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Page Four CLOUDBUSTEB Saturday, August 5, 1944 Vice Admiral Fitch Assumes High Air Post Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, USN, on August 1 relieved Vice Admiral John S. McCain, USN, as Deputy Chief of Naval Opera tions (Air). Vice Admiral Fitch has been on duty in the . Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air) since his return to Washington in May, 1944, from the South Pacific where he commanded the Allied air forces. Vice Admiral McCain, who was the first officer to hold the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air) post established in July, 1943, has been given an assignment at sea. He has been on a special assign ment in the Pacific recently, dur ing which time Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford, USN, acted as Deputy Chief of Naval Opera tions (Air). SPORTSPROGRAM (Continued from page one) mates were never in trouble as they scored a goal for each vic tory in soccer. Coaches of the team are Lt. (jg) T. E. Jones and Lt. (jg) B. McCracken. In the Sports Program the 52nd was credited with 100 points, the 56th had 68, the 54th had 56, the 55th had 51, and the 53rd had 50. In Military the 55th set the pace with 75 points. The 52nd had 50, the 54th 25, and the 53rd and 56th, five each. Scoring 75 points placed the 56th at the top in Academics. The 55th had 50, 53rd 25, 54th 10 and 52nd 0. In Class Athletics the 52nd was in front with 75 points. The 53rd was next with 50, the 54th third with 25, the 56th fourth with 10, and the 55th, in last place, had no points to their credit. Loose Ends • • The 4 to 0 victory registered by the 52nd Battalion over the 56th in soccer on Wednesday night marked the fourth time that this battalion has won the champion ship. Commenting on the team after the game Wednesday, Lieut. Comdr. Earle Waters, head soccer coach, stated that it “was by far the best cadet soccer team to ever play here.” * * * Another ex-Marine is Cadet Ralph Hawkins of Champaign, 111. He served 28 months in the Marine Corps, 22 of which were in the South Pacific. ♦ ♦ * Lt. (jg) Anna S. Reed, who has been assistant mess officer here, recently resigned from the Naval Reserve so that she might join her husband, Lieut. Comdr. Garner W. Reed, who is stationed at the Naval Air Station, Key West, Florida. * * * Here’s an item that we noticed recently in one of the society col umns. In reporting a wedding the writer had this to say: “After the ceremony Lieut and his wife left immediately for the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aber deen, Md.” Swing Band Will Perform At Concert Tomorrow The swing orchestra will share the stage with the regular band at the third concert of the season in Forest Theatre tomorrow at 1630. The entire band will open with the Colonel Bogey march by Al ford, and follow with Safranek’s Atlantis suite. Numbers to be played by the swing section include: Hot Chest nuts, 7’m Thrilled, The Volga Boatman, I’ll Be Seeing You, Swanee River, and The Man I Love. Vocalizations by the band’s glee club will be The Rosary and Old Ark's A-Movin\ Think of the Future “I’m really quite slender. It’s just that I want to keep all my War bonds from getting soaked.” COVEY (Continued from page one) on the station so long personally, but due to limited time, I may have inadvertently passed some of you by, so I hereby take this op portunity to wish all of you a fond farewell, and the best of luck from here on in, and I hope that this isn’t goodbye, but just, “so long for awhile.” EAR PROTECTOR (Continued from page one) way toward eliminating ear dis comfort and pain, and preventing the partial deafness resulting from long exposure to great noise. Airplane pilots, for example, will be less likely to suffer the per manent hearing loss known to flight surgeons as “aviator’s notch.” This hearing loss is call ed a “notch” because it represents a small dip in an individual’s hear ing chart or audiogram in the re gion of 4,000 sound cycles per second. Mistress: “You say your baby’s name is Opium? What an odd name. You know opium is a prod uct of the wild poppy, don’t you?” Mandy: “Yessum, an’ if day evah wuz a chile had a wild poppy, she’s got one.” Chief: “I want three teers. You, you and you!” volun- To Quote.,. “I unhesitatingly recommend to both officers and men the regular and systematic investment of a portion of current income in War Savings Bonds. Let your dollars fight with you.”—Admiral E. J. King. “It requires no great imagina tion to perceive that financial re sources will serve us in a multi tude of ways after we return home. I urge all Navy personnel to ‘save today for tomorrow.’ ”—• Admiral C. W. Nimitz. “I urge all Marine Corps per sonnel to avail themselves of the opportunity of buying Vv^ar Bonds and I am confident that, should postwar economic readjustments bring financial difficulties, the Ma rines will, as usual, ‘have the situ ation well in hand.’ ”—Lt. Gen eral T. Holcomb, USMC (Ret.) “I urge every person in the service of the Coast Guard to be ‘always ready” for any future financial emergency by investing a portion of earnings regularly in War Savings Bonds.”—Vice Ad miral Waesche, USCG. “The Navy is proud of the rec ord of its people—^in the War Bond program—a record that is a stimulus and a challenge.”-— Secretary Forrestal. Buy Bonds Until You Drop Bombs- The Wolf Co^yri(hr 1944 bf Uourd Sinsone, distributed'bjf Camp Mcwspiptr. Strvici by Sansone ft '’Time'll go much faster if you know of any games we two ! can play."
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