The Texas Steer (U. S. S. Texas), Vol. 2, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 23, 1931 Page: 4 of 4
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SiSS Te~a~.- 5~25-5i T XAS STEER
TEXAS BIDS GOODBYE
TO MANY OFFICERS
Continue from Pain One.
Line to the Atlantic Side and report for
duty at the Naval War College at New-
port. Mr. Huff had been one of the
Texas plank-owners having been on the
ship almost three years. Monday next
will see another long-timer on board
part company with the Ship when Lieut.
(jg) E. S. Addison, is also to leave for
the East Coast to report for duty on
the destroyer Tarbell. Next week will
also witness the departure of another
who has been long on the Ship when
Lieutenant Commander C. L. Hansen,
Communication Officer for the Texas,
and the Captain's Secretary, is to leave
on Tuesday for duty at the Naval Train-
ing Station in Newport. Mr, Hansen
plans to go east by way of his home in
North Dakota.
The first of June is also to find the
Senior Medical Officer starting on a
motor tour that will take him to Brook-
lyn, N. Y., where he is to report for
duty at the Naval Hospital there. Dr.
Thomas' relief, who is Dr. King, at
present attached to the Melville, is ex-
pected to report on board next week.
In the meantime Ensign W. T. Hines,
who is one of the recent J. O's who had
passed his preliminary flight training
and had been nominated for the next
class at Pensacola, had left for Florida
there to begin his active career as one
of the Navy's wing-men. Early in June
Lieut. (jg) R. J. Belerby, who has long
reigned supreme on the Texas as the
Master Mind among the Navy section of
the Ship's secondary battery, as officer
in charge of the Sixth Division manning
its eight five inch guns to call shot for
shot with the Marines, is to leave on the
Sixth to report for duty in San Francisco
under the Commandant of the Twlfth
Naval District. On the same day the tin
can Navy will also snare two of the
Ship's Division and turret officers when
Lieut. (jg) C. L. Steiner leaves for duty
on the destroyer Zane, and Lieut. (jg)
J. A. Flynn, goes to the Williams E.
Preston. On the day following a +&eilew
plank-owner with Mr. Steiner and Mr.
Flynn, will also leave for the destroyer
Navy when Lieut.(jg) L. J. Barbot goes
to the Broome for duty. These three
officers have been on the Ship almost
four years having now rounded out more
than 44 months of duty on board and
the Texas will hardly seem like the
same Ship without them.
On the 15th of June the Chief En-
gineer is to climb up to the bridge of
his own ship as Lieut. Commander Went-HOLLYWOOD SIGHTSEEING PARTY
ARRANGED FOR COMING TUESDAY
The Texas sightseeing party for the
Hollywood country will leave the Ship on
next Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock when
busses are to be waiting to take them
over a day's excursion and sightseeing.
The trip is to be made by way of Venice,
Santa Monica and Malibou Beach into
Beverly Hills, where the homes of th
larger movie stars will be pointed out
by the guides. The party will be in
Hollywood for an hour at luncheon time
and afterward visit the Fox Studios by
special arrangement and permission.
When the inner secrets of the movie
shrines have been learned the party will
go out to Pasadena, Glendale, to pass
Jack Dempsey's home on Los Feliz
Boulevard; South Pasadena, and Alti-
dena, all of the most beautiful country
in California; into San Marino to visit
the Huntington Estates Art Gallery,
where the famous Blue Boy is hung,
and home by way of San Gabriel. The
busses should arrive back at Fifth street
landing about 5'oclock in time for supper
for those who are returning to the Ship.
The busses will be ordered today and
men who wish to go on the party should
sign up now.
worth goes to take over command of
the destroyer Decatur. Commander
Wentworth is an old West Coast destroy-
er sailor and after many months of ard-
uous and anxious duty in various kinds
of embroidery among the mazes of the
Texas engine rooms and fire rooms, he
returns to the sea-going Navy of the
cans.
Sometimes nature gets in her good
work according what is considered the
very fitness of things and so on the
Fourth of July while the country is
booming its various guns of all calibres,
Lieut. Commander McClung who has
been the big boom boom officer in charge
of gunnery on the Texas for nearly
three years, is to take his departure to
report for duty in the Bureau of Ord-
nance in the Navy Department.
In an effort to keep the present bur-
ble in something of a chronological or-
der Lieut. Bay should have been men-
tioned earlier in the list since he is to
be detached on 12 June to report for
duty on the destroyer Crowninshield.
The old Mother among the battleships
of today who has seen so many of her
sons depart during the long years of
her history will always watch with in-
terest the future careers of these latest
of her brood to leave the home nest and
wishes them every happiness and success.J. P. BROWN SHIPS OVER AS NEW
TEXAS COMPLEMENTS CHECK IN
Among the new arrivals on the Ship
during the past few days was Chief
Radioman G. H. Ketcham, who came to
the Texas from the Colorado. D. H.
Linneman, BMlc also joined the Ship
from the Receiving Ship at San Fran-
cisco and was assigned to the F Division.
San Diego sent up three new Texas
sailormen from the Training Station
when M. A. Booth and R. A. Edmonds.
both Buglers Second Class, arrived in
company with L. C. Halligan, F3c.
Another Training Station draft also ar-
rived in the person of C. J. Sartor, Sae2c
who came from Great Lakes. It was
rumored that he was destined for the
California but we are glad to have snared
him for the Texas. In the meantime to
make sure that the good work of the
Navy will not be left entirely in the
hands of the rising generation John P.
Brown, Coxswain of the F Division after
washing up on another cruise last Sun-
day shipped over again for the Texas on
Monday morning.
LARGE ENVELOPES AVAILABLE
FOR MAILING HOME THE STEER
A quantity of large sized commercial
envelopes has been ordered by the Ship
in a size suitable for mailing home
copies of the Steer, and those who wish
to use them will find them available in
the Library. The Post Office reports
that hundreds of men on the Ship mail
home each week copies of the Ship's
paper and it is difficult to crowd the
Steer into a smaller envelope or a letter.
These new Manila envelopes which have
been ordered will be wide enough to
carry the paper by folding it twice
athwart.
THE SCIENCE OF THE SEA
(Continued from Page One)
which flow westward till they meet the
land in their path. The whole of the
Gulf Stream system is markedly strong.
The greatest ocean depth yet recorded
is in the Pacific off Mindanao, in the
PhilippineIslands, and is 5, 348 fathoms.
This has been discovered only in recent
years, the earlier greatest depth having
been put down as that of 5,269 fathoms,
just 66 feet less than six English miles,
and recorded in a sounding taken off the
Challenger Deep to the south of the
Ladrones where H. M. S. Challenger
was engaged in official oceanography
research work.0
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Texas (Battleship). The Texas Steer (U. S. S. Texas), Vol. 2, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 23, 1931, newspaper, May 23, 1931; United States. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1161715/m1/4/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.