WORLD SERIES
•• Detroit started its series cavalcade off the other night
when hundreds of
people turned out to welcome the returning Tigers.
Since then the city has been one mad jumble,
of revelers.
•• When the Cubs blew in, they brought half of the city of Chicago with them, causing a severe hotel shortage
and other living space.
.. When the Tigers and Cubs square off it will be to the greatest and
most enthusiastic audience in years. On paper the Cubs look like
the winning team, however, there is
too much talent in he Detroit lineup
\to make the series a foregone conclusion.
We're not optimistic or anything, but we are leaning to the Cubs
with at least a two game lead in three starts.
A MESSAGE FROM COL. GIRAND
•• We will disembark Thursday morning. The uniform for the occasion will be
"Class A"
with sidearms. Everything else will be packed and ready by l700 Wednesday afternoon except mess gear
and
blankets. Look your best; the country is proud to have you back
so let's look
as though we are proud to be back.
.. The conduct and discipline aboard ship has been very good. We should
all extend our thanks to the ships crew and permanent party for the excellent meals they have provided, as well
as their generally seaworthy performance.
Remember, we are in the United States now so lets govern our
conduct accordingly. Mum, is the word on our ex-girlfriends in Europe.
If we make don Juan's of ourselves we not only queer our own deal, but make it a
little tougher on the other Jo4es who are still sweating it out.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
Wife: "Did you go out with those awful girls in Europe"?
G.I.: "No,, why"?
Wife: "Every time you kiss me you hand me a
chocolate bar"!
The Editor and Staff of the Seasick Daily
wishes to express their sincere appreciation and thanks to Captain T.
J, Hess, Transportation Services Officer for his efforts and assistance in making this
paper worthwhile. Thanks Captain.
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HOME AGAIN (cont'd from page
two)
swell war souvenirs that he
collected while
he was working at the Navy Yard.
.. That wil1 really round out a swell evening for us besides giving
Mary a lot of new things to tell me all about on the way
home.
.. I don't know how I got to write so much about just going to the show,
but that's
how it is all right. Boy, am I anxious to get home.
No more GI Stuff for me. From, now on, when I want to go
to a movie, I just go. That's all
THE SKULL
THE NATIONS NEWS IN BRIEF:
..
The post war wave: of labor disputes hitting at such key
industries as coal, oil and lumber and keep the strike lines
jammed with thousands of idle workers, surge onward today. A
showdown was imminent today in the spreading strikes of CIO oil
workers as the union and operators studied Sec. Schwellenbach's
peace offer. The proposal called for a temporary fifteen
percent increase and agreement by both sides to accept an arbitrator
for final settlements. Acceptance would bring an immediate end
to strikes which began in September and spread to fourteen states.
.. Major stoppages during the last 24 hours kept 13,000 workers away from their jobs
at
five Frigidaire plants of the General Motors
Corporation in Dayton, Ohio. In McCook, Ill. 7,500 CIO
workers at three GM Electromotive Diesel Div. remained away from work
in an unexplained strike.
.. The Labor Dept was busy with coal stoppages as union
officials predicted mines in West Virginia employing l0B,000 might close within
s few days. In Ohio, 2,000 are idle from, five mines, a spokesman said
he "wouldn't be surprised if a11 Ohio's l6,000 union
members quit work." About 60,000 coal miners are off their jobs,
most of them in Pennsylvania, others in West Va. Ohio and Kentucky.
..
The strike of 46,000 textile workers in nine states also was
expected to come before the labor secretary. The CIO workers
textile union appealed to a southern congressman for a commission to
deal with the crisis. A union official in Washington [illegible]
additional 40,000.
.. in Detroit the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company strike bound since
August 23 reopened its doors today and early police reports
indicated that only a few workers crossed picket lines to report for
work. Company officials join in a back to work plea to 4,500
employees who had disregarded previous orders of the UAW-CIO to end
the unauthorized strike and return to work.
.. A walkout of 8,000 longshoremen protesting alleged action of
their own union officials last night halted the lading and unloading
operations at docks the the East and North rivers in New York.
.. [illegible] as the strike picture in America grows steadily
worse, and more industries are forced to slow up the reconversion. |