The Texas Steer (U. S. S. Texas), Vol. 4, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 5, 1932 Page: 3 of 4
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PERSONNEL NOTES
DEAR SIS:
My, my, at this time relations between
San Pedro and Long Beach are a little
stained over an out and out steal of Navy
*ade by Long Beach. As you know, San
cd o is designated as Battle Force head-
oarters on the West Coast, but Long
Beach has more to offer than San Pedro
from a purely residential standpoint.
Long Beach, of course, is of more recent
origin than San Pedro. For many years
this winning over of Navy patronage has
been going on under the very eyes of the
San Pedro Chamber of Commerce. Now,
when the dirty work is almost done, that
august body is waking up. Practically all
San Pedro papers now carry front page
articles designed to stimulate the interest
and awaken the civic pride of the local
merchantry. An extensive campaign has
been planned and is being carried out to
repair the damage done. Plans are being
dawn up with the cooperation of Fleet
officials for a new, bigger and better San
Sedro Navy landing to replace the present
adequate accomodation. The fight is
en! Kid San Pedro vs. Lady Long Beach!
To the victor belongs the spoils!
Armistice Day is on its way, and again
the Fleet separates to supply every p rt
with its Navy interest. This ship gets
underway for Redondo next Wednesday
after two days of fleet maneuvers on
Monday and Tuesday. We are going to
lie off Manhattan Beach until Saturday
morning; thank heavens it is not Port
Angeles.
I will write to you from Redondo Beach.
I'm sure I'll have plenty of time while up
there to write letters, if nothing else.
Love to all at home,
BUDDY.
Salesman: And what kind of a cas-
ket do you wish for your wife's mother,
sir ?
Customer: I don't care just so it's
plenty strong and the lid locks down.Another re-enlistment-an' this time
none other than our noted butcher-Joe
Kuchera, ship's cook first class, USN.,
he IS first-class too, has signed up for
another four years and is now enjoying
himself in San Francisco. Kuchera is
a "Longhorn" and has completed over
fifteen years honourable service in the
Navy.
It is gratifying to note that many of
our shipmates are extending their en-
listments and this week nine (9) more
have thus signified their intentions.
Here they are. Congrats, Brothers, and
here's hoping this cruise will be a hap-
pier one than ever:-
Morris, D. E., Cox
Sinclair, P. M., EM3c
Cortsen, F. C., SC3c
Miramontes, A. H., Fic
Smith, M. L., F2c
Smith, G. E., F2c
Schafer, J. S., F2c
Nash, D. P., Sic
Leibowitz, M., S2c
Some of these shipmates have already
collected their re-enlistment gratuities
and are now enjoying a well earned
leave.
Steadily we continue to build up a
splendid complement and each week new
faces appear in our midst. This week
we greet the below named shipmates
who have recently come to us from the
Training Stations at Great Lakes and
San Diego, from other vessels and sta-
tions. May you always have fond mem-
ories of the old "Wahoo," and really en-
joy your cruise with us. Here they are:-
McGee, L. B., AMM1c
Shannon, J. R., RM2c
Cartmell, S. R., PhM3c
Lariosa, D., OffStdlc
Haris, Paul J., Fic
Hyland, R. C., Fc
Palm, E. D., Sic
Hickey, P. J., F3c
Simmons, V. W., F3e
Brockley, C. G., S2c
Ehret, C. R., S2c
Hale, F. 0., S2c
Hatfield, R. B., S2c
Martin, R. D., S2c
McCarty, A. H., S2c
Raatikka, W. 0., S2c
Reed, F. M., S2c
Streeter, H. S., S2c
Wells, C. R., S2c
Wood, S. H., S2cO'MALLEY CONTINUES
TRAINING
Reporters thronging about the 0'
Malley training camp this week report
the champ to be in fine condition for his
coming bout with the challenger, Isaac
Fuddlesteink, for the Bull-Throwing
championship.
Chuckling complacently over Isaac's
verbal barrage of last week, which he
termed "Fuddlesteink's futile fuming"
the Old Maestro said, in part:
"The challenger just hasn't the ex-
perience, that's all. Did I ever tell you
about the time I was chief engineer of
the Old Tuscarora, when he won the red
and white E's so often that they had to
build extra stacks on the old warship to
have a place to hang them? They finally
had so many stacks built that the ship
sunk just as I was painting a red E on
the last one, and every soul aboard was
drowned".
The invention there which really won
me my fame, however, was my tilted
propeller. It was at such an angle that
its force was exerted slightly down
tending to raise the stern when the en-
gines turned over. This naturally gave
a downhill effect, so the ship just natural -
ly coasted; the faster the propeller turned
the higher the stern was raised; the
higher the stern, the faster she coasted.
and the faster she coasted, the faster
propellers turned."
"For this reason, we could use it only
on short trips and had to put on a
conventional propeller for long ones. If
we didn't, the cumulative effect was such
that the propeller turned so fast that the
stern rose so high in the air that the ship
turned over. She did that twice, drown-
ing all hands each time, but it surely
made for engineering efficiency. Why,
we saved so much coal each voyage that
the bunkers over flowed, so we had to
take a collier along and stop every other
day to take off the surplus coal which
accumulated. If we didn't she'd have
soon had so much coal aboard that she'd
have done what she did our first voyage
- - - got overloaded, and sunk with all
hands."
THIRTY MILES OF
SEARCHLIGHT
The U. S. S. Macom, the latest in giant
dirigibles will when completed, carry a
remarkable signal light. A signal light
is being built weighing only a little over
eleven pounds and using only a 500 watt
lamp yet capable of throwing a beam of
light thirty miles away, and with a hand
operated shutter that can be opened and
closed 300 times a mniute.Page T'h re4.
THE TEXAS STEERP
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