The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-11
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

 i've thousand officers and nlon--- with millions to spend Broad. way, teeming with blue uniforms. Broadway. sprinklcd with girls wearing sailor hats Hello, saiiorl" Every taxi dance hail has sign; Girls Wanted for Dancing Partners" ...
 The fleets inl Park benches painted In biuo and gold, the navy colors. Busy park benches, too,
 Looks like they're all what they call petty ofilcorE," says . weary cop {. Buriesquo shows crowded hs they never havo boon. Crowded until there's no room for csnsorh, COney Island Sighted i~
 Concy Island and sightseeing buses uBo pretty girls as "shills'-- to ontlce sailors aboard with the expectation that they'll have agroc- able company during tho trip. But just before the cars pull ou, tho ''shills" leavo--and sit in in town, too. But they're not hay. ing much fun; people constantly mistake them for thoator door, mon Around tho landing sta.a tons the walls Of tho telephone booths airoady are oiutterod with numbers some of them coded with stars, "iIotty. G.--Chelsea 3.0DSs
 four starB)." -Four stars on ns flag mean m admiral. / but four stisfs yin ,4B teiepbonc" booth moan "admirabie" .s.. rp sr ,t
 Tho Destroyer Boggs is the fieot'g busiest ship because IFS communications center, sonding meBsnges to mon up and down the two rivers, and taking messages from thom to people ashore. Eleven operators handle tiie rndios and telegramB Meet ne seven thirty tonight soldiers and sailors monuments" OrdorB Helen. "See you nt your know whera Wednes' day stop bring pal" suggcsts Flo. only sailor in fleet reminds m irato lass named Rachel
 E'Icet.ing Love
 Most of thom try 10 put in "loyo and kissos, but the com munieations mon found themselves too busy to bother with such trihcs. 4 radioman named Scott told mo he had ruthlossly siaBhed tho first four words from "Yours very truly loving Helen" in the sig. nature Of c message to q seaman. But she criod until ho restored 4Ii tho words. It seems the pair had quarrcled at their last meeting "Another dame nled four mos. sagcs," said Scott. "she made and br0ke . dato thrce times, and 1 wish 70 gosh she'd make up her mind."
 In addition to wiroF and radio- grams there are something lik6 TOO 1000 letters waiting for the yis. itOrs. Skittering launches doiiv- cred thom all, too. except ono ad- drossod; ITO the Tall, Blond Sail. or on the U, $. s. Pennsylvania.'
 Mayor LaGuardia delivered tho town tO the fleet. And hos tho same LaGuardIa who, ng n con' gressman, always was on his feet prOtesting when q big navy was mentioned in Washington ... Patrolmen and policemen swarm along Riversid Drive, but haven't noticed much interfer. cnco with the extra. niariuai Actiyi. ties Of tho gobs. Ladies or tic evening pass out printed cards bearing addresses In the sinful Seventies m
 Marked Men
 The tattoo shops. moved ups town from the BoweIy, are busy. Prof. Paul Hansen, Just in from Minneapolis with "pnlnleas" iD- struments and n lot of rev de- signs, holds forth at the iading station just above NIncty-gixth street His first three customers were girls. but that was before ths ships came to anchor in the Hud. son. Now he mostly does cover up work; sailors rush to him to have the names of old sweethoarts eradicated before they see the gals of Gotham 1. Professor Hanson Is proudest of his treatment of large design which included two pierced hearts and the inscription, "Rcba and Charles, S. IT,, 1053." He transformed the whole thing into 6 vase of roges.