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RIVERMONT Meat Market FINE MEATS - GROCERIES PHONE 5I00 Serving All Rivermonf COMPLETE OPTICAL DEPARTMENT ExperT Wafch Repairing BOWEN ,dandy 3 COMPLIMENTS OF A BIBEE'S SUPER MARKETS Lynchburg, Va. - Danville, Va. Roanoke, Va. - Alfavisia, Va. SKILLFUL CLEANING -is necessary if you wanT your CloThes To always look fresh and Tidy. 'lgrzllfcwc 612335.13411 See Our Agenf DAVIS RIANHARD TOHN P. HUGHES MOTOR CO. Dependable Tor Over 27 Years 800 COMMERCE ST. - PHONE 2304 PEARSON'S Drug Store STOP AT BELL SHOE STORE Feafuring SmarT Young Men's Shoes LETTERS V. E. S. aT Jap Surrender 9 Sepfember. l945. Dear Uncle: . . . l have iusf refurned To Guam fol- lowing my visiT To Japan Tor The formal surrender ceremonies. We flew To Tokyo in a seaplane on The 29Th and The Admiral broke his flag in The SOUTH DAKOTA, one of our big, new baTTleships. On The 3OTh we were ashore inspecTing The greaT Japanese naval base aT Yokosuka. On The 3lsT we Took a desTroyer and wenT up The Bay To Yokohama To visiT General Mac- Arfhur and To look over ThaT Town. On The firsT The weafher was Terrible, and we sfayed aboard ship wondering whaT we would do iT iT rained on The following day, Early on The morning of The second. which Turned ouT To be an overcasT day buT wiTh no rain, we wenl' aboard The MISSOURI and The Admiral shiTTed his Tlag To ThaT ship. I never saw such a disfinguished array of flag and general olificers. and The ship was loaded To The gunwales. ATTer all The guesTs were in Their proper places The Japanese delegaTes arrived, looking sad buT raTher sToical. The cere- mony wenl' off wiThouT incidenT, and you have probably seen The picTures of iT by now. Thar afTernoon we wenT ashore again wiTh Two of our STaff Officers, who had lived in Japan Tor many years and who spoke The language perTecTly, To visiT The rural disTricTs. We had a grand Tour, see- ing en rouTe The greaf Buddha image aT Kamakura. We also visifed The Temple oT The Japanese God OT War, Hachiman. His Temple was preTTy deserfed on The afTer- noon of The surrender day, buf The Ii+Tle Prior came ouT To greef us and was mosT cordial, wiTh much bowing and hissing Through The TeeTh, eTc. LaTer we drove down The coasf. To Hayama where we saw The Emperor's sum- mer palace. We wound up our Tour aboard The Mikasa, which was Admiral Toio's flag- ship in The Russo-Japanese War. IT now resTs in concreTe and was used as a Naval museum. The remaining careTakers on board were busy aT Thaf Time moving everyfhing away. - The nexT day afTer a low flighf over Tokyo. we reTurned To Guam where we are now geTTing ready Tor our move back To Pearl Harbor and for a Trip which I expecT will Take me To New York on Navy Day. I have many defails of my visiT in Japan which musT waiT unTil I see you personally again. ATfecTionaTely, ARTHUR. Comdr. H. A. Lamar. USNR, VES '29 UniTed STaTes Pacific Fleef STaTi of Commanderein-ChieT. The Mefeor is indebTed To Mr. G. B. Lamar for allowing The publicaTion of parT of an inTeresTing IeT+er from his nephew, a prominenT alumnus of This school.-Ed. Geography and Kisses Dear Mr. Gannaway, Well, here I am back in old CaserTa afTer spending Three very wonderful days on The Isle of Capri. Thaf place is Truly The garden spoT of lTaly. One can scarcely conceive ThaT such a beauTiTul island para- dise exisTs only a Tew miles from The Tilfh and dirT oT lTaly proper. A good friend and I hi+ upon The idea of going ouT Capri way when our branch announced ThaT we mighT have a few more days OTT in The near TuTure, since The so- called pressure was QTT and since The amounf of work ThaT we had To finish for The coming monfh was slighT. Well, finally The free days ThaT They had promised us did maTeriaIize. and believing ThaT Three days on Capri would be Three days well spenT, we decided To carry ouT our original plans and give Capri a Try. On Sunday morning we goT up early and caughT a ride as far as Garibaldi Square in Naples, which incidenTally wasn'T buT a couple oT miles from our sTarTing poinf, buf iT was a sTarT anyhow. From here we caughl' a ride in a BriTish lorry and Traveled in This open fob over one dusTy road afTer anoTher unTil we arrived in Pompeii lmodern Pompeiil. where The BriTish Truck broke down and we again had To seek TurTher TransporTaTion. OuTside Pompeii we caughT anoTher ride: buf This Time iT was in an American Truck-bus affair: and we were able To siT down for a change. This ride Took us high inTo The mounTains overlooking The coasT. From The greaT heighTs Thai' we ascended along This high- way, The whole world looked as Though iT was below us. The quilT-like paTTerns ThaT sTreTched ouT before us confained every color of The rainbow and more Too: This sighT plus The way The driver of The Truck was Taking Those sharp curves really Took my breaTh away. Why, even Naples had a cerfain beauTy abouT iT from This dis- Tance, and I don'T Think a sfranger would ever suspecT il' as being The den oT iniquify ThaT iT really is if he was iusf viewing iT from These dizzy heighTs. This beauTifuI ride along This mounfainous coasf, and IT was beauTiTul, was really impressive. IT gives one The concepT of how pFeTTy ITaly could be if iT were only in The hands oT a progressive people insTead of The lazy hulks ThaT inhabiT iT Today. Well, when we Tinally goT To SorrenTo, our secondary desTinaTion and our porT oT embarkaTion To Capri, we received some very disappoinTing news . . . Yep, no boaTs wenT To Capri on Sunday: so This leTT us sTranded in The quainl' and smelly IiTTle lfalian Town oT Sorrenfo. Realizing ThaT we would have To spend The nighT here if we wanTed To geT To Capri The TirsT Thing in The morning. we Took one oT The Dago kids up on his WanTa' room, Joe? greeTing. He Took us To a raTher nice place. Here he added anoTher Tour bucks To his already bulging roll. lThese IiTTIe kids ofTen carry a roll amounTing To Tive hundred To a Thousand dollars, which They make by rounding up Trade for prosTiTuTes and by Their various black markef acTivi- Tiesl. IT was sTill brighT and sunny when we arrived in SorrenTo, so afTer making The arrangemenTs for The nighT's lodging, we Thoughf ThaT we mighT as well go for a swim, since There wasn'T much else in lConTinued on Page Eleven.l
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