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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Miss Raynor Bride
Of Wilson Currin

In" llowin" announcement Will
70 .! iut"rCS, To- friend, here.
A. i >, 80
MI and Mr.. f.. l.. RHynor
al. "u'cc the mrrr'3cc of their
daughter
Miriam Thompson
Wilson Thmuas Currin
ON Monday. III" third of Angus,
nineteen hundred and rorty.,wo
StarEc. Florida
MIR. tnrin is the son of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. +. Canrim. Mr.. Cur
rin, formerly Of ONI rd. is NOW with
~" 4. =. Amy. shattered al Camp
la ding. Flnrida.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Closs's Column

TWO OF Us WERE BARGING OUT
Of The WASHINGTON Duke hotel lust
as a tail young man was barging m
There wasn't room for all OF
It's IN The marrow doorway that the
stranger MS holding open. SO with
out thinking WC walked our res.
pcctIvc ilNC-!c"t of height straight
underneath .Nr mans OutStrctchCd
arm and continued on our way
The tall man looked after us in
aStonI>hmCn' and muttcrcd audbly.
"Wcll. Didn't even say low bridge"
THE OTHER SHORT WOMAN was
feeling very much pleased. though
slightly cwU.dcrcd. over the fact
that She always seemed 20 have
change 90 her purse. No matter
where She went. there was always
a dime iOr tip. One day as we were
on our way 20 Duke hospital on the
bus. the other short woman dis
covered the source of her ever pres
Ont dimes. She mad cotton two dol
lars worth OF BUS tokens at the rate
of four tokens for quartcr. and the
tokens were exactly the size of
dimes. She knows there are wait.
rcsscS who have been surprised AT
being tipped every day with a bus
token Sic only hoped /, was
dimes instead Of tokens that She
dropped into the church collection
plate.
THE BLONDE HE'D a BOIL. = vcrv
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Dinner Is Given
For Nat B. White

IGNORING Ma; L. White. ryr.n..,
commissioned ensign in tn. l.. :
Navy. Mrs. George y. Harr ,ni,l.
aimed at dinner Monday evening
NJ patriotic motif was carried ga.
n In, table decorations. Guest il
.id,G members pi hi immcdai,
unuly.
Ensign White is the son nf Nj. anl.
Mrs. II. i. White. of Drrwry. l.,
from n. {. S:aic cnll,-s il
81 and prior T." volunteering IN e.:
NaNHl Ec>riN, nc held p,..,i..
nth The Sol! Cor. CREATION D.i i.,
/ Duhspn. y. {.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Mrs. O'LarN TO
Replace Husband
as Head First Aid

sam Afford. chairman OF the lnrlt
napier Of The American Red C,n.,
Quay SAD that Mis-. GCu@v D1.nrJ
ms pc"il made chairman Of first nia
IN vance county. succeeding her h,lS-
Dand' George OLary. who is now in
thc United States Army.
FIRST aid ella: Sos nave been con-
'uci"d III many section, Of the CITY
ma county, and u large corps of
'aIn'd FIRST aidCrS is now maintain
cd.
More classes are CXpCCicd Ia pt
conducted during the tail. Mir. a,
ord intimatcd.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Return To \orTol'x

NIlE. FTOrCnCc IInmICn ;lI II,,1,
'auEh'C". B"rk". have returned
ihcir hnn' in Nnrf~rk. VI rnn.
pending som" time with Mrs. Ham
~ mother. Mrs. Frank Farui;ncr
nj - h'S' "ni'~ parent. Mr.. ana
rs. +. l.. I!amIcn.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
nn9l" Irgm Mars Hi

Jack Gr"""rv. who WAS - .iir,lrr,
~ Mars Hill last vrHr and d,Irir,
w" .unnlcr 'rrm int cu,l.r; j. -.
Henderson with his mother. H. ,I,,
|" enter Stale College as a ..n,hr
more next month.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
(nIn"S f"rrl !VaSIlinctpn.

.iri. { !ar"nc" s. Page has returned
ON Wash n"'"r. ID. G.. where she
iSliCd her daughter. Miss Ada Uagr.
r few DAYS. Miss Page who re-
nifty m'r"d t. Washington. !. O.
"'ary I" Lieutenant Albright in the
" ".'''"' 'rarcn Of tn" War De
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Week End with s;iSicr,;

;, MrI. Grace Walter. ol Roam: k,
hapidS. spent the Weekend her,
With nrr sisters. Mrs. T.. l.. Simpson.
Mrs. Billy House, Mr.. Irwin John
son. and Mrs. Mac Champion.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11

Mrs. }. i. Smith and her SiS.cr.
Mrs. Will Currin. have returned
me after pleasant visit 10 Mrs.
smith 5 daughter. Mrs. James BE ri.
IN Chester. Pa.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
From Danyillc

MIS-. Howard Simpson and her lii
nc daughter. Katherine. oi DanvilIr
va are visiting her husbands p.n-
cilS. MIR. and Mrs. Ernest Sinnsuu
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Visits i'm Portsmouth

Miss Bula Abbott is spending this
week IN Portsmouth. Va, with her
oIo'hef-ih-law and sister, Mr.. ami
Mrs. Nj. j. Avcrctte.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Prom RNl,NOl.n IsnniI.

MIS-. Elsie Ticklcs and Ii;,ir 49,,
NilchcS' ni Rran"kc Rapids. are
N'Si'ing Mr.. TicklcS' parent. Nj.
city.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
!raycr Meeting Band.

Prayer meeting band will meet
trr evening at 3 O'Clock with Mrs.
Norman Harris. on Davis street, with
!. e May as leader.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Week End i'm Oxror,l

hliS. Phyllis, Bobby. and Ec,iy
Zoe Hupl"n spent the We, k-cnd mi,
'hcir grandmother. Mrs. W. J. DIM
can, IN Oxford.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Visits Mother.

Mr.. Dorothy Mullis, Of Roanoke
Rapids. l., visiting her mother, Mrs.
Nav Champion. oi this city.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
SOCIETY NEWS
Returns from Norr,lL

Nliitnn Abbott has re turned :, t,;..
nome III Henderson after wn,.l. NV, ,n
IN Norfolk. Va. Tor about six n,,,',E
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Sire Silk
Mrs. Mitchell improving

MIS- LWciIo Mitchell, who has hccr
'Sk III her hw" N South Hcndrr-
on. Is aid :. be- improving.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Goes To Richmond.

Nj Echccca Tippctt has gone 10
Richmond. Va. !" visit her aunt. Mrs.
Il. L. GrI-Snm. for Il few days.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
From Durham.

J. v. Abbott, Jr., of Durham,
Spc", Sund with his parents, Mr..
and Mr.. J. w. Abbott. here.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
iIIrIMrlI MilrllIIl ILL

!IHr'siI Mitchell, little son # Mr..
ana Mrs .1s"r' Mitchell. is i'll AT
his horne ODD South Henderson
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
Ia Hospital.

Mr~. l.. y. Griffin is in Maria Par.
''n h".p''Hl .ur treatment and is
ID I" h> murving.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11
hirs. Collins ImproyCS

Nh. Ggur.u Collins. vino has nrcu
i at hcr hr.. IN South Henderson.
H'a f. 10. ...nC better.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11

Friends w..I nr glad To learn that
Mrs. owen Gupt"n. vino has cen
ii al me- h"u" IN Portsmouth,. Va.
q, some hct,c. upW.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11

quarrel. he sand whereas he
hadn't read them $" nc had gone
nom" and married the girl ten years
agp.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11

Buy Victory Bond, and Stamps.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-08-11

THE BLONDE HE'D A BOIL. very
f.! 'ni' "'' >hs PVT - h@r ~.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18
Widow of James O'ConnelI
Dies at 81 in Washington

Washington, d. c. (ILNS).-Mrs.
Ellen O'Connell, widow of James
O'Conneil, nationally known labor
leader and vice-president of the Am
erican Federation of Labor, died at
her home here Dec. 3 at the age of
80. Requiem mass for Mrs. O'Connell
was held at st. Thomas the Apostle
Church, with her son, the Rev.
Thomas E. O'Connell, of St. Paul's
Church, Richmond, Va, as the cele-
brant.
Prominent in Catholic circles and
in philanthropic work, Mrs. O'Connell
was member of the Board of Trus-
tees of Trinity College and of the
Daughters of Isabella. A native of
Geneva, N. Y, she received her educa-
tion in the parochial schools there and
came to Washington 45 years ago.
James O'Connell was president of
the AFL Metal Trades Department at
the time of his death Oct. 80, 1886.
He was president of the international
Association of Machinists, 1893-1911.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18

ganized labor, and of the principles
and methods of collective bargaining,
in the accomplishment of what has
amounted to a veritable revolution in
the mechanisms Of industrial rela-
tions, the gentleman substitutes his
obvious wish for accomplished facts,
and proceeds to tell the world"
There are few such minds imper-
vious to the plain meanings of the
strides made in social progress during
the last few months. But we doubt
if even Tom Girdler would agree with
Mr.. Moley
Here is his statement of what de-
ceived him.
"It is still possible for unions to
draw up wage demands and present
them to their employers. 1t is still
legal for employers to discuss them.
AiAN AoWj III 1aSC, 1SuullSS employers
to consider them where they are pre-
sented by the duly authorized repre-
sentatives of their employees. But as
for granting wage demands or reach
ing an agreement granting workers a
wage increase, the old essence of bar
gaining has been transferred to the
National War Labor Board. And the
Board doesn't bargain. 1t decides"
Now, if the war were going to last
forever, and the temporary structures
Of it's administration were to be sub
stituted for the whole legal structure
of the national definition of industrial.
as well as other, relations, Mr.. Moley
might be-could be-right. But that
is assuming a lot of things, which
Mr.. Hitler even might desire, for a
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18
Department of Justice
Considers Probe of
Spartanburg Case

Philadelphia (ILNS). - u d G e
George A. Welsh in the Federal Dis
trict Court imposed a total of $21 900
in fines on five companies and four
local unions of the United Hatters,
Cap and Millinery Workers Interna-
tional Union after they changed their
plea of innocent to nolo contendere on
charges of conspiring to fix the price
of Army caps.
At the same time Edward A. Kali
lick, Assistant United States Attor-
ney, said that charges against eleven
individuals, all officers of the compa-
nies and the local unions, and the in
ternational union would be dropped.
This group pleaded innocent.
The companies were fined 81 500
each and the local unions $3,375 each.
The companies are the Ribbon Narrow
Fabric Company, L. Lewis & Son,
Bernard Greenberg & Co., and the
American Manufacturing Company,
all of New York, and the King Kard
Overall Company, Philadelphia. The
local unions are in Philadelphia, New
York, Chicago and ST. Louis.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18
Truths Pondered While
Riding at
Anchor
"Then gently scan
your brother man"
BY Mr.. M0destus-
WAR CASUALTIES

VAN CAOO ALLIES
One Of the little comets flashing in
the great constellation of the early
days Of the New Deal was Raymond
Moley From somewhere near the
horizon he still flashes occasionally.
One of his recent flashes carried a
small hallucination, purporting to dis
close as reality the following mes
sage:
''The discovery thai most of the
substance of collective bargaining has
gone takes time" (See Newsweek,
Nov. 80, 1922
We quite agree: 1t will take lot
of time.
Because millions of new workers, in
new industries, under conditions so
new that former procedures have had
to be laid aside under the pressure of
war emergency, have reduced the ex-
tent of industrial disturbances to an
astonishing minimum, has fuddled
Mr.. Moley's mind little. But, in
stead of marking the function of or
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18
TRANSPORT WORKERS
URGED TO SABOTAGE
IN AXIS TERRITORY

London (ILNS) Urging railroad
and other transport workers in Axis
territory to commit sabotage, Philip
Noel-Baker, parliamentary secretary
to the British Ministry of War Trans
portation, asserted that Hitler's inte-
rior communication lines have begun
to fail "just when he needs them
most"
Broadcasting to workers in Ger
many and Nazi-held territory, Noel
Baker said:
Every railway car that is wrongly
labeled, every tank that is punctured,
every radiator that leaks, every order
that is misunderstood, every bridge
that collapses is victory won for
freedom"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18
Teachers Get Pay Increase

Blanket salary increases Of $40 a
month for 270 teachers and 60 other
school employees were voted by the
Hamilton Board of Education Tues
day.
The increases will be for the calen-
dar year of I943, subject to approval
of the War Labor Board.
1t is calculated that the added sal
aries would increase the annual pay
roll more than $4,000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18
US. WORKERS OFF DEC. rs ONLY

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has announced that
the usual Christmas leave of govern
ment workers would be restricted to
Dec rs because of the war. In normal
times, with Christmas falling on Fri
day government employees would have
been released at noon Thursday and
would not have been required to re-
port back until Monday.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18

Our pseudo-social scientist might as
well derive a complete demolition of
the whole competitive structure, as
b w en- automotive manufactur-
ers, from the present magnificent and
efficient pooling of engineering wis
dom, for instance. Nothing like the
latter has ever been seen in this world
of mechanical industry; and the desir-
ability of it's accomplishments might
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18

Board.
But the very thing which makes it
possible to reduce what otherwise
would be state of industrial anarchy
in the midst of war emergencies, to a
state of rational and continuing war
production, with a fair certainty that
the difficulties, arising from whatever
facts, have prospect of elimination,
is the prior existence of the very
structure of industrial relations, based
upon collective bargaining.
Without that structure, there would
have to be, in veritable reality, that
state of dictatorship which so many
enemies of collective bargaining have
been so loudly prophecying.
AS it is, democratic methods are
being applied, by people who secuted
the idea some months ago.
And, as matter of fact, those who
were the main proponents of the old
methods of fighting it out, with the
help of army and sheriffs, probably
are rather enjoying the more peace
able processes of the very thing they
formerly refused to look at.
The large fact remains, that the
principles and methods of collective
barpainiup are meeting the StiffeSt
test to which they could be subjected.
And your old friend rugged individ-
ualism" is not carrying off any of the
honors.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18
Rooster Of Organizations

- AltT o 1s
aborTe
No 4ER
p
No o11.~ 1t and 3d rdy " M
Brdge & sur1o I 1a Tuesday br pe
Trad Council Meets alternate dy
City Fir IhhrsN POM Tuesday 4 No.
Cnpem AN Jdas No. e87~2 2a4h Thursday Tpe
CparM Mer' Unio No 2nadAh Mondays Ib
CuinryE tel sehW Workers. aTo Agnes Hammond
ctil Wednesday, Labor Tempe W No
275
Letter Carriers. 3r Friday Fred Moore
Ibs nj 77o - JW
No I'm eAl
4s
Ice and Haerd
Monday T. C No No
der'U UnhnN 2n C M
Musician Local No tsundM Ib Tempt eChl
Thursday Labor Temple Skr Temple
9R w
n days. C Raymo
Paanes and dCmentFh nser No 2a b Tpl R.
mher'U Union No Bird Mondays
Retail Umon st and rd Whys
No 4h Wednesday, Han- .Davd tile
Metal Workers No usda labor Douglass
yEndner No tMudayT Wm ddA
No Thursday Labor Temple 10 McCk7
Wednesday, 1B No
unursU mo stand 3rd T
tNIndayT Tom Cleveland
State Employees
Sunday Temple. AePh
phna Union No d b eMa
WomansU League Other Tuesday,
Ii
Cuncl Alternate Thursdays
aanTu C
sCuncnHa Han.R No Main
Musician No 32~ list sd anE
Electrical Workers mo 6A~.~ Hamilton Jh
Cp 10 77 Hall Otrven
Plumber and dstamfu
an 63n
4O9 tM
Stage Employees tes T c.
VIM mrtDa aton
nNo487~ list Monday Traasc
dHodC No
Drver.... ade Council
B Trd@ @coucn.~- Alternate
HalMabl Whitaker Charles
Mehanrs~ radm mcouclHan- wFo
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18

1t is true enough just at present,
that well-intentioned but obdurate
employers, or workers getting the
squeeze" between rising rents, food
prices, and the like, are compelled to
continue the making of war materials,
while waiting for the cooler and less
frictional processes of the War Labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18

well go far to suggest its permanence
But what kind of RECOMMENDATION
that would be, in whatever name il
might be proposed!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-18

very different state of postwar proba-
bilities.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-03
Oppressive Labor
Practices Listed
In Proposed Bill
LaFOllette Introduces
Measure to Protect
Civil Liberties

WASHINGTON, April 8.
(UP) = Sen. Robert M. La
Toilette, Prog, Wis, today
introduced an Oppressive
labor practices" bill designed
to invoke criminal penalties for II
specific types of action defined as
interfering with collective bargain
ing and organization rights.
The bill carries q maximum pen
atty of $4,000 or six months for
violation of its criminal provisions
The measure is an outgroWth OF
the Civil Liberties investigation con-
Quoted by a senate labor subcom-
mittee headed by La Toilette, and
enlarges on a similar bill introduced
in 1889 which listed four specific
types of oppressive labor practices
The 1899 measure was passed by
the senate, Al to 90, in May, 194O,
but died in the house.
The new bill defines as oppressive
labor practices:
/. Use of labor spies.
g Use Of strike breakers.
3. Employment of private, armed
guards off company property except
where necessary for protection
against theft of goods or money in
transit.
4. Use or possession Of industrial
munitions in or about place OF
employment or during labor dis
pute.
5. Conspiracy to injure or intimi-
date persons to interfere with thelr
performing collective bargaining
acts.
6. Conspiracy to blacklist persons
7. Agreement among employers
to refuse to engage in collective
bargaining.
8. Yellow dog contracts, where
by employers force individual work
ers to agree not to exercise their
organization or bargaining rights
as condition of employment.
9. Participation in a conspiracy
with a group of employers to in
iure or intimidate employers and
employees to prevent collective bar
gaining. This would include at .
tempts to punish company through
damage to its credit.
10. Conspiracy to engage in the
oppressive labor practices previously
prescribed.
IL. Action by responsible officers
and employees of any type OF en-
ployers' association which La Fol-
lette described as being taken with
knowledge of the absence OF appro-
pirate registration" with the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-03
Oil Firm FIayed for Gas
Delivery to Axis Airline

WASHINGTON, April 3 (UP) =
Assistant Secretary of State Adolf
A. Berle, Jr., testified at a senate
hearing today that last october rep
resentatives of Standard Oil Co.
(N.JD refused to breach a contract
to supply gasoline to axis air lines
in Brazil.
Berle said two days after the
initial refusal, New Jersey Stand
ard agreed to cooperate with the
state department. During those two
days the government began action
to blacklist the firms Brazilian sub
sidiary and news of it travelled
fast" Berle commented.
The refusal was based, Berle said,
on the ground that the company's
Brazilian subsidiary had a contract
with Condor, German controlled
Brazilian air line, to supply avia'
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-03
Humane Officer
Reports Results

El Centro's new humane officer
Jim Scroggins, wasn't fooling when
he pledged himself to enforce to
the letter the city's amended dog
ordinance.
Hired less than tive weeks ago,
Scroggins Friday had destroyed 80
stray CANNES, sold seven dog
licenses, warned scores of unlicens'
ed dog owners and had nearly a
dozen pets impounded awaiting
either to be claimed within three
days or put away"
These activities were listed In
the monthly report of the police
department, which also showed
Total arrests for all offenSes, 118,
total fines collected, $93150.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-03
Army Will Parade
Here on Monday

To most towns, Army Day, which
is next Monday, will be a mere
symbol. Patriotic citizens will ar
range suitable celebrations and
wave flags and generally give visi-
BILE evidence of their appreciation
of what the army is doing for
everybody.
But in Ell Centro, Army Day will
be exactly what it implies. The
army will take over, lock stock and
barrel, and many citizens will get
what probably will be their best
glimpse of Imperial Valleys very
own army, the boys from Camp
Seeley.
All dowltown stores will close
from 10 TO 1890 a. m. while vir-
tually all Seeley men and a lot
of battle equipment march and
rumble along Main street in what
promises to be the biggest parade
CT years.
The parade will form at Eighth
and Main, march to Fourth street,
thence to State and proceed west
to Eighth again, where it will dis
band
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-03

Chungkpng dispatches reported,
however, that Chinese forces under
Lieut.. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell, U.
S. A., were again advancing in Bur-
ma, having taken much enemy war
material and recaptured an air.
drome, apparently just north of
TOungoo.
The enemy appeared still to be
making his greatest effort against
the British and Chinese forces hold
ing positions just north of Prone
and Toungoo on the Burma front
in an effort to influence Allied
negotiations for Indias war aid or
perhaps to strike at india before
an independence agreement can be
achieved.
There were reports in Chungking
that President Roosevelt might be
urged to intervene in an effort to
bring about settlement of the In
dia dispute and the Axis radio
broadcast report that China;
Chang Kai-shek again had urged
a settlement but dispatches from
New Delhi said the Indian Nation
aliSts still were unsatisfied on ar
rangements for direction of home
defense, election of a constitutional
assembly and provisions that might
result in creation of two dominions.
JAPS CONTROL AIR
The battle for Burma, on the ap-
proaches to India, was still going
in favor of superior Japanese forces
backed by almost unchallenged air
control for the time being.
On the west Allied flank, the Brit
ish fell back from Prone, at the
gateway to the Burma oil fields,
due to a sudden and strong enemy
push.
On the east flank, the Chinese
under Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell were
holding positions north of Toungoo,
but London spokesmen said that
the enemy was using his superior
air power in an effort to outflank
both the Prone and Toungoo fronts
and to split the British and Chinese.
So far this has not been achieved,
although further parallel retirement
of the British and Chinese may be
necessary.
The British denied Chinese mil
itary spckesman's statement that
Continued on Page 6; Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-03

posts outside continental United
States against the day when Ameri-
can arms start driving forward in
the farflung theaters of war.
The name for the new service is
phonetically derived from the ini-
tials "C.B."-Construction Battalion
From the Aleutians to Australia,
from Iceland to the Red sea, from
the Caribbean to India the Seabees
will lay the stepping stones essential
to ultimate victory over the Axis.
Primarily their job will be to
build-everything from docks and
dock facilities to air fields, run
ways, hangers, oil tanks, structures
of all kinds and artillery emplace-
ments and mounts. But the Seabees
must be as handy with a tommy
gun as with a carpenters hammer
Alone or with supporting army or
marine units, they will be expected
to defend themselves against enemy
attack while they do their work.
The Seabees are being recruited
among men II to 40 years old from
all over the country, and trained
in a S7O00,00O center recently COM
missioned at Norfolk, Va. Thus far
the Navy has been authorized to
train six regiments, or Is batallions,
totaling nearly 10000 men.
Symbolizing the Seabees dual role
of builder and fighter, the Navy
has designed an arm insignia pictur-
ing a flying bee with sailor hat
and a ferocious scowl.
"In its forehand, or leg" as the
Navy puts it. "it clutches splitting
tommy gun; in its amidship hand,
wrench, and in its aft hand, car
penters hammer
Seabees will be sent first to bases
already under construction in the
Atlantic or Pacific to augment and
eventually replace civilian construc-
ton workers not skilled in fighting,
Subsequent units will be assigned
to duty elsewhere as opportunity
arises to establish new bass or re-
capture old ones.
when they tell us to put a base
in somewhere" Seabee officer said,
well move in there and put it in