PENNANT PARADE
Vol. II, No. 4
30 Oct.
1945 6th
day
at
sea
FIRST U.S. TROOPS LEAVE KOREA
Over thirty-five hundred officers and men first U.S.
troops to be sent home from
Korea left Sunday on transport
from Inchon [now spelled Incheon - Ed.]. Nineteen thousand
will have been processed at separation center there by January
first. Plan is for all enlisted
men with sixty points and officers with seventy-five to be
out [of] Korea by January, but Army really hopes to have them home
for Christmas.
BRITISH UNVEIL NEW TYPE PLANE
Britain
announced RAF Vampire
top speed of five hundred and
forty miles an hour. This is
the highest speed yet for any
operational plane. [In 1948, the Vampire also set a new world altitude record of 59,446 feet. - Ed.]
MacARTHUR RESTORES CHRISTIAN CURRICULUM
General MacArthur ousted Jap
officials from St. Paul's Episcopal
University [now called Rikkyo University - Ed.] in Tokyo and demanded
accounting in eighty-one other
schools once supported by American
funds.
Japan was told to restore
Christian curriculum there at
once. School had been looted and
chapel desecrated and school converted into non-Christian school
by order of Japan in 1943.
MacArthur ordered that none of
dismissed officials "be given any employment in future in Japanese public or private educational
or religious institutions or in
any Government position."
"X" MARKS THE SPOT
Sometime tomorrow we should cross the International Date Line on
the 180th meridian. If so, we will spend the same day twice or have
two October 31sts. It is Halloween, too. Boy! If we had two days to play 'tricks or treats' in the 'good old days' there wouldn't have been much left of the neighborhood. Our speed remains a constant 14 knots.
[map labeled "PENNANT'S DAILY PROGRESS CHART"]
Vol. II, No. 4 30 Oct. 1945 Page 2
STAFF
Editor.............Len Stringfield
Artist.............R.E. Doyle
Sports Editor......William O'Brien
Feature Writers....John A. Polomski
Roy K. Dumas
Richard Berlow
Mimeographer.......Jimmy Lucci
Trans. CO...Capt. Richard Gimpel
Master......Capt. George Hansen
Trans. Sv.
Off....Lt. Leonard Misket
[spelled Miskit everywhere else but here and previous issue - Ed.]
World News by
Courtesy of the Ship's
Radio
CHAPLAIN'S CORNER
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to
perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.
Deep in unfathomable mines,
With never failing skill;
He treasures up his bright designs
And works his sovereign will.
Blind belief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain;
God is his own interpreter,
And he will
make it plain.
William Cowper
[William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. The verses above are from his hymn “God Moves in a Mysterious Way” (lyrics originally published as a poem called "Light Shining Out of Darkness"), which included his famous line: "God moves in a mysterious way/His wonders to perform." - Ed.]
[MOVIES - missing graphic]
"DU BARRY WAS A LADY"
featuring Lucille Ball, Red
Skelton. (Technicolor)
| First Show: |
1930 |
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| Second Show: |
2130 |
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Co. "A"
Co. "2" |
*CORRECTION PLEASE*
What greater error could be
made than to call an Irishman
anything but an Irishman, and on
top of that to err on the
name of the fellow doing our
navigating. We apologize!
Paul
Cannon, the Pennant's 2nd Mate, is Irish as Paddy's pig
and not Danish as we told you in
the October 28th edition of the
paper. When questioned about his
navigating ability, Mate Cannon said, "Tell the troops not to worry. I am as much at home at sea as I am on the 'auld sod' of Boston."
IT PAYS TO KNOW
As returning veterans and potential material for veteran organizations, it behooves us to be alert to the recent attempts of gyps and subversive groups that are out after "the boys." YANK magazine pointed this out in a recent editorial, and as the day is approaching when we will be approached, it might be well to recall some of that advice. Be aware of just who is behind the organization of your choice. Be aware of what that organization stands for. There have already been cases of veterans being solicited by fake representatives of existent (and non-existent) organizations where the fake collected fees. There have also been cases of unwary veterans finding themselves charter members of a group bearing a patriotic name
and conducting its policy like the pre-war "Bund."
Be sure that any solicitors approaching you are accredited. Be sure that you know what you are joining. Don't be a sucker!
WHAT TO STUDY
There is a varied selection of USAFI textbooks available in the
Transport Services Office.
The subjects covered range
from Surveying, Math, History, English, Economics etc. to Philosophy, English, Business and Botany. You may borrow these books for the remainder of the voyage.
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SPORTS
[Some of the scores below are incorrect. For these, the actual scores, as found on Wikipedia and other sources online, are shown in brackets. - Ed.]
Results of the West Coast and southwest football parade are in
and the picture is less changed
than any other section of the
country. On paper, there is no
outstanding team on the West
Coast. This is due either to an
especially well-balanced condition of strength, or it may be
just a bad year in the west. The
Washington Huskies enhanced
their bid for the Rose Bowl by
winning over USC 13 to 7. However, the race is still wide
open. Down Texas way, Rice defeated Texas Longhorns 7 to 6
while the Texas Aggies came from
behind to beat stubborn little
Baylor 19 to 13. Oklahoma A&M
trounced Texas Christian 25 to 7 [25 to 12]
and SMU lost to Tulane 19 to 7.
Some more and final scores:
Washington 13 - USC 7
California 19 - Nevada 6
Washington St. 21 - Idaho 0
Farragut 21 - Montana St. 13
Denver 21 - Utah St. 6 [Denver 41 - Utah State 6]
LSU 39 - Vanderbilt 7
Florida 45 - Southwestern 0 [Florida 45 - Southwestern Louisiana 0]
Texas Tech 12 - W. Texas 6 [Texas Tech 12 - West Texas A&M 6]
Cincinnati 16 - Kentucky 7
Tulane
19 - SMU 7 [Tulane
19 - Southern Methodist 7]
Michigan State 13 - Marquette 13
Missouri 19 - Nebraska 0
Michigan 19 - Illinois 0
PRO SCORES
Green Bay 33 - Chicago [Cardinals] 13 [Green Bay 33 - Chicago Cardinals 14]
Detroit 16 - Chicago Bears 10
Washington 24 - New York 14
Philadelphia 28 - Cleveland 14
Boston 10 - Pittsburgh 6
ABOUT CHOW LINES
There has been a lot of conflict lately...unwarranted, it seems to me...between two factions in the chow line. The Salts
(the boys who fall out topside
for the chow line) are sore at
the Voluptuaries (the sack artists who loll in their bunks until time to buck the line). Feeling runs high when the Salts, after gaining the sanctuary of
the companionway, see hundreds of
warm, sleepy sack artists bounding from the bed into the line
ahead of them.
One beefy Pfc, covered with
salt spray and hoarfrost, lost his
temper the other evening at a lad who bucked in ahead of him.
He snatched the unsuspecting
bucker, hurried him up the
companionway, and tossed him
overside.
"My God, what have I done!" he
cried, watching aghast as his
victim bobbed away in the wake. "Take
it easy, buddy," drawled a bystander, "He
was a First Sergeant."
Greatly relieved, the Pfc. dusted off his hands and returned to
a galley, where he ate a hearty meal.
This sort of thing should not
be allowed to continue. Obviously
there no harm done this time;
but next time it might not be a
First Sergeant.
It just happens I have a couple
of good solutions to this chow
line problem, and I offer them
here in the hope that one or more will be accepted and used, and
that bloodshed among the passengers will be forestalled.
1. Men can be admitted to chow
on the basis of seniority at the Fourth Replacement Depot. [This seems to be the replacement depot from which they just sailed. - Ed.] A Doctor, or qualified medic, or a
friend of such a medic, will
stand at the galley door, taking
blood counts. Men with more than
ten days at the Replacement Depot
or who have been in the "PENNANT"
chow line since sailing without getting
a meal, will have first
priority.
2. All chow tickets should be
taken up and men admitted to
chow alphabetically, except for men on guard, detail, or KP, who
will go by either age or Service
Command, or a simple combination
of the two. Fingerprints will
be placed on the new chow ticket
and checked against a master
file at the door, so that a man
can't double back using two names.
3. All men can remain in their
bunks, eating Hershey bars and
think of home and Mother's steaks. Before you know it, we'll be in Seattle.
4. Every time you see a first
three grader [staff sergeant - Ed.] near the rail, shove
him
overboard. He can catch a
later boat for the States and with all the top-graders gone,
there wouldn't be a chow line to
speak of.
Mr.
Bud Nye
LABOR NEWS
GENERAL MOTORS PROPOSES 45 HR WEEK
CIO United Auto Workers in Detroit rejected General Motors'
proposal that it join the company in
asking Congress to change work
week to forty-five hours instead of forty. G.M.
President Charles
Wilson had promised if work were
thus changed it would give six
percent wage boost. Union statement Sunday said it "refused to
join in conspiracy to slam door
of job opportunity in faces of returning servicemen and other
Americans who are seeking and are
entitled to work." "American people will never tolerate Wilson's
attempts to turn clock back." We
fought and won war to go forward
not backward.
PETITION FOR STRIKE VOTES
CIO United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers said in New York it had been authorized by conference board to
petition for strike votes by one
hundred seventy thousand
workers in fifty-four General Motors
plants and by thirty
thousand workers in electrical
plants of General Motors. Union
said petitions will be filed with
National Labor Relations Board
because of refusal of companies
to grant demand for two-dollar
daily wage boost.
BRITISH-INDONESIAN NATIONALISTS CLASH
Netherlands news agency reported on fighting between British forces and Indonesian nationalists broke out in Java first
time Sunday. It said Indonesians
opposed Allied orders to surrender and opened fire on British
Indian troops. [Thus began the Battle of Surabaya. - Ed.]
[faded text] ...base in which British
forces had occupied without firing a single shot.
CLEAN HOME - CLEAN SHIP
Let's keep the ship clean.
[cartoon caption: "THE WOLF by Sansone"
"Who dealt this hand?"]
[cartoon caption: "Are you night CQ?"]
CARTOONS COURTESY CNS [Camp Newspaper Service - Ed.]
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