Columbia (CL 56) - Naval Cruise Book

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do ,L- D8 USNR l 2 HERE f Fo ND from the temple of the Gold Braided Father there came the murmur and the roar as of great violence, and the earth shook, and the skies clouded over, and the rivers dried up, and the trees withered, and the prophets said unto the populace, This is the year of the great plaguef' And they heard themkand straightway went to their homes and called their families about them, and made ready for the great scourge. But it came to pass that this scourge was to be of a form that was strange to them all, and fearsome in its unknown qualities, for there xt Far were those among the people who were timid, and there were those who were brave, but even the strongest and the bravest and the wisest were to see something in the days that came that was to set them shivering and quaking as the leaf on the tree during the great wind. And I say unto you that the plague struck, and great Caverns opened in the earth, and from them issued forth black smoke, and fearsome oaths and the smell of fermented grain, and the black creature, with the gold stripes that was to be known to all as the Ensign. three

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two LIEUTENANT COMMANDER LAWRENCE E BROMBERIGK Qehbahbn O L1eutenant Commander L E Bromberxck we respectfully ded1cate th1S CTUISC Book Our Trammg Offlcer for the three months that we were 1n trammg aboard the Columb1a, our counselor when doubts entered mto our mmds Commander Brombenck was ever ready to g1VC adv1ce and ass1stance to those needmg lt For th1s and h1s firm fr1endsh1p we extend our deepest apprec1at1on

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And the people of the West knew of the scourge as great caverns at the places where before had been the sunny campuses of Cal. Tech and Coloradog and in the Midwest the sky blackened about Iowa State and M1ch1gan wh1le 1n the sunny Southland the people stood by and watched for they were used to the v1le org1es of those who were known to them only as the Rambhn Wrecks the Blue Dev1ls the Gamecocks and the Tarheels but th1S was to be a day to remember and they d1d Bel1eve me And the snows of the Northland melted and the streets ran w1th blood as the hordes from RPI and Brown found freedom and 1n dulged 1n lt causlng great notre and great mewzment and great zll eelmg among the populace And stra1ghtway they set about to reach a rendezvous where the 1ll assorted group could assemble and as the b1rd fhes to h1s nest so they d1rected themselves to the place that 1S to be known as Newport And they belabored the ra1lroads and they bes1eged the a1rl1nes and It has come to the attent1on of the Leglon na1res of the Law that one was k1lled when he 1 1 f, l U AA, l'..Llh F ou! LEFM Kww R four ,M K' At f is f l 'A X f lk 'LR X Z' N K f A MW Cl QALU 6 I, f X X xxtv OH COME NOW, Mac pcm 1' sive ME THAT LINE ABDUT THIS BEA TIFUL DOLL EE mc, youk wir could not produce that whlch 1S called the t1cket to the place called Newport And the tr1ckle became a stream and the stream became a rzver and for the day and the mght and the next day the r1ver broadened and the earth trembled as these men came Down the pathways from the great c1t1es roar1ng and shout1ng as 1f 1ni'l1cted they swung 1n a great arc through the Clty of Newport, causlng much d1scuss1on and much fear for And lt came 1nto bemg that the gates of the base were Stfalned and sprung from the vast 1nHux of these men as they poured 1nto the confines of that place of ev1l name 1n a man ner that was 1ntended to frzghten but suc ceeded only 1n amuszng Into the headquar ters through the l1nes down the walks to the barracks they fought and pushed unt1l at last they came to the place to wh1ch they were asslgned and the place was crowded as the stable of the em1r dur1ng the great feast W1th anlmal growls they threw that wh1ch 1S called gear 1nto the p1le and they cleared the place for the game and henceforth they were happy ' ' , .lt ' l Y ,H 1 ' g o 0 x K ' ' : ' , f x 1 1 . ' . 0 , ' t - , Q ' -1X Cl . ., . . P ' F V ,pm X 1 ' , ' f ' l f Wx X Q -:os ' ' -I A in l . . 3 , Q K v E X P . . . . . 1 ... . 5 L 1 . . . , , -- X y here was the power of the unknown. U 1 f T5 1 , - Q -Q - sl he - W , i ....., ,T U . . Q - x a as M 3 , - , ttrsrzf- .feffr l l - . I C I . . , 'l..HND I YG! SEE H SUSPICI CHARACTERS! . 1 . . t e D - gs an me Leak 1' 1 Fo Al U ! J Q l