Long Letter
Camp Reborts, California
Pity the mailman—Private Ro
man B. Jagla, Battery C. 54th
iVekl artillery Training Bat
talion here has a letter 150 feet
iu length. The letter, twice the
length of the barracks building
was written by friends in Jagla’s
hometown of Brookfield, Illinois
Approximately 100 persons c<>
authored the missive,, which re
quired the total sum of $1.42 in
postage. It took Jagla three and
one half hours to read it
Sailors Learn
Indiana Harbor, Ind. — Fred
Gillies, general superintendent
Qf Inland Steel’s plants here and
five honor men of the Great
. flakes Naval service school in
spect a drill press in the Navy’s
machine shop, where young sail
, ors learn the mechan;cal arts of
war. Left to right, clockwise—
Robert Endebrock, Merle M.
Pugh, Richard R. Harding, Fred
Gillies, Charles J Webster, Keith
-MJ&wan.
Preview Of End
V; Referee Eddie Josephs rushes
plover to herd Joe Louis to a. neut
ral corner and starts the count
; over Big Abe Simon just before
bell ended the fifth round of the
•' heavyweight title bout. But Abe
. wasn’t as lucky the next round—
;> hard right1 flush-bo the button
flammed him to the canvas. He
;vWas struggling across the ring on
' his hands and knees when the
.referee tolled the knockout le
*j>ver hmrgiving Joe Louis knock
v uf victorj
U. S. Cruiser Lost
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Above is a photo of the U. S. S.
Houston, one of the 13 United Nations ships lost in the
battle of Java, according to an official Navy Department an
nouncement. The ships we^e lost in a battle with a vastly
superior Japanese fleet, of which the Allied forces sank eight
I _
U. S. Navy Shifts Its Admire}
3WT«**y
Streamlining the armed forces still further, the Uni
States Navy reassigned three of its Admirals. Left to rif
are: Rear Admiral E J. Horne who will head a staff ol oS
ers administering the duties of naval operations; Vice Adnj
al L. Ghormley, ordered to a sea post, and Rear AdmLi
Russell Willson, Chief of Staff to the Commahder-in-Chiejr
the U. S. Fleet.
of unrevealed designations. The second American ship sun
was the U. S. S. Pope, a destroyer.
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