Volume VII, Number 3. Off Socorro Island 20 July, 1938. 
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT BOARDS HOUSTON 
Skip Honored by Distinguished Guest 
President Roosevelt boarded our ship while we 
were moored to the dock in Oakland, California. 
Shortly afterward, the ship got underway for the 
fleet review in San Francisco Bay. Amid the 
booming of saluting guns and the rendering of 
the National Anthem by each large ship passed 
by the HOUSTON our Chief Executive reviewed 
the fleet units concentrated there. That same 
night he took his departure for a 
tour of Yosemite and points south 
towards San Diego. At San Diego 
he came aboard again to remain 
for a cruise in Southern waters, 
to fishing grounds off the beaten 
track of commerce. 
So it is our privilege and honor 
to be the ship chosen. The Cap- 
tain, officers, and men of the U.S.S 
Houston take this opportunity of 
expressing to the President a wel- 
come deep from their hearts. We 
appreciate the fact that you have 
given us an opportunity to serve 
you. 
Our ship is only one unit of a 
highly efficient fighting force. It 
is our duty as a unit to carry you 
on this cruise — a duty tinged with 
gladness which we eagerly except. 
On the other former cruises 
which you made on this vessel 
many of us were not aboard, but 
we who are now attached, sincere- 
ly hope to make this the most enjoyable and 
pleasant you have ever had. 
Welcome aboard shipmate. 
Domain of Kleptunus Rex 
Tke Royal Palace 
Latitude-000 
Longitude- 1 to 360 degrees 
Greetings, Thrice Greetings, True Sons of The 
Seas, I Send From My Most Equatorial Chambers. 
It is with anxious and most pleasurable antici- 
pation that I, Neptunus Rex, Ruler of the Raging 
Main, await the moment when, once again, I will 
be privileged to WELCOME YOU 
TO MY DOMAIN. 
The Queen is all aflutter. Thrice 
she has “beaned” my Royal Dome 
when I dared interrupt whilst she 
was engaged in “Planning'’ just 
what or what not she would or 
would not wear for the Auspicious 
Occasion. Aye, True Sons of the 
Seas, the Queen is more Queenly 
than ever. 
The Princess, Beauteous and 
Spritely Maiden as ever graced the 
Lilting Waves of my Domain, is 
all athrill to welcome you too. 
Long John Silver, My Most Sec- 
ret Emissary, has long since been 
aboard with you. Hour after hour, 
day after day, night after night, 
his reports have come to me. There 
is a Royal Commendation for My 
Trusted Sons of the Seas, But, 
Dire, Fearful, and Painful will be 
the Exquisite Tortures to be inflict- 
ed upon unregenerate Pollywogs 
who have dared to decry my Royal 
Person and power. Their cries and prayers for 
mercy will fall upon the ears of my Torturer Buc- 
caneers as falls the softest, musical dew drop on 
the lightly opening buds on a Spring Morn. 
(Continued on Pg. 3) 
President Franklin D. Roosevelt 
