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THE BLUE BONNET 
U.S.S. Houston— 11-5-38— 1200. 
LITTLE OCKO SAYS 
(Continued from page 3) 
Ocko says: Maybe I could and then 
maybe not. At any rate I am quite 
well informed on what happened to 
the above mentioned Sugar Reports 
but that would be telling and that 
is one thing I can’t do. . . it is a 
personal secret. Thanks so much fel- 
lows. . . I’ll be watching that Con- 
tribution Box and be sure to put 
in any dope that comes to your at- 
tention. Do not be discouraged if at 
some time or other something fails to 
be printed, for after all the paper is 
censored quite efficiently. 
WRESTLERS JOURNEY TO L.A. 
On the evening of 29 November 
five members of the ship’s wrestling 
team entered the A.A.U. Novice Tour- 
nament held at The Los Angeles 
Athletic Club. Davis, the 155 lb., 
PhM, was rendered Hors De Combat 
when he fell, breaking his foot prior 
to his match. The others; Bryant, 
Keimel, Miller, and Vassar gave good 
accounts of themselves but were 
pinned before reaching the finals. 
The team is making good progress 
and will be right in there when the 
division meets start November 26. 

THE POET’S CORNER 
I was sleepin’ in tha gutter 
Wit’ me uncle and me brudder 
When tha rain came tumbling down. 
At foist I didn’t bother 
Cause tha drippin’ of tha water 
Quenched tha thoist that suddenly I 
found. 
But when tha water deepened near 
An’ started sloppin’ in each ear 
I decided then tha order wuz retreat. 
So I nudged me unc and brudder 
An’ we moved from that there gutter 
An’ slept through the night out in 
the street. 
YOUR BOXING SQUAD 
(Continued from page 1.) 
very few. Main cause for this is the 
team will be shaping up for our own 
division bouts. We have a good team, 
we have a good start, so lets get back 
of those boys, every one of us. They 
are after that division Championship 
so lets help them all we can. 
FLOTSOM AND JETSOM 
from the 
4TH DIVISION 
1. What certain “gunny mate” from 
the A. A. Battery made a sensational 
speed run from Venice enroute L.B. 
last Monday nite, when he was rudely 
stopped by the local police for driving 
80 in a fog bound 25 M.P.H. zone? 
“Pawnee” claims he had his head 
out the door and wasn’t noticing the 
speed. Orchids to “Pop” Jenkins for 
convincing the officers that liberty 
expired at 0100 and that it wouldn’t 
happen again, s’help me. 
2. Heard that Zig Zag (the agita- 
tor) Dietrich was looking for a piece 
of paper with Wellbourn’s name on it 
so he could float it by the quarter- 
deck. How about it Zig, you really 
wouldn’t want “Headlock” to do 2 
days in his favorite No. 1 cell would 
you? 
3. John Daniel Gallery claims he’s 
going out the end of this month — we 
know different Jack, that transpor- 
tation money that’s coming to you 
will be your downfall. Observed the 
same Gallery in a Main St. “cock- 
tail lounge” tip the waitress $1.75 
for serving him two nickel cigars! 
Can’t do that on the outside in these 
hard times. 
SUBMARINE DATA 
(Continued from page 2) 
NOW TELL ME SOMETHING OF 
TORPEDOES. 
A Torpedo is a tin fish driven by 
hot air. The air is about the same 
as the hot air all submarine men have 
a goodly supply of when telling yarns 
only the air in the fish is under great- 
er pressure. It fires something like 
grand dad’s old muzzle loader, that 
is to say sometimes it is very hard 
to say who is in greatest danger; 
the shooter or the shot at, which is 
very embarassing to say the least. 
ARE SUBMARINES FOOL PROOF? 
After looking over some of the 
guys what serve on them we have to 
say that they are — almost. 
DO THEY ALWAYS DIVE AND 
COME UP AGAIN LIKE THEY 
ARE SUPPOSED TO? 
Well, they always dive like they 
are supposed to anyway. And if they 
don’t, what the h — 1. Don’t Uncle 
Sam bet us twenty or twenty-five 
4. Overheard Frank Wolf the Strol- 
ton, Calif, flash saying; I could get 
a basketball team from the 4th Div. 
that would beat the pants off the 
ship’s team. Better take it easy Wolf, 
Capt. Gerard is mighty proud of his 
team and he might take you up on it. 
5. Saw Herman Garcia, BM2c, one 
of the boat crane boys taking a few 
over the bow in San Diego. The way 
we understood it .“Ceaser”, is that 
there was a big reconciliation with 
the Mrs. Congrats. Herman? 
6. Every noon hour in the 4th Div. 
compt. there is a wrestling, boxing, 
and dance tournament put on for the 
pleasure of the boat deck sailors by 
none other than those two native 
sons of Texas, (Jewboy Kaymeyer 
and Kicker Howard). All hands are 
invited but when entering don’t stare, 
as the boys are still a little bashful 
and they might faint from stage- 
fright. 
NUFF SAID 
Watch your step next week boys 
and don’t stray off the beaten track 
or you might find your name on the 
list of incorrables of this column. 
skins a month that we won’t live to 
collect it and ain’t a lot of us been 
fooling him for a long time? 
HOW DO SUBMARINES ACT IN 
ROUGH WEATHER? 
Like a Mexican jumping bean with 
the Saint Vitus Dance. They can do 
every thing but loop the loop and we 
have to be very careful about that 
or all the acid will spill out of the 
batteries. Sometimes they roll over 
so far that the navigator can shoot 
the sun through the Kingston Valves 
which are six big valves to let the 
water in and out when we dive. 
HOW WAS THE LAST SUBMAR- 
INE LOST? 
The diving officer said “hard dive” 
and the bow plane man gave her 
hard rise. The ship had negative buoy- 
ancy and before they could stop her 
she was clear of the water. Being 
clear of the water she couldn’t add 
to her ballast and when last seen 
was 3,000 feet high and free bal- 
looning for Mai's. . . . 
