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1943-10-09

The Navyator v.1:24 1943-10-09

U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

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VOL. I. No. 24.

Dr. Krieger Gets Sea Duty Orders; Three Promoted

Detached this week for duty at sea was Lieut. Comdr. J. E. Krie­ger, senior dental officer since com­ing aboard February 9. Also de­tached was Lieut. (jg) S. H . Cas­

sel, who will re­po r t to NAS, Tillamook, are.

AINav 166 hit the halfdeck this week with the result that three j u n i 0 r grade lieutenants now are wearing two

D •• bJECU full stripes and H, ~.clu hi' ... h., will draw a little

more cash from Ens. Cannon. Those promot~d w~re J. D. Strong, M. Abrahams and T. E . Wittiams.

Coming aboard from Navig~tion School, Hollywood, Fla., this week was Lieut. J. O. Cottins, who lives in Hollywood, Calif.

With the graduation of his Twelfth 'Battalion, Lieut. Delcam­bre has returned to his first love-­tumbling-and, effective Monday, will head that division. Ens. Dakan has been shifted from the equip­ment issue division to the boxing division in the Athletic depart­ment.

Replacing Lieut. (jg) Cissell as A Company officer is Lieut. (jg) Sikes ,formerly with the Sixteenth.

Add To War Fund This School's contribution to

the Monterey Peninsula Com­munity and War Chest was en­larged this week with the addi­tion of funds from the Twelfth and Thirteenth Battalions. Be­fore graduating, 131 members of the Twelfth gave $203.50 for an average of $1.55 per man.

Incomplete returns ahow 130 cadets of the Thirteenth con­tributing $169.10 for an average of $1.30.

The total amount given to date is $596.60. Each cadet is asked to ·contribute 50 centa and the splendid response ia indi­cated by the average of more than $1 each.

U. S. NAVY hE-FLIGHT ScHOOL, DEL MONTE, CAuP.

Captain of the Navyators in tomorrow's clash with the Naval Dis­tribution Center will be Jimmy Riddle (above), who climaxed last Sunday'. game with St. Mary's College with a 66-yard . ..touchdown run. A native of Van Nuys, Calif., Riddle was a star back for Ocean­side Junior College.

THE FOOTBALL LINEUPS

No. Blue Jackets Wt. Pos. Wt. No. Navyators 57 George Schmees 185 LE 187 21 Fred Meyers 51 George Terry 205 L T 195 38 Bernard Johnson 54 Bill Dawson 186 LG 196 36 Grant Potter 52 Vern Seliger 195 C 195 22 Wilbur Wool 20 Santino Meo 193 RG 200 46 LeRoy Littlejohn 50 Walter Heiman 210 RT 193 19 Earl Godfrey 24 Lloyd Root 170 RE 195 17 Murel Brown 39 Bob Ferrier 185 FB 185 24 Warren Swanson 43 Bill Schroeder 196 RH '185 10 James Riddle (C) 22 Jerry Rice 185 LH 165 11 William Draper 21 Doyle Tackett 185 QB 183 20 Emile Meyen

Officials-Referee, D. A. Pierce; umpire, J . H. Hole; field judge, F. J. Luzar; head linesman, V. Farrell

Miss Bileci's Wedding Day A. Cu enza, Army of the U nited States. T he couple wi1\ leave im­

Mis Evelyn Bileci, secretary to mediately for the East where " Gus" Lieut. Comdr. For berg, today will wi1\ r eport for duty at Fort become the bride of Lieut. Jasper Dix , N. J .

SATURDAY, OcTOBEI. 9, u·n

N avyators Beat St. Mary's; Play Here Tomorrow

Those high scoring Navyators, ranking football organization on the Pacific slope, remain on the Peninsula this week to entertain those interested in the pigskin pasttime with a game tomorrow with the Naval Personnel Dis­tribution Center on the Monterey High School field. Last Sunday, Lieut. Kern's 37-man task force went on a second half spree to down a scrappy St. Mary's College outfit, 33 to 7, at San Francisco.

Today's gam~. at 1430, will be attended by some 900 cadets in addition to an expected capacity crowd of approximately 5,000 ci­vilians and service men. All cadets except those of the Seventeenth

EXTENDED LIBERTY Shore liberty tomorrow from

1100 until after the football game has been cancelled. Shore liberty will start immediately after the game and extended liberty tomorrow baa been granted a. fo11oWl: Thirteenth until 2245; Fourteenth, Fif­teenth and Sixteenth until 1945.

Cadets of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Six­teenth battalion will fall in on the Yorktown parade at 1340 to­morrow and march to the Mon­terey High School stadium. The uniform will be blue service.

and Eighteenth Battalions, will march to the field to the cadence provided by the band and occupy the choice seats in the stadium.

Halfback Jimmy Riddle hu been named captain for the game by Lieut. Kern. The Distribution Center's Blue

Jackets from Pleasanton opened with an upset victory over the University of San Francisco but were scuttled last week by the Air Devils of the St. Mary's Pre-Flight School, 48 to O. Today the visiting coach, Lieut. (jg) Jim Bausch, hopes to even the score by upset­ting the Navyators. Bausch en­joyed a colorful career as an AlI­America fullback with the Univer­sity of Kansas Jayhawkers in 1929 and gained lasting fame in the 1932 Olympic Games at Los An-

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Publiahcd e .. ry Saturda, for the penouel of ,be U ..... d Sta,,, Nn, P,..FIi,b, Scbool, 0.1 Moate, Calif. , at DO eXpC:nlC to the N.",y.

UPTAIN GEoaeE W . STUU, USN (Ret.) Co ..... tll •• Olc«r

LIEUT. CONK. GEoaCI. D . FITZHUCH, USNJ.. Ext"d;." Olen

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~The Expanding Circle'

By CH ..... IN ". AllUM L. "ou

A LL MEN surround their lives and their living with a circle that determines their

interests in life. For one the circle may be small, for another it may be large. Perhaps you have seen the picture of a man with a circle just drawn around his feet. Such a one indicates that his interests reach no further than himself. Perhaps that is the way en which most of us were accustomed to live.

You may know of another man who has a larger circle. This one is large enough to take in his home. He sees and cares for nothing be­yond that home and himself. His vision of life is good but small. Still we see another circle that sur­rounds a man, his home, his school, his church and perhaps his own community. Beyond that he cares for nothing. Such a man has made progress but he is still a provincial and will be bound by a certain amount of provincialism.

Beyond these circles that we have described there must be a larger and an ever expanding cir­cle which would contain man standing in the middle, inconsequ­ential but important, surrounded by his outlook, not only of his own state and nation, but his outlook of the entire world. When a man at­tains that height he has attained the ultimate expansion to which his circle may go.

So, if those are the kind of circles that can surround man and since we are men who will one day en­compass the whole world, then it is necessary for us to allow our circle to expand to see that its ex­pansion is wholesome and to as­certain what that expanded circle encompasses. And so as our vic­tories on the battlefront will go on to include peoples and nations that are now not included in our circle of environment, we must be ready to expand our circle to in­clude them in our thinking and practices. It is important that we, a the fighting men of our nation, shall be able to expand our circle of thought to include the whole world .

That inclusion will demand the exclusion of selfish practices and petty ideas.

Launching By Habelts Launched, by Yeoman and Mrs.

Hanelt. at Presidio Station Hospi­tal , I Octoher, at 1825: Paul Steven Hahelt, di placement 6 pound , 5~ ounces.

THE NA VYATOR

U. S. Navy Controls Biggest Sea-Air Power in t~e World

T HE NAVY Department is­sued a special report on Sun­day, Sept. 19, claiming the

greatest sea-air power on earth. A portion of the report is sum­marized as follows:

Modern sea-air power consists of ships, planes and shore facilities. Success of the Navy's war produc­tion program, therefore, depends upon its ability to deliver these in­struments of power.

During the intervening three years the Navy has lost 58 war­ships; a battleship, four carriers, nine cruisers, 32 destroyers, 12 sub­marines. It has transferred to other nations or converted into non­combat vessels 129 other warships. In all, it has lost or given up 484, 521 tons of fighting ships-a small navy in itself.

But a tthe end of three yean the United States hal the might­iest surface fleet in world his­tory. Againlt the 1,076 vessels of three years ago the Navy now has 14,072. Their combined ton­nage is almolt 5 million tons against . I,S75,OOO toni for the fleet of mid-I940.

months required for the carrier En­terprise, a 19,8oo-ton vessel com­pleted in May, 1938.

The new 27,OOO-ton tarrier York­town, which was completed in 30 per cent less time than the orig­inal 19,800-ton Hornet, was built in 17!/, months or about half the pre-war building time for a de­stroyer.

The 45,OOO-ton battleship New Jersey was completed in 26 per cent less time than the 35,OOO-ton Washington. Their building per­iods were 33 months and 45 months, respectively.

The heavy cruiser Wichita, completed in 1939, required 41 months to build while the larger -Boston, completed in 1943, was built in 24. The 1938 light cruiser Helena was built in 36 months; the 1943 light cruiser Biloxi in less than 26. The destroyer Niblack, turned out in August, 1940, re­quired 24 months, the Gatling, com­pleted in November, 1942, took 7~. Between the Drum in 1941 and the Aspro in 1943, submarine building time was cut 48 per cent.

Navy aircraft production is the

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9,1943

TODAY Aboard

Movie - "My Kingdom For a. Cook," Charles Colburn, Isobel EI­om. Showings at 1620 and 1910

for all Battalions and 2115 for offi­cer , Ship's Company and guests.

TOMORROW Ashore

1430 - Football, Navyators vs. Naval Personnel Distribution Cen­ter, Monterey.

FRIDAY Aboard

1900-Happy Hour, "J iven Five" and Cadet Talent.

Ashore 2100-0fficer's dance, Monterey

Peninsula Country Club. COMING MOVIES

Saturday-"Winter Time," Son­ja Henie, Jack Oakie, Carol Landis, Ceaser Romero.

Sunday - "Frontier Badmen," Noah Berry, Jr., Anne Gwyne.

:!flifrint. ~erfrice5 In the new neet the Navy, de- fastest expanding segment in the spite its losses, has 613 warships Nation's air-power building pro-compared with 383 three years ago. gram. Oill-Seven .. en,h and Ei,b, .. ntb Bamlion •. Their tonnage - 2,217,982 tons - In the 18 months between Jan- O'40-Fifteen,h and Si .... Dth BanalioD,.

h f 9 0 fi lOtS-Thirteenth and Fourttc:nth Battalion._ exceeds t at 0 the I 4 ghting uary I, 1942 and July I, 1943, pro- OUI-Catholic. Bali Iloom. ships by 70 per cent. duction of Navy planes quad- O'40-Je .. i,h, Chaplaio', Olke.

On July I, 1940, the Navy air rupled .In the 12 months of 1942, 1041-Epil<opal, St. Jobo·. Chapel. It 1 S-Vol\lftury Commvnion Scr.icc.

arm consisted of 1,744 planes of production of Navy combat planes lillI-Lauer Oa, Saiou, Po .. era Hall. which 1,197 were fighters and doubled-and redoubled. Then in _1_'oo-cb ___ ri_,,_ia_o_Sc_i_eo_c_e':.,.P_o_ .. _or_,_H_a_ll_. __ _

bombers. the ~rst six months of 1 ?43 it ap- of June 1943 account for 10 per Since that time the Navy has proximately doubled agam " d'

lost or written off as obsolete 6,800 In addition to th 15567 N _ cent of all the planes turne out m b '1 e, ~vy the three years between July I,

planes. It has transferred 2,100 to UI.t planes, the Navy has received 1940 and Jul 1 1943. No other other agencies. The Navy air arm durmg three years about 8300' y '. .

. ' . part of the American aircraft pro-of mid-1940 has been erased more planes bUilt under Army cogntz- h h 'd t of h fi . f h' 7 . gram as s own so rapl a ra e t an ve-tlmes over. ance 0 w Ich ,800 were tramers h

But the United States now has and utility planes, 450 were com- growt . . the most powerful Naval air force I bat aircraft. Navy combat aircraft range from in the world. Where there were Importance to strategy _ Air- big four-engine patrol ~ombers to 1,744 naval planes three years ago" power is the spearhead of attack. fighters. Recent emphaSIS has been on July 31, 1943 there were 18,269, Navy fighters and bombers cov- on b?m~ers. Torpedo bomber pro­a ten-fold i!1crease. . ere~ the first American landings ductlOn m the first half of 1943, .for

In the midst of war, the Ulllted agamst the Axis at Guada1canal example, was larger than dunng States has bui!t its Navy into the Morocco and Attu. Navy bomber~ the preceding 30 mon~hs of the De­greatest sea-air power on earth. struck telling blows against Nazy f~nse Pro~ram combmed. Produc­Its size is dwarfed only by the size submarines during the summer tlon of dIVe bombers and patrol of the task which confronts it. of 1943. bombers in the first six months of

Relation to strategy-Ahility to In the early months of the war this year approximates total pro-build this huge new naval force- including the Battles of Coral Se~ duction in the .preceding 2y.j years. and to continue to build at the and at Midway, Navy bombers One of the special achievements present rate-is one of the founda- drove home the attacks which has been the production of a neW tion stones of our military strategy. stopped Japan's expansion . war-inspired, carrier-based fighter It underlies our amphibious attacks To replace the Navy planes capable of matching performance in the Pacific, the Atlantic and the 10lt at Midway would have re- with the world's be t land-based Mediterranean. It protects our quired half a year at the 1940 Firepower is a Navy ship's or a long ,exterior supply routes run- rate of production. By June Navy plane's rea on for being. ning across thousands of miles of 1942, when the battle was fought: New Navy fighter planes fire in ocean . the 10ssel could have been made one minute five times the weight

Most important, it makes feasihle up in two weekI. Now they of projectiles that their 1940 prede­a strategy of attack, with all the could be reI tared in less than ces ors fired . A modern battle­risks it implies. Ability to build- four days. ship's anti-aircraft firepower is 100 or, if necessary, to rebuild-on this In the air, as on the sea, there- time what it was three years ago. scale is one of the basic advantages fore one of Amer'c ' t

.' I as grea stra- Naval 0 r dna n c e production, which the American Navy holds teglc advantages' 't IS I S power to therefore, has filled a compound over Reets of all other nations. build and t t ' b 'Id

- 0 con mue to UI - demand: arming an unprecedented The aircraft carrier E ssex, a the weapons of attack. 27,OOO-ton ship completed in De- The rise in Navy combat plane number of new hips and planes-cember, 1942, was built in 20 d t' h b and arming each ship and plane to

pro uc Ion as een so steep that an unprecedented degree. In addi-months, compared with nearly 46 the deliveries I'n th . I h e sll1g e mont (Set NAVY, pa" ')

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9,1943

New 880 Mark By Avenger Team; Barnett Gets Tie

Two relay records were erased this week and the 440-yard dash mark was tied in the general as­sault on the track marks at the Polo Field.

The 880-yard relay mark of I :40.3 made by the Dauntless squadron lasted not quite a week. This week the Avengers erased the

record with a I :39.2 perform­ance and prom­ised to lower this time before departing these parts.

The Avenger team, made up of three Kansans

GOI.DON BAI.Hllrr and a Missour-Ht Jb.rtJ 440-,.rJ

rteor' ian, tore up the turf in establishing the new mark with the result that the time for the event may stand until at least the ink is dry on the books. Only one of the men earned a track award while attending school. He is Roger D. Morgan, H-2 ; Union­ville, Mo., who lettered in football, hasketball and track in high school in addition to six (count 'em) let­ters in band and orchestra.

Running with the versatile Mor­gan were Leonard H . Campbell, H-2, Clifton, K..ins.; Albert H. Stirnaman, H-3, Wichita, Kans.; and Selmer J . Tellefson, H-3, Rob­inson, Kans.

Gordon R. Barnett, F -2, of the Dauntless outfit that set the 880-yard mark last week. tied the 440-yard dash re!=ord of 54.1 seconds set by Thomas Putman. Barnett, a native of Miltonvaie. Kans., let­tered in track at Houghton College and was the anchor man on two record-holding relay teams while an undergraduate.

A Dauntless team composed of G. R. Barnett, M. R. Boyack, F-2, Missoula, Mont., K. H. Kraemek, F-2, "Frankfort, Kans.; and G. M. Warren, F-3, Mindenmines, Mo., shattered the mile relay mark of 3:55, made by the Skyrockets, by going the distance in 3 :49.7. Both Warren and Kraemer were track

THE NAVYATOR

THE AVENGERS' 880-YARD RECORO-HoLDEIlS Stirnamin, Tellefs&n, Margan and Campbell

FOOTBALL geles when he set a new world's record for the decathalon event.

His Jackets deploy off the single and double wingback set ups and can be dangerous at times. His stars include Bill Schroeder of Milwau­kee' Pat Militano of Fresno State; Bob Ferrier of Oakland; and Bill Dawson of Louisville.

The Navyators had a busy time last Sunday against St. Mary's and trailed, 6 to 7, at the halftime intermission. The Gaels tallied in the first quarter on a 35-yard pass, Fernandes to Van Geisen. In the second stanza, after being pen­alized 138 yards that included the nullification of two touchdowns­all within a series of eight plays­Eshmont cut inside left end and went 24 yards for the first Navy counter. \\Tyatt's kick was wide and the Navyators were behind at the rest period.

In period No.3, Eshmont edged down the sidelines from his own 19 and didn't paUle until he hit the endzone--an SI-yard touch­down run. This time Wyatt's boot was good. A few minutes later Parker Hall cut loose on a SO-yard sprint for a Icore. Christ-

lettermen in high school while Boyack is getting his fir t taste of the sport.

man'. pass for the extra point wu intercepted,

A St. Mary's fumble set the stage for another t.d. in that period while Emile Meyers recovered and Swanson and Draper tugged the leather to the Gael 8. Draper went the distance in one try and held the ball while Brown kicked the point.

Late in the fourth period, Riddle contributed his scoring bit on a 66-yard run for a touchdown and again Brown kicked the point.

Each of the 37 men who made the trip saw service in the game.

NAVY tion, it has rearmed the old Reet and much of the merchant m;!,rine.

The most spectacular recent in­crease has been in the production of torpedoes. When the defense program began the Navy had one torpedo plant turning out about three torpedoes a day. By June, 1943, the Navy had seven torpedo plants producing scores of tor-pedoes a day. .

Indicating continued momentum and bigger production to come, August torpedo production was two and one-half times the monthly average for the first quarter of this year, and approximates the total torpedo output during all of World War I.

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Coronados Top Sports Program In Final Week

The Coronados of Company K bid a fond farewell to their play­mates in the Sports Program last week by winning eight of nine meets and out-scoring the other eleven squadrons by a comfortable margin. Only a loss in track mar­red the otherwise perfect record for their final week of competition.

In the runner-up spot for the week were the Avengers and the Kingfishers occupied the third rung, one-half point ahead of the Mustangs.

A nose dive rarely equalled was executed by the usually daring Dauntless squadron that has led the standings since the faIl season started three weeks ago. Last week the Dauntless outfit could register only 22 points and as the result slipped to second place in the cumulative standings.

The Kingfishers now are out in front with 121 y, points with Dauntless second with 118!/, and the up-coming Avengers next in line with 109.

The outstanding performance made by the Coronados in Sports Program competition was in the tumbling division where a new high scoring record of 1,449 points for the 3-week period was estab­lished. The squadron's tumbling team, coached by Ens. Baughman, tallied 300 points in one meet for a new mark and Cadet P . J. Laune made a new individual record by averaging 35 points per meet.

The standings: I:iop..ber 121 Y. Dauntless llt~ ATcnpr 109 Coronado 101 Tildeat '7Y. Soaaull '7

VindicatOi .'~ Conair " MUluaC Uy. Hdldi .. , n~ Ma.rinet JJ Caulina SO

THE. STATISTICS

N.." $/. M. Fint down, _-,-_ _ ___ 11 , Yards "intel rushins (net) _ 'US 17' Yard. pined pauin&: IDS 90 PUDtinl a-.enp 41.' )2.2 Opponenu' fumbles rKonrcd _ 2 •

Naryators 0 '20 7-.)) S,. Mary ', 7 0 0 _ 7

Toucbdo ..... -V ... Goi .... (S,. Mary',), Ella· mont 2. H.II. Draper and "iddle. Poia.u aftu touc.ftdo"D-Y~emc1ec (St. Mary',). "yatt, Brown 2.

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Advancements To Fifteen Men In Ship's Company

Fifteen members of the Ship's Company recently received ad­vancements in ratings, two mem­bers were detached for sea duty

and two report­ed aboard.

T. A. Burgess, Bgmstr Ic, and R. L. Hefferan, AM M 3c (ad­vanced from SIc October 1),

~~~:\h. shoved off this CHIRP .... GaN week to report

H. woitl. lIN ""i •• I_, toR/ S, San ~ Francisco. The

two members reporting aboard were M. E. Ellis, PhM3c; from Marine Barracks, Camp Elliott, Calif., and A. S. Korshak, S2c, from NAS, Glenview, III.

L . S. Bergen, advanced to Chief Motor Machinist Mate, was sched­uled to get dunked in the pool but since the "best laid plans of mice and men" sometimes go haywire, his mates had to be satisfied with giving him a ducking in the wash tub at the garage. His men pro­vided him with a new chief's hat and the uniforms are on their way. Other advancements :

H. L. Monks, MoMM2c, to Mo­MMlc; R. A. Hamilton and C. F. Morton, SK2c to SKlc; R. J. Tay­lor, SK3c to SK2c; A. W. Nyholm, Y2c to Ylc; R. P . Ross, Y2c to VIc; J. T. Stewart, PhM3c to Ph­M2c; A. R. Krueger, M. F . Tanner and R. G. Woolley, HAlc to Ph­M3c; W. ]. Dillinger, W . L . Mer-

THE NAVY ATOR

Viewing the tricky of 3-comer pants Yeoman Habelt (left), who became the father of a bouncing baby boy-Paul Steven-last Friday. Providing the expert instruction is a veteran of IS months experience, Musician Whitman, whose daughter, Sandy, is his favorite pin-up girL

cer and J. P. Shadwick, HA2c to thorized by the Navy. The plastic HAlc; and G. Kahn, S2c to SIc. devices now are available in regu­

lar size and in miniature for the The wearing of officers' cap de- garrison cap. Use of the plastic

vices made of plastic has been au- cap device is optional with officers.

SATURDAY, OCTOBE1l9, 19-43

Lieut. Kolf Commands' The New Eighteenth

Lieut. R. M. KoH, making his debut as a battalion officer, this week greeted the 260 members of the Eighteenth and introduced them to the quar­ters aboard the Saratoga. The Dallas Selection Board sent 115, Kansas City pro­vided 65 and 80 came from the Los An gel e s area: J.UT. KoLP

!:leut. KoH, a Md •• bow •• b.II.li" nattve of Osh- of un kosh (b'gosh), Wis., is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, lettered in football, basketball, track and baseball and has the unique distinction of being se­lected all-conference quarterback one season and all-conference guard the next.

On his staff as company officers are Lieut. (jg) Stalcup and Lieut. (jg) Strong and the following en­signs as platoon officers: Dickin­son, Nye, Fuhrer, Vaughn, Hat­field and Brooks. Lieut. (jg) Mc­Aboy is the supernumerary on the staff.

The title of lieutenant com­mander was introduced in the United States Navy in 1862 with the reorganization of the service. Previous to this time all lieutenants in command of smaller men-of­war were called "Lieutenant Com­manding."