Castor (AKS 1) - Naval Cruise Book

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The Lucky Bag When men aboard ship are careless with their clothes and possessions, leave them lying around, they are appropriated by the master-at-arms. They are placed in a repository called the lucky bag, and it isn ' t a lucky thing, paradoxically, to have your possessions in that bag. If the owners are identified they are subject to the performance of extra duty. All clothing which isn ' t identified and returned to its owner after he has performed extra duty, is auctioned off from time to time. Keeper of the lucky bag aboard Castor is R. E. Davis, known universally among his shipmates as Lucky Bag Davis. Lieut. Marvin Park, USNR, and F. J. Mandella, CEM, took all the photos and made them up in the ship ' s own dark room. APC L. A. Gambino helped in the dark room. Lieut. W. E. Huelle, USNR, made the layout for the book and wrote the material for it. Capt. F. C. Huntoon supervised the whole effort. One would think that a department titled Costumes might be going a bit too far on a Can Do ship like the Castor. But after all. Castor had its Queen and the queen had to have costumes. Credit must be given then, to the guy who created and made the costumes Lulu wears throughout this presen- tation, namely, Shelby Minton, signalman first class, whose expert flag maker ' s fingers gave our little dog the finery she exhibits here and there among these pages.