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WAINWRIGHT YARD, PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA, DECEMBER 11, 1943
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When things go wrong with the underwater laancbinx ways, as happened here, we broofht in some of the ooantry'B best qoalifled
divers to do the repair worlc.
Here they are: Top row. Tip Land. Pensacola: W. E. Ward, Mobile: Tominie Rutherford, Dallas; Dan F^itrdl, and Dick Grmdr.
Pensacola. Bottom row. Frank Anderson. New Orleans; N. L. Diamond, Mobile: Eddie Goings, Port Arthur, Texas, and J. D. Fotren.
At the left is W. W. Thompson, general superintendent of maintenance, and at the right, Charles J. Bcrthe, CirU Enfineer.
MAN OF VERACITY YARD GROUP
TWO SHIPS THIS WEEK
AND FULL SPEED AHEAD OKEHS FISH TALE INSURANCEI
AVAILABLE
Two ships this weeic and one
early the next puts us in line
for at least five ships this month
and the possibility that construction will have started on the last
of the 33 ships in our first contract before the end of the year.
Ttiis amazing record is in sight
leipite the fact that the Liberty
Ship building program was interrupted to substitute ships of a
different, but critical and badly
needed type, just at the time when
the yard was swinging into high
speed in the production of Liberty cargo carriers.
However, the end of the year
will find Wainwrlght well organized to swing into the new contract for the production during
1944 of 57 Liberty Cargo carriers.
Hull No. 24. the Walter L. Fleming, actually the 23rd ship was
launched Tuesday with a brief,
precise ceremMiy. The ship, named for a famous Alabaman, who
at the time of his death was dean
of Vanderbllt University, was
sponsored by his widow, Mrs. Mary
Boyd Fleming. The daughter.
Phil Hardin, of our Auditing
Department, is known far and
wide as an honest man. "niose
who know him best say that
veracity is the outstanding trait
in his excellent character.
If he sa3rs a thing is so thrifty
boys are more than likely to seek
some unwary person willing to
lay a wager to the contrary. In
all of West Florida and Birmingham no one has ever been known
to go hungry if they bet that Phil
was right.
Oroup insurance — c o v e r i n g
death, accidents, and sickness
from non-occupational causes—
will be available to all employees
of Wainwrlght Yard as soon as
75 per cent of them approve the
Uberay program ot their LaborManagement CcMnmittee.
Booklets explaining details of
the plan will be distributed next
week by leadermen throughoat
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DECEMBER 11. 1943
THE WAINWRIGHT LIBERATOR
OurjfferchantJffarine
THROaCHOUT OUR HISTORY CXJR NAVY AND
ME RCHANT MARINE HAVE BEEN MUTUALLY DEPENDENT
WM. F. FLYTHE, Editor; «LXiH S. POTTS, Asst. Edit<M-; A. N.
McKENZIE, Photographer.
Dedicated to General Jonathan Wainwright and his comrades,
now prisoners of Japan, to captive and enslaved peoples everywhere,
and to the building of ships to liberate them.
This was well demonstrated mthe
Spanish American war.The American passenqer liner, St. Louis, under
fire for 4-5 rtiinules at Santiaqo,
Cuba, succeeded i n cuttinq the
cable t o M a d r i d .
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m 0. S. NEVER AGAIN PLAY
FIFTH HDDLE ON HIGH SEAS
Lugubrious critics of the Amer- ; time use, probably reducing this
ican merchant marine are already coimtry to 30,000,000 tons or
emerging from the planking of the ' only about three times the fleet
greatest fleet this country has we had when war broke out.
ever known. They are issuing
Now, let us look into the predoleful warnings that this nation war situation. We had been recannot support such a fleet; that duced by 1939 to carrying only
retention of such a vast fleet 23 per cent of our own commerce.
would only spell the doom of We had become a fifth-rate power
smaller seafaring nations, such as on the ocean although we had
Norway, Holland, Denmark and more natural resources, more proSweden.
ductivity, and more seaports than
They continue in their mournful any country in the world.
predictions that America's operWe were permitting the Euroation of a sizeable merchant fleet
would force this country into ef- pean and Asiatic powers to cariy
fective isolationism, because the 77 per cent of our exports and imstarved-out nations might be un- ports while our own merchant
fleet steadily declined and threatable to trade with us.
There is very little to support ened to become a maritime nonsuch argimients, according to the enity by 1942.
American Merchant Marine InTherefore, it does not seem to
stitute. It is true that this nation be an imposition upon other seawill have the largest merchant faring nations that this country
fleet in the world at the end of th» carry an equitable share of its
war—^probably larger than all own commerce. The economic
others combined. It is also true, scale surely would not be thrown
howWMjr, that much of that ton- off balance by any such readjustnagjb;'\*pi. be imsuitable for peace- ments.
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Hal Goggin Promoted H. M. Todd New Head
To Staff Sergeancy Of Production Control
Friends of H a l ' i l . Coggin, former employee of Wainwright
Yard,: will be glad to learn that
he has been promoted to Staff
Sergeant. Sgt. Coggin volunteered for service in the Army Engineers Port Construction and Repair Group on July 16, 1943, reported to Port Screven, Georgia,
on August 12 and began his basic
training on August 30. On October 27 he was promoted to Corporal, and on November 12 to
Staff Sergeant.
Sgt. Coggin was employed at
Wainwright Yard from May, 1942,
until July, 1943, serving first as
crane operator and later as crane
leaderman.
Mrs. Coggin, the former Miss
Elizabeth O'Neill of Mariaima,
Florida, is making her home with
her husband at Fort Screven.
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Today South Carolinian H. M.
Todd (Badge 842), celebrates his
seventeenth monthiversary as a
Wainwright Yarder—and Is receiving earned congratulations
upon his promotion to the duties
and responsibilities of managing
Production Control.
The department's entire personnel say they are with and for him
100 per cent—a sentiment whose
echoes reverberate throughout the
Yard.
James Hollingshead was taking
a horeback ride In Summerberry,
Saskatchewan, one day when a
passing freight train frightened
his horse. The horse dashed,
against the train, thoughtfully,
tossed Mr. Hollingshead onto a
passing flat car, backed away and
fell dead.
In WorlcT^ar I , American
coastv/ise vessels led t h e
qreat minelaying squadron
t h a t bottled up the German
Fleet...
A U.S. m e r c h a n t 5 l i i p , t h e
Monqolia. f i r e d Americas
^\rsi qun in World War I at
a Submarine on A p r i l 19,1917.
PARTNERS IN AMERICAS SECURITY.
W o r l d W a r I L has i m pressed t h e lesson o f
our former wars.
Recent A l l i e d gains
have coincided w i t h the
qrowthofo-ar Merchant
Marine. Never again
m u s t America be a n preparedin merchant
shipping.
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/nforma Aon
courlesyofAmencan
Merchant Marine/nstilate. Afew yijrA.
COPvRiCHT 1043 J.V.CLARKE
ODD AOBEKTS IN 1943
By PAUL JONES
Director of PnMic Information
National Sa/ety CouncU
Chicago, Dec. 11—In 1943 they
rationed gas.
ITiey rationed
shoes, too, and butter and jam
and jelly. Hen's eggs were scarcer
than hen's teeth. And lots of
men with shaving mugs couldn't
find brushes to shave them with,
because the badgers in Europe
couldn't get transportation to
America.
Of one thing, though, there was
a plenty. That was accidents.
War or no war, everybody could
have as many as he pleased.
It is amazing, then, that so
many people scorned orthodox
ways of getting hurt and patronized the Whack Market in accidents. But a roimdup by the National Safety Council—as reported
in "Public Safety"—proves they
did. To-wit:
Residents of Coconut Grove,
Fla., were mildly surprised one
day when their morning mail was
delivered by a mall man who, of
all things, wasn't wearing any
pants. It wasn't the heat, the
pantless postman explained. He'd
merely fallen off his bicycle and
landed in an anthill. And, he
added with simple pride, even
though the United States Postal
Service gets ants in its pants, the
mail must go through!
Dr. W. A. Franklin stood before
his junior high school class in
Ponca City, Okla., to demonstrate
the safe way to handle matches.
"First, remove the match," he was
saying, "then close the container."
As he flipped open the container
to demonstrate, all the matches
caught fire. Dr. Franklin bandaged his burned hand,
with exemplary fidelity, he clo
his lecture with this observation:
"•Riat, students, is what happens
when one becomes momentarily
careless."
(Other "Odd Accidents" wlU
appear elsewhere and In subsequent issued of The Liberator.)
DECEMBER 11. 1943
THE WAINWRIGHT LIBERATOR
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Where The Pay Checks Come From
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We see A. C. Fontaine in cliarge of the InternaUonal Business
Macliine Department, a large unit in the Administration BoUdteg.
Next two girls, Audrey Hall and Helen Derrick are operating the
check printing machine. Sally Kirkland, Mary Jane Rafferty and
Nell Smith at the key puncher. Frances Gaddes looks after the
sorting machine, and Iris Buchanan is at the tabulator.
'Round-Clock Job
Of Ghost Walking
The International
Business
Machines Department handles
over 250,000 cards per week in addition to preparing the weekly
payrolls and individual checks.
Employees of the I. B. M. Department are on the job twentyfour hours a day, seven days a
week, building up each individual
worker's record, making the several deductions and finally computing the net pay for each Wainwright Yard worker.
Regardless of power failures and
mechanical troubles, operators of
the Intemational Business Ma-
chines carry on their work cheerfully in order to make all their
co-workers in the ship yard happy
when Friday afternoon comes
around and they receive their
weekly earnings checks. A look
into just one of the numeroiis
payroll machines will reveal over
75,000 working parts and 85 miles
of wiring.
All machines are operated by
female employees—girls who have
done and are doing a man-size
job—there being no male workers
except Supervisor A. C. I"ontaine
and Assistant Supervisor E. Q.
Tucker—both ol who give unstinting credit and praise to the individual employees whose wholehearted cooperation has been unfailing.
THE WAINWRIGHT LIBERATOR
PAOI F o i m
"Look Pretty, Please"
SAFETY SHOE NOTES
—^By the only man hereabouts who owns an honestto-Koodness Rolls-Royce.
DECEMBER 11. 1»43
YARD GROUP
INSURANCE
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the Yard and on all shifts, as wel
as by all administrative depar|
Good news for men with only ment heads—each of whom wl
one leg—OPA has decided that have been previously instructed on
one-shoe purchases are not to be the correct answers lo any quesrationed.
tions that may be asked, and be
provided with insurance applicaJoe Gilstrap, ex-Secretary at tion blanks.
Safety Dept. Headquarters, has
Of far-reaching importance to
joined the U. S. Navy, and is now both employees and their families,
stationed at Great Lakes, 111. (Co. this plan will offer a broad pro1799). If he is as good a Sailor gram of group life, accident, and
as he is a steno, he will soon get sickness insurance at such a low
the higher rating he deserves.
rate as to make it attractive to
all—a rate made possible by the
Latest Safety song—"Since dear substantial financial contribution
Papa has lost his leg—one shoe made to the program by the J. A.
'.ess to clean."
Jones company in order to hold
the cost to a minimum.
Attention Mr. Bishop: Thanks
The weekly cost to the various
a lot for the stove. Cold feet don't groups of employees will be as folgo with "Safety" Shoes.
lows:
For those earning less than $28
Did you hear about the Safety a week: 28 cents for $1,000 life
Inspector who cut himself with a insurance and weekly accident
Safety razor, burnt himself with and sickness benefits of $10.50.
a Safety match, and got run over
If your weekly salary or wage
while reading,a "Safety First"
is between $28 and $42, you wiU
poster?
receive accident and sickness
benefits of $14 a week and $1,500
If you don't wear "Safety" life insurance, for a weekly conShoes, don't step on my toes.
tribution of 40 cents.
'Xook at the little b h ^ and smile" said Andy McKenzie, our
Workers earning $42 but le
It must be awfully dry in our than $56 weekly, will pay 57 ceil
esthetic cameraman, as he posed Walter Sizemore, one of Bill Fox's
neighboring office—they have to a week for $2,000 life insuran|
first class boUermakers.
"This," says Walter, "is my working smile and I look lots 'better visit the shoe shop when they and weekly accident and sicknfi
aess
on Sunday. But if you think I am pretty you oughta see my brother want a drink.
benefits of $21.
Perry."
Those who weekly earnings are
Walter can do an awful lot of clowning, but like all of the men
We are glad to see Mrs. Sorgie $56 or more will receive life insurin the iMriler shop he is very hard working and very much on the
back at work—we missed her.
Job and the boiler shop is 'way out in front in production.
ance for $2,500, and $25 weekly
accident and sickness benefits, for
Women welders and burners 69 cents a week.
TWO SHIPS THIS
MAN OF VERACITY
have come to the conclusion that
Those who take this insurance
shoes go well with men'.s
WEEK AND FULL^ men's
OKEHS FISH TALE
will have the cost deducted from
clothes.
their pay each week—deductions
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SPEED AHEAD
so small they'll never be missed,
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Those who want Safety shoes yet which will provide insurance
This is of interest because for
and haven't their No. 1 book, may covering sickness, accident, or
once the infallible Mr. Hardin is Eleanor, was co-sponsor. Annie now get them with No. 3 book.
death from any cause and at any
wrong.
time or place.
Lou Smith, of the Fab Shop was
Youse guys who were notified
Recently we published a picture the flower girl.
Life policies are payable to the
of a shower of fish in Wainwright
The Fleming was a 37-day ship to report to the Safety Shoe store person named by the insured and
had
better—or
else!
Yard. Expert hunter, fisher and and, cutting two days off the preremain in force, without the paytrapper that he is Mr. Hardin vious record of 39 days for the
ment of any premiums during
We hate to disappoint welders, that period, for 31 days after
doubted the veracity of this inci- Stephen R. Mallory.
It would
dent and did not hesitate to cir- have been a 34 day ship, as it was etc., but the eight inch boots have termination of employment, durculate his views.
ready for launching Saturday not arrived yet. It won't be long ing which period they may be conTuesday afternoon Mr. Hardin when it was discovered that re- now—we hope!
verted, without the necessity for •
was driving to his hmne at Pana- pairs had to be made to the ways.
physical examination, into any
ma City Beach. It was clear, M. H. Poster was the superinten- I.O.O.F. Meets Motiday form of standard life insurance,
bright, just before sunset.
dent for the Fleming.
except term, issued by The TravelFrom this bright afternoon sky
The Brau, to be launched early
Scarlet Lodge No. 75. I. O. O. F , ers Insurance Company.
came a shower of little fishes, lit- in the week, may be our first 30 meets every Monday night at their
Because of its value to the welerally covering the car and a laige day ship.
hall in Lynn Haven. Visiting fare of the employee and his or
area around ik
Hull No. 23, the Edgar E. Clark, brothers are always welcome, says her family, the absolute security
Mr. Hardin got out and exam- oiu- 24th ship, and the last of the Secretary R. J. Butchers.
it provides, the ease with which
ined them. So did his passenger, Tank CsuTlers, is to be laimched
the group insurance plan operat
L. V. Buckner. Drivers in the rear today with Miss Frances Dutton, most trying difficulties and has and its low cost, Walnv
said they at first thought Mr. Superintendent of the Cafeteria, won the imstinted praise of the Yard's Labor-Management COB
Hardin had struck ^ white chick- sponsor. Her co-sponsor will be thousands of employees she has mittee is heartily in favor of the
en and was creating a shower of Mrs. Andre Janin, first class fed each day.
program and anxious to see it befeathers. They stopped and saw burner and wife of the chef.
Our 25th ship, the Salvador come operative at the earliest posthe hundreds of little fishes. And
Since coming to Wainwright Brau, named for the famous Puer- sible date—whicl\ will be immedall join Mr. Hardin in the veracity Yard, Mrs. Dutton has performed to Rican historian, will be launch- iately after at least 75 per cent
of this yam.
an outstanding task under the ed early in the week.
of the employees have signed up.
DECEMBER 11. 1943
THE WAINWRIGHT UBEBATOK
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Want Tires or Gas, Mister?
There is absolutely no truth in
the rumor Santa Claus couldn't ;
get enough gas from his local ,
board. He'll be around two weeks
from today and if you haven't
done your shopping by now—it
may be later than you think.
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The drafting dept. cynic says a<
widow is a lucky woman. She
knows all about men but the only
man who knows about her is dead.
Dick Trader, formerly with
Material Order, Tuesday entered
the Navy and now is at Great
Lakes Training School. His former associates and his many
friends in ottlfir^departments are
confident^eUlbe one of the best.
A "Visitor, to the dept. noticed
a draftsman humped over a board
In that peculiar way they have
and he asked: "What's that guy
trying to do?" L. R. Christie said:
'X)h, he's just trying to make a S
limself."
V
lere's a riddle by Norman Gross
Her
that oughta get in your hair,
since his is probably thinner. It
goes like this: "In a small town
there's only one barber and this
barber shaves everybody who
doesn't shave himself. Furthermore, this barber won't shave anybody who does shave himself.
Question is—who shaves the barber?"
Frank Rice knows the answer
to this little puzzler. A man walked into a store and bought a ^
pair of shoes, giving the storekeeper a $20 bill. He didn't have
change so he went next door, got
the bill changed, came back and
gave the customer $15. He figiu-ed the shoes cost $3 so his profit
was $2. Except—when the customer left, the man next dooi'
came in with the $20, said it was
counterfeit and the storekeeper
had to replace it with one from
his own pocket. Now—how much
did the storekeeper lose on the
deal?
See the busy Dave Green, in charge of the ration office, or one of his three assi^ants. left to
right, Allene Stroud. Mary Sinquefield and Dorothy Ballentine.
DRIPS FROM THE
WET DOCK
By Jojo
Agnes Hatfield received her final
official notice last week. . . . She
reports for duty in the Marines
two days after Christmas. . . . She
has already left us to spend her
remaining three weeks with" her
family in aiiiitther state. . . .
The Swing Shift Tackerettes
have been at it again. . . . They
do have more social affairs. . . .
This time 'twas a most lovely
party at the Old Dutch Tavern.
. . . Sometimes we're almost sorry
we dont still work on the Swing
Shift. . . . and the Day Shift, too.
of course. . . .
to see him wearing a jnerit badge viously, but the girl in Saturdays
soon. . . .
picture was Louise McBride, one
of our Swing Shift Tackerettes,
Tacker Leaderman Jesse Car- and an officer in the Tacker's
penter is off duty again. . . . After Club, which was inaugurated at
a siege of pneumonia last week, the Wet Dock by Supt. Don Moore.
his wife has had a relapse. . . . We
hope she has fully recovered by
Shiprights, Shipfltters, and Rigthe time this notice comes off the gers are always bickering over
press
which is the most important. . . .
The answer to the question is:
Our "Girl Friday" handed us Which is the most important leg
several "anonymous" items for of a three-legged stool?
last week's issue, which we obligingly sent m, and which have
Speaking of Shipfitting. Dwight
backfired. We are truly sorry the L. Morrow once wrote to his son:
two girls in question feel offended, "The world is divided into people
but admit we are still in the dark who do things and people who get
as to what it was all about.
the credit. Try, if you can, to
belong to the first class. There's
Emon has done a lot of desk- far less competition."
top sitting, foot-swinging dreamPrivate Louis Henriquez fell 14
ing lately. . . . He informs us between dreams that it has to do feet down a coal hole as he WEIS
with the Swing Shift and why he strolling along in Denver, Colo.
likes to work overtime these days. Afterwards, dug up and refreshed
. . . You guessed it, she's a bru- with a bath. Private H. explained,
"She smiled as we passed. . ."
nette!
Our small daughter was shopping for a dozen gauze diapers
and the clerk told her: That will
be $2.50 and 2S< for tax." When
Anne paid her the saleslady remonstrated: "This is only $2.50.
. . . Where's the 25* for the t w ? " Correction, please. . . . Our new
V—. . . . To which Aime blandly re- Junior's real name is Alvie Block^ _ C a n you stand one more? A plied: "Oh, we use safety pins on er. . . . Sorry it happened. Junior.
^Mtn had $100.00 to buy some my litUe brother!"
^ % c k for his farm. Cows cost
In last Saturday's issue the
$10 (tills was some time ago) and
We are justly proud of R. L. front page pictiu% showing the
hogs cost $3. Chickens cost 50 Spann (Badge No. 13717), a Flrst- flower girl was Inadvertently capcents each. He wanted to have Class Shipfltter on the Wet Dock, tioned. . . . giving the flower girl's
an even 100 of all when he fin- who has been neither absent nor name as Lillian Petrey. . . . Lillian
ished, so—how many of each did late since he ^started working In served in that capacity on the
he get? Answers next week.
the yard in January. . . . We hope- ship that was launched Just pre-
Claims On
Payroll Checks
Hnit be filed within Two
Weeks from the date of
the eheok
Otherwise oo adjustment will
be made.
THE WAINWRIGHT LIBERATOB
PAGE SIX
Merrily They Bowl Along
DECEMBER 11. IMS
LACK OF MERCHANT
SHIPS ALMOST COST
US OUR WEST COi
African Campaign Delayed
These pretty young workers have
formed the Wainwright Bowling
League and Recreation Associ&timi.
In the group at top are:
1st row, reading from left to
right, Clara Pcrflard, Bemlc«'
Jones, Doris Pollard, Connie T.
Jones, Ann Mann, Margie Price,
Bobbie McDaniel.
2nd row, reading from left to
right, Katherine Buckley, Mary
Ellen Fields, GUie Sue Saitsman,
Katie Sweat, Flan. Marrell, LnU
Womble, Jo Bunn.
3rd row, reading from left to
right, Hilda Smith, Margie Bell
Carmen Christian, Gladys Young.
June King, Clara Collins, Ruby
Wedgeworth, Geraldine Collins.
Yard Bowling League
Formed; Games Free
On December 2, Wainwrlght
Yard's Ladies Bowling League
wtth an initial (membership of
twenty, was formally organized
and the following officers elected:
Bea Stone, president; Gloria
Wright, vice president; Fannie
Uber, secretary, and Clara Collins,
treasurer.
While the Initial members happen to be from the Administration
area, it is hoped that employees
in the Yard will likewise organize
teams and enroll them In the
league.
Member teams of the league will
play scheduled games every Tuesday night, and be eligible for
prizes to be awarded for high
team scores.
Meetings will be held at eight
o'clock every Tuesday night at
American merchant vessels, de-.
livering men and materials to the'^
various thefaters of war, cover
routes totalling 56,000 miles, according to the biennial report issued by General Grorge C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army.
The report states: "For boUi
Great Britain and the United
States, military operation in the
Pacific Area and the Far East
created unprecedented logistical
problems with respect to shipping.
Time and space factors dictated
our strategy to a considerable degree. To land and maintain
American forces in Australia required more than twice the ship
tonnage necessary for similar
American forces in Europe or
North Africa."
In the early days of the war,
following Pearl Harbor, this country was in a critical position because we lacked sufficient merchant vessels to make the pros
distribution of our troops,
were threatened with the loss]
Australia which has 4,500 miles
!S 01 '
exposed coastline. We found it
impossible to move enough men
and materials to occupy or hold
the Aleutians.
The shortage of merchant ships
not only jeopardized outposts
which should have been normal
bastions against the Japanese advance but also effectively left wide
open the entire western coast of
North America.
Through virtual miracles of accomplishment in shipbuilding and
ship operation, American merchant vessels, under private management, were able to land 150,000 troops in the South and
Southwest Pacific by June, 1942—
six months after our declaration
of war. The lines were spread
thin but still the most effective
use was made of such vessels as
we had.
-In the single irfctnre yon see |
pi¥tty Connie Jones shooting one
This was accomplished in spite
down the alley and see what hapof the fact that there were few
pens. From here it looks like a |
well-equipped ports at any of the
strike.
points of debarkation. General
Marshall observed. The feat certte Bowling Alley in Panama
tainly saved Australia from a
Ciiy, at which all members will be
threat of actual invasion—a threat
exjjected to be present, and to
that could have been readily fo
which the public is cordially installed if enough merchant ve
tresa^Bl
vited. Admission is free.
had been available Immediat
liatdPi
upon the outbreak of war.
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Further information may be obtahied from any of the officers,
In
giving
some
indication
of
the
In South Bend, Ind., Miss Ruth
who may be contacted in the Orshipping needed for a modem
McGrady
slipped, fell, broke her army,General Marshall wrote: "In
der and Distribution, Bond, Personnel, and Payroll departments, right wrist, stood up, slipped, fell,
retlpectively.
broke her left wrist
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DECEMBER 11, 1943
BOILERMAKERS' DIN
By Hazel Taylor
We all admit that F. L. Ray is
f/^^^pugh in his job as Material
I ^Jfcdlter for this Department but
I when it comes to reporter he just
1 refuses to expedite. It couldn't be
I that he doesn't have cooperation
I In the Boiler Shop for even, I told
I him that in case he would report
I news I would be more than glad
to type it and send it in. Can't
understand why he won't do this
I because anyone can see that reporting is much easier than typing. Is that right, Ray?
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If The Lights Go Out
By Nelle Messer
Our thought for the day comes
from a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
"Like the winds of the sea are the
winds of fate.
As we voyage along through life,
'Tis the set of the soul
That decides the goal
And not the calm or the strife."
Mrs. Anna W. Wood of the Layout Dept. has just finished out a
year's Fab Shopping. She has a
We are very happy to have with son who has been in oversea serua an additional member of out- vice for nearly twice that long.
Office Force. She is Lucille Dor- Mrs. Hand also of the LO Dept.
man, transferred from the Hull has just returned from a leave of
Department. Welcome, Lucille, absence during which her 18 year
we are sure that you will enjoy old son enlisted in the Navy. He
I your stay with us, for really we has been working here and is now
aren't such a bad "Bunch" after in training at Bainbridge, Md.
They page Electrical Maintenance and Doc Kinkley, Assistant
There is simply something fine Superintendent, or his Secretary, Mary Pullen, will get on the Job.
aU.
about these mothers who are tak- Or it may be a gantry, or the welding machines. They are very much
Now for the bit of gossip that ing their son's place on the home on the job.
any column isn't complete with- front while the boys are off doing
out—And what gossip, too! Two their utmost for Uncle Sam.
those colds, folks. They'll "git
of our Supts. seem to €njoy the
PLUMBING SHOP
ye ef ye don't watch out."
same Tavern for they arc always
One of the most interesting
GOSSIP
bumping Into each other. And characters in FSO is Mr. Medlock.
Then there was the Boss (Gen.
By
Ruby
G. Barnard
both of them seem to choose tihe At his desk every day keeping
Supt. J. M. Guthrie) sick a-bed
s i ^ e week-ends to make a change. track of requisitions and manGood, grannies . . . here it is for the first time in over eighteen
; ^ ^ won't call any names, but I power he is kept quite busy. His
half
of Simday nite gone and not months. If he was anjrthing like
' • • k that by this time all of th^ pip)e seems to be his best friend.
"Smallfry" Guthrie when he was
a
word
for this here column!
In
a
spare
moment
once
in
a
u i ^ b e r s of the Boilermakers' Dm
in bed some time back, all of us
No!
Siree
.
.
ee,
Personnel
Robwhile he can be seen looking out
I idiow who they are.
send our sympathy to "Mrs.
of the window, puffing away on bins, that wasn't oiu* Hortense Boss." We know she needs a
Jr's.
raising
a
rucus
at
the
launchMr. Fox. our Gen. Supt., wants that pipe. I wonder if in the ing. First they're nicer mice than rest now.
to add a P. S. to the above item smoke curling up from that pipe that, they've got better maimers.
and say that it certainly doesn't he sees that ancestral home he Second, ther're as I say, itty bitty
If you want to Uve til ChristL refer to him in any way. Now, speaks of, where the flowers bloom mice . . . not these half grown
Mr. Fox, that isn't fair for we profusely, tended by members of panthers, fangs showing, you see mas don't ask Ed Davis if he's
might liave fooled a few people, the family for generation after ruimlng around . . . we've got two going to any more Swing Shift
Dances! Of course his buddie O.
generation. Perhaps he is just a
anyway.
little homesick—and who could of those varmints too, but comes K. Loftis went along, but what
the end of my shift I've practical- happened didn't seem to be "O.
We hear that a very popular blfime him?
ly every fitting in the shop all over K," was it O. K.? WeU okeh!member of the Time^ Department
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Meyer of the the floor from throwing at those
[ here in the Boiler Sliop will make Production Expediting Dept., cele- things. Got so none of the men
It isn't a matter of going somehis debut with a "Name Orches- brated their 12th wedding anni- dare come In without first knocktra" before too many weeks have versary on Dec. 5, which was ing, trald they'll get a coupling place for Christmas. For after
all, (Christmas is in the heart.
passed. What with Frank Sinatra their young daughter, Eileen's, 9th up the side of the head.
We'd all love to be home for
and all the other vocalists joining birthday. Being away from their
Fact is. I almost sent Ellis Davis Christmas, but so would the Boys
the Armed Forces it might be the home, which is in New Orleans,
to
the First Aid last week. Just Across. Let's just try to thank
thing to do after all. No, even and with war-time conditions bewe, don't think that he is all that ing what they are, their celebra- as he got to the door so did a rat God no bombs will fall on the
good but what a voice! He really tion was just a family party, but (four logged one) and it happened U. S. A. on Christmas Day and be
has it!
was a happy occasion for all con- to be the foot of Ellis that con- happier than we've been for a
nected, or stopped, the two inch long time. I don't mean a hilarcerned. Many happy returns.
ell I threw with all my might. ious happiness, none of us will
If we ever get these tank carSomehow I always miss those rats.
riers over and settle down to the
How could we get along wlth-1 But I haven't given up. Between have that; but a deep abiding
good old cargo ships again we all out Jessie? It's "—do this—" or barrages the Hortense Jr's come happiness that can shine through
will be so happy as we are snowed —"take that—" all day long. But out for food. Now they want icing anxiety and somehow give us all
more strength to carry on.
under. This reporter kinda over- never a grumble from our willing on their cake!
beard a conversation between Mr. messenger, Jessie Herston. He is
Pox and Mr. Blair yesterday and one of the best.
^
^ ^ ^.
, ^ ,. j ^ •,
from the smiles Mr. Fox gave us
We extend the glad hand to J.
At Hammonton, N. J., a speedthe conversation Mr. Blair
A new platen has been begun by i S. Woods who joined our ranks ing train hit a truck driven by
have said something nice the LO Dept.-Bay E, West of the I last week. He comes from the
\ aoout
^
the Boiler Shop. We wish Fab Shop. Specializing in Upper PiPe Shop . . . and gals, of aU the Jules Press. Mr. Press left the
Mr. Pylant a pleasant visit home Deck and Inner Bottom layout Big Brown Eyes^you ever hope to truck and flew high into the air.
as he certainly deserves a time off they are really at work. Mr. see! (sigh—sigh)
So did four blankets. ITie blanfllit. Mr. Fox says his wishes for Lavalle and Motley are in charge
XMAS is a truck all painted In and they are old Fab Shoppers.
Mighty glad Cafeteria Boiler- kets landed on the road'^ed. Mr.
red with large letters on it— Good work is expected and we room Smith Is back. He's had Press landed on the blankets. No
-BOILER SHOP."
a bout with ole dabbU Flu. Watch —no pillow.
know we won't be disappointed.
PAGE EIGHT
DECEMBER 11, 1943
THE WAINWRIGHT UBBKATOR
Eddie Goings, Internationally Famous Diver, Going Under
In these pictures you see Tommy Rutherford, faithful tender, helping Eddie Goings, internationally famous diver. Eddie worked
on the Normandie, while she was being righted and prior to that worked in the Philadelphia and Brooklyn Navy Yards. He is accustomed to working in upwards of 200 feet of water and considered it easy worldng here. He holds the underwater burning record of the
world, made while worldng in the black water beneath the Normandie.
PROSAIC ENGINEER FINDS
BEAUTY IN WAINWRIGHT YARD
There is beatity in a shipyard, a majestic, mystic mingling of
blinding lights, soft glows, bright and subdued colors.
J. J . Winchester, a prosaic sort of engineer, has the drab task
of calculating and computing tonnages, displacement, possibly
the most intricate and colorless job in the Yard.
One of his duties requires that he go on all trial trips.
The sheer beauty of it all was too much for him. For a brief
period he forgot his logistics and his calculus and jotted down
what he saw.
It is a pleasure to print i t :
made rather a cheerful picture.
Following
the
inevitable
On our port lay a picture, that
bustle and confusion of last
as we turned and headed tomoment finishing touches, we
wards it, was to become a scene
gingerly nosed our way out into
of such surpsissing beauty that
the stream and were on our
it will live, with a display of
way, deci^dly late, but outward
white and colored aiu-ora boreabound.
i
lis seen in Canada a few years
The routine of the day was
ago, as two of the most outnot greatly different from the
standing scenes of beauty in
routine of other trial trips. Thus
light it has been my good forthe day gradually and almost
tune to witness.
imperceptibly arrived at a loveThere stood Wainwright Yard,
ly and roseate sunset out on the
a great castle of light sitting on
Gulf of Mexico.
myriad piles of light, slender,
Steaming slowly along in the
gracefully tapering into nothquiet water, the meeting of the
ingness in the fathomless depths
earth, the sky, and the sea beof reflection of St. Andrew Bay.
ing a strict military secret to the
A living castle of light it was
himian eye, we at last picked
full of life with blue-white diaup one faint blinking channel
mond flashes of many welder's
marker, then another, until we
touches.
were slowly, but with true navHigh in the heavens above a
igational certainty, wending our
young moon rode, playing tag
way in through the Pass. A
with fleecy balls of clouds, givblack pencil line to the staring added beauty to this fanboard, another to the port, outtastically beautiful scene.
'^"tined dimly Its low land boundaries.
As we drew abreast of the
Dead on our bow, the red and
Yard, the Frederic C. Howe, as
white lighting of the Big City
if loath to go away and leave
this beautiful scene, the pl^ce
of her birth, wrapped a channel
buoy and its mooring cable
arotmd her propeller, so thfere
we were with a new vision of
beauty to behold, and nothing
more important to do for the
time than to enjoy it.
The scene now was profuse In
its mass of detail, flaming orange and yellow, and the flashing blue-white of electricity at
work on great ships glowing
with lights. The slender piles
were now fat chubby things
with pointed terminations somewhere in the offing. Chugging
small craft set these reflections
into a rippling mass of kaleldascoptic changes, wlerdly beautiful and fascinating.
Sometime later—very, very
much later—Howe, freed from
her harbor entanglements, put
in to her berth, and the glorious
vision of a ship yard's beauty
in light became once more the
scene of hurry and work that is
helping the good old U.S.A. to
win this war, and keep us
"America the Beautiful."
LACK OF MERCHANT
SHIPS ALMOST COST
US OUR WEST COAST
(Continued from Page 6)
computing initial shipping requirements, an average of six
measiu-ement tons of cargo space
per man is required. (1600 men
per Liberty-size ship). Maintenance requirements average one
measurement ton per month (a
ship for each 9600 men). Also |
involved is the creating of aa baloai-i
ance between shipping ava
for personnel and that for
"At the beginning of the wi
acute shortage in troop carrying I
capacity was met by conversions
of all existing passenger ships and
certain selected cargo ships. Late
in 1942 an extensive program of
fast cargo ships was imdertaken
in order to maintain the proper]
balance."
The most telling observation!
made by General Marshall was!
that our lack of merchant ship-|
ping when this country was precipitated into the war effectively!
delayed the North African invas-j
ion for a matter of almost twoi
months. Some of the vesselsl
which participated in the engage-|
ment had been In service only or
week when sailing orders were |
issued.
Along this same lincothers hav
pointed out that if our troops
landed in North Africa two months]
earlier they probably could have]
completed that campaign before]
the rains set in, delayed thelij
progress, and gave the Axis
to bring In reinforcements—that
this lack of sufficient merchani,
shipping probably prolcmged
war almost a year—^for
during which the Axis built i
em defenses that it will
told blood and sweat to reduce-1
and that an adequate post-waij
Merchant Marine Fleet, such &'i]
is envisaged by farsighted marl
time officials and was under con
struction when war struck, wll
insure that such conditions neve {
reoccur.