Volume 1, Number 6. 
IT. S. S. HOUSTON 
Flagship of the World 
Moored to Pico Landing. 
Long Beach, Calif. 
30 February, 1945. 
Working Division - Bartenders in 
training (1st and 2nd teams). 
Crew’s Duty Section - None. 
0900 Reveille. Awaken officer of the 
deck. M.A.A.’s awaken gently, 
give out portions of cold tomato 
mice or beer, desired. 
4 / f 
0930 Turn to. String all Boatswain’s 
mates to yardarms. 
Detail new boatswain’s mates 
for day. 
0945 Send empty beer bottles to dock. 
Use crane. 
1000 Reveille for working party that 
blew up the Second National 
Bank last night. Take inventory 
of blackjacks and machine guns. 
1015 Mast report. Keelhaul “Bud” 
Adams who dropped $1.50 of last 
night’s swag. 
1030 Instructions at table No. 5 in 
new end over end system of 
poker playing. 
1100 Paymaster will leave ship with 
$10,000,000.00 to bail out men 
caught in First National Bank 
holdup. Place men on report 
for improper performance of 
duty. 
1200 Pipe dinner. Dutch lunch will be 
served at bar No. 2 for those 
desiring such. 
1215 Hang the Commissary Steward. 
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Long Beach, California. 
YOUR BOXING SQUAD 
On Friday, 21 October, Harris won 
a neat bout from a good lad at Wilm- 
ington Bowl. Martin beat Bob Sterl- 
ing, giving such a good show that it 
was rematched for the following Fri- 
day evening — another decisive win for 
our boy Martin. The bout Hodges vs 
Frietas was called due to Major’s 
sickness, a postponement being effect- 
ed until Nov. 4, when they meet at 
the Wilmington Bowl. Bob Sterling 
was, incidentally, Martin’s first left- 
handed opponent. 
On October 28 Holton fought Wayne 
Penn. It was a clean KO on Penn’s 
part. It is wished that the ship’s 
company realize Holton fought his 
best fight so far. He won each round 
up to the one fatal punch which laid 
him low. Arsenault, the trainer, says, 
“Holton out-fought and out-boxed his 
man up to the one fatal punch. All 
credit to Wayne Penn. Any mistake 
in that bout was my own.” Buddy 
Adams fought a rematch with the 
boy he beat at the Olympic Stadium, 
Julius Barney. Bud lost a very un- 
popular decision, he seemed to take 
every round. 
Monday, October 31 at Santa Ana, 
Martin lost the best tight of his life 
to Fernie Backa, 1937 Examiner 
Golden Gloves Welter Champ in the 
main event. Also our old standby, 
Aligo, fought a middle-weight, Sam- 
my Walker, winning every round. 
What a man, 30 years old, going up 
one class in weight to show up and 
decisively beat a young and fresh 
opponent. 
Amateur bouts after this Friday, 
when Hodge meets Frietas, will be 
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7 November, 1938. 
SUBMARINE QUALIFICATION 
TEST 
WHAT IS A SUBMARINE? 
A submarine is a length of sewer 
pipe sawed off to suit and fitted with 
various and sundry gadgets for mak- 
ing war. The Bureau of Navigation 
and civilians call them submarines; 
the Navy calls them pig boats and 
the guys what serves on them call 
them D-X-21-Oo and So’s. 
WHO DO SUBMARINES MAKE 
W AR ON ? 
They sneak up on an unsuspecting 
ship and fire a torpedo into her like 
an Indian ambushing a stage coach. 
Most submarine men are born in the 
after battery rooms of submarines in 
New London, Conn.; that’s why they 
call them New London Indians. 
WHAT DOES A SUBMARINE 
LOOK LIKE? 
On the outside it looks like a very 
big five cent cigar only smells much 
worse (inside). It has two steel masts 
which run up and down except when 
they are needed and then the engin- 
eers lay it on the electricians and the 
electricians blame it on the engineers. 
There is also a little pea-shooter 
which in peace time is used for lean- 
ing on and resting purposes by the 
clean dungaree league (deck force) 
while the engineers are down below 
slaving away on their rock crushers. 
And then there is a little bridge 
which looks like a Roman Chariot 
with the wheels knocked off and about 
fifteen square feet of air conditioned 
deck space. 
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