sel was doomed, to send an SOS, to give on board; the galley was under water the order to abandon ship, and to launch the conning tower and the U-boat sub- they couldn’t cook. They lived chiefly on the boats. Nearly all the crew members merged ...... they gave us water, hot tea, Lago’s ice cream and frozen strawberries were seen on deck after the explosion, and bread and cheese, also rags to wipe — and say they have had no desire for but the ship settled by the stern very off the oil ...... We surfaced for a few either item since.) rapidly with the bow coming high in the minutes, then dove again. We were blind- Some time later, after the ship had air; it capsized the lifeboats that had folded and taken to the torpedo room, been refloated, it dragged its anchor in just been launched, and threw all hands where they washed us in petrol to remove the night and again struck a mine. (The into the water in every direction. Thir- some of the oil. We were in the torpedo other ship trying to reach shore had cap- teen men were drowned when the life- room an hour and a half. The men with sized and sunk in the entrance to Che boats capsized or were sucked under by us could speak no English, but they were peake Bay). The Mowinckel was even- the sinking ship. Thirty men clung to kind and kept feeding us water and tually repaired, and returned to service four rafts that were lashed together; graham crackers...... ee in Without a Trace March, 1943. just before dark a plane appeared (pos- sibly from our Dakota field?) and sig- After three hours below, they were Just Of the untold hundreds of ships that a month before her own encoun- naled by blinker that help was coming. A given the submarine’s 12-foot lifeboat, were sunk in World War II, few went to ter with a submarine, the Mowinckel had destroyer found them next morning and with four gallons of water and a day’s brought to the bottom without the disaster being Aruba the captain, second landed them at Trinidad. ration of hardtack, and told to row seen from other ships, or without a sur- mate, and two stewards of the Royal Meanwhile seamen Smithson and O’Con- south to reach their comrades. Then Netherlands vivor to tell the tale. This, however, was Steamship Company’s SS nor were having a rare experience. The began an agonized five-day wait for Crijnssen, which the fate of the Esso tanker J. Drake. had been torpedoed a few ship's suction had carried them under, rescue; they saw planes or ships nearby days before. The K.N.S.M. The L. J. Drake and the C. O. Stillman ship had been but they got free in time and bobbed to every day, but only once attracted the

en route from Curacao sailed together from San Nicolas on the to New Orleans the surface; later, they made a raft out attention of a ship, which promptly zig- when it was lost. Picking these morning of June 4, 1942, the first headed four sur- of a mast, a spar from a lifeboat, and a zagged away. Finally, when they were so vivors off their raft was for Puerto Rico and the second for New a feat in fast plank, and kept hailing the rafts of the weak they could only lie in the bottom of rescue operations. York. The two ships were together for a Quoting from the cap- other survivors but -without success. By the boat and drift, they were picked up tain’s report: "The raft was helpless time after leaving Aruba; however, the and the time darkness fell, they were about by a Brazilian tanker. on account of the Stillman’s speed was 915 knots, and the sea running we could not get alongside and did not want to Drake’s 9 knots, so the latter remain in that vicinity very long...... we gradually fell behind, and went out of

lowered the boat, started the outboard sight at nightfall. The L. J. Drake was motor, reached the raft, took off the sur- never seen or heard from again, lost vivors, returned to the J. A. Mowinckel, without a trace. The ship had 35 crew and hoisted the boat with the ship's members and 6 Navy gunners aboard

winches, all in 19 minutes.” when she disappez ed. A train could be driven through the hole ripped in the side of the PAUL H. HARWOOD by a torpedo. The ship was traveliing in ballast when she was hit. Aruba Shuttle Service The Paul H. Harwood, well-known in Aruba since the earliest days of the Eight ships were assigned to the peri- refine urvived a torpedo in the Gulf lous job of being Lago’s lifeline dur- of Mexico in July, 1942; later it went on

ing most of the war years: the Esso to complete a full war record that includ- Bolivar, the C. O. Stillman (until she was ed a trip on the dangerous route to Mur- lost), the Esso Aruba, the Esso New mansk early in 1945. Orleans (second of that name), the F. H. For the voyage to arctic Russia, the Bedford Jz., the Esso Raleigh (second so Harwooé carried 60,000 barrels of indus- named), the J. A. Mowinekel, and the trial alcohol for mvnitions-making. This Peter Hurll. They plied more or less was one of the most hazardous routes in regularly between Aruba and New York. the world, and their 22-ship convoy was In the geography of World War II, escorted by two aircraft carriers, a Lago was one of the most important key cruiser, destroyers, and destroyer escorts bases of petroleum supply in the world Attac came frequently from sub- — and keeping it regularly supplied with marines and from as many as 25 torpedo fresh water, commissary stores, and planes at once. Freighters and tankers refinery equipment was one of the most were sunk on all sides of the Harwood, important jobs on the sea. Ships were but she wasn’t touched. "One of the des- anonymous during the war, slipping in troyers following us was hit, apparently and out of port with no fanfare. They in her magazine. A steam cloud rose need not be anonymous now; with irre- abou! 300 feet in the air and when it gular help from others, these are the gradually settled down there was nothing ships that did the job of keeping Lago left of the vessel. It was rumored one supplied. man was saved %

ARUBA ESSO NEWS JANUARY 17, 1947

Death Struck Heavily Ships and Men

While many ships lost many men, two Countless stories came out of the of the heaviest losses were sustained by Esso fleet’s years in the war, stories of the J. H. Senior, with 68 killed and only heroism, of freak escapes, of the unusual 6 survivors, and by the Esso Gettysburg, things that happened to men and ships with 57 lost and only 15 surviving. while they delivered the oil, Nearly all A few ships, on the other hand, seem- could take a page by themselves; here ed to lead charmed lives. Such was the are a few in brief form: A. C. Bedford, which carried 8,054,202 barrels of oil through some of the most hazardous seas without ever being In 1943 the Chester O. Swain was damaged by enemy action. She travelled anchored at Algiers when a Norwegian the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, North freighter 600 yards away exploded. Atlantic, and Mediterranean, but tragedy When the 1,800 tons of German mines it never struck as it did to so many other was carrying blew up, 1,500 people were ships of the fleet. killed by the concussion and by an ensuing The J. H. Senior was in convoy 600 fire of ammunition on the harbor miles east of Halifax the night of August docks. Of all the ships in the basin 19, 1943, when, in a dense fog, she was when the explosion occurred, the Swain in a collision with a freighter. The result- was the first to move under its own ing fire gutted both ships, and all but power; with only minor damage, in spite nine men on both vessels were lost. The of its closeness to the blast, it was able Senior was carrying over 100,000 barrels to move out of the harbor until fires on shore of gasoline to England; the freighter was and ships were brought under carrier control. The ESSO RICHMOND (taken into the Navy as the oiler KASKASKIA) fuels the aircraft loaded with an equally inflammabie the same time. : OSSEX and the cruiser BALTIMORE at cargo, thousands of bales of cotton and tons of magnesium, glycerin, resin, and wax. The ships became great torches When the Persephone was torpedoed at the Start from whic’: escape was practically im- off the New Jersey coast, the stern With its Whistle Blowing In possible, with burning gasoline spread settled to the bottom in a few minutes, over a wide area of the sea. The decks forcing the crew to abandon ship. Later, of the Senior had been loaded with a full after he had been picked up by a Coast which made The E. M. Clark (originally the Victo- The George G. Henry, cargo of airplanes, and in most cases Guard vessel, the captain saw that the years lite, a common pre-war visitor here) was history in Aruba more than 25 these were reduced to molten metal. bow was still floating; he asked his of the first depot another victim of the deadly Cape Hat- ago, when it was one The ship was towed to Canada, and rescuers to return him to the ship, where teras area. On March 18, 1942, during ships anchored at Oranjestad to receive later to New York, but repairs have not he salvaged 23 bags of mail. This was the period when the undersea warfare oil from lake tankers and pump it into been attempted. our mail, since the Persephone had left was at a vicious stage, the ship was hit ocean tankers, made history again in Aruba the week before. (The ship later The Esso Gettysburg, but failed to catch fire. The masts were December, 1941, when it happened to be less than a year broke in two and the stern was lost. The and a half down, the deckhouse smashed, and the in Manila the day the Japanese attacked old, made safe voyages bow was towed to New York but was not between March, decks were littered with wreckage; in Pearl Harbor. (Its exciting war days 1942 and June, 1943, in- salvaged, except that a year later, when cluding several rain-lashed darkness lit by lightning over, the Henry is now back in Aruba, to Gibraltar and one to the Livingston Roe was at Baltimore for flashes, the radio operator and the cap- this time as part of the Lake Fleet doing Oran. (On the way back from Gibraltar repairs after a severe fire, the Perse- in November, tain tried to string an emergency radio the regular run between here and Lake 1942, she accidentally got phone’s midship house was removed in- in the way antenna. A second torpedo that went Maracaibo.) of the Allied armada that was tact, taken to Baltimore, and fitted to steaming south to invade North Africa; deep inside before exploding forced them On the second day of the Pacific war the Roe.) she had to change course and go around to abandon ship. the Henry, then a veteran of 21 years the great fleet, 15 hours out of her way). The ship’s whistle jammed and sent service, was lying at anchor in Manila The last voyage ended in disaster when out a steady roar. A few minutes after Bay awaiting a berth to discharge her she was struck by two torpedoes while en Four lifeboats rowed away from Esso the boats were clear, the stern lifted cargo. The entire crew was out painting route from the Gulf to Philadelphia. Harrisburg July 6 as the torpedoed ves- high, and she plunged forward and down. the ship war gray when dozens of Jap The blows came within four seconds of sel sank off the Venezuelan coast. One Just before the smokestack disappeared planes came over, bombing and machine- each other. The ship immediately burst landed on a Colombian beach and these under the surface, the whistle, which had gunning the ships on their route. The into flames and quickly settled by the survivors made their way to Barran- been blowing steadily since the second closest explosion rolled the Henry, and stern. Fire spread so rapidly that the quilla. Two were picked up by a U.S. sub- explosion, stopped for a few seconds, later a bucketful of bomb fragments and men not already caught in it could only marine chaser and landed at Aruba, and then started again, and was still blasting machine gun bullets was picked up on dive over the side. One group of six men the fourth was found by the Netherlands as it went under. deck, but no serious damage was done. were attacked several times by a shark, destroyer Queen Wilhelmina, which also The planes passed over and went on to but managed to keep it at bay by violent brought its survivors here. make a shambles of the Cavite Navy kicking and splashing. Later they found Yard, plastering fuel dumps, ammuni- the burnt-out hulls of two lifeboats (one tion warehouses, and the Navy Hospital. They Get the Biggest containing three bodies), and in the next A dog and a man helped save each Two days later, with the Japanese al- five hours they picked up the nine re- other when the E. G. Seubert went down ready making landings in the Philip- maining survivors. They were rescued in the Gulf of Aden, after leaving Abadan pines, the Henry discharged its cargo; The C. O. Stillman, which was on its the following day by the SS George bound for the Mediterranean. When the way to Aruba at the time of the February on December 15 it was given permission Washington. ship was torpedoed, caught fire, and to leave, provided the escape was made in 16, 1942 attack here and went unreport- rapidly sank, the ship’s clerk made an darkness. Light buoys marking a mine ed for days, had only four more months instant decision to take his dog with him to live. In June, one day out of Aruba, field were out, and the ship almost got when he jumped overboard, accepting a the largest tanker in the world (163,145 into the mines, but was finally led to the possible handicap to swimming that barrels capacity) was sunk with the loss comparative safety of the outside waters. could have been dangerous. of three crew members. They then sailed south a thousand miles As it turned out, it worked the other The first torpedo set the midship house to Balik Papan, and secured 75,000 bar- way. As the man jumped in, dragging afire and destroyed some of the life- rels of fuel oil there just a month before the dog after him on a leash, his eyes boats; the second, 25 minutes later, the plant was blown up to keep it from and ears were filled with fuel oil from showered a group of escaping men with the enemy. From there they went to Soe- the thick coating surrounding the ship. debris and fuel oil, which miraculously rabaja — and discovered after they He could neither see a raft if one were did not catch fire. Three minutes after the entered the harbor that they had un- nearby, nor hear voices that might hail second torpedo the ship went down. The knowingly sailed right through a Nether- him. The dog paddled desperately ahead survivors on three rafts drifted for two lands mine field. Finally, after sailing and his master followed, still hanging on Australia. days and two nights before they were 1,600 miles alone through waters con- to the leash. The dog may have heard The George G. Henry became an im- picked up; two lifeboats landed on the trolled or threatened by the Japanese men talking on a liferaft they approach- portant auxiliary ship of the fighting shores of the Dominican Republic. they set out in convoy for Port Darwin, ed; at any rate, some one on the raft fleet in the Southwest Pacific, the only heard the dog panting and gasping, and privately-owned tanker that fueled war- pulled him aboard, closely followed by »aips of the Asiatic Fleet during the firs: the man on the other end of the leash. four months of desperate defensive action. She fueled the aircraft carrier Clouds of black smoke billow from the ESSO BOSTON, torpedoed 300 miles north of St. Marten Langley before her last mission, a bola on a voyage from Caripito to Halifax. .ctempt to take fighter planes t Electrician Michael Wajda of the T. C. strengthen the defenses of Java. She McCobb survived a seven-week ordeal on fueled the ships that were lost in the a liferaft during which one of his two Battle of the Java Sea and immediately companions died of exposure and the afterwards — the Houston, Peary, Pope, other went out of his mind and was lost Eésall, Stewart, and Pillsbury and overboard. later fueled the few survivors. The ship went down 400 miles off the Eventually the Henry ran out of ships coast of French Guiana. With the excep- to fuel, so many had been lost in the tion of one man, plus the three on the attempts to stop the southward push of raft, the entire crew was saved. As week the Japanese. She went to Melbourne, followed week, those in the missing raft where her first job was fuelling the trans- were presumed lost, and Wadja’s mother port President Coolidge for the voyage had been wearing mourning for a month that took Philippine President Quezon to when, 50 days after the sinking, her son the United States. In April, 1942, she told his story in a hospital at George- was taken into the Navy along with her town, British Guiana. He had lived Esso captain, J. G. Olsen, and served the chiefly on rainwater and raw fish, and balance of the war as the Navy oiler USS had spent the last 11 days alone on the Victoria. raft before his rescue.

JANUARY 17, 1947 ARUBA ESSO NEWS

Baseball Schedule ‘ Names and Faces on the Baseball Diamond -News January 19 Ramblers vs Cerveceria 10:00 a.m. Artraco vs Dodgers 2:00 p.m. January 26 Dr. William Sparks, who has been Dodgers vs San Lucas 10:00 a.m. actively associated with the develop- Pepsi vs Ramblers 2:00 p.m. ment of a synthetic rubber that is used February 2 for inner tubes, has been nam- extensively Pepsi vs Venezuela 10:00 a.m. ed director of the Chemical Division of Cerveceria vs Artraco 2:00 p.m the Esso Laboratories in S.0.D. He re- places Dr. Per Frolich, who has resigned End of First Round other activities after 11 years to enter February 9 as director of chemical research. San Lucas vs Ramblers 10:00 a.m. Dodgers vs Venezuela 2:00 p.m. February 16 A new contract providing for service Dodgers vs Cerveceria 10:00 a.m. supply of aviation gasoline and oil and Pepsi vs Artraco 2:00 a.m. to U.S. Army, Navy, and government aircraft in over 40 countries has been One of the hottest games in the current to Intava Ine. for 1947. Intava awarded baseball loop at the Sport Park was the will greatly increase its services to the 8—7 win that Pepsi-Cola squeezed out particularly in Germany government, over the Dodgers December 15. Pepsi and South America. Intava represents scored two in the first and the Dodgers PEPSI-COLA: Back, left to right, Alberto Arends (manager), N. Quifiones, Edwin de Cuba, Menelio the aviation petroleum products business Locfstok, Luis Aponte, Manuel Saiazar and Walt er Arends. Front, Jesus Marin, Josef Arends, one. In the second, Pepsi pushed it up to Nel Harms (captain), Francisco Romero, Rafael Romero and Virgilio Dirksz. of Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum 4—1, but the Dodgers came right back Oil Company. in the next inning with four runs to take the lead at 5—4. Then Pepsi scored another pair to make it 6—5, and the Jersey Makes Connections Dedgers duplicated the see-saw process With Middle East Companies to lead again at 7—6. In the eighth Pepsi tied it up at T—7, and the battle went on Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) recently con- to eleven innings before the soft-drink firmed that preliminary agreements supporters pushed over their eighth and have been made with two oil companies winning run, clinching the game by hol- in the Middle East: ding the Dodgers scoreless in the last In one, the Company would purchase half of the eleventh. That’s good baseball substantial portions of crude oil from the for the crowds, though hard on the team Anglo-Iranian Oil Company over the next managers’ nerves. 20 years. It wou'd also assist in the con- struction of a pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the eastern Mediterranean. The second agreement would involve Lago Ta Ricibi Gradicimento Pa the acquisition of a 30 per cent interest Yudanza na Victimanan Holandes in the Arabian American Oil Company, which operates in eastern Saudi Arabia, Recientemente Marine Department a and under this proposal Jersey would ricibi e siguiente carta di Burgomaestro share the cost of another pipeline from di Zutphen na provincia di Gelderland na DODGERS: Back, left to right, Bobby Nisbet (manager), Norman Clarkson, Samuel Buntin, Edwa!do Romney, James Gibbs, Pedro Lake and T. Hoftijzer. Front, Mackinley Romney (captain), Richard the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. Holanda: Hazel, Gregorio Hodge, A. Phillips, N. Velow and Juan Perez. The proposed transactions, if complet- Di Aruba Hulp Fonds pa Holanda mi ed, will bring Jersey’s crude supply into a haya sa di bo generosidad di no cobra TEAM STANDINGS (as of January 8) Dominicans Sponsor Cricket balance with its expected market de- nos pa flete pa articulonan destina pa e Team G.wW. G.L. Points mands in Europe. It will also reduce the hendenan di nos stad, cu ta teriblemente Ramblers 4 0 1.000 Cerveceria 2 1 666 Aruba and Curacao shared victories drain on Western Hemisphere crude, the distribi. Artraco 2 2 00 with true Christmas spirit in holiday total of which will eventually be needed Esaki ta un prueba cu bo San Lucas 2 2 ta comprende Pepsi-Cola 1 2 matches December 25 and 26 sponsored to cover the demand in this hemisphere. nos necesidad, pa cual mi ta gradici bo Venezuela 1 3 Dodgers 1 3 +250 by the Dominica Cricket Club. On Christ- The Far East crude oil position of masha y mi ke laga sa cu nos ta aprecia mas, playing for the Huckleman Cup Standard-Vacuum, a 50 per cent Jersey boso ayuda masha. Boso atitud lo no Highest batting average: Longun Wilson .647. Pitcher winning most games: Joe Proterra Pitch 4, (presented by E. J. Huckleman of the affiliate, will also be strengthened. laga di duna nos mas curashi.” Won 4. Dispensary), the Curacao C.C. piled up 80 for all in a one innings match while December 15 Dominica garnered only 35 for all. Hay- Pepsi Cola

Dodgers Aw wood and Charles were top batters. Cerveceria The following day a Lago combination

SCHEDULE San Lucas HA OF PAYDAYS practically wiped out a Curacao com- 1947 December 22 bination playing for a cup offered by the Artraco Company. Lago bowled all Curacao for SEMI-MONTHLY PAYROLL MONTHLY PAYROLLS Venezuela HA 72 runs, with Nicholas taking most wic- PERIOD Ramblers PAY DAYS PERIOD PAY DAYS San Lucas HI kets for the home team. Lago then went in and scored 98 runs at the fall of January 1—15 Thursday, January 23 January 1}—31 Monday, February 10 December 29 16—31 Saturday, February 8* Venezuela § the first wicket, with Brown 47, out, and : , Dodgers 4 Howe not out at 41. February 1—15 Monday, February 24 February 1—28 Monday, March 10 16—28 Sa:urday, March 8 : Cerveceria Following the Boxing Day match

Pepsi-Cola root prizes were awarded, with Mr. Huckle- March 1—15 Monday, March 24 March 1—31 Friday, April 11 16—31 Thursday, April 10 January 5 man as master of ceremonies Ramblers and C. J.

April Dodgers on Monroe making the presentations. In ad- 1—15 Wed., April 23 April 1—30 Saturday, May 10ee 16—30 Friday, May 9 San Lucas 6 dition to the two cups, individual bowling May Artraco and batting prizes were given. The Cura- 1—15 Saturday, May 2A* May 1—31 Tuesday, June 10 16—31 Monday, June 9 E cao club expressed their pleasure at the June 1—15 Dominica club’s hospitality. Monday, June 23 June 1—30 Wed., July 9 16—30 Tuesday, July 8 ; July 1-15 Wed., July 23 July 1—31 Saturday August 9** 16—31 Friday, August 8 August 1—15 Saturday, August 23* August 1—31 Wed, September 10 16—31 Tuesday, September 9 SCORES

September 1—15 Tuesday, December 15 September 23 September 1—30 Thursday, October 9 Pirates 0 16—30 Wed. October 8 Rangers 0 October 1—15 Thursday, October October N 1—31 Monday, November 10 16—31 Saturday, November g* November 1—15 Monday, November 24 November 1~—30 Tuesday, December 9 16—30 Monday, December 8 December 1—15 ‘Tuesday, December 23 December 1—31 Saturday, January 10°" 16—31 Friday, January 9 SEMI-MONTHLY 0 PAYROLL MONTHLY PAYROLLS 0 Plane Pay Office ARUBA TRADING LEAGUE FOOTBALL 2:30 to 6:20 p.m. on scheduled pay Plant Pay Office STANDINGS days Staff employees working in refinery 7:30 to 830 a.m. on area Teams Games Played Pts. Percentage day following (Private P_R.) & all General La Fama 'B’ 2 4 00 pay day Works staff employees Voorwaarts II 3 5 83.3 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on day following 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. B.G. 'B’ 2 2 50 Pirates 3 3 50 pay day when this day 1s a week- Main Office Grenada a 4 50 day. 12 noon to 12:30 p.m. only Private payroll staff employees Rangers 5 3 30 when day following pay day is a Trinidad 'B’ 3 1 16.7 Saturday 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. K. B. Ross, works manager of the great Abadan Private payroll foreign staff * Payoffice hours refinery in Persia, who visited here a year ago, on Saturday pay | 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. sent a Seon Frederick of the Marine Depart- days will be from 12.00 noon Christmas greeting containing the picture | above. The tower is part of a crude ment’s port steward section left Decem- until 6:20 p.m. | General Works foreign staff topping unit, ** 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. with an unusual design in the overhead lines. ber 8 on long vacation to Grenada via Payoffice hours on Saturday pay | An interesting feature of the tower is the cooling days will be from 9:30 am. until All Payrolls - on day following Trinidad, his first visit there in eight and condensing of overhead vapors by direct 12:30 and 3:00 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. pay days 7:30 to 11:00 a.m. contact with cooling water in the three horizon- years. He worked his way as chief i | tal drums in the foreground. steward on the tanker "de Golia”.

ARUBA ESSO NEWS JANUARY 17, Dramatic Society Succeeds in First Try Around the Plant Jose Trappenberg of Personnel, who hails from Curacao, spent the holidays with friends there. He flew over the day before Christmas and was back at work January 2. Morel Fortin, dispatch clerk in Per- sonnel, dispatched himself on vacation December 27, to be gone until March 8. A Lagoite since 1936, he has not been home to French St. Martin since then. On the way to St. Martin (where he plans to catch most of the fish and lobsters catch- able) he plans to visit St. Kitts and St. Bartholome. Prince Samuel, on long vacation from the Cold Storage Plant, spent the holidays in Grenada. He is due back February 16. Manuel Balanco’s recent long vacation gave him pienty of rest (the ESSO NEWS found him in Harry Marcus of the Drydock left the Curacgao one weekend) but it had its strenuous job January side too. He and Adrian Strang of L.O.F. are 2 for an eight-week vac- holding up a 12-foot shark they caught near ation. Westpunt. (Third member of the fishing party The Falcons bring the ''South Seas’’ into San Nicolas. was Guillaume Kamperveen of Gas & Poly.) Severa Bryson of the Hospital left The Falcon Dramatic Society put on sion; J. Warner, Welding Shop; Gladys December 21 for a seven-week vacation Lawrence Aitcheson of Electrical ieft its first musical comedy at the B.I. A. Herbert, Lloyds Register; H. Toddman, at San Pedro di Marcoris, Sto. Domingo. January 4 for an eight-week vacation in Hall December 16, a production so sic- Warehouse; and E. De Coteau. It is her first visit home in seven years. Jamaica. cessful that it was scheduled to be re- The Falcon group was organized about Shown below are two groups that helped bring The group at right below portrayed the Birth of peated last weekend in a larger hall at a year ago, and now has 35 members. Christmas cheer to Aruba. At left is a choir that Christ at the Methodist Church December 19. the Surinam Club. Proceeds from their first production go carried Yuletide songs to Lago Heights, San Nico- Produced and directed by Mrs. Ruby Stevenson, las, and Essoville, and to the Lago Hospital on the pageant was given by the Wesley Guild to The four-act "Romance in Mandalay”, into a fund to build a clubhouse with a Christmas morning. The group includes K. Edwards raise funds for the new church building. In back, L. Hamlett, E. E. Morris, D. H. London, 1, to r., are V. Bonnett, E. Connor, and A. Thomp- with a South Seas setting, was written library, gymnasium, and facilities for a van, P. Thorne, M. Boatswain, t. Homer, son; center, J. Knight, G. Herbert, E. Daniels, r, and A. L. Lewis (the leader, at front G. Thomas, S. Rajroop, R. Cato, and H. Tyson; in and produced by H. Stevenson of the girl-orchestra. left). front, E. Daniel, E. Brown, and L. Crichton. Storehouse. Elaborate costumes, music, ne and a fanciful story put it in the true musical comedy tradition. In the picture above, left to right, are Stella Oliver, Laundry; Eileen Williams and William Houtman, Colony Service; Marjorie Anderson, Plant Commissary, Phillip Thorne, Training Division; Vanisha Vanterpool, Laundry (President of the Faleon Group); Vernon Morgan, Electric Shop; Jose La Cruz, Plant Com- missary; Evelyn Daniel, Hospital (at the mike); Ashton Buckley, Colony Commis- sary; Ashton Hicks (sitting) Ware- house; Ewaldo Daniel (sitting), and Freda Richardson; Irad Benjamin, Elec- trical; Benson Douglas, Training Divi-

PINTA UN PRENCHI — Busca un potlood cu un punta skerpi skerpi, cuminza pinta na e punta cu number 1 banda di djé (caminda e flecha ta) y sigui hala e lina, siguiendo e numbernan: 1, 2, 3, 4, te na fin. Ora bo caba bo tin prenchi di algo cu bo ta mira hopi na Aruba.

The Wise Old Mouse E!RATON BIEUW SABI There were many mice living in a hole Tabatin hopi raton ta biba den un hol in a kitchen. At first they had a wonder- den un cushina. Na cuminzamento nan ful life, because they could find plenty tabatin masha bon bida, pasobra nan of food in the kitchen. This didn’t last tabata haya hopi cuminda. Pero esaki no very long, though, for the owner of the a dura largo, pasobra e dono a busca un house brought a cat in the kitchen to pushi pa cohe e ratonnan cu tabata dis- catch the mice, that were ruining all the tribi tur su cuminda. E pushi tabata food. The cat was a very good mouse- masha lihé y sabi, asina cu e ratonnan 2s 3° catcher and the mice couldn’t come out no por a sali pa miedo di e pushi su at all, out of fear of the cat’s sharp unanan skerpi. Ni den scur nan no por a Sm) ne Te claws. Not even in the night could they sali busca cuminda sin pone nan bida na 108 “ 7 “40 107 wy 3 come out to find something to eat, with- peliger. Porfin nan a dicidi di tene un out putting their lives in danger. At last recnion pa busca un moda di salba di \ oe na they decided to have a meeting, to find nan enemigo. 100 => Dit a way of getting rid of their enemy. Asina cu reunion a cuminza un raton w As soon as the meeting started, a chapalito di: "Ami sa kico nos mester ORE young mouse rose and said: "I know haci. Laga nos mara un bel na garganta DRAW A PICTURE id “Sy NS what we must do. Let’s tie a bell around di e pushi, e ora nos por tende ora cu e Take a pencil with a the cat’s neck, then we can tell when he ta bin.” “12 ald very sharp point, start is coming.” E otro ratonnan a haya esaki un idea ae ia dot number 1 (see the The other mice thought this a very masha brillante y nan a bati man pa e at the left side?) brilliant idea and they all clapped their raton. Den hoeki tabatin un raton masha arrow on and then draw a line fol- paws for it. In a corner sat a very old bieuw, en berdad e tabata asina bieuw cu lowing the numbered mouse, in fact he was so old that the e otronan no tabata hacié caso. Ora e dots Ln 35 Bs es ete other mice didn’t mind him at all. When ratonnan a bati man el a cuminza hari te When you finish you'll the mice clapped he just laughed ’til he sagudi. ’’Ta kico bo ta hari?” e otronan have a picture of some- shook. What are you laughing about?” a puntré. thing you often see in they asked him. "Un cos so mi ke sa”, e raton bieuw di, Aruba. "IT just wonder”, said the old wise "cua di boso la mara e bel na garganta mouse, "which one of you will be the one di e pushi?” to tie the bell around the cat’s neck”. Ningun no a respondé. No one answered. "Ta masha facil pa bisa, pero pa haci "It’s easier to say than to do,” said the ta e cos’, e raton bieuw di, y razon a old mouse and was he right! sobré.