Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 21, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 1, 1944 Page: 2 of 8
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PENNSHIP LOG
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1944
Tough Task Licking Japrats To Follow Nazi Collapse
Allies Need
Penn Ships
Nips Have Resources,
Manpower, Faith
Supreme Sacrifice
Workers at PennShip should
not get the idea that as soon as
“V-E Day” (Victory in Europe')
comes that. World II is over for
there is still “X-Day” (when Ja-
pan collapses) ahead and mili-
tary experts see a long, hard
struggle before the fanatical Jap-
anese are beaten to their knees
and bite the dust in submission
In two years of war against
Japan the United States had not
taken as much territory from
Japan as the Nips seized from
the United States in two weeks.
VESSELS URGENT
That's just a sample of the dif-
ficult task ahead after the'
Nazis are beaten and PennShip
workers should not feel that the
need for their efforts will end
when Germany surrenders for the
38 AV-type ships now under
construction in the yard are slat-
. ed for Pacific service and are ur-
gently needed to help transport
men and supplies.
There are 73,000,000 Japanese
and the Japanese civilian is
'tough and patient, the Navy In-
dustrial Incentive Division points
out, and he has always worked
hard and eaten little. He has al-
ways lived on a diet that would
spell starvation to a Westerner.
Japanese war leaders assume
that their people will not col-
lapse and the Japanese people be-
lieve that it will be the “soft”
western nations that will fall.
There were 5,000,000 workers in
Japanese industry in 1936 and
now there are twice that number
chiefly engaged in producing ma-
terials of war. In addition the
Japs control a potential world ,g
force of 400,000,000 enslaved peo-
ple.
More than 10,000 small shops lh
Tokyo alone have been closed to
free 15,000 shopkeepers for ship-
yards and ormament plants. In-
stead of “Made in Japan” articles
that flooded the world before the
war the home shops are now
equipped with lathes turning out
war material.
Fifty percent of the Japanese
industrial labor force is made up
of women, 25 per cent of boys
and girls under 20 and the other
25 per cent of men. They work
from 12 to 16 hours a day with
only two days of rest each
.month. They cannot leave or
change their jobs.
The very highest paid in heavy
industry is around $3 a dry,
American money, but at least
30 per cent and maybe 75 per
cent is drained by taxes, com-
pulsory savings and bond pur-
chases.
Rice is the Japanese dady diet
and before the war ate a pound
a day. He ate 100 pounds of .fish
a year and four pounds of meat.
Today he gets 11% ounces of
rice daily, less than three-quart-
ers of his customary share, and
much of it is unpolished. Because
the Japanese have been accus-
tomed to a living standard far
below that of America, the Japs
have achieved a war production
strength out of all proportion to
her economie and industrial
strength.
PLENTY OF SUPPLIES
Today Japan has sufficient
supplies of all but a few com-
modities in order to carry o.i a
long war.
Unlike the industrial power: of
Germany, which is within bomb-
ing range of the Allied Air Forces
the Japanese industrial strength
is largely outside the present
range of Allied bombers, and has
thus far been only slightly im-
paired by Allied bombs.
The Japanese food situation is,
on the whole, adequate to meet
all her demands even though at
some hardship to the subject pop-
ulation.
Japan has never experienced
■ defeat in war. Let the Allies ad-
vance, let Japan give up slowly,
• piece by piece, the territory she
• -has conquered. Let her desert her
outer empire. At home there will
Aviation Cadet Howard Wilson
of Santa Ana, Calif., spent a re-
cent furlough at home. Young
Wilson,. who is the stepson of J.
W. Wade, PSY machinist, has
been in the service a year.
TWO MORE FORMER PennShip workers, Pvt. Allie J. Oliver,
left, and Sgt. D. C. Simpson, right, have given their lives for their
country.
Pvt. Oliver was killed in action in France and Sgt. Simpson, ball
turret gunner of a B-17, died of flak wounds received while bomb-
ing an oil refinery near Gdynia, Poland, on the Russian front.
One of the recent PSY keels was dedicated to Pvt. Oliver.
It Doesn’t Take Smart
Fox To Outfox Te’ Coon
By AUDREY JARRELL AND
J. L. FONTENOT
Whone da’ som’ frans ax me eef
I be want fo’ go weet dem on ah
fox hunt en East Texas. I don’ no
what day mean coz only ting dat
I no about for ees de foxtrot I
do at de dance en de ole contray.
But whan’ day explain what eet
be all about den I shivver all ovah
weet excitement.
Seem lik’ dat • I wait long tim’
fo’ de da’ fo’ go on dees new hunt
Soon eet waz geet hear an’ whan’
we geet de trailer weet de screen
walls an’ de wood top on eet I ax
fo’ what dat be an’ dey say eet be
fo’ carry de dogs on de fox hunt.
All dat ees fonny to me but I
reckon dat de way eet ben go.
UP HILL AND DOWN
We sho’ go ovah lots ov’ hills
an’ stoff an’ soon we geet dare.
De way dat de dogs hollar I sink
dat maybe de foxes com’ fo’ meet
us befo’ we can trow de camp. I
soon found out dat de dogs waz
az excited fo’ hunt de fox az I
waz. Cose de dogs no mo’ about
dees ting den I do.
We ben sit by de fire an’ eat
weet everting quite whan all at
once de dogs start weet de “arf-
arf-arf” an de guys I be weet be-
gan fo’ geet ready rite way. I ax
what be de mattah an’ day say
dat tde dogs done found ah fox.
So we scattah an’ try fo find de
fox an’ de dogs. We stay weet
dem until de dogs geet fooled by
de fox an’ we start back fo’ de
camp.
I ax for’ why day no kill de
fox wile we be dare an’ day say
de fox hunt not be fo’ hunt an’
kill de fox. Eet be only fo’ hav’
de dogs chase de fox den hav’
de fox lose de dogs. Day say dat
ben de fun’ fo’ dis kind ov hunt
an’ dat aftah awile de dogs gofi-
na fin’ de ole fox den we gonna
hav’ som’ mo’ fun.
I no said noding but I w
Pvt. James Swanzy, former
employment supervisor for the
yard, is now stationed at Cor-
vallis, Oregon where he is a spe-
cialist on transport squadron
duty.
„Pfc. Robert Clint Wideman,
Jr., ex-Island employe, is now in
a naval hospital in Seattle, where
he is being treated for shrapnel
wounds suffered from the battle
on Guam Island, July 25. Wide-
man has been serving with the
Marines in the South Pacific for
the past 10 months.
Another ex-PSYer on active
duty in the Pacific is Omar Phil-
lips of the U. S. Navy.
L. A. McGuire, SF-2/c, SRTA-
Tl, Mare Island, Calif., is the ad-
dress of the former member of
PSY’s LYayout Dept. L. A. is a
brother of J. E. McGuire of the
Yayout Dept.
after, it was hit. When the gun
crew scattered. Dundon fell and
injured his shoulder.
Following the naval battles
for Saipan and Guam, Dundon
was sent to Pearl Harb ir for
treatment then evacuated to
California.
Flight Officer Wallace B. Tur-
ner of Mont Belvieu, Tex., form-
er pur ch asir.g
clerk for PSY, is
pilot of a 12th
Air Force P- 47
T h u n d e rbolt
fighter bomber.
He is now en-
gaged in blasting
enemy commu-
nications, motor
tarnsports and
gun positions in
support of allied
ground troops in
the Mediterran-
ean theater.
Turner is a
graduate of Barber’s Hill high
school where he won his letter in
football and track for two years.
He began flight training on Au-
gust 1, 1943 and received his Wings
on February 8, 1944.
TURNER
Ex-PSYer Earl J. Boyett, S-
C/C, has returned to Lido Beach,
Long Island, N. Y., after spending
a furlough in Beaumont.
TE’ COON UP TREE
tink fas’ en mah mind what I
gonna do wharf de dogs hollar
again. We geet back to camp an’
everting ben still fo’ good wile.
Eet ben real dark by now an’ I
sneak away weet my twin bar-
cell shoot gun. Day oddar guys
ben so excited dat day no see dat
I not ben weet dem so I no be
bothered weet dem so I can carry
out mah mind lik’ I made eet op.
I walk op to whare de dogs ben
jus’ az de fox waz chasing dem.
De dogs ron by me so fas’ dat I
fall down an’ whan I see de ole
fox I ron too fo’ de fus’ tree den
—soop! Op I go to de top ov eet
—me de gun an’ all.
I feel sometihg blow en mah
face an’ I be scared fo’ look op
coz I no dat maybe eet ben de
fox. Whan I geet brave enouf
fo’ look an’ see eet ben whone
ov . de dogs dat beat me op de
tree. I sho’ ben glad eet turn out
lik’ eet did. De ole fox stand on
hees back feet lik’ he want fo
paz down de tree an hav’ fist
Pfc. William H. Smith of the
U. S. Marine Corps was wounded
in Guam and is in a navy hospital
overseas. Young Smith was a
shipfitter at PSY before entering
the service.
An honor graduate of a navy
metalsmith class in the U. S.
Naval Training Center, San Diego,
Calif., with an average of 94.75,
was Metalsmith C. W. Watson,
who was a foreman in Penn’s
Pipe Shop prior to entering the
service last January.
He gained the award over the
efforts of 56 shipmates and at-
tained the petty officer’s rating of
metalsmith third class.
With eight major battles to his
credit in the Pacific war aiea,
Eugene Harvey Dundon, S-l/C
an ex-shipfitter on the Island, is
under treatment in a naval hos-
pital in Shoemaker, Calif., for
injuries suffered while on active
duty with the Navy during the
battle for the Mariannas.
Dundon was serving as captain
of his gun crew which had shot
down four Jap Zeros, when one
of the Jap planes attempted tc
crash into the ship gun turret
Sgt. Earl T. DeWitt, former
Penn worker, is with an aviation
engineering battalion somewhere
in France. He’s the son of Mr. and
Mrs. T. V. DeWitt, 2520 Popular
street.
Sgt. Robt. F. Nelson, a former
burner’s helper at PennShip,
wears the Air Medal with four
oak leaf clusters, the Distinguish-
ed Flying Cross and has received
a presidential citation for his
heroic work as flight engineer and
gunner with the Eighth Air Force
stationed in England during the
past year.
Sgt. Nelson is now in Beaumont
visiting his mother, Mrs. Lucille
Nelson, of the Crosby Hotel and
will report at a Florida base Oc-\
tober 17 for reassignment.
Pvt. S. C. Renfro, Jr., son of
S.’.C. Renfro, Sr., of the PSY
Paint Dept., has returned to his
post in the maintenance depart-
ment at Ellington Field near
Houston after a furlough spent
with his parents.
Jojm T. Smith, USN, and a
son of Capt. Hillis Smith of the
PSY guard force, was a recent
visitor to the yard.
fight weet heem. #
Abut dat tim’ de odder fellows
geet dare an’ whane day see
what happen day laugh at me
coz I geet treed by de 'fox. Day
laugh at me all de way home coz
de fox mak’ ah monkey out ov’
me. I no say,nodding but I gone
on wat do de nex’ tim’ I go on
de fox hunt.
still be an inner empire.
As the armies fall back, even
the pressure of supply problems
will lessen. We will be lighting
thousands of miles from home;
and as we advance we will have
to build or rebuild supply bases
and construct supply routes. Ja-
pan on the other hand will be
fighting in her own front yard.
Her ships will no longer travel
long and perilous routes. Her
planes will no longer be spread
over vast areas; they will be con-
centrated in the most effective
spots.
The outer empire, to b<* sure,
will be gone. But the outer em-
pire and the men who garrison it
are the Japanese expendables.
The inner empire is the p«ace to
stand and fight.
(The second and last series on
the strength of the Japanese will
be published in the next issue of
the LOG.)
PSY Wins Safety Laurels
In Gulf Area In August
PSY’s fine low accident safety rating for August placed them
ahead of all other Gulf Coast yards for the month with a 7.61 acci-
dent frequency.
Only one other yard, Gulf Shipbuilding Company of Mobile,
approached them. This yard ran second with 7.74. Penn safety stand-
ing is so good that it also ranks third for the entire year.
J. A. Jones Construction Company of Brunswick, Ga., and Gulf
Shipbuilding Company are the only other yards ahead of PennShip.
Comparative statement of frequency rates of various Gulf Coast
Shipyards, based on available data for the month of August, 1944
PENNSYLVANIA SHIPYARDS INC., Beaumont
Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Mobile, Ala .........................
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss..........
J. A. Jones Construction Co., Brunswick, Ga..........
Alabama Dry Docks & S. B. Co., Mobile, Ala..........
Pendleton Shipyards Co., New Orleans, La..................
Delta Shipbuilding Co., New Orleans, La......................
J. A. Jones Csnstruction Co., Panama City, Fla..........
Houston Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Tex..................
St. John’s River Shipbuilding Co., Jacksonville, Fla..
Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.............
Tampa Shipbulding Co., Tampa, Fla..............................
To
Aug.
date
7.61
13.50
. 7.74
9.71
15.93
17.31
.12.4
7.12
.11.55
.13.5
14.2
.14.47
15.97
.16.73
,20.55
22.55
22.3
14.7
.27.4
21.19
.25.7
14.7
Pvt. Billy R. Ward, a former
PennShip employe, is now serv-
ing with the field artillery in
France.
Rigger Goes
After Fish
Rigger Night Quarterman A.
Branham is enjoying his vaca-
tion at present. We feel sorry for
the little fishes in surrounding
waters.
Our popular “T Bone” Morse
is also vacationing and tall tales
are in the making. See him on
his return.
Dewey Gilmore has left the
Rigging Dept., to go to Alemeda,
Calif. Officers Maritime Train-
ing School.
J. A. Ford claims he has been
in the “dog house” ever since he
was made material chaser. Won-
der why, Ford?
MARGIE RETURNS
Mrs. Margie Carroll is back on
the job as secretary to J. L.
Wones, training director. Mar-
gie reports her young son is rap-
idly trying to grow big enough
to wear his daddy’s uniform when
he gets home.
Willie Page has moved his ca-.
ble crew to Hull 318. There is
one consolation about it Willie,
when you finish one, there is
another waiting.
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