Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 24

24-A' eccc' Oaklind Tribune, Sunday July 6,1952 Admiral Soraaue Is! Talcina 1 Root in Montclairl Home 1 i 7 1 Tommie SrArague and his wife are busy toay moving intb the place they've called home for the past eight years but have lived in for only-two weeks of that time. "I They, bought the comfortable big home at 26 Ascot Court in the Montclalr District back1 in the hectic and unpredictable days of 1944 and they've been traveling almost ever since. Today, like a pair of newly-weds, they're settling down and unpacking, pulling mementoes of Sprague's 38-year naval ca 4 'it Vs The torpedo blew a hole 40-feet wide in the Intrepid's hull aft and immediately over her rudder. The force of the blast was so great it sent steel propellers up through the armored" flight deck and shook a '40-rom. gun tub and its nine-man crew and' a number of airplanes into the sea.

It accordioned two great steel decks together and killed a total of 12 men, SUIP CRIPPLED The rudder jammed and the ship yawed badly while steaming on its port propellers. Above, the sail on the forecastle helped of World War IL Pictures of his 18 escort carriers tinder attack by kamikazes in the Battle of Leyte Gulf and of the Japanese surrender In Tokyo Bay. But of all the ships he commanded or served aboard and they ranged in 38 from 'a World War I destroyer to the famed old aircraft carriers Lang-ley and Saratoga the favored one and the best remembered is th the one he brought back early in 1944. MADE HISTORY 7 Sprague was a captain then and had had command of the Essex class carrier from the day of her commissioning. Six months to the day after she was commissioned though, the Intrepid made her name in the history of World War She took a torpedo and should have sunk.

Instead she became the first square-rigged aircraft carrier In the VS. Jtfavy and limped 2000 miles back across the Pacific to Pearl Harbor with the help of a 5000-tjquare-foot sail, jury rigged orr1 the forecastle out of odds and ends. 1 keep her on a slightly straighter as reer out of the big packing crates and barrels' that have beeji to San Diego, Pearl Harbor and D.C Sprague stepped down as commander 4 of Pacific Fleet lAir Forces April 1 and began his retirement as a full admiral. For nearly four years before that last job, he 'was deputy chief land then chief of the navy's Bureau of Personnel, one of the top jobs i V' course on ner slow voyage. The Intrepid displays the battered, sail as a victory trophy as a fleet' of tugs shoved her to a Pearl Harbor berth, The admiral, S8, decided to retire when it was time for reassignment from command of the fleet air forces.

He plans to get in some golf with his wife, Evelyn, and to spend some of his time with another hobby, photography. of that service. WAR SOUVENIRS' A lot of memories have come A dm. Thomas Spragu Is learning a nw llf today, that of lIsur. Ho and his wife, Ertlyiu or beginning his rotlremint by settling In their Montclalr home.

At left they're shown unpacking In their oarage full of trunks and barrels. At right the admiral shows his model of the flattop Intrepid, the ship he brought back after torpedoing off Truk during World War IL He's pointing where the torpedo hit A-, out of the packing cases thejlast few days for the stocky, greying admiral' I Every Age Can There's the big model of I his 8 'V' War Rages Between Canneries, proudest command, the aircraft China Mainland Raided TAIPEH, Formosa, July The official Chinese Nation carrier Intrepid, that's fxrmly Wear fixed now on the pine wall of of 'Cots Growers! Over Price the basement rumpus room. alist Central News Agency said today junk-borne Nationalist guerrillas killed 33 communist 4 And there are photos of men Apricot growers Contra Costa and Alameda Counties he served with and of his ships of Carrier Group B8.1, the force officials and disarmed more than 100 red militiamen last week in a raid on the Chinese mainland trict, apricots were 10 or 12 to the pound, as compared with tie usual average of 11 Full harvest is expected to get under way th)s were far from happy yesterday he led in the strikes against; the the end 75 miles northeast of Hong Kong. Japanese mainland at oyer prices being paid by canneries for their crops. week.

ADVEBTI8BMBNT i- ABVMTISEM ENT The DiabloValley apricot crop In the Brentwood area, quoted will total about 90Q0 tons' while the total for the Brentwood area is estimated to ibebetween I prices ranging front $70 a ton for "orchard fruit to $75 for larger sizes were not high n- i "If 1 i jf 2 10,000 and 12,000 tons. I Growers in the Centerville enough to cover growing costs, orchardists complained. Washington Township growers SALES CAREER WITH PROCTER GAMBLE Good opening for outstanding man 26-32 years old selling to bakery-restaurant trade. Some college education and bakery trainina and experience preferred but not necessary. Monthly salary, expenses paid, car provided, opportunity for added compensation and participation in Profit Sharing Plan.

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EUGENE LAISNE' Optometrist No (Ugh Prices Family Budget Plan 1300 Broadway Free Parking Phone TE 2-0583 Ground Floor 13th Franklin Oakland, Calif. Orchardists declared that ton in that districtj According to Roy Clark ot Irvington, chairman of the apricot section of the higher prices were needed to cover increased costs of cultivating, irrigating, thinning and picking theapricots this season. California State Farm Bureau. ranchers would be advised to dry their crops. -unless $100 or AW f.f.fJtt"fl OWPflfleerejji better is offered.

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