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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every sport-minded Navy officer in Honolulu knew about "Chug-Chug" Williams. For three years the star of the Navy submarine base team, he was a big, wide-shouldered outfielder, who batted lefthanded, whaled the ball at a .350 clip in the cleanup spot. Last year, he helped his team win the island championship. When the team was all set to leave for San Diego to compete for the Navy championship, Chug-Chug refused to go. A chief petty officer got suspicious. Two days later, Chug-Chug surrendered. He admitted he was Seaman First Class Louis B. Williams, sought...
...court-martial reduced the charge against 25-year-old Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him off to San Francisco's Treasure Island to await final action. There last week he learned that Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews had set aside the court's sentence. The Navy ushered Williams back into civilian life...
Under the high overcast the air was sharp and clear; from the control tower at Washington National Airport, swarthy, earnest 21-year-old Glen T. Tigner could see for miles out over the Virginia countryside. Traffic was light. A war surplus P-38, owned by the Bolivian government, took off for a practice flight at 11:37. It snarled off out of sight. Then there was a lull before Eastern Air Lines flight 537, a four-engine DC-4 inbound from New York, asked for landing instructions...
Within the hour, a boyish 28-year-old with cropped blondish hair and a ready grin wheeled into the vacant spot near A. O. Rickenbacker's hardware store. He hopped out of the Ford, opened the trailer door, set the coffee pot on the butane stove in the pint-sized kitchen, spread farm literature across his "parlor" table, and rigged a microphone out front. Hugo Sims, youngest man in the U.S. House of Representatives, last week was "at home" to his constituents of Cameron (pop. 624), as he would be in every one of the 150 cities, towns...
...deliberately advised his stepson to refuse to register, he said, and had offered him money to skip to Canada or Mexico. The stepson disregarded the advice and on his 18th birthday registered. But 40-year-old Wirt Warren, a Unitarian and a Socialist who had been drafted as a conscientious objector in World War II, was plainly inviting the U.S. to make something of it anyway...