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...over the big fellow and his brother Negroes came up panting. Asked the officer in command: "Which was that man who was way ahead?" The big fellow should have saluted. But it is hard for a man to remember the rules when he is only two days a sailor. He raised his hand and said: "It was me." "Well," said the officer, "that was fine...
Members of U.S. Navy training units at Northwestern University petitioned National W.C.T.U. President Ida B. Wise Smith to undertake "a drive against the misconception that Navy men are intemperate," to "seek to discredit the popular simile 'reeling like a drunken sailor.' " Said President Smith, reassuringly: "We of the W.C.T.U. will be glad to help them defend their reputations...
...left in the hotel got almost too much attention. An average of two first-aiders hovered over each; extra workers entertained them with cards and checkers, plied them with magazines, cigarets, candy. Miss Loretta Besa, formerly of Santiago, Chile, now a New Englander, was called in to interpret the sailors' Spanish. She took down a letter from a Puerto Rican to his wife: "Dear Wife, I am O.K. Everything is about the same." One sailor refused to eat until he found out the food was free. All his money went down with the ship. A luckier sailor was found...
...Nevertheless her crew took aboard most of her planes, had three fires under control and another nearly out when an internal explosion (apparently of escaping gasoline fumes) rent the Lexington. At 5:07 p.m., her commander, Captain Frederick Carl Sherman (since promoted to Rear Admiral), gave the sailor's saddest order...
Another bill to ease the soldier's and sailor's lot will probably get final Congressional treatment this week: the benefit bill for allowances to dependents. An enlisted man's wife, for instance, would receive $22 a month from her husband's pay, plus $28 from the Government—so that the wife will get $50, the husband $28. This bill has also been made retroactive to June 1, but machinery to make payments won't be ready before November...