Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 2

it In of of tour jury is was the in in in as of (U. was in Badges and tor said PAGE THE CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER, Texans Hold High Positions in Navy Administrative Posts Manned by Nimitz, Thomson Significance of Navy Day Increased For This Area Texas, as it observes Navy Day today, finds two of its native sons in two of the highest administrative posts in the United States Navyone as chief of the Pureau of Navigation, and the other as commandant of the la: gest continental Naval district. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, born at Fredricksburg, Texas, on February 24, 1885, is responsible, as cluet of the Bureau of Navigation, for the procurement and training of the Navy's officer and enlisted personnel, a mammoth job in the rapidly ex panding two-ocean Navy.

Cpt. I'. A. Thomson. acting commandant of the Eight Naval District, which includes the entire state of Texas, was born at Austin and he was appointed to the Naval Academy from that city.

But Texas' contribution to the illustrious names of high-ranking Naval officers does not stop with these two. There 15 Adm. Adolphu: An- drews of Galveston, who enteted the Navy In 1897. and commandant of the 30th Naval District In New York City. Adar.

James O. Richardson tered the Navy 1897. He tormerly was commander In chief of the United States fleet and afterward was chief at Naval operations. He is now on duty with the Navy department Washington. Adm.

Samuel M. Robinson, other Texan, who entered the Nary in 1001. is now chief of the Bureau of Ships in the Navy department. Adm. Austin Beaurecard entered the Navy 111 1903, and now with ole ol the Navy's South American missions.

Alter completing the prescribed four -year course at Annapolis, Adm. Nimitz saw submarme ice, and 1912 he was awarded the silver lite saving medal tor rescuing W. Walsh fireman second class, from drowning. A strong tide WAS ANd Walsh, who could not swim, being rapidly carried away from the ship. When picked up.

Adan then a and Walsh were exhausted Captain Thomson, upon completion of the tour -year course al the Naval Academy, saw various types of betore serving abroad during the World War. Later he served as Naval attache in Rome and Parts. He assumed command In 1940 as acting commandant of the Eight Naval District. Navy Dav. however, will be merely another milestone, as vear's observance finds the Navy its lughest point numbers and development.

There never have been so many ships carrying the Stars and Stripes. The ships of the Navy today not only ate unpressive size and bers. but they are stups with mote power ITT their and more speed in their engines than once would have been believed possible. The theme of Navy Day in 1941 has been set as one of contrasts -created. The major contrast Is one of assurance to the people by the Navy.

It 1s no military or Naval secret that the fleets are "standing by." It 1s no secret that the Navy is confident that If called to action. there is 110 navy afloat. which CAn halt, much less stop, Our American ships from defending American principles. Texas at the present tune has nearly 12.000 men serving in the United States Navy as officers and enlisted personnel in the regular Navy and the Naval Reserve. This number will grow steadily during the coming year 85 more and more shins Jom the fleets.

Members of the U.S. Navy will not be able to take tune off 411 October 37. when their fellow Americans observe Navy Day, but eL olticer and enlisted man knows that the fleet is destined to play an ever Increasing part 111 the vital matter of national detense, and that Navy Day of 1941 is therefore a solemn occasion. As long as the Navy lives, the nation will survive against any force. British Women Fight 'Enemy' in Mock Surrey Invasion LONDON, Oct.

26 A small band British women "invaded" the guild hall of the town of Kingston in Surrey and took pot shots at "the enemy" from the roof of the building. They were members of an unofficial women's Home Guard of Kingston taking part in manetvers under direction of Harry Perry, 8 musketry instructor, Perry said many women want to enroll so that they "will be useful with a rifle in case of invasion." "This country needs to be more he said, "and the women must, too." Labor Secretary Notes Increase in Factory Workers Salaries WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (P Secretary Perkins has reported the average pay of factory workers was 74 1-2 cents an hour in August, an increase of 0,2 per cent over the previous month. Wage increases overtime payments, the labor secretary reported, resulted in a 12 per cent hourly increase in wages between August, 1940, and August, 1941. Average working hours increased by 7 per cent to a level hours a week.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1941 Do USS QUINCY- the Navy's heavy cruisers is the USS Quincy, shown above. The Navy has contracted for 2,831 ships, including 322 combatant ships, under a $7,234,262,178 (U. S. Navy Official Photograph). Lt.

Comdr. Wood Put in Charge of Navy Recruiting CRUISERS- The U. S. observes Navy Day, will world has ever seen. euvers above.

(U. S. Navy's great expansion program, now under way as the nation result in the greatest array of fighting ships under one flag the Ultimately there will be 91 cruisers, such as those shown in manNavy Official Photograph). MACHINIST -Personnel of the U.S. Navy includes members of nearly every trade.

Skilled machinists comprise a branch of the great service Above a machinist's mate is seen operating a lathe in a machine shop. Navy Day is just a work day for men of the Navy, busy with their part of the defense preparedness program. (U. S. Navy Official Photograph).

Landlubbers Mystified by Nautical Terms Through the years of its existence, the United Staton Navy and its personnel have developed a language all 1 own- -expressions which offcers and bluejackets 118 go 11 their daily life aboard ship or at shore station. Some of these words and phrases are beconung known 10 Corpus Christi civilians, NESTING Soiled Panama or other straw hats when they are put away for the Winter is not good practice. The dirty leather of one may stain the crown of the other. Let us clean your panamas or straws before you store them. HIGH HAT SHOP 304 Chaparral St.

Phone 9-3089 Corpus Christi's ONLY Exclusive Halters for 18 years. particularly these who 111 duly contact with Navy but few can 11 their origin, A recent quiz on naval terms brought to the attention of Eighth Naval Distriet officials, included the following, listed along with their derivation: Bowline- A special knot used by archers for their bow strings. Charlie Noble The galley smoke stack, named for Charlie Noble, a merchant captain who, 111 1850. upon learning that his gulley funnel was made of copper, ordered that it always be kept shined bright. Take 21 Caulk To take 8 nap.

It came from the days when naps were taken on the deck and one's back became marked by the pitch ot the seams. A Tar- Nickname given 9 sailor, derived from the days when aboard wood ships with GLASSES ON CREDIT as low as DR. A. ROBERTS REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST OFFICES AT LESTER'S CREDIT JEWELERS 608 CHAPARRAL ST. Officer's District Includes Corpus Christi.

Valley Lt Condr. Bum Doudney Wood of Dallas, formerly charge reserve personnel procurement lat 8th Naval District Headquarters. New Orleans, has been des- Ignated officer- of at the station Houston, it has been announced. He will report for duty November 1. Lt.

Comdr. Wood's recruiting area covers the Mouthern half of Texas includes sub-stations al Austin, Beaumont, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Harlingen and San Antonio. The new recruiting officer was 21. born New Orleans October 1889, attended Tulane University where he was outstanding athletics and obtamed degree 111 engineering in 1911. ath- lets Included football.

track and hockey. of team well the 815 member the athlete council. Follow graduation 1911 he 118 by State Hush way Department resident engineer on construct Gl roads and bridges. Alter several to years he resigned 1118 (OW 1 salvage and wrecking business and was succes fut 177 raising numerous sunken the Mississippi River and the ol Mexico. In 1917 he sold out his ness and received an appointment as ensign in the Naval Reserve.

He served throughout the World War as group commander in the First Submarine Hunting Squadron. Following the war It. Condr Wood engaged 111 the sale of ice making and retrigerating equipment in Now Orleans, and 1931 he and removed to Dallas became 113 agent 111 the Southwest for of retrigerating and electrical equipment. Wood was In this business when valled to active duty in Nary on June 1940. Four Murder Cases a Set for Grand Jury Westervelt Will Name Veniremen At Session Today With a heavy docket scheduled, including murder cases, the October ut the Nueces County grand will convene 111 the District Court this morning at 9 a ciock.

Judge George G. Westervelt will select a anand mey from 16 Neeces County LIOn who will hear his charge and order to begin secret my estigation and indictments on more than 50 individual cases submitted by Dist. Atty. Joe D. Hatchitt and Asst.

Dist. Atty Cecil E. Burney. The district attorney's office has completed assembling information on cases including burglary, theft. driving while Intoxteated and other non -capital felonies, as well as the four murder charges for which Hatchitt will ask indictments.

The murder charges are in connection with the death of A. B. Evans, city park watchman who died October 4. The grand jury probably will continue for several days alter which the court will set cases for trial during the mainder the term, expected to last several weeks. ONCE A MIDSHIPMAN John Paul Jones.

the first great figure in American Navay history, got his first experience R.5 an act108 midshipman 111 the British navy. LIFE IN THE FLEET--Navy Day finds men of the Fleet hard at their tasks while their country pays them tribute: In the photo above sailor washes down the anchor windlass aboard 0 battleship (U. S. Navy Official Photograph. GOP Leaders Seek Repeal of Neutrality Act Preamble in Move To Assist Administration WASHINGTON.

Oct. 26 it men was customary for the seamen to soak their 111 tar to waterproof them. Keelhauling In Its egent men with reprimand Long AND the culprit was dropped mto the sea and hauted under the keel ol the from side to sule. shop Dinghy A small boat belonging to larger its was taken from the Beneat word "Ding, small boat. Handsomely' In nautical sense it means "slowly end with care': it is on old English word meaning "handy" 01 The Lubber's Line A black line marked on the surtare of compass howl Indicating the direction of the ship's head It is so called because 101 the doss when courses were steered to the nearest halt point, a real seaman could do without DOLLAR-A- YEAR SHIP Not to be outdone by the federal government- which at pres-1 ent has its dollar-a-year menthe U.

S. Navy now has a dollarn- year ship, It's dithcult to believe, but Vincent Astor, commander in the Naval Reserve, has leased his 300.000 yacht, the Mourmahal, for $1 a year to the coast guard AS a floating weather station to gather meteorological data. The Ellis Family Likes the Navy Many A family has seen all its men find their way into the Navy, several sets of brothers are sailors at the U. S. Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, but the Ellis family of Georgia and Missouri has set a new record.

Numbering in its ranks 8 rear admiral and two U. S. Naval Reserve ofticers, this family has Riven the U. S. Navy another member--this time an enlisted man, He is Long Ellis, son Rear Adm, Hayne Ellis, U.

S. Navy, retired, whose personal flag once snapped proudly at the mainmast of the U. S. Fleet Patrol Squadron's flagship, and brother of Lt. (Jg) Robert A.

L. Ellis and Ensign Hayne Ellis, both 011 804 tive duty in the naval reserve. An experienced boatman, Long Ellis enlisted in the Naval Reserve as a seaman, 1st Class, and recently was called from his position with an investment banking house in Washington, D. to undergo, the routine recruit training course given to all reserves called to active duty, Repeat at the neutrality act's pie- amble reciting that this country desires to neutrality WAZA between foreign states" demanded today by Republican senators supporting an lotion move to 011 American merchant ships and permit them to enter belligerent ports. Senator Bridges (R-NH) said that he and Senator Gurney (R- SD) were dratting an amendment, to pending legislation which would make it clear that "we are not neutral in this light." The Senate will begin debate tomorrow on a bill by Democratic leader Barkley of Kentucky which would repeal the neutrality prohibitions against anting 01 merchant ships and against entry of American vessels into combat voltes anci belligerent ports.

Productive Missouri Cotton Area Gives Complete New Crop MEMPHIS, Oct. 26 The largest cotton market is agog over prospects of second crop ot cotton from stalks that already had produced a bale to the acre. T. Former County Judge C. Cole of Pemiscott County, displayed the stalks from his Pascola plantation with bolls that have almost reached maturity.

"We made a bale of cotton to the acre on this field and finished picking a month ago," Cole told cotton men. "The stalks took 011 a complete new growth, effective throughout the stalk. plants bloomed, squared and boiled in 10 days, we don't have a treeze, we will make complete new crop. It's not just the top, but even the branches on the bottom, near the ground, have bolls. It we don't have cold weather Tor 15 or 20 days, we'll have entire new crop close to 81 bale an acre." MOROLINE IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHO EXAMINES YOUR EYES GLASSES FOR DISTANCE OR NEAR Prices complete, in- Low As 4 and eluding good frame, examination $675 See ORAN RIPS, M.

D. Now A LICENSED PRACTICING IN TEXAS 25 YEARS Well Bldg. Corpus Over Western Aute Supply Co. PHYSICIANS IF DESIRED This measure, 11 expansion ol the -approved biil merely authorizing arming of merchant men. won approval of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday by a 13 to 10 vote.

Chairman Connally (D- Tex; said House leaders had given assurances they could muster a "substantial" majoriLy for the expanded proposal if the Senate passed it. Barkley's bill would leave On the statute books proteins estublishing government control over munitions exports, restricting American travel on belligerent ships, preventing toreign gOVhere and barring foreign ships from ilying the American flag. Bridges, who joined with Gurney and Senator Austin of Vermont, to assistant Republican leader, in proposing complete repeal of the act, told reporters he thought it would be "asinine" to permit this statement to stand in view of conditions today. "What they propose to leave couldn't be properly termed even the skeleton of the neu- halite art." he declared. "We ought to make a clean sweep of the whole thing.

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