PENNANT PARADE
U.S.A.T. MOTOR SHIP "PENNANT"
Vol. II, No. 10 4 Nov.
1945 12th
day
at
sea
LIBERATOR TRANSPORT
DOWN AT SEA
HONOLULU: The
Army Transport Command reported Saturday a Liberator transport plane with 27
persons aboard which
included two women
was down at sea 450
miles from here at 0740.
Ten other
planes were dispatched to the area to attempt a rescue. The
transport had left
for the mainland at
0320.
YAMASHITA BRUTALITY
REVEALED
MANILA: Two witnesses testified Saturday that Lt. Gen. Yamashita had issued orders to "wipe out all
Filipinos" and had
commended his brutal
gendarmes for their "fine work."
In a stormy session
and over the protests
of defense counsel,
the witnesses asserted the former Jap commander in the Philippines knew and approved of his troops'
brutality. Thus, for
the first time in the
weeklong trial, testimony was offered connecting him directly with the war
crimes.
CHINA CIVIL
WAR SPREADS
CHUNGKING [Chongqing]: A North
China provincial capital and a railway
city fell Saturday to
attacking Chinese Communists, unofficial reports said, as Reds in
Chungking received
with skepticism a new
four-point Nationalist
proposal to end spreading civil warfare.
TRIAL DELAYED
NUREMBERG:
The Nuremberg trials may be delayed to give time to
prepare cases.
FUEL FAMINE
TOKYO: General MacArthur
moved Saturday to avert
a winter fuel famine
in Japan.
PENNANT'S DAILY PROGRESS
What the hell do you want, blood? We try to give you
the
straight dope. We're going along fine now,
as
any fool can plainly see, and we "Big Barn Smells" should be in the hot showers of Fort Lawton in three days. O.K.?
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STAFF
Editor.............Len Stringfield
Sports Editor......William O'Brien
Artist.............R.E. Doyle
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 Miskit
World News by
Courtesy of the ship's
Radio
MOVIES
BACKGROUND TO DANGER
George Raft
Sidney Greenstreet
Peter Lorre
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CHAPLAIN'S CORNER
THE HAPPY MAN
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the
ungodly, nor standeth in the way of
sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law
of the Lord, and in His law doth he meditate day and night.
And he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water,
that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall
not wither, and whatsoever he
doeth shall prosper.
Psalm 1:1-3
"PASS THIS ON TO A BUDDY"
IT PAYS TO KNOW
ABOUT LOANS UNDER THE G.I. BILL
The gov't under the G.I. Bill
does not make a gift to a veteran to start a business;
neither does the gov't make the veteran a loan. It does provide assistance if, and only if, the veteran
can comply with certain requirements. For example, assume the
veteran is qualified by experience and ability to manage a business.
If he can induce a
bank,
insurance company, manufacturer, wholesaler, supply company, or
individual to lend him money to
go into business, at an interest
rate of no more than 4%, he can
apply to the Veterans Administration for a guaranty by the gov't not to exceed 50% of the loan, with the guaranteed part of the loan not to exceed $2,000. To illustrate, if the loan is for $6,000,
the veteran can apply for
a guaranty of $2,000 of it. If the loan is for $3,000, the veteran could apply for a guaranty of $1,500.
A loan for the purchase of
business property includes any
business, land, building supplies,
equipment, machinery, or tools, to be used by the applicant in the
operation of a business.
Also
included are such working capital
items as the accounts receivable
and inventory of a going business.
The loan application will be
approved if it is seen that there
is reasonable likelihood that
applicant will be successful, that
the loan will be used to pay for
real or personal property that the
veteran needs and will use in the
operation of a business, and that
the purchase price does not exceed
the reasonable normal value.
The entire loan must be paid
back within a specific time and
not more than twenty years.
The government will pay interest for the first
year on the guaranteed
part of the loan ($80.00 maximum).
Unquestionably the guaranteed
part of the loan will be a valuable inducement for a lender to agree
to make the full loan. However,
the veteran should frankly face
the fact that he must get a responsible party willing to
make him the loan at 4% interest.
This may be difficult
under some circumstances, since
the entire loan depends on almost
the same conditions where higher
interest rate is ordinarily charged. Two
important facts the
veteran should fully understand are:
1. If the debt of interest is not
paid and it becomes necessary for
the government to make any payment on account of the guarantee, the
veteran is obligated to repay
such amount and the gov't will hold
him or his estate responsible.
2. Under the G.I. Bill, a veteran
can apply for a guarantee of
loans [for]
(a) purchase or construction of
a home, (b) purchase of
farm and farm equipment, and (c) purchase of
business property. However, the
aggregate amount guaranteed shall
not exceed $2,000 whether the loans
are for more than or only one of the above purposes.
It is advised that you follow congressional
action closely on the G.I. Bill of Rights since, there
are several moves afoot to make the loan provisions more liberal, so that more veterans may take advantage of it.
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SPORTS
[Some of the scores below are incorrect or have incomplete team names. For these, the actual scores and team names, as found on Wikipedia and other sources online, are shown in brackets. - Ed.]
A big week on the
gridiron was climaxed by that thriller in
Cleveland in which the Navy and
Notre Dame played to a six-to-six tie. Through the courtesy
of Capt. Gimpel, our troop commander, we were able to 'pipe' a
rebroadcast of the game throughout the ship.
The Navy, outclassed throughout the game, rose to
heights in the closing seconds
and held the Irish on the one-foot line.
Navy then is still
undefeated and probably will stay
that way until they meet Army in
a couple weeks. [Army defeated Navy 32-13 on December 1, 1945. - Ed.] While the 'Middies'
were working their 'bell-bottomed
pants' off, the West Pointers
were coasting with their second
string to a
54-to-0 win over
Villanova. Army
is clearly the
team to beat this year. [Army was undefeated, and selected number one in the Associated Press sportswriters' poll at the end of the 1945 season, followed by Alabama (also undefeated), and Navy. - Ed.]
In the
Big Ten, Michigan held on to the
little brown jug in a big way by
trouncing Minnesota 26 to 0. Ohio State defeated Northwestern to
stay in the running for the championship, while Purdue won a non-conference tilt from Pittsburgh. In the south, Alabama scored
sixty points to down Kentucky 60 to 19.
Alabama seems a cinch for
the Rose Bowl. As for the West
Coast representative, we will
have to consult our local newspapers. Yipes! But that seems
wonderful to say!
FOOTBALL SCORES
Army 54 - Villanova 0
Columbia 34 - Cornell 26
Notre Dame 6 - Navy 6
Temple 20 - Lafayette 0
Yale 6 - Dartmouth 0
Penn
28 - Princeton 0
Rochester 26 - NYU 3 [Rochester 19 - NYU 3]
Penn State 26 - Syracuse 0
Brown 33 - Coast Guard 6
Brooklyn 24 - CCNY 0
Wm & Mary 33 - Maryland 14
Ohio State 16 - Northwestern 14
Michigan 26 - Minnesota 0
Wisconsin 27 - Iowa 7
Great Lakes 12 - Illinois 6 [Great Lakes Navy 12 - Illinois 6]
Purdue 28 - Pitt 0
Iowa State 40 - Kansas State 13
Nebraska 27 - Kansas 13
Mich. State 14 - Missouri 7
Indiana 46 - Cornell (Iowa) 6
Drake 45 - St. Louis 0
Marquette 32 - Detroit 14 [Marquette 32 - Detroit Mercy 14]
Alabama 60 - Kentucky 19
Auburn 19 - Florida 0
Tulane 14 - Miss. State 13
Tenn. 20 - No. Carolina 6
Virginia 13 - W. Virginia 7
Georgia 34 - Chattanooga 7
Texas 12 - S.M.U. 7 [Texas 12 - Southern Methodist 7]
Texas Christian 13 - Okla 7
Texas A&M 34 - Arkansas 0
Baylor 19 - Southwestern 0
Rice 13 - Texas Tech. 0
CAIRO OUTBURST CONTINUES
CAIRO: Club-swinging police
quickly suppressed a new outburst of
anti-Zionist riots Saturday when rampaging mobs for the second
day stoned business establishments as smashed windows in downtown Cairo were looted.
Nine persons were killed and
five hundred and twenty injured
in Cairo and Alexandria.
The disorders were strongly denounced
by Premier Nokrashy Pasha. He
promised, "Justice will take its
full course with the criminals."
The renewed demonstrations lasted less than an hour, but crowds
surged through Soliman Pasha Street [now called Talaat Harb Street - Ed.], one of Cairo's most fashionable shopping centers, smashing windows and stoning the Metro
Cinema operated by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
NOTICE
Those men who have been awarded
decorations and have not filled
out the form, distributed at the
I & E [Information and Education - Ed.] meetings, may still do so by getting this form in the troops office.
Please do so immediately.
[cartoon caption: "PSSST! - TUBA, JOE?"]
[Tubâ was a kind of palm wine that was made by natives in the Philippines, and according to Earl Reinhalter's letter of 12/9/1944 was off-limits to GI's. - Ed.]
Vol. II, No. 10 4 Nov. 1945 Page 4
BODIES OF GAME
WARDENS FOUND
RAWLINS, WYOMING:
Sheriff Glenn Penland and two deputies found
the bodies of two game
wardens Saturday who
were shot after they
left Rawlins Wednesday
to check on the catch
of a trapper in an isolated mountainous area.
The bodies were buried
in three feet of snow.
The unmarried trapper's log cabin,
fifty-five miles southeast
of here, had been burned
to the ground. In the
ashes the sheriff discovered bones which
he said would be sent
to the University of
Wyoming to determine
whether they were
those of a human being.
It's time to take over,
Ellery Queen.
[According to an article at 1063cowboycountry.com, the game wardens were named Bill Lakanen and Don Simpson, and the man they were looking for was Johan Malten. The article says that “they could never confirm that Malten was in the scorched cabin,” but that he was “never seen or heard from again.” - Ed.]
INDONESIAN TROOPS, 100,000 STRONG, MASS
BATAVIA [Jakarta]: Indonesian
troops, 100,000
strong and bearing
Japanese arms, are marching
and concentrating in central
Java, British pilots
said Saturday. In the
meantime, political
tension mounted over
the Dutch government's
refusal to deal with President Sukarno of the "Indonesian Republic." Although no
new fighting has been
reported, the British
described the situation at Magelang as
turbulent, and at the Soerabaja [Surabaya] naval base as tense.
JAPS ABUSED BRITISH WOMEN
LONDON: It was a common occurrence for
sex-crazed Japanese in Malaya to strip
British women and place them naked in shop windows
on public
display a week at a time, a
high-ranking British officer reported.
ATTLEE TAKES OFF
Prime Minister [Clement] Attlee
will take off for
Washington to discuss
atomic energy with President Truman and
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King on
or about November the
9th.
FLASHLIGHT
BATTERIES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE TROOP OFFICE.
POOR ALIBI - HEAVY FINE
OREGON: Explaining his night
out, a man told his family he had been assaulted and robbed by two
sailors. He swore out a complaint,
launching police on a long and
fruitless search. When he later
confessed the story was just an alibi, court responded with a five
hundred dollar fine and six months
in jail.
DEADLINE
Tomorrow morning is the deadline to return:
Books to library
USAFI texts and
Handicraft kits to Transport
Services Office.
WRIGHT WINS
Chalky Wright, dominating the in-fighting, outpointed Leroy Willis,
Detroit lightweight, in a ten-round
headliner at Detroit.
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