1925

Lt. Col. Ken Montgomery, Air Transport Command, managed to get to Chicago on September 18 to deliver an interesting talk to the Legal Club on his branch of the Service. The meeting was well attended and Whit. Campbell, Tige Lyons and Sherm Barnett were among the audience.

Whit Campbell's practice is good, for he has just bought a new home in Oak Park, Ill.

Lt. Tubby Washburn has now swung around the circle. His first contact with the Navy was his indoctrination training at New- port, R. T. Then he was in charge of the Navy Shore Patrol in Chicago for a long period. There followed short assignments in Detroit and Boston in like capacity. Now he is back at Newport in charge of the Shore Patrol there. His address is Navy Shore Patrol, Naval Operations Base, Newport, R. I.

Bob Borwell was in Cleveland recently and saw Bud Petrequin of Petrequin Paper, and Dick Taylor, now vice president of the Brown Pence and Wire Co.

George Cassels-Smith has received his promotion to the rank of lieutenant commander. You can write to him at Club Road, Ruxtoi) 4, Md.

Major Bernard Manning can now be reached at 61 Silver St., Dover. Lt. Col. Max Emerson has been awarded the Silver Star for his work in taking command of a supply ship under enemy aerial attack and directing its movement to a position where it would not block a New Guinea harbor if sunk. The ship was sunk, but since it went down in shallow water, its valuable cargo was salvaged. Max has now been in the Southwest Pacific area for thirty months.

Chet Bolles, chairman of the board of Continental Industries, has recently acquired Braeburn Alloy Steel, the third largest steel firm producing tools in this country. Chet's outfit has recently absorbed the Franklin Machinery and Foundery Co., the A. W. Harris Oil of Providence, the Kensington Ship-yard and.Drydock Co., J. Sullivan and Sons of Philadelphia, Liberty Motors and Engineering of Baltimore, and the Walsh Steam Boiler Works of Holyoke. The policy of Chet's organization is to acquire small to medium- sized companies and give them top-flight management, financing and supervision. Chet is quoted in the press as saying that his interests do a combined business of $75,000,000 yearly.

Earlier in this column I mention Ken Montgomery as having the rank of lieutenant colonel. This well-deserved promotion came to him recently.

Line Davis spent the weekend recently with me shooting colored pictures. That makes twenty-two years Line and I have taken pictures and argued about them. Line is still doing his extremely confidential research work that has been instrumental in cooling off a great many Hitler Heilers and JaPs.

They aint much happened sence the last riting. Last week your Secratary put three fellers into Reform Scule and wun into the local hoosegow, took a grave cloth and a casket lowering device offen an undertaker for an old bill and peddled same; moved his mother-in-law from wun house to anuther; got two carloads of lumber out of Canady; dun the riting for two weekly papers; surveyed sixty cord of wood and shot sum pitchers. Next week me and my brother Deakin hope to get a minister and a deer, want a good preaching minister and good eating deer. Nice thing about living in the sticks, they aint never a dull moment.

REPORTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, Lt. "Sammy" Sammis '23, USNR, and Lt. Cmdr "Eddie" Lynch '23, USNAC, cheerfully agree there's nothing like a good dish to bolster morale.

Secretary, Centre Ossipee, N. H. Treasurer, P. O. Box 428, Bristol, R. I.