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1^'riday, June 1, 1945 CLOUDBUSTER Page Three Navy War Bond Sales Increased Since Last Year Navy war bond purchases in April totaled $36,333,128, an in crease of 23 per cent over the $29,503,388 figure for the same month last year, bringing the cumulative total since the incep tion of the Navy war bond pro gram in October, 1941, to $1,- 159,034,166. The $176,441,152 volume of Navy bonds purchases for the first four months of this year reflected an increase of 30 per cent over the $135,912,863 total for the corresponding period in 1944. Payroll savings plan purchases by civilian personnel of $18,861,- 269, and allotment purchases of $15,175,619 by uniformed per sonnel represented the major Portion of the April, 1945, total. Cash purchases were $2,296,240. The Navy Yards and the Naval Air Stations led the bond pro gram in April, with 94 per cent of the civilian personnel of the Yards investing 11.4 per cent of their gross payroll in bonds, and 95.1 per cent of those of the Air Stations investing 11.1 per cent. Mare Island Navy Yard, Mare Is land, California, topped the Navy Vards, and Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi,' Texas, led the Air Stations. For the entire Naval establish ment, 93.3 per cent of the civil ian personnel invested 10.9 per Cent in bonds during April. Effective allotments by uni formed personnel as of April 30 totaled 2,273,921. Of these, 1,- 898,887 were Navy, 282,000 were Marine Corps, and 93,034 Coast Guard. The Good Old Days Speaking of Naval armament • . . here are some facts about shot, shell and ammunition from the old sailing ship days. During the War of Independence and the War of 1812, knife blades, old i^ails, iron bolts and scraps of ^etal in cans were used in can- ^lon. They were known as “lan- gridge.” Bayonet blades were bound with rope yarn and shot from cannon for the purpose of Cutting rigging in the enemy ship 9nd effecting the fall of her feasts. —War Bond Drive— (Continued from Page 1) County 7th War Loan Drive. As regular war bond buyers, the Battalions on this station bave shown themselves to be Outstanding. Out of six Bat talions, the 65th through the •0th, only 6 cadets are without ^War Bond allotment. The 65th ^att is completely signed up ex cept for three cadets. The 66th ^Qcks two of having a full quota, ^nd in the 67th there is only one ^9det without an allotment. The ®8th, 69th, and 70th Battalions subscribed 100% for War ^ond allotments. NEW CADET STAFF—Members of the new cadet regimental staff from the 6th Battalion are, left to right; W. G. Piavis, Jr., Glen Lloyn, Pa., regimental commander; G. E. Stone, Panama City, Fla., regimental sub-commander; P. R. Spengler, Northampton, Pa., regimental adjutant; and M. Shore, Los Angeles, Cal., commissary officer. COMING EVENTS TONIGHT HAPPY HOUR Memorial Hall at 1900. Band music, movie shorts. TOMORROW BASEBALL Cloudbusters vs. North Carolina, Emer son Stadium at 1500. MOVIES Village: Free movie, "Thin Man Goes Home” with William Powell and Myrna Loy. Complete shows at 1500, 1900, and 2047. Carolina: "Salome, Where She Danced” with Yvonne DeCarlo and David Bruce. Pick; "Valley of Hunted Men” with Bob Steel. SUNDAY DIVINE SERVICES Protestant: Memorial Hall at 1000. Catholic: Gerrard Hall at 0630, Hill Music Hall at 1000. Jewish: Hillel House at 1000. TENNIS Pre-Flight vs. Cherry Point Marines. Green courts at 1400. BASEBALL , ^ ^ Cloudbusters vs. Fort Bragg 2nd F.A. Emerson Stadium at 1500. movies . Village: Free movie, Tonight and Every Night” with Rita Hayworth and Lee Bowman. Complete shows at 1300 and 1442. . , t Carolina: "Affairs of Susan with Joan Fontaine and George Brent. Pick: "Take a Letter Darling’ with Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray. WEDNESDAY BASEBALL Cloudbusters vs. ORD Hawks at Greensboro. OPERATIONAL REPORT PROMOTION: Ens. Fielding S. Simmons to Lt. (jg). DEPARTURES: ^ , Lt. Comdr. C. W. Hartsough; Lt. Comdr. H. I. Froseth; Lt. R. W. Paul; Lt, W. H. Hertig, Lt. (jg) A. M. Liberatori, J. A. Mazgay, CY; I. M. R. Contois, HAlc, was honorably discharged. ARRIVALS: ^ ^ Lt J. J. Cummings; Lt. K. L. Peters; Lt. A F. Rohrbough; Lt. H. H. Shipkey; Lt. R W. Womach; Lt. (jg) H. R. Blankstein; Lt (jg) O. Hoffman; Lt. (jg) J. Kaplan; R P. McNeely, PhM3c; S. L. Torgerson, HAlc- H B. Jones, PhMlc; Mary J. Bruns, Y3c- W. J. Phillips, HAlc; C. H. Aldrich, HAlc; B. E. Kanoy, HAlc; O. L. Clark, MaM3c. The best “drunk” story we have heard lately is about the fellow alcoholically oversub scribed, who was feeling his way around a lamp post, mutter ing: “’Sno use: I’m walled in!’ Rear Adm. Miller Appointed Head of Public Relations Rear Admiral Harold Blaine Miller, USN, 42, a native of Newton, Iowa, has assumed his duties as Director of Public Re lations, Navy Department. Rear Admiral Miller, who came to his new duty after serv ing as Public Relations Officer on the staff of Fleet Admiral Ches ter W. Nimitz, USN, Commander in Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, succeeds Rear Admiral A. S. Merrill, USN, who expects shortly to re turn to a sea command. For his services in the Pacific area, while holding the rank of Captain, Rear Admiral Miller was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a second Legion of Merit. He was awarded his first Legion of Merit for his services as Aide and Flag Secretary on the Staff of the Commander of the Task Force, United States Atlantic Fleet, from March 3, 1941, to February 22. 1942. Grounds For Divorce Anywhere Richmond, Va. (CNS)—Much- married Pauline Condon has asked the courtf or a divorce from her 15th husband. The charge: He hit her on the head with his artificial leg. Sailor Sets Aim Too High The Yeoman left for Iceland duty with two aims—to kiss an Icelandic girl and to shoot a polar bear. Recuperating in an Icelandic hospital he confided to the corpsman who attended him: “Maybe it would have been bet ter if I had tried to shoot the girl and kiss the bear.”, —Buy More War Bonds— Cloudbusters Have Busy Schedule For June, July Seventeen games, including Ration League tilts with Caro lina and Duke, are scheduled for the Navy Pre-Flight School base ball team during June and July, it is announced by Lt. Comdr. Burton A. Ingwersen, athletic di rector. Twenty-two games were on the early season slate for April and May. The schedule for the next two months follows: June 2—University of North Carolina, here. June 3—Fort Bragg 2nd Field Artillery, here. June .6—ORD Hawks, Greens boro. June 9—Camp Peary, here. June 10—Camp Peary, here. June 13—Duke University, Dur ham. June 16—Camp Lejeune at Camp Lejeune. June 17—Cherry Point Marines at Cherry Point. June 20—Ninth Marine Air Wing, here. June 23—Pope Field at Pope Field. June 27—ORD Hawks, here. June 30—Camp Peary at Camp Peary. July 1—Camp Peary at Camp Peary. July 4—Pope Field, here. July 7—Camp Lejeune, here. July 8—Camp Lejeune, here. July 11—Camp Butner at Camp Butner. Dimes To Match Wife A five-foot, 2-inch stack of dimes was the birthday gift of a St. Louis man to his five-foot, 2-inch wife. She couldn’t buy a five-foot, 2-inch War Bond but she did, nevertheless, convert the dimes into $175 worth of postwar financial security via the bond route. “Halt, who goes there?” “You wouldn’t know me—I just got here yesterday.” "Except for our War Bond in vestments, did you ever see anything multiply so fast?"
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