General Sturgis (AP 137) - Naval Cruise Book

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cvuw Cxcetvts jrccm Jkc {Jeuetal Are your love letters dry lately? Do you seem to fail to let the one you love know exactly how you feel? If this is in your case feel free to consult Ray CRELLIN, Slc(SK), the master of platonic, sensual and condoling documents. Before seeing your expected bride in San Francisco, PHILPOTT, you ' d be wise to see Ensign Harold Crabbe SMITH, our ship ' s Cologne Agent. Who is the new financier on this vessel? Is it George PAINTER, GMIc, or Lady Killer Tommy THOMPSON, EMIc. R. T. BARNES, Flc, of the ship ' s snipes, the only man living today known to have traveled from Miami to Palm Springs by Alligator, has now invented the foremost secret weapon of the war, by mixing a Florida Alligator with an Eagle and adding a dash of radar. Congratulations, Mr. BARNES. The way things look in Fire Control Shop, PERKINS, FCIc, would make a better souvenir salesman than a Fire Controlman. You ' ll usually find him slaving away on one thing or another in the shack during the evenings. Weather Prediction: Hot air will emerge from the first class spaces as usual. Survey indicating that four out of five women haters are women. The other is BEECROFT, PhMlc. Les old boy, take this pregnant thought and no longer give out with your address. The First Division claim they have the loudest and most often griper in STEGURA Sic. Any competition? 02

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Second Divisioner BOHLK, Sic, has his eyes open for a certain soldier, in fact he wouldn ' t even go top side for fear of meeting him. What ' s the matter BOHLK, has your past caught up with you? Anyone wishing hotel reservation see O ' CONNOR, PFC, he has part ownership in a Seattle hotel. Guaranteed fireproof but not policeproof. The men of the signal gang have to clear out of the shack whenever mail call is sounded. The perfumed letters from Seattle of BAYHA ' s, QM I c, really stink. The second division has the same trouble with RANK, BMIc, who also received letters from the same city with a spicy odor. Fifteen minutes after mail call you might hear on the Fly ' ng Bridge, I ' ll let you smell my letter if you ' ll let me smell yours. Ye Gods, I ' ve heard everything now! That Goat-tee on SCHWEB ' s lower jaw attracted our attention. He said he planned to shave it off and place it on his bald spot before hitting what we all hope is our future destination, San Francisco. (Amost all of us anyway.) Charles VALENCIA, red-headed S2c. gave all the men sitting in the Green Hornet a rare treat when over in the Recreation Center the other day he stumbled out of the water wearing the loudest pair of green striped shorts! While swimming is the subject, Cox. Dewey McKINNEY was more than a little winded after paddling after a footbal! tossed over the side in a moment of wildness by black mustachioed Johnnie BUTKO- VICH, BM2c We seem to have more than our share of profiteerers aboard. More than one man made several hundred percent profit from native Philippineos. Oh well, you find those kind of persons everywhere in life, only the civilians have different names for them. . . . The hardworking deck force deserves credit for helping to make the movies possible when riding at anchor. . . . Picture of the week: Semibald Joe SCHNEIDER, SF3c, chasing regular Navy Dan CA- FARELLI, second class gunner ' s mate, down the main deck with a piece of pipe aimed at the gunner ' s mate exhaust pipe. . . . 63