The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-22
SHIPYARD GIVEN
EAGLE PENNANT
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tCO0tIUueQ fdkC OuCJ
by Miss Mary Ann Milburn, daugh-
ter of General and Mrs. Milburn.
Her attendants were her mother;
Miss Barbara Martin, daughter OF
Col. Darwin D. Martin of Camp
Davis; and Miss Rachel Cameron,
daughter of Mayor and Mrs. Bruce
B. Cameron.
The program got underway at
$40 p. m. with the shipyard band
playing the "Star Spangled Ban
ner", followed by the welcoming
of guests by Storer P. Ware, Sec
retary of the shipbuilding COM
pany. The S. S. John Branch slid
down the ways at p. m. to the
accompaniment of shouts by work
ers who sent her sliding.
Explaining that the N. c. Ship
building company is one of the
six shipyards in the nation to at
tain the Eagle Award. Captain
Macauley pointed out that "every
other yard is reaching for the
standards which you have set.
when we first set a schedule
OF 105 days from keel laying to
delivery" he said, there were
many people who said it could
not be done. But this yard has
proved again and again that it
can be done, and in less than one
third of that time.
Close Race
preliminary reports show that
the N. C. Shipbuilding company is
running a close race for first
place in the nation in low cost per
ship. And it is very close race
for you were in first place for
several months during the past
year. This is a great tribute to the
efficiency sof this yard and to the
spirit of the workers who are build
ing these ships. The cold figures
in black and white tell better than
I can why you deserve this Mari
time Eagle award. You have built
these ships and seen them slide
down the ways for service on the
seas.
1T has been my duty to follow
these ships on the jobs for which
you have built them. AS Deputy
Administrator for the War Ship
ping Administrat ton, l have seen
how well they served. My job has
been the recruiting and training of
thousands of men to whom we had
to teach the trade of seafaring in
a few short months SO that they
might help to sail these ships
you build.
"The strength of our armies in
battle today is the strength of
the merchant ship. And the
strength of the merchant ship is
only the strength of the men who
build them and the men who sail
them. The War Shipping Admins
tration knows it can place our men
aboard these vessels with conf
|dence that they are the best and
strongest service ships that can
be built. The credit for this goes
to you shipbuilders," Captain Ma
cauley said.
1T is because Of contributions
such as this on our home front
the production of essential supplies
and equipment and the means of
Transporting them when and where
they are needed-as well as be-
cause of the gallant and persistent
efforts of our armed forces as sea,
in the air, and on land, that we
are beginning to win," General
Milburn declared.
Calling this war the ''most in
credibly destructive holocaust the
world has ever seen," he said
there is only one choice, "either of
winning and winning completely,
or bringing eventual destruction
upon ourselves. We must destroy
our enemies lest they destroy us.
We must crush them so thorough
ly that they will not be able to
make war again, not only against
us but against our children, and
our children's children. We must
prove to them forever that war
does not pay"
The launching was attended by
a number of high ranking Army
officers from Camp Davis, memb-
ers of i':e First British Composite
Anti-aircraft battery, and the fol-
lowing who accompanied Commits
sioner Macauley here from Wash
ington: Lieut.. Condr Stanton H.
Delaplane, USMC, assistant to
Commissioner Macauley; Telfair
knight, assistant deputy admins
traitor for training, War Shipping
Administrations; Hubert Wyckoff, as
sistant deputy administrator for
labor relations; and Lieut.. John
U. Terrell, USMS, supervisor of
overseas correspondents section,
VISA.