Friday, August 10, 1945
CLPUDBUSTER
Page Three
Crew News
By Ann Onomus, Y3/c,
V-10, USNR
Good work, sailors. Over 50
names for our column went into
the box last week, and by means
of an Alex poll three appeared
as winners—STATION WAG-
GIN’, CREW-CIAL NEWS, and
CRUISIN’ ALONG. Which one
do you like? Put your choice
in the box by Monday night,
and please sign your name. Box
in the same place and, oh yes,
just vote once.
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Plenty going on at the Cruise
Club these days. This Saturday
there will be free chicken and
dancing from 1830 to 2300. Are
you coming? Don’t answer that.
In the club hold we have a mas
cot kitten named “Rat’s Nest”
in honor of—well, our hangout.
On 4 August 1945 a dog saun
tered in and tried to take over.
Claire Russell, HAlc, resented
this and spoke to him in lingo
familiar only to a sailor. He
didn’t budge. “Rusty” exclaim
ed then, “get out, you civilian,
you.” The dog left.
* * *
Last Monday night the club
members had a general business
meeting. The House Committee
presented two resolutions. Now
we work our way through the
club by wielding mops, brooms,
and dustcloths. Let’s be ready in
our aprons or dungarees to
make our club shipshape. It was
also decided that on busy nights
the galley topside be turned into
a game room. Elinor Leggett,
PhMlc, became new chairman,
Wesley Meier, CPhM, and Claire
Russell, HAlc, new members,
and “Tommy” Adams, wife of
Charles Adams, BMlc, honorary
member of the Entertainment
Committee. All our gripes and
grumbles will go to the commit
tee chairmen who will bring
them up at future business
meetings.
* * *
Lindy Wheeler, Y3/c, and
Harold Tabbutt, First Sergeant
in the Marine V-12 Unit, an
nounced their engagement at
the club dance on 2 August.
“Topp” asked Lindy to wait fif
teen minutes for him after work.
She wanted to go home. Aren’t
you glad you waited, Lindy?
The last few evenings we
have noticed a happy couple
playing checkers at the club.
Roy Hagberg, RM2c, and Mary
Martin were married on 5 Au
gust somewhere south of the
border. Mary hails from South
Carolina but has worked recent
ly in Durham.
Henry Aldrich, HAlc, not of
radio fame, was transferred on
4 August to U. S. Naval Hospi
tal, Portsmouth, Virginia for
treatment.
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Talking about visitors who
should come back to see us but
Willis Mullis, Sp(G)3/c. He left
here on 19 June to be dis
charged, and since then has
been working in Augusta, Geor
gia.
SHE SWIMS, TOO—Esther Williams is one movie star who not
only looks 4.0 in a bathing suit, but who also goes into the water.
tTivo ^ears
The Cloudbuster nine defeat
ed the all-stars made up of
Cleveland Indian and New York
Yankee regulars in an exhibition
game at New York last week.
Cadet Johnny Sain pitched an
11-5 victory. The all-stars were
coached by Babe Ruth.
^ ❖ ❖
Lieut. Francis Kimbrough,
who served as head football
coach at Baylor University be
fore entering the Navy, an
nounced the opening of football
practice here this week. Lieut.
Kimbrough succeeds Lieut.
Comdr. James Crowley as head
coach here at Pre-Flight.
:(! * >;j
The combination of Lt.
Comdr. L. R. Sauer and Ensign
B. T. Welsh, emerged as doubles
champs of the Pre-Flight tennis
tournament last week.
COMING EVENTS
TONIGHT
ALL-STATION HAPPY HOUR .
Emerson Stadium at 1900, Variety
show for entire station personnel and
families.
TOMORROW
movies . ^ .
Village: Free movie, Thirty Seconds
Over Tokyo," with Van Johnson and
Spencer Tracy. Complete shows at
1500, 1900, and 2053-
Carolina; "Chiny Sky’ with Randolph
Scott and Ellen Drew.
Pick: "Youth Aflame.”
SUNDAY
divine SERVICES . , ^
Protestant: Memorial Hall at lUUU.
Catholic: Gerrard Hall at 0630, Hill
Music Hall at 1000.
Jewish: Hillel House at 1000.
MOVIES . „
Village: "Free movie. Hotel Berlin,
with Helmut Dantine and Faye Emer
son. Complete shows at 1300 and
1415. ^
Carolina; "Bell for Adano with Gene
Tierney and John Hodiak.
Pick; "Honeymoon Ahead, ' with Allan
Tones and Grace McDonald.
-Borneo-
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emergency rations or equipment
in the muck.
“Traveling without rations,
they quickly weakened physi
cally and on the 13-day trek to
the nearest safe village all nine
came down with malaria. ‘It
looked for a time like malaria
would claim us all,’ Graham
said. But they survived.
Two of the men were flat on
their backs for about three
weeks, Graham said. They got
so weak at one time that native
women had to keep them alive
by chewing up rice and putting
it into their months, for they
lacked the strength to munch it.
“Word came that enemy pa
trols were searching for them,
so they split in their groups and
hid in the jungle. They also
heard there were two American
Army airmen hiding in a near
by village.
“Graham, in the best physical
condition, made the four-day
hike to the village, trailed all
the way by Japanese patrols. He
contacted the Army men and
persuaded them to return with
him.
“They learned the Japanese
had caught five members of the
original party and executed
them. From then on it was an
endless, nerve-wracking process
of dodging the Japanese and
finding enough to eat to keep
alive.” _
OPERATIONAL REPORT
PROMOTIONS;
From Lt. (jg) to Lieut.; P. E. Lavietes;
N. P. Carter; J. Gillingham; R, T. Mac
Millan; R. R. Bray; D. M. Foerster; H. R.
Blankstein.
ARRIVALS:
Lt. Comdr. C. H. Senter; Lt. Comdr. E. E.
Brunson; Lt. D. W. Christiansen; Lt. H. J.
Franklin; Lt. (jg) Janea E. Wiley (NC);
J. H. Martin, CPhM.
’Buster Bits
Student Aviation
Pilot Travels Far
Between Courses
During the interim since leav
ing Pre-Flight training at
Athens, Ga., last October and
re-entering as a refresher stu
dent here, Student Aviation Pi
lot Carl R. Parrick, of Watts,
Okla., made a trip to Chungking
and back which would have cost
in excess of $4,000 if paid for
at regular commercial rates.
With orders to proceed to the
commander of a naval group in
China for work with the Chi
nese Army, Parrick flew from
Patuxent, Md., to Casablanca
aboard a NATS plane, and con
tinued on to Karachi, India, by
way of Cairo and Arabia.
He flew in ATC planes from
Karachi to Calcutta, where he
boarded a Chinese Airlines plane
to Chungking, flying over the
hump of the Himalayas. The
trip from the United States to
Calcutta took only six days.
Parrick traveled from Chung
king to his destination by chair
car, one of the principal modes
of transportation in China.
He was at Casablanca on his
return trip on V-E Day.
Before entering the naval
aviation training program, Par
rick attended an AMM school at
Pensacola, also saw service with
a PBY squadron at Norfolk in
1941.
Attacks on Japan
Another 11-R-F refresher who
travelled far before returning to
Pre-Flight is Raymond C. Fitzen-
reider.
Fitzenreider, a member of the
51st Battalion here in April,
1944, attended the radio control
target plane school at Clinton,
Okla., after leaving Pre-Flight
last summer. Shipping out as an
AMM2c, he served in the Biloxi,
Randolph, Texas, Wake Island,
and Tuskaloosa, and has partici
pated in naval attacks on the
Japanese home islands. He has
been in the Navy since February,
1942, and received training at
the Aviation Metalsmith School,
Navy Pier, Chicago, and spent
13 months as welder in A & R
at Quonset Point, R. I., before
entering V-5.
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