88 JOSEPH V. CONNOLLY—lOlst ship buUt by J. A. Jones ConstrucUon CompaiQr, Inc., lit Panuna a t y , sliding down Uie Ways.
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D<NHeated to General Jonathan WainwrUht uid his eomradet,
nov friaonen of Japan, to capttve and enslaved peo^ea ereryi,.and to the building of ships to liberate them.
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Dave Greene, Director Public Relations
Jack Kneece, Staff ArtUt
A. N. McKenzte, Pbotosrapber
Hew To The Line!
News from the Pacific makes it "increasingly clear that the
American people must keep a clear head and a firm rein on their
kopes during the summer months," Hanson W. Baldwin, military
editor of the New York Times, reports.
"The increasing tempo of the B-29 raids on Japan, the mopup of Okinawa and the statement of Premier Suzuki that the
crisis facing Japan is the 'greatest one since the Mongolian invasion' of 1274 A. D. all tend to tempt American public opinion
to the wishful thinking that has clouded our judgment and hurt
our war effort in the past", he writes.
"What is now starting in the Pacific is a 'bulldozer ph^se'
of the war—a phase in which our military potential must be
\\ vastly increased for the decisive blows against the enemy. It
will be in some ways an undramatic phase of sweat and toil,
carefully screened in many of its details by necessary censorship.
The public will read chiefly of great and thundering air attacks
upon Japan, of burned and blackened enemy cities and will try
to fligest and understand tables of statistics of damage done to
the- enemy.
"In some ways we are now entering in the Pacific upon a
period of the war comparable with that phase of the war against
Qermany in late 1943 and early 1944 when strategic bombardment won great victories and made smashing headlines, but we
must not make the same mistakes in judgment that we made then.
Casting back to that time, it Is surprising to recall how many
persons, military and civilian, expected Germany to collapse
under the hail of bombs. Yet the epilogue is history; Germany
was 'softened' but still very strong when France was invaded in
June; 1944.
• "There must be no such wishful thinking in the case of the
Pacific enemy and there cannot be any relaxation of the determination and resolution of the American people to see the war
against Japan through to unconditional surrender unless we
want our sons or sons' sons to fight another war in the Pacific
in another generation.
: "Japan may mean what she. says when she talks about a
thirty-year war. No counsel of compromise, nO' counsel of faint
hearts—nothing but iron will—could meet such resolution on
th» part of our foes. War weariness, the personal and family sorrows incident to redeployment, «ven the high casualties of Okinafra and the higher ones that are still ahead must not deter us
from our undeviating goal—the breaking of Japan's military
potrer. To deviate from the goal is to break faith with those
wl|o liave died to achieve it, and is to imperil the future of the
Ui4ted States.
"This summer may be a summer of easy hope, but Americans
1,
must hew to4he line."
D fCTfc;j.fili||...-jnT
YOUR SAFETY
Bjf F. F. Yeartley, Safety Director.
Was it you who took down that
guard rail and failed to put it
back? If so, you are responsible
for that iiijury and possible death
of a fellow worker. How many
times have you h e a r d workers
say "Yes* Bill fell off a scaffold
that hi(d no guard rail on it. He
will be a hopeless cripple the rest
of his life, all because someone
removed that guard rail!"
Guards around manholes, hatches, etc., and guard rails on scaffolds are put there for one and
only one very essential reason.
That reason is to keep you from
falling and getting hurt or even
falling to your death. Yes, we
have deaths resulting from Just
such falls to say nothing of the
many serious lost time injuries.
Guard rails are not made to
climb aroimd on and certainly not
to tie on to with a block and
tackle, chain fall, hoist, etc. They
are not put up to hang welding,
burning, water and air lines over.
They are there for that one all
important reason—to keep you
from, falling.
Any i)erson who removes a
guard for a legitimate reason and
then fails to replace it should be
denied the opportunity of working
with other men. When he does
such a thing he sets a death trap
—Yes, it may even he his own
death trap because he may be the
one to fall from that very scaffold or into that very same manhole. When a worker removes a
giiard for no legitimate reason he
definitely commits a crime against
every other worker in the yard,
and why Wainwright workers let
a man get by with such a crime
is hard to imderstand. Give it a
little thought and then do something about it. If anything effective is to be done, the workers will
have to get behind it. Believe
me, you will see the situation
promptly and permanently corrected when the yard personnel
gets behind the Safety Program
^ d makes it their business. After
all. Safety is the Personal Business of every last Wainwright
worker.
When you see a worker removing a guard rail and falling to replace it, don't let him get away
with it because that trap may result in your injury and no one
wants to get hurt.
While we are talking about
scaffolds It should be pointed out
that they are built for one and
only one purpose and that is for
workers to work on safely. Scaffolds are not made for the storage
of material, scrap steel, welding
rods, tools, etc. SCAFPOLDe
SHOULD BK MAINTAINED PREE
OP ALL SUCH THINOS AT ALL
TIMES! Why? So you can work
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safely—so that you will not tilp
or slip or stumble over foreign
bodies and fall to your death—
So you will not be struck by such
things falling off scaffolds—the
same reasoning applies to ladde
walkways, catwalks, etc.
If this article is not good sound
)un^^
reasoning and the personal business of every Wainwright worker
—then, lets forget Safety entirely
and hire some more Doctors and
nurses and set up a Wainwright
Morgue and Cemetery. It is good
reasoning and if your health, security, well being, and future mean,--,
anything to you—get in behln^ I
Safety and eliminate these ven" serious hazards. Remember \A )
Safety Department is helple^
without your help and cooperation.
YOU CAN MAKE WAINWRIGHT
YARD A SAFE PLACE TO
WORK IP YOU WILL!
We don't want to think we have
a single worker who doesn't care
what happens because if he has
no interest in himself he certainly
has no interest in his fellow worker and no one wants to work with
such a fellow.
HARRELL'S HAREM
By Vicki McCue.
We're in again. Are you all
"water-logged" as we all
Don't know which Is worse,
heat or the rain—either wayjrou're
half drowned, so what's the percentage. Rain always reminds me
of that asinine character who
wrote, "It isn't raining rain at all,
it's raining violets. In every dimpled drop I see wild flowers on a
hill, etc." What an Imagination!
I can soar as high as the next
person in the realm of fantasy, bufc V
to stand there with all that colo_F
water pouring down and say it's
only violets slapping my rosy
cheeks—oh, brother! His brain
must have been wi^ped—and it
wasn't the wild flowers that dood
It.
After sweating, straining, and
heaving, our office has a new face
again. Yup, we moved the furniture around and around to make
more room but still we're crowded.
If Mr. HarreU gets the other
table, as he threatens to do, we'll
have to all sprout tails like our
anthropoid ancestors and swing
to our respective Jobs.
Johnny Wise, where did you get
the super "mouse"? What did t h | ^
other guy look like? That'll t e a c H ^
you to p i c k on somebody your
own size. She trys to tell us that
her little nephew did it, but we
know better. Seriously, though,
that little shaver must pack quite
a wall<9l Next time you'll have to
duck a little faster.
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GEORGE W. MEALY, Jr.,—VicePresident of the Times-Picayune
Publishing Company, New Orleans,
Louisiana, making the principcd
address at the launching.
WS OF THE DAY
WSREEL
lUng or SS JOSEPH V.
OLLY To Show at Rtte
Theater
The launching of J. A. Jones
Construction Company's 101st ship
in Panama City in honor of the
late Joseph V. Connolly who was
head of King Features Syndicate
and International News Service,
will be shown at the Ritz Theater
^ Panama City. The Ritz will run
I )add in the local paper giving
the days this newsreel will be at
their theater so that the Jones
shipbuilders can see one of their
ships slide down the latmching
ways.
PAYROLL BRIEFS
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By Millie Role.
Yes, we're back again with the
latest gossip from the Payroll, but
as usual not much happens
around here except work, and that
never ends.
If you have trouble catching
fish it must be your bait, so Just
get advice from Mr. Cooper for
i| from what I hear he knows the
to use at all times, and dont
mirprised for some of his bait
you would never dream of.
Just to keep you posted on one
of our old employees, I had a letter from Llbby Perkins the other
day, and she is back in South
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IVE WAINWRIGHT LIBKBATOB
ENSIGN J. V. CONNOLLY, BOSS JOSEPHINE CONNOLLY,. Co-Sponsor, HOLS. J O S E P H V. CONNOLLY, sponsor.
SS Joseph Y. ConnoUy^^Launched
At Wainwright Yard
Late Head of King Featores Syndicate and INS Honored.
J. A. Jones Construction Company launched their 101st ship in
Panama City In honor of the late
Joseph V. Connolly who was head
of King Features Syndicate and
International News Service.
The Sponsor for this ship carrying the name of the great newspaperman was Mrs. Joseph V. Connolly and the Co-Sponsor was her
daughter. Miss Mary Josephine
Connolly.
The weather was a little damp
with a slight drizzling of rain but
the ceremonies were carried out
with no interruption. The Reverend Father Andrew McGovem
gave the opening Invocation.
The main speaker was George
W. Healy, Jr., Vice Pres. and managing editor of the New Orleans
Times Picayune, who stated that:
"Exchange of News is of First Import and that Nations Must Swap
Facts"—Not many years ago wars
were fought to establish the freedom of the seas—to insure that
vessels in commerce could ply the
world's trade lanes without interference from privateers and without blockade.
"The war which we are fighting
today followed another dangerous
blockade—not of ships, but of intelligence between nations," he
said. "Good newspapermen everywhere hope that victory In this
war will insure a free flow of Information to and from all parts
of the world. We feel that It is
Just as important to the cause of
lasting pei^e that there be no restraints on the free flow of news
as it is thaV ships may move freely
on the /Seven Seas".
"lliere jtan be no lasting confidence between nations w h ^
there is no free expression between
nations. The world could not trust
a Germany which permitted it to
hear only what Joseph Goebbels
wanted it to hear, and the world
will not tnist any other nation
which seeks- to follow the German
pattern.-^
"Joe Connolly was a fleeter for
an increased flow of unbiased international news. The news service
which he headed sent it's top
writers abroad to report the biggest stories in the world. Under
his direction, they played a part
toward having our nation know
and understand other countries
and toward having them know us.
Joe Connolly fought for equal opportunity in Uie use of communications facilities and for international expression unhindered by
dictator or demagogue.
"He knew that a free people
must be an Informed people, and
he placed a high value on the
newspaper as a medium of information."
Following Mr. Healy. Mr. Bradley Kelly, Vice President of King
Features and INS, paid honor to
Mr. Connolly who also pioneered
the "funnies" not only In the
f'
BRADLEY KELLY, Vice President
of King Features and INS of New
York, New York, addressing the
workers at the launching.
United States but all over the
world and told how they had
played an important part in keeping the morale of the fighting
forces up and that it was a secret
weapon against Japan. Mr. Slelly
has arranged for thirty of the
original colored drawings of internationally known cartoonists
who were fostered by Mr. Cmnolly to be installed in the ship. Mr.
Kelly presented to Mr. Raymond
A. Jones, Vice President of the J.
A. Jones Construction Company, a
few of these thirty drawings, such
as Jiggs and Maggie by the inimitable George McManus; Blaadie and Dagwood giving a frensded
hello to the ship; Popeye, and l i t tle Annie Rooney and Buz Sawyer and Skippy and Donald Duck
by the great Walt Disney.
Father McGovem blessed tbe
good ship SS JOSEPH V, CONNOLLY and Mrs. Connolly, the
Sponsor, spoke to the workmen
who were standing in the drizzUng
rain watching the ceremonies.
She spoke of how highly pleased
she was of the magnificient ship
that the workmen had built and
which would now carry the name
of her husband on the high seas.
She said it was a high tribute that
her husband's name be placed on
the first ship past the century
mark built by the J. A. Jones
Company.
Miss Mary Josephine Connolly
spoke of how happy she was to be
Co-Sponsor for her Mother and
how happy she knew her Father
would have been at such a wonderful laimching that was being
given in his honor.
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THE WAINWRIGHT LIBERATOR
MRS. BRADLEY KELLY, presenting the flowers.
MRS. JOSEPH V. CONNOLLY, Sponsor, and
MISS JOSEPHINE CONNOLLY, Co-Sponsor.
SS Joseph V. Connolly
Launched At
Wainwright Yard
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Mrs. Bradley Kelly, wife of the
Vice President of King Features
and INS, presented Mrs. Connolly
with a beautiful bouquet of red
roses and praised the workmen
for their respect to the great
newspaperman who was being
honored by having this magnificent ship bearing his name.
Ensign J. V. Connolly, of New
York, accompanied his Mother and
Sister to Panama City for the
laimching ceremonies.
Mrs. Raymond A. Jones, wife of
the Vice-President, of the Jones
Company, presented Mrs. Connolly with a gift from the Company.
News of the Day sent their two
star newsreel men, Rody Green
and Joe Jordan, of New York, to
cover this launching with a sound
newsreel.
International News Photos sent
two of their ace photographers,
Charles H. Smith and Anthony
Samo, of New York, to cover the
pictures of this launching.
Caswell Adams, an internationally known reporter and writer,
covered the story on the launching for King Features and International News Service.
Mrs. John Fitz Hugh, of Tulsa,
Oklahoma, was guest of Mr. and
Itn. George W. Healy from New
Orleans.
Lt. John J. Roth from the U. S.
Maritime Service Training Section
of War Shipping Administration,
Bt. Petersburg, Florida, was present witti twelve sailors forming a
color Guard for the launching.
CHRI8TENINO OF THE 88 JOSEPH V.
CONNOLLY by Mrs. Joaeph V. Connolly
assisted by Dave Greene, Director of Public Relations.
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MRS. RAYMOND A. JONES proenttng
Mrs. Connolly with a gift from the Jones
Company.
Communications"
the lines so urgently. Our expeditors place long distance calls con(Continued from Page 3)
stantly In an effort to get material
Carolina with her husband, after
Telephone - Teleffraph - Public
rolling into our yard. So, be pabeing away for awhile.
• Addret*triotic and think twice before you
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place a call to 1500—and thank
Mlrriam and the little red car
By Bob Armstrong.
'it.
C\
sore do go to town these days, and
You've heard it said that so you! ^vi
what for? Well, we won't go into many vital materials we civilians
details.
"If Saturday night is the
thought we could not do without,
nd y ^ H ^
have "gone to war", along with T- Uest night in the week and
That girl Nell sure does get booe ftipalB, black pepper, and still bliie over Sxmday", fust
ust suHW, I
around. Did you hai>pen to see her autpmoUle tires. Those things it out until he is off duty—there
Wednesday? At any rate she seem like a- wonderful dream of are no operators on duty on Sunwasn't dfAng so bad.
once>upim-a-time. Now we wake day. 7th day calls are plugged diop and face stark reality that we rectly into the Police Department
The l^u-Butners spent a nice must be content for awhile longer office and if they are personal
afternoon golfing Thursday. La- With canned collard greens and calls, are given no attention except
ter they enjoyed refreshments and an occasional hunk of com bread in cases of emergency. Put a BandAid around your finger to remind
eats, which hit the spot, so to when meal is available. .
you that imless you haveI sllead I
speak, after a busy afternoon.
Telephone llnfes tMve "gonie the old "index" almost half
We regret to say that one of our to war" too. Those that are left —don't call 1500 on Sunday. Agam
Shu-Butner members is ill. We behind are literally swamped with thanks. (Am getting too doggone
send our best regards Nancy, and necessary calls on official busi- polite, but It's on the level, honwish you a soon recwery.
ness vital to the war effort. Tliis est). .~:y,-r; ^,., •
is not a plug for the telephone
Well, Edith Graham hasn't company, but a bare face hint in
If you know of someone con^
been to work in her bathing suit an attempt to save wear and tear templatlng going to work here,
yet, but we have been expecting on our operators here at Wain- remind him to be certain that he
it, since the bridge is torn down. wright. Please do not place a call has his Social Security card when
to 1500 unless it Is absolutely he goes to personnel office to be
Mae, we are glad to have you necessary. Be sure your call is put "i^through the miU." This is a
back with us after being away for 100% vital to the winning of this prim^^ requisite I We can alwaya
war.
a few days.
get the card for prospective employees, but there is a delay of at
Had a letter from Alice Cross a
If you forgot to tell your hus- least one day. Duplicate SS numfew days ago. Things seem to be band to pay the light bill today, bers and cards have to come from
swell in South Carolina, and Alice or if you have seen a hat at the the National SS office in Baltiplans to begin work soon, •^i^yn
store that you want his permis- more. So, save time and money by
sion to buy, let it wait until he bringing your SS Card with youv^
Margaret what goes on here, gets home. Approximately 3 to 5 This "knocks the revenue" out^ '
you seem to be visiting aa unusual minutes are lost in getting your Western Union but after
place these days. Or shoOtd I ask man to the phone and possibly 5 are working for Jones and
such a question, Margaret?
minutes more "gone with the yard needs you quickly and you
wind" to cover your conversation. can use the cost of a telegram to
Edith McLeod says that this As insignificant 'as it seems, even Baltimore. You must bring your.
food situation sure is getting her theaa few minutes count wheo SS card with you. I hate that word
down. Edith, you had better go everybody's every second is worth- muat. It makes me feel so won't
easy, you aren't very high as it while to get our ships built and all over. But you get the general
is.
delivered on schedule and we need idea.
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